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Cardi B ‘epic’
bar mitzvah performance
● Rapper Cardi B revealed that she reported. He feted financier Howard
performed at a bar mitzvah party Lutnick’s son Ryan at the Metropoli-
over the weekend, and the New York tan Museum of Art for a fee of ap-
Post claims that her fee was likely in proximately $200,000 to $300,000.
the ballpark of half a million dollars. Guests included Sarah Ferguson, the
The “Bodak Yellow” singer said on Duchess of York, and Melania Trump’s
Instagram that she performed at the former adviser Stephanie Winston
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party for a boy she called Jake at Wolkoff.
the swanky Tao club in Manhattan. A These two aren’t the first hip-hop
source told the Post’s Page Six about stars to perform at lavish Jewish
the cost, saying she “wouldn’t get out coming-of-age ceremonies. The last
of bed for less than half a million.” one widely reported about was Nicki
Cardi, born Belcalis Marlenis Almán- Minaj, who appeared in an infamous
zar, called the party “epic.” photo at one in 2015. Last year, the
Meanwhile, up-and-coming rapper rapper Drake threw himself a bar
Rich the Kid performed at a bar mitz- mitzvah-themed birthday party.
vah party at the same time, the Post GABE FRIEDMAN /JTA WIRE SERVICE
CONTENTS
U.S., Israel stamp together for Chanukah
● Israel Post and the U.S. Postal Service of letters and packages, throughout Amer-
have issued a joint stamp for Chanukah. ica and around the world.”
The stamp also is meant to celebrate The stamp art features a Chanukah
70 years since the establishment of menorah created using the technique of
diplomatic relations between Israel and papercutting, a Jewish folk art, by art-
the United States, Israel Post said in a ist Tamar Fishman. Behind the menorah
statement. is a shape that resembles an ancient oil
The new stamp design was launched jug. It represents the miracle of the oil
simultaneously in the Touro Synagogue that burned in the candelabra in the Holy
in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest Temple in Jerusalem from the time it was
recaptured until the next oil delivery ar-
PAGE 6: Seven seniors
synagogue in the United States, and at
the American Center in Jerusalem. rived. Additional design elements include from the Jewish Home
“Today’s joint stamp issue is a symbol dreidels and a pomegranate plant with
of the shared values and the cultural af- fruit and flowers. in Rockleigh explore Israel
finity between the United States and Israel,” U.S. Am- The stamp is being issued in the United States as a
bassador to Israel David Friedman said at the Jerusa- Forever stamp, which will always be equal in value to NOSHES ..................................................................... 4
lem ceremony. the current first class mail one-ounce price. It will sell in BRIEFLY LOCAL ..................................................... 12
Postal Service Judicial Officer Gary Shapiro said in Israel for 8.30 shekels, the cost of a regular first-class ROCKLAND ............................................................. 15
Rhode Island: “Starting today, this work of art celebrat- stamp. Chanukah begins at sundown on Dec. 2. COVER STORY ........................................................18
ing the Jewish Festival of Lights will travel on millions JTA WIRE SERVICE JEWISH WORLD ................................................... 25
OPINION .................................................................. 38
THE FRAZZLED HOUSEWIFE ..........................44
CROSSWORD PUZZLE .......................................44
CALENDAR .............................................................45
OBITUARIES ...........................................................49
CLASSIFIEDS .........................................................50
Meet Robat, a robot that REAL ESTATE......................................................... 52
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Noshes
“There were fans who ridiculed this and
said that I was trying to convert Harry
to Judaism, but really the point was just
to convey the cheer and festivity of making
up words to a holiday song.”
AT THE MOVIES:
— JTA quotes the Harry Potter series English-to-Hebrew translator, Gili Bar Hillel,
Travails of a teen explaining why Sirius Black sings a Chanukah song, “Mi Yimallel,” instead of
and meth burnout “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.” It’s so readers can relate to it, she said.
TICKET “Mid90s” film, they said, often has steamy six-episode BBC
TICK
ET marks the a slick, superficial feel. series that began stream-
directing Quite a few, however, ing on Netflix on Octo-
debut of praised Chalamet, includ- ber 19. Joy, a therapist
JONAH HILL, 34, and he ing the Chicago Tribune (Toni Collette), and Alan,
also wrote the film. While reviewer: “Chalamet’s a teacher, find that their
it is billed as a comedy/ terrific throughout, ac- marriage is in a rut, sexu-
drama, the reviews I’ve cessing and deploying ally and otherwise, and
read describe it as a every kind of emotion in consider openly seeing
pretty gritty film with unpredictable combina- other people. British ac-
just a chuckle now and tions. It’s an ideal follow- tress SOPHIE OKONEDO,
again. It follows Stevie, a up for him, coming after 50, plays Angela, Joy’s
13-year-old with a tough his Oscar-nominated turn therapist. Okonedo, who
home life — his working- in the languidly beautiful Jonah Hill Timothée Chalamet Josh Rosen was Oscar nominated
class mother has a romance ‘Call Me By for her performance in
parade of guys coming Your Name.’” “Hotel Rwanda” (2004),
through, and his much was raised Jewish by her
older brother beats him The Tribe white Jewish mother. Her
up. Stevie finds an on the gridiron father is Nigerian. She
alternate family among a TICKET
Here are the told a British TV sta-
TICK
group of rowdy new ET Jewish tion: “I feel as proud to
friends who hang out at players on be Jewish as I feel to
a local skate shop and an NFL be black.”
often get into trouble. roster as of October 15: “Tell Me a Story” be-
Likewise, “Beauti- NATE EBNER, 29, gins streaming on CBS
ful Boy” isn’t exactly a defensive back, New All-Access on October 31.
Disney film. It’s based England; ALI MARPET, Its publicity release says:
on memoirs by journalist 25, center, Tampa Bay; “Set in modern day New
DAVID SHEFF, 62, and MITCHELL SCHWARTZ, Sophie Okonedo James Wolk Alex Karpovsky York…the world’s most
his son NIC, 36, about 29, offensive tackle, beloved fairy tales are re-
Nic’s battle with meth Kansas City; MICHAEL has a real affection for that was written and boundaries? (Reviews of imagined as a dark and
addiction. Nic was raised DUNN, 22, linebacker, his Jewish roots. How- directed by NADAV this remake are almost twisted psychological
by his father and step- Jacksonville (practice ever, I don’t count him as LAPID, 43. In this all positive). thriller.” The handsome
mother in an affluent San squad); ANTHONY Jewish for the purpose remake, MAGGIE A 30-minute docu- JAMES WOLK, 33 (“Mad
Francisco suburb. He FIRKSER, 22, tight end, of this column. I leave it GYLLENHAAL, 40, stars mentary, “Long Shot,” Men”), is a series regular.
was a golden boy (wrote, Tennessee; and JOSH you to decide how you as Lisa, the teacher. Lisa streaming on Netflix, tells “Homecoming,” based
painted, surfed) until ROSEN, 21, quarterback, count him. is bored with her work the true but unlikely sto- on a well-received fic-
he got hooked. The film Arizona. Rosen, a rookie, and her family life isn’t ry of how evidence was tional podcast of the
focuses on the efforts of began starting with his More TV/streaming fulfilling. Then a boy in found that validated the same name, starts on
his parents (including his team’s fourth game. catch-ups and her class spouts a alibi of an innocent man November 2 on Netflix.
mother) to understand What about Julian premieres brilliant short poem, accused of murder. With- Heidi Bergman (Julia
why he got addicted and Edelman, the star New The original seemingly out of the air. out spoiling things, let Roberts) is a caseworker
TICKET
TICK
why he backslid after England receiver? Well, ET film “The Lisa is convinced he is a me just say that come- assigned to a young
several rehab stays. in common parlance, he Kindergarten genius and actively dian LARRY DAVID, 71, veteran at a secret gov-
Steve Carell plays David is one-eighth Jewish (a Teacher” is mentors him. But is she improbably had a hand ernment facility. ALEX
and TIMOTHÉE CHAL- Jewish great-grandfa- now streaming on doing it only to make in this. David is charming KARPOVSKY (“Girls”),
AMET, 22, plays Nic. Most ther) and he was raised Netflix. It is based on the herself feel special? Is and funny in his inter- 43, a series regular, plays
critics noted that many Christian. Yes, he’s a critically acclaimed Israeli she crossing the appro- view segments. Craig, another employee
scenes are good, but the friend of Israel and he film of the same name priate teacher-student “Wanderlust” is a at the facility. –N.B.
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The group from Jewish Home Family facilities tours the Roman ruins at Beit She’an.
It’s never
too late
Seven seniors
from the Jewish Home
in Rockleigh explore Israel
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
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xploring Israel’s iconic tourist sites requires rigor-
ous footwork, what with the uneven cobblestones
and stone stairways of Jerusalem’s Old City, the
rocky-sandy beaches of the Dead, Med, and Gali-
lee seas, the cliffs of Masada, and the archaeological ruins of Jewish Home mission participants float in the Dead Sea.
Beit She’an and Caesarea.
Exploring these and many other areas with the aid of a “We walked her down and into the water and then our ever One of the group’s stops that day had been the Shrine
wheelchair or walker is dauntingly difficult. resourceful director of nursing, Eric Riguerra, found a way to of the Book on the campus of the Israel Museum in Jerusa-
But a combination of meticulous logistical planning and use a plastic chair to help position her. Many hands helped tip lem. The building, which houses the oldest extant biblical
a can-do attitude ensured that seven travelers from Jewish her back into the water and then the chair was removed and manuscripts discovered in caves in the Judean Desert, has
Home Family facilities — two from the Jewish Home at Rock- she was floating. Words cannot come close to describing how a unique white dome evoking the lid of the clay jar in which
leigh and five from the Jewish Home Assisted Living Kaplen thrilled she was and how free she felt.” the first scrolls were found.
Senior Residences in River Vale, ranging from 68 to 87 years Talking to the Jewish Standard over dinner at Jerusalem’s “I was so excited about seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls that I
old — were able to participate fully in a 10-day Israel mission Orient Hotel, participants reported that the excitement didn’t even realize the building is in the shape of an urn until
whose itinerary rivaled that of a young-adult Birthright group. began even before taking off on October 9. our guide pointed it out,” Deborah Shrier said. She and her
This was the second such mission undertaken in the past Retired attorney Allan Horowitz said his heart swelled husband, Jerry, had been to Israel most recently 24 years ago.
three years at the initiative of Carol Silver Elliott, the presi- with pride upon seeing the Star of David on the El Al plane “The people are great and we’re getting an education,”
dent and chief executive officer of Jewish Home Family since at Newark Airport. “You cannot be anything but emotion- Eugene Landsman added. “It’s a beautiful country and the
November 2014. In her daily trip blog, Ms. Elliott related how ally impressed by everything,” said Mr. Horowitz. “I was not guide’s been very informative.”
the residents and their personal companions from the Jewish brought up religious but I can understand why people want The guide they referred to was Yaacov Sivek, a spry
Home staff gracefully conquered each challenge. to move here because they’re participating in something 77-year-old who specializes in guiding Jewish elders and also
“One of our resident travelers has much difficulty walking,” that’s living and growing. And being in Israel really enhances led the Jewish Home’s first mission in 2015.
she reported in her entry about the group’s Dead Sea visit. your sense of oneness with the Jewish people.” Mr. Sivek traveled with the group as far north as Metulla at

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the Lebanese border and as far south as the Dead Sea. I planted my tree in honor of my mother. Putting my fingers
Among the more unusual places on the jam-packed itin- into the soil, I felt like I was bringing her on a spiritual jour-
erary were Kishorit, a cooperative farm and winery in the ney with me.”
Galilee employing resident special-needs adults; Yvel, a fine- Ms. Couliboly’s traveling companion, Barbara Levy, cel-
jewelry design house that runs a social enterprise where Ethi- ebrated her birthday during the mission. The two women
opian immigrants craft a line of contemporary jewelry based were not acquainted until they were paired for the trip.
on their traditional styles; and Yad LaKashish (Lifeline for the “We had a couple of meetings so we’d get oriented to one
Elderly), where Jerusalem seniors — many of them immigrants another, and we bonded prior to our first day in Israel,” Ms.
from the countries of the former Soviet Union — handcraft Couliboly said. “Barbara said to me on her birthday that now
Judaica items sold in an adjacent gift shop and online. we’re more than just friends, and every year we need to do
Jerusalem’s Western Wall — the Kotel — always is a spe- something to celebrate the moment we’re sharing today.”
cial highlight of a trip to Israel. The revered structure is a The seven residents on the mission had applied voluntarily
segment of an ancient retaining wall of the Second Temple and had to meet certain medical qualification requirements.
compound built by Herod the Great. It’s customary to place Those unable to pay their own way received assistance from
handwritten prayers into the cracks between its stones. A member of the Jewish Home mission puts a note the Jewish Home Foundation.
Ms. Silver arranged for Kotel replicas to be erected at the in a crack in the Western Wall. “When we came three years ago we weren’t sure what to
Rockleigh and River Vale campuses before the trip so that expect in taking the seniors,” the Jewish Home Foundation’s
residents and staff could tuck in notes, which were collected or not, seemed just as emotional about the experience as executive director, Melanie Cohen, said. “It’s very rewarding
and brought to the real site. were the seniors. to see Israel through their eyes, especially those for whom this
“The Western Wall was very emotional for me and for the Tracey Couliboly, the director of recreation at the Jewish was a bucket-list item their entire lives, and for one reason or
residents,” Julie Cochrane, the director of recreation at Jew- Home at Rockleigh, said she has worked in Jewish elder facil- another they didn’t make it. Now we’re making it possible for
ish Home Assisted Living, said. ities for 29 years. “I think the most rewarding thing I could them and it’s totally enjoyable for us as well.”
Ms. Cochrane had a typical Israeli small-world experience have done for myself and my residents was to go on this Board member Maggie Kaplen and her son and daughter-
when the group was touring the Golan Heights. They went to mission with them because I feel like they actually raised me in-law from Thailand also came along, and they helped par-
Mount Bental, an inactive volcano that became an Israel sur- into the person that I am today,” she said. ticipants with mobility issues, as did Ms. Cohen’s and Ms.
veillance position after 1967. There, they ran into Israeli troops Ms. Couliboly, who is Christian, related a moving experi- Elliott’s husbands.
hailing from 18 different countries. It turned out that one sol- ence that happened at Neot Kedumim Biblical Nature Reserve. Ms. Cohen said the Jewish Home has shared its Israel Mis-
dier was from Washington Township, and he graduated from “Three years go my mother passed away, and she always sion itinerary and professional contacts with other Jewish
high school last year with Ms. Cochrane’s nephew. told me to live life to the fullest,” she said. “One of the first elder-care facilities considering such a trip. “It is challeng-
The Jewish Home employees on the trip, whether Jewish things we did when we got to Israel was planting trees. And ing, but if you staff properly you just do it,” she said.
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Reunions in Israel unite disabled vets

Those who met through Zahal Shalom in Bergen County get together at home
LOIS GOLDRICH
Every spring, a group of Bergen County

families hosts 10 to 12 disabled Israel veter-
ans for two weeks. If the impact of the pro-
gram on the soldiers is substantial — and
often life-changing — it is equally impor-
tant for the hosts.
“The program is magical,” Steve Korn-
blit of Waldwick said. “It works on so many
different levels of connection — between
you and the veteran, you and Israel, and
between the soldiers who come here as a
group.” The veterans’ wounds range from
visible physical injuries to less obvious but
no less real PTSD, he said. “Some don’t tell.”
Steve and Susan Kornblit are board mem-
bers of Zahal Shalom, and Ms. Kornblit is its
secretary. The group was created by Bergen
County residents in 1993, and it organizes
and sponsors the veterans’ trips. The Korn-
blits hosted their first veteran in 2005, and
they have hosted six veterans since then.
Members of Temple Israel and Jewish Com-
munity Center in Ridgewood, they first
heard about the program through fellow
congregant Nancy Bortingor, who links the
veterans with local families. “She came to The Kornblits and members of the 2010, 2015, 2017, and 2018 delegations meet at a restaurant. Three of the Zahal Shalom
us and got us to become hosts,” Mr. Kornblit alumni here are Druze.
said. “It changed our lives.”
Veterans and host families participate organize reunions of Zahal Shalom alumni together. In a few days, we will move to Jeru- city we also have a potluck dinner sched-
in many social activities in New Jersey, all over the country. They already had salem, and then finish up in Tel Aviv. There uled. In two of the cities, veterans volun-
New York, and Washington, and veterans been to Haifa and Beersheba. “It was all will be two events in each city. One event teered to use their homes to host. We did
have an opportunity to visit local schools hugs and kisses, and ‘so great to see you,’” in each city is a food tour, where we go to Beersheba last night. There were six vet-
and synagogues to discuss both their war- Mr. Kornblit said. a shakshuka or hummus or falafel place erans. The host cooked most of the meal,
time experiences and their everyday life While Bergen County families have vis- famous in that city. We’ve invited veterans but others brought dishes of their own or
in Israel. “They go through two weeks of ited “their veterans” in the past, Mr. Korn- from that city to come with us on the food dessert.”
incredible bonding,” Mr. Kornblit said. blit’s mission now is different. “When we as tour. It’s a nice way to meet again.” Mr. Kornblit said that the veterans in
“The bus to New York, the trip to Washing- American host and buddy families” — who “I contacted every veteran we hosted each place already may know each other,
ton, dinners, trips, social events. All those help out but do not house the veterans — from 2000 all the way to 2018 — about 180 either because they traveled to the United
things create an unbelievable feeling.” “visit, the Israelis want to do everything for people,” he continued. “It’s more difficult States together as a unit or because they
The Kornblits spent last week in Eilat, us, or have us stay in their homes,” he said. to reach people from the earlier years.” met through Beit Halochem, which cares
planning a brief respite in an otherwise “But my idea was to move around Israel The response has varied from city to city. for Israeli veterans who are disabled in
busy schedule. They were in Israel to and create events that would bring soldiers “But that’s just for the food tour. In each SEE VETS PAGE 29
In Haifa, members of the 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, and 2018 delegations join Steve Members of the 2011, 2016, and 2017 delegations meet at the home of Yoni Deri,
Kornblit, center, for a reunion at a private house. a 2018 alum. Steve and Susan Kornblit join them.

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Follow the money

FEDTalk:Israel features attorney who bankrupts terrorists through ‘lawfare’
LOIS GOLDRICH Israeli women. sue a partnership, you can serve papers to any partner.
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At the upcoming FEDTalk, Ms. Darshan-Leitner — the You just need one. And because it’s not secret where the
o, it’s not a typo. The Jewish Federation of mother of six children, including two pairs of twins — will terrorist leaders are — either in Gaza or sitting in a jail —
Northern New Jersey has introduced FED- speak about her book “Harpoon: Inside the Covert War it’s possible to serve at least one of them.
Talks, featuring speakers who are experts in Against Terrorism’s Money Masters,” co-written with Sam- Of course, she added, “Not everybody shows up in
their fields. And if the more well-known TED- uel M. Katz. court. Hamas, Hezbollah don’t show up. The PLO does
Talks cover a wider range of topics, the JFNNJ series tar- The book details the efforts of a Mossad task force to fol- show up. In any case, when you can convince the court
gets issues of vital importance to the Jewish community. low the money, stopping the flow of cash that nourishes that they have the authority to hear the case, then even
FedTalks:Israel is even more specific, and terror networks. Ms. Darshan-Leitner said if they don’t show up, you can collect.” She pointed to
self-explanatory, though the possibilities for she was recruited by Mossad to participate laws in the United States enabling American victims to
topics and points of view are vast. On Octo- in “lawfare,” in which private law firms sue file suit if a family member is killed or injured abroad
ber 29, Israeli attorney and human rights banks, individuals, and organizations on as long as the defendant is either present in the United
activist Nitsana Darshan-Leitner will offer behalf of victims of terror. So far, her firm — States or has done something here — “if you can estab-
one approach to combating terrorism. In she has six attorneys — has won more than lish some connection,” Ms. Darshan-Leitner said.
a talk called “Bankrupting Terrorism…One $2 billion in judgments on behalf of these She also can sue on behalf of her own organization,
Lawsuit at a Time,” Ms. Darshan-Leitner — victims. Collecting the money is another which is an NGO and has the right to go to the Interna-
the founder of the Tel-Aviv based Shurat matter, she said, although she has been able tional Criminal Court to demand that a trial be opened for
HaDin, the Israel Law Center — will describe to distribute some $300 million to terror war crimes. For example, she has undertaken a lawsuit
the work of her group, which has fought ter- victims. against the Hamas leadership, representing Israeli farmers
rorist groups successfully in court. Her work with these victims is a natural whose fields have been burned by Gazan rioters. The law-
Indeed, says the group’s website, Shu- Nitsana Darshan-Leitner suit specifically targets Hamas military wing leader Yahya
outgrowth of her previous legal efforts. “I
rat HaDin is using court systems around the world to go always wanted to help people,” she said, citing several Sinwar and political leader Ismail Haniyeh.
on the legal offensive against Israel’s enemies. The orga- past cases — for example, she represented a belly dancer
nization works with Western intelligence agencies, law raped by an Egyptian ambassador, and she has taken on a Who: Israeli attorney and human rights activist Nitsana
enforcement, and a network of volunteer lawyers across medical forensic institution for misconduct. “I was always Darshan-Leitner
the globe to file legal actions on behalf of terror victims. involved with cases on behalf of all sorts of victims. When What: Will deliver a FEDTalk on “Bankrupting
According to Ariella Noveck, the chair of the federa- the intifada broke out, I couldn’t sit idly by, so I tried to Terrorists… One Lawsuit at a Time”
tion’s community relations committee, who is organiz- represent victims of terror. No one sued the PLO at that When: On Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m.
ing the coming FEDTalk, Ms. Darshan-Leitner “has been time. We took a chance and went to court.” Where: Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey,
leading the legal fight against terror financing, the anti- In the beginning, “Everyone thought it was insane. 50 Eisenhower Drive, Paramus
Israel boycott campaigns (BDS), and combating the mul- How can you sue? What’s the point? Where can you
Reservations: jfnnj.org/fedtalks
titude of lawfare tactics utilized against the Jewish State locate them? How can you collect?
Cost: $10
by its enemies.” “We believed we could win, but to do that was quite
In a telephone interview, Ms. Darshan-Leitner said she amazing. We knew we could prove it in court” — but they For more information: Email Ariella Noveck at
created Shurat HaDin in 2002. “After two years, we started needed the court to buy into it. The “trick,” she said, [email protected] or call her at (201) 820-3946.
winning cases,” she said. Her firm assisted in blocking the was in depicting her opponents not as a company but as And also: Shurat HaDin’s Rachel Weiser will talk about
Gaza flotilla and terminated efforts to indict IDF soldiers for a partnership. “You can serve any one of the partners,” the organization’s work on Wednesday, October 31, at
war crimes. Not surprisingly, its founder has been named she said; there is a legal difference between suing a com- 8 p.m., at Congregation Ahavath Torah, 240 Broad Ave.,
Englewood. Call (201) 568-1315 for information.
by Israeli Forbes magazine as one of the 50 most influential pany and suing a partnership, she explained. When you
Local school expands

Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High will grow by 50 percent
LARRY YUDELSON to yeshiva high school students. Last year,
T
there were 1,423 yeshiva high school stu-
hey keep on growing. dents in the area’s schools; that compares
You drop your child off for to 1,175 a decade earlier, according to sta-
first grade, she’s barely able to tistics kept by the Jewish Federation of
read, and eight years later she’s Northern New Jersey.
discussing literature, factoring numbers, And Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School A rendering of what an expanded Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls will
and ready to enter high school. for Girls has shared in this bounty. It look like after a $10 million construction project.
Four years later she’s off to college, now has 350 students, and given that its
probably taller than you, and shockingly ninth grade has close to 100 students, it planned $10 million building project will be The school moved into its building in
independent. is headed toward 400. Its student body paid for down the road by the parents of the 1996, in what then was Teaneck’s indus-
And still they grow. keeps on growing. students who will be in the new spaces. trial zone but has now become a yeshiva
The same is true of the schools they So now it’s unveiling plans to grow its If all goes well, in both the fundraising zone (thanks to the neighboring Torah
attend, if the schools are successful, building, with an addition that will expand and the planning, Ma’ayanot leaders hope Academy of Bergen County, a boys’ high
well-run, and lucky enough in their it by 50 percent, or 30,000 square feet. to begin work on the expansion in the school, and Yeshivat He’atid, an elemen-
demographics. The school is launching a $5 million capi- spring and be able to move into the new tary school). Then, the building was too
Northern New Jersey has been fortu- tal campaign to pay for half of the costs spaces, and use the renovated old spaces, large, so Ma’ayanot sublet a portion, first
nate in its demographics when it comes of the expansion. The other half of the in fall 2019, next school year. SEE MA’AYANOT PAGE 51

Jewish Standard OCTOBER 26, 2018 11
Briefly Local
JTS/Columbia University team up

on a new dual master’s degree
The Jewish Theological Seminary and issues of ethical concern in public health
Columbia University are offering a new as well as the skills to design effective ini-
Representatives dual-degree MA/MPH program in Jewish tiatives to resolve them. We encourage
Kevin Brady and ethics and public health. The program future scholars of this new MA/MPH
Michael McCaul flank aims to prepare students to develop and program to bring to bear Jewish values
Dr. Munr Kazmir. evaluate public health services within in grappling with the many public health
COURTESY NORPAC the Jewish and broader communities. challenges plaguing our world.”
The joint master of arts in Jewish eth- “This joint degree represents a con-
ics and master of public health degree tinued commitment by Columbia Mail-
program is offered by the Kekst Gradu- man School to combine the depth and
ate School at the Jewish Theological breadth of expertise in two fields of
Norpac hosts two representatives Seminary and the Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health.
study, to propel discovery, and educate
the next generation of scholars to create
during Republican fundraiser “We are pleased to announce the research-based solutions at the juncture
Last week, the Kazmir family hosted a Nor- threat, border security, and cyber secu- launch of the Jewish Ethics and Pub- of public health and religion,” said Linda
pac meeting in Closter for Congressmen rity while ensuring that the Department lic Health dual-degree program, which P. Fried, MD, MPH, dean of Columbia
Kevin Brady and Michael McCaul, both of Homeland Security can carry out its for the first time ever offers students Mailman School. “Together with JTS we
Texas Republicans. core mission — to protect the United an opportunity both to develop and to will pave the way for new research and
Kevin Brady chairs the House Ways States. The private meeting was held to evaluate public health services from the engagement on complex issues facing
and Means Committee, with jurisdiction raise funds for the Republican National perspective of Jewish tradition,” JTS’s theologians and public health profes-
over taxes, health care, Social Security, Congressional Committee. Mr. Brady and provost, Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, said. sionals to benefit our schools, our coun-
Medicare, international trade, and wel- Mr. McCaul answered questions about “We are thrilled to launch this innovative try, and the world.”
fare. Michael McCaul chairs the Home- national security, taxes, and the U.S.- program, which equips future profes- For more information, go to www.jtsa.
land Security Committee, which seeks to Israel relationship. Both are running for sionals with the moral vision to identify edu/jewish-ethics-public-health.
address the al Qaeda-Hezbollah terrorist re-election in November.
Temple Beth Sholom plans dinner dance

Honoring
Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn will
hold its annual ad journal dinner dance,
Caterers with music by B’nai Jazz. The cost
is $180 per person in ads or donations. The
Rabbi
this year celebrating Israel’s 70th anni- deadline for ads to be included in the jour- Pomerantz
versary, on Sunday, December 9, at 5 nal is November 9. For more information, At Closter’s most recent
p.m. It will be catered by Exquisite Affairs call (201) 797-9321. council meeting, Closter
Mayor John Glidden, left,
presented Rabbi Fred
Pomerantz with a proc-
lamation marking the
Guest rabbi at 50th anniversary of his
Teaneck shul service. In the proclama-
PHOTO PROVIDED
tion, the town’s mayor
Rabbi Stanley M. Davids, left, discussed and council named Octo-
“The Fragile Dialogue Among Those ber 10, 2018 as Rabbi
BARBARA BALKIN
Who Love Israel” at Temple Emeth Fred Pomerantz Day.

of Teaneck’s annual Rabbi Joshua
Trachtenberg Memorial lecture. Rabbi
Steven Sirbu joined him.
Ben Porat Yosef welcomes

Menendez two new administrators
Ben Porat Yosef welcomed Gabrielle
meets with Altman as its director of develop-
Jewish leaders ment and marketing and Sharona
Grossberg as director of admissions
PHOTOS COURTESY BPY
Earlier this month, the Jewish Council and public relations.

for Public Affairs held one of its semi- Ms. Altman has more than 15 years
annual lobbying days in Washington. of experience in development, mar-
Rabbi Neal Borovitz, rabbi emeritus of keting, public relations, grant writ-
Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge, is ing, higher education, and nonprofit
a JCPA vice chair. He introduced Senator administration at organizations
Menendez (D-N.J.) to Jewish community including Yeshiva University, NYU- Gabrielle Altman Sharona Grossberg
leaders from across the country. Langone Medical Center, Memorial
Senator Menendez spoke to the group Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Weizmann Institute of Science. Ms. Grossberg has
at their lunch session on criminal justice nearly 20 years of professional and volunteer experience in Jewish and educational
reform and the plight of asylum seekers, Rabbi Neal Borovitz, left, and Senator organizations — she has worked in admissions, college guidance, public relations,
refugees, and DACA recipients. Robert Menendez teaching, student affairs and alumni engagement.

UPCOMING AT KAPLEN JCC on the Palisades
Fall Boutique
Don’t miss this annual shopping extravaganza
featuring fashionable women’s and children’s
clothing, accessories, jewelry, holiday gifts and
more! Proceeds support enrichment programs
at the Leonard & Syril Rubin Nursery School.
Sun, Nov 4, 10 am-5 pm, & Mon, Nov 5, 9 am-4 pm
JCC U—Fall Term PA
TOP PROFESSORS AND EXPERTS PRESENT

ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS
November 8 Topics: In the morning, Jewish

Gangsters of the Lower East Side. Hear Rabbi
David Kalb tell true stories behind larger-than-life
gangsters like Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. In the
afternoon, meet journalist Adam Valen Levinson who
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THE KAPLEN FOUNDATION PRESENT
Mosab Hassan Yousef:
In Conversation
Mosab
PA
Author of Son of Hamas and Award for

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Hassan Mosab discusses the world’s most dangerous terrorist

organization and unveils the truth about his own
Yousef
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enemies” is the only way to peace in the Middle East.
Sponsored in part by the Israeli-American Council.
November 11, 7 pm
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Celebrate Thanksgiving with some Italian flair
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the following delicious food: stuffed mushrooms
meditation, including calm and relaxation her new book Roller-Coaster Grandma: The Amazing
and stuffed artichokes, Italian wedding soup, Turkey
techniques which lead to a stronger sense Story of Dr. Ruth. Q&A to follow.
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Local
Daughters of Miriam Golf Classic sparkles in autumn
D
renching rain and floods on the on the outing’s original date because of state
original date did not stop golfers licensing regulations.
when they got together at the 38th Alex Fleysher of West Caldwell, Andrew
annual Daughters of Miriam Golf Kanter of Wayne, David Kessler of Franklin
Classic. Rescheduled from August 13 to Octo- Lakes, and Leslie Levine of Clifton were the
ber 3, the tournament took place on a beautiful golf co-chairs. Volunteers, headed by coordina-
fall day at Arcola Country Club in Paramus. The tors Linda Fishman and Anne Kanter of Wayne,
outing, in support of Alzheimer’s and dementia and Leslie Levine of Clifton, staffed the outing
care, brought business and community leaders and helped make it run smoothly.
together for a day of golf and socializing that The committee included Jeff Abrams, Paul
began with a buffet brunch, followed by a shot- Abrams, Michael Birnberg, Monica Cohen, Reid
gun tee-off, cocktails, and dinner. Fader, Jared Kanter, Robert Kantor, Randi Koch-
Eight players who were closest to the hole on man, Scott Norwalk, Jay Opper, Marc Rosen-
the four par 3s had the opportunity to participate krantz, Avi Safer, Joseph Silverman, Jeffrey Sil-
in the $500,000 Gutenstein Family Foundation vershein, Michael Sirota, Andrew Steiger, David
Shootout. At the end of the regulation round, two Topalian, and Morris Yamner.
additional spots in the $500,000 shootout con- The McCutchen Foundation was the Pre-
test were auctioned off, with 10 golfers compet- mier Flag sponsor ($25,000); the Gutenstein
ing for the half million dollars from a distance of Family Foundation was the Shootout spon-
165 yards. No winners walked off with the grand sor ($11,000); A.L. Levine Family Foundation,
prize, but one lucky player won a $2,500 cash Levco Shopping Centers, Sylvia and Avi Safer Golf Shootout sponsor Jeffrey Silvershein of the Gutenstein Family
prize for coming closest to the pin. of Safer Textiles, Carole and Joel J. Steiger, and Foundation, right, heads out with David Malat, left, Daughters of Miriam
The shotgun event also offered premium hole- Valley National Bank were Double Eagle Spon- CEO Frank DaSilva, and George Chookasian.
in-one prizes including cars, vacations, jewelry, sors ($10,000); Cole Schotz, P.C., Integra Hous-
and cash awards. Hole-in-one prizes were made ing Group and the Joined Management Team,
possible by Frank’s Truck Center of Lyndhurst, Leslie, Peter and Rachel Levine, Planned Com-
Route 23 Auto Mall of Butler, the Timepiece Col- panies were Eagle Sponsors ($7,500); Jay Hor-
lection of Englewood, and Yanina & Co. of Cedar witz, Partners were Pharmacy Gold Tee Spon-
Grove. All tournament participants received a sors ($5,000); Evco Mechanical, Anne and
variety of gifts when they registered. Andrew Kanter, Lisa and David Kessler, Nurs-
The 2018 event featured silent and live auc- ing Network, Dr. Dely Go, Stephen A. Plos-
tions with items including foursomes at exclu- cowe, and Fox Rothschild were Birdie Spon-
sive golf clubs, football, hockey, and basketball sors ($2,500); and Randi and Tedd Kochman,
tickets, entertainment memorabilia, vacation OptumCare, the Preferred Client Group, St.
packages, and exclusive house seats for Broad- Mary’s Hospital, and Wuhl Investment Group
way shows like “Dear Evan Hansen,” “Beautiful,” of Wells Fargo were Meal Sponsors ($1,500).
“Aladdin,” and “Mean Girls.” Daughters of Miriam’s mission is to provide
A 50/50 drawing with a $5,000 jackpot quality health care and housing for seniors in Closest to the Pin Shootout winner Adam Cutler, center, receives a
capped the evening; Steven Klein of Edgewater an environment that enhances individual tradi- $2,500 check from Golf Committee co-chairs Andrew Kanter, left,
won it. The annual car raffle drawing was held tions and lifestyles. Alex Fleysher, Leslie Levine, and David Kessler.
Golf Committee co-chair David Kessler thanks golfers for their partici-
Pausing between holes, Eagle Sponsor Peter Levine, left, Larry Levine, Jerry DeWaters, and pation. With him are fellow co-chairs Alex Fleysher, Leslie Levine, and
John Delutis display the Premier Flag Sponsor McCutchen Foundation’s tee flag. Andrew Kanter.

Rockland
Louis Armstrong’s wonderful world
Chazen Jazz Concert will feature master’s music — and a look at his life
J
LARRY YUDELSON Mr. Ostwald’s first musical love was the
classical tuba. When he was in sixth grade,
erome Chazen of Nyack doesn’t his mother had taken him to see Rudolf
remember precisely how he first Nureyev in Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet of
discovered the genius of Louis Arm- Romeo and Juliet.
strong, only that it was in college, at “There was a number, ‘The March of
the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Capulets,’ that had this tremendous
sometime around 1944. tuba part that overwhelmed me,” Mr. Ost-
But he does remember the first time that wald recalled. A few months later, during
he heard Louis Armstrong play. recess, he saw a tuba in the band room,
It was in Madison, not all that long after. picked it up, and played.
Mr. Chazen had graduated from jazz nov- “The band leader could have been
ice to jazz aficionado, scouring the second- angry,” he said. “Instead he gave me my
hand stores for old 78 records to build his first lesson on the spot. There weren’t a lot
growing record collections from the detri- of kids who were dying to play the tuba.”
tus of the Great Depression. He had begun A few years later, he went to Sam
writing a column about jazz for the student Goody’s Record Store to buy a new clas-
newspaper. And when Louis Armstrong sical recording of Bach’s double violin
came to town with his band, young Mr. concerto. Checking out the cut-out bin of
Chazen arranged to interview him. remaindered discount records, he found a
Nearly 75 years later, Mr. Chazen Louis Armstrong record. He bought it. “I
remembers that conversation with Mr. went home and listened to it,” he said. “I
Armstrong, and what he learned about Louis Armstrong flashes his trademark smile in a 1955 photo. had my epiphany and became a huge Arm-
the performer and composer. Mr. Chazen strong fan on the spot.”
had a particular question. His collection of Armstrong replied. “I love that cat!” in tune with the audiences he was dealing Mr. Ostwald didn’t become an actual
Armstrong records was happenstance and The trumpeter told the college student with. Louis believed in playing for an audi- jazz musician until he was a 21-year-old
eclectic. “If I saw a record by a musician I how he had stayed in a hotel in Chicago ence. If the audience liked it and loved it, college student at the University of Chi-
knew or appreciated, I would buy it,” he in the 1920s, while he was performing in that was his job.” cago, and friends asked him to join in a
said. “Especially if it was Louis Armstrong. a nearby club. One night, walking from Mr. Chazen next saw Mr. Armstrong per- jazz band. “I can’t,” he said. “I need to be
I wouldn’t care what he was playing — I just the hotel to the club, he saw many people form in 1947. Mr. Armstrong was playing able to read the music. I can’t improvise.”
wanted the record.” standing in line. “A big long line of people in a Chicago night club — only 150 miles or So they prepared some sheet music.
Listening to one of those records, Mr. stretching around the block,” Mr. Chazen so away from Madison. Mr. Chazen drove After he became familiar enough with
Chazen thought the music sounded like recalled. “He followed the line and saw there with a group of friends. “That was a jazz to be comfortable playing without the
that of Guy Lombardo, “a certain kind of they were standing in line to get into a the- lot of fun,” he said. written score, he began to wean himself
swishy dance music. ater where Guy Lombardo was playing. Later, after Mr. Chazen graduated and off them and learned to improvise. He also
“I couldn’t make sense of it. Why “If all these people are waiting to get in moved back to New York, he would hear learned that the tuba in a jazz ensemble
would Louis Armstrong sound like Guy to hear this guy, they must be on to some- Mr. Armstrong several times at concerts plays the role of the bass instrument, a
Lombardo?” thing,” Mr. Armstrong said. and clubs. Mr. Chazen still has a picture constant presence in the sound.
So Mr. Chazen asked Mr. Armstrong Mr. Chazen said that Mr. Armstrong of the two of them, snapped by a cigarette “That was very attractive to me,” he
that question. “Guy Lombardo?” Mr. “was an appreciator. He was very much girl who worked the floor of the club Mr. said. “I could play instead of just count-
Armstrong was playing. ing the measures in the orchestra. In the
In recent years, Mr. Chazen has worked orchestra, you play one or two notes on
to bring jazz to Rockland, sponsoring a the tuba, then you lay out for 10 minutes
series of concerts through the JCC. (See and then you come in again.”
box.) This year’s concert will feature the Besides Mr. Ostwald on the tuba, the
music of Louis Armstrong performed by Louis Armstrong Eternity Band includes a
David Ostwald and his Louis Armstrong trumpet, a clarinet, a trombone, a banjo,
Eternity Band, and an audiovisual pre- and a drummer.
sentation by Ricky Riccardi, director of “We don’t copy Armstrong’s perfor-
research collections for the Louis Arm- mances,” Mr. Ostwald said. “We play tunes
strong House Museum and author of that he wrote and that are associated with
“What a Wonderful World: The Magic him. We don’t make an attempt to recreate
of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years.” Mr. the recordings. We play them our own way.”
Riccardi will tell stories of Mr. Armstrong’s
life, including the important role a Jewish
What: Chazen Jazz Concert
family played in his childhood. His talk will
be accompanied by rare photographs and When: Saturday, November 10, 8 p.m.
videos from the museum. Where: Pearl River High School
David Ostwald is a tuba player. His 275 East Central Ave., Pearl River
band, originally the Gully Low Jazz Band, Who: David Ostwald’s Louis
has been playing the famed Birdland jazz Armstrong Eternity Band and Louis
club in Manhattan as an Armstrong salute Armstrong historian Ricky Riccardi
Tuba player David Ostwald and his Louis Armstrong Eternity Band will entertain since the centennial of Mr. Armstrong’s How much: $25
at a concert November 10 in Pearl River. birth in 2000.

Rockland
Broadway entertainment Holocaust museum benefit in November

in Montebello The Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance their commitment to commemorating the
The Montebello Jewish Center hosts “Broadway Voices and Education’s annual benefit brunch is set for Holocaust and to teaching people about it. They
of Today & Tomorrow” on Saturday, November 3, Sunday, November 4, at 10:30 a.m. It will honor have been dedicated to helping build the new
at 7 p.m. The concert features Broadway perform- Alan Moskin. Stefany and Simon Bergson are the state-of-the-art museum, which is scheduled to
ers Janelle A. Robinson and J.D. Webster, with guest Elie Wiesel Memorial award recipients, and Jake open next year.
appearances by MJC’s cantor, Michelle Rubin, and its Janelle A. Ehrenreich will give a celebratory tribute. The Jake Ehrenreich, a musician, author, and
teen and youth choirs. Robinson brunch is at the View on the Hudson in Piermont. playwright, is featured in the film “The Last
Janelle Anne Robinson’s Broadway credits include Alan Moskin, a museum trustee, is a member Laugh” with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. A
“Mary Poppins,” “Oklahoma,” and “Showboat.” J.D. of its speakers’ bureau. Since last year’s ben- Brooklyn-born child of Holocaust survivors, he
Webster’s Broadway credits include “Wonderful efit brunch, he has been the featured speaker is best known as star and creator of his musi-
Town,” “Ragtime,” “Showboat,” and “The Gershwins’ nearly 30 times, and he has reached more than cal, “A Jew Grows in Brooklyn,” which is also a
Porgy and Bess.” 5,000 people. He talks about his experiences as bestselling book.
A dessert reception will follow the concert. The Mon- a G.I. in Patton’s Third Army and as a liberator All proceeds will benefit Holocaust and toler-
tebello Jewish Center is at 34 Montebello Road. For of several concentration camps. ance education programs. For information, call
more information, call (845) 357-2430 or email office@ Stefany and Simon Bergson, longtime (845) 574-4099, email HolocaustRCC@gmail.
montebellojc.org. JD Webster museum supporters, are being honored for com, or go to holocauststudies.org.
WELCOME CENTER NOW OPEN

Rockland couple among honorees
at Chai Lifeline celebration
Chai Lifeline will hold “Chai Lifeline
its annual gala on Mon- gives children with
day, November 19, at life-threatening or
the Grand Hyatt in Man- lifelong illnesses
hattan. Dr. Cheryl and permission to
Yitzy Book of Monsey dream again, and
The Most Exciting

New Retirement Community
and Nicole Lieberman
of Manhattan are Camp
Simcha Appreciation
the freedom to
hope for a better
future,” said Rabbi
Is Coming to Rockland County. award honorees, Mayer Simcha Scholar,
and Chaya Rivka Fischl of chief executive offi-
Lakewood are the guests cer of Chai Lifeline.
of honor, and Dr. Charles Dr. Cheryl and Yitzy Book “In return, these
Brightview is bringing Schleien of New Rochelle children inspire all
carefree, resort-style living – is the Medical Achievement award recip- of us to do more, and to toil that much
Call Cindy or Dorothy
with no large entrance fee – ient. Joining Chai Lifeline in celebrating harder on their behalf to help them real-
to Rockland County. to schedule your visit. this year’s gala theme — “Dream. Hope. ize their dreams. Our work would not be
845.203.2338
Inspire” –will be comedian Elon Gold, possible without the unwavering com-
Brightview Lake Tappan offers who also will be the emcee, and musi- mitment of our distinguished honorees,
cian Shulem Lemmer. and I thank each of them for being part-
access to tri-state shopping, Dr. Cheryl and Yitzy Book are Camp ners with Chai Lifeline.”
L ’ Shana
culture, entertainment, and Simcha alumni. Cheryl volunteered as Chai Lifeline offers vital assistance
L ’ Shana
endless on-site opportunities a Camp Simcha counselor and division through its two unique medically super-
for a rewarding retirement. head before joining the Chai Lifeline vised overnight camps, Camp Simcha
staff, where she is director of clinical and and Camp Simcha Special; insurance
Tovah!
family services. Her husband, Yitzy, also advocacy; counseling; after-school sib-
Tovah!
is a longtime supporter of Chai Lifeline lings programs; family retreats; and
Reserve your apartment and is a regular at Chai Lifeline events, many other services for all family mem-
including the Purim carnival, Chanukah bers at no cost. For more information, go
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Wishing you a sweetyou

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year. new year.
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Jamie and • Assisted
Steven DranowLiving • Dementia
• Larry Care• Harvey Schwartz
A. Model
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Gregg Brunwasser Jamie and Steven
• Michael Dranow •General
L. Rosenthal, Larry A.Manager
Model • Harvey Schwartz
Gregg Brunwasser • Michael L. Rosenthal, General Manager
in New City
As your local Dignity Memorial® providers, we wish you the best this Rosh Hashanah. The Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Edu-
Candlelighting
As your
We reaffirm our local Dignity
commitment Memorial
of service
®
providers,
to the we wish you the best this Rosh Hashanah.
Jewish community. cation offers a community-wide Kristallnacht commemo-
We reaffirm our commitment of service to the Jewish community.
ration on November 8, beginning at 6 p.m., at the Nanuet
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Fitting in, standing out

I
The country’s first Joanne Palmer — the American Jewish community
— are successful, come from genera-
both to Jews who look noticeably Jew-
ish and those who do not.
Sikh attorney general s the United States a melt-

ing pot? A glorious mosaic?
tions of success, and look like every-
one else. But a sizable segment of the
So this is a long introduction to
someone from another group, who
talks about his work, A nation of immigrants? A

country that demands assim-
community is recognizably Jewish: at
one end of that scale the men wear kip-
looks noticeably unlike most Ameri-
cans and who has made his own way
his community, ilation? A nation that revels

in its differences? A place
pot; toward the right women do not
wear pants and cover their heads; and
in this country, in the immigrant tra-
dition, relying on brains, hard work,
and his ideals that demands, commands, respects,

rejects, or reviles identity politics?
further still the men have big bushy
beards and the women cover most
openness, a self-established network
of friends, and some luck, and now
Or maybe it’s a country where all parts of their bodies through all sea- has one of the most important jobs in
those things are true. sons of the year. the state of New Jersey.
Many members of our community Success, in other words, has come Meet Gurbir Grewal, New Jersey’s

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Left, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal talks about a civics-based project modeled after the nationally recognized Project
Citizen program at the Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Edison on October 18, 2018. Above, Mr. Grewal, State Police
Superintendent Patrick Callahan, and New Jersey Homeland Security Director Jared Maples sit with Rabbi Yosef Carlebach
and Rabbi Mendy Carlebach at the Chabad of Central Jersey at Rutgers University in New Brunswick on October 16, 2018.
Photos by office of the Attorney General/Tim Larsen
attorney general. He is the first Sikh in opportunity. (Although Mr. Grewal speaks his parents went there because “it prob- where he went to high school. Next came
the country to become a state attorney eloquently about his own experiences, he ably was the only place they knew about.” college; Mr. Grewal decided to try some-
general. does not offer much information about The community soon grew, though. “I thing different, so he went to Bates College,
His main office is in Trenton, but his family. He is a public person but they grew up around people who looked like in rural Maine. “I thought I needed a small
recently he met with the Jewish Standard are not, he says, and he chooses to respect me.” (Most Sikhs can trace their families liberal arts college,” he said. “I wanted to
at his office in Newark. their privacy.) back to the Punjab; they are Indian, but be a writer. But then I took one interna-
Mr. Grewal’s parents moved to Jer- “They faced a lot of discrimination in they are neither Hindu nor Muslim. Sikh tional relations course, and I was hooked.”
sey City from the Indian state of Punjab those early years,” Mr. Grewal said. “There men are identifiable by their turbans and He soon ran through all of Bates’s
in 1971, he said, and Gurbir was born in were hardly any Sikhs in the country then. beards.) international relations curriculum, so it
1973. His mother has a master’s degree in It must have taken a huge leap of faith for Soon, the family moved to Bergen made sense to transfer, and by that time
political science and his father is an elec- them to cross the ocean to come here. We County — first Washington Township and he realized that the deep country wasn’t
trical engineer. They moved here, as most had no relatives here then.” There already then Westwood, where Gurbir went to ele- for him, so he finished college at George-
immigrants do, in search of economic was a small Sikh community in Jersey City; mentary school, and then to Essex County, town, working through its foreign service

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curriculum. He wanted to be a diplomat, but to law school.” And it seemed appealing also to make enough money to live comfort- To be clear, people were staring at him
timing was against him. “I graduated in ’95, “because I was a big ‘Law and Order’ fan.” ably. (To be clear, it is not as if it is not because they assumed he was Muslim,
and there was a hiring freeze in the State So he applied and ended up enrolling in law possible to live comfortably on a civil ser- and they assumed that if he were Mus-
Department then,” he said. “They were not school at William and Mary, the lovely Jef- vant’s salary, and equally it is possible to lim, then if he were not actively respon-
offering the foreign service exam,” the first fersonian campus in Williamsburg, Virginia. do socially compelling work in a big law sible for the hijacking and murders, at
step to a diplomatic career. “I got hooked on law,” he said. firm. It’s just harder.) During law school, least he was somehow complicit in it. He
What to do next? Like many fledgling lawyers, Mr. Grewal he spent one summer in the Essex County must be in favor of it.
“Then law school seemed like an option,” was torn between the desire to do public ser- public defender’s office, and another at a To continue being clear, Mr. Grewal
Mr. Grewal said. “I had a lot of friends going vice and the often equally compelling desire then big, now gone D.C. law firm, Howrey is not Muslim. Overwhelmingly most
& Simon. He worked on litigation in both Muslims were horrified by the attacks of
places; he knew that no matter which September 11, but that was irrelevant to
side of the public/private divide he went Mr. Grewal, who is no more Muslim than
to, it would be as a litigator. Jews are.
From his law school graduation in “What really drove it home to me was
1999 to 2004, Mr. Grewal worked at that I would walk out of my building at
Howrey & Simon. He got married during work, and a group of homeless guys who
that time; his wife is a physician, and she would hang out there would start yell-
went to Columbia for her fellowship in ing at me. Yelling things like ‘Here’s Bin
2004. That meant that “I knew we had Laden! We got Bin Laden!’
to move, and it seemed as good a time as “They would trail me. It was embar-
any for my passion for criminal justice” rassing, and it also was frightening.”
to come to the fore. Remember, he said, that the first vic-
There was something else, beyond tim of mob violence killed because of
an intellectual love for litigation and an an invented connection to September 11
emotional pull toward social justice, pro- was a Sikh; that was Balbir Singh Sodhi
pelling Mr. Grewal toward public service. of Mesa, Arizona, killed on September
He had a message to share. A message 15. “You have to be a bit more careful
he embodies. A message about hope about where you walk,” Mr. Grewal said.
and diversity and difference and shared “About where you park. About where
values. you buy groceries. I would pick the door
A message that he knew he had to of my building it was safest to walk out of.
share throughout most of his life, but “ The whi spers and comments
that came into painfully sharp relief on prompted me to think about my own
the days following September 11, 2001. experience, and about the Sikh immi-
“On September 11, I worked at the law grant experience,” he said. “You are
firm in Washington,” he said. “It was a born here, but you maintain your own
normal Tuesday. A beautiful morning. A religious identity, and so you look
perfect fall day. When I drove in, I started different.
hearing about what was happening. “You can check every box — play-
“When I got in, my colleagues and ing Little League, playing soccer, doing
I came together and went up on the every normal American thing — and
roof.” They could see the Pentagon burn- then one day you wake up and everyone
ing; one of the planes hit it. “Everyone looks at you like you don’t belong.”
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m here and thrived economically and education-

, ally and socially. We have done well profession-
- ally. When you are growing up, your community
- wants you to be a good doctor or lawyer or engi-
neer. A professional. But no one says it is okay to
be a good public servant — a cop, a fireman.” Or
even a public service lawyer.
“So I thought, what better way is there to show
t people that I am as American as everyone else
than to engage in public service? Looking the
o way I do? Believing the way I do?
“At that point in my life, I wasn’t going to
go to the police academy or the fire academy,
s so I started looking at U.S. attorney’s offices. I
t thought I could be a federal prosecutor. I got a
couple of offers, and I accepted a job in Brook-
- lyn, at the U.S. attorney’s office for New York’s
n eastern district. And it was amazing.
“I got to get in front of grand jurors, looking
- as I do. I got to speak to federal agents from
” across the agencies. And not only was I giving
- back, I was being a sort of spokesperson for the
f entire community.
1 “I was showing that while we might look dif-
ferent, while we might have different beliefs, we
r are all in on the ideals of this country. We are
l changing minds, 12 jurors at a time, a few agents
. at a time.”
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Above, Mr. Grewal looks at the names on the 9/11 memorial at Eagle Rock Reserva-
tion in West Orange during ceremonies last September 11. Right, the attorney gen-
eral speaks at the Jewish Federation’s annual meeting in Paramus on June 7, 2018.
security cases, terrorism cases, financial Grewal and his wife lived in Hoboken, and took a short break, working at Howey’s he took a job in the U.S Attorney’s office
fraud cases,” he said. “We were bringing then they moved to Glen Rock. They’re New York office, “but it was just a tem- in Newark. He worked for Paul Fishman,
justice to the community. It was inspiring close to Glen Rock Gurudwara, the Sikh porary detour,” he said. “I didn’t find it “who is an amazing mentor,” he said.
and rewarding work.” temple there, and they’re active in it. It rewarding.” “Just incredible.
When he worked in Brooklyn, Mr. was not a good commute, and Mr. Grewal Mr. Grewal returned to public service; “I started at the bottom there, even
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though I had been a prosecutor for almost four years, be profiled and pigeonholed because of his appearance, it is up to attorneys general to uphold the greater governmen-
and I worked my way up to heading the economic and he was able to use his position and that knowledge to tal accountability when they violate the rules, norms, and our
computer crime units, and I handled all major white- help resolve the situation. The town could not use racial sense of decency.
collar federal crimes, from security fraud to computer profiling to keep charedi Jews from its public parks, he “When we first got here, almost daily we were racing to
fraud to Russian hacking. I headed a team of 24, 25 said, and he enforced that finding. something, from working against the travel ban to attacks on
people. In January 2018, the new governor-elect, Phil Mur- women’s reproductive rights to attacks on the immigrants to
“I was there from 2010 to 2016,” Mr. Grewal said. “It phy, appointed Mr. Grewal to the position he holds now. the census question to the attacks on the LGBT community.”
was a great ride.” “The opportunity was not anything I ever sought out,” But the office does much more than that, he said. “I believe
In 2013, then Governor Chris Christie, whom Mr. Gre- Mr. Grewal said. “But we did a lot of work on the opiate that this is one of the most powerful attorney general offices
wal had not met and did not know, nominated him to crisis and police-community relations and the eruv, and in the country. I am not aware of any other one that has com-
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mally later that year. “It was a wonderful, incredible job,” very unpopular in the Northeast, and he’s particularly lawyers to the state. We represent every state agency. The col-
Mr. Grewal said. “It allowed me to continue to be in pub- at odds with attorneys general in the states where he onel of the state police reports to the state’s attorney general.
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“We also house the division of consumer affairs, which general. His friend Ravi Bhalla is the first Sikh to be mayor
oversees broad consumer protections, from games of of a town in New Jersey. And their friend Amardeep
chance to security. In total, we are 73,000 folks and 13 Singh was the founder of the Sikh Coalition and now is
divisions.” a senior program officer for George Soros’s Open Society
He paused for a breath. Foundation.
“I am appointed, not elected, and my term is co-termi- “We have a deep understanding of what it means to be
nus with the governor’s,” he said. “That is good. We don’t marginalized,” Mr. Grewal said. “Of being on the receiv-
have to campaign. We don’t have to fund-raise. We are not ing end of hateful comments and bigotry. That helps you
indebted to anyone. understand what other people are going through.”
“When we go to national meetings, there are Demo- That’s why, despite the many far-reaching powers his
cratic and Republican attorneys general associations, and office gives him, the one that perhaps speaks most deeply
we can’t get involved with either of them.” to him is the chance to give disaffected young people rea-
This first year, Mr. Grewal said, his work largely has son to hope.
been reactive, but next year it will be more proactive. “We “When I am going to talk to a ninth grade class in
will push forward an affirmative agenda next year. Glen Rock about heroin and opioids and I see a Sikh kid
“We also have the division of civil rights; we now have slouched in his chair, clearly not part of the cliques — I
the time to consider how we can use our authority to build am there as much to help that kid as I am to talk about
something. To put forward rules so that the protections opioids,” he said.
that are being stripped away federally can be built up here. Attorney General Gurbir Grewal speaks at the And make no mistake about it — he also very much is
“We can be a model for the rest of the country.” American Constitution Society in Washington, D.C., there to talk about opioids. Those are not mutually exclu-
He plans to start an honors program that will bring in top on June 9, 2018. sive things.
law students; in return for a two-year commitment they will “I always have done that, and now I have a much bigger
be exposed to high-level work and have a rare opportunity When he moved to Essex County in high school, “no platform for it,” he said.
to learn and grow rather than to wait their turns. one knew me, and no one looked like me, and that was “I talked to someone, a Sikh, who told me that for the
Mr. Grewal thinks back to his childhood as he considers where the hate started to manifest. There was a lot of star- longest time he didn’t wear a turban. But when he saw
the future, his chance to affect young people, and his abil- ing, and even some grabbing. Some physical attacks. my picture in the paper, he told me, he said ‘I will wear
ity to effect change. “But you develop a resilience, and you deepen it by mine now.’”
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from or what you looked like. We just knew each other, Mr. Grewal is one third of an extraordinary trio of child- levers to pull. Mr. Grewal has access to them, and he is
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Republicans and Democrats both try to paint

the other side’s candidates as worse for the Jews
RON KAMPEAS Council of America and the Republican
Jewish Coalition, are seizing on the other
WASHINGTON — When Ron DeSantis, party’s vulnerability and defending their
the Republican congressman running for own side.
governor of Florida, was asked in a debate White nationalists “have a home in the
to defend his record on race, he pivoted to Republican Party because our president
his Democratic opponent’s record on Israel. has legitimized these movements,” Halie
DeSantis and Tallahassee Mayor Soifer, the JDCA’s executive director, said
Andrew Gillum each have a problem that in an interview.
won’t go away — DeSantis with racially Matt Brooks, her RJC counterpart,
charged language and Gillum with asso- referred to about a half-dozen Democratic
ciates who are anti-Israel. That may not nominees that his group has singled out for
be surprising in a swing state where sub- sharply criticizing Israel — in one case to say
stantial Jewish and African-American that it should not exist as a Jewish state.
minorities can make the difference, and “It’s total hypocrisy of the Jewish Dem-
where the race is too close to call. ocrats to throw these grenades at us, yet
But it’s not just Florida: In race after not do anything and embrace some of the
race, sometimes in areas with few Jewish problematic elements in the Democratic
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Kavanaugh and the caravan of migrants tion: The donor, Steven Alembik, had
campaigning for incumbent Repub- heading from Central America toward the apologized. He did not answer the sec-
lican Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas, Trump U.S. border, often with scant or no evi- ond question, instead claiming a past in
denounced “globalists” who he said don’t dence at all. There are an array of major which he fought with and for blacks, first
care enough about the United States and donors on the left, but it is Soros, who in the military and then as a prosecutor.
called himself a “nationalist.” is Jewish, who is singled out most often, Then he pivoted to Gillum.
Neither term is necessarily anti-Semitic and sometimes with anti-Semitic under- “I look at what Andrew has done in
nor bigoted. But “globalists” is often a tones. A pro-Trump, far-right evangeli- terms of aligning himself with groups
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supremacists have adopted the “national- election put out a video this week calling their — he stood on the debate stage and
ist” label as their own. Soros “evil” for trying to “deChristianize said he stood with them and by them, but
“For those of us who remember his- a culture and a nation.” one of their main planks of their platform
tory, to hear an American president The DeSantis-Gillum exchange on Sun- is to boycott, divest from and sanction
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shiver up our spine,” Abe Foxman, the CNN debate moderator Jake Tapper you this, if you want to unify Florida, tak- Leslie Cockburn on stage at the
former national director for the Anti- asked DeSantis why the candidate had ing positions about Israel like that, that premiere and panel discussion of
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Candidates Israel an “apartheid regime.”
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• In Texas, Republican Ted Cruz, in
march in Charlottesville. (Riggleman has a surprisingly tight re-election bid, has
denounced the marchers.) attacked his Democratic opponent,
• In New York’s 19th Congressional Dis- Rep. Beto O’Rourke, for accepting the
trict, an upstate region encompassing endorsement of J Street, the liberal Jew-
the Catskills and the Hudson Valley, in a ish Middle East policy group, and once
debate this week embattled Republican voting against emergency funding for
incumbent John Faso rapped his oppo- Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system.
nent, Antonio Delgado, for suggesting (O’Rourke has said he objected on proce-
that as long as Israel maintains control dural grounds.)
of the West Bank Palestinian popula- The Jewish partisan groups have made
tion, it is not a “Jewish democracy.” (“I clear where they stand on at least some
am committed to a two-state solution — of its bad actors: Brooks has said that the
a Jewish state of Israel and a sovereign Republican Jewish Coalition will have
Palestinian state — because it is the only nothing to do with Virginia’s Stewart
way for Israel to fulfill its own aspirations or Iowa’s King, and Soifer’s Democratic
to remain a Jewish democracy for future group similarly has spoken out against
generations,” Delgado told Jewish Insider Tlaib’s and Omar’s views on Israel.
in response.) Part of the mission of Jewish parti- Rep. Steve King questions witnesses during a House Judiciary Committee
• In Iowa, Rep. Steve King, a safe san groups is to explain to the national hearing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 26, 2017. DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
Republican incumbent, endorsed a white party why it opposes a trend or a candi-

nationalist candidate, Faith Goldy, for date. Both Brooks and Soifer said they terms of the statements that some of these distinguish between foreign policy posi-
mayor of Toronto. The Canadian politi- are doing just that, but that they did not candidates are making,” Brooks said. “It’s tions, however outlandish, and bigotry.
cian has associated with neo-Nazi web- expect the national party to shut out easy for us who have a clear set of values to “To have an issue on a specific for-
sites and referred to the “Jewish ques- actors like Omar, Tlaib, King, or Stewart. say ‘this guy’s views do not align with where eign policy issue is very different than
tion,” a commonplace anti-Semitic trope. “It’s important, as we do within the we are.’ It’s harder for the party, which has a associating oneself with a movement of
• In Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar, the sure- Republican sphere, that we stand up and broader, bigger tent.” neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and Holocaust
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Vets beginning to happen is when someone from our community second guest, in 2003, was injured when infiltrating into
FROM PAGE 8 — whether a host or a buddy family — goes to Israel and says, Lebanon. “He had a traumatic head injury and needed to
the line of duty. Beit Halochem centers in Israel pro- ‘Join me for coffee or beer at a restaurant,’ people show up. relearn how to walk and talk.”
vide a place where disabled people can participate in They’re getting to know each other, support each other. It’s During his stay in Bergen County, she said, “he began to
sports and related activities suited to their individual such a nice thing for them to continue to have the social life feel empowered. He insisted that we speak in Hebrew and
situation. Each center also offers a wide choice of with the American community and now with each other. It’s said frappucinos were the best thing ever.” After the visit, “he
social and creative activities for members. “They go fascinating to see who Steve is bringing together.” became employed again, doing private detective work. He
to Beit Halochem to do their rehabilitation, using the In 1999, Ms. Rosen and her husband, Michael, hosted a also started to have a plot in Ramat Gan community garden.”
facility’s pools, massage areas, and physical therapy,” soldier who had been a POW during the Yom Kippur War. For more information about Zahal Shalom, go to www.
Mr. Kornblit said. “There’s a center in all four cities “He and my husband bonded over billiards,” she said. Her zahalshalom.org.
we’re visiting.”
In fact, he said, while the October 25 Tel Aviv
reunion still would include a food tour, the second get-
together will be held not in a veteran’s home but at
Beit Halochem. “It’s got a different feel,” he said. “It’s
their place. A large contingent said they will cook and
bring the food there.”
Susan Kornblit said she already knew several people
at the Beersheba reunion. “I knew Yoni, who hosted us
for dinner.” She also knew Orly, who came to Bergen
County in 2011, bringing a newspaper article describ-
ing how her unit had been bombed. “She was hurt
badly. She didn’t think she would make it. But now,
she seems very stable and happy. It’s nice to see her in
her element. She’s working, and she has a nice job.”
Johanna Rosen of Ridgewood has been on the execu-
tive committee of Zahal Shalom for a long time, “15 to
20 years,” she said. “I haven’t hosted since 2006, but
I spend time leading groups in New York and Wash-
ington, D.C.”
Ms. Rosen clearly is excited by Mr. Kornblit’s reunion
project. “Wherever he is, people from different years
are coming together to be with him,” she said. “What is
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A conference of American Jews seeks dialogue

with Israelis. Complications ensue.
BEN SALES Also this year, Israel passed a law defin-
ing itself as the nation-state of the Jewish
TEL AVIV — On Sunday, a day before thou- people. Recent months have seen a series
sands of American Jews descended on this of Americans, mostly left-wing activists,
Israeli city to air their differences with the detained and questioned at Israel’s bor-
nation’s government, Israel’s President der. A two-state solution seems nowhere
Reuven Rivlin had a listening session. in sight. President Donald Trump, reviled
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American Jews to his official residence in Trump Republicans, gets high marks
Jerusalem. While he sat in the center of the among Israelis.
room, in a cushioned chair, three leaders Israelis, meanwhile, have chafed at anti-
of the diaspora’s largest Jewish commu- Israel activism among some corners of
nity explained their issues with the Jew- American Jewry, as well as criticism from
ish state. Left, Jerry Silverman, CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, speaks its leaders. Government representatives
“The Jewish identity of many young at its General Assembly in Tel Aviv, October 23. Right, Isaac Herzog, head of say they make policies according to their
American Jews is reflected through the the Jewish Agency for Israel, speaks at the conference, October 23. He said the security and political realities, and con-
lens of tikkun olam, social justice values,” Israeli and American Jewish communities need to talk, echoing the theme of the sider the will of the voters who actually
said Eric Goldstein, the CEO of New York’s General Assembly. live in their country.
UJA-Federation. “And they experience a “Over the last few years, North Ameri-
mental discomfort when they use that lens This year’s conference, which brings percent of Israeli Jews. Half of American can Jewry and Israel have defined their
to look at many current Israeli government together the leaders of the American Jewish Jews are liberal. Israeli Jews? Eight percent. relationship by the things we don’t have
policies: settlement policy, nation-state establishment for a mixture of sentimental And the past couple of years, Israel- in common,” Jerry Silverman, CEO of the
law, treatment of asylum seekers, mar- speeches, panel discussions on pressing wise, have been especially rough for Jewish Federations of North America,
riage equality, and marriage rights — more issues, and lots of schmoozing over weak American Jews with liberal proclivities. said, noting “varying issues of how Israelis
broadly, the monopoly that the Orthodox coffee, was titled “We Need to Talk.” The American Jewish leaders had negotiated perceive American Jewry or are just com-
have over religion and state in Israel.” explicit message is that American and for years to expand a non-Orthodox prayer pletely apathetic to American Jewry. And
That laundry list of grievances — every- Israeli Jews have grown further apart and section at the Western Wall. Last year, the I think you have an American Jewry that
thing from how Israel treats the Palestin- need some relationship counseling. Israeli government scrapped the compro- is growing up and is focused, especially in
ians to whose marriages it recognizes — is Around the conference hall in North Tel mise. The government also has moved to the younger generation, on social action,
what lies behind the theme of this year’s Aviv, signs displaying a series of statistics give the charedi Orthodox chief rabbinate social justice issues and who aren’t really
General Assembly, the annual conference showed that the world’s two largest Jew- more power over Jewish conversion. This looking through an Israeli lens.”
of the Jewish Federations of North Amer- ish populations don’t think alike: Sixty year, Israeli police detained a Conservative If the two sides “need to talk,” though,
ica, which is taking place here from Mon- percent of American Jews believe in the rabbi for the crime of performing a non- it would be far from the first conversation.
day to Wednesday. possibility of a Palestinian state, versus 40 Orthodox wedding. Silverman and fellow American Jewish
FDIF NJ dinner raises more than $4 million

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heads up the 613 Foundation, donated $3.7 FIDF New Jersey Director Howard Gases.
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Base Wellbeing Center in Israel. heroes and hope, and it was important for
This year’s event featured Sgt. Mikey, the New Jersey community to honor all
a New Jersey native who is a lone soldier those who served in the IDF.”
in the Pioneer Combatant Youth Recon- FIDF’s New Jersey chapter — often called
naissance Company. He also takes part the “Lone Soldier Chapter” — was co-
in the IDF’s Operation Good Neighbor, founded by FIDF national board member
which provides humanitarian aid to Syr- Sammy Bar-Or, who moved to Israel from
ian refugees. Iran when he was 13 and was a lone soldier
The dinner, co-chaired by FIDF New in the IDF’s Paratroopers Brigade.
Jersey Chapter board members Annette “When I served, there was no real Standing: (from left) FIDF Tri-State Executive Director Galit Brichta; Hadar Edel-
Stern and Ellen Sokoloff, also featured 2nd understanding of what it meant to be a stein; Maj. Gen. Michael Edelstein; FIDF Chairman Emeritus Arthur Stark; Sylvia
Lt. Sarah, who sustained serious injuries lone soldier,” Bar-Or said. “Life is very dif- Stark. Sitting: (from left) Brig. Gen. (Res.) Gila Klifi-Amir; FIDF National Director
from a terrorist attack and later became ficult for IDF soldiers without immediate and CEO Maj. Gen. (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir; Donna Calcaterra of Park Ridge; Wayne
the head of a branch in the research divi- family in Israel. Supporting the well-being Fried; Isabelle Klaus.
sion of the intelligence corps; and Brig. of lone soldiers is a personal calling — and
Gen. (Res.) Ami Morag and his son, Lt. a very important part of FIDF’s mission.” Avruch, a Queens native whose donors, program grants four-year academic schol-
Col. Idan, who are the only father-son pair Also attending the event was FIDF Shelley and Chick Paradis of Livingston, arships to combat and combat support sol-
in IDF history to receive the prestigious IMPACT! scholarship recipient Racheli reunited with her there. The IMPACT! diers from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

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This neo-Nazi group is behind those fliers

blaming Jews for the Kavanaugh allegations
JOSEFIN DOLSTEN Virginia, Massachusetts, and Illinois. in 2016, to build “a real-life troll army” to and an American flag bandanna.
F
The organization behind them claims support his message, according to the Anti- The groups are relatively small and chap-
liers blaming Jews for the sex- also to have put up the posters in seven Defamation League. But it wasn’t until the ters usually are made up of only two to 10
ual assault allegations against more states. next year that the groups took off, when people, said Carla Hill, a senior investi-
Supreme Court Justice Brett Daily Stormer contributor Robert Warren gative researcher at the ADL’s Center on
Kavanaugh appeared in appar- How did the fliers turn up in Ray took charge and started organizing the Extremism. Based on the latest campaign,
ently random locations around the coun- such a wide array of places network of groups. she estimates that the group has only about
try last week. and who put them up? The chapters are made up of young white 50 members across the country. “They
“Every time some Anti-White, Anti- The Anti-Defamation League and the men. No women can join. Members are not struggled a bit to get going, but now it looks
American, Anti-freedom event takes Southern Poverty Law Center, two civil allowed to use their real names in person or like they’re picking up some chapters and
place, you look at it, and it’s Jews behind rights organizations that do research online and they must wear a uniform of red we expect more of this type of campaign,”
it,” the fliers read. on anti-Semitic and white supremacist New Balance sneakers, jeans, a white T-shirt she said.
They showed an image of the judge groups, have some insight.
surrounded by caricatures of Jewish
senators with stars of David drawn on What are Stormer
their foreheads, as well as the Jewish bil- Book Clubs?
lionaire George Soros, a frequent target Though the name implies a literature
of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
The fliers say they are “Brought to you
discussion group, that’s not exactly what
the clubs are about. Organized by the
November
by your local Stormer Book Club.”
The Anti-Defamation League has con-
Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi site founded
by white supremacist Andrew Anglin,
Events at
firmed that the posters appeared on col-
lege campuses and at organizations in
they promote spreading anti-Semitic
propaganda and other bigoted messages. Congregation
six states: California, Iowa, New York, Anglin proposed creating the groups
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The Stormer Book Clubs took credit for anti-Semitic fliers that appeared
across the country last week. ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE/JTA COLLAGE
What do they do? enough about the Daily Stormer to go out

Putting up fliers is one of their favor- into the physical world and take some
ite activities, said Keegan Hankes, a action, at least within driving distance of
research analyst at SPLC who focuses on their community,” Hankes said.
far right online campaigns. “It’s pretty
low risk, and it’s a good way to draw How do they compare with
attention to yourselves,” he said. other similar groups?
The clubs have run three major flier According to Hill, the Stormer Book
campaigns this year, including the most Clubs are the most overtly anti-Semitic
recent one, Hill said. All of the cam- of the alt-right segment of the white
paigns specifically targeted Jews. In supremacist movement. They present a
September, the group distributed fliers less polished and more extreme image
blaming Jews for conspiracy theorist than larger groups such as Identity
Alex Jones of InfoWars getting kicked off Evropa, which steers clear of neo-Nazi
various social media sites. In May, the language and imagery to try to position
group put up posters that said Jews were itself as more moderate.
out to get rid of the Second Amendment. “They want to get involved in main-
The Kavanaugh campaign had the wid- stream politics, and be part of the ‘legiti-
est reach, Hill said. mate far right movement in America,’”
Though Jews tend to be their “favor- Hill said of Identity Evropa. “Daily
ite target,” the book clubs also promote Stormer is not even trying to pretend to
bigotry against people of color, mem- do that.”
bers of the LGBTQ community, women, Hankes said that the Daily Stormer had
and anyone else who is perceived as seen increased traffic since the 2016 elec-
“anti-white.” tion of President Donald Trump, who is
“It’s just about everybody who’s not a seen by its readers as “a champion for
straight white male,” Hankes said. them,” as well as the white supremacist
rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year.
Do they promote violence? “They had a really electrified base
According to Hankes, the group’s main throughout the election, and because
goal is to spread its message and instill politics have remained divisive and so
fear in its communities, rather than contentious and so heated, we really see
cause actual physical harm. It is unlikely some of that enthusiasm sustained, and
that members will take violent action, I think it probably will stay that way,”
he said. he said.
However, he said that there have been Still, other signs point towards a weak-
cases where people with alleged ties to ening of the alt-right. In August, only
the Daily Stormer committed real acts two dozen people showed up to a white
of violence. That includes Dylann Roof, supremacist demonstration scheduled
who murdered nine people at a black for the anniversary of the Charlottesville
church in Charleston in 2015, and James rally. Organizers had thought some 400
Harris Jackson, who killed a homeless people would be there. Instead the small
black man in New York last year. group of white supremacists was vastly
“The fliers showing up in a community outnumbered by thousands of counter-
signals that you have people enthusiastic protesters. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen honored in Israel

RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON —Touring Israel on one

of her final overseas trips as a congress-
woman, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is being
feted as one of the Jewish state’s best
friends in Congress.
Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican
AMOS BEN-GERSHOM
who has served in the U.S. House of Rep-
resentatives since 1989, met with Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Mon-
day. A day earlier, at a Jewish National
Fund ceremony, she planted a tree in her
honor outside Jerusalem. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen meets
“I have said and I’ll say it again, we have with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
never had a better defender of Israel and a Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Oct. 22.
better defender of the truth,” Netanyahu
told Ros-Lehtinen. by Ros-Lehtinen, insisted on naming
She replied: “Mr. Prime Minister, it has one of the last Israel-related bills they co-
been the joy of my professional life to sponsored the Ileana Ros-Lehtinen United
be the advocate for a strong U.S.-Israel States-Israel Security Assistance Authori-
relationship.” zation Act of 2018. The measure codifies
Ros-Lehtinen, 66, was raised Roman into law the $38 billion defense assistance
Catholic and now is Episcopalian, but her package to Israel.
maternal grandparents were Turkish Jews “My friend Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has been
who had immigrated to Cuba. Her father, a stalwart friend of Israel throughout her
who opposed the communist takeover of time in Congress, and it is a fitting honor
the country, fled to the United States in that this bill to strengthen the U.S.-Israel
1960 when Ros-Lehtinen was 8, in 1960. relationship bears her name,” Deutch said
Elected to the Florida House from her on the House floor last month.
Miami-area district in 1982, and then to Her moderation, and her representa-
the state Senate in 1986, she earned a rep- tion of a diverse district, led Ros-Lehtinen
utation as a moderate Republican who to become one of Trump’s most outspo-
fiercely opposed the Cuban regime. ken Republican critics, particularly after
In the Congress, Ros-Lehtinen added he equivocated in assigning blame for a
leadership on Israel issues to her portfolio. deadly neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville,
Her passion was foreign affairs, and many Virginia, in August 2017.
of the Israel-related positions she intro- “Blaming ‘both sides’ for #Charlottes-
duced later became orthodoxy not just for ville?!” she tweeted. “No. Back to relativ-
Republicans but also for many Democrats. ism when dealing with KKK, Nazi sympa-
She was the lead Republican advanc- thizers, white supremacists? Just no.”
ing the Syria Accountability Act in 2003, Part of her calculus in not seeking re-
which set up the architecture for the U.S.- election was the likelihood that antipathy
led isolation of the country after the Assad to Trump in her district would lead to her
regime’s bloody repression of a civilian own ouster — and indeed, the Democratic
uprising in 2011. nominee in her 27th District is seen as likely
The George W. Bush administration gut- winning the seat. She joins others whose
ted the Iran sanctions she hoped to pass departure this year was spurred in part by
in 2006, but her legislation anticipated the difficulties of being a moderate Republi-
the sanctions that would pass in 2010 can under Trump, including Rep. Ed Royce
and were used as leverage by the Obama of California and Sen. Bob Corker of Ten-
administration to get Iran to the negotiat- nessee. Royce is the Foreign Affairs Com-
ing table to roll back its nuclear program. mittee chair and Corker leads the Foreign
In the mid-2000s, Ros-Lehtinen intro- Relations Committee in the Senate.
duced multiple bills to choke off fund- Ros-Lehtinen’s son, Rodrigo, is trans-
ing to the Palestinians unless their lead- gender, and he is among those leading
ers renounced terrorism. Ignored by the charge against a Trump administra-
the Bush and then the Obama admin- tion proposal that would recognize only
istration, her recommendations have one’s birth gender.
become Republican orthodoxy under “Despite the cruel efforts of the Trump
President Donald Trump. administration, trans people #WontBeEr-
In 2011, Ros-Lehtinen became the first ased,” Rodrigo Ros-Lehtinen tweeted
woman to chair the House Foreign Affairs Monday.
Committee. She worked closely with an Bursting with parental pride, Ileana
array of Jewish pro-Israel Democrats, Ros-Lehtinen, tweeting from Israel, made
including the late Tom Lantos of California, clear whose side she championed.
Howard Berman of California, Eliot Engel “I am so proud of my son, @TransRigo!”
of New York and Ted Deutch of Florida. she said. “Your activism is an inspiration
Deutch, the ranking member of the to folks all over our country to live as their
House Middle East subcommittee chaired true selves.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

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Why are pro-Israel voices

joining the whisper campaign
against Jamal Khashoggi?
RON KAMPEAS the late 1980s with Osama bin Laden,
who went on to found al-Qaeda and
WASHINGTON — Two weeks after to plot the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. “I
he disappeared, Jamal Khashoggi, the didn’t realize until yesterday that Jamal
Saudi Washington Post columnist, is Khashoggi was the author of this notori-
getting his reputation run through a ous 1988 Arab News article of him tool-
wringer, and some pro-Israel voices are ing around Afghanistan with Osama bin
joining the pile-on. Laden and al-Qaeda co-founder Abdul-
Even as gruesome allegations emerge lah Azzam,” Poole tweeted on Oct. 12,
that he was tortured, murdered, and 10 days after Khashoggi’s disappear-
dismembered after he walked into the ance. “He’s just a democrat reformer
Saudi consulate in Istanbul, some Israel journalist holding a RPG with jihadists.”
supporters have joined other figures A photo showed Khashoggi posing with
on the right in describing Khashoggi a rocket-propelled grenade.
as a terrorist sympathizer and fierce The interview was from a time when
opponent of Israel. Their goal appears the Reagan administration was backing
to be to counter the image of him as a insurgents in Afghanistan. Khashoggi
Saudi reformer and free speech activ- indeed was sympathetic to bin Laden
ist, and perhaps derail pressure build- (the Khashoggi and bin Laden families
ing on the White House to punish Saudi
Arabia for his disappearance and pre-
sumed murder.
Notably, the mainstream pro-Israel
groups, like the American Israel Public Some Israel
Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation supporters have
League and the American Jewish Com-
mittee, did not join in the attacks, and joined other
Israeli officials were silent as well. figures on the
None of the purveyors of the attacks
on Khashoggi agreed to an on-the- right in
record interview, although other describing
observers suggested that the public
fight over Khashoggi’s reputation has Khashoggi as a
to do with a number of issues central terrorist
to the latest crisis in U.S.-Saudi rela-
tions: cultivating Saudi cooperation in sympathizer and
the diplomatic fight against Iran, keep- fierce opponent
ing the Saudis on board the Israeli-Pal-
estinian peace process, and maintain- of Israel.
ing the kingdom as a bulwark against
violent forms of radical Islam. were close). When bin Laden launched
terrorism operations against the West,
Who’s saying what however, Khashoggi disavowed him.
The hits on Khashoggi, deriding him as a Others joined the fray. FrontPage
radical Islamist and an anti-Semite, have mag, helmed by right-wing provoca-
emerged alongside gruesome reports teur David Horowitz, ran an article the
by official Turkish sources about his same day declaring, “Jamal Khashoggi
disappearance. According to the Turk- blamed 9/11 on U.S. support for Israel.”
ish reports, the U.S.-based columnist The article cites a piece Khashoggi
entered the Saudi consulate in Istan- wrote in 2001 after the attacks, pub-
bul for some paperwork ahead of his lished in Arab News and the Guardian,
planned wedding to a Turkish woman, in which Khashoggi sympathetically
and a team of 15 Saudi agents was wait- describes Saudi reactions to the attacks
ing to torture and kill him. but does not outright endorse them.
As the Washington Post reported, Khashoggi’s piece falls short of blam-
the anti-Khashoggi narrative is emerging U.S. support for Israel for the attacks,
ing among hardline conservatives and although he says that Saudis saw the
is being circulated in Republican con- Sept. 11 attacks as of a piece with Isra-
gressional offices. el’s treatment of the Palestinians — a
Donald Trump Jr. retweeted one of posture that would offend Israelis and
the earliest attacks on Khashoggi, from many Americans. When Khashoggi does
a correspondent for PJ Media, a con- express his opinion, it is to condemn bin
servative website. The correspondent, Laden for targeting civilians.
Patrick Poole, had posted photos of On Oct. 17, the Simon Wiesenthal
interviews Khashoggi had conducted in SEE KHASHOGGI PAGE 36

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to the multinational Islamist group, the

Khashoggi Muslim Brotherhood. “Many of his secu-
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lar friends would not have believed it.”
Center’s European office sent out If Khashoggi was a member of the
a release titled “Wiesenthal Centre pre-eminent Islamist organization in
Exposes Jamal Khashoggi Antisemitic the Middle East, his critics charge,
Tweets.” whitewashing that affiliation is a dis-
“The Wiesenthal Centre expresses service to history, and helps elevate a
its horror and revulsion at the pre- group that should be marginalized.
sumed gruesome murder of journalist “#Khashoggi did not deserve his
Jamal Khashoggi,” the release said. “In fate,” tweeted David Reaboi, an analyst
a search, however, of his official Twit- with a conservative think tank, Secu-
ter account, Simon Wiesenthal Centre rity Studies Group. “That said, the mis-
Director for International Relations, Dr. representation of his Islamist views as
Shimon Samuels, discovered the fol- championing ‘freedom’ and ‘democ-
lowing tweets of 16 October 2015.” racy’ is a repulsive whitewash.”
In the tweets, Khashoggi denies any “[U]nless you are rooting for an
Jewish connection to the land of Israel, Islamist Middle East, it seems doubtful
and says the Western Wall was a Muslim that Khashoggi’s vision for the region
construction — a false narrative that infu- was a big improvement over the agenda
riates Israelis and is commonplace in the of the autocratic Saudis,” wrote Petra
region, particularly among Palestinians. Marquardt-Bigman, a journalist, in an
But Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the op-ed in Haaretz outlining Khashoggi’s
Wiesenthal Center’s Los Angeles-based sympathetic views on Hamas and the
associate dean, said that Samuels’ Muslim Brotherhood.
post was premature. “It could be that Tamara Cofman Wittes, a senior fel-
Shimon in Europe is not as sensitive” low at the Center for Middle East Pol-
to the repercussions of Khashoggi’s icy at the Brooking Institution, knew
reported murder, he said. “There’s a Khashoggi for a decade. She warned
lot of appropriate anger” at the Sau- against a simplistic take both on
dis. At a later date, the center might Khashoggi’s views and on the Muslim
publish a fuller and nuanced account Brotherhood. The Muslim Brother-
of Khashoggi’s life and influence, hood, she pointed out, is a presence in
Cooper said. parliaments of U.S. allies in the region,
Josh Block, the CEO of the Israel Proj- like Jordan, and in the governments of
ect, has posted many tweets implicating allies like Morocco. “The Muslim Broth-
Khashoggi in an array of terrorist activ- erhood is in the mainstream,” Wittes
ities. On Oct. 18, Block quoted a New said, and noted that Saudi hostility to
Yorker article describing Khashoggi the group was recent. For decades, Sau-
as a journalist, and commented, “Uh, dis welcomed and promoted the group.
U mean frontman for Islamists & paid “There was nothing out of the main-
spook for Qatar, Turkey & Turki al stream, nothing oppositional about
Faisal, whose ‘journalism’ was a cover being sympathetic to the Muslim Broth-
for his real work, just as he wrapped erhood in Saudi Arabia until a few years
his Islamist ideas in flowery language ago,” she said.
of ‘human rights’ as he praised Hamas Khashoggi, moreover, belonged to
& called for Israel to be destroyed by the wing of the Muslim Brotherhood
violence.” Block declined to comment that counseled advancement through
and his sources are not clear. civil and democratic means, she said.
What is motivating the attacks on
Khashoggi? Some possibilities: The “we need Saudi
Arabia” argument
The Muslim White House adviser Jared Kushner sees
Brotherhood connection the Saudis, and Saudi Crown Prince
Some accounts in mainstream media Mohammed bin Salman in particular, as
have suggested that Khashoggi was a key to advancing the Israeli-Palestinian
more complex figure than the reformer peace proposal he hopes to unveil soon.
that his friends and allies have depicted. Right-wing pro-Israel figures have
“Several Muslim Brothers said this week embraced Trump because he has
that they always felt he was with them,” embraced their outlook, moving the
the New York Times reported, referring U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and pulling
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In the tweets, Khashoggi denies

any Jewish connection to the land
of Israel, and says the Western Wall
was a Muslim construction — a false
narrative that infuriates Israelis and
is commonplace in the region,
particularly among Palestinians.
out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and seek to depict Trump’s pro-Saudi and
now they may be returning the favor, anti-Iranian policy as a disaster,” Mike
said Michael Koplow, the policy direc- Doran of the conservative Hudson
tor for the Israel Policy Forum, a group Institute and Tony Badran of the hawk-
that backs the two-state solution. ish Foundation for Defense of Democ-
Kushner has not revealed details of racies, write this week in the New
the plan, but right-wingers are hope- York Post. “Trump, in this view, is the
ful that it rolls back many of the pro- enabler of a young, impetuous crown
Palestinian orthodoxies of past plans, prince. Conflicts such as Yemen result
including statehood as an outcome and from Saudi recklessness rather than
a presence in Jerusalem’s Old City. Iranian expansionism.” Bin Salman has
directed a bombing campaign against
Netanyahu is counting Iranian-backed forces in Yemen.
on Saudi Arabia Daniel Shapiro, Obama’s ambassador
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- to Israel, rejects the argument that con-
yahu has touted emerging ties with Saudi fronting Iran is more important than
Arabia and other countries as validating dealing with Khashoggi’s murder.
his strategy of downplaying peace with “It has a whiff of trying to say this
the Palestinians, believing he can make murder wasn’t as bad as it is because
Israel at home in the region without the of the investment made in Saudia Ara-
Palestinians. Bin Salman was a key figure
in this strategy.
“Much of the Israeli argument for the
lack of Israel’s isolation hinges on the
fact that Saudis are behind the scenes Some of the
friendly in ways we couldn’t imagine
before,” Koplow said.
pundits
Wittes was skeptical that Israeli highlighting
officials have encouraged the efforts
to puncture Khashoggi’s reputation.
Khashoggi’s
Instead, she said, the attacks seemed Muslim
to be a result of the polarization on
the American political scene, in which
Brotherhood
allies on the left or the right attack the past suspect
other side in a way that does not nec-
essarily serve their particular interests.
that supporters
“What we’ve witnessed in American of the Iran deal
politics is this intense polarization, and
when a stance is taken” by your side,
are behind an
“you tend to echo that without reflec- effort to smear
tion on your interests,” she said.
the Saudis.
Don’t forget about Iran
Israel and the Trump administration see bia under [bin Salman] as a strategic
Saudi Arabia as key to containing the anchor under the anti-Iran coalition,”
influence of Iran in the region. Some Shapiro, a visiting fellow at the Institute
of the pundits highlighting Khashoggi’s for National Security Studies in Israel,
Muslim Brotherhood past suspect that said in an interview.
supporters of the Iran deal are behind Groups that want Iran isolated, and
an effort to smear the Saudis. Isolating quickly, are frustrated by the Khashoggi
the Saudis, they fear, would undercut distraction, Shapiro said.
support for the Trump administration’s “If indeed the United States cannot
hard line on Iran, and his rejection of the conduct business as usual while this is
sanctions-relief-for-nuclear-rollback deal unresolved, it puts at risk that whole
negotiated by Trump’s hated predeces- kind of strategic concept Israel has
sor, President Barack Obama. counted on and strong opponents of
Khashoggi “made a tactical alli- Iran have counted on,” he said.
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Editorial
A woman alone vs.
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Farrakhan deserves
a shul community total ostracism
W A
hat makes someone a nastiness, from both sides. We have
member of a synagogue no idea what happened, and we don’t man last week got up on a stage be noted. Under the leadership of Louis
community? think it’s relevant; it’s hard to maintain in the United States of America, Farrakhan, however, the Nation of Islam
Is it the time you equilibrium, on either side, in a situa- called the Jews termites, and unfortunately has devolved and deterio-
spend being there? In the building? tion like that. received a standing ovation. rated into one of our country’s leading
Going to services? The time that you But what of the situation? What That man was Louis Farrakhan. spring of hatred against not only whites,
put into volunteer work there? Is it makes a community? The civil-rights activist turned religious but against homosexuals, and of course,
the friends you make who also belong For one thing, a synagogue has a very leader turned racist, sexist, homophobic, the world’s most common recipient of
there, go there, work there? real need for money. It needs member- anti-Semitic incendiary is the official leader baseless hatred, the Jews.
Is it the money you pay to belong ship dues to pay for clergy, staff, and of the Nation of Islam. Both religion and While the movement always maintained
there? Do you have to pay to belong? overhead. None of us live on air and social movement, the Nation was born from themes of black-supremacism, Farrakhan
Are you a community member if you promises, not even shul employees, a combination of elements of traditional mutated those ideas into the most viru-
don’t pay but show up often? What if and entities like power and water com- Islam with black nationalism; a lent hatred. He then took that
you do pay but don’t show up, except panies tend to become appropriately healthy infusion of race-based hatred and made it a sport.
maybe twice a year, late for holiday unhappy when they are not paid. That theology was added to the mix. About white people, Farra-
services? is not an easily dismissable truth. For example, official teachings khan insists that they have only
How many years do you have to put For another thing, a synagogue, like of the group claim that up until the “potential” to be human
in before you truly are a community any other institution, has to be able to just a few thousand years ago, since they “haven’t evolved
member? Before you are able to say make rules, and to expect to enforce there were no white people. It yet.” “Murder and lying come
“we” instead of “they”? How long do them. A synagogue’s members belong took an evil black scientist to easy for white people,” he said
you have to stay to maintain the mem- voluntarily, and always can chose to develop such beings in a lab on another occasion, eventu-
bership? Does it end when you move leave. They can deal with rules they before setting them loose and ally topping off the accusation
away? When you no longer can pay? dislike by going elsewhere. allowing them to take over Rabbi with the judgment that “white
When you no longer do pay? When you But still. the world — a development Shmuley people deserve to die.” (He
no longer show up? When you no lon- But still. But still. that they believe needs to be Boteach actually said these words with a
ger can show up? This woman’s funeral was bereft of corrected. massive banner directly behind
These questions have been nagging most mourners; the elegies echoed The Nation of Islam also is him reading the name of his
at us since we heard a sad story last in the empty space. Her friends have one of the most powerful black organiza- sponsor: the “Conflict Resolution Center.”)
week. An elderly woman, a widow, been finding out about her death little tions in the United States, with up to 50,000 In 1984, he referred to the world’s only
who had put about 40 years, give or by little, one at a time, and they’ve members and a formidable list of powerful Jewish state as one “structured on injustice,
take (because no one is around any- been upset. They would have gone had allies and celebrity patrons. thievery, lying and deceit.” He accused the
more who remembers exactly) into they known, they say. And the family, The group, as you might imagine, has not Jews therein of “using the name of God to
her synagogue, volunteering, showing instead of being supported by the com- gone without controversy. shield [their] dirty religion…”
up, always being there, died. Before her munity, felt abandoned, just when they As a proponent of non-violence and equal- Like all haters of Israel, Farrakhan’s anti-
death, she had faded. She was home- needed to feel held, understood, and ity, Martin Luther King Jr. famously called Semitism has nothing to do with a belief
bound, with full-time care, no longer loved. the Nation of Islam a hate group. The South- in Palestinian rights. On the contrary, it’s
able to go to shul, no longer much car- We know it’s hard. Our imaginations ern Poverty Law Center, one of the world’s because Israel is filled with Jews.
ing, no longer really able to care. quickly put us among the mourning most renowned organizations for civil-rights And Louis Farrakhan hates Jews, pure and
The shul asked her to maintain her family rather than with the rigid, cold- and legal advocacy, did the same, adding on simple.
membership, but she did not. hearted administrators. That might not its website that the Nation has earned itself Most often, Farrakhan parrots the old-
Then she died. be fair, although certainly it is natural. a “prominent position in the ranks of orga- est anti-Semitic tropes. Taking verbiage
The family asked the shul to send an There no doubt is more to the story that nized hate.” right out of the Nazi playbook, Farrakhan
email announcing her death. Most of we do not know. During the years of the civil rights move- has on a number of occasions referred to
her friends — at least the ones still alive So, we ask again, what is commu- ment, the religious sect brought pride Jews as “bloodsuckers” for having worked
— belonged to the shul, and the family nity? What is our responsibility to an and meaning into the lives of many young as landlords in black communities.
wanted them to know. organization? To each other? To com- African-Americans fighting for their God He’s also taken time to point out the
The shul refused. Notifications of munity builders? To mourners? given rights, which is why its hate speech severely unoriginal idea that the Jews
death are a perk of membership, its We know one thing, that we wish that was overlooked. That contribution must control Hollywood. He added to the
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ior, of meanness, of shouting, of ers of Zion and Jerusalem. —JP America’s Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex.” Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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conspiracy the even older idea that Jews use their influence to
bring people all over the world “down in moral strength” by Should Noah have argued
spreading “filth and degenerative behavior.” In this particular
instance, he was referring to Hollywood’s belief that it’s OK to with God? And should we?
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be gay. “It’s the wicked Jews, the false Jews, that are promoting
lesbianism [and] homosexuality.” He didn’t say this decades ago. e’ve just passed the time in the Jew- self-blame. The question is why. Are we afraid that if
These quotes all come from speeches given in 2006 and 2018. ish calendar when we read about we challenge God, we’ll get no answer? Or worse, —
Where he went further than almost any of his Jew-hating peers, Noah and the flood, and once we’ll be punished?
however, was in his accusation that the Jews “have been conclu- again I glanced at a myriad of Torah If so — and if we celebrate our acceptance and we
sively linked to the greatest criminal endeavor ever undertaken thoughts about Noah, many of which revel in criticiz- never argue with God, whose plan is beyond our
against an entire race of people … the black African Holocaust.” ing his lack of intervention on behalf of humanity. understanding — then why blame Noah for accept-
Unlike the earlier examples, these words were not spoken in the Thus, he is compared unfavorably with Abraham, ing God’s orders without arguing? Is it because he
heat of a speech or in the casual environment of a radio inter- who argued with God over the destruction of Sodom lived before the Temple’s destruction? Probably
view. These words came right out Farrakhan’s book, “The Secret and Gomorrah, trying to mitigate their fate and elicit not. Still, the question troubles me.
Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.” God’s forgiveness. It reminds me of a story of Jews in a ghetto dur-
Last week, though, Farrakhan managed to surmount every I’ve tried to grasp this dilemma for years, and I’ve ing the Second World War who decided to prosecute
one of those poisonous words, tweeting out a clip of a recent often wondered what Noah should have done and if God for his cruelty and for the pain He allowed to be
speech in which he declared “I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m anti- he could have acted differently. It’s not as if God asked inflicted on millions of innocent people. They spent
Termite.” In Farrakhan’s universe, Jews no longer were just bad him for his opinion or sealed a covenant with Noah. hours putting God on trial, they found him guilty and
people. Now, there were no people at all. They were vermin. Yet the criticism mounts, and though he is labeled a then they proceeded to pray Mincha. The idea is that
Cockroaches. Termites. tzadik — a righteous person — it is miti- we can argue with God and still be part-
And we all know what you do with termites. You extermi- gated by the phrase “in his generation,” ners with Him in ordaining the world
nate them. suggesting that had he lived in Abra- with His kedusha — His holy spirit. This
Throughout history, anti-Semites of all stripes have sought ham’s time, he might not have been con- story portrays a religious life where chal-
to cast the Jews as something utterly worthless yet massively sidered as such. lenging and arguing with God is permit-
destructive. It was a way of making the act of killing a Jew not I thought a lot about this recently, ted and where it doesn’t diminish our
only necessary but meaningless. Hitler’s SS troops, therefore, after attending a funeral for a 19-year- faith and observance.
were able to exterminate tens of thousands of Jews in a day. You young Jewish boy, whose life was tragi- Dara Horn argues the same, that we
see, they were killing an infestation, not people. cally cut short. Everybody agreed that must find a new model of observance
It may be extreme to compare Farrakhan to Hitler. But, you it was a tragedy. Rabbis spoke, his par- without blinders and self-blame. She
see, he did it himself. During a radio interview, Farrakhan ents eulogized him, and the accord was Soli Foger suggests that we embrace our role as
acknowledged the fact that “[T]he Jews don’t like Farrakhan, clear: God wanted his gift back! No one partners with God and demand more
so they call me Hitler.” Instead of rebuffing the comparison, he was angry at God. No one argued with equanimity from Him. It seems reason-
embraced it. “That’s a good name,” he said, “Hitler was a very Him and no one blamed God for a cruel and unusual able, but the only issue I have with this is that our cur-
great man.” He then reinforced it. Hitler “raised Germany up act. The consensus was one of acceptance, repeat- rent model works. Jews still observe and have faith in
from nothing,” he explained, adding that “in a sense, you could ing some version of the line “We cannot understand a just God, as I saw in the funeral I recently attended.
say there’s a similarity in that we are raising our people up from God’s plan.” Jewish practice is still prevalent and growing, more
nothing.” He’s also used the Holocaust as a metaphor to describe than two millennia after Eicha.
what awaited the Jews in hell. My late friend Christopher Hitch- So why argue with success? If we change one thing,
ens personally heard Farrakhan punctuate a tirade against Jews who says that we can guarantee that Judaism will still
with this: “And don’t you forget, when it’s God who puts you in being here 100 years from now?
the ovens, it’s forever!” We all want We all wish for a better, more just world, and
The only question that remains is this: how could leading polit- we often have perfect ideas about how to achieve
ical figures like Bill Clinton have agreed to legitimize such geno- accountability and it. But what if our elders, the wise old rabbis, the
cidal hate by recently appearing on the same stage as Farrakhan? symmetry in our founders of our tradition, knew something we
Farrakhan still has influence. He still stands before packed don’t know? It is very possible that within what
venues delivering speeches that routinely draw millions of views relationship, but we consider to be a flawed attitude of self-blame
on YouTube. Just days before his termites slur, he announced maybe God is beyond and passivity lies the model for preserving our tra-
the release of a new music album made in collaboration with dition for the past two millennia?
some of the most powerful men in music, including Stevie such a relationship. We all want accountability and symmetry in
Wonder, Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg, and Common. At least seven our relationship, but maybe God is beyond such a
members of Congress — including Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, I recently heard the author Dara Horn deliver a relationship. How would the parents of the young
Danny Davis, Andre Carson, Gregory Meeks, Al Green, and most lecture for Eli Talks about what she calls “The Eicha boy who died be better served in being angry with
famously, DNC whip Keith Ellison, have all sat down for per- Problem,” arguing that Jews relish blaming themselves God? Maybe having faith and being observant
sonal meetings with Farrakhan while representing the American for everything. Her model was the book of Eicha — depend on acceptance, patience, some degree of
people in Congress. Farrakhan even attended a 2005 meeting of “Lamentation” — which we read on the fast day of retrospection, and willing self-sacrifice? It seems
the Black Congressional Caucus. And, at that meeting, former Tisha B’Av. Eicha commemorates the destruction of that Judaism is the practice of such qualities.
President Barack Obama even smiled for a photograph with Far- our Temple. “Why do we blame ourselves for the The only question still remains — why is Noah
rakhan just three years before he occupied the most powerful Temple’s destruction?” she asks. Why not blame the judged differently?
seat in the United States. hatred of Babylonians, their weaponry, or their lead- I guess I will have to keep asking. Let’s see what
American Jews need to draw a line. er’s megalomania?” She argues with the premise that the next year will bring. Maybe a new illumination
Jewish communities across the United States must respond. we deserve punishment. Then she brings up the book is waiting just around the corner.
We must announce boycotts of musical artists who legitimize of Job, who argues with God over his tribulations. Yet
Farrakhan’s hate. We must campaign against political figures the book of Job is hardly read, and sages claim that Soli Foger, who is an architect, grew up in Israel. He
who meet with Farrakhan and grant him legitimacy. We must Job didn’t really exist. In other words — the model of and his wife, the educator Dr. Tani Foger, have lived in
call upon our brothers in the Congressional Black Caucus to dis- arguing with God is not part of our Jewish tradition, Englewood for 27 years. They have four sons and four
sociate themselves from him completely. and our credo as Jews remains one of acceptance and grandchildren.
I can’t say that any of these efforts will succeed individually,
but taken together they will finally send the unmistakable mes-
sage that genocidal rhetoric against the Jewish community is The opinions expressed here are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the newspaper’s editors,
abhorrent and will never be tolerated. publishers, or other staffers. We welcome letters to the editor. Send them to [email protected].
Never again must mean exactly that: Never again.

Opinion
It is time for an independent immigration court system
I
mmigration courts have always had longer the case. On October 1, 2018, a new job Association and the National Association of Immigration
a structural problem. That’s because performance policy for immigration judges Judges as the “death knell for judicial independence.”
they are organized under the Depart- went into effect. The new quota system, pro- The American Immigration Lawyers Association has
ment of Justice and headed by the mulgated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, called for the creation of a more independent immigra-
attorney general under the executive branch. requires that immigration judges adjudicate tion court system under Article I of the Constitution.
Both immigration judges and the assistant a certain number of cases each year, and Article I courts are created by Congress, and they enjoy
chief counsels, the so-called prosecutors in that they render those decisions in a certain a significantly higher level of independence, albeit not
immigration court, work for the attorney gen- amount of time, among other requirements. at the level of Article III federal courts. Tax courts and
eral, and they can be fired at any time. In this Mr. Sessions also has directed decisions bankruptcy courts are examples of Article I courts.
sense, the Justice Department is judge, jury, Michael J. in immigration cases that have had the Although Article I judges do not have lifetime tenure,
and executioner in immigration court. Wildes effect of further restricting options for they typically are appointed for 14 or 15 year terms, and
Federal courts, on the other hand, enjoy immigrants in court. For example, his deci- their salaries are controlled by Congress. Article I courts
a significant degree of independence sions have limited the use of administra- operate remarkably similarly to Article III courts, in the
because they are organized under Article III of the Con- tive closure, a remedy that puts removal cases on hold sense that they are adequately staffed and do not face
stitution. Federal judges receive lifetime tenure precisely where another avenue of relief becomes available, such unreasonable docket backlogs.
to avoid influence by threats to their livelihood. This is as marriage to a citizen. Other decisions by Mr. Sessions On the enforcement side, arrests by Immigration and
what is known as our system of checks and balances. have restricted the government’s discretion to terminate Customs Enforcement, the agency that essentially is the
Although they are flawed, immigration courts and the cases, or to grant adjournments to permit immigrants immigration police, are up 30 percent from 2016 to 2017,
Board of Immigration Appeals have worked reasonably to retain counsel. He also has imposed several restric- according to that organization’s internal statistics. Addi-
well in the past, when attorneys general have had less direct tions on asylum seekers. These policy changes have tionally, the arrest of undocumented immigrants who do
influence on the courts’ day-to-day operations. That is no been decried by the American Immigration Lawyers not have criminal convictions is up 146 percent from 2016.
I’VE BEEN THINKING
A tale of two loves
I
love books and I love baseball. Always and lots of history), behavioral economics the seventh game of the 1960 World Series on Shmini
have since I was a kid and still do. But (Dan Ariely is my favorite), literary novels, Atzeret (they had a maid who turned on the TV), and
there’s a difference. Sue Grafton, and Faye Kellerman among have my heart broken watching Bill Mazeroski’s home
When I was in elementary school, others. (I’m not into fantasy, so J. K. Rowling run off Ralph Terry clear the Forbes Field fence.
I would gobble up books. The entire Hardy makes the cut only through her pseudony- But things have changed for me with respect to both
Boys series (I was devastated to learn later mously written mystery series.) books and baseball. As for books, I rarely read them
that Franklin W. Dixon was simply a collec- As for baseball, well, as befits some- any longer, if by books and read you mean ink, paper,
tive pseudonym for a group of ghostwriters); one who lived even for a short time in the and eyes. I now mainly listen to audiobooks. This began
the Chip Hilton books by Clair Bee (an actual shadow of Yankee Stadium (760 Grand Con- about 13 years ago, shortly after my father died and I
highly successful college basketball coach Joseph C. course at 156th St. before our family moved began visiting my mother more often in Far Rockaway,
who was forced to resign when some of his Kaplan to Far Rockaway), I’m a lifelong Yankee fan. when I realized I had to do something else in the car
LIU players were implicated in a point-shav- (The fact that my grandparents, and then other than listen to WINS. After two bridges, the FDR,
ing scandal in which he was not involved); my wife’s family, lived at 164th St. and Wal- the Grand Central, the Van Wyck, and Rockaway Boule-
and many other sports books (the only title I can remem- ton Ave., and I often heard world series roars on the vard, I’d heard enough news, ball scores, and weather
ber is the 1951 version of “The Kid Who Batted 1.000,” Yomim Nora’im and Sukkot when spending the holidays to last an entire aveylut period. So when my sister-in-law
which is available on eBay for about $25. No, I’m not buy- with them, sealed the deal.) And I still remember one Andrea suggested I try a book on CD, I did — and I was
ing it. Tempted, but no. Really, no. Really.) Chol HaMoed Pesach as a teenager arriving at Yankee hooked. (The fact that she lent me David McCullough’s
Clearly, my parents believed, wisely, in letting me read Stadium in the bottom of the first with Mantle up, and “1776” didn’t hurt, because I’d been a McCullough fan
what I wanted, in the hope that my reading bug would waiting for his at bat to be over, before my date and I since reading “The Johnstown Flood” and “The Great
continue while my tastes would improve. found our seats, because I just knew he’d hit a home run Bridge” years before.)
As usual, they were right. The Hardy Boys eventually for us. Which he did. Listening directly from CDs in the car (and on a CD
turned into dozens of Landmark Books, mainly biogra- Being a Yankee fan didn’t mean I went only to the Sta- Walkman — an awful bit of personal listening equip-
phies of American presidents and statesmen (unfortu- dium. I often joined my father, a Dodger fan, at Ebbets ment), then changed to uploading CDs onto my com-
nately, few women), European composers, explorers, Field to watch the Duke play center field and hit home puter and downloading the files to my iPod/iPhone. And
inventors, and generals, which I read and reread — and runs almost as well as the Mick. Almost. And we some- once I discovered all by myself how to convert CD files
then reread again. They made an impression; indeed, times went to the Polo Grounds to watch the Say Hey into audiobook format I’m able to listen at double speed
every time I hear the Hallelujah Chorus, I’m reminded of Kid, who, sorry Mickey, really was the best of all. (and thus double the number of books in the same time).
the story in the Landmark biography of Handel of how I remember the World Series throughout the 50s, in Finally — for now — I usually eliminate the computer and
King George II, hearing it for the first time, was so moved which it seemed the Yankees almost always were beat- download audio files directly, via the OverDrive app, to
that he stood — and when the king stands, all stand, as ing the Dodgers (yes, sigh, I know about 1956 and Johnny my iPhone from BCCLS, the New York Public Library
we still do today. (Of course, whether the story is true is Podres), and whose Sunday games I actually could watch and, thanks to my daughter in Canada, the Toronto Pub-
another matter.) since those afternoon games ended before bedtime. As lic Library — all without setting foot in a physical library.
Eventually, my reading habit turned to classics (I actu- for weekday games, someone would always bring a tran- Now I listen when reading is impossible or difficult like
ally read Dickens for fun one summer in camp) and all sistor radio to school, and the good teachers allowed exercising, driving, walking around town, or shopping.
(yeah, all) the books of Agatha Christie, James Hilton breaks every 15 minutes to get the score; the really good But I still like print. In fact, I still love print. While I
(especially loved “Lost Horizon”), Isaac Asimov (science teachers allowed a kid to sit quietly in the back with the have great appreciation for the Times of Israel for carry-
fiction), William Goldman (remember Zock in “The Tem- radio at his ear so we could get immediate important ing these columns, I doubt I’d write like I do if I couldn’t
ple of Gold,” Gary?), and Donald Westlake, of whom I was updates, like Don Larsen’s final strikeout of Dale Mitch- first touch the newsprint and hold the issue of the Jewish
particularly fond. In later years I turned to history (lots ell. And I remember at whose house I was able to watch Standard in my hands before adding it to the collection

Opinion
The message is clear. Arrest more immigrants, push them through

the crowded immigration courts faster, and deport them quickly and J Street embraces terrorist
unceremoniously. More resources are going toward arresting foreign
nationals, but fewer resources toward immigration courts. Pushing who blew up Israelis, Americans
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more cases through an already backlogged court system is creating
pressures that undoubtedly will erode immigrants’ due process rights. eaders of the left-wing on his Facebook page on March 8,
Free and independent immigration courts are crucial to the admin- American Jewish group J 2015, concerning Dalal Mughrabi,
istration of fair and equitable decisions for immigrants. The Four- Street last week embraced who murdered Gail Rubin, the
teenth Amendment admonishes us not to “deny to any person within a Palestinian terrorist niece of U.S. Senator Abraham
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” That means non- who was responsible for blowing up Ribicoff (D-Connecticut), and 37
citizens who are present in the United States. They cannot vote, so we Israelis and Americans in downtown Israelis in a 1978 attack:
the citizens must advocate on their behalf. Jerusalem. “In the Palestinian memory there
This administration has pushed the independence of our institu- According to the official Pal- are women before whom it is impos-
tions to its limits. Most of them so far have proven resilient. However, estinian Authority news agency sible not to stand in honor and admi-
because immigration courts are housed entirely under the executive “Wafa,” J Street president Jeremy Stephen M. ration. For March 8 (International
branch, it is becoming increasingly clear that immigration judges must Ben-Ami and a small group of his Flatow Women’s Day), thousands of bless-
be divorced from the attorney general if they are to continue to render colleagues visited the Ramallah ings for the soul of heroic female Mar-
fair and impartial decisions without being rushed, and without the headquarters of the PA, and met tyr (Shahida) Dalal Mughrabi, and to
threat of termination looming over the heads of immigration judges. with Palestinian leaders. It was a all of the Palestinian female Martyrs,
warm encounter, with the two sides lavishing as well as the female prisoners, the mothers of the
Michael J. Wildes, a Democratic former mayor of Englewood, will be on praise on one another. prisoners and Martyrs, the wounded women, the
the ballot for that position in November. A former federal prosecutor, Wafa reported that the Palestinian side con- working women, and all women of Palestine who
he is the managing partner of Wildes and Weinberg, PC, specializing in sisted of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas and five stand firm and deal with the hardships and difficul-
immigration law. other senior Palestinian officials. One was PA ties of life alongside the men.”
Minister of Civil Affairs (and Fatah Central Com- Even before the Jerusalem court ruling, the
mittee member) Hussein al-Sheikh. American government was aware of Al-Sheikh’s
Don’t recognize the name? Allow me to terrorist background. Several years ago, a sched-
refresh your memory. uled meeting between Al-Sheikh and U.S. diplo-
Thursday, March 21, 2002, was a pleasant
early spring morning in Jerusalem. King George
Street, in the heart of the city, was packed
with shoppers. Suddenly, a Palestinian suicide
bomber struck. The explosion left three people The passage of time
in my living room. As for those books that I can’t get as audiobooks, dead, and more than 100 wounded. One of the
well, that’s one more thing Shabbat and yom tov are for. fatalities was Tzippi Shemesh, who was five has not diminished
Baseball also has changed. Instead of starters having 20-plus complete months pregnant with twins. Al-Sheikh’s
games a season, a “quality start” is six innings; instead of having a relief Among the wounded were a number of Ameri-
pitcher for when the starter gets in trouble, pitchers include middle cans. The force of the explosion hurled U.S. cit- affection for those
relief, set up, left handed specialists, closers, and a new invention (oy!) izen Alan Bauer 20 feet. Two screws that were who murder Israelis
— openers; instead of hit and runs, stolen bases, and sacrifice bunts, we packed into the bomb ripped clear through his
have too many games seemingly consisting mainly of strike outs and left arm. His 7-year-old son, Jonathan, suffered and Americans.
home runs; instead of articles about what happened at a game, the NYT severe shrapnel wounds and fell into a coma.
compares spin rates on curve balls; instead of reserving defensive shifts Jonathan subsequently underwent many opera-
for hitters like Ted Williams, they’re now used for those batting .238. tions to remove nails and screws from his head, mats at the American consulate in Jerusalem was
It’s not that I’m anti-sabermetrics (though $10 to the person who including one that was lodged in his brain. Need- canceled when U.S. officials realized Al-Sheikh’s
can explain to me so I really understand how WAR is computed and less to say, he was left with permanent injuries. connection to the bombing.
what it actually means). But the unrelenting reliance on statistics The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which is the mili- Yet there were the leaders of J Street last week,
makes the game feel overly mechanical at times, rather than a lovely tary arm of Abbas’s Fatah movement, openly in Ramallah, shaking hands, embracing, and
way to enjoy a lazy, long, sunny Sunday summer afternoon. claimed responsibility for the bombing. In fact, heaping praise on Al-Sheikh and his comrades.
I can, and do, still enjoy a good game, like the one at the new Sta- it was that bombing which moved the U.S. State On a man directly involved in shedding Israeli
dium my mechutan Ray invited me to, and the one my daughter took Department finally to put the Al Aqsa Martyrs and American blood.
me to at Rogers Centre to watch the Blue Jays, my grandkids’ favorite Brigade on its official list of terrorist groups. If J Street’s leaders knew about Al-Sheikh’s
team — a highlight for me of our last visit to Toronto. The fact that our Members of the Shemesh family filed suit against background before the meeting, and chose to
excellent seats were close enough to the players to almost touch them, the PA, and as a result, details of those who were embrace him anyway, then they have lost the
and were near the kosher hot dogs and fries (something I dreamed involved in the attack became public. Earlier this moral right to be treated as respected members
about as a kid) certainly didn’t hurt. But I go to games more rarely year, the Jerusalem District Court ruled that the of the American Jewish community.
than before, and watch them less on TV. It’s just not as much fun. PA was responsible for the bombing. In its ruling, If J Street’s leaders didn’t know about Al-
So why the difference between books and baseball. Why have I the court cited closed-door testimony provided by Sheikh before the meeting — if they didn’t do
adapted so well to significant changes in one of my loves and not Israeli intelligence officials who named names — the most basic homework to find out just whom
so much to those in the other? I have some guesses about possible including “senior Fatah official Hussein al-Sheikh, they would be hugging — that would be incred-
answers, but understanding the reason is not really what’s important. who met the suicide bomber and two other opera- ibly careless and irresponsible. But they can help
What is important is the realization that I can pick and choose what tives and gave them money and two hand grenades makeup for that horrible mistake by publicly call-
changes I like and can happily adapt to, and which ones I don’t. I’m to carry out the bombing.” ing on the PA to extradite Al-Sheikh to the United
neither bound to the past nor committed to abandoning it for the So Al-Sheikh literally put hand grenades into States for prosecution.
future. I can remember, cherish, and even relive the old while still the hands of the bomber and his assistants, in The ball is in J Street’s court.
learning about, appreciating, and participating in the new. order to murder innocent people, and financed
I can be 71 and feel 15 at the same time. Sometimes. their attack. Which, according to American and Stephen M. Flatow of West Orange is an attorney
Israeli law, makes Al-Sheikh equally guilty of the in Fairfield and the father of Alisa Flatow,
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular columnist, is a long-time resident of murders and maiming of their victims. who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored
Teaneck. His work also has appeared in various publications including The passage of time has not diminished Al- Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. His book,
Sh’ma magazine, the New York Jewish Week, the Baltimore Jewish Sheikh’s affection for those who murder Israelis “A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against
Times, and, as letters to the editor, the New York Times. and Americans. Here’s what Al-Sheikh posted Iranian Terror,” will be published later this year.

Letters
ZOA sponsors campus programs during which students visit Judea and Samaria, Jerusalem, In Dr. Tani Foger’s piece on the Supreme Court confir-
I dove into Bob Peckar’s column, “Allies in the fight to the Golan Heights, and the Knesset. Students return to cam- mation hearings (“An embarrassing and cringeworthy but
reclaim college campuses” (September 21), with both pus as well-prepared Zionist leaders. teachable moment”), she points out that there is never a
personal and professional interest. I would like to Alan Jay, Paramus reason to shy away from helping your children understand
applaud Mr. Peckar for bringing this important issue to (Mr. Jay is the executive director of current issues (at a level they are able) and the importance
your readership, but I feel compelled to add one more the ZOA’s Northern New Jersey chapter.) of realizing the applicability of these events as they navigate
very important national program that deserves extra- the world of parties, substance use and sexual behavior.
special attention. It’s important to talk to children So power through your discomfort. Ask your children
The Zionist Organization of America’s Campus program I was encouraged and grateful to see that the October 5 issue what they have heard in the media about certain topics and
(www.campus.zoa.org) is on more than 100 U.S. college of the Jewish Standard addressed the important issues of speak to your child about it at his/her level. The incidence
campuses and is one of the best, most comprehensive mental health and the relevance of using current events as of suicides in our area is alarming. Don’t think your children
opportunities designed to benefit not only students, but a springboard for serious discussions with children. aren’t aware. Ask them what they have heard.
the entire college community. ZOA Campus provides free As Cheryl Rosenberg points out in her op ed, “How to talk Our openness to discussing these types of issues will lead
educational events, speakers, grants for programs, informa- about mental health,” when we clarify our misperceptions to improvement in mental health and empowerment for the
tional booklets, and fact sheets to enable pro-Israel educa- about mental health and truly listen to others without judg- next generation.
tion and programming to students, professors, and college ing or categorizing, we are not only helping those close to It is no mistake that these two articles were on page 36. A
administrators. Professional ZOA campus coordinators pro- us, but the community at large. Our high school and college real double chai for the Standard writers.
vide hands-on support, enabling Jewish and other Zionist students are setting good examples for us in organizations Eileen Schneider MSW, ACSW, LCSW, Hillsdale
students to carry out successful pro-Israel programs, and such as NAMI on Campus and Active Minds, which support
to respond effectively to anti-Israel rhetoric and activities. mental health awareness and programming on college cam- Not fair and balanced
Students are invited and encouraged to participate in ZOA’s puses across the country. In your editorial about the cancellation of Lisa Daftari’s talk
Advocacy Mission to Washington, D.C., and its annual gala As a mental health professional, I encourage parents and at Rutgers (October 18), you give as one of the justifications,
dinner. For a select group of students who demonstrate lead- families to be open with their children; to include them in “She does often speak on Fox News, and that in itself is divi-
ership qualities and who commit to continuing on-campus discussions and meetings about school or social issues that sive.” The implication is that speech on CNN or MSNBC is
Israel advocacy and activism, ZOA offers an all-expenses- affect them. There should not be shame in mental health not divisive. It is an editorial, and you are entitled to your
paid student leadership mission to Israel. This is a boots- issues, just as one would not be embarrassed to have a bro- opinion. But fair and balanced you clearly are not.
on-the-ground, education, and advocacy training program, ken ankle. Alan Lewis, Fair Lawn
Opinion
The deep threads of connection

between an armistice and Kristallnacht
T
wo grimly sobering 300,000 fought with Austria-Hungary. Many thousands of reluctance of his own government to combat such slan-
anniversaries fall in them lost their lives in the process. From outside Europe, ders. “To publicize the exploits of Jewish soldiers, or even
November. more than 200,000 Jews were among the approximately 5 to admit the existence of a considerable Jewish army in
On the 9th and million American service personnel in 1917, when the United the Middle East, rouses hostility in South Africa, the Arab
10th, we will mark the 80th States joined the Allied side. countries and elsewhere,” he wrote during World War II.
anniversary of Kristallnacht — When it came to Jewish civilians, the toll in the eastern “It is easier to ignore the whole subject and allow the man
the orgy of murder and violence half of Europe was particularly brutal, with hundreds of in the street to go on thinking that Jews are exceptionally
that devastated Jewish commu- thousands of Jews deported to the Russian interior or mur- clever at dodging military service.”
nities across Nazi Germany in dered in bloody pogroms. Those ravages led several thou- But the British were far from alone in falling for the
1938. The following day, Novem- Ben Cohen sand Jews to join the ranks of the Bolshevik Revolution and myth that Jews are at their most disloyal in times, like
ber 11, we will mark the centen- even serve in its senior posts, but by the mid-1920s, the rul- wartime, when everyone else is at their most loyal. That
nial of the armistice that ended ing Communist Party was no longer a polyglot underground trope was among the many anti-Semitic fabrications of the
World War I — the most devastating military conflict the organization. It was, in dramatic contrast, a ruling bureau- Nazis, whose dehumanizing propaganda campaigns and
world had so far experienced. cracy undergoing a profound process of Russification. notorious racial laws discriminating against Jews exploded
These two events, occurring exactly 20 years apart, were The experience of World War I left some Jewish commu- in the violence of Kristallnacht. More than 100 Jews were
intimately connected. Some historians argue that the 20th nities feeling more integrated and secure, while others were murdered on the streets of Germany during those hours of
century really began with World War I, which buried the exposed as highly vulnerable, or even decimated out of exis- fire and broken glass, while 30,000 more were deported
geriatric Habsburg and Ottoman empires and set the stage tence. It also made realistic the proposal of a national home to camps whose names — Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen,
for the modern totalitarian systems of communism and for the Jewish people, an end-goal the British government Dachau— now are indelibly associated with the Holocaust.
fascism, directly paving the way for the rise in Germany of regarded “with favor” in its Balfour Declaration of 1917. On These are the basic facts that the forthcoming com-
National Socialism and its unprecedented war on the Jews. November 11, 1918, then, the world’s Jews could see the prom- memorations of these two events will reflect. For Jews,
In all senses you can think of, there was a dramatic trans- ise of redemption on all the political paths — liberal-assimila- these are occasions for profound historical reflection,
formation in the position of Europe’s Jews between the end tionist, revolutionary, Zionist — that were available to them. in a year that already has witnessed the 70th anniver-
of the “Great War,” as it was dubbed, and the Nazi Holo- Hardly any of them believed that mass extermination was sary of the State of Israel’s creation. Both anniversaries
caust that consumed nearly two-thirds of their number. For awaiting them within a generation. To have even suggested are occasions to ponder how the crooked road of Jewish
one thing, the record of Jewish military service in the war such a thing to one of the 7,000 Jews decorated by Germany emancipation, whose benefits these days still far out-
rather gruesomely demonstrated that Jews were also loyal, for his war service probably would have been insulting. weigh the persistence of anti-Semitism, felt for those
grateful citizens of the countries in which they lived. Given But as the polarizing settlement that ended World War who came before us. JNS.ORG
that French-Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus had been I finally crumbled with Hitler’s launching of World War
convicted of treason in an anti-Semitic show trial only two II, the old libels against the Jews — that they were trib- Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for JNS on Jewish affairs
decades earlier, that record was even more striking. ally disloyal, that they profited from war both economi- and Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published in
More than 50,000 Jews fought on the British and Com- cally and in terms of political influence — returned with Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
monwealth side, 100,000 fought with the Germans, and a vengeance. The British writer George Orwell noted the Journal, and many other publications.

Jewish World
Cleveland Browns kicker Greg Joseph’s

long journey from Jewish day school to the NFL
Ed Carroll followers we get and how we can positively
impact Cleveland as a whole, but you gotta
CLEVELAND —Browns rookie kicker Greg have fun doing it. Otherwise, it becomes
Joseph said it’s been a “wild ride” for him overbearing, and you have to make the
since being cut at the end of preseason by most of the opportunity you’re presented.”
the Miami Dolphins, signing with Cleveland Joseph said he wants to continue to fur-
in Week 3 of the regular season, and just ther acquaint himself with Northeast Ohio’s
days later, playing an integral role in the NFL Jewish community and give back as much
team’s first victory in nearly two years. as he can.
To cap his “wild” five-week stretch, “It’s a virtue close to my heart, since my
Joseph booted a game-winning 37-yard mom kind of instilled that in me from a
field goal — which reportedly was partially young age,” he said. “That’s why I’m lean-
blocked by a defender — in overtime on Oct. ing toward going out and talking with some
7 against the division rival Baltimore Ravens. Jewish day schools and hopefully something
After that win, Joseph returned to his with the Jewish Federation, which would be
new home in Cleveland from FirstEnergy very cool. That’s in the works, hopefully.”
Stadium and ended the day with a familiar He said his faith has “absolutely” guided
— and likely comforting — symbol hanging him during his life and career.
outside his door: a mezuzah. “At the end of the day, I believe it’s writ-
Rabbi Yossi Friedman of the Chabad of Greg Joseph celebrates after defeating the Baltimore Ravens at FirstEnergy ten that what’s going to happen is going to
Downtown Cleveland, who helped Joseph Stadium in Cleveland, October 7. Jason Miller/Getty Images happen,” he said. “That’s why I go about my
and his parents, Glen and Ilana, put the business with a smile on my face because I
mezuzah up on his door, said Joseph recited The Browns signed Joseph on Sept. 17, a look at every experience as a learning expe-
the traditional blessing during the process. Monday, after which he had to prepare for rience. I believe there’s a plan. What’s writ-
Joseph was introduced to Friedman by a prime-time Thursday night game Sept. 20 ten is written, you just go by that. That’s why
Rabbi Yossi Denburg of Chabad of Boca against the New York Jets. He didn’t com- I never take anything too heavily. I choose
Raton, Fla., near where Joseph grew up. plain about the lack of time to prepare. “It’s to live my life in a positive manner, with a
Joseph, 24, was born in Johannesburg, almost better to have a quick turnaround smile on my face, positively impacting the
South Africa, and moved to Florida with his like that because you don’t have time to people around me, which is definitely a goal
family in 2001. He played football and soc- think about anything,” he said. of mine.”
cer at Donna Klein Jewish Academy in Boca And since then, the Dolphins’ loss has Joseph said he was in Cleveland for Yom
Raton, and also attended American Heritage been the Browns’ gain. Kippur, and after practice, he got a ride to
School in Delray Beach, Fla. Joseph is 8-for-9 on field goal attempts in an evening service at Chabad of Downtown
He graduated from Florida Atlantic Univer- four games with the Browns, his only miss Cleveland, where he met Friedman.
sity in Boca Raton in 2017 as the Owls’ all-time coming on a 55-yard attempt against the He moved into his apartment a few days
leader in field goals made, points scored, Ravens at the end of regulation. He also before the Ravens game, and now, for the
PATs (point-after-touchdown) made and field missed a PAT in that game. His longest made most part, he said he feels settled in his new
goals attempted. He also holds the universi- field goal with the Browns was a 45-yard Greg Joseph with Rabbi Yossi Fried- city — though he continues to get to know
ty’s single-game records for PATs, field goals, attempt against the Jets. man of the Chabad of Downtown people in and around town.
points scored by kicking and holds the record His impressions of Cleveland so far are Cleveland. They are standing by a me- He noted the Browns normally get an off
for the Owls’ longest field goal. almost universally positive. zuzzah that Friedman helped Joseph day on Tuesdays — days he hopes he can use
He went undrafted but soon signed with “I don’t know why everyone has such put up outside his new apartment in to give back.
the Dolphins and was in a training camp a negative connotation about” Cleveland, Cleveland after kicking a game-win- “Every Tuesday, there are community
battle with fellow rookie Jason Sanders, a Joseph said. “The weather’s been awesome ning field goal against the Baltimore service events,” Joseph said. “I just told our
seventh-round pick, to be the team’s kicker. and the people are nice.” Joseph hasn’t expe- Ravens in overtime on October 7. community relations people to sign me up for
In three preseason games with the Dol- rienced a trademark Cleveland winter — lake Glen Joseph every one. I’ll be there, it’s something that’s
phins, Joseph was 3-for-3 on field goals, effect snow can affect playing conditions at important to me. I want to reach out and use
including a 54-yard kick. Unfortunately for FirstEnergy Stadium, right on the Lake Erie to win each and every game.” this platform while it’s here to help whoever
him, Miami decided to go with Sanders. shoreline — but he’s ready for the challenge. Joseph said the Browns players and staff I can help and positively impact the greatest
After being released, Joseph stayed ready “I’ll take each challenge as it comes,” he have been “extremely welcoming.” amount of people’s quality of lives that I can
and stuck to his practice routine. Despite said. “Right now, the weather is good. I’ll “It’s been fun,” he said. “The Browns are possibly impact. Football is a great platform
being cut by a team far closer to where he have to look into it further when [the bad a top-notch organization. They take care of for that, and I feel like I’d be wasting it if I’m
grew up and joining a team in a city he vis- weather comes]. I’ll get in touch with people you every way they can, and they’ve been not using it. That’s my goal here, to get out
ited for the first time during a tryout, Joseph who have kicked here and experienced it. But awesome in my transition — having a couple and help people.”
couldn’t be happier than to be in Cleve- then again, you can only learn so much from hours to get up [to Cleveland] and helping Joseph wants Clevelanders to know he
land. “After I got released from Miami, [the them, you have to go through it firsthand to me find a place to live and sorting me out plans to do his best on the field, but he’s
Browns] were the first one to get in touch really impact your learning curve.” for life overall. here for more than football.
with me,” Joseph said. “It’s still an awesome He hasn’t set any personal performance “I’ve met some great people here,” he said, “The Browns are in a position to win,
feeling. It’s good to feel wanted, especially goals for the season beyond trying to get bet- singling out punter Britton Colquitt and long but while I’m here, I want to get involved
in this business. ter every day and have fun while doing it. snapper Charley Hughlett. “They’ve helped in the community,” he said. “I want to try to
“Everything happens for a reason. I had a “My main goal is to put the team in a bet- me out immensely as far as teaching me the go talk to and inspire Jewish kids all across
blast in Miami. I learned a lot about myself ter position no matter what through my ropes because I’m a rookie. They’re both Cleveland to let them know that it’s possible
in Miami. I learned how to be a better ath- kicking,” he said. “I am the guy who will sac- vets. They’re both kind of ‘jokester’ guys — to do basically whatever you want. It’s not
lete, a better man, just a better person over- rifice a couple stats — I don’t look into them. they keep the mood light and we have fun. just football, it’s not just sports. If you have
all. They do a great job with their personal I just want the team to win at the end of the “Really, at the end of the day, that’s what a goal, my big thing is, put your head down
engagement program over there. And for- day. I will do whatever it takes and bust my it’s about. Football is a game. It’s amazing and work. Anything is possible.”
tunately, I got the call to come over here.” butt to help put my team in the best position and it’s fun and it’s awesome how many Cleveland Jewish News via JTA

Kosher Crossword
“The Monster Mash”
The Frazzled Housewife
By Yoni Glatt, [email protected]
Difficulty Level: Challenging
Exercise and eat healthy

— or whatever you want
W
e are living in a health- Along with the joys of weight loss
conscious society. comes the complement of exercise. I
Vegans, vegetarians, happen to enjoy exercise. Well, I enjoy
paleo, keto, are just a walking, so we will call that exercise.
few of the ways people watch what they With the right anti-inflammatory for my
eat and how they eat. You can have fruit, knee, I could walk all day long. It is the
but not every fruit. You can have carbs, best therapy there is, because you can
but they have to be complex carbs. (Does just talk to yourself and solve all of your
that mean they had a diffi- problems. And breathe in
cult childhood if they are the fresh air and appreci-
complex?) ate God’s beauty around
And drink lots of water. you. I also enjoy spin-
Water is the best. Water ning, because the music
all day long. No thank you. is incredible and that class
Water makes me queasy. takes place in a dark room
The other day, I was at a and no one can get scared
kiddish having a hot flash of what I look like from
(it also could have been a behind. Enough said.
panic attack, but we will Banji But this past week I
go with the hot flash) and Ganchrow enjoyed an entirely dif-
I was pouring myself a cup ferent kind of class. My
of Diet Coke. Some woman friend Tiffany has started
looks at me and says, “You know, you working at a new gym, called Juma
really shouldn’t be drinking that. It isn’t Fit. I am sure the name means some-
healthy.” I look back at her, give her my thing about health and body and some-
very best are-you-kidding me smile, thing healthy, but she was offering the
and reply, “Well, if I end up dying first, chance to take a free treadmill class.
I won’t really know who was right, will That piqued my curiosity, because I can
I?” And then I proceeded to enjoy my do the treadmill. The treadmill requires
Across Down
cold cup of chemicals. And my hot flash walking, and I know how to walk! So I
1. Elite group 1. Star of “The Muppets”
2. Run off to the chuppah, maybe stopped flashing. told Tiffany that I would love to be one
6. 1976 Kiss hit
10. Basilica area 3. Actor Ehrenreich of her guinea pigs. I also told her that it
14. Island near Manhattan 4. Sentence or cereal would be great for me to take her class
15. Space measurement 5. Ashdod to Hebron dir. because she would learn how to use
6. Ally: Gaga :: Esther: ___
16. Israeli sandals
17. Pious, radioactive behemoth? 7. Jewish scholar Brown And then I the defibrillator when the big girl in the
back has a heart attack….
20. Olympics blade
21. Toronto media inits.
8. Total brothers that conspired against
Joseph proceeded So I showed up at the Juma gym,
22. Divorce document
23. Wiseman of the “Underworld” fran-
9. Book that predates the siddur
10. Moreno’s Oscar role to enjoy my signed a release — apparently everyone
had to sign one, not just the big girl —
chise
24. Winged “woman” perched on the
11. Bud
12. Costa del ___, Spain
cold cup of and we were ready to work out. I have
resting spot of Noah’s Ark? 13. Airborne guesstimate, for short
18. Words that follow Rent
chemicals. And got to say that it was very enjoyable.
I walked, I ran, I ran faster, I walked
29. “___ Breckinridge” (Vidal novel)
30. “You bet” follower 19. Round number my hot flash again…apparently this is called inter-
31. Chametz that’s permanently in
Jerusalem?
24. Psalm’s relative
25. Go-with to a big question stopped flashing. val training. Who knew? (Probably lots
of people, just not me.) Tiffany did a
32. See 33-Down 26. Setting for settings
27. Ballet bends great job motivating us and keeping us
34. It connects nearly all of the world’s
kohanim 28. “O.K.” from Tom Sawyer When it comes to eating healthy, you focused and I was sweating enough to
35. Nile bird 29. Some Veterans Day honorees, for have to choose what is right for you. warrant drinking the crystal light pink
36. Soulless creature in northern Israel? short What makes you feel best. And if that lemonade that I brought along…still no
40. Ivanovic and Gasteyer 32. Lionize
is eating a peanut butter powder with water. I guess it’s the one thing I have in
41. Loudspeaker, for short 33. Keyboardist for 32-Across
34. Hors d’oeuvres mixture ground cocoa beans and pretending common with Odell Beckham Jr. (Prob-
42. Washingtons?
43. Took the cake 35. Fails to be that it’s a Snickers bar, then more power ably the only thing — but at least it is
44. Blotter letters 36. Ogle to you. There are so many nutritionists something.) And I was very proud of
45. Place on the schedule 37. “___ baruch hu” and health coaches out there to help you myself that I made it through the whole
38. Slate or The Daily Beast, for short
47. Leviathan practicing self-defense? lose weight. What about the poor people class without the need for the defibril-
50. Fed. entitlement org. 39. A Powerpuff Girl, e.g.
44. Lbs. and qts., e.g. who have to gain weight? Kids who don’t lator. And Tiffany was probably happy
53. “___ be an honor”
54. 1988 Anne Spielberg penned hit 45. Practices frugality weigh enough to be on the growth chart. about that too.
55. Bridge 46. Alternative to Duplo People who have been sick and haven’t Now if only I could learn to eat
56. Brilliant regal ape? 48. Stamina gotten their appetite back. That totally healthy….naaaaaaaa. But for those of
49. Regarding
61. Circular hairdo should be my business. I could help any- you who do — good for you! And I will
62. Chicken, e.g. 50. Cricket or Polo, e.g.
51. Not so crazy one gain 10 pounds in less than a week. see you on the other side.
63. Broadcast network
64. Make up artist? 52. Like Sidney Lumet’s twelve men Who am I kidding, with the right sup-
65. Certain holiday structures, essentially 55. Outer layer plies, I could have you gain 10 pounds Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is looking
66. Diary segment 56. Start of Clark’s real first name in less than three days. Please, someone, forward to the next time she can take
57. “___ Ran the Zoo” (Dr. Seuss book)
accept my challenge. I will even help you a treadmill class. And maybe she can
The solution to last week’s puzzle is 58. Piece activists?: Abbr.
on page 51. 59. First Lady before Eleanor for free! sneak a real Snickers into it.
60. Scot’s denial

Calendar the Holocaust” in the
Sunday Alumni Lounges (SC158)
at Ramapo College
OCTOBER 28 in Mahwah, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by Ramapo’s
School open house in Gross Center for
Teaneck: Ma’ayanot Holocaust and Genocide
Yeshiva High School for Studies. 505 Ramapo
Girls has an open house. Valley Road, Mahwah.
Breakfast/registration, (201) 684-7409.
9 a.m.; program
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 1650 Joe Amditis School open house
Palisade Ave. Dena Block, in Paramus: Ben
(201) 833-4307, ext. 255, Fake news: Joe Amditis, Porat Yosef holds
admissions@maayanot. Steven Masi associate director of the an open house for
COURTESY JCCOTP
org or www.maayanot. Center for Cooperative parents of prospective
org. Music in Tenafly: Media at Montclair students, 7:30 p.m.
Thurnauer School faculty State University, will East 243 Frisch Court.
member Steven Masi, lead “Timely Topics and Sharona Grossberg,
violinists Laura Goldberg Tasty Treats,” a study (201) 845-5007,
and Samuel Katz, violist group on techniques for SharonaGrossberg@
Sarah Adams, cellist recognizing fake news benporatyosef.org, or
Barbara Stein Mallow, in all types of media, www.benporatyosef.org.
OCT. Jewish Federation of and clarinetist Diana for the Bergen County
Northern New Jersey section of the National
29
Petrella play chamber
Council of Jewish
begins “FedTalk: music by Johannes
Women at Senior Source
Brahms at the Kaplen
Israel,” a series of JCC on the Palisades, at the Shops at Riverside,
discussions focused on current 3 p.m. 411 East Clinton second level, in Riverside
Square Mall, Hackensack,
issues in Israel. Israeli attorney Ave. (201) 408-1465 or
2:30 p.m. Refreshments.
Book signing/ jccotp.org/Thurnauer.
and human rights activist Natsana discussion in (201) 385-4847 or www.
Darshan-Leitner, the founder Ridgewood: Fran ncjwbcs.org.
of Shurat HaDin Israeli Law Hawthorne, author of Tuesday
School open house in
“The Heirs,” a Holocaust OCTOBER 30
Center, will discuss “Bankrupting novel set in New Jersey, Elizabeth: The Jewish Jamie Brenner
Educational Center’s Rav
Terrorism…One Lawsuit at a Time,” leads a discussion and
Teitz Mesivta Academy
signs copies of her book Book event in Paramus:
7:30 p.m. 50 Eisenhower Drive, at Temple Israel and JCC, holds an open house, Jamie Brenner, author of
Paramus. www.jfnnj.org/fedtalks 10 a.m. Breakfast. 475 7 p.m. Refreshments “The Husband Hour,” is
and registration, 6:30.
or (201) 820-3907. COURTESY JFNNJ Grove St. Reservations,
330 Elmora Ave.
the speaker at the Jewish
(201) 444-9320 or Federation of Northern
[email protected]. Rabbi Sariel Malitzky, New Jersey’s Women’s
(908) 355-4850, ext. Philanthropy meeting,
6197, highschool@ 7:30 p.m. Co-sponsored
Friday Saturday theJEC.org, or jechs.org. by sisterhoods of Temple
OCTOBER 26 OCTOBER 27 Beth Sholom of Pascack
Dr. Robert Shapiro Valley in Park Ridge and
Bergen County history: COURTESY RAMAPO Emanuel of the Pascack
Deborah Powell, a Valley in Woodcliff Lake,
past president of the Diaries from Lodz: Dr. with Women of Chai of
Bergen County Historical Robert Shapiro, professor Temple Beth Tikvah in
Concert in Park Ridge: of East European Jewish Wayne. 50 Eisenhower
Society, discusses The free Bergen County
“Little Known History of studies, Holocaust Drive. (201) 820-3906 or
Music Concert series studies, and Yiddish at jfnnj.org/bookandAuthor.
Bergen County: The Tidal at the Wortendyke
Gristmill at New Bridge Brooklyn College of the
Barn Museum, a county City University of New
Landing,” for River Dell
Hadassah at the River
historic site in Park York, discusses “A Tale Dr. Natalia Aleksiun Wednesday
Ridge, concludes with of Two Diaries from the COURTESY RAMAPO OCTOBER 31
Edge Public Library, the 8th annual Bluegrass
11 a.m. Refreshments. Lodz Ghetto” in the
& Cider festival, at Trustees Pavilion (PAV Hidden Eastern
685 Elm Ave. European Jews: Blood drive in Teaneck:
Film in Hoboken: The 1 p.m. Limited seating is 1) at Ramapo College
(201) 261-1663, ext. 4. Holy Name Medical
United Synagogue of available; attendees can in Mahwah, 1:45 p.m. Dr. Natalia Aleksiun,
Center holds a blood
Hoboken’s Film series bring chairs and blankets Sponsored by Ramapo’s associate professor of
drive with New Jersey
shows “Besa — The and a food vendor will be Gross Center for modern Jewish history
Blood Services, a division
Promise,” about Albanian present. The museum is Holocaust and Genocide at the Touro College’s
of New York Blood
Muslims rescuing Jews open to visitors at noon Studies. 505 Ramapo graduate school,
Center, 1:30 -7:30 p.m.
during the Shoah, and during intermission. Valley Road, Mahwah. discusses “Gender and
718 Teaneck Road.
7:30 p.m. 115 Park Ave. (201) 336-7292 or email (201) 684-7409. the Daily Lives of Jews
(800) 933-2566 or www.
(201) 659-4000 or [email protected]. Hiding in Nazi Occupied
nybloodcenter.org.
hobokensynagogue.org. nj.us. Eastern Europe during

Calendar
Widzer and Cantor morning singles-only 11:30 a.m. Veterans
School open house in
Elizabeth Goldmann, with
musicians, at 7:30. 221 River Edge: Rosenbaum
kiddush followed by
meals with families;
Sunday will be recognized for
their service before
Schraalenburgh Road. Yeshiva of North Jersey evening program at Ohr NOVEMBER 11 the comedy begins.
(201) 768-5112 or www. holds an open house, Torah with comedian Avi 18 Delaware St. Sign
tbenv.org. 7 p.m. 666 Kinderkamack Lieberman, ice-breakers, Singles comedy/ up for comedy slots.
Road. Tamar Kahn, and more. Singles of all brunch in Clifton: (973) 772-3131 or join the
Shabbat in Emerson: (201) 986-1414, ext. 338, ages are invited for the North Jersey Jewish group at www.meetup.
Congregation B’nai [email protected], or Saturday night program. Singles 40s-50s+ at the com.
Israel holds a “Torah rynj.org. westorange.singles. Clifton Jewish Center
Film in Teaneck: The Town Hall” service called [email protected]. hosts a brunch with
Jewish Federation of “Our Elections, Our Addiction and open mic and comedy
Northern New Jersey’s Discourse, Our Future,” substance abuse by Steve Goldberg,
Israel Film Festival 8 p.m. 53 Palisade Ave. forum: “Addiction
presents “Scaffolding” (201) 265-2272 or www. and Substance Abuse:
at the Teaneck Cinemas, bisrael.com. Understanding the
7:30 p.m. 503 Cedar Landscape and Its
Impact on Us,” a
Lane. (201) 820-3907
Saturday community event, is
or www.jfnnj.org/
filmfestival. NOVEMBER 3 at Congregation Keter
Torah in Teaneck,
The Ten Commandments, artistically
School open house in 7:30 p.m. A panel will Congregation Rinat
Broadway music
Englewood: The Moriah discuss recent drug
in Montebello: The
trends, state and local Yisrael of Teaneck’s
School holds an open Montebello Jewish
house for parents of initiatives, addiction, adult education
Center hosts an evening
prospective students, of “Broadway Voices
and how to address committee pres-
7:30 p.m. Livia Marcovici, and prevent it. www. e n t s “ T h e Te n
of Today & Tomorrow,”
(201) 567-0208 ext. time2talkaddiction.org.
featuring Broadway C ommandments
322, admissions@ performers Janelle
moriahschool.org, or — From the Bible
A. Robinson and J.D.
www.moriahschool.org/
admissions.
Webster, with guest
appearances by MJC’s
In New York to Rembrandt,” on
Sunday, November
cantor, Michelle Rubin, 11, at 8 p.m.
Thursday and its teen and Saturday Professor Jordan
Professor
Jordan S.
NOVEMBER 1
youth choirs, 7 p.m. NOVEMBER 3
34 Montebello Road. S. Penkower of Bar Penkower
PHOTOS PROVIDED
(845) 357-2430 or www. ASL-interpreted Ilan University will
Film festival in Teaneck: montebellojc.org.
The Teaneck International
Shabbat service: Town give a PowerPoint presentation on the
& Village Synagogue history of illustrations of the Tablets of
Film Festival begins its
four-day run. Information, Sunday in Manhattan holds an
ASL-interpreted Shabbat
the Covenant and the Ten Command-
schedules, and tickets, NOVEMBER 4 service, with full readings ments from the Bible through the Middle
(201) 203-1723 or www.
teaneckfilmfestival.org.
from the Torah and Ages, in both Jewish and Christian art. The discussion will include the shapes of the
School open house in haftorah, 10 a.m. Kiddush
Paramus: The Frisch two tablets, the division of the Ten Commandments, the division of the sections (para-
will follow. 334 East
Friday , School holds an open 14th St., between First shot), and the Jewish sources upon which these representations are based. For more
house at the Mordecai and Second avenues. information, call (201) 837-2795.
NOVEMBER 2 and Monique Katz Underwritten by UJA-
Academic Building, Federation of New York’s
9 a.m.-noon. 120 Jewish Community
West Century Road. Deaf Interpreter Fund.
Judith Goldsmith, (212) 677-0368V, www.
(201) 267-9100, tandv.org, or email Bram
[email protected]. at [email protected].
Register at www.frisch.
org/openhouse.
Saturday
NOVEMBER 10
Dr. Martin Dean Ramaz School open
COURTESY RAMAPO house: The Upper School
of Ramaz holds an open
Babi Yar massacre: Dr. house at the Morris & Ida
Martin Dean, historical
consultant at Babi Yar
Newman Educational
Center, 7:45 p.m. B
Holocaust Memorial
Center, discusses “Babi
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Ukraine” in the Alumni Register at www.ramaz.
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in incubators in Coney are welcome to “Singles
violinist/TBE congregant Fall-Back,” featuring Saturday, November 3, at 8 p.m. the group performs.
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Commemorating Kristallnacht Englewood artist displays

Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne will mark were sacked and looted, and tens of thou- an environmental sampler
the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht dur- sands of Jews were taken to concentra- Irmari Nacht of Englewood is
ing kabbalat Shabbat service on Novem- tion camps. This pogrom was named for exhibiting artwork with an envi-
ber 9. The evening begins at 7 p.m. with a the enormous amount of glass that was ronmental theme “REcycled:
screening of “The Night of Broken Glass.” smashed. Books and News — A Show of
Services follow at 7:45 and then an oneg All Holocaust and Kristallnacht survi- Sculptures and Collages” at the
Shabbat. vors are encouraged to attend. Transporta- Fifth Floor Gallery at One Ber-
On Kristallnacht — the “Night of Broken tion can be arranged. For information, call gen County Plaza in Hackensack.
Glass,” November 9, 1938, in Austria and (973) 595-6565, go to www.templebethtik- The solo exhibition of Nacht’s
Germany — almost 200 synagogues were vahnj.org, or email [email protected]. work is on view through the end
destroyed, more than 8,000 Jewish shops The shul is at 950 Preakness Ave., Wayne. of December, with an opening
reception with refreshments and
music on Thursday, November 29,
at 7 p.m., in conjunction with the
Hebrew reading for adults annual Bergen County Arts Grants
awards ceremony. The gallery is
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley is offering free weekly open to visitors during normal A mini-book, “Books97Hanuaka,” is among
Hebrew reading classes for adults at the shul, on Mondays work hours. the works on display at One Bergen County
at 11:45 a.m., with Rabbi Shelley Kniaz, the shul’s director Plaza, Hackensack. COURTESY IRMARI NACHT
of congregational education, beginning on November 5. No

prior knowledge is required. Participants will have to order
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Hebrew reading, for those with basic Hebrew reading skills,
is at 11 a.m. For more information, call (201) 391-0801 or
email [email protected]. Rabbi Shelley Kniaz Mahjong
continues
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art exhibit, opening on Sunday, Novem- (973) 272-7148.
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Evening of chesed to aid hospital COURTESY TBT
Bobby and Rudy Kaplan will host a fund- Aryeh Simmonds, the hospital’s NICU
raiser at their Teaneck home on Wednes- chief, is the guest speaker. For more
day, October 31, at 7:30 p.m., to benefit information, email Judy.Rapfogel@
Laniado Hospital in Netanya, Israel. Dr. gmail.com.
Dr. Ruth is coming to Tenafly
Ruth Westheimer, better to Palestine, trained and
Brunch, lecture, known simply as Dr. Ruth, will
be at the Kaplen JCC on the
served as a Haganah sniper,
was wounded in an explo-
and museum trip Palisades in Tenafly on Sun- sion, and eventually came
The Dor L’Dor group at Congregation day, November 4, at 5 p.m., to to the United States, where
Ahavath Torah in Englewood offers a discuss her life and the lessons she worked as a maid before
talk by artist and curator Sheryl Intra- she’s learned. becoming a college professor,
tor Urman, brunch, and a trip (includ- Dr. Ruth, who is known for author, and celebrity.
ing transportation) to the Metropolitan speaking frankly about inti- Her new book, “Roller-
Museum of Art in Manhattan to see the mate matters, has enjoyed an Coaster Grandma,” is an auto-
Eugène Delacroix exhibit on November illustrious career as a late-night Dr. Ruth biography for a 8- to 12-year-
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r or email [email protected]. thousands of viewers and listeners since with her grandchildren as its backdrop.
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Rube Goldberg did way more than draw those wacky machines
STEPHEN SILVER
When you hear the name Rube Goldberg, one

concept instantly comes to mind: those fun
machines that complete simple tasks in overly
complicated and humorous ways. Think a ball
rolling down a long ramp that hits a series of
dominoes, which hits something else, so on
and so on.
Nearly 50 years after his death, his name will
come up in politics or another field to explain
something that’s unnecessarily complex. Car-
toonist Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulit-
zer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus,” once
said that “Rube Goldberg knew how to get from
A to B using all the letters in the alphabet.”
But as an exhibit at the National Museum of
American Jewish History points out, there was
a lot more to Rube Goldberg than the machines
One of Rube Goldberg’s more political
he drew.
cartoons is on display at the exhibit.
Goldberg, who was born in 1883 and died
in 1970, also was an extremely prolific edito-
rial cartoonist, as well as an inventor, engi-
neer, humorist and author. He even had stints
in the advertising industry and in Hollywood in
a career that spanned over 70 years. He won a
Pulitzer in 1948 for his political cartoons, and
is an enduring inspiration to children in STEM
(science, technology, engineering and mathe-
matics) fields, where his creations are still used
in lessons.
Goldberg’s complete life and work is the sub-
ject of “The Art of Rube Goldberg,” an exhibi-
tion that opened last week and runs through Rube Goldberg waded into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Jan. 21 at the Philadelphia museum. The exhibit,
which follows stops at museums in San Fran-
cisco and Chicago but features some new items,
is the first major exhibition of Goldberg’s work
since the Smithsonian presented one shortly
before his death.
“The Art of Rube Goldberg” consists of
machines and cartoons, as well as artifacts from
Goldberg’s life. It includes many editorial and
political cartoons — on topics ranging from gov- Rube Goldberg on a poster by the Pathé
ernment austerity measures to the continual news agency calling him the “World’s most
struggle for peace between Jews and Arabs — famous Newspaper Cartoonist.”
that wouldn’t be out of place today.
Goldberg, in fact, drew an estimated 50,000 Goldberg died when Jennifer George was 11
cartoons in his career, but only a small frac- years old, but she is the primary custodian of
tion of them were related to his eponymous Goldberg’s intellectual property and legacy.
machines, his granddaughter Jennifer George “I remember him through the lens of a
said. He drew for papers such as the San Fran- child,” she said. “But when carrying on the
cisco Bulletin and the New York Evening Mail, legacy of Rube fell into my lap when my dad
where his strips were introduced to the masses A wall at the exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish died, over a decade ago … I really had to do
through McClure, the country’s first newspa- History in Philadelphia. PHOTOS BY TEPHEN SILVER some heavy lifting.
per syndicate. He started the machine draw- “All of the cartoons that had once been on the
ings in the late 1920s in one of his several syndicated do with it. Goldberg was the son of Jewish parents in San walls of the den in the house that I grew up in, and in our
series — one involving a character named Professor Luci- Francisco and lived through a time of harsh anti-Semitism grandparents’ study, which I had never read, suddenly I
fer Gorgonzola Butts. before the world wars. had to start reading them, and I had to start educating
The exhibit, supervised in Philadelphia by chief curator The exhibition also includes more personal, never- myself as to who Rube Goldberg was, through the lens of
Josh Pearlman, is presented with the cooperation of two of before-seen items, such as a cigar box belonging to Gold- an adult, at least if I was going to do this correctly.”
Goldberg’s grandchildren — George and her cousin, John berg’s father. There’s a video installation showing modern- Several events related to the exhibit are planned, includ-
George, both children of Goldberg’s sons. The two sons, day movies — from Wes Anderson flicks to Wallace and ing a Rube Goldberg Machine Contest for local high school
Thomas and George, changed their surname to George Gromit tales to “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” — that have all students. Admission to the exhibition will be free on Elec-
at the insistence of their father (yes, one became George used Rube Goldberg-like concepts. tion Day, Nov. 6.
George). He claimed that it was for their safety because Also new is a Forbes magazine cover drawn by Goldberg “We are preparing for a lot of serious and zany fun,”
he received copious amounts of hate mail for his politi- from 1967 that looked at “the future of home entertain- Ivy Barsky, the museum’s CEO, said at the press preview
cal cartoons, but there is debate within the family over ment.” It was tracked down recently by the daughter of a last week. “Which we don’t get to say a lot at a history
whether the name’s obvious Jewishness had anything to former Forbes art director and lent to the exhibit. museum.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

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serving in the U.S. Army in Korea, he married Ruth in
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degrees from William Paterson University, and taught and siblings, Patti and Mike.
1960 and they moved to Fair Lawn a few years later
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Predeceased by her husband, Sheldon, sister, Dorothy completed his graduate work at Teachers College,
Reich, and grandson, Kenny Cardaci, she is survived by The Christopher Family Columbia University. He began his career as a teacher
daughters, Marilyn Rappaport ( James), Susan MacLean in public schools and soon after began work as an
(Greg), and Rilly Miron (Louis); five grandchildren, and serving the Jewish community elementary school principal in New Jersey school
one great-grandchild. since 1900 districts, finishing his work in the field as principal
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Daniel Altman, the school’s president, said. study of Jewish texts in chevruta, study pairs, “we’re
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Ms. Kahn said. “We’re creating the space to provide the come and study at the same time.” There will also be a
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FrOM PaGe 31 engage in hands-on tikkun olam.
of ) happening. “I don’t believe it’s a panacea,” Ginsburg said regarding
Shazur (Hebrew for “interwoven”), an organization the potential of aid work to resolve strife between Ameri-
founded this year by Rabbi Amitai Fraiman, organizes can and Israeli Jews. “But I think those two things can hap-
one-day tours of Jewish New York for groups of Israelis pen in tandem. If any relationship between two human
in America, like young professionals or students. The beings is strained, you want to work on that relationship,
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tours discuss the origins of American Jewish values — but you also want to figure out what brings you together.”
from the immigrant experience to civil rights — as well Given the conference’s theme, keynote speakers
as the American Jewish experience today. And the tours devoted surprisingly little time to the Western Wall,
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can meet and talk with them face to face. American Jewish-Israeli relations in recent years. Natan
“Israelis have a huge knowledge gap,” said Fraiman, Sharansky, the Soviet dissident who previously chaired
who is an Israeli with American parents and now lives the Jewish Agency for Israel, was the architect of the
in New York. “They don’t have an emotional connection Western Wall deal and publicly criticized Netanyahu last
because they can’t sympathize with a country they can’t year for freezing it.
understand. When you’re able to see with your eyes and But Isaac Herzog, Sharansky’s successor, did not even
walk with your feet in these places, you make this emo- mention the Western Wall in his speech to the GA on
tional connection, you can empathize with the other.” Tuesday. Instead he struck a more conciliatory note and
On the developing world front, Olam, a coalition of called for Israel to fund Hebrew language education for
Jewish global service groups, is hoping to work with Riv- diaspora Jews.
Jewish Music with an Edge lin on promoting joint American-Israeli Jewish interna- And on the afternoon of the second day of the confer-
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Your used and unwanted Habitat for Humanity of Bergen County seniors shabbat, Annie Hall revisited,
goods will bring hope and ReStore, selling new and gently used fur-
niture to help fund the building of afford-
and more at TIFF 2018
promise to many in need able housing in Bergen County; and Planet
Filmmakers and actors will par- Jacqueline and Michael Kates.
Do you have boxes of outgrown clothing ticipate in talkbacks this year at
Green, helping organizations raise funds by The filmmakers, Matt Starr
and toys? Are your closets jam packed? the 13th annual Teaneck Inter-
buying recycled ink cartridges, small elec- and Ellie Sachs, will attend
Have you recently renovated your kitchen? tronics and cell phones. national Film Festival, Novem- the screening with N.Y. Times
Is chaos taking over your house and garage? The organizations’ wish lists include cloth-
ber 1-4, at Teaneck Cinemas, reporter John Leland, who
Fall is the perfect time to get rid of the ing, coats, toys, laptops, housewares, books,
Puffin Cultural Forum, Benja- wrote a series about senior citi-
clutter and find your wares a loving, new min Franklin Middle School,
cell phones, and ink cartridges. Junkluggers zens as well as the story of this
home. Come be a part of Tenafly’s first has agreed to lend a hand and remove anyBlack Box Performing Arts Nana narrative/comedy. The film’s
Clean Out For Charity on October 27 and Center, and Temple Emeth.
articles not accepted by the organizations. stars, Harry Miller and Shula
clean out your home for a cause. “We hope to make this premiere event Descriptions of all the films and informa- Chernick, will also participate.
Top realtor and community leader, tion about guests, tickets, and venues may
an annual or possibly bi-annual community The talkback will follow the screen-
Stacy Esser, Stacy Esser Group, Keller Wil- be found at www.teaneckfilmfestival.org.
outreach day,” says Stacy Esser. “Here’s a ing and the short film, “Wendy’s Shab-
liams Town Life, envisioned the concept TIFF is proud to welcome back the
way to clean out the clutter while helping to bat,” which is being sponsored by Wendy
and with her unified approach set forth to Jewish Standard as the sponsor of
ensure a brighter future for those who ben- Wineburgh Dessanti, Weichert Realtors.
make her brainchild a reality. Teaming up efit from the work of these three remarkable
“Nana,” a documentary about an Aus- Josh Ull, a school teacher in NYC who
with The Tenafly Chamber of Commerce, charitable organizations.” chwitz survivor whose life-long fight took members of a teen tour to visit with
the event embraces the spirit of giving that against intolerance is being passed on
Rain or shine, Tenafly’s Charitable Com- the Sun City seniors who celebrate the
is ever present in the Tenafly community. munity Clean-Up Day will run from 9 a.m.to new generations. Serena Dykman, sabbath at a local Wendy’s fast food res-
Everyone is a winner in this highly visible until 1 p.m. at the municipal lot across from
who made the film about her grand- taurant, will also be on the panel, which
and much anticipated event that is set to Wells Fargo; Make as many trips as you mother, will participate in the talkback will be moderated by Sandee Barwarsky
become a community hallmark. after the screening, Sunday, November
want! Charitable donation tax receipts will a Teaneck resident and culture editor of
Donated items will go to three notable 4, 3:40 p.m. at Teaneck Cinemas.
be provided. Newspapers, bags, or packing The New York Jewish Week. The two films
organizations: Touched by an Angel, bring- materials will be much appreciated. Spread “My Annie Hall,” a 30-minute remake will be shown at Temple Emeth, Sunday,
ing financial support and awareness to the of the Woody Allen classic, directed by
the word and show your support by lighten- November 4, at 12:30 p.m.
effects of single parenting by advocating and ing your load in hopes of filling the hearts
two young people who found their cast Mark your calendar – buy tickets in
educating others within the community; of others. at a New York City senior center, is being advance (make some difficult choices!) –
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