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March Terror Attacks: the Specter of Amalek Was Not in Itamar or the Jerusalem Bus Bombing Alone
he overwhelmingly brutality of the terrorist outrage in Itamar and the shocking bus bombing in Jerusalem last month overshadowed the evidence that throughout March, Arab terrorism against Jewish civilians is increasing. While many of the attacks were thwarted by Israeli security forces, the Palestinians who perpetrated them made their intentions clear. “If the terrorists who murdered the Fogel family had been stopped at the community’s fence, there are those who would have
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complained that Israel was interfering with their human rights,” said one observer. Some observers say the increase in terror attacks may mean the Palestinians are getting ready to declare a new intifada uprising, similar to the ones they conducted in 1987 and 2000. Injuring Their Own Because Jews and Arabs live so closely together, unless the terrorists directly target the communities of Judea and Samaria, they are just as likely to murder one of their own.
In Jerusalem, on Sunday, March 6, for example, a small pipe bomb hidden in a garbage bag exploded, blowing off the arm of a 21-year-old Arab sanitation worker. A second worker was treated for shock. The following day, dozens of rock-throwing Arabs stormed Jewish neighborhoods, Alei Ayin and Esh Kodesh, near the Samarian city of Shiloh. One Jewish victim was treated for head wounds after being hit by a rock. On Tuesday, March 8, Arabs stoned two buses along the road leading from the French
Hill neighborhood in Jerusalem to the nearby community of Maaleh Adumim. One woman was lightly injured and taken for medical treatment at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. That same evening, another group of Palestinians attacked Israeli drivers on the road between Gush Etzion and Hebron. They blocked the road with burning tires and then threw stones and firebombs at drivers who were stopped. No injuries were reported, but the rock-throwing continued
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With No New Peace Talks on the Horizon, Israel Offers the PA a Man-Made Island, and Its Own Citizens an Iron Dome
The discussions, which have excluded Hamas, have reportedly gone on for the past two months. The proposed two-acre artificial island would provide Palestinians with an airport, seaport, new jobs, and an internationally supervised export-import system. Israel, which presumably would benefit from greater security, would realize its goal of allowing Palestinians to run their own affairs in Gaza, from
espite fears that, on his visit to Washington next month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might cave to demands from the Obama administration or the international community for existentially risky concessions, there are suggestions that, behind the scenes, Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority may have a new plan: building air and seaports on a man-made island off Gaza.
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“Had Gadya: Paintings by Archie Rand” Shown in Philadelphia
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n exhibit featuring Archie Rand, whom many critics recognize as one of the bestknown and most imaginative creators of Jewish-themed art in in America, is a Passover gift currently at the Gershman YMHA Borowsky Gallery in Philadelphia. “Had Gadya,” a series of ten 48 x 64-inch paintings in acrylic and enamel on vinyl, explores the verses of the song, filled with symbolism, historical references, and emotion, whose use at the conclusion of the Pesach seder has been traced back to the 15th century CE. Born in Brooklyn in 1949, Mr. Rand has been exploring Jewish themes and pushing the envelope on what can be
permitted since 1974, when he was commissioned by Brooklyn’s Congregation B’nai Yosef to paint thematic murals that would cover the Sephardic shul’s 16,000-square-foot interior surfaces. The halachic controversy raised by the wall paintings was resolved by Rav Moshe Feinstein, z”l, who declared the paintings to be in conformity with Jewish law. Since then, B’nai Joseph has been known as “The Painted Shul.” Mr. Rand, a Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, has gone on to complete many other highly regarded Jewish-themed works. Some critics say that 1989, the year Mr. Rand’s series of 54 paintings inspired
by the yearly cycle of Torah readings, shown at the Jewish Museum in New York, should mark the onset of postmodern American-Jewish art. Inspired by Others According to art critic Matthew Baigell, a professor of art history at Rutgers, each painting in “Had Gadya” is readily identifiable in Mr. Rand’s style. But, according to Mr. Rand, each is also based on elements from the works of other artists who he feels should not be forgotten. For example, the first piece in the series, “One Kid, One Kid,” is derived from a detail in a painting by the 19thcentury Polish-Jewish artist Maurycy Gottlieb. “And the
Cat Came,” which suggests a grandparent singing the melody to a grandchild, is based on a work by German artist Lazar Krestin, who died in Jerusalem in 1938. Mr. Rand based “And the Dog Came” on a painting from the Qajar dynasty that ruled Persia from 1796-1924 CE; and he was inspired by French artist Bernard Picart for “And the Stick Came” as well as for “And the Water Came.” “And the Fire Came” is based on a work by Netherlands painter Willem van Leusden, but “And the Ox Came” was inspired by a detail in a work by the German impressionist
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The Current Crisis: “Even in Laughter, the Heart Can Ache”
Our friend Paul Yussem in Cherry Hill tells us he is inviting the recently retired Hosni Mubarak for Pesach seder. That way, they can celebrate the exodus from Egypt together. *** For that matter, he could also invite former journalist Helen Thomas who, last month, posing as a Purim bunny, told Playboy magazine she meant every word that got her fired. Jews don’t belong in Palestine and should all go back to Poland. Oh, yes, this philo-semite claims the American people must be protected from the Israeli lobbyists who “have intimidated them into believing that every Jew is a persecuted victim forever, while they are victimizing the Palestinians.” But don’t get her wrong, Jews are “wonderful people” who “always had the heart for others, but not for Arabs for some reason.” Gee Helen, Jews are quirky. They don’t like being on a bus when someone blows it up, and they don’t like being told they can’t live in Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish State in the Jewish homeland. *** But Helen can cheer up. Our friend, Business Prof Steven Plaut of Haifa University, composed a song just for her: The Grand Marching Song of the Crusaders against Israeli Apartheid. Dr. Plaut recognizes that these supporters of BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) against Israel are progressive, caring, socially advanced, egalitarian, and freedom-loving Anti-Zionists. All together now, and whatever we don’t have room for here, please find on our website, jewishvoiceandopinion.com. And have a Chag Kosher v’Sameach, singing all the way.
We despise apartheid. And that is why we demand that the only state in the Middle East that is not an apartheid regime be boycotted and destroyed! We believe in enlightened government and progress. And that is why we support Arab fascism. We believe in peace. And that is why we support all military aggression against Israel. We believe in democracy. And that is why we believe that the only country in the Middle East that has elections, a free press, free courts, and freedom of speech must be destroyed. We believe in freedom. And that is why we support Iran, Syria, the Taliban and the Hamas. We believe in freedom of speech and of the press. And that is why we support the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas. We believe in self-determination and self-definition for all. But not for Jews. We oppose violence. And that is why we support Palestinian terror. We believe in human dignity. And that is why we applaud when Arabs blow up Jewish women and children. We believe in human rights. Continued on our website at http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com
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Kol Ami: Memories of Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l
On Shabbat, March 18, the Jewish community commeorated the 25th yahrtzeit of Rav Moshe Feinstein, one of—if not the— most prominent poskim of halacha in the 20th century. He died on the day before Purim in 1986 and was buried on Har Hamenuchot in Jerusalem. His funeral was attended by an estimated 300,000 mourners, the largest in Israel in more than a millennium. Many of his students went on to become well-known rabbis in their own right, and it was to a few of these that we turned last month, asking: What special memory do you have of Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l? More about Rav Feinstein on page 47
Rav Aaron Felder Philadelphia, PA Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, had the patience of a saint. If someone needed help, he was always there immediately. However, he did not suffer fools gladly, and he had no tolerance for someone who was simply trying to goad him. I remember once a man came to him asking how much chesed a person was obligated
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Rav Shmuel Gringrass Brooklyn, NY Rav Moshe Feinstein’s main focus was on how he could help others. For example, his haskama, letter of endorsement, was enormously important. A book’s success could depend on whether the author has one. Rav Moshe saw giving his haskama as a chesed, a kindness, that he would not refuse. At his funeral, one of the
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Rabbi Mordecai Tendler Spring Valley, NY Most people who knew my grandfather, Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, never saw him learn from regular seforim. He was always writing. All his learning took place in the past, before anyone who knew him in New York came on the scene. So, it was an enigma: When did he learn? On Shabbos, he did his Daf Yomi for the entire
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Rav Abraham I. Zigelman Fort Lee, NJ In 1944, I was among the first 25 young men to receive smicha from HaGaon HaRav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l. We were the first graduating class from Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem, which celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2007. Most of my classmates are gone now, but it gives me pleasure to talk about my amazing rebbe who
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which the Jewish state withdrew almost six years ago. Controlled by NATO Because the new island would be controlled by an international entity, such as NATO, which would assume responsibility for vessels and goods that enter and exit, Israel would be relieved of the necessity to examine imports to and exports from Gaza. “Many Israeli, Palestinian, and international investors have already expressed their interest in participating in the project,” said Israel’s Transportation Minister Israel Katz, who is guiding the approximately $10 billion project at Mr. Netanyahu’s behest. According to Mr. Katz, the island’s dimensions will be 1.2 by 2.5 miles. A 2.8mile bridge will connect the island to Gaza. Mr. Katz has suggested that in addition to
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continued from page 1 the seaport and airport, the island could include hotels and desalination and power plants. Construction, he said, should take about six years. Land Given to PA While the island is not part of the peace process per se, Israel assumes that, in any final agreement, the artificial land mass and the bridge connecting it to Gaza would be deducted from any land in Judea and Samaria Israel might be expected to relinquish. It is unclear if the Palestinians recognize that understanding. According to Mr. Katz, Israel took its inspiration for the proposed island from about 17 other man-made land masses already in use in other countries, including Dubai, Macao, Japan, and Denmark. Artificial islands in these countries include airports, hotels, and
other amenities. Run by the PA The project’s backers have made it clear that they expect the island to be managed by PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction rather than the Hamas terrorist group which controls Gaza. Hamas and Fatah have been at loggerheads since the early 1990s, when then-PA leader Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accords with Israel. Tensions boiled over in 2007 over an election dispute, and Hamas threw Fatah out of Gaza. Since then Gaza, which is ruled by Hamas, has been effectively cut off from Judea and Samaria, whose Palestinian population is controlled by Fatah. For security reasons, Israel has maintained a naval blockade of Gaza, making certain that weapons and other potential implements of violence do not fall into terrorists’ hands. Not surprisingly, Hamas expressed displeasure with the idea of the man-made island, calling it “a Zionist effort to… internationalize” Israel’s control of goods allowed in and out of Gaza. Reconciliation While there were increasing popular Palestinian calls last month for reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, the Islamist leaders in Gaza seemed more interested in the rhetoric of peace than the actual realization of it. The US and Israel have made clear that their peace efforts with the PA depend on exclusion of Hamas from any negotiations, at least until the group agrees to recognize Israel’s right to exist and foreswear violence against the Jewish state. Before 2007, when, for a brief period, Hamas was part
of a short-lived unity Palestinian government, the US, the largest single donor to the PA, withheld its funds. Last month, Mr. Abbas said he was willing to relinquish hundreds of millions of dollars in US aid if that is what was necessary to forge a Palestinian unity deal. “Of course we need the American money. But if they use it as a way of pressuring us, we are ready to give up that aid,” said Azzam Ahmed, an aide to Mr. Abbas. The Palestinians currently receive more than $470 million a year in direct financial assistance from the US. Demands Some analysts saw Mr. Abbas’s willingness to forego US aid as a sign that the PA seriously intends to try to win international recognition of its state at the UN this September without an agreement with the Israelis. Several Palestinian officials have acknowledged, however, that there must be reconciliation between the PA and Hamas before they can go to the UN; otherwise it is hard to see which state—the West Bank or Gaza—would be winning recognition. While Mr. Abbas made repeated offers to visit Gaza to lay the groundwork for new national Palestinian elections, Hamas leaders insisted on terms the Fatah faction might find difficult. For example, Hamas leaders said they want a full power-sharing deal, including an agreement on how to divide security responsibilities, before they will even meet with Mr. Abbas. Hamas is also demanding that Mr. Abbas make further gestures, such as the release of hundreds of Hamas prisoners in PA prisons, reopening Hamas charities which have
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Island and Dome been closed, and lifting the ban on Hamas activities in PA-controlled areas. Many Hamas leaders have dismissed Mr. Abbas’s initiative as a “conspiracy” aimed at undermining the Islamist group’s authority in Gaza. Hamas’s supposed armed wing, Izaddin al-Qassam, has threatened to assassinate Mr. Abbas if he dares set foot in Gaza. Time to Choose Mr. Netanyahu made clear that the PA’s reconciliation with Hamas would spell the end of any peace talks with Israel. “You can’t have peace with both Israel and Hamas,” he told the PA, advising them to “choose peace with Israel.” The Obama administration has not yet made its position clear, but with US Presidential elections looming, it is highly unlikely to contribute funds to a PA coalition that includes Hamas, unless the group
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agrees to recognize Israel and renounce violence. Hamas has given no indication it is prepared to do either. To the contrary, some analysts suggest Hamas has recently hardened its negotiating position with the PA due to the Gaza-based terror group’s feeling of confidence after the recent upheavals in the Arab world, particularly in Egypt, where Hamas’s ally and progenitor, the Muslim Brotherhood, is expected to play a key role in the new regime. Writing for the Hudson Institute, Israeli-Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh suggested that in trying to cozy up to Hamas, Mr. Abbas is sending a message to the American and Europeans that unless they force the Jewish state to make concessions, including a complete cessation of construction in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, he will join forces with
the Islamists. Poll Watching It is also possible that Mr. Abbas is simply playing to the polls, all of which show that the idea of reconciliation is popular among Palestinians, whether living under Fatah or Hamas. Therefore, Mr. Abbas’s initiative may be aimed at showing Palestinians that contrary to Hamas’s allegations, he is interested in putting an end to the dispute, or, as Mr. Abbas’s critics have said, it might be nothing but a ploy intended for local consumption, because he does not want to be held responsible for obstructing “national unity.” With those polls in mind, some analysts saw the escalation of attacks on Israel from Gaza last month as an attempt by Hamas to divert Gazans’ attention away from popular demonstrations in favor of reconciliation with Fatah. Alternatively, the escalation might have been an attempt to divert those Palestinians in Gaza, especially Fatah sympathizers, who want increased civil rights, from joining the wave of popular uprisings throughout the Middle East. Iron Dome In any case, the escalation of rocket attacks from Gaza toward civilian targets in southern Israel, prompted the IDF to consider deployment of its new “Iron Dome” system sometime this month. Designed to intercept short-range rockets with relatively small warheads that are launched from a distance of between 2½ and 43 miles from their targets, the system can protect a predetermined area with a size of 38.6 square miles (about one city) from Qassam and Grad rockets and mortars fired from Gaza. The system is also ex-
pected to be useful in northern Israel against attacks from Lebanon. Each Iron Dome battery comprises detection and tracking radar, state-of-the-art fire control, software, and three launchers, each with 20 intercept missiles. The deployment of the Iron Dome system does not involve fixed structures. Completely mobile, it can be moved wherever needed, depending on evolving security assessments. Escalation For residents of southern Israel, the Iron Dome system will not come a moment too soon. On March 22, for example, terrorists in Gaza fired four Qassam rockets at the western Negev. Within an hour of the missile launchings, Israeli forces sent an artillery barrage aimed at the Tufach neighborhood in the southern part of Gaza City. According to Palestinian reports, the entrance to a home was hit, killing five people. Three of them were members of the same family, including an 11-year-old and a 16-year-old who were there at the time. Expressing his regret that innocent civilians were hit as a result of IDF shelling, Mr. Netanyahu emphasized that the Israeli action was carried out in response to Hamas fire at Israeli civilians. “It is regrettable that Hamas continues to intentionally rain down dozens of rockets on Israeli civilians even as it uses its own civilians as human shields. While the State of Israel has no intention of bringing about a deterioration of the situation, the IDF will continue to take determined action to defend Israeli citizens,” he said.
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Prevention That same night, Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets bombed two terrorist-built tunnels, two sites for the manufacture and storage of weapons, and two terrorist bases and training sites in retaliation for mortar bombardments from Gaza on the previous Sabbath. On March 24, a Grad Katyusha missile slammed into an open area of the Israeli port city of Ashdod, whose population is 200,000. Other Jewish communities, including Be’er Sheva, the “capital of the Negev,” were also targeted. While no one was killed, damage was extensive. By mid-afternoon, five rockets fired
from Gaza had exploded in various parts of Israel’s western Negev. The bombardment has forced the Israeli military to become adept at ferreting out the terrorists before they strike. On Sunday, March 27, an IAF aircraft identified a group of rocket launchers preparing to fire at the Israeli home front from the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. Scoring a direct hit, the IAF thwarted the attack. The slain terrorists were identified by Islamic Jihad as fighters belonging to the Al Quds Brigades. Truce? The thwarted attack came less than 24
hours after Hamas had offered a “truce” if Israel’s military stopped bombarding Gaza. An IDF spokesman pointed out that Hamas’s “truces” are usually broken immediately. In addition, he said, Israel’s military actions are retaliatory and preventive. “There would be no Israeli strikes if barrages of mortar fire, rockets, and Grad missiles from Gaza did not reach Beer Sheva, Ashkelon, Ashdod, and Sderot,” he said. Despite the increased number of attacks, there have been relatively few casualties. Israeli analysts credit the “Red Dawn” early warning system that gives Israelis the opportunity to run for cover seconds before rockets hit. Partial Solution Now, there will also be Iron Dome. However, Israeli officials caution that the system, currently in its evaluation stage, is expected to provide only a partial solution, along with the current network of shelters and the IDF’s offensive measures, to the threat of rocket fire on Israel’s southern communities. Thus far, the system has passed tests created by its designers, Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, as well as a trial run by the IAF. Brig-Gen Doron Gavish, commander of the IAF Air Defense Division, said he expects “good but not hermetic” protection from Iron Dome. Despite the system’s deployment, he said the public must continue to heed the Home Front Command’s instructions regarding proper procedure in the event of a missile attack. Lowering Expectations Mr. Netanyahu also tried to lower expectations. At the end of March, he told the cabinet the Iron Dome system would not protect every house, school, and installation in the country. “Israel has been under the threat of missile attack for 20 years, since the [first] Gulf War. I don’t want to create the illusion that Iron Dome, which we are deploying for the first time, will provide a full or comprehensive answer,” he said. The only real solution, he said, lies in the combination of “aggressive deterrence, preventive measures, and the resilience of the government and the people.”
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or those attending sedarim as guests, finding a gift can be a problem. Flowers? Wine? The release of two new season-appropriate videos could be the solution. For children, Shalom Sesame has two possibilities. First, there is the original “Passover Kids Sing Israel,� which was first released in 1988 and is still a perennial favorite. More recently, a new, updated Shalom Sesame collection came out with “It’s Passover, Grover.� The “bonus set� of the original Shalom Sesame Passover DVD comes with a coloring and activity book, featuring Pesach puzzles and colorful finger puppets. The film deals with the quest by “Jerusalem Jones� and Kippi ben Kippod (the porcupine), to go back into the pages of the Haggadah to find a missing afikoman. Guest stars—presumably to keep parents laughing, too—include Sarah Jessica Parker, as a roving reporter asking why this night is different from all others; B.B. King; Paul Shaffer; and Anne Meara, as cooking-show host who yells at Pharaoh (Shalom Sesame’s Grouch, known as “Moishe Offnik�) for making her leave before her bread has a chance to rise. Not surprisingly, the original series, of which this is a part, sold more than 1 million copies and is still considered the top-selling Jewish educational title of all time. The newer DVD finds Grover and his friends in need of horseradish. As in all 12 episodes of the new Shalom Sesame series, before finding the condiment, he explores Israel, meets a wide variety of her residents, and discovers how they celebrate the holiday, all somewhat different even though the theme and laws are identical. The Ten Commandments For family members who have outgrown Grover and his friends, and especially for
adults old enough to recall the impact it made when it first came out, Paramount Home Entertainment just released a fully restored version of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 epic, The Ten Commandments. The restored version, timed to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the film, can be had in high-definition as an extravagant six-disc Blu-ray/DVD combination gift set, as well as in a more modest two-disc Blu-ray or two-disc DVD package. Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai, “The Ten Commandments,� while not quite Biblically perfect, is nonetheless a clas-
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sic that made Charleston Heston into a superstar. The deluxe package includes a commemorative book as well as new 75-minute, in-depth documentary about the film and its original impact. It also includes DeMille’s 1923 silent version of the Biblical story. The less opulent version of the newly restored film features “The Making of the ‘The Ten Commandments’� with commentary by Katherine Orrison, author of “Written in Stone;� a newsreel featuring the 1956 premier of the film in New York; and some theatrical trailers. S.L.R.
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NORPAC’s Mission to Washington Is a Golden Opportunity
s president of NORPAC, Dr. Ben Chouake knows exactly why he and hundreds of other Israel supporters will be giving up work and school on April 6 to spend the day on the NORPAC Mission to Washington, speaking to US Representatives and Senators and their staffs about the importance of the Israel-US relationship. NORPAC is the largest American multi-candidate political action committee that supports public officials who work toward the goal of evercloser cooperation between the US and Israel, to the benefit of both nations. With members now throughout the US, NORPAC provides financial, organizational, educational, and moral support to friends of Israel in the US Congress.
But for Dr. Chouake, there is also a personal recollection. He remembers an earlier NORPAC mission when his mother, a barely five-foot-tall Holocaust survivor, told Sen Jack Reed (D-RI) that she could recall her father reading Mein Kampf in Poland and recognizing “the danger that Hitler represented.� “Unfortunately, the Blitzkrieg overwhelmed even those who meant to prepare for it, and we lost most of our family,� said Dr. Chouake. Method But his mother was not retelling personal family history only to recall the past. She was interested in the future. “I fear that Ahmadinejad means to do the same,� she told the Senator When she was through, Mr. Reed, a Harvard and West Point
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“While we hope the turmoil in the Middle East leads to pluralistic and tolerant societies, the outlook is ominous,� he said, pointing to the incident in which Lara Logan, the “60 Minutes� journalist, was sexually assaulted in Cairo’s main square by members of the purported “freedom movement� on the very day former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned. “While sexually assaulting and beating her for not being dressed in a hijab, the crowed cursed her with cries of ‘Jew, Jew, Jew,’� recalled Dr. Chouake. No Jeffersonian Democrats He does not believe the current power vacuum in the Muslim world will be filled by “Jeffersonian Democrats.� Rather, he expects leaders such as Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the formerly exiled spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who now speaks in front of millions of Egyptians in Cairo calling for the opening of the Egyptian border with Gaza and the destruction of Israel. “The chaos in the Middle East gives advantage to groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, who are disciplined and organized,� said Dr. Chouake. The only hope Israel and its supporters have is to “pay attention and reinforce our need to be prepared,� he said.
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He noted that in Israel, there are plans to increase troop deployment along the Negev southern border. For Dr. Chouake, that translates to expenses that go along with this defense burden. Insufficiently Engaged NORPAC was born 20 years ago when then-Secretary of State James Baker reportedly used vulgar language to suggest to then-President George Bush that, on the issue of support for Israel, Jews could be ignored because “they don’t vote for us [Republicans] anyway.” NORPAC’s founders, including Englewood’s Rabbi Menachem Genack,
saw Mr. Baker’s reported statement as a reflection of the Jewish community’s lack of prestige and failure to protect its interests as American citizens. “It was clear that the AmericanJewish community needed to be better organized and politically engaged,” said Dr. Chouake. Grassroots Efforts Since its fledgling days, NORPAC has grown, primarily due to the tenacious grassroots efforts of its members. Because of their determination to hold a plethora of local events supporting pro-Israel members of Congress, the group has been able to
facilitate the introduction and passage of important legislative initiatives. The annual mission gives NORPAC’s citizen advocates the opportunity to meet personally with Representatives and Senators, making the group’s efforts effective far beyond their proportionate numbers. “For those making the effort to attend our missions, each voice is like a thousand. For each supporter of Israel who decides to stay home, we are 1,000 less,” said Dr. Chouake. New Members This year, there are about 100 new Members of Congress who will hear from NORPAC on the importance of US-Israel relations. According to Dr. Chouake, virtually the entire Congress and Senate has indicated a willingness to meet with mission participants. “This is a golden opportunity to present our case for Israel to those new Members of Congress and to reinforce our relationship with legislators we have met with in the past and have known for years,” he said. One of the mission’s chief goals, he said, will be to dispel “the false information about Israel that is so prevalent on the world stage.” “The Jewish homeland has so many accusers, we need every one of her supporters to go to Congress to act as her defender,” he said. Mantle of Responsibility He noted sadly that there are few Holocaust survivors who can do what his mother once did: turn the opinion of even the most dogmatic legislator. With the older generation passing, he said, the “mantle of responsibility is now upon us to be proactive, just as has always been necessary.” The hundreds of Israel supporters participating with NORPAC from New York and New Jersey will be transported on dozens of buses from many different locations. Most are leaving at about 6am. There will be opportunities for davening and glatt kosher meals will be provided. Those under 18 are welcome if they are accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. To register for the mission, call 201788-5133 or go to www.norpac.net. “Come with your family and friends on the NORPAC Mission and be one of those who speak softly and is thoughtfully heard,” said Dr. Chouake. S.L.R.
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Kol Dichfin Food Drive to Clean for Pesach and Pedestrian Safety Belts to Keep Teaneck Safe
n his dual role as Teaneck Town Councilman and local businessman, Elie Y Katz, owner of Chopstix Kosher Chinese Take-Out, is, once again, spearheading the Helping Hands Food Pantry’s annual PrePassover Kol Dichfin Food Drive. Until April 17, packages of unopened, non-perishable food and toiletries will be accepted at the following Teaneck locations: Chopstix, 172 West Englewood Ave; Noah’s Ark, 493 Cedar Lane; and Shelly’s Dairy Restaurant, 482 Cedar Lane. The annual drive, which takes its name from the dictum in the Passover Haggadah: “Let all who are hungry come and eat,” began several years ago when Jewish customers, preparing for Pesach, approached Mr. Katz with chametz, food that is unacceptable for Passover, that they were literally about to throw away. The original food drive resulted in vans of food for the needy, and, since then, donations have increased. Last year’s Kol Dichfin drive netted more than 500 bags of cereal, pancake mix, flour, tuna, ketchup, diapers, and toiletries for the Food Pantry. “The donations came just as supplies were low and the pantry was most in need. It was a win-win situation for everyone: the Jewish community cleaned their pantries and the Food Pantry’s clients benefited,” says Mr. Katz. Great Need The Teaneck-based Helping Hands Food Pantry, located at 195 West Englewood Ave, serves hundreds of needy families every year. “The need is always great, but in recent years, there has been an increase in demand and a sharp decrease in donations,” says Mr. Katz. He pointed out that this year’s particularly snowy winter coupled with the continual rise in food prices have made things even harder for the needy. Pedestrian Safety Reflecting his concern for the entire Teaneck community, Mr. Katz has also spearheaded a “Stay Safe Teaneck Pedestrian Campaign,” which is especially important to the town’s Jewish community that walks rather than drives on the Sabbath and holidays. In response to a recent tragic death in
Englewood which occurred when a vehicle struck a man going to shul on a Friday night, Mr. Katz, working with Teaneck resident Harold Gellis, is distributing reflective belts to Teaneck residents. They have already given out hundreds of these belts, but, because supplies are limited, they are now suggesting that each family take only one belt. “As the weather gets warmer, more people are out on the street, which means there are more pedestrian injuries and even fatalities,” says Mr. Katz. Donations Accepted He pointed to statistics released by the
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, indicating that the number of pedestrian fatalities in 2010 was 4,092. The number of pedestrian injuries was 59,000. Teaneck residents can receive a belt by contacting Mr. Katz at katz07666@ gmail.com. “This is an effort to keep Teaneck residents and their loved ones safe,” says Mr. Katz, who, through the group, Friends of Elie Y Katz, is accepting donations to purchase additional pedestrian safety belts. A donation of $10 will purchase three belts. Y
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Many Issues In its regional family centers in Brooklyn, Far Rockaway, Teaneck, and Monsey, OHEL offers mental-health services to individuals and families, addressing problems such as ADHD-related issues, addictions, marital strife, depression resulting from job loss, and many other difficulties. “Our professionals are able to meet the very different needs of individuals and families across the tri-state area. However, we know that many in the community are still unaware of the availability of services or are reluctant to seek help,” said Dr. Hindie Klein, director of Tikvah
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pring is here, but the current economic situation still finds customers uncertain about spending a lot of money on new clothing. Many smart shoppers have discovered a growing new trend that offers a way to look great in their favorite designer apparel and accessories without breaking the bank. “Properly shopping designer consignment can be fun and rewarding. You can indulge in even more of your favorite designer clothing, and then earn extra cash for items you’ve already enjoyed,” says Marci Kessler, an expert on designer fashion and owner of DoubleTake consignment boutiques throughout NJ. A long-held secret of the wealthy, including celebrities, models, photographers and executives, DoubleTake sells luxury designer clothing, handbags, accessories and jewelry, splitting the proceeds with their original owners. Products debut at 35 percent of retail prices, with sales split 50/50 with consignors. “DoubleTake boutiques are nothing like your grandmother’s thrift shop,” says Ms. Kessler. Her recently opened stores in Englewood, Ridgewood, Red Bank, and Short Hills look more like high-line department store boutiques, with helpful personal shopping experts, and a relaxed, casual atmosphere. Affluent Neighborhoods As a guest on the nationally televised “The Nate Show” with Nate Berkus, Ms. Kessler offered some tips about consignment shopping. First, she said, women seeking high-end designer merchandise, such as Chanel, Hermes, or Gucci, are more likely to find these items in shops located in affluent neighborhoods. Second, if finding “celebrity fashions” is desired, consumers should be aware that some consignment shops do business with movie studios, TV shows, actresses, and stylists. “People interested in outfits that have been down the red carpet or in a recent movie, simply ask our stores to put them on a ‘wish list’ when these items arrive,” says Ms. Kessler. Worn Once Similarly, through DoubleTake, women can have access to runway fashions even before other stores and boutiques get them. According to Ms. Kessler, some women, such as socialites, who wear an item only once, will then turn around and consign these items.
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Marci Kessler,owner of DoubleTake stores, inspects items for consignment at a customers home as part of the company’s “Personal Consignment Concierge” service. Contact the Englewood store at 201-569-1112 or visit www.edoubletake. com, for more information, store hours and additional locations
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“Interested shoppers need to find consignment shops that work with such stylists and let them know they would like to be notified when these items arrive,” says Ms. Kessler. The same holds true for fine jewelry. Ms. Kessler says it is not unusual for consignment shops to receive fine jewelry and watches, and even large quantities of estate jewelry. She suggests those interested in these items, including gold and diamond pieces, find consignment shops that provide appraisals for these exclusive items. Wish List Recognizing that most consignment shops receive new merchandise daily, savvy customers often pay frequent visits. However, at DoubleTake, the “Wish List,” which Ms. Kessler instituted from the beginning, allows interested customers to be notified when special items or large quantities are received.
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Ms. Kessler’s sixth tip is to get friendly with the consignment shop’s sales staff in order to know quickly when sales and special events take place. Some shops even conduct special private sales. Similarly, she suggests asking about end-of-season extra discounts that come at the end of a season. The sales staff often knows about markdowns on special items. “Smart shoppers can save an additional 25 percent if their timing is right,” says Ms. Kessler. Avoiding Sales Another end-of-season perk for wise customers is the knowledge that some boutiques and manufacturers prefer to consign this merchandise rather than run their own deep sales, which, according to Ms. Kessler, can affect image. “Higher end consignment shops tend to get this type of merchandise,” she says, suggest-
ing that interested customers call and visit local consignment shops and ask about these items. She also recognizes that, for those women who value “the luxury and warmth of a fur coat,” but who still want to be “politically correct,” a store such as DoubleTake offers “a way to get a beautiful fur at a great price.” Home Visits In her quest to offer prize merchandise, Ms. Kessler and some of her expert staff have flown across the globe, visiting homes, TV studios, and movie sets to review and pick up high-fashion clothing and accessories. Ms. Kessler invites those who have possible items or full wardrobes they would like to turn into cash to contact her at marci@edoubletake.com, call 866-678-6464, or visit www. edoubletake.com. A few examples of the thousands of values recently available at DoubleTake include
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Stunning Statistics From Jewish Baltimore, a Community on the Cutting Edge
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new Jewish population study of Greater Baltimore shows that Orthodoxy is the fastest growing movement in the community. A look at the demographics of other communities shows that Baltimore is hardly alone. In 1999, a study showed that 21 percent of the Jewish com-
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ohn Berkowitz, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and school psychologist with a practice in Teaneck, knows how painful it is for parents with children struggling with anxiety disorders, which, he says, is rampant in our society where expectations are ever increasing. “Left untreated, the situation will get worse and will definitely affect the child’s future wellbeing,” he says. The parent’s first line of defense, he says, is to consult a pediatrician for a full medical examination to exclude physical causes. The problem, he says, is that this can lead to a prescription of “a cocktail of high-schedule psychiatric drugs as a first option.” Mr. Berkowitz suggests that, before agreeing to this course of action, parents research the side effects, including potential for addiction. “Seek a second opinion is you are not happy with the advice you are getting,” he says. Play Therapy Often, the pediatrician will refer the child to a therapist, a trained, reliable professional, who may well suggest less dire remedies. There is, for example, play therapy, which Mr. Berkowitz
munity in Baltimore identified as Orthodox. The new study, completed in 2010, shows that Orthodox Jews are now 32 percent of the Jewish community in the area, an amazing increase of 11 percent in 11 years. According to the study, there has been a greater than 50 percent increase in the
number of Orthodox Jews in Baltimore since 1999. Snapshot The study, prepared by Ukeles Associates under the auspices of the Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, offers a snapshot of Jewish Baltimore. Discussing the study, the Baltimore Jewish Times (BJT) found the new statistics “stunning.”
Treating Childhood Anxiety Disorder says can be very beneficial. “Through the power of play, children often re-enact their fears and anxieties and are able to come to solutions and happy endings for their own problems,” he says, adding that it is also a useful tool to determine the root causes of the anxiety as children play out specific themes. Holistic Approach Another useful method of treating childhood anxiety disorder, he says, is the holistic approach, such as The AnxietyFree Child Program designed by Rich Presta. This program comes with a comprehensive guide and exercises using allnatural methods. There are also a number of herbal and homeopathic remedies which, according to Mr. Berkowitz, either alone or in conjunction with therapy, may assist the child in the struggle against anxiety. However, he strongly recommends discussing all such remedies with the child’s pediatrician. Some of the commonly recommended remedies include Hypericum perforatum (St John’s Wort), Passiflora incarnata, Scuttelaria laterifolia (Scullcap), as well as other carefully formulated homeopathic remedies.
“Not all natural remedies are suitable for children and those that are need to be formulated to certain therapeutic standards in order to be effective and safe,” he says, encouraging parents to purchase such remedies only from reputable companies. Family Dynamics Mr. Berkowitz, who can be reached at 646-338-5424 or at
According to the new study, roughly one-quarter of Baltimore’s Jews describe themselves as Conservative (a drop of 8 percent from 1999, when 33 percent of the community said they were Conservative). Twenty-three percent of Baltimore’s Jews describe themselves as Reform, a 10 percent drop from 1999, when
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they, too, represented 33 percent. In the recent study, 13 percent said they were secular or non-denominational Jews, five percent said they were “traditional,” and one percent described themselves as Reconstructionist. Marriages Perhaps the most powerful statistic in the BJT article—and the one with the most ramifications for the demographic future of the community—was that 87 percent of Orthodox young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 are married; but 91 percent of non-Orthodox Jews in that group remain single.
These figures, of course, do not mean that the “shidduch crisis” in the Orthodox community is not real and painful. However, simply put, they imply that, in Greater Baltimore, if a non-Orthodox young woman wants to marry a Jew, the odds are very much against her. Photographic History The precipitous drop in the percentage of Reform and Conservative Jews, as shown in the Baltimore study, probably would not surprise Rabbi Dr. Lance Sussman, the senior pulpit leader of Reform Congregation Kehilath Israel in Elkins Park, PA, who in an essay published in
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2010 in the Jewish Review of Books, invited readers to “walk down the hallway of any long-established suburban Reform or Conservative synagogue where the photographs of each year’s confirmation class are mounted and you will be reminded of the dramatic changes that have taken place in these institutions.” In the piece, “Prospects for American Judaism,” he pointed out that, 50 years ago, in many of the larger Conservative and Reform congregations, the 9th- and 10th-grade classes regularly exceeded 100 students and often double that. By the mid-1970s, he wrote, the classes began to shrink. “Today, if a Reform congregation of 1,000 families can muster a confirmation class of 30 students, rabbis and educators are not only relieved but feel a small sense of victory,” he wrote. Conservative “Malaise” But it is in the once seemingly supersuccessful Conservative movement, where unfavorable but inexorable demographic trends have been studiously ignored for decades, that a feeling of melancholy has developed. Professor Itamar Schorsch, the former chancellor of the Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in Manhattan, called it “malaise.” The most recent draft of the Executive Summary of the Strategic Plan of the New USCJ (United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism), published in January 2011, lists among the “well documented challenges” facing the movement, an aging constituency and “long-time decline in numbers of adherents.” Perhaps most painful for the movement was the summary’s recognition that some of its most talented and innovative Jewish leaders are drifting away from “denominational identification.” Multiple Causes The summary blames the Conservative movement’s decline on multiple causes. First, it says, in general, in the American-Jewish population, the number of non-Orthodox younger adult Jews, ages 25-44, is shrinking relative to those aged 55-74. “As a consequence, we are witnessing a sharp reduction in the proportion of in-married young couples, the prime market for synagogue affiliation,” says
http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com the Conservative strategic plan. The Conservative movement’s second problem is that, on average, its Jews are older than those who identify as Reform, Orthodox, Reconstructionist, postdenominational, or non-denominational. Its losses, the plan says, has resulted in greater numbers of Jews who identify as Orthodox, post-denominational, nondenominational, and secular. Although the summary does not mention it, most of these “expats,” (usually in their 30s and 40s, many with children), who eschew the Conservative movement, join Reform temples. In any case, according to the 2001 National Jewish Population Survey (NJS), “nearly half of all Jews who were raised Conservative no longer consider themselves Conservative.” “Best and Brightest” Losses According to Prof Steven Cohen of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, in 1990, among Jews affiliated with synagogues, a mere five percent of those raised in the Conservative movement had drifted to Orthodoxy. Ten years later, he said, the percentage had doubled to ten percent, representing, he said, “the loss of some of the most capable potential leadership for Conservative congregations.” This phenomenon has not escaped the notice of JTS’s former provost Jack Wertheimer, who recognized that the “switchers” from Conservative to Orthodox Judaism “tend to be among the best-educated products of [Conservative] day schools, summer camps, and youth programs.” Perceptively, Prof Wertheimer cited anecdotal evidence that suggests many “switchers” are drawn to Orthodoxy “less for its ideology than for its strong communal life.” “They are seeking a religious support system for themselves and their children,” he said, echoing a view held by other Conservative leaders, including Rabbis Jerome Epstein, former executive director of the USCJ, and Joel Roth, former Dean of JTS’s Rabbinical school. These Conservative and Reform leaders recognize that while some graduates of the Conservative movement’s Solomon Schechter Schools, United Synagogue Youth teen programs, and Camp Ramah summer camps go on to attend the JTS
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rabbinical and cantorial schools, for many others, these Conservative programs have become “feeders” for Orthodoxy and the independent minyanim and havurot. Far from serving as sources of strength to the Conservative movement, these Conservative flagship institutions have become wells of weakness that siphon away the movement’s future leadership. Knowledgeable Consumers Another Conservative leader, JTS Prof Rabbi Dr. Neil Gillman, has said that of all those who call themselves Conservative Jews, only 15 percent “understand Conservative Judaism.” Noting Rabbi Gillman’s comment, a poster calling himself Avraham YD
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Eisen devastatingly quipped that the majority of that 15 percent were probably Conservative-Jewish professionals, such as rabbis and teachers, rather than ba’alei batim. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the number of knowledgeable, observant products of the Conservative movement defecting to Orthodoxy (and to the independent minyanim and havurot) continues to rise rapidly. In that regard, even JTS itself may be problematic for the Conservative movement. Rabbi David Lerner of Conservative Temple Emunah in Lexington, Mass, has anguished over the “many serious Conser-
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Jewish Baltimore vative Jews” who attend List College (the JTS undergraduate school) and are “fed a scathing critique of observant Judaism and traditional theology.” As a result, he said, “many of them became Orthodox or completely unobservant.” Rabbi Learner called this phenomenon “a wasted opportunity” for the Conservative movement. Statistical Decline According to figures published by the USCJ, in 2001, there were 241,300 households (“member units”) affiliated with Conservative congregations. In 2010, there were only 204,400, a decline of 14 percent in nine years. In that same time frame, five of the six USCJ districts experienced drops in membership. The exception is the Pacific Northwest, the group’s smallest district. The membership of the largest USCJ district, the Northeast, which includes New England, upstate New York, Ontario, Quebec, and the Canadian provinces to the east, fell from 43,600 to 30,400 member units, a drop of 30 percent. A substantial part of this decline can be traced to the disaffiliation of a number of more traditional Conservative Canadian congregations—some quite large—in Ontario and Quebec from the USCJ over the decision of the Conservative
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continued from page 23 movement to ordain openly homosexual rabbis. The membership of affiliated congregations in the Seaboard/ Southeast District of the USCJ, which includes Greater Baltimore as well as the retirement communities of Southern Florida, declined from 48,000 to 43,400, a drop of 9.5 percent. The Solomon Schechter network of Conservative day schools has seen its combined enrollment fall 25 percent over the past ten years. Orthodox Youth Growth This decrease has been accompanied by another significant change: the number of younger Orthodox Jews is growing while, in the other denominations, the opposite is true. “A few decades ago we used to think of the Orthodox as old and dying. Today, we find them young and vital, the youngest of all three major denominations,” said Prof Cohen. He is right. According to the NJPS study, in 2000, 34 percent of members of Orthodox congregations were under the age of 35. In the Conservative Movement, the percentage of under 35’s was 19 percent; while the percentage of Reform affiliates under 35 was 20 percent. Over 35 The percentage of Orthodox members between the
ages of 35-44 was 19 percent of the total. In Conservative congregations, that age group’s percentage was 13 percent of the total; in the Reform movement, it was 18 percent. Orthodox members between the ages of 45-54 made up 18 percent of the total; Conservative, 22 percent; and Reform, 26 percent. The percentage of Orthodox affiliates between the ages of 55-64 was eight percent; Conservative, 13 percent; and Reform, 15 percent. The NJPS study showed that, in 2001, the percentage of Conservative Jews 65-75 years of age was 34 percent. Among Reform Jews, 21 percent were 65-75 years old, and 11 percent were over 75. Among Conservative Jews, the number of members over 75 was a full 18 percent. Perhaps the most shocking statistic published in the Conservative movement’s 2010 Executive Summary was that only nine percent of adult members of USCJ congregations were below the age of 40, a statistic that says volumes about the Conservative movement’s demographic future. Since virtually no observer believes that masses of young people have joined the Conservative movement in the last ten years, it is safe to say that the median age of its members has gone up by several years in the last decade.
Masked Decline Until relatively recently, the Conservative movement’s demographic collapse was largely masked by the many Jews who joined the movement in the mid-20th century. Now that those Jews are passing from the scene, this is no longer the case. Prof Wertheimer recently summarized the baleful Conservative predicament: “The upshot is a substantial hemorrhage by multiple cuts. The movement is bleeding members of all ages to its religious Left and Right, to new non-denominational groupings, and to a phenomenon once widely described but no longer mentioned in polite company—assimilation.” A few years ago, Californiabased Jewish communal leader Scott Shay predicted that if the Conservative movement failed to revitalize itself, it would fall to third place among the Jewish denominations within 10 years. It now seems Mr. Shay was unduly optimistic. The rapid demographic changes taking place in the Jewish community since 2001—when Conservatism was still in second place—resulted in Orthodoxy’s pulling ahead, not just in percentages, but in raw numbers (i.e. affiliated Jewish “warm bodies”) in 2005. Conservative Judaism is
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already the smallest of the three major denominations in the American-Jewish community, and, lacking regenerative powers of its own, will comprise an ever diminishing percentage of American Jewry. Reform Problems The Reform movement still prides itself on being number one. The question its leaders and constituents must ask themselves is: for how long? In 2006, Prof Cohen, in a seminal study entitled “Members and Motives: Who Joins American-Jewish Congregations and Why,” found that there are a total of 761,000 Jews affiliated with Reform congregations, including 566,000
Jewish adults, 195,000 Jewish children, and 92,000 non-Jews. Needless to say, this number includes, perhaps, hundreds of thousands who are reckoned “Jewish” by the Reform movement (though not by halacha) through patrilineal descent and non-halachic conversions. While not the 1-1.5 million claimed on some websites, the Reform membership numbers are at least outwardly impressive. Loss of a Third However, Rabbi Sussman of Elkins Park recently complained that the actual “demographic situation” of current American Reform Judaism “is hard to assess,
in part because the movement stopped publishing statistical information about itself a decade ago.” According to Rabbi Sussman, the Reform movement has “probably contracted by a full third in the last ten years.” “The impact of this reality on its finances has been felt by Reform synagogue boards across the country and can be seen in the dismantling of almost the entire regional office system of the American Reform movement and the extraordinary efforts during the past year on the part of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College to keep all four branches of HUC-JIR open,” he said. Rabbi Clifford E. Librach of (the Reform) United Jewish Center of Danbury, CT, concurred. “There is a growing recognition within Reform congregations that we are not sustaining ourselves,” he said. “Serious Weakness” That position was buttressed by the JTS’s Dr. Wertheimer, who suggested that if Reform temples are holding their own, “it is mainly by attracting people from outside, chiefly from the Conservative movement, which has been commensurately shrinking, and from the ranks of gentiles married to Jews.” According to Dr. Wertheimer, this phenomenon “suggests a serious weakness when it comes to transmitting a strong sense of Jewish religious identification and commitment to those raised within Reform itself.” Dr. Wertheimer pointed out that, in 2000, fully 70 percent of Jews who said they were raised in the Reform movement were no longer members of any kind of synagogue, a figure which, he said, held steady across the generational board, whether older Jews, baby-boomers, and the so-called gen-x and gen-y age groups. Even worse, he said, “Seventeen percent of individuals raised Reform do not identify with the Jewish religion, period.” Intermarriage When the issue of intermarriage is thrown into the mix, the numbers take a nosedive. According to Dr. Wertheimer, among intermarried Jews who were raised in the Reform movement, the number no longer identifying with the Jewish religion at all is 28 percent.
http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com In the early 1990s, sociologist Dr. Bruce Phillip, Professor of Jewish Communal Service at HUC-JIR in Los Angeles, noted in his comprehensive study of Jewish intermarriage that only 14 percent of all Jewish intermarried couples were raising their children “Jewish.” Even in these families, he said, 60 percent had a Christmas tree in December. As Jonathan Rosenblum, director of Jewish Media Resources and a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, pithily observed, “Many a spousal consent to a brit has been purchased at the price of reciprocal consent to baptism.” By the second generation, the situation grows increasingly dismal. Dr. Wertheimer claimed, “Not only does the birthrate of intermarried Jews tend to be even lower than in-married ones, but nearly threequarters of children raised in intermarried families go on to marry non-Jews themselves, and only four percent of these raise their own children as Jews.” Simply put, when these statistics are coupled with a birthrate well below replacement, it does not take a prophet to discern where the Reform movement is heading. Like the Conservative movement, Reform is not demographically sustainable. Reform Decline The news is starting to trickle out. In a recent piece, “The Theological Reason for Reform Judaism’s Woe,” published in the Forward, Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan, spiritual leader of Reform Temple B’nai Israel of Albany, Georgia, recalled that, for about ten years, Reform Jews “enjoyed repeating that we had become the largest American-Jewish denomination.” When the children of many long-time members of Conservative synagogues began joining Reform congregations, “we reveled,” he said. Today, Reform’s triumphalism is gone. “There is a backdrop of uncertainty over the movement’s future, amid a widespread sense that our own numbers have begun to decline,” said Rabbi Kaplan. A long-time member of his temple, Joe Weintraub, 86, described the atmosphere of decay that he and his wife, 84, experienced on a recent Friday night at B’nai Israel. The temple has about 85 members (down from an all-time high of 200), but only 11 were present for services. At one time, B’nai Israel attracted congregants
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demographic predicament of the Reform and Conservative movements rests on the fact that their present size rests on a temporary illusion: The number of children grows ever smaller and only the number of adults increases, not because there are more of them, but because, thanks to modern medicine, they live longer. Several years ago, I predicted that, just as the Conservative movement began to atrophy once the flood of “nonobservant Orthodox” into Conservative congregations stopped in the 1960s, the Reform movement’s growth would cease once the massive “Conservative fallout” keeping them afloat slowed down.
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At that time, I thought it would take another decade or so before Reform numbers started to shrink. But if Rabbis Sussman of Elkins Park, Librach of Danbury, and Kaplan of Georgia, are correct, the Reform collapse has already begun. Orthodox Growth The opposite, of course, as the Baltimore study shows, is true in the Orthodox community. “Among synagogue-affiliated Jews, the Orthodox sector contains more children than either of the other two [denominations],” Prof Wertheimer recently noted. He prophesized that “if the Orthodox continue to retain the loyalties of their young people, as they have mostly done over the past 30 or 40 years, they will become an ever larger, more visible, and better represented part of the total community.”
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Meltdown The Reform movement’s Prof Cohn was more graphic, declaring that we are “now in the midst of a non-Orthodox Jewish population meltdown.” He pointed out that, for every 100 Orthodox-Jewish adults in their 50s, there are 192 Orthodox children. In the non-Orthodox population, for every 100 adults in their 50s, there are only 55 children. “In nearly two generations, in our own lifetime, the Orthodox have embarked on a path to nearly doubling their size. At the same time, the non-Orthodox are en route to nearly half their number,” he said. David Goldman, senior editor of First Things Magazine, summed up the situation in the pithy language for which his magazine, noted for exploring the tangled web of religion and society, is known:
“The Orthodox Jews are having many children while nonOrthodox Jews are having very few and marrying half of those to gentiles.” Anecdotal Evidence It is very likely that, within 20 years, the Orthodox will have more children than the Conservative and Reform movements combined. Prof Wertheimer’s prediction has already been fulfilled in Baltimore, New York, vast areas of Long Island, and northern and central New Jersey. Orthodox numbers and percentages are rising in such disparate “out of town” communities as Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, South Florida, and Los Angeles. Would anyone dream of denying the explosive Orthodox growth in Teaneck, Englewood, and throughout Bergen County over the last 30 years? How
about in The Five Towns? Only Way to Success Prof Cohen understands that this trend is only beginning to gain momentum. “For years, the Orthodox have been growing, through increased fertility and increased retention. Their numbers are significantly reduced only by way of massive aliyah,” he said. It is becoming increasingly clear that, over the years, the Orthodox learned something that the Conservative and Reform movements never really understood. It may not be politically correct to say, but the secret of Jewish survival and growth is to build stable families, have many children, and educate them to marry Jews and become enthusiastic members of the community. Y For a look at Baltimore’s Orthodox-Jewish history, go to our website.
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Tasting, spons by Cong Netivot Shalom, Teaneck, 9:15pm, shalombronstein@gmail.com Yahrtzeit Commemoration of Larry Krause, z”l, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 9:15pm, 201-970-7687 The Maccabeats in Concert, Cong Agudath Israel, Caldwell, 9:30pm, 973-227-3235 or 973334-1872
Sun., April 3
Last Day to Order Shmurah Matzah and Wine through Cong Darchei Noam, Fair Lawn, machlashaffer@yahoo.com Last Day to Order Hand Shmurah Matzah from the Shatzer Matza Bakery, through Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, schachter111@gmail.com “Inyanei Pesach,” Rabbi Yonason Sacks, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8:30am Riverdale Jewish Community Relations Council Legislative Breakfast, Riverdale YMHA, 9:15am, 718-548-8200 Shomer Shabbat Cub Scout Pack 613 Den Meeting: Chessed Project, Cong Ahavat Achim,
Fair Lawn, 9:30am, jschachter2@ gmail.com Clothing Drive, for men’s, women’s, and children’s clothes in sturdy garbage bags, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 9:30am12:30pm, 718-601-3586 Matza Baking, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 9:45am Zvezdochka Russian/ English Toddler Play Group, for parents and children, JCC, Tenafly, 10am, 201-408-1437 Seder Plate Live, for children 2-5 with an adult, interactive experience with a room-size seder plate, YJCC, Washington Twnshp, 10am, 201-666-6610 “Israel and the World around It,” Bret Stephens, Community Synagogue of Monsey, 10:15am, 845-356-2720 Teen Volunteers for POTS Soup Kitchen, leave Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 11:30am, 917-885-4542 Rosh Chodesh MotherDaughter Brunch and Lecture, featuring Sara Wolkenfeld, Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Cen-
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ter, Livingston, 11:30am, 973-9942620 or 973-994-0122 “The Little Red Hen and the Passover Matzah,” Leslie Kimmelman, JCC, Bridgewater, noon, 908-725-6994 x210 Camp Gan Israel Piscataway Open House, for girls and boys (separate divisions) 4-11 and girls travel camp for ages 9-11, 12-2pm, 732-522-0013 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “The Yankles,” 12:30pm, and “Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story,” 3:30pm, JCC, West Orange, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS Kids in Action Club: “Kids Traveling to Israel,” for children 5-11, Dena Gurkov, includes lunch at Perfect Pita in Fair Lawn and a Pesach project for Israeli children, spons by the Chabad Center of Passaic County, Wayne, 12:45pm, 973-694-6274 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “100 Voices,” cantors in Poland, AMC Theaters, West Nyack, 2:30pm, 845-362-4400 Model Matzah Bakery, for special needs children and their siblings, spons by the Friendship Circle of Passaic County, YMHA, Wayne, 2:30pm, 973-694-6274 Mitzvah Day Planning, for grades 9-12, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 3pm, 845-362-4400 Café Belahava: Israeli Vendors Market and Café, to benefit the Fair Lawn Israeli Scouts, at the UJA Federation of Northern NJ, Paramus, 4-8pm, 201-753-1595 Yaffa Wig Sale, Mocha Bleu, Teaneck, 4-9pm, info@mochableu.com The Motzei Shabbos Learning End-of-the-Year Extravaganza, featuring leaning, dinner, a raffle, and prizes, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 4:30pm, aaronshalom@gmail.com Bnot Pre-Pesach Boutique, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 5-9pm, symarko@msn.com Chabad Dining Club, with Rabbi Ephraim Simon, spons by the Chabad House of Teaneck, at Nobo Wine and Grill, Teaneck, 5pm, 201-907-0686 Cong Beth Aaron of Teaneck Dinner, honoring Menucha
and Hillel Hyman and Meryl and David Rubin, at Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 5:30pm Pre-Pesach Boutique, Cong Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn, 6-9pm, 201-794-6178 or 201-796-5902 Men’s Club Sports Card and Memorabilia Father-Son Dinner, with Bill Jacobowitz, with a silent auction, Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center, Livingston, 6pm, 973-994-2620 or 973-994-0122 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story,” with director Peter Miller, Lafayette Theater, Suffern, 7:30pm, 845369-8234 or 845-362-4400 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “My So-Called Enemy,” with producer/director Lisa Gossels, and Melodye Feldman, of Building Bridges for Peace, JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS Film: “Ajami,” with Israeli Consul for Public Affairs Gil Lanier, JCC of Paramus, 7:30pm, 201-262-7691 Dad’s Night Out, for fathers of special-needs children, spons by the Friendship Circle, at Bergen Batting Center, River Edge, 7:30pm, 201-262-7172 or Zeesy@ BCFriendship.com “Yetziat Mitzrayim: Jacob Our Father Never Died,” Rabbi David Silber, Cong Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, 8pm Pesach Questions, Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Passaic, by phone, 973-330-2285, 9:15-10pm
Mon., April 4
“Applied Judaism,” Rabbi Steve Golden, JCC, Tenafly, 9am, 201-408-1426 Senior Kosher Trip to Washington, DC, and Baltimore, bus leaves Riverdale YMHA, 9:45am, through Wed., April 6, 718-5488200 Café Europa Holocaust Survivor Group, Linda Storfer, Riverdale YMHA, noon, 718548-8200 “Getting Ready for Pesach: Laws and Customs—Who Is This ‘Chametz’ Person and Why Do I Need to Get Rid of Him?” Rabbi Akiva Weiss, Rutgers Hil-
lel, New Brunswick, 6:30pm, 732-545-2407 West Orange Book Club: “Wherever You Go” by Joan Leegant, private home in West Orange, 8pm, 973-669-0938 “The Centurions: 19th Century CE,” for men and women, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8:15pm “Preparing for Pesach: Inspirational Insights into the Hagaddah,” Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton, Passaic, 8:30pm, 973-778-7117 or 973-330-2285 Amud Yomi Begins Messechet Nazir, Rabbi Murray Sragow, Cong Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, 9:30pm Questions about Pesach, Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton, Passaic, 9:30-10pm
Tues., April 5
Rosh Chodesh Nisan Day of Learning and Action to Help End Childhood Hunger in America, for projects, HametzforHunger.org, info@hametzforhunger. org, or 732-440-8394 “All You Ever Wanted to Know about Breastfeeding,” spons by La Leche, Elly Gail Egenberg, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 10:15am, 845-362-4400 Celebrate Passover with Stories Plus, for children 3 and up with an adult, Linda Ripps, YJCC, Washington Twnshp, 11am, 201-666-6610 ext 205 “Everything You Wanted to Know about Pesach,” for seniors, Moshe Schreiber, includes stories, advice for a freilach and zissen Pesach, lunch, and Passover treats, Cong Ahavas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 11:15am, 973-736-1407 ext 240 Model Seder with the Elderly, Rabbi Ely Allen, spons by William Paterson College Hillel, at the Wayne YMHA, 12:45pm, 201-820-3905 Orthodox Union’s Pre-Pesach Webcast, Rabbis Yisroel Belskt and Hershel Schachter will answer a variety of Pesachrelated questions, http://www. ou.org/ouradio/kosher_webcast, log on 2pm, broadcast, 2:15pm, questions should be sent before
the webcasr to Rabbi Eliyahu Safran, safrane@ou.org, or, during the webcast to Rabbi Eliyahu Ferrell, ferrelle@ou.org Young Set Mini Chefs: Pesach Foods and a Model Seder, for children 3-6, Dena Gurkov, Chabad Center, Wayne, 4:30pm, 973-694-6274 Pre-Pesach Mini Mall, Ohel Rivka, Passaic, 5-9pm, 845-6080433 Contemporary Israeli Poetry Group, in the original with English translation and discussion, Atara Fobar, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 7pm, 718-796-4730 “I’m Right, You’re Right, He’s Right, Too”: Multiple Perspectives in Jewish Humor and Folklore, Steven Zeitlin, Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library, Garnerville, 7pm, 845786-3800 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “The Matchmaker,” AMC Theaters, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400 Cong Etz Chaim Sisterhood Rosh Chodesh Program, with Toba Grossbaum and Shari-Beth Susskind, private home in Livingston, 7:30pm, 973-597-1655 “The Development of Israeli National Symbols,” Dr. Alex Meshory, spons by Hillel, Rutgers Student Activities Center, New Brunswick, pizza, 7:30; lecture, 8pm, 732-545-2407 “Mah Hu Omer? Tips for Tots,” an interactive program for parents who want to liven up their sedarim, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 8pm, 732247-0532 Parlor Meeting to Benefit CHEIN (Children’s Education Initiative), private home in Monsey, 8pm, 845- 362-0776 or 845-362-3465 Film: “I Was There in Color,” with Stuart Levy, JCC of Fort Lee, 8pm, 201-947-1735
Wed., April 6
NORPAC Mission to Washington, meetings with Members of Congress and their staffs to support the US-Israel relationship and establish long-lasting relationships with leaders of our country, glatt kosher meals, trans-
http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com portation, and opportunities for davening, those under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, buses leave from throughout the tri-state area very early in the morning, 201-788-5133 or www.norpac.net Frisch Yeshiva High School NCSY Mission to New Orleans, “Five Years Later, Still So Much to Rebuild,” volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and visits to the local Orthodox community and day school, through Sun, April 10 Last Day to Order Pesach Wine through Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, http://www.arzeidarom.org/ PesachWine.pdf or jonnys_1971@ yahoo.com Hadassah 2011 Education Symposium: “Israel: The Power of a Nation,” includes “Meet Golda” with actress Alice Golembo, a great-niece of Golda Meir; “Current Trends in Israeli Films,” “From Hummus to Hamousta: Traditional and Trendy Israeli Cuisine,” “Israeli Innovation Meets American Commercialization,” “Me and Chagall,” “Off the Beaten Path: Israeli Tourism,” and “Contemporary Israeli Music,” Forsgate
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Country Club, Monroe Twnshp, NJ, 8:45am-3pm, 732-828-7415 or 732-643-1100 Holocaust Education Program, for teachers and students, grades 6-12, featuring Maud Dahme, a hidden child survivor of the Netherlands, and the film: “The Hidden Child,” spons by the NY Commission on Holocaust Education, at Dolan Performance Hall, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, 8:45am, holocaustcenter@cse.edu “The Power of Stories,” spons by Hadassah and UJC MetroWest, at Gebroe Hammer Conference Center, Aidekman JCC, Whippany, 9:30am; “A Survivor Tells Her Story,” Barbara Wind, 10:20am; “Stories of the Impact of IDF Service on Israeli Women,” Noga Maliniak, 10:20am; “Our Miraculous, Manipulative, and Mischievous Matriarchs,” Edith Sobel 10:20 and 11:20am; and “The Ghost-Written Personal Narrative,” Janice Cohn, 10:20 and 11:20am; “The Bible: The best Marketing Tool Ever Written,” Bernard Beck, 11:20am; kosher lunch, 12:15pm; “In Every
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Lubavitch on the Palisades, Tenafly, 6pm, 201-262-7172 or Zeesy@ BCFriendship.com “A Life-Changing Approach to Weight Loss: Mindful Eating and Healing Your Relationship with Food,” Dr. Marianne Styler, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, 201408-1456 Passover Cooking Class, Merav Dahan, CareOne, Teaneck, 7pm, 201-287-8511 or ozak@ care-one.com Pre-Pesach Boutique, spons by Shaarei Tzion PTA, at the preschool building, Highland Park, 7-10pm, 732-985-0720 or 732777-7946 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Kitka and Davka: In Concert,” with Leonard Kurz, Ramapo Cultural Arts Center, Spring Valley, 7:30pm, 845-3576100 or 845-362-4400 Kosher Natural Cooking for Diabetics, Chef Meredith Spiegel, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400 Film: “Praying in Her Own Voice,” women at the Kotel, JCC, Tenafly, 7:30pm, 201-408-1426
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Film: “Eretz B’reishit: The Land of Genesis,” YJCC, Washington Twnshp, 7:30pm, 201666-6610 HaRav Hershel Schachter, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 8pm “Mah Rabbu Ma’asekha HaShem…” vs. “Mah Na’eh Ilan Zeh– Nature as a Key to Unlocking Torah,” Rabbi Ron Price, spons by Torah on Cedar Lane, Teaneck General Store, 8pm, 201-530-5046 Israel Advocacy, David Olesker, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 8pm, 732-545-2407 “Pesach Products,” Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb, Cong Bais Torah, Suffern, 8:15pm, 845-352-1343 Film: “Monumental Moments,” for women, spons by Bnot and Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation, featuring Tehillah Jaeger, Chani Juravel, and others, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8:30pm
Thurs., April 7
Holocaust Education Program, for teachers and students, grades 6-12, featuring Maud Dahme, a hidden child survivor of the Netherlands, and the film: “The Hidden Child,” spons by the NY Commission on Holocaust Education, at Dolan Performance Hall, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, 8:45am, holocaustcenter@cse.edu Charity Shopping Day: Shop Smart, Do Good, to benefit Hadassah Hospitals at Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus, at Lord and Taylor, Route 17 in Ridgewood, discount coupons, prizes and events, 9am10pm, 201-475-0929 Bayit Katan, for toddlers up to age 3 with a parent or caregiver, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 10:30am, kathyandahron@ verizon.net Golden Age Model Seder, for seniors, Rabbi Steven Exler, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 1pm, 718-796-4730 ext 111 “Veteran Care at the End of Life: Appraising and Identifying Unique Issues Connected to Each War, Recognizing Signs and Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Explaining the Impact of Stoicism, and Distin-
guishing Issues Pertaining to Bereavement for Family and Veterans,” for RNs, LPNs, social workers, and other healthcare professionals, Lora Speiser, CareOne, Teaneck, glatt kosher dinner, 5pm; lecture, 5:30pm, 201-287-8511 or ozak@care-one.com Special Friends Model Seder, for special-needs children and adults, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 5:30pm, 718-796-4730 ext 111 Theater: “A Seder Like No Other,” by Geoffrey Cantor, YJCC, Washington Twnshp, 7:30pm, also Sun., April 10, 3:30pm, 201-666-6610 “New Therapies on the Horizon for Multiple Sclerosis,” Drs. Mary Ann Picone and John Lincoln, Holy Name Medical Center MS Center, Teaneck, 4pm, 201-837-0727 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Jewish Transit Berlin” and “Ingelore,” AMC Theaters, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400 “Passover in the Aisles,” story time and Passover food tasting, Whole Foods, Madison, 7:30pm, 973-929-2936 Film: “The Human Resources Manager,” with Stuart Levy, YMHA of North Jersey, Wayne, 7:30pm, 973-595-0100 “Cartooning Jewish New York,” Robert Mankoff and Eddy Portnoy, Bildner Center for Jewish Studies, Rutgers, New Brunswick, 8pm, 732-932-2033 Pre-Pesach Flower Arranging, for women, Cong Ahavath Torah, Englewood, 8pm, 201568-1315 Volunteer Orientation for Teens Who Want to Work with Special-Needs Children, spons by the Bergen County Friendship Circle, at Cong Beth Tefilla, Paramus, 8pm, 201-262-7172 or Zeesy@BCFriendship.com Mishmar, Rabbi Mordecai Miller, includes pizza, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 8pm, 732-545-2407
Fri., April 8
Last Day of the Kosher-forPassover Food Drive, to benefit the Bronx Jewish Community Council, Riverdale YMHA, 718-
548-8200 Last Day to See “From Memory to History: An Art Exhibit Documenting the Experiences of Holocaust Survivors and Liberators in Northern NJ,” Aidekman JCC, Whippany, 973-929-3194 “A Taste of Shabbat,” for children 2-4 with adult, Aviva Kohl, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 11:45am, 845-362-4400 Rabbi Dr. Eddie Reichman, scholar-in-residence, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, through Shabbat, April 9, howard@ketertorah.org
Shabbat, April 9
Junior Yachad Shabbaton, Young Israel of Monsey and Wesley Hills, 845-354-5218 or jacobsongirls@yahoo.com Pelham Parkway Shabbat Hike, to bring the joy of Shabbat to Russian Jews in Pelham Parkway, leave Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 8am, ravstevenexler@gmail.com Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, scholar-in-residence, Cong Ohav Emeth, Highland Park, “Between Kedusha, Tumah, and Shchina in Sefer Vayikra,” 10:30am; “The ‘Real Story’ of Exodus: How and Why the Book Is Better Than the Movie, 6pm; “Pesach in Sedom: Understanding Peshat to Appreciate Drash,” during seudah shlishit, 7:15pm, 732-247-3038 Mommy and Me, for children 0-3 with a parent, Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, 10:45am Shiur, Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, private home in Edison, 4:30pm, 732-572-2614 Pre-Pesach Shiur and Seudah Shlishit, Rabbi Kenneth Schiowitz, Cong Netivot Shalom, Teaneck, 4:30pm
Motzei Shabbat, April 9
Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Gloomy Sunday,” Ramapo Cultural Arts Center, Spring Valley, 8:45pm, 845-357-6100 or 845-362-4400
Sun., April 10
National Volunteer Week, honoring those who perform a service (mitzvah) of one’s own free will, doing charitable or helpful work without pay, through religious or social organizations, or less for-
mally, through the concept of “neighboring.” The estimated value of a volunteer’s time is $20.85 per hour. Through Shabbat, April 16 Sephardic Minyan of Cong Ahavath Torah Chanukah Habayit, Englewood, 8-11am “Inyanei Pesach,” Rabbi Yonason Sacks, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8:30am Davening, Breakfast, and Bikur Cholim, at Daughters of Miriam, Clifton, minyan at 8:45am, samapprais@aim.com Spring Boutique, JCC, Tenafly, 10am-5pm, also Mon., Apr 11, 9am-4pm, 201-408-1438 Swab, Haircut, and Fundraiser 4 Ezra Fineman, a twoyear-old who needs a bone marrow transplant, involves just a simple cheek swab, for those between 1860, at Bellezza Salon, Glen Rock, all proceeds from salon services, including haircuts, styling, highlights, and manicures go to help for processing of donor test kits, 9am-2pm, 201-445-2829 or ameltzer@fairlawnschools.org Donate Chametz, non-perishable, non-expired food and personal hygiene items for distribution to local families needing assistance, spons by Cong Ahavat Achim, collection at a private home in Fair Lawn, 9am-5pm, 201-791-5369 Explanatory Morning Service, Rabbi David Pietruszka, spons by the Jewish Learning Experience, at Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 9:15am, 201-966-4490 Shomer Shabbat Cub Scout Pack 613 Den Meeting: Emunah, Cong Ahavat Achim, Fair Lawn, 9:30am, schachter2@ gmail.com Pre-Pesach Shiur, for women, Rabbi Ari Jacobson, Young Israel of Monsey and Wesley Hills, 10am, 845-354-5218 Care Link Passover Food/ Visitation Program, spons by the Jewish Family and Counseling Service of Hoboken, meet at the Bayonne JCC to assemble kosherfor-Passover food packages before delivering them to JFS clients, 10am, 973-765-9050 ext 1715 Sibshops, for children 7-12 who have a special-needs sib-
http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com ling, JCC, Tenafly, 10:30am, 201569-7900 “Social Thinking on the Go,” for parents to help children become better social thinkers in the home, playground, and community, Arlene Rubin, child care available, private office in Teaneck, 11am, 201-837-8371 Pre-Pesach Youth Program, includes lunch, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 11am, 718-796-4730 Mad Science Show, for children 2-8 accompanied by a parent, Riverdale Jewish Center, 11:15am, rjcyouth@gmail.com Pascack Valley Hadassah 60th Anniversary Celebration, honoring Margot Strauss, Woodcliff Lake Hilton, 11:30am Kinder Ya’ad Program, for children 3-7, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, noon, 732-247-0532 Shalom Rockland Day, includes music, petting zoo, carnival with inflatable rides and games, characters, gymnastics, and henna body art, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 1-5pm, 845-362-4200 Sibzone, for siblings, 7-13, of special-needs children, featuring athletic coach Mike Dube and art therapist Beth Geisler, spons by NJ Yachad, at the Jewish Center of Teaneck, 1pm, 201-833-1349 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Shalom Sesame: It’s Passover, Grover,” JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 1:15pm, 2:30pm, and 3:45pm, 845-362-4400 Trip to See NJ Devils vs Boston Bruins Hockey Game at the Prudential Center in Newark, for children, 2nd grade and up, teens, and parents, leave Cong Ohr Torah, Edison, 2pm, 732-572-3429 Children’s and Teen Circle, special-needs youngsters enjoy art, music, sports, and more, spons by the Bergen County Friendship Circle, Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, 2pm, 201-262-7172 or Zeesy@BCFriendship.com Bayryna Russian Dance and Music Ensemble, Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library, Garnerville, 2pm, 845-786-3800 Mitzvah Day Planning, for grades 9-12, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 3pm, 845-362-4400 Theater: “The Last Night at Ballyhoo,” Hudson Theater
Ensemble, Hudson School Performance Space, Hoboken, 3pm, 201-377-7014 or reservations@ hudsontheaterensemble.com “Create Your Own Seder Plate,” for families, JCC, West Orange, 4pm, 973-929-2922 Last Day to Drop Off NonChametz Items, unopened and non-perishable, for local neighbors in need, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 5pm, 718-796-4730 Kosher Jello-Wrestling Tournament, 50% to the winners and 50% to Save a Child’s Heart Foundation, separate men’s and women’s tournaments, includes kosher non-alcoholic Jello shots, Rutgers Hillel Backyard, New Brunswick, 5pm, 732-545-2407 Family Bingo Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser, Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center, Livingston, 5:30pm, 973-9942620 or 973-994-0122 Kasher-In and Pesach Q&A, Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton, Passaic, 6-8:30pm, 973-778-7117 or 973-330-2285 Minyan Appreciation Dinner, honoring students who work to make sure there is a consistent minyan at Rutgers Hillel, Rabbi Akiva Weiss, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 7pm, 732-545-2407 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Berlin 36,” with Gretel Bergmann, a Jewish high jumper forced to join the Aryan team in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Lafayette Theater, Suffern, 7:30pm, 845369-8234 or 845-362-4400 Film: “Precious Life,” featuring Q and A with director Shlomi Eldar, JCC, Tenafly, 8pm, 201-408-1496 “Pre Pesach Q&A: All You Need to Know about Pesach 2011,” Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 8pm, 973-736-1407
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“Destination Torah: Different Paths of the Jewish Textural Tradition,” Rabbi Steve Golden, JCC, Tenafly, 9am, 201408-1426 Campus-Wide Model Seder, Rabbi Ely Allen, Ramapo College Hillel, Mahwah, 1pm, 201820-3905 Current Events, Stan Gold-
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Tues., April 12
“Laughter and Health,” for seniors, Karen Frank, RN, intergenerational program with nursery school children, Cong Ahavas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 11:30am, 973-736-1407 ext 240 “Muriel’s War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance,” Sheila Isenberg, about Muriel Gardiner, who renounced her family’s wealthy lifestyle to help Jews, including Anna Freud, and anti-fascists escape, spons by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College, Mahwah, 1pm, 201-684-7409 Chocolate Model Seder, Rabbi Ely Allen, Fairleigh Dickinson University Hillel, University Chapel, Teaneck, 3:30pm, 201-820-3905 Passover Story Hour, Dena Gurkov, for children 2-5, spons by the Chabad Center of Passaic County, at the Wayne Public Library, 4:30pm, 973-694-6274 “Passover Seder Secrets: How to Lead and Conduct Your Very Own Seder,” Rabbi Akiva
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Weiss, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 6:30pm, 732-545-2407 Kosher Indian Cooking, Pammi Anandani and Sanjya Tidke, Riverdale YMHA, 7pm, 718-548-8200 Israeli Poet Moishale Yitzhaki, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 7pm, 718-796-4730 “Mr. Miller and Mr. McCarthy: An American Story,” Prof Ben Nelson, the conflict and influence of dramatist Arthur Miller and Sen Joseph McCarthy, JCC, Tenafly, 7:30pm, 201408-1457 Pesach Seminar, Rabbi Steven Miodownik, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 8pm, 732247-0532
Wed., April 13
“Employee Volunteer Program Building,” Northern NJ Business Volunteer Council, includes planning the spring/summer food drive for low-income families, spons by the Volunteer Center of Bergen County, at IKEA, Paramus, 8:30am, 201489-9454 ext 114 Pre-Passover Lunch, for seniors, Riverdale YMHA, 11am, 718-548-8200 Holocaust Lunch and Learn, survivors, liberators, and POWs, facilitated by Barbara Wind, Aidekman Family Center, Lautenberg JCC, Whippany, noon, 973-428-9300 Book Review Club: “The Art of Racing in the Rain,” by Garth Stein, facilitated by Lucille Schroeder, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 1pm, 845-362-4400 Last Day to Drop Off Chametz Items, unopened and nonperishable, for City Harvest, at Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 5pm, 718-796-4730 Teen Scene, for special-needs teens, spons by the Bergen County Friendship Circle, at the Frisch Yeshiva High School, Paramus, 6pm, 201-262-7172 or Zeesy@ BCFriendship.com Film: “The Russians Are Coming,” Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library, Garnerville, 6:30pm, 845-786-3800 “A Life-Changing Approach to Weight Loss: Wrapping It
All Up—Moving Forward with the New You,” Dr. Marianne Styler, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, 201408-1456 Confidential Abused Women’s Support Group, Jewish Family Service, Teaneck, 7:15pm, 201-837-9090 Support Group for Caregivers, those caring for an older adult who is physically frail or suffering from memory loss, JCC, Tenafly, 7:30pm, 201-408-1450 “Chicks with Sticks Knitting Circle,” hats for preemies, children with cancer, and IDF soldiers in Israel, private home in Highland Park, 8pm, 732-339-8492 “The Haggadah,” Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb, Cong Bais Torah, Suffern, 8:15pm, 845-352-1343
Thurs., April 14
Last Day to Drop Off Food and Other Items for Families of Deployed Soldiers or Those about to be Deployed and Deployed Soldiers Themselves,, spons by the Community Relations Advisory Board of Teaneck, drop off new, unopened, non-perishable food and items such as diapers and body-care products, Teaneck Municipal Building, Public Library, Richard Rodda Center, or Fire Headquarters Holiday Sale, JCC, Tenafly, 9am-3pm, 201-569-7900 Senior Adult Passover Seder, Lautenberg JCC, Whippany, 11am, 973-530-3474 Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration, spons by Rutgers Hillel, at the Rutgers Student Center, New Brunswick, 12-5pm and 9-11pm, 732-545-2407 In-House Matza Bakery, Rabbi Ely Allen, Bergen Community College Hillel, Paramus, 12:30pm, 201-820-3905 Friendship Circle Pesach Party, for families of specialneeds children, private home in Teaneck, 5:30pm, 201-262-7172 or Zeesy@BCFriendship.com Jewish 12-Step Meeting, JACS—Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons, and Significant Others, Jewish Family Service, Teaneck, 7:30pm, 201-837-9090, ask for IRA (Information and Referral) or 201-
981-1071 Family Chocolate Seder, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400
Fri., April 15
Last Day of the “Not Kosher-for-Passover Food Drive,” bring canned or dry non-expired, not-kosher-for-Pesach foods to the Riverdale YMHA food drive for City Harvest, 718-548-8200 Last Day to Order Discount Tickets through NCSY for Chol Hamoed at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ, for Thurs., April 21, Fri., April 22, and Sun., April 24, 201-862-0250 or www. ncsygreatadventure.com Seuda Shabbos, Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb, Cong Bais Torah, Suffern, 7:30pm, 845-352-1343 Shabbos HaGodol Family Experience, Rabbi Daniel Stein, to benefit Kehllas Beis Sholom, Clifton, at the Beth Sholom Hall, Friday night meal, 8pm, 973922-0036 Cong Ohav Emeth of Highland Park Shabbaton, two days off before Pesach, through Shabbat, April 16
Shabbat, April 16, Shabbat HaGadol
Shabbos HaGodol Family Experience, Rabbi Daniel Stein, to benefit Kehllas Beis Sholom, Clifton, at the Beth Sholom Hall, lunch, 11:30am, mincha followed by seudas shlishis, 7pm, 973922-0036 Men’s Club Cholent Cookoff, Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange, noon, 973-731-7229 Seuda Shabbos, Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb, Cong Bais Torah, Suffern, noon, 845-352-1343 Gala Kiddush Luncheon and Siyyum, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, noon, 201-836-8916 Shabbos HaGadol Luncheon, spons by Cong Ahavat Shalom of the Teaneck Apartments, at the Torah Academy of Bergen County, Teaneck, noon, AsherHoff@gmail.com Pre-Pesach Shabbat HaGadol Community Lunch, Riverdale Jewish Center, noon, 718548-1850 “Matzah Matters: The Caloric Content of Character Creation,”
Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 6:15pm
Motzei Shabbat, April 16
Pesach Q&A, Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Passaic, by telephone, 973-330-2285, 9-10:30pm
Sun., April 17
Drop Off Gently Used Hardcover Books and Trade Paperbacks, YJCC, Washington Twnshp, through Thurs, April 28, 201-666-6610 Stocking the Rockland Jewish Family Service Food Pantry, for grades 6-12, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 9am, 845-362-4400 ext 173 Donate Chametz, non-perishable, non-expired food and personal hygiene items for distribution to local families needing assistance, spons by Cong Ahavat Achim, collection at a private home in Fair Lawn, 9am-5pm, 201-791-5369 Pre-Passover Gym and Swim, for children, Coach Pete and Glenn Pepper, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 9am-1pm, 201-8330515 ext. 205 Pre-Pesach Pizza and Bowling, for children in Pre-K- Grade 5, spons by Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, at Bowler City, Hackensack, 11am, youth@arzeidarom.org Mitzvah Day for Tweens and Teens, Grades 6-8 and 9-12, work with charitable organizations for those in need, JCC Rockland, 3pm, 845-362-4400 ext 173
Mon., April 18, Erev Pesach
Community-Wide Chametz Burning, for bedikas chometz, Monsey Park-and-Ride DriveIn, Route 59, 6:30-11:45am, 845357-0591 “The JCC’s Got Talent,” for children in grades K-5, includes end-of-the-day talent show, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 9am-4pm, 845-362-4400 Big Bread Burn: Joy Amsel, z”l, Community Biur Chametz Event, featuring the Fire Safety Trailer and fire trucks from the Teaneck Fire Dept, chametz should be in paper bags, spons by Cong Rinat Yisrael, the Jewish Community Council, and Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, Jewish chaplain for the Teaneck Fire Dept, at the Jewish Center of
http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com Teaneck parking lot, 10-11:30am, 201-833-0515 ext 200 Model Passover Seder, for seniors, Rabbi Gary Katz, JCC, Tenafly, 11:15am, 201-569-7900 Pre-Passover Gym and Swim, for children, Coach Pete and Glenn Pepper, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 11:30am-2:30pm, 201-833-0515 ext. 205 Holocaust Commemoration, Rabbi Ely Allen, Ramapo College Hillel, Mahwah, 1pm, 201-820-3905 Passover Seder, volunteers needed to help senior residents at Daughters of Israel, West Orange, 5pm, Rabbi Zvi Karpel, 973-4003363 or 973-731-5100 Community Passover Seder, Rabbi Mendy and Altie Kasowitz, Lubavitch Center, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-486-2362 Community Seder, Rabbi Moshe Schapiro, Chabad of Hoboken, 7:30pm, 201-386-5222 Jewish Learning Experience Seder, for families and children, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 7:30pm, 201-966-4498 Free Pesach Seder, part of Passover Across America, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 8:15pm, ravstevenexler@gmail.com Passover Seder, Rabbi Ely Allen, spons by Hillel of Northern NJ, private home in Bergenfield, 8:30pm, 201-820-3905
Tues., April 19, Pesach
Community Seder, Rabbi Moshe Schapiro, Chabad of Hoboken, 8:15pm, 201-386-5222 Free Pesach Seder, part of Passover Across America, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 8:15pm, ravstevenexler@gmail.com Passover Seder, Rabbi Ely Allen, spons by Hillel of Northern NJ, private home in Bergenfield, 8:30pm, 201-820-3905
Thurs., April 21, Chol Hamoed
Six Flags Great Adventure with NCSY, transportation available from many locations in the tri-state area for students in grades 6-12, families can go on their own, kosher food available, Wild Safari, 9am-4pm; Theme Park, 10:30m-8pm; Miami Boys Choir Concert, 2pm; Jackson, 201-862-0250 or www.ncsygreatadventure.com
Ring Homestead Trip, Middletown, NY, for families, spons by EMUNAH Men, includes paintballing, ropes courses, rides, kosher-for-Passover snacks and drinks, all day, 201-317-2000, EmunahAtRingHomestead@ gmail.com, or Emunah.org/ringhomestead, also Fri., April 22 and Sun, April 24 Fun and Fit Day, for grades K-5, JCC, West Orange, 9am-4pm, 973-530-3400 “Just for Kicks,” for grades K-5, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 9am-4pm, 845-362-4400 La Leche League of Bronx/ Riverdale, Mia Damond Padwa, pregnant women, babies and small children welcome, healthy snacks, Riverdale YMHA, 9:30am, 718543-0314 Jeffrey Friedberg of the Bossy Frog Band, for children, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 12:30pm, 845-362-4400
Fri., April 22, Chol Hamoed
Around the World “Trip” to Italy, Mexico, France, and Israel, for grades K-1, JCC, West Orange, 9am-4pm, 973-530-3400 Monster Mini-Golf, for grades 2-5, JCC, West Orange, 9am-4pm, 973-530-3400 “It’s Earth Day,” for grades K-5, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 9am-4pm, 845-362-4400 “A Taste of Shabbat,” for parents and babies under one year, Aviva Kohl, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 10:30am, 845-362-4400 “A Taste of Shabbat,” for parents and children 1-5, Daniel Sonnenschein, songs, stories, and crafts, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 12:30pm, 845-362-4400
Sun., April 24 Chol Hamoed and Erev Yom Tov
Davening, Breakfast, and Bikur Cholim, at Daughters of Miriam, Clifton, minyan at 8:45am, samapprais@aim.com Explanatory Morning Service, Rabbi David Pietruszka, spons by the Jewish Learning Experience, at Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 9:15am, 201-966-4490 Temple Dudes in Concert, includes Passover refreshments, JCC Rockland, 2pm, 845-362-4400 JACS Meeting, 12-steps
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Wed., April 27
Collecting Used Clothing (and More), includes used but wearable adult and children clothing and accessories, household items, toys, to benefit the Parenting Center, YMHA, Wayne, 9am-3:30pm, 973-595-0100 ext 280 Spring Boutique, YMHA, Wayne, 9am-4pm, 973-595-0100 Jewish Holiday SOS, for seniors, Rabbi Gary Katz, JCC, Tenafly, 11:15am, 201-569-7900 Confidential Abused Women’s Support Group, Jewish Family Service, Teaneck, 7:15pm, 201-837-9090 Open House for Girl Zone and Boy Zone Camps, private home in Edison, 7:30pm, 732572-8911 “Chicks with Sticks Knitting Circle,” hats for preemies, children with cancer, and IDF soldiers in Israel, private home in Highland Park, 8pm, 732-339-8492
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Last Day for Exhibit: “Camp Siegfried and the Story of American Nazism,” Holocaust Museum and Study Center, Spring Valley, 845-356-2700 Theater: “Dear Esther,” by Richard Rashke, inspired by letters from students to Esther Raab, author of “Escape from Sobibor,” at the Goodwin Holocaust Museum and Education Center, Cherry Hill, 10am, 856751-9500 ext 1249 Support Group for Caregivers, those caring for an older adult who is physically frail or suffering from memory loss, JCC, Tenafly, 11am, 201-408-1450 “Real to Reel: Holocaust Film,” facilitated by Carol Simon, Aidekman Family Center, Lautenberg JCC, Whippany, 7pm, 973-428-9300
Shabbat, April 30
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happened to the Jewish Contribution to Society?” Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 11:45am First Practice for Boys Choir, for boys who can sing and will be 7 by next Rosh Hashana, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 3pm, sschwartz@gmail.com
Sun., May 1, Yom HaShoah
Rabbi Dr. Bernard Rosenberg of Edison has produced a full traditional Ma’ariv service, in Hebrew with English transliteration, for Yom HaShoah, with an appendix of readings, poetry, essays, and material for Yom HaShoah programs. It is available at no charge at www. holocausthaggadah.com Jewish Family Service Wheels for Meals Bike-a-Thon, volunteers and participants from toddlers through advanced cyclists, start at Jewish Home at Rockleigh, from 6:30am (set up) to 2pm (clean up), 201-837-9090 ext 238 Kavanah: A Tefillah Experience, Rabbi Steven Exler, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 9:30am, 718-796-4730 Shomer Shabbat Cub Scout Pack 613 Den Meeting: Emunah, Cong Ahavat Achim, Fair Lawn, 9:30am, jschachter2@ gmail.com Gently Used Book Sale, YJCC, Washington Twnshp, 10am, 201-666-6610 Zvezdochka Russian/ English Toddler Play Group, for parents and children, JCC, Tenafly, 10am, 201-408-1437 UJA of Northern NJ Yom HaShoah Program, featuring a live satellite feed from Auschwitz to participate virtually with the March of the Living Yom HaShoah program, including a number of
local teens and survivors who are on the March; keynote speaker Malcolm Hoenlein, survivor Irving Roth, a student choral group, and Chazzan Chaim Adler, at the Frisch School, Paramus, 11am, wmg14@optonline.net State of NJ Yom HaShoah Observance, with the Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County, Middlesex County Community College Performing Arts Center, Edison, 3:30pm, 609-292-9274 Yom HaShoah Commemoration, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 3:30pm, 732-545-2407 Zumbathon for Ovarian Cancer Research, to benefit Memorial Sloan-Kettering Ovarian Cancer Research Center, dance party at the Armory/Soccer Palace, West Orange, 4-7pm, 973-495-0714 Yom HaShoah Commemoration: “Small Miracles,” Yitta Halberstam, Rockland Community College, Suffern, 5pm, 845356-2700 Yom HaShoah Commemoration, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, 201569-7900 Rutgers Hillel End-of-theYear Banquet, Rutgers Student Center, New Brunswick, 7pm, 732-545-2407
Mon, May 2
“Applied Judaism,” Rabbi Steve Golden, JCC, Tenafly, 9am, 201-408-1426 Open House in Recognition of Holocaust Awareness Programs, for teachers of grades K-12, Holocaust Resource Center, Stockton College, 9:30am-6pm, Pomona, 609-652-4699 Café Europa Holocaust Survivor Group, Linda Storfer, Riverdale YMHA, noon, 718548-8200
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Jewish Community Council of Teaneck Holocaust Commemoration, featuring Fanya Gottesfeld Heller and multi-generational families consisting of a Holocaust survivor, Teaneck High School, 7:30pm. 201-836-2935 or 201-837-9792
Tues., May 3
Sports Night, for specialneeds children 6-12, spons by the Bergen County Friendship Circle, at the Moriah School of Englewood, 5:15pm, 201-262-7172 or Zeesy@BCFriendship.com Contemporary Israeli Poetry Group, in the original with English translation and discussion, Atara Fobar, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 7pm, 718-796-4730 Book Discussion on “The Sin of Addison Hall” by Jeffrey Onorato, for those over 17, facilitated by Sharry Friedberg, YJCC, Washington Twnshp, 7:30pm, 201-666-6610 “Stillness Awareness Wisdom: Sharing Strategies and Practical Steps for Inner Peace, Tranquility, and Calm,” Rabbi Dr Laibl Wolf, Lubavitch Center, West Orange, 8pm, 973-486-2362
Wed., May 4
Parenting University “Growing Closer to Our Children,” Ruchie Harary, MS, spons by the Orthodox Union and the Sephardic Bikur Holim, at the Sephardic Bikur Holim, Oakhurst, 10:30am, 732-531-1117 or 212-613-8188 “What do the Ten Commandments Really Mean?” Irwin Graulich, JCC, Tenafly, 11:15am, 201-569-7900 Holocaust Lunch and Learn, survivors, liberators, and POWs, facilitated by Barbara Wind, Aidekman Family Center, Lautenberg JCC, Whippany, noon, 973-428-9300 New York Mets vs San Francisco Giants Glatt Kosher BBQ Tailgate and Game, spons by the Koby Mandell Foundation: Helping Bereaved Families Keep Their Hearts Open and Their Spirits Alive, Israel Sport Center for the Disabled, and AMIT, Citi Field in Flushing, NY, glatt kosher tailgate, 3pm; game, 7pm; additional glatt kosher meal served
in the stadium, 201-615-0222 or 516-297-9610 Teen Scene, for special-needs teens 13-21, spons by the Bergen County Friendship Circle, at the Frisch Yeshiva High School, Paramus, 6pm, 201-262-7172 or Zeesy@BCFriendship.com Kosher Indian Cooking: Bombay Beach Food, Pammi Anandani and Sanjya Tidke, Riverdale YMHA, 7pm, 718-548-8200 “Oasis in Time: The Gift of Shabbat in a 24/7 World— The Gift of Rest,” Rabbi Mendel Mangel, Chabad Center, Cherry Hill, 7:30pm, 856-874-1500 Cong Ahavas Achim of Highland Park Sisterhood Book Club: “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese, private home in Edison, 8:30pm, 732-777-1219
Thurs., May 5
Last Day to Reserve for Young Israel of Fair Lawn Yom HaShoah Commemoration and Yom Yerushalayim Celebration Film, “The Long Way Home,” to be shown on Sun., May 15, 4pm, drjacksmod@aol.com UJA Women’s Spring Luncheon, honoring Judy Cook, Stacey Distell, and Yvette Tekel, featuring Iris Krasnow, “Surrendering to Marriage” and “I am My Mother’s Daughter,” Rockleigh Country Club, 11:15am, 201-820-3952
Fri., May 6
“A Taste of Shabbat,” for parents and babies under one year, Aviva Kohl, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 10:30am, 845-362-4400 “A Taste of Shabbat,” for parents and children 1-5, Daniel Sonnenschein, songs, stories, and crafts, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 12:30pm, 845-362-4400
Shabbat, May 7
Shabbat Morning Youth Minyan, for students in grades 6-12, Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, 9:15am, carlos.sarue@verizon.net
Sun., May 8, Mothers Day
Davening, Breakfast, and Bikur Cholim, at Daughters of Miriam, Clifton, minyan at 8:45am, samapprais@aim.com Teen Volunteers for POTS Soup Kitchen, leave Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 11:30am, 917885-4542 Y
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Shiur, Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb, Cong Bais Torah, Suffern, 8:30am, 845-352-1343 Chasidut: Netivot Shalom on Tefillah, Rabbi Bryan Kinzbrunner, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 9am, 732-247-0532 Chofetz Chaim Women’s Learning Group: “The Garden of Emunah: A Practical Guide to Life,” by Rabbi Shalom Arush, translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody, reading and questions, private homes in Teaneck, 9am, 201-836-1606 “Stories of the Talmud: Aggadot HaTalmud,” Rabbi Avi Weiss, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 9:15am, 718-796-4730 Parshanut, Rabbi Steven Exler, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 9:30am, 718-796-4730 Creative Dance and Ballet, for girls 4-5, Alyssa Komarow, private home in Passaic, 9:45am, 973-470-0036 Navi Class on Sefer Tehillim, for women, Rebbitzen Rivka Eichenstein, Cong Agudath Israel, Highland Park, 10am, begins May 1, 732572-4408 or 732-828-6939 Conversational and Biblical Hebrew, Rabbi Mordechai Baumgarten, Chabad Center of Northwest NJ, Rockaway, 10:15pm, 973-6251525 ext 202, begins April 10 Beginners Ballet, for girls 6-8, Alyssa Komarow, private home in Passaic, 10:45am, 973-470-0036 Girls Lifeguarding Class, for girls 15+. Private home in Teaneck, 5pm, 201-615-5283
Mondays
Shir Fun, for children 0-5 and their caregivers, Dafna, Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, 11:15am, contact@shirfun.com Boys Beginning Drawing, for ages 6-9, Abbey Wolin, private home in Passaic, 5pm, 973-572-0124 Hebrew Crash Course, Sara Kinberg, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 6:30pm, 718-548-2461 Women’s Tehillim Group, Library, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, 7pm, 973-325-9014 or 973-731-7909 “Stories of Elisha and Eliyahu,” Rabbi Avi Weiss, private home in Riverdale, 7:30pm, 718-796-4730 Advanced Hebrew Ulpan, Sara Kinberg, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 8pm, 718-548-2461 Advanced Talmud, Rabbi Jeff Fox, private home in Riverdale, 8pm, rebjeff@gmail.com
Parsha, for women, Rebbetzin Rivka Eichenstein, Cong Ohr Torah, Edison, 8pm, begins May 2, 732-572-4408 or 732-828-6939 Shemonah Esrei Shiur, Rabbi Larry Rothwachs, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 8:30pm Gemara: Masechet Megillah, Rabbi Steven Miodownik, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 9pm, 732-247-0532
Tuesdays
“Gems of Torah,” Rabbi Moshe Goldberger, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 8:30am, 732-247-0532 Mishnayot Yoma: Rosh Hashana, Rabbi Avigdor Weitzner, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 9:30am, 732-247-0532 Pirkei Avot, Rabbi Avi Weiss, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 10am, 718-796-4730 Parsha, Rabbi Ari Zahtz, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 10:15am Sefer Amos of Trei Asar, for men and women, Rabbi Shalom Baum, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 11am “Relationships in the Torah: The Good, Bad, and Ugly,” Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 11am, 718-796-4730 Culinary Kidz: Dairy Dynamite Desserts, for grades 6-8, Nicky Zion, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 5pm, begins April 5, no class April 19 and 26, 845-362-4400 Ya’ad Juniors Drop-In Homework and Fun Program, for grades 3-8, children are paired with a teen monitor who helps them complete their schoolwork, then participants are free to use the recreation room equipped with games; refreshments available, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 6:45-8:30pm, 732-247-0532 or 310-625-3481 Beginners Hebrew Reading, Laurette Sasson, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, begins May 3, 201-569-7900 Open Beit Midrash and Parshat HaShavua, Harry Glazer, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 7pm, 732-247-0532
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“The Power of Flowers,” flower arranging and care, Barbara Cohen, spons by Rockland Community College, at Petals and Stems, Monsey, 7pm, begins May 3, 845-426-0200 Gym Night, for grades 4-5, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 7pm Parsha HaShavua Shiur, Rabbi Aharon Ciment, Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, 7:30pm, 201-530-0043 “Partners in Torah,” Rabbi Yisroel Gottlieb, Cong Bais Torah, Suffern, 8:15pm, 845-352-1343 Mishnayos, for women, Rabbi Avromy Fein, Cong Bais Torah, Suffern, 8:15pm, 845-352-1343 Basic Judaism, Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 8:15pm, 718-796-4730 Gym Night, for grades 6-8, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 8:15pm
Wednesdays
Parsha, for women, Miri Cohen, private home in Highland Park, 9:15am, begins May 4, 732-249-5116 Yiddish 101, Blossom Milyoner, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 12:30pm, 845-362-4400, begins April 27 Yiddish Vinkel, Blossom Milyoner, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 2pm, 845-362-4400, begins April 27 Navi Shiur: Sefer Shoftim, Rabbi Steven Miodownik, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 2pm, 732-247-0532 Tanach Shiur, for women, Rachel Frazer, CareOne, Teaneck, 7:30pm, 201-287-8511 Schmooze on the News B’Ivrit, Daniel Sonnenschein, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400 ext 115 “Structure and Spirit in the Story: Linking the Essence of Pesach and the Halachos of the Haggada,” for women, Rabbi Tanchum Cohen, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 8pm ZOA_Mission_ad-3-2011-horiz.-7.25x4.25b.pdf 3/29/2011 3:34:57 PM Intermediate Ulpan, Sara Kinberg, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 8pm, 718-548-2461
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Gemara Sukkah: Iyun, Rabbi Shlomo Nussbaum, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 8:35am, 732-247-0532 Book of Joshua, Rabbi Steven Exler, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 10am, 718-796-4730 Bayit Katan, for toddlers up to age 3 with a parent or caregiver, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 10:30am, begins April 28, kathyandahron@verion.net Beginners’ Ulpan, Sara Kinberg, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 6:30pm, 718-548-2461 Siddur Hebrew, Sara Kinberg, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 7:30pm, 718-548-2461 Chumash Shiur, Rabbi Yissocher Frand, via satellite, Cong K’Hal Zichron Mordechai, Monsey (845-356-7188);Young Israel of Fair Lawn (201-797-1800); Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck (201-907-0180); Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange (973-669-7320); Cong Tifereth Israel, Passaic (973-773-2552), Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park (732247-0532), 9pm Chassidic Insights into the Parsha, Rabbi Mechel Horowitz, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 9:35am, 732-247-0532
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Rav Gringrass eulogists noted that, in the marketplace, when a great number of even intrinsically valuable items exist, their worth goes down. But even though there are many books which boast a haskama from Rav Moshe, his endorsement is still of incredible value. He would do anything he could for anyone, even those who opposed him. When someone who had opposed him came to him, looking for a haskama, he would give it to him without hesitation. His kindness was legendary. I recall once in Yeshiva Tifereth Jerusalem, just before one of his three-times-a-week shiurim, the study hall was disturbed by the presence of a former student, a big burly
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continued from page 5 fellow, who came in very upset about something. The former student was not a Talmud chacham, and some of those waiting for the shiur to begin wanted to throw him out. But Rav Moshe stopped them. He walked up to the former student, gently put his arm around him, and said softly, in Yiddish, “What’s wrong?” After being soothed by Rav Moshe, the former student calmly sat down in the back. He probably could not understand the shiur, which, was given in Yiddish, but the incident was over. Rav Moshe even had compassion on those whom he knew would not follow his rulings. Once I brought to Rav Moshe an acquaintance of mine who
had a question about whether a certain job was halachically acceptable. The answer was clearly going to be no, but I wanted the acquaintance to hear it from Rav Moshe. Instead, after listening to my acquaintance, the rav told him, “I will have to think about it.” Then he suggested he would tell me and I would deliver the answer to my acquaintance. When I asked Rav Moshe why he did not simply give the answer, which he clearly knew, the rav told me he could instinctively tell that my acquaintance would not heed his ruling. Therefore, said Rav Moshe, he did not want to compound the man’s misdeeds by having him hear a ruling and then disregard it.
Allowing my acquaintance to hear the ruling onceremoved, as it were, from me, and then disregard it, was better for him halachically than his disregarding it after hearing from the posek. And then there is the matter of his famous humility. My father, who was very close to Rav Moshe, once asked him to serve as sandek at the bris of one my brothers. After the rav agreed, my grandmother spoke up, announcing she wanted that honor to go to a family member. My father was left in the position of having to tell Rav Moshe he would have to take back the honor. Rav Moshe not only understood completely, he came to the bris anyway. Y
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Max Leiberman, who died in 1935. In Mr. Rand’s interpretation, the “ox” is seen as the introduction of “Greek” thought into Judaism. Nazis as Death “And the Slaughterer Came” was inspired by an old photograph of an Eastern-European Jew. The sword at his feet suggests the traditional interpretation that the “slaughterer”
could be the Romans, who destroyed the Temple in 70 CE, or the Ottoman Turks who ruled over Palestine. For Mr. Rand, the Angel of Death derives from a Nazi poster stigmatizing Jews. According to Dr. Baigell, it implies “a world turned upside down by European medieval and modern European antisemitism.”
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week. He learned the parsha with Onkelos and Rashi, and Midrash Rabba for that parsha. Every morning, he learned two perokim from Tanach, just the words. He had, in fact, an encyclopedic knowledge of Tanach. He did no other learning, certainly not Kabbalah, the mystical, esoteric teachings. I once asked him if he had ever learned Kabbalah, and he gave me a cryptic response: “Those who talk about Kabbalah don’t know it, and those that know it, don’t talk about it.” He never answered the question directly, but an incident that took place in 1975 can give us a clue. He had been asked by Avram Levine, who was then serving as secretary for my grandfather’s organization, Agudas Rabbanim, to be mesader kedushin at his wedding. Avram Levine, who subsequently moved to Israel, where he writes for the Jewish Press, is a Lubavitcher chassid, and the wedding was to take place at Lubavitch headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Arrangements were made so that, after the chupah, my grandfather, for the first time, would meet with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem
Their meeting ended, and my Mendel Schneerson, zt”l, who, grandfather left. as per Chabad custom, would Later, after he told me what not be personally present at had happened during their meetthe wedding. ing, I asked my grandfather if After the chupah, my grandhe had learned this explanafather and the Rebbe spent one tion at an earlier time, but my hour alone together. Afterwards, grandfather refused to discuss my grandfather told me that the the matter further. first few minutes were spent on When I discussed this inpleasantries, each asking about cident with each other’s my uncles, health and my grandfafamilies. ther’s sons, Then we conthey discluded that cussed it would have questions been imposrelating to Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l sible for my Klal Yisragrandfather el, including to have responded to the Rebrecent political decisions and be’s question so quickly and other matters of concern. with such confidence unless it Finally, the Rebbe told was already clear in his mind my grandfather he had a quesfrom earlier study. This means tion relevant to Torah. He told he must have studied Kabmy grandfather that, for 50 balah extensively in his earyears, he had been perplexed lier years. by a major enigma in the ZoMy grandfather, of course, har, the foundational work of spent just as much time anKabbalah. His question dealt swering questions from Jews with the Kabbalistic concept who did not have the stature of the Yanuka, a wonder child of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. On who possesses supernatural one occasion, he heard from wisdom. a young man who lived in the My grandfather did not Midwest who had, nebach, just pause for a second before givlost his father. To complicate ing the Rebbe an extraordimatters, the funeral was one narily brilliant explanation week before the young man to the question that had been was scheduled to be married. posed. The Rebbe was reportThe Shabbos of his aufruf fell edly ecstatic with the response.
in middle of shiva. Because his family was close with Rav Moshe, they placed a long-distance call to New York to discuss some specific shailos regarding the groom’s circumstance. The young man was very appreciative of Rav Moshe’s assistance and his warm words of chizuk. A few minutes after they had hung up, the phone rang in the young man’s home. A long-distance operator asked the surprised young man if he would accept a long-distance call from Moses Feinstein. Rav Moshe explained his reason for calling. “After we hung up,” he said, “I realized that this Shabbos is also your kallah’s Shabbos Kallah. The custom is that the choson sends the kallah special flowers for this special Shabbos. If your kallah would not get the flowers, and all her friends who come for the Shabbos Kallah would see that she does not have them, she would feel bad. I wanted to tell you that you must make sure to send the flowers, despite your situation.” Rav Moshe then went on to say that the halachos of aveilus (laws of mourning) are d’rabbanan (rabbinic), but making someone feel bad is an issur d’Oriesah (forbidden in the Torah). Y
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oversaw that first chag ha-smicha. The huge collection of notebooks he left give us a window into the thoughts of one of the greatest Jews of the 20th century. For nearly 50 years in the US, no one was more revered, beloved, and respected than he. The memory of this most humble of men is still warm and his influence is still powerful because his rulings remain the guide and foundation of his successors. Another side to his greatness rests in the frequent, regular talks he delivered on all sorts of occasions, communal and private, where his warm, caring, trenchant, and thoughtful nature was revealed. He saw appropriate insights and messages for every setting, sad or joyous, auspicious or challenging. The common theme that infused everything he said was the joy and beauty of Yiddishkeit. His homilies reflected the person. They were brilliant, wise, understanding, sensitive, filled with a desire to know the Torah, and the conviction that there was no greater privilege than to do so and to help others do the same. People called on him from throughout the world, asking him halachic questions on how to proceed with their lives or on how to interpret passages. But, when someone called on the telephone, he never asked for the person’s name. He did not want the caller to have to feel obligated to him in anyway. “I am here on this earth for one purpose,” he told us, his students. “To answer questions.” He treated all his students as if we were his own children, and that closeness was reciprocated, even when we became busy with our own lives. He made it clear to all of us that his door, his phone, and his heart were always open to us to his last day on earth. He and his Rebbetzin, who was as beautiful inside as out, always made sure when yeshiva students came to their home, there was food on the table. When we demurred, she would tell us to please sit down. “I want to hear your bracha,” she would say. That way we could eat just to please her when she heard our blessing. What a beautiful couple they were, role models for the rav’s students, the community, and the world.
Not surprisingly, all of us wanted him to serve as mesader kedushin at our children’s weddings. I was serving as the pulpit rabbi at Temple Beth Abraham in North Bergen when my children were getting married. I remember that, just before the wedding of one of my daughters, I not only had to serve as mesader kedushin at a congregant’s wedding the night before, I had to officiate at a funeral in the morning. Before we left for my daughter’s wedding, my wife reminded me 100 times not to forget the ketubah, but, in the excitement, I arrived at the Waldorf Astoria
and, with about 700 people waiting for the chupah, I had to admit I did not have the ketuba. There were 52 other rabbis at the wedding, and, while waiting for Rav Moshe, who had agreed to officiate, to arrive, I asked each of them if they by chance had a ketuba on them. None of them did. Rav Moshe arrived late. That same day, Golda Meir was in town, due to pass by the Waldorf at the same time as the wedding. It took Rav Moshe and seven of his students one hour to get through security to make their way to the hotel.
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Ess Gezint: A Mostly Healthy Pesach
Just in time for Pesach, Bonnie Giller, a certified dietician-nutritionist with a private practice in Long Island, has come out with “Passover the Healthy Way: Light Tasty and Easy Recipes Your Whole Family Will Enjoy” (AuthorHouse). The book, which gives a complete calorie count for every dish, is the result of Ms. Giller’s insistence that, with proper planning and ingredient modification, Pesach recipes can be low in fat and calories, healthy, and delicious. The book can be ordered by calling 800-839-8640. But in case you’d also like to sample what the folks at MatzaFun Tours are enjoying, here is a recipe for Potato Kugel (no calorie count) by their own Chef Marty Levin (www.chefmartyskosherkitchen.com). Chag Kasher v’Sameach, everyone. Y
Potato Kugel
1 Tbs vegetable oil for 3 whole eggs greasing the pan 3 egg whites 10 russet potatoes, peeled ⅓ cup vegetable oil and grated 2 tsp salt 2 yellow onions, peeled 1 tsp white pepper and grated Preheat oven to 350º. Grease a 9x13-inch pan with 1 Tbs oil. Combine potatoes and onions in a large bowl. Mix in the eggs, oil, salt and pepper. Pour mixture into the prepared pan. Bake 1½-2 hours, until the top is golden brown and crisp.
Confetti Turkey Loaf
2 Tbs chopped green pepper 1 lb ground white meat 4 Tbs kosher-for-Pesach salsa, turkey divided 2 egg whites ⅛ tsp black pepper ¼ cup matzoh meal 1 tsp kosher-for-Pesach mustard 2 Tbs chopped onion ¼ cup water 2 Tbs chopped red pepper Preheat oven to 350º. Combine all ingredients except 2 Tbs of the salsa. Mix well. Press into a 5½ x 9½-inch loaf pan. Brush top with remaining salsa and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until meat is no longer pink in center. Serves 5, 139 calories per portion.
Apple Delight
5 medium Granny Smith apples over cooking spray ¼ cup sugar ½ cup matzoh meal 1 tsp ground cinnamon ⅓ cup sugar 2 tsp lemon juice ¼ cup almonds, sliced Non-Stick Kosher-for Pass1 Tbs olive oil Peel, core, and cut apples into ¼-inch slices. Combine slices, ¼ cup sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice. Toss gently. Spoon into an 11x17-inch baking dish, coated with non-stick spray. Set aside. For the topping, combine matzoh meal, ⅓ cup sugar, almonds, and olive oil. Stir well. Sprinkle over apple mixture. Bake for 1 hour or until browned. Serves 6, with 221 calories per portion. (If you use sweetener instead of sugar, the calories drop to 150 per serving.)
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“And the Holy One, Blessed Is He, Came” depicts a woman lighting Shabbos candles, ushering in G-d’s presence. Parallel Universe Dr. Baigell pointed out that while, over the centuries, many Christian artists have painted continuous narratives based on a particular event in the Bible or on a familiar song, very few Jewish artists have done so. But, said Dr. Baigell, Mr. Rand’s goal was not to duplicate the story line in pictures. “Rather, he invents a parallel visual universe that evokes aspects of the text and, therefore, in Talmudic fashion, invites
Rav Zigelman When he finally arrived, I had to tell my rebbe I had forgotten to bring the ketuba. Without blinking, he said, in Yiddish, “Let’s not wait. It’s late. Gib mir a shtickle papir (give me a piece of paper), und vell ich shreiben die kesuba (and I’ll write the ketuba).” My mouth dropped open in amazement as he wrote out the entire ketuba, by heart, in Aramaic. An enormous crowd gathered around him, and when the photographer realized something significant was happening, he snapped the picture of
the viewer to think about and ruminate on the meaning of what is read and visualized,” said Dr. Baigell. Like the song itself, he said, Mr. Rand’s interpretation often seems “simple and playful, but also very complicated and very Jewish.” The exhibit, “Had Gadya: Paintings by Archie Rand,” is free and open to the public. The gallery, where the exhibit can be viewed until Sunday, May 8, from 9am to 5pm, is located at 401 South Broad Street in Philadelphia. The phone number is 215-5454400. S.L.R.
continued from page 43 Rav Moshe writing, with me, the forgetful father of the bride, sitting next to him, and many of our rabbinic guests watching in wonder and admiration. That was the ketuba Rav Moshe used to officiate at my daughter’s wedding. Needless to say, we still have the ketuba and the photograph. Not long after, the photographer wanted to exhibit that picture at a convention in upstate New York, but the rav would not give permission. He did not want the extra publicity it would bring. Y
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Born in Uzdan, Belorussia, in 1895, he became the spiritual leader of Luban in his early 20s, and, with his wife, Sima, and family, relocated to the United States in 1937. On New York’s Lower East Side, Reb Maishe, as he was known, using the Lithuanian pronunciation of his name, became rosh yeshiva of Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem, which sponsored a junior and senior high school as well as a rabbinic seminary. His position as his generation’s greatest decisor of Jewish law was recognized from his answers to personal halachic questions, which were compiled into a seven-volume set called Igros Moshe. An eighth book was released posthumously, and a ninth is in the works. Rabbi and Rebbetzin Feinstein were famously revered for their modest and simple lifestyle and his willingness to answer halachic questions whether
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to do. “How much of your time are you halachically required to give up in order to do a chesed?” he asked the rav gruffly. On the off chance the man was serious, Rav Moshe told him that chesed could be considered like tzedaka. A person is obligated to give one-tenth of his money to charity and onetenth of his time to performing
kind deeds for others. Seeing the man who had asked the question smirk, Rav Feinstein said sharply, “And what about me? What is my time worth?” It was clear that Rav Moshe’s time was worth much more than that of the person who had asked the question, and Rav Moshe gave much more of his time to Klal Yisrael. Y
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25th Annual Yachad Family Shabbaton to be Held May 13-15
On Shabbat Parshat Behar, May 13-15, Yachad/The National Jewish Council for Disabilities (NJCD) will hold its 25th annual Family Shabbaton Retreat at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, NY. Set amid 400 acres of majestic landscapes and surrounded by the Shawangunk Mountains, the resort is 90 minutes from the George Washington Bridge. Yachad is the Orthodox
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the next day as well. Explosives Earlier in the day, Israeli border police stationed at the Tapuach Junction south of Shechem (Nablus) discovered five pipe bombs and three Molotov cocktails ready to be thrown. The explosives were found in a bag belonging to a Palestinian after the officers deemed him sufficiently suspicious to warrant an inspection of his person and belongings. The would-be terrorist was arrested by Israeli security forces, and the explosive devices were detonated by sappers. Checkpoint Security Although critics claim the Israeli checkpoints “humiliate” and inconvenience Palestinians who pass through them, Israeli security stationed at these checkpoints regularly
Union’s flagship program promoting inclusion within the greater Jewish community for those with learning, developmental, and physical disabilities. Workshops and Activities The upcoming Shabbaton shows just how far Yachad has come in 25 years. In 1986, at the OU’s first Yachad Shabbaton, a few families gathered together at a local camp in the Catskills. This May, approximately 600 families from across the US and Canada are expected at
the Shabbaton, where they will participate in an informative and inspiring weekend. The retreat will offer workshops and support groups for parents, special activities for siblings, and fun for the entire family, including an exciting day camp program that will keep the children entertained all weekend, allowing their parents to take advantage of all the sessions being offered by experts in the field of disabilities.
For the Shabbaton, Yachad offers scholarships to families that would like to attend but cannot afford the cost. The Shabbaton’s coordinators, Chani Herrmann, director of NJ Yachad, and Eli Hagler, assistant director at Yachad/NJCD, are encouraging people to contact them before making a decision not to come due to finances. For more information and to receive an application, contact Mrs. Herrmann at herrmann@ ou.org. Y
Itamar Massacre The attacks were only a prelude to the one that occurred on Shabbat, March 11, in the Samarian community of Itamar. Five members of the Fogel family—the parents, Rabbi Udi and Ruth Fogel, and three of their six children, Yoav, 11; Eldad, 4; and Hadas, 3 months old—were brutally stabbed to death. The infant was virtually decapitated. According to the IDF investigation, the terrorist attackers entered the community by jumping the fence, triggering an alert. The guard on duty went to the spot from which the warning came, but saw no evidence of infiltration, and, therefore, assumed, as has occurred often, an animal had activated the electronic fence’s warning signal. The three surviving mem-
bers of the family, Tamar, 12; Ro’ie, 8; and Shai, 2, escaped harm almost by accident. Tamar was at a youth group meeting and the terrorists seemed simply not to notice the two little boys. Some analysts said Mrs. Fogel’s struggle with her attackers may have been instrumental in forcing them to flee before they could murder the other children. Tens of thousands of Israelis attended the funeral for the five slain members of the Fogel family, forcing police to block the entrance to Jerusalem and bringing traffic to a standstill. Taking Credit The first group to take credit for the slaughter was the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a terrorist cell affiliated with Mr. Abbas’s Fatah faction of the PA. A few hours later, the group retracted
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thwart terrorist attacks. On Thursday, March 9, for example, IDF soldiers at the Tzofim checkpoint caught two Palestinians carrying bombs and knives. They were arrested and the bombs destroyed in a controlled explosion. Two days later, Palestinian terrorists carried out a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley, targeting an Israeli bus as it passed the Gitit checkpoint west of Maaleh Efraim. The bus was damaged, but no one was hurt in the attack. A second bus was also attacked, but, once again, the only damage was to the vehicle. Just outside Bethlehem, Palestinians threw rocks and firebombs at soldiers guarding Rachel’s Tomb. The soldiers were unhurt. Rock attacks were also reported near Hebron.
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the statement, but Aaron Klein of World Net Daily reported that his sources in the Brigades leadership had confirmed that members of that group planned and helped carry out the attack, while the actual perpetrators were members of Hamas. “If accurate, this would be evidence of unusual cooperation between Hamas and Fatah rivals,” said Mr. Klein. Israeli investigators found tracks from Itamar leading to the nearby village of Awarta, where two cousins who serve in the official security forces of PA President Mahmoud Abbas were arrested: Ahmed Awad, an officer in Mr. Abbas’s Preventive Security Services in Shechem, and Iyad Awad, an officer in Mr. Abbas’s General Intelligence services in Ramallah. Fatah’s Preventive and General Intelligence services are armed, trained, and funded by the US. Mr. Klein’s sources told him the cousins, both members of the Brigades, did not personally carry out the murders, but, rather, assisted in the planning and
logistics. By the end of March, approximately 100 Palestinians from Awarta had been arrested, fingerprinted, and given DNA tests to see if they were connected with the murders. According to the Palestinian Ma’an news agency, among those arrested were the deputy mayor of Awarta and two of his brothers. Denying Defense Minister Ehud Barak vowed that Israel would use every means possible to track down those responsible, but his declaration did not impress residents of Judea and Samaria such as David Isaac. “Unless the perpetrators are killed while being taken, they will end up doing time in an Israeli prison, perhaps eventually to be released in return for the bodies of some Israeli soldiers,” he said, recalling the case of the child-murderer Sami Kuntar who, upon his release in exchange for Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon, said, “Allah willing, I will get the chance to kill more Israelis.”
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Mr. Abbas told reporters he was certain no PA residents were involved in the slaughter in Itamar. Another PA leader suggested the killers might have been foreign workers employed by the Fogels. According to Arutz Sheva, no foreign workers were employed in the entire community of Itamar, making the allegation patently false. Justifying In Gaza, Hamas argued that the murders were acceptable under international law, which, the terrorist group said, gives “Palestinian resistance factions” the right “to use all tools and means of resistance against Israeli occupation forces and the armed settlers.” Hamas went on to suggest that Israelis may have murdered the Fogel family in an attempt to disparage the Palestinians. PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said the PA is “against violence and condemns it regardless of the circumstances, identity of the victims, or the goals,” but said nothing about this specific attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “disappointed by the weak and mumbled” PA statements. “This is not how one condemns terrorism. This is not how one fights terrorism,” he said. Incitement He maintained that the
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PA’s “institutionalized and systematic incitement” against Israel has never ceased, even during the height of the diplomatic process. “Incitement against Israel, which frequently turns into genuine antisemitic incitement, is an inseparable part of the fabric of life in the PA,” he said, noting that anti-Israel and antisemitic messages are “regularly heard in both the private and official media and in mosque sermons, and are studied in school textbooks.” “Terrorists are given honored status and become models for emulation in Palestinian society, both in the media and via ceremonies held by institutions affiliated with the PA,” he said. The night after the Itamar murders, Mr. Abbas met with a member of a Palestinian singing group whose songs honor terrorists. IDF Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser, directorgeneral of the Strategic Affairs Ministry, said the meeting was emblematic of the way the PA “sings for terror.” In January, for example, the PA commemorated the founding of Fatah with videos celebrating Dalal Mughrabi, a terrorist whose claim to fame was the 1978 Coastal Road massacre which left 37 civilians, including American photographer Gail Rubin, dead and 51 wounded. Israeli soldiers managed to kill Ms. Mughrabi, but the PA has
named girls schools, camps, and festivals for her. Mr. Kuperwasser denied American claims that the PA has made “a serious contribution” to the reduction of terror in Judea and Samaria. “They make cosmetic moves, but incitement continues shortly after every terrorist attack,” he said. Ignoring Particularly galling for Israelis and their supporters was the dearth of articles outside Israeli and Jewish circles deploring, or even reporting on the terror incident. When the murders were mentioned, Western news media frequently referred to the terrorists as “intruders” and the decimated family members as “settlers.” In Europe and the US, most media outlets concentrated on Mr. Netanyahu’s statement that, in response to the Itamar murders, Israel would build 500 new apartment units in Judean and Samarian communities that fall within the so-called “consensus,” the term used for those areas that Israel intends to keep in any final peace arrangements with the Palestinians. Thus far, the Palestinians have not accepted that Israel will retain any of those areas, including eastern Jerusalem where the Kotel is located. “They murder; we build,” said Mr. Netanyahu, explaining his policy to Tamar Fogel. Condemning Although that has been the mantra of many religious Zionists for decades, Mr. Netanyahu’s interpretation sounded like an “insult” to several members of the Yesha Council. “It felt like the prime minister was offering us a deal: Here, you deserve 500 housing units for this murder. And that figure quickly turned into 400 homes. And then we discovered that
some 200 of those are apartments that had already been approved a month earlier and earmarked for young hareidi couples in Beitar Ilit,” said a council member who asked for anonymity. He noted that the dozens of warnings from leaders in Judea and Samaria that Mr. Barak’s policy of easing security procedures and decreasing funding for them in Judea and Samaria, would be prelude to terrorist attacks, had been ignored. While remaining largely silent when it came to condemning the Fogel murders, the PA and the Obama administration sprang to life at the thought of Jewish building as a response. Nabil Rudeineh, a spokesman for Mr. Abbas, called the decision to build “unacceptable.” A statement from the US Embassy read, “We view these settlements as illegitimate and running counter to efforts to resume direct negotiations.” Condoning Far from being stunned by the grisly murders, Palestinians in Gaza exchanged sweets to celebrate, and their supporters condoned their joy. Iran’s official Fars News Agency reported that the attackers “managed to kill all five Zionists who were in the house” and that “the Palestinian combatant has returned home safely after conducting his mission successfully.” Fars said “the operation” was “a natural response to the crimes of the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people.” “It’s a natural response if you are a monster,” said Andrew McCarthy, writing in National Review Online. Attacks Continue Monstrous or not, terrorist attacks continued throughout the month. On Friday, March 18, two masked Palestinians at-
http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com tacked Arab workers and Jews at a construction site in Shiloh, using pepper spray. One of the workers was hit in the head with an iron bar before the Palestinians fled in their vehicle. At the same time, two Palestinians with four Bangalore torpedoes (explosives placed on a long tube) were arrested at the Bekaot crossing near Shechem. On March 20, Purim, at 8am, an Israeli captain in the IDF was attacked on the streets of Jaffa, just south of Tel Aviv, by a Palestinian who stabbed the soldier and then stole his gun. A civilian eyewitness chased the perpetrator as he tried to flee. The Palestinian threw the soldier’s gun aside, but was arrested a short time later by Israeli police. Arabs and Jews live together in Jaffa, sometimes causing tensions to run high. While some local Jews say co-existence is successful, others point to recent demonstrations in which Arab protesters yelled, “Death to
settlers” and “We will redeem Palestine by blood.” According to the IDF, 137 weapons were stolen from Israeli soldiers last year. Most of these thefts occurred on army bases or in the soldiers’ homes. The IDF managed to recapture 74 weapons, including 70 percent of those taken from bases. Police Apathy On March 21, Palestinians threw rocks again, this time at an Israeli bus traveling north of Kiryat Arba. One day later, a family that was attacked in Jerusalem by a rock-wielding Arab expressed fury at what they saw as the “apathy” on the part of police. The attack on seven members of the Greenwald family occurred as they drove near the Arab Silwan neighborhood. A rock smashed through the car window next to two of the children. The parents said the fact that none of the children was hurt was a “miracle,” but police told the family simply to file a complaint.
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Bus Explosion The day after the Greenwald’s ordeal, there was no apathy. An explosive placed in a briefcase at a public telephone booth in downtown Jerusalem was detonated as two packed buses passed by. The blast took place near the Pitzutz Shel Kiosk (Blast of a Kiosk) stand, where sandwiches and drinks are sold. Its name commemorates a previous terror attack at the site in 1994. The owner, Shimshon Moshe, and his brother-in-law, David Amoyal, saw a young Arab man place the briefcase beside the phones and then leave the area. These eyewitnesses called security personnel who immediately blocked others from approaching the scene, thereby probably saving numerous lives. Mr. Amoyal suffered injuries to his legs, feet and lower body in the blast. British Fatality Mary Jane Gardner, a 56year-old British Evangelical
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Christian who worked for Wycliffe Bible Translators in Togo, was killed. She was in Israel to study Hebrew in order to help her translation skills. Because she was not carrying identification at the time of the blast and had no relatives in Israel searching for her at local hospitals, it took officials many hours to determine who she was. Her elderly parents in Britain were said to be “devastated by the sudden loss of our daughter in this tragic and unexpected way.” Young Victims About 50 people were wounded in the blast, two of them seriously and 18 moderately. Most of the wounded were young, like the 17-year-old student who suffered massive internal injuries and has had a number of organs removed, and the 19-year-old seminary student who suffered burns to her arms and legs as well as serious shock. A 15-year-old suffered
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burns and fractures in his legs and lower abdomen, and the ankle and three toes of a 14year-old were crushed. ZAKA rescue service personnel arrived at the scene immediately. They had been attending a meeting discussing sending aid to disaster-struck Japan when they felt the reverberations of the blast. “We didn’t wait even for a second. We just got up and ran to the bus station,” said ZAKA volunteer Moti Bukchi. When he arrived at the scene, he saw two women lying on the ground, unconscious and covered in blood. Looking for Suspects The terrorist who planted the bomb escaped and has not been captured. Israeli police immediately began a search for the perpetrators, setting up checkpoints and causing severe traffic jams as vehicles leaving Jerusalem were searched.
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By the next day, the Palestinian Authority had arrested two members of Islamic Jihad. Attacks Continued But the bombing in Jerusalem was not the last of March’s terrorist attacks. One day later, unexploded mortar shells were found in a forest near Neot Kedumim in the Modi’in area. Highway 443 was closed and a bomb squad was called to deal with the shells. On Friday, March 25, Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli cars travelling to Beitar Illit. No injuries were reported. Alert Police The same day, a soldier was attacked with rocks at a bus stop at the Petza’el juncture near Tomer in the Jordan Valley, sustaining moderate injuries. Once again, it appeared the terrorist was attempting to take the soldier’s weapon. A security officer passing through the area while the incident was taking place had a
clear shot of the terrorist and injured him in the leg. He had been summoned by a woman who was also at the bus stop. “At first, I didn’t understand it was a terror attack,” said the officer, Zecharia Shepso, who initially thought it was a fight. When he stepped out of his car, he saw “the soldier, who was in uniform, and the terrorist leaning over him with a rock in his hand, repeatedly beating the soldier’s head with it. There was a lot of blood.” Doing the Necessary Mr. Shepso’s first reaction was to kick the terrorist. When the Palestinian then went after the police officer, he fired a shot in the air. “When that didn’t help, I shot him in the leg. He continued advancing towards me, so I fired a few more shots at his leg. That’s when the incident ended. I did what was expected of me as a police officer,” he said.
The soldier and the terrorist were taken to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem. A police spokesman said Mr. Shepso’s actions certainly prevented the soldier from being more grievously injured and the weapon from falling into “the wrong hands.” He may also have thwarted a kidnapping. Shortly after the attack, two Palestinians were arrested with four pipe bombs at a checkpoint near Shechem. Attack in Gimzu But perhaps the strangest attack took place at the end of March, when the victims were the family of popular Israeli investigative reporter for Ma’ariv, Kalman Liebskind. While driving from their home in Gimzu, located near Lod, well within the Green Line, they were attacked by a rock-throwing Arab who hit their car’s window just a foot over his young son’s head. After a second rock hit the car’s fender, the perpetrator
http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com and his accomplice ran into a wooded area. When Mr. Liebskind called the police, he learned that two Israeli women had been similarly attacked just earlier. Campfire Israeli police found the perpetrators in the wooded area, sitting around a campfire with about 20 other Arab young men from Lod. “If we want to, we can burn all of Gimzu,” they announced. The Arabs told the police they had left a mosque in Lod after hearing a lecture on the Quran. The trees around their campfire had been spray-painted with threats in Arabic. “The police did not question anyone and arrested only the rock-thrower whom we could identify,” Mr. Liebskind wrote in his column. Kafkaesque Later in the week, he received a call from the Lod Police asking him to help them complete their investigation of the incident. Once at the police station, he wrote, he was astonished to learn that he was “under suspicion of threatening the Arabs with a weapon.” When he asked the police where “this ridiculous idea” had come from, he was told the rock-thrower and his friends had filed a complaint claiming Mr. Liebskind had threatened them. When the journalist suggested the police call on “50 people in Gimzu to serve as character witnesses,” the police responded, “That’s useless. They will be your friends and not objective.” “And these Arabs who threw stones at me and know I filed a complaint against them are objective?” Mr. Liebskind asked. Nevertheless, after an hour of questioning, he was measured, photographed, fingerprinted, and finally freed on his own recognizance. Humiliated, Mr. Liebskind wrote that he remained shocked
by the possibility that the police believed the offender’s version of what had occurred to his family. Routine It was not that shocking to reporters at Arutz Sheva, many of whom reside over the Green Line, where such incidents occur routinely. “Liebskind found himself in a situation that has happened often to residents of Judea and Samaria, who often find themselves accused in the mainstream media, including the newspaper for which Liebskind works, of crimes perpetrated by Arabs, from stealing and destroying olive trees to burning sheep and throwing rocks,” said a reporter for Arutz Sheva. Last month, this Palestinian tactic prompted Rabbi Dov Lior, a leading religiousZionist rabbi, to issue a ruling allowing Jews to film Arab attackers on the Sabbath. Although normally using cameras is forbidden, the ruling is an effort to assist Israel in its war on terrorism, which is seen as a matter of life and death, a reason for violating the laws of the Sabbath. Financial Support As a result of the terror attacks, Israel’s supporters throughout the world have been extending efforts not only to the victims of terror, but also to encourage methods to thwart the violence. Throughout the US and Israel, there have been memorial services, protests, and vigils. In response to reports that the attack in Itamar was due to lack of adequate funding and technological support to the community, the One Israel Fund, a 20-year-old organization dedicated to providing necessary equipment for security and quality of life for residents of Judea and Samaria, initiated its “No More Jewish Victims” campaign. According to Itamar Mayor Moshe Goldsmith and security
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chief, Matanya Ben Shitrit, the level of equipment, including additional cameras, high-powered lighting, and communication technology, can increase the community’s preparedness and decrease response time. According to Marc Prowisor, One Israel Fund’s security projects director, Itamar’s acreage is one of the largest in Samaria, making the community difficult to patrol. Worse, the necessary equipment has been sharply cut from the budget allocated by Defense Minister Barak. According to Arutz Sheva, the IDF has refused to fund essential security equipment in Itamar because the government’s justice department claimed the fence surrounding the community was illegal. Similarly, according to the news agency, the army has refused to help fund technological upgrading and installation of advanced capabilities for the surveillance camera that was bought with private donations.
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“The upgrading would have made it possible, through the use of thermal sensitive devices, to differentiate between an animal touching the fence and someone going over it,” said Mr. Prowisor. Further, he said, the IDF has also reduced the number of soldiers guarding communities such as Itamar and Elon Moreh, so that when the army is called, it can take a long time for troops to arrive. “All this underscores the urgency and importance of assisting the communities throughout Judea and Samaria in providing the necessary equipment which can and will save lives,” said the One Israel Fund’s executive vice president, Scott Feltman. For more information, he can be reached at 516-239-9202 ext 12, or scott@oneisraelfund.org. “The Fogels were murdered because they were Jews living in Itamar. This should cause each of us great concern,” said Mr. Feltman. S.L.R.
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Israelis to Decide: Is J Street Pro-Palestinian or Pro-Israel
lthough J Street, the far left-wing, well-financed group that sees itself as the “pro-peace, pro-Israel” answer to AIPAC, boasted 2,500 attendees at its convention in Washington last February and claims to have 170,000 “supporters,” its founder, Jeremy Ben-Ami, admitted to Israeli lawmakers last month that his organization has very limited access to mainstream American-Jewish institutions. “We’re fighting a very, very difficult battle to be able to have the space at the table in the American-Jewish community, to be allowed into synagogues, Hillels, federations, to speak,” he said. “And if the government of Israel, through the Knesset, has some kind of resolution that says, ‘No, J Street is not pro-Israel,’ the doors will be shut.” Mr. Ben-Ami made his remark after a Knesset hearing
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No Hiding Vice Premier and Minister of Regional Development Silvan Shalom agreed, noting that while Iron Dome is important, Israel should never think only in terms of defensive measures, but, rather, always maintain the option of going on the offensive. “Unequivocal Israeli declarations about the possibility of a large-scale operation
called to decide if J Street should be declared anti-Israel. Seeking Condemnation The hearing was convened by Danny Danon, the Likud party chairman of the Knesset’s Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs Committee. He said the panel would vote before Passover on whether to label J Street “proPalestinian” or “pro-Israel.” The former, which seems more likely, would undermine his organization in the US, Mr. Ben-Ami told the Jerusalem Post. Mr. Ben-Ami’s admission delighted Dr. Aaron Lerner of the IMRA news agency. “Here we in Israel thought there wasn’t much we could do to hamper J Street’s activities against our democratically elected government and its policies and then we get this encouraging message from Ben-Ami,” he said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already made his
feelings known. He has declined to meet with J Street representatives or take part in the group’s conferences. Like the lawmakers at the hearing who came out against granting J Street recognition as a Zionist organization, Mr. Netanyahu found Mr. BenAmi’s opposition to President Barack Obama’s veto of a UN resolution condemning Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria “reprehensible.” J Street has also pressed Mr. Obama to force Israel to make concessions to the Arabs. Although Mr. Ben-Ami had publicly stated many times that J Street was not a beneficiary of the largesse of anti-Israel billionaire George Soros, IRS documents revealed that Mr. Soros had indeed given the group more than $500,000. Zionists on the Hill Last month, shortly before the hearing in Jerusalem, J Street excoriated one of Is-
rael’s most reliable friends on Capitol Hill, Rep Steve Rothman (D-NJ), who, along with Rep Steve Austria (R-OH) had issued a letter calling on Mr. Obama to urge PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to return to peace negotiations and end the almost continuous stream of anti-Israel and often antisemitic incitement which the PA features in all its media outlets and school textbooks. The congressmen’s letter calls on the White House to “do everything possible to urge [PA] President [Mahmoud] Abbas to root out terrorism, return to negotiations without preconditions, earnestly work toward peace with Israel, and slam the door on any effort to deal with final status issues at the United Nations.” The letter reminded Mr. Obama that “Unfortunately, we live in a time when the Al
Expensive One of the potential problems is that Iron Dome is expensive. Each of its missiles costs approximately $100,000, far more than the average shortrange Qassam rocket preferred by the terrorists in Gaza. Israeli defense officials plan to order four or five Iron Dome systems, and US President Barack Obama has reportedly asked Congress to approve $205 million for the project. This is in addition to the $3 billion in Foreign Military financing the Administration requested for Israel for the current fiscal year. Nevertheless, some critics of the system say it costs too much. “All the Palestinians need to do is build and launch a ton of rockets and hit our pocketbook,” said military analyst Reuven Pedatzur.
Education Minister Gidon Saar said if that becomes the case, Israel will be forced to carry out another large-scale operation in Gaza—“one even bigger than Operation Cast Lead,” he said. According to Mr. Netanyahu, Israel, in its struggle against Hamas, has received support not only from Mr. Obama, but also from the Russian and Italian governments among others. “Civilized peoples are struggling against this sickness and this evil called terrorism— intentional, direct, and brutal attacks against innocent civilians. No country would tolerate such attacks. Israel will not tolerate these attacks. We are prepared to respond with all our might in order to stop this terrorism; we will put a stop to it,” he said. S.L.R.
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Letters to the Editor A Modest Proposal
Like many Israelis and, I imagine, our counterparts among our purported peace partners, I have lain awake nights wondering if we will ever find a way out this corrosive impasse. The other day, I had an epiphany, which I offer to the Palestinian leadership and the well-intentioned peace-seekers in the international community. Recognizing that the term “occupation” refers to the forcible takeover of all or part of another country (think, for example, of Turkey in Cyprus), the Obama Administration and the Quartet should draft a proposal demanding that Israel withdraw immediately from every inch of territory that ever belonged to a sovereign Palestinian-Arab state in the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The proposal would naturally include Jerusalem, and would require Israel to pull back completely from any quarter of the Holy City that ever served as the capital of a Palestinian (or Arab) government. The declaration would be brought to the Security Council, where its unanimous passage would be assured. To uncover possible evidence of Palestinian-Arab sovereignty in the land or in Jerusalem, the Council would direct the Secretary-General to establish a select commission chaired by an eminent expert to undertake an exhaustive search of the historical record. The Security Council would subsequently adopt a resolution obligating the parties to accept the commission’s findings as a guideline for, finally, bringing the conflict to an end. I would like to think that my proposed initiative would be welcomed by both sides. The Palestinians could hardly reject the lure of discovering a factual basis for their unyielding claim that Israel is the illegal usurper of land that had been Palestinian Arab polity. And for Israel, it would provide the opportunity, once and for all, to lay this scurrilous libel to rest. Dr. Jack E. Friedman Jerusalem, Israel
TofflerWatch Revisited
Although I am not from Teaneck, I found the article on Councilwoman Barbara Toffler very interesting (“TofflerWatch: Teaneck Councilwoman Charged and Censured but Wants Compensation,” Feb 2011). Unfortunately, this type of individual, who feels she is above the law, is not unique. People like Toffler twist incidents, such as the tragic shooting in Tucson, to advance their own agendas. They hate frum Jews just for the sake of hating. After being caught on camera leaving the scene of an accident, she then requested a citizen’s criminal background check in order to release records that must be released by law, all the while feigning fear. How bizarre is that! In what field is her doctorate? Thanks anyway for a good read. Dovid Kent Kew Garden Hills, NY SLR responds: Dr. Toffler calls herself “a business ethicist.” According to her website, her doctorate from Yale is in “Organizational Behavior.” You are most welcome.
March of the Living Links History with the Future
This year, March of the Living will be making available a live broadcast of a special Yom HaShoah program directly from Auschwitz, on Sunday, May 1st. The keynote speaker is Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations since 1986. The distinguished speaker and Holocaust survivor Irving Roth will also be featured as part of our Yom HaShoah broadcast. In addition, there will be a student choral group, a cantorial rendition of Kel Maleh, and active involvement from our young March of the Living participants. Branco Lustig, the producer of “Schindler’s List,” who never had a bar mitzvah during the Holocaust, will be celebrating his bar mitzvah on this trip along with other survivors. The broadcast, anticipated to last 45 minutes, will be made available via Jewish Life Television (JLTV) at 12:00 noon EST or on Direct TV Channel 366 (Time Warner 120). A delayed feed in the evening and online streaming video will be made available. The community’s Yom HaShoah program, taking place at The Frisch School in Paramus starting at 11 am on May 1st, will feature the live broadcast from Auschwitz. The transmission of memory from one generation to the next is a vital element of the March of the Living experience. Each year, thousands of young people from around the globe travel to Poland to participate in this journey through time, and visit the sites of the darkest chapter of Jewish history. They do so to march en masse to keep alive the memory of the millions of our people who perished. They march to proclaim their commitment to the State of Israel. They march to help build a better and safer world so that no people shall again be forced to experience the horror of the Shoah. Once in Israel, their understanding of and commitment to the Jewish future becomes universally reinforced by all participants. March of the Living brings close to 10,000 students, along with survivors, educators, and dignitaries from all over the world, on an educational mission to Poland and Israel every year. We hope your involvement can strengthen our shared commitment to Holocaust remembrance and education. Rabbi Dr. Wallace Greene Fair Lawn, NJ
Keeping BDS in Line Is Hard Work
If you check out the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) website, you can see it is powered by Google, which is also in Israel. Why isn’t BDS boycotting companies that do business with Israel, which is what it demands of Costco and Trader Joe’s? Further, if BDS uses Microsoft, it should be aware that its CEO, Steve Ballmer, continually states that Microsoft is as much an Israeli company as it is an American one. I sure hope BDS doesn’t use text messaging or instant messaging, because that, too, supports Israeli technology. Marty Mensch Ocean, NJ
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Fighting BDS at the JCC on the Upper West Side
I was so impressed with your detailed article on BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions), which Israel’s enemies use to delegitimize and discredit the Jewish State (“On March 31, Israel’s Supporters Will Shop ‘BIG’ to Counter the Boycott Movement, Feb 2011). On March 13th, I spoke at a press conference, held at the JCC on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, which Richard Allen, a JCC member, has identified as an institution that cooperates with organizations that support BDS against Israel. He has pointed out that the website of the JCC’s “Other Israel Film Festival” links to two non-governmental Palestinian advocacy organizations that support BDS. Fortunately, prior to attending the press conference, I read your report and found myself well equipped to answer the questions, both from the press and the public, who were quite surprised to learn about the JCC’s anti-Israel activities. The event was written up quite thoroughly in many papers, and our group will continue to create events to bring the issue to the public’s attention. I ended my talk by reminding everyone to think BIG (Buy Israeli Goods) on March 30. In fact, we should all energetically buy Israeli goods whenever we can. By supporting the stores that sell Israeli merchandise, we can defeat all the BDS supporters, but we must be alert and deliberate in our actions. Helen Freedman Executive Director Americans for a Safe Israel New York, NY SLR responds: Thank you so much and yasher koach for publicizing the fact that the JCC is linking to, giving free advertising to, and calling itself “partner” to groups that support BDS.
Clarity from a Bus Bombing
My family made aliyah a little over a month ago. Living in Jerusalem during a bombing is definitely a scarier experience, than being in the states and hearing about it. It really shakes you to your core. I take the #74 almost every day on my way to work. But tonight I realized that I came to Jerusalem because I really want to live here. I came because I’m willing to die here. I live here because I, like everyone else in Israel, am willing to fight for the Land, for Torah and Judaism, for Hashem and his children.
Tonight I waited 15 minutes for a bus to come, not because I didn’t want to walk for five minutes, but because I needed to prove to myself that I want to be here and don’t intend on leaving any time soon. As I got off the bus I went up to the driver and said, “Thank you for everything.” He looked at me with a sincere connecting stare and replied with the exact same words: “Thank you for everything.” Yaacov Simon Jerusalem, Israel
Elegy for a Slain Grandson
No one called him by name; no one said “I am ready” His back held no bundle of kindling and wood. No father’s hands on his head; no one begged for mercy No ram stood in wait in a thorny hedge. Just Talmudic singsong; Just an angel’s melody Age-old dialectics over opened tomes. Suddenly the blast came, as a guest does Parchments burning; letters soaring heavenward Then a screaming stillness, and eight smoking sacrificial altars in a row In the morning, Hallel—but not for us And a woman gone mad is keening: “It is wondrous in our eyes,” but do “we rejoice in it?” Duba Kellerman Nof Ayalon, Israel Mrs. Kellerman is the grandmother of Yochai Lifshitz, one of eight young Torah scholars murdered in cold blood in 2008 by an Arab terrorist on Rosh Chodesh Adar, in the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva library. The Jewish Voice and Opinion welcomes letters, especially if they are typed, double-spaced, and legible. We reserve the right to edit letters for length and style. Please send all correspondence to POB 8097, Englewood, NJ 07631. The phone number is (201) 569-2845. The FAX number is (201) 569-1739. The email address is susan@jewishvoiceandopinion.com
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Aqsa Martyrs Brigades will rush to take credit for the horrific, inhuman, and brutal attack in Itamar against the Fogel family, including three of their children, an 11-year-old, 4-year- old, and 3-month-old. This must serve as a wakeup call that the current state of affairs is dangerous and unacceptable.” Urging to Ignore J Street sent its own email to members of the House, urging them to ignore the Rothman-Austria letter, which it termed one-sided, disproportionately focused on incitement, and misleading. When J Street took special umbrage at the letter’s reference to the murders in Itamar as well as to its criticism of Mr. Abbas. Mr. Rothman fired back, pointing out that although Mr. Abbas declared the murders to be inhuman and without justification, “he did not condemn his fellow Palestinians for
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taking credit for such a despicable and murderous act.” While J Street argued that charging the PA with incitement was unfair, Mr. Rothman recalled the presence of members of Mr. Abbas’s Fatah faction at a recent ceremony in which a town square in the Arab village of Al-Bireh, near Ramallah, was renamed for Dalal Mughrabi. In 1978,m she led the hijacking of two buses along Israel’s coastal road, which resulted in the murders of 17 Israeli civil-
J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami: “We’re fighting a very, very difficult battle to be able to have the space at the table in the AmericanJewish community, to be allowed into synagogues, Hillels, federations, to speak. And if the government of Israel, through the Knesset, has some kind of resolution that says, ‘No, J Street is not pro-Israel,’ the doors will be shut.” ians, including 13 children and an American photographer, Gail Rubin. “The Itamar massacre was a sobering reminder that words matter, and that Palestinian incitement against Jews and Israel can lead to violence and ter-
ror,” the Kirk-Gillibrand letter said. “We urge you to redouble your efforts to impress upon the Palestinian leadership that continuing to condone incitement is not tolerable.” Just Most Recent Mr. Rothman pointed out
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that the ceremony in Al-Bireh was just the most recent of dozens of examples over the past several years when “the PA did not take sufficient action to publicly condemn or prevent the glorification and celebration of the murders of Israeli men, women, and children.” In its own email to Congressmen, J Street insisted the PA leadership has “taken great political risks and shown real willingness to end the conflict.” Many observers said J Street’s actions garnered the Rothman-Austria letter a great deal of positive attention. Perhaps having learned from this mistake, the organization did not utter a sound when Rep Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Rep Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) sent a similar letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Combatting the Far Left J Street’s performance on
Capitol Hill resonated in the Knesset, where the decision to hold the hearing was part of a nationalist effort to combat the often blatantly anti-Israel activities of some far left-wing Israeli groups, such as those that have endorsed the boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel movement (BDS). Many MKs and other officials have accused these left-wing groups of fueling the international campaign to portray Israel as the villain in the Middle East, while viewing the Palestinians as victims, even in the face of Arab terrorism. While J Street shares many views with the left-wing groups the Knesset is currently investigating, the American organization claims it does not support the BDS movement. Nevertheless, J Street has partnered with many groups that do and, on
its website, it explains its position, but does not condemn those who favor BDS. Hurting Israel At the hearing, former Israeli diplomat and director of the AIPAC office in Israel, Lenny Ben-David, testified that while he has known many right, left, and center, religious and secular organizations that qualify as Zionist, “I have never seen an organization like J Street that hides behind the cover of a pro-Israel organization and works with such furtiveness in the US in general and Washington in particular, to undermine and hurt the State of Israel,” he said. Most pointedly perhaps, while J Street claims it supports sanctions against Iran, Mr. Ben-David said it joined with the pro-Iranian Lobby, the National Iranian American Council, to oppose congres-
sional efforts to impose sanctions on the Teheran. In 2009, Mr. Ben-Ami co-authored an anti-sanctions article entitled “How Diplomacy Can Work with Iran.” Not Zionist Mr. Ben-David also took issue with J Street’s claim of 170,000 supporters, explaining that it simply counts all entries to its website. By that reckoning, he said, he, too, would be counted as a supporter. “J Street is not a Zionist organization. It cannot be proIsrael,” said Kadima MK Otniel Schneller at the hearing. Despite the uproar at the Knesset over J Street, polls show that, in the three years since its founding, few in Israel know who or what it is. Only 14 percent said they ever heard of J Street. The remaining 86 percent had not. S.L.R.
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