Jewish Voice and Opinion April 2013

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April 2013

Vol. 26 • No. 7

Iyar 5773

The Syrian Civil War Is a Microcosm of the Religious Shifts in the Middle East that Israel Will Have to Contend With; The Best Scenario May Be for No One to Win According to Israeli Defense

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Forces Military Intelligence, countries in the Middle East no longer align themselves according to national interests. The current Middle East has been redefined into Shiite and Sunni Muslim camps.

“This explains, for example, why [Sunni] Hamas has distanced itself from [Shiite] Iran in recent months and is moving closer to [Sunni] Egypt

and Turkey. It also explains why Iran is arming the Shiite minority in Yemen,” said Maj-Gen Aviv Kochavi, head of the Israeli Defense Forces Military Intelligence (MI) Directorate.

According to Mr. Kochavi, the shift from a nationalist to a religious paradigm has rearranged alliances between countries in the region, with the result that Israel is now in-

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Anti-Assad Syrian National Council leader Moaz al-Khatib

Margaret Thatcher: Anti-Terror, Pro-Israel, Rescuer of Jewish Children from the Nazis and Jews from the FSU When former British Prime

Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher died earlier this month, tributes and diatribes poured in from throughout the world. While leftists excoriated her, often singing derisively from the Wizard of Oz that the “witch is dead,” many in the Jewish community remembered the so-called “Iron Lady” as a savior, beginning with a Jewish child during the Holocaust and continuing with Soviet Jewry in the 1980s.

Born Margaret Roberts in

Pamela Geller in Edison............................4 School Choice in NJ.............................. 5 Kol Ami: Obama’s Goal in Israel?....... 6 The Current Crisis............................... 7 Alan Dershowitz at Gateways ....... 9 MASK Unmasks Problems.............10

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

1925, the future prime minister was 12 years old when, in 1938, her older sister Muriel’s pen-pal, Edith Muhlbauer, wrote from Austria, asking if the Roberts family could help her escape from Vienna. The Nazis had started rounding up Jews, and Edith understood it would not be long before they would come for her. Muriel and Edith were both 17.

The British girls’ father, Alfred Roberts, was a grocer in the small English town of Grantham, and the family lived

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In Edison, Granting Pamela Geller a Podium to Discuss Creeping Sharia Was a Matter of Principle Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg will

never be accused of either being afraid of controversy or refusing to stand up for his principles. After learning that the Great Neck Synagogue had reluctantly cancelled a scheduled talk by the controversial pro-Israel, anti-jihadist writer and activist Pamela Geller, Rabbi Rosenberg promptly invited her to give her address, a warning entitled “The Imposition of Sharia in America,” at his synagogue, Congregation Beth-El in Edison, NJ. Ms. Geller accepted and spoke at his synagogue on Sunday evening, April 14.

The subject of her talk was one on which she has written a great deal: the threat to the American value system that she feels is represented by insidious encroachment of Sharia law in Western democracies.

Her sidebar issues include democracy, freedom, liberty, and justice.

According to Rabbi Rosenberg, granting Ms. Geller a podium from which to dis-

Pamela Geller cuss her ideas was “a matter of principle.”

It is a subject Rabbi Rosenberg, who, in addition to serving as spiritual leader of his congregation is also the Edison Township police chaplain and a professor of speech at Middlesex Community College, knows a great deal about. Recently, he

Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg stood up for all minority rights when he held a “Stop the Hate” rally at his synagogue in which he spoke out against acts of violence and discrimination directed at the Muslim, Indian, African-American, and Jewish communities.

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In New Jersey, the Primary Issue Could Be School Choice On June 4, when voters in

New Jersey’s 36 Legislative District go to the polls for the primary to select their party’s candidate for State Assembly, most Democrats will be very tempted to vote for the incumbent, Gary Schaer, a member of the Passaic-Orthodox community who is appreciated by most of his constituency.

Challenging Mr. Schaer and his teammate, Assemblywoman Marlene Caride, are two fellow members of the Passaic community who, by temperament and conviction, are confronting th

the entire Democratic Party. The focal issue for Sam Krause, 62, and Aharon Cohn, 30, is school choice. Messrs Krause and Cohn are in favor of school choice; Mr. Schaer opposes it.

“I respect and admire Gary,” said Mr. Krause, a businessman who davens in the same synagogue as Mr. Schaer. “But I feel strongly about the issue of parental choice in education and I believe the time has come to make it happen.”

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Mr. Krause, said he is now running as a Democrat because he believes it is the only way to bring the issue of school choice to the fore.

“Republicans in New Jersey have been working with Democrats for more than two decades, trying to empower parents to be able to send their children to the schools of their choice, but the Democrats have never even allowed the issue to reach the floor of either chamber for a vote—not even for debate. Sam and I are asking the voters to send us to Trenton to change this,” he said.

Mr. Cohn, an emergency medical technician and senior member of the US Air Force Auxiliary, compared his run for State Assembly to “a lifesaving effort.”

“While public officials and media refuse to address and solve the issue of school choice, lives are being wasted every day in our governmentrun educational system—on the taxpayers’ dime,” he said.

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Kol Ami: Obama’s Goal in Israel?

In March, President Barack Obama went to Israel; eschewed addressing the country’s elected leaders in favor of a handpicked, carefully screened group of students who, in order to be selected, had to write an essay on why they deserved to hear the US President; and then left, leaving it to his Secretary of State John Kerry to implement the Obama Administration’s

vision of the “two-state solution.” According to many pundits, one of Mr. Obama’s chief goals was to make the Jewish community feel sufficiently loved and secure so that Israel would agree to make dramatic concessions to the Arabs. The question last month was: Did Mr. Obama make you feel safe enough to encourage Israel to relinquish land?

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If we do not learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. Israel, in fact, has relinquished land in the past and all we got in return were missiles hitting closer to Israel’s dense population centers. Obama’s visit to Israel was the window dressing for John Kerry’s work on the ground. Security will be defined by real actions and consequences for the other side, not pre-prepared

Making “concessions” and giving back land to the Palestinians is not about Obama; it is about maintaining a Jewish majority in the State of Israel. Establishing a state for two people with equal rights should not be about Obama’s performance but about saving the Jewish soul from endless occupation, one that we as a Jewish people would never tolerate.

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The danger is that the Jewish community can lose sight of the goal, which is to make sure Am Yisrael continues.

An integral part of this goal is the survival of Israel, which we should not jeopardize.

However, Obama prompted us to let our guard down. Let us not forget history and its lessons.

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The Current Crisis: “Even in Laughter, the Heart Can Ache” We were impressed with all the folks, including President Barack Obama, who could not bring themselves to use the “T” word immediately after the bombs went off in Boston. The President’s advisor David Axelrod explained this was because the word terrorist “means something very specific in people’s minds.”

But Axelrod had no trouble using the “R” word, making the “right-wing” connection because the attack occurred on April 15.

And Axelrod was hardly alone. CNN national-security analyst Peter Bergen said the Boston explosions reminded him of the Oklahoma City bombing perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh.

Richard Barrett, the former UN coordinator for the Al-Qaeda and Taliban monitoring team and the current senior director of the Qatar International Academy for Security Studies, told the British Independent that the timing of the attack on Patriots’ Day and the relatively small size of the devices suggested the work of a domestic extremist engaged in a “right-wing terrorist incident.”

It reminded commentator Gary Bauer of the 2010 foiled terrorist attack when a car bomb was found in Times Square.

NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg speculated that it was probably the work of a right-winger angry at ObamaCare. In that case, just as in the other 16 failed plots to attack New York, the car bomb was actually the work of a radical Muslim.

In other words, the leftists keep suggesting the attack might have been from a right-wing, anti-tax fanatic, but if the word “terrorist” were used, it might cause people to jump to the conclusion it was done by radical Islamists. Let’s get our

priorities straight here, folks, about which group it’s safer to risk maligning.

Online it was a different story. Jihadists celebrated the attack, circulating pictures showing injured people and a bloody sidewalk, along with hopes that more acts of jihadi terrorism will follow.

On the ground in Boston, Dr. Alastair Conn, Chief of Emergency Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, explained why his staff at the Harvard teaching center was so well prepared to handle the more than 100 wounded trauma victims of the attack.

“About two years ago, we asked the Israelis to come across and they helped us set up our disaster team so that we could respond in this kind of manner,” he replied.

He did not comment on Harvard’s proposed academic boycott of Israel.

Haifa University Business Prof Steve Plaut responded to the tragedy, with tongue firmly in cheek, by suggesting that Israeli President Shimon Peres write to Mr. Obama with advice on how to respond to a terrorist attack of this magnitude. For starters, Dr. Plaut said, the Israeli President should tell his American counterpart that the US must “learn to feel the perps’ pain and understand their needs.”

“You must offer to turn parts of New England over to them” and meet their demands in full, he said, adding that prosecuting the perps, “will simply extend and enlarge the cycle of violence.”

And if the perps turn out to be jihadists, well, “Bostonians must make way not just for ducklings, but also for Sharia,” said Dr. Plaut.

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School Choice Candidates Property Tax Reduction Act (A3875) the central issue of their campaign.

Proponents of this bill, which calls for universal school choice, maintain that it will improve the quality and efficiency of education through the force of competition. Ultimately, they say, it will cut property taxes, which go primarily to pay for education, in half.

“Public education currently costs over $10,000 more per child than a quality education does at many non-public schools,” said Mr. Cohn. “That’s just not necessary.”

Father-Son Team A3875 and its New Jersey State Senate version, S2614, were introduced just this past February by New Jersey’s only father-and-son team, Republican State Senator Anthony Bucco, Sr, and his son, Republican Assemblyman Anthony Bucco, Jr. They represent New Jersey’s

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25th district, which includes Morristown, Morris Township, Mountain Lakes, Randolph, Rockaway, and 14 other towns.

“Thanks to them, New Jersey now has the most innovative school choice bill in the country. The measure restores power and responsibility to parents, where it rightfully belongs, improves education by force of competition, and lowers property taxes,” said Rabbi Israel Teitelbaum, a spokesman for the Alliance for Free Choice in Education.

Now, he said, supporters of school choice must work to elect state representatives and senators who will support it.

Next November, all 120 seats in the State Legislature and that of Governor are up for election.

“The questions New Jerseyans must ask of those campaigning for their votes is what their stand is on this one bill, because how they vote will

open the pathway toward government that is really ofby-and-for the people,” said Rabbi Teitelbaum.

Tuition Allowance The bill allows any New Jersey student in grades K-12 to receive a public tuition allowance to enroll in any instate public or qualified private or parochial school that has accepted the child. The allowance will equal either the school’s tuition or the amount of money the state determines it pays for each child in public school, whichever is less.

Because many parochial schools actually cost less than the amount set aside for public school, the bill assumes resident districts will actually save money. According to the bill, half of the savings generated by the program will be applied to reduce property taxes in the district and the other half will be ploughed back into the program to be applied to an increase in public tuition allowances for the following school year.

According to the bill, students will remain eligible for public tuition allowances until they graduate from high school or reach the age of 21, whichever comes first.

Union Opposition Historically, school choice has been opposed by the public school establishment, primarily the teachers’ union, and their supporters in the Democratic Party. They argue that school choice is detrimental to those students who cannot qualify for any of the better schools.

Mr. Schaer has said he will not support the measure because he believes it will force increases in property taxes in order to pay for vouchers for non-public education.

Mr. Schaer was one of the principal sponsors of the New

Jersey Opportunity Scholarship Act (OSA), a program which would give companies tax credits to pay private, public, or parochial school tuition for students in some of the state’s lowest-performing schools.

Reaching Every Child While Messrs Kohn and Krause said Mr. Schaer deserves praise for “looking out for the special needs of minorities,” his opposition to A3875 “conflicts with the language of the law.”

“Gary’s argument fails to explain why public education needs to cost in excess of $10,000 more per child than many non-public schools that are providing a far better education than do the government institutions,” said Mr. Kohn.

Mr. Krause pointed out that while OSA “is ambitious, its scope is not nearly broad enough.”

“It’s time to move forward with a plan that will work for every child in New Jersey,” he said.

Competition Supporters of school choice say that when schools have to compete for students, all of them get better. Competition will also drive down costs.

“There should be no need to restate the obvious. Free enterprise and competition improve both quality and efficiency,” said Mr. Krause.

Equally important, he said, school choice is a matter of liberty. “Americans take pride in the fact that we live in a nation in which individuals—not the government— determine where we reside, work, travel, shop, and entertain. Yet, when it comes to the most precious things around us—our children—we have allowed the government to dictate financially where they will be educated. Unless you are willing to pay the cost of non-

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Prof Alan Dershowitz Was the Keynote Speaker for Gateways; The Brownstone Experience Outreach Center Was Celebrated

L-R Ron Prosor, Alan Dershowitz, Malcolm Hoenlein, Mark Dyne, Rabbi Mordechai Suchard

Participants at Gateways’ 15th

anniversary banquet, held last month at The Manhattan Center in New York City, saw a side to the keynote speaker, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, that is not often revealed. While the pro-Israel activist discussed briefly his meeting earlier in the day with President Barack Obama, who was about to leave for Israel, he also displayed a more spiritual viewpoint in which he said that the peace for which Jews yearn will come after Hashem gives them strength.

An outreach organization responsible for raising Jewish consciousness and helping to stem the rising tide of Jewish assimilation in the US, the Monsey-based Gateways was founded in 1998 by Rabbi Mordechai Suchard. His goal has been to provide opportunities for Jews “to unlock the treasure of their heritage” through dynamic educational and social programs led by a leadership team of renowned scholars and talented educational innovators.

To this end, Gateways runs a variety of programs, many geared to different participants of differing Jewish backgrounds.

All have the general goal of educating people towards recognition of Jewish values and traditions and connection with the State of Israel.

There are programs geared to family education and some are for college-age young people and young professionals.

Many of Gateways’ services focus on the needs of the RussianAmerican Jewish community.

A great deal of effort goes into Jewish singles networking and matchmaking.

The Brownstone Experience At the banquet, the celebration focused on Gateways’ Brownstone Experience, a collegiate and young adult leadership and learning center that offers young Jewish men and women worldwide the opportunity to strengthen their Jewish identity and deepen their connection to Israel.

Located in the heart of Manhattan’s East Village, the Brownstone is a beautiful, eco-friendly six-story standalone building equipped with meeting rooms, classrooms, an auditorium, library, separate men’s and women’s sleeping accommodations, offices, staff apartments, a lounge, dining hall, kitchen, and a separate garden and rooftop terrace.

Many of Gateways’ programs are offered at the Brownstone, each tailored to different populations.

“The Brownstone helps keep the American-Jewish community strong. Organizations like this are our future,” said Mr. Dershowitz.

Israel’s Security Turning to the subject of Israel’s immediate future and its relationship with the US and the Obama administration, Mr. Dershowitz said the President “must make it clear that the US will never compromise on Israel’s security.”

“It is more important than ever for the President to state, in no uncertain terms, that Iran will never be permitted to develop nuclear weapons,” said Mr. Dershowitz. “This is important not only for Israel, but for world peace.”

On Its Own He made it clear that, in the end, no matter how much friends and allies, such as the US, want to help Israel, the Jewish state has always been—and always will be—on its own.

“Allies cannot export their strength to Israel, no matter how much aid they offer or help they give,” he said.

Therefore, he said, it is important for Jews to gird themselves with physical, financial, political, moral, ethical, and spiritual strength.

City of Jerusalem Award At the banquet, the guest of honor, Kevin Bermeister, was presented with Gateways’ City of Jerusalem Award, given for Mr. Bermeister’s “vision and commitment to build and de-

velop Jerusalem.”

A real estate entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, Mr. Bermeister is major benefactor and supporter of numerous charitable organizations. He is also the founder of Jerusalem 5800, a master plan for the ancient holy city which will run through the year 2050.

Greg Gurevich, founding partner of Maritime Capital LLC, was presented with Gateways’ Young Leadership Award.

The evening also included a special performance by the M Generation Choir, a project of the Chabad organization’s Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe, which has been serving the Russian-Jewish community for more than 35 years.

The “M” is for “Moshiach.” The choir consists of 12 boys between the ages of 5 and 12 who sing in English, Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

The honorary chairman of the Gateways Banquet were NY State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Ido Aharoni, Consul General of the State of Israel in New York. Banquet Committee members included Matthew and Stacey Bronfman, Richard and Christine Mack, David and Shffy Lichtenstein, Alex and Olga Blavatnik, Sam Domb, and Henry and Esther Swieca.

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MASK Seeks To Help Jewish Families When a Child Is At Risk: Unmasking the Problems On April 22, at 8pm, MASK,

an acronym for Mothers and Fathers Aligned Saving Kids, will hold a parlor meeting in Englewood. The New Yorkbased organization, which is rapidly making inroads into New Jersey, takes as its mission helping parents whose children are at-risk, meaning they exhibit destructive behavior associated with issues such as alcohol and drug abuse, Internet or pornography addiction, eating disorders, attention-deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), gambling, bullying, and the list goes on.

“MASK’s 24-hour helpline refers families to therapists, counselors, rabbis, and agencies that can best meet their needs, depending on the problem.

Our mission is to ensure that all parents and caregivers in the Jewish community receive access to the resources necessary to help them raise emotionally healthy children,” says Ruchama Bistritzky-Clapman, who founded MASK in 1997 in response to the issue of children at risk in the Orthodox community.

MASK operates in accordance with the concept of daas Torah, seeking the input of rabbis with the conviction that knowledge of Torah is essential.

To that end, MASK consistently

collaborates with rabbis, community leaders, and related organizations, she says.

Not Immune Begun by Ms. BistritzkyClapman as a grassroots effort, MASK became a nonprofit 501 c (3) state-funded agency in 1999.

“Ten years before I founded MASK, it seemed as though the Orthodox-Jewish community was immune from contemporary problems such as drugs, alcohol, and promiscuity. But as the anguished cries of parents began to surface, there was no way to ignore the problem,” she says.

According Ms. BistritzkyClapman, MASK has advocated for children in countless settings, working to pull them back from the brink of despair and destruction.

“Parents whose children face these problems turn to MASK as a lifeline,” she says.

Support Groups To help these parents, MASK not only makes referrals, but also provides ongoing support, encouraging them to keep in contact with one another.

“By sharing and offering support to one another, parents gain insight and benefit from one another’s experiences,” she says.

There are parent support groups for crisis intervention, eating disorders, and for those whose children are in—or should be in—12-step programs.

Professional Praise Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski, a psychiatrist who specializes in substance abuse, has praised MASK’s support groups.

“As important as competent treatment is for a child with a behavior problem, it is of equal importance that the parents gain insight into it and particularly know how to react constructively. The best advice on management of a child is not always forthcoming from a professional, but, rather, from other parents who are graduates of the ‘University of Experience,’” he says.

Letters of commendation have also come in from groups such as Agudath Israel of America Community Services, OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services, the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, and the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty.

MASK runs separate school programs for boys and girls that focus on communication skills, healthy body image, self-esteem, relationships, and prevention of destructive behavior. The organization also sponsors joint symposiums with various social-service agencies around the world.

Knowledge and Awareness According to Ms. BistritzkyClapman, the key to helping families in distress and iden-

tifying young people in conflict is increasing knowledge and awareness in the Jewish community at large.

“Since MASK’s inception, 14,900 families have reached out to Ruchama, and that number grows larger by the day,” says Victor Zilber, a New Milford resident who serves as MASK’s director of fundraising.

Although MASK’s original efforts were expended to help parents of teenagers, Ms. Bistritzky-Clapman’s focus at the parlor meeting in Englewood will be on “prevention”.

“Educating parents of young children has become MASK’s first line of defense. We must begin reaching parents with children in elementary school.

In grades 1-4, children hear everything that is said at home, and when parents speak about things the children shouldn’t hear, the parents are sending a message, and the children receive it,” she says.

Negative Experiences While it is common knowledge that children are influenced by detrimental experiences, many parents still tend to dismiss the negative effects of catastrophic events in the family such as death, illnesses, molestation, and fears, including the household’s loss of income and employment, she says.

http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com In addition, she says, despite all the efforts of educators and the media, many parents still refuse to accept the fact that their children may suffer from learning disabilities.

“More than 60 percent of teenagers with addictive behavior suffered from unaddressed learning disabilities when they were younger,” she says.

Prevention Her recommendation is for parents to create open, warm, caring atmospheres in their homes while their children are still young. That, she says, will lead to a real relationship between parent and child.

“Parents must make sure to keep the lines of communication open with their children. Children must know they can talk to their parents about anything,” she says. “Parents must make their home a fun place to be.”

She wants to address parents of young children because, she says, they can start making changes that will affect their families later.

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“Things that happen during early childhood make an impression on us, and everyone has issues. When these issues are negative and stay bottled up inside children who are too young to express themselves, we worry that this might erupt into at-risk behavior later down the road,” she says.

Being Aware She offers as an example, the six-year-old little girl who suffers a traumatic event. Although she may not react at the time, she may become “mildly defiant” by the age of ten. At 13, she may be refusing to cooperate with her parents and failing in school.

“By 16, she may be wearing jeans and texting on Shabbos.

It’s a slippery slope,” says Ms. Bistritzky-Clapman.

Recognizing early signs of trouble and working to keep matters from deteriorating is not easy, she says. “It’s hard to determine to spend distinct quality time alone with each of your children. It is much easier

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to send them off to friends’ homes or afterschool programs. But the dangers are too real that they will find happiness, friendship, and excitement elsewhere. And the accompanying risks are just too great,” she says.

Rabbis and Professionals At the Englewood meeting, like at all MASK venues, there will be participation by rabbis and therapists. Radio commentator and veteran educator, Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, an acknowledged expert on the issue of eating disorders, will offer the spiritual perspective on dealing with, and ultimately salvaging, the lives of young people caught in the downward behavior of addiction. Lewis J. Abrams, LCSW, a therapist with offices in New York and Montville, NJ, will offer his professional perspective on interventions, addictions, and when there is the need for family and individual treatment.

Rabbi Goldwasser says he supports MASK because

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he recognizes that the Orthodox-Jewish community is “no longer insular, and our young people are neither immune nor protected from the negative influences and dangers that lurk on the street corners.”

Under Ms. Bistritzky-Clapman, he says, MASK “has finally provided an answer for families who find themselves being torn apart with nowhere to turn and no one to talk to.

MASK provides a network of services for both parents and young people, and deals with at-risk problems using great sensitivity and wisdom.”

In addition, Englewood’s Orthodox rabbinate, including Rabbis Akiva Block, Menachem Genack, Shmuel Goldin, and Zev Reichman, will speak about the need to confront the problems addressed by MASK. According to Mr. Zilber, it is not unusual at such events for rabbis to approach Ms. Bistritzky-Clapman about problems congregants are facing.

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Amazing, Magical Camp HASC Holds Barbeque Benefit in Teaneck Camp HASC, the award-winning

summer program run by the Hebrew Academy for Special Children, will be the beneficiary of a fundraising event, including a barbecue reception and magic show, scheduled for Sunday, April 21, at 6pm in Teaneck.

The evening will be an opportunity for the community to help provide a summer of rehabilitation, learning, and fun to hundreds of developmentally disabled Jewish children and adults.

Located in the Catskill Mountains, Camp HASC provides more than 300 mentally and physically handicapped children and adults with the opportunity to enjoy a seven-week sleep-away camp experience just like many of their siblings and friends.

“Amazing” and “Magical” Often described as “a most amazing

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and magical place where miracles in developmental and personal growth occur in just a few weeks,” Camp HASC offers a synthesis of academic and recreational programming.

At the camp, the staff seeks to provide special education; speech, physical, occupational, and music therapies, as well as computer instruction, adaptive physical education, and adaptive aquatics.

In conjunction with their academic program, campers are encouraged to participate in a full range of recreational activities, including sports, swimming, field trips, night activities, roller skating, carnivals, concerts, and mainstream social programs with other camps.

As a result, HASC campers gain skills beyond the scope of parental expectations while enjoying normalizing activities in a stress-free social environment.

Superb Staff Key to the HASC Camp experience is the renowned effort expended by more than 200 young Jewish men and women who undergo a competitive application process in order to be able to serve as counselors. Living with the campers 24 hours a day during the summer, the counselors, all of whom are at least one year out of high school, provide a nurturing environment in which the campers thrive.

The benefit program in Teaneck will take place at the home of Rella Feldman, 1649 Hanover Street, where participants will be the guests of Mrs. Feldman, her son, Michael, and his wife, Nira.

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“Everyone is welcome to support this worthy cause,” said Esther Neuwirth, HASC’s director of human resources. S.L.R.

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Need for Funding At the parlor meeting, Ms. BistritzkyClapman and Mr. Zilber are hoping to introduce members of the community to MASK, discuss with them how the organization operates, and convince them of how much more could be done with greater funding.

For starters, Ms. Bistritzky-Clapman would enlarge the scope of MASK’s confidential hotline, which operates from 10am to 10pm every day but Shabbat. The number is 718-758-0400. She would also expand the number of parent support groups and reach out to new areas, such as New Jersey.

She would also make use of additional posters which serve as one of MASK’s outreach efforts. These posters carry messages such as “New Year, New Beginnings: Help Our Kids Get Back on Track” (for Rosh Hashana); “Purim: It’s 10pm, Do You Know Where Your Children Are?? Drinking and Driving Can Destroy Your Simchas Purim; Help Keep Our Teens Safe This Purim;” and, with a picture of a dreidel for Chanukah, “Parents, Is Your Child Spinning out of Control? Let MASK Help ‘Turn’ It Around.”

Other posters define “Parenting: Hang In, Hold On, Hug Tight,” promote MASK

workshops, or disseminate Ms. BistritzkyClapman’s philosophy that “When parents change the music in the home, the children’s dance steps can be different.”

“Through MASK’s confidential helpline and groups, callers receive referrals and support without judgment, shame, or stigma,” says Ms. Bistritzky-Clapman.

Unmasking Problems The Englewood parlor meeting will be held in the home of Shelly and Noam Sokolow, 245 Lydecker Street.

For more information, call 718-8668620, 201-568-7998, or email viczilber@ aol.com. Those who miss the parlor meeting can contribute to MASK through its website (maskparents.org) or by writing to 1431 E 12th Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11230.

Ms. Bistritzky-Clapman says she especially likes the reference to her organization’s name made by David Mandel, CEO of OHEL, when he said that while MASK may be an acronym, he has found that the organization’s work “has actually unmasked many difficult family problems, both helping to facilitate solutions and, at other times, stemming a deterioration of the child-parent relationship.”

“When even one child in a family is experiencing difficulties, the entire family suffers,” she says.

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School Choice Candidates public education, your children are coerced into attending a government school. This is the greatest violation of our civil and human rights and has absolutely no place in a free society,” he said.

Mr. Cohn agreed, pointing out that government control of education “has led to academic decline in the US, as well as a deterioration of family values, the essential fabric of civilized society.”

“Empowering parents to send their children to the schools of their choice will restore liberty, improve educational outcomes, and cut costs. Taxpayers will be free to use more of their hard-earned money to support their families,” he said.

Resonating Message Both men have their own personal reasons for favoring school choice. Mr. Krause and his wife have six children, ranging in age from 17 to 29. One is married and has given the Krauses two grandchildren, and another is scheduled to be married in May. Mr. Cohn and his wife have two babies, ages 2 ½ and three months.

The two men believe their message will resonate to parents and grandparents throughout the district, which, in addition to Passaic, includes several southern Bergen County towns, including Carlstadt, Cliffside Park, East Rutherford, Little Ferry, Lyndhurst, Moonachie, North Arlington, Ridgefield, Ridgefield Park, Rutherford, South Hackensack, Teterboro, Wallington, and Wood-Ridge.

Mr. Krause, who insisted he is not a politician and never cared to be one, said he is running because “‘we the people’ desperately need to take back our educational and governmental systems.”

“The greatest crisis we face today is the government takeover of our educational system, which denies parents their civil and human right to raise and educate their children with minimal government intrusion. It’s time to move forward with a plan that will work for every child in New Jersey, and also improve the quality, innovation, and efficiency of education,” he said.

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ated,” which is not the same as “Independents.” Republicans and Independents have their own primaries.

While the deadline to switch parties has passed, new voters can still register.

Messrs Cohn and Krause said they plan to reach out to other candidates— Republicans and Democrats—who support universal school choice.

“We need and welcome partners— voters and candidates—who are committed to taking back their educational and governmental systems. Our goal is to build a state-wide, bipartisan team of ‘We the People,’ because together we can work for a better future for our children

and all society,” said Mr. Cohn.

For more information, Rabbi Teitelbaum can be reached at 973-820-6121 or Israel@SchoolChoiceNewJersey.org. Mr. Cohn can be reached at 973-671-8683 or AharonCohn@gmail.com; and Mr. Krause can be reached at 973-249-9713 or KrauseGroup@msn.com.

“New Jersey voters and anyone with contacts in New Jersey can begin the process of reclaiming our children’s education by taking action: making phone calls, writing letters, holding meetings and rallies, anything to help those who support the fundamental principles of a just and civil society,” said Rabbi Teitelbaum. S.L.R.

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Remembering The Iron Lady in a cold-water flat above the store without indoor plumbing. The family was not in the financial position to bring a child into their home.

Undeterred, the two Roberts daughters decided to raise the necessary funds themselves. Working with the local Rotary club, they succeeded in bringing Miss Muhlbauer to Britain as part of the 1939 Kindertransport, which brought ten thousand Jewish children from Germany and Austria to safety in the United Kingdom.

Miss Muhlbauer stayed in Grantham for the next two years, often sharing Margaret’s room.

In 1941, Miss Muhlbauer was able to join relatives in South America.

Proud Accomplishment In her memoir, “The Path to Power,” published in 1995, Mrs. Thatcher recalled that “[Edith] was tall, beautiful, evidently from a well-to-do family. But most important, she told us what it was like to live as a Jew under an antisemitic regime. One thing Edith reported particularly stuck in my mind. The Jews, she said, were being made to scrub the streets.”

Shortly after Mrs. Thatcher’s memoir was published, Edith Muhlbauer Nokelby, then 75, was located in Brazil. Mrs. Thatcher was delighted to learn that her old friend was a grandmother living in Sao Paolo who repeatedly told journalists that she owed her life and the lives of her children and grandchildren to Mrs. Thatcher and her family.

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Speaking about Ms. Muhlbauer-Nokelby, Mrs. Thatcher said, “Never hesitate to do whatever you can for you may save a life.” She indicated that having taken part in saving this Jewish girl was one of her proudest accomplishments.

Yad Vashem Many reporters recall that when Mrs. Thatcher visited Yad Vashem during her historic, three-day visit to Israel in 1986 (the first official visit by a British Prime Minister), she was visibly moved by a photograph of a German soldier shooting a Jewish mother and child.

“This is so terrible,” she said. “Everyone should come and see it so that they never forget. I am not quite sure whether the new generation really knows what we are fighting against.”

She laid a wreath and bowed her head for the traditional Yizkor prayer.

Before she left, she wrote in the guest book: “Margaret Thatcher—the world must not forget.”

The Connection She clearly understood the connection between what she had seen and how it affected Israel’s actions. Leaving Yad Vashem, she told reporters, “You cannot go around there without understanding why security is of such enormous significance in Israel.”

During that visit, at the state banquet held in her honor, she joined in a Yemenite dance with then-Prime Minister (now President) Shimon Peres and the popular Israeli performer Ofra Haza.

Wherever she went in Israel, she was greeted by throngs of enthusiastic wellwishers.

Philo-Semitism Before becoming Britain’s first female prime minister, Mrs. Thatcher was a Member of Parliament representing the heavily Jewish district of Finchley, where she developed close relationships with many members of the Jewish community.

She was a founding member of Finchley’s Anglo-Israel Friendship League and the Conservative Friends of Israel.

As prime minister, Mrs. Thatcher had no problem displaying her philo-semitism or her admiration of the British-Jewish community. Fully 25 percent of her cabinet was made up of Jews. She often said England’s late-Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits, whom she had knighted and sent to the House of Lords, was her favorite member of that House. Some called him “Thatcher’s rabbi,” because she was known to consult with him frequently.

She greatly opposed any vestiges of British support for the Arab boycott and took a strong stand against terrorism, insisting on holding terrorist groups accountable for their actions and deplorable rhetoric.

No Palestinian State While she endorsed the rights of the Palestinians and encouraged local elections for them, she insisted that the PLO renounce violence and accept UN Resolution 242, which calls for recognition of Jewish Statehood.

She emphatically declared that, if the Arab group would not do that, new leaders for the PLO would have to be found.

She would not permit her government’s representatives to meet with the PLO until 1988, when she followed the Americans’ lead.

She did not see any reason for the establishment of a Palestinian state. Rather, she endorsed the American idea of a confederation with Jordan as “the most likely proposal to achieve success.”

When asked about Israel’s reluctance to relinquish land, she said, “Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security. If she were ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense. ‘Land-for peace’ must also bring peace.”

http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com Osirak There were, of course, also moments of tension between her and Israel. She joined US leaders, including President Ronald Reagan, in condemning the Israeli strike against the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. Mrs. Thatcher called it a “grave breach of international law,” and she imposed an embargo on a shipment of arms to Israel during the 1982 Lebanon war.

In 1991, then-US Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney publicly reversed US policy and thanked Israel for having destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor, thus saving American—and British—soldiers’ lives during the first Gulf War. It is unclear if Mrs. Thatcher ever did likewise or even saw the connection, but her reactions over the years to Islamic terrorism were clear. After Libya attacked US servicemen, she supported the bombing of Tripoli in 1986. She severed diplomatic ties with Iran in 1989. And, in 1990, after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, it was Mrs. Thatcher who convinced then-President George H.W. Bush to use military force against Iraq.

She stepped down as prime minister shortly before the first Gulf War, but many observers say it would never have been fought if she had not supported it from the beginning.

Soviet Jewry During the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher’s dedication to the plight of Soviet Jewry became legendary. She had a strong friendship with a group of British-Jewish women who became known as “The 35.”

The appellation came from a reporter who ran a story about the women’s efforts to win freedom for a 35-year-old Russian-Jewish woman. Because most of the British-Jewish women were also 35, the name stuck.

In 1988, “The 35” took up the cause of George and Dr. Vera Samoilovich and their son, Victor, Jewish refuseniks in Moscow whose applications to leave the Soviet Union had been denied based on alleged “state secrets” by the family.

Efforts on behalf of the Samoilovich family by Soviet Jewry activists in the United States had been fruitless, but, in 1988, Mr. Samoilovich was diagnosed with lymphoma. Because he had applied to leave the Soviet Union, officials there said they felt no obligation to treat him.

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Alerted by their American counterparts, “The 35” asked for a meeting with Mrs. Thatcher, who was scheduled to meet with Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in London in a week’s time. According to members of “The 35,” Mrs. Thatcher immediately phoned the necessary officials to make it clear that, if George Samoilovich was still in the Soviet Union when Mr. Gorbachev came to see her, they would have “nothing to talk about.”

A few hours later, just days before Passover, the KGB put Mr. Samoilovich on a plane to London, where he was greeted by members of “The 35,” people he had never met, but who were thrilled by his escape. He was treated medically in Lon-

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don and, after a few months, was joined by his wife and son. The family then immigrated to the United States.

Insisting on Freedom The Samoiloviches were not the only Jewish family whose plight was of concern to Mrs. Thatcher. Whenever she traveled to the Soviet Union, she brought with her lists of Jewish refuseniks who had been denied visas, and met with them.

She made it clear to Mr. Gorbachev that he had to free his country before he could expect any benefits from the West. Most historians agree that while the Soviet Union may have been doomed to implode, it was Mrs. Thatcher and President Reagan who

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creasingly seen as a “foreign, unacceptable element in the Middle East.”

When the Muslim factions attack each other, one of the more common charges is that the accused is guilty of supporting Israel.

Many observers believe the civil war in Syria has created a microcosm of the problems Israel faces in the new Middle East. President Bashar al-Assad is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot and ally of the Shiites, which is why he has allied himself with Iran and its proxy in Lebanon, the Hezbollah terrorist organization, now part of the Lebanese government. It is assumed that about 15 percent of Syrians are Alawites.

The rebels trying to overthrow Mr. Assad are mostly Sunni Muslims, which is why they are currently allied predominantly with Turkey.

Using Israel At the beginning of April, Hamas, a Sunni Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group, broke with Mr. Assad. While it was undoubtedly based on religion, the Assad regime accused Hamas and its leader,

Khaled Mashaal, of “giving up on resistance against Israel.”

“Hamas has shifted the gun from the shoulder of resistance against Israel to the shoulder of compromise,” said the Syrian regime’s Al-Thawra daily.

Mr. Mashaal has relocated Hamas headquarters to Sunni-dominated Egypt, and the terror group is reportedly trying to strengthen itself in the Sinai and in Qatar.

At the end of March, when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan publicly accepted an apology from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the deaths of Turks in the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, Mr. Assad charged that Mr. Erdogan was taking advantage of the civil war in Syria, “walking shoulder to shoulder with Israel for his own political future.”

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said there were no grounds for Mr. Assad’s argument.

Problem for Lebanon But while many of Mr. Assad’s former Sunni allies are deserting him, Hezbollah and Iran have created a militia of 50,000 to support

Remembering The Iron Lady accelerated the process and brought about its destruction.

After the fall of the Soviet

Mr. Assad’s regime. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has publicly offered to place all its fighters at Mr. Assad’s disposal.

The problem this poses for Lebanon is enormous. Until 2005, Lebanon was dominated politically and militarily

by Syria. Currently, Lebanon is split between pro- and antiDamascus camps. The country’s new Prime Minister, Tamam Salam, is determined to keep his country neutral on the Syrian civil war while supporting “freedom for the Syrian people.”

He has no problems with Hezbollah’s policy of terrorism against Israel; he just does not want the Syrian civil war to involve Lebanon, an issue that Hezbollah has already decided in favor of Mr. Assad.

According to a leading Hezbollah leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, his terror group has “an obligation to arm and train the residents of Syrian towns which border Lebanon.”

New Alawite State According to Mr. Kochavi, Hezbollah and Iran fear Mr. Assad’s days as president are numbered, and are, therefore, establishing an army in prepa-

ration for the post-Assad era.

Former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said this might well include a new Assad-led Alawite mini-state, probably located along the Syrian coast.

Syrian expert Prof Murhaf Jouejati, a member of the faculty at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, and an opponent of Mr. Assad, said such an Alawite state would be supported by Iran, for whom Syria is vital.

“The downfall of the Assad regime would strike a lethal blow to the Syria-Iran-Hezbollah axis,” said Mr. Jouejati. “Syria is Iran’s door to the Mediterranean and Arab politics. The fall of the regime would be a tremendous loss for Tehran,” he said.

To prevent that loss, Iran would likely attempt to divide Syria to create an Alawite state comprised of Muslims who support Mr. Assad. In that new state, Iran would promote its policies using Hezbollah as its proxy, said Mr. Jouejati.

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Union, she met with former Prisoner of Zion, Dr. Josef Begun, who told her that the morale

of refuseniks had been maintained because other people had spoken up and would continue to do so on their behalf.

Staunch Friend of Israel After Mrs. Thatcher died, Israel’s President Shimon Peres called her “a true and dedicated friend of Israel, who stood with us in times of crisis and used her influence to help us in trying to make peace.”

He recalled that, during Israel’s negotiations with Jordan in the late 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher “stood as a mediator and a source of wisdom for me and

the King of Jordan.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he personally joined her family and the government and people of Great Britain in mourning Mrs. Thatcher’s passing.

“She was truly a great leader, a woman of principle, of determination, of conviction, of strength; a woman of greatness. She was a staunch friend of Israel and the Jewish people. She inspired a generation of political leaders,” he said.

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According to the Lebanese daily AlJoumhouria, the bodies of the Hezbollah terrorists were transferred to Lebanon, where arrangements were made for burials “after buying the silence of the deceased men’s relatives.”

Sources close to Hezbollah have said only that the men were killed “while carrying out their jihadist duty.”

The Assad regime has said it is prepared to fight “for years” against the rebels.

Rebel Factions The rebels are divided into two main blocs. One bloc is the Western-backed Syrian National Council (SNC) and its Free Syria Army (FSA). The other bloc is more radical, and includes the Islamist Al-Nusra Front jihadist forces, which is linked to Al-Qaeda and is currently listed by the US as a terrorist organization.

Al-Nusra is the largest of the 13 factions that have joined together to form this radical bloc, the jihadist Islamic Front for the Liberation of Syria (IFLS), dedicated to installing a government run by Islamist Sharia law.

Sometimes the SNC and the IFLS work together, but the Islamist coalition has publicly announced that it will not cooperate with the SNC, due to that group’s ties to Western nations.

Neither group is pro-Israel, but they regularly accuse each other of serving Zionist interests, hoping, in this way, to score points with their own supporters.

Two Goals SNC coalition leader Moaz al-Khatib has urged the US to reconsider its blacklisting of Al-Nusra, explaining that “we can have ideological and political differences with certain parties, but the revolutionaries all share the same goal: to over throw the criminal regime of President Bashar al-Assad.”

But the IFLS and Al-Nusra have another goal besides overthrowing Mr. Assad.

At the beginning of April, in an online audio address posted on the Internet, Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urged his Al-Nusra allies and other rebels opposing Mr. Assad to fight to establish an Islamic state in Syria.

“Let your fight be in the name of Allah and with the aim of establishing Allah’s Sharia as the ruling system. Do all that you can so that your holy war yields a jihadist Islamic state,” said Mr. Zawahiri.

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Such a state, he said, would help to re-establish the “caliphate” system of rule.

On April 11, the head of Al-Nusra, Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, pledged allegiance to Mr. Zawahiri.

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Asked about the statements by Messrs Zawahiri and Jawlani, FSA spokesman Louay Muqdad said, “We don’t support the ideology of Al-Nusra.”

Casualties and Refugees More than 70,000 people have died in the two years since the start of the Sunni rebel uprising to oust Mr. Assad. March 2013 was the war’s bloodiest month, according to the UKbased Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The watchdog organization reported that more than 6,000 people were killed in March, at least a third of them civilians.

The uptick in casualties was partly caused by the Syrian government’s use of mortar shells and heavy artillery to attack the rebel forces in residential neighborhoods. The Syrian Air Force has also carried out air strikes using Scuds and other missiles.

In early April, the number of Syrian refugees fleeing the country hit 1.3 million, more than half of them children. Because they are predominantly Sunni, their destinations of choice have been newly established refugee “tent cities” in Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, and Egypt, and non-Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon.

Poor sanitation coupled with insufficient resources have made life difficult during the crushingly cold winters, while host countries have struggled to provide medical services to a population much larger than they had anticipated.

According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, the number of Syrian refugees could double or even triple by the

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Internal Refugees According to the UN, another 4 million people have become internal refugees, trapped in Syria after fleeing their homes.

This means almost 25 percent of Syria’s population of around 22.5 million has been forced to flee during the twoyear conflict. Massive bombings by the government, air strikes, and retaliation by rebel forces have slowly turned most of the country to rubble.

but their public position is that they will not accept Israeli aid.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Yigal Palmer, said Israel has offered to send humanitarian aid into Syria via the International Committee of the Red Cross, but the offer has been rejected.

Nevertheless, at the private level, aid organizations are coordinating between Israel and Jordan to provide assistance to the refugees who have crossed the border into the Hashemite Kingdom. Jor-

Inscription on the Eliyahu HaNavi shrine and synagogue, which according to tradition stood in Damascus since 720 BCE. It was destroyed in March 2013, a victim of the Syrian civil war.

At the end of March, it was reported that the ancient Eliyahu HaNavi shrine and synagogue, which according to tradition had stood in Damascus since 720 BCE, was yet another casualty of the war.

According to tradition, it was built by the Biblical prophet Elisha on the site where Elijah anointed him. The synagogue was subsequently repaired during the first century CE by the Torah sage, Rabbi Elazar ben Arach. According to tradition, the rabbi effected no structural changes to the synagogue, making it a unique architectural and historical treasure that has now disappeared.

Aid from Israel According to reports, the Syrian refugees may be desperate, injured, and even starving,

danian officials have repeatedly pointed out that their country cannot provide all the assistance needed on its own.

Israel has a policy of not accepting refugees from Syria into the Jewish state. But, during the past few months, there have been several instances in which individual Syrians, who were wounded in clashes on the Golan Heights between rebel forces and troops loyal to Mr. Assad, sought and received emergency medical care from IDF medics stationed on Israel’s northern border. Some of these people were subsequently hospitalized in Israel.

The growing number of Syrian fighters needing treatment prompted the IDF to build a military field hospital in the Golan.

Vowing War with Israel But this has not moved the rebel leaders, many of whom have vowed that once their battle with Mr. Assad is complete, they will turn their attention to a war with Israel.

In one video, posted on the Internet, a small group of jihadist rebels were filmed against the backdrop of the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights, the buffer zone that, for the past 40 years, has served to keep the border quiet between Syria and Israel.

“We are in the occupied Golan Heights, which the traitor [former President and the current president’s father] Hafez Assad sold to Israel 40 years ago,” said a rebel spokesman waving his assault weapon.

“These lands are blessed, and the despicable Assad family promised to liberate them, but for 40 years, the Syrian army did not fire a single bullet. We will fire the bullets that Assad did not, and we will liberate the Golan.”

Mr. Kochavi has warned that Al-Qaeda operatives have moved into the buffer zone, where they have been spotted tracking Israeli troops. The jihadists hope to transform the buffer zone into a staging area for future attacks on Israel.

Mr. Kochavi compared the situation on the Golan to actions taking place in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Just as the Cairo government now finds it difficult to extend its authority into the lawless Sinai, Damascus is no longer able to control rebel forces in the demilitarized zone of the Golan Heights, he said.

Trouble on the Golan The major problem for Israel is that aside from the AlQaeda-linked rebels’ threats, battles between the Mr. Assad’s troops and the insurgents have

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Several times last month, mortar shells exploded in the Golan, and, on two occasions, someone on the Syrian side of the border sent a burst of automatic fire at IDF soldiers.

Fortunately, these episodes caused neither casualties nor damage, but after Syrian gunmen opened fire the second time, IDF troops responded with intensity, scoring a direct hit on the position from which the fire originated.

Accountability Israeli Defense Minister Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon said responding in kind to any attacks that cross the northern border with Syria would be Israeli policy.

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body to violate Israeli sovereignty by firing into our territory,” he said.

These incidents as well as reports that the rebels had seized Scud missiles from Mr. Assad’s forces, prompted the Israelis to station three Iron Dome batteries in the north to guard against any possible enemy attacks.

In addition, the kidnapping

by Syrian rebels of twenty-one Filipino members of the UN’s Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) disturbed Israeli officials, who worried that such activities might convince participating UNDOF countries to remove their personnel.

Chemical Weapons Another concern is that Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons, which dates back to the 1970s, could fall into the hands of one terrorist group or another, posing a threat to virtually every country in the world.

According to Yiftah Shapir of Israel’s Institute for National

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“Syria may transfer chemical weapons to Hezbollah, not for use in attacks, but rather for safekeeping. Hezbollah would then return the weapons if Assad regains control of the country,” said Mr. Shapir.

However, one scenario would pose a threat: if Hezbollah managed to get hold of SA-17 missiles, it could target Israeli planes. According to some reports, an Israeli airstrike in Syria last January targeted a shipment of SA-17 missiles headed for Lebanon.

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In the Wrong Hands The bigger threat, said Mr. Shapir, is that Syria’s chemical weapons might fall into the hands of the rebel fighters, especially those linked to Al-Qaeda. Because they lack airplanes or other means of delivery, they would not be able to use the chemical weapons, but they might seek to sell them to terrorist groups around the world.

US officials said a few months ago that there was evidence that Mr. Assad’s troops had not only moved deadly sarin gas that could be used against the rebels, but also that the binary components for sarin, which are usually stored separately, had been combined and placed into bombs for use.

Mr. Obama has publicly warned Mr. Assad that the use of chemical weapons would be “totally unacceptable” and would incur “consequences.”

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Attacks Towards the end of March, Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s Minister of Intelligence and Strategic Affairs, reported that either the rebels or Mr. Assad’s troops had used chemical weapons in attacks on Aleppo and Damascus. No one denied the Israeli report, but each side in Syria accused the other.

Russia and Iran, both allies of Mr. Assad, said they had received information from Damascus “proving” the rebels had used chemical agents in the attack on Aleppo, in which 31 people were killed and more than 100 injured.

In the West, many experts assumed that the chemical weapons had been used

by Mr. Assad.

UN Probe France, Britain, and the US called for a UN inquiry into the matter.

Russia insisted that only Mr. Assad’s allegations should be investigated. Russia and China have blocked three Westernproposed UN resolutions that would have stepped up pressure on Mr. Assad over the conflict.

For a while, it seemed the UN had agreed that its “difficult mission” would focus only on the charges made by the Assad regime. When those supporting the rebels objected, the entire project was cut back to a probe that would de-

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termine only if chemical weapons had actually been used, not the identities of who might have used them.

Nevertheless, by April 11, Syrian government officials were still refusing to allow inspectors to look anywhere other than Aleppo. A UN request to look also in the city of Homs, where there were reports of a chemical warfare attack last December, has been denied.

A British report on the matter complicated the situation. It said chemical weapons had not been used at all in the attacks in Syria, only highly concentrated tear gas.

US Aid Despite the confusion over which side—if any—in the civil war deserves Western support, representatives of the US and Britain have announced that their governments will supply training and non-lethal equipment for the forces opposed to Mr. Assad. After conducting talks with the SNC’s Mr. Khatib, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the US would provide $60 million in “immediate” non-lethal assistance to handpicked rebel groups. Mr. Kerry made clear that the recipients would not be radical Islamists such as those associated with Al-Nusra.

According to the German weekly Der Spiegel, some 200 Syrian rebels have already received training on the use of antitank weaponry from either the US Army or American private firms, and there are plans to provide training for a total of 1,200 members of the FSA. Jordanian intelligence services are also involved, hoping to build a dozen units with some 10,000 fighters. The Jordanians have their own reasons for excluding the radical Islamists. One of the Jordanian organizers told Der Spiegel his country is hoping to prevent Jordanian radicals from crossing into Syria and then returning to Jordan “to stir up trouble.”

Hoping No One Wins According to Dr. Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, the best outcome would be “that nobody wins and you achieve that by having the fighting continue.”

Mr. Pipes’s thinking reportedly reflects the sentiments of an increasing number of diplomats, policy makers, and foreign

affairs specialists. He says the best result for the United States would be no victory for Mr. Assad or his opponents.

“The two sides are both unsavory and extreme. I don’t want Assad to come out of this victorious, and I don’t want the rebels to take over the country and establish a new Islamist regime in the Middle East supported by the increasingly rogue Turkish government. That would be no better than the existing regime supported by the Iranians,” he said.

Both Should Lose He recalled that, during the 1980s, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said of the sides in the Iran-Iraq War, “It’s a pity they both can’t lose.”

“That’s what I wish for in Syria,” said Dr. Pipes. “I want both sides to lose.”

The way to accomplish this, he said, is to prop up the side in retreat, which, right now, consists of Mr. Assad’s forces.

“Yes, Assad’s survival benefits Tehran, the region’s most dangerous regime. But a rebel victory would hugely boost the increasingly rogue Turkish government while empowering jihadis and replacing the Assad government with triumphant, inflamed Islamists. Continued fighting does less damage to Western interests than the Islamists’ taking power,” said Dr. Pipes.

Saving Civilians He did not suggest abandoning the millions of Syrian civilians.

“Western governments should find mechanisms to compel the hostile parties to abide by the rules of war, specifically those that isolate combatants from noncombatants. This could entail pressuring the rebels’ suppliers (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar) and the Syrian government’s supporters (Russia, China) to condition aid on their side’s abiding by the rules of war; it could even involve Western use of force against violators on either side.

That would fulfill the responsibility to protect,” he said.

He did not think the current situation would continue forever. “On the happy day when Assad and Tehran fight the rebels and Ankara to mutual exhaustion, Western support can then go to non-Baathist and non-Islamist elements in Syria, helping them to lead to a better future by offering a moderate alternative to today’s wretched choices,” he said.

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Shul in Bradley Beach, Rich in Jewish History, to Hold Shabbaton: A Beach Vacation One Hour Away From Friday, April 19 through Shab-

bat, April 20, Congregation Agudath Achim of Bradley Beach will hold its annual Shabbaton. Organizer Sharon Shulman hopes the event will attract long-time Jewish Bradley Beach fans as well as those who are intrigued by this shore community whose Jewish ties are rich and historic.

For example, author Philip Roth, whose books are redolent with his childhood memories of growing up in the Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, has warm words for Bradley Beach, where his family vacationed.

“It was delicious,” Mr. Roth said recently of his summers in the Monmouth County resort. “It was paradise for me, even though we lived three in a room.”

Ms. Shulman agrees. “Bradley Beach is not a place, but a state of mind, so make up your mind to try something new or enjoy something with which you have always been comfortable,” she says.

Deserved Reputation Realtor Debra Levine, who has long been connected to Cong Agudath Achim, says there is a reason the entire Monmouth County shore area—and particularly Bradley Beach—is so popular with the Jewish community.

For one thing, she says, it is surprisingly close to most of the Jewish communities in North and Central Jersey, just a little over an hour from the George Washington Bridge, and even closer from the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. It is only 45 minutes from Highland Park and Edison.

“Bradley Beach has maintained its reputation as a great Jersey shore resort town. Today, the year-round population is 4,000, but it soars to about 30,000 during the summer months, and no wonder.

Visitors enjoy clean, life-guarded beaches, unique shopping, two shuls, an eruv, and plenty of kosher restaurants just a short hop away,” she says.

Two Shuls Bradley Beach itself has two synagogues. Agudath Achim, which is connected to the Orthodox Union, is open all year round. The shul’s rav, Rabbi Herbert Bialik, sometimes refers to the town as “the best kept secret on the Jersey shore.”

A few blocks away, virtually right on the beach, stands the Sephardic shul, Magen David Congregation, which operates only during the summer months. The spiritual leader is Rabbi Meyer Safdieh.

Relations between the two congregations are excellent, and the shuls often combine for services during the summer.

The town’s eruv encompasses virtually its entire 1.5 square miles, from Main Street to the boardwalk or promenade and from Bradley Beach’s border with the town of Avon to the south and Ocean Grove to the North.

JSOR The supervising Orthodox kashruth organization is the Jersey Shore Orthodox Rabbinate (JSOR) which currently lists almost four dozen food outlets under its supervision, ranging from fast food and pizza to smart “date” restaurants and ice cream parlors.

Shop Rite in Neptune (about a sixminute drive) offers a football-stadium sized “Kosher Experience” with a butcher shop, fish monger, bakery, all sorts of take-out, and packaged goods. There are

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tables towards the back of the supermarket where customers can eat.

Kosher stores and restaurants under the JSOR are in Long Branch, Deal, Ocean, Allenhurst, Oakhurst, and Elberon. A full listing can be found at www.jsor.org.

Popular Resort While Jews may have come to the Jersey shore in the 19th century, it was not until the 1920s that Jewish communities established themselves. Congregation Agudath Achim was founded in the late 1920s.

“Bradley Beach, by then, had become a very popular resort, attracting many visitors from New York, Pennsylvania, and Newark. There were many stores, two swimming pools, hot water baths, and, of course, our beautiful beach,” says Ms. Levine.

Sephardic Jews from Brooklyn discovered Bradley Beach well before they began buying land in Deal, she says. Magen David Congregation opened for the summer in the early 1940s.

“Before the end of World War II, most shore communities were closed to Jews.

Only a few, such as Bradley Beach, were open. That is why people like Philip Roth’s family and hundreds of other middle-class Jews rented rooms and shared bungalows in Bradley,” she says.

It was not until 1973 that 100 Sephardic-Jewish families bought properties in Deal. By the mid-1990’s, the number of Sephardic-Jewish families in Deal had swelled to the thousands. Many of the

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kosher amenities enjoyed by the Bradley Beach Jewish community are actually in Deal, which is less than ten minutes away.

Second Homes Ms. Levine says that many Jews from the tri-state area are currently looking to invest in Bradley Beach by purchasing second homes. Not only is it close, it was also one of the very few short towns to weather Super Storm Sandy intact, she says.

Most residents say this was due to three assets, one natural and two manmade. First, Bradley Beach is not a barrier island. It is not surrounded by water, particularly a bay, which, in many communities, spilled over its banks and flooded out streets and homes.

Second, much of Bradley Beach’s shore is lined not with a boardwalk, but, rather, with a ground-level paved promenade.

During the storm, in many other shore communities, boardwalk planks literally became destructive missiles.

Dunes The third saving element, however, was the brainchild of Bradley Beach’s officials who, in the late 1990s, not only built sand dunes across the beach, but then planted more than 20,000 used Christmas pine trees in them to give the beach community even more protection.

During Sandy, those dunes, ranging between four and nine-feet high, protected residents’ homes. Dune grass, which was planted on the dunes, helped stabilize the sand, forming a strong barrier to

Congregation Agudath Achim of Bradley Beach storm and wave action.

Ms. Levine says that, during the summer, the dunes make the beach more magical.

“When you walk through the dunes to get to the beach from the promenade, it provides the illusion that you are entering a new, magical ocean-front world,” she says.

Busy Shabbaton Ms. Shulman and Ms. Levine hope participants in the Agudath Achim Shabbaton who are new to Bradley Beach will take some time to walk around the town and, perhaps, consider spending more time there.

The Shabbaton itself will keep guests busy. In addition to a Friday night dinner, Shabbat Kiddush and luncheon, and seudah shlishit at the shul, there is also a motzei Shabbat activity planned.

The shul has a full list of bed-andbreakfasts and inns within walking distance of the synagogue, two within the eruv. Some of these even serve a kosher breakfast.

For a full list of places to stay as well as things to do after the Shabbaton, Mrs. Shulman can be reached at 732-774-2495 or by email at sharon.shulman@gmail.com.

“We are planning an exciting weekend, and have requested excellent weather.

The food will be plentiful, and even if you have never been to Bradley Beach before, you are welcome to come and make new friends. We hope this will be the start of something special in your life,” says Ms. Shulman.

Treasure Ms. Levine said those who miss the Shabbaton should feel free to call her or Ms. Shulman to learn more about the community. Ms. Levine can be reached at

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Helping Children Say “Thank You” for What’s Important

Parents looking for a new, especially

nice way to put a toddler to sleep, should greet with pleasure “Thank You for Me,” a book based on Jewish music icon Rick Recht’s “Kobi’s Lullaby.”

With text by Mr. Recht and endearing illustrations by Ann Koffsky, “Thank You for Me” concerns the mitzvah of Hakaras HaTov, thanking G-d for everything from parents and friends to the air we breathe, music, and our bodies. The little boy in the book hugs himself and thanks G-d that he is alive and well.

“The book is about how incredibly fortunate we are to have family, friends, our community, our health, and the nature that surrounds us,” says Mr. Recht.

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“Besides the beach, Bradley offers miniature golf, ocean-side concerts, and a spectacular beach-side playground. Just a few minutes away, there is the Asbury Park boardwalk and the rides and aquarium in Point Pleasant. There are wonderful properties for rent and sale,” she says.

Legend has it that, back in 1679, Captain William Kidd anchored his vessel just off Bradley Beach, where he buried his treasure between two large trees, just steps away from where Cong Agudath Israel now stands.

“Captain Kidd supposedly never reclaimed his fortune, but those who come to know Bradley Beach know that the real treasure lies in this gem on the New Jersey shore,” says Ms. Levine. S.L.R.

A hardcover board book, “Thank You for Me” will be distributed in May by the PJ Library, which means nearly 20,000 children will have free access to it. Each book includes a complimentary music download of Kobi’s Lullaby sung

by Mr. Recht and free coloring pages by Ms. Koffsky.

How to Get the Book Mr. Recht, the national celebrity spokesman for PJ Library, has 13 hit Jewish music albums to his credit. During a normal year, he tours and plays more than 150 dates in the US and abroad.

Ms. Koffsky is the author and illustra-

tor of more than 25 books for children, including Noah’s Swim-A-Thon, which tackles the tough question of how to persuade a child to enjoy swimming.

She presents book and craft programs to children and has been hosted by more than 100 schools, libraries, and book festivals nationwide.

This month, she is holding a contest with a free copy of “Thank You for Me” offered as a prize. To enter, contact her at ann@annkoffsky.com.

To purchase “Thank You for Me,” go to http://store.jewishrockrecords.com/store.

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Bracha to be said in the spring on fruit trees whose flowers are blossoming, but not on the fruit that has already ripened: Baruch Ata Hashem Elokeinu Melech Ha’Olam Shelo Chisar B’O’Lamo Davar; U’Vara Vo Briyos Tovos V’Ilanos Tovim Lihanos Bahem B’nei Adam “Philip Roth: An Exhibit of Photos from a Lifetime,” photographic chronicle, many with captions by Roth himself, in honor of his 80th birthday, Newark Public Library Main Branch, Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Fri, 9am-5:30pm; Wed, 9am-8:30pm, 973-733-7784 The Youth Department of Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David of West Orange is selling safety reflector belts distributed by the Orthodox Union for $5. To buy one and support the Youth Department, contact AABJDYouthDirectors@gmail.com The National Museum of American-Jewish History in Philadelphia invites baseball fans of all ages and backgrounds to submit artifacts, photos, and memorabilia that illustrate their passion for the game. This initiative will support the development of a major exhibition being organized by the museum entitled “Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Jews in America,” scheduled to open in March 2014 before embarking on a national tour. The exhibit will explore the history of Jewish immigration and integration through stories about baseball. This will deepen our national appreciation for the role baseball has played in furthering diversity and equality,

and illustrate the significance of family and the crucial role intergenerational storytelling plays in the transmission of values and traditions—in baseball, in Judaism, and in American life—even as they change over time. For more information, call 215-391-4662

Tues., April 16 Yom Ha’atzmaut

Yom Ha’atzmaut Shacharit Minyan, according to Siddur Rinat Yisrael, at Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 6:15am, 201-862-1141, 201-218-2777, or ArvinLevine@yahoo.com Special Yom Ha’atzmaut Shacharit, followed by breakfast, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 6:30am, tammam@avaya.com Network with the Tribe, for Jewish professionals, at Whole Foods Market in Bergen Town Center, Paramus, 8:15am, jdill@ chargecardsystems.com “Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: The Jews of Ashkenaz: Inner Richness, Outer Degradation,” Prof Robert Fierstien, JCC, Margate, 10am, 609-822-1854 “The Balancing Act: Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Others: When Is It Okay to Say No?” Rebbetzin Tzipora Heller, private home in Spring Valley, 845-323-2004, Tehillim, 10am; shiur, 10:30am Women’s Club for Widows, Jewish Federation and Vocational Services, Concordia Shopping Center, Monroe, 10:30am, 732-7771940 or 609-395-7979 “The Jewish Calendar,” Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 11am, 201907-0180

Holocaust Program, Rabbi Ely Allen, William Paterson University Hillel, Wayne, 12:45pm, 201-820-3905 Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration: “Big Ideas from a Small Country—Israel,” spons by the Bronx Borough President’s Office, includes rides, food, Israeli products, Netherland Ave and Henry Hudson Parkway, 4-8pm, 718-796-4730 Film: “It Is No Dream: The Story of Theodor Herzl,” narrated by Ben Kingsley, spons by New Beginnings for Mature and Retired People, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 1:30pm, 201-833-0515 ext 200 Mini-Chefs Cooking Israeli-Style, for children ages 2-6, Chabad Center, Wayne, 4:30pm, 973-694-6274 65 Live: Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration of Israel’s 65th Birthday, includes Israeli foods, music, and fun, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 6-8:30pm, 973-736-1407 “For Yom Ha’atzmaut: Israel: All You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask,” Dov Resnick and “Israel through the Five Senses,” for children ages 7-13, Riverdale YMHA, 7pm, 718-548-8200 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Orchestra of Exiles,” with Josh Aronson and Dorit Straus, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400 Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller, for women, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 8:30pm, 201-384-0434 Birthright Orientation, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 9pm, 732-545-2407 “Why Don’t We Make a Borei Pri HaEtz on Orange Juice or Chocolate?” Corey Fuchs, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 9pm, 201-914-8842

Wed., April 17

Scholastic Book Fair, spons by the Early Childhood Center, offering Judaic books for children and Jewish cookbooks, Riverdale YMHA, 8am-9:30pm and 3-5pm, also Thurs., April 18, 718-548-8200 ext 220 Forever Young Seniors, Cong Shaarey Israel, Montebello, NY, 11:30am, 845-356-8855 Holocaust Program, Rabbi Ely Allen, Bergen Fairleigh Dickinson University Hillel, University

Chapel, 1pm, 201-820-3905 “Holocaust Memory Practices around the World,” Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers, New Brunswick, 4:30pm, 732-932-4165 Hillel Gala, spons by Rutgers Hillel, honoring Christopher Paladino, Sarit Catz, Barry Sherman, Matthew Salmon, Aviva Rosenberg, Alex Zeldin, Jonathan Levin, Bryce Diamond, Elana Winchester, and Ariel Lubow, includes silent auction, at Crystal Plaza, Livingston, 6pm, 732-545-2407 Strength-to-Strength Support Group for Parents Whose Children, Ages 15-25, Are Dealing with Chemical Dependency, Psychological Disorders, or CoOccurring Issues, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, 201-408-1403 Mentoring Youth Volunteer Training Program, for adults willing to mentor children ages 5-18 who are confronting adverse challenges at home and elsewhere, Volunteer Center of Bergen County, Hackensack, 7pm, 201-489-9474 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Fill the Void,” with David Schwartz, AMC Theater, Palisades Center Mall, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400 Support Group for Mothers of Special-Needs Children, JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-929-3129 Theater: “A Few Good Men,” Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, 7:30pm, ennisp@ maayanot.org “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 Shomer Shabbos Boy Scout Meeting, for boys in 6th grade or 11 years old and up, Bais Medrash L’Torah, Rabbi Davis’s shul, Passaic, 8pm, HFishman@rafterpllc.com “About Parenting,” Dr. Wendy Pollock, Riverdale YMHA, 8pm, 718-548-8200 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: A Nomadic Rabbi’s Wondrous Tales: Life Lessons from Gargantuan Fish,

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Geese, and Corpses,” Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan, Chabad of Franklin Lakes, 8pm, 201-848-0449 Cong Shaare Tefillah Jewish Book Club: “The Dovekeepers”

by Alice Hoffman,” private home in Teaneck, 8pm, 201-357-0613 Chai ECC Parent Association Wine-and-Cheese Fundraiser, includes raffle, custommade hats, crochet creations, hair accessories and jewelry, private home in Edison, 8:30pm, eliesalomon@gmail.com

Thurs., April 18

Jewish Business Networking with “The Tribe,” for Jewish professionals, CASE Museum, Jersey City, 8:30-10am, 908-3478089 or info@HudsonJewish.org La Leche League of Bronx/ Riverdale, Mia Damond Padwa, pregnant women, babies and small children welcome, healthy snacks, Riverdale YMHA, 9:30am, 718-543-0314 “How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk: Encourage Positive Relationships between Your Children,” Emily Shapiro, at Kidaroo, Riverdale, 10am, 347-560-1027 Holocaust Program, Rabbi Ely Allen, Bergen Community College Hillel, Paramus, 12:30pm, 201-820-3905 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Kol Nidre,” with Allen Lewis Rickman, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 1pm, 845-362-4400 Theater: “An Afternoon with Sholom Aleichem,” starring Murray Horwitz, at the NJ Performing Arts Center’s Victoria Theater, Newark, 1pm. 888-GONJPAC or ticketservices@njpac.org

Confidential Support Group for Single Women Involved in the Process of Egg Freezing, Izetta Siegal Stern, LCSW, private location in Manhattan, 6:50pm, 212-691-1266 Israeli TV Show: “Srugim/ Knitted Kippahs,” with Rotem Nahum, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7pm, 845-362-4400 “Turning toward Tomorrow: Putting Your Life Back Together after the Loss of a Spouse,” Anne Hosansky, Rockland JCC, West Nyack, 7pm, 845-362-4400 or 845-354-2121 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “The World Is Funny” and “B-Boy,” includes dessert reception and post-screening discussion with Isaac Zablocki, JCC, West Orange, 7pm, 800-494- 8497 “Getting in Shape for Summer,” Dr. J. Christopher Mendler, Holy Name Medical Center, 7pm, 877-465-9626 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “My Australia,” with critic Stephen Schaefer, AMC Theater, Palisades Center Mall, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400 “Muslims and Jews in France: The Genealogy of a Conflict,” Maud Mandel, Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center, New Brunswick, 7:30pm, 732-932-2033 Online Lecture: “From Enlightenment to Intifada: French Jewry Now and Then: Vichy Then and Now: The Jews of France in the Second World War,” Dr. Robert Zatetsky, spons by the JCC of Houston, houstonjewishlive. com, 7:30pm, 713-729-3200 Jewish War Veterans Meeting, Cong Shaarey Israel, Mon-

tebello, 7:30pm, 845-369-0300 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: A Nomadic Rabbi’s Wondrous Tales: Life Lessons from Gargantuan Fish, Geese, and Corpses,” Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich, Chabad of Rockland County, Chestnut Ridge, 7:45pm, 845-356-6686 “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” Diane Ackerman, featuring dessert reception, JCC, Paramus, 8pm, 201-820-3904 Television: “American Masters: Philip Roth Unmasked,” NJTV, Channel 21, 9:30pm

Fri., April 19

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Israel: A Home Movie,” includes post-screening discussion with Isaac Zablocki, JCC, West Orange, 11:45am, 800-494- 8497 “Me? A Noble Prince? How Thinking Holy Affects Being Holy,” Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport, spons by Chabad at the Shore, at Egg Harbor Twnshp Library, 12:15pm, 609-822-8500 Chai Lifeline Shabbaton, a fun-filled weekend for children with life-threatening illnesses, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 201-837-2795, through Shabbat, April 20, 973-736-1407 Yachad Shabbaton, for special-needs young adults, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, through Shabbat, April 20, 201-739-9787 Singles Shabbaton, spons

by Sharon Ganz, includes three Shabbat meals, shadchanim, singles mixers, group discussions and speakers, Shabbat tour of Teaneck, and Motzei Shabbat party, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, through Motzei Shabbat, April 20, 718-5753962 or 646-529-8748 “We Are Here: Facing Jewish History in Post-Holocaust, PostSoviet Lithuania,” Ellen Cassedy, includes four-course Shabbat dinner, Chabad Center, Wayne, 6:30pm, 973-694-6274 Community Shabbat Dinner, catered by Aaron’s Kissena Farms, at Cong Shaarey Israel, Montebello, services, 6:30pm; dinner, 7:30pm; 845-369-0300 Ethan Tucker, scholar-in-residence, Davar, Teaneck, through

Shabbat, April 20, lkrule@aol.com Scholar-in-residence, Rebbetzin Tzipora Heller, East Hill Synagogue, Englewood, through Shabbat, April 20, cookiefishel@gmail.com

Shabbat, April 20

Cong Beth Aaron Open House, for singles, couples, and young families, especially from the various Teaneck apartment complexes, includes davening, youth groups, Kiddush, lunch, divrei Torah from Rabbi Larry Rothwachs, dessert and oneg, and babysitting, 8:45am, 732618-9473, 201-833-1663, or nolastname2@yahoo.com Men’s Club IDF Kiddush, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, noon, 201-836-8916 Dine ‘n’ Meet Luncheon for Modern Orthodox singles ages 22-33, private homes in Washington Hts, noon, www. dinenmeet.com Kids Seudah Shlishit, for children, Cong Ohav Emeth, Highland Park, 4:30pm, oechildren@ gmail.com Janice Michaelis, Women’s Shabbat Afternoon Learning Series, Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange, 5pm, 973-669-7320 Study Group: “The Thought of Rabbi Tzadok from Lublin,” Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill, private home in Teaneck, 5:30pm, safek7@gmail.com “Hakaras HaTov and the New Positive Psychology: Contemporary Research on a Timeless Mitzvah,” YU Prof of Psychology Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Schnall, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 7pm, 201-907-0180

Motzei Shabbat, April 20

Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Naomi,” AMC Theater, Palisades Center Mall, West Nyack, 8:30pm, 845-362-4400 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Paris-Manhattan,” AMC Lowes East Hanover 12, East Hanover, 9pm, 800-494-8497 or 973-515-1160 “From Generation to Generation: Talking to Our Daughters about Jewish Family Life,” for women, Yoetzet Halacha Atara Eis, private home in East Brunswick, 9:15pm, 732-390-7855 Rebbetzin Tzipora Heller, for women, spons by Cong Zichron Eliezer, at a private home

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Sun., April 21

Bus Trip to Chassidic Crown Heights, Brooklyn, includes Ohel Lubavitch and a walking tour of Crown Heights, spons by Chabad at the Shore, leaves Ventnor City Tennis Courts, 8am, 609-822-8500 Trip to the National Museum of American-Jewish History to See the Exhibit on “Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges,” leave the JCC, Margate, 9am, 609-822-1854 “How to Be a Role Model to Your Children: Teaching by Example to Be Caring, Feeling, and Intelligent Human Beings,” Dr. Jeffrey Gardere and Dr. Alan Kadish, spons by Touro, private home in Englewood, 9am, 212463-0400 ext 5203 Blood Drive: Pint for Pint, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 9am1pm, 973-736-1407 Jewish Education for Special Children Breakfast, honoring Chani and Laurent Bensimon; JESC alumni Meir Baruch Levi, Baruch Lunzer, Tamar Schlanger, and Avi Tsadok, and the dedicated assistants who are graduating from high school, at Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 9:30am, 201-262-1090 Areyvut Bergen County Breakfast, honoring Rebecca Sanders and Ezra and Tzippy Hiller, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 9:30am, 201-244-6702 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: A Nomadic Rabbi’s Wondrous Tales: Life Lessons from Gargantuan Fish, Geese, and Corpses,” Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Chabad of Riverdale, 9:45am, 718-549-1100; Rabbi Avrohom Bergstein, Anshei Lubavitch Congregation, Fair Lawn, 10am, 718-839-5296 or 201-794-3770 Cong Shomrei Torah Men’s Club Garage Sale, at the shul, Fair Lawn, 10am-2pm, 646-226-

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7931 or 551-574-1868 Jewish Relief Agency of MetroWest Delivery of Food to Jewish Families in Need, Rabbinical College of America, Morristown, 10am-1pm, 646-620-9041 Jewish Educational Center Elmora Ave Shul Youth Department Chesed Project: Middle School Trip to the Masbia Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn, leave JEC, Elizabeth, 10:15am, 917-583-5963 Areyvut Mitzvah Clowning Program, for 6th graders and up, at the Lester Senior Housing Community, Whippany, 11am, 201-244-6702 Hadassah Hebrew Club, for men and women, private home in Highland Park, 11am, 732-843-5239 Raising Friends for Queens College (NYC) Hillel, catering to a community of more than 300 Jewish students living in more than 80 dorms and apartments, private home in Bergenfield, 11am, 201-385-0844, 201-244-9519, or tobahfarkas@gmail.com Riverdale i-House IsraeliStyle Picnic, for Israelis in the US to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day, includes arts and crafts, ball games, and each family to bring food (meat or parve), at Tibbetts Brook Park, Yonkers, 11am, 917-435-0362 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Hitler’s Children,” JCC, West Orange, noon, 800-494- 8497 Newark Mayor and Democratic Candidate for Senate Cory Booker, spons by NORPAC, private home in Englewood, noon, 201788-5133 or bchouake@aol.com Monsey Girls Saddle Club, Dana Mase, horse farm on Spook Rock Rd, Suffern, 1pm, 845-356-1464 Health and Safety Fair, Yeshiva Ktana Girls Building, Passaic, 1-5pm, 973-365-0100 Ceremony to Bestow a Seton Hall University Doctorate of Humane Letters Honorius Causa to Dr. Paul Winkler, executive director of the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education, spons by the Sister Rose Thering Fund for Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall, South Orange, 2pm, 973-761-9000 98th Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide: “Turkey Is Guilty of Genocide: Denying the Undeniable Is Criminal,” paying tribute to the 1.5 million

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Armenians who were massacred by the Turkish Government of the Ottoman Empire and the millions of subsequent genocides worldwide, Times Square, Manhattan, 2-4pm, www.kov.org NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Life in Stills,” JCC, West Orange, 2:30pm, 800-494- 8497 Yom Ha’atzmaut Community Celebration of Israel’s 65th Birthday, includes activities, arts and crafts, stories, JCC, Tenafly, 2:30pm; Israeli performance, 5:30pm, 201-408-1427 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “The Day I Saw Your Heart,” JCC, West Orange, 5pm, 800-494-8497 Yeshiva Ohavei Torah of Riverdale Dinner, honoring Sander and Tracy Gerber, Akiva and Roselyn Feinsod, Rabbi Nosson and Mindy Joseph, and Henoch and Esty Gewirtz, Glenpointe Marriott, Teaneck, 5:30pm, 718-432-2600 Camp HASC (Hebrew Academy for Special Children) Barbecue Reception, for scholarships, includes magician Mark Mitton, private home in Teaneck, 6pm, 718-535-1989 or 201-692-1754 Kehillat New Hempstead Dinner, honoring Rabbi and Mrs.

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Dani Staum and Susan Israel, celebrating the siyum of Meseches Megillah, studied under the guidance of Rabbi Shimon Kerner, at the shul, 6pm, joseph@lawkw.com or knesses_yisrael@yahoo.com “The Dangers of the VideoGaming Culture: How to ‘Beat the Game’ in a Healthful and Knowledgeable Way,” for parents, Doni Silverstein, spons by Project Ezrah, includes refreshments, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 7pm, doni@ezrah.org Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Hava Nagila,” Lafayette Theater, Suffern, 7pm, 845-362-4400 Film Documentary: “Punk Jews,” includes post-screening discussion with producer Evan Kleinman, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, 201-408-1429 “A Conversation on the Life of Rav Pinchas Mordechai Teitz, zt”t: From His Childhood to his Leadership of the Elizabeth Kehilla in the 21st Century,” with Rav Elazar Teitz and Dr. Harris Saltzburg, Jewish Educational Center, Elizabeth, 7pm, harrissaltzburg@optonline.net or allensaf@gmail.com NJ Jewish Film Festival:

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“Orchestra of Exiles—Documentary,” JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 800-494- 8497 Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey Scholarship Reception, honoring Helen Pollack and Bonnie Zitter, RYNJ, River Edge, 7:30pm, 201-986-1414 “A More Meaningful Shabbos,” Rabbi Yissocher Frand, in commemoration of the first yahrzeit of Chaim Feigenbaum, z”l, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 8pm, 201-384-0434 “Israel at 65: How Will the New Netanyahu Government Deal with the US, Abbas, Hamas, and Iran?” Jerusalem Post correspondent Herb Keinon, Cong Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, 8pm, 201-837-2795 Rebbetzin Tzipora Heller, for women, private home in Monsey, 8pm, ohr@os.edu Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 8pm, 201-384-0434 “Parenting and Confronting the Internet Generation,” IDF Rabbi Shalom Hammer, Cong Etz Ahaim, Highland Park, 8pm, 732-247-3839

Mon., April 22

“The Morning Prayers,” Rabbi Yisroel Teichman, spons by the Jewish Renaissance Center, private home in Teaneck, 11am, shadlynn@aol.com or 201-692-3757 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Paris-Manhattan,” JCC, West Orange, noon, 800-494-8497 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “The World Is Funny” and “BBoy,” JCC, West Orange, 2pm, 800-494- 8497 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Kinderblock 66,” College of St Elizabeth, Morristown, 7:30pm,

800-494- 8497 or 973-290-4000 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “The Flat,” with David Schwartz, Rockland Community College Cultural Arts Center, Suffern, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: A Nomadic Rabbi’s Wondrous Tales: Life Lessons from Gargantuan Fish, Geese, and Corpses,” Rabbi Mendy Kasowitz, Chabad of West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-486-2362 “First Things First: Finding Time for the Important,” Rabbi Asher Herson, Chabad Center of Northwest NJ, Rockaway, 7:45pm, 973-625-1525 ext 227 Kosher Cooking Demonstration, with Chef Donny Rogoff, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 8pm, 201adlers@gmail.com Parlor Meeting for MASK (Mothers and Fathers Aligned Saving Kids) “Prevention,” Ruchama Bistritzky-Clapman, Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, and Lewis J Abrams, LCSW, with Rabbis Akiva Block, Menachem Genack, Shmuel Goldin, and Zev Reichman, private home in Englewood, 8pm, 201568-7998 or viczilber@aol.com

Tues., April 23

Last Day for Those over 18 to Register in Passaic for Elections on May 14, which will affect taxes, child safety, parks, and bonfires for erev Pesach and Lag B’Omer; email register@schwartz2013.com, rabbibin@aol.com, or call 917-856-2406 “Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: The Jews of Spain: From the Golden Age to Persecution, Inquisition, and Exile,” Prof Rob-

ert Fierstien, JCC, Margate, 10am, 609-822-1854 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: A Nomadic Rabbi’s Wondrous Tales: Life Lessons from Gargantuan Fish, Geese, and Corpses,” Rabbi Levi Wolosow, Chabad of Manalapan, 10:30am, 732-972-3687; Rabbi Levi Dubinsky, Chabad Center of Mountain Lakes, 7:30pm, 973-551-1898; Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich, Chabad of Rockland County, Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-356-6686; Rabbi Dov Drizen, Valley Chabad, Woodcliff Lake, 8pm, 201-476-0157 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “My Dad is Baryshnikov,” AMC Loews East Hanover 12, East Hanover, 11:30am and 4pm, 800-494- 8497 or 973-515-1160 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Numbered” and “Nyosha,” AMC Loews East Hanover 12, East Hanover, 2pm, 800-494- 8497 or 973-515-1160s Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “A Bottle in the Gaza Sea,” JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 2:30pm, 845-362-4400 Luxurious Apartments in Jerusalem’s Hareidi Neighborhoods, private office in Monsey, 5-10pm, http://j-h.co.il/minisite/ Areyvut Mitzvah Clowning Program, for 6th graders and up, for the Friendship Circle for specialneeds children, at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, River Edge, 6pm, 201-244-6702 “The State of Israel at 65: Where Are We Headed?” Dr. Nili Keren, JCC, Margate, 7pm, 609-822-1167 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “One Day after Peace,” JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 800-494- 8497 Parlor Meeting to Introduce Elizbeth’s Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy’s New Masmidim Track, Rabbi Peretz Hochbaum and Rabbi Yisroel Rich, private home in Clifton, 7:30pm, 908355-4850 ext 136 Tiferes Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation Program, for women, includes inspiration DVD, private home in Teaneck, 8pm, 201-357-5434

“Does Sugar, Chocolate Chips, or Frosting Count towards the Kezayis for Al HaMichya?”

Corey Fuchs, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 9pm, 201-914-8842

Wed., April 24

“Jewish Harlem with a Twist,” with Martin Schnelt, leave JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 9am, 845-361-4400 Video Conference: “Understanding Religions,” spons by the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education, at the Goodwin Holocaust Museum, Cherry Hill, 10am, 856-751-9500 ext 1249 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Koch,” JCC, West Orange, 12:30pm, 800-494- 8497 Abused Women’s Confidential Support Group, Jewish Family Service, Teaneck, 7:15pm, 201-837-9090 Support Group for Fathers of Children with Special Needs, spons by Jewish Family Service of MetroWest, JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-530-3400 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Room 514,” with Rabbi Mordechai Becker, AMC Theater, Palisades Center Mall, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Audition” and “Lea & Daria,” JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 800494- 8497 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: A Nomadic Rabbi’s Wondrous Tales: Life Lessons from Gargantuan Fish, Geese, and Corpses,” Rabbi Mendel Mangel, Chabad of Cherry Hill, 856-874-1500, 7:30pm; Rabbi Levi Wolosow, Chabad of Manalapan, 732972-3687, 7:30pm; Rabbi Mordechai Baumgarten, Chabad of Northwest NJ, Rockaway, 7:45pm, 973-625-1525 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: When G-d Prayed: A Study in the Art of Anthropomorphism,” Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan, Chabad of Franklin Lakes, 8pm, 201-848-0449 “The Rav’s Halachic Legacy,” Rav Herschel Schachter, in commemoration of the 20th yahrtzeit of Rav

http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, zt”l, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 8pm, 973-736-1407 Tehillim Group, Cong Shaare Tefillah, Teaneck, 8:15pm, 201-2895474, 917-902-9303, or 201-836-3431 Birthright Orientation, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 9pm, 732-545-2407

Thurs., April 25

Netivot Montessori Yeshiva Open House, for parents of infants (6 weeks) through children in middle school (12-14 years), Highland Park, tours begin at 9:15am, 732-985-4626 Regional Conference on the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, with Sterling High School of Somerdale, NJ, at the Goodwin Holocaust Museum, Cherry Hill, 10am, 856-751-9500 ext 1249 “How to End the Job Search and Get Your Life Back,” Neil Cooper, at the Jewish Family and Vocational Service, Milltown, 10:30am, 732-777-1940 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Hava Nagila (The Movie), JCC, West Orange, 12:30pm, 800-494- 8497 “A Dream Denied: The Decline of Newark in the 20th Century,” Kenneth Jackson, spons by the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Civic Square Building, New Brunswick, 5pm, 732-545-2407 Bread for Hunger: A Family Education and Social Action Program, parent and child (ages 10 and up) bake three loaves of bread, one to take home, one for senior adults, and a third for the Center for Food Action, includes discussion on Jewish values and new bread recipes, at the JCC, Tenafly, 6pm, 201-408-1429 “Son of a Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials,” Michael D. Kaufman, Esq, spons by the Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest, Aidekman JCC, Whippany, 7pm, 973-929-3067 “Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: 20th Century American-Jewish Women and Social and Political Activism,” Dr. Melissa Klapper, Highland Park Public Library, 7pm, 732-572-2750 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Punk Jews,” with filmmakers Evan Kleinman and Saul Sudin, AMC Theater, Palisades Center Mall, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400

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NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Fill the Void,” Clearview Bellevue Cinema 4, Montclair, 7:30pm, 800-494- 8497 or 973-744-2543 “The M Word: The Money Talk,” Lori Sackler, JCC, Tenafly, 7:30pm, 201-408-1405 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: A Nomadic Rabbi’s Wondrous Tales: Life Lessons from Gargantuan Fish, Geese, and Corpses,” Rabbi Levi Wolosow, Freehold Jewish Center, 7:30pm, 732-972-3687 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: When G-d Prayed: A Study in the Art of Anthropomorphism,” Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich, Chabad of Rockland County, Chestnut Ridge, 7:45pm, 845-356-6686

Yachad Shabbaton, for high school students and special-needs youngsters, includes three special meals and Lag B’Omer Melava Malka to which 7th and 8th graders are invited, Jewish Educational Center Elmora Ave Shul, Elizabeth, through April 27, 917-583-5963

“A Shabbos and Lag B’Omer of Inspiration and Song,” Yehuda Green, includes Kumzitzin, and a large bonfire and Melave Malka and concert, Rabbi Davis’s Shul: Bais Medrash L’Torah, Passaic, through Motzei Shabbat, April 27, 973-473-3666 Teen Leadership Conference: Teens Take Action, for grades 9-12, includes keynote speaker Michael Fowlin, JCC, Tenafly, 8am, 201-408-1470 Mother’s Day Shopping Madness Boutique, to benefit Early Childhood Department, JCC, West Orange, 9am-3pm, 973-530-3468 Children’s Mezuzah Decoration, with Rabbi Sara Hurwitz and Greg Shafritz, children, parents, and staff affix mezzuzoth to the doors of the classrooms and offices, Riverdale YMHA, 10:30am, 718-548-8200 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Kosher” and “Oma and Bella,” with speaker Thom Powers, JCC, West Orange, 11:30am, 800-494- 8497 “First Things First: Finding Time for the People and Ideals We Love Most,” Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport, spons by Chabad at the Shore, at Egg Harbor Twnshp Library, 12:15pm, 609-822-8500 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Sixty Six,” JCC, West Orange, 2pm, 800-494-8497

Sun., April 28 Lag B’Omer

Fri., April 26

Shabbat, April 27

Minyan Tiferet, Shira Hadasha-style, private home in Englewood, 8:45am, minyantiferet@ gmail.com, 201-567-2820, 201-5671780, or minyantiferet@gmail.com Sheba Mittelman, Women’s Shabbat Afternoon Learning Series, Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange, 5pm, 973-669-7320

Motzei Shabbat, April 27

Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “The Other Son,” AMC Theater, Palisades Center Mall, West Nyack, 8:30pm, 845-362-4400 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Blank Bullet,” JCC, West Orange, 9pm, 800-494- 8497 Last Day to See Exhibit: “Judaic Textiles,” by Robin Atlas, JCC, West Orange, 973-530-3413

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Rutgers Hillel For Israel Team Hillel Run, to benefit Rutgers Hillel’s Center for Israel Engagement for Israel advocacy programs, at Buccleuch Park, New Brunswick, 8:30am, 732-545-2407 “Hadassah Southern NJ Regional Conference: “Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things,” includes “Time Millionaire: Unconventional Ways to Earn Money and Fine Time,” Melody Stevens; “The Story of the Power of One—How One Person Can Impact the Political Process and the Importance of Pro-Israel Political Advocacy,” Paula Joffee; “A Chef’s Recipe for Meeting Life’s Challenges,” Rachel Willen; “Being a Jew in the Armed Forces,” Lt-Col Matthew Weingast; and “Matchmaker: Get Real, Get Married,” Aleeza Ben Shalom; Crowne Plaza Monroe, Monroe Twnshp, 8:45am-3pm, rachel@weintraubworld.net or 732-643-1100 Lag B’Omer Celebration, spons

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pre-picnic softball game, 10am; picnic, including BBQ, games, races, arts and crafts, tug of war, and kumsitz, 12-4pm, 973-736-1407 Clothing Drive, includes tax deductions for handbags, belts, shoes, stuffed animals, bedding and old bath linens, sleeping bags, and comforters, to benefit Teaneck High School’s Project Graduation, Teaneck High School Parking Lot, 10am-3pm, mpapava13@verizon.net Jewish Educational Center’s Yeshiva of Elizabeth PTA Walkathon and Family Fun Day, Oakridge Park, Clark, registration, 10am; walkathon, 10:30am; carnival, entertainment, and food, 11:30am, 908-355-4850 ext 121 or yeshivapta@thejec.org Sen Susan Collins (R-ME), spons by NORPAC, private home in Teaneck, 10:45am, 201-788-5133 or bchouake@aol.com NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Israel: A Home Movie—Sneak Preview,” post-screening discussion with Gil Lainer, AMC Loews East Hanover 12, East Hanover, noon, 800-494- 8497 or 973-515-1160 Lag B’Omer Celebration and Family BBQ, spons by Chabad Center of Upper Passaic County, includes face painting, moon bounce, treats, kite flying, music, Tree Tavern, Wanaque, 12:30pm, 201-696-7609 Lag B’Omer Festival, includes concert by Ta Shma, games, rides, mini-golf, BBQ, Bris Avrohom, Fair Lawn, 12:30-3:30pm, 201-791-7200 Lag B’Omer Celebration, includes outdoor rock wall, rolling video game truck, arts and crafts, face painting, and BBQ, Chabad Center, Wayne, 1-3pm, 973-694-6274 Lag B’Omer Carnival Day at CareOne, includes games, prizes, food, face-painting, and music, CareOne, Teaneck, 1-5pm, 201-862-3300 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Putzel,” includes discussion with director/producer Jason Chaet, writer/producer Rick Moor, producer/actor Allegra Cohen, and actors Susie Essman, Jack Carpenter, and John Pankow, JCC, West Orange, 2pm, 800-494-8497 Community-Wide Lag B’Omer Picnic, spons by Steinsaltz Ambassadors, includes food,

drinks, music, learning, bonfires, Donaldson Park, Highland Park, 2-5pm, 609-468-1674 Cong Rinat Yisrael Lag B’Omer Picnic and BBQ, includes sports and activities for children, Phelps Park, Teaneck, 4-6pm, snocone34@aol.com NJ Jewish Film Festival: “A Bottle in the Gaza Sea,” JCC, West Orange, 4:30pm, 800-494- 8497 Family Fun Day and Lag B’Omer BBQ, spons by Camp Gan Israel and Chabad of Rockland, includes bonfire, Moon Bounce, rides, games, jewelry-making, Gaza pit, and face painting, Chabad JCC, New City, 5-8pm, 845-634-0951 Family Fun Day and Lag B’Omer BBQ, includes hotdogs, cotton candy, drinks, bonfire with roasted marshmallows, lives music, games and rides, arts and crafts, face-painting, tug of war, and camp site tours, spons by Chabad of Rockland and Camp Gan Israel, 5-8pm, 845-634-0951 ext 100 JACS Meeting, 12-steps meeting for Jews in recovery, Rabbi Steven Bayar, Cong B’nai Israel, Millburn, 6pm, 973-379-3811 Riverdale Israelis and Friends Lag B’Omer Bonfire, Riverdale YMHA, 6pm, 718-548-8200 Rockland Jewish Film Festival: “Lore,” with critic Stephen Schaefer, Lafayette Theater, Suffern, 7pm 845-362-4400 NJ Jewish Film Festival: “AKA Doc Pomus,” includes dessert reception and post-screening discussion with director Peter Miller, JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 800-494- 8497 Pre-Shavuot Spring Hat Sale, spons by Atara of Cong Keter Torah, at a private home in Bergenfield, 7:30-10pm, 201-907-0180 Bnai Jazz in Concert, featuring Seve Wien, Dave Scher, Ray Butler, Josh Marcus, and Seth Chosak, Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange, 8pm, 973-669-7320 Lag B’Omer Bonfire, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 9pm, 732-545-2407

Mon., April 29

“Decisions: How We Make Them, How People in the Torah Made Them,” Rebbetzin Leah Kohn, spons by the Jewish Renaissance Center, private home in Teaneck, 11am,

shadlynn@aol.com or 201-692-3757 Hadassah and Adler Aphasia Center Benefit, honoring Jill Tekel, and featuring TV writer Alan Zweibel, at Crystal Plaza, Livingston, 6pm, 973-533-0823 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: A Nomadic Rabbi’s Wondrous Tales: Life Lessons from Gargantuan Fish, Geese, and Corpses,” Rabbi Shmuel Gancz, Chabad Center of Suffern, 7:30pm, 845-368-1889 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: When G-d Prayed: A Study in the Art of Anthropomorphism,” Rabbi Mendy Kasowitz, Chabad of West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-486-2362 “Footprints in the Sand: Maintaining Relationships through Thick and Thin,” Rabbi Asher Herson, Chabad Center of Northwest NJ, Rockaway, 7:45pm, 973-625-1525 ext 227 Cong Beth Abraham Kiruv Committee Fundraiser, featuring Rebbetzin Peshi Neuburger, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 8pm, 201-384-0434 Financial Planning Seminar for Families with Special-Needs Children, Bruce Meier, spons by the Friendship Circle of Passaic County and Jewish Family Services, private location in Passaic, 8pm, 973-694-6274 or FCPassaicCounty@yahoo.com

Tues., April 30

“Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: When G-d Prayed: A Study in the Art of Anthropomorphism,” Rabbi Levi Wolosow, Chabad of Manalapan, 10:30am, 732-972-3687; Rabbi Levi Dubinsky, Chabad Center of Mountain Lakes, 7:30pm, 973-5511898; Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich, Chabad of Rockland County, Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-356-6686; Rabbi Dov Drizen, Valley Chabad, Woodcliff Lake, 8pm, 201-476-0157 Film: “American Masters: Mel Brooks: Make a Noise,” includes discussion with director

Robert Trachtenberg and Susan Lacy, at the Clairidge Cinema, Montclair, 7pm, 973-783-6433 or 973-746-5564 Ben Porat Yosef Dinner, honoring Sybil and Naftali Cohen, Rachel and Jonathan Margolin, and Vicky and Raphael Nadel, at Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 7pm, 201-845-5007 ext 16 Gently Worn, High Quality Sheitels on Sale on Consignment, spons by MOPS Sheitel Consignment Shop, private home in Spring Valley, 8-10:30pm, 646-270-4058 or mopswigs@gmail.com “Pas Haba’a B’Kisnin and the Proper Bracha on Pizza,” Corey Fuchs, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 9pm, 201-914-8842

Wed., May 1

“Never Forget: How and Why to Memorialize Horrific Events: Ways to Ensure the Memory of Genocide, the Holocaust, and Other Atrocities,” includes breakfast and snacks, Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, 8:30am, 609-292-9274 Forever Young Seniors, Cong Shaarey Israel, Montebello, NY, 11:30am, 845-356-8855 Alisa Flatow West Orange Essex County AMIT Pushka Dinner, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 6pm, 973-736-1407 Contemporary Israeli Poetry Group, in the original with English translation and discussion, Atara Fobar, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 7pm, 718-796-4730 Strength-to-Strength Support Group for Parents Whose Children, Ages 15-25, Are Dealing with Chemical Dependency, Psychological Disorders, or Co-Occurring Issues, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, 201-408-1403 Jewish 12-Step Meeting, JACS—Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons, and Significant Others, Jewish Family Service, Teaneck, 7:30pm, 201837-9090, ask for IRA (Information and Referral) or 201-981-1071 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: When G-d Prayed: A Study in the Art of Anthropomorphism,” Rabbi Mendel Mangel, Chabad of

http://jewishvoiceandopinion.com Cherry Hill, 7:30pm, 856-874-1500; Rabbi Levi Wolosow, Chabad of Manalapan, 732-972-3687, 7:30pm; Rabbi Mordechai Baumgarten, Chabad of Northwest NJ, Rockaway, 7:45pm, 973-625-1525 “An In-Depth Analysis of One of the Sugyos That Comes Up in the Daf Yomi Studies,” Rav Tanchum Cohen, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 8pm, 201-384-0434 Shomer Shabbos Boy Scout Meeting, for boys in 6th grade or 11 years old and up, Bais Medrash L’Torah, Rabbi Davis’s shul, Passaic, 8pm, HFishman@rafterpllc.com “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: The Vindication of an Idolatrous King: Seeing the Divine within Everything,” Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan, Chabad of Franklin Lakes, 8pm, 201-848-0449

Thurs., May 2

Jewish Federation of Northern NJ’s Women’s Philanthropy Spring Luncheon, honoring Paula Shaiman, Betty Hershan, and Karen Blatt Jacobson, featuring Newark Mayor Corey Booker, at the Rockleigh Country Club, 10:15am, 201-820-3953 Yeshiva Ohr Simcha of Englewood Dinner, honoring Medinah and Charles Popper, Cong Ahavath Torah, Englewood, 6pm, 201-816-1800 Israeli TV Show: “Srugim/ Knitted Kippahs,” with Rotem Nahum, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7pm, 845-362-4400 Film: “First Cousin Once Removed,” with the filmmaker Alan Berliner, Clairidge Cinema, Montclair, 7pm, 973-783-6433 or 973-746-5564 Online Lecture: “From Enlightenment to Intifada: French Jewry Now and Then: From the Second World War to the Second Intifada: France and the Jews Today,” Dr. Robert Zatetsky, spons by the JCC of Houston, houstonjewishlive.com, 7:30pm, 713-729-3200 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: When G-d Prayed: A Study in the Art of Anthropomorphism,” Rabbi Levi Wolosow, Freehold Jewish Center, 7:30pm, 732-972-3687 “Curious Tales of the Talmud:

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Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: The Vindication of an Idolatrous King: Seeing the Divine within Everything,” Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich, Chabad of Rockland County, Chestnut Ridge, 7:45pm, 845-356-6686 Film: “The Attack,” an Israeli-Palestinian surgeon seeks to discover why his wife became a suicide bomber, Bellevue Theater, Montclair, 9pm, 973-783-6433 or 973-744-2543

Fri., May 3

“Footprints in the Sand: Maintaining Relationships through Thick and Thin,” Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport, spons by Chabad at the Shore, at Egg Harbor Twnshp Library, 12:15pm, 609-822-8500 Lunch and Learn: “Where Comedy Went to School,” Joseph Dorinson, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 12:30m, 845-362-4400 Jewish Educational Center Elmora Ave Shul Youth Department Chesed Project: High School Boys Volunteer at the Jewish Family Service Vegetable Garden, Elizabeth, 2pm, 917-583-5963 Betty Ehrenberg, scholarin-residence, Cong Anshe Chesed, Linden, through Shabbat, May 4, 908-486-8616 Richard Lewis, scholar-inresidence, Davar, Teaneck, through Shabbat, May 4, lkrule@aol.com Yachad Family Fun Shabbaton and Week-End, for families with a special-needs member, through Sun., May 5, herrmann@ ou.org or 201-833-1349

Shabbat, May 4

Carlebach Minyan, Cong Darchei Noam, Fair Lawn, 8:45am, rabbidonath@gmail.com Tefilat Shlomo: The Carlebach Tefila of Riverdale, includes light and healthy Kiddush, at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 9am, 718-796-4730 Cong Rinat Yisrael of Teaneck Mystery Guest Shabbat Lunch, sign up to be a guest or a host, guests find out where they will be eating lunch following the 9am minyan; hosts find out who their guests are when they arrive for lunch; everyone comes together at shul for a communal dessert, 2:30pm, jasonfarbowitz@aol.com

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or amyvogel27@yahoo.com Shabbat Mevorchim Shalosh Seudos, for women, spons

by Cong Ahavat Shalom of the Teaneck Apartments, private apartment in Teaneck, 4pm, sisterhood@ teaneckapartments.com Bnei Akiva Snif, for grades 3-6, Cong Netivot Shalom, Teaneck, 5pm, 201-801-9022 Debra Spivak, Women’s Shabbat Afternoon Learning Series, Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange, 5pm, 973-669-7320 Study Group: “The Thought of Rabbi Tzadok from Lublin,” private home in Teaneck, 5:30pm, safek7@gmail.com

Sun., May 5

Opening Day of the Riverdale YMHA Sunday Market, includes many kosher items (including kosher tacos), West 247th St and Independence Ave, Bronx, 9am-2pm, 718-548-8200 Convention for Observant Jewish Women Entrepreneurs, includes glatt kosher catering, The Hyatt Regency New Brunswick, registration and breakfast, 9:15am; Welcome, Chaya Fishman, 10am; “Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast,” Saki Dodelson, 10:15am; “Net-

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working Extravaganza,” 10:45am; “Building a Company While Raising a Family,” Talia Mashiach, 11:30am; lunch and panel, “At the Heart of It All: The Inside Story of the Family/Work Balancing Act,” Shifra Novograd, Devorah Goldblatt, Tzivia Reiter, Saki Dodelson, and Talia Mashiach, 12:15pm; Concurrent Sessions, 1:15pm: “Do You Have What It Takes?” Deborah Gallant; “Speaking Effectively and Your Elevator Pitch,” Sasha Salama; “Hiring, Managing, and Retaining Employees,” Yitty Gutner; and “Working Smarter, Not Harder: Productivity Tools in the Workplace,” Devorah Goldblatt; Concurrent Sessions, 2:15pm, “What Kind of Business Should I Start? For Aspiring Entrepreneurs,” Faigie Horowitz; “Raising Capital, Finding Funding Sources, and Pitching to Investors,” Talia Mashiach; “Choosing a Business Entity and Protecting Yourself from Liability,” Yocheved Bechhofer; “Social Media Marketing Made Easier,” Bonnie Kantor; Concurrent Sessions, 3:15pm, “Developing the Financial Strengths to Support Your Business Growth,” Rebecca Bar-Shain; “Tapping into Your Successful Profes-

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sional,” Rebecca Silberstein; “The Power of Email Marketing,” Bonnie Kantor; Concurrent Sessions, 4:15pm, “Halachic and Hashkafic Issues in the Workplace Q&A,” Rav Aharon Tendler; “Creatability: Getting Creative to Build Your Business,” Deborah Gallant; “Flexible and Firm: Navigating the Professional World,” Chani Neuberger; and “The Irresistible Pumpkin: 4 Crucial Steps to Building an Effective Brand,” Elisheva Appel, 410205-6599 or info@thejwe.com Yad Leah Clothing Drive, includes items in good, wearable condition only, shoes in new or like-new condition, linens, towels, tablecloths, handbags, cosmetics and hair accessories in good condition, men’s and boy’s black hats, to be distributed to the poor in more than 15 communities throughout Israel, at Cong Ohav Emeth, Highland Park, 9:30am-12:30pm, 732-819-8351 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: When G-d Prayed: A Study in the Art of Anthropomorphism,” Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Chabad of Riverdale, 9:45am, 718-549-1100; Rabbi Avrohom Bergstein, Anshei Lubavitch Congregation, Fair Lawn, 10am, 718-839-5296 or 201-794-3770 Sharsheret Benefit, to support Jewish women facing Breast and Ovarian cancer, honoring Dr. Tammy Bryk and Dr. Gila Leiter, Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe, 10:30am, 866-474-2774 Hoboken Arts Festival, including a booth hosted by HudsonJewish, Washington Street, Hoboken, 11am-6pm, info@ JewishHudson.org Film: “BESA: The Promise,” documentary about the Albanian

Muslims who protected Jewish refugees during World War II, includes panel with producer Jason Williams, survivor Johanna Neumann, rescuer’s daughter-in-law Majlinda Myrto, and Albanian UN Amb Ferit Hoxha, South Brunswick Public Library, exhibit, 11am; film, 11:30am, 732-329-4000 ext 7287 Interviews for Paid Junior Counselors for Camp Gan Israel, Piscataway, for teens entering grades 9-12, at Rutgers Chabad House, staff overview, 11am, private interviews begin 11:20am, 732-296-1800 Film: “Hannah Arendt,” a fictional portrait, featuring panel discussion with Roger Berkowitz of the Hannah Arendt Center, and Gary Rosen of the Wall Street Journal, Montclair Kimberly Academy Upper School, Montclair, noon, 973-783-6433 or 973-746-9800 Pay It Forward: Mad Science, includes making stuffed Torahs for children with specialneeds, for children ages 6 and up, Chabad Center, Wayne, 12:45pm, 973-694-6274 Young Israel of Passaic Clifton Tribute Dinner, honoring Mordy and Bryna Nissel, at Cong Tifereth Israel, Passaic, 5:30pm, 973-778-7117 Cong Shomrei Torah of Fair Lawn Dinner, honoring Beverly and Allen Bloom, Bette and Yossi Herbert, and Juliana and Elie Addi, the Excelsior Hotel, 5:30pm, 201-791-7910 Rabbi Jacob Joseph Yeshiva School of Edison Dinner, honoring Rabbi and Mrs. Dovid Kamin, at the Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel, 5:30pm, 732-985-6533 Rutgers Hillel End-of-theYear Dessert Reception, Rutgers Student Center, New Brunswick, 7pm, 732-545-2407

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Rebbetzin Leah Kohn, spons by the Jewish Renaissance Center, private home in Teaneck, 11am, shadlynn@aol.com or 201-692-3757 Current Events, Stan Goldberg, Buddy Tell, and Keren Glick, JCC, Tenafly, 1:30pm, 201-408-1457 Israeli Film, with Rotem Nahum, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7pm, 845-361-4400 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: When G-d Prayed: A Study in the Art of Anthropomorphism,” Rabbi Shmuel Gancz, Chabad Center of Suffern, 7:30pm, 845-368-1889 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: The Vindication of an Idolatrous King: Seeing the Divine within Everything,” Rabbi Mendy Kasowitz, Chabad of West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-486-2362 Bnai Mitzvah Fair, for 5th grade girls, 6th grade boys, and parents to facilitate meaningful bnai mitzvah projects, Yeshivat Noam, Paramus, 7:30-9pm, 201-244-6702 NYC Mayoral Candidates’ Forum, Riverdale YMHA, 7:30pm, 718-548-8200 “The Sound of Silence: Shedding Bias for Personal Growth, Putting Yourself Aside and Focussing on Others to Reveal the Common Bond,” Rabbi Asher Herson, Chabad Center of Northwest NJ, Rockaway, 7:45pm, 973-625-1525 ext 227

Tues., May 7

Raritan Valley Hadassah Trip to NYC, includes tour of Jewish Harlem and Cong Shearith Israel, co-spons by the Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey, leaves Sears parking lot, New Brunswick, 8:30am, Rachel@weintraubworld.net “All You Ever Wanted to Know about Breast Feeding,” Elly Gail Egenberg, spons by La Leche League, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 10:15am, 845-362-4400 Women’s Club for Widows, Jewish Federation and Vocational Services, Concordia Shopping Center, Monroe, 10:30am, 732-7771940 or 609-395-7979 “Social Media and Your Job

Search: Linked-In, Facebook, and Twitter Can Enhance Job-Search Efforts,” Eric Duchin, at the Jewish Family and Vocational Service, Milltown, 10:30am, 732-777-1940 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: The Vindication of an Idolatrous King: Seeing the Divine within Everything,” Rabbi Levi Wolosow, Chabad of Manalapan, 10:30am, 732-972-3687; Rabbi Levi Dubinsky, Chabad Center of Mountain Lakes, 7:30pm, 973-5511898; Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich, Chabad of Rockland County, Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-356-6686; Rabbi Dov Drizen, Valley Chabad, Woodcliff Lake, 8pm, 201-476-0157 Blood Drive, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 3:30-9:30pm, dwagner100000@yahoo.com Erev Yom Yerushalayim Film and Celebration, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, film, 6pm; mincha and festive ma’ariv with Jerusalem melodies, 7:40pm, 718-796-4730 “Great Taste, Low Kosher Calorie,” Chef Amalia Schneider, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7pm, 845-361-4400 AMIT West Orange-Essex County Alisa Flatow Chapter Pushka Dinner: Shivat HaMinim, the seven species special to the land of Israel, private home in West Orange, 7pm, jennifer. kurlander@gmail.com Cong Ahavath Torah Sisterhood Mitzvah Dinner, honoring Debbie Prince and Sarah Blum, at the shul in Englewood, 7pm, 201-568-1315 Teleconference: “It’s Complicated: Understanding and Managing Relationships as a Breast Cancer Survivor,” panelists include Dr. Katherine Puckett, Dr. Marisa Weiss, and Sharsheret Executive Director Rochelle Shoretz, to register, 866-474-2774 or 201-833-2341, 8pm; afterwards the transcript and audio recording will be available at www.sharsheret.org “What Bracha Is Made on Schnitzel, Ice-Cream Sandwiches, and Other Combinations of Mezonos and Shehakol?” Corey Fuchs, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 9pm, 201-914-8842

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NORPAC Mission to Washington, DC, to Advocate on Behalf of Israel and the Relationship between the US and the Jewish State, leave various locations in NJ and NY 6am, 201-788-5133 Mothers’ Day Luncheon, for seniors, Riverdale YMHA, 11:45am, 718-548-8200 Book Review Club: “Paris, A Love Story” by Kati Margon, facilitator Lucille Schroeder, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 1pm, 845-362-4400 “Holocaust Memory Practices around the World,” Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers, New Brunswick, 4:30pm, 732-932-4165 Atara Spring Tea, honoring Heidi Kuperman and Debby Putterman, Cong Keter Torah, 5:30pm, 201-907-0180 Abused Women’s Confidential Support Group, Jewish Family Service, Teaneck, 7:15pm, 201-837-9090 Mom’s Support Group, for mothers of children with special needs, Amy Brunswick, LSW, spons

by Jewish Family Service of MetroWest, JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-765-9050 or 973-929-3129 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: The Vindication of an Idolatrous King: Seeing the Divine within Everything,” Rabbi Mendel Mangel, Chabad of Cherry Hill, 856874-1500, 7:30pm; Rabbi Levi Wolosow, Chabad of Manalapan, 732972-3687, 7:30pm; Rabbi Mordechai Baumgarten, Chabad of Northwest NJ, Rockaway, 7:45pm, 973-625-1525 “Engaging Israel,” with a staff member of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Israel, at the JCC, Tenafly, 8pm, 201-569-7900 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: White Eggs and Black Goats: A Camouflaged Theological Debate,” Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan, Chabad of Franklin Lakes, 8pm, 201-848-0449 “Siblings without Rivalry,” Emily Shapiro, at Kidaroo, Riverdale, 8pm, 347-560-1027 “Chicks with Sticks Knitting Circle,” hats for preemies, children

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with cancer, and IDF soldiers in Israel, private home in Highland Park, 8pm, 732-339-8492 Tehillim Group, Cong Shaare Tefillah, Teaneck, 8:15pm, 201-2895474, 917-902-9303, or 201-836-3431

Thurs., May 9

“Everything You Show Know about Jewish Funerals but were Afraid to Ask,” Steve Dranow, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7pm, 845-361-4400 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: The Vindication of an Idolatrous King: Seeing the Divine within Everything,” Rabbi Levi Wolosow, Freehold Jewish Center, 7:30pm, 732-972-3687 “Curious Tales of the Talmud: Finding Personal Meaning in the Legends of our Sages: A Literary Treasure: White Eggs and Black Goats: A Camouflaged Theological Debate,” Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich, Chabad of Rockland County, Chestnut Ridge, 7:45pm, 845-356-6686

Fri., May 10

Paramus Shabbaton, for new families who might consider moving to Paramus, spons by Cong Beth Tefillah, Paramus, through Shabbat, May 11, 201-265-4100 “The Sound of Silence: Shedding Bias for Personal Growth, Putting Yourself Aside and Focussing on Others to Reveal the Common Bond,” Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport, spons by Chabad at the Shore, at Egg Harbor Twnshp Library, 12:15pm, 609-822-8500

Shabbat, May 11

“I Wish I Understood Everything I Was Saying” Minyan, Rabbi Steven Weil, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 8:45am, 201-907-0180 Pearl Mattenson, Women’s Shabbat Afternoon Learning Series, Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange, 5pm, 973-669-7320

Motzei Shabbat, May 11

Mother-Daughter Pottery Painting, spons by Cong Ahavath Torah, Englewood, at Sunshine Gifts, in Englewood, 8:30pm, 201-568-1315

Sun., May 12 Mothers’ Day

Mothers’ Day Breakfast, includes magician R.J. Lewis, Cong Shaarey Israel, Montebello, 9:45am,

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at the Richfield Regency, Verona, 5:30pm, 973-486-2362 Cong Ahavas Achim of Highland Park’s 124th Anniversary Dinner, honoring Michael and Marsha Wasserman and Yossi and Kara Benedek and Family, at the shul, 5:30pm, 732-247-0532 Rockland and Bergen County Adoptive Families Meet-Up and Support Group, for those who have already adopted or are in the process of adopting, internationally and domestically, private home, 7:30pm, www. meetup.com/Rockland-and-Bergen-Adoptive-Families Rosh Chodesh Women’s Dinner: “A Jewish Approach to Effective Communication,” Chabad Center, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-486-2362 TorahWeb.org Program, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, “How Do We Decide? The Role of Mesorah and Consensus in Psak Halacha,” Rav Hershel Schachter, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8pm; “What Must a Jew Believe? Foundational Beliefs and Their Practical Implications,” Rav Michael Rosensweig, 8:45pm, 201-836-8916

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Softball in Elizabeth, spons by the Jewish Educational Center, at Zimmerman Field, 8:30am, aisoftball@yahoo.com Pirkei Avos, spons by the Cong Beth Abraham Kiruv Committee, at the Teaneck General Store, 10:30am, 201-530-5046 Flag Football, for boys in grades 1-4, Jonathan Kessel, The Learning Center (formerly the YMHA), Clifton, 2pm, 732-310-5313 Swimming Lessons, for boys of all ages and abilities, David Einhorn, Passaic Boys and Girls Club, 4pm, 973-883-1202 Parenting, for women, Debbie Selengut, spons by Neve Passaic Torah Institute, private home in Clifton, 8pm, 908-278-4059 Machsheves Hachassidus: The Fundamentals of Judaism from a Chabad Chassidic Perspective, Rabbi Avrohom Bergstein, private home in Fair Lawn, 9pm, 201-794-3770 or 201-797-0123

Mondays

Israeli Dance, for women, Sara Birnbaum, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 10am, 845-361-4400 In-Depth Talmud: Brachot, Rabbi Reuven Stengel, Cong Shaarey Israel, Montebello, 11:30am, 845-369-0300 Intermediate Israeli Dance, Sara Birnbaum, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, noon, 845-361-4400, begins May 6 Shiur, for women, Chani Juravel, Cong Ohr HaTorah, Bergenfield, 1pm, 201-270-2005 Widows and Widowers: You Are Not Alone, support group for those recently widowed, Judy Brauner, LCSW, JCC, Tenafly, 6pm, 201-408-1456 Shmiras HaLashon, for women, Rebbetzin Leah Drillman, private home in Edison, 7:30pm, 732-777-6787 Uncoupling: Coping with Divorce and Separation, support group, Judy Brauner, LCSW, JCC, Tenafly, 7:45pm, 201-408-1456 Megilat Ruth, for men and women, Rabbi Ian Schaffer, Young

Mazal Tov Mazal Tov to the Bat Mitzvah Girls: Ally Farbowitz, Malka Feldman, Melanie Faith Ingber, Penina Krischer, Sarah Yager, Emma Zayat; and the Bar Mitzvah Boys: Charlie Bendheim, Ezra Brauner, Aryeh Brusowankin, Max Davis, Yehonatan Felman, Ezra Finkelstein, Eli and Romi Harcsztark, Yechiel Hyman, Benny Jacob, Gavri Kepets, Yaakov Lauer, Moshe Levinson, Yoni Linder, Aharon Press, Yehuda Dov Reiss, Ezra Rotblat, Koby Schechterman, Jeremy Seidel, Nitzan Slasky, Daveed Stern Storch, Naftoli Weimer, Ari Weisz, Andrew Wolf, Mazal Tov to the Jewish Federation of Rockland County whose sound fiscal management practices and commitment to accountability and transparency have earned it a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator Mazal Tov to Rabbi Hershel Schachter and Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler who will be honored at Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary’s Gala Evening of Tribute on May 1 Mazal Tov to YU junior Darren Sultan who was selected as a Roth Scholar at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine this summer. He will be paired with a top researcher in his field and receive a $3,000 stipend for the summer.

Mazal Tov to Congregations Ahavas Achim, Highland Park; Young Israel of East Brunswick; and Congregation Ahawas Achim Bnei Jacob and David, West Orange, on receiving the OU’s Yachad Inclusion Award for making individuals with disabilities physically and emotionally welcome.

Israel of Fair Lawn, 7:55pm, 201-797-1800 PeniNote Choir, for women of all ages who like to sing, Batya Harris, private home in Teaneck, 8pm, 201-694-1654 Women’s Navi Class: Sefer Melachim Aleph, Aviva Orlian, private home in Monsey, 8:15pm, 845-300-4880 Night Seder: Mesechta Succah, Yeshiva Bais Mordechai (formerly Yeshiva Gedola), Teaneck, 8:30pm, 917-991-7985 Teleconference Class: “Raise the Bar Parenting,” Rebbetzin Simi Yellen, for parents of children 5-15, includes a 30-minute private consultation, 9pm, simiyellen@gmail.com, begins April 22

Tuesdays

“Parsha Insights for Your Shabbat Table,” Rabbi Alex Mondrow, in memory of Rochi Lerner, z”l, Yeshivat Noam, Paramus, 9am, lubers@optonline.net Chavurah in Divrei HaYamim, for men and women, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 9am, 201-907-0180 Eema and Me, for toddlers and mothers, Helene Lockspeiser, spons by Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva, at the Young Israel of East Brunswick, 9am, 732-572-5052 ext 215 Gemara Ketubot, Chapter 2, Rabbi Menahem Meier, Cong Keter Torah, 9:45am, 201-907-0180 “Sharing the Journey” Bereavement Support Group, for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one this past year, spons by Holy Name Medical Center, at Villa Marie Claire, Saddle River, 10:30am, 201-833-3000 ext 7483, begins May 7 Navi Shiur: The Book of Tzefanya, Rabbi Shalom Baum, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 11am, 201-907-0180 Lunch and Learn, Rabbi Joshua Hess, Cong Anshe Chesed, Linden, noon, 908-486-8616 Women’s Mussar Vaad: “Hakpada—Internal Anger and Grudges,” Dina Schoonmaker, online, will include Q and A, 1:30pm, 732-360-7981 or womensvaad@gmail.com NJ Yachad Inclusive Art Program, for normally developing junior and high school students and people age 12 and up with specialneeds, Ruth Ulevitch, the ART Place, Englewood, 7pm, 201-833-1349 Jewish Philosophy, Rabbi Reuven Stengel, Cong Shaarey Israel, Montebello, 7pm, 845-369-0300 Israeli Film Club, with Keren Glick, JCC, Tenafly, 7:30pm, 201408-1428 or 29 Women’s Tehillim Group, private home in Teaneck, 8:30pm, randiwart@gmail.com Chavrusa Learning on Topics in Hilchos Brachos, Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 9pm, 201-836-8916 Teleconference Class: “Raise the Bar Parenting,” Rebbetzin Simi Yellen, for parents of children 2-5, includes a 15-minute private consultation, 9pm, simiyellen@gmail.com, begins April 23

Wednesdays

The Bais Yaakov Education You Always Dreamed Of, for women, Goldie Cohen, spons by Neve Passaic Torah Institute, private home in Passaic, 9:15am, 908-278-4059 Yiddish Vinkel, Blossom Milyoner, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 11am, 845-362-4400 “Insights into Megillat Ruth,” Leah Herzog, Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, Teaneck, 11:35am, ennisp@maayanot.org Lunch and Learn, for seniors, Rabbi Michael Taubes, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, lunch, 1pm; shiur, 1:30pm, 201-836-8916 Shiur, private home in Englewood, 3pm, 201-568-1315 DubeZone Dance and Hip Hop, for girls in grades 1-4, Catherine Baggs, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 5pm, 973-736-1407, begins April 24 “Sharing the Journey” Bereavement Support Group, for those

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who have experienced the loss of a loved one this past year, Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck, 6:30pm, 201-833-3000 ext 7483, begins May 8 Jewish Appreciation, Cong Shaarey Israel, Montebello, 7:30pm, 845-369-0300 Boys Lifeguarding Course, for students 15 and up, Lisa Silvey, Land Work, Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva, Edison, 6:30pm; water work, Middlesex JCC, Edison, 8:30pm, begins April 23, 732-993-3720 Sefer Nehemiah, Rabbi Menahem Meier, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8pm, 201-836-8916 Night Seder: Mesechta Succah, Yeshiva Bais Mordechai (formerly Yeshiva Gedola), Teaneck, 8:30pm, 917-991-7985 “The Authority of Chazal: Applications and Limitations,” Rav Zvi Sobolofsky, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 9:15pm, 201-836-8916 Mesecht Chagiga Shiur, in memory of Willie Bauman, z”l, Cong Ahavath Torah, Englewood, 7:45pm, 201-568-1315 Torah Book Club, Rabbi Mordechai Gershon, Cong Ahavath Torah, Englewood, 8pm, 201-568-1315 Hebrew Reading Part 2, Mimi Gardenschwartz, includes prayers and vocabulary and grammar to understand them, private home in Passaic, 8:15pm, 973-405-0743 Shiur in Moreh Nevuchim, Dr. Isaac Chavel, Riverdale Jewish Center, 8:30pm, 718-548-1850 “Modern Rabbinic Controversies,” Rabbi Roy Feldman, Cong Ahavath Torah, Englewood, 8:45pm, 201-568-1315

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Pamela Geller Hatikvah Just this month, he refused to participate in the Middlesex (NJ) County Clergy Association’s Interfaith Holocaust Commemoration, held at the Edison JCC, even though he, the child of survivors, founded the program 15 years ago and was one of the first spiritual leaders in the country to hold such programs. A musmach of Yeshiva University who head a Conservative synagogue, he said he was well aware of how controversial such programs can be.

He objected this year when a local imam, who would be participating in the program, made clear that, with the acquiescence of the participating Jewish and Christian clergy, he would walk out on the singing of Hatikvah at the conclusion of the program. Rabbi Rosenberg saw that as an insult to the Jewish state and the local Jewish community.

Instead, Rabbi Rosenberg served as the keynote speaker at the Holocaust commemoration at Congregation Sons of Israel in Manalapan.

Important Subject He viewed Ms. Geller’s subject matter as an issue which must be discussed.

“It is not a matter of whether or not I personally agree with or endorse everything Ms. Geller says, writes, or does. It is, rather, that I believe everyone has a right to be heard by people who want to hear them. I would never force anyone to hear Ms. Geller, but neither will I stand by while thugs threaten violence merely because they do not like the message being delivered,” said Rabbi Rosenberg.

Rabbi Rosenberg’s invitation was graciously welcomed by Ms. Geller, the chief reporter at the very popular “Atlas Shrugs,”

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continued from page 4 and the author of Freedom or Submission: On the Dangers of Islamic Extremism and American Complacency; Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to Resistance; and The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America, which she co-wrote with Robert Spencer.

Subways It is not just her writing that draws attention. Most recently, Ms. Geller and her organizations, Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) and the Freedom Defense Initiative, were embroiled in controversy over ads placed in transportation centers throughout the country which called for support for civilized behavior, such as demonstrated by Israel, rather than “savage” jihadism, exhibited by the Jewish state’s (and America’s) enemies: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”

Ms. Geller’s ads were placed in response to an anti-Israel ad campaign in which posters demonizing the Jewish state were placed in the same venues.

Asked what she meant by “savage,” she responded with a litany of examples, including the “60-year campaign of terror against the Jewish people,” “the torture of hostage Gilad Shalit,” “the horrific, videoed beheading of Daniel Pearl,” and “the bloody hacking-to-death of the Fogel family, including infants and toddlers.”

“The tens of thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel’s schools and homes are savage. The vicious Jew-hatred behind this attempted genocide is savage. The endless demonization of the Jewish people in the Palestinian and Arab media is savage. The refusal

to recognize Israel as the Jewish state is savage. The list is endless. Civilized men do not sanction jihad or the Islamic Jew-hatred that is commanded in the Quran as interpreted by Islamists,” she said.

Court Victory Challenged in court by those who objected to the words “savage” and “jihad,” Ms. Geller and the ads won on the basis of First Amendment rights and the ads went were posted. But her critics were convinced that the ads were part of a hate campaign orchestrated against Muslims.

Some critics of the ads charged that they implied that “all Muslims are animals.”

Ms. Geller pointed out that the words “Muslim” and “Islam” do not appear in the ads.

“Those who think these ads are anti-Muslim must believe that all Muslims support Jihad. I know there are Mus-

lims who have escaped Jihadi forces and Sharia,” she said.

Busy Day While Rabbi Rosenberg’s invitation was the first one received by Ms, Geller after she was canceled by the Great Neck Synagogue, a short time later, she was invited to speak also

by Rabbi Yoseph Geisinsky of Chabad of Great Neck. She gave the talk at the Chabad House at the same time her address at the Great Neck Synagogue had been scheduled to take place, thus accommodating people who had planned for weeks to see her.

After her talk at the Chabad House, she attended a rally in Mineola, in front of the offices of Habeeb Ahmed, one of 14 Nassau County Human Rights Commissioners and the first vice-president of the Islamic Center of Long Island.

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Pamela Geller role in forcing the cancellation of Ms. Geller’s talk at the Great Neck Synagogue.

Email Campaign According to Ms. Geller, Mr. Ahmed sent emails, which identified him as a Nassau County Commissioner, to local clergymen, telling them, “We need to stop [Ms Geller] from coming to Great Neck.

She is the personification of an Islamaphobe.”

He also said Ms. Geller is “very much anti-Syrian and anti-Muslim and would use our holy book, the Quran, as a door-stopper.”

One of those Mr. Ahmed contacted, Bob Nuxoll, a board member of the Interfaith Alliance of Long Island, said he was aware that some individuals in his organization were ready to protest, but the leadership of various congregations rejected that idea.

Standing Firm Mr. Ahmed also telephoned the Great Neck Synagogue’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Dale Polakoff, telling him that it was “inappropriate” for a house of worship to invite Ms. Geller.

At first, Rabbi Polakoff and his board stood firm in their invitation, issuing a statement that the synagogue “rejects the categorizing of any religious majority based on the actions of a minority.”

However, he said, the synagogue does believe “that it is absolutely appropriate to speak about the actions of such a minority and to evaluate the impact on the perception of the majority of their co-religionists and on the community in general. It is within such a framework that the men’s club has invited Pamela Geller to speak.”

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by Mr. Ahmed and contacted the synagogue, telling them that inviting Ms. Geller to a synagogue was comparable to a church’s inviting a representative of the Nazi party to speak in the 1930s.

He told those on the email chain that, “regardless of whatever else we do, each of us calls the synagogue to protest their inviting a noted hate-monger to a house of worship.”

Mr. Nuxoll said he stood by his comments, but he denied that he and the other members of the Interfaith Alliance sought to abrogate Ms. Geller’s freedom of speech.

“We’ve been rather upset because it has been misrepresented,” he said. “We have been told that we are enemies of free speech, that anybody has a right to ask her to speak any place. And we have agreed with that. Our only complaint is with the morality of it. To ask a person to speak hatefully in a house of worship.”

Supporting Muslims Ms. Geller’s supporters fervently deny that she is the “hate-monger” described by Mr. Ahmed or Mr. Nuxoll. In fact, Ms. Geller has never denigrated all Muslims. Rather, she has invited peaceful Muslims, especially those who advocate for the separation of Mosque and State and the rejection of any state-enforced Islamic Sharia law, to join with her in promoting the awareness of how Islamist extremists are working to impose Sharia on Americans.

She has often gone out of her way to help Muslims who are victims themselves of Sharia law imposed against their will, especially providing safe houses for Muslim girls threatened with honor killings, the murder of a family member who is suspected of engaging

in anti-Muslim behavior.

In December 2007, Ms. Geller learned about the case of an 11th-grade Canadian-Muslim girl who had run afoul of her family’s strict interpretation of Islam. Aqsa Parvez had been taking off her traditional Islamic headscarf, the hijab, when she went to school and putting it back on only when she returned home. When her father, Pakistani-born taxi driver Muhammad Parvez, visited her school, he found her in Western dress, talking to boys and other non-Muslims.

Outraged, Mr. Parvez and his son, Aqsa’s older brother, Waqas, strangled the young girl to death and, for the crime of dishonoring her family, had her buried in an unmarked grave.

Father and son pled guilty to second-degree murder and were sentenced to life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole until 2028.

A Headstone for Aqsa Incensed by the entire story, Ms. Geller raised the funds for a tombstone for Miss Parvez, only to be told by the cemetery that the family would not allow a memorial stone.

Ms. Geller tried to purchase a plot near the girl’s body, but was told that all of them were owned by the Islamic Society of North America. The family would not take her calls, and the

cemetery told her that, even if she managed to find a way to erect a headstone, the Parvezes could have it removed.

To honor this young Muslim girl and “not have her memory tossed out like the trash,” Ms. Geller planted the Aqsa Parvez grove, overseen by a plaque, in the American Independence Park in Nes Harim, Israel.

“I have consistently invited peaceful Muslims who sincerely reject the Quran’s exhortations to violence and hatred to join in my efforts. I reach out to them out of love for Muslims and a desire that all people be freed from oppression,” she said. “I am not anti-Islamic. I oppose political, coercive Islam.”

Misuse of Title?

Because Mr. Ahmed used his title as a county commissioner when he contacted those whom he wanted to enlist in his anti-Geller campaign, Nassau County has now launched an investigation into whether he misused his position.

In response to the ongoing investigation by the office of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, Mr. Ahmed said that his emails “reflect my personal opinion—not that of Nassau County or the Human Rights Commission and not that of the Islamic Center of LI.”

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“The use of my designations in my e-mails is for identification purposes only. I regret if it was taken in any other way,” wrote Mr. Ahmed. “I am aware of the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and I respect it. The hate mail that my interfaith colleagues and I have been receiving is proof of that.”

According to Mr. Mangano’s spokesman, Brian Nevin, the county is “looking to see if any rules in the county charter were broken.”

“It may be that there is no policy, and he has apologized,” said Mr. Nevin.

Pressure Too Great Ms. Geller’s supporters said—and the Great Neck Synagogue, which cancelled her appearance, intimated— that the campaign initiated by Mr. Ahmed did indeed prompt the synagogue to disinvite Ms. Geller. In an email sent to members of the congregation on Thursday, April 11, three days before the scheduled program, the synagogue’s board cited security risks as the reason for the cancellation.

“As the notoriety and me-

dia exposure of the planned program…have increased, so has the legal liability and potential security exposure of our institution and its member families. In an era of heightened security concerns, it is irresponsible to jeopardize the safety of those who call Great Neck Synagogue home, especially our children, even at the risk of diverting attention from a potentially important voice in the ongoing debate,” said the email.

Ms. Geller said that while she understood the synagogue’s action, she “deplored the cancellation,” which she blamed on a campaign of “relentless intimidation, bullying, and threats.”

“Leftist goons, pushed and prodded by Islamic supremacist Habeeb Ahmed and his co-conspirators, threatened a march on the shul—among other things—on Sunday. The synagogue didn’t turn on me.

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Sunday, when so many children would be in the shul, the parents were terrified and the shul had to respond. Ahmed used his public office to crush free speech,” said Ms. Geller.

“It’s unconscionable that he would be allowed to stay in that position.”

Left-Wing Jews While the Great Neck Synagogue is an Orthodox institution, the campaign against Ms. Geller was led in great part by two Long Island Reform rabbis, Jerome Davidson and Michael White. Nechama Liss-Levinson, who says she is a member of the Great Neck Synagogue, claimed, in a piece penned for the far left-wing Forward newspaper, that she was responsible for petitioning Great Neck officials for permission to “conduct “a peaceful..polite and law-abiding” demonstration against Ms. Geller while she was speaking.

Ms. Liss-Levinson said that while she was “thrilled” that the Great Neck Synagogue cancelled Ms. Geller, she was upset that the reason was fear.

“I wish that [the synagogue’s leaders] had noticed

that Geller’s concerns about radical Islam often morph into a vilification of all Muslims and the Islamic faith. Her language encourages denigration and dehumanization, rather than constructive discussion and cooperation,” said Ms. LissLevinson.

For its part, the Great Neck Synagogue seemed to understand that Ms. Geller’s argument with radical Islam and its concomitant jihadist philosophy is a struggle that grew out of her frustration with the antisemitic, anti-American, and anti-Israel sermons and commentary originating from the extremists within and often leading the Muslim community.

Left-Wing Groups One of the groups at the forefront of the Great Neck cancellation was the radical antiZionist Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), whose members were urged to contact the Great Neck Synagogue and demand that Ms. Geller be disinvited. According to the Anti-Defamation League, which also does not like Ms. Geller, JVP is one of

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Etzion Neuer, director of community service and policy for the ADL’s New York region, said his organization had called the synagogue to “make sure it was aware of Geller’s views.”

Ms. Geller has also been accused of hate-mongering by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group which is currently suing a Jewish organization for offering therapy for those who voluntarily seek to change their same-sex attraction.

Shooting the Messenger Pro-Israel political activist Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a member of the Great Neck Synagogue, castigated Ms. Geller’s Jewish opponents, suggesting that, in attacking her, they were shooting the messenger. He pointed out that it was not Ms. Geller who instigated the Muslim-terrorist shooting at the El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles on July 4, 2002, in which one person was killed and five injured; or the attack on the Seattle-Jewish Federation building, where, in 2006, a Muslim shot six women and killed one.

“With each success in stifling any discussion about our mortal enemies, it becomes that much harder to have that discussion at the next event.

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continued from page 40 And once the discussion cannot even be held, it becomes that much easier to take the next step, and things will not be good for your children and grandchildren,” he said.

He imagined that those in the Muslim community who thought they had stopped Ms. Geller from speaking must have been laughing, figuring that “those liberal Jews will do the fighting for us; they’ll help us to bury those other Jews.”

One-Sided Liberals New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind noted that when Islamist extremists and their supporters recently demanded to hold a meeting at Brooklyn College in order to call for boycotting, divesting from, and placing sanctions against Israel, liberals “came out of the woodwork” to defend the anti-Zionists’ right to speak.

“But when Pamela Geller was prevented from speaking at a private synagogue because of bullying and intimidation, the liberals were mum. Where did all the liberals go?” he said.

Ms. Geller said the cancelation was “particularly craven and cowardly because it sends the message that if leftists and Muslims defame those they hate loudly enough and for a long enough time, they will succeed in having them silenced.”

Hypocritical Rabbi Rosenberg said those sentiments prompted his invitation to Ms. Geller as soon as he heard that she had been cancelled at the Great Neck Synagogue. A student of the antisemitic, anti-Israel statements emanating from Islamic leaders throughout the world, Rabbi Rosenberg called Ms. Geller’s critics “hypocritical” for condemning her while “not uttering a word of rebuke for the rhetoric and policies of much of the Islamist world.”

“There are millions of decent Muslims, and I know many of them in my own community, but there is also a dangerous minority, and we must be aware of what they are saying and doing and the influence they have on their brethren,” he said.

Ms. Geller agreed. “In mosques and Islamic centers, the most vitriolic jihad supporters and preachers of hate speak freely. No one complains. No one demonstrates.

No one utters a word of protest.

But my work that has been consistently in defense of human rights is not allowed to be given a hearing,” she said.

Robert Spencer At her talk in Edison, Ms. Geller was introduced by Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch and the American Freedom Defense Initiative, and the

author of 12 books which, in addition to the one penned with Ms. Geller, include two New York Times bestsellers, The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades).

Like Ms. Geller, Mr. Spencer has had his share of cancellations and accusations of hate-mongering. In fact, his books are made up largely of quotations from Islamist jihadists and the traditional Islamic sources often used to justify calls for violence and terrorism.

A recognized scholar in the field, he has also publicly debated many Islamists, including Salam Al-Marayati, CAIR’s Hussein Ibish and Ibrahim Hooper, and Khaleel Mohammed.

While his Islamist opponents have frequently labeled him a “Jewish Zionist,” Mr. Spencer is a Catholic whose family immigrated to the US from the Middle East. However, he said, he has no political agenda.

“Jihad Watch covers jihad in all its manifestations, and emphasizes the need for all the actual and potential victims of jihad violence and oppression—Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, secular Muslims, atheists, whatever—to join together to defend universal human rights. There are many things about which we all

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March was Colon Cancer Awareness Month While most Jews are aware of the genetically inherited diseases that affect our community, such as Tay-Sachs, few are aware of the increased risk posed by colon cancer to Ashkenazi Jews. While the average American has a 6 percent risk of developing colon cancer, this statistic is just a starting point for Jews.

A genetic mutation on the “colon cancer” gene is found in over 6 percent of all Ashkenazi Jews in America. This mutation is present in 28 percent of those Jews with a family history of colorectal cancer.

Given the increased incidence of inflammatory bowel disease in the Jewish population (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis), which also predisposes to a higher colon cancer rate, it can be confidently asserted that the average Ashkenazi Jew in America is at a higher than average risk for colorectal cancer.

This qualifies Jewish patients for a screening strategy for colorectal cancer reserved for individuals at a “higher-thannormal” risk. This includes a screening colonoscopy at least by age 50. If any relatives have had colon cancer or colon polyps, then the first colonoscopy should be done at age 40.

Jews should view this as nothing more than routine screening, like prostate exams, PAP smears, and mammographies.

Please ask your doctor about colon cancer screening and tell them you are at a greater-than-average risk because of your heritage.

Scott David Lippe, MD Paramus, NJ Dr. Lippe is a board-certified gastroenterologist.

At Rutgers, It’s Support, Invest, and Connect to Israel In recent years, there has been an effort to revive anti-Israel sentiment by using techniques similar to those implemented during the mostly ill-fated Arab economic boycott of Israel.

In principle, the goal of the Arab boycott was to isolate Israel from the world community through a lobbying effort aimed against companies doing business directly with Israel and those using Israeli components in their products. The neo-Arab boycott movement of today seeks the same goal of collective punishment of all Israelis, but this time through different tactics.

A network of individuals and NGOs are working to revive the attempts at isolation through a misinformation propaganda campaign aimed at the only free country in the Middle East.

Members of the neo-Arab boycott movement promote an effort called “Israel Apartheid Week” on college campuses across North America. The annual effort is devoted to spreading lies and hatred towards Israel every year.

Luckily, where there are lies, there are those who speak out against them. At Rutgers, the Rutgers Hillel Center for Israel Engagement (RHCIE) provides students with the resources to do just that. This begins by rebranding the apartheid week and calling it precisely what it is: Hate Week.

This year, RHCIE is on the offensive with a campaign entitled Support, Invest, and Connect (SIC) which encourages engagement with Israelis and Israeli companies. As part of the SIC campaign, RHCIE created the SIC Rutgers petition to promote community support and, before the semester ends, RHCIE

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will host an Israel Opportunities Fair to encourage local young adults to invest their time and talent with Israeli companies.

Every year, Rutgers Hillel and RHCIE connect dozens of Rutgers students to Israel via Taglit-Birthright Israel and other opportunities to experience Israel first hand.

While we are proud of our successes on campus, it is for naught if it is done in isolation. We call on all those who wish to support the development of the next generation of Jewish and pro-Israel leadership to join us and support the SIC initiative. Call Rutgers Hillel at 732-545-2407.

Alex Zeldin New Brunswick, NJ Mr. Zeldin, a member of the Rutgers class of 2013, serves on the Rutgers Hillel Student Board and is chairman of the Israel Program.

Excluding Ariel Univ Means Obama Is for a Judenrein PA State I write to protest the decision by the White House to exclude students of Ariel University from attending the Jerusalem Convention Hall Meeting, held to allow President Barack Obama to speak to students from all of Israel’s Universities.

Ariel University’s doors are open to Jews and Arabs; its teachers do not incite or propagate disinformation or misinformation; and from everything I have heard, they are committed to all norms of truth and open inquiry in their academic classrooms. I would like to believe these norms are adhered to in other universities in the West Bank and Gaza.

Whatever term one uses to describe the land on which Ariel University sits (West Bank? Disputed Territories? Judea and Samaria?

Occupied Palestinian Territories? Palestine? or Palestinian Authority?), the ban on the school’s students excluded individuals on the basis of who they are, not what they do—a recognized violation of human rights and an early warning sign of possibly worse to come.

Excluding Ariel University’s students was a dangerous first step down the slippery slope of endorsing a Judenrein Palestinian State. It was a signal to Israelis and Palestinians that the White House is a complicit enabler to a Judenrein State, thereby kindling suspicions as to the seriousness of the administration’s commitment to an agreement in keeping with core principles of respect, live and let live, and tolerance for all.

In fact, were I a Palestinian hoping for full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, I would have been organizing petitions to revoke this wrong-minded and witless ban, given the unsettling message it telegraphed to all.

I am surprised that those Israelis, Americans, and Europeans interested in advancing a peace process do not do everything possible to recommend using the leverage of aid to eliminate the teaching of narratives which indirectly incite to violence through glorification of individuals who have killed Israeli civilians—young and old, women and men—just because of who they are, not what they do.

President Obama should have revoked the disgraceful and ethically flawed decision to ban students from Ariel University from participating in his meeting with Israel’s university students.

Prof Elihu D. Richter, MD MPH Jerusalem Israel Dr. Richter is a professor at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine

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“Thought Is the World of Freedom” (R’ Dov Ber of Mazeritch) Israel’s Answer to Aktion T4 The Holocaust of our people can in some ways be traced back to the case of a severely handicapped German child, Gerhard Kretschmar. In late 1938, Gerhard was born in Pomssen, a village southeast of Leipzig, to Richard Kretschmar, a farm laborer and his wife Lina, who both were Nazis followers.

Although the original medical records are lost, the child was born blind, with either no legs or one leg, and with only one arm. He had convulsions and apparently also severe intellectual disability.

The father took the newborn to Dr. Werner Catel, a pediatrician at the University Children’s Clinic in Leipzig, and asked that his son be “put to sleep,” but the pediatrician informed him that this procedure would be illegal.

Since the parents were Nazis, the father wrote directly to Hitler, asking him to investigate the case and overrule the law that prevented “this monster” from being killed.

In 1924, Hitler had written in his Mein Kampf that “He who is neither bodily nor mentally sound and deserving may not perpetuate this misfortune in the bodies of his children. The people’s State has to perform the most gigantic rearing-task here. One day, however, it will appear as a deed greater than the most victorious wars of our present bourgeois era.” By 1933, the Nazi regime had implemented a “Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring” that made it possible to sterilize people with, among other disorders, schizophrenia, epilepsy, Huntington’s disease, and severe mental retardation.

Hitler instructed his personal physician, Karl Brand, to investigate the Kretschmar case. If the child were found to be as severely handicapped as described, Hitler authorized Brandt to have Gerhard killed, in consultation with the local doctors, and to make sure that if any legal action were taken, it would be thrown out of court.

Brandt examined the child, visited the parents, and consulted with Dr. Catel and another physician, Helmut Kohl. Brandt then informed the Leipzig doctors of Hitler’s instructions, and they agreed that seven-month-old Gerhard should be killed, although they knew this was illegal. The church records states that Gerhard Kretschmar died at Pomssen of “heart weakness” on 25 July 1939.

This case and Hitler’s ideology paved the way for Aktion T4, whose name was derived from the villa in Berlin on Tier-

gartenstrasse 4, where the head of Hitler’s private chancellery, Philipp Bouhler, and Dr. Brandt started the euthanasia program.

This program ran officially from September 1939 until August 1941, but in reality continued until the end of 1945. Officially 70,273 disabled persons were “mercy” killed by Austrian and German physicians, but the real number is closer to 300,000.

In 2010, the Israeli Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services answered Hitler by receiving permission to initiate a pilot project as part of the annual Ministry of Education delegation to Poland.

Annually since then, a group of about 25 people with intellectual disabilities and about ten staff members have become a special division in the March of the Living, part of the 800-strong delegation that goes to Poland for this purpose for a week each year. The special-needs group call themselves “Hashakhar,” or “Dawn,” because they symbolize the dawn of a new day when people with disabilities can also participate in these annual educational trips together with other Israeli young people.

In addition, every year since 2010, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services has gathered the groups for a special event on Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year, they saw the movie that the 2011 delegation (Hashakhar 2) created during their week in Poland, when I had the privilege to be their accompanying physician.

Dr. Joav Merrick Jerusalem, Israel Dr. Merrick, who made aliyah from Copenhagen in 1989 is professor of child health and human development at Kentucky Children’s Hospital of the University of Kentucky and in the Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center.

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disagree, but at this point, we need to unite simply in order to survive. We can sort out our disagreements later,” he said.

Bereaved Father As part of the program in Edison, Greg Buckley, Sr, whose 21-year-old son, Lance Cpl Greg Buckley, of Oceanside, LI, was murdered in Afghanistan last year, spoke about that attack.

His son was killed in what has been called a “Green-onBlue” insider attack on a military base in the Helmand province.

“Blue” refers to the US military; “green” represents America’s Middle East Muslim allies. Sixtyone members of the international coalition currently engaged in Afghanistan, including troops and support personnel, were killed last year in 44 “greenon-blue” insider attacks.

Mr. Buckley, who was supposed to introduce Ms. Geller

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at the Great Neck Synagogue, called for swift justice for the murderers of his son. He is demanding that the perpetrators be prosecuted on American soil as terrorists.

Unnecessary Loss Ms Geller said Mr. Buckley’s story “breaks my heart.”

“His son didn’t die on the battlefield. He is the human cost of this fantasy approach to a mortal enemy that is sworn to destroy us, not once or twice, but repeatedly,” she said, listing the many attacks

by Muslim extremists that have taken place, she said, because the US government “does not seem to realize that our troops are under severe attack as a result of Islamic activity.”

“Our boys are in Afghanistan training the so-called Afghan soldiers, who are, in turn, killing our soldiers,” she said. “We should be working

to eradicate the behavior of the jihadists, not to embolden this jihadist behavior.”

Many members of the Armed Forces have shown Ms. Geller their appreciation. The Marine Corps presented her with the flag flown on September 11, 2011, over Camp Leatherneck, “amid the battlefields of Afghanistan during decisive operations against enemy forces in Helmand Province.”

Expensive Evening At the conclusion of Ms. Geller’s program in Edison, a member of the audience said she realized that, contrary to what she had been told, the speaker was neither a bigot nor a “Muslim basher.”

“She has stood up for Muslim women who risk death because they refuse to marry the men selected for them by their families; she supports Muslims

who have the right to pray without fearing death by suicide bombers who don’t like the sect to which they adhere; and she supports Muslims—and the rest of us—who do not want to live under enforced Sharia law. She identifies as a social liberal who simply opposes murderous Islamist-jihadist extremism and is not afraid to say so. It was an interesting evening,” she said.

Not quite so interesting for Rabbi Rosenberg. A few hours before Ms. Geller’s presentation, the rabbi’s home was visited by intruders who, police said, may have been less than pleased by his guest speaker.

His garage door seems to have been pelted about 40 times by stones, resulting, he said, in about $1,000 worth of damage.

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