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Jewish opponents of Iran deal deflated by Booker’s yes vote

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Hours before AIPAC event, senator backs ‘deeply flawed deal’ ROBERT WIENER

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hat was originally billed as an event to encourage Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) to vote against the Iran nuclear deal turned into an evening of disappointment and determination after Booker announced earlier in the day that he would support the agreement. Less than five hours before the Sept. 3 rally in Livingston, Booker announced he would vote for the deal that lifts international sanctions against Iran in exchange for scaling back its nuclear activities. In a lengthy statement, Booker was deeply critical of the deal, saying it leaves “our nation to choose between two imperfect, dangerous and uncertain options” — meaning a flawed deal versus a “debilitated sanctions regime.” However, he said, “left with these two choices, I nonetheless believe it is better to support a deeply flawed deal, for the alternative is worse. Thus, I will vote in support of the deal. But the United States must recognize that

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Rabbi Daniel Cohen of Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange said he will interrupt holiday preparations to lobby against approval of the nuclear agreement on Capitol Hill. Photo by Robert Wiener

to make this deal work, we must be more vigilant than ever in fighting Iranian aggression.” Among the several hundred people gathered that night at Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston, for a rally sponsored by the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, were many who clearly disagreed . “My reaction was disappointment,” said Ferne Hassan of Union, associate director of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Israel advocacy group Stand With Us, which has been lobbying Booker’s offices for several weeks. “We so respect Cory Booker for the inroads he has made to the Jewish community. But where is he? Did he put party politics ahead of what is good for America? What is the status of Cory’s relationship with the Jewish people moving forward? I think it is going to be problematic.” Booker, a first-term senator, was under intense pressure from opponents of the deal who hoped he would follow New Jersey’s senior senator, Robert Menendez, a fellow Democrat, in voting against it. New Jersey, where 6 percent of residents are Jews, is tied with New York in terms of Jewish population per capita. Len Glaser of West Orange said, “I am very disappointed with anybody who doesn’t support Israel and the United States against the Iranian nuclear moves. I support Robert Menendez, a good friend of Israel. But I don’t think it will hurt Booker’s political career.” Lori Klinghoffer of Short Hills, the immediate past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ, said she was “disappointed but not surprised” at Booker’s decision. “It took him a long time to come out and support the deal, and I did not have a lot of confidence he would support AIPAC’s position,” said Klinghoffer. The federation’s board of trustees also came out against the deal. But, she said, “it’s hard to say” whether it will hurt his support in the Jewish community. “What concerns me most is that this has become an issue of divisiveness within the Jewish community,” she said. Sarit Catz of Short Hills, Israel advocacy chair of the Greater MetroWest federation’s Community Relations Committee, noted that Booker’s own statement detailed flaws in the

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Former U.S. senator Joseph Lieberman, chair of United Against a Nuclear Iran, said Cory Booker “disappointed all of us.” Photo by Robert Wiener

deal. According to the statement, the deal “only delayed — not blocked — Iran’s potential nuclear breakout.” Said Catz: “He recognized the failings of the deal very clearly, so it is disappointing that he ended up supporting it.” David Dranikoff, a Livingston resident and former CRC Israel advocacy chair, told NJJN he “was not surprised at what Booker did. Many of us called his office with our talking points, but many senators in the Democratic Party are speaking more about what the president’s words are as opposed to facing this very difficult issue, which puts in danger not only Israel but the rest of the Middle East and possibly America.” Booker’s announcement came a day after Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) announced support for the deal, providing the votes the White House needs to prevent a veto-proof rejection of the agreement. At the podium, Rabbi Daniel Cohen of the Reform Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel in South Orange described himself as both a liberal Democrat and a strong supporter of AIPAC. Despite the near certainty the deal will go through, Cohen said he plans to visit Washington, DC, next week to lobby against it a few days See

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The Paula and Jerry Gottesman Family Supporting Foundation is funding “Vision 2025,” aimed at making day school more affordable to middle-income families; the Gottesmans are seen celebrating the renaming of Hebrew Academy of Morris County to Gottesman RTW Academy in March 2014.

Gottesman grant caps day school tuition ‘Vision 2025’ eases mid-income burden at four area institutions Special to NJJN

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uition will be capped at all four Jewish day schools in the Greater MetroWest region beginning this year, thanks to a $10 million grant from the Gottesman Foundation. The tuition cap program will be in place for 10 years. The cap will apply to all families meeting the criteria for middle-income families, with income ranging from $150,000 up to $325,000. Each school will set its own criteria. The announcement makes the Greater MetroWest area among the first to guarantee tuition breaks across a community in a coordinated effort to make day schools more affordable. The four schools are Golda Och Academy in West Orange, the Gottesman RTW Academy in Randolph, the Jewish Educational Center in Elizabeth, and the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy/ Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston. The full price of tuition ranges from $12,500 to $17,500 for kindergarten and $19,000 to $28,500 at the high school level across all four schools. The cap is just one part of a new 10-year program, named “Vision 2025,” being funded under the grant from the Paula and Jerry Gottesman Family Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest NJ. Vision 2025 also includes new family incentives, professional development for teachers, and an effort to market the area to prospective day school families. The family incentives begin in fall 2016, when any new family moving to the area and enrolling a child in one of the day schools will receive a onetime incentive of $1,800. See

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A sports program shoots for inclusiveness BRAD KLEIN

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or Katie and Jonathan Porwick of Westfield — whose son Ethan was born with cerebral palsy and developmental issues — Camp Yachad’s new adaptive sports program for children with special needs removed one particular worry. Sending a child with challenges to summer camp — where most of the kids are typically skilled at sports and there’s an emphasis on competition — can be daunting. But, said Katie, enrolling Ethan in the new program removed the worry about his inability or unwillingness to compete or participate. “It’s not necessarily about winning, it’s about enjoying being active and being with your friends more than it is actually being able to shoot and score a basket,� she said. After 18 months of planning, Camp

Yachad, sponsored by and located at the JCC of Central New Jersey in Scotch Plains, launched the program aimed at children facing different challenges every day, both physically and mentally. The adaptive sports camp — which took place June 22-26, before the start of the regular camp session — included campers ranging from kindergartners to fourth-graders. It was staffed by four counselors trained in special education. The goal is to have a program for many more youngsters in the future, while assuring a two-to-one counselor to camper ratio. Camp Yachad partnered with Throwback Sports, a sports program for children based in New York City. One of its staff members, Mike Cohen — a certified special education teacher who received his degree in special education from New York University — designed and helped run the program.

Campers and their coach/counselor take a break during activities at Camp Yachad’s new adaptive sports program, which, according to one parent, offered children with special needs “a great social experience and a lot of fun.� Photo courtesy Camp Yachad and Throwback Sports

Mike Goldstein, chief operating officer and codirector of Camp Yachad, has served as a link between the camp and Throwback Sports and is cocreator of the adaptive sports program. Goldstein said his concerns included keeping the campers happy and safe and ensuring that they would feel success “through the culture of sports every day.� “Through sports, we can teach chilHowever, the new program offers dren with special needs physical, social, much more than physical improveand interactive skills,� Goldstein said. Different games and activities in the ment. “Sports can offer many things program were designed to help camp- to a child with special needs. The first ers develop balance, endurance, and See Inclusiveness page 22 strength.

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s children, Milton Weinberger and his cousin Susan Weinberger Martin knew little about their parents’ early lives in pre-Nazi Germany. “We regret that we did not get as much information as we could have so that my kids and grandkids could share it,” said Milton in an Aug. 24 phone interview from his home in Rockaway. But in the past year they have learned a great deal about what Milton’s father, Julius, and Susan’s father, Bernhard, endured, thanks to the elaborate efforts of a non-Jewish teenager in Germany who invested a year of research and writing on the Weinberger family history. She is Virginia Simon, who elected to focus on the Weinbergers’ stories of tragedy and survival as the subject of a high school term paper.

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Simon, who has been Martin’s guest at her Manhattan apartment since July, told NJ Jewish News her interest in the Holocaust deepened after she read The Diary of Anne Frank in school. “When you learn about the Holocaust in school you only get to see one side, the German side of war, and how it all developed,” she said. “But I always wondered how the other side, the Jewish side, reacted, and I wanted to get into detail about what developed in my area of Germany.” Simon and her family live in Hellenhahn, a small village in western Germany several miles from the Weinbergers’ hometown of Langendernbach. For a year she visited Langendernbach often, pored through municipal records, spoke with local residents, and reached out across the sea to locate the Weinberger family’s second-generation survivors in New York and New Jersey. Through diligent research she discovered that Julius and Bernhard Weinberger had been arrested on

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ike thousands of others since the end of World War II, Gabrielle Conlin is committed to making sure the world never forgets the grim details of the Nazi Holocaust. But unlike many of those engaged in the task, Conlin is not Jewish and has no family ties to the Shoa. At the age of 26, armed with a master’s degree in history with a concentration in Holocaust studies she received in June from Monmouth University, the devout Christian from Oceanport said she

believes “these memories have to be kept alive; we have to put this information out to the world for future generations.” Conlin counsels students and teaches Holocaust studies at her alma mater, Red Bank Catholic High School. She looks forward to continuing her research in a doctoral program in 2016. In a Sept. 3 phone interview, Conlin said that not only is she intent on sharing the information, but she is especially concerned with relating two of the most dreadful aspects of the Nazi atrocities. One is the exploitation of the Sonderkommando, the specially selected teams of Jewish men at six death camps. They were forced to escort unsuspecting fellow inmates to their deaths in gas chambers, then dispose of their bodies. “Essentially the Sonderkom-

Holocaust scholar Gabrielle Conlin with survivor Eva Mozes Kor, preparing to depart for their visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau this Photos courtesy Gabrielle Conlin summer.

secrets of the extermination camps had to be killed.” In addition, “they were viewed by some part of the survivor community as collaborators.” On Oct. 7, 1944, there was a Sonderkommando rebellion in the death camp at Birkenau. Before the resisters were caught and killed, they blew up one of the four crematoria in Birkenau. “It put a damper on the Final Solution process and showed other prisoners that people were willing to revolt, and slowed down mando were bearers of secrets,” the mass efficiency process of the Conlin said. “Their survival rate killing,” Conlin said. was only one to three months. Every According to her research, most three months, a new group would come in because those who knew the See Scholar page 21

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Uncovers from page 8 Kristallnacht and incarcerated for three months at Buchenwald. “My father didn’t speak about it, but now I have a real perspective of their ordeal,” said Milton. “I don’t know exactly how they got out of Buchenwald. I would have loved to have had a personal story of what went on.” Simon wrote in her term paper that the two brothers “were beaten with canes and iron rods”; slept standing up in cramped, cold, and unfurnished barracks; and watched as other inmates died from disease, starvation, or suicide. “I am amazed at what my father went through and how he managed to keep up hope,” said Milton. “I would love to have asked him.” In February 1939, Julius and Bernhard Weinberger were among several hundred people released from Buchenwald by the Nazis. They fled to England, then moved to Canada and, later, the United States. Two of their three sisters, Hilde

and Irma, had managed to escape to England before their brothers arrived. But a third sister, Clothilde, stayed behind in Langendernbach to take care of their mother, Paula. The older woman died of a heart attack in May 1942, a short while before the Nazis rounded up the town’s remaining 33 Jews. A few weeks later, Clothilde, a single mother with a twin boy and girl, Ruben and Tana, were among the 250 Jews and Roma who were burned to death at the Sobibor concentration camp. “The most impressive thing I found out was that Clothilde died in a concentration camp but the others were able to escape and move to England and America. It was interesting to follow their path and to get in contact with their children,” Simon said. “I did not know about this until I met Virginia,” said Martin. “She found my cousins on the Internet. My cousin Milton let me know that Virginia was asking questions, so I contacted her and said I would be willing to answer them.”

Milton Weinberger on his wedding day in 1972 with his parents, Julius and Beate Weinberger. Photo courtesy Milton Weinberger

Part of Simon’s research came from the writing of Peter Josef Mink, a Catholic theologian. In 1999 he wrote a book, The Lives of the Jews of Langendernbach. “He couldn’t tell me a lot about the Weinberger family in detail but he helped me along with my research and gave me some hints,” she said. Simon also visited several concentration camps in western Germany. “It was kind of unbelievable,” she said. “You couldn’t really under-

stand it and you couldn’t believe that something like that happened at these places.” Simon also interviewed an Israeli-born rabbi, Joseph Pasternak, who lives in the German city of Koblenz. “I asked him if Jews still feel in danger, and he told me they feel quite safe. They have found a way to get peace with the past,” she said. Now, at age 20, Simon is back in Germany, where she plans to major in psychology at a university and forge a connection between her future studies and her high school project. “I think the most interesting part of this research was to find out about how people felt about the Jews,” she said. She is eager to share her findings with both older and younger generations of Germans. “I think it’s good to raise awareness and become friendly and get closer to each other. That is what everybody should try to do. They need to develop their own opinion of [the Holocaust] and think about it and try to avoid it in Q the future,” she told NJJN. rwiener@njjewishnews.com

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pointed all of us.� “When you’re dealing with one of the most radical countries in the world and they are talking about whether they are going to have the most dangerous weapons in the world, you can’t settle for something that you think is better than what we might have gotten,� said Lieberman, the event’s keynote speaker. Outside of the rally, supporters of the deal praised Booker. “I’m very proud of Cory Booker for supporting the Iran deal,� said Roberta Elliott of South Orange. “Would I have preferred that he had been among the first 34 senators [to approve it]? Yes. But he nevertheless showed courage and independence in the face of intense lobbying against the deal. Most of all, I appreciate the transparency of his deliberations, reflected in the position paper he

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released yesterday.â€? Gideon Aronoff, a South Orange resident who is CEO of Ameinu, a progressive Zionist organization, said he was “very pleasedâ€? at Booker’s decision. “I was impressed at the serious way he went about dealing with the issue,â€? Aronoff said. “It is possible that it will cost him politically, and he showed impressive courage and leadership when important forces in the NJ Jewish community such as AIPAC and the Orthodox community have come out strongly against the deal. “I don’t think he made a political decision regarding the Jewish community,â€? said Aronoff. “His decision reaffirms our confidence in Sen. Booker as a real leader for New Jersey.â€? Doni Remba of Westfield, a member of J Street’s national board of advisers and its Central Jersey board, said he “applauded Sen. Booker for doing the right thing in supporting the Iran deal‌. After talking extensively with many of the players and learning the facts for himself, Sen. Booker endorsed the key arguments that J Street, President Obama, and nearly all Democrats in Congress have made in support of the deal.â€? Asked whether he thinks Booker has damaged himself politically with the state’s Jewish community, Remba said, “I was deeply concerned with campaign donations he has received from right-

In a statement, Sen. Cory Booker was highly critical of the deal, but said he believes “it is better to support a deeply flawed deal, for the alternative is worse.�

wing, hard-line, pro-Israel political action groups,â€? said Remba. “I am heartened to see Booker retained independent judgment and did what was best for himself and the American-Jewish community by supporting the deal. Will it hurt him politically? I don’t think so.â€? In his statement, Booker reached out to his Jewish constituents, saying, “[S]ome of the most painful, difficult, and influential conversations I have had about this deal have been with valued and trusted friends from the Jewish community who have family members who survived or died in the Holocaust.â€? He concurred with Jewish friends, he said, who believe “Iran is an existential threat to the State of Israel and to the Jewish people.â€? “While I may differ with many friends on the choice this deal presents us — and I do believe that this deal presents the better path of two options to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon — we share precisely the same goal,â€? said Booker. “I am united with all who are determined to ensure that we never again see genocide in the world. That means not allowing Iran to ever obtain a nuclear Q weapon, period‌.â€? rwiener@njjewishnews.com

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Dershowitz: That’s not possible. NJJN: You were quoted in the Times of Israel saying, “If there had been no negotiations at all, I don’t think Iran would have developed nuclear weapons. They would’ve maybe come close, but they would have never crossed the red line.” Why do you believe that? Dershowitz: They would have remained a threshold state but I don’t think they would have crossed Israel’s red lines or America’s red lines. But once the Syrian fiasco occurred [when President Obama, after warning Syria’s government that the use of chemical weapons would cross a “red line” and See

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Greater MW Journal MORRISTOWN JEWISH Center Beit Yisrael will offer Awesome Journey: An Alternative High Holy Day Worship Experience, led by Rabbi Amy Small, on both days of Rosh Hashana and on Yom Kippur. The service preserves the basic outline of traditional services but includes contemporary melodies interspersed with traditional ones, songs in English and Hebrew, and poetry presented by a “reading chorus.” It will also include “kavanot” spiritual guides, shortened Torah readings to highlight the Torah’s story and message, and a sermon dialogue — a presentation followed by a discussion. A “Wilderness Tent” will provide a quiet place for personal reflection. There is a modest fee to attend the three services, which are open to the community; call 973-538-9292. AREYVUT, A NONPROFIT organization dedicated to inculcating the values of kindness, charity, and social

action, will hold an initial training session for its Mitzvah Clowning Program on Sunday, Oct. 11, 8 a.m.noon at Lester Senior Housing Community in Whippany. Participants will learn how to apply clown makeup, create balloon animals, and engage in role playing exercises and how to interact with seniors, children with special needs, and others. Following training, the Mitzvah Clowns will make monthly visits to the Lester residents, participate in the Friendship Circle Walk, visit Brighton Gardens senior residence, and meet with other agencies. Since its founding in 2008, Areyvut has trained over 500 people in the art of clowning in a program geared toward students in sixth grade and up and adults. “Our goal is to bring joy and laughter to the people we visit,” said Areyvut founder and director Daniel Rothner. “Not only are participants benefiting others by bringing happiness into their lives, but they are benefiting themselves by seeing how See

Hadassah will host author of book on terror killings and a victim’s father MIKE KELLY, AUTHOR of The Bus on Jaffa Road, and anti-terrorist activist and attorney Stephen Flatow of West Orange will address the season’s opening brunch of Roselle-Cranford Hadassah on Sunday, Oct. 18, at 9:15 a.m. at Temple Beth-El Mekor Chayim in Cranford. The book is an examination of the terrorist killings of Brandeis student Alisa Flatow, Stephen’s daughter, in 1995, and two other young Americans, Sara Duker and Matthew Eisenfeld, in 1996. Kelly has worked for The Record newspaper of northern New Jersey since 1981. His research for The Bus on Jaffa Road took him on multiple trips to Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank, with frequent visits to the crime scenes. He interviewed family members and friends of the three victims, Israeli police, Shin Bet agents,

and the mastermind of the attacks — Hassan Salameh, a member of Hamas who is serving 46 life sentences in an Israeli prison. After his daughter’s death, Flatow commenced a series of lawsuits against the government of Iran. He has devoted much of the past two decades to campaigns aimed at heightening awareness of terror victims and their families. He has also helped the United States government identify parties illegally processing financial transactions for Iran. Hadassah chapters and members of the community are invited to attend. Hadassah associate members will be honored at the brunch. A minimum donation of $5 is suggested to defray the cost of the brunch. Kelly will sign copies of his book, which will be available for purchase. RSVP by calling 908-276-5560 by Sept. 21.

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Tailoring the caps EACH OF THE local day schools has implemented its own additional incentives as well as some exceptions to the qualifications under the day school tuition-capping program. Families will be assessed on an individual basis. Here are some highlights of the plans: Gottesman RTW Academy: Tuition is capped at no more than 15 percent of a family’s adjusted gross income (AGI) for families with incomes of $90,000 to $250,000. In addition, families with a parent who is a Jewish communal professional will have their tuition capped at no more than 10 percent of AGI. New families — regardless of income and whether they are moving from another community — will receive a $1,000 per year incentive for the first two years of enrollment. Golda Och Academy: Tuition is capped at 10-15 percent of AGI for families with incomes ranging from $150,000 to $325,000. Families with a qualified Jewish communal professional parent receive a $1,500 additional grant per family. “Bridge the Gap” grants will be offered to families with multiple children in the school who cannot afford minimum tuition. Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy/Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School: Tuition is capped at 15-18 percent for families with incomes ranging from $150,000 to $275,000. In collaboration with area synagogues, the school has instituted a range of incentives for young families, independent of the Vision 2025 program, including discounts on synagogue membership for new enrollees. Jewish Educational Center: Tuition is capped at 15-18 percent for families with incomes ranging from $150,000 to $275,000 from early childhood to 12th grade. An early childhood scholarship not based on need is available for families who are members of partner synagogues. The scholarship covers, on average, 35 percent of tuition. Families purchasing a home in Elizabeth or Hillside also receive a two-year, $5,000 tuition discount that may be used for any student in any grade.

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“We are thrilled that the Gottesman family, which has pioneered middle income affordability not just in our community but for the whole nation, is now making this historic investment to ensure that everyone in our community has access to our outstanding day schools,” said Daniel Staffenberg, executive director of the JCF of GMW, whose three children will be enrolled at one of the schools this fall. “This is part of our overall effort to make Jewish life more affordable in our community, and also to highlight the incredible educational offerings we have for young families,” said Dov Ben-Shimon, executive vice president/CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ. The Gottesman Foundation was one of the first in the nation to initiate a day school tuition-capping program for middle-income families, founding such a program in 1998 at the then Hebrew Academy of Morris County (now Gottesman RTW Academy). The program — and many others across the country that used their model — seeks to address the needs of families “squeezed in the middle”: those whose incomes fall above scholarship levels, but for whom the cost of Jewish day school education is still too much of a burden. The grants require less financial disclosure than traditional scholarship programs, in order to encourage more families to apply. Currently, there are “five or six” different affordability strategies being implemented at about 30 schools across the country, according to a survey done by the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education. In some cases, individual schools are working independently; in others, there is a coordinated effort across the whole community. Referring to the new Greater MetroWest initiative and increasing day school enrollment, Jim Blankstein, PEJE’s vice president of communications, said, “Opportunities like this one provide access, and accessibility is the key to the game.” He added, “We know the Gottesman model works in a single school. The real question now is how does it work across multiple schools in one community? Based on the results, we will know how it can be implemented in other communities.” In an interview that appeared last winter in Hayidion, the journal of Ravsak, the community day school umbrella organization, Paula Gottesman urged a communal response to high tuition costs. “Just as people pay taxes for public schools — and no one would say we shouldn’t do that — the Jewish community should tax itself for the education of our children. Our collective future should be the responsibility of the collective community,” she said. She credits her husband, Jerry, a real estate and parking lot developer, with the idea to help middle-income parents at Gottesman RTW back in the mid-1990s, when one of his employees fell into “a big group in the middle that was not ‘needy,’ but day school education was just not within their budgets.”

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Tuition from previous page regardless of the number of children in the family. Traditional scholarships for lower-income families will still be available at each of the schools. In addition, each school individualized the program, based on the needs of its community (see sidebar). “The goal was to have an across-the-board affordability guarantee for Greater MetroWest families, but also to give each school the ability to craft initiatives targeted to meet the needs of its own community,� said Steve Levy, vice chair of the Greater MetroWest Day School Council and a key planner of the Vision 2025 plan. A consortium worked for more than a year to develop Vision 2025. It included staff and board members from the day schools, the GMW federation’s Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life, the JCF of GMW, and the Day School Advisory Council — a leadership group under the aegis of the JCF that oversees a Community Day School Fund. A committee researched tuition programs and honed in on successful efforts created in recent years in Boston and Montreal. In a Greater MetroWest survey of close to 500 parents, teachers, and students, the cost of day school education was most frequently cited as the greatest limiting factor to enrolling children in Jewish day school. After several years of dipping enrollment following the 2008 financial crisis and demographic changes, enrollment at the Greater MetroWest day schools is on the rise for this year. The program aims to continue to build on these enrollment increases at all four schools, bucking a national trend toward declining enrollment in schools that are not strictly Orthodox.

Local schools to participate in PJ Library pilot DAY SCHOOLS IN the Greater MetroWest area have been chosen as one of three cohorts in North America — the only one in the United States — to pilot a project leveraging the PJ Library to bring more families into day schools and increase enrollment. The two-year program is sponsored by the Massachusetts-based Harold Grinspoon Foundation with a matching grant from the Avi Chai Foundation, and is matched locally with $36,000 by the Greater MetroWest Day School Community Fund. The funding will pay for programs, marketing, and staffing stipends at each of the three schools, and coordination at the GMW federation’s Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life. PJ Library, a program of the Grinspoon Foundation, sends free Jewish books and music to families on a monthly basis. Currently 3,250 Greater MetroWest children are participating. Golda Och Academy, Gottesman RTW Academy, and Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy will participate. The three schools will host a variety of programs throughout the year in an effort to bring families into their schools, from a Sunday morning drop-in program for young children, to holiday programs, to a concert featuring popular Jewish children’s singer ShirLaLa.

The collaboration among the schools has helped the community to be selected for two major national programs aimed at growing day school enrollment. All four schools in Greater MetroWest have been participating in “Atideinu: Our Future� run by PEJE in Boston with funding from the Avi Chai

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Scholar from page 9 of the Sonderkommando who survived managed to assimilate into the general population of Holocaust survivors, hiding their gruesome stories. Conlin said that among 40 survivors she has interviewed, “some of them didn’t really know who the Sonderkommando were until after the war. But years have passed, and most of them say being a Sonderkommando was just a way of survival, that it was human nature to do something to survive — if only for one more day.� Conklin is also interested in the sadistic work of Josef Mengele, who used Jewish and Roma twins for the twisted experiments he conducted at Auschwitz. “Mengele was trying to create people with blonde hair and blue eyes,� she said. “He used one twin as a subject of a grim experiment and measured him or her against the twin who was untreated. He wanted to control the outcome of German

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building where Dr. Mengele did his experiments.� Even though Mengele injected the sisters with tuberculosis, Conlin said, “Eva turned to him and said, ‘You will not kill me. I refuse to die.’ He thought that was funny, and he let them live. She had this will inside of her. She wanted to defy authority.� Miriam died in 1993 from a rare form of cancer that might have been caused by Mengele’s torturous experimentation on her. “Eva owes her survival to her feisty personality,� said Conlin. “She did not give up.� Conlin hopes to study and teach about the Holocaust on a university or a high school level. “Survivors are not going to be around in five or 10 years, and who

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Galeet Dardashti. Prospective members are welcome to attend at no cost, but must register in advance. Contact 973-763-0111 or info@ bethelnj.org.

Temple Beth Ahm Yisrael, Springfield. Complimentary tickets to a Yom Kippur Community Yizkor Service on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 4:15 p.m. Call 973-376-0539, ext. 11, by Sept. 18.

Chabad Center of Northwest NJ, Rockaway Township. Services are open to the entire community (with satellite services in Mountain Lakes, Montville, Randolph, Budd Lake, and Sparta) and will include a youth program. To reserve a seat, contact 973-625-1525, ext. 202, or rabbib@onetorahway.org.

Bnai Keshet, Montclair. Non-members are welcome at all High Holy Days services at no charge. Most will be held at Central Presbyterian Church in Montclair (second day of Rosh Congregation Beth Ahm, Verona. Tickets are available for its High Holy Day services for $200 Hashana, at Bnai Keshet). Young family and junior congregation services and child care will per adult above age 25, which come with a free be available. Reservations are required; contact one-year membership to the synagogue. Con973-746-4889 or bnaikeshet@bnaikeshet.org or tact 973-239-0754 or Office@BethAhm.org. visit bnaikeshet.org.

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leader. “The Nazis did terrible evil, but they had a sufficient sense of shame to try to hide it,” Abbott said in a radio interview with the Fairfax station 2GB, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. “These people boast about their evil, this is the extraordinary thing. They act in the way that medieval barHolocaust denier David Irving barians acted, only they broadcast it to the world leading tour of WWII sites with an effrontery which is hard to credit.” JTA Abbott later said that he stood by his words, Convicted British Holocaust denier David Irving is leading a weeklong tour of World War II sites in and “not by the interpretation that other people might want to put on it.” He also said he is “not in Poland and Latvia. Kerry: U.S. will use ‘all tools’ The nine-day tour, which began Sept. 2 in War- the business of trying to rank evil.” to confront Iranian destabilization saw, cost about $3,000 per person and includes Robert Goot, president of the Executive CounThe Obama administration will oppose Iran’s bids Hitler’s “Wolf’s Lair” bunker headquarters and the cil of Australian Jewry, called the comparison to destabilize the region “with every national secu- Treblinka and Belzec death camps. “injudicious and unfortunate.” rity tool available,” U.S. Secretary of State John Goot said there is a “fundamental difference Irving, who has been barred from several Kerry said, defending the Iran nuclear deal. between organized acts of terrorism and a genocountries and was jailed in 2006 in Austria, “In a letter that I am sending to all the memcide systematically implemented by a state as launched what he calls “Real History” tours in bers of Congress today, I make clear the adminis- 2010. essential policy.” tration’s willingness to work with them on legis“The crimes of Islamic State are indeed hor“Don’t miss this lifetime adventure!” a notice lation to address shared concerns about regional rific, but cannot be compared to the systematic for the trip on his website states. “Make up your security consistent with the agreement that we roundup of millions of people and their dispatch own mind about the truth.” have worked out with our international partto purpose-built death camps for mass murder,” A brochure posted on his website says guests ners,” Kerry said in a major Iran policy speech he said. will avoid the “phony allures, mass tourism and Sept. 2 at the National Constitution Center in ‘reconstructions’ of present-day Auschwitz — the Philadelphia. erstwhile slave-labor camp turned into a tourist German politician rues comparing Kerry and other Obama administration officials attraction, complete with hot-dog vendors and are lobbying hard to keep Congress from killing security fence to Berlin Wall souvenir stands!” the Iran deal by a Sept. 17 deadline. They hit a Irving lost a 1996 libel suit against historian A German politician has backpedaled on remarks milestone on Sept. 2 when Sen. Barbara Mikulski Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher, Penguin comparing Israel’s security fence to the Berlin (D-Mary.), became the 34th senator to pledge to Books, for her depiction of him as a Holocaust Wall. back the deal, guaranteeing that it would survive denier in her book Denying the Holocaust. The Uwe Kekeritz of the Green Party, in remarks any bid to override President Barack Obama’s four-year legal battle is set to become a feature made several months ago, had said the Berlin pledged veto should Congress reject the deal. film, with Hilary Swank starring as Lipstadt. Wall, which communist East Germany built in “I am fully conscious of the existential nature of 1961 to keep its citizens from fleeing to the demthe choice Israel must make,” Kerry said. “I underocratic West Germany, “is just a toy” in comNorwegian compares smoking bans stand the conviction that Israel, even more than parison to the West Bank fence, which he saw any other country, simply cannot afford a mistake to Nazi persecution of Jews on a trip to Israel last year. The remarks gained in defending its security.” A Norwegian politician compared smoking bans in attention after they were posted last month on He reviewed the close defense relationship cafes and other public spaces to the persecution of YouTube. between Israel and the United States and said he Jews under the Nazis. The German daily Bild reported that Kekeritz anticipated enhancements. Geir Finne, leader of the self-described “culsaid he had only wanted to compare the dimenMost, if not all, Republicans oppose the deal, as do the Israeli government and the American Israel turally conservative” Coastal Party, which has not sions of the walls. “In no way did I intend to minimize the brutalPublic Affairs Committee, arguing that it will leave held any seats in the country’s Parliament in a decade, said in an article published on TV2, “We ity of the Berlin Wall, the suffering of those who Iran a nuclear threshold state. Kerry said the proare fighting against a systematic discrimination tried to cross, and the oppression of the citizens of visions of the deal give the world time to counter against smokers. We have not seen anything like East Germany,” he said. “It was not my intention any of its nuclear ambitions. to compare the democratic state of Israel with the “If Iran at any time — at any time — embarks this since the time of the occupation. “This is legally enforced discrimination. Jews GDR dictatorship.” on nuclear activities that are incompatible with a Kekeritz, 61, made his original remarks at the wholly peaceful program, it will be in violation of were also already being persecuted from 1933,” he added, according to The Local, an English-lanannual Protestant Church Day in June in Stuttthe agreement forever,” he said. “We will know guage Norwegian news publication. gart under the title “Break the Silence in Poliof that violation right away and we will retain Kristian Andresen, a party member in Tromso, tics.” Although criticism of Israel in Germany is every option we now have to respond, whether defended the comparison, saying, “You have to commonplace, Kekeritz also complained about a diplomatically or through a return to sanctions so-called taboo against such criticism. or by other means. In short, this agreement gives use some pretty powerful language if you want people to listen. That’s why we are comparing He said he had been invited to visit Jerusalem us unprecedented tools and all the time we need the smoking ban with the persecution of Jews, as an expert on development policy on a trip sponto hold Iran accountable for its choices and especially what happened in 1933-1939. We did sored by the German NGOs Misereor and Bread actions.” not compare it with the torture and murder that for the World. happened during the war, but with the actual perIn describing the security barrier, Kekeritz said Pope asks Israel’s president secution.” that he had seen it on television and read about to restart talks with Palestinians The Coastal Party combines culturally conserit, but that “when you stand in front of a wall like vative positions with environmentalism and liber- that, you understand that the Berlin Wall was only Pope Francis asked Israeli President Reuven Rivlin tarianism, according to The Local. a toy by comparison.” to “reactivate” direct negotiations with the PalesComparisons of the Berlin Wall and Israel’s tinians during their meeting at the Vatican. Rivlin was welcomed for his one hour audience Australian PM under fire for saying security fence are not uncommon. In 2007, German Catholic leaders on a tour of Israel, the West on Sept. 3 by the pope and the Vatican’s secretary ISIS terrorists worse than Nazis Bank, and Gaza caused a stir after Cardinal Joaof state, Pietro Parolin. chim Meisner said that Israel’s West Bank security Australian Prime Minister Toby Abbott said that The meeting in the pope’s private library barrier was useless and one day would be torn focused on issues regarding the future of the Mid- Islamic State terrorists are worse than the Nazis, down, like the former Berlin Wall. spurring criticism from a top Australian Jewish dle East, the fight against terrorism, attacks on

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Christian sites in Israel, and bilateral agreements between the Vatican and the State of Israel. Francis said he hoped that the Israelis and Palestinians in the future would “seek that which unites and to overcome that which divides.”

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Opinion Editorial

Hineh mah tov For many who attend synagogue on the High Holy Days, it is an opportunity not just to encounter God and connect with tradition but to bond with their fellow Jews. Among many other things, Rosh Hashana is a celebration of community, a pilgrimage holiday in which all can declare, “Hineh mah tov u’mah nayim, shevet ahim gam yahad” — How good and pleasant it is to sit together as family! But this experience of unity is threatened by disagreements deeper than we have seen in many years. The debate over the Iran nuclear deal has not just been heated, but bitter. Touching on Israel’s security, the Holocaust, partisan politics, Jewish values, and tangled loyalties, it is a debate tailor-made to widen fissures among Jews.

The challenge for synagogues will be to contain these debates; the challenge for individuals is to find ways to discuss these issues without driving wedges between friends and family. In the Torah portion Nitzavim, read on the Shabbat preceding Rosh Hashana, there is a reminder of the power of Jewish unity over the things that divide the people: “You are all standing this day before the Lord, your God, the leaders of your tribes, your elders and your officers, every man of Israel, your young children, your women, and your convert who is within your camp, both your woodcutters and your water drawers, that you may enter the covenant of the Lord, your God, and His oath, which the Lord, your God, is mak-

ing with you this day.” (Deuteronomy 29:9-11) Leaders and “regular” folk, men and women, the young and the old. The Torah does not pretend there are no differences, but it suggests that these differences can be put aside in gathering as one to celebrate the Jewish people and its traditions. We know there are deep divisions within the Jewish community. But we can remind ourselves about our higher purpose, and how, despite our differences of opinion and outlook, we still share a common covenant. This Rosh Hashana, may you and yours gather together and experience the goodness and pleasantness of being with family — the Jewish family.

Editor’s Column

My bar mitzva suit

“Son wins court battle against mom attend twice-weekly “Hebrew school” for $5k bar mitzva gift” — New York classes at the temple, overseen by rabPost, Aug. 26, 2015 binical students who were rarely seen Wait — you can sue your parents without guitars. The plaintiff so over your bar mitzva?! dreaded attending these Had I only known: lessons that it would often Decided on send him into bouts of March 15, 1974 despair. He explained how, on gym days at WalDistrict Court toffer Avenue Elementary of Nassau County, School, students were First District required to wear their red Andrew Silow-Carroll, gym shorts under their Plaintiff pants. When he used the against boys’ room he would see the red cloth of his shorts His Parents, Andrew through his fly, which Defendants Silow-Carroll would remind him that The plaintiff claims that it was Wednesday and his parents subjected him that he had to go to Hebrew to humiliation and grievous harm school that afternoon instead of hangby going ahead with his bar mitzva ing out at the playground. Crushed, despite a clear lack of motivation on he would stand nearly catatonic in the his part, a series of questionable fash- boys’ room until summoned by a hall ion choices, and the insistence that monitor. he pursue his Hebrew school studies The plaintiff also asserted that, despite compelling evidence of men- given an unfortunate growth spurt tal anguish. brought on by over-indulgence in Drake’s FunnyBones and what his Findings of Fact On Feb. 28, 1974, the plaintiff turned mother called a “glandular issue,” he was forced to shop for his bar mitzva 13, which according to Jewish law suit in the “husky” department at made him eligible for a “bar mitzva,” defined herein as a reading of excerpts Ohrbach’s. He further maintained from the Torah at his Long Island syn- that the suit chosen for him — a agogue, a speech thanking his parents, three-piece plaid suit with seven-inch lapels and flared bottoms, and a catered affair to follow at the worn over two-tone platform shoes Huntington Town House. — would surely come back to haunt In the months preceding this event, the plaintiff’s parents made him him should anybody see the photos,

say, 40 years later. On cross-examination the defendants testified that the suit was considered a fashionable choice in 1974, and besides, it closely matched the suits worn by his two older brothers, to the degree that when they were photographed together they looked like actors auditioning for a B-movie about the Osmond Brothers. On March 7, a few days before the bar mitzva, the tailor took the suit into the back room of the shop for a final pressing, only to emerge minutes later with a stricken look on his face and a steam iron-shaped hole in the pants. A new suit was delivered the day before the bar mitzva, but if anything this one had even louder checks and wider bell bottoms. On the afternoon before the bar mitzva, the plaintiff was taken for a haircut at El Matador on Jerusalem Avenue, across from the Big Apple. Whether the stylist was intoxicated or distracted, the ensuing haircut was bizarre and unflattering, even by the standards of 1974. Subsequent attempts by the plaintiffs’ oldest brother to “repair” the damage with hair spray and a “hot comb” were to little avail, as photographs attest (Plaintiff’s Exhibit 1). Despite the attendant unease brought on by these occurrences, the bar mitzva went off that Saturday morning, with the plaintiff sharing the bima with another boy with a much better suit and haircut. Plaintiff took little solace in the fact that he didn’t

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need to stand on a stool to reach the microphone, performed his haftara without stumbling, and did not break into inappropriate laughter at the reading of the week’s yahrtzeits, which included last names like “Lipschitz,” “Hymen,” and “Frankfurter.” At the party that night, however, the plaintiff was subjected to multiple wet kisses during the performance of the “candle ceremony.” Conclusions of Law The elements necessary to establish a claim of humiliation and grievous harm may be presumed when one is talking about (1) Jewish adolescence, (2) postwar suburban Judaism, and (3) the 1970s. (See Gruen v. Temple Micah 1970, BBYO vs. AZA 1972, and various episodes of The Brady Bunch, 1969-74.) The evidence clearly establishes that the plaintiff “did not ask to be born”; however, the defendants testified that the choices they made for the bar mitzva were no different from those made by other families “in their circle.” This evidence convinces the court that the bar mitzva boy had what is known as a “normal Jewish childhood.” Accordingly, judgment after trial is neither for the plaintiff nor against the defendants, although our sympathies are with all involved. Q

The views expressed in this column are those of the author.

Opinion: Both sides of the aisle

Differing with friends, but sharing a goal From the editor: In a statement issued Sept. 3, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced his support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the international nuclear deal with Iran. Explained Booker:

monitoring and inspections regime ever negotiated, covering Iran’s entire nuclear supply chain for 15 years. Some of the most intrusive monitoring, including of its uranium mines and mills and centrifuge production facilities, will last well beyond that “Make no mistake, this deal, while fall- period. The agreement will also estabing short of permanently eliminating lish strict limits on Iran’s research and Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon, development for the next ten years.” succeeds in either delaying it or giving us the credible ability to detect The following excerpt from Booker’s significant cheating on their part and lengthy statement (available on-line respond accordingly. It establishes his- at njjewishnews.com) includes the contorically unprecedented mechanisms cluding paragraphs. to block Iran’s near-term pathway to a nuclear weapon. This deal will remove his deal can by no means be a 98 percent of Iran’s enriched uranium final act in our diplomatic dealstockpile — taking the amount of fisings with Iran, but must rather sile material from 12,000kg — enough be a beginning of an era of increased to make multiple bombs — to 300kg, vigilance, strict accountability, and which isn’t close to enough material rigid oversight. I believe that this for even one. None of their enrich- attention to detail by which stakeholdment will be underground at the ers on all sides of this issue have advoFordow facility. The agreement will cated will ensure that Congress and remove and fill with concrete the core future administrations renew a comof Iran’s heavy water reactor at Arak. mitment to stability in the region and The deal will establish the most robust maintain the availability of all options, including the use of military force. As we move forward, we must abandon the heated rhetoric and simSen. Cory Booker, a Democrat, plicity of argument that has developed represents New Jersey and is around an issue with such complexity the former mayor of Newark

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and nuance. If only it were so sim- from his grandfather written during ple. This deal will not bring absolute the Holocaust calling out to the security, but nor would its alterna- world to help his children amidst the unthinkable horrors. It was tive. It will be incumbent an emotional meeting, and it on our nation — and on all brought me back to my first nations that find the Iranian visit as a young 25-year-old pursuit of a nuclear weapon to Yad Vashem. I’ve traveled unacceptable — to act the world, visited graves, with resolve, courage, and memorials, and museums, unwavering determination but none has ever affected to ensure that the unthinkme like that first visit. And able never happens. That though the museum was full requires honest and conof stories of righteous men structive debate. women, Jews and nonWhile this deal has been Sen. Cory and Jews, who answered calls for a remarkable show of interBooker help, fought against evil, and national unity at a time saved lives among the deaths when political and economic of millions, a clear lesson is cleavages have divided many that this monumental tragedy was of the P5+1 countries, evaluating this preventable if only more people recdeal has been one of the most difficult ognized evil and took action to stop it. challenges I have faced because of the This realization has left an impresconcerns I have outlined. And make sion on me that has shaped my outno mistake, I have concerns beyond look on the world and my determijust these. nation to do all I can to prevent a Some of the most painful, diffi- genocide from occurring again. To cult, and influential conversations I be clear: when Iranians chant death have had about this deal have been to America or pledge themselves to with valued and trusted friends from the destruction of Israel, I take them the Jewish community who have fam- at their word. My Jewish friends and ily members who survived or died in others I have talked with are correct: the Holocaust. One New Jersey rabbi Continued on next page and respected friend read me a letter

The administration gambles with Iran

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ongress is preparing for a mon- ciple of rule by Islamic jurists, Iran umental vote on the Obama has developed a well-earned repuadministration’s Iran nuclear tation as the foremost state sponsor weapons agreement. As chair of the of terrorism. Since holding AmeriHouse Subcommittee on Defense, I can diplomats and Marines hostage will be working to inform for 444 days from 1979 to my colleagues on both sides 1981, Iran has developed of the aisle. I would suggest and supported a worldwide the best place for their eduterror network which it cation process to start is at has used to execute terror its most basic level: the presattacks in Asia, Europe, ident’s approach to the Iran Africa, and North and nuclear weapons negotiaSouth America. These facts tions is based on two highare not in dispute. stakes gambles: Now consider that Iran Gamble #1: Iran will Rep. Rodney will be receiving a “signing transform its behavior and bonus” of approximately become a “model citizen” in Frelinghuysen $150 billion in soon-to-be the community of nations. unfrozen assets, in addition From the rise to power to new oil and other reveof Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in nue. In a $400 billion economy that is 1979 and the establishment of the quite a windfall! And how might we Islamic Republic based on the prin- expect the regime in Tehran to use these new resources? Given the Iranian track record and its aspirations to become the most powerful nation in the Middle East, this funding will Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen certainly stream to Shiite militias in (R-Dist. 11) is chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Iraq; the Houthis in Yemen; Hizbullah in Lebanon; their on-again, offDefense

again partners, Hamas in Gaza; and other Iranian military proxies in the region, not to mention the murderous regime of Bashar Assad in Syria which they underwrite. With the Iranian conventional arms embargo being lifted in just a few short years, it will not take long before the regime has the best equipped set of proxy

negotiated a deal that will, in effect, provide Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani, already labeled “the most dangerous man on the planet,” more resources with which to attack American soldiers now and in the future. This deal may give him and hundreds of his associates the ability to move freely as travel restric-

The president’s approach to the Iran nuclear weapons negotiations is based on two high-stakes gambles. armies in the world! The regime’s Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force is active across the globe. Eight years ago, the Quds Force was killing American soldiers in Iraq, possibly as many as 1,000! Hundreds more were maimed and scarred for life by the armor-piercing “explosively formed penetrators” produced inside Iran. Now, the Obama administration has

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tions are lifted under its provisions. Gamble #2: Will the administration be able to convince states in the region — Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt, the Gulf Cooperation Council states — that Iran is changing its behavior so as to prevent a burst of nuclear proliferation and conventional militarization?

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Gamble from previous page

Iran is an existential threat to the State of Israel and to the Jewish people. While I may differ with many friends on the choice this deal presents us — and I do believe that this deal presents the better path of two options to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon — we share precisely the same goal. I am united with all who are determined to ensure that we never again see genocide in the world. That means not allowing Iran to ever obtain a nuclear weapon, period, regardless of what it takes. This deal does not provide a permanent solution and it is clearly no panacea. It will demand America’s continued principled leadership, and, with that leadership, offers our best opportunity among limited and flawed options to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Q

The fact of the matter is that Iran has made no secret of its goal to achieve Shi’ite domination of the greater Middle East. That is why they provide, again through the Quds Force, material support to the Houthis in Yemen, Hizbullah in Lebanon, various Shi’ite militias in Iraq, and Shi’ite blocs in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Who expects that to change? Deep concern in the region about Iran’s rising power has already triggered a conventional arms race. But now that the nuclear “deal” is sealed, we can anticipate that at least some of these nations will give serious thought to acquiring their own nuclear weapons capability. The Middle East is already the most volatile, unstable region of the world. More arms, especially

nuclear arms, will only magnify the danger! From where I sit, the Obama administration’s gambles are not worth the risks to the safety of the American people and our overall national security. Will Iran change its stripes, earned after decades of global terrorist activities? Not likely. Will Iran’s neighbors, including Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, sit idly by while Iran threatens their people and security? I suggest the answer to that question is “Never.” Will this agreement jeopardize the lives of American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who will inevitably be asked to answer Iranian aggression in the Middle East and across the globe? Sadly, that is a very Q solid bet.

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Back on the proper path Steven Bayar My Jewish Learning/JTA e live with a practical tradition. We begin the Jewish New Year with 10 days devoted to introspection. Between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur we are asked to review our past failures and victories, to evaluate our relationships and how we can make things better for ourselves and those we care for. We take stock of our lives and try to put ourselves back on the right path. “Het� is the Hebrew word commonly translated as “sin.� It is derived from the term that means “to miss the target.� The assumption is that sin is a mistake, an action we would correct, if possible. It is human to make mistakes — it is brave to try to correct them. This makes “teshuva� — translated as “to return� — an attainable task. We are not expected to be perfect, but we are expected to clean up the messes we have made. Our tradition identifies two categories of relationships: those we have with each other and those we have with God. The mistakes we make fall into these categories as well: the ways in which we hurt others and the ways in which we hurt God. Isn’t it incredible that we can hurt God? Some may disagree and ask, “How can a perfect God be concerned with our sins?� In my opinion, it is a measure of God’s love for us that God created a relationship in which God is affected by our actions. While some may say this is only a metaphor, I’m not so sure. If one truly believes in the concept of tikun olam, and recognizes our responsibility to fix the world, how can God not be disappointed and hurt when we fail? This interplay between teshuva and het, our relationship to others, creates a very involved dynamic and ideally forces us to face our frailties and responsibilities. We have made mistakes — how can we atone for them? We are always in need of repentance and atonement. We learn from the Midrash (Mishle 6:6): The students of Rabbi Akiva asked him, “Which is greater, teshuva or tzedaka?� He answered, “Teshuva, because sometimes one gives tzedaka to one who does not need it. However, teshuva comes from within (it is always needed).�

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The students said, “Rabbi, have we not already found that tzedaka is greater than teshuva?� In this text, Rabbi Akiva places emphasis on the necessity of teshuva — we are always in need of repentance and atonement. Yet the students refuse to accept his answer. The text doesn’t provide a resolution to the debate and seemingly leaves the matter for us to decide. This text identifies some of the most important issues in our comm u n i t y today: How does one explore Judaism and derive deep meaning from it? What if you want to strengthen your Jewish identity? One way is through introspection and to find yourself in intense moments that we create through silent ritual and prayer. This is the essence of teshuva, the “return to one’s tradition.� This is one way, and it is a good way. But it is not the only way. Another way to achieve this goal is to immerse oneself in tzedaka. I have experienced moments of spiritual delight wrapped in my prayers and turning toward God, when the door opened and my path was illuminated. But I have also experienced the intensity of giving a bag of school supplies to a child who has never had them before, of delivering 20,000 pounds of food to a shelter in Mississippi or building a house in Appalachia. I found these experiences equivalent ways of becoming close to God. I can tell you this: When I am alone and feel in the dark, when I am scared and aware of my mortality, or when I am in pain, it is the tzedaka experiences that I dust off and recall. They bring me back. Ritual and prayer are vital expressions of my identity and form the basis of my observance, but my humanity comes Q from tzedaka.

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RoshHashana An easy and elegant Rosh Hashana menu Shannon Sarna JTA

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e love to kvetch about how early or late Rosh Hashana falls — as if we have any control over when the holidays will appear. But this year, the Jewish New Year falls on the early side for us Americans, less than a week after Labor Day and the start of school. So there’s no time to agonize over menus or prep for weeks, which can sometimes be a good thing. If you haven’t been menu planning since July, don’t fret. You can still put Crockpot Short Ribs With Pomegranate Photos by Shannon Sarna together an elegant but time-conscious Molasses meal for a deliciously sweet New Year. covered in plastic wrap a few hours if you have the time. CROCKPOT SHORT RIBS WITH Heat a few tablespoons of oil in a POMEGRANATE MOLASSES large pan over medium-high heat. Sear 3 1/2 pounds short ribs on the bone ribs on all sides until brown. When all 1/2 tsp. cinnamon the ribs have been seared, place into 1/4 tsp. dried coriander bottom of a slow cooker. 1/2 tsp. sweet paprika Drain off all oil in pan, except for Pinch red pepper flakes around two or three tablespoons. Add 1 or 2 tsp. salt onion and celery and saute until trans1/2 tsp. pepper lucent, about four to six minutes. Add Olive oil garlic and continue to cook. After a few 1 onion, diced minutes, add tomato paste and cook 3 garlic cloves, minced until incorporated into the vegetables. 3 ribs of celery, diced Add cooked vegetables to slow 1 heaping Tbsp. tomato paste cooker with the stock, wine, soy sauce, 1 1/2 cups chicken, beef, or veal stock and pomegranate molasses. Set cooker 1 1/2 cups red wine for six hours on high, ensuring the 3 Tbsp. soy sauce short ribs are completely covered with 1/3 cup pomegranate molasses, plus liquid. extra for serving When short ribs are finished cookFresh parsley (optional) ing, garnish an extra drizzle of pomePomegranate seeds (optional) granate molasses, fresh chopped Mix cinnamon, coriander, paprika, parsley, and pomegranate seeds, if red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper in desired. Yield: Six servings a small bowl. Place ribs on large plate and rub See Elegant page 43 spice mix all over. Allow to sit in fridge

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RoshHashana Best new kids’ books for the High Holy Days Penny Schwartz JTA rom Antarctica to Shanghai and from farms to cities, this year’s crop of High Holy Days books for children offers a globe-trotting exploration. Friendship and family are the themes that run through five new titles that entertain and inform young ones and older readers. Turning the pages of a new book is the perfect way to usher in the holidays. Penguin Rosh Hashanah, by Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod (CreateSpace Independent Publishing; ages three to six) Celebrating Rosh Hashana can be tough for a young penguin in Antarctica. There are no bees to make honey and no apple trees — just a lot of snow. In this warmhearted, offbeat introduction to the Jewish New Year, illustrated with photographs of penguins and their natural habitat, the little penguin sometimes finds it hard to do the right thing. In simple rhythmic verse, part of an animal-themed series on Jewish holidays (Otter Passover and Panda Purim), the Israeli-based writer Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod conveys the themes of Rosh Hashana — reflection, forgiveness, faith, and family. Time to Start a Brand New Year, by Rochel Groner Vorst; illustrated by Shepsil Scheinberg (Hachai Publishing; ages two to five) With this new title, Hachai Publishing adds to its collection of rhym-

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ing, colorful stories for young kids. This High Holy Days story features a contemporary haredi Orthodox family getting ready to celebrate Rosh Hashana, from apple picking to harvesting honey to hearing the shofar. The author, who as a teen won Pittsburgh’s Holocaust poetry contest, is a kindergarten teacher at a Jewish day school in Charlotte, NC, where she grew up. Talia and the Very Yum Kippur, by Linda Elovitz Marshall; illustrated by Francesca Assirelli (KarBen; ages four to eight) The endearing Talia makes a return in this funny and charming encore to Talia and the Rude Vegetables, featuring a young girl who sometimes confuses grown-up words that sound like others. It’s Yom Kippur and Talia is visiting her grandparents, who live on a farm. She helps her grandmother prepare a noodle kugel for the family’s break fast, gathering eggs from the hen house and milking the cow with her grandfather. Kids will be tickled by the bit of merry mayhem that follows when Talia mistakes the Hebrew word “yom� (meaning “day�) for “yum� — and she begins to grow impatient for her family’s “breakfast� as she wonders why a “fast day� is moving so slowly. Grandma comes to the rescue by explaining that on Yom Kippur, people pray, fast, and ask for forgiveness for any wrongdoings, leading to a heartSee

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RoshHashana Why the Chosen People are choosing aliya Cnaan Liphshiz JTA n their central Jerusalem apartment, Natan and Avital Sharansky can hear their new upstairs neighbors chatting in French on their patio. The young family moved into the penthouse shortly after immigrating to Israel with the help of the Jewish Agency for Israel — the semi-official organization for Jewish immigration to Israel, or aliya, which Natan Sharansky has headed since 2009. The family is part of a major increase in aliya from France, amid rising levels of anti-Semitism and economic stagnation in that country. In 2014, 6,668 French people made aliya — a record number of newcomers in a single year from France — making that country the largest provider of Jewish immigrants to Israel for the first time in a given year. But the Sharanskys and others don’t need data to confirm the influx of French arrivals. They are in plain

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RoshHashana Beyond the bagel: Breaking the fast with flair Shannon Sarna JTA y the time the fast is over on Yom Kippur, the last thing you want to be doing is patchkeing in the kitchen to prepare lots of food. And as much as I can’t wait to shove a bagel and cream cheese with all the fixins in my face, I also like to enjoy something sweet, something salty, and something a little fresh with my traditional postfast carbs. I recommend preparing the quinoa salad ahead of time, and when the fast is over, serve it on top of labne for an easy and healthful salad. The rich, sweet coffee cake hallah can also be baked ahead of time. And the flavors of the custom dill lemon caper cream cheese will only intensify when you let it sit overnight in the fridge. Note: If you plan to make your own gravlax, you must start at least four days in advance of serving, or up to a week, otherwise the fish will not be ready to eat.

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Add all ingredients to a bowl. Mix together until flavors are incorporated. Place in a glass bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate 24-48 hours until ready to serve. Garnish with additional dill if desired. Yield: Six to eight servings

COFFEE CAKE HALLAH For the dough: 1½ Tbsp. yeast 1 tsp. sugar 1 1/4 cup lukewarm water 4½-5 cups all-purpose flour ¾ cup sugar ¼ cup vegetable oil ½ Tbsp. salt 2 tsp. vanilla 2 large eggs For the crumb topping and filling: 1¾ cups all-purpose flour 1 cup packed light brown sugar 1 heaping tsp. cinnamon ¼ tsp. coarse sea salt 1½ sticks cold butter or margarine, cut into small pieces 1 cup chopped pecans 1 egg, beaten For the glaze: 2 cups powdered sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 4 Tbsp. milk or almond milk

In a small bowl place yeast, one teaspoon sugar, and lukewarm water. Allow to sit five to 10 minutes, until it becomes foamy on top. In a large bowl or stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, mix together one and one-half cups flour, salt, and sugar. After the water-yeast mixture has become foamy, add to flour mixture along with oil and vanilla. Mix thoroughly. Add another cup of flour and eggs until smooth. Switch to the dough hook attachment using a stand mixer. Add another one to one-and-onehalf cups flour and then remove from bowl and place on a floured surface. Knead remaining flour into dough, continuing to knead for around 10 minutes. Don’t add more flour than the dough needs; the less flour, the lighter the dough. Place dough in a greased bowl and cover with damp towel. Allow to rise three to four hours. To make the crumb topping: Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, and sea salt in

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a large bowl. Add cold butter or margarine and mix using a pastry cutter until mixture resembles crumbles. Refrigerate until ready to use. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. After the hallah is done rising, split the dough evenly in half. Divide each half into three pieces. Roll each piece into a snake and then flatten. Sprinkle crumb topping inside, then pinch sides up to close. Gently roll again to seal in filling. Repeat with all pieces and then braid, forming into a circle and pinching together each end of the braid. Repeat with second half of dough. Place each hallah on a parchment paper or silicon liner on baking sheet. Allow hallah to rise another 30-60 minutes, or until you can see the size has grown and hallah seems light. Whisk egg in a small bowl. Brush on top of each hallah. Top each hallah with remaining crumb mixture. Bake for 25-26 minutes, or until

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RoshHashana The origins of the shofar Rabbi Reuven Hammer he commandment to sound the shofar is found in Leviticus: “In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe complete rest, a sacred occasion commemorated with loud blasts� (Lev. 23:24), and in Numbers: “You shall observe it as a day when the horn is sounded� (Num. 29:1). Although it may have been the practice to sound the shofar on every new moon, the specific commandment applies only to the seventh new moon. Aside from cessation of work and the bringing of specific sacrifices, this is the only biblical commandment connected with Rosh Hashana. Some scholars

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RoshHashana Apology from page 34 haps a woman would better understand my need to obsess a bit this year, I asked my friend (and fellow Kvell-er) Rebecca Einstein Schorr, a Reform rabbi, to advise me as if I were a congregant. I gave her the same spiel: “How can I move forward in a relationship when I’m owed an apology, but it never comes?” Rebecca agreed that the responsibility for teshuva (repentance) lies with the one who has wronged another individual. “However,” she continued, “waiting for another person to recognize his or her role in causing you pain can shackle you to the past. While the onus still resides with the person who has hurt you, there is nothing constructive about holding onto grudges.” “But how am I supposed to get rid of a grudge?” I asked. “The best advice I can give someone is to act as though the other person has asked for forgiveness. Aside from extreme examples of physical or emotional abuse, it can be more productive to release others and move forward with the relationship in cases where no apology is forthcoming.”

I admitted I had no extreme situations to report, but I was still apprehensive about starting a new year devoting any time to a friend who is unable to recognize her role in a rift. I continued the conversation with my friend Rivkie Grossbaum, who also happens to be a teacher at Chabad Minneapolis. There are three levels of forgiveness in Judaism, she told me. In the first level, “We might still be upset, yet we find it in ourselves not to hope for the person’s downfall.” I could manage level one, as I don’t tend to imagine revenge schemes. “At the second stage,” Rivkie said, “we might not be ready to relate to the person as we did before, but we are able to stop carrying feelings of resentment.” I liked that Rivkie differentiated between moving on from resentment and being close to the person again. “The third stage is restoring the relationship. At this level not only have we forgiven the individual, but we’re now ready to be close again. The Talmud explains that we’re expected to find the strength to forgive on the first level. Absence of any forgiveness

whatsoever is a sign of cruelty.” There’s no doubt that the toxic nature of a grudge has allowed me to overly focus on the few problematic relationships in my life instead of the many that are going well. I do not want to become the kind of person who is always feeling offended. And I think it’s safe to say if you’re perpetually waiting for an apology from friends and family, the problem is likely you and not everyone else. The truth is, even if I decide to bring up the issues with the few people I have in mind, the exact apology I’m hoping for is probably not coming. By the time Yom Kippur begins, I’m going to force myself to stop obsessing about it, which is a decent form of forgiveness, albeit the most basic one. I hope that the people I’ve hurt will release me on that level, too. Maybe in another year I can improve my capacity for a higher form of forgiveness, or at the very least spend more time worrying about who Q I’ve hurt rather than the other way around. This piece originally appeared on Kveller, a 70 Faces Media company.

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Meanwhile, aliya of necessity is also making a comeback, with nearly 10,000 people leaving wartorn Ukraine for Israel over the past 18 months. During that period, more Ukrainians moved to Israel than during the preceding five years. Since the eruption last year of a civil conflict in the country’s east, aliya figures from Ukraine increased dramatically, reaching 5,840 emigres in 2014 — a 190 percent increase over 2013. In the first half of 2015, Israel saw the arrival of 3,450 Ukrainians compared to 2,592 French Jews. Unlike French citizens, Ukrainians need visas to live in — or even visit — European Union member states. For Ukrainian Jews, Israel is often the only Western country willing to take them in. In parallel, immigration from Russia is also increasing due to the depreciation of the Russian ruble and the erosion of civil liberties under the government of Vladimir Putin, Sharansky said. In the first six months of 2015, a total of 2,958 Russian Jews — mostly from affluent cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg — made aliya, compared to 1,944 in the corresponding period last year. “They don’t want to be locked in if the doors

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Shofar from page 46 sians, ethnic Ukrainians, Muslims,” said Zvi Arieli, a Jewish resident of Kiev whose military background prepared him for his volunteer role as a coordinator on security matters for the city’s Jewish community. “There’s also a sense of unity in that.” By contrast, Jews in Western Europe often speak of feeling singled out in the wake of attacks like the one at Hyper Cacher or the slaying of a Danish Jew in February outside his synagogue in Copenhagen. Mr. Fitoussi, a regular shopper at Hyper Cacher who declined to give his first name, said he decided to leave for Israel next year after he was called a “dirty Jew” on his way to synagogue, even though he was wearing a hat at the time over his kipa to avoid exactly that kind of situation. “I don’t know how he knew I was Jewish,” said Fitoussi, who started concealing his kipa a few years ago. “They are looking for us now, and the more we hide, the closer they will look.” He chose Israel because “it’s just a continuation — a correction, perhaps — of life in France,” he said. “A house in Paris will be a house in Jerusalem and the house in Netanya will replace the one in Deauville,” he said, in reference to a beach resort Q popular among Parisian Jews.

ascribes to the shofar the power “to confuse the accuser,” suggesting that the sound of the shofar would destroy the power of Satan to speak against Israel on these holy days. Latter-day mystics, following this talmudic tradition, added a collection of verses from Psalms to be read before the blowing of the shofar. One of them, Min hameitzar (out of the depths), is composed of an acrostic that reads kera satan (destroy Satan). Another ancient use of the horn on the New Year was to proclaim the coronation of the victorious gods. We can see how this practice has been reinterpreted in Jewish tradition, which sees Rosh Hashana as the day when God, having completed the work of creation, is crowned king. In the words of the psalmist, “With trumpets and the blast of the horn, raise a shout before the Q Lord, the king” (Ps. 98:6). Rabbi Reuven Hammer is a former president of the International Rabbinical Assembly and one of the founders of the Masorti movement in Israel. This article is excerpted with permission from Entering the High Holy Days, published by the Jewish Publication Society, and appeared at myjewishlearning.com.

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lar behavior,â€? she adds. “That, in fact, is not doing teshuva according to any Jewish scholar.â€? In the Reconstructionist movement, explains Handler, “we value community a lot, and obviously the face-to-face community is really special and powerful.‌ But we are always thinking about other ways in which we can connect as well. I don’t know that [social media] should replace face-to-face connection, but we do recognize that community is important and there are a lot of different ways to connect.â€? Handler believes there is a difference between posting a public apology on social media and sending a direct social media message to an individual. Posting a public apology has its place and value, though in many cases it should be just the first step on the way to teshuva, says Handler. Regarding direct messages on social media, their suitability for atonement “depends on the relationship itself,â€? she says. “There is a lot that can end up being misconstrued in writing, whether it is in an e-mail, in a text, or on-line.‌ Something that people might be writing quickly because they’re running out of the door might come out as curt or angry. So when one is making teshuva, having the proper intention

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n Yom Kippur, as we focus on our personal faults, how do we acknowledge those shortcomings that are more communal? In synagogue, reciting line by line the Al Chet prayer, seeking atonement for the areas of our lives where in the past year we have fallen short, events in the news, even those that may have touched our lives, seem far away and better off resolved by the talking heads of the cable news. Beating our chest for each “chet,” we ask God in page after painful page to forgive us for “rashly judging others,” “scorning parents and teachers,” even engaging in “idle chatter” and “forbidden trysts.” Isn’t that enough? Yet in an “Alternative Confessional” found in the Mahzor Lev Shalem, the High Holy Days prayer book published by the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement, we find the additional shortcomings of “refusing to hear,” “hesitating,” “complacency,” and “not using our power,” which suggest we look outside the usual range of things for which we are accustomed to taking responsibility. Reading this new litany last year, I couldn’t help but think, “Do I have to own up to this stuff, too?” Seeking advice on how to approach the added failings, I had lunch with Rabbi Jonathan Klein,

executive director of CLUE-LA (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice), a Los Angeles-based organization that is “committed to worker justice,” according to Klein. Before our lunch orders even arrived, I realized that chet-wise, I was not going to get off easy. Referring to the language in the High Holy Days confessional prayers, Klein pointed out that “the prayers are in the plural, not just to prevent embarrassment of the individual,” but “because there is an understanding or collective responsibility.” “If we don’t contemplate our culpability for communal wrongs at Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, when are we supposed to do it?” asked Klein, a former rabbinic director at the University of Southern California Hillel who was ordained from the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1997. It was a question for which I had no answer. “Some are guilty, all are responsible,” he added, looking at me from across the table, quoting Abraham Joshua Heschel. Waiting for our orders, we talked over events in the news. The rabbi noted the stabbing of six marchers at the Jerusalem gay pride parade by a repeat offender, a haredi Orthodox man — a 16-year-old girl died from her injuries. There was also the firebombing of a Palestinian home on the West Bank that killed an

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18-month-old boy and injured three other family members. His father later succumbed to the injuries from an attack allegedly perpetrated by Jewish extremists. “We should be pondering as individuals, as part of a larger collective, how such evils can pervade our society,” said Klein, who noticed that the smoothie I had ordered suddenly was not going down so easily. “All the chets are very real and easily done,” said the rabbi, who wanted me to understand that “chet” means “missing the mark” and not “sin,” per se.” Since in the confession “they are alphabetical,” they represent “encyclopedic options for making mistakes,” he added. “There is also a recognition that there are other dimensions to a chet.” One of those chets was the way we do business. In Los Angeles, where the County Board of Supervisors recently voted to raise the minimum wage from $9 to $15 by 2020, as well in other areas of the country, the issue of a “living wage” had earned its share of headlines, forcing us to look at the way we literally have fallen short. “The people who work in our stores, who we may employ, were made in God’s image, too,” said Klein, whose organization has made raising the minimum wage a key goal.

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Though Klein said he was proud of the “Jewish community’s commitment to the public sphere,” But he added, “People forget just how hard it is to be on the other end.” Klein reminded that the haftara from Isaiah chanted Yom Kippur morning “teaches you to think beyond the individual.” Since I had brought along a Mahzor, we looked over the lines describing the fast desired by God that directs Jews to “let the oppressed go free” and “to share your bread with the hungry.” “The whole point of the holidays is to re-center ourselves around our commitment to the highest ideals of Judaism,” he said, leading me to ask, “How do I begin?” On Yom Kippur, he began, “We say the Al Chet over and over. Maybe one reading should be through the lens of your individual faults.” For the second, he suggested, “make it through the lens of communal thoughts.” The third time would be “as fellow human travelers on this planet,” said Klein, noting the universality of a holiday period that begins with celebrating the birthday of the world. The bill came and we agreed to split it, with Klein insisting to cover the tip. Rising from the table, and still digesting our conversation, I noticed that he was a good tipper. Q

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Return to Buchenwald, about the visit to the concentration camp of four men who survived its horrors as boys, explained why he was drawn to making African Exodus. “I am the son of a refugee,â€? he said. “My father came to the United States in 1939 from Nazi Germany‌. “I wanted to see how Israel, a country founded by refugees and Holocaust survivors, would respond to an unexpected influx of non-Jewish refugees. In making the film, said Rothschild, “I saw firsthand how some Israelis use their Jewish values to assist the strangers in their midst, while others invoke their beliefs to try to keep the asylum seekers out. I also witnessed the difficulties faced by the asylum seekers in trying to establish new lives in a country where they are not always welcome.â€? Advance tickets are available through the Carmike Cinemas website via Fandango. Q

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Jewish history in the Yukon to be documented under grant JEWS IN CANADA’S far North have received a government grant to document Jewish history in the Yukon. The $55,000 grant from the Yukon territorial government will allow the Jewish Cultural Society of Yukon to research a small, Gold Rush-era Jewish cemetery in Dawson City and the influence wielded by the Jewish community there, CBC News reported. The information will be used to create a mobile display that will travel across Canada, said Rick Karp, the society’s president. “It’s going to travel everywhere and hopefully bring a lot more people up here, from a tourism perspective, into Yukon,� Karp told CBC. “It will point out to people that there was a Jewish influence in Canada beyond Montreal and Toronto and Winnipeg and the large cities.� A Jewish cemetery containing the remains of seven unidentified people was discovered in Dawson City in 1998. It was rededicated in a ceremony conducted by a rabbi and attended by Canada’s

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deputy prime minister. The last person was buried there in 1930, but Karp said a Jewish Yukoner has expressed interest in being laid to rest there. There were nearly 200 Jews in the Yukon during the Gold Rush, Karp told CBC, and their influence extended beyond the Klondike after they left. “A lot of people came up here, got a lot of wealth, went back to their communities and made a contribution,� he said. “Some very serious donations were made because of the wealth created by the Gold Rush.� The cemetery has yielded some clues. Its entrance sign was discovered in 1998, showing it was called Bet Chaim, or House of Life. Only one headstone was found, belonging to Abraham Packer, a seller of guns, knives, and hardware who suffered a heart attack in 1918. Canada’s 2001 census found 35 Jews in Yukon and 25 in the Northwest Territories. — JTA

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hat’s right. You heard me. I’m not doing it. I, a member of a modern Orthodox shul, mother of four Jewish kids who keep kosher and observe Shabbat weekly, executive director of an Atlanta Jewish day camp, will not be forcing my kids to attend services on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur. It’s something I’ve been thinking about since summer at camp, and something I decided firmly while attending a Jewish family retreat. Here’s the thing: My kids love being Jewish. It’s the essence of their being. It’s the foundation of their friendships. It’s the laughter and joy that fills their Saturdays. And that’s exactly why I am leaving the choice to attend High Holy Day services up to them. I will be attending services with my husband. We will invite them to join us, but we will not force them. We will not drag them to the mall to find the perfect holiday outfit. We will not fight with them on Rosh Hashana morning because they won’t put on said perfect holiday outfit. We won’t tell them the kids’ program is going to be different this year (it’s not). We won’t bargain with them and say they just have to stay for an hour. Why? Because practicing Judaism

is not a punishment; it is a privilege and a gift. It’s also something we have woven so tightly into the fabric of our kids’ lives that staying home rather than going to synagogue for a few hours a year will in no way unravel its positive impact. But forcing an experience might. Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t just let my kids out of any activity they are not excited to do. They do their homework. They write thank you notes. They apologize when they do wrong. And they don’t eat pepperoni pizza. We didn’t always bend the rules. But over the years I have come to feel strongly that there are countless ways to incorporate Judaism into our lives that don’t necessarily involve formal religious institutions. My kids perform a mitzva when they donate toys they have outgrown. We talk about God when the sky looks exceptionally beautiful. We discuss the meaning of Jewish rituals when we say the blessings on Shabbat. We reinforce the importance of tradition when we attend a brit, bar mitzva, wedding, or funeral. They learn Hebrew words, sing Jewish

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My kids love the High Holy Days. They are looking forward to dipping apples in honey during the Rosh Hashana lunch we host with family and friends. My oldest may even try to fast this Yom Kippur. (As he is 12, this would be impressive on a number of levels.) Perhaps some of our kids will join us at synagogue this year. But if they don’t, I won’t synagogue-shame them into thinking they aren’t “good Jews” or worry what people might think when we arrive at shul without them. Instead, my husband and I will enjoy our time at shul while our kids set the table in preparation for our return. Okay, so it’s more likely they will make a giant mess in the basement when they build couch forts and engage in an epic sibling Lego battle, but either way, they will associate the holiday (and Judaism) with family, freedom of choice and happy memories — which I believe makes it more likely that my grandchildren Q will love Judaism, too.

songs, and make Jewish friends when they attend Jewish summer camp. We engrain in them Jewish values like telling the truth, treating others with compassion and caring for the environment. We teach them about their Jewish ancestors when we tell them stories about their namesakes and when we cure their colds with grandma’s famous matza ball soup. They see our mezuzot every time they walk into a room. We impress upon them the struggles of our people when we finally expose them to the horror of the Holocaust. Then we tell them about the resilience of our peo- This piece first appeared on ple when we show them the beauty Kveller, a 70 Faces Media comthat is Israel. pany.

Tom Brady ‘Deflategate’ suspension sacked A FEDERAL JUDGE has canceled New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady’s four-game suspension in the “Deflategate” controversy. Following the 40-page decision issued Sept. 3 by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in New York, Brady was ruled eligible to play when the Patriots open the NFL season against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 10. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell had suspended Brady, a perennial Pro Bowler, for the season’s first four games. The judge ruled that Brady “had no notice that his discipline would be the equivalent of the discipline imposed upon a player who used performance-enhancing drugs.” Berman also said that the suspension was “premised upon several significant legal deficiencies.”

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Robert Kraft, the Jewish owner of the Patriots, had slammed the penalty as “unfathomable.” Brady is accused of participating in a scheme, which has come to be known as “Deflategate,” in which air was let out of footballs used in the January 2015 AFC Championship Game and of obstructing the NFL’s investigation, including by destroying his cellphone. Kraft has said he will not speak publicly about the case pending the end of all legal proceedings. He is the main benefactor of football in Israel, sponsoring the Kraft Family Israel Football League and funding the construction of the Kraft Family Stadium in Jerusalem. In June, he led a mission to Israel of 19 Pro Football Hall of Famers. — JTA

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“Israel Update.” JCC MetroWest, West Orange, 1 p.m. Lecture by Dov Ben-Shimon, executive vice president/CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ. Cost is free. Call 973-530-3474.

Grief Support Group. Jewish Family Service of MetroWest NJ, Florham Park, 1 p.m. Continues each Wednesday through Nov. 18. Most major insurances accepted. Contact 973-7659050, ext. 1712, or akielbania@jfsmetrowest. org.

Blood Drive. B’nai Shalom, West Orange, 4-8 p.m. Contact 973-731-0160, ext. 207, or programs@bnaishalom.net. Paying for College: Basic Tips and Tools That Will Help. NCJW/Essex Center for Women, Livingston, 7:15 p.m. Learn how to choose the colleges that offer financial aid, and help avoid common mistakes on financial aid forms. Cost is $7, free for NCJW members. Call 973-7400588.

FRIDAY, Sept. 18 Preschool of Rock. Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston. Ten-week music program for children six months to two years with parent or caregiver. There is a choice of time: 9:3010:15 or 10:30-11:15 a.m. For information and the tuition schedule, call 973-994-7016 or visit tbanj.org/the-early-school.

SUNDAY, Sept. 20 Examining the BDS Movement. Temple B’nai Or, Morristown, 10 a.m. Presentation by Dean Christopher Taylor of Drew University. Cost is $10 and includes breakfast. RSVP required; call 973-839-1939. Open House. YM-YWHA of Union County, Union, 10 a.m. Entertainment by The West Hills Trip at noon, Sukkot party for children at 12:30 p.m. Call 908-289-8112. Harvest Produce for Those in Need. America’s Grow a Row, Pittstown, noon. Volunteer harvesting for produce delivered throughout New Jersey to food banks, soup kitchens, and more. RSVP to melanielevitan@gmail.com. For information, visit ncjwwestmorris.org.

MONDAY, Sept. 21 Ninth Annual Jewish Law Symposium. Birchwood Manor, Whippany, 5 p.m. Presentation by NJ Chief Justice Stuart Rabner on “The Tangled Ethics of the First Amendment,” sponsored by Chabad of SE Morris County. Cost is $150, $80 for public sector attorneys and law clerks, and $50 for law students and includes buffet dinner preceding the lecture. Scholarships are available upon request, subject to availability. Continuing education credits will be provided for the event. Call 973377-0707 or visit jewishlawsymposium.com.

THURSDAY, Sept. 24 Be the Mother You Wish You Had. NCJW/ Essex Center for Women, Livingston, 10 a.m. Cost is $7, free for NCJW members. Call 973740-0588.

SUNDAY, Sept. 27 Pre-school Holiday Workshop. B’nai Shalom, West Orange, 11 a.m. Program for twoto-four-year-olds about Sukkot and Simhat Torah. Cost is free. Contact 973-731-0160, ext. 208, or principal@bnaishalom.net.

THURSDAY, Oct. 1 “The Science of Aging.” Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, 11:30 a.m. First of a threepart series led by Karen Frank, TBA congregational nurse. Series continues Oct. 15 and 29. Cost is free. Register at 973-994-2290 or visit the website at tbanj.org/congregational-learning/lunch-learn.

All The Light We Cannot See. Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, 7:30 p.m. Discussion of Anthony Doerr’s best-selling novel. Cost is free. RSVP to 973-994-2290 or register at tbanj.org.

SATURDAY, Oct. 3 “Jewish Singers and Songwriters of Classic Pop & Rock ‘n Roll.” Congregation Beth Ahm, Verona, 7:30 p.m. Performances and discussion. Cost is free but there is a suggested donation of $10. Call 973-239-0754.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7 Film screening. Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, 7 p.m. Presentation and discussion of Sallah Shabati. Cost is free. Call 973-9942290 to register or visit tbanj.org.

THURSDAY, Oct. 8 “The Rise and Fall of the Catskills and the Comedians it Made Famous.” Oheb Shalom Congregation, South Orange, noon. Presentation by Mort Segal. Cost is $12/$10 for members and includes lunch. Call 973-285-9772. To submit an event to the calendar — and only events intended for the community at large — send only the following information to Calendar@njjewishnews.com: the title and/ or brief description of the event, sponsoring organization, place, date, time, fee, and contact information. Information must be received by Tuesday at noon, at least two weeks before the event. Alternately, you may list your event at njjewishnews.com.

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here are the spiritual quandaries that have haunted human imagination for millennia: Why are we here? What happens when we die? These matters remain hidden from our purview. Hence my fascination with this parsha’s comment (29:28), “The hidden things are God’s concern; the revealed matters are for us.” Human beings are great detectives, but in matters of science, the more we know, the more we know how much we do not know; for the existential mysteries of life, there aren’t even any obvious clues to follow. These are the hidden matters that are known to God alone. But we cannot help but wonder about them, and toward that end, we get the High Holy Days, the annual opportunity to contemplate these hidden things, of which I offer three. The first two are life and death. It is not given to us to know why either occurs. More awesome than how the universe came into being is the remarkable fact that it did. Within those unfathomable eons of time and space, moreover, we have somehow been graced with a tiny window of something called human life, and within that mystery, there is that infinitesimally breathtaking thing we know instinctively as our own individual selves. The will to life is everywhere, from the grass that sprouts through cracks in the sidewalk to the science-fiction tales of potions that offer eternal life. Rosh Hashana celebrates this mystery of life. It is the “birthday” of the world, we say, and even more, the birthday of humanity. On Yom Kippur, by contrast, we contemplate death, for on that day, we neither eat nor drink, as if we were already dead. Our growing physical feebleness throughout the day reminds us that youth

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is just a preamble to old age, that sickness will inevitably drain our energy, and that suffering is frightening and real. At Yizkor we remember our dead, and prepare ourselves for our own end, which may not come for years, we pray, but will come someday — that is certain. The last and greatest of the hidden things is love. The haftara of Shabbat Shuva, the Sabbath that separates Rosh Hashana from Yom Kippur, celebrates the mystery of love — God’s love for us and our love for each other and even the love we must reserve for ourselves, for we are made in God’s image. More than the inexplicable actuality of life and the inescapable reality of death, I marvel at the unpredictable acts of love that fill each day. I will spend these Days of Awe in my own awe at what I will never understand: the why of life and death, and the saving grace of love. I will vow to love more and wiser and better, especially the people I love anyway and to show them I love them. Rabbi Akiba used to say, “Happy are you, because God loves you; happier still are you, because God lets you know it.” Like God, I can show people that I love them. Love is a hidden thing that I will never understand. But showing love is a revealed matter that is in my power — a power I dare not squander. Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman is cofounder of Synagogue 3000 and a professor of liturgy, worship, and ritual at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He is the author of My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries (Jewish Lights).

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Community CELEBRATING TU B’AV — In honor of Tu B’Av, 40 women and girls attended a hallah-baking event at Bris Avrohom, Hillside. Shterney Kanelsky instructed participants on the hallah-baking process, top photo, and, while the dough was rising, the women took part in dancing, bottom photo. Kanelsky, second from right, danced with, from left, Sara Wilansky, Rochel Bushman, Chaya Shapiro, and Bracha Hoffer.

HIGH HOLY DAY PREP — Bnai Keshet’s director of congregational learning/Assistant Rabbi Ariann Weitzman, left, along with the Montclair synagogue’s copresidents Marty Fellner and Liz Lipner and Rabbi Elliott Tepperman prepare to move a Torah, prayer books, and a shofar to Central Presbyterian Church for High Holy Day services, beginning with Rosh Photo by Dan Epstein Hashana eve on Sunday, Sept. 13.

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Issue Date: Thursday, September 24 YOUTH BARBECUE — Congregation Israel of Springfield wrapped up its youth program for the 2014-15 season with an indoor barbecue for the teen group, above. The program consists of parallel tracks for chamudim , ages four-seven; chanichim, eight-12; and teens, 13-high school. In addition, Tzvi and Rifka Miretzky, inset, who led the youth programs for the past three years, are moving on to new positions.

WELCOMING RISHON — Melissa Weiner, Temple B’nai Abraham’s director of Jewish learning, and Greater MetroWest shaliah Moshe Levi, right, welcome Ran Sharon, left, who will serve as Rishon for 201516 at the Livingston synagogue. A resident of Ra’anana, Israel, Sharon is a student at MetroWest High School in Ra’anana majoring in art and the tribe leader in the Israeli Scouts branch in his city.

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B’nei Mitzva LUCIA CARSON, daughter of Karin and Greg Carson of Upper Montclair, Sept. 5 at Temple Ner Tamid, Bloomfield. EMILY PETRORO, daughter of Jill and Robert Petroro of Randolph, Sept. 5 at Morristown Jewish Center-Beit Yisrael. REBECCA RUBIN, daughter of Corinne Winston and Joseph Rubin of Short Hills, Sept. 5 at Congregation B’nai Israel, Millburn. STELLA SCHEIER, daughter of Mindy and Greg Scheier of Livingston, Sept. 5 at Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston. DEVIN WISEBERG, daughter of Wendy and Jason Wiseberg of Livingston, Sept. 5 at Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston. SAMANTHA REVSINE, daughter of Anna Mohl and Mitchell Revsine of Short Hills, Sept. 7 at Congregation B’nai Israel, Millburn. AARON STOCH, son of Sharon and Selwyn Stoch of Livingston, Sept. 7 at Congregation Agudath Israel, Caldwell.

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Florence Suval, 92, of Morristown died Aug. 21, 2015. Mrs. Suval and her late husband Jack were retired as the longtime owners of Quaker Ridge Hardware Store in New Rochelle, NY. She was a member of Morristown Jewish Center Beit Yisrael. She is survived by her daughter, Fern (Donald) Spitzer of Morristown; her son, Robert; five grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Services were held Aug. 26 with arrangements by J.L. Apter Memorial Chapels of Dover.

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