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Shul hopes sefer haftarah will become ‘well-worn’scroll to be dedicated on shabbat Chanukah

Lois GoLdrich

Some two years ago, the Men’s Progress Club of the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai

Israel took on a task it thought would take six months.

In the end, securing a sefer haftarah — a parchment scroll that contains the text for the haftarot, handwritten by a scribe — for the congregation took considerably longer.

Still, according to the shul’s Rabbi Ronald Roth, it was well worth it.

“This is a way for our congregation and each person who chants a haftarah to find a greater connection to the text they are chanting by reading it from a handwritten parchment scroll — just as the Torah and all holy books were written in ancient times,” Roth said. “Especially today, when books and all written materials are becoming digitized and read on electronic devices, to follow an ancient pattern brings us closer to our ancestors and our traditions.”

Jewish Center congregants will be introduced to their new scroll on Dec. 15, Shabbat Chanukah, when it will be dedicated formally.

Scott Pass, co-chair of the synagogue’s fundraising committee and its sefer haftarah subcommittee, said that several years ago the shul’s Men’s Progress Club hosted a similar scroll, which had been commissioned by the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs.

FJMC, the umbrella organization of Conservative men’s clubs in North America, introduced the scroll at its 2003 biennial convention. Since then, it has been hosted by men’s clubs and brotherhoods throughout North America. The scroll, created in Israel, contains all the haftarot, and it includes vowels and cantillation. According to the FJMC website, books of haftarot in scroll form have been in use for more than a century.

After seeing such a scroll at an Orthodox synagogue in Jerusalem, members of the FJMC determined to commission one of their own. They also created a way for member synagogues to commission their own scrolls — an opportunity eagerly taken up by the Fair Lawn synagogue.

Only about seven or eight of these scrolls have been commissioned by FJMC members so far, Pass said, adding that the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/ Congregation B’nai Israel is the only New Jersey synagogue to have done so.

In addition to enhancing the experience of reading a haftarah, sefer haftarot offer additional possibilities, he said, noting that they may also serve as vehicles for fundraising. Because they are unlike Torah scrolls in that they may

contain additional writing, they may include the names of individuals and groups who wish to sponsor them.

“We got wind that there were some congregations in the country that had commissioned them as a fundraiser,” Pass said. While some congregations commission the writing of a Torah, “this was different. It was such a novelty, and so intriguing to people, that we thought we could make a go of it.”

After deciding to launch the project, Pass got in touch with synagogues in New City, New York, Toronto, and St. Louis that had commissioned scrolls.

“They sent me brochures and ideas for a pricing structure,” he said. “The New City Jewish Center was very helpful and loaned us their sefer haftarah so we could see the layout.”

With this information, and working together with the FJMC, the Jewish Center set out to get its own scroll.

Pass called the process a “challenge. Since it was done through a group in

Israel, there were time differences and language barriers. It’s not something you can just go out and do and have it go perfectly. It was a long process.”

In fact, he said, the first version of the scroll that arrived from Israel last November needed so many small corrections that it had to be sent back.

“With a Torah, there’s no discussion,” he said. “Choosing what wood, what finish, what size — that’s about it. But with a sefer haftarah, there are so many other subtleties you don’t know until you get into it.”

Cantor Eric Wasser helped the subcommittee decide what features it wanted — for example, whether it should choose Ashkenazic or Sephardic script. Ultimately, they chose the latter.

“The cantor felt that the b’nai mitzvah, in particular, would find it easier to follow,” Pass said.

The scroll, he said, has been written by an Israeli sofer using a quill and special kosher ink on kosher

parchment. Cantillation and punctuation marks have been added to the words and letters to make it easier for members to read.

Pass said that when he introduced the idea to the synagogue board he got its full support, but “we didn’t want to go ahead until we had some money in place.” Fortunately, he added, there were “some major benefactors to get us over the hump.”

Once the basics were in place, the subcommittee,

co-chaired by Irving Pollack, created a brochure and set pricing for different dedications, such as for weekly haftarot and high holiday readings. The team also came up with the idea of an honor roll, listing dedications in a single column.

Donor Arline Herman said her contribution resulted from the “natural progression” of her role in creating the Howard and Joshua Herman Education Center at the synagogue a few years ago.

“I made a connection between graduating students and the scroll,” she said. “The b’nai mitzvah will chant their haftarah from this beautiful scroll, enhancing a special day in their lives.”

So far about 60 congregants have contributed to the project, raising just under $100,000.

The FLJC/CBI scroll contains an English-language page listing synagogue clergy and officers as well as a page where people can list dedications. Each of the individual haftarot are arranged with a space beneath the title where dedications can be listed.

“The fundraising can go on forever,” Pass said, since enough space has been left for people who want to sponsor haftarot in the future. A local sofer will add those names, so the scroll will not have to be shipped back to Israel.

In addition to haftarah dedications, fundraising opportunities were extended to accessories — mantle covers, rimonim, and yads. The synagogue’s sisterhood has sponsored the etz chayim, or poles.

The finished sefer haftarah, which the congregation received from Israel this summer, will be housed in the ark and used on a regular basis.

“We want it to be used,” Pass said. “We plan to use it every Shabbat, to make it well-worn.”

On Dec. 15, at the dedication ceremony, the scroll will be used for the first time.

Pass expects the event to be a moving experience.

Arline Herman will read the first haftarah. “I will be chanting the haftarah at the dedication to honor the memory of my husband Howard and my son Joshua,” she said.

“It’s hard to have a personal connection to a Torah scroll,” Pass said. “This is new and contemporary and people can relate to it, identify with it.”

For Rabbi Roth, who dedicated the haftarah he chanted when he became a bar mitzvah, “reading it again will remind me of the past and also of those who will read it in the future at the FLJC/CBI. This all reminds us of the power of our traditions and rituals to enlarge our spirits.”

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On Veterans’ Day, liberator and prisoner talkAbigAil Klein leichmAn

About 170 people came to Fair Lawn’s Congregation Shomrei Torah last Saturday night to hear two personal reminiscences about the liberation of

Nazi concentration camp inmates – one from 92-year-old Harry Feinberg of Elmwood Park, who was a tank commander in the 4th Armored Division under General Patton, and the other from 87-year-old Abraham Peck of Fair Lawn, who was liberated after surviving seven work and concentration camps.

The program, in commemoration of Veterans Day, also included a screening of a documentary filmed by synagogue member Maury Heller about the two men’s perspectives, and the presentation of a presidential proc-lamation to local Jewish veterans.

“We’ve heard a lot about the Holocaust side of World

War II, but not too many people have heard the story from the perspective of a fighter,” said Mendy (Milton) Aron, who organized the event with his wife, Honny, and fellow Shomrei Torah member Irving Gerber. “And even the stories that Abraham Peck told, most of us hadn’t heard,” he said.

Peck talked about how when the liber-ating soldiers came into Allach, a Dachau subcamp, he was so starved that he ignored the shooting going on around him, and focused only on getting something to eat. One of the American soldiers told Peck to get down and even built a hasty foxhole for him. Then the GI spoke to Peck in Yiddish, and revealed he was from a place called Brooklyn.

“The highlight of the program was the concept of hav-ing a liberator and one who was liberated tell their impres-sions of that day,” Gerber said. “Since that evening, I’ve received at least a dozen calls from people who said it was such a valuable educational tool. People don’t know about this aspect of the war, and to see and hear it firsthand is very powerful.”

Aron, whose father was a World War II veteran, report-ed that you could hear a pin drop during the 50-minute film. “I’ve seen this movie 10 times, so that night I watched everybody watching it, and they were spellbound.”

Following the film, Peck thanked Feinberg, as a repre-sentative of all American veterans, for saving his life, even

though they did not actually meet that day in 1945.

“This was especially moving, because Mr. Feinberg mentioned in the film that he saved a survivor’s life in a camp and always hoped that one day his telephone would ring and the person on the other end would be the person he saved,” Aron said.

Fair Lawn Deputy Mayor John Cosgrove presented a proclamation, signed by former President George W. Bush, in tribute to 40 local veterans. He handed it to synagogue member and World War II veteran Harold Wahl. Aron had arranged for the proclama-

tion before a Veterans Day program 10 years ago, but it did not arrive from Washington in time to be presented then.

“I held onto it, and when we put this night together, we chose Harold Wahl to represent everybody in the military. He also liberated a camp,” Aron said.

Rabbi Benjamin Yudin, spiritual leader of Shomrei Torah, expressed words of honor and praise to the men listed on the proclamation, 10 of whom were in attendance.

The evening ended with a surprise 67th wedding an-niversary cake for Wahl and his wife, Libby.

“The evening was a tremendous success. Everything we set out to do was accomplished,” Aron said. “A picture was painted by two men that will be remembered for a long time.”

“We’ve heard a lot about the Holocaust side of World War II, but not too many people have heard the story from the perspective of a fighter.”

— Mendy (Milton) Aron

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Parsing the Jewish voteLarry yudeLson

So, nu? Did the Jews vote for Obama? What about the Orthodox?

And did having Orthodox Jewish candidates as challengers in the local fifth and ninth congressional dis-tricts draw any additional votes?

Those interested in crunching Jewish numbers in the wake of last week’s elections have different ways to go about it.

There are general exit polls, some of which break down results by religion. There were two election-night polls commissioned by Jewish groups — the Republican Jewish Coalition on the right and J-Street on the left. And there is the information that can be gleaned by poring over elec-tion district-level voting results.

The top-line number: 70 percent of Jewish voters voted to re-elect President Barack Obama, while 30 percent voted for Mitt Romney. That is according to the J-Street poll of 800 voters. A CNN exit poll showed a similar 69 percent voting for Obama.

The RJC survey of 1,000 voters found 61 percent voting for Obama, 32 percent for Romney, 1 percent for someone else, and 6 percent would not say.

The RJC touted its figures as showing a multiyear trend in increasing Republican voting among Jews.

Democrats said the decline — from 74 or 78 percent support in 2008 (the estimated actual total and the exit poll results respectively) — reflected an across-the-board less-ening of enthusiasm for Obama in the wake of the tough economy, rather than the success of Republican efforts to cast the president as someone who had thrown Israel “un-der the bus,” in Romney’s phrase.

Closer to home, an analysis by the Orthodox Union of voting precincts across the country with high concentra-tions of Orthodox voters saw a drop in Democratic support in the most densely Jewish neighborhoods of Teaneck.

Obama received 47 percent of the votes in these elec-tion districts — the 11th, 12th, and 18th — down from 51 percent in 2008, and from the 52 percent that Sen. John Kerry received in his failed race against President George W. Bush in 2004.

In 2000, however, these same Teaneck precincts voted 81 percent for the Democratic ticket.

Why?“Joe Lieberman,” said Nathan Diament, head of the

OU’s Washington office, referring to the Orthodox Jewish senator who was the Democrat’s vice presidential nominee that year.

According to the J-Street survey, Obama received 59 percent of the Orthodox vote, as opposed to 71 percent of the non-Orthodox vote.

According to the RJC survey, Obama received 48 per-cent of the Orthodox vote, with Romney receiving 44 per-cent. Reform Jews, by contrast, gave 68 percent to Obama and 26 percent to Romney.

Did the Orthodox vote help the local congressional challengers?

Teaneck’s deputy mayor, Adam Gussen, clearly benefit-ed from support in his community. In the three precincts highlighted by the OU, Gussen, a Democrat, received more than 70 percent of the vote, even as the head of the Democratic slate, Obama, pulled no more than 41 percent.

In the eastern “country club” section of Teaneck, how-ever, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach proved slightly less popular than the top of his Republican slate, polling 31 percent of the 19th and 20th election districts, compared to Romney’s 33 percent.

In his hometown of Englewood, Boteach won a major-ity only in two districts: one and two, both in the city’s sec-ond ward. Even there, however, he was slightly less popular than Romney.

Another Democrat who polled well in Orthodox Teaneck — as well as in Englewood — was Sen. Robert Menendez. He received two-thirds of the vote in the OU’s Teaneck precincts — nearly double Obama’s total (although less than Gussen’s). In the two Englewood dis-tricts Boteach won, Menendez received 59 percent of the votes for Senate; Obama received only 40 percent.

Menendez has been strongly supported by pro-Israel activists; donors affiliated with NORPAC gave more than $70,000 to the Menendez campaign, making the pro-Israel group one of the senator’s leading sources of funds.

Throughout Bergen County, Obama’s support ranged from 80 percent in Hackensack to 26 percent in Franklin Lakes. Preliminary returns, excluding absentee and pro-visional ballots, show Obama receiving 55 percent of the county’s vote.

Writing in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, the col-umnist Shmuel Rosner observed that the J-Street poll showed that almost half of the Orthodox Jews who voted for Obama considered voting for Romney, half of those considering a Romney vote “seriously.” Non-Orthodox Obama voters were far less likely to have considered vot-ing for Romney.

Rosner wondered about what that meant.“A success for Obama surrogates? A failure of Romney

surrogates? Is this group ready to move to the conserva-tive column and just needs another push — or maybe if it didn’t move now, not even with Obama at the helm, to vote for the Republican candidate, it isn’t likely to move in the foreseeable future,” he wrote.

Rosner cautioned that observers should not get so caught up in crunching the numbers that they lose track of the bigger picture.

“One has to remember that we are talking here about 10 percent or so of the 2 percent Jewish vote. That is, 0.2 percent of the vote. A move of 20 percent of these voters to the conservative column means a shift of 0.04 percent of the vote (most of it in places like New York and New Jersey). So, if I were a Democratic operative, I wouldn’t lose too much sleep over such a theoretic possibility,” he wrote.

‘Decline and fall of the American empire’teaneck rabbi, some congregants at odds over political blog posts

Joanne PaLmer

Steven Pruzansky, the longtime rabbi of Teaneck’s largest Orthodox synagogue, Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, holds strong opinions and is not loathe

to share them.He has a blog, rabbipruzansky.com, where he posts his

often strongly worded reactions to issues both inside and outside the Jewish world.

A recent post about the outcome of the presidential election has hit a tender enough nerve to prompt five of his congregants to distribute an email politely but firmly disagreeing with him.

On Nov. 7, the day after Election Day, Pruzansky posted a long commentary that he called “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.” He had backed Mitt Romney for president wholeheartedly, as the post makes clear. It began this way: “The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo — for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation, and avoidance of responsibility.”

Pruzansky explained Romney’s loss by saying that “the electorate is dumb — ignorant and uninformed. Indeed, it does not pay to be an informed voter, because most other voters — the clear majority — are unintel-ligent and easily swayed by emotion and raw populism.” (Pruzansky’s blog no longer includes these words; they

have been replaced by a trenchant quote from Winston Churchill. The original blog post, as of this writing, still is up on Cross-Currents, a journal of Orthodox thought; it is at http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2012/11/07/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-american-empire/.)

President Barack Obama’s victory, the rabbi contin-ued, is a result of changing demographics — “whites will soon be a minority in America (they’re already a minority in California) and that the new immigrants to the US are primarily from the third world and do not share the tra-ditional American values that attracted immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries.”

Obama voters, he wrote, largely are looking for what he calls “free stuff”: “Obama’s America is one in which free stuff is given away: …those who — courtesy of Obama — receive two full years of unemployment benefits (which, of course, both disincentivizes looking for work and also motivates people to work off the books when collecting their windfall)…”

He concludes with a charge to readers: “This election should be a wake-up call to Jews. There is no permanent empire, nor is there an enduring haven for Jews anywhere in the exile…. We have about a decade, perhaps 15 years, to leave with dignity and without stress.”

In response to Pruzansky’s blog post, five members of Bnai Yeshurun signed their names to an email that was widely circulated among the shul’s members. (The

Jewish Standard obtained copies of the email from various sources; once an email has been sent out, it no longer can be controlled by the sender.)

The email began with the acknowledgment that “Elections tend to be heated affairs.” It went on to say, “We do not question [Pruzansky’s] or anyone’s right to freedom of speech,” and defer offering an opinion on “the merits of a rabbi having a blog or how its content may or may not re-flect on our shul. However, we are concerned when a blog post insults and denigrates members of our community and beyond.”

After quoting some of the blog, the letter-writers con-tinued: “At least one of the signatories listed below has attempted to engage the Rabbi over the last two months to persuade him to soften the tone and stridency of his com-ments. While the Rabbi responded respectfully, nothing has really changed, as evidenced by the quotes above.”

The message ended with a call for unity rather than di-visiveness: “Ridiculing Obama supporters, which of course includes some CBY members, is offensive, exclusionary, and counterproductive to what we are trying to create in our shul — an atmosphere of Shalom V’Re’ut (peace and friendship), where all Jews are warmly welcomed.”

Pruzansky did not return an emailed request for com-ment from this newspaper; when we called Bnai Yeshurun’s

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Eric Yoffie talks about Reform Judaism, Israel, and pluralismFormer head of UrJ is scholar in residence at temple sinai this weekend

Larry yudeLson

For 15 years, Rabbi Eric Yoffie of Westfield was the leading figure of Reform Judaism, serving as head

of the Union for Reform Judaism (as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations was renamed during his tenure).

Last year, he turned 65 and stepped down. He now writes and teaches, a post-career career that this weekend brings him to Tenafly, where he will be scholar in resi-dence at Temple Sinai of Bergen County.

Yoffie grew up in a committed Reform family that was “very engaged in the syna-gogue, very engaged in the Jewish com-munity.” His grandmother had founded the Hadassah chapter in Albany, New York, and his mother had been president of Hadassah in Wooster, Mass., when he was growing up.

He became a synagogue youth group leader, which was a formative Jewish experience, and then, between high school and his freshman year in college, he attended an international conference in Europe where, he said, “I met Jews from around the world. I had my first close in-teractions with Israelis. I went to Germany, which kind of opened my eyes to the Holocaust.”

But it was not until he started college at Stanford University in California that he realized how much Judaism meant to him.

“There was really no Jewish community there,” he said. “I recognized I missed the vibrant Jewish life that had been part of my life earlier.” So he transferred to Brandeis. Though he majored in politics, he took many Jewish studies courses, which “really drew me into the rabbinate.”

Another youthful formative experience: A summer spent in Israel studying Hebrew after his junior year in college. “I was caught up in the drama,” he said of his time in Israel

in 1968. “That’s what’s most important — the experience of being there.”

He returned not long after, spending a year studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem between college and rabbinical school. (This was long before the Reform move-ment’s Hebrew Union College began requiring that its first-year rabbinical students spend a year at its Jerusalem campus.)

After his ordination Yoffie spent six years as a pulpit rab-bi before moving to the URJ, where he worked as Midwest regional director for three years. In 1983 he became the

executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America, which had been founded five years earlier. After nine years, he led the URJ’s Commission on Social Action, a steppingstone to taking over as president of the URJ in 1996.

Looking back, “There are a few things that were impor-tant to me, none of which were attributable to me alone,” he said.

First: “The sense of Torah at the center, that Torah studying and Torah doing are an essential activity, and all of Judaism — and Reform Judaism — is built around it.”

Second: “The worship revolution that has engulfed Reform Judaism in the last two decades,” referring to the switch to more participatory services. “I gave a lot of time to that,” he said.

“And then, a number of social just things. I did a lot of work in making connections to Muslims.”

Does he have any regrets?“We’re all supposed to be dissatisfied,” he said. “I’ve got

lots of regrets.“There are certain things I got to late. In the last two

years of my tenure we started a program in youth engage-ment, to think about how we reach out to teenagers. In ret-rospect, I would have done that sooner rather than later.”

Another regret: “Even though Israel was very central to my tenure, and my being, I would have liked us to see us create more connections to Israel, deeper commitment on the part of Reform Jews.”

Yoffie said there’s a measure of contradiction in the Reform movement’s relationship to the Jewish state.

“We love Israel and we embrace Israel,” he said. “At the same time, we’re fully aware of Israel’s deficiencies, partic-ularly in the realm of religious freedom,” meaning Israel’s official recognition of only Orthodox Judaism, to the exclu-sion of all other streams.

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“We’re becoming increasingly emphatic about reli-gious freedom. It means two things. We’re working very hard to build a grassroots movement in Israel that’s work-ing very hard to promote our principles. At the same time, we’re making more emphatic protests — both here and there — about the things that trouble us.”

“We have lots of disagreements about Israel,” he said, “but if you permit the disagreements to distance your ties from the Jewish state, the Jewish state will cease to be the Jewish state.”

Does he see any looming conflict between the Reform movement’s commitment to liberal social justice and the Israeli government’s increasingly rightward direction?

(On Tuesday, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s foreign min-ister and now number two in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s political party, was quoted as saying that “A Jewish state is more important than a democratic state. We’re the only Jewish state so it’s more important to be Jewish.”)

“If the conversation is at what point do we walk away from Israel, that’s not the conversation we want to have,” Yoffie said. “We begin with an embrace of Israel, and talk very emphatically about the values the Jewish state ought to apply in what it does. If it’s the state of the Jewish peo-ple, then the Jewish people have the right to express their concern about anything. If it’s just the state of the Israelis, then there’s no connection. But we don’t see it that way and they don’t either.”

Is Yoffie concerned about the alliance between Netanyahu’s Likud party and Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party? “Of course,” he said.

“The central premise with regard to Israel is that Israel needs to be a Jewish and democratic state. I’m not going

to comment in particular about Mr. Lieberman. To the extent that he is committed to keeping Israel Jewish and democratic, he deserves the support of world Jewry. If he veers away from that direction he will need to be con-demned — by Israelis first and foremost, and by Jews of the world as well.”

But dismay over Lieberman — and the directions he may take Israel — shouldn’t go beyond condemnation to out-and-out rejection.

“When I was director of ARZA, we’d have the latest outrage, and the Israeli reporters would say, are you going to walk away now and withhold your money and so forth?

“The answer was no then, and no now. The dual mes-sage of commitment and standing for your values reflect the realities of life and the ambiguities of our existence. We’re not going to walk away from Israel. We’re not going to turn our backs on Israel. In that context, how do you make noise?”

One success is making noise: The arrest of Anat Hoffman, who heads the Reform movement’s Israel Religious Action Center, for praying with the Women at the Wall at the Kotel. “She brought the attention of the entire Jewish world to the plight of a handful of women standing at the Wall, trying to pray. That was extraordi-nary. There were protests to the Israeli ambassador. We created what really was an international Jewish incident. It’s precisely the kind of thing we need to do.”

That said, although Yoffie sees the Women of the Wall as heroes, “it doesn’t constitute our ideal. We believe men and women should be able to pray together, because the Wall belongs to the whole Jewish people. If the rabbi at the Wall were to give in to their demands and permit them once a month to hold a service where they could read the Torah and wear tallitot, I wouldn’t be rejoicing. That’s not

enough. We need to be much more demanding.”Yoffie’s Friday night topic at Temple Sinai is “Why

Reform Judaism,” and he plans to spell out “my un-derstanding of what are the foundational principles of Reform Judaism.

“The key is to be positive about who we are,” he said. “The issue is not to talk about what we’re not or what other people are or are not, but what it is that we are.”

What does he see as the contributions of Reform Judaism to the Jewish people?

“We’re the most creative, the most open, branch of Judaism,” he said. “We’re the most emphatic voice of both affirming tradition and integrating into the general soci-ety. That’s very important, as is our commitment to social justice. Social justice and inclusion are two elements that you’ll find within Reform Judaism that you don’t always find elsewhere.”

Also: “The notion we need to welcome into our com-munity people who want to identify with our faith.”

What would he say to members of other Jewish streams?

“To them I would say: I respect people who approach the tradition in different ways. That’s fine. I hope that the response would be mutual. We have a positive approach that embraces certain foundational elements, and that’s the key.

“We all need to judge each other by the best and most committed. We have plenty of Reform Jews who are not as committed as we would like them to be. The truth is, so does the Conservative movement, and so does the Orthodox. Let’s understand each other and judge them by their best. Let’s recognize the positive approach we each bring to Jewish tradition,” he said.


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Norway’s king nixes honor for foundation leader The Norwegian Royal Palace reportedly has dropped controversial plans to recognize a converted Muslim who is accused of anti-Semitism.

The decision to withdraw the honor for Trond Ali Linstad was announced Tuesday after Oslo Mayor Fabian Stang canceled his participation in the award ceremony. Linstad, 69, is a former communist activist who convert-ed to Islam and has published texts warning of Jewish influence on media and lobbying.

Linstad is the founder and leader of Urtehagen, the Islamic Foundation, which operates kindergartens and educational programs for women. The medal is awarded for meritorious work in private or public service.

Stang was scheduled to present a medal to Linstad on behalf of King Harald.

“I usually award the king’s service medals with plea-sure, but in this case I evaluated it as problematic,” Stang is quoted as telling the Norwegian daily Aftenposten this week.

An Op-Ed published under Linstad’s name on the website Koranen.no warned readers to be “critical of the Jews in the world” who have “influence in newspa-pers and other media, in many political organs” and “networks.”

TV2, a Norwegian television station, reported that the Royal Palace said it was holding off on plans to award the medal “indefinitely.”

The event, planned and organized by officials from the Norwegian Royal Palace, was scheduled to take place at the National Theater in Oslo on Tuesday, but the the-ater’s management canceled for “security reasons.”

The Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. later reported

that Linstad was poised to receive the medal later in the afternoon at an impromptu event set up as an alternative to the National Theater ceremony, but it was canceled, too, following a discussion involving palace officials and Linstad.

Terje Emberland of the Norwegian Holocaust Center told the Norwegian news agency NTB that “Linstad plays on the classic world conspiracy notion about Jews, as if the Jews are a single entity who work collectively with an evil plan. It’s a scandal that a person who makes such statements gets the king’s service medal.”

Linstad has written articles praising the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Two years ago he published in Aftenposten a “Muslim manifesto” suggesting that Muslims should not cooperate with national authorities because Allah was the only authority.

Three teens arrested in Connecticut cemetery vandalismThree teenagers were arrested for vandalizing a Jewish cemetery in Connecticut

The boys, aged 14 and 15, were arrested over the weekend, according to reports.

More than 60 gravestones were overturned in the Congregation Ados Beth Israel Cemetery in Hartford be-tween Oct. 12 and Oct. 19.

The teens live near the cemetery and likely toppled the headstones over time, Police Lt. Brian Foley told the Hartford Courant. Foley also told the newspaper that the vandalism had been investigated as a hate crime, but since the arrests police do not believe the vandalism was anti-Semitism.

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office, the receptionist said “nobody here is willing to talk to you about it” and then she hung up the phone.

There have been many comments, however, on the Internet, especially on the Cross-Currents site — there were nearly 100 by Wednesday morning. We are quoting them here under Creative Commons License. They may be read in full at http://www.cross-currents.com/ar-chives/2012/11/07/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-american-empire/#ixzz2CCtHLlqA.

While some of the comments support Pruzansky’s opinion — it is “spot on” according to one writer, “Ed Pro,” — many others are critical. One writer referred to the essay as “incendiary and insulting.”

Another, using the name “yankel,” reacted to Pruzansky’s comments about new immigrants to the United States. “I live in Lakewood and the Hispanics liv-ing here are hard-working, saving individuals who are true examples of the American dream, willing to sacrifice for a better life for themselves. I would not advance the racist canard that therefore all Hispanics are like that. But the xe-nophobic belief that this is impossible, and any other race must be lazy, as well as the basic idea of judging people by their race, stands in the way of acceptance of these facts.”

A third, “Reb Yid,” wrote: “We’ve heard this all before in America. We heard it when the Irish moved in, then the Italians, then from the German Jews when the Russians and Eastern European Jews came in. And so on. This is the gift of America — a nation of immigrants that continues to regenerate because of its ability to attract a diverse lot from around the world. Kein Yirbu [may they continue to multiply].”

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‘Musical Notes’ hits the right chordteen’s vision brings music appreciation to children throughout the area

Lois GoLdrich

Music has always been very important to 17-year-old Melissa Romanovich of Tenafly. Three years ago, the Tenafly High School senior, who calls

music “a vital part of my childhood,” decided to share that passion with others.

“I had always been exposed to music, both in and out of school,” she said. Romanovich, who is a singer and pianist, also is a member of Tenafly’s Temple Sinai and president of the shul’s SFTY youth group.

Wanting other children to have the same exposure to music that she had been given, she got in touch with a number of schools that didn’t have music programs, offer-ing her services as an afterschool teacher.

Melissa — who has played piano since she was a child and participated in every music and theater program of-fered by her various schools — said the principals she reached were understandably wary. After all, she was a 14-year-old high school freshman.

“I contacted many superintendents and after-school coordinators,” she said. “I didn’t get a lot of responses at first. But fortunately, one school in Englewood, the Dr. John Grieco Elementary School, gave me a chance.”

After a successful stint at the Grieco school, Romanovich taught music at the Bergen Family Center summer camp, working with five groups of 20 students each. After that, she talked to superintendents once again.

Today, Melissa and the 12 high school volunteers she has recruited teach music to hundreds of students in nine churches, family centers, and elementary and middle schools in Englewood, Norwood, Hackensack, Union City, Hoboken, and Teaneck.

Throughout the year, the volunteers visit these various locations to teach basic music theory, vocal performance, and Broadway show tunes to students, who range from 4 to 12 years old, during after-school and summer camp hours.

The curriculum she has designed for her program, for-

mally dubbed “Musical Notes,” culminates each semester in a performance put on by students. Since much of her work is with younger children, “I try to make it as ‘do-able’ as possible,” she said, noting that children sing in unison.

“Music has always been a cathartic form of expression for me,” she said. “In tough times I have turned to music to guide me. It’s an important thing for kids to look to when going through a rough time.” And, she added, it’s an enjoy-able pastime.

Romanovich said that despite a busy schedule, “I make time for this. It’s become a very important part of my life.”

Her mother — who also is extremely busy, she said — makes time for it as well, driving Romanovich to the many places she serves in a half-dozen school districts.

“I’ve gotten fantastic feedback,” she said. “Every time I walk in, the kids’ faces light up. I’ve seen changes in the kids from the first day to the present.”

The genre of music she presents, classic Broadway show tunes, “is a new world for them,” she said, noting her own passion for that kind of music.

A classical pianist studying songwriting and mod-ern piano technique at the Manhattan School of Music, Romanovich – who has taught between 400 and 500 stu-dents during the past four years — said her teaching proj-ect is formally sponsored by City Lore, a nonprofit group in Manhattan that works to preserve the arts.

While City Lore does not provide any funds, it offers a rubric under which she will be able to raise money for the music program to buy materials such as scripts and CDs. According to Romanovich, the schools themselves provide only the space, a piano, and a supervising faculty member.

She seems a bit surprised by the great success of her project.

“I didn’t know what would happen, but I was hopeful that it would work out,” she said. “I didn’t know how it would be received, but I didn’t expect it to be as big as it is

now or the influence it would have on me.”Still waiting to decide which college to attend,

Romanovich said her preferred major would combine theater studies and English. To ensure the continuity of her program — which she will bring with her to local schools surrounding whatever college she ultimately chooses — she continues to enlist younger high school volunteers as music teachers and to reach out to more schools.

Her goal, she said, is “to recruit still more high school students from neighboring areas.”

Romanovich said she wants to “implement more arts education in the face of budget cuts in the public school system. Their greatest target is arts education. It’s impera-tive to volunteer to teach.”

But if Musical Notes has helped area children, it also has benefited its founder.

“It’s been a growth experience for me as well,” Romanovich said, noting that over the past four years she has devoted some 700 hours to community service.

“I love it,” she said. “I love that kids are learning music, especially kids who have not been exposed to it.”

For more information about Musical Notes, go to http://musicalnotesorg.weebly.com/index.html.

Melissa Romanovich with “Musical Notes” students.

Little praise for cemetery agreement from Board of Rabbisrabbis endorse weinberg’s call for more regulation

Larry yudeLson

The North Jersey Board of Rabbis has weighed in on an agreement signed by operators of three Jewish cemeteries that was hailed as a breakthrough only

weeks ago. The supposed agreement actually is a memo-randum signed by three cemetery operators summing up what has been agreed to so far in nearly two years of talks between them and the rabbis. The talks were facili-tated by the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and two state legislators.

The agreement had been hailed by one of the legisla-tors, Passaic Assemblyman Gary Schaer, as “a tremendous accomplishment.”

The board of rabbis disagrees.The agreement signed by the cemetery operators prom-

ised to smooth the way to burials on Sundays and legal holidays, which the NJBR acknowledges represented some progress. However, “The matters most paramount to the rabbinic committee are still very much without resolu-tion,” according to a press release sent by Rabbi David-

Seth Kirshner on behalf of both the NJBR and the New York Board of Rabbis. Kirshner is the NJBR’s secretary.

One of these matters is “fairness and social conscious-ness” in “cemetery pricing and practices,” the release said.

“Too many families in the New Jersey and New York Jewish communities have been unfairly price-gouged during a vulnerable and painful time in their lives,” it continued.

The rabbis also are concerned about the composition of the New Jersey state cemetery board, which is legally man-dated to have a majority of members from the cemetery industry.

“It is imperative for a mechanism to exist that would allow for both bereaved families and cemetery operators of any faith or no faith to better communicate needs and issues as they arise,” the statement said.

According to the release, the rabbis plan to support State Senator Loretta Weinberg’s legislation on these matters.

While Schaer has said he prefers that the community’s

concerns about the cemeteries not be tackled in Trenton, last month Weinberg told the Jewish Standard that she intends to move long-stalled bills to committee for initial discussion and vote before the end of the year.

Schaer, from Passaic, represents a largely Orthodox constituency. Weinberg represents largely non-Orthodox Bergen County. The Orthodox Rabbinic Council of Bergen County, which was a formal participant in the original meetings in 2008, has yet to weigh in.

One local rabbi, however, is not happy with the rabbis’ statement.

Rabbi Neal Borovitz, who chairs the JCRC, said in a statement that he “must disassociate myself and the JCRC” from the position taken by the NJBR and the NYBR.

He said he agreed with Schaer that all the points agreed to by the cemetery owners “had been agreed upon by all sides in our two-year-long discussion,” which no one disputes.

The question of opening cemeteries for holiday and Sunday burials, “which are of importance to some in our community, in particular the Orthodox, were agreed upon and for me represented the basis upon which we could build a better discussion on other issues,” he wrote. “I hope that discussions can be restarted and would again offer the services of the JCRC to be a convener of such meetings.”

For its part, the two boards of rabbis said they were “eager to reconvene with the state’s cemetery operators in order to continue the process of finding common ground on the issues that brought them to the negotiating table in the first place.”

Legislation, however, for now is their preferred course.


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How to plan for a disasterterrorist expert Leonard Cole of ridgewood offers advice in ‘fine new book’

Warren Boroson

Hurricane Sandy was far worse than most people expected, but

that should have been no surprise. One of the key les-sons we’ve learned from natu-ral disasters, as well as from terrorist attacks, is that you should expect the unexpect-ed. Anticipate the unusual. Black swans are rare, but they exist.

That’s one message of a fine new book, “Local Planning for Terror and Disaster: From Bioterrorism to Earthquakes,” edited by Leonard A. Cole and Nancy D. Connell (Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, 2012).

Cole, a Ph.D. and DDS, is an adjunct professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark and director of the pro-gram on terror medicine and security at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of the New Jersey Center for Biodefense. A resident of Ridgewood, he is a former pres-ident of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. Connell, a Ph.D., is a professor of infectious disease at the Medical School of UMDNJ.

Disasters don’t necessarily follow old scripts, they tell us. No terrorists had flown airplanes into office buildings before 9/11. In Great Britain, before 2005 terrorists mostly planted individual explosives. It was rare for them to use a series of explo-sives, as they did on three London under-ground trains and a bus in that year.

In Japan, a 25-foot coastal wall had been built for protection against tsunamis. The 2011 earthquake unleashed a 30-foot wave that poured over the wall.

Before the 2001 anthrax attacks in this country, bio-attack scenarios had been created — but no one had considered the possibility of spreading microbes through mailed letters. “Creative thinking, whether about the known or the unknown, is a nec-essary part of preparedness,” Cole writes.

“Anticipate the unusual” is another way of saying: Be prepared for black swans, as Cole has pointed out. Black swans and such are not as rare as we think.

“Local Planning” may be among the most important books published this year, although its readership unfortunately may be confined to people involved in prevent-ing and responding to terrorist attacks. Certainly more terrorist attacks are com-ing, along with natural disasters — fires, snowfalls, hurricanes, earthquakes, train wrecks.

How complicated the subject can be is suggested by the fact that 32 people contributed to this book, and that it deals with such seemingly specialized subjects as finding a useful role for volunteers who rush to a disaster site to help. (Their cars just may clog up the roadways, and they may inadvertently contribute to the num-

ber of people injured.)Or just consider tri-

age, the method by which the injured supposedly are treated in accordance with the severity of their wounds. Actually, those who seem fatally wound-ed might justifiably be neglected in favor of those who seem likely to re-cover. Soldiers who might return to action quickly might be given prior-

ity over ordinary civilians; so might an injured physician who had been treating the wounded. And should medical people treat a suspected terrorist exactly the same as a firefighter in need of help?

We have learned the importance of swift and accurate communication. Both professionals dealing with a disaster and the general public need good advice on what to do. The phrase “the golden hour” refers to the small period of time after an injury when medical help may mean the difference between life and death. And the record in treating people during the golden hour has not been reassuring.

Because of confusion during the 2005 London attacks, fire and ambulance teams sometimes stood by idly while victims lay dying. Only half the 201 London am-bulances available were even sent to the attack scenes.

When the first case of anthrax was confirmed in this country during the 2001 bio-attack, Florida’s governor, Jeb Bush, announced: “People don’t have any reason to be concerned.” The U.S. Postmaster General, John Potter, visited the Brentwood postal center in Washington, D.C., and told the employees they were in no danger. (They were.) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, usu-ally an exemplary organization, counseled against giving New Jersey postal workers the antibiotic Cipro. Despite that advice, the state’s acting health commissioner, Dr. George DiFerdinando, saw to it that the workers received the medication — pos-sibly saving lives and thus emerging as “an unsung medical hero,” Cole has written.

It was during the dark of night in 1984 when 40 tons of methyl isocynate gas escaped from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India. Because of the darkness, some victims moved toward the source of the contamination. Because they were not advised not to drink milk from cows that had eaten contaminated grass after the Chernobyl disaster, many Russian chil-dren came down with thyroid cancer.

In 2001, after Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center’s north tower, 911 operators told tower occupants to stay put and await rescue workers. The deputy fire director also told people in the south tower that the buildng was safe and they should

remain in their offices. When the south tower was hit by Flight 175, 911 operators again told occupants to stay put — even though five minutes before the fire depart-ment had issued an order for everyone to leave the building.

Cooperation between agencies also is a goal. But different branches of gov-ernment may compete against each other, even during an emergency. The 9/11 Commission report showed that New York police and firefighters continued to

operate as independent agencies — their radios could not even talk to each other. The firefighters and the police did not even want to talk to each other.

Still another lesson to be learned: Prepare not just for black swans but for loathesome birds of prey. During the 20,000 Arab terrorist attacks against Israel from 2000 to 2006, some Palestinians on their way to Israeli hospitals were found to have explosives hidden under their cloth-ing. And several Palestinian ambulances were found to be carrying weapons and gunmen.

One of the last chapters in the book focuses on cyber-conflict. One of the chapter’s conclusions is that “time is short before malicious actors in cyberspace reach a stage when they track a hurricane and launch cyber attacks” to impede res-cue workers’ efforts.Leonard Cole

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The pause that does not refreshDr. Deborah Wagner Grundleger to talk about perimenopause at the JCC of Paramus

MIRYAM Z. WAHRMAN, PH.D.Science correspondent

“This year nearly 30 million women between 39 and 53 will experience clinical depres-sion and anxiety disorders associated with

the onset of perimenopause,” Dr. Deborah Wagner writes.The chances are that you know one of these women —

or even that you are one of them yourself.Wagner, 54, lives in Paramus (where she often is

known by her married name, Deborah Grundleger) and is a member of the JCC of Paramus. She counsels many women in that age range, along with their families, and she has just published a book on perimenopause, “The Fifth Decade: Is It Just My Life or Is It Perimenopause?”

In “The Fifth Decade,” Wagner writes about her Ridgewood practice as a developmental psychologist, where she treats people “from age 2 to 80, men, women, couples, and families.” She notes that “one group has stood out as having unique needs that were barely un-derstood: perimenopausal women.”

Perimenopause is defined as the 5- to 10-year period preceding menopause, when minor hormonal changes are followed by more dramatic changes. “Before people thought only of menopause when you have night sweats and hot flashes, but 5 to 10 years before, a woman can be moody, feel out of sorts, and have trouble sleeping,” Wagner said. Such symptoms are related to hormonal changes that lead up to menopause itself, which is char-acterized by the cessation of ovulation and the monthly cycle.

In the first few years of perimenopause the changes are very subtle. “A woman may be more short-tempered, her PMS may be a little worse,” Wagner said. “Then it ramps up, and once it’s on the radar they realize what they had been going through.”

Women first have to understand the hormonal chang-es that happen to them in their forties and fifties, Wagner said. “Most women don’t understand the scope of the hormonal changes.”

“I really want to get the word out,” she said. “When I did a couple of radio shows in the Midwest, people didn’t know what perimenopause was.

“When changes in mood and behavior occur, women sometimes self-diagnose, thinking they have ADD or a nervous breakdown. If a woman understands, it helps them relax and know what they are dealing with.”

Spouses, partners, and children can be affected when a woman suffers perimenopausal symptoms. “Part of my approach is to get men involved in understanding and supporting women during this transition,” Wagner said. “I’ve had a lot of men who have wives in that age range come in for therapy, or couples therapy. I’ve heard men say ‘what is going on with my wife?’ It’s not just a woman’s issue.”

A whole section of “The Fifth Decade” is addressed to men, with chapters called “Who are you and what have you done with my wife?” “I’ll take directions, just tell me what to do,” and “Who is going to take care of me?”

“One of the most important things for men to know is that women can’t help what they are going through, and that the women don’t like it either,” Wagner said. “They really need a lot of support. So the man can step up and take some of the pressure off the woman — it could mean bringing home a pizza for dinner occasion-ally so she doesn’t have to make dinner, or taking care of the kids.”

Insomnia, fatigue, irritability, and decreased libido are

a few of the more difficult psychological symptoms. “The women’s libidos come down significantly and men are saying, ‘why don’t you want me?’” Wagner said. “It isn’t that women don’t want sex. They want comfort in other ways. Cuddling and holding may open up the sex drive a little bit.”

In the chapter called “Finding a Way Out,” Wagner explains some treatment options. Hormone replace-ment therapy (HRT) had been prescribed routinely to help women transition through perimenopause and menopause. However, she reports, “HRT is frowned upon now because the Women’s Health Initiative showed that there are many adverse effects of HRT. So, HRT is the last resort for women who are suffering [serious symptoms].” In 2002 the Women’s Health Initiative, which studied tens of thousands of women, found that HRT was as-sociated with increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and breast cancer. “Since that time, doctors are reluctant to prescribe this type of treatment and wisely, women are very frightened to take it, leaving women to find alternate ways to ameliorate unpleasant premenopausal symp-toms,” Wagner writes.

Wagner said that bioidentical hormones, which are phytoestrogens derived from yams and soy products, can provide some relief. The chemicals are less potent than HRT, but “they alleviate some of the symptoms. You can

get them nonprescription, at low doses, or higher doses prescribed by a doctor.”

Wagner said that she spent four to five years doing the research and writing the book, which is her first.

“It’s important to start bringing it out and talking about it and sharing with each other,” she said. Women who experience perimenopause have the “highest risk for onset of depression in their lifetimes. They don’t have to suffer alone. There’s a lot that can be done to help them.”

It’s important to talk to the men as well as the children in their lives about it, so they can be more understanding.

“It makes me so happy every time I hear it helped someone understand,” Wagner concluded. “It’s a very tough transition.”

Dr. Miryam Z. Wahrman is professor of biology and director of the MAST (Math and Science Teachers program) at William Paterson University of New Jersey.

Who: Dr. Deborah Wagner Grundleger

What: A talk about her new book, “The Fifth Decade: Is It Just My Life or Is It Perimenopause?”

Where: The JCC of Paramus, E. 304 Midland Ave.; sponsored by the JCCP’s sisterhood

When: Sunday, Nov. 15, 11 a.m.

Information: (201) 262-7691, www.jccparamus.org, www.DeborahWagnerPhD.com or TheFifthDecade.com.

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Partnership 2Gether goes both waysUsually, children in northern New Jersey help out their counterparts in Israel, but when Sandy struck all the world went topsy-turvey.

Here, children at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County in New Milford show some of the letters of support they’ve received from their pen pals in Nahariya, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s sister city. The Israeli children also are holding a

fundraiser to help restock food pantries here.Here, Paul Horowitz and Sarah Mlotek sit in front.

Standing in the back row, left to right, are Benjamin Kosiborod, Samantha Brenner, Mathan Poller, and Benjamin Stein. Adalyn Model, Daniela Solovey, Kayla Schwartz, Alexa Levy, Daniella Shipley, Ian Silverstein, Aaron Lemmer, and Liat Oz are standing in the front row.

Migdal Ohr plans Dec. 3 dinnerMigdal Ohr, Israel’s leading agency for underprivileged, orphaned, and new immigrant children, will hold its an-nual dinner on Monday, Dec. 3, at Espace in New York City. The dinner, the group’s largest fundraising event, will celebrate Joe and Trina Cayre as guests of honor and Dr. Barry and Emily Lifschitz as the Ruth and Jack Wexler Lev Tov awardees. A Scroll of Honor will be published in conjunction with the event.

The program includes speeches by Migdal Ohr’s founder and dean, Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, and Israeli economist and education leader, Professor Manuel Trajtenberg.

For information, call (212) 397-3700 or go to www.migdalohrusa.org.

Friends of the IDF NJ chapter reschedules dinnerDue to the effects of Hurricane Sandy, the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces’s New Jersey chapter had to postpone the Nov. 3rd annual IDF tribute dinner at the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel in East Rutherford that had been set for Nov. 3. It now is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 15. For information, email [email protected].

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The ‘secular Sukkot’

Shammai EngElmayEr

One of the columns I am most frequently asked to reprise is about

Thanksgiving. It is the one holiday that is eagerly anticipated in both observant and non-observant Jewish households.

To the non-observant, it is a way of participating in an American observance with no religious overtones, just as America prepares to celebrate a holiday with very serious — and very non-Jewish — reli-gious overtones. To the observant, as the late Rabbi Israel Miller of blessed memory used to say, it is the one chance in the entire year that the entire family can gather in one place because traveling is neither prohibited for some nor restricted for others.

Ironically, Thanksgiving’s origin is religious, not secu-lar. The bigger irony is which religion it is that gave us Thanksgiving.

The Pilgrims, you see, patterned their festival of thanksgiving on the one we only recently finished cel-

ebrating — Sukkot.Our Bible — the Torah,

specifically — was what guid-ed the Pilgrims, says the historian H.B. Alexander. It “formed their minds and dominated their characters; its

conceptions were their conceptions.” (See his essay, “The Hebrew Contribution to the Americanism of the Future.”)

By all accounts, the Pilgrims often turned to “the Hebrew Bible” — the Tanakh — for advice and guidance. At least some of the pilgrims (most notably the Mather family) studied the Tanakh in the original Hebrew.

That is why the very first book ever published in North America was a translation of the Book of Psalms, with Hebrew strewn throughout in order to clarify meanings.

It was for this reason, too, that Cotton Mather, in his history of the Puritans in America, referred to the early settler leaders as “our chasidim rishonim” (first righteous men) who ruled “b’ahavah v’yirah” (with love and rever-ence for God).

The Puritan “preoccupation with the Bible col-ored all their activities,” wrote Abraham I. Katsh in the Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1st edition. Not only were these settlers “imbued with the spirit of the Prophets and with the lessons of the Scriptures,” he wrote, “but they also accepted biblical precepts and commandments literally and applied them vigorously.”

“Biblical Judaism thus served as a touchstone for America’s early settlers,” we read in the 2nd edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, “and it was this spirit that infused the colonization of the New World with intense religious


Opting out of Sunday closings

Hurricane Sandy brought much misery to our region. It is responsible for more than 100 deaths in the United States alone, and for many bil-

lions of dollars in damage. Even as this editorial is being written, there are still pockets of powerless homes and businesses. A tunnel between New York and Brooklyn remains mostly closed; basements throughout the great-er Metropolitan area remain flooded or heavily damaged. The aftershocks of Sandy will last for many years to come.

Yet some good came out of this superstorm, as it is rightly being called. As we remarked last week and con-tinue to marvel over this week, Sandy proved yet again that our diverse communities nevertheless can come together in times of crisis. There is no challenge that can defeat us if we face it together. Sandy showed that we can — we will — face the challenges head on, as indeed we are doing even now, in its wake.

Another positive development is the returning to the political agenda the question of Bergen County’s so-called blue laws. Bergen County has the dubious distinc-tion of being the last county in the United States to have such a burdensome set of laws on its books.

“Blue laws,” for those who are unfamiliar with the term, refers to laws that force businesses to close on Sundays. They got that name because the colony of New Haven, which first introduced those laws on this conti-nent in the 17th century, published them on blue paper.

Because people had to repair, rebuild, and replenish in Sandy’s wake, Gov. Chris Christie issued an executive order temporarily lifting the ban. It ended this week. The city of Paramus, home to most of Bergen County’s largest stores, immediately announced that it would defy the order, citing the fact that it had an even stricter version on its own books. By way of example, if a Paramus police officer notices a car sitting in the parking lot of an office building on Sunday, he or she has been known to go door to door in the empty building looking for the miscreant who had the temerity to go to the office to catch up on some filing chores. That person would then be issued a summons for violating the local law.

When it defied the governor, Paramus was taken to court by the county government. A judge ordered Paramus to honor the order, which it did last Sunday,

while nevertheless expressing its defiance. Said Mayor Richard LaBarbiera of the blue laws, “I will never stop fighting to make sure they are always here to protect our quality of life.”

Frankly, he and the residents of Paramus have every right to keep their retail stores closed on Sundays, and private offices, too, if they so choose, which they do. So does Fair Lawn, however, have the right to open its stores if it so chooses. So does Saddle Brook, and River Edge, and Englewood, and Hackensack, and every other vil-lage, town, borough, and city in Bergen County. If a dress store in Teaneck is doing business on Sundays, it has no effect on LaBarbiera or anyone else in Paramus. Not one extra car will make its way through Paramus’ sacrosanct streets to buy a pair of shoes at an outlet in a River Edge strip mall.

It is time for State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg to reintroduce legislation she first proposed in 2002 that would allow all local political entities in Bergen County to decide for themselves whether to opt out of the blue laws or to keep them on the books.

Weinberg was forced to withdraw that legislation because the Bergen County Council of Churches joined Paramus in mounting a powerful campaign against it and her. The BCCC’s then president, Rev. Stephen Giordano, made clear that any “piecemeal, community by community approach” to eliminating the blue laws was just as unacceptable as a total countywide repeal.

There are lots of arguments — some of them even good ones — for retaining the blue laws. There are com-pelling arguments for dropping them as well. For exam-ple, a Shabbat-observant storekeeper not only must be closed on Saturdays, but also must be closed on Sundays, resulting in a loss of business that congregants in the BCCC-affiliated churches do not have to suffer.

We are not advocating for an end to the blue laws in Paramus. We are advocating that every community in Bergen County be given the right to decide whether its businesses and private offices will be open or closed on Sundays.

It is time for Paramus to get out of everyone else’s business.

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A lady of substance

We join the community in mourning the death of Syril Rubin, one of our gentlest power-houses. Here was a woman who accom-

plished so much for the youngest in our communities and for the oldest; who promoted Jewish education at all levels, but especially early childhood and adult educa-tion initiatives; who had a kind word for all whom she met each day; and who had an unquenchable thirst for

Jewish knowledge. She and her late husband, Leonard, were a one-two punch for everything that is good about our community. Now they are both gone. Their legacy, however, lives on in their children.

We are taught to pray that “her memory be for a bless-ing,” and we do, but we have no doubt whatever that it already is and will be for generations to come.

KeePiNG tHe FaitHOne religious perspectIve on issues of the day

Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of the Conservative synagogue Temple Israel Community Center in Cliffside Park and an instructor in the UJA-Federation-sponsored Florence Melton Adult Mini-School of the Hebrew University.

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devotion.”It is no accident, therefore, that many of the early law

codes in Puritan New England were based on the Torah, rather than the Christian Bible or English common law. For example, in “The Jews Come to America,” the histori-ans Paul Masserman and Max Baker note that half of the statutes in the Code of 1655 for the New Haven colony had their origins in Torah law, while only three percent derived from the Christian bible.

That is where Sukkot comes in. When it came time to celebrate their bountiful first harvest, the Pilgrims did what they usually did: They turned to the Torah for guidance. Here is what they found, in Deuteronomy 16:13-15:

“You shall observe the Feast of Booths seven days, after you have gathered in your grain and your wine; and you shall rejoice in your feast…. Seven days shall you keep a solemn feast to the Lord your God … because the Lord your God shall bless you in all your produce, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.”

That is what the Torah said and that is what the Pilgrims did in 1621. In fact, they celebrated this “Sukkot” at about the same time of year that we celebrate Sukkot.

The festival apparently did not recur until 1676, when it was celebrated on June 29. Eventually, it became an annual (albeit unofficial) feast on the last Thursday in November. It was not until 1863 that Thanksgiving be-came a national holiday and was moved to the fourth Thursday in November.

Some authorities rank the 1676 festival as the first “official” Thanksgiving, which is both wrong and un-fortunate. The early relationship between the Pilgrims and the Indians was soon replaced by a growing racism among the settlers who followed the Pilgrims here. The deterioration soon evolved into full-fledged fighting.

One can only guess at why the white Christian settlers turned on the Wampanoag, who lived — and thrived — in Massachusetts back then. Lasting from 1675 to 1676, “King Philip’s War” (King Philip being the name of the Wampanoag chief) was the bloodiest conflict in 17th-century New England (and it was the victory over the Indians that led to the 1676 celebration). The conflict was sparked by a continuous encroachment onto Native American land, leading to the enslavement of the natives and to their regulation by a strict Christian morality.

According to an official estimate at the time, some 600 settlers and 3,000 Native Americans lost their lives. Indeed, whole villages of Indians were wiped out.

There were many reasons for why the Christian settlers turned on the natives. One was their religious beliefs; they saw the American Indian as pagans and sought to “save” them. Another was a belief about who they thought the Native Americans actually were:

Wrote the historian Samuel Broches in his book, “Jews in New England”:

“In 1649, Eliot, the missionary, proclaimed to the world that the Indians were descendants of the Jews. In 1650, Dowman, another missionary, issued an appeal to the English, that they help the Indians in the New World, on the ground that the Indians descended from Jews. And when Thomas Thorowgood, in 1650, published his book ‘Jews in America,’ Eliot of Massachusetts immedi-ately made a declaration that the 37th chapter of Ezekiel [the vision of dried bones being restored to full life] refers to the Indians.”

To “help” the Indians, by the way, is shorthand for “to help the Indians see the light and the error of their ways.”

Fortunately, it is the 1621 Thanksgiving that we commemorate each year, the revisionist scholars notwithstanding. Its Jewish roots are undeniable, which probably explains why it is the one religious-rooted American holiday with which we are perfectly comfortable.

Four more years of Middle East noiseBEn CohEn

Back in September, President Barack Obama lik-ened the anxieties of some Israelis over America’s Iran policy to “noise.” Many pointed out, cor-

rectly, that this ill-advised remark was hardly fair to one of the few countries in the world where both the govern-ment and the people are unashamedly pro-American.

It was also a curious choice of wording against the wider Middle Eastern context. In terms of United States commitments in the region, Israel lies outside the cycle of dependency that governs its relationships with Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Gulf states — all places where the United States has, or had, substantial numbers of boots on the ground. And when it comes to noise, the sounds Israel makes are sweet music compared to the finger-nails-scratching-the-blackboard racket that emanates from other Middle Eastern countries.

Consider what has been said — or rather, yelled — in the days since Obama won a second term in office. In Iran, the three hardline Larijani brothers, who all occupy key positions in the governing theocracy, have issued loud, and perhaps contradictory, individual statements regarding their country’s nuclear program.

Sadeq Larijani, Iran’s chief justice, seemed to scorn the prospect of direct negotiations with the United States. “After all this pressure and crimes against the people of Iran,” Larijani said, in a reference to the punishing sanc-tions imposed by the United States and its allies, “rela-tions with America cannot be possible overnight and Americans should not think they can hold our nation to ransom by coming to the negotiating table.”

Mohammed Javad Larijani, however, sounded what was, by Iranian standards, a more conciliatory tone. He is the head of the country’s laughably named High Council for Human Rights. “To protect the interests of our sys-tem,” he said, “we would negotiate with the United States or anyone else even in the abyss of hell.”

Meanwhile, parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, the former nuclear negotiator and the most powerful of the brothers, taunted the United States outright. Asserting that a growth in domestic production would undermine “enemy plots” — think sanctions — Larijani argued that the United States had been forced into sanctions because its “military adventurism” in the region had failed.

These three statements all reflect the perception among Iranian leaders that the chances of an imminent pre-emptive strike on their nuclear facilities are receding.

In the days leading up to the presidential election, unconfirmed reports surfaced that the United States and Iran were already engaged in secret talks under the auspices of Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s senior adviser, who was born in the Iranian city of Shiraz, where her father worked in a hospital, and who apparently speaks Farsi. Shortly after the election, Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, said that Iran’s uranium enrichment timetable had slowed down, thus implying that the world has until at least the summer of 2013 to make progress on the dip-lomatic front.

Still, a delay is one thing, success something else en-tirely. There are precious few indications that talks with Iran would satisfactorily prove that its nuclear instal-lations are for civilian purposes only, in part because the Iranians believe, much as the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did over his supposed Weapons of Mass Destruction program, that any ambivalence strengthens their overall position.

A generous interpretation of Obama’s strategy towards Iran holds that the president wants to demonstrate that all avenues have been properly explored before a military strike, and that the United States still believes in the pri-macy of negotiations, even though these have failed for nearly a decade. However, Iran’s nuclear program is not

an isolated factor. Any faith among people in the United States in what psychoanalysts call the “talking cure” is offset by the impact talks can have upon Iran’s actual behavior.

Both the Syrian and Lebanese theaters are good cur-rent representations of what I mean. Syria lies firmly within the Iranian camp; as Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi recently argued, the Iranians are therefore a “vital” element in securing an end to the monstrous blood-shed unleashed by President Bashar al-Assad upon his people (interestingly, this observation, which formed part of a wider encomium to the Iranian regime by the Muslim Brotherhood-bred Morsi, was not classified in Washington as “noise.”) Hence, if the United States decides upon a Syrian strategy that requires Iranian goodwill, that will have knock-on effects not just for the nuclear program negotiations, but for other issues in which Iranian and Syrian interference is the major factor.

In Lebanon, the October assassination of intelligence chief General Wissam al-Hassan, most likely at the hands of Hezbollah, was a perfect illustration of the dangers of strengthening Iran and its allies. That danger is now stretching towards Israel.

Just a few months ago, the belief that the Assad re-gime was about to crumble was widespread. However, emboldened by western dithering and Iranian support, Assad is now provoking Israel, with Syrian army fire straying into the Golan Heights. On a visit to the Golan, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, warned that further escalation might result in a “Syrian affair that could turn into our affair.”

Before the presidential election, it could reasonably be said that the Middle East was closer to regional con-flagration than at any other time since the October 1973 war. In the wake of Obama’s victory, nothing has changed on that front. Much as the United States fervently wants to fix its domestic problems, from its much-too-slowly expanding economy through to its broken immigration system, the noise from the Middle East may well divert its attention abroad.

We cannot afford to allow these problems to fester. For much of the last two years, Obama has been accused of “leading from behind.” He now has the opportunity, following his victory, to lead from the front. That will require him not to shut out the noise, but to dive into it headfirst.

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Ben Cohen is the Shillman Analyst for JNS.org. His writings on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics have been published in Commentary, the New York Post, Ha’aretz, Jewish Ideas Daily and many other publications.

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Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of the Conservative synagogue Temple Israel Community Center in Cliffside Park and an instructor in the UJA-Federation-sponsored Florence Melton Adult Mini-School of the Hebrew University.

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Let’s demythologize the ‘Jewish vote’the percentage gets smaller, and no gOp shift is evident

Paul FoEr

The much-vaunted “Jewish vote” garnered even more attention this election than

it normally does, culminating per-haps in one newscast that basical-ly said that Florida’s Jewish voters would decide the national election. When you do the math, however, the diminishing Jewish vote is not what it used to be.

For sure, the voters in the Jewish minority in a handful of highly contested and vote-rich states do take voting seriously, making their votes appear so crucial in Florida, California, New York, New Jersey, and even Ohio. Those who put their political stethoscopes to our hearts and minds, however, may as well try to determine our favorite collective brisket recipe.

Jews tend to be more liberal and more Democratic than the typical voter, despite being more educated and wealthier. Next election, do not believe the cries of many Republicans who in 2012 again said that this time around, the Jewish community was going for their candi-date. Exit polls had Barack Obama winning 69 percent of the Jewish vote — nine points down from the 78 percent exit polls said he garnered in 2008, but not enough of a drop to swing any critical states in Mitt Romney’s favor.

We Jews are concerned about the economy and other issues, as are all citizens of these United States — so if anything, there is an American vote tinged with some Yiddishkeit, but it is not an Israeli vote.

We may bring our concerns about Israel into the vot-ing booth, but we are not Israelis or their surrogates, and that electorate in any case is sharply divided on every-thing, so how could we be united when they are not?

The more we raise Israel as the primary “Jewish vote” issue, the more we make it appear that support for Israel is due only to a tiny but powerful group congealing to ex-ercise its influence in great disproportion to its numbers. A longstanding tradition of broad, bi-partisan support for a strong and secure Israel is based on it being in the best interest of the United States and shared democratic traditions, rather than just pandering to the narrow inter-est of a small minority.

Jewish leaders, intellectuals, or hyperpartisans who insist that Jews must vote based on Israel alone make it appear that Israel is a client state of the United States and that it cannot exist without constant babying of Israelis and of Jews.

They tell us that only their favorite candidate will save Israel, while the other guy will destroy it. They set us all up for an even worse mythology that suggests that the United States is a client state of Israel, and that the two

percent of United States citizens who swayed that last election, and the ones before it, are really a disloyal and secret cabal running the government and the nation’s foreign policy.

Such a mythology conjures up images of Paul Findley, Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer, and Pat Buchanan, who referred to the Jews of the United States as “Israel’s amen corner.”

This tail does not wag the dog. Jewish American or American Jewish voters are just that, and when a Jew tells you that Israel is his or her only or main concern when voting, keep in mind that he or she is a tiny minor-ity within a tiny minority, regardless of hanging chads in Palm Beach County.

The big item in this so-called Jewish vote is the rela-tively rapid growth of Orthodox Jews and their future vot-ing choices, but they likely will remain marginal because of their concentration in only a few districts with large numbers in but a few states. Besides, the surveys say that even this group is more comfortable with Democrats than Republicans, even if the Democrat’s name is Barack Hussein Obama.

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Paul Foer is a newspaper columnist and Merchant Marine of-ficer based in Annapolis, Md. He also studies and writes about American Jewish history.

Scapegoating the United StatesCathy young

The wave of anti-American protests and riots across the Muslim world to which we

were treated in mid-election sea-son, and the assassination of a U.S. ambassador and three members of his staff, have revived the “why do they hate us?” debate, which will not go away merely because the election has passed. Why are there such high levels of extremism in many Muslim societies, and why is there so much anger toward the United States?

For some on the left and the isolationist right, the answer is clear: It’s our fault. The United States and our allies, the argument goes, have caused Muslims vast suffering; no wonder Muslims seize on any flimsy pretext to vent their anger. Whatever one thinks of United States policies, however, the America-blaming is simplistic and misguided — and dangerously myopic about the danger of radical Islamism.

The supposed offenses of the United States — as laid out, for instance, by journalist Glenn Greenwald — involve supporting Israel over the Palestinians; backing oppressive regimes in Muslim countries; and waging wars, including the “war on terror” that still kills civilians in drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen.

These policies are strongly unpopular with Muslims around the world. Is the anger, however, driven mainly by concern for Muslim lives and welfare, or by more ideological motives? We see little outrage over the carnage in Syria, for example, where as many as 30,000 may have died since last year’s uprising began. In Pakistan, terrorists have killed over 14,000 civilians and more than 4,500 security personnel since 2004. (The civilian toll from U.S. drone strikes is estimated at between 482 and 832.)

Countries such as China, which viciously represses its Muslim minority, or Russia, which killed at least 100,000 in Chechnya, backed a Muslim-slaughtering regime in Serbia, and blocks any effective action against Syria, are not the focus of much Muslim anger.

The claim that Islamist radicals — and ordinary people who, while not endorsing terror, support some of their goals — “hate us for our freedoms” has been mocked as a self-serving cliché. In rebuttal, critics cite a 2004 poll in which Muslims in several countries overwhelmingly condemned the United States’ Mideast policies and the Iraq war, but often approved of such American values as democracy and freedom.

Other studies, however, paint a different picture. In a 2009 survey by the University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes, more Muslims in Pakistan and Indonesia agreed with the Islamist goal “to keep Western values out of Islamic countries” than with the goal of getting the United States to stop favoring Israel. In Egypt, both goals were endorsed by nearly 90 percent. A 2011 survey in Yemen found less hostility to United States military power — whose impact was seen as “very bad” by 46 percent — than to the cultural influence of the United States (56 percent). While nearly half of Yemenis favored security assistance from the United States to their government, over 90 percent felt that “Western culture corrupts Muslims.”

The real war is within the Islamic world itself, between those who favor modernity — secular government, individual freedom, women’s liberation — and those seeking to uphold the traditional social and religious order. This conflict is hardly unique to Islam, but, for complex historical and cultural reasons, fundamentalist forces in many Muslim societies are far more powerful and radical than in the West. The radicals exploit the problems

of poverty and corruption to gain support; but these problems (all too common in other parts of the world) are not the primary cause of extremism.

The United States provides a convenient target for modernization anxieties. In a 2011 paper, political scientists Lisa Blaydes of Stanford University and Drew Linzer of Emory University concluded that anti-Americanism in Muslim countries is most reliably predicted by conflict between Islamists and secularists and by anti-American rhetoric from Islamist elites.

Religious zealotry is no fiction. Policies of the United States did not cause the edict for the murder of “blasphemous” novelist Salman Rushdie. Policies of the United States are not responsible for the fact that, last year, a Pakistani provincial governor, Salman Taseer, was murdered after criticizing blasphemy laws and speaking in support of a Christian woman sentenced to death for an alleged slur on Muhammad — or that the assassination was cheered by many clerics and politicians.

Unfortunately, America-blaming can become an excuse for the worst of intolerance. Recently, Patheos.com, a website on religious issues, reported on the case of an Egyptian atheist blogger arrested for blasphemy. Some commenters argued that this action was understandable, since atheists were positioning themselves as allies of the Muslim-victimizing West.

What next? An explanation of how the United States is to blame for the Spanish Inquisition?

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Cathy Young is a contributing editor at Reason magazine and a columnist at the Boston Globe, where this column originally ap-peared. She is the author of “Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood.”

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lettersLooking for survivorsA train with 2,500 Jewish prisoners, including some 700 children, left the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen on 7 April 1945.

The train was liberated on 13 April 1945 by American soldiers from the 30th Infantry Division of the Ninth U.S. Army near the city of Magdeburg, Germany, at the town Farsleben.

Most of the survivors were from Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, Greece and other countries.

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Thank you, Temple EmethOn behalf of Congregation Beth Sholom, I’d like to recognize Temple Emeth for its warm hospitality and generosity on Shabbat, Nov. 3. Following Hurricane Sandy, Congregation Beth Sholom was without power throughout Shabbat, and Temple Emeth opened their doors to us, enabling our members to gather together as a community for Shabbat morning services. We were also joined by members of Temple Emeth, which helped enhance our services.

It was very moving to know that we can depend on our friends and neighbors to offer assistance during times like these. In particular, Rabbi Steven Sirbu and the temple administrator, Marion Schechter, were extremely helpful in helping make this such a smooth process.

I look forward to many more opportunities in the future when our two synagogues can come together around common issues, outside of crisis situations. I also hope that the camaraderie and good nature shared among all our synagogues in Teaneck and throughout Bergen County continues, as well.

Howard LazarPresident, Congregation Beth Sholom

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Loving the Teaneck Film FestivalI’ve seen five films already (“Seventh annual Teaneck film festival,” Nov. 9) and will see one more today. It should be required viewing for every citizen of Teaneck to see at least one of the films about other “struggles” than their particular group’s. The quality of each film is extraordinary and Jeremy Lentz can’t be thanked enough!

Diane SchwarzTeaneck

FEMA is nice; Nechama is nicerFEMA is nice, but Nechama is incredible. I add my thanks to this unique group of Midwesterners who are helping clean the drenched Brooklyn synagogue of my son-in-law, Rabbi Claudio Kupchik.

Barnett LascheverSimsbury, Conn.

Straightening record on grantsRegarding the recent article about day school security and Homeland Security grants (“Day schools feel se-cure,” Nov. 2), I wish to state for the record that although I did work to help synagogues and schools get these grants, the bulk of the credit goes to Alan Sweifach who shepherded this process for the UJA.

Dr. Wallace GreeneFair Lawn

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Joanne Palmer

It might have been something in the water. Surely it was

something in the air. There was something that made the generation of north Jersey Jews born in the first few decades of the twentieth century into extraordinary philanthropists.

Syril Rubin of Fort Lee, who died on Monday, was one of them.

She and her late husband, Leonard, were among the builders and then the pillars of the community — particularly the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly and the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, along with a host of other local groups — as well as organizations across the country and around the world, including the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Their partnership was cast in the traditional mold — he did most of the public work, and she supplied the warmth and grace that backed him up.

As her oldest child, Daniel Rubin, who lives in Englewood and like his father is a former JCC president, said, “She did all the things that people don’t read about in newspapers, and don’t get their names on buildings or rooms for.”

The Rubins were among the founders of the JCC, and Syril Rubin launched many programs there; her interest in culture, arts, and public affairs secured such speakers as Bruno Bettelheim, George McGovern, and Arthur Schlesinger. They were formative in creating the JCC’s Judaic scholar in residence program, which was the first program of its kind in the country. For 30 years, the Rubin Run has encouraged people to be healthy, challenge themselves, and enjoy doing it. Her care for the elderly ensured that handicapped-accessible transportation would make it possible for people to get to the JCC so they could benefit from the many programs it offers them. Her support of the JCC Adult Reach Center helps

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Syril Rubin in August. photo provided by family

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people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. At the other end of life, her commitment to the JCC’s nursery school, which bears her family’s name, and to special needs children, has helped many children grow, develop, learn, and laugh.

And she did not only give money; her work was hands-on.

“She had a personal touch with people,” her son said. “She would have lunch with the residents of the Jewish Home, or with the citizens at the JCC.” Last summer, she “invited a dozen or 15 of the Jewish Home residents to her house for lunch. She did things quietly; she did them because they were the right thing to do. She never looked for anything in return — no recognition, no thanks. She just did them because they were the right thing to do.”

Syril Nelkin was born in West New York in 1928, the daughter of Russian immigrants. Her father worked in the diamond district in Manhattan brokering raw diamonds. “He had a way about him,” said Syril’s daughter, Leslie Weinberg of Tenafly. “He would buy a diamond for, say, $100, and he’d turn around and sell it for $80, and he’d say, ‘That’s okay. He’s a good guy.’ He wanted to give everyone a good deal.”

Still, “somehow I guess he figured out how to make a little profit. They had a very nice apartment, a nice car, and they were able to do nice things. She always had nice clothes.”

Syril Nelkin and Lenny Rubin knew each other since Syril was 12, “but the truth is that she didn’t really like him then,” Weinberg said. “He was a little skinny, and just not for her. But he was very bright, and he’d skipped several grades, and then he was drafted into the navy during the war” — World War II — “and when he came home, he went to the JCC in West New York, wearing his uniform, and that did it.” They got married — Syril, who had studied at NYU for about a year and a half, was 19. “They really had a quite a love affair,” their daughter said.

Lenny Rubin grew up in a “very typical immigrant home, with three siblings, multiple aunts and uncles; they all shared beds and shared rooms,” Weinberg said. “And it was a kosher home, with traditional Jewish values.” On the other hand, “my mother grew up with only some very very basic traditions. She knew she was Jewish, but beyond that she didn’t know that much.”

These two different microcultures clashed at their

wedding.“My mother was all excited, a very happy bride-to-be,

and she and her parents planned everything. It was going to be at a beautiful hotel. They had already sent out the invitations. And then somehow the conversation came up with my father’s parents about the food being kosher.

“I don’t think that at that point my mother knew what kosher was. My father didn’t know what to do. My mother went to her father and told him. He threw his arms up and said ‘Kosher? You want kosher?’ They ended up having a small dinner — I think it was at Lou G. Siegel — because that was the way my father’s family was going to be comfortable.”

Her mother, Weinberg said, always wanted other people to be comfortable.

Except for her brief stint at NYU, Rubin always lived in New Jersey, moving from West New York to Leonia to Englewood to Tenafly and then finally to Fort Lee.

Lenny Rubin owned Carolace Embroidery in Edgewater, which grew to be a large and very profitable enterprise. They had three children — Daniel, Robert, who lives in San Francisco, and Leslie.

When they moved to Bergen County, they joined the JCC, which then was at Temple Emanu-El of Englewood (which since has moved north and become Emanu-El of Closter). “It was at that point that the seeds of philanthropy began to germinate. My father originally joined the JCC because he wanted to play basketball, and then he started coaching.” But then their interest in philanthropy “just grew and was nurtured over many years by the many wonderful people they came in contact with, and from their own feelings, starting at a very early point in their relationship, that they were blessed.

“They felt that they were so fortunate that my father had a business that allowed them to do it. There were so

“Everyone should know that I’ve lived the most wonderful life, with the most wonderful friends and the most loving and caring family. And it’s okay. I’m ready to go. Nobody should be sad. Death is part of life. This is okay.”

Syril and Leonard Rubin. photo provided by family

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many people who were less fortunate. They wanted to give back.”

The culture in which they found themselves “really was a culture of genuine philanthropy,” Weinberg added. “It was not just give back to the community, it was give back to everyone in every way. It was not just support one type of organization, it was support those who can’t help themselves; teach those who can’t help themselves so that they can.

“My mother was the support system and the force behind my father,” she said. When the time came to move the JCC from Englewood to Tenafly, where it is today, “his involvement was about building an important community center. It was about raising the money for it. For her, it was about bringing the best cultural programs to the center, which would then bring the people.” In other words, he built the structure, and she filled it with life.

Syril Rubin was “a very proper person,” her daughter added. “Everything should be done the right way, the appropriate way.” That was one of the lessons she taught her children. Another was “to appreciate beauty in nature; to be excited in anticipation of thunder and lightning. She would take me to the Philharmonic and the ballet. As a little girl I liked it, but I might have been a little edgy in my seat, but when I was an adult we’d look at each other and laugh and remember how many times we’d seen each ballet, and how we’d see something different in it each time.”

Daniel Rubin concurs. “She made my brother and sister and me play the piano and go to concerts and eat healthy food and read poetry. All of which we hated. But the seeds were planted; as adults these are things we really enjoy today because of her example.”

At the end of her life, she taught her children and the community another lesson — how to die with grace. As soon as she was diagnosed, in August, her daughter remembers, her mother said, “‘Everyone should know

that I’ve lived the most wonderful life, with the most wonderful friends and the most loving and caring family. And it’s okay. I’m ready to go. Nobody should be sad. Death is part of life. This is okay.’

“I said to her, at the very end, ‘Mom, you kind of set the bar very high,’” Weinberg said.

The Rubins belonged to many synagogues, including Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, where Daniel Rubin and his family belong, and Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly, Leslie Weinberg’s family synagogue. They used to belong to Temple Emanuel when it was in Englewood, and a few years ago Syril Rubin rejoined it in Closter.

“She really was an extraordinary lady,” said Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of Ahavath Torah. “She came to her Jewish identity through her association with Leonard, but she really embraced it so that it became absolutely natural to her. She had a love affair with Israel” — her daughter estimated that her parents had gone to Israel more than 40 times. “She had strong opinions and she did not hesitate to express them, but she wanted always to do the right thing and make others comfortable.

“When someone is ill, that strips away all superficialities. When I went to visit her toward the end, she was so grateful and started talking to me about me. She insisted on getting up and walking me to the door. And there were no pretenses left by then. This was very real. It was who she was.

“She was a very good person.”Rabbi David Seth Kirshner of Emanu-El echoed

Goldin. “She was a gem of a human being,” he said. “She was very regal, but she was also very approachable. Very warm, and also very demanding of herself. She was incredibly positive and loving, so even as she got sick I would go to her home and she would thank me and hug me and kiss me and ask me about my children.

“It was in her DNA.”Charles Berkowitz, the president of the Jewish Home,

agrees. He’d known both Rubins since 1964, when he did his fieldwork for his social work degree at the JCC. “They were a very special couple,” he said.

The Jewish Standard’s publisher, James Janoff, also remembers Syril Rubin with great fondness. He had known both Syril and Lenny Rubin for most of his life. “During our last conversation — and we had many — Syril reminded me of the uniqueness of our community and how important it was for it to remain vibrant for future generations,” he said. “She said the Standard had

a shared obligation in chronicling the progress and I assured her we would.

“There was lots to learn from Syril Rubin. My ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ partner? Maybe, but I came away from each phone call with a renewed sense of purpose. Syril knew what was important in life and there were times when I needed that reminder.

“Lenny sure picked a winner. I am forever grateful to have known them both.”

Dr. Sandra Gold, another former JCC president, told a story that she said was typical of her friend Syril. “Shortly after I met her, she called me to ask me to come to a meeting. I told her that I couldn’t, because I was having a meeting at my house and I needed to bake a cake. Within three hours a cake that she had baked for me was at my house. And I’d known her maybe three weeks.

“This was typical of her; reaching out to people, seeing what they needed. You didn’t have to ask her. She knew.

“If you look at the array of endowments that she and Lenny implemented throughout our community, you will see populations that need an extra hand. That’s who she chose to help — the frail elderly, people with disabilities. Those are areas that are not popular.

“She was a gute neshuma,” Gold concluded. “A good soul.”

Syril Rubin is survived by her sister, Helen Nelkin, three children and their spouses — Daniel and Eileen Rubin, Robert and Toby Rubin, and Leslie and Mark Weinberg — 12 grandchildren, and 10 great grandchildren.

In Washington Square Park in 1946, when she was a student at NYU. photoS provided by family

The Rubin family.

With grandson Avri.

“It was not just support one type of organization, it was support those who can’t help themselves; teach those who can’t help themselves so that they can.”

— Leslie Weinberg

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Mizrahi, who was born in France, owns Anderson International Foods, a small kosher cheese company she founded in 1995, and her warehouse is in an industrial area of Jersey City about a mile from the Hudson River waterfront. Although the facility isn’t in the desig-nated flood zone, it was under four feet of water soon after superstorm Sandy blew through town two weeks ago.

“The only reason why I look calm is because I’ve already had time to decom-press,” she said while standing outside what was once her office.

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Still, those piles at the front look mini-mal compared to the boxes of wasted cheese that stretch across and down the rest of the warehouse.

AIF sells cheese under three labels: Natural and Kosher, les Petites Fermieres, and Organic Kosher. The company takes shipments from producers in California, Wisconsin, and Israel, and distributes to stores across the United States as well as Mexico, Australia, and Canada. But lack-ing power for two weeks, the company has been forced to write off an entire batch of inventory.

“The cheese must be stored at a tem-perature of 33 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit to be edible,” Omer Wienrib, AIF’s vice

president of operations, said. “Once we lost electricity, there was no chance to save any of it.”

Standing inside an industrial-size refrigerator packed with some 100,000

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in Mexico. Some of the product is still cold, even though the air has the familiar stench of sweaty feet.

“Even though it’s cold out, it’s too much of a risk to be selling the cheese,” he said. “This is what people eat. We can’t mess with that.”

The cost of AIF’s devastation is signifi-cant. Mizrachi estimates the loss of her inventory alone could be as much as $2 million, with the building repairs nearly twice that figure.

Still, AIF presses on: It has received a new shipment of cheese, using sev-eral generators to power the refrigerated rooms, and their 20 employees are work-ing full time on regular salary.

“We barely missed any days,” Maimon said. “We have a makeshift office in Brigitte’s apartment living room and we are getting right back on our feet.”

“Of course, we have some coffee, tea and candy,” Mizrahi added. “Some nice Jewish hospitality to get through all this.”

For AIF, the storm could hardly have come at a worse time.

Kosherfest, the world’s largest kosher food trade show and perhaps AIF’s most important marketing event of the year, is being held Tuesday and Wednesday in New Jersey. The members of Mizrahi’s team have been working around the clock to ensure that they have everything under control and promise their table will impress.

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“We don’t really know exactly what we will get back because you never know with insurance,” Weinrib said. “But if we have to, we’ll pay for repairs and move on. This can be a fresh beginning for all of us hit by this hurricane.”

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On the morning after, Jewish Republicans advise the partyRon Kampeas

WASHINGTON – Think immigration through — again. Forget about gay marriage. And for heaven’s sake, when it comes to rape, shut up!

The Republican Party as a whole is having the morning-afters, reconsidering how it might have done better in an election that saw the party fail to win the White House and suffer modest losses in Congress, and Jewish Republicans and conservatives are coming forward with their own insights.

“There will be a lot of very frank conversations be-tween our organization and its leadership and the leader-ship within the party,” Matt Brooks, the director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, said last week in a conference call that otherwise addressed gains that Republican presi-dential candidate Mitt Romney appeared to have made among Jewish voters.

A number of Romney’s financial backers — includ-ing Fred Zeidman of Texas, Mel Sembler of Florida and Sheldon Adelson — are among the RJC’s leadership, and Brooks made clear that their voices would be heard.

“A lot of the major financial support the candidates received was from the members of this organization,” Brooks said. “There is a lot of weight behind their message on that.”

William Daroff, the Washington director of the Jewish Federations of North America and a former deputy to Brooks at the RJC, said Republican Jews would likely advise the party to moderate.

“The conventional wisdom is that the election will result in the shift of the Republican Party to the center, particularly on issues of immigration,” Daroff said. “To the extent that the party does shift, it would make Republican candidates more appealing to Jewish voters who may be inclined to vote Republican on foreign policy and home-land security issues but who have been turned off by con-servative Republicans rigidity on social issues.

Some of the leading voices counseling moderation of hard-line Republican policies have been Jewish conser-vatives. One of the first post-election posts from Jennifer Rubin, who writes the Right Turn blog for the Washington Post, said it was time to stop opposing gay marriage in the political arena.

“Republicans for national office would do well to rec-ognize reality,” Rubin said. “The American people have changed their minds on the issue and fighting this one is political flat-earthism. As with divorce, one need not favor it, but to run against it is folly, especially for national politi-cians who need to appeal to a diverse electorate.”

Charles Krauthammer, the syndicated columnist, noted sharp Democratic gains among Hispanic voters and coun-seled a change in immigration policy, making clear that the current GOP emphasis on securing the borders should be followed by amnesty for illegal immigrants already in the country.

Romney had advocated disincentives, including mak-ing it more difficult for illegal immigrants to get jobs and educations, that would push them to leave, or “self deport.”

“Many Hispanics fear that there will be nothing be-yond enforcement. So, promise amnesty right up front,” Krauthammer wrote in his Nov. 9 column. “Secure the bor-der with guaranteed legalization to follow on the day the four border-state governors affirm that illegal immigration has slowed to a trickle.”

Zeidman, the fundraiser, said Jewish Republicans had a special role in making the case for immigration reform.

“The rest of the party has to understand what we as Jews have always understood — that this is a nation of im-

migrants and to ignore them is to end up losing,” he said.A number of conservatives have lashed back against

calls for policy changes, saying that the party was missing the ideas revolution underpinning the 2010 Tea Party in-surgency that propelled Republicans to the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“There’s no point in two Democratic parties,” said Jeff Ballabon, a Republican activist from New York. “Any such victory would be pyrrhic.”

Singling out gay marriage or immigration was self-defeating, said Ballabon.

“All the postmortems focus on demographics — that’s playing the Democrat’s gem, that’s a loss right there,” he said.

Recalling the drawing power of a figure like Ronald Reagan, Ballabon said positions on hot-button issues mat-ter less than a party leader who can appeal across demo-graphic lines.

“The only chance we have is there’s another bold vision-ary who can attract people not based on divide and con-quer, but who can inspire people to core American ideals — liberty, freedom, personal responsibility,” Ballabon said.

Tevi Troy, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign, said the problem was not with policies but with how they were presented.

“There are messaging challenges,” he said. “I don’t think any of our candidates should talk about rape.”

GOP Senate candidates in Missouri and Indiana — states that otherwise went solidly for Romney — both lost their seats after making controversial marks about rape that were widely reported and derided. Their losses facili-tated a net Democratic gain in the body from 53 to 55.

Troy said the Republican Party could learn from its Jewish supporters how to frame its vision of an America of opportunity in ways that would appeal to minorities and immigrants.

“You do have a place in America to succeed,” he said. “Jews are a paradigmatic example of a minority that came to the U.S. and did very well in the American system.”

Troy said also that the party should consider gradual and not radical changes in some areas. For instance, re-versing “Obamacare,” the president’s health care reforms mandating universal coverage, was likely no longer an option.

“Repealing Obamacare is not viable right now,” said Troy, a deputy health secretary under President George W. Bush. “I still think the law needs significant reforms, and now is the time to talk about it.”

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BALTIMORE – A year since its creation, the grandly named Global Planning Table remains the great white hope of the Jewish Federations of North America, which held its annual General Assembly here this week.

Introduced a year ago, the GPT aims to reshape the way fed-erations spend money outside their local communities by making decisions on collective spending more transparent and communal. Federation officials hope this will stem the decline in overseas spending and bring more clout — and money — to federations’ collective action.

“Some say the federation system is an old model that won’t survive” because donors are more independent, Kathy Manning, the outgoing JFNA board chair, said at the GA’s opening plenary on Sunday. “I believe the secret of the Jewish community’s success is our ability to act together.”

A year on, the GPT still is in its embry-onic stages. No money has been doled out under GPT guidelines, and over the summer the professional director of the project resigned. The Jewish Federations subsequently announced that imple-mentation of the GPT, which will end the traditional arrangement by which federation overseas dollars automatically went to the Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee along a 75/25 percent split, will be delayed by a year.

“This is slower than I would like it to be, but I understand we have to get a lot of buy-in,” said Jay Sanderson, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los

Angeles. “I’m still optimistic we can get the right thing done, but something has to happen in 2013. There needs to be some tachles,” he said, using the Yiddish term for substance.

The central challenge of the Jewish federations, which together raise nearly $3 billion per year, has not changed in recent years. These clearinghouses of Jewish charity must figure out how to keep the community committed to a system of collective action in an era when American Jewry is increasingly frag-mented, less institutionally affiliated and more restrictive than ever when it comes to philanthropic spending.

Most of the time, that’s a tough sell.But then a crisis like Hurricane Sandy

comes along, and the need for a system that can harness the collective power of the community suddenly becomes readily apparent. In the space of just a few hours on the Sunday after the storm hit, the executive board of the UJA-Federation of New York made $10 million immediately available to Jewish institu-tions and people struck by the largest storm in memory to hit the northeastern United States.

“Responding to people in suffering is what we do,” Jerry Levin, president of the UJA-Federation of New York, said at the GA. “This is the federation system.”

Absent a crisis, however, muster-ing collective action faces two major obstacles: decision-making and motiva-tion. How can 156 federations, each with its own agenda and priorities, come to agreement on spending decisions? And

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Federations hope the GPT is the answer.“The Global Planning Table could be terrific if they

decided what the things are that we can do to bend the future,” Barry Shrage, president of the Boston federation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, said. “The federations are still the richest, most powerful force in American Jewish life. We can change the world if we know what we want to do.”

So far, the discussion, research, consultation, and committees connected to the GPT have resulted in the identification of four spending priorities: strengthening Israel, developing leadership and community, caring for vulnerable populations, and building Jewish identity and connections. The federations hope they’ll be able to launch one to two new initiatives next year that support those priorities.

“The potential still remains that the GPT will be able to gather enough momentum,” said Alan Hoffman, director-general of the Jewish Agency. “It’s all about the power of ideas to engage the hearts and minds of donors. This is about the future of the federation movement.”

While the GPT dominated insider buzz at last year’s GA held in Denver, this year’s assembly seemed to lack a comparable big issue.

“I feel like it’s smaller, though that may be the venue,” said Susan Holzman Wachsstock, executive director of a group called Jewish Student Connection, which seeks to enrich Jewish experiences for Jewish public school students. “I also think the content is much leaner than in previous years. The plenaries, however, were the best I’ve seen in years.”

The conference site, the sprawling Baltimore Convention Center, dwarfed the 3,000 attendees, often making it difficult to find a crowd. There were no real star headliners — unless you count Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel or Edon, the kipah-wearing singing sensation from “America’s Got Talent” — and no one from either the Obama administration or the Israeli Knesset showed up.

While attendance at other major Jewish gatherings has continued to climb year after year — AIPAC’s an-nual conference now draws a crowd of more than 10,000,

and 6,000 showed up to last year’s Reform biennial, which also featured President Obama — the GA seems stuck at about 3,000. It wasn’t even the largest Jewish gathering of the week in America. That distinction went to the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, which drew more than 4,000 supporters and Chabad outreach emissaries to New York.

“There needs to be more of a reason to get people here,” L.A.’s Sanderson said. “It’s not just about who speaks. Everything here is frontal, but the Jewish world is not frontal anymore. This is not an engaging setup. Maybe it doesn’t have to be every year. Maybe it should be every other year.”

For many, the confab is not so much a pep rally as an opportunity for networking. Representatives of American Jewish and Israeli organizations hoping for federation support come to pitch their programs and meet federation leaders. Federation executives come to meet with their colleagues. More than 300 college stu-dents and 100 high schoolers were brought to this year’s conference.

Stephen Hoffman, a former president of the fed-eration umbrella organization and now president of the Cleveland Jewish federation, said the GA is “not a place to convert the unwashed — people who aren’t involved in federation.” Rather, he said, “It’s a place to reinforce the values and motivation of people who are engaged in the leadership ranks.”

But Sanderson says GAs need to be attractive to more than just core professionals and lay leaders.

“We need a lot more home runs,” he said. “This is a walk at best.”

One moment of excitement that belied that analysis, many participants said, came in the closing assembly, when Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism and the GA’s official scholar in residence, delivered a call to stand up for religious pluralism in Israel.

“So long as Israel remains the only democracy that legally discriminates against the majority of Jews who are in the non-Orthodox streams, the Zionist dream of the ingathering of the exiles in a Jewish state for all Jews can-not be fully realized,” Jacobs said in a speech punctuated by rousing applause. “It is time to end this discrimination once and for all.”

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WASHINGTON – The arguments for and against the latest Palestinian bid for statehood status at the United Nations come down to which is the faster path to irrelevancy.

The Palestine Liberation Organization is seeking a diplomatic victory to preserve the legitimacy of its af-filiated Palestinian Authority in the face of a fiscal crisis and a resurgent Hamas. But any success at the United Nations is likely to trigger punitive measures by Israel and the United States that could exacerbate the PLO’s isolation.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “is at wit’s end,” said Nathan Brown, a political science and international affairs professor at George Washington University in Washington whose expertise is the Palestinians. “This is being driven by the absence of any viable alternative.”

The Palestinian Authority is hitting a dead end in set-ting up statehood infrastructure, Brown said.

“Building from the ground up has run its course,” he said. “This seems one of the few places he can still act.”

But the Palestinians’ strategy is not without its draw-backs. The move is opposed by both the United States and Israel, where officials have warned of punitive measures should the Palestinians go ahead with the application.

Yuval Steinitz, the Israeli finance minister, has said he will stop transferring tax revenues to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority if the U.N. bid succeeds, while American lawmakers say it could jeopardize the millions in annual American aid to the Palestinian Authority. President Obama reiterated American op-position to the move in a call with Abbas on Sunday, the first since his re-election.

“This could be calamitous for the Palestinians them-selves,” said Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to Washington. “It would not get them closer to real state-hood. It would create unrealistic expectations on the ground and it would call into question a number of agreements Israel has with the Palestinian Authority and not with the state of Palestine.”

Maen Areikat, the PLO envoy to Washington, said achieving statehood status would actually help preserve the two-state solution.

“In the face of the continued Israeli settlement activi-ties and the confiscation of land, the chances of estab-lishing a Palestinian state next to Israel are fading and the international community is not doing anything to hold Israel accountable, especially the United States,” Areikat said.

The Palestinians have been down this road once be-fore, but the current bid is more modest than last year’s quest for full inclusion as a U.N. member state, which is subject to full Security Council approval. A draft now circulating grants the PLO non-member state observer status, defining Palestine as a state within the 1967 lines but not granting it full inclusion. The resolution needs only to be adopted by the larger General Assembly, where the Palestinians are believed to have a majority in their favor.

On Monday, Abbas said he would submit the bid on Nov. 29 — the 65th anniversary of the 1947 U.N. vote calling for two states, one Jewish and one Arab, in Palestine. Israel accepted the plan while the Palestinians and other Arabs rejected it, launching a war against the nascent Jewish state.

Areikat says that recognition would provide Palestinians the basis with which to return to talks, which they abandoned two years after Israel refused to freeze settlement building. Israeli Prime Minister

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“We have an Israeli prime minister who for the last four years has been fo-cused on Iran and not dealing with the Palestinians,” he said. “The aim is not to delegitimize Israel and end cooperation. On the contrary, after we get recognition within the 1967 borders, we are willing to engage the Israelis.”

Jewish groups active at the United Nations expect that a majority in favor of the Palestinians is practically guaran-teed, but they have been seeking to blunt the effect of a statehood vote by lobbying European and Latin American nations to vote against it or abstain.

“It will send a message that the Palestinians do not enjoy a broader support much beyond Arab states and Muslim nations,” said Ken Bandler, the American Jewish Committee’s

spokesman.If the U.N. gambit is successful, it like-

ly would lead to a freeze on some of the U.S. funds designated for the Palestinian Authority, which now receives more than $500 million in American assis-tance each year, suggested Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), the senior Democrat on the foreign operations subcommit-tee of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.

“The Palestinian Authority’s ability to provide basic services is important to the goal of a Palestinian state living side by side with a state of Israel,” Lowey said. “But there’s no doubt there will be conse-quences going forward.”

It would be especially difficult to make the case for such aid in the face of intensified rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on Israel in recent days, Lowey said.

“It is important to recognize that

any discussion about the Palestinian Authority gaining observer status within the U.N. General Assembly is taking place within the context of over 100 rockets hitting Israel in the last three days,” she said. “The leaders have shown they’re unable to stop terrorist attacks from Gaza.”

The threat from Gaza, ruled by the Hamas terrorist group, is pre-cisely why cutting off the Palestinian Authority would be counterproductive, said Hussein Ibish, a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, a group that has not endorsed the U.N. bids but opposes punitive measures.

“The West and Israel have to rec-ognize that if their primary reaction is to take away more money from the Palestinians and make them suffer more, the direct beneficiaries will be a rising Hamas,” Ibish said.

Lara Friedman, the director of policy and government relations for Americans for Peace Now, said that non-member observer status, unlike full membership, would not trigger laws mandating a cut-off in U.S. funds to the Palestinians or the United Nations. The question, she said, is whether Congress or the president will take steps to impose such consequences regardless.

“Congress could, of course, seek to change the law,” she said. “Likewise, the Obama administration could act on its own to exact retribution.

“However, with the 2012 elections behind it, the Obama administration has far more room to maneuver than it did in 2011, and will no doubt be aware that its reaction to this Palestinian effort will be widely interpreted as a signal of its policy direction for the coming four years.”

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Canadian lawmaker Cotler calls for recognition of Jewish refugeesTORONTO – Canadian lawmaker Irwin Cotler proposed a motion in Parliament calling for government recognition of some 850,000 Jews forcibly displaced from Arab lands since Israel’s creation in 1948.

In his Nov. 8 motion, Cotler, a former Canadian justice minister, noted that by rejecting the U.N.’s Partition Resolution of 1947-1948, Arab states “launched their double aggression of a war against the nascent Jewish state and assaults on their own Jewish nationals, resulting in two refugee populations, Palestinian refugees and Jewish refugees from Arab countries.”

The time has come, said Cotler, “to restore the pain and plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries to the inter-national peace and justice narrative from which it has been eclipsed these past 60 years.”

The motion calls on Canada to rec-ognize that since 1948, there have been more than 170 U.N. resolutions on Palestinian refugees, “yet not one resolu-tion that makes any reference to, nor is

there any expression of concern for, the plight of the 850,000 Jews displaced from Arab countries.”

It also asks that the annual Nov. 29 commemoration by the United Nations of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People “should be transformed into an International Day of Solidarity for a Two-People, Two-State Solution — as the initial 1947 Partition Resolution intended.”

Cotler, of the Liberal Party, wants Ottawa to recognize “that any compre-hensive Middle East peace agreement must address and resolve all outstanding issues relating to the legitimate rights of all refugees, including Jews, Christians and other populations, displaced from countries in the Middle East.”

He expressed hope that the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold hearings on the matter similar to ones in the U.S. Congress, the Italian parliament and the British Parliament, before which Cotler testified as an expert witness.

Wiesel, Sharansky address JFNA General AssemblyElie Wiesel and Natan Sharansky reflected on the 1987 March on Washington for Soviet Jewry during a special plenary ses-sion of the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly.

The discussion Monday in Baltimore featuring Wiesel, a Nobel laureate, and Sharansky, a Soviet refusenik who planned the historic march that helped free Soviet Jewry, was moderated by Laura Bialis, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of the Foundation for Documentary Projects. Sharansky is now the chairman of the executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel.

During the GA, which ended Tuesday, the first-ever report on inclusion of les-bians, gays, bisexuals and transgender within Jewish organizations in North America was released during a special reception.

Michael Siegal of Cleveland was in-stalled as the new board chair of JFNA.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the conference in a taped message.

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, served as scholar in residence for the gathering.

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Jewish pot activist Mason Tvert hits new high with marijuana legalization vote in ColoradoBen Harris

Say what you will about Mason Tvert, the Jewish activist behind the marijuana legalization cam-

paign that passed in Colorado, the man clearly has a sense of humor.

Some years ago, in his efforts to per-suade the public that marijuana is far less a health menace than alcohol, Tvert famously challenged both the mayor of Denver and the heir to the Coors brew-ing fortune to a sort of intoxication duel: Tvert would smoke pot while the others drank, and they would see who dropped dead first.

Neither man took up Tvert on his offer.But after on Nov. 6, when Colorado vot-

ers adopted a newly permissive approach to marijuana following a campaign for which the 30-year-old was the public face and a leading strategist, Tvert’s tomfool-ery is no longer just a laughing matter. The measure, and a similar one adopted last week in Washington state, is a water-shed, permitting residents over 21 to pos-sess up to an ounce of marijuana and to grow up to six plants for recreational use.

Though somewhat overlooked amid the cacophony of a hard-fought presiden-tial campaign, the new laws in Colorado and Washington are unprecedented.

Colorado’s Amendment 64: The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012 is more liberal than even the Netherlands’ famously permissive drug laws, which still consider pot possession a misdemeanor. The new law goes well beyond the medical marijuana provisions now on the books in 18 states that permit use of the drug with a doctor’s permis-sion, and directly challenges federal authority, which still considers cannabis

a Schedule I controlled substance along with heroin and LSD.

“We have forced a major international, let alone national, discussion on this is-sue,” Tvert, the executive director of Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, or SAFER, said. “And I truly believe the more people talk about this issue amongst each other, the quicker we’re going to see broader change in how our country and our state and our world treats marijuana.”

Tvert grew up in a Jewish fam-ily in Scottsdale, Ariz., and went to the University of Richmond. His conscious-ness around marijuana reform was gal-vanized in college, when, for reasons he claims not to know, he was subpoenaed in a multijurisdictional investigation into marijuana use.

“It was really just a shakedown, more or less,” Tvert said. “They start with col-lege kids who probably have a lot to lose. They work their way up from there.”

Tvert likes to compare that to an earlier incident in which, taken unconscious to the hospital to have his stomach pumped after excessive alcohol consumption, he was later released without any question-ing from the police, despite being under age. The discrepancy informs one of the pro-legalization campaign’s most fre-quent talking points: They say marijuana is far less dangerous than alcohol, which itself was once the target of a costly and failed effort at prohibition, and should be regulated as such.

Critics counter that marijuana is a dangerous and addictive drug whose le-galization would legitimate its use by the young and lead to a range of social ills.

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After graduation, Tvert moved to Colorado and co-founded SAFER, a small group that raised just $132,000 in 2010 and shares office space with Colorado’s Jewish newspaper, the Intermountain Jewish News. He was in-strumental in two earlier legalization efforts in Colorado: the 2005 adoption of the Denver Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative, which permitted the posses-sion of marijuana in Denver, and a 2007 measure that required officials to make marijuana offenses the city’s “lowest law enforcement priority.” State law remained unchanged, however, and thousands of Coloradans still were being arrested each year for possession of marijuana.

Tvert persevered, developing a reputation as some-one with a knack for media stunts.

In 2008, after a rash of alcohol-related disturbances at Denver’s airport, Tvert called a news conference to urge authorities to allow marijuana in the airport’s smoking lounge to cut down on traveler stress. Two years earlier

he had a billboard erected near a speech by the visiting White House drug czar, John Walters, that quoted Walters saying that marijuana is the safest drug around. Tvert has called the state’s governor — an owner of a popu-lar Denver brew pub — a “drug dealer” whose product just happened to be legal. In another Tvert billboard, a woman in a marijuana-colored bikini appeared above the caption “Marijuana: No hangovers, no violence, no carbs!”

“He is just almost a media force of nature,” said Steve Fox, the president of SAFER and the director of govern-ment relations for the Marijuana Policy Project, which provided about 90 percent of the funds for the $2.2 mil-lion Colorado campaign.

“He’s just been brilliant in terms of being on message at all times, developing relationships with the media so they trust him and are willing to come out when he’s do-ing some sort of event. And just the body of communica-tions skills were just excellent for this. That’s really where he’s excelled.”

As the campaign moved to the state level, advocates

buttoned up their image somewhat, attracting some high-profile support in the process. Former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo, who is best known for his staunch opposition to immigration, endorsed the initia-tive. Actress Susan Sarandon recorded a robocall target-ing Colorado voters. Singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge did a radio spot.

The group also upgraded its message from one that emphasizes marijuana as a safer alternative to alcohol to one that emphasizes the potential tax revenues of regu-lated marijuana, misplaced law enforcement priorities and overcrowded prisons. Amendment 64 specifically requires the first $40 million in marijuana tax revenues be used to support capital funding for Colorado schools and, unlike a similar but failed attempt in 2010 in California, requires the state to design a tight regulatory regime.

The legalization campaign in Colorado no doubt ben-efited from a sea change in American attitudes toward the drug. A 1969 Gallup poll found that 84 percent of Americans opposed legalization; by last year the num-ber was down to 46 percent, with 50 percent favoring legalization.

It’s unclear exactly what happens next for Tvert and the wider marijuana legalization campaign. Washington could justify a crackdown under the doctrine of federal supremacy, but it’s still unclear how the administration will react to the new laws in Colorado and Washington. After years of looking the other way at the budding medical marijuana industry in California, the Justice Department last year cracked down on pot shops in the state.

But it may not have the same incentive to repeat that in Colorado, marijuana activists say.

“There’s no need for a knee-jerk federal response,” said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance in New York and one of the country’s top marijuana activists. “There is ample time for rational dis-cussion of how state regulatory authorities will accom-modate federal concerns.”

Besides, Nadelmann added, “Colorado is an impor-tant swing state. Why make enemies unnecessarily?”

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Suspected synagogue vandal arrested near ParisFrench police reportedly arrested a 21-year-old man suspected of scrawling “death to Jews” on a synagogue near Paris.

The man is suspected of writing the message with a black marker on Nov. 7 or Nov. 8 on the entrance to the synagogue of Pantin in Seine-Saint-Denis near Paris, ac-cording to the municipality.

The radio network Europe1 reported that the man was arrested in the Paris suburb on Nov. 9 and was re-manded. The 11-inch graffiti was discovered early on the previous day when a group of “young men wearing hoods” was seen near the synagogue, according to the radio station’s report.

In a separate incident from Nov. 4, seven unidentified people attacked an Orthodox Jewish man in Sacrelles near the French capital. They pelted the 55-year-old man with eggs as he was making his way to his synagogue, ac-cording to the French daily Le Parisien, then hit him on his legs after he turned around and walked away from them.

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Arizona Jewish woman shot by Loughner responds to gunman’s sentenceSheila WilenSky

A fter 22 months, Suzi Hileman of Tucson, Ariz., finally got to step into a courtroom and con-front Jared Lee Loughner, the gunman who

killed six people and wounded her and 12 others who had come to meet with U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at a Tucson Safeway on Jan. 8, 2011.

“I have wanted to speak to him since it happened,” Hileman said. “It had nothing to do with him. It had more to do with me. I’m not used to being passive. I’ve been on the receiving end of bullets, of surgeries, of such sadness because of him.”

On Nov. 8, the 24-year-old Loughner was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences and 140 years by U.S. District Judge Larry Burns in the Special Proceedings Courtroom in Tucson’s federal courthouse. His guilty plea enables the convicted killer to avoid a federal death sentence.

State prosecutors said they would not file separate charges, “largely to spare the victims continued pain, and given that Loughner will never see freedom again,” ac-cording to the Arizona Daily Star.

The sentence marked the end of a nearly two-year saga in which Loughner, who has schizophrenia, was forcibly medicated at a Missouri federal prison medi-cal facility so he could be competent to understand the charges against him.

“He’s a seriously ill young man and he has been for a long time,” said Hileman, a retired social worker who is Jewish. “It’s heartbreaking to me that a kid who’s younger than my children will spend the rest of his life in a box. But he armed himself with a weapon and pulled the trig-ger. He shot me three times. He killed a 9-year-old girl. He put a bullet in Gabby’s brain. He has to pay for that.”

Before the Nov. 8 hearing, Giffords entered the waiting room with her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly.

“Gabby looked at me — with her eyes sparkling and her smile radiant — and pumped her fist, saying, ‘Strong, strong,’” Hileman recalled. “‘If she can do this, I can,’ I thought to myself.”

At the hearing, Hileman stood at a podium with her husband, Bill, by her side, turned to Loughner, and read her statement.

“You turned a civics lesson into a nightmare,” she said. “That Saturday morning was filled with sunshine and smiles and excitement. We were gathered to participate in the process. We had made time in our lives to tell your congresswoman how government could better work for you.

“For you, you were part of society then. Your congress-woman. For whom you could have voted — or not. For whom you could have campaigned — or not. It was an opportunity to witness democracy in action. We brought

our wives, our husbands, our children, our friends’ chil-dren. You brought a gun.”

At the hearing, Hileman said, there were things “I needed to get off my chest. I think my words hung there between us. He has agreed to take medication. Now he’s a heavily medicated young man who’s seriously ill. It’s so sad that it took such violence for him to get treatment.”

The general consensus among victims who spoke at the hearing, she said, is that “we’re comfortable with the resolution” bypassing the death penalty. Even Hileman’s

90-year-old mother, Esther Annis, told her, “Don’t let him bring you down to his level.”

Following the sentencing, “All I care about is he can’t hurt me or anybody else. I had a plan and he hijacked my agenda,” Hileman said. “He’s occupied enough space in my soul.

“There’s no appeal for seven consecutive life sentences. This is done, ‘fartik,’” she said, using the Yiddish word for “finished.”

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WASHINGTON — At the behest of leading U.S. Jewish groups, Congress is set to free Russia from the Jackson-Vanik restrictions, the Soviet-era law aimed at exerting pressure on Russia to loosen its emigration restrictions.

But that doesn’t mean the Putin administration is off the hook for human rights abuses. Jewish groups are championing a new measure that imposes sanctions on Russians suspected of involvement with extrajudicial killings and torture.

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote Friday to graduate Russia from the 1974 law named for the late Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Rep. Charlie Vanik (D-Ohio), which conditioned trade on freedom of emigration. The bill also includes new provisions that restrict travel and freeze the assets of Russians suspected of human rights abuses.

A letter to Congress in June from eight Jewish groups was seen as key to advancing the legislation, which is likely to be considered by the Senate after Thanksgiving. The bill has bipartisan support and is expected to pass and be signed by President Obama.

“Our argument was and is that the amendment was intended to gain the freedom of Soviet Jews and it’s accomplished that 10 times over,” said Mark Levin, the executive director of NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia, which originally lobbied for Jackson-Vanik and has led the Jewish organizational push for its removal.

“Yes, it became a broad human rights symbol, but it was passed to get Soviet Jews out. It succeeded, and now we should find out new ways to deal with new problems,” he said.

The timing of the new law is awkward as repressions under President Vladimir Putin’s leadership reportedly have intensified in recent years. Concerns that Putin not be given a free ride led congressional lawmakers to incorporate sanctions into the bill named for Sergei Magnitsky, a whistleblower who was imprisoned after exposing massive fraud by government officials in 2008.

He died in custody in 2009.The Magnitsky piece has irked Russian authorities,

with the government-run Voice of Russia on Tuesday calling the sanctions “superfluous” and predicting they may invite retaliatory measures.

Levin said that Jewish organizations in Russia oppose including the Magnitsky sanctions in the proposed legislation. U.S. Jewish groups support their inclusion as a way to make Russia accountable for human rights abuses.

“By graduating Russia, we demonstrate to the Russians we can recognize progress when it occurs,” Levin said. “Recognizing that progress doesn’t alleviate our concerns about other issues.”

Signing the June letter in addition to NCSJ (formerly known as the National Council on Soviet Jewry) were the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; the Anti-Defamation League; the American Jewish Committee; the Anti-Defamation League; the Jewish Federations of North America; B’nai B’rith International; the Jewish Council for Public Affairs; and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

“Our support for Russia’s graduation from Jackson-Vanik does not vitiate our continuing concern with the progress of human rights in Russia,” their letter said. “We believe that the United States has the appropriate means to deal with these concerns.”

The ADL’s national director, Abraham Foxman, said leaving Jackson-Vanik in place would redound on the Jews.

“I’m not saying there shouldn’t be efforts for human rights, but don’t use this vehicle because it will forever be tied to Jewish advocacy,” he said.

The main force to graduate Russia from Jackson-Vanik has been the business community. Levin said he has worked closely with the Coalition for U.S.-Russia Trade. Removing Russia from Jackson-Vanik became urgent in August, when the country was accepted into the World Trade Organization, enabling it to take legal steps to

retaliate against the United States for trade restrictions mandated by Jackson-Vanik.

“The key legal issue here is that Russia has joined WTO, and if we do not repeal Jackson-Vanik, then U.S. businesses are vulnerable to retaliation,” said Leon Aron, the director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

The Obama administration has long argued for graduating Russia out of Jackson-Vanik, part of its bid to “reset” relations with the country and cajole it into cooperation, for instance in isolating Iran. On Wednesday, the office of Management and Budget said it “strongly supported” the proposed legislation while adding that it “intends to continue working with the Congress to support those seeking a free and democratic future for Russia.”

Jackson-Vanik, though tailored to facilitate the emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union, was written in such broad strokes that it was eventually applied to other countries. Among those still subject to its restrictions are North Korea and Cuba. China and Vietnam also have been its targets in the past.

The Magnitsky sanctions in the House version of the proposed bill are narrowly tailored to target Russian abuses. The Senate version is broader and would apply the same sanctions to abusers in other countries.

A broader application would be welcome, said Ilan Berman, the vice president of the conservative American Foreign Policy Council.

“The Senate version talks about individuals, but it also is a jumping-off spot,” he said. “It’s a tool box that you can use in other situations.”

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‘Robust’ EU sanctions no match for Tehran’s tricks, experts sayCnaan Liphshiz

BRUSSELS – With embargoes on Iranian gas and oil firm-ly in place, the European Union seems determined to tighten a net of sanctions around Iran, as even longtime critics of Europe’s trade relations with Iran acknowledge.

In a second round of sanctions this year, the European Union announced that it was prohibiting some transac-tions between European companies and Iranian banks and limit areas of trade “in order to choke off revenue that Iran is using for its nuclear program,” as British Foreign Secretary William Hague put it last month.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry called the EU’s new pack-age, which slapped a fresh embargo on gas to comple-ment July’s oil embargo, “an important step” and “strong message.”

Still, critics say that the EU’s net has large holes that al-low Iran to penetrate Europe through Turkey, China and even Lebanon-based Hezbollah, among other entities. Only blanket sanctions, they say, will prevent Iran from using money from Europe to fuel its nuclear program.

In the EU process, companies suspected of being Iranian fronts can be blacklisted only after review and based on hard evidence. Obtaining such evidence re-quires much time and effort by intelligence agencies.

“By the time one such company is blacklisted, the

Iranians have set up 10 new ones,” said Emanuele Ottolenghi of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington.

Ottolenghi says that only an American-style trade embargo on Iran can allow the EU to catch up with Iran’s speedy turnarounds. The United States has had a near ban on trade with Iran since the 1980s — its trade volume of less than $200 million with the Islamic Republic con-sists largely of grain exports. By contrast, the EU’s volume of trade with Iran was $15 billion in 2011, which marks a 60 percent decline from 2005.

The latest EU sanctions proscribe all import of pet-rochemical products from Iran; export and import of weapons; nuclear and telecommunications equipment; investment in Iran’s oil industry; and trade in gold with Iran, among other measures.

Certain assets of Iran’s central bank have been seized, but transactions “related to foodstuffs, health care, medi-cal equipment, agricultural or humanitarian purposes, personal remittances and a specific trade contract” are permitted. In total, the EU has blacklisted 471 Iranian entities.

Ottolenghi, the Italian-born former director of the American Jewish Committee’s Transatlantic Institute in

Brussels, says that European companies are abiding by the EU sanctions. He expects a third round of European sanctions to be announced in the coming months.

But the Iranian workarounds to the European sanc-tions are numerous and ingenious, Ottolenghi says, not-ing a relatively simple Iranian trick: trading with Europe through Turkey, a preferred trade partner of the EU and a country that Iranians may enter without a travel visa.

As Iran’s trade with the EU plummets, its trade with Turkey is reaching record levels: $17.52 billion in the first eight months of 2012 compared to $15 billion in 2011. It stood at a mere $1 billion in 2000, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute. Iran is now Turkey’s third-largest trade partner and main country for exports.

Part of the exports may be proscribed European goods that Iran is buying from Europe through Turkish front companies that are set up and run by Iranians with Turkish nationality on behalf of the Iranian government, Ottolenghi says.

In response to EU sanctions, he says, Iran is trans-ferring business to companies in Ukraine, Taiwan and Japan, among other countries.

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“If the U.S. and the EU are serious about sanctions, they need to squeeze these countries about ties with Iran,” he said.

Just as European sanctions may be encouraging Turkey-Iran trade relations, they also may drive Iran increasingly to rely on Hezbollah for money laundering and purchases. Hezbollah is not blacklisted anywhere in Europe except in the Netherlands.

“By sanctioning Iran and not Hezbollah, the European Union is virtually inviting Iran to do business through hundreds if not thousands of Hezbollah-affiliated agents all over the continent,” said Wim Kortenoeven, a former Dutch lawmaker and ex-Middle East researcher for the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel in The Hague.

Claude Moniquet, a former researcher for France’s for-eign intelligence service and co-founder of the Brussels-based European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center, said that Hezbollah has a “very large money-laundering operation in Europe,” but added that he does not know whether Hezbollah had the capacity to handle any extra business for the Iranians in Europe.

France reportedly is resisting calls to blacklist Hezbollah in order to preserve relations with its former colony, Lebanon. Hezbollah is a powerful player in Lebanese politics.

Selective sanctions against Iran are doomed to fail, said Moniquet, “because Iran is completely opaque and there’s no way of knowing where the money goes once it

reaches Iran.”Iran’s bilateral trade with China, meanwhile, stands

at $45 billion, according to the Iran-China Chamber of Commerce. Neutral Switzerland, which is resisting U.S. and EU pressure to comply with sanctions, is exporting about $330 million’s worth of machinery and pharma-ceuticals per year to Iran.

Like many other countries, Turkey, China and Switzerland adhere - publicly, at least - to U.N. Security Council resolutions on Iran, but those target only Iranian entities directly involved in nuclear proliferation and hu-man rights violations.

Nikzad Rahbar, an Iranian government spokes-

man, called European sanctions “a mere propaganda campaign.”

Considering Iran’s booming trade in Asia and else-where, the link between sanctions and Iran’s spiraling inflation and rising food prices may not be as straight-forward as presented by international media coverage, some argue.

“There is no way to break down how much of it is caused by sanctions and how much is the effect of eco-nomical incompetence, corruption and grafting that is so intrinsically a part of the Iranian economical system,” Ottolenghi said.

Kortenoeven says that with Iran’s decades of experi-ence of getting by as a pariah nation, its economy cannot be neutralized by European sanctions. Though sanctions may be compounding the troubles, the economic woes in Iran ultimately are “connected to many internal is-sues,” he said.

Moniquet cites poor management and a centralist, government-controlled market that discourages growth as the root of Iran’s recent financial woes.

“The sanctions are only making it harder for Iran to transcend its internal problems, but not to the point of collapse,” he said.

Simone Dinah Hartmann of the Vienna-based European coalition Stop the Bomb says the current sanc-tions make it more difficult for the Iranian regime to ob-tain nuclear weapons.

But, she said, “The goal should be making it impos-sible for them. We are clearly not there yet.”

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JERUSALEM – Wearing long, colorful robes and tradi-tional rounded hats, a group of men stood in reverent silence as one of their leaders placed a memorial wreath at Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust museum.

The group was a delegation of 19 Muslim leaders from France. They were in Israel to learn more about the Jews and their state. After a series of attacks against French Jews this year, many perpetrated by Muslims, the imams hope to improve the French Muslim com-munity’s relationship with its Jewish neighbors.

Delegation leader Hassen Chalgoumi, imam of the Drancy Mosque near Paris, said the trip reinforced the importance of combating Islamic fundamentalism and Holocaust denial.

“Life is more important than holy books,” Chalgoumi said in a speech outside of Yad Vashem. “We say in the name of love, of life, not to hide what happened” in the Holocaust.

Relations between the Jewish community in France, Europe’s largest, and France’s more than 4 million Muslims have long been fraught. The regular occur-rence of anti-Semitic acts in France, including the horrific slaying in March of a rabbi and three children outside a Jewish day school in Toulouse, have signifi-cantly heightened the tension and mutual suspicion. Other incidents of anti-Semitic violence have followed, including a bomb exploding in a Jewish grocery store.

Chalgoumi conceived of the trip after coming to Israel in June for the French Embassy’s Religion and Democracy Forum. Inspired by that visit, he wanted his colleagues to see the country, even as it generated con-troversy in his own community.

“They are very criticized by Muslims in France because they decided to come to Israel,” said Olivier Rubenstein, who organized the trip for the French Embassy. “To France, it’s very important to have mutual respect between the communities. French Islam is not the terrorist way.”

The trip, from Sunday to Friday, had one of its most significant moments on Tuesday morning when the delegates visited the graves of the four victims of the Toulouse shooting.

“The majority of Muslims want peace,” said Nourdine Mlanao, president of France’s National Council of Republican Diversity. He said the gunman, Mohammed Merah, is “not a Muslim.”

In the coming days, the trip will take the delegates to Israel’s Foreign Ministry, the Jerusalem Municipality, and to meetings with Israeli businesspeople and re-ligious leaders. The group also went to Ramallah on Tuesday and met with France’s consul in Jerusalem. Chalghoumi and Mlanao both said they hope to see Israeli-Palestinian peace.

While it was unclear what impact the leaders would

have on France’s nearly 5 million Muslims, Mlanao plans to speak in public forums about the trip, and wants to arrange dialogue groups between French Muslims and Jews. He added, however, that “the gov-ernment must take responsibility” for preventing anti-Semitic attacks.

Olivier also commended government efforts and said that in order to address the root of Muslim-Jewish tensions, leaders should organize “more of this kind of event for understanding the other.”

“It’s very important to know the other, not to be stuck in our ideological positions,” he said. “These imams are the leaders of a lot of Muslims in France. They’ll deliver in France a message of peace and understanding.”

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French ‘bulldog’ politician Karsenty doubles down on al-Dura video fightCnaan Liphshiz

PARIS – To his allies, he’s a bulldog. Enemies call him a conspiracist and a genocide denier.

Both sides, however, agree on one thing: You could find a more pleasant ad-versary than French-Jewish politician and activist Phillipe Karsenty.

It’s an impression easily reached in even a short conversation with Karsenty, the 46-year-old known in France for his 12-year battle to prove that a Palestinian boy, Mohammed al-Dura, was not shot and killed by Israeli soldiers, as appears to be the case in a now-famous video first broadcast by a French television station.

Despite years of legal wrangling, public recriminations and high-profile setbacks, Karsenty remains unrepentant. He is ut-terly convinced of his rightness and won’t stop until everybody else knows it, too.

Karsenty entered public life after he claimed that the footage of al-Dura crouching with his father behind a barri-cade as bullets whiz overheard, broadcast by the France 2 television station in 2000, is in fact a hoax. The unsettling image of al-Dura’s death emerged as an iconic and recurrent motif of the second inti-fada, helping to galvanize public opinion against the Jewish state in the early days of the uprising, and many claim that it helped spawn terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and Jews elsewhere.

Karsenty claims the angle of the bullets hitting the wall behind the boy proves they could not have come from the Israeli side.

More than a decade into the fight, Karsenty, a stockbroker and former busi-nessman, acknowledges that the years of legal battle have taken their toll and exact-ed so high a financial cost that he refuses to reveal it fully.

Since Karsenty became involved with “l’affaire al-Dura,” his life has been trans-formed. He has launched a moderately successful political career, winning elec-tion as the deputy mayor of his prosperous Paris suburb but failing in his bid for a seat in the French parliament. He split from his party, Nicolas Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement, accusing the former French president of being soft on jihad-ism. He has run afoul of officials of the very country he has sought to exonerate and been vilified in the French media. And he has waged a protracted legal fight, filled with suits and countersuits, to pressure France 2 to release extended footage that Karsenty says will prove the common as-sumptions about al-Dura’s death are lies.

But through it all, Karsenty has re-mained undaunted, saying that he has re-cently decided to double down and devote even more time and attention to “fighting the hoax.”

“When I first saw the al-Dura footage I thought, like everyone, that Israeli troops

killed the boy, probably by accident,” Karsenty said.

Initially, Israel seemed to agree. But an Israeli investigation later found that the bullets likely came from Palestinian gunmen who exchanged fire with Israel Defense Forces soldiers on the day al-Dura was shot. That probe, along with the work of independent investigators, gradually convinced Karsenty that France 2’s footage was fake and he began saying so to French journalists.

In 2004, the France 2 reporter who first broadcast the footage, Charles Enderlin, sued Karsenty for defamation, and the two have been duking it out in court ever since. Their next court appearance is scheduled for January.

Meanwhile, rhetoric was overheating. Larry Derfner, writing in the Jerusalem Post this year, called Karsenty and Richard Landes “conspiracy freaks” acting out of “pure paranoia.” Landes is a Boston University historian who has researched the al-Dura case with Karsenty and also believes the video is fake.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Enderlin’s lawyer called Karsenty “a cross between Thierry Meyssan and Robert Faurisson,” a Sept. 11 conspira-cist and a Holocaust denier, respectively. Hundreds of French journalists signed a 2008 petition calling Karsenty’s actions “hateful,” and others have labeled him a conspiracist.

“The fact they call me, a French Jew, a genocide denier demonstrates the inten-sity of hatred that al-Dura provokes in the other side,” Karsenty said.

For his part, Karsenty was hardly keep-ing quiet. He sued two other French media outlets for defamation, one of which led to a ruling in his favor in 2010. Another rul-ing found the broadcaster Canal+ to have committed libel against Karsenty, albeit unintentionally.

His legal battle with Enderlin centers on the full 27-minute video that a France 2 cameraman, Talal abu Rahma, shot in Gaza and which the network has refused to release. In 2008, Karsenty convinced a French court of appeals to view the full footage, after which the judges cleared Karsenty of defamation charges. Al-Dura skeptics hailed the ruling as a major break-through, but the French Supreme Court overturned that ruling this year on a tech-nicality. Karsenty has appealed and will meet Enderlin in court again in January.

Karsenty also has attacked the country whose interests he was seemingly trying to serve. He has lambasted Israel publicly for its failure to press the al-Dura matter and accused some officials of trying to sabotage his efforts. Though Israeli of-ficials largely agree with Karsenty’s view on al-Dura, the government has distanced

itself from him.“Philippe is like a bulldog,” Landes said.

“He gets his teeth into something and he does not let go.”

Questions began arising about the al-Dura video in the early 2000s, but it was Karsenty who “had the stamina to fight in court in France and in the French me-dia,” Landes said. Landes acknowledges Karsenty’s occasionally “abrasive person-ality” has led to conflicts with potential allies.

In 2006, Karsenty claims that Daniel Shek, Israel’s former ambassador in Paris, refused to shake his hand at a cocktail reception and publicly called him a “con-spiracist.” Shek denies the claim and ac-cuses Karsenty of making “multitudes of mind-boggling and vile allegations and accusations” against him. Shek did not of-fer examples.

Yigal Palmor, a senior spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, declined to comment directly on the incident.

“Maybe, just maybe, badmouthing people in public is not the best way to be-friend them,” Palmor said.

Karsenty, speaking of the dispute with Shek, said “I’m sure I haven’t handled things perfectly. I’m not the perfect per-son; nobody is. I’ve made mistakes, but none to explain why Shek would make such a public act. It shocked me.”

Karsenty is not without allies, however. He has received support in the United States from the Zionist Organization of America, and Roger Cukierman, former president of the umbrella group of French Jewish communities, CRIF, said he holds Karsenty in high regard.

“I admire Philippe’s devotion and perseverance,” Cukierman said. “He has conviction that he’s in the right. People like that, who are used to standing alone for what they believe in, often have very strong personalities that sometimes lead

to clashes.”This year, Israelis again deeply disap-

pointed Karsenty when he lost his bid to enter the French National Assembly as the representative of French expatriates living in Israel and several nearby countries.

In his political career, Karsenty has demonstrated the same firebrand activism that appears to have alienated the Israelis. After leaving the UMP party last year, he accused Sarkozy of “inaction and passiv-ity” on jihadism. Karsenty then ran for the French parliament as an independent and lost, deprived of the support and resources of his former party.

With the election behind him, Karsenty intends to intensify efforts to refute the al-Dura case.

“I have more time to devote to prepar-ing for court,” said Karsenty, who also lec-tures abroad on the topic.

Karsenty speaks of the al-Dura affair as a quest for justice and truth, but the busi-nessman in him knows it has not been cost effective. Karsenty says he has spent an “obscene” amount of money — so much he will not quantify it. Though he earns some money from lectures he has deliv-ered in Europe, the United States, China, India, and Australia, he says he has still registered a huge loss.

He says he would let the matter drop were it not for the fact that so many, espe-cially Israel’s enemies, still believe al-Dura died at the hands of Jewish soldiers.

“The al-Dura myth lives on in the Arab and Muslim world,” he said. Postage stamps memorializing al-Dura have ap-peared in Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, and Jordan.

Despite the price it has paid, both in lives lost and public image, Israel refuses to endorse Karsenty’s efforts.

“He has presented his work to a num-ber of Israeli officials, including myself, but he has carried out his work by himself and has not garnered any official support,” Palmor said. “His work is his own.”

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Philippe Karsenty delivering a lecture on the al-Dura affair in France in 2011. Courtesy PhiliPPe Karsenty


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Palestinian billionaire Munib al-Masri calls for peaceBen SaleS

NABLUS, west bank – Dozens of pho-tographs line the wall of a room on the first floor of Palestinian billionaire Munib al-Masri’s west bank villa, showing a man of global influence but also of divergent impulses.

Al-Masri is seen posing with the likes of Pope John Paul II and Nelson Mandela, but also with Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser and Khaled Meshal, the Damascus-based head of Hamas. Dwarfing them all is a huge portrait of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whom al-Masri, 78, refers to as his “great friend” and a “martyr.”

The photos give some indication of the contradictions that swirl around al-Masri, the world’s richest Palestinian. A passion-ate opponent of Israeli settlement in the west bank, al-Masri claims not to be both-ered by the fact that his sprawling Italian villa on the outskirts of Nablus shares a hill with Har Bracha, whose residents are among the most hawkish of Israeli settlers. (“They know me. We’re destined to live to-gether,” he said.)

Al-Masri claims to spend hours each day working to further the cause of peace, though he declines to do business with Israelis in its pursuit. He blames only Israel for the political impasse and believes Meshal is “very sincere” about wanting peace. And while he speaks of his desire for coexistence, he accuses Israel of killing Arafat and the “Jewish lobby” of buying off Congress.

“Congress is dependent on the Jewish lobby,” al-Masri said. “Bravo for the Jewish lobby. But you must believe it is unjust. This initiative is running away from us because the government of [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is beat-ing around the bush without achieving anything.”

Al-Masri’s strategy for helping make peace is unclear. He claims to spend 12 hours a day working on it, though he is light on the specifics of how he spends those hours, saying only that he meets with and writes to Israelis and Palestinians in-terested in reaching an agreement. He has endorsed the 2002 Arab initiative first pro-posed by Saudi Arabia, but its references to the 1967 borders and a “just solution” to the Palestinian refugee issue have made it a non-starter for Israeli officials. Al-Masri has little to say about how he would square that circle.

“This is where the Palestinian state should be recognized,” he said, referring to the 1967 borders that many Israelis con-sider indefensible. “We’ve been working hard to educate the Israelis.”

Some Israeli peace activists say the ef-fect of al-Masri’s efforts is limited at best.

Gershon Baskin, founder of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information, says that al-Masri’s theories on Arafat’s death and American Jewish influence “are commonly held Palestinian views.” Even so, Baskin says, al-Masri’s work hasn’t significantly furthered the peace process.

“I’m not sure I would describe him as a peace activist,” Baskin said. “First and fore-most he’s interested in making money and advancing the private sector in Palestine. You don’t find him coming to very many peace activities.”

Though he talks peace as an adult, as a child al-Masri was intent on a more con-frontational approach to dealing with his Jewish neighbors. Growing up in Nablus, he saw Arab-Jewish skirmishes erupt into Israel’s War of Independence when he was 14. One morning he woke up to Israeli bombs exploding 30 yards away. Four years later he decided to go to Texas to become a pilot and fight the Israelis.

“When I boarded the plane I became so scared,” al-Masri said. “I said this is not for me, I belong on the ground. I’ll study geology.”

He cultivated a sense for business while in the United States, moving from one summer job in Texas to another in Chicago that paid 60 cents more per hour in 1953. On “Shabbat,” al Masri said, he patronized Chicago’s Palladium Ballroom, named for the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, whose designs inspired the build-ing. Awed by its rotunda, he vowed to have something like it for his own.

In 1956, al-Masri returned to the west bank with two degrees and a wife, Angela, who had eloped with him to New Mexico. Since then he has amassed a fortune first by working in the Jordanian and Algerian oil industries, and then by providing equipment and services to oil companies and investing in a growing Palestinian economy.

It was more than enough to realize his Chicago dream. Now al-Masri, a mop of gray hair fringing his balding head, lives in a sprawling 75-acre property crowned by a 10,000-square-foot replica of a 16th-cen-tury Italian villa designed by Palladio. The house has imported French furniture, vast murals, antique dishes and chandeliers. A huge dome tops the villa’s center, while a fountain gushes outside, leading to tiered gardens and panoramic views of the west bank, Israel, and Jordan.

Al-Masri began building the mansion in 1998, at the height of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and finished it in 2002, at the height of the second intifada.

“I wanted to have something to show the Israelis that even with high stress, Palestinians can do things,” he said.

These days, al-Masri is less involved in business. He begins his days with an hour’s walk on his treadmill, then spends his 12 hours working on his peace initia-tive, promoting Palestinian unity and his philanthropic projects, including building a university focused on agriculture and information technology.

He calls himself “a happy person by na-ture” and says he no longer has “hatred in his heart.” But though he portrays himself as the optimistic peacemaker, at times the conflict still pushes him to despair.

“I was very angry,” he said. “Now the an-

ger has gone, but sadness has come.”For a time this year, al-Masri launched a

joint effort with Israeli supermarket mogul Rami Levy to promote peace. But al-Masri ended the initiative because although Levy “wants peace in his heart,” he owns stores in Israeli settlements.

Al-Masri also adamantly rejects the

idea, touted by Netanyahu and others, that increased business ties between Israelis and Palestinians can build mutual trust and help pave the way for a political settlement.

“It’s very difficult to do business before peace,” al-Masri said. “You have to build a state.” JTA Wire Service

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The latest numbers from the World Health Organization indicate that one in 10 people has diabetes — more than 346 million people world-

wide. Diabetes means the pancreas doesn’t produce or release the hormone insulin as it should, so the body can’t metabolize sugars properly. Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.

Type 1 diabetes, or juvenile diabetes, is characterized by a lack of insulin production. Type 2 diabetes is caused by the body’s ineffective use of insulin, often resulting from excess body weight and physical inactivity.

Left untreated, either form of diabetes can lead to cardiovascular disease, blindness and kidney failure. Currently, it can be treated by injections of insulin, but there is no cure.

Despite its small size, Israel is a major player in diabetes research, with scientists searching for ways to provide bet-ter prevention, treatment, and ultimately a cure for this globally rampant disease. Here are the top 10 projects in the field.

1. Artificial pancreasPeople who have diabetes must check their blood-sugar level every few hours throughout the day and night, to determine when and how much insulin is needed to bal-

ance it. A new artificial pancreas developed at Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Tel Aviv could make this task automatic.

The first diabetes system of its kind for home use, the MD-Logic combines an off-the-shelf glucose sensor and an insulin pump, connected to a computer that programs the information and stipulates the amount of insulin that should be released. It also conveys an alert if there’s a prob-lem. So far, the software-driven device was successfully tested on children in Israel, Slovenia and Germany.

2. DiaPep 277The largest and most advanced study ever involving Type 1 diabetes patients, encompassing trials in Israel, Canada, the United States and a dozen European countries, is cen-tered around an insulin alternative developed at Israel’s Andromeda Biotech.

The synthetic peptide DiaPep277 seems to halt the progression of this form of the disease, in which a haywire immune response actually kills the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.

If the peptide successfully modulates the immune sys-tem, it could be given to patients at an early stage of the disease in order to preserve still-functioning beta cells. Final clinical results are expected in 2014.

3. Gastric stimulatorDIAMOND, made by the Israeli medical device company MetaCure, is an implantable gastric stimulator with elec-trodes attached to the outer stomach muscles. Its origi-nal purpose was to treat obesity by enhancing stomach muscle contractions for a greater feeling of fullness, and to stimulate the release of hormones influencing hunger, satiety, and the absorption and metabolism of nutrients.

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Andromeda CeO Dr. shlomo Dagan, right, with DiaPep 277 inventor Prof. irun Cohen.

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At the same time that staff of the Holy Name Medical Center ER were treating twice as many patients as normally seen, members of the Holy Name Medical Center EMS Special Operations, a founding agency member of the statewide New Jersey EMS Task Force, were deployed to Ocean County to treat patients from overwhelmed hospitals in that area devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

Holy Name Paramedic Sean Reilly was one of six members of Holy Name’s Emergency Services who set up the Logistics Unit Field Hospital and, along with statewide emergency personnel, staffed the unit used as an overflow facility for four Ocean County hospitals, for two weeks. Assigned to triage, Reilly saw more than 100 patients in 14 hours, at least 50% of whom were treated for infections of their hands, feet and eyes as a result of wading through waist-deep contaminated water inside and outside their homes. He treated people with strained backs from carrying their children, their furniture or the few possessions they could salvage from their flooded homes. He treated people with lacerations, cuts and scrapes from attempting to

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Sean and his colleagues exemplify the dedication of the first responders and other staff at Holy Name Medical Center, who came to work the morning before the storm with garment bags over their shoulders ready to stay as long as needed to care for their patients. The EMS Special Operations Unit serves residents of Bergen County everyday and remains ready to serve whenever and wherever needed throughout the State of New Jersey.

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But its developers discovered that in the hundreds of people implanted with DIAMOND worldwide, the device also ef-fectively controls blood glucose levels as well as, or better than, synthetic insulin and other diabetes medications. It also helped improve diabetes-associated con-ditions such as high blood pressure, cho-lesterol, and triglycerides.

4. Medical smartphoneLifeWatch V, the world’s first medical smartphone, is an Android-based phone with embedded sensors to analyze every-thing from blood glucose levels to body fat percentage. Blood-glucose test strips can be inserted into a portal on the phone’s stainless-steel frame, and results are au-tomatically and securely sent to a remote server for analysis by the company’s pro-prietary algorithms. Results and trend data are quickly shared with the user and/or a parent or healthcare provider via email or text message.

Now in the process of regulatory ap-provals in Israel, Europe and the United States, LifeWatch V was designed by LifeWatch Technologies to be user-friendly for anyone from children to seniors. Young diabetes patients are a core target group because the device will help parents moni-tor their children’s daily testing and treat-ment while they are at school.

5. transplanting insulin-producing cellsOne of the promising approaches in treating Type 1 diabetes is to transplant healthy insulin-producing beta cells into the pancreas. A new technique devel-oped by Ben-Gurion University Professor Smadar Cohen increases the survival and effectiveness of these transplanted cells.

Her breakthrough approach, currently being tested on diabetic mice, involves surrounding the transplanted cells with a three-dimensional latticework of nurturing blood vessels. The biologically engineered

tissue secretes growth hormones and helps cells communicate with one another.

6. Glucose-sensing enzymeResearchers at the Hebrew University and Hadassah University Medical Center of Jerusalem have identified the body’s glu-cose-sensing enzyme that prompts pro-duction of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas as blood sugars increase.

The groundbreaking multi-year study, funded with the support of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and re-ported in the journal Cell Metabolism, could lead to ways of restoring or increas-ing beta cell function in people with Type 1 diabetes.

7. Predicting risk to prevent diabetesA study involving 37,000 Israeli teenag-ers over a 17-year period found that an elevated body mass index (BMI), even in normal range, at adolescence and at adulthood are independently associated with the risk of diabetes and heart dis-ease. During the study period, 1,173 new cases of Type 2 diabetes were diagnosed among the test group.

Another Israeli study involving 677 mostly male middle-aged Israeli work-ers showed that people who suffer from job-related or other kinds of emotional “burnout” may be prone to developing Type 2 diabetes as a result of stress-caused emotional exhaustion, physical fatigue, and cognitive weariness.

A third study, involving 185,000 preg-nant women, statistically proved for the first time that the common test used to detect temporary gestational diabetes in women and their children also accurately predicts adult-onset Type 2 diabetes later in life.

The take-home message from all three of these studies is that early intervention in the form of lifestyle and diet counsel-ing could prevent many cases of Type 2 diabetes.

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Allendale Community plans Alzheimer’s fundraiserThe Allendale Community for Mature Living has announced an array of spon-sorship opportunities for individual donors, area businesses, and health-related organizations to support its 45th Anniversary Gala and Fundraiser, to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association Greater New Jersey Chapter. The mile-stone celebration, which will include a Silent Auction, is being held Wed., Dec. 12 at the senior campus.

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9. the Dead seaThe mineral-rich Dead Sea has long been known as a natural treatment for skin, rheumatic and respiratory diseases. According to a study by health sciences researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva, the salty waters also help lower blood glucose levels and could improve the medical conditions of

diabetics.The study described in Israel Medical

Association Journal last summer involved 14 people between the ages of 18 and 65 who have suffered from Type 2 diabetes for less than 20 years. After soaking in a pool filled with Dead Sea water for 20 minutes, there was a considerable decrease — up to 13 percent in some cases — in the blood glucose levels. It’s still a bit early to draw conclusions, but further testing will deter-mine if one day a Dead Sea dunk could be prescribed as a way to lessen the dose of insulin needed.

10. Citrus supplement to neutralize sugarA Hebrew University-Harvard University team is working on extracting narin-

genin, a compound from grapefruit, and using nanotechnology to make it into a product that could be sprinkled on food to change how the body processes fatty and sugary fare.

The dietary supplement could have significant implications for the drug mar-ket, particularly in relation to diabetes and obesity. Ordinarily, the absorption of the fat- and sugar-busting molecule naringenin is quite low, so to improve absorption capabilities, the researchers engineered a form of naringenin that in-cludes an extra ring of sugar attached to the molecule.

Harvard University and Yissum, the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University, are working toward commer-cializing the substance.

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Lester Senior Housing Community kept residents safe and happy during SandyBarbecues and candlelight meals. Special “charg-

ing” and warming areas. Dormitory-like sleep-ing arrangements. A full slate of movies and

speakers.And a little help from their friends.This all helped keep residents at the Lester Senior

Housing Community safe, warm, and content during Hurricane Sandy, which knocked out power from the Whippany senior living community for eight days.

“For the most part, these are people in their 80s, 90s, and beyond, which is why we needed to be prepared for worst case scenarios,” said Harold Colton-Max, Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Community Housing Corporation (JCHC) of Metropolitan New Jersey, which owns and manages Lester Senior Housing and four other senior living communities in northern New Jersey. “This was certainly an unusual situation, but under very difficult conditions it all worked out very well.”

The loss of power cost the community, which is com-prised of the Heller Independent Living Apartments and the Weston Assisted Living Residence, its heat, lights, and refrigeration. However, the building’s gen-erator enabled the elevators to work and kept the lights on in the lobby.

Most of all, the spirit of the community never wavered.

Staff set up stations for charging electrical applianc-es, and for serving coffee, tea, and hot water for instant soups on an ongoing basis. Other staff stayed overnight, attending to the needs of residents or just providing some hand-holding. While the kitchen could not be used, the food service team under Mitchell Goldberg, chef and regional director of dining for the JCHC, bar-becued throughout the ordeal. Rather than serve meals in the dining room, which had no heat or lights, candle-light dinners were prepared in the multi-purpose room.

“The residents loved this,” said Alex Gross, the ad-ministrator at Lester. “They wanted to know if we could continue to do this once the power came back on.”

Many residents stayed in the warmer lobby, enjoy-ing such diversion as the piano playing of 97-year-old Lottie Mandel or “Dynamics with Dolly” with 86-year-old Dolly Moser, as well as watching movies, play-ing games and listening to various speakers. Some residents chose to sleep at night on single beds placed in the multi-purpose room, rather than retreat to cold and dark apartments.

Volunteers from the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ sent in soup, bagels, and cream cheese, while members of congregation Oheb Shalom in South Orange cooked and delivered lunch and dessert to the Heller residents. Elizabeth and Liat Cohen, a mother and daughter team from Short Hills, heard about the community’s loss of power on Facebook and came to Lester armed with hot chocolate, cookies, tissues, toilet paper and other goods.

Some residents chose to leave Lester during this time, although virtually all have adult children and other family members who live nearby. In fact, in many cases, children and grandchildren, also without power, opted to move into Lester during the storm.

Residents remained stoic under the adverse conditions.

“You have to take what comes. Other people had it far worse. We had food and hot water. We made the best of it day by day, and they took very good care of us,” said resident Bea Freiheither. “I grew up in Long Branch, and I’ve lived through storms before, but never like this.”

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Allendale community focuses on heart health for seniorsTo help older adults recognize the importance of im-proved cardiovascular health, the Allendale Community for Mature Living has launched a heart-healthy aware-ness campaign.

The community offers older adults from the sur-rounding area an opportunity to identify potential medical risks and undiagnosed medical conditions at its annual Senior-Fit Health Fair. The senior living campus also hosts free health education and exercise programs open to the public each month.

Dr. Stephen Sherer, the senior campus medical direc-tor at the community, advocates regular check-ups with a personal physician as well as periodic blood work and blood pressure checks as part of vigilant health mainte-nance efforts.

“Although these seem quite simple, you’d be surprised by the number of people who fail to make an annual physical exam appointment and, as a result, are at risk for stroke, heart failure, heart attack, kidney failure or diabetes,” said Sherer, a board-certified cardiologist and internist, who is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. “While heart disease is the leading cause of death among people age 50 and older, it may be avoided or delayed by managing a person’s glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol.”

In addition to regular screenings, Sherer stresses the importance of exercise. “The exercise (if approved by one’s doctor) should be gradually increased to a half an hour up to four to five times a week.”

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There are thieves that prowl our American cities and lay hidden ready to pounce upon unwary prey. They are cunning, ugly and beastly; they

are unforgiving and unemotional; they are cannibalis-tic and devour all in their path. They are not satisfied to steal things or property. They steal lives; they steal families; they steal love!

These thieves are called disease and specifically they are christened Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. During our lives most of us, one way or another, will know these villains. When a common thief steals, it nor-mally will affect its immediate victim or cause a ripple to lap other shores. But when these diseases steal, they are ambitious and voracious in their appetites. Alzheimer’s steals a person’s brain; Parkinson’s steals a person’s body. Not satisfied with mundane worldly things, they seek the very soul of victims and their families.

There are other terrible diseases that wreak havoc with people’s lives and visit untimely suffering and death. Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, strokes all con-tribute to untold heartbreak. But both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s have no definitive causes or cures. These are thieves that you cannot guard against; their stealing goes unpunished.

Yet these thieves of movement and memory are also unintentional purveyors of hope, humor, and determi-nation. I have witnessed victims and their families fight to maintain their dignity and continue to evolve even with these thieves in their very mist. This is not an easy battle.

Those who suffer these afflictions endure a constant battle. Their families or significant others become the guardians of new and alternative coping methods. They become their own support groups and advocates. Their enemy is progressive and they are forced into alternat-ing dramas of anger, frustration, and ultimately, accep-tance and hope.

The end stages of these diseases are heartbreaking and I have witnessed families and support groups tread this path with heroic stoicism.

There are no answers for this most vulnerable of hu-man conditions. To witness the evaporation of a body or a mind is simply a hard road to travel. But one of my cli-ents, at a time when the enemy was making determined inroads, said, “You can steal my body; you can steal my mind; but you cannot steal my hope, my love, my re-solve. You cannot steal my place on this earth!”

She is a brave lady with a brave family. Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other thieves in our mist can be suc-cessfully met in battle. Those with the determination to live their lives in spite of these diseases are heroic in the extreme. Families and health care providers who do battle on a daily basis give the gift of hope and support. And those professionals who conduct research to defeat these diseases deserve the highest accolades.

As with all bullies, when confronted directly, they eventually wither under the spotlight of determined hope, support and unabashed courage! Someday these thieves will be punished; someday they will be vanquished; and someday they will be forced into submission. Although that day is not today, it may be tomorrow!

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Holy Name rates 5 stars for maternity care and moreHoly Name Medical Center was named a Five-Star

recipient for 2012-2013 by Healthgrades, the lead-ing provider of physician and hospital informa-

tion for consumers, for its performance in spine surgery, and in back and neck surgery (spinal fusion). This is the second consecutive year that HNMC has received praise for both spine surgery and back/neck surgery (spinal fusion). The Medical Center also received 5 Stars for its critical care of persons with respiratory failure.

The orthopedic and critical care accolades complement current Healthgrades 5-Star ratings, including those for maternity care, which Holy Name has achieved seven years in a row (2007-2012).

Performance grades are based on data from the report, “American Hospital Quality Outcomes 2013: Healthgrades Report to the Nation,” which evaluates Medicare hospital-ization records to obtain risk-adjusted mortality and com-plication rates from 2009 through 2011.

Current Healthgrades awards to Holy Name include:Orthopedic• Ranked #7 in NJ for Overall Orthopedic Services in 2013• Ranked Among the Top 10 in NJ for Overall Orthopedic

Services in 2013 (Ranked 7 in 2013)• Five-Start Recipient for Spine Surgery for 2 Years in a

Row (2012-2013)• Five-Star Recipient for Back and Neck Surgery (Spinal

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• Five-Star Recipient for Maternity Care for 7 Years in a Row (2006/2007-2012)

According to Healthgrades’ analyses, patients treated in hospitals receiving five stars have, on average, 61% lower risk of experiencing a complication while in the hospital than if they were treated by hospitals receiving one star. Healthgrades’ findings also indicate that a total of 183,534 in-hospital complications could have been avoided if all hospitals performed at the 5-star level.

Healthgrades independently measures data that hospitals submit to the federal government. No hospital can opt in or out of the analysis, and no hospital pays to be measured. Healthgrades risk adjusts for patient demographic characteristics and clinical risk factors, thereby taking into account how sick patients are upon admission.

Information about whooping coughHoly Name Medical Center invites women to discuss how the whooping cough vaccine can protect them and their children with Dr. Henry Fernandez-Cos, an expert in the field.

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Englewood Hospital rated among best in nation

A report released recently by Healthgrades, the leading pro-vider of information to help

consumers make an informed decision about a physician or hospital, recognizes Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and its neurosciences, orthopedic, gastro-intestinal, and general surgery programs as among the best in the nation. The find-ings are part of American Hospital Quality Outcomes 2013: Healthgrades Report to the Nation, which evaluates the perfor-mance of approximately 4,500 hospitals nationwide across nearly 30 of the most common conditions and procedures.

Patient outcomes are important to con-sumers making choices today about hospi-tals. According to new research conducted by Harris Interactive for Healthgrades, 86 percent of Americans in 27 top designated market areas agree they would be more likely to choose — or not choose — a hos-pital if they could learn ahead of time the mortality rates for a certain procedure.

Englewood Hospital’s notable Healthgrades recognitions include:

America’s Best 100 Hospitals• One of Healthgrades America’s 100 Best

Hospitals for Spine Surgeryin 2013

Neurosciences• Among the Top 5% in the Nation for

Neurosurgery (2012-2013)• Among the Top 10% in the Nation for

Neurosciences (2012-2013)• Among the Top 10% in the Nation for

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“Medication compliance is the center of healthcare management,” says Vaica CEO Gil Margalit.

He says that health-monitoring devices are like indica-tors and gauges on the automobile. Without knowing how often a patient is taking prescribed medication, if at all, doctors can’t rely on those devices to help determine what strategies to take.

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The SmartMed screen can be programmed to deliver customized messages to patients in need of special re-minders: “Take me after a meal” or “with water” can be especially useful for people who might be taking five, 10, or 15 pills a day. The device can also be used as a two-way communication system to alert the call center of a medical emergency.

There are other automated pill dispensers on the mar-ket, but none as straightforward to use, and as “connect-ed,” says Margalit, who notes that the user can choose to have the Vaica call center manage all the details remotely.

For its ease of use, Vaica’s platform has been chosen by McGill University in Canada to assure medical compliance in a six-center North American clinical trial on children’s kidney disease. Margalit says that the trial’s head started working with a competitor’s device and gave up as it was complicated to use and gave the young patients alerts at inappropriate times.

In one clinical study in Israel, compliance among chronic heart failure patients jumped from about 70 per-cent to more than 95 percent when SmartMed was intro-duced. Margalit is waiting to hear how this improvement contributed to the overall health outcomes of the patients.

Founded in 2007 with several million dollars in private capital, Tel Aviv-based Vaica is now seeking about $5 mil-lion to ramp up marketing and sales of its devices around the globe. The seven-person company currently has its first generation box on the market, which plugs into a phone jack for connectivity, but within the next few months it will unveil the next-generation wireless SmartMed. It will include an internal system that can automatically detect time zones and location changes for users on the go.

Later this year, the company will have another solution ready, one that works with pre-loaded blister packs from the pharmacy.

Each market in each country will be handled differently, but Margalit doesn’t envision selling to customers directly, rather to homecare provider companies, pharmacies or HMOs in the United States that have a direct interest in re-ducing healthcare costs resulting from hospital visits.

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The time to prepare for the future is TODAY.Preparing for the future is a major theme of

this week’s Torah portion as it was for last week’s portion and last week’s Haftarah. Our tradition reminds us again and again that it is the role of one generation to help secure the destiny of the following generations.

In this week’s portion, we read that “when Isaac was old and his eyes too dim to see” he realizes that it is time to reach out in order to insure that the “blessing” with which Isaac was entrusted would pass on to his deserving son. As we all know, perhaps he waited too long to be able to see clearly and was ready to pass on the blessing to the wrong son. Luckily for Jacob, and for all of us, Mother Rebekah comes to the rescue and en-sures that Jacob and not Esau is the rightful heir who is blessed to carry on the unique role of the Jewish people in world history.

Our sages remind us that it is “good practice” to keep our wishes and affairs in order and not wait until “our

eyes become dim”. We have a tradition of writing ethi-cal wills to communicate our basic beliefs and wishes. We are reminded to share this will and testament with our loved ones so there are no surprises in the end. Rather, it is recommended that there is an ongoing dialogue of our dreams and hopes for the future of our loved ones, a clear understanding of who we really are, and what we believe that we stand for.

In modern times, we are urged to complete a Jewish medical directive and a durable power of attorney. I urge you to discuss any of the above suggestions with your rabbi or any knowledgeable authority. As for our everyday life, the recent storm has brought home the importance of heeding warnings of approaching disas-ter and checking on our long-standing preparations for calamity.

It is difficult to find enough words to thank all those who came to the aid of those in need and to recognize the many deeds, large and small, that people offered

neighbors and strangers. It is impossible to offer enough words of consolation to those who lost loved ones, homes, memories and possessions and to the many of us who lived without electric power. Yet it is time to begin once again to prepare and build for the future. Decisions will have to be made as to our hier-archy of values that help us decide on how and why to invest our time, energy, and wealth, as individuals, a community, state, and region.

One thing is certain. We will all begin to modify our lifestyles; spend the time and effort to make sure that we have the proper tools to deal with problems that may come in the future, gather all our important pa-pers, and be ready when we need to respond.

For all of us — let us remember to keep a flash-light handy — not only for when the electricity is out, not only when “our eyes begin to dim”, but to always remind us that we need to focus on what is truly important.

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AJC’s Rosen receives interfaith award with top Anglican cleric, imamWASHINGTON – Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee received the interfaith award from Search for Common Ground, which promotes reconcili-ation and conflict resolution.

Rosen, the AJC’s international director of interreli-gious affairs, was one of three clergymen to receive the award with Lord George Carey of Clifton, the former archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Church; and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, which is behind the controversial initiative to commemorate the 9/11 attacks with an inter-faith center near the World Trade Center in Manhattan.

Among other honorees at the Nov. 8 event in Washington was the late Ambassador Christopher Stevens, killed Sept. 11 in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Previous recipients of the Common Ground Award include Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; Archbishop Desmond Tutu,

a leader in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa; boxer Muhammad Ali; and Sesame Workshop, the chil-dren’s programmer.

Adelson, Raisman in top 5 on Forward 50 list of influential Jewish AmericansThe Jewish Daily Forward’s annual list of the 50 most influential Jewish Americans featured Republican Party megadonor Sheldon Adelson and Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman in the top five.

Joining Adelson and the gold-medal winning Raisman in the top five of the Forward 50 were composer Philip Glass, TV star Lena Dunham and Agudath Israel of America’s executive vice president, Rabbi David Zweibel. The top five had video profiles rolled out daily beginning last week.

The full list was published online Monday. It included Jewish heavyweights in politics and the entertainment industry, but also some more unusual choices.

The most read profile, according to Forward editor Jane Eisner, was of Hindy Poupko Galena, a New York

mother who blogged about her baby daughter’s struggle against a fatal disease, prompting an outpouring of sup-port through cyberspace.

The other most popular profiles included Bessie Shemtov, founder of the Friendship Circle, which links volunteers with disabled children and has grown from a single chapter in Detroit to a nationwide move-ment; Michael Uram, the Hillel rabbi at the University of Pennsylvania who led a successful response to the first-ever campus conference advocating the contro-versial BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) move-ment against Israel; and Andy Bachman, the rabbi of a Reform congregation in Brooklyn who has led a religious revitalization.

Others featured in the Forward 50 included Open Zion website editor Peter Beinart; scientist Maria Chudnovsky; U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the majority leader in the House of Representatives; New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren; and singer Barbra Streisand.

Eisner noted with pride the increased number of women and girls featured on the list.

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One song follows another as talented cast takes the stage at Baruch Performing Arts Center.

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‘The Golden Land’The Folksbiene showcases Jewish life in AmericaMIRIAM RINN

The National Yiddish Theatre — Folksbiene’s revival of “The Golden Land” got knocked about by Hurricane Sandy, just as the turn-of-the-

twentieth-century Jewish immigrants it celebrates were tossed on the ships that brought them to the “goldeneh medineh” they were so eager to reach. The production at the Baruch Performing Arts Center had to be postponed until the college was open and safe for audiences, but the performance on Nov. 8 played to a full appreciative house. The show, which is the major production of the Folksbiene’s 98th consecutive season, runs through Dec. 2.

Zalman Mlotek, who lives in Teaneck, and Moishe Rosenfeld were commissioned to create “The Golden Land” as a special program honoring the Jewish Daily Forward on its eighty-fifth anniversary. Initially performed in 1982, “The Golden Land” went on tour and then came to off-Broadway as a full theatrical presentation. This revival keeps the book and score from the 1985 production to present a musical history of the great Jewish immigration to the United States from the 1880s through the World War II era.

The numbers may begin with a line or two of Yiddish, but the majority of the show is in English — and what isn’t is translated immediately. Even the supertitles that the Folksbiene usually deploys are not needed here.

Trolling through a wealth of Yiddish songs from the theater and popular music of the day, the attractive young cast of three men and three women sets off with “Mir Forn Kayn Amerike.” Soon enough, they reach Ellis Island and then the Lower East Side, highlighted by the lively number “Watch Your Step.” One song quickly follows another, without much variety in tone or pacing, and that robs the show of a certain emotional complexity. Before we can absorb the depth of “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor,” we rush off to “Amerike, Hurrah for Onkel Sem.” A lot of time is devoted to the growth of the labor movement — the Workmen’s Circle was the original patron, after all — and to the immigrants’ desire to Americanize themselves as quickly as possible. In this time of growing income disparity between the rich and

everyone else, these songs seem especially timely.Veterans Bob Ader and Sandy Rosenberg, Cooper

Grodin (who was so good in this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park production “Into the Woods”), Folksbiene regular Daniella Rabbani, Stacey Harris, and Andrew Keltz are all talented and appealing performers, and Grodin has an especially good voice. Their timing seemed a bit off in the performance I saw, but no doubt they will settle into the roles.

“Mayn Shtayteleh Belz,” a song that usually aches with loss, was undermined by being immediately followed by a Menashe Skulnick bit, “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dog,” and “Papirosen,” the Yiddish version of “The Little Match

Girl,” would have benefited from a bit of irony. That song is so ridiculously over the top it needs a little acidity. In general, interspersing news of the Holocaust with vaudeville numbers seemed a strange choice, but the show ends triumphantly with a declaration of the vitality of the Jewish people.

The Folksbiene’s drive to broaden its appeal to a more diverse audience seems to be working — the theater was filled with people representing a variety of ages and ethnicities. Mlotek conducts the very good live band that accompanies the show.

For more information, go to http://folksbiene.org/goldenland.html

Storm delay didn’t dim audience’s appreciation of “The Golden Land”

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‘The Law in These Parts’An Israeli filmmaker struggles with the question of the rule of law in conquered territory

ERIC A. GOLDMAN

In 2003, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’ narrative feature film, “James’ Journey to Jerusalem,” was being screened at a local film festival, and the Israeli cultural atta-

ché there led the discussion that followed. An audience member asked the attaché how he could allow such a film, which shows the plight of migrant workers in Israel, to be shown. After all, it presented a negative picture of Israel, and it showed Israelis taking advantage of these foreign workers.

The consul paused for a moment and then he said, “Israel is a democracy. We do allow for free speech and freedom of expression.” He went on to say that he was proud of the fact that this Israeli filmmaker could bring a situation so desperately in need of repair to the screen.

Now, once again, nearly a decade later, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz is pushing buttons by asking hard questions in his documentary, “Shilton Hachok,” released here as “The Law in These Parts.” The film is garnering many awards, including a grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the best documentary award at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Fully aware of the fact that documentary filmmaking can be manipulated easily, throughout the film the filmmaker alerts us to the various quandaries that he has had to tackle. Should certain people be interviewed? How should he assemble the interviews? What impact would including one person and excluding another have on the thrust of the film?

He does this to make clear that no matter how he crafts his work, the film still will have his imprimatur and surely will be influenced by his politics.

Alexandrowicz begins the film by building a set — a chair and a desk. He does that literally, with wood, a hammer, and nails. It is there that the people who are interviewed are to sit.

Behind the set, footage is screened to provide us, the viewers, with a fuller picture of events, though often the film is obstructed by the desk and chair. At first we are annoyed that we cannot watch the full picture, but the documentarian wants us to be keenly aware that a case is being presented. The military legal authorities being interviewed are the witnesses, and in a way we are left to judge.

Just what is it that Alexandrowicz wants us to know? What was the legal framework and labyrinth of laws created and enforced when Israel took control of the west bank after its victory in the Six Day War? How have those laws changed over the last 45 years? What impact does it have on the Palestinians living under Israeli administration? The real question, which is never really posed, is who is the defendant? Is it the State of Israel?

When Israel was victorious in 1967, a set of laws were put into place that carefully drew on international law and convention. The Israeli government wanted to be sure to handle its moral and judicial imperatives in an appropriate fashion. It is quite impressive to hear from some of the people who crafted these laws as they talk about the care that was taken to make sure that they were doing the right thing. Among the people interviewed in this film are some of Israel’s legal giants, like Dov Shefi, Jair Rabinovich, Jonathan Livny, and Meir Shamgar. Shamgar was Military Advocate General when Israel first took control of the west bank and later became a judge and then president of Israel’s Supreme Court. How are the laws that were created for the territories different

from the laws that govern Israel proper? Are not laws of occupation inherently different? We know that a trial in a military court cannot be the same as a trial in a civilian court. That certainly is the case in the United States and throughout the western world. Israel is no different. So what is the filmmaker looking at?

Some nine years ago, Alexandrowicz found himself in a military courtroom. He was shocked by the mechanisms that were in place to administer justice to Palestinian residents in the west bank. Though he supported the effort to bring criminals to trial, he was appalled by what he perceived as a different justice system than the one to which he was subject. With this in mind, he asks the various military advocates general, prosecutors, and judges to help shed light on the situation.

What we learn from them is that the Israeli military legal system strongly desired to do what was appropriate, to follow international law, and to tackle the mechanisms of justice in a fair and appropriate way.

One of the things we learn is that west bank cases frequently are sent to Israel’s Supreme Court on appeal. As one of the judges points out, he cannot think of too many democracies that so often allow the process to go forward from military courts to the civilian supreme court of the land.

In the end, this film is an effort to try to clarify and understand what the filmmaker terms “the law of occupation.” In the course of Alexandrowicz’s investigation, he delves into how various laws, military orders, questions about torture, and appeals since 1967 helped shape the system, and how looking at this evolution provides a unique perspective on the Palestinian-Israel conflict.

To his credit, Alexandrowicz tries to remain outside of the discussion, though he does remind us throughout that in the end it is his choice of material that will constitute the final film.

In the aftermath of 9/11, all of us have struggled with questions about rights, laws, and justice in this country and abroad. In a democracy these questions require an ongoing examination, and again Ra’anan Alexandrowicz is asking the questions through his medium, cinema. Though there may be no clear answers, we are challenged to consider the case placed before us. We need not be lawyers to comprehend that many of these issues lay at the heart of the conflict.

The filmmaker does a masterful job in putting everything on the table. The film ends as the set is about to be dismantled. We hope that justice, the rule of law, and an enduring peace might be a fitting conclusion.

Eric Goldman reviews films for The Jewish Standard.

“The Law In These Parts” director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz. COURTESY OF CINEMA GUILD

Archival footage being projected behind the inter-view desk, as seen in “The Law In These Parts,” directed by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz. COURTESY OF CINEMA GUILD

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friday [nov. 16]

Shabbat in Closter Temple Beth El holds its monthly informal tot Shabbat led by Rabbi David S. Widzer and Cantor Rica Timman, 5:15 p.m., with a Thanksgiving theme. Dinner, 5:45; family-friendly service, 6:45. 221 Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112.

Shabbat in Wayne The Chabad Center of Passaic County hosts Shabbat dinner with a Greek-themed meal and entertainment by Hebrew school students, 6 p.m. 194 Ratzer Road. (973) 964-6274 or www.jewishwayne.com.

Shabbat in Emerson Congregation B’nai Israel holds its monthly intergenerational drumming circle, 7 p.m. Drums provided; attendees can bring a percussion instrument. 53 Palisade Ave. (201) 265-2272 or www.bisrael.com.

Shabbat in Teaneck Temple Emeth offers a musical service, 8 p.m. 1666 Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.

Shabbat in Wayne Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman discusses “Love Your Neighbor, Love the Stranger: Is there a Difference?” for the Rabbi Shai Shacknai memorial lecture at Temple Beth Tikvah, 8 p.m. Zimmerman, of the Jewish Congregation of the Hamptons, is past president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Shacknai was Beth Tikvah’s first fulltime rabbi. 950 Preakness Ave. (973) 595-6565 or www.templebethtikvahnj.org.

Shabbat in Maywood Reconstructionist Temple Beth Israel holds an open house service led by student rabbi Ellen Jaffe-Gill,

Carolyn Enger

Piano music Concert pianist Carolyn Enger performs at the Englewood Public Library, 6 p.m. Program includes works by Franz Schubert. Enger has performed in many places including Israel’s Bet Yad Lebanim in Nahariya and at the Wayne Y for the Backstage at the Y Concert Series. 31 Engle St. (201) 568-2215.

monday [nov. 19]

Yoga in Emerson The sisterhood of Congregation B’nai Israel offers yoga, 6:45 p.m. Bring a mat or a large towel. Refreshments. 53 Palisade Ave. (201) 265-2272 or www.bisrael.com.

Joanne Carras

Cookbook author The Upper Saddle River Library, in conjunction with Valley Chabad’s Women’s Circle, offers a program with Joanne Carras, author of “The Holocaust Survivor Cookbook,” at the library, 7:30 p.m. 245 Lake St. (201) 476-0157 [email protected].

Hadassah meeting Fair Lawn Hadassah offers the “Salute to Membership” at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/CBI, 7:45 p.m. Dessert served. 10-10 Norma Ave. Wolina, (201) 797-4612 or [email protected].

tuesday [nov. 20]

Discussing Israel in Woodcliff Lake As part of an adult education series, “Let’s Talk About Israel,” hosted by synagogues in the Pascack Valley area, Rabbi Benjamin Shull discusses “Religion and Peoplehood” at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, 7 p.m. 87 Overlook Drive. (201) 391-0801 or [email protected].

Interfaith Thanksgiving service in Wanaque The Lakeland Hills Jewish Center holds an interfaith Thanksgiving service organized by Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant clergy at the shul, 7:30 p.m. Bring nonperishable food or checks for the Center For Food Action. 71 Conklintown Road. Jason, (973) 728-9056.

Film in Paramus The JCC of Paramus screens “The Human Resources Manager,” 8:15 p.m., as part of its Jewish film festival. Discussion with Cantor Sam Weiss follows. Series continues through Nov. 27. (201) 262-7691.

collaborative Hebrew school joining Temple Israel and JCC, Ridgewood; Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck; Kol Haneshama, Englewood; Temple Beth Sholom, Fair Lawn; and Temple Emanuel of North Jersey, Franklin Lakes, offers a free monthly pre-K program at Temple Israel, 9:30 a.m. Rabbi Sharon Litwin, (201) 444-9320 or [email protected].

Bazaar in Teaneck Temple Emeth holds its annual bazaar and vendor gift boutique, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., including a full-service food court for breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, and desserts. 1666 Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.

Toddler program Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake hosts Club Katan, focusing on Jewish observances with storytelling, crafts, and songs, for children entering kindergarten in September, 10:15 a.m. Free. (201) 391-0801.

Perimenopause and women’s issues Psychologist and women’s mental health expert Dr. Deborah Wagner Grundleger sheds light on the often-unknown psychological and emotional changes preceding menopause, as she discusses her new book, “The Fifth Decade: Is It Just My Life or Is It Perimenopause?” at the Jewish Community Center of Paramus, 11 a.m. East 304 Midland Ave. Refreshments. (201) 262-7691 or www.jccparamus.org.

Israel culture festival in Maywood Reconstructionist Temple Beth Israel hosts a celebration of Israeli culture with music, art, food, and demonstrations, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 34 West Magnolia Ave. (201) 845-7550.

Tricky tray auction in Fair Lawn The sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom holds its annual tricky tray. Doors open at 1 p.m.; auction at 2. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.

Movie in Hackensack Temple Beth El offers “American Movies with Jewish Content” with a screening of “Hester Street,” 2 p.m. 280 Summit Ave. (201) 342-2045.

Film in Franklin Lakes Temple Emanuel screens movies about pre-World War II Jewish life in Poland, portraying Jewish life in Warsaw, Lodz, Bialystok, Krakow, Vilna, Lvov, and four small towns, 2 p.m. Refreshments. 558 High Mountain Road. (201) 560-0200 or www.tenjfl.org.

Film in Paramus The JCC of Paramus screens “Invincible,” 2 p.m., as part of its Jewish film festival. Discussion with Cantor Sam Weiss follows. Series continues through Nov. 27. (201) 262-7691.

8 p.m.; an oneg follows. 34 West Magnolia Ave. (201) 845-7550 or www.rtbi-online.org.

saturday [nov. 17]

Shabbat in Wyckoff Rabbi Ziona Zelazo leads an alternative meditative prayer service in Temple Beth Rishon’s library, 10 a.m. 585 Russell Ave. (201) 891-4466 or [email protected].

Shabbat in Paramus The JCC of Paramus offers Club Shabbat, with prayer, songs, Torah experiences, games, playtime, and refreshments, for 2- to 6-year-olds with a parent, grandparent, or caregiver, 10:30 a.m. Judy Fox, (201) 967-1334 or [email protected].

Shabbat in Emerson Congregation B’nai Israel offers its monthly family Shabbat for families with children 7 and under, “Saying Thank You,” 10:45 a.m. Pizza and ice cream lunch. 53 Palisade Ave. (201) 265-2272 or www.bisrael.com.

sunday [nov. 18]

Holiday boutique in Franklin Lakes The sisterhood of Barnert Temple holds a boutique, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 747 Route 208 South. (201) 848-1027.

Cash for gold Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson hosts a “Cash for Gold” program, 9:30 a.m.-noon, for items including unwanted or broken gold or silver jewelry, sterling silver flatware, and serving trays. 53 Palisade Ave. (201) 265-2272 or www.bisrael.com.

Pre-K program in Ridgewood The Northern New Jersey Jewish Academy, a


Slippery When Wet, a Bon Jovi tribute band, will perform in the Rosen Theater at the Wayne YMCA on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a partner of The YM-YWHA of North Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973) 595-0100, ext. 250, or [email protected].

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Cantorial concert in Tenafly The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades offers its annual cantorial concert, “The Great American Jewish Songbook,” featuring many local cantors, 2 p.m. Sponsored in part by the Weinflash Family Cantorial Concert Endowment Fund. (201) 408-1429 or www.jccotp.org.

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sunday [nov. 18]

YU open house for men Yeshiva University holds an open house for men. 500 West 185th St. (212) 960-5277 or www.yu.edu/jstandard.

Soviet film The Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust hosts a screening/discussion of Mikhail Kalik’s Soviet 1964 film, “Goodbye, Boys!” The film, in Russian with English subtitles, is shown in conjunction with the exhibition “Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust,” 2:30 p.m. Film scholar Olga Gershenson, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, discusses the film. (646) 437-4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.

tuesday [nov. 20]

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Genesis and justice Yeshiva University’s Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought offers “From Sodom to Nuremberg: A Conversation about Genesis, Justice and Law” with Professor Alan M. Dershowitz and Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik in Weissberg Commons on YU’s Wilf campus, 7 p.m. 2495 Amsterdam Ave. (646) 592-4022 or [email protected].

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sunday [nov. 18]

Singles meet New Jersey Jewish Singles 45+ meet and schmooze at Cong. Agudath Israel in Caldwell, 11:30 a.m. Entertainment by guitarist Barry Ottenstein. Refreshments. 20 Academy Road. Sue Grossbard, [email protected].


Music in TeaneckCongregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck offers “Coming Home: Journeys of the Jewish Spirit,” for its annual Curtis Hereld Memorial Concert on Sunday, Nov. 18, at 4 p.m. Mezzo-soprano Cantor Ronit Wolff Hanan, pianist Joyce Rosenzweig, and local members of HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir, will perform Israeli, liturgical, and secular songs. 354 Maitland Ave. Call (201) 833-2620.

“Jacob and the Angel” by Herb Stern.

“Blue Matter” by Harriet Sobie Goldstein. Photos Provided

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Teaneck artists exhibit at Bergen PACTeaneck artists Sol Zaretsky, Harriet Sobie Goldstein, and Paula Schiller exhibit their work in a group show of the Painting Affiliates of the Art Center of Northern New Jersey in the Intermezzo Gallery of the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood. Art will be on display through Nov. 25, on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and to ticket holders at the time of performances.

The Painting Affiliates are a group of professional artists working in a variety of media and styles. The group exhibits regularly in the NY/NJ metropolitan area. The Art Center of Northern New Jersey in New Milford offers art classes in all media. Call (201) 227-1030 or go to www.bergenpac.org .

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Chloe Altschul, daughter of Audrey and Mark Altschul, sister of Benjamin, Liam, and Noah, celebrated becoming a bat mitz-vah on Nov. 3 at Congregation Gesher Shalom in Fort Lee. She is the granddaughter of Laura Aronson of Boynton Beach, Fla., Robert and Catherine Schur of Coral Gables, Fla., and Naomi and the late Leonard Altschul of Englewood Cliffs.

Jonah Maas BernJonah Maas Bern, son of Karen Maas and Douglas Bern of Englewood, brother of Emilia, 9, and Philip, 11, and grandson of the late Ann and Herbert Maas and the late Bea and Phil Bern, celebrated becoming a bar mitz-vah on Oct. 27 at Congregation Kol HaNeshamah in Englewood. He is an eighth-grader at the Cresskill Middle School.

Ben CostaBen Costa, son of Tara and Saverio Mandel of Wyckoff and brother of Samuel and Daniel, celebrated becoming a bar mitz-vah on Nov. 3 at Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.

Dina GelseyDina Gelsey, daughter of Sue and James Gelsey of Haworth, celebrated becoming a bat mitz-vah on Nov. 10 at Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter.

Hannah HaasHannah Haas, daughter of Sandra and Christopher Haas of Ridgewood and sister of Andrew, celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on Nov. 3 at Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.

Amanda HirschbergAmanda Hirschberg, daughter of Mindy and Alan Hirschberg of River Vale and sister of Jessica and Alyssa, celebrated becom-ing a bat mitzvah on Nov. 3 at Temple Beth Or in Washington Township.

Jonathan PasternakJonathan Pasternak, son of Donna and Ronald Pasternak of Fair Lawn and brother of Joshua, celebrated becoming a bar mitz-vah on Nov. 3 at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel.

Lindsey SerokaLindsey Seroka, daughter of Shari and Richard Seroka of Ridgewood and sister of Brett, celebrated becoming a bat mitz-vah on Nov. 3 at Temple Beth Or in Washington Township.

Noah SidotiNoah Sidoti, son of Robin and Anthony Sidoti of Englewood Cliffs, celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah on Nov. 3 at Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter.

Elana SmithElana Smith of Allendale, daughter of Lisa Smith and Chip Smith and sister of Perry, celebrated becoming a bat mitz-vah on Nov. 10 at Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.

Aaron WeissAaron Weiss, son of Drs. Kim and Jeffrey Weiss of Wyckoff and brother of Ayla, Jessica, and Jordan, celebrated becom-ing a bar mitzvah on Nov. 10 at Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.

Obituaries

Louis ApplemanLouis Appleman, 92, of Fair Lawn, formerly of Paramus and Manchester, died Nov. 13 at Valley Hospital, Ridgewood.

Predeceased by his wife of 56 years, Roz, neé Horowitz, a sis-ter, Rita Brandman, and a great-grandson, Noah Heisler; he is survived by daughters, Susan Pickens (Larry) of Ida, Mich., and Bonnie Farber (Matt) of Fair Lawn; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Born in New York City, he worked as a letter carrier at the Audubon Post Office in Washington Heights. He was a World War ll Army veteran serving in the First Calvary and was part of the Army War Show touring the U.S. He served in Australia and the Philippines. He was a radio operator with the rank of Technician 5th grade and was discharged in 1946.

He was a former member of the JCC of Paramus and Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn. He was a member of the James I. Platt Jewish War Veterans Post #651 of Fair Lawn and the National Association of Letter Carriers. Donations can be sent to the U.S.O. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

George GoldmanGeorge E. Goldman, 91, of Teaneck died Nov. 8 in Teaneck.

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Wilfred GoldstickWilfred Goldstick, 89, of Englewood Cliffs, died Nov. 11 at home.

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He is survived by his wife, Marianne, née Lourie; daughters Toba Goldstick of Manhattan and Naomi Goldstick-Rosner of Baltimore; a son, Jonathan of White Plains, N.Y.; and four grandchildren.

Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.

Esther InsleyEsther Insley, 95, of Fair Lawn, died Nov. 5 at home.

Born in Paterson, she earned an RN degree from the School of Nursing at Paterson General Hospital and worked as a hospital, private duty, and industrial nurse. Later, with her husband, she founded Insley Caterers, Ltd., where she was executive chef and director.

Predeceased by her husband, Abraham, and grand-son, Douglas, she is survived by her children, Joyce Fogg (James), Richard (Ann Rea), Larry (Kathy), Steven (Lorraine), and Laura Insley (Bob Guy); eight grandchil-dren, and nine great-grandchildren.

Donations can be made to Make-A-Wish Foundation of America or American Red Cross. Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

Richard Fuld KesslerRichard Fuld Kessler, 90, died Nov. 10 in Horsham, Pa.

He was born in Newark and lived in Maplewood and then South Orange before moving to Pennsylvania, where he lived at the Abramson Center for Jewish Life in Horsham.

He attended Cornell University before joining the Army. He participated in the D-Day landing in France on June 6, 1944, and later served with military intelligence in France and Germany.

Mr. Kessler graduated in 1948 from Rutgers Law School and practiced law in Newark. He was owner/ manager /president of King Solomon Memorial Park, Cresthaven Cemetary Association and West Ridge Lawn Cemetery. He was a former member of the board of di-rectors and executive committee of the Trust Company of New Jersey, a past member of the board of trustees of the Jewish Community Federation of Metropolitan New Jersey, and a past president of the board of trustees of The Jewish News.

Predeceased by his wives, Natalie Finkelstein in 1984 and Joanne Glaubach in 2002, he is survived by chil-dren Jane Kessler (Anthony Clark) of Solebury, Pa., and Patricia Kessler (David Carta) of Hillsborough; three grandchildren; four great- grandchildren; two step-chil-dren, Marjorie O’Malley and Michael Glaubach; and one step-grandchild.

Donations may be made to the Abramson Center for Jewish Life. Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.

Irving LuksIrving Luks, 88, of Cliffside Park, died Nov. 4.

A World War II veteran, he was an infantryman in the Third Army and was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

Predeceased by his wife, Elaine, née Rosenbaum, he is survived by a son, Gary (Nancy); grandchildren, Wendy and Daniel; a sister-in-law, Miriam Luks; and nieces and nephews.

Donations can be made to the Jewish National Fund or the Jewish Community Center of Paramus. Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

David MillerDavid Miller, 84, of Fair Lawn, died Nov. 7 at Hospice House of Hackensack.

Born in Salem, Mass., he was a Navy veteran and served on the light cruiser U.S.S. Dayton. He earned degrees from Boston University, Boston College, and Harvard University. He taught math and history and then was named the youngest secondary school princi-pal in Massachusetts. After moving to Fair Lawn he was principal of Thomas Jefferson and Memorial junior high schools.

He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Florence, née Sudnovsky; children Jim (Christine) and Debbie Breslow (Jay); a brother, Lawrence; and six grandchildren.

Donations can be made to the Fair Lawn chapter of Hadassah, Fair Lawn Jewish Center-CBI, or Hospice House of Hackensack. Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

Louis MillerLouis S. Miller, 98, of Paramus, formerly of Paterson, died Nov. 12.

Predeceased by his wife, Mildred, he is survived by children, Rona McNabola of Glen Rock, and Stuart (Terry Dill) of Brooklyn; and two grandchildren.

An Army World War II veteran, before retiring he was a certified public accountant with Schotz, Simon & Miller and Company in Paterson, now known as R.D. Hunter in Fair Lawn.

Contributions can be sent to the Glen Rock Jewish Center. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Barbara RoseBarbara Rose, 75, of Woodmere, N.Y., died Nov. 9 at Atria MJHS Hospice in Riverdale, N.Y.

Born in New York City, she is survived by her husband, Robert, a daughter, Wendy Corbin of Westchester; a son, Lawrence of Rye Brook, N.Y.; brothers Herber Klapper and Myron Norris; and six grandchildren.


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Syril RubinIt is with deep sadness that the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades mourns the loss of Syril Rubin z”l,

a kind and generous Woman of Valor, who will be remembered for her vibrancy, compassion and wisdom.She was a true matriarch of our community, and an unassuming mentor, who had a smile and a good word for everyone she met.

Syril and her husband, Leonard z”l – loving partners and ardent supporters of culture and global community –were founding members of our JCC. Dedicated to scholarship and Jewish culture, Syril took personal pride in launching

innovative and meaningful programs at our Center. A voracious reader, she founded the JCC Forum Lecture series,which brought renowned speakers to our Center such as Bruno Bettleheim, George McGovern and Arthur Schlesinger.

Devoted to the elderly, she secured handicapped accessible transportation to bring seniors to the JCC so they could remainsocially engaged. She established the Ruth and Pete Nelkin Endowment for Horticulture Therapy, named for her parents,

to allow seniors to participate in gardening projects. She offered her ongoing, compassionate support for ourJCC Adult Reach Center, which cares for people with Alzheimer’s and related forms of dementia.

And, as a consummate hostess, she opened her home to her community, hosting elegant dinners and luncheons forcountless Jewish and cultural causes, including gatherings for homebound seniors, just to “get them out of the house.”

Central to Syril’s life was her large and loving family. She was cherished as a mother, grandmother, and great grandmother,who had a gift for making each and every loved one feel special. Always thinking of others, Syril demonstrated her

compassionate nature with a lifetime commitment to children. She generously supported a JCC scholarship fund for childrenwith special needs, as well as the JCC Nursery School, which nurtures hundreds of children each year and bears the Rubin name.

Deeply dedicated community builders, Syril and Lenny were lifelong supporters of Israel and Jewish lifearound the globe. Together, in the spirit of tzedakah, they traveled the world connecting with other families

in other communities to help where they could. Preserving Jewish continuity was a personal mission,and they established numerous JCC endowments to provide vital programming for future generations, including

Youth Leadership, Professional Development, Maccabi Scholarship and a special scholarship fund forthe March of the Living and Education in Israel. The JCC annual Rubin Run, which has been supporting

healthy lifestyle programs at the JCC for more than 30 years, is also named for the Rubin family.

Syril’s legacy as a caring and passionate community leader will continue to inspire future generations andher extraordinary commitment to her family, her community, and our Center will never be forgotten.

We send our sincerest condolences to her children, Daniel, Eileen, Robert, Toby, Leslie and Mark, her 12 grandchildren,10 great grandchildren, and her sister, Helene Nelkin. She was deeply loved and will be sorely missed.

She left the world a better place because she lived.

May her memory be for a blessing.

Pearl SeidenPresident

Avi A. LewinsonChief Executive Officer

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Syril rubinThe officers and members of the Board of Directors of

the Jewish Home Family note with profound sorrow the

passing of our Jewish Home Assisted Living board member,

devoted supporter and very dear friend, Syril Rubin.

Syril and her beloved late husband Lenny were critical

driving forces in the development of the Jewish Home.

Their foresight, counsel, and ability to involve others in

our mission of providing for elders in our community

resulted in the creation of our Home. An extraordinary

woman who exhibited a profound commitment to

countless organizations and causes in the local, national

and international Jewish communities, she will be missed

by many. We extend our deepest sympathy to her children,

Daniel and Eileen – himself a member of our board,

Robert and Toby, Leslie and Mark, her grandchildren,

great grandchildren and her entire family. Syril and Lenny

leave behind an astounding philanthropic legacy that

includes many fine institutions they help conceived,

found and steward. May her memory be for a blessing.

Eli Ungar, Chairman of the Board

Charles P. Berkowitz, President and CEO

Dr. Stanley RosenDr. Stanley M. Rosen, 83, of Boca Raton, Fla., formerly of New Milford, died on Nov. 9.

A graduate of Ohio College of Podiatry, before retiring he was a podiatrist in Teaneck.

Predeceased by his wife, Serita, née Gottlieb, he is survived by his wife, Joy; children, Dr. Craig (Jodi), Bruce (Colleen), and Alicia Walter (John); a sister, Irene Verner; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Donations can may be made to the Greater Boca Raton Cancer Corps, Boca Raton, Fla. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Gloria RosenfeldGloria Rosenfeld, 93, of Mission Viejo, Calif., formerly of Teaneck, died Nov. 7 in California.

Born in New York City, she is survived by nieces and nephews


Philip RothmanPhilip Rothman, 90, of Boca Raton, Fla., father of Congressman Steve Rothman of Englewood, died Nov. 12 in Fort Lee.

Born in New York City, his career

was in real estate development and philanthropy.

After making deliveries for his father’s Astoria, Queens, tailor shop from a very early age, Mr. Rothman graduated high school and became a silversmith. He be-came a tool and die maker and later su-pervised an aircraft parts plant in Detroit. During World War II, Mr. Rothman and his brother invented a “fuse” for America’s version of the “Robot Bomb” and were awarded the “E” for Excellence Award by the Air Corps.

After the war he became a builder, constructing single-family homes throughout Englewood, and then office-warehouses in Englewood and through-out southern Bergen County.

He was active in charity work, volun-teering to help build and supervise the construction of the Jewish Community Center on Tenafly Road in Englewood and serving on its board of trustees. He was a fundraiser and donor for Israel Bonds, the United Jewish Appeal, and many other groups. He was a lifetime member of Temple Sinai of Tenafly.

Mr. Rothman is survived by his wife of 67 years, Muriel Fischer Rothman; his daughter, Susan Bogatin of New York City; his sons, Dr. Arthur Rothman of Tenafly and Congressman Steve Rothman of Englewood; seven grandchildren, two great grandchildren; a sister, Ann Lefkowitz of Franklin Lakes; a brother-in-law, Lawrence Fischer of Monroe Township; a son-in law Jeffrey Bogatin;

a daughter-in-law; Marybeth Farrell Rothman, and many nieces, nephews

The family has requested that do-nations be made in honor of Philip’s grandson, Jack Rothman, to “Aging With Autism, Inc.”, 726 Route 202 South, Suite 320-361, Bridgewater, New Jersey 08807.

Lillian SachsLillian Victoria Sachs, née Breslow, 93, of River Vale, died Nov. 3 at home.

Predeceased by her brothers, Ira and Leonard, she is survived by her husband, Seymour; and family, Barbara, Mark, and Amanda LeFelt of River Vale, Myra and Herb Silander and Alexis and Bryan Rounds, Jordan, Ben, and Annika, all of Woodstock, N.Y.

Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

Orin SheminOrin Louis Shemin, 55, of Teaneck, died Oct. 30.

He is survived by his wife, Martha, née Zitomer; his mother, Shirley Glass Shemin; a brother, Craig Shemin (Stephanie D’Abruzzo), and friend, Vida Elette Story.

He was a member of Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee and the Society of American Magicians.

Donations can be sent to the shul or Paramus-Bat Sheva chapter of Hadassah. Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

Ramona SimonRamona Simon, 68, of Roselle, died Oct. 27. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Robert StollmanRobert I. Stollman, 83, of Norwood, died on Nov. 9 at CareOne in Westwood. Born in Brooklyn, he was an Army Korean conflict veteran and a self employed belt manufacturer.

He is survived by his wife, Alice, née Fritsch; a son, Theodore of California; a daughter, Elizabeth Carter of Connecticut; a brother, Richard of Florida; a sister, Louise Finkelstein of Ridgewood; and a grandchild, Petra.


Larry TannenbaumLarry Tannenbaum, 88, of Fort Lee, died Nov. 7 at Prospect Heights Hospice in Hackensack.

Born in New York City, he was a World War II Army veteran. Before retiring, he worked for a consumer electronics mar-keting company.

Surviving are his wife, Barbara, née Murgo; a daughter, Joan; a son, Scott; and grandson, Matthew.


Gertrude WeissGertrude Weiss, 93, of Maywood, died Oct. 31. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Ezra ZarittEzra Zaritt , 93, of Hackensack, formerly of Fair Lawn, died Nov. 12.

A World War II veteran, he worked as a tool and die maker at Sandvik Steel.

He is survived by his wife, Ethel; a daughter, Mona Hahn (Ariel); two granddaughters; and three great-grandchildren.

Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Morris ZysblatMorris Zysblat, 99, of Teaneck, formerly of Paterson, died Nov. 12.

Born in Germany, he was educated in Hanover before immigrating to the United States in 1938. Along with his father, he started a business tearing used clothing into rags for gas stations. Later, he ran Paterson Clothing Export Company and was the exclusive dis-tributor of Levi Strauss products in West Germany and France.

He was a member of the New Jewish Life Club in Paterson and Congregation B’nai Israel in Fair Lawn. Retiring over 40 years ago, he became a stock day-trader working at home.

Predeceased in 1995 by his wife of 49 years, Joan, neé Stern, he is survived by his children, Claire Beslow (Edward), and Bill (Laura); a sister, Anna Mannes; and four grandchildren.

Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

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Syril RubinIt is with deep sadness that the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades mourns the loss of Syril Rubin z”l,

a kind and generous Woman of Valor, who will be remembered for her vibrancy, compassion and wisdom.She was a true matriarch of our community, and an unassuming mentor, who had a smile and a good word for everyone she met.

Syril and her husband, Leonard z”l – loving partners and ardent supporters of culture and global community –were founding members of our JCC. Dedicated to scholarship and Jewish culture, Syril took personal pride in launching

innovative and meaningful programs at our Center. A voracious reader, she founded the JCC Forum Lecture series,which brought renowned speakers to our Center such as Bruno Bettleheim, George McGovern and Arthur Schlesinger.

Devoted to the elderly, she secured handicapped accessible transportation to bring seniors to the JCC so they could remainsocially engaged. She established the Ruth and Pete Nelkin Endowment for Horticulture Therapy, named for her parents,

to allow seniors to participate in gardening projects. She offered her ongoing, compassionate support for ourJCC Adult Reach Center, which cares for people with Alzheimer’s and related forms of dementia.

And, as a consummate hostess, she opened her home to her community, hosting elegant dinners and luncheons forcountless Jewish and cultural causes, including gatherings for homebound seniors, just to “get them out of the house.”

Central to Syril’s life was her large and loving family. She was cherished as a mother, grandmother, and great grandmother,who had a gift for making each and every loved one feel special. Always thinking of others, Syril demonstrated her

compassionate nature with a lifetime commitment to children. She generously supported a JCC scholarship fund for childrenwith special needs, as well as the JCC Nursery School, which nurtures hundreds of children each year and bears the Rubin name.

Deeply dedicated community builders, Syril and Lenny were lifelong supporters of Israel and Jewish lifearound the globe. Together, in the spirit of tzedakah, they traveled the world connecting with other families

in other communities to help where they could. Preserving Jewish continuity was a personal mission,and they established numerous JCC endowments to provide vital programming for future generations, including

Youth Leadership, Professional Development, Maccabi Scholarship and a special scholarship fund forthe March of the Living and Education in Israel. The JCC annual Rubin Run, which has been supporting

healthy lifestyle programs at the JCC for more than 30 years, is also named for the Rubin family.

Syril’s legacy as a caring and passionate community leader will continue to inspire future generations andher extraordinary commitment to her family, her community, and our Center will never be forgotten.

We send our sincerest condolences to her children, Daniel, Eileen, Robert, Toby, Leslie and Mark, her 12 grandchildren,10 great grandchildren, and her sister, Helene Nelkin. She was deeply loved and will be sorely missed.

She left the world a better place because she lived.

May her memory be for a blessing.

Pearl SeidenPresident

Avi A. LewinsonChief Executive Officer

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Syril Rubin was a devoted friend and longtime supporter of the Jewish people, the State of Israel and Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. The wife of Leonard Rubin z”l and the mother of past president of Federation Daniel Rubin, Syril was a warm, loving, and compassionate Woman of Valor. She was a fervent supporter of Jewish culture and education and ensured her Jewish legacy by endowing her Lion of Judah gift. She made countless trips to Israel, the homeland of the Jewish people, where she maintained a home and developed a strong commitment to many organizations, including the Neve Yosef Community Center in Haifa, a Federation benefi ciary. She and Leonard

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were founding members of Federation and active participants at many of Federation’s benefi ciary agencies, including the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades and the Jewish Home at Rockleigh. Together, the Rubins had a profound and highly positive impact on our community.

We extend our deepest condolences to Syril’s three children, Daniel (and wife, Eileen), Robert (and wife, Toby), Leslie Weinberg (and husband, Mark), her twelve grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.

May they be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. May her memory be for a blessing forever.

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2200 N. CENTRAL RD, #14-KGreat 3 BR corner unit.

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Employees of the Rutherford office of Kearny Federal Savings received a huge donation for the Community FoodBank.

Alex Gross, administrator at the Lester Senior Housing Community in Whippany, poses with Elizabeth and Liat Cohen, who provided hot choco-late, instant oatmeal, and other supplies to residents of the independent and assisted living senior commu-nity during Hurricane Sandy.

Veterans Day at HeritageHerb Ehrlich, a resident at Heritage Pointe of Teaneck, ushers in a holiday celebration for Veterans Day at the senior independent living residence.

Display of generosity at Kearny FederalThe Rutherford office of Kearny Federal Savings is one of 41 locations collecting non-perishable food items for the Community FoodBank of New Jersey to support in-creased demands due to Hurricane Sandy.

An unexpected truckload of needed items came from a very generous customer who wanted to remain

anonymous. “I always knew our customers were kind and generous,” Kathy Duffy, Rutherford’s branch manager, said. “To see such a giving and unselfish gesture warmed everyone’s heart. We are so proud and happy to have them as customers,” she added.

Blood services seeks donorsVolunteer blood and platelet donors are being asked to donate at a Community Blood Services’ donor center during Thanksgiving week to help ensure that there is an adequate blood supply during a time when there is usually a fall off in donations.

Donations can be made on Wednesday, Nov. 21, or Friday, Nov. 23, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Paramus donor center, 970 Linwood Avenue West, or on Wednesday at the Lincoln Park donor center, 63 Beaverbrook Road, Suite 304 from noon to 7:30 p.m. Those who give will receive a Stop & Shop gift card.

“Thanksgiving traditionally marks the beginning of the holiday season, resulting in a decrease in collections due to holiday vacations, donors traveling to see family, and

school closings,” said Karen Ferriday, community affairs director. “We hope donors will find time to schedule an appointment to donate during the holiday week so we can ensure we have an adequate supply of blood to meet the needs of the more than 15 hospitals we serve.”

Whole blood donors must be in general good health, 17-75 years old (16 years old with parental consent) and weigh at least 110 pounds. Donors will receive complimentary health screenings, including non-fasting cholesterol and glucose health screenings, when they donate.

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FORT LEE $299,000

2200 N. CENTRAL RD, #14-KGreat 3 BR corner unit.

FORT LEE $599,000

100 OLD PALISADE RD, #4102Beautiful 2 BR. Penthouse fl oor.

TEANECK

193 VANDELINDA AVENUEExquisite Center Hall Colonial.

ENGLEWOOD $659,000

133-A E. PALISADE AVENUE3 BR/2.5 BTH corner unit.

ENGLEWOOD

360 AUDUBON ROADLarge updated Tudor Colonial.

TENAFLY $1,550,000

29 FARVIEW ROADPicturesque 0.97 acre.

NORTHBRIDGE

PARK!

THEPALISADES!

SOLD!

BRICKTOWNHOUSE!

SOLD!

PRIMEAREA!

[email protected] · [email protected] · www.MironProperties.com/NJ

Each Miron Properties office is independently owned and operated.

Contact us for your complimentary consultation

We specialize in residential and commercial rentals and sales.We will be happy to assist you with all your real estate needs.

Jeffrey SchleiderBroker/Owner

Miron Properties NY

Ruth Miron-SchleiderBroker/Owner

Miron Properties NJ

NJ: T: 201.266.8555 • M: 201.906.6024NY: T: 212.888.6250 • M: 917.576.0776

GREEPOINT

199 HURON ST, #5-A2 BR Condo. Private roof deck.

TRIBECCA

110 DUANE ST, #PH-3S Posh Penthouse. Prime location.

CHELSEA

456 WEST 19TH ST, #45-C1 BR/2 BTH Condo. Doorman bldg.

WILLIAMSBURG

34 NORTH 7TH ST, #2-DStylish luxury bldg. Heart of Brooklyn.

DUMBO

205 WATER ST, #2-JBrand new construction. Sauna.

UPPER WEST SIDE

200 WEST 108TH ST, #2-BCharming Co-op. Pre-war bldg.

SOLD!SOLD!

SOLD!

SOLD!

SOLD!SOLD!

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