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NOSHES ...............................................................4
ROCKLAND .....................................................20
OPINION ...........................................................24
COVER STORY ................................................28
D’VAR TORAH .................................................41
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ................................42
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Fans of science fiction know that
death had no dominion over Mr. Spock,
the child of human-Vulcan intermar-
riage who died in Star Trek II and re-
turned in Star Trek III. It turns out that
Leonard Nimoy, the Jewish actor who
portrayed Mr. Spock for nearly 50 years
and died last February, lives on — or at
least his influence does.
The Women of the Wall have
announced that they will hold a
women’s priestly blessing at the
Kotel on Pesach — with support for
marketing from Mr. Nimoy’s estate and
from his widow, Susan Bay Nimoy.
The priestly blessing is the formula
that God, in the Book of Numbers,
commanded Aaron’s descendants to
bestow on the people. In traditionalAshkenazi synagogues, kohanim — men
who are descendants of the priestly
caste — go to the bimah, hold their
hands out, fingers paired and split
down the middle, and recite the three-
part liturgy, which begins “May God
bless and keep you.”
In 1970, a Jerusalem rabbi began
to make it a public event at the Kotel;
last Pesach, the rite attracted tens of
thousands of men.
But the ritual, and in particular its
distinctive hand gesture, has Mr. Nimoy
to thank for its fame. He had seen the
ceremony as a child in his synagogue.
And on a June day in 1967, either during
or immediately following the Six Day
War, he realized that the Star Trek
episode he was working on then would
benefit from some distinctive gesture
of greeting. And thus was born the
Vulcan salute, which accompanied the
greeting reminiscent of the blessing
from Numbers: “Live long and prosper.”
And as Star Trek went on to live long
and prosper, the priestly hand gesture
entered popular culture. (Now it’s
available as an emoji character on your
cell phone.)
So perhaps it’s only logical that the
first public grant from the Nimoy estate
would come to a priestly blessing —
even if a rather un-Orthodox one. The
Women of the Wall are inviting women
from the priestly caste to bless the
audience and other women to receivethe blessing. The grant will enable the
group to publicize the event.
The road from press release to
priestly ritual is likely to be a rocky one,
given the ongoing controversy over
non-Orthodox rituals at the Western
Wall. (The rabbi of the Kotel has
backed away from his approval of a
compromise on the issue agreed upon
by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and the Reform and Conservative
movements.)
At least the Kotel conflict, unlike the
one featured on the planet Vulcan in
that 1967 episode, will not be resolved
with a battle to the death.LARRY YUDELSON
Making hummus treif again● Who owns the chickpea paste
known as hummus? Is it an Israeli
dish? A Lebanese specialty?
It turns out that while advocates
of Middle Eastern countries were
distracted by
squabbling for the right to humm
Americans stepped up to the plat
with their can-do attitude and too
it over for themselves.
Sorry, Muslims and Jews.
Meet your bastardized America
offspring, bacon hummus.
More precisely, “Smoky flavoredBacon hummus, a delicious
blend of smoky hummus
topped with real bacon”
brought to us by Stop-
and-Shop’s “Simply
Enjoy” brand.
We have no idea
how it tastes —
though as fans of
Sabra’s jalapeno-
flavored hummus
(that one is kosher
we probably have
no standing to
complain about
cross-cultural chickp
contamination.
But as you can see
from the photograph, ofriend who discovered the
bacon hummus pronounced
good to the last dip.
LARRY YUDEL
Spock blesses Women of theWall from beyond the grave
On the cover: Siobhan Barry-Bratcher, her granddaughter, Alice Rose Ferra
and her father, James Bratcher, on vacation at Seaside Heights last August.
PHOTO BY KIMBERLEE PIPER/DREAMPIPER
Not for male Vulcans only:
Spock (Leonard Nimoy)
exchanges the Vulcan
salute with T’Pau (Betty
Matsushita) in a 1967
episode of Star Trek.
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created by a rabbi (mod-eled on Loew) some fourcenturies before. (Thisfilm was co-written andco-directed by its staractors, HENRIK GALEEN and Paul Wegener.) “TheGolem” clearly influ-enced the classic 1930s“Frankenstein” films di-rected by James Whale,
and Whale’s films, muchmore than the Shelleynovel, have inspired andinformed later Fran-kenstein-like film crea-tures, including, I expect,Doomsday.
The fact that thatlong-serving Iowagovernor Terry
Branstad, a Republican,and a very big Israelsupporter, is the son of aJewish mother (whobecame a Lutheran) anda Lutheran father is notwell known. (Branstad
later converted toCatholicism.) The factthat he’s a second cousinof Supreme Courtnominee MERRICK GARLAND, 63, is evenless well known. Gar-land’s late father, an Iowanative, and Branstad’slate mother werecousins. Branstad did
support Garland’sappointment to thefederal bench in 1997.However, he is nowdeferring to the decisionof Iowa Republican Sena-tor Charles Grassley, thehead of the JudiciaryCommittee, not to holdconfirmation hearings.This must be a bitawkward for Branstad,who met Judge Garlandfor the first time about amonth ago, when theyhad breakfast together inWashington. –N.B.
Jesse Eisenberg
IT’S SHOWDOWN TIME:
Two ‘kosher’
superheroes;two ‘kosher’supervillians
Gal Gadot
Ezra Miller Merrick Garland
The blockbuster ac-tion film, “Batmanv. Superman: Dawn
of Justice,” is opening onFriday, March 25. Un-doubtedly the late BOB KANE, who createdBatman, and the lateJERRY SIEGEL and JOE SCHUSTER, who createdSuperman, would besurprised to see the duoat odds. But an iconicsuperhero showdown is anovel twist, and we’ll seehow well it’s done. Thefilm opens with Batman/ Bruce Wayne (BenAffleck) and Superman/ Clark Kent (Henry Cavill)both in a funk, as theyponder the casualties ofcrime fighting and theproper use of superpowers. Enter Lex Luthor(JESSE EISENBERG, 32),a billionaire sociopathwho plays on theiranxieties and thenorchestrates a massmurder aimed at turningthe superhero duo
against each other.“Batman v. Super-
man” features the firstappearance of super-hero Wonder Womanin a major movie. TheJewish press has longkvelled about the cast-ing of Israeli actress GAL GADOT, 30 (“Fast andFurious”) as WonderWoman. The news getsbetter: Wonder Womanis, indeed, a major char-acter in the film, and shewill re-appear in future“DC Extended Universe”
films. EZRA MILLER, 23,as the Flash, also ap-pears in a brief scene. Itseems likely that Miller(as the Flash) will havea much bigger role inthe “Extended Universe”films to come.
Luthor, by the way,has another weapon uphis sleeve: He uses someKryptonian relics (in-cluding body parts froma Kryptonian villain) tocook up a giant mu-tant Frankenstein-typemonster, called Dooms-day. There is no clearevidence that Mary Shel-ley, who wrote the 1818novel “Frankenstein,”was inspired by the Jew-ish legend of the golem— a soulless but pow-erful artificial creaturebrought to life thoughmagic (in some ver-sions, by invoking God’sname). However, thereis another direct linefrom the golem legendto Doomsday. The most
famous golem was theone supposedly createdby Rabbi JUDAH LOEW (1513-1609) of Prague. Hedid so to protect Jewsfrom attacks by non-Jews. In all versions ofthe Lowe/ golem story,Rabbi Loew disables thegolem after he protectsJews but kills innocentsin doing so. Movingahead in time, there’sthe classic silent Ger-man film “The Golem”(1915), about the modernrediscovery of a golem
Coming straightinto your home● On March 18, Netflix began streaming a new Pee
Wee Herman ilm, “Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday.” Herma
course, is the famous character created and played
PAUL REUBENS, 63 (who was born Paul Rubenfe
A big star in the ’80s, Reubens’ career was derailed
1991 sex scandal that seems almost quaint today in
of much more serious celeb scandals, like Bill Cosby
He revived the Pee Wee Herman character in 2009
his stage appearances as Pee Wee have been popula
acclaimed. “Holiday,” produced by JUDD APATOW
has good advance buzz and it works because Reube
has aged well, and Pee Wee’s age never was speciieso even at 63, you can accept Reubens in his signat
role. The plot has Herman leaving his hometown of
ville and going on the irst vacation of his life. He’s t
eling to New York to celebrate his friend Joe’s birthd
party. Along the way, he gets caught up in wacky hi
By the way, Reuben’s late father served in the Britis
and American air forces during WWII and was one
the courageous diaspora Jews who flew rickety plan
during Israel’s War of Independence and were criti
Israel’s survival.
Paul Rubens
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The frozen chosenFrisch hockey team gains glory for Jews on skates
LARRY YUDELSON
T wo moments stand out when Joe
Tropp thinks about his recently
concluded high school ice
hockey season. Joe, a Teaneck
sophomore at the Frisch School in Para-mus, was assistant captain of his school’s
team, the Cougars.
The irst moment came on January 31.
Frisch was playing Old Tappan. The score
was 6 to 5. Frisch was behind.
And then, with 13 seconds left, the Cou-
gars scored a goal and tied the game.
“We went up against a very good team
we were not supposed to win against,” he
said. “We managed to not give up even
when we were down, and we tied it up.”
The second moment took place off the
ice, when the team learned that it had
made it into the inals of the non-public
division of the NJ State Interscholastic Ath-
letic Association on the strength of its sea-
son’s record of 6 wins, 4 losses, and 2 ties.
Not bad for a team in its irst year.
“All season we tried to prove ourselves
and the fact we actually got some recogni-
tion from the public really felt good,” Joesaid.
“Hearing that news was just awesome,”
Evan Fromen of Englewood said. “We
were a yeshiva with a team put together
from scratch.”
Ice hockey is not the irst sport that
comes to mind when you think of yeshiva
teams. It’s not that Jews and ice are inher-
ent enemies — didn’t the lakes and rivers
freeze back in Anatevka? — but basketball
and wrestling are much more suited for a
high school ymnasium.
The boy’s ice hockey team put the roster
of Frisch’s sports teams, for both boys and
girls, at 26, and it is one of the school’s few
teams that competes outside of the yeshiva
league that pits the Jewish high schools of
the metropolitan New York region against
each other in regular matches and annual
tournaments. A couple of other local
yeshiva high schools have hockey clubs —among them, the Torah Academy of Ber-
gen County in Teaneck— but they don’t
ield competitive teams.
“It all came about because of the dedi-
cation of four parents,” said Aron Coren,
Frisch’s athletic director. “They saw a
need. We didn’t have an ice hockey pro-
gram and they really wanted to start one
for their kids.”
It began last year as a club before
becoming a team this year.
“It’s amazing what the ice hockey pro-
gram does, because it’s so hard to ind ice
time,” he said.
The team mostly practices at th
in Englewood’s MacKay park. It me
to three times a week — once durin
week, and on Saturday and Sunday
when there are no games on the sch
“They really are dedicated and pu
much effort,” Mr. Coren said. “Thplaying against kids who practic
times a week.”
The impetus for the team really
from the players, according to the
coach, Ralph Abecassis of Englewoo
son, Aaron, a junior, is one of the t
captains. “The kids wanted to do
kind of took it from there,” he said.
The seeds of the team were plant
or six years ago, he said, when Aaro
several of his friends played at the
wood Field Club. “There were so
Jewish kids signing up that they sw
the Saturday games to Saturday n
Benjamin Feintuch guides the puck
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after Shabbat ended, he said.
“These kids have been playing for so
many years, the question was, why does it
have to go to waste after eighth grade? We
parents looked at each other and said, why
don’t we try doing something?”
From there to a irst-year tournament —
pretty impressive, even if Frisch lost in the
irst round to Saint Joseph Regional HighSchool in Montvale with a non-competitive
score of 11 to 1.
“What you have to realize is since we’re
a non-public school we have to play in
a non-public division,” Mr. Abecassis
said. “You’re playing against the power-
houses,” schools that recruit based on
their athletic programs.
Frisch, too, now is recruiting students
on the strength of its hockey team, at least
in a small way. For hockey players, Frisch,
as the only yeshiva high school with a
team, has become the school of choice.
But what makes ice hockey so compel-
ling that teenagers are willing to practice
late at night, whenever the team can get
precious access to the ice?
“The sport itself is awesome,” Evan said.
“It takes so much out of you. After a 45-sec-
ond shift already you’re out of breath. You
have to constantly rotate players. It’s a
very fast pace. Everyone gets more time
in the game because players are so tired.”
The rotation means that even those of
the 28 members of the team who were
new to the sport got a chance to compete.“Every moment counts,” Evan said.
“Our shifts are a lot faster” than in other
sports. “Even professionals have short
shifts.”
Why is playing on ice more tiring than
playing on a wooden ymnasium floor?
“I’ve never really understood that
myself,” Evan said.
Joe said he was thrilled with the oppor-
tunity Frisch gave him to play ice hockey
in a Jewish environment.”
“I started playing hockey when I was
four years old. I played hockey for a few
years in the Ice House in Hackensack.
Then I was told that I couldn’t play on
the good team because I was Jewish and
couldn’t play on Saturday. I had to go
around from league to league and ind the
teams that accept me and let me play on
Sundays but not Saturday. It’s been hard.
Frisch gave me the opportunity.”
But despite its relative success, the
Frisch ice hockey team hasn’t made a
true believer of Mr. Coren, the at
director.
“I tried it once,” he said. “It too
too long to get dressed. There’s a tr
dous amount of equipment you h
put on.”
Maury Bauer, Benjamin Feintuch, Sammy Wietschner, and Aaron Abecassis Evan Fromen
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Take me out to the fairFranklin Lakes shul to host contemporary film on 1939 World’s Fair
JOANNE PALMER
Yes, this is a little bit of Queens
geography.
But Bergen County’s not so
far from Long Island, and you
have to go through Queens to get there,
so it’s not likely to be foreign to our
readers.
You know how you see the old World’s
Fair grounds — Flushing Meadows-
Corona Park, to be technical — when you
take the Grand Central Parkway or the
Van Wyck Expressway? You can’t really
tell from the road, but those once-glori-
ous monuments to the future are crum-
bling. They’re the remnants of the 1964
World’s Fair, the postwar ode to progress
that introduced some of us of a certainage, wide-eyed children then, to such
wonders as picturephones (not nearly
as good as FaceTime or Skype but purely
miraculous then), moving sidewalks (an
idea whose time has not yet come and
most likely never will), and a stunning
showcase for DuPont’s immortal slogan
“Better Living Through Chemistry.”
Not to mention Belgian waffles.
Before the 1964 World’s Fair, though,
that same park hosted the 1939 World’s
Fair, also a paean to the future but this
one built during the Great Depression,
with World War II looming. For our read-
ers’ parents, grandparents, or maybe
even great-grandparents, were they luckyenough to have made it to this country
by then, and have gotten to the fair, it
represented hope, progress, and a better
life. We remember the ‘64 World’s Fair in
Technicolor and the 1939 one in moody
period black-and-white, but really the ‘39
fair blazed with color and life.
Charles Sokol of Wayne is a semi-retired chemist (and a Ph.D. who chooses
not to use that title outside his profes-
sional life) who describes himself as “a
collector of various things,” among them
“probably the world’s largest collection
of early English-language comedy record-
ings — and by early I’m talking from 1897
to the early 1950s,” he said. He also col-
lects other early audio and visual record-
ings. Among those treasures is a six-hour
silent ilm of the 1939 World’s Fair.
“There was a gentleman — I assume he
was a man, but I just know his last name,
Medicus,” Mr. Sokol said. “This person
— Medicus — had a 16 millimeter silent
movie camera. It wasn’t just 8 millime-
ter, so that it was decent quality.” It wasalso in color.
Mr. Sokol often creates programs based
on his collection and shows them at his
synagogue, Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
He has divided the Medicus ilm into
four segments. On Sunday, April 3, he
will show the last , hour-long sec tion,
backed by per iod Bri tish danc e band
music — “totally silent ilms can be very
boring ,” he said, and the music is Brit-
ish because “with British copyright laws,
anything recorded before 1950 is in the
public domain, and I didn’t violate any
copyright laws.” (Nothing is simple.)
See the box for more information onthis week’s program.
The ilm shows “everything at the fair
— and I do mean everything,” Mr. Sokol
said. “This guy or gal or whatever went to
the entire fair and ilmed it. There were
all sorts of things that surprised me.” Among those surprises, “there was a
fair amount of nudity,” he said. “And this
guy captured it. The French pavilion had
an outdoor garden, and there were top-
less female models, just walking around
talking to people, having what looked like
normal conversations.”
Along those lines, “one of the most
surprising things I found is that in 1939,
the surrealist painter Salvador Dali had
designed a topless bathing suit, and he
had the women swimming in tanks.”They were in a pavilion called “Dreams
of Venus,” which looks jaw-droppingly
avant-garde in the ilm.
Next Sunday, Mr. Sokol will pair that
last segment of the Medicus documen-
tary with an “incredible ilm, a docu-
drama, put together by the Westing-
house Corporation,” he said. The ilm,
called “The Middleton Family at the New
York World’s Fair,” also in color, and with
sound, is more or less about the triumph
of the American Way.
Mr. Sokol’s oldest Jewish recordings
were not made by Jewish perfo rmers,
he said. Jewish vaudevillians, like
of their non-Jewish peers, were
about recordings at irst, fearin
they would cut into proits. Why
audiences venture out to theaters
they could listen to records at h
“At that time, royalties were pitifu
said. “They were afraid of losing
income.” So the records were ma
non-Jews who heard the Jewish rou
saw how popular they are, reco
what they heard (particularly if it wEnglish; they tended to omit the Y
bits). Jews were the target audienc
As they got into the early 20th ce
Jewish performers “noticed that p
still were coming to their shows
Sokol said. In fact, the recordings
raising awareness among their pot
audiences. “In about 1902, you st
to see Jewish performers making r
ings,” he added.
Most of the early recordings were
in Edison, and sold in record s
“The very irst ones were on wax
ders, and then they started to be
The facade of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion showed a copper relief sculptur
Maurice Ascalon’s “The Scholar, The Laborer, and The Toiler of the Soil.” W
Westinghouse featured the Middleton family in an ad; the family, played by actors,
this time, features in the film that will be screened at Emanuel. DON O’BRIEN/FLCKR
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cylinders and disks,” he said. “Around 1912 or 1913,
they started using plastic,” which wore far better.
Mr. Sokol relishes some of the titles of the Jewishrecordings. There’s “Under the Matzah Tree,” he
said, and the immortal “Who Ate Napoleons With
Josephine When Bonaparte Was Away?” Later, after
“At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee” and “Marry a Yid-
disher Boy,” there came the eternal question “Whose
Izzy Is He?”
Another highlight of his collection, Mr. Sokol said,
is a program he put together using both some mate-
rial in his collection and some from Steven Spiel-
berg’s archives. “In my collection, I have two of the
irst ilms ever made in Jerusalem,” he said. They are
small bits of ilm made in 1896 by the Lumiere broth-
ers, who were important early ilmmakers. “It shows
Jerusalem when the whole area was still under Turk-
ish control,” Mr. Sokol said.
He already has presented that ilm at Temple
Emanuel but is thinking about showing it again.“It probably got the best response of anything I’ve
done,” he said.
Who: Early film collector Charles Sokol of Wayne
What: Presents a two-part documentary on the 1939World’s Fair, using footage filmed at the fair
When: On Sunday, April 3, at 2 p.m.
Where: At Temple Emanuel of North Jersey, 558High Mountain Road, Franklin Lakes
What else: Popcorn and ice cream
For information: (201) 560-0200 or www.tenjfl.org.
Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko,
who toured the country before and after the fair,
were made by Westinghouse and on display in
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Paul and the rabbisAt Rutgers talk, Israeli academic discusses the ties between early Christians and Jews
JOANNE PALMER
Often, we all can feel a strong
attraction to — and some-
times also repulsion toward
— someone or something
that feels both entirely foreign and
oddly familiar at the same time.
Dr. Ishay Rosen-Zvi is an associate pro-
fessor and the head of the Talmud and
late antiquities section in the Hebrew
culture studies department at Tel-Aviv
University. His publications look at the
intersection between the cultures vying
for breathing space during the few cen-
turies that began the Common Era; he’s
focused on midrashic hermeneutics, the
Mishna itself, Temple rituals in rabbinic
literature, and gender and sexualityduring that time.
Now, he is exploring that very polar-
izing Christian igure, the apostle Paul,
né Saul, the very Jewish Christian whose
writing about the Jews has had such a
devastating impact on so many Jews,
tragically culminating, in a logical pro-
gression, he said, in the Shoah.
“I’ve always been fascinated with
Paul, as a scholar, as a Jew, as someone
who works with rabbinic lite rature,”
Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. It’s the push-pull of
the familiar and the foreign. “On the
one hand, he is an anti-Jewish, maybe
even anti-Semitic thinker, and on the
other hand, he is so similar in the wayhe works with the Bible to create a kind
of holy community.
“I’ve always been interested in Paul,
but only rece ntly I’ve tri ed to think
more systematically in this area,” he
said.
Academic thinking about Paul has
changed a great deal since World War
II. “It was the area in which scholarship
was most affe cted by the Holoc aust,”
Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. “It was acknowl-
edged that the Protestant interpreta-
tion of Paul actually contributed to the
caricature of Judaism as a kind of god-
less, spirit-less religion that had to be
replaced. Throughout the 1950s, ‘60s,
and 70s, we ind this really very thor-ough attempt to separate Paul from
later developments in Christianity.
It was an attempt to make Paul not
guil ty for the horrors that seemed tostem from his worldview.
“In the beginning, Paul was a com-
mitted Jew, a Pharisee, someone who
bragged about his knowledge of the law,
his conception of Judaism and of Torah,
and of his mission as a Jew,” Dr. Rosen-
Zvi said, explaining that scholarly view.
“That is radical and different from the
way the second-century church fathers
saw him.
“It is an attempt to read Paul as Jew-
ish, and his critique as an inner Jewish
critique, aimed at his own world.”
Those historians and theologians
were Protestant. “Jewish scholars enter
the game very late, only in the last 15or 20 years,” Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. “Prot-
estant scholars were creating a mixture
of very sensitive historical scholarship,
that says that we have to read Paul in the
context of irst-century Judaism, on the
one hand, and on the other there was
a lot of apologetics. They were saying
that they had to save Paul.” They had to
reclaim his reputation.
“And if you have to save Paul, that lim-
its your ability to read the text clearly.”
From there, “the effect of the trend
was a really big investment in reading
Paul inside Judaism.” That’s when schol-
ars began comparing his writing to rab-
binic literature.
“Comparing Paul to the rabbinic lit-erature is problematic because the rab-
bis are later — the second century of the
Common Era — and the irst documents
that we have are from the beginning of
the third century. Paul is in the middle
of the irst century. So it’s problematic.
“But it is really tempting, becausethey” — that’s the rabbis and Paul — “are
doing very similar things.
“They are both based in biblical inter-
pretation, and from a kind of relevanti-
cization of the Bible they are attempting
to create what I call holy communities
under Rome.
“They had very developed eschatol-
oy on one hand, and on the other they
accepted reality. They did not attempt
to leave the city or urban life; both the
irst Christian communities and the rab-
bis lived in the city, part of secular life
under Rome. And in this realm, they
tried to create a holy community
a new conception of what being
people means.
“To me, this means that the comson is unavoidable. The question i
to do it,” Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. “And
we get to the question of methodo
Dismissing the crude assumptio
every time “the rabbis talk abou
great the Torah is, or how great Isr
we should read i t as a kind of ant
polemic,” that means that “we h
ind more sensitive tools,” he said
“There are two main streams in
arship. One sees Paul as the recei
Jewish trad itions, and that thos
ditions also are preserved in rab
literature. That means that Paul
Who: Dr. Ishay Rosen-Zvi of Tel Aviv University
What: Will talk about “The Apostle Paul and the Rabbis” at Rutgers University
Where: At Brower Commons, 145 College Avenue in New Brunswick
When: On Monday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by: The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
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Dr. Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Apostle Paul in a mosaic in St. Sophia in Kiev, from around 1000 C.E.
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ancient Jewish traditions and adds his Christologi-
cal flavor to them, so when we ind similar storiesin Paul and the rabbis we should assume that they
are preserving the right tradition.
“The other stream says no. The rabbis are later
than Paul, and Paul is a very influential igure in the
second century. It’s not that they would have read
him — but his ideas would have penetrated in the
culture. They would have known his ideas.”
For example, he said, “the rabbis say that Abra-
ham inherited the land of Israel not because of his
faith or his beliefs, but because he preserved the
commandments. This seems to be the exact oppo-
site of what Paul says — that Abraham inherited
the land not only because he was a believer, not
because he kept the commandments.” That’s in
keeping with Christian theoloy, which says that
the mitzvot ceased to be necessary once their mes-
siah lived and died.The rabbis, in other words, offered a direct
refutation of Paul, these scholars believe. “They
emphasize the rabbinical statements as polemical.”
Dr. Rosen-Zvi believes that the truth about
whether Paul and the rabbis inherited the same tra-
ditions separately or that the rabbis were respond-
ing to Paul is that they are both right — part of the
time. Sometimes i t’s one, sometimes it’s the other.
It depends.
“My modest contribution is to help identify when
we shoul d talk about anci ent trad itio ns shared
by Paul and the rabbis, and when we should talk
about the rabbis being aware of Pauline ideas and
reacting to them,” he said.
“My criterion is a simple question mark.”
Sometimes, traditions that seem to have beenunquestioned all of a sudden come with an expla-
nation. Why? “The simple fact that the rabbis add
that question mark, making it a question to ask, a
problem to solve, I suggest is the Pauline effect.”
An example — the term Abraham’s seed, zera
Avraham in Hebrew — “is a biblical term, and it
is used by many biblical and post-biblical writers
before Paul,” Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. “But the rabbis
suddenly, out of the blue, made it into a huge issue.
The Mishna says that only Israelites are the sons of
Abraham.
“This term was used for hundreds of years, and
nobody thought that it had to be clariied. Suddenly
the rabbis go out of their way. Since we have Paul
say explicitly, in many places, that Christ-believers
among the nations become the seeds of Abraham,
it seems very hard to detach these things.So sometimes the rabbis and Paul are draw-
ing from the same story-well, and sometimes the
rabbis react to Paul. “ These perspectives are not
mutually exclusive,” Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. The trick,
however, is to igure out what i s going on with any
one issue. “These traditions can get new perspec-
tives when the rabbis relate to their new use — from
their perspective, their misuse — as seen through
the Pauline lens.”
That means that “both sides are right” in the
academic dispute. “They are old traditions, but
old traditions do not stay the same,” Dr. Rosen-Zvi
said. “They get new twists, and new uses.” And that
way, they stay alive.
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Palisades Players keep it short and sweetLocal actors put on nine 10-minute plays at the Kaplen JCC in Tenafly
MIRIAM RINN
Can a play be too short?
Not according to many the-
ater goers. A good writer can
say a lot in 10 minutes, and for
its second production, the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades’ community theater group
Palisades Players is presenting a collection
of comedic and dramatic shorts to prove
the point. Drawn mostly from “Voices
from Ariel: Ten Minute Plays Reflecting
the Jewish Experience,” the show will pre-
miere in the JCC Eric Brown Theater on
Saturday, April 2, at 8:45 pm, and it will
play again on Sunday, April 3, at 6 pm.
Originally commissioned by Theater
Ariel, a Philadelphia-based nonproit orga-
nization that specializes in Jewish works,the one-act plays deal with relationships,
conversion, memory, and identity, using
humor to explore these issues. The expe-
rienced playwrights, including Michael
Elkin and Julianne Bernstein, have had
their work produced on regional stages
and in New York. Deborah Roberts, per-
forming arts director at the JCC, wrote an
additional play called “Boxed In,” specii-
cally for the teens and children who take
acting classes at the JCC. She wanted some-
thing that her young actors could partici-
pate in, she said, and the cast for the play
about youngsters who encounter a refugee
boy running from the police range from
teenagers to younger children.At an early rehearsal of “A Festival of 10
Minute Plays,” as the show is called, direc-
tor Deborah Dine led actors Julian Mill-
stein of Teaneck and Sarah Feinmark of
Haworth through “Interview with a Scape-
goat,” a funny riff on the cultural collision
of the biblical animal and the modern
media. Ms. Dine, who lives in Glen Ridge,
teaches teen comedy and drama as well as
advanced scene study at the Tenafly JCC
to people she described as “semi and fully
professional.” Ms. Feinmark has many
credits in local productions, and Mr. Mill-
stein studied at the Academy of Dramatic
Arts before he pursued a business career.
Her adult actors can commit pages of
dialogue to memory just as easily as the
younger ones can, Ms. Dine said. “They
astound me.” Her students have a mix ofexperience; some are former profession-
als while others now are working actors.
“People are auditioning out here [in New
Jersey] and it’s just as competitive as New
York,” she said. “It’s really interesting to
me to discover that — and it’s exciting.”
Mr. Millstein played a critical role in
launching the company, working with Ms.
Roberts to produce their irst successful
production, “Broadway: A Jewish Expe-
rience.” “I am very happy with what we
have going,” Mr. Millstein said, adding that
“Voices from Ariel” will tell them whether
straight plays are as appealing to their
audience as musicals. Thanks to an anon-
ymous benefactor’s matching grant, the
Palisades Players are secure for the time
being, according to Mr. Millstein.
“I think they’re doing a wonderfulthing,” Ms. Dine said of Palisades Players,
noting that this was her irst experience
with community theater. “They are using
the professional actors as well as training
new actors. There’s a lot to be learned
from people who are just beginning. They
don’t have any bad habits.”
Ms. Dine has been acting and teach-
ing for 40 years, so when she passes on
advice to her actors, she explained, “it’s
really Sandy Meisner giving you that nug-
get.” (Sanford Meisner was a famous acting
teacher.) New actors beneit from a long
tradition of acting coaches and teachers
as they learn their craft from more expe-
rienced performers. “It’s exciting to see I
remember what it’s like to really want to be an actor and not know how to start,”
Ms. Dine said.
The show includes the following plays:
“‘Til Death Do Us Plots,” by Julianne
Bernstein, zeroes in on the arguments
of a newly divorced couple over their
double cofin; “Boxed In,” by Deborah
Roberts, is about a group of young peo-
ple deciding what to do about a runaway
refugee; “Interview with a Scapegoat,” by
Louis Greenstein, imagines the ancient
bibl ic al sc apego at’s encounter wi th
an ambitious reporter; “Single Jewish
Female,” by Julianne Bernstein, tackles
the weird world of online dating ;
Ger” (The Convert), by Leslie B
and Louis Greenstein, explores the
tional issues confronted by a new coand her mother; “Class Act,” by M
Elkin, is a comic monologue by an
woman who is addicted to self-imp
ment classes; “In Spite of Everythin
Hindi Brooks, spends time in a Te
apartment with a mother and dau
during an Iraqi Scud attack; “Smok
Louis Greenstein, examines the nat
memory and how certain objects
as cigars, help preserve it; “Where’
Stuff?” by Daniel Brenner, follows a
to-be father who has grown distan
Judaism as he encounters the ghost
talkative and hungry former c anto
From left, AJ Horowitz, Ariel Abergel, Kimmy Norrell, Shayne Barrett, Adiel Coren, and Tomer Ophir in Deborah Robe
“Boxed In.”
Rebecca Lopkin and Dan Nemzer in the Palisades Players’ premiere of “Broadway,
a Jewish Experience” last year. Both actors are in the company this year too.
From left, Ariel Abergel and Tom
Ophir in Deborah Roberts’ “Boxe
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Lavish Lunches raises needed funds for seniorsNearly 300 women attended the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades’ culinary adventure
— Lavish Lunches — which raises money
that supports JCC programs and services
for senior adults in the community.
This year’s program began with break-fast at the home of Stephanie and Daniel
Cohn, where Chef Seamus Mullen spoke
about his journey to health and healthy
eating and shared samples of one of his
favorite recipes. Wendy Bernowitz, daugh-
ter of a senior participant in the Kaplen
Adult Reach Center, talked about her
mother’s experience in the program.
“It’s been a dificult journey, but the JCC
has made a world of difference,” Ms. Ber-
nowitz said. “It has given her a newfound
sense of self and independence and she is
more conident and social since she joined
the program. It gives her a structured day,
social engagement, daily exercise, a music
program and so much more.”
Guests chose from a selection of “LavishLunches,” some of them kosher, served in
local homes and venues, where hostesses
provided a unique and memorable dining
experience.
Support from Lavish Lunches and dona-
tions from the community enable the JCC
to provide a wide variety of programs that
allow seniors to age in place successfully.
“As a not-for-proit agency open to the
entire community, the JCC believes that
caring for seniors is a core component of
its mission,” the JCC’s CEO, Jordan Shen-
ker, said. “Our center is a place seniors can
come to make friends, share in programs
that keep them connected to the commu-
nity, and ind a sense of purpose that is so
often absent in the aging process. And it’sprograms like Lavish Lunches that make
this possible.”
The day was co-chaired by Lorin Cook
and Brandi Rubin, with a committee that
included Dana Baumgarten, Orly Chen,
Alissa Epstein, Nira Feldman, Merle Fish,
Melissa Garden, Amy Goldstein, Lauren
Gordon, Erica Rivera, Michele Ross, Beth
Rubach, Jennifer Schiffman, Jillian Som-
berg, and Francie Steiner, and special
events chair Marci Ginzburg,.
Hostesses who offered their h
included Dana Adler, Lorin Cook,
Corsair, Gina Curko, Diane Denberg
Esser, Merle Fish, Jennifer Graf,
Ginzburg, Tina Guberman, Ariel J
Jodi Kle iner, Sloa ne Levine, MiMarom, Robin Miller, Heather Rabin
Erica Rivera, Pearl Seiden, Brandi R
Jennifer Schiffman, J illian Somberg
Harley Ungar.
Sponsors included Artistic Tile,
wood Wine Merchants, Gilly ’s Org
Hartly, Leet Homes, LLC, Orly Che
MAX Properties Plus, SEESAW, Sho
Treeco, The Real Estate Equity Com
and Verus Therapy.
JCC COO Sue Gelsey, Lavish
Lunch co-chair Brandi Rubin, and
JCC president JoJo Rubach.
Lavish Lunch co-chair Lorin Cook,
speaker Seamus Mullen, and a
breakfast host, Stephanie Cohn.
Wendy and Richard Bernowitz
with Wendy’s mother Ethel
Bikel, a Kaplen Adult Reach
Center participant.
Breakfast hosts Stephanie and Daniel Cohn, JC
CEO Jordan Shenker, and Lavish Lunches co-ch
Lorin Cook and Brandi Rubin.
Jill and Rabbi Mark WildesAbby Lerner
YUHS dinner set for April 6Yeshiva University High Schools
holds its annual dinner on Wednes-
day, April 6, at 6 p.m., at Marina
del Rey in the Bronx.
Abby Lerner of Great Neck, N.Y.,
and Rabbi Mark and Jill Wildes ofManhattan are the guests of honor.
Rafael and Shifra Yehoshua of
Great Neck are the school’s Parents
of the Year and Megan HLZacks of
Manhattan will be given the Fac-
ulty Recognition award.
Ms. Lerner is the admissions
director at Yeshiva University’s
Samuel H. Wang High School for
Girls (Central) and has taught there
for 28 years. The Wildes, founders
of the Manhattan Jewish Experi-
ence, work together to connect
unafiliated Jews in their 20s and
30s with Judaism and the Jewish
community. Rabbi Wildes is the
brother of the former mayor of
Englewood, Michael Wildes. The
Yehoshuas are dedicated to Cen-
tral and to their local community.Ms. HLZacks chairs MTA’s science
department.
In addition, due to a gift, the
YUHS board of trustees announced
a $1 Million Challenge: every dona-
tion towards this year’s dinner will
be matched dollar for dollar with
the goal of raising $1 million to help
strengthen the future of YU High
Schools.
For information, go to www.
yu.edu/hsdinner, call Elissa
Schertz at (212) 9605223, or email
her at [email protected].
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Norpac hosts senator and House leaderNorpac had two separate meetings last week;one featured Senator John McCain (RAZ) and
the other showcased House Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy (RCA.)
Guests met Senator McCain at a fundrais-
ing dinner at the Englewood home of Raphael
and Linda Benaroya. Mr. McCain was joined by
General Charles G. Boyd, USAF (Ret.), a deco-
rated combat pilot who fought in Vietnam and
was the only prisoner of war from that con-
flict to reach the four-star rank. Mr. McCain, a
former presidential candidate, is the chairthe Senate Armed Services Committee.
In Teaneck, Drs. Mort and Esther Fridm
hosted Congressman Kevin McCarthy, wh
was elected House Majority Leader in 20
Among the irst bills Mr. McCarthy she
herded through the House in his new positi
was emergency funding for the Iron Dom
anti-missile defensive system during Oper
tion Protective Edge. Both Mr. McCain and M
McCarthy are running for re-election this ye
Senator John McCain, left, with Linda and
Raphael Benaroya.
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Speaker on caregiving in Wyckoff Randi Kaplan, director of the
Caregiver Support Center at
Monteiore Health System,
will discuss “Caregiving: a
Responsibility and a Privi-
lege,” to beneit the Jewish
Family Service of North Jer-
sey’s Sam and Nina Wolff
Caregiver Support Center.
The talk, set for Thurs-
day, April 7, at 7 p.m., will
be at Temple Beth Rishonin Wyckoff. A question and
answer session and dessert
reception will follow.
Ms. Kaplan established the irst — and
so far the only — caregiver support cen-
ter at a premier academic medical cen-
ter in New York City. She supervises the
centers at Monteiore’s Moses and Weiler
campuses. Since the center was opened
in 2011, Monteiore has served more than
7,000 family caregivers. Before she came
to Monteiore, Ms. K
worked at the Jewish
of Family and Child
Services.
JFSNJ ’s Wolff Car
Support Center, estab
in 2012 and supervis
Melanie Lester, pro
needed services, reso
and support group
those caring for loved
with Alzheimer’s disedementia. Through th
erosity of the Wolff f
100 percent of the proceeds from th
ning will support the center.
Jewish Family Service of North J
with ofi ces in Wayne and Fair La
a nonproit, nonsectarian social s
agency that helps members of the
munity in coping with life’s challeng
information, call Ms. Lester at (973
0111 or go to www.jfsnorthjersey.org
YU’s basketball tourney includes local teamsYeshiva University’s milestone 25th
annual Red Sarachek Invitational Bas-
ketball Tournament inished with the
Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School
of Woodmere, N.Y.’s team, the Wildcats,
beating the Shalhevet High School of Los
Angeles’s team, the Firehawks, in the
championship game.
The 20 yeshiva high schools repre-
sented in the tournament included
teams from the Frisch School in Para-
mus and the Torah Academy of Bergen
County in Teaneck. The annual tourn
ment is named for the legendary B
nard “Red” Sarachek, YU’s former lon
time men’s basketball coach.
Parenting Shabbaton in TeaneckCongregation Keter Torah
hosts its “Parenting and Car-
ing” Shabbaton on Shabbat
Parashat Tzav, March 25 to
26. Dr. Norman Blumenthal,
who is Ohel’s Zachter Fam-
ily chair in trauma and crisis
counseling and the direc-
tor of Ohel’s Miriam Center
for Trauma, Bereavement,
and Crisis Response, will bescholar in residence for the
weekend.
On Shabbat morning, Dr. Blumenthal
will discuss “Discipline and Limits at All
Ages.” His pre-Minhca talk, sponsored
by Atara, is “Technoloy
and the New Culture of
Childhood,” and he will
address “Being a Parent
Forever” during seudah
shlishit.
Rabbi Jeremy Donath,
who is Ohel Northern
NJ’s community coordi-
nator, a rabbi at Yavneh
Academy, and head ofCongregation Darchei
Noam of Fair Lawn, will
lead a teen minyan.
Call (201) 6923972 or go to www.
ohelfamily.org.
Dr. NormanBlumenthal
Pre-Pesach learning programOn Shabbat, April 2, at 3:45 p.m., Con-
gregations Rinat Yisrael and Beth Sho-
lom in Teaneck will hold a pre-Pesach
joint learning program at Beth Sholom,
354 Maitland Ave.
The partnership program, whichattracted 200 participants last year,
offers participants small groups where
they can study Jewish texts. This year,
the theme will be “Leichach Anachnu
Chayavim Lehodot: Can We Always Be
Grateful? Should We Be? A Communal
Study of Gratitude in the Jewish Tradi-
tion.” Texts will include the Haggadah,
passages from the Talmud, midrashim,
and modern commentaries. Materials
will be available in the original languageand in English. A committee planned
the event with representatives from
both shuls.
Call (201) 8332620 or email ofice@
cbsteaneck.org.
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Chaya Deitsch:An Author PresentationHERE AND THERE: LEAVING CHASIDISM,
KEEPING MY FAITH
Author Chaya Deitsch grew up in the 70’s in a
warm Lubavitcher clan, but longed to be part of the
broader culture when she became a young woman.
Come hear her story, as she shares how she found
her own path in the secular world without severing
her ties from the family she loved.
Presented in part with the James H. Grossmann
Memorial Jewish Book Month.
Tues, Apr 5, 11 am, $10/$12
The Abe Oster HolocaustRemembrance AwardHigh school students from throughout Bergen
County are invited to create an original piece of
fine art, (paintings, illustrations, mixed mediums,collage and sculpture) that communicates the
relevance of the Holocaust in the 21st century.
Cash prizes; open to students of all backgrounds.
Contest deadline: April 13
Spring BoutiqueDon’t miss this annual shopping extravaganza featuring
jewelry, women’s fashions, stationery, sunglasses,
children’s clothing, decorative accessories, and
much more. It’s the perfect place to pick up Mother’sand Father’s Day gifts! Proceeds support the Early
Childhood Department.
Sun, Apr 3, 10 am-5 pm & Mon, Apr 4, 9 am-5 pm
PALISADES PLAYERS PRESENTS
A Festival o 10-Minute Jewish Plays After two sold-out fall performances, Palisades Players is
back with highly entertaining comedy and drama shorts.
For theater-goers of all ages, this is a theatrical experienceyou’ll never forget. Don’t wait, tickets will go fast.
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The Gif o Music Gala Benefit26TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Featuring: renowned violinist Joshua Bell, pianist
Alessio Bax, & violinist Sharon RoffmanHonoring: Dorothy Kaplan Roffman,
Founding Director, Thurnauer School of Music
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how anxiety, body image, identity, depression and
relationships are major issues affecting today’s teens
through expert-led breakout sessions, amazing resources
and a great social atmosphere.
Registration deadline: Monday, March 28Fri, Apr 1, 8:30 am-2 pm, $20
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Playing lacrosse in IsraelMen’s national team’s coach is from New City
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
The head coach of the Israel Men’s National
Lacrosse Team is from New City.
Jeffrey Schwartz will lead the 23-man team to
the European Lacrosse Federation’s Champion-
ships in Budapest, Hungary, from July 27 to August 7.
Lacrosse is not a well-known team sport in Israel,
where soccer and basketball reign supreme. But interest
is picking up because of the efforts of the New York-basedIsrael Lacrosse Association, the Amazing Israel Lacrosse
Birthright program, and Masa Israel Journey’s new Israel
Lacrosse Internship.
Mr. Schwartz, 28, recently on a ive-month Masa intern-
ship, along with ive other participants. He began playing
lacrosse in high school and went on to captain Lynch-
burg College’s men’s lacrosse team during his junior and
senior years.
“I graduated in 2012 and stayed at Lynchburg for a year
as a graduate assistant, then moved to the DC area to work
in IT stafing, and then had the epiphany that I wanted to
get back into the sport of lacrosse,” he said.
“A good friend from high school had played on the
Israel National Team in 2014 and he put me in touch with
a bunch of guys, and through them I learned of the Masa
Israel internship. I had been on Birthright in February
2014, and though I hadn’t thought about living in Israel I
did want to come back.”
The Israel Lacrosse interns, of whom Mr. Schwartz is
the oldest, live together in Ashkelon, one of several cities
where the Israel Lacrosse Association has been developing
under-19 and under-15 teams. In addition to helpin
local and national recruiting and coaching, they p
pate in cultural experiences, Hebrew classes and to
offered by Masa during the ive months.
The language classes are critical. “It’s been a hug
lenge, and I knew it would be,” Mr. Schwartz said
language barrier has gotten easier as the months
gone by; I learned to coach in Hebrew before I lear
converse in Hebrew. Masa provides 64 hours of H
lessons, but most of the learning comes from wheare forced to try to communicate with the kids.”
Working alongside Israel Lacrosse employee
interns start by visiting schools and guest-hosting
ple of phys-ed periods to introduce the sport and l
kids try playing it. There are separate school-base
national teams for men and women.
“Hopefully they take a liking to it and turn into kid
love lacrosse and want to register and play in our le
Mr. Schwartz said. “In each city there may be four
teams that can play against each other. We’ve had
pretty good success and I think we’ll continue to get
at the recruiting process.”
His work with youth development and his succ
associate head coach of the Haifa Lacrosse Club —
Schwartz savors a victory.
Jeffrey Schwartz
demonstrates technique.
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Ramah scholarship run
The Ramah Nyack Scholarship Run isset for May 22 at Rockland Lake Park.
At 10:15 a.m., there will be a 5K Run/
Walk; the Camper Fun Run will be at 11.
From noon to 3 p.m., participants are
offered a barbecue, family fun day, and
alumni reunion. All proceeds beneit
the camper scholarship fund. Last sum-
mer, Ramah Nyack provided more than
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No camper is turned away from campfor inancial reasons.
A $25 registration fee includes admis-
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shirt. There is a $100 minimum fund-
raising requirement. For more informa-
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RJS plans
annual galaRockland Jewish Family Ser-
vice will hold its annual gala,
this year honoring Lyn and
Hank Meyers, Dr. Joan Black,
and Lauren Lipoff, at Congre-
gation Shaarey Israel in Mon-
tebello, on Sunday, June 5.
For information or reserva-
tions, call (845) 3542121, ext.
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Lyn and Hank Meyers
Dr. Joan Black Lauren Lipoff
he helped lead to the Israel Premiere
Lacrosse League championship game
in the team’s irst season — made Mr.
Schwartz the Israel Lacrosse Associa-
tion’s top pick for coaching the men’snational team.
Explaining his love of the sport, Mr.
Schwartz describes lacrosse as a “pure
game” in which players are challenged
not only physically. “It’s a momentum-
based sport,” he said. “You start your
day with a full tank and then, whether
playing or coaching, your tank is emp-
tied. I’ve never experienced anything
else that empties my tank that way.”
In addition, he adds, “lacrosse is big
enough so that it’s popular in the U.S.
but it’s still a tight-knit community, and
I like that. The opportunities you’re
afforded in lacrosse you might not have
in baseball or basketball, including the
opportunity to go abroad to teach it.”Because no Israeli sports store carries
lacrosse equipment, American donors
send over gear that is used but in excel-
lent condition. Participants in the high
school clinics use those donated sticks,
helmets, gloves, shoulder pads, and
lacrosse balls for free. Those who regis-
ter for league and youth programs can
buy their own set. “We sell the equip-
ment to the kids at a very low price so
it becomes a very affordable sport,” Mr.
Schwartz said. “If they want upgrades,
they can trade in and spend a bit more.”
After the summer championship in
Budapest, Mr. Schwartz plans to con-tinue growing and developing the Israel
national team.
The experience has been fun, he said,
though it has not been easy to acclimate
to a different country and culture. “It’s
an adjustment, but we’re attracted to the
opportunity to challenge ourselves from
a lacrosse perspective and a life perspec-
tive,” he said. “That’s been the hard part
and the cool part all at the same time.”
Mr. Schwartz’s mother, Lois, now
lives in Nyack while his father, Steven,
recently moved to Dallas from Mont-
vale, N.J. Aside from congregational
Hebrew school, Mr. Schwartz’s only pre-
vious communal Jewish experience was
a few summers at Camp Kinder Ring,a program of the Workmen’s Circle/
Arbeter Ring, an activist-based national
organization promoting secular Jewish
heritage, Yiddishkeit, and social and
economic justice.
Jewish athletes from 18 to 30 who
are interested in participating in Israel
Lacrosse’s Masa Israel Journey pro-
gram for next September should email
Amanda Tuck at [email protected].
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Bris Avrohomhosts Monsey rabbiBris Avrohom hosted Rabbi Boruch Lesches
of K’hal Tzemach Tzedek, Chabad of Greater
Monsey. He spoke about shalom bayit (peace
in the home) and the laws of taharat hamish-
pacha (family purity) to community mem- bers. A dinner with sushi and beer followed.
Rabbi Avremy Kanelsky, Bris Avrohom’s
Torah education and youth director, orga-
nized the meeting.
Community Yom HaShoah programA community-wide Yom HaShoah commemoration
sponsored by the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tol-
erance and Education in Suffern is set for Sunday, May
1, at 5 p.m., at the Cultural Arts Center in Rockland Com-
munity College in Suffern.
Debórah Dwork, an internationally recognized Holo-
caust historian, will be the keynote speaker. For more
information, call (845) 5744099 or go to www.holocaust
studies.org.
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Exhibit featuresHolocaust survivorsand descendants“L’Dor Vador,” a portrait
exhibit and documentaryilm by Seth Harrison about
Holocaust survivors and their
descendants, is on display
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Education in Suffern through
March 31.
Mr. Harrison has been a
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Jewish historyin DenmarkRockland Community College, Hillel Rockland
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a.m. Sessions include “Tell Your Daughter: The
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“Kitniyot on Passover: Can we eat legumes or not?”
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National Council of Jewish
Women presents Bob Baird,
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Bridge. Mr. Baird is a Pulitzer
Prize inalist and has won pub-
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mark” for his knowledge of
Rockland history.
The program starts at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April
6, at the Reform Temple of Rockland (formerly Temple
Beth El), on 415 Viola Road in Spring Valley. Refresh-
ments will be served. Participants are asked to bring a
package or can of kosher-for-Passover food to donate to
the needy. For information, go to ncjwrockland.org.
Synagogue volunteershost homelessRockland residentsMembers of Montebello Jewish Center opened their
synagogue this month to feed and shelter homeless
Rockland County residents. Partnering with Help-ing Hands for the Homeless of Rockland County,
MJC was one of the Safe Havens for the 20152016
season. The JCC Rockland Teen Leadership Initia-
tive also inancially supported the undertaking. MJC
volunteers cooked and served meals and made th