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November 30, 2012 · Vol. LXXXII · No. 10 · $1.00 JSTANDARD.COM

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Librarian’s bequest stocks Englewood’s stacksFor four decades, Jean Grushkin was a fixture at the Englewood Public Library. She started working in 1968; she retired in 2008, when she was 86 years old. She died two years later.

She was not the only Grushkin to love books. Her husband, Philip Grushkin, was a book designer, who illustrated Robert Frost’s work.

Besides working in the reference section — and occasionally staffing the circulation desk — she claimed Jewish books as her fief-dom. She placed the orders for Judaica, and she ran the library’s an-nual Jewish Book Month program.

The Brooklyn native also served as shop steward for the library’s union; her fellow workers praised her as “a pit bull” in negotiations.

So perhaps it’s no surprise that in her will, she left $15,000 to the library for the purchase of Holocaust and Judaica books, earning her memory a permanent place on the library’s shelves. This week, the library held a reception to mark the gift and display the books it bought with the bequest.

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‘Never question your effectiveness. Just go’Local leaders make emergency trip to israel before cease-fire

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One simple principle made Rabbi Joel Mosbacher leave Mahwah to travel to areas of Israel under fire from Gaza: “You go see your family when

they need you, not only in the good times,” he said.Mosbacher, the spiritual leader of the Reform

congregation Beth Haverim-Shir Shalom, elaborated.

“I wanted to see the situation for myself so I could understand it on the ground and at large as much as possible, to find out more about ways in which American Jewry can connect with Israelis now,” he said.

Mosbacher was the sole New Jerseyan in a delegation of 12 lay and professional leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America who made a two-day emergency solidarity mission to Israel’s south during Operation Pillar of Defense and made a $5 million commitment to the Israel Terror Relief Fund.

A delegation from the Rabbinical Council of America, led by its president, Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of Englewood, followed close behind JFNA. And a separate Englewood group, inspired by congregational rabbis Goldin (of Congregation Ahavath Torah) and Zev Reichman (of the East Hill Synagogue), gave up Thanksgiving at home to be with Israelis on the front lines. Ahavath Torah’s assistant rabbi, Mordechai Gershon, also was part of the group.

“I was very torn initially,” Ahavath Torah member Scott Herschmann said. “I knew that practically speaking I wasn’t going to contribute much, but as I watched rockets being fired on cities in the south from the comfort of my couch, I had to get up and do something to help —

whether by buying products from stores in the affected cities, or bringing supplies and words of appreciation to soldiers. I left my wife and four kids at home to be in the middle of a war because I felt that joining my brothers and sisters in Israel shows ‘am Yisrael chai’” — the nation of Israel lives.

When your home is in danger, you come homeRAbbi Shmuel goldin

Day One: Tuesday, Nov. 20The first indication that things are different

emerges as you listen to the radio on the ride from the airport to Yerushalayim. Over and over again, the regular program is interrupted as a calm voice announces: “Tzeva Adom: Red alert — Kiryat Malachi; Red alert — Beer Sheva; Red alert — Ashkelon; Red alert — Ashdod; Red alert — Yerushalayim….”

And you realize what these announcements mean; city after city under attack; families, children scrambling for cover; terror raining down haphazardly from the sky; no guarantees of safety anywhere.

I am here in Israel, as president of the Rabbinical

Council of America, together with a delegation of rabbis from across the United States and Canada. At the same time, I am participating in a solidarity mission from my own Englewood community. The goals of our missions are clear. We are here to lend solidarity to the citizens of Israel at this critical time. We are here to experience, if only for a few days, what the lives of our brothers and sisters in southern Israel have been like for much too long. We are here to learn how we can help Israel when we return. Above all, we are here because we do not feel that we can be anywhere else this week.

We dropped everything to come, on a moment’s notice, because when your home is in danger, you don’t run the other way. You come home, even if, for now, it’s just for a visit.

Our first day here was filled with experiences that we never will forget. We visited Kiryat Malachi, the scene of the recent fatal rocket attack. We climbed up to the devastated apartment, recited psalms, and then visited family members of one of the victims as they sat shiva. We traveled to Moshav Shibbolim, a small town in the Negev that none of us had ever heard of, and visited in small groups with families who live under the constant fear of rocket attacks.

During these visits, a red alert was sounded and we all were forced to find cover together with the families. We spent time with children attending programs in a bomb shelter, because it is unsafe for them to go to school. We

spoke with Israeli citizens, from government officials to people on the street, sharing our wishes and hearing their stories.

Over and over again, they thanked us for coming. Over and over again, I objected. The thanks, I explained, go in the opposite direction. We are here to thank you for your courage and dedication; for fighting our battles, every day of your lives.

Perhaps I’m dreaming, but you get the sense that globally things may have reached a tipping point. There is a sense of growing consensus, not only in Israel but throughout the world, that the status quo cannot continue. President Obama’s words say it all: “The precipitating event here … that’s causing the current crisis … was an

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The shaliach’s taleBeing with israel without being in israel

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The first thing I did upon hearing about the military operation in Israel was to call Amit, my commander from my

reserve duty unit.Me: Ma hamatzav? (What’s up?) Are we

being called in? Are we entering Gaza? Give me details. Should I come? When should I come?

Amit: Calm down. All I have been doing in the last day is speaking to my soldiers who want to know what’s happening and if we are being called in.

Me: Great, but you didn’t answer my question. Are we called in? Should I come? When and where?”

Amit: You do know that our unit is trained to fight in the north. Did you forget the Israeli map during your stay in the U.S.? Gaza is in the south. No, we haven’t been called in, and no, stay where you are. Your support is what we need. Go talk about Israel and tell stories about what we are doing here.

Me: I knew there was a reason I called you. That’s what I needed to hear. Oh, and one more thing, if we do get called in, promise that you’ll call me…

Amit: ------ (Amit just hung up on me.)I am the community shaliach and the director of the

Center for Israel Engagement at the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, in partnership with the Jewish Agency for Israel.

I arrived here from Israel almost a year and half ago, and now my wife, our three children, and I live in Paramus. In Israel, I was a lawyer; I worked for the Israeli government and argued cases on its behalf before the Supreme Court there. But I always wondered what it would be like to see Israel from an entirely different vantage point. That was one of the things that led me to this great adventure of shlichut.

In the past 13 years I also have become part of a second family, my “Milu’im” (reserve duty) family.

We meet at least once a year for a few weeks at a time, we wear the same green uniform and share the same jokes, we go through tough training together, and unfortunately from time to time we fight in the same battles together.

One day you are a respected lawyer, wearing a tie, coming home late from a hard day at work, reading a book to your children, singing them the Shema and kissing them good night, and the next day you are a soldier crawling on the ground aiming at targets hiding in bushes. When you ask yourself why, that’s when you think about your family and the children who are sound asleep at home. Then it suddenly becomes very clear and simple.

Other shlichim have told me there are moments when you really feel you need to be in Israel. I had not

as yet experienced those moments. Thanks to Skype and being close to JFK and Newark airports, I see my parents and my siblings often. (It is with a bit of shame that I admit that I speak to and meet with some of my friends more frequently in the United States than in Israel).

Now here I am, serving as a community shaliach, far away from Israel and my family

and friends. I listen to Israeli news; check the Internet every minute, and call my friends and family every day to see if everything is okay.

Living in Israel is part of my identity. My parents moved to Israel from the United States in 1973, a few years before I was born. As a family, every year we celebrated the anniversary of their aliyah. I grew up with the feeling that living in Israel was a dream-come-true for my parents and grandparents and, perhaps, without even noticing it, also my own dream-come-true.

So I ask myself a tough question. How can I be away from Israel at a time like this?

This recent challenging time has been eye-opening for me. I suddenly understand what it is to care about Israel and worry about Israel from afar, and have been deeply touched by so many people —adults, teens, children, and seniors — who care so much and reach out to lend their support to Israel. I have learned what it is to be with Israel without being in Israel. That is such an important lesson for someone, like me, who until now has lived his whole life there.

Once the rockets started flying, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey took action, and I was privileged to take part in the effort of reaching out to the community. I have been going around speaking to students in schools and in synagogues throughout the community. I have come out of each and every session with a strong feeling that I now understand the meaning of one mishpachah — one family.

When I mention Israel in these times it is important for me to emphasize that we Israelis are strong and positive. We believe in the cause. Therefore, we should not express feelings of sorrow or pity for Israel. We should, however, continue caring, reaching out, showing solidarity, and supporting Israel in as many ways as possible.

These last two weeks have been a great lesson for me. I am privileged and honored to be part of the northern New Jersey community. At the end of my stay, I will return home strengthened.

Avinoam Segal-Elad is the shaliach and director of the Cen-ter for Israel Engagement at the Jewish Federation of North-ern New Jersey.

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RCA rabbis take cover during a red alert.

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Speaking to the Jewish Standard en route to Tel Aviv from Ashkelon, Mosbacher recounted that his group had met with a trauma specialist in Sderot, the border city that has absorbed thousands of rockets from Gaza over the past dozen years.

“I did some chaplaincy work with first responders after Sandy,” last month’s destructive superstorm, “so to watch Israeli first responders struggling with their own emotions and needs and obligations has been impactful for me,” Mosbacher said.

The JFNA group spent time with a family whose home was struck by a missile, with elderly citizens of a southern Israeli moshav, or cooperative village, and in one of 60 Ashkelon bomb shelters.

“I spoke with a 9-year-old girl who was painting a tribute to the Israeli army on the wall of the shelter,” Mosbacher said. “That resonated with me, because my son is 9. I asked her how she is doing and she said, ‘Down here we can’t hear anything.’ To see Israeli strength and vulnerability has been very emotional.”

The RCA group, 20 strong, had a packed schedule from Tuesday afternoon through Thursday night, mainly arranged on the fly. “The things we’ve done have been unbelievable,” Goldin said.

“We said Tehillim [Psalms] in an apartment in Kiryat Malachi where three people were killed, and we made a shiva call to one of the families of the victims,”

he said. “We’ve had military lectures explaining the situation to us as it was developing. We went to an Iron Dome installation near Beersheva, and we visited four injured soldiers at Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center. People kept thanking us for coming, and I kept turning it around to say, ‘We thank you for being here and defending the country, and thus defending world Jewry.’”

On the day before Thanksgiving, the RCA and Englewood groups traveled together and experienced the panic of a “red alert” signaling 90 seconds in which to find cover from incoming missiles.

East Hill Synagogue member Brian Haimm watched the Iron Dome missile interception system at work. “While we were there, an alarm went off and in seconds you heard a popping in the sky,” he said, noting that the Hebrew for “Iron Dome” is Kippat Barzel. The word “kippah” is more often used to mean “skullcap.” “Wearing a kippah is to acknowledge that God above is protecting all of us,” said Haimm, who also helped deliver 2,500 pre-Chanukah jelly doughnuts to soldiers massed on the border with Gaza.

David Wisotsky, a pediatrician and member of Ahavath Torah, was especially moved by his visit to the Jewish National Fund’s 21,000-square-foot sheltered play space in Sderot.

“The children in Sderot haven’t been able to play outside for the 10 or 12 years that Sderot has been under rocket fire,”

he said. “Soldiers were playing games with them instead of nannies, but that was normal for them.”

Wisotsky’s son Adam, 34, a social worker from Passaic, recalled that on a NORPAC lobbying mission to Washington several years ago, he used the political action committee’s talking points to encourage lawmakers’ support for “a certain mode of security for Israel. I did not know much about it, but later I heard it had passed.” That was, of course, the economic assistance package to build the Iron Dome.

“About two days ago, I was standing there looking at rockets pouring over Sderot, and Iron Dome shooting them down, saving countless lives,” Wisotsky continued. “Because of that little bit of involvement that I didn’t even understand at the time, thousands of lives have been

saved. In the same way, we may not fully understand the benefits of our presence here, but people really do care that we came, and you never know how it impacts each person.”

Goldin added that many of the group had debated whether their presence would matter. “Every time we’ve come as a community during times like this, uniformly everyone we met thanked us for coming and thought it was just wonderful that we came,” said Goldin, who led a congregational mission in 1999 to bring toys, shoes, and medicine to children in a Macedonian refugee camp during the war in Kosovo. “When they see people dropped everything to come, that is a message you can’t give any other way.

“You should never question your effectiveness. Just go.”

ever-escalating number of missiles; they were landing not just in Israeli territory, but in areas that are populated. And there is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. So we are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself from missiles landing on people’s homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians. And we will continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself.”

Perhaps the world community finally will give Israel the space to do what it needs to do, which is whatever any other country in the world under the same circumstances would do.

As I write these words, Tuesday evening in Israel, uncertainty hangs in the air. The dilemma haunts each Israeli. Will there be a cease-fire or a ground incursion into Gaza? Should Israel risk the lives of its young soldiers in an enterprise that is certain to carry loss? Can Israel, on the other hand, stop now, without real, tangible, lasting gains?

We will see what tomorrow brings. But for now I know one thing. There is nowhere else that I would rather be; nowhere else that I should be.

Day 2: Wednesday, Nov. 21On Wednesday a cease-fire between

Israel and Hamas is called, and another dimension of our trip opens before us.

Suddenly we are surrounded by intense debate: the deep disappointment of soldiers, who are ready to complete the job they came to do; the frustration of

southern Israelis, who desperately want greater security; the complex political concerns of Israel’s leaders; the sighs of relief as parents greet their children returning from the front.

Day 5: Saturday Night, Nov. 24We have continued our visits with

citizens of southern Israel from all walks of life. From hospitalized victims of terror, to soldiers on the front, to children in a huge protected indoor playground in Sderot, the resilience of our people is astounding. On two occasions during our trips south, we are forced, in response to red alerts, to evacuate our minibuses, lie down on the ground, and protect our heads with our hands. This is a small taste of what Israelis must live with constantly.

We leave tonight with a deep sense of unfinished business. But, perhaps, that is exactly the point. Sadly, few in Israel speak today of solutions to the conflict with our enemies. Successful military endeavors can, at best, buy periods of quiet. During those times, Israel must predict and prepare for the next confrontation.

Most importantly, we leave with the feeling that we have done something vital over these past few days. We have given our Israeli brothers and sisters the one gift that only we can give. We have shown them our willingness to cross oceans at a moment’s notice simply to say thank you.

We know that it is far from enough. But for us, if not for them, this gesture has been life-changing.

Shmuel Goldin is rabbi of Congregation Ahavat Torah in Englewood and president of the Rab-binical Council of America.

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Rabbis riff on ChanukahLarry yudeLson

Tu Bi-Sh’vat doesn’t have this problem.Nobody ever preached that the meaning

of the Jewish New Year of the Trees was being overshadowed by practices imported from Arbor Day.

And no one scolds congregants for making their Shemeni Atzeret observances seems more like Columbus Day.

But Chanukah — oy, Chanukah. A holiday often under the shadow of its more popular calendrical neighbor, Christmas.

Rabbi Debra Orenstein says it’s ironic “that this is the holiday when we sometimes aspire to appropriate the customs of the general culture, because the essence of the Chanukah story, and the essence of the original battles of the Maccabees, was about the right to be different.”

Orenstein, of Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson, says that it is misrepresenting what Chanukah is and what it could be in the eyes of Jews “when we call it the Jewish Christmas or allow that impression to stand.

“The commercialization of the season — that’s not something I want to borrow from the general culture. That’s not attractive for Christians about Christmas; why would Jews want to bring that into Judaism?”

Which is not to say that she agrees with those who play down Chanukah as an unimportant minor holiday.

“It’s a historical holiday. The word minor conveys the wrong impression. It’s significant. It has an important message and a place in the life of the Jewish calendar.”

Orenstein said the core messages of Chanukah “have to do with the right to be different, with the willingness to fight and sacrifice and step out in faith, even when the odds are against you.”

She sees an important message of the balance between faith and action in the holiday.

“The story of the oil lasting for eight days conveys divine protection, and that miracles can surprise and benefit you. But in this holiday, that miracle is only portrayed as happening after people have taken actions and risks. We need both of those elements. We need confidence that if we step out in faith we’ll be supported by miracles that haven’t yet revealed themselves.

Rabbi Stephen Wylen of Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne said he’s “surprised at all these rabbis who preach to all their congregants and the Jewish people to stop celebrating Chanukah so much, like that’s the biggest problem we have — over-celebrating our holidays.

“Times change, and Chanukah is a minor holiday only in the technical sense that it’s not commanded in the Torah. It’s obviously a major holiday in the mindset of American Jews, and I think for very good reasons.

“Sukkot is not as big as it was two thousand years ago because hardly any of us are farmers anymore. The messages of Chanukah are increasingly relevant to American Jews,” Wylen continued.

“It’s completely anachronistic to attribute to Judah Maccabee the idea of fighting for religious freedom. Matthias, Judah’s father, said, ‘Everyone who wishes to remain loyal to the traditions of our ancestors, follow me.’”

What the Maccabees understood as maintaining ancestral traditions, “we understand as religious freedom — freedom to maintain our identity in the face of the

Ghosts of Chanukah presentsLarry yudeLson

Chanukah is a holiday about the Jewish past and pre-serving the Jewish future.

But is it — or rather, should it be — a holiday of presents?

For rabbis, inclined to stress the spiritual over the material, that’s a matter of some debate.

“People say stop all this gift giving,” Rabbi Stephen Wylen of Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne said. “It seems to me, we live in a pretty rich country. And if people want to use some of their excess income on giving gifts to their loved ones, what the heck? Go right ahead! When my kids were little, I always bought them presents for Chanukah. It was a nice thing to do. Let them enjoy it.”

Now, however, “a couple of my kids live in Israel, where the whole present thing is not so big,” he says.

Years ago, Wylen served as a rabbi in Huntington, West Virginia. “We were pretty poor then. I didn’t have a big salary, and we were raising four children. My wife and I decided that year we would just buy for each other practical gifts we needed for the house anyway. My big present for her that year was a DustBuster, that little

hand-held vacuum cleaner.“On the first night of Chanukah, the television station

came over to my house for a live broadcast. So after we lit the candles, I gave the gift to my wife, but she didn’t open it on camera. Afterwards, the whole town called to ask: ‘What did he give you?’”

Rabbi Debra Orenstein of Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson said that “gift giving can be a very spiritual opportunity, when you think about what the other person prizes and loves.

“I have some customs from my own growing up that I carried on and passed on to my kids. We do give eight presents. When I was growing up, the first few nights were things you were going to get anyway — like socks and barrettes — wrapped in a beautiful present. It was the joy of sharing, wrapping, and opening.”

Rabbi Ruth Zlotnick of Temple Beth Or in Washington Township said that in her family, “we don’t make a big deal about giving lots of gifts — but we do make sure that one night is a night of giving books. It’s still books, not ebooks. And one night we empty our tzedakah boxes

that we fill before Shabbat dinner each week. We count the change, and usually by that time there’s a special tzedakah project in the synagogue that goes to Israel.” This year, her Temple Beth Or is raising funds to equip Israeli fire fighters.

“People just have to develop some kind of restraint,” Rabbi Lawrence Zierler of the Jewish Center of Teaneck said. “It’s just a question of proportion, the same way no one has to show up for Black Friday if they don’t want to. You can give gifts to your children in other ways, spread throughout the year.”

When his kids were young, they received “smaller gifts” on Chanukah.

“I have to admit the truth,” Zierler said. “When I was growing up in Ontario, we decked our halls with streamers of dreidels. We were living in a non-Jewish neighborhood. We need to somehow deal with something that was compensatory. On Christmas morning, I used to wake up with non-Jewish neighbors and even opened up presents with them.

“Look what happened. I became a rabbi.”

Rabbi Lawrence Zierler

Rabbi Debra Orenstein

Rabbi Stephen Wylen

Rabbi Ruth Zlotnick

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Synagogues let the light shine

Larry yudeLson

At the Jewish Community Center of Paramus, the high-light of the Chanukah sea-

son is, well, the high light: the elec-tric menorah on the synagogue’s roof that can be seen “a long distance off,” according to the synagogue’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Arthur Weiner.

“We do this to fulfill the mitzvah of making the miracle of Chanukah known in the larger community,” he said.

The 10-foot-tall chanukiyah is lit every night, but on Dec. 11, the congregation will gather in the synagogue parking lot — for a special communal lighting ceremony.

By contrast, the holiday lighting tradition at Temple Beth Or in Washington Township takes place indoors, and lets the congregation live up to the meaning of its name: “house of light.” On the Friday night of Chanukah, families bring in their chanukiyot and light them on the bimah.

“There’s really something very beautiful about that,” says the congregation’s Rabbi Ruth Zlotnick. “We see every family’s chanukiyah lit up. We’re living the mitzvah of letting our light be seen, and coming together

as a community.“It’s focused on the aspect of making

sure that Judaism is passed on from generation to generation. There’s a thrill seeing all those candles, and bringing a little piece of people’s home into the shul gets to the spirit of the mitzvah.”

And it recalls for Zlotnick “the real miracle of Chanukah: We’re still lighting our chanukiyot over the generations.”

Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson has tackled the holiday focus on gift giving head-on, dedicating four evenings during the holiday for opportunities for congregants to give to the community after lighting candles.

They visit nursing homes and veterans; they sit together and make blankets for the homeless. “We have more and more families participating,” the shul’s Rabbi Debra Orenstein said.

But at the Jewish Center of Teaneck, Rabbi Lawrence Zierler believes the holiday’s place is in the home.

“I’ve tried to downplay the need for Chanukah to be in shul — beyond lighting the menorah in shul each morning and night,” he said. “I’m focusing more on the music and the idea of it being a table-based holiday.”

A look ahead at Chanukah 2013 (and 2070 and 2165)a reflection on God’s timing

Larry yudeLson

Next year, America will shut down on the first day of Chanukah.It will be a legal holiday.No, this is not an effort by federal lawmakers to give Jewish holidays

equal time on the federal holiday calendar.Rather, the first day of Chanukah falls on Thanksgiving: Nov. 28If this sounds unusual, well, it is.This unusual coincidence will reportedly next occur in 2070 and 2165 — and then

not for 60,000 years.“It’s going to take us a little while to wrap our minds around it,” said Rabbi Debra

Orenstein of Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson. “It’s so weird to contemplate. I’m convinced there are strong, powerful spiritual opportunities in this timing.”

How so?“Every year we have this conversation — are the High Holy Days early? Are they

late? There’s an invitation in this crazy timing next year to cast aside all our own sense of ‘why isn’t this on my clock?’ and start to really get in harmony with God’s timing.

“The Mishnah teaches, ‘Align your will with God’s will.’ Similarly, align your timing with God’s timing. Sometimes we’re very impatient; we feel things are coming too slow. We’re always wanting God to adjust to our timing, including on the big issues, like ‘When am I going to meet my bashert? When will that job come? When will the mashiach be here?’ It’s just an invitation to laugh at ourselves and get back in rhythm with God’s time,” Orenstein said.

incredibly attractive culture in the midst of which we live. Our experience is quite parallel to that of the Maccabees. There are many lessons of Chanukah we can strongly identify with. I would go with that flow as opposed to trying to fight it,” Wylen said. “It’s well and good to try to revive Sukkot and Shavuot, but those people who claim that we’re only celebrating Chanukah because we’re imitating American Christmas don’t understand the historical process involved.”

“Christmas in the Christian world was technically a minor holiday. Many early American Protestants were strongly opposed to Christmas observance altogether. The Puritans outlawed it. Christmas did not get big until Charles Dickens and the poem ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’” in the early 19th century.

Not long afterwards, “Jewish nationalists revived Judah Maccabee as a role model,” Wylen said, “reinventing Chanukah with its real history which in prior centuries Jews either ignored or didn’t really know at all. Traditional Jews knew so little about the actual story of Chanukah. The traditional ‘Al Hanisim’ prayer begins ‘In the days of Matityahu, the high priest.’ If he was the high priest, there wouldn’t be Chanukah at all.

“Even today a lot of Jews know the story so poorly they think the eight days of Chanukah are because the oil for one day burned eight days. Kids ask: ‘Why does it take eight days to prepare oil’? It doesn’t. You just squeeze olives.

“The original story is they decided

in advance that it would be an eight day observance, like Sukkot,” Wylen continued.

“The whole miracle story was built around suppressing the history and the relevance of Judah Maccabee. In the modern observance, Judah Maccabee and his fights for cultural independence in the Greek empire take on great relevance. It’s about who we are, and our struggle to remain Jewish against the forces of assimilation.

“We’re not going to resist assimilation. If Judaism is going to survive in America, it’s because we’re going to find a way to assimilate and remain Jewish. That’s what the Maccabees worked out; we need to work out something as successful for ourselves.

“Christmas and Chanukah both grew big along the same time in the modern era, to some extent because of the growth of secularism. Chanukah and Christmas are both are relatively secular holidays. If you’re a Christian, the really religious holiday is Easter; if you’re a Jew, it’s the High Holy Days and the three festivals,” he said.

Wylen pointed out that critics of Chanukah are overlooking something the Jewish holiday and Christmas have in common: the date. Chanukah is the 25th of Kislev; Christmas is the 25th of December. Those are the first winter months of their respective calendars. “They take place on the same date. Obviously they’re not completely distinct,” he said.

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‘Proud moment’ for informal educationPost-sandy nCsY carnival geared to cheer hoboken youth

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While the twice-yearly conventions of the National Conference of Synagogue Youth’s New Jersey Region traditionally include ele-

ments of social action, this year students will have a dif-ferent kind of volunteer experience.

“In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we decided that instead of the usual Thursday night recreational activity at the [convention] hotel, we’ll give students the opportunity to make a real difference,” said Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, New Jersey director of the NCSY, the Orthodox Union’s youth group.

According to Glasser, the 300 or so students attending the Dec. 6-9 convention will not go straight to the hotel, based at the Hudson Valley Resort in upstate New York, but will travel instead to the Hoboken community center run by the city’s housing authority.

“There’s a large contingent of kids connected to that community center, many from the projects,” Glasser said. “Our kids will be running a carnival for their kids.”

To give the Hoboken youngsters a respite from the dislocation of the hurricane, the NCSY students are pre-paring a host of carnival-related activities for them. The youth organization also will offer a full kosher dinner to the 400 middle-schoolers expected to attend.

“I met with the head of the housing authority to discuss the menu,” Glasser said, joking that while it would have been less expensive to serve cheeseburgers, he’d explained to the Hoboken official why this was not possible.

NCSY students are already planning activities such as ring-toss, juggling, face-painting, knocking down cans, and balloon animal-making, said Glasser.

“It’s whatever the kids create, what they make of it,” he said, noting that the NCSY delegation will arrive Thursday afternoon to set things up. “The housing au-thority will construct a tent and we’ll design the booths around tables.”

After the carnival, NCSYers will be bused back to the convention hotel for a “debriefing — a multimedia presentation about what we did,” he said. On Friday morning, they will have an additional opportunity to do volunteer work in upstate New York and then will re-group for Shabbat.

Glasser said that although the youth group is spon-

sored by the Orthodox Union, it attracts high school students “from a wide spectrum of backgrounds, from completely unaffiliated to Orthodox. We’re trying to instill within Jewish teens of all affiliations a passion for Judaism and a motivation to further discover and culti-vate their Jewish identity.”

“It’s different things for different kids,” he said, ex-plaining that some may choose to focus on Israel, some on tikkun olam, and still others on Shabbat. “The com-monality is in inspiring the next generation to want to perpetuate Jewish identity.”

Glassman said the New Jersey NCSYers are “extremely excited, extremely motivated” by the carnival project, which is being coordinated by regional associate director Rabbi Ethan Katz.

“It’s one thing to learn about the values of Judaism — caring for the world and being a light unto the na-tions,” he said. “It’s another thing to put them into action. [Students] usually have the opportunity to be educated and inspired. We rarely provide an opportunity for the kids to manifest those values by making a difference.”

The carnival project also fits in well with the conven-tion theme, he said.

“The theme will be chesed, kindness, and responsibil-ity,” Glassman said. Unlike volunteer experiences created specifically for the students, “this is real. They’re walking into a community where kids have been impacted in a major way.”

While NCSYers already have done volunteer work centering on the hurricane — for example, working with the Minnesota-based Nechama disaster relief group — Glassman said he was looking for a way to involve a large number of teens.

He noted that the Hoboken project “flows beautifully into the theme of Chanukah and the notion of putting a menorah outside and in the window. We want to illumi-nate the outside world with our value system.”

Glasser said the carnival project shows the versatility of informal education — “that it can adapt to changes in the environment and to what’s going on around us, that we can reshape the educational experience so that it resonates with the [teens].

“It’s what we should be doing,” he said. “It’s a proud moment for informal education.”

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A rea day schools are taking advantage of interac-tive technologies to bring spoken Hebrew into the classroom in fresh, appealing ways.

First-graders at the Moriah School of Englewood are using a new computer-based Hebrew teaching program to supplement their language acquisition at a critical young age.

According to Faigy Ravitz, technology integration spe-cialist for the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education, the Tal Am CAL computer program was modeled on in-structional software such as SuccessMaker, which allows each child to move at an individualized pace within an engaging interface.

“We at CIJE were inspired to facilitate the creation of a similar Hebrew language program that could revolution-ize Jewish day schools’ Hebrew programs,” said Ravitz, who trained the four Moriah first-grade teachers to use the product devised in conjunction with Hebrew instruc-tion materials producer Tal Am. It was piloted in several schools last year.

“CAL” is a play on words — it stands for “computer as-sisted learning,” and it is also the Hebrew word for “easy.” Using texts, songs, stories, music, and visual aids, it is meant to help teachers make Hebrew instruction easier.

The children use it twice a week in 25-minute seg-ments, and eventually they will be able to log on from home whenever they like.

“This is a colorful, fun, interactive, and individualized program that each child uses with a password and head-phones,” said Leah Levi, a Jewish studies teacher in her 28th year at Moriah. Each works at his or her own level and pace, and there are a lot of interactive games and songs in Hebrew. The kids are really enjoying it.”

The completed sessions are stored so that the teacher can track every user’s progress. The children even can record themselves speaking, and the teacher can listen to monitor how they are doing.

Levi said the program complements her already

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Deena Kahane showing Chanukah in Jerusalem to students at Yavneh Academy.

Learning Hebrew interactivelyLocal day schools use technology to bring language alive

Hebrew-intensive classroom by catering to each stu-dent’s learning style without being competitive. “The kids are very eager to do it because they are competing against themselves and not the rest of the class.”

Moriah and other schools are also using live long-distance learning. Aliza Picard, a longtime Moriah teacher from Israel who returned to her homeland three years ago, has continued teaching fifth-graders in the Englewood school via videoconferencing four days a week.

A similar setup was piloted 12 years ago at the Torah Academy of Bergen County, a boys’ high school, by for-mer assistant principal Rabbi Zvi Grumet. After making aliyah, Grumet continued teaching Bible to some classes for two years through videoconferencing. Based on that model, about 10 years ago he created the Lookstein LIVE program based at Bar-Ilan University.

Former Teaneck resident Susan Yammer is the edu-cational coordinator for Lookstein LIVE, which is used by 10 American schools including Yavneh Academy and Yeshivat Noam in Paramus, as well as the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey in River Edge. The four Israel-based teachers in the program teach Hebrew, Bible, Talmud, Mishnah and Israeli current events.

“It seems to fill a number of needs,” said Yammer, a former Yavneh classroom teacher. “Schools turn to us be-cause of the Israel connection — the exciting notion that ‘Ki mitzion tetze Torah’ [‘For out of Zion comes Torah’] and for the pragmatic reason of finding a qualified, cre-ative teacher during specific hours.”

She added that Yavneh decided to continue with the program for a second year after assessing its effectiveness in the participating children’s level of Hebrew speaking.

The three area schools using Lookstein LIVE all have the same teacher, Deena Kahane, who made aliyah from Teaneck in 2008. She had taught at Moriah and RYNJ. Though Lookstein LIVE faculty can serve as primary Hebrew classroom teachers, Kahane works with hand-picked children for extracurricular enrichment in lan-guage and Bible. The sessions meet three times a week for 40 minutes each.

A few times a year, Kahane livestreams a Hebrew les-son for the entire fourth and fifth grades at Yavneh. Often these sessions are centered around the holidays in Israel. During Chanukah, she strolls through Jerusalem’s Old

City with her webcam, showing the children the meno-rahs displayed outside doorways and talking about the holiday — in Hebrew, of course.

She has also “taken” the New Jersey schoolchildren to army swearing-in ceremonies at the Western Wall, explaining the oath the new recruits shout in unison, and why the ancient wall is an appropriately symbolic place for the ceremony. She’ll interview a few soldiers for the segment as well.

Kahane does not feel the physical distance prevents her from connecting with her students.

“At Yavneh I’m teaching two grades, so I have some of last year’s kids. A few were in Israel over the summer and came to visit me. In a sense, whenever I teach them they’re in my home. I try to convey an excitement about life in Israel. For example, if it’s raining I will devote a few minutes to explaining the significance of that. When Gilad Shalit was freed, I taught them a song written in his honor.”

Yammer says that as technology advances, so does the nature of Lookstein LIVE. “My job is to build this program,” she said. “More and more schools are contact-ing us because we have so many wonderfully qualified teachers here in Israel.”

Moriah first-graders ready to learn Hebrew with CAL, a computer program designed to let them acquire language skills at their own pace.

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The gift of educationTemple Emeth’s religious school is offering a Chanukah gift —free enrollment for new students in kindergarten through third-grade until June. Synagogue membership is not required. On Saturday, Dec. 15, the synagogue offers Chanukah Family Fun, with crafts, stories, music, and dance, for 2 -to-5-year-olds and their families, 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Call (201) 833-8466.

Seniors perform for seniorsThe theater group of Bright Side Manor, an assisted living facility in Teaneck, performed its most recent production, “Fiddler on the Roof,” for residents of CareOne in Teaneck on Nov. 19.

Ohel youth training program is launched in BergenfieldThe Ohel New Jersey regional office and Congregation Beth Abraham of Bergenfield began a certificate-training program for 20 Shabbat youth group leaders on Nov. 18.

The concept was designed and produced via a collab-orative effort between Simcha Feuerman, Ohel’s director of operations; Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Krug, dean of student life and welfare at the Frisch School; and the presenter, Evan Kroll. Ohel will train the group to serve as youth leaders and role models for children. Topics included bullying awareness and prevention, self-esteem develop-ment, preparing lessons and activities, and child safety.

Beth Abraham’s youth leaders will get certificates of completion from Ohel at the end of the course.

For more information, call Simcha Feuerman at (201) 692-3972 or email Beth Abraham’s youth director, Aryeh Morris, at [email protected].

Psychologist Evan Kroll leads an OHEL training session for youth leaders. Courtesy ohel

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Public lightings, special needs programming, gift-donating (not just giving), and lots of latkes make up the Chanukah events taking place throughout our area beginning after Shabbat ends on Saturday, Dec. 8. As

of press time and deadlines, here are the highlights, as assembled by Beth Janoff Chananie. Check next week’s Calendar of Events for additional listings.

December 2Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge hosts a Chanukah-themed Mother’s Circle minicourse on Jewish parenting for mothers of other religious backgrounds who are raising Jewish children. The topics they will tackle include how to create a Jewish home, a Jewish child’s life-cycle events, and an overview of the Jewish holidays. The group meets at the shul, 9 a.m. Made possible by a joint grant to the Jewish Outreach Institute and the shul from the Adler Family Innovation Fund. 385 Howland Ave. Stephanie, (201) 489-2463, ext. 202, or [email protected].

Congregation B’nai Jacob in Jersey City offers Lox ‘n Learning, 9:30 a.m., featur-ing tsimbl player and recording artist Pete Rushefsky, most recently heard on Itzhak Perlman’s newly released CD of Jewish music. Bagels and lox and wine and cheese. Family Chanukah workshop. Babysitting available. 176 West Side Ave. (201) 435-5725 or bnaijacobjc.org.

The Gerrard Berman Day School Solomon Schechter of North Jersey in Oakland hosts “Mosaic Menorah Magic,” for 2- to 8-year-olds, 10-11:30 a.m. Magic show, music, and doughnuts. Sponsored by local Dunkin’ Donuts, JFSNJ, and Artistic Tile. 45 Spruce St. Amy Shafron, (201) 337-1111, ext. 302, or [email protected].

Ben Porat Yosef offers “Reading Rocks,” with an author presentation, scavenger hunt, puppet show, and face painting at the Barnes & Noble at Riverside Square Mall, Hackensack, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (201) 845-5007, ext. 16, or www.benporatyosef.org.

Congregation Gesher Shalom, the Jewish Community Center of Fort Lee, holds its annual holiday boutique, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 1449 Anderson Ave. (201) 947-1735.

Temple Emanu-El of Closter hosts its Chanukah Bash & Volunteer Expo, featur-ing a concert by Shir La La and arts and crafts, 9:15 a.m. 180 Piermont Road. (201) 750-9997 or [email protected].

The Wayne YMCA holds a Chanukah festival, 12:30 p.m., with face paint-ing, arts and crafts, chocolate making, latkes, doughnuts, and Scholastic Book Fair. Stretch the Silly Man will perform at 1, and there will be a Chanukah story in the Goldman Library at 2. Bring unwrapped new toys for a toy drive. Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of

Northern New Jersey. The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a partner of the YM-YWHA of North Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973) 595-0100, ext. 250.

“Hershel and the Chanukah Goblins: A Family Chanukah Program” includes storytelling, songs, arts and crafts, and a concert by Play Me a Story at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Manhattan, 2 p.m. The group includes the Israeli-born duo, teacher/actress Maya Blank and in-strumentalist Uri Sharlin. Made possible through a gift from the Margaret Neubart Foundation Trust. (646) 437-4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.

The Men’s Club of Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn offers “Latke and Vodka,” in-cludes hors d’oeuvres, homemade latkes, vodka, and beverages, at 5:30 p.m. Bring a unwrapped new toy to donate. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.

December 5A menorah will be lit at Paramus Borough Hall, 7 p.m. 1 Jockish Square. (201) 265-2100 or www.paramusborough.org.

Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, Judaic scholar-in-residence at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, discusses “Our Chanukah Versus the Chanukah of History, the Talmud, and the Siddur” at the JCC, 8:15 p.m. (201) 408-1429 or www.jccotp.org.

December 6Shalom Baby offers a Chanukah party at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel, 9:30-10:45 a.m. The group presents a way for moms and dads whose children range from new-

borns or newly adopted through age 3 to connect with each other and the Jewish community through a monthly series of play dates with play, music, storytimes, snacks, and crafts projects. Administered by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Synagogue Leadership Initiative and co-funded by the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation. 10-10 Norma Ave. Ellen Finkelstein, (201) 820-3917 or [email protected].

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Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff ush-ers in Chanukah with a congregational dinner and services, 6 p.m. The Strauss/Warschauer Duo performs with Cantors Ilan Mamber and Jenna Daniels along with the Kol Rishon adult choir and the Zemer Rishon teen choir. (201) 891-4466 or www.bethrishon.org.

Temple Emanu-El of Closter holds a congregational Chanukah/new member dinner, 6 p.m. 180 Piermont Road. (201) 750-9997.

December 8Chabad of NW Bergen County holds a menorah lighting and celebration at Wyckoff Town Hall, 6:30 p.m. Mayor Chris DePhillips and local officials will be there; it will include hot Chanukah refresh-ments, glow giveaways, and grand raffle. (201) 848-0449 or www.chabadplace.org.

The North Jersey Jewish Singles group (45-60) at the Clifton Jewish Center hosts the Chanukah “Boomers’ Dance” with a DJ, 7-10:30 p.m.; doors open at 6:30. Refreshments. Bring a grab-bag gift valued from $5-$10. Martine or Karen, (973) 772-3131 or www.meetup.com (use group name).

December 9The Dora and Sidney Miller Early Childhood Center at the JCC of Paramus holds Holiday Playtime, an interactive program with holiday crafts, music, dance, refreshments, and playtime, for 2- to 4-year-olds with their parents or grandparents, 10 a.m. Free. Judy Fox, (201) 967-1334 or [email protected].

Calendar of Events for additional listings.

other religious backgrounds who are raising Jewish children. The topics they will tackle include how to create a Jewish home, a Jewish child’s life-cycle events, and an overview of the Jewish holidays.

Jewish Outreach Institute and the shul from the Adler Family Innovation Fund.

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Jersey Cityoffers Lox ‘n Learning, 9:30 a.m., featur-

Pete Rushefsky, most recently heard on Itzhak Perlman’s newly released CD of Jewish music. Bagels and lox and wine and cheese. Family Chanukah workshop. Babysitting available. 176 West Side Ave.

Northern New Jersey. The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a partner of the YM-YWHA of North Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973) 595-0100, ext. 250.

“Hershel and the Chanukah Goblins: A Family Chanukah Program” includes storytelling, songs, arts and crafts, and a concert by Play Me a Story at the

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The United Synagogue of Hoboken’s Kaplan Cooperative Preschool pres-ents Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights, a kindie-rock band, 11 a.m. 115 Park Ave. (201) 653-8666 or [email protected].

Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn presents Chanukah Wonderland; children can help make a large menorah cake; eat lunch, latkes, doughnuts, and cotton can-dy, play in a bounce house and at other carnival games, make candles, and more, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 30-02 Fair Lawn Ave. www.jewishfairlawn.org.

Temple Israel and JCC in Ridgewood hosts a Chanukah party for preschool-ers and their younger siblings, 11:30 a.m. Storytelling, crafts, games, and food. 475 Grove St. (201) 444-9320 or [email protected].

Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge hosts “Hot Hot Hanukkah,” with activities for ages 2- to 5- year-olds, noon, and con-cert for all ages by Matty Roxx at 1 p.m. 385 Howland Ave. (201) 489-2463, ext. 201 or [email protected].

Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly hosts a Chanukah celebration with food, music, sports & games, arts and crafts, a magician and more; noon-2 p.m. 1 Engle St.(201) 568-3075.

The Jewish Museum in Manhattan presents its annual Chanukah Family Day with a performance by Yosi and the Superdads, an art workshop, and gal-lery tours, noon-4 p.m. For children 3 and up, accompanied by an adult. (212) 423-3200 or TheJewishMuseum.org/specialfamilydays.

Shirah, the Community Chorus on the Palisades, led by its founding director and conductor Matthew Lazar, performs a Chanukah concert at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, 2 p.m. 411 East Clinton Ave. (201) 408-1465 or jccotp.org/shirah.

Lubavitch on the Palisades in Tenafly holds its annual Family Chanukah Festival, featuring M-Generation Boys Concert, 4 p.m., menorah contest details at www.chabadlubavitch.org/menorah-contest, dreidels, doughnuts, and latkes. 11 Harold St. (201) 871-1152 or www.chabadlubavitch.org.

The Chabad Center of Passaic County hosts its grand Chanukah festival with an ice carving and refreshments at the Chabad Center in Wayne, 3 p.m. Menorah lighting at 4:30. 194 Ratzer Road. (973) 694-6274 or www.jewish-wayne.com

Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes holds a Chanukah celebration with outdoor menorah lighting, potluck supper, and latke taste-off, 4:45 p.m. Music by NYC Klezmer. Bring an unwrapped toy to be donated to CUMAC (Center of United Methodist Aid to the Community). 747 Route 208 South.(201) 848-1027.

Lubavitch on the Palisades of Tenafly of-fers a chanukiyah lighting at the gazebo at the Demarest Duck Pond, 5 p.m. (201) 871-1152 or www.chabadlubavitch.org.

December 10The Teaneck-Hackensack chapter of Hadassah meets for Chanukah at Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck, for entertainment by storyteller Sara Sloan and refreshments at 12:30 p.m. 354 Maitland Ave. (201) 503-1897.

Chabad of NW Bergen County holds a menorah lighting and celebration at Mahwah Town Hall, 6 p.m. Mayor Bill Laforet and local officials will be there. Hot Chanukah refreshments, glow-give-aways, and grand raffle. (201) 848-0449 or www.chabadplace.org.

Lubavitch on the Palisades of Tenafly of-fers a lighting at Huyler Park, 7 p.m. (201) 871-1152 or www.chabadlubavitch.org.

Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn lights the me-norah with the Fair Lawn’s Mayor Jeanne Baratta in front of Fair Lawn City Hall, 7:30 p.m. doughnuts and chocolate gelt. 8-01 Fair Lawn Ave. www.jewishfairlawn.org.

December 11The Englewood & Cliffs chapter of ORT America hosts Chanukah lunch with “Spark and Spirit, A Musical Holiday Celebration,” featuring soprano Doris Weiss and her award-winning composer husband, Elliot, at Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee, noon. Chanukah gift boutique at 11:30 a.m. Kosher Chinese food. 1449 Anderson Ave. Shirley, (201) 585-1748.

The Jewish Community Center of Paramus offers dinner, 5:30 p.m., out-door menorah lighting, songs, and des-sert. E. 304 Midland Ave. Reservations. (201) 262-7691 or [email protected]

Lubavitch on the Palisades of Tenafly of-fers a chanukiyah lighting at the corner of Piermont and Ruckman roads in Closter, 7 p.m. (201) 871-1152 or www.chabad-lubavitch.org.

The Manhattan Sephardic Congregation offers a Chanukah party with food,

drinks, music, and interactive games including ping pong, for singles, 30-50, 7 p.m. 375 East 75th St., Manhattan. (212) 988-6085 or www.sepharad.org.

December 12Shalom Baby offers a Chanukah party at the Gerrard Berman Solomon Schechter Day School of North Jersey in Oakland, 9:30-10:45 a.m. The group offers a way for moms and dads whose children range from newborns or newly adopted through age 3 to connect with each other and the Jewish community through a monthly series of play dates with play, music, storytimes, snacks, and crafts projects. Administered by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Synagogue Leadership Initiative and co-funded by the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation. 45 Spruce St. Ellen Finkelstein, (201) 820-3917 or [email protected].

Lubavitch on the Palisades of Tenafly of-fers a chanukiyah lighting at the corner in front of the Cresskill Library, 7 p.m. (201) 871-1152 or www.chabadlubavitch.org.

December 13Shalom Baby offers a Chanukah party at Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson, 9:30-10:45 a.m. The group offers a way for moms and dads whose children range from newborns or newly adopted through age 3 to connect with each other and the Jewish community through a monthly series of play dates with play, music, storytimes, snacks, and crafts projects. Administered by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Synagogue Leadership Initiative and co-funded by the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation. 53 Palisade Ave. Ellen Finkelstein, (201) 820-3917 or [email protected].

The sisterhood of Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee meets to cel-ebrate Chanukah, 12:30 p.m. 1449 Anderson Ave. (201) 947-1735.

Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn offers an adult Chanukah café, 8 p.m. Sushi buffet and wines from Israel. www.jewishfairlawn.org.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Manhattan, offers “Light Up the Night,” the museum’s Young Friends annual Chanukah party for Jewish professionals in their 20s and 30s, with a DJ, dancing, buffet dinner, a high-end raffle, and gift bag for guests. Cocktail attire. 8 p.m.-midnight. (646) 437-4319 or [email protected].

December 14Temple Sinai of Bergen County’s Early Childhood Center in Tenafly hosts Chanukah Tot Shabbat. Services, 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner and menorah lighting. 1 Engle St., Tenafly; (201) 568-6867 or [email protected].

Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge holds a family Chanukah celebration. Tot Shabbat, 6 p.m.; Shabbat/Chanukah dinner, 6:30; services , BBQ dinner for all —reservations and fee required. At 7:30, family services with sign language inter-preter, 7:30. 385 Howland Ave. (201) 489-2463, ext. 203 or www.avodatshalom.net.

Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter celebrates Chanukah with its annual “101 Menorahs” Shabbat, 6 p.m. Bring a menorah and seven candles. Latkes and donuts; concert by Temple Beth El’s new Junior Band. 221 Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112 or www.tbenv.org.

Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake holds a Chanukah service for young families, 7 p.m. (201) 391-0801.

Cong. B’nai Jacob in Jersey City hosts Chanukah Shabbat dinner and a musical celebration, 6:30 p.m. 176 West Side Ave. (201) 435-5725 or [email protected].

Temple Emeth in Teaneck offers a Shabbat Chanukah family celebration, beginning with dinner, 6:15 p.m.; services at 8. Bring menorahs and candles and a nonperishable food item to donate to the Center for Food Action. 1666 Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.

Congregation Mount Sinai in Jersey City offers Shabbat Chanukah “Daven and Dine,” 7:30 p.m. 128 Sherman Ave. [email protected].

December 15Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s eNgageNJ, a young leaders group, holds its Black and White Chanukah party at Avenue Event Space in Teaneck, 9 p.m. 1382 Queen Anne Road. Kimberly Schwartzman, (201) 820-3936 or [email protected].

December 16The Jewish Cultural School & Society of-fers a Chanukah family event with crafts, dreidel games, author reading, singing, ceremony, and pot-luck lunch, at the Baird Center in South Orange, 10 a.m. 5 Mead St. (973) 233-0714 or jcss-nj.org.

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Why my great-great-grandfather was late for the family’s Chanukah latkesCurt Leviant

It was deep into the bitter Russian winter of 1843. My great-great-grandfather, Chaim Leviant, then a youngster of 15, was driving his grandfather Moshe’s

horse-drawn sleigh along the snow-covered roads not far from Kariukovke. This shtetl in the Ukraine was noted for its sugar factory, owned by the well-known Jewish mil-lionaire and philanthropist, Brodsky. In another hour or so the first light of Chanukah would be kindled at the house of Chaim’s grandparents, where the entire family was gathered to sing songs, play dreidl, and eat Grandmother Dobbe’s crispy potato latkes.

The snow finally had stopped. The late afternoon sky was clear. The roads, the roofs, the trees were white. The fields were endless sheets of white. All was silent, except for the music of the little bells in the horse’s harness; the snow was so deep that even the horse’s hooves made no sound.

Young Chaim drove carefully. He knew that during the winter, drivers had to follow three crucial rules: dress warmly, never leave the path, and never ever fall asleep. Yes, he had heard of faithful horses who brought sleeping drivers home. But he also knew the tales of tragic accidents — a slumbering driver could fall from his perch, land in the snow, and not be seen again until the spring thaw.

At the behest of his grandfather, Chaim had just de-livered a goose, dried beans, flour, oil, and potatoes to a poor Jewish family in a neighboring shtetl. Grandfather Moshe was a wealthy man who supplied the sugar factory with beets. He owned his house, but he leased the land on which he grew the beets, for Jews were forbidden to own land in Russia.

Despite the bearskin greatcoat and blanket on his feet, Chaim was cold. To counter the chill in his bones, he thought of the Chanukah lights and of his grandmother’s latkes. He began to sing, “I’ll soon be home to celebrate” to the tune of “Maoz Tsur.”

Chaim held the reins as the sleigh glided along. Suddenly, he glimpsed something on the edge of a snow-drift. Could that be a fur hat? “Whoa!” Chaim shouted, tugging at the reins. The horse stopped. Yes, a fur hat. The youngster jumped off the wagon. He picked up the hat — but his heart nearly stopped at the fright of what he saw beneath it. It was a gloved hand. “My God!” Chaim cried. He quickly began to dig in the snow with his hands until he saw what he saw: a boy of about 12 or 13, wearing the fine clothes of the gentry. Chaim put his ear to the boy’s chest and nose; he was stunned but breathing. As he lifted the lad into the sleigh, Chaim surmised what had happened. A snoozing coachman, very likely drunk, had dropped the reins and the unrestrained horses had set off in a gallop. Then a rut in the road, and the lad must have tumbled out into a snow bank while the sleigh sped on.

Chaim patted the boy’s face. He rubbed his hands and chest. He took off his own bearskin coat and wrapped the boy in it, then placed some blankets around his feet. Over his own shoulders Chaim draped another blanket like a tallis.

“Can you hear me? Can you hear me?” Chaim asked. But the boy’s eyes remained closed. When the sleigh began to move, however, Chaim heard a faint moan.

“Father, father,” the boy whimpered.“You’re safe,” Chaim said. “Who is your father? What is

your name? Tell me.”The boy answered slowly. “Arkady … Ivanovich …

Goluptsin. I fell off our coach.”“Ivan Goluptsin? Our provincial governor?”“My father…”Following the boy’s instructions, my great-great-

grandfather Chaim made his way to the Goluptsin winter

mansion. He knew he was late for Chanukah lights; he had passed the turn-off for Kariukovke long ago.

A servant opened the door, took one look, and shouted, “He’s here. Master, he’s here.” Arkady’s mother and the gov-ernor rushed into the warm, brightly lit entranceway. They saw a tall boy supporting their son, who was wrapped in a huge bearskin coat they did not recognize.

Arkady was laid on a sofa, and his mother began rub-bing his face and hands, while two servants removed the bearskin and the boy’s leather boots. Another attendant came with two glasses of hot tea on a silver tray, for the boy and for Chaim.

“He saved me, Mama. He found me. He saved me, Papa.”

“We’ve sent messengers to all the police stations,” said the governor. “And that idiot of a coachman still hasn’t come back…. Who are you, my boy?”

“I am Chaim Leviant from Kariukovke.”“Oh, yes, where Brodsky has his sugar plant. I know

Brodsky well. Do you know who I am?”“Your son told me.”“How old are you? 16?”“ Actually, I’m 15.”“You are tall for your age, Chaim, and so grown up too.”

The governor put his hand on his heart. “Thank you, thank you for saving my son’s life. Come with me, please.”

Governor Goluptsin put his arm around Chaim’s shoul-ders and led him into a spacious dining room. A large, glit-tering chandelier lit with many candles hung over a long mahogany table. “Why are you hesitating, my boy? Come with me.”

“Sir, if you don’t mind … I … I am late. Our entire family is waiting at my grandfather’s house, ready to celebrate our holiday, Chanukah. I should have been there an hour ago, and they must be worried.”

“I can understand that worry, Chaim,” Goluptsin said. “We ourselves…” and he broke off, holding back tears. He motioned to Chaim. “It will only be a moment.”

My great-great-grandfather Chaim followed the gover-nor of the entire Kiev district into his office. An oil portrait of the czar hung behind Goluptsin’s gleaming desk. “Please sit down.”

The governor opened a drawer and placed a purse on the desk.

“I know it is your holiday and it is your custom to give coins to the children.” He smiled.

“This I learned from Brodsky. Chaim, how many grand-children does your grandfather have?”

Chaim began counting to himself. Yakov, Israel-Noah, Mendl, Tanya, Rachel, Rivka, Dvora and Boris. And Zyama and Kalman, Lazar and Isak, Shmayke and Hillel and — until he reached 18, including himself.

The governor counted out 18 of the large, heavy, five-ruble gold coins and spread them on the desk. The coins glittered in the light. Chaim knew that an average worker’s wages were a ruble a month.

“Sir,” Chaim said, “please don’t think me ungrateful, but I don’t want to be rewarded for the mitzvah of saving a life. The Talmud teaches us that when someone saves one life it is as if he has saved an entire world. This alone is my reward.”

Governor Goluptsin looked at Chaim. “Hmm, I see. Well, then, is there anything I can do for you?”

“Yes,” said my great-great-grandfather Chaim, and the prompt response must have surprised the governor. “As you know, sir, Jews are not allowed to own land in Russia, except under rare and very special circumstances. You said you know Brodsky. Our family does business with him.

They have always wanted to buy land to cultivate more sugar beets and plant more crops. With this land we could provide jobs for many people in the area.”

“So how can I help?”“Could you get my family permission to buy a tract of

land outside Kariukovke?”For a moment the governor was silent. Chaim thought

that surely he would say it was out of his hands. Then Goluptsin’s face brightened.

“Chaim, you have my word. Come back in three days. I shall contact the Imperial Bank in Kiev and the documents will be prepared. And thank you again for your good deed. “ Now the governor smiled. “And don’t forget your bearskin greatcoat.”

When he arrived at his grandfather’s house, Chaim saw no Chanukah lights in the window. But a dozen faces were pressed to the glass and a few people stood outside. Now, for the second time in an hour, Chaim heard the cry, “He’s here. He’s here!”

Inside, the warm house was filled with the aroma of potato latkes. His mother and father kissed and embraced him, and he felt himself hugged from all sides. At that mo-ment Chaim knew what a dreidl felt like, being spun and turned in every direction. And then he quickly told his story.

“Now we can light the first light,” said the beaming Grandfather Moshe. “We waited and we worried, but we didn’t want to light the first candle without you.”

Then Grandmother Dobbe came in with a large platter of latkes, saying, “Right after the blessings we eat.”

The menorah was lit, and the shamash candle and the first flame glowed in the house. After the songs were sung, Grandfather Moshe gave Chanukah gelt to all the children. As they sat on the floor playing dreidl for walnuts, Moshe called my great-great-grandfather Chaim into his study.

“You refused the governor, but you won’t refuse me, eh?” Moshe smiled. Then he pulled a coin from his pocket. “This five-ruble gold piece is for you. When the time comes, give it to your firstborn son and tell him to pass it to his son, along with this story.”

And this is the coin, whose worth is far more than its weight in gold, that we keep next to our menorah during the eight days of Chanukah.

Like a legend, it sheds its own special light.

Curt Leviant’s most recent book is the short story collection “Zix Zexy Ztories.”

Curt Leviant tells a warming Chanukah tale of a cold Ukraine winter.

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I dare you, Sheldon; you, too, GeorgeShammai EngElmayEr

Hard dollar numbers are still hard to come by, but it seems certain that donations by Jewish

mega-millionaires to the recent presidential campaign exceed-ed $115 million — from just 11 donors, five on the Republican side and six on the Democratic one.

In a post-election edito-rial, this newspaper said it was “appalled at how much Jewish money was expended.” Other Jewish publications made similar statements. The various editorials condemning these expenditures do not challenge the right of anyone to donate to political campaigns; they merely challenge the level of giving.

To my mind, the use of words such as “appalled” is wrong — not because the expenditures were not appall-ing, but because “disgusting” is closer to the truth; “outra-geous” works well, too.

Sinful, however, is the best word. Spending that kind of money when communal needs go wanting is a sin.

So, to Sheldon Adelson, George Soros, Ronald Perelman, the Lauders (most of whom gave to Obama, by the way), the Bronfmans, et al, this column is for you. I am not prepared to argue with you over the amount of your donations. It is your money and you get to de-cide how to waste it. I do, however, wish to issue you a challenge.

First, a little background that, sadly, I fear most of you are simply not interested in reading. Nonetheless, bear with me.

It is about tzedakah. Notice, please, that I did not say “charity.” In Judaism, we have no concept of “char-ity.” Charity comes from the Latin word caritas, which comes from the root word carus, meaning dear, costly, or loved, and the root word cor, which means heart. In other words, “charity” is something that comes from the heart; it is motivated by compassion; it is wholly volun-tary in nature.

Not so tzedakah; it derives from the root word tzedek. Tzedek has multiple meanings, including righteous-ness, justice, truth, purity, and sincerity. Several times in Deuteronomy, tzedek is used as the word for honest — specifically, an honest weight and measure. To that definition, the Talmud adds yet another — “to be liberal

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.


A check in time

Hurricane Sandy — also known as the superstorm — caused a great deal of damage, and a great deal of hurt.

Few, however, were as “damaged” and “hurt” as were Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson and Jewish Family Service of North Jersey. No, they did not suf-fer the way so many among us did, and we are not equating real suffering to what these two agencies endured. Yet we are expressing a truth that demands telling: Sandy severely impaired their ability to bring relief the next time.

The why of this should be obvious: They were sensa-tional during Sandy, just as we have come to expect them both to be.

These two agencies, which serve communties from the flood-ravaged North Hudson area to the perpetually flood-prone Wayne and everything in between, made use of every available resource to bring food to the suddenly homebound, shelter to the suddenly homeless, and hope to the suddenly hopeless. And they did it in addition to their daily efforts on behalf of the elderly, the jobless, the Shoah survivors, and the needy of every faith, nationality,

age, and race who come through their doors.This Sunday evening, Jewish Family Service of Bergen

and North Hudson is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a major fundraising dinner, planned before Sandy but now more urgent than ever. (See the article beginning on page 21.) This spring, Jewish Family Service of North Jersey hopes to have a major fundraiser of its own to replenish coffers depleted by Sandy.

This is the season when people plan their end-of-year giving, in order to lower their annual tax bill. Here is our suggestion:

If you are not going to the dinner on Sunday, sit down today and write a check to Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson. If you are going to the dinner, increase your planned donation by 20 percent or more.

At the same time, let none of us wait for the spring to write a check to Jewish Family Service of North Jersey. The tax break is now, so now is the time to write a check. There will be plenty of time in the spring to write another one.

The need is great. There is no need to wait.

KEEPING THE FAITHOne religious perspectIve on issues of the day

Bad timing

The United Nations General Assembly now has before it an officially submitted draft of a decla-ration of Palestinian statehood. Not only should

it be voted down, it should not even be allowed to be brought up.

We are not opposed to Palestinian statehood. A two-state solution continues to be the only truly viable solution to the seemingly insolv able Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which has gone on much too long. This long has been the stated goal of the members of the United Nations. In speech after speech and vote after vote, they have affirmed that peace can best be achieved when a Palestinian state resides next door to the Jewish one.

To grant the Palestinians statehood status now, how-ever, is to reward bad behavior in the extreme. Several times over the years, the Palestinians and Israel came

thisclose to settling the issue, only to have the Palestinian side reject the proferred deals. The late and unlamented (by us) Yasir Arafat even rejected an offer that would have created a Palestinian state with a portion of Jerusalem as its capital. His successor has resisted every attempt at serious negotiations since taking over the reins of the Palestinian Authority.

To be sure, the Israelis have not been all that willing to make concessions for peace, but that has more to do with the fact that it has already made so many concessions for peace without serious response from the other side than it has to do with unwillingness to deal at all.

Granting the Palestinians the status of statehood is to say no to the peace process. That is not the way to bring about peace. It is the way to guarantee more war.

Chanukah, oy Chanukah

‘T is the season of our discontent. Chanukah is upon us, and again we are making the most of its status as the Jewish Christmas.

But it is not the Jewish Christmas. Christmas is a major observance of another religion. Chanukah is a minor ob-servance of ours. Unfortunately for the Christian faiths, the meaning of Christmas has been grossly diminished by the commercialism that has attached. Christmas is less about the birth of a Christian messiah and more about the hot new toys, such as LeapPad 2 Explorer and Wii U for children, and mini iPads, video glasses, and Darth Vader alarm clocks for adults.

Chanukah never was about gifts. “Chanukah gelt” does not mean “Chanukah gift.” It is but a few pennies given to

children to play dreidel, so that they can learn what the four letters mean. Nun, gimel, hey, and shin stand for nes gadol hayah sham — a great miracle happened there. In other words, it is meant to spark questions from the chil-dren about what was the miracle and why we should care.

While we rush to celebrate this minor holiday, we do so by corrupting its message, thereby losing an opportunity to teach our children the value we Jews place on the concept of freedom. To our children, Chanukah is about getting presents for eight nights, munching on jelly doughnuts (and how many people know why doughnuts ?) and little else.

Chanukah begins a week from Saturday night. Enjoy the festival; we surely intend to. Keep it in perspective, however.

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with.” Specifically, it means “to be liberal with what is your own and give it to” the poor person by adding overweight and overmeasure. (See Babylonian Talmud tractate Chulin 134a; also Bava Batra 88b and elsewhere for similar discussions.)

In other words, if a poor person comes into your grocery store and asks for a pound of flour, and you know that person needs more than that to feed his or her family, it is tzedek to charge that person for a pound of flour, but to give him or her a little extra, without em-barrassing that person by saying you are doing so.

From tzedek, we also derive such meanings as kind-ness, virtue, and piety. A tzadik, for example, is not a saint in the Christian sense, just a normal person whose very being is defined by one or more qualities associ-ated with a definition of tzedek.

Which brings us to tzedakah, the feminine form of tzedek. It means righteousness, purity, equity, and “to be liberal with.” Tzedakah has nothing to do with the heart. It is obligatory on those who have, because it is the God-given right of those who have not. To use a word considered dirty by many, it is an entitlement.

The only question is why. Here, then, is what Moses had to say. If “you say to yourselves, ‘My own power and the might of my own hand have won this wealth for me,’ remember that it is the Lord your God who gives you the power to get wealth....” (See Deuteronomy 8:17-18.)

Thus, as Britain’s chief rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, explains so cogently, “Ultimately, all things are owned by God, creator of the world. What we possess, we do not own — we merely hold it in trust for God.... [B]ecause we are not owners of our property but merely guardians on God’s behalf, we are bound by the condi-tions of trusteeship, one of which is that we share part of what we have with others in need. What would be regarded as charity in other legal systems is, in Judaism, a strict requirement of the law....”

Some of you “fat cat donors,” to hark back to an ex-pression from a previous political era, may argue that your donations to this year’s campaigns fit that bill. God gave you the wealth and put you in a position to protect the interests of the Jewish people or the Jewish state, or both, and that is what you did with the $115 million or so. To this, we turn to “the second Moses,” Moses Maimonides, the Rambam:

“A poor relative takes precedence to all others, a poor member of one’s household takes precedence over the poor of one’s city, the poor of one’s city take precedence over the poor of another city....” (See Mishneh Torah, Gifts to the Poor 7:13.)

Put in simplest terms, we must prioritize our giving. First consider what is most needed closer to home, and by whom. There are more important matters to address and none may be more important than Jewish educa-tion. (Note to all my other readers: that means you need to write out your end-of-year checks to your local syna-gogues, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, the local Jewish Family Service agency, and so forth.)

So here is the challenge, Mr. Adelson, and Mr. Soros, and all the rest of you others whose donations went into that $115 million political pothole. Take one-third of what you donated to the 2012 campaign and put it into a superfund for Jewish education — not for special projects, or fancy buildings with your names on it, but for tuition for any child whose parents cannot afford it; for salary augmentation for teachers who otherwise do not earn a decent living; for curriculum develop-ment on a par with the best private schools; and for enhanced quality learning at after-school programs for those students whose parents prefer to send them to public schools for their general education.

Spend that $38 million in this way and you will have a far more positive impact on the future of the Jewish people than any political donation can bring.

You especially, Mr. Adelson. This year, it seems, you had money to burn. Use some of it to light up the Jewish future. I dare you.

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Rocket science and disillusionyEhuda hESS

If Israel was encouraging our aliyah, it would have let its army achieve genuine peace with dignity.

More than a million Israeli citizens in the Negev would enjoy the same protection and security the rest of Israel has. A new oleh might not have to fear traveling to Israeli cities, such as Beer Sheva, Ashkelon, and Ashdod. How might a new oleh sing our national anthem, “lihi-yot am chafshi b’artzeinu” — to be a free nation in our land — knowing that a ghetto mentality still exists in the state of Israel?

I hope that there is a place for me in Israel. Not be-ing a leftist, a liberal, or a secular Jew, I never advocated a two-state solution or embraced the Oslo accords. I remain disheartened by this hudna, or truce. Perhaps I should adhere to the hackneyed refrain suggesting Americans not offer advice to Israel. Ironically, this was not communicated to Secretary of State Clinton last week.

From my limited point of view, the construction of fences, walls, portable bomb shelters, Iron Domes, and bubbles against rocket attacks only imprisons Israel within its borders. Israel’s aggressive Arab neighbors in Gaza and Lebanon never needed to build such fences, walls, and shelters to protect their citizens. I thought David’s capital, Jerusalem, dictated Israeli policy, not America’s DC.

Israel’s dependence on world opinion for self-vali-dation is weakening its resolve. After years of suffering indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza, the mere fear of no “peace accord” with Egypt was sufficient motivation for no ground assault and Israel declaring a cease-fire? Above all, America’s “rock solid” commitment to Israel made Egypt the enforcer — the same Egypt that would not protect the Israeli consulate in Cairo. Political turmoil and unrest has rendered Egypt incapable of protecting its own military installations in the Sinai, let alone enforcing a hudna in Gaza.

Israel maintains a strong military capacity. Operation Pillar of Defense shot down more than 85 percent of in-coming rockets over Israeli urban centers. Nevertheless,

how can this operation be called a success when the enemy was neither eliminated nor deterred? Israel al-lowed its political and financial capitals to be targeted; an even worse effect was in decreasing the nation’s morale. Thousands of Israeli soldiers sat helplessly near the Gaza fence for days, witnessing hundreds of missiles flying over them toward their homes and families.

IDF soldiers were demoralized after being trained for a mission they weren’t permitted to execute. In fact, the operation emasculated IDF soldiers to the extent that they are now requesting bomb shelters for their IDF bases.

Missile interceptors systems such as the Arrow, the Iron Dome or even David’s Sling will not compensate for Israel’s underlying weakness. Peace is achieved only with strength. Israel’s accepting a ceasefire while un-der attack disheartened its traumatized citizens in the south, who demanded a ground assault. They expected no less after living huddled in bomb shelters for days.

Similarly, the acceptance of a hudna, indicating a temporary calming (hu-du is a noun that means quiet) guarantees greater danger and destruction in months to come. Now, Hamas may maintain its abhorrent charter and genocidal goals without disarming.

A ground assault would have earned a respectable cease-fire — a “waqaf itlaq annar” — rather than a hudna. Not surprisingly, none of the Gaza terrorist fac-tions responsible for launching hundreds of missiles signed the hudna. Immediately after it went into effect, 20 rockets flew into southern Israel. Historically, hudnas are short-lived.

More cease-fire violations seem certain to follow.I remain apprehensive about United States guar-

antees that no missiles will be fired against Israel from Gaza. American diplomacy appears to have protected Hamas in the same way that it protected Hamas during the Cast Lead operation in 2009. We just saw the expedi-tious smuggling of Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal out of Gaza into Cairo for negotiations and then to Qatar.

To perpetuate the Arab-Israeli conflict, America also protected Hizbulla in Lebanon in 2006. The United States also resurrected Yassir Arafat repeatedly, whether by moving him from Beirut to Tunisia then back again for the Madrid peace talks in 1991 or for the Oslo ac-cords in 1993 or for the so-called final status talks in Ramalla in 2001.

After Israel’s military victory in 1967, the U.S. govern-ment sought to prevent Israel from defeating its Arab enemies on the battlefield. American diplomacy during the Yom Kippur War would have to save the Egyptian army from collapse. For Washington, the existence of Arab terrorist factions funded by Arab dictatorship na-tions ensures a status quo of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The present situation makes Israel’s existence more perilous and unstable than before.

American diplomacy will soon resume as Israel pays a far greater price within its heartland during its military sequel.

Yehuda Hess has written articles on contemporary issues fac-ing the Jewish community. He lives in New Milford and wel-comes comments on his work at [email protected].

“Missile interceptors systems such as the Arrow, the Iron Dome or even David’s Sling will not compensate for Israel’s underlying weakness. Peace is achieved only with strength. Israel’s accepting a ceasefire while under attack disheartened its traumatized citizens in the south, who demanded a ground assault.”

— Yehuda Hess

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Jewish-Hispanic relations: Long overdue!rabbi Shmuly yanklowitz

I recall overhearing very derog-atory and racist remarks about Latino Americans when I was

a child. In those conversations, everyone from below the border was referred to as “a Mexican” or “cheap labor.”

Over the last few years, I’ve had the opportunity to do work in some Central and South American countries — Argentina, Guatemala, and El Salvador — and I had the chance to spend time in Panama, Mexico, and Belize as well. I learned a lot about these cultures and gained a much deeper appreciation for the Latino Americans in my home American community. I also learned the deeper narrative about why and how so many have immigrated to the United States.

Jews and Latino Americans live parallel lives, but ac-cording to a recent survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee they do not mingle. “Latinos see Jews as part of the white establishment, not as immigrants,” said Dina Siegel Vann, director of the AJC’s Latino and Latin American Institute. “We need to convey to them that we share a history of immigration.”

Jews and Hispanics should work together. The com-munities share many values, including the desire to maintain their distinctive cultural identities. A recent American Jewish Committee survey showed that while many Hispanics did not know Jews, many had favorable views about them:

• 78 percent believe Jews have a commitment to fam-ily life.

• 66 percent believe that Jews have a strong religious faith.

• 61 percent believe that American Jews make a strong cultural contribution.

• 53 percent believe that Jews support civil rights.

Still, there is a lot of room for growth in our relation-ship with the Latino community. Another survey con-ducted in 2001 showed that:

• 36 percent of Latinos believe “there is anti-Semi-tism in the Latino community.”

• 44 percent of Latinos and 39.6 percent of Jews be-lieved that “the relationship today between Hispanics and Jews in the United States” is not excellent or good but just fair.

• 36 percent of Latinos and 20.3 percent of Jews be-lieve there is an “anti-Latino sentiment in the Jewish community.”

• 20 percent of Latinos believe that the Catholic church did enough during the Holocaust; only 6.2 per-cent of Jews believe that.

• 20 percent of Latinos believe that the United States is too supportive of Israel; only 6.2 percent of Jews be-lieve that.

On a positive side though, 72 percent of Latinos and 76 percent of Jews believe that it is very important for “Hispanics and Jews to work together in order to strengthen laws to prevent discrimination.”

There is so much potential for collaboration, mutual learning, and friendship.

Oddly, Hispanics and Jews may have more than cul-tural values in common. For example, many Hispanics do not know of the history and cultural legacy of Spanish Jews. In addition, a number of Hispanics would be surprised to know that they carry Jewish DNA, and may be descended from conversos — Jews forcibly converted to Christianity. A 2003 genetic test of men living in New Mexico, southern Texas, and northern Mexico revealed that 10 to 15 percent had some Jewish DNA. Many Hispanics named Alvarez, Rivera, Lopez, and Mendez have found that they may have Sephardic Jewish ancestors. In Chicago, the Alliance for Jews and Latinos celebrates these common roots annually.

Of course, there are obstacles. In 2011, a Hispanic councilwoman in Santa Ana, Calif., accused a local Jewish businessman of “ethnic cleansing” and com-pared him to Hitler. Fortunately, many Hispanics called for her to resign, and she did issue an apology. At the same time, some Jews have forgotten their im-migrant legacy. Polls in 2011 revealed that a majority of American Jews approved of the Arizona law designed to combat illegal immigration, which was perceived by many as a racist attack on all Hispanics.

Some fringe Jewish factions have taken a hard stance on a group they offensively refer to as “illegal aliens.” Of course, they forget that significant numbers of Jews have entered America illegally over the last two hundred years. The narrative that all Jews came to the United States legally has been shown to be completely false. Many Jews facing persecution fudged their passports and many Israelis and Jewish immigrants today are here illegally.

We are overdue in cultivating a strong Jewish-Hispanic relationship. Over the last 50 years, we’ve done a good job at Jewish-black and Jewish-Christian rela-tions. In response to tensions in the Middle East, many have begun to improve Jewish-Muslim relations. We must tend to Jewish-Hispanic relations too.

Hispanics made up 10 percent of the electorate nationally in 2012 and played a significant role in key swing states including Florida, Colorado, and Nevada. Seventy-one percent of Hispanics voted for President Obama (versus about 27 percent for Mitt Romney); this is similar to the votes of American Jews and Muslims. This rapidly growing group will undoubtedly play an increasingly important role in future elections.

Jews have been very successful change-makers in the world because we’ve often been outsiders throughout history. But today we’re accepted in America. So the new question becomes how we can continue to play the role of outsiders now that we’re insiders. How can we continue to exist on the periphery, to be a voice for those on the margins, and to be the social agitators for a more just and holy world when we’re fully included on the inside?

We generally have related best to minorities on the periphery of society. For this reason, among many others, we should be closer with our Latino American brothers and sisters.

As a community, we should explore more opportuni-ties to invite Latino Americans into our community. We should leave our bubbles and meet others in their com-munities. Jewish Latinos can play a crucial role in build-ing bridges between Jews and Latinos and we all can do our parts as Jewish ambassadors.

We should stand with all minorities seeking to be treated with basic human decency. This is our covenant. This is the dream: that all people may live freely in the world. May we as the Jewish people continue to act as global and local leaders building bridges and standing in solidarity with all minority partners for a more just, equitable, and free world.

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz is the founder and president of Uri L’Tzedek, an Orthodox social justice organzation. He is the se-nior rabbi at Kehilath Israel in Overland Park, Kan.

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It’s two ridiculousWhere else in the country are there two boards of rabbis (“Little praise for cem-etery agreement from Board of Rabbis,” Nov 16)? If only we could present a united front! Why is it here in North Jersey that the divisions are so deep that our teachers cannot agree to sit with one another at the same table? We are all headed for the same place, and God does not discriminate ac-cording to the length of one’s tzitzit.

Eric WeisWayne

Gaza and violenceResponsibility for Gaza rests with Gazans

It is heart rending to witness the loss of innocent life among the civilians of Gaza.

However, a review of not so distant his-tory reveals that tragedy is inevitable for civilians whose culture produces radical/destructive extremists obsessively con-sumed with inflicting their way on neigh-bors and the world beyond.

I cite the terrible suffering of the many thousands of innocent Germans and Japanese who gave strength (willingly or unwillingly) to vicious and tyrannical re-gimes during WW 2.

The ultimate responsibility for the horror of the Israeli/Palestinian war rests with the culture that gives birth and suste-nance to these murderers.

Jerrold Terdiman MDWoodcliff Lake

Walking to shulWe live here in Teaneck, Englewood, Fair Lawn, etc., in our own little war zone. Darkness descends early these days and those heading for shul wearing their black coats, black shoes, and black hats are causing a dangerous situation walking in the middle of our roads. I am a Jewish neighbor who drives on Shabbat. There is the constant threat of hitting one of the street walkers on these dark nights as well as the dimmer days of winter. Children are walking at the sides of their parents, who should not be in the streets under any conditions; not to walk to shul, not to play during the day on Shabbat, and not to kibbitz with friends and other shul go-ers in the middle of intersections.

If I were to drive on the sidewalk, all hell would break lose. I do not. I drive with extreme caution, at absurdly slow speeds in this neighborhood. Apart from the lack of visibilty, there is the extreme danger of a child who is in front or to the back of my car who does not even reach the height of my rearview mirrors.

I have written variations of this letter time and again. I suggest first and fore-most that no one, absolutely no one walk on the streets of our community.

I also recommend the use of a reflec-tor vest for all adults and all children. It may not make a fashion statement but certainly it will deter some potential ac-cident that is sure to occur sooner or later. Parks are for children to play in; streets are not. If you meet some friends on the way home from shul, invite them to your lawn or into your home. The streets are for cars, so face it, wearing a light reflector or reflective tape, I do not believe, will des-crecrate Shabbat.

Sandra Steuer CohenTeaneck

Train halfway staffLast July, legislative hearings were held to gain insight into why halfway house pro-grams are failing. The hearings uncovered a grossly neglected, ungoverned service in need of comprehensive reform and regu-lation. A recurring theme of the hearings: Employees were ineffective and lacked proper training.

Any person with the responsibility to transition former inmates back into so-ciety must have the requisite training. It’s common sense. I will be proposing legislation requiring employees to have comprehensive training in maintaining a safe and secure environment, preventing violence, and curbing inmate escapes. I also sponsored a bill requiring the state auditor to review halfway house con-tracts, which was conditionally vetoed by the governor.

Whether the employee provides treat-ment, education, job training, or medical services, these individuals are the gateway back into society for the program’s in-mates. Mandatory training would prepare them for the job and take an important step toward fixing a troubled system.

Assemblyman Gordon Johnson(D-Bergen) 37th Legislative District

It’s strictly about JewsEach week I am eager to read the Jewish Standard, particularly when a week of war and sacrifice occurs in our Jewish home-land of Israel. There were many good articles with great first-hand accounts and experiences. As I was reading it oc-curred to me that too often when we, the Jewish people, refer to our homeland as Israel and not Jewish Israel we are help-ing the enemy in their insidious PR battle against the Jewish people. After all, none of this would be happening if the land was a democracy of Protestants, Catholics,

Sikhs, etc. The Holocaust is still fresh in too many minds for the enemy to say they want the Jewish people in the sea — it is more palatable to the world when it is the country of Israel that they so describe. For example: Marla Cohen talks about the “hand that Israel has been dealt” (Nov. 23). Well this is not a new hand or a new game, so to speak, but rather a continua-tion of that which the Jewish people have been forced to suffer for over 4 millennia. Ben Sales wrote about Kiryat Malachi, their fear, rage and resilience (“Ethiopians make aliyah,” Nov. 23). It is a Jewish trait to march forward and adapt to a new Jewish reality. Lois Goldrich spoke to Jeffrey Salkin (“Salkin faults media cover-

age,” Nov. 23), who rightly comments: “…many choose to portray the Israelis as the aggressors, even when they are respond-ing to aggression. Things that would be permitted and celebrated (when done by) other nations are forbidden to Israel.” We the Jewish people need to substitute Jewish for Israel(is) and then it becomes easier to understand the world’s criticism.

None of what has ever gone on in Israel is about the country Israel, it has always been and will always be about the Jewish people, whether we live in Israel, America, Russia, Europe, or anywhere else on the planet.

Varda HagerTeaneck,

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Cover story


Joanne Palmer

There is a myth that somehow Jews are immune from the sorrows that plague other families — alcoholism and drug abuse, sexual abuse, poverty, and the soul-sapping loneliness of the elderly, to list some items on a long list of sadnesses.

That myth is not true. We are normal people, open to the same troubles and the same despair as everyone else.

But we also have a strong sense of community, and a deep and age-old commitment to it and to each other. Our values — that we must help others, treat them with respect, no matter who they are, and give them tools they can use to help themselves — express themselves in an agency that is an often overlooked community gem, the Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson.

JFS is about to celebrate its 60th anniversary; as it marks that milestone with a gala dinner this Sunday, we acknowledge it with a look at its accomplishments.

Once known as the Jewish Welfare Board and operated under the aegis of what was then known as UJA Federation, JFS began to take on

its present form in 1977, operating out of a small office in Hackensack. (It is still a beneficiary of the renamed Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey; its office is now in Teaneck.)

“Our mission is to serve Jewish families in need,” Ed Ruzinsky, a former JFS president and treasurer and a 35-year board member, said. “In the early ‘80s, we resettled more than 100 Russian families. Some of our trustees helped schlep mattresses and furniture so that when people got off the plane, they’d have someplace to sleep. We found apartments for them, and we paid the deposits, even before they were cleared through customs.

“Over time, the agency grew, based on the demands of the community,” he said.

JFS offers a wide array of services. “The mainstay of the agency always has been clinical services for individuals, families, kids with problems,” Ruzinsky said.

“Several years ago, we started a school-based afterschool program, and it’s now in three school districts — North Bergen, Cliffside Park, and Fairview. We provide activities for kids, including academic studies. We’re looking to expand it.

“We also have a kosher meals on wheels program for the homebound elderly. We provided about 25,000 meals

last year to about 125 people. We identify volunteers to drive and deliver the meals.

“We responded to the hurricane,” Ruzinsky continued, referring to Sandy. Among the many large and small actions JFS took, he said, were that “we identified resources and posted them on our website; we collaborated with FEMA; because we never lost power we were able to open our doors to the public, so people could walk in off the street and charge their phones; we made coffee and brought it to people waiting on line for gas; we delivered nonperishable food to our clients.”

Those clients — the homebound elderly, whose plight was worsened by power and information outages — received special attention from JFS. “We called all 176 of our elder clients to ensure their well-being,” Ruzinsky said. “We called the police for wellness checks on 22 elder clients when we couldn’t reach them ourselves. We delivered over 50 hot meals to elder clients without power, and we distributed supermarket gift cards, using emergency funding from the federation.”

There is another group JFS helps.“Today we have a very large community of Holocaust

JFS marks first 60 years

The times they are a changin’, but the needs never do

Staff intern Pincus Brechner unloads hurricane relief supplies as Dorothy O’Bierne, the director of JFS’s job search network, looks on. Courtesy JFs

year to year.“We have a diversified funding stream,” she said.

Although JFS used to be funded entirely by federation, this year only 18 percent of its budget was. “The federation is still a fabulous partner, but the truth is that everybody is struggling now,” she added. About 26 percent of JFS’s funding comes from grants from federal, state, and local governments and private foundations, and another 31 percent is from fees for service and reimbursements. Donations make up another 21 percent.

Not only is JFS still struggling with the fallout from the economic meltdown, but its leaders also fear that the fiscal cliff debate facing Congress now might hurt them as well. “The government is giving out less now,” Feder said. “And when Congress talks about cutting social services — they’re talking about us.”

Therefore, like other nonprofits, JFS is counting more and more on its donors “to sustain the programming we offer that helps the most vulnerable in our commuity,” Feder said.

Next, she described a hypothetical case, someone who is out of work and looking for help. “What’s unique about JFS is that you can walk in here thinking you want one thing, help with one aspect of a job search, but then you realize that you need so much other help too. Because you’re out of work, your marriage is struggling, and you’re having a hard time making ends meet.

“We have counseling services, and we have a food pantry,” she said. “We wrap around services — that means that we wrap services around a family, so that we can help them, and teach them the skills they need to

sustain themselves in the future.”And what does JFS offer specifically in the way of

helping someone to find a job?“We have an amalgamation of different job boards,”

Feder said. Beyond that, “we have a job coaching service, and we also work on resume writing skills, and on how to use social media when you’re looking for a job. We also can try to connect people, maybe for some volunteerism while they’re looking. We also help with interviewing skills. You have to be able to present yourself well. When you are discouraged, that gets harder and harder. It’s

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survivors,” Ruzinsky said. “We receive funds from the Holocaust Claims Conference” — the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany — “but the conference is becoming more restrictive in what we can provide and get reimbursed for because it has limited funds. And the survivors are getting on in years.”

Funding is a constant problem for JFS, Ruzinsky said. It gets funding not only from the federation and the Claims Conference, but also from the federal government and from donors. But “if the agency owned Fort Knox, it still wouldn’t have enough money,” he said. “Today people in the community who in years past were benefactors — some of them are now clients of the agency, because they lost their jobs, burned through their reserves, and in some cases lost their homes.”

The last four years, since the economic meltdown of 2008, have been particularly hard, he said.

Lisa Feder, JFS’s executive director, said that JFS’s fiscal year runs from January to December. The organization’s 2011 revenue was $2,293,000, and its 2012 budget is $2.1 million. There is a great deal of normal fluctation from

Connecting across the agesa JFs program pairs teens with seniors and their iPads

Alon Berkowitz of Alpine, 13, was the first teenager to work on the TeleCare Connection, a program of Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson.

“I was looking for a community service project for my bar mitzvah, and my parents told me about JFS, about how they always have great ideas that can help our community,” he said. That was in January — Lisa Feder, the JFS executive director, had just secured a grant for the program, but had gotten no further with it. “We caught her at a good time,” Alon said. He and his parents started by asking their friends to donate old computers or iPads if they were about to upgrade their systems; that made the original funding go further.

Then Alon and his mother, Nancy Berkowitz, met the woman who was to be at the other end of the TeleCare Connection, Lisbeth Strauss of Fort Lee, a German Holocaust survivor.

“Mrs. Strauss is an incredible woman,” Nancy Berkowitz said. “This was a woman who had never touched a computer before, or ever used email. She originally was a schoolteacher, and she taught kids about Alon’s age. When we first were there, she was astonished. She looked at him and said, ‘I used to teach children your age, and now here you are, teaching me.’

“His first lesson with Mrs. Strauss was teaching her how to turn the iPad on and off, and how to charge it,” she continued. “That was the whole lesson. The touch screen at first was incomprehensible to her. But she has come such a long way, and now she writes very sophisticated emails. She just didn’t understand at first

that you could just touch your finger to the screen to type.”

When you never have dealt with new technology, no matter how smart and well-educated you are, when you come face to face with it, the whole thing seems on some level to be magic, and as foreign as if it’s come from another planet.

“Alon also had to learn how to talk — how not to use a lot of terms that we use all the time,” his mother said. “‘Just click’ doesn’t make sense. ‘Double click’ doesn’t make sense. Things on the Internet — the whole Internet itself — don’t make sense.

“At first, Mrs. Strauss couldn’t comprehend how

touching something on the iPad would affect things all around her. The concept of email at first was a little bit daunting. She didn’t understand how it was going in and coming out. But she was always eager to learn.”

Alon Berkowitz taught his peers how to make TeleCare Connection work. “We met with teenagers who were interested in teaching older people how to use these devices. I went over some of the basics with them — how you need to act with elders, how to have patience.”

The Berkowitzes have developed a very real friendship with Mrs. Straus. “We see her at least once a week,” Alon said. “We tend to drop in on weekends, to check on her. During the storm, we made sure that she was good.”

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They are in their 80s and 90s now, but when the British ruled eretz Israel they were teenagers, or maybe in their 20s.

Their faces were on “wanted” posters; those who were caught went to prison or were exiled to Africa. They are the remnants of the most feared Jewish militia that fought the British — Lehi, commonly known as the Stern Gang. Every Chanukah they met in Tel Aviv, lit candles, shared some doughnuts, and watched their numbers dwindle.

They chose to meet on Chanukah because it com-memorates the victory of the few against the many. They, too, began as a group of a few dozen extremists in 1940; even in 1948, when they all joined the Israeli army, they numbered under one thousand.

Since 1932 Abraham Stern, their future leader, had been writing songs about “anonymous soldiers” who would “live underground” while fighting to liberate the homeland. By 1941 his followers were killing officials of the British regime who had promised to make the holy land a Jewish home but more or less reneged, and they were bombing the British offices that were preventing Jewish immigration. By then Stern was on the run and many of his men were in jail. His imprisoned troops crafted an olivewood Chanukah lamp and smuggled it to him with a note: “To our days’ Hasmonean, from his soldiers in captivity.”

Chanukah was a special time for the fighters. “We are a handful of freedom fighters, possessed with a crazy desire for sovereignty, and according to our detractors of little strength,” Stern wrote. “But this is not so. The little strength is much greater than it appears. Like the Hasmoneans’ oil, the fire of zealousness and heroism burns in the temple of our hearts, a divine flame. The day is coming soon when we will use this flame to light the candles of our Chanukah, the Chanukah of the Hebrew kingdom, in a free Zion.”

Stern was captured by British police in a rooftop apartment in south Tel Aviv and shot to death. The veterans have held their Chanukah gatherings in this hideout, now an Israeli museum. They were joined ev-ery year by Stern’s son, Yair, now 70. He was always the youngest “veteran” in the room. Though he was 6 years old when the British left and Israel was established, he paid the price for being his father’s son.

During the War of Independence, an Israeli army unit drove past his house on its way to battle. The commander jumped out of a jeep and ran to Yair, who was playing in the yard. “We have an army and a state thanks to your father,” he said, then drove off. “If I hadn’t heard that, I don’t know how I would have turned out,” Yair said recently. He became a sports reporter and ultimately the director of Israel Television. Now retired, he promotes the memory of his father and the 127 Lehi

members killed by the British or in the 1948 war with the Arabs.

Over the years the number of fighters attending the party dropped and the number of grandchildren rose. One regular was Hanna Armoni, now 87. In the 1940s she brought food to the underground’s prison escapees and blew up bridges. Her husband, Haim, helped blow up some British oil refineries and was one of 19 Lehi fighters sentenced to death for it. Hanna took out an ad in a local paper to inform Haim that he’d become a father, but he

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This olivewood chanukiyah was sent from prison to Abraham Stern.

[2]The remnants of the Stern Gang celebrate Chanukah: Lehi veteran Tuvia Henzion lights candles with Hanna Armoni. The photo behind them is of Abraham Stern.

This olivewood chanukiyah was sent from prison to Abraham Stern.

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“Lehi was violent,” Hanna says, “but in all the years of our war with the British, Lehi never targeted a woman or child. Our targets were British police, soldiers, and government officials.” Tuvia Henzion, 92, was a syna-gogue choirboy who had studied auto mechanics. He fought with British Colonel Orde Wingate’s raiders before joining Stern’s militia. When Stern was killed, Henzion reorganized some of the remaining fighters

into secret cells of three or four members; Lehi kept this structure for the rest of its war. One of the young people he drafted into Lehi was Armoni. In recent years, the two organized the Chanukah parties.

Stern himself had liked parties. He had been con-sidered the life of any he was at, and usually he led the guests in songs and dances.

When he died Stern was hated by the British and by almost all Palestinian Jews, who did not understand his insistence on throwing the British out of the homeland, especially during a world war. Today, Stern has been honored by the Knesset and has streets and even a town named for him. His followers, once “the few against the many,” today are the consensus in Israel.

But every year, fewer of the original “few” meet on Chanukah, because fewer survive. This year they decid-ed not to spend the time and money on invitations and refreshments. Instead, they appealed for contributions and have hired someone to put their literature online and revamp an old website. They haven’t given up hope, and plan on having a party next year.

Perhaps Judah Maccabee’s troops also gathered on Chanukah to celebrate their victory until none of them were left, and history was left with their stories.

Israeli historian Zev Golan’s latest book is “Stern: The Man and His Gang.”

The remnants of the Stern Gang celebrate Chanukah: Lehi veteran Tuvia Henzion lights candles with Hanna Armoni. The photo behind them is of Abraham Stern.

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In his introduction, Plaut, a rabbi and scholar, admits to a lifelong fascination with Christmas. The son of a rabbi, he recalls that when he was growing up on Long Island in the 1960s his mother took him to sit on Santa’s lap every December.

“She was never worried about any influence on me as a child because my

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Jews have employed “a multitude of strategies to face the particular challeng-es of Christmas and to overcome feelings of exclusion and isolation,” he writes, adding that Jews actually have played a crucial role in popularizing Christmas by composing many of the country’s most beloved holiday songs.

Plaut treats readers to a chapter on the popular Jewish custom of eating Chinese food on Christmas, a tradition that surprisingly dates back more than a century to Eastern European immigrants on the Lower East Side of New York. One photo shows a sign in a Chinese restau-rant window that thanks the Jewish peo-ple for their patronage during Christmas.

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The two-CD set includes 17 tracks for Chanukah and Christmas — some fa-miliar and others that are lesser known. Performers on the Chanukah disc in-clude Woody Guthrie, Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, Flory Jagoda, Mickey Katz, the Klezmatics, and Debbie Friedman. Among the voices that croon and swing on the Christmas disc are the Ramones, Theo Bikel, Dinah Shore, Sammy Davis Jr., and Benny Goodman.

A 31-page booklet of liner notes is a fascinating read of short essays, notes on the songs, and colorful reproductions of old Chanukah recordings.

The project started as an effort to present a historical survey of Chanukah music, according to David Katznelson, a veteran record producer who is one of the four principals of the Idelsohn Society. Other members of the core group include Roger Bennett, Courtney Holt, and Josh Kun.

As their search deepened, they found noteworthy Chanukah recordings, Katznelson recalls, some by well-known performers, others by little-known singers and educators. But the group was most struck by the abundance of Christmas music by Jewish composers and performers.

“The biggest Jewish names in music have at least one Christmas recording in their catalog,” they write in the liner notes.

The group shifted the lens of their project to tell the full story “of how American Jews used music to negotiate their place in American national cul-ture,” according to the liner notes.

“This was an amazing way to look at Jewish identity in the 20th century,

through a combination of the history of Chanukah recordings side by side with Jews performing Christmas songs,” Katznelson affirms.

Some of the earliest Chanukah re-cordings appear in the 1920s and 1930s. By then, what had been a minor Jewish holiday through the later years of the 19th century had been transformed into a major celebration that was promoted by Jewish religious leaders and em-braced by American Jewry.

The emergence of Chanukah re-cordings parallels that transformation, Katznelson suggests. In the postwar 1950s, in addition to traditional songs, livelier recordings targeted children.

On the Chanukah recording, Katznelson points to “Yevonim” (The Greeks) by Rosenblatt as the showstop-per. Rosenblatt, a Ukraine native who immigrated to New York in 1912 at the age of 30, became known in the United States as the greatest cantor of his time.

A Yiddish song about the Chanukah oil that burned for eight days, “Yevonim” opens with a chorus of women followed by Rosenblatt’s huge, haunting rich tenor full of color and warmth.

Many will be surprised by Guthrie’s upbeat version of “Hanukkah Dance,” part of his 1940s collection of Jewish songs made for Moses Asch, founder of Folkways Records.

“He can take anything and make it American,” Katznelson says of the late folk legend, whose centennial birthday this year is being marked by performanc-es of his music across the country.

Sure to be a party favorite is the ver-sion of “Dreidel” performed live by Jeremiah Lockwood, Ethan Miller, and Luther Dickinson. The song was re-corded live at a pop-up Chanukah record store concert hosted last year in San Francisco by the Idelsohn Society.

At the end of the song, the trio takes off into the New Orleans classic “Iko Iko,” sung to the tune of “Dreidel.” The tune no doubt will get listeners off the couch, singing and dancing.

On the Christmas CD, Katznelson is most drawn to Bikel’s little-known 1967 recording of “Sweetest Dreams Be Thine.” Bikel, the beloved Jewish folk singer and actor, performs the Christmas song moving between Hebrew and English.

“It’s the quintessential track of the whole compilation,” Katznelson says. “It’s just Chanukah and Christmas, side by side, a perfect mishmash.”

Katznelson says the society hopes the music conveys a deeper sense of Jewish history while raising questions that pro-voke conversation about the meaning of the holiday music.

Some may hear familiar songs in a new perspective, he says.

“This is music that is usually in the background,” Katznelson says. “We’re bringing it to the foreground.”

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BOSTON – An imaginative historical tale of adventure set on the high seas will captivate young readers this Chanukah season.

“Emanuel and the Hanukkah Rescue” is one of a few new children’s books for the eight day Festival of Lights, which begins this year on the evening of Dec. 8.

Meanwhile, two fun-filled books aim to get food-loving kids of all ages into the kitchen with tantalizing menus while offering other fun holiday activities.

Emanuel and the Hanukkah RescueHeidi Smith Hyde, illustrated by Jamet Akib

Kar-Ben ($17.95 hardcover; $7.95 paperback; $13.95 ebook); ages 5-9.

From the opening pag-es of “Emanuel and the Hanukkah Rescue,” young readers will know they’re in for something out of the ordinary. Set in the 18th century whaling port of New Bedford, Mass., the fictionalized historical tale by Heidi Smith Hyde tells the story of a spir-ited 9-year-old Jewish boy named Emanuel Aguilar whose father is a merchant who sells sailing supplies and other provisions to the city’s whalers.

“Papa, when will I be old enough to go to sea?” Emanuel asks his father, who cautions his son against the dangers of whaling.

Emanuel yearns to place the family menorah in the window during Chanukah but his father is fearful, recall-ing the tragedy of the Inquisition in his home country of Portugal, where Jews were not free to practice their faith.

“This isn’t Portugal, Papa. This is America!” Emanuel protests, reminding his father that Chanukah celebrates religious freedom.

On the last day of Chanukah, Emanuel stows away aboard a whaling ship, leaving a note for his papa ex-plaining his hope to be free. But a sudden and vicious storm transforms the fun adventure, as Emanuel learns firsthand the dangers of the sea. By story’s end, the re-united father and son find hope and courage in the light of Chanukah and its power to inspire freedom.

Artist Jamel Akib’s richly colored pastel paintings cast a luminous glow across the landscape. His highly detailed, realistic illustrations put readers into the story, from the interiors of the merchant shop and the family home to the dramatic scenes at sea. One double page spread depicts the busy working waterfront where angu-lar, strong whalers unload crates and barrels from ships.

Hyde was inspired to create the story after reading an article about Jewish involvement in New Bedford’s whal-ing industry. Jews were an integral part of the industry in New England coastal areas, she learned, serving as mer-chants, candle exporters and even ship owners. Some Jews in the region practiced their faith in secret.

Hyde says she was struck by the parallels with Chanukah, with its themes of the miracle of the oil and religious freedom. In “Emanuel,” she wanted to explore what it means to hide one’s identity.

“Mostly, I want kids to realize that it’s important to be themselves, not to be afraid of who they are,” she said.

Hanukkah Sweets and TreatsBy Ronne Randall

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This colorful book offers step-by-step instructions for six holiday recipes including luscious latkes, easy apple-sauce, fudgy gelt, and a cupcake menorah. The large print format with lots of photographs and graphics opens with a two-page spread, “Before You Begin Cooking,” with lists of what you will need as well as safety precautions and even a section on how to use measuring spoons.

Boxed sidebars offer little-known facts on the history of apples, a note on the nutrition of potatoes (must be before they’re fried in oil) and this astonishing statistic: The largest bakery in Israel produces up to 250,000 suf-ganiyot — Israeli-style filled doughnuts — on each of the eight days of Chanukah. A simple glossary defines words including dough, Maccabees, vitamin, and Yiddish.

Maccabee Meals:Food and Fun for HanukkahJudye Groner and Madeline Wikler, illustrated by Ursula Roma

Kar-Ben ($8.95 paperback; $6.95 ebook); ages 7-12.

Authors Judye Groner and Madeline Wikler know a thing or two about kids and fun for the Jewish holidays. The pair have co-written more than two dozen books, including their first, “My Very Own Haggadah,” which has sold more than 2 million copies.

“Maccabee Meals” fea-tures large, easy-to-read print, lots of lively illus-trations and a selection of enticing, unique recipes such as waffle latkes with yogurt, or a tea sandwich in the design of a menorah. Interspersed with the recipes and drawings are short sto-ries and other Chanukah facts. One box tells readers that Chanukah and Christmas coincide once every 38 years.

Who knew? All recipes are marked with a dreidel symbol indicating whether they are dairy, meat or parve — and with a dreidel score ranging from no-cooking ease to the harder use of hot stove with an adult. Instructions for crafts, playing dreidel, and candle blessings complete the book. Parents will most appreciate the page on party etiquette and this one-liner: “Remember, good cooks al-ways leave the kitchen neat and clean.”

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In ‘Emanuel and the Hanukkah Rescue,’ author Heidi Smith Hyde explores what it means to hide one’s identity through the tale of a spirited 9-year-old boy in a Massachusetts port town. Courtesy Kar-Ben

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Baked latkes for Chanukah, with roasted capon as a main dishHelen nasH

When I married 55 years ago, I knew nothing about cook-ing. I grew up during war

years in Europe, when food was not available.

So my exposure to food, and particu-larly to traditional food, was nonexistent. After I married, I decided to take cooking classes, first studying with chef Michael Field, author of the 1965 book “Michael Field’s Cooking School.” He realized that I had limitations because I never ate any of his meat dishes; I kept kosher. But he wanted to help and gave me substitutes and kept saying, “You can do this.”

From there I moved onto Chinese cooking and classes with Millie Chan, author of “Kosher Chinese Cookbook.” I also read many books and took notes. And as ingredients became available in kosher versions, I experimented. Equipped with all of this information, I tested and retested recipes to make them kosher and my own.

Now I am the author of three cook-books, the most recent of which was just published this fall, “Helen Nash’s New Kosher Cuisine.”

For holidays, I must confess that I like traditional recipes, so it is a little unusual

that I would attempt to change anything in a potato latke recipe. But since I also believe in nutritious, healthy eating hab-its, I had to find a way to improve on the tradition of frying latkes.

My challenge: to preserve the flavor of the fried potato pancake and at the same time to make it healthier, less messy — frying is always messy — and more versatile. In other words, a latke doesn’t

have to be just for Chanukah. It can also be a lovely side dish for fish, chicken, or meat. It can even be a wonderful ap-petizer served with gravlax or as a small

Roast capon with olives makes a great Chanukah dish. Ann StrAtton

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“My challenge: to preserve the flavor of the fried potato pancake and at the same time to make it healthier, less messy — frying is always messy — and more versatile.”

—Helen Nash

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hors d’oeuvre topped with smoked salmon.After many trials, I discovered that latkes can be

baked with very little oil while still preserving their crispy texture and flavor. In addition, my recipe can be made in batches and frozen in plastic containers with wax paper between the layers. The fact that they can be made ahead of time is particularly helpful for Chanukah party hosts, who have so many other responsibilities.

My recipe requires the same technique of grating the potatoes and the same seasoning, but a fraction of the oil that normally is used when you’re frying potato latkes. The important element is that the cookie sheets should be of nonstick heavy gauge and the oven tem-perature quite high.

I’ve also included a recipe for roast capons with ol-ives, which makes a great Chanukah dish if you’re serv-ing a full meal. Capons have a subtly sweet taste that is quite different from chicken and turkey. The olives add

an interesting flavor and give the sauce a delicious taste and texture. My family and friends — especially the ol-ive lovers — always ask for second helpings.

POtatO LatkesMakes 6 dozen bite-size latkes

Ingredients:4 tablespoons vegetable oil1 medium onion, quartered4 medium Idaho baking potatoes1/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour1 large egg plus 1 large egg white, lightly whisked1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Preparation:

Place an oven shelf in the lowest position and preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Brush three heavy nonstick cookie sheets with 1 tablespoon oil each. (the thick-ness of the sheets allows the bottoms of the latkes to

become golden.)

Pulse the onion in a food processor until finely chopped. transfer to a large bowl. remove the metal blade from the processor and put on the medium shredding attachment. Peel the potatoes and cut them lengthwise into quarters. insert them into the food processor’s feed tube and grate. Combine the potatoes with the onion. add the flour, egg, egg white, and the remaining 1 tablespoon oil and mix well. season to taste with the salt and pepper.

Place 1 level tablespoon of the potato mixture slightly apart on the greased cookie sheets. Bake the latkes one sheet at a time on the lowest shelf for 11 minutes, or until the bottoms are golden brown. turn the latkes over and bake for another 6 minutes, or until they are lightly golden.

notes: Latkes can be baked earlier in the day and reheated. arrange on a wire rack set over a cookie sheet in a preheated 350-degree oven until hot, about 6 minutes. the wire rack prevents them from getting soggy.

to freeze: Place latkes side by side in an airtight plas-tic container lined with wax paper, separating the layers with wax paper. to reheat, take them straight from the freezer and arrange on a wire rack set over a cookie sheet. Place in a preheated 400-degree oven until hot, 8 to 10 minutes.

ROast CaPON WItH OLIVesMakes 10 to 12 servings

Ingredients:1 capon, about 9 pounds3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juiceKosher saltFreshly ground black pepper2 onions1 cup tightly packed flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped3/4 cup pitted Kalamata olives, quartered3 tablespoons unsalted margarine, melted1 cup dry white wine

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 350. discard any excess fat from the capon. rinse it inside and out and pat dry with paper towels. season the inside and out with lemon juice, salt and pepper.

thinly slice one of the onions and set aside. Quarter the other onion and place it in the cavity along with the parsley and 1 tablespoon of the olives. Brush the capon with the margarine and place it on its side in a roasting pan. scatter the sliced onions and the remain-ing olives around the pan.

roast the capon for 35 minutes, basting with one-third of the wine. turn the capon on its other side and roast for another 35 minutes, again basting with a third of the wine. turn the capon breast side up for 15 minutes, basting with the remaining wine. turn the breast side down for another 15 minutes. the capon is ready when the

drumstick juices run clear. (the total cooking time is about 1 hour and 40 minutes, or about 11 minutes per pound.)

remove the capon from the oven and cover it tightly with heavy foil. Let it stand for 20 minutes to let the juices flow back into the tissues. Place it on a cutting board.

Pour the liquid from the baking pan, along with the olives and onions, into a small saucepan. Place the saucepan in the freezer for about 10 minutes, so that the grease can quickly rise to the top. (this makes it easier to remove.)

to serve: skim off the fat and reheat the sauce. discard the onion and parsley from the cavity. Cut the breast into thin slices and serve with the sauce.

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Oh, it’s frying time again — but it doesn’t have to beChavie Lieber

Gone are the days when the Chanukah holiday meant an eight-day binge fest of all things fried.

The Festival of Lights, which commemo-rates the Maccabean revolt against the Greeks, has a longstanding tradition of oily foods such as latkes and doughnuts in remembrance of the miracle of the Temple oil, which lasted eight days instead of the expected one. But for some, the holiday has become an excuse to inhale fried potato pancakes and custard-filled pastry.

“People have a misconception of the tradition to fry on Chanukah,” Yosef Silver, author of the popular blog This American Bite, said. “The concept is to remember the oil, but that doesn’t necessarily mean frying. We’ve gotten so wrapped up with frying, but there are ways to make Chanukah food, like latkes, just using oil.”

These days, with everyone from the first lady on down drawing attention to our widening waistlines, Jewish foodies have plenty of options for consuming traditional holiday fare without packing on the pounds.

Silver was raised on the old way — frying everything. But now he prefers to bake latkes rather than fry them.

“If you prefer to use the traditional potato latke reci-pe, the best way to make it healthy would be to pan-fry it with an oil substitute like Pam,” Silver said. “If you want to incorporate oil, add only a tablespoon and lightly pan-fry it.”

For those who prefer a fried taste, Silver suggests swapping potatoes for healthier vegetables that provide vitamins and nutrition instead of starch.

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Swapping potatoes for other vegetables, like carrots, zucchini and sweet potatoes, is one way to cut calo-ries on the eight-day frying festival of Chanukah. Sam

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“My favorite latke variety to make is my variation using rutabaga and turnip,” Silver said. “Rutabaga is a starchy vegetable, but it’s not actually a carb. It gives a similar consistency to potatoes and is delicious.”

Shaya Klechevsky, a personal chef from Brooklyn who writes the kosher cuisine blog At Your Palate, says there are ways to make healthier doughnuts, or sufgani-yot — also a traditional Chanukah food though it gener-ally is more popular in Israel than the United States. But Klechevsky warns about playing too much with recipes.

“When making the batter, you can use a little bit of whole wheat if you want to veer away from white flour, but you need to be careful because too much whole wheat will turn your doughnuts into bricks,” Klechevsky said. “You can also substitute sugar with honey.”

Rather than altering the recipe for the dough, Klechevsky says the best way to make healthy donuts is to use healthy fillings, like sugar-free jams, nuts, fruit and granola.

“The best option is to bake doughnuts rather than fry them,” Klechevsky said. “The taste won’t be the same, but it will be close. You can buy little round molds and fill them with batter.”

Erica Lokshin, a wellness dietitian at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, points out that baked doughnuts have half the calories and one-third the fat of the fried variety.

“Chanukah foods loaded in oil are high in choles-terol, which can be really bad for your heart, and eating them for eight says straight increases risks,” Lokshin said.

Lokshin says that when serving toppings to go with latkes, reduced-fat sour cream and unsweetened apple-

sauce are the best options. And since no one wants to feel deprived around the holidays, she suggests picking one night to indulge.

“It’s better to designate which night of the holiday you will enjoy latkes and doughnuts, and stick to your regular eating routine on the other nights,” Lokshin said. “Otherwise, you’re picking at a doughnuts here and a latke there, and over an eight-day period you will probably consume more than you hoped you had and it will throw off your eating routine in the long run.

Here are a couple of healthier latkes recipes.

rOASTED gingErED CArrOT LATKES(Shaya Klechevsky)

Ingredients:6 cups coarsely grated peeled carrots3 tablespoons all-purpose flour3 tablespoons whole wheat flour1 1/2 teaspoons salt3/4 teaspoon baking powder1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper7 teaspoons finely grated peeled fresh ginger3 large eggs, beaten to blendBlended olive oil (for frying)

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray with olive oil, or take a pastry brush dipped in olive oil and lightly coat the foil. Place grat-ed carrots in a large bowl; press with paper towels to absorb any moisture. in another bowl, combine flours, salt, baking powder and pepper, and blend together.

add carrots, ginger and eggs to the flour mixture and combine. Mixture shouldn’t be too wet or too dry. when forming patties, the mixture should stick to itself and not come apart. if it’s too wet, add a little bit more flour; if it’s too dry, add more beaten egg. allow to stand for 10-12 minutes for ingredients to absorb into each other. Place patties, about 3 1/2-inch rounds, onto the greased baking sheet. Leave a little room around each one. Place tray into middle rack of oven and roast for 10-12 minutes per side, or until golden brown. Makes about 15 latkes.

rUTABAgA AnD TUrniP LATKES(Yosef Silver)

Ingredients:2 rutabaga, shredded2 turnips, shredded1 large onion, shredded1 egg, plus one egg white1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder1/4 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper

Preparation:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Mix all the ingredi-ents, then shape the latkes so they are approximately the size of your palm and about 1/4-inch thick. Grease a cookie sheet with olive oil if you want to keep with tradition, or substitute coconut oil for a lighter alterna-tive. Place the latkes on the cookie sheet with space between them. Once the oven has heated, bake the latkes until golden brown.

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Alexis Dubruel asked the court last month to remove Albert Levy from the bench in a case involving her client and a man named Moises, the French version of Moses or Moshe. The French daily Liberation published her letter on its news site.

Dubruel based her petition, which has not yet been answered, on Article 668 of the French penal code stat-ing that a judge will be disqualified if “circumstances strong enough exist to suspect the judge’s impartiality.”

The circumstances are paternal and familial, Dubruel said.

“The judge and my client have a patrimonial con-nection evident in their names. The judge in question is named Levy: The ‘papa’ of the person name Moises,” the lawyer wrote, referring to the fact that the biblical Moses was from the tribe of Levy.

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U.N. chief at Vienna meeting offers hopes for lasting cease-fireAt a meeting promoting interfaith dialogue, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he hoped the cease-fire between Israel and Gaza would hold.

Jewish interfaith leaders joined Muslim and Christian leaders for Tuesday’s meeting in Vienna, which came in conjunction with the opening of the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, a project sponsored by the Saudi royal family.

Along with his hopes on the Egypt-moderated cease-fire ending more than a week of escalated conflict, Ban also said that understanding and dialogue between peoples of all faiths was essential to resolving ethnic strife across the globe.

Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and vice president of the World Jewish Congress, was among the Jewish leaders who attending the meeting.

“While we all looked on with deep concern at the recent events, we know that the strong bonds that exist between our religions will not be defined by violence,” he said. “Our goal is to ensure that the vast majority of the Muslim world, which practices peaceful interaction with peoples of all faiths, will continue to be our part-ners in promoting greater tolerance and dialogue across the international community.”

Along with Schneier, Jewish leaders attending the meeting included his father, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation; Rabbi David Rosen, director of interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Committee; the chief rabbi of Moscow, Pinchas Goldschmidt, who also serves as president of the Conference of European Rabbis; and Lawrence Schiffman, chairman of the International Jewish Committee on Interfaith Consultations.

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A Likud lamentABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

Turns out I was correct in my final Aliyah Diary column (“Fifth ‘aliyaversary’ becomes the new normal,” Oct. 12) when I predicted that I would

have more to report about our lives in Israel.Hence my first installment of “Letters from Israel,”

which picks up where our five-year settling-in process from Teaneck to Ma’aleh Adumim ended.

It was not the arrival of our third Jerusalemite grand-child in October, nor November’s Operation Pillar of Defense, that moved me to put fingers to keys — although both of these events certainly are worthy of commentary. The muse struck instead as I waited to vote for my favored Likud Party candidates.

You may have heard that the Nov. 25 primary election turned into a two-day affair thanks to massive computer glitches caused by (a) hackers; (b) the party failing to pony up enough shekels for proper bandwidth; (c) poor planning on the part of the responsible service provider; or (d) God’s enduring sense of humor. I will leave it to the lawyers to figure out where to place the blame.

An unwieldy 97 candidates were competing for about 25 Likud seats in the 19th Knesset, and 125,351 party members were eligible to vote for the 12 hopefuls of their choosing.

Before every election, Likud candidates flood mem-bers with SMS texts and automated phone calls. Our cell-phones pinged all day long for weeks. When we picked up the ringing land line during dinner, the voice on the other end was often a party hack rather than our grand-children wanting to say “night-night.” My list of 12 bore no relation to those annoying communiqués.

Steve dubbed the evening of Nov. 25 “Dinner and Democracy Night.” Lists in hand, we took an invigorat-ing two-mile walk to the polling station — a local event venue — and a restaurant in the mall next door.

The last time we’d voted, I had gone ahead of Steve and called to instruct him to find the “L” table (for Leichman). This well-intended piece of advice has become a family joke, as there is no “L” in the Hebrew alphabet. Whoops, I meant “Lamed.”

We knew that in Jerusalem that day, hundreds of vot-ers waited for hours due to malfunctioning voting ma-chines. Many others gave up and left. When we arrived at the Ma’aleh Adumim event hall, we walked through the gauntlet of campaign workers to a short line where a woman with a clipboard was taking names. Because of the computer problems, our turn was about an hour away. So dinner came before democracy.

With bellies full of the hearty Aroma café fare, we returned an hour later and we were called within min-utes. There were no alphabetically arranged tables this time. We were assigned to a cluster of two voting stations consisting of laptops shielded by Likud-blue cardboard screens. The nice ladies who took our ID cards (they agreed to take my driver’s license as I discovered in a pan-ic that my all-important ID card was missing) directed me to Station 1 and Steve to Station 2.

So far so good. When Station 1 finally booted up, I followed the simple instructions and chose my 12 can-didates. On the next screen, headshots of each of my

choices appeared, and I could finalize my vote or go back and make changes. It was all pretty high tech, a far cry from the pieces of paper we deposited in envelopes dur-ing the last election.

Alas, slips of paper would have proved much more ef-ficient. Station 2’s laptop never registered Steve’s choices, and no amount of prodding by the house techie could get it moving. Steve joked in Hebrew to the frazzled, apolo-getic poll-watcher ladies that the venue’s bar should have been open for both voters and volunteers. A little booze might have put a humorous spin on the scenario that was playing out at voting stations all across the room.

Eventually, a pantsuited and ponytailed young female Likud official informed Steve that he’d have to come back the next day. Even without a glass of wine, we had a good laugh and walked back through the gantlet out into the cool night air for our walk home.

Possibly the worst part of this fiasco was that it pro-longed by 24 hours the punishing procession of text mes-sages and phone calls. Two times I picked up the phone to hear Bibi Netanyahu’s recorded baritone apologizing for the glitch and reminding me of the extended voting hours. Many of the 97 candidates bombarded my Nokia in renewed pleas for my vote.

But I do have some good news about Israeli bureau-cratic efficiency. The next morning I was at the local Interior Department branch to apply for a replacement ID. There was nobody on line. I filled out a form, paid 115 shekels, got my picture taken, and signed the receipt. Within 10 minutes my new te’udat zehut was in my bag. Will somebody at Likud headquarters kindly call these folks for some pointers?

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TEL AVIV – When the first two sirens went off, Shoshana Leshaw ran from her second-floor bedroom down to the bomb shelter in the basement. By the time the third and fourth sirens wailed, she went no farther than the stairwell.

“It’s almost like you’re sick of the sirens interrupting your sleep,” Leshaw said. “You just want to get it over with and go back to what you’re doing.”

Fifteen air-raid sirens in total rang out in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva on the night of Nov. 14, the first night of Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense aimed at bring-ing an end to Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza. The sirens repeatedly woke Leshaw, a junior at Queens College in New York, and most of the 25 other study-abroad stu-dents at Ben-Gurion University.

They were among the thousands of young Americans who come to Israel each year to study or work, but found them-selves instead scurrying for cover last week as Hamas rained missiles on Israel.

Students said they never feared for their physical safety; they had been trained on how to react in the event of a missile strike. But many said that living in cities targeted by missiles gave them a new appreciation of the realities of life in Israel, and some found themselves quickly copying the casual approach to war that Israelis have cultivated over decades of living under military threat from their neighbors.

In Tel Aviv with Oranim-Israel Way, an internship program, Stephen Fox was sur-prised to find his Israeli co-workers joking about the missiles. After a while, though, he found himself thinking of the sirens as a fire drill. A few days after last week’s bus bombing in Tel Aviv, Fox, 23, boarded his bus to work without a second thought.

“Halfway through it I was like, ‘Should I be taking the bus?’” he said. “It didn’t even occur to me. The restaurants and bars were still going, people were out shopping. It was like normal.”

Oranim, which has a division in the southern city of Ashdod, brought all of its participants to Tel Aviv after fighting broke out. One participant left the program and four others returned home for two weeks with plans to come back. Michal Ben-Ari,

Oranim’s Tel Aviv coordinator, said one of the week’s biggest challenges was reassur-ing parents that their children were safe.

“Parents told us, ‘I don’t see anything on the news, so I’m imagining the worst,’” Ben-Ari said.” As soon as we gave them in-formation on what was going on in Tel Aviv, they felt a lot better.”

Other programs with students in south-ern Israel also took measures to remove them from the path of incoming rockets. The day after Pillar of Defense began, Ben-Gurion’s study-abroad program took stu-dents on a trip to Masada, then relocated them to Sde Boker, another Ben-Gurion campus out of rocket range. Program staff quickly arranged for students to continue coursework there — if necessary for the rest of the semester.

“You’re not just bored, but you feel like you can’t change things,” said Abby Worthen, a University of Pennsylvania student taking her junior year abroad. “We felt like there was nothing we could do, and that was hard.”

Worthen, like other students, was shak-en the first time she heard a siren — a feel-ing she said separated the study-abroad students from their Israeli classmates, many of whom were reservists called to serve in the Israeli army.

“I’m almost jealous of Israelis,” Worthen said. “They have this way about them that’s calm and rational, and I don’t.”

Even programs considered safely out of range were impacted by the fighting. Nativ, a Conservative movement post-high school program in Jerusalem, prohibited participants from traveling to Israel’s south or metropolitan Tel Aviv, both areas tar-geted by rockets. Oranim asked its partici-pants to notify staff whenever they left Tel Aviv. Often stuck at home, the Americans turned to talking politics — too much, ac-cording to Fox.

The intense focus on the fighting, though, reminded Worthen of the physical and emotional distance between Israel and the United States.

“It’s so hard listening when there are real things going on in the world, that Hostess is going out of business,” she said.

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Barak leaves politicsQuestions about his legacy and future remain

Ben SaleS

TEL AVIV – Is Ehud Barak a calculating political survivor or a military man who, in his own words, “never had any special desire” for political life?

Will he be remembered as a warrior or as a seeker of peace?

And what will he do next?Barak’s announcement of his retirement from politics

on Monday raised more questions than answers, both about what his departure means for Israel and about how Israelis will look back on his legacy.

“I have exhausted the practice of politics,” Barak, Israel’s defense minister, said at a news conference. “There is space to allow new people to enter senior posi-tions in Israeli politics. Replacing those in positions of power is a good thing.”

But Barak’s political career may have been over even if he had not decided to retire. His small, centrist Independence Party faction was polling poorly before Israel’s Jan. 22 election, and it is possible that Barak

would not have made it into the next Knesset had he de-cided to run again.

“He understood that he has a political horizon,” Gideon Rahat, a political science professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said. “He has no more chance to keep his job or to advance. He’s already stayed too long, much after he lost political strength. He doesn’t really have a party.”

Barak, who said he will stay on as defense minister until a new government is formed, will leave behind a complicated political legacy.

As prime minister from 1999 to 2001, Barak withdrew Israeli forces from southern Lebanon and offered un-precedented Israeli concessions, including in Jerusalem, to Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians at the unsuccessful Camp David peace summit. In the 2001 elections fol-lowing the outbreak of the second intifada, Barak was soundly defeated by Ariel Sharon and then resigned as head of the Labor Party.

In 2007, Barak mounted a political comeback, recap-turing the leadership of the weakened Labor Party. He returned to government as defense minister, a post from which he has emphasized the threat from Iran’s nuclear program and ordered two military operations in Gaza — 2008’s Cast Lead and the recent Pillar of Defense.

Barak brought credibility to the position of defense minister, which he earned as a result of his distinguished military career. He served as the Israeli Defense Force’s chief of staff in the 1990s and became the most decorated soldier in Israeli history.

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He was proud of his decades of service in the elite commando unit Sayyeret Matkal, and would tell stories about his secret missions targeting terrorists — includ-ing a famous one in which he entered Beirut dressed as a woman.

In the end, though, politics may have done him in. A close relationship with right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — dating back to the days when Barak was Netanyahu’s commander in Sayeret Matkal — pulled Barak progressively further from many in his center-left Labor Party. In 2011, he split off with four other Labor Knesset members to form the Independence faction.

The move was widely seen as a self-serving political ploy.

“He doesn’t know how to work with people,” Rahat said. “He used to be prime minister, and he ended with a five-person party. He always cared about himself.”

Before Barak announced his retirement from politics, Independence was polling at anywhere between zero to 4 seats in the next Knesset, though Barak’s performance in the Pillar of Defense campaign boosted his popularity.

But his decision not to run for re-election may not necessarily mean the end of his career in government. Some political observers speculate that if Netanyahu is re-elected, he could reappoint Barak as defense minister even though he won’t hold a Knesset seat.

Hebrew University political science professor Shlomo Avineri told the New York Times that Barak’s move “maxi-mizes his chances of being the next defense minister,” adding, “If he got 2 percent, it would be difficult to ap-point him. Now he’s not running, it’s easier. He is consid-ered by the Israeli public to be a responsible adult.”

Others argue, however, that the Likud’s shift rightward in this week’s primary election for the party candidates’ list makes such an outcome less likely.

If Netanyahu “has a comfortable coalition, he’ll call

him back,” said Bar-Ilan University political studies pro-fessor Shmuel Sandler. “Chances of that don’t seem good because the Likud candidates’ list is very right wing.”

Likud leaders are said to prefer Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon, a Likud member and former army chief of staff who is to Barak’s right.

Barak had been a key player on the issue of Iran. He was generally seen as a close ally of Netanyahu in advo-cating an aggressive stance toward the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, but also was considered a potential restraining force on the prime minister’s impulses.

Sandler said the government’s policy toward Iran won’t necessarily change with Barak’s departure.

“Yaalon was against an attack,” Sandler said. “Netanyahu is for an attack. It will depend on how much sanctions work and on the U.S.”

Notwithstanding the failure at Camp David, Sandler said that Barak kept his focus on the issues that were at the center of his past peace efforts. He remained op-posed to west bank settlements as defense minister, refusing to grant official university status to a so-called “university center” in the settlement of Ariel and stress-ing the urgency of negotiations or unilateral Israeli action to end the conflict.

Barak also placed a high value on maintaining strong U.S.-Israel relations, even breaking with Netanyahu ear-lier this year when the prime minister publicly criticized the Obama administration’s handling of the Iranian nuclear issue. Rahat suggested that Barak’s departure could cause a bit of a setback in relations between the Netanyahu government and the Obama administration.

“Our relations are based on a lot more than people, but Barak was more accepted in the While House than Netanyahu” or Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Rahat said. “It’ll make it a little harder, but it’s not the end of the world.”

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WASHINGTON – Is Morsi morphing into Mubarak?Last week Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi earned

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The kudos were for brokering the truce that ended the Israel-Hamas mini-war, the concern was because he then decreed himself absolute powers.

It’s a sequence of events that has some people in Washington wondering whether Morsi aims for the kind of tradeoff relationship that helped prop up his predeces-sor, Hosni Mubarak, for decades until the 2011 revolu-tion: regional stability in exchange for unfettered rule by Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist move-ment that brought him to power.

“It is unclear whether this represents a mistake or an overreach,” said Jon Alterman, the director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, referring to Morsi’s declaration over the weekend removing judicial oversight of his deci-sions until a constitution is in place.

Alterman leaned toward “mistake,” noting that Morsi and his aides have scrambled to reassure opponents that the decree is temporary. But Alterman added that such a move inevitably reminded Egyptians of Mubarak’s excesses.

“From what he said and how he talked about it, it seems he was principally motivated by the threat to con-

tinuing the process” posed by deep disagreements over the constitution “rather by a desire to have unchecked power,” Alterman said. “The problem is that in doing so, he raised the worst fears of the return of Mubarak-style governance.”

Others were less sanguine. Eric Trager, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, argued that the Obama administration’s hopes for a Muslim Brotherhood leadership that would respect democracy were naive.

“Washington ought to have known by now that ‘dem-ocratic dialogue’ is virtually impossible with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is now mobilizing throughout Egypt to defend Morsi’s edict,” Trager wrote in the New Republic. “The reason is that it is not a ‘democratic party’ at all. Rather, it is a cultish organization that was never likely to moderate once it had grasped power.”

On Nov. 21, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lavished praise on Morsi for his role in ending the fight-ing between Israel and Hamas.

“I want to thank President Morsi for his personal leadership to de-escalate the situation in Gaza and end the violence,” Clinton said in Cairo. “This is a critical mo-ment for the region. Egypt’s new government is assuming the responsibility and leadership that has long made this country a cornerstone of regional stability and peace.”

Israeli leaders also praised the Egyptian president’s

role in securing the cease-fire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his “appreciation,” and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said that Morsi de-serves “a word of thanks.”

The expressions of gratitude were striking given the Israeli leadership’s strong suspicion of the Morsi govern-ment in light of the Muslim Brotherhood’s traditional an-imosity toward Israel and affinity for Hamas, an offshoot of the Egyptian Islamist movement.

Such concerns were heightened after the Brotherhood’s top leader called in October for a “jihad for the recovery of Jerusalem” and the surfacing of video of Morsi nodding along to an imam’s anti-Jewish sermon. And in his speech at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly, Morsi omitted an affirmation of the Arab League’s initiative for a comprehensive peace with Israel that had been present in an advance copy of his remarks distributed by Egypt’s U.N. mission — a fact later discov-ered by JTA.

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During the Gaza conflict itself, Morsi’s government expressed strong public support for Hamas and con-demned Israel. Egypt’s prime minister traveled to Gaza in a show of solidarity during the early days of the fighting. But Morsi’s assistance in brokering the cease-fire offered a measure of reassurance that his government would take a pragmatic approach toward dealing with Israel.

The day after the cease-fire deal was reached, how-ever, international gratitude morphed into expressions of concern about Morsi’s path at home.

On Nov. 22, Morsi issued his decree removing judicial review, sparking massive protests in Egypt and causing Clinton to voice concerns the next day about the move’s implications for Egyptian democracy.

“The decisions and declarations announced on November 22 raise concerns for many Egyptians and for the international community,” she said in a statement. “One of the aspirations of the revolution was to ensure that power would not be overly concentrated in the hands of any one person or institution.”

Jason Isaacson, the international affairs director for the American Jewish Committee, said that Morsi posed a dilemma for Israel and its American allies who want to maintain the 33 years of peace between Egypt and

Israel and fear imposition of a Muslim Brotherhood dictatorship.

“The attempt to change the power structure appears to have been in the works for some time,” Isaacson said Monday, speaking from Cairo, where he had just met with Egyptian government officials, diplomats, and members of the country’s tiny Jewish community.

“It did not disrupt the achievement of the cease-fire, for which you just give them credit. But obviously, [the decree] raises concerns about human rights and the rule of law. Those who have a stake in protecting the principles of democracy and in human rights, and in pre-serving the Egyptian role in the Middle East peace treaty should stay engaged with Egypt and express concerns when concerns are felt.”

U.S. lawmakers already were threatening to redi-rect assistance from Egypt’s military to democracy promotion.

“This is not what the United States of America and taxpayers expect, and our dollars will be directly related to the progress towards democracy which you promised to the people of Egypt when your party and you were elected president,” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told “Fox News Sunday.”

Ori Nir, a spokesman for Americans for Peace Now, the American affiliate of the dovish Israeli move-ment established in the wake of the Israel-Egypt peace agreement, said that cutting U.S. aid would be counterproductive.

“Our focus in terms of aid to Egypt has to do with fulfilling the terms of the peace agreement Egypt signed with Israel,” he said, adding that outside actors would likely not be able to influence Morsi’s domestic policies in any case.

“The extent to which he will be another dictator has to do with the dynamic between him and the Egyptian public and less so his foreign relations,” Nir said. “One has to hope that the Egyptian public, which has shown incredible fortitude and courage, will reapply that and will demand democracy and leadership that is account-able to the public.”

That, Alterman of CSIS said, is already playing out, noting the persistent protests against Morsi’s decree.

“The fact that this became contentious is a good thing and reflects a broader trend in Egypt that people are much more willing to protest than was ever the case before,” he said.

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The Obama White House wasted little time releasing a statement supporting the gesture.

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On the top floor, though, getting a message to Jewish voters was the priority. That message drove whatever favorable press they could provide concerning the president’s re-election bid and conversely what unfavorable information they could disperse about Romney.

Rabinowitz had to raise half a million dollars to fund the effort. They were up against the tens of millions of dollars going for the same vote provided by the Sheldon Adelsons of the world. The game breaker could have been Romney’s trip to Israel last summer, backing up his rhetoric against Iran. The Obama admin-istration had provided Iron Dome protec-tion to Israel as well as other significant support, yet the street and Shabbos-table word was that it wasn’t enough.

The Hub was a 501(c)(4), a nonprofit loosely affiliated with the National Jewish Democratic Council. It could send op-eds and press memos pointing out positive aspects of Obama and negative points on Romney. To remain a nonprofit, it couldn’t urge that a voter choose one can-didate over another.

Two weeks before Election Day, with the campaigns sprinting toward Nov. 6, the Hub went into overdrive, drafting and/or placing more than 15 op-eds, including pieces by former New York Mayor Ed Koch; Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz; former U.N. Ambassador Nancy Soderberg; Stuart Milk, the nephew of the late civil rights leader Harvey Milk; the last three presidents of JCPA; an Israeli and a Palestinian writing on Romney and Middle East peace; NJDC leader David Harris; former Rep. Mel Levine; the three Rabbis for Obama co-chairs; and noted attorney and author Alan Dershowitz. That was just in two weeks.

The Hub also wrote, edited, and pub-licized a Barbra Streisand video for NJDC that garnered more than 75,000 YouTube views. The Hub promoted a viral email from Michigan Sen. Carl Levin that was sent to more than 150,000 Jews in the battleground states. It also arranged in-terviews with Jack Lew, the president’s chief of staff.

The Hub started in early July when Aaron Keyak was hired to be its leader, managing more than 10 staffers. Keyak told the Washington Jewish Week that the goal was to “talk to Jews where they live.”

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The Hub had prepared documents such as op-eds in anticipation of some subjects that would come up in the me-dia, such as the debates or Romney’s trip to Israel or daily issues.

“We were also proactive, because we had a specialty area,” Keyak said. “We were churning out all of these memos and we were in constant contact with reporters.”

He said the Hub was fluent when it came to such issues as the president’s support for Israel. That fluency also cov-ered issues such as Iran and the Middle East, but the Hub knew that Jewish voters also held social issues near and dear.

“We knew that 90 percent of Jews are pro-choice,” he said. “We knew that 80 percent of Jews were in favor of same-sex marriage, so it wasn’t difficult to paint Romney as out of step with the Jewish voters. But we had to get that message out. We were more than happy to engage in issues of Israel and Iran, but the biggest differences between the two were social issues. As the Republicans worked to reach out to its base, it only pushed away Jewish voters in even greater numbers.

“This was all about informing the Jewish voters about their choices in this election. With all of the predictions from the right-wing media, Obama got over-whelming support from the Jewish com-munity, despite tens of millions of dollars to attempt to smear his record on Israel.”

Keyak, who also had worked for the NJDC, had been talking with Rabinowitz for a while about the project. Both knew that the GOP was going to come after the Jewish vote.

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The Hub also created websites such as Israelquiz.org, which compared the Israel records of presidents Bush, Reagan and Obama with Romney’s. It created a video of Sderot residents praising the president on the Iron Dome anti-missile system. (Sderot is the development town on Israel’s border with Gaza and the target of Hamas terrorism.)

On Facebook, a Hub graphic asked Romney what he meant by “doing the opposite of President Obama” on Israel. There was also the “Jewish Test,” a site asking people to respond with their posi-tions on 10 issues.

All of this was in addition to some-times hourly advice to key campaign peo-ple, the Democratic National Committee, the White House and other 501(c)(4)s on how to send a message to the Jewish community and remain in touch with the most widely read reporters covering the Jewish vote, as much as the law permit-ted, said Rabinowitz.

Rabinowitz said he felt the Obama campaign was taking the challenge seri-ously, hiring Ira Forman a year and a half before the election as a connection to the Jewish community.

Somehow, though, Rabinowitz and Dorf thought there was a tremendous need for more.

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was a lot of money behind the attacks from people who were more concerned about bringing down Obama than keep-ing Israel as a bipartisan issue. They’ve spent years attacking Obama. And it had to be responded to. We had to do something.”

That something resulted in the hir-ing of Keyak, a member of Georgetown’s Kesher Israel. They headed upstairs to the attic.

“They cranked out content,” Rabinowitz said. “They talked to report-ers all day long. We had rapid response, and we’d also put out attacks. We’d put out stuff about Romney and Ryan. NJDC got Barbra Streisand to do a video. The Hub wrote the script and helped distribute it to the battleground states.”

Forman, the Jewish outreach director for President Obama’s re-election staff, told WJW that the Hub “was amazing.”

Getting back to the Olympics’ moment of silence, the Hub staff saw an opening.

“Romney had been completely silent on it,” Rabinowitz said. We thought we could make some hay of it. The White House went ahead and issued a state-ment in support of the moment of si-lence. Romney was hammered pretty well, including by David Berger’s sister.

“We could be critical of Romney; we just couldn’t say don’t vote for him, but we could be hypercritical. Everything else we did, though, was informational.”

One Obama staffer who requested anonymity said “the campaign had a very good communications operation. But on any campaign, you never have enough resources. We would have been at a disad-vantage without these guys. The Hub was just brilliant.”

Both Rabinowitz and Keyak felt exhila-rated and a bit tired when it was all over.

“We had a good time, we worked hard, the NJDC did great stuff as did the cam-paign,” Rabinowitz said. “We tried to help them along.”

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Petitions call on Stevie Wonder to cancel Friends of IDF gigAn online petition calling on Stevie Wonder to cancel his performance at a fundraiser for the Israel Defense Forces has garnered more than 3,600 signatures.

The petition was launched more than a day ago on the change.org website.

Wonder is scheduled to headline the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces an-nual gala in Los Angeles on Dec. 6. The event raises millions of dollars annually to support the Israeli military.

“You were arrested in 1985 protest-ing South African Apartheid, now we ask you: please remember that apartheid is apartheid, whether it comes from

White Afrikaaner settlers of South Africa or from Jewish Israelis in Israel,” the petition reads. “Desmond Tutu has rec-ognized that Israel’s Apartheid is worse than South Africa’s — will you stand with us against apartheid and cancel your performance at the IDF fundraiser.”

A second petition, launched by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, calls on Wonder to “(p)lease continue your legacy of speaking out for the oppressed. Please be a ‘full-time lover’ of justice by standing on the right side of history and canceling your per-formance for the Israeli army.”

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1 Yavneh’s Academy’s fourth-graders worked on a banner to show their love and support for Israel.

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2 Gary S. Lipman, the Bergen County YJCC’s chief executive officer, and Paula Cantor, a past

president, stand amid the truckload of food and supplies donated by YJCC member families and community members in response to the need created by Hurricane Sandy. Items were donated to the Center for Food Action. Courtesy yJCC

3 Religious school students at the Glen Rock Jewish Center participated in Hurricane Sandy

leaf cleanup in their neighborhoods. Courtesy GrJC

4 The senior class of the Jewish Educational Center’s Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy in Elizabeth,

whose students come from areas including Bergen and Rockland counties, are pictured at the Jewish

Community Relations Council-sponsored Stand for Israel rally in Manhattan. The school’s Israel guidance coordinator, Rabbi Michael Parnes, and its director of student activities, Rabbi Ami Neuman, accompanied the students. Courtesy JeC

5 More than 70 Jewish day school leaders from 62 schools, including educators from the Frisch

School, Yeshivat Noam, Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva Day School, the Moriah School, and the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, gathered on Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus last week for a conference to pool experiences, ideas, connections, and resources. The conference was organized by YU’s Institute for University-School Partnership. Michael Zauderer, director of educational operations at the Frisch School, left, is shown with the assistant principal of middle school Judaic studies at Yeshivat Noam, Rabbi Tavi Koslowe, and Rabbi Aaron Levitt, Judaic studies

principal at the Robert M. Beren Academy. Courtesy yu

6 On Nov. 14, students from Yeshiva University High School for Boys went to Sea Gate, Brooklyn,

to help with cleanup efforts in communities damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Among the houses students visited was that of iconic Jewish musician Mordechai ben David, who joined the boys. MTA juniors Shaya Kestenbaum of Teaneck, left, and Dani Davis of Passaic are shown. Courtesy yu

7 The social action committee and members of Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson recently

participated in an Alzheimer’s walk in Van Saun Park in Paramus to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support, and research. The annual walk is coordinated by the Alzheimer’s Association-Greater New Jersey Cwhapter-Northern Regional Office in Oradell. Courtesy Cbi

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The rape of Dinah is rarely discussed. I’m sure this is in part because of the difficulty of the subject matter, but also because of the troubling nature

of the response by her brothers and then the interaction between Jacob and his sons. We read, “Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land. Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, chief of the country, saw her, and took her and lay with her by force.” (Genesis 34:1-2)

Traditional Jewish sources on this passage find fault with Dinah because she “went out,” meaning she was too outgoing, too forthcoming. However, I would hope in this day and age that everyone would agree that rape is a heinous crime that should be abhorred by one and all. And yet, rapes still happen. There are men who so hate women that they are willing (and sadly able) to violate them in the most intimate and devastating of ways. But let me be clear there, is no justification for forcing sex upon someone.

I suspect more common, but equally deplorable, in our communities are cases of “date rape,” where a man

somehow does not understand that “no means no.” Instead, he thinks that what he wants is more impor-tant than what the woman wants, that he is entitled to take something not offered and defiling something that should be sacred to both participants. It does not matter if it is an acquaintance or a couple who are dating; they may even be in an intimate relationship. No one ever “owes” someone else sex. If sex is forced upon someone against their will, then that qualifies as rape.

Drug-facilitated sexual assault is also a problem, where someone’s drink is spiked without their knowing it with a substance that alters their mental state, making them vulnerable to attack and perhaps unable to recall it as well. The predators could just be on the prowl for a vic-tim, but half of all assaults come at the hands of someone known to the victim. It could be a co-worker or someone at a party. It is important to remain vigilant.

Forcing sex on someone can never be justified. It is never the fault of the victim. It does not matter what clothing they wear, what they say or what they do; there is no valid reason for forcing sex upon someone. It is

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simply wrong. Using a position of power, drugs or alco-hol are never acceptable tools for abusing a relationship and forcing sex. It is a crime, sadly, an underreported crime, but a crime nonetheless. Never blame the victim.

Dinah’s brothers respond to this attack by tricking and killing not only Shechem, but all the men of his city. I’m certainly an advocate of punishing criminals, but scope and the viciousness of the brother’s response is difficult to justify. And Jacob’s response to them is admittedly practical, but lacks the moral outrage that I would hope to find and shows no concern for Dinah and what she experienced at the hands of her perpetrator. There are times when the text of the Torah inspires us, but this is one of those moments where the text is difficult for us and challenges us. While the Torah provides many eter-nal truths, it also has parts that reveal the historic context of our ancestors, though their actions repel rather than inspire. But we can learn from the actions of others, sometimes to emulate them but at other times to avoid following in their footsteps.

When I read this story my sympathies are not with Jacob nor with Shimon and Levi, but rather with Dinah, the victim. My heart goes out to her both for what she experienced and then for the lack of support evidenced in the text. My hope and prayer today is that any time we encounter someone who has had the misfortune of be-ing raped that we will provide what support and comfort we can offer them as they struggle to overcome the dam-age inflicted upon them. And may the day come when never again will someone be forced to have sex against their will.


MIRIAM RINN

The new production of “My Name Is Asher Lev” at the Westside Theatre is very well acted and directed, and its perfectly con-ventional approach to the big issues of Art and Religion should

ensure its success here just as it did in Long Wharf, where the play was produced last year.

Directed by Gordon Edelstein, the play puts three actors on stage in front of an evocative set to tell the story of the 1950s Brooklyn chasidic prodigy Asher Lev and his struggle to express his innermost feelings on canvas.

Adapted from a novel by Chaim Potok, Aaron Posner’s script takes a chronological approach, beginning when little Asher first exhibits talent as a 6-year-old. His compulsive drawing all over his siddur gets him in trouble with his father, a Chabad-like emissary for their sect’s rebbe. “An animal can’t help it,” roars Asher’s father Aryeh in response to the boy’s excuse for his drawings. As Aryeh and other characters, Mark Nelson tends to overact, but he skillfully creates four different men with no more than a change of costume and tone of voice. Ari Brand is just as effective as the title character, who changes from a little boy to an adult. His pronounced Brooklyn accent even becomes subtler as Asher grows more cosmopolitan and established in the art world.

The great conflict at the heart of the play is between Asher’s devotion to visual art and his father’s allegiance to the Torah and its moral code. Art is seen as the amoral realm of the self, while Aryeh upholds the ethical teachings of generations of chasidic rabbis. Of course, Asher’s art teacher insists that he learn the tradition of art, at least the European tradition, just as Aryeh wants him to know the traditions of Judaism. Asher is pulled between aesthetic tradition and Jewish tradition, between beauty and prayer. The artist is responsible to no one but himself, says Jacob Kahn, Asher’s mentor, while Aryeh insists that all is for the sake of heaven.

Between these two stands Asher’s sensitive mother Rivkeh, sympathetically portrayed by Jenny Bacon. Tormented by depression following her beloved brother’s death, Rivkeh tries to reconcile her son and husband, or at least help them to understand each other. Her emotional sacrifice becomes the subject matter of Asher’s most controversial paintings.

The neat divisions in the play bring out the themes in sharp relief, but they don’t help to create fully developed characters. We don’t really know Asher or his parents as complex human beings, but we understand them as symbols for the positions they represent. Each of the adults in Asher’s life refers to him as “my Asher” throughout the play, as if they could claim ownership over him. Although Asher says he’s deeply moved by Michelangelo’s Pieta, he doesn’t reflect on the fact that the sculptor did this, as he did most of his work, on commission, not to express his innermost feelings. The vision of the artist that Kahn preaches is a particularly modern one, and would have made no sense to the great Renaissance artists whom he urges Asher to study. Art is actually a stand-in in the play for individualism, the need for autonomy that is a threat to a communal-based society such as the chasidic world. If Asher is to listen only to his own inner voice, he won’t listen to the rebbe.

Despite these misgivings, “My Name Is Asher Lev” is enjoyable theater, and even moving in parts. The cast and Edelstein deserve much of the credit for a swiftly passing hour and a half.

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An interview with Adena PotokMIRIAM RINN

“The Chosen” might have been the name of a painting.

The beloved Jewish novelist Chaim Potok originally was a visual artist, his widow Adena Potok said. He drew when he was a young child, took art lessons during the Depression, then moved on to pastels and watercolors. Once he approached bar mitzvah age, however, it came to a halt. “His father decided this was enough already; it’s all narishkeit,” nonsense, she said.

Potok grew up in a strictly observant home, and his father worried that art was taking him away from his studies. The elder Potok was not interested in art. “The art that was in museums was not Jewish,” Adena Potok said of her father-in-law’s approach. “It was either pagan or Christian.” He didn’t have the same reaction to literature, though. If his son wrote stories, “that was fine as long as it didn’t take him away from his studies.”

As an adult, Chaim Potok put that early love of the painted image into his 1972 novel “My Name Is Asher Lev,” the story of a religious Jewish boy who is consumed with art and grows into a famous and controversial painter. The novel was adapted as a play several years ago and had its maiden performance in Philadelphia at the Arden Theatre. Now “My Name Is Asher Lev” is

being performed at the Westside Theatre in New York. The play stars Ari Brand, who appeared in “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Broadway Bound,” and is directed by Gordon Edelstein, artistic director of the Long Wharf Theater.

Adena Potok collaborated with Aaron Posner, who had worked with her husband to adapt his best-known novel, “The Chosen,” for the stage. The two began to talk

about adapting “Asher Lev” as well, but Chaim Potok died before he could complete the task. “He talked to me about this, and I gave him what I thought was the spine of the book,” his widow said. She acted as consultant to the production crew as well. “I found working with [Aaron] was a delight. We argued well.”

Adena Potok was her husband’s first reader throughout his writing career, giving him her reactions and insights. The two met at Camp Ramah in the Poconos, where both were counselors, and when they married, she moved to California, finishing her social work degree at UCLA.

Asher Lev struggles to satisfy his parents as well as being true to his artistic self. He comes under the sway of an art teacher who insists that a true artist is dedicated only to his own feelings and ideas. That’s a conception of the artist that came to the fore during the Romantic period; it would have seemed bizarre to the classical artists or those of the Renaissance, who created art to glorify the gods or satisfy a patron. Chaim Potok’s novel is firmly in that Romantic camp, and Asher must choose between his community’s norms and his own personal integrity.

“In the ‘50s, the artist was an individual who expressed his feelings about many things,” Adena Potok said. That was when her husband grew up. In the novel, Asher paints a work called “Brooklyn Crucifixion,” which shocks his parents and teachers. Chaim Potok created the same painting. “He wanted to see if in fact as a work of art it would stand up,” his wife said.

Rena, Naama, Adena, Akiva, and Chaim Potok CHAIM POTOK ARCHIVES

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friday [nov. 30]

Shabbat in Englewood Stephen J. Savitsky, Orthodox Union chairman of the board and a three-time president of the organization, is the scholar-in-residence at Congregation Shomrei Emunah through Saturday, Para-shat Vayishlach, where, he will be the guest of Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO of OU Kosher and rabbi of the congregation. Sav-itsky’s visit is part of a Community Weekend hosted by the OU’s Karasik Department of Synagogue Services. At a private home on Friday night, the speakers will hold a town meeting to discuss “What Issues Could Derail the Explosive Growth of Orthodoxy?” Savitsky will speak at the 8:40 a.m. Shacha-rit service on “A Lot More Than Kosher Food.” At seudat shlishit at the shul follow-ing Mincha at 4:05 p.m., he will address, “Must It Take Sandy for Us to Achieve Ach-dut?” 89 Huguenot Ave. (212) 613-8351 or [email protected].

Shabbat in Teaneck Barry W. Holtz, dean of the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education and the Theodore and Florence Baumritter Professor of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Seminary, is the Rabbi Barry Schaeffer scholar-in-residence at Congregation Beth Sholom. His talks, “Conflict and Confrontation in the World of Family, Friends and Community,” and “Danger and Domesticity: Stories of the Rabbis at Home and In The Beit Midrash,” are scheduled at 7:15 p.m., a d’var Torah after Shabbat morning services, and again after lunch. Meals are open to the public for a fee. 354 Maitland Ave. (201) 833-2620.

with Shir La La, arts and crafts. 180 Piermont Road. (201) 750-9997 or [email protected].

Chanukah in Wayne The Wayne YMCA holds a Chanukah festival, 12:30 p.m., with face painting, arts & crafts, chocolate making, latkes, donuts, and a Scholastic Book fair. Stretch the Silly Man will perform at 1, and there will be a Chanukah story in the Goldman Library at 2. Bring new, unwrapped toys for a toy drive. Sponsored by Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a partner of the YM-YWHA of North Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973) 595-0100, ext. 250.

Music in Fort Lee Naomi Miller performs “Accents on Broadway” at the Fort Lee Public Library, 2 p.m. Along with Broadway tunes, she will sing songs in Hebrew, French, Greek, and Yiddish. 320 Main St. (201) 592-3614.

Family concert The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel presents Pajama Jam, a family concert featuring the Hums, 4 p.m. The FLJC Book Fair will open after the concert. (201) 796-5040 or [email protected].

Latke and vodka in Fair Lawn The Men’s Club of Temple Beth Sholom offers “Latke and Vodka,” 5:30 p.m. Event includes hors d’oeuvres, homemade latkes, vodka, and beverages. Bring a new, unwrapped toy to donate. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.

Women’s book club The Chabad Center of Passaic County’s Women’s Book Group meets to discuss Ronald H. Balson’s novel “ Once We Were Brothers,” at a private home in Wayne, 7:30 p.m. 194 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Refreshments. (973) 694-6274 or [email protected].

monday [dec. 3]

Mind and body In honor of the new year of chasidism, 19th of Kislev, Rabbi Laibl Wolf discusses “Finding Joy and Transformation: Alter’s Training for Freedom of Mind and Body,” for Lubavitch on the Palisades in Tenafly, 7:30 p.m. Adults only. Dinner and live music. (201) 871-1152 or www.chabadlubavitch.org.

Cafe night Fair Lawn’s own Clare Cooper performs original music and old favorites at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel, 7:30 p.m. She is the musical director of “Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding,” the assistant musical director of “Memphis,” and performing in “Don’t Tell Mama,” a piano/cabaret bar in NYC. Refreshments. 10-10 Norma Ave. (201) 796-5040 or [email protected].

sunday [dec. 2]

Jewish parenting Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge hosts a Chanukah-themed Mother’s Circle minicourse on Jewish parenting for mothers of other religious backgrounds who are raising Jewish children. Topics include how to create a Jewish home, a Jewish child’s lifecycle events, and an overview of the Jewish holidays. Group meets at the shul, 9 a.m. Made possible by a joint grant to the Jewish Outreach Institute and the synagogue from the Adler Family Innovation Fund. 385 Howland Ave. Stephanie, (201) 489-2463, ext. 202 or [email protected].

Tsimbl music in Jersey City Cong. B’nai Jacob offers Lox’n Learning, 9:30 a.m., featuring tsimbl player and recording artist Pete Rushefsky, most recently heard on Itzhak Perlman’s newly released CD of Jewish music. Bagels and lox and wine and cheese. Family Chanukah workshop. Babysitting available. 176 West Side Ave. (201) 435-5725 or bnaijacobjc.org.

War veterans meet in Teaneck The Teaneck/New Milford Post #498 Jewish War Veterans has a breakfast meeting at the American Legion Building, 9:30 a.m. Prospective members welcome. 650 American Legion Drive. Past Commander Stan Hoffman, (201) 836-0814.

Preschool class The JCC of Paramus offers Candle Club, a monthly pre-K holiday class with stories, music, dance, arts and crafts, and kosher nut-free refreshments, 9:45 a.m. Coffee and bagels for parents at 9:30. East 304 Midland Ave. (201) 262-7733 or [email protected].

Chanukah in Oakland The Gerrard Berman Day School Solomon Schechter of North Jersey holds “Mosaic Menorah Magic,” for 2- to 8-year-olds, 10-11:30 a.m. Magic show, music, and doughnuts sponsored by local Dunkin’ Donuts, JFSNJ, and Artistic Tile. 45 Spruce St. Amy Shafron, (201) 337-1111, ext. 302, or [email protected].

Chanukah in Hackensack Ben Porat Yosef offers “Reading Rocks” at Barnes & Noble, Riverside Square Mall, 10 a.m.-4 p.m, including author presentation, scavenger hunt, puppet show, and face painting. (201) 845-5007, ext. 16, or www.benporatyosef.org.

Zionism talk in West Orange The Jewish Cultural School & Society offers a talk, “Jewish Alternatives to Zionism,” with Bennett Muraskin, secular humanistic Jewish movement author, at the JCC Metrowest, 10 a.m. Chanukah party on Dec. 16. 760 Northfield Ave. (973) 233-0714 or jcss-nj.org.

Holiday boutique Congregation Gesher Shalom, the Jewish Community Center of Fort Lee, holds its annual vendor holiday boutique, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 1449 Anderson Ave. (201) 947-1735.

Chanukah in Closter Temple Emanu-El of Closter hosts its Chanukah bash & volunteer expo, 10:30 a.m. Concert

Shabbat in Englewood Cliffs Sha’ar Communities hosts music-filled services, 7:30 p.m. (201) 213-9569 or [email protected].

saturday [dec. 1]

Shabbat in Bayonne Temple Emanu-El celebrates 25 years with Rabbi Clifford B. Miller. Service with Cantor Marshall Wise and guest speaker Dan Friedman, managing editor of the Forward, discussing “Twenty-Five Years of Jewish American Culture,” 9:15 a.m. Kiddush. 735 Kennedy Boulevard. (201) 436-4499.

Shabbat in Closter Arnold Eisen, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, is the scholar-in-residence at Temple Emanu-El, 9 a.m. Babysitting, 9:30; tot Shabbat, 10:15. 180 Piermont Road. (201) 750-9997.

Shabbat in Teaneck Temple Emeth offers a Shabbaton, 3-5 p.m, including a screening of the film “Song of Life.” Mimica Tsezana-Hyman, a member of the group who helped produce the film and a descendant of the Jewish community upon which it is based, will discuss it, and her daughter, Sabrina, will perform a song inspired by it. 1666 Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322.

Music in Leonia Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble performs Jewish melodies in various jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and neoclassical styles at Congregation Adas Emuno, 7 p.m. Cantorial soloist Shira Lissek will perform as a guest vocalist. Coffee and dessert. 254 Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712 or www.adasemuno.org.


The Jewish Museum in New York City presents its annual Chanukah Family Day, Sunday, Dec. 9, noon to 4 p.m. Highlights include performances by Yosi and The Superdads, an art workshop, and gallery tours. This event is for children age 3 and up, accompanied by adults. 1109 Fifth Ave. (212) 423-3200 or TheJewishMuseum.org/specialfamilydays. Courtesy jewish museum

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tuesday [dec. 4]

Book discussion The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel holds a book review with Pat Davidson of the Park Avenue Synagogue discussing Julie Orringer’s, “The Invisible Bridge,” noon. 10-10 Norma Ave. (201) 796-5040.

Music in Teaneck Bernard Weinflash presents a musical journey of his life for the New Beginnings group at the Jewish Center of Teaneck, 1:30 p.m. The group is sponsored by the Elisabeth Heilbronner Chesed Fund. 70 Sterling Place. (201) 833-0515.

wednesday [dec. 5]

Caregiver support A support group for those caring for the physically frail or suffering from Alzheimer’s disease meets at the Gallen Adult Day Health Care Center at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m. Topics include longterm care options, financial planning, legal concerns, and the personal toll of caregiving. Shelley Steiner, (201) 784-1414, ext. 5340.

Menorah lighting in Paramus A menorah will be lit at Borough Hall, 7 p.m. 1 Jockish Square. (201) 265-2100 or www.paramusborough.org.

Chanukah in Tenafly Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, Judaic scholar-in-residence at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, discusses “Our Chanukah Versus the Chanukah of History, the Talmud, and the Siddur,” at the JCC, 8:15 p.m. (201) 408-1429 or www.jccotp.org.

thursday [dec. 6]

Shalom Baby Chanukah Shalom Baby offers a Chanukah party at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/CBI, 9:30-10:45 a.m. The group offers a way for moms and dads of newborns or newly adopted children through age 3 to connect with each other and the Jewish community through a monthly series of play dates with play, music, storytime, snacks, and crafts projects. Administered by Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Synagogue Leadership Initiative and co-funded by the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation. 10-10 Norma Ave. Ellen Finkelstein, (201) 820-3917 or [email protected].

Tricky tray in Bayonne The Jewish Community Center of Bayonne holds a tricky tray to benefit the Lauren Wendroff Early Enrichment Center, 7 p.m. 1050 Kennedy Boulevard. Sandra, (201) 436-6900.

Weinberg speaks State Sen. Loretta Weinberg details “The Adventures of Being a State Senator and a Jewish Grandmother” for the rosh chodesh women’s group at Temple Emeth, 7:30 p.m. 1666 Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.

live entertainment, casino games, and raffle for luxury prizes. Funds to benefit FIDF’s Dignity Program. www.fidf.org/YLNYgala2012.

saturday [dec. 8]

Chanukah dance party The North Jersey Jewish Singles group (45-60) at the Clifton Jewish Center hosts a Chanukah “Boomers’ Dance” with a DJ, 7-10:30 p.m.; doors open at 6:30. Refreshments. Bring a grab bag gift value $5-$10. Martine or Karen, (973) 772-3131 or www.meetup.com (use group name).

friday [dec. 7]

Shabbat in Wyckoff Temple Beth Rishon ushers in Chanukah with a congregational dinner and services, 6 p.m. The Strauss/Warschauer Duo performs with Cantors Ilan Mamber and Jenna Daniels along with the Kol Rishon adult choir and the Zemer Rishon teen choir. (201) 891-4466 or www.bethrishon.org.

Shabbat in Closter Temple Emanu-El of Closter holds a congregational Chanukah/new member dinner, 6 p.m. 180 Piermont Road. (201) 750-9997.

Shabbat in Closter Temple Beth El offers services with the Shabbat Unplugged Band, 7:30 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112.

Shabbat in Paramus The Young Jewish Families club of the Jewish Community Center of Paramus hosts a family-friendly service and program for young families and children, 13 and younger, 7:30 p.m. Oneg/playtime in the gym follow. East 304 Midland Ave. (201) 262-7691 or [email protected].

in new york

sunday [dec. 2]

Family Chanukah program “Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins: A Family Hanukkah Program” offers storytelling, songs, arts and crafts, and concert by Play Me a Story, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Manhattan, 2 p.m. The group includes Israeli born duo of teacher/actress Maya Blank and instrumentalist Uri Sharlin. Made possible through a gift from the Margaret Neubart Foundation Trust. (646) 437-4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.

tuesday [dec. 4]

Winter book programs The Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust begins a program with three fiction and nonfiction book events about Jews in America, at 7 p.m., with author Jonathan Sarna discussing “When General Grant Expelled the Jews.” Program continues Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 7, with writers Jami Attenberg (“The Middlesteins”) and Joshua Henkin (“The World Without You”) discussing their new books; and Wednesday, Dec. 19 at 7, with author Joshua Eli Plaut presenting “A Kosher Christmas: ‘Tis the Season to Be Jewish.” (646) 437-4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.

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saturday [dec. 1]

Young professionals meet Bergen Connections hosts an event in Teaneck for modern Orthodox professional singles, 21-29, with Charlie Harary discussing “Strategies for Success in Today’s Economy,” 7:30 p.m. Food from Carlos & Gabby’s Glatt Kosher Mexican Grill. (201) 837-0164 or [email protected].

Winter bash in NYC The 92nd Street Y offers an event for singles, 40-55, at the Y, 7:30 p.m. Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street. (212) 415-5500 or www.92Y.org.

Casino night Friends of the Israel Defense Forces New York Young Leadership Division hosts its 10th annual gala themed “At the Gatsby,” at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. Gourmet food, networking,


Film recalls Kutsher’s in the CatskillsThe Glen Rock Jewish Center presents “Welcome To Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort,” on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 4 p.m.

The film’s directors, Ian Rosenberg and Caroline Laskow, will be on hand to tell stories about Kutsher’s and talk about making the award-winning documen-tary. One of the legendary Borscht Belt

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The film premiered at the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center and was the winner of the Best Documentary Audience award at the Miami Jewish Film Festival 2012. Call (201) 652-6624 for more information.

JWV brings bingo to vetsThe Lt. James I. Platt-Jewish War Veterans Post 651 in Fair Lawn has been run-ning bingo games at the New Jersey Veterans Home of Paramus on the third Wednesday of the month for the

past 20 years. The group contributed $1,000 for furnishings for the new con-struction at the home. For informa-tion, call Commander Mel Kaplan at (201) 796-3795.

BergenPAC benefit concertThe Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood presents “Beyond The Storm,” a concert to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims, on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m.

Performers include Broadway stars: Savion Glover and HBO’s Def Poet, Carlos Andrés Goméz; performers from “The Lion King,” “Mystery of Edwin Drood,” “Les Misérables,” “West Side Story,” and “Fiddler on The Roof”; Bill Berloni and Sandy, the canine star of Broadway’s revival of “Annie”; local teen stars Liz Gillies, who plays Jade on “Victorious,” and singer/songwriter/actress Heather Braverman; “Shrek’s” Little Fiona, Scarlett Diaz; Ali Stroker from “The Glee Project;”

and the 2012 Englewood Idol winner, Brian Park.

ABC “Eyewitness News” reporter Nina Pineda will emcee.

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One-woman show in Fair LawnThe Off Broadway show, “After Anne Frank,” written and per-formed by Carol Lempert and directed by Janice L. Goldberg, will be staged at Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 2 p.m. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321, ext. 415.

Chief British rabbi to speak in ManhattanChief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth will deliver this year’s Ruth B. Wildes Memorial Lecture at MJE (Manhattan Jewish Experience), on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m. His talk will be “Multiculturalism and Jewish Identity: Reconciling Jewish Pride and Choseness with Diversity and Pluralism.” 131 W. 86 St., New York City. http://jewishexperience.org/rabbi-sacks-at-mje.

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Gavin Caine, son of Pamela and Paul Caine of Tenafly and brother of Samantha and Ryan, celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah on Oct. 13 at Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly.

Benjamin EpsteinBenjamin Epstein, son of Robin and Steven Epstein of Tenafly and brother of Jacob and Olivia, celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah on Nov. 24 at Temple Emanu-El in Closter.

Claire Fink

Claire Fink, daughter of Jodee and Larry Fink of Cresskill and twin sister of Regina, celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on Nov. 24 at Temple Emeth in Teaneck.

Regina Fink

Regina Fink, daughter of Jodee and Larry Fink of Cresskill and twin sister of Claire, celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on Nov. 24 at Temple Emeth in Teaneck.

Yoav HayutYoav Hayut, son of Cantor Regina and Avishay Hayut of Tenafly and brother of Alon, cel-ebrated becoming a bar mitzvah on Nov. 24 at Temple Beth Or in Washington Township.

Emily MelnickEmily Melnick of Cresskill, daughter of Jill and Ron Sedley, and Cliff Melnick, celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on Oct. 20 at Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly.

Gabrielle Rahmin

Gabrielle Rahmin, daughter of Iris Kopeloff and Michael Rahmin of Woodcliff Lake and sister of Samantha and Austin, celebrated becoming a bat mitz-vah on Nov. 24 at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake.

Raquelle RothschildRaquelle Rothschild, daughter of Laura and Alex Rothschild of Paramus, celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on Nov. 24 at Temple Israel & Jewish Community Center in Ridgewood

OBituariEs

Bronislava Burkh–BurshmoyBronislava Burkh–Burshmoy, 99, of Oradell died on Nov. 19. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Bea FleischmanBea Fleischman, née Amolitsky, 95, of Jersey City died on Nov. 20 at Mercy Hospital in Miami, Fla.

Born in Hoboken, she owned Bea’s Discount Shop in Jersey City before retiring. She was a past president of the Deborah Hospital Chapter in Jersey City, the Ladies Auxiliary of the Jewish Home & Rehab Center in Jersey City, and Hadassah of Hudson County. She was Jersey City Senior Citizen of the Year in 2001 and was a member of Chevra Ein Jacob of Hoboken.

Predeceased by her husband, Samuel, in 1982, she is survived by children, Norman of Miami Springs, Fla., Carol Huysman of Key Biscayne, Fla., Steven of Verona, and Annette of Easton, Pa.; and three grandchildren.

Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.

Judith Kais-FuchsJudith Kais-Fuchs, 75, of Bergenfield died on Nov. 22 at home.

She is survived by her husband, Saul; daughters, Hilary and Penni; and three grandchildren.

Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

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Erik Izraelewicz, a top French-Jewish journalist, dies suddenly at 58Erik Izraelewicz, the editorial director of the French daily newspaper Le Monde, collapsed and died in his Paris of-fice from a sudden heart attack. He was 58.

Izraelewicz was found unconscious Tuesday at his office.

An author and veteran journalist, he was born to a Polish-Jewish family, according to the daily Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alsace. He began his stint as editorial direc-tor two years ago at Le Monde, which may be France’s most influential daily.

Richard Prasquier, the president of CRIF, the umbrella organization representing French Jewry, had a working lunch with Izraelewicz hours before his death.

“Erik Izraelewicz was, I think, a man of dialogue and balance,” Prasquier wrote in a statement. “Shocked by his sudden departure, I would like to express my appre-ciation and offer condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.”

French President Francois Hollande described Izraelewicz in a statement as a “renowned economist, a distinguished professional and a man as demanding as generous. Izraelewicz had written several books, includ-ing two volumes about the rising economic power of China.

Before working at Le Monde, Izraelewicz was a top editor at two French business dailies, Les Echos and La Tribune. With Izraelewicz as editorial director, Le Monde featured articles about pressing economic matters, espe-cially the euro crisis, prominently on the front page.

In its obituary, Le Monde described Izraelewicz as having been from a pragmatic generation of French so-cialists “eager for reforms that shape the world as it is, for better or worse.”

Before joining Les Echos and La Tribune, Izraelewicz had worked as a journalist at Le Monde, where one of his postings was in New York.

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Beemtech is now in full sales mode in Israel and New York, where it is running two pilot sites and wooing customers.

Controlled individually, remotelyUsing small sensors that can measure carbon dioxide levels from breathing, movement, temperature, and a range of other programmable parameters, Beemtech either sends alerts or automatically adjusts heating, cool-ing and lighting.

People using the space also have their say: Those authorized can use their smart phones to answer surveys about the comfort levels of lighting and temperature in their private or shared space, so that settings can be

adjusted accordingly.Beemtech is also starting to work

with energy savings companies so that clients can reduce and report their carbon footprint savings. This is especially relevant for companies that want to improve their sustainability reports and public image.

The cost of a system setup and maintenance depends on the scale: Over 10 years, it will cost about one year’s worth of energy savings, plus about 10 percent of annual energy savings for ongoing management and support that the company provides.

Improving green imagesBeemtech is an 18-person company headquartered in the Science Park in Rehovot, a satellite city about a

40-minute drive from Tel Aviv. It also has an office in Manhattan. The company has been privately funded un-til now, but seeks $5 million to $10 million in order to put its smart sensors into mass production.

Beemtech is currently installing a system for a 10,000-square-foot office building in Ra’anana, Israel. This space will require about 80 sensors to gather “huge amounts of information” says Frieberg.

“If they have 200 meeting rooms, it is most likely that 80% of these rooms are empty most of the time. We can know how to manage every 100 square feet and can reduce costs by telling facility managers how to manage them.”

Urban planners and architects, he notes, can use information collected by Beemtech to better understand how spaces are really being used. Are open-concept offices working for a firm, or are employees scurrying to private meeting rooms instead? Does the new floor really need to be renovated or can office staff be moved to unused meeting rooms?

“It’s a bit funny that organizations spend so much money to control their assets like cars and computers, but energy, which is 20% of their budget for operation expenditures, is not done. We can promise to cut energy usage by 30 or 40 percent,” says Frieberg.

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Nati Freiberg, CEO of Beemtech, a Rehovot-based company that offers a tech-nology solution and a service to help operations managers get a handle on how energy is being used.

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BergenPAC offers holiday promotionBergen Performing Arts Center is offering 20 different shows for $20 a ticket as a holiday promotion. Starting with Chef Irvine Live in December and continuing through the spring, tickets are available for shows at the Englewood performing arts center. The offer can-not be combined with any other discounts and is not retroactive.In addition to the Chef Irvine show, the offer includes Chris Botti; “The Little Prince;” Queen Extravaganza; Savion Glover; Kansas; Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood; The Whisperers; Pink Floyd Experience; Blues at the Crossroads; The Highs and Lows of Janis Joplin; “Clifford the Big Red Dog;” Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Paul Taylor Dance Company; Queensryche; the Irish Tenors; Marshall Tucker Band; Physical Graffiti; Jerry Lewis; and Charlie Daniels Band.

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Concert to benefit victims of SandyA star-studded performance, “Beyond the Storm,” will raise funds to provide relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy.

The lineup includes such Broadway stars as Savion Golver and HBO’s Def Poet Carlos Andres Gomez. ABC Eyewitness News reporter Nina Pineda will serve as em-cee. The event takes place on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. at Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood.

Other performers at the benefit include those from the cast of “The Lion King,” “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” as well as a special appear-ance by “Sandy,” the four-legged star of Broadway’s cur-rent smash revival of “Annie.” Haworth native Liz Gillies, from the sitcom “Victorious,” and 2012 Englewood Idol Winner Brian Park will also be on hand.

Tickets cost $25 and $100 and all funds raised will be donated to the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, Pet ResQ, and the school districts of Moonachie and Little Ferry.

Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com. Call (201) 227-1030 or visit bergenpac.org for information.

Local to take part in Art MiamiLocal real estate broker-owner Marlyn Friedberg of Friedberg Properties will participate in a showcase property exhibit at Art Miami in South Florida during Art Week on Dec. 4-9.

Friedberg Properties, an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, will be among 127 brokerages showcasing luxury residential property at a booth during Art Miami and its new sister event, CONTEXT Art Miami, an emerging, cutting-edge contemporary art fair con-nected to the Art Miami Pavilion. Christie’s is the official luxury real estate partner of the Miami art week.

The fair attracts thousands of collectors, dealers, cura-tors and artists and features 190 galleries from 21 coun-tries. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and prints from around the world, in addition to numerous specialty exhibits will be on display.

Friedberg Properties exclusively represents the Christie’s brand in eastern Bergen County.

For more information call Marlyn Friedberg at (201) 894-1234 or email [email protected].

Flip the switch on heating and lighting costsa sensor system from israel monitors energy use throughout commercial spaces to slash expenses and keep users comfortable.

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adjusted accordingly.Beemtech is also starting to work

with energy savings companies so that clients can reduce and report their carbon footprint savings. This is especially relevant for companies that want to improve their sustainability reports and public image.

The cost of a system setup and maintenance depends on the scale: Over 10 years, it will cost about one year’s worth of energy savings, plus about 10 percent of annual energy savings for ongoing management and support that the company provides.

Improving green imagesBeemtech is an 18-person company headquartered in the Science Park in Rehovot, a satellite city about a

40-minute drive from Tel Aviv. It also has an office in Manhattan. The company has been privately funded un-til now, but seeks $5 million to $10 million in order to put its smart sensors into mass production.

Beemtech is currently installing a system for a 10,000-square-foot office building in Ra’anana, Israel. This space will require about 80 sensors to gather “huge amounts of information” says Frieberg.

“If they have 200 meeting rooms, it is most likely that 80% of these rooms are empty most of the time. We can know how to manage every 100 square feet and can reduce costs by telling facility managers how to manage them.”

Urban planners and architects, he notes, can use information collected by Beemtech to better understand how spaces are really being used. Are open-concept offices working for a firm, or are employees scurrying to private meeting rooms instead? Does the new floor really need to be renovated or can office staff be moved to unused meeting rooms?

“It’s a bit funny that organizations spend so much money to control their assets like cars and computers, but energy, which is 20% of their budget for operation expenditures, is not done. We can promise to cut energy usage by 30 or 40 percent,” says Frieberg.

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Gala raises funds to fight autismMore than 400 businesses and individuals at-tended the 2012 annual Garden Academy Gala to support the organization’s mission to make a difference in the lives of those affected by autism.

Garden Academy is a nonprofit school for children with autism located in Essex County.

“On average, the annual cost of living is twice as high for children and adults with intellectual disabilities than for others,” said Craig Montanaro, Kearny Federal’s president and chief executive officer, who attended the event. “Garden Academy and its programs help individuals with autism reach their full potential. It is an honor for us to be part of a process that often leads to dramatic improvement in the lives of children with autism,” he added.

Thomas D’Ovidio, left, presi-dent of the board of directors of Garden Academy, and Craig Montanaro, president and CEO of Kearny Federal Savings Bank.

Calling all fashionistas to a school benefitHave some fashion forward fun at a fash-ion show to benefit the Elisabeth Morrow School endowment for faculty.

The luncheon and fashion show will take place from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31 at Neiman Marcus at the Garden State Plaza, Paramus. The program is open to parents and friends of the school, and is sponsored by its par-ent’s association.

The Elisabeth Morrow School is a 78-year-old independent, coeducational country day school in Englewood. Its students come Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex, Union, Hudson, and Rockland counties and New York City.

For tickets and information contact Maureen York, or (201) 568-5566, ext. 7223.

Six ways to a healthy homeDuring the winter months, it’s important to take extra care of your home, your fam-ily and especially yourself.

Luckily, there are a number of simple, yet impactful ways to keep the entire household in good health. Here are six examples to get you and your family on the right track toward winter wellness.

Pencil in cleaningRoutine household cleaning keeps clutter — and germs — at bay. Corral loose items into decorative bins and baskets, then use disinfecting wipes on common high-touch areas such as faucets, door knobs, and light switches to reduce the spread of viruses and bacteria. Be sure to dust regularly, as dust particles often contain pet dander, chemicals, or other irritants that have the potential to aggravate aller-gies. If you have any sensitivity to clean-ing products, try a natural solution of equal parts water and distilled white vin-egar to clean everything from windows to appliances.

For the dogsPets are extensions of our families and should be treated as such — even when it comes to bathing. These four-legged friends have the tendency to bring many allergens into the home. To minimize this problem, dogs should be bathed regularly and wiped down with a damp cloth when they come in from outside.

Sweeping surpriseFor years, we have counted on our vacu-ums to get rid of dust and allergens in our homes. But, it turns out that the ma-chines we rely on to clean our floors and furniture may actually be making them dirtier. A recent study by researchers from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia found that many vacuums — especially older models — actually suspend harmful allergen par-ticles in the air, increasing our exposure to them. If you have an older vacuum, consider upgrading to a new one with a HEPA (High-Efficiency-Particulate-Air) filter, which releases less dirt and bac-

teria into the air than a standard model. Regardless of the age or features of your vacuum, clean it regularly to ensure a healthier sweep.

Door etiquetteDirt and pollen are often brought into a house on the shoes of guests and fam-ily members. Adding a door mat on both sides of a door and having everyone promptly remove their shoes upon enter-ing can significantly cut back on what is being tracked inside. The Carpet and Rug Institute estimates that up to 80 percent of dirt and allergens can be caught with a washable door mat — keeping your fam-ily healthy and your floors clean.

Air it outOne area many homeowners might not consider when it comes to a healthier home is the mattress. Although changing your sheets weekly is an important ritual, delay putting on clean linens to allow time for mite-friendly moisture to evapo-rate. Now you’ll have a clean mattress to go along with your clean sheets.

Winter workoutsThe perfect prevention for winter illness — from cold and flu viruses to a case of the winter blues — is exercise. According to Neil Schachter, a professor of pulmo-nary and critical care at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, any kind of moder-ate daily exercise can improve lung and immune function by enhancing the abil-ity of virus-attacking white blood cells to ramp up the immune response. If you can’t get outdoors for a daily walk during the colder months, consider purchasing a treadmill or stationary bike, beef up your workout video library, or pick up an active game, like Just Dance or Dance Central, for your motion-activated gaming system to kick germs to the curb.

By following these helpful hints, you and your family will be better prepared during the long winter months — preventing the spread of germs and making wellness a top priority.

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1134 KORFITSEN ROADUpdated 4 BR/2BTH Colonial.

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193 VANDELINDA AVENUEExquisite Center Hall Colonial.

ENGLEWOOD $725,000

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360 AUDUBON ROADLarge updated Tudor Colonial.

TENAFLY $1,550,000

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[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

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