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Israeli Stones fans get what they wantAge 60 is for sagacity, says Pirkei

Avot.

And age 70 is for rock and rollers

to play their first concert in Israel,according to Israeli promoter Shuki

Weiss, who on Tuesday announced

that he had booked the Rolling

Stones for a June concert in Tel Aviv.

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jag-

ger will turn 71 six weeks after the

concert, scheduled for June 4.

In the 1960s, the Rolling Stones

prime rivals, the Beatles, began ne-

gotiations to play a concert in Israel.

But Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion

was unwilling to authorize the ex-

penditure of scarce foreign currency

reserves on popular entertainment.

Now, though, the question of for-

eign rock and rollers has become anational priority, as each concert is

proof of the failure of the anti-Israeli

boycott movement.

Neil Young, Justin Timberlake, the

Pixies, and Soundgarden also are

scheduled to play Israel this summer.

The Stones visit is seen as particu-

larly timely, given that two of their

songs Paint It Black and Beast

of Burden are said to refer to the

question of drafting the ultra-Ortho-

dox into the Israeli army. - LY

Pharonic foursomeFour questions. Four cups of wine.

Four sons.

Now, you can add four statues of

Pharaoh to your seder menu at

least if youre planning on celebrating

Passover in Luxor, Egypt.

Archaeologists have just restored

two giant statues of Pharaoh Amen-

hotep III at the Temple of Luxor.

Two 3,400-year-old statues of the

pharaoh long have been tourist at-

tractions at the site.

Now, thanks to the work of the ar-

chaeologists, there are four.

The world until now knew two

Memnon colossi, but from today it w

know four colossi of Amenhotep III,

the German-Armenian archaeologist

Hourig Sourouzian, who heads the

project to conserve the Amenhotep

temple, said.

The statues had lain in pieces for

centuries in the fields, damaged by

destructive forces of nature like eart

quake, and later by irrigation water,

salt, encroachment and vandalism,

she told the AFP news service, as

excavators and local vi llagers washe

pieces of artifacts and statues un-

earthed over the past months. -

Synagoguesinger stampedHis first gig was in a synagoguebasement.

Now his face is on an American

postage stamp.

John Jimi Allen Hendrix was

a 16-year-old high school student

when he played his first public per-

formance for an unnamed band at

Seattles Temple de Hirsch syna-

gogue in February 1959. His wild

playing, which would later make

him the worlds highest paid solo

guitarist, got him fired before the

second set.

At the time, as Jewish Currents

website has noted, the music direc-tor for Temple de Hirsch, a Reform

synagogue, was Samuel E. Goldfarb,

co-writer of the famous Dreidel Song

(I have a little dreydl . . .), which

Hendrix, unfortunately for Jewish

civilization, never covered.

Hendrix did famously cover anoth-

er song by a Jewish composer, Bob

Dylans All Along the Watchtower.Hendrix died in 1970 at 27 from an

overdose of drugs and alcohol. Fel-

low Baby Boomer icon Janis Joplin,

who met a similar fate two weeks

later, is slated for a postage stamp

later this year.

LARRY YUDELSON

Did they bring Spider-Mantashen?For the young

patients of the

Schneider Chil-

drens Medical

Center of Israel,

this Purim holiday

was out of this

world. Thanks

to two volunteer

window washers

who dressed up

as superheroes,

the sick children

were treated to a

fantastic surprise:

Spiderman dangling from ropes

outside the hospitals windows.

The children and their familiescould not participate in celebrations

outdoors, so hospital staff swooped

in to the rescue and brought the fun

to them.

But wait: Two Spidermen?

Luckily, the children are too

young to remember the infamousSpiderman Clone Saga that roiled

the pages of Marvel Comics in the

mid 1990s.

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Jewish Memorial Chapel namesnew managing funeral directorAllen Edelstein, the managing funeral

director at the Jewish Memorial Cha-

pel of Passaic-Clifton, retired on Janu-

ary 31 after 22 years of service. Vincent

Marazo is the new managing funeral

director.

Mr. Edelstein began working at the

Jewish Memorial Chapel when it was

still in its original home at 68 Howe Ave.

in Passaic. He began as a funeral direc-

tor, working under managing funeral

director Irving Shapiro until February

2002. After Mr. Shapiro died, Mr. Edel-

stein became managing funeral direc-

tor of the Jewish Memorial Chapel of

Passaic-Clifton. He held that job for 12years.

During Mr. Edelsteins tenure with

the chapel, he conducted many funer-

als and comforted countless grieving

families and friends in accordance with

Jewish tradi tion. The Jewish Memorial

Chapels board expresses its deepe

gratitude to Mr. Edelstein on behalf

his service to the Chapel and the Jewi

communities of North Jersey.

Mr. Edelstein plans to spend mo

time with his wife and family.

Mr. Marazo, the new managin

funeral director, previously work

as a funeral director at Menorah Ch

pels at Millburn. His many years of se

vice to the Jewish community in Ess

and Union counties has made him w

versed in traditional Jewish funeral rit

als and customs. Mr. Marazo has be

a licensed funeral director since 1979

The Jewish Memorial Chapel Passaic-Clifton is a not-for-pro

Jewish funeral home serving the Nor

Jersey area. The chapel is owned an

operated by over 24 Jewish commun

organizations in Passaic, Bergen, an

Essex counties.

Allen Edelstein and Vincent Marazo

New Jersey visitors meetwith Israeli Knesset leaderIsrael Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, left,

recently hosted New Jersey State Associa-

tion of Jewish Federations (NJSAJF) Presi-

dent Mark S. Levenson, center, and Senate

President Stephen Sweeney. The meeting,

in Speaker Edelsteins ofice at the Knes-

set, was during the recent NJASF 2014 leg-

islators mission to Israel.

COURTESY KNESSET SPEAKER YULI EDELSTEINS OFFICE

Dedication of Gush Etzion play area

The former Jewish Federation

of Greater Clifton Passaic allo-cates funds to a yearly project

in Israel. The former federation

entity has income from the sale

of the Y building and it contin-

ues to use that toward charitable

projects.

In 2013, past president Mark

Levenson suggested building

playgrounds in three commu-

nities in the Gush Etzion area

(Migdal Oz, Gavaot, and Pnei

Kedem) that lacked play areas.

He helped coordinate the proj-

ect and was present at the dedi-

cations on Feb. 27. While each

of the three dedications left me

overwhelmed with emotion

and I kept on hearing over andover how needed and welcome the play-

grounds were and how much the chil-

dren were enjoying the playgrounds (as

I witnessed in person), the dedication at

Migdal Oz was especially meaningful as

the playground and nearby school serves

a signiicant special-needs population and

many special-needs children were at the

dedication, said Mr. Levenson, shown

here (in jacket).

Womens League hostsannual spring program

The Womens League for Conservative

Judaisms Garden State region will focus

on inding inner peace at its annual

regional spring program, set for Sunday,

March 30, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.,

at Congregation Ahavat Olam in Howell.

Dr. Alison Block, the keynote speaker,will discuss Anxiety: What s Normal,

Whats Not, and What to Do About It.

Workshops include Age Wisely, which

offers practical and affordable options

for taking care of you and your elderly

loved ones; Eat to a Better Health,

about foods that promote physical and

mental health, support a strong immune

system, and prevent disease; De-stress

with Yoga, a routine to help relax and

renew; and Knitting, a Great Tool for

Your Health, a way to induce relax-ation and lower heart rate. Instruction is

geared for new knitters, but all knitters

and crocheters are welcome. For infor-

mation call (201) 3413065 or email Carla.

[email protected].

Friendship Circle winter campThe Friendship Circle of Passaic

County held a winter camp at the

Yeshiva Bet Hillel of Passaic for chil-

dren with special needs. They par-

ticipated in an array of activities,

including sensory, art, music, and

dance. Volunteers were on hand forthe two-day program to assist.

The Friendship Circle of Passaic

County reaches out and to com-

munity families who have children

with special needs. Part of a larger

movement with branches in com-

munities throughout the country

The Friendship Circle offers a

variety of programs that enhance the

quality of life for children and their

families by providing friendship to these

special children. For information ca

(973) 6946274 or visit www.fcpassa

county.com.


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Israels great DaneFormer diaspora affairs minister seeks peace from within and without

LARRY YUDELSON

Rabbi Michael Melchior has left

politics behind, but he has not

left public service.

Rabbi Melchior served in the

Knesset for 10 years as leader of the liberal

Orthodox Meimad political movement. Born

in Denmark in 1954, he earned smicha from

Jerusalems Yeshivat Hakote l in 1980 and

was appointed chief rabbi of Norways 1,400

Jews soon after. In 1986 he made aliyah, but

he has held on to his Norwegian title.

His main focus, though, is on Israeli life.

Rabbi Melchior is a community rabbi in

Jerusalems Talpiot neighborhood as well

as an activist for the improvement of Israeli

society.

When Rabbi Lawrence Zierler of the Jew-ish Center of Teaneck spent a sabbatical

year in Jerusalem, he and his family livedin Talpiot and discovered Rabbi Melchiors

congregation.

We never found anything we loved as

much, Rabbi Zierler said; the two rabbis

became very close, he added.

Rabbi Melchior will be in Teaneck next

week, as part of a four-day U.S. fundrais-

ing trip for some of the organizations with

which he is involved, and he will meet with

groups of people organized by Rabbi Zierler.

Rabbi Melchiors projects focus on unit-

ing Israels different strands of society, and

on reaching beyond Israel to connect with

neighboring Arab communities.

Rabbi Melchior, who was Israels irst min-

ister of diaspora affairs, grew up in a diaspora

community small enough to demand that

all factions to work together. Having cho-sen to raise his family in a primarily secular

Jerusalem neigh-

borhood, he was

disappointed to

discover that by

sending his children to religious schools

and religious youth movements, our

kids only came to know other people who

were exactly like themselves. They didnt

come to know other segments of society.

Disturbed, he set out to break downthe barriers between the groups. It

started with meetings in the 1980 and

early 1990s, but something impor-

tant happened after the assassination

of our prime minister in 1995. More

and more people understood that this

the division into separate groups

could not continue.

He led a movement to create schools

and educational programs where reli-

gious, very religious, very secular, and

everything in between could study

together, he said.

A whole new Israel is being cre-

ated, which is not very known in

North America, Rabbi Melchior said.

There are tens of thousands, even

hundreds of thousands, who are inter-ested in creating something new in the

seam between different identities of

Judaism.

From one school launched 12 years

ago, there are now 52 institutions of

what is c alled inclusive Jewish public

education.

Another part of Rabbi Melchiors

efforts are devoted to our relationship

to the non-Jews who are living with us

in Israel.

We have a responsibility towards t

Arab community, he said. Weve bee

living ourselves as a minority througho

the ages, and we know what it is to li

as a minorit y. Now were tested: We

a majority, and we dont always live u

to the test.

Its not enough to say, well, the Ara

are better off here than they would

in Syria or Lebanon. Thats not the teThe test is whats acceptable to the sta

dard of Jewish values we have preache

and which we believe in and have talke

about when we were a minority.

We dont always live up to ou

responsibility. This is not something ne

Im saying. Theres the Or Commissio

formed after the Arab riots in the ye

2000, which unanimously said there

discrimination toward the Arab citizen

I can give you so many examples. Th

investment we put in the education of

Arab child compared to the investme

in a Jewish child, the funding of religio

institutions of Muslims and Christia

compared to the religious institutio

of Jews. If you give religious institutio

support in the country, you cant gihalf a percent of support to the ins

tutions of more than 20 percent of th

population.

This is something we should be sen

tive to as Jews. Thirty-six times we re

in the Torah to be sensitive to strangers

he said.

To deal with these gaps between Isr

els Jewish majority and its Arab mino

ity, Rabbi Melchior formed the Citize

In 2011, the city of Akkos youth parliament, affiliated

with the Citizens Accord Forum, met with the mayor.

Rabbi Michael Melchior, inset, is the forums founder.

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One example: Weve created youth

parliaments in the mixed cities around

Israel. Jews and Arabs sit in the youth

parliaments together, then they decide

on youth policy together. They do

things together.

I believe not in protesting, but increating a change through a sensible

dialogue and making people under-

stand that this is good for everybody. It

works well. It makes sense.

Perhaps Rabbi Melchiors most auda-

cious arena of activism goes beyond

Israels citizens: It deals with the ques-

tion of peace.

He believes that it is possible for

Israel to ind peace with its neighbors

but that the approach to peace must

change.

There has been no point where the

Arab Muslim world is so ripe and ready

to make peace with the State of Israel as

it is now, he said.

Contacts with Muslims he cant go

into details, but has said they i ncludeHamas and other Islamists have con-

vinced him that its possible.

Publicly, Rabbi Melchior was instru-

mental in organizing a Muslim-Jewish

dialogue that began with a summit in

Alexandria, Eypt, in 2002.

A lot of work I do in this area is under

the radar, he said. I work with all the

Arab countries, with all the fragments

of the Palestinians. There is a willing-

ness today to make an agreement with

the State of Israel from all segmen

of leadership in the Muslim world. It

possible to get there.

Israel must be willing to make pea

and pay the prices and accept the cond

tions everyone knows what the cond

tions are. It will demand from our sithat we make that strategic decision

that we havent made to make peace

If the State of Israel is willing to d

that, and I think the vast majority

Israelis are, then we can have a pea

which is totally different than the pea

we made with Eypt, even different fro

the peace which was signed in Oslo.

Today I think its possible to get

peace that will include a very vast pa

of the Arab and Muslim world, Rab

Melchior said.

The problem, though, is that th

focus has been on a quick ix, a secul

peace. We dont deal with the substa

tial existential issues.

It doesnt work that way. If yo

dont build up a legitimacy for peaamong the people, and their identiti

are not involved, peace is not going

happen.

I think its very possible to mak

peace. Ive met the most extreme lea

ers on the other side. Its always bee

possible to come to an agreement. B

there has to be thinking out of the bo

You cant keep on telling your pe

ple that the other side hates us an

fears us so therefore we should ma

peace. You cant only make a pea

which is a peace of interests.

If the only language to make pea

is a secular language, it doesnt co

vince the people. It also doesnt co

vin ce the Palesti nia ns. You have

change the story. You have to come uwith a peace of values.

I believe in Zionism. I believe al

that to be here is part of the fulillme

of a dream of Jewish history, of a drea

of the prophets, even the fulillment

Gods will that the Jewish people is ba

in their homeland. But I cant say the

that its an accident that theres anoth

people living here.

You cant have it halfway. If it

Gods will that were back, and this is

fulillment of Jewish destiny that we

back in our homeland, then its part

this also that theres another people l

ing here

If we expect of the other the Ara

world and the Palesti nian people

to accept our right to self deinitiowe must accept the same from them

Thats the essence of Judaism, he sai

I found radical Muslim leaders wh

said, if you come with that kind of at

tude, a religious attitude that we belie

in one God, that we come together

the Holy Land to respect each other

if thats the attitude then well go alo

with such a peace of two states for tw

people. Nobody ever offered such

thing, Rabbi Melchior said.

Great DaneFROM PAGE 6

If you dontbuild up a

legitimacy forpeace among

the people,andtheir identities

are not involved,peace is not

going to happen.

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Meeting of different mindsA rabbi and an imam walk into the Frisch School together...

LARRY YUDELSON

Jewish-Muslim dialogue went to a yeshiva high school, as

Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali appeared at an

assembly at the Frisch School in Paramus last Wednesday.

It was the irst time Frisch hosted a Muslim speaker

and the irst time the duo, who have written a book

together, brought their Muslim-Jewish dialogue to an

American Jewish school.

Rabbi Schneier is the founding rabbi of the Hamptons

Synagogue in Westhampton, N.Y. Imam Ali, who formerly

led Manhattans Islamic Cultural Center on East 96h street

and now heads two smaller congregations in Queens,

noted the connection between the word Beit Midrash

the schools study hall and the word madrassa, mean-

ing religious school, that he attended as a youth.

The Imams madrassa in his native Indonesia, how-

ever, was far stricter than Frisch: It was a single-sex

boarding school, which its students left to vi sit homeonly twice a year.

The process of learning was not only inside of the

classroom, but outside of classroom, he told the Jew-

ish Standard.

The two religious leaders appeared under the auspices

of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, a group

Rabbi Schneier, founded 25 years ago to advance black-

Jewish dialogue. The foundation expanded its mandate

to Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the last decade, after Rabbi

Schneier was challenged to do so by his partner in the

foundation, hip-hop music magnate Russell Simmons.

When the rabbi and the imam irst met, at a television

studio where they were providing Jewish and Muslim per-

spectives on Pope John Paul II, we shook hands, barely

looking at each other, Imam Ali recalled. Both of us had

past prejudiced views about each other.

But their dialogue led to friendship. Last year a book

they wrote together was published; its called Sons ofAbraham: A Candid Conversation about the Issues That

Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims.

Out of the friendship that we had, we changed, the

imam said. I used to have a lot of prejudicial views about

the Jewish community. He completely changed me.

Rabbi Schneier said, I came to the table with clear

biases and prejudices, having grown up in a very intense

yeshiva environment: Muslims were the enemy, Muslims

were to be demonized, Muslims were not to be trusted.

Ive been able to enlarge my horizons, he said.

Rabbi Schneier characterized the discussion at Frisch

as a very open, frank, wonderful exchange.

Many of the questions the high school students asked

were what the Muslim leader had come to expect. Ques-

tions about the role of women in Islam, about terrorism,

about jihad.

What surprised him was a question from a boy who

seemed to me very knowledgeable about Islam. He had agreat understanding of the religion, he said.

The imam said one student disagreed with his state-

ment that many Muslims misperceive Jews. He said, I

have a lot of Muslim friends in Brooklyn and they have

never talked evil about Jews, Imam Ali said.

There were parts of the presentation that were particu-

larly geared toward the yeshiva students.

We spoke about there being a tradition of written and

oral law in Islam, as in Judaism, Rabbi Schneier said. I

said we must be careful to interpret the Koran in a literal

fashion, as we would not do with our own Torah.

Imam Ali said the partnership is not just about helping Ameri-can Jews and American Muslims understand each other.

We are able to influence Muslims and Jews around the world

to work together, he said. The most recent example, a few

months ago, Jews and Muslims organized meeting meetings in

Tunisia. While Jews have lived among the Muslim majority in

Tunisia for more than a thousand years, this was the irst formal

religious dialogue between the two communities there.

In Austria, where 800,000 Muslims outnumber 16,000 Jews, Imam Shamsi Ali fields questions from students at th

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10/24


Op-Ed

Editorial

Drafts of wrathPour out Thy wrath upon the

nations that know Thee not, and

upon the kingdoms that call not

upon Thy name. For they have

devoured Jacob, and laid waste his

habitation.

These lines from Psalm 79 are

familiar to us all from their recita-

tion at the Passover seder, added

when our Festival of Liberation was

transformed, in Christian Europe,

to a season of pogroms and bloodlibels.

The psalm itself, of course, long

predates Christianity and the dias-

pora; as is clear from its opening

verse, it targets the heathen who

are come into Thine inheritance;

they have deiled Thy holy temple.

These heathens presumably

Nebuchadnezzers Babylonians

have given the dead bodies of Thy

servants to be food unto the fowls of

the heaven, the flesh of Thy saints

unto the beasts of the earth. They

have shed their blood like water

round about Jerusalem, with none

to bury them.

Now, the psalm has been repur-

posed to pray for protection against

a new enemy that has arisen.

Not Iran. Not Hamas. Not Vladi-

mir Putin.

No, the new enemy, which hun-

dreds of thousands of self-styled

fervently Orthodox Jews gathered

to protest, in Jerusalem and New

York, is the government of Israeli

Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-

yahu, which recently passed a lawthat would ostensibly require

some yeshiva students to serve in

the Israeli army.

(We say ostensibly because the

law has been criticized as too little,

too late; its most dramatic sanctions

dont kick in until 2017, allowing

time for a new election and a more

pro-charedi coalition to form.)

50 Thousand Haredim March

So Only Other Jews Die in War is

how the Jewish Press concisely put

it until, in response to the ultra-

Orthodox backlash, the article was

pulled down from the web and its

author ired.

Most of those marching perhaps

believed they were protesting the

current incarnations of Pharaoh

and Haman, as one Agudat Yisrael

Knesset member at the New York

rally put it. For some, that may be

a sincere interpretation of a law

that indeed would have the effect

of moving members of the commu-

nity from the cloisters of kollel to a

real world of employment. Others,

who have been fed only a diet ofrabbinically controlled media, may

really think that Israeli troops plan

to empty the yeshivot.

In truth, Torah study and army

services are not incompatible as

has been proved by decades of stu-

dents and soldiers who combine

the two at Orthodox hesder yeshi-

vot. But it is true that the iron grip

of charedi rabbis on their followers

may well be lessened as they enter

the workforce and the broader

Israeli society.

Given the kind of hatred for most

Jews evinced at the anti-draft rallies,

that could only be a good thing. -LY

The liminal seasonI

ts always such an odd sea-

son, these weeks between

Purim and Pesach. The

month sees a shift in

weather as winter (usually) gives

up its sad black-edged snowy

grip and spring unfurls. It usually

sees Jewish households in fran-

tic clean-up-throw-out-scour-the-

kitchen-scour-the-stores-buy-cook-

buy -cook-free ze- fre eze -fr eez e

mode, and at the same time spring

clothes are pulled out of closets

and drab winter wools stuffed

gratefully away.

This year, though, seems weird.

Oddly unsettled.

Maybe its the weather. Its been

so cold for so long that spring

seems unlikely, even though it

began yesterday; right now the sky

is the bright blue of April, but the

air still has the pale, sharp-shad-

owed look of winter.

And maybe its because the

world itself, always preca rious ,

seems so much more so just now.

Maybe its the plane that vanished

into the clear blue sky of Malay-

sia after flying over the Strait of

Malucca exotic, nearly fairy-

tale places and maybe its the

resurgence of Cold War rhetoric

in Ukraine and Crimea, a place

whose name evokes Tennyson

and Victorian wars. (The Crimea is

where the Charge of the Light Bri-

gade happened Stormd at with

shot and shell,/ Boldly they rode

and well,/ Into the jaws of Death,

Into the mouth of Hell/ Rode the

six hundred. Lets hope thats not

a template for our century.)

But things do change. The light

does get richer. The shadows lose

their edge. Pesach and its message

of liberation draws closer by the

day, beckoning at the other end of

the charge of the kitchen brigade.

Its spring. There really is hope.

-JP

Ask the rightquestionsSo, really, why be Jewish?

With the arrival and maturation of my generatio

the Millenials, the question Who is a Jew?

rather pass.

Forget the halachic dimensions to this en

lessly debatable topic. Forget all the moralizing arguments ov

the issue. Forget the demographically induced paranoia, th

post-Holocaust hand-wringing, the Israeli legal maneuvering (n

to mention the pandering that comes with it), and the denomi

tional inighting. And for heavens sake! forget the Pew stu

The fact is that Who is a Jew? is the wrong question. To ma

tain our relevance to regain it, really the question we mu

ask today is Why be Jewish?

The problem with the who-is-a-Jew question is the bina

premise from which it springs: that there is an us and a them

(Worse, perhaps is the accompanying hope that we will one d

delineate a set of criteria that deine who is an us and wh

is a them.) The premise itself is

boring and potenti ally harmful the question it gives rise to. It h

iniltrated our national debate in

variety of guises: Who is afi liat

and who is unafiliated? Who is a

insider and who is an outsider? Wh

is a member and who is a non-me

ber? Who i s inmarried and who

intermarried?

And, of utmost importance in t

case of Millenials: Are your paren

both Jewish? For 48 percent of

the answer is no.

In each version of the question, the implication is clear: O

is good and one is bad. When we make these questions centr

whatever our intention in asking them, the question that ma

people will hear is this: Are you a good Jew or a bad Jew? An

labeling people bad Jews probably is not the best way to dra

them into deeper engagement with Jewish life.At the very least, the Millenials I know are bored with all th

who-is-a-Jew business. And at the worst, the idea that this qu

tion will be useful as we confront the challenges now before

is a complete misunderstanding of the nature of the chang

we see today. These changes profoundly affect every eleme

of our communitys demographics, suggesting many new qu

tions: geography (where are the Jews?) and migration (how d

those Jews get there and why?); values (what does each indiv

ual Jew believe?) and priorities (what does each Jew value an

how much?); age (what do todays Jews need at each stage

life?); afiliation (how does the changing nature of membersh

in contemporary America affect our perception of the organiz

David A.M. Wilensky is a program associate at Big Tent

Judaism/Jewish Outreach Institute. He lives in South Orange,

and he is single, straight, and utterly shameless.

David A. M.Wilensky

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Op-Ed

Not standing idly byIt is necessary to work to end the scourge of gun violence

It should be enough to be in the right, to have the moral

and religious high ground.That often isnt enough, however, if what you want

is real, fundamental change. As legendary community

organizer Ernie Cortes teaches, there is no nice way to get

change. Real change happens only when enough tension is

created to force the change.

Dont take my word for it think about it. Make a list of all

the societal changes that have taken place purely because of

a good sermon from a charismatic preacher. I bet its a really

short list. The sermon might have moved people to action,

but the change only came once the action itself was power-

ful enough to create enough tension to help the people with

the power to make the change see it in their self-interest to

say yes.

The moral argument alone didnt work for our people in

Eypt. Never were more moving or resounding words uttered

by a prophet than those of Moses: Let my people go. And yet

it took 10 plagues and the deci-

sion of the Israelites to participatein their own liberation before we

actually went free. As we soon

will say at our seders Dayenu.

It should have been enough. The

argument itself should have suf-

iced. Pharaoh: 400 years of

slavery is enough. Let my people

go. But even Moshe Rabbeinu

couldnt muster the power to

liberate us with moral suasion

alone.

On the other hand, the power

of faith, when combined with the power of faithful people,

gives us the ability to make real and sustained change. It always

has, and it can again. Think again of the list of fundamental

changes weve seen in the last 100 years: womens suffrage;

workers rights, the civil rights movement, and more only took

place because of tension created by powerful people.Never have powerful people been more needed than on

the issue of gun violence in America. The scourge has reached

epic proportions. If 30,000 Americans were dying in a war

each year, our streets would be illed by protests, and our reli-

gious convictions would move us to action. And yet, it seems,

we have grown so inured to gun violence that even the hor-

rifying murders of innocent children in Newtown, Connecti-

cut, more than a year ago havent driven our nation to action.

If the moral outrage we felt after that tragic day didnt move

us to change course on gun violence, what greater afirma-

tion can there be that moral arguments arent in themselves

suficient?

My own father was gunned down 15 years ago. Some

400,000 Americans have died by gun since then the over-

whelming majority of them in murders that didnt make the

evening news or break into your regularly scheduled program.

Surely the cause reducing gun violence is the right

cause. This is true after each massacre in an elementaryschool, movie theater, or supermarket. And yet, sadly, shock-

ingly, in each case, being right isnt enough to compel change.

Despite the work that so many organizations did to bring

gun sanity to our legislators, lawmakers actively decided to

violate a foundational principle of the Torah. Our government

decided to stand idly by as our neighbors continue to bleed

to stand by as the equivalent of a Newtowns worth of Ameri-

cans continue to be gunned down every day.

Many organizations continue to push Congress and the

administration to play their part in reducing gun violence by

passing a universal background check law that would close

the gun show loophole that allows thousand of guns to be so

each year without those vital checks. I applaud these effortBut our congregation has joined people of faith across Ne

Jersey and across the country in taking a different approac

Metro IAF, an organization of synagogues, churches, an

mosques in 10 states across the country, began to ask a

essential question. We began to ask ourselves: Who else h

the power to affect change on the issue of gun violence?

While there is no one solution to this multifaceted ch

lenge, we believe that gun manufacturers also could d

meaningful things to address this scourge. They could inve

in research and development for safer gun technoloy, whi

would help reduce accidental deaths and keep people fro

being able to use guns that dont belong to them to do har

And they could help reduce gun traficking by refusing to s

their products through the 1 percent of dealers who sell a hi

percentage of the guns used in crimes in America. They cou

work as collaboratively with the ATF and law enforcement

they do with organizations that seek to undermine every se

sible gun law in the United States. And they could do all this without there needing to be a single new law passed by

Congress that seems determined to stand idly by on a who

host of vital issues our nation faces.

Metro IAF knows that its not enough to be right on th

issue. We have to muster the power necessary to get gun ma

ufacturers to take these sensible steps none of which viola

the Second Amendment, and none of which will take guns o

of the hands of law-abiding citizens.

In order to gather that power, we have approached ma

ors and police chiefs in cities across the country. With o

taxpayer dollars, our police and military buy 40 percent

the guns sold in America. We are asking these municipaliti

and the Obama administration as well, to use their purcha

ing power to seek out manufacturers who will work colla

oratively to reduce gun violence. As of this writing, 18 cit

across America have resolved to join us in this effort to u

the power of the mighty dollar to encourage better custom

service from the manufacturers of the guns our police puchase. Mayors, police chiefs, county sheriffs, and governo

in cities and states small and large cities like Mahwah, Jers

City, Paterson, Hoboken, and Newark in New Jersey, as well

in Rockland and Westchester counties in New York and cit

in North Carolina, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisco

sin, the State of Illinois. Just this past week, New York City h

come onto the list. All have joined us in issuing a Request f

Information addressed to gun manufacturers. These cities a

saying: Next time we buy weapons, well be looking not ju

for technically excellent weapons, but also for companies th

take their corporate responsibility seriously.

And gun manufacturers already have begun to react

the media, on the Internet, and even at Europes largest poli

show last week, where I joined a group of clery in engagi

with these companies.

We dont need to add a verse to Dayenu. We dont ne

to say, If only we had the power to reduce gun violenc

Dayenu. We do have the power. This campaign, called DNot Stand Idly By, is gaining momentum, and we need mo

partners. For more information, go to www.DoNotStandI

lyBy.org.

As people of faith, we can do more than bury the dead an

lament the state of things. We can do more than wait on Co

gress to act.

We can act powerfully now. Let us begin.

Finally.

Joel Mosbacher is rabbi of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom

in Mahwah.

Rabbi JoelMosbacher

Jewish community?); and reproduction (who do the Jews

choose as their partners? and how do they raise their

children?).

Allow me to use myself as an example:

48 percent of Jews born after 1980 are children of inter-

marriage: Though their wedding ceremony was Jewish,

only one of my parents was. (Remember when I told youto forget the Pew study? Yeah, I lied. Still, lets just try to

stay on this side of the line between informed interest in

the Pew study and unhealthy obsession with it, shall we?)

20 percent or more of children of intermarriage who

consider themselves Jewish are patrilineal: Like me,

their father was Jewish when they were born, while their

mother was not.

61 percent of intermarried families are raising their

children with a Jewish identity: I was circumcised as an

infant, and later taken to Tot Shabbat at a nearby syna-

gogue. I went to camp. I became bar mitzvah.

59 percent of adult children of intermarriage under the

age of 30 identify as Jews: Hi there.

Jews by choice are not a novelty for us: My mother

became a Jew when I was 7 years old. One of my high

school best friends had converted when he was younger. I

once went out with a Conservative rabbinical student who

converted in college. Jews of color are not a novelty for us: The Garcias are

one of the most visibly active families in my childhood

synagogue. Ive had a number of Jewish peers who were

adopted from East Asia. Im too young to remember what

Israel looked like before the waves of immigration from

Ethiopia.

We have been both insiders and outsiders: I was deeply

involved in our synagogue, my high school youth group,

and Jewish life in general. Yet when I irst came into close

contact with other strains of Judaism, I suddenly found

myself on the outside.

We receive mixed messages: Our synagogue was

Reform, so my status as a patrilineal Jew wasnt an issue.

But my tastes evolved, putting me for a time in a Conser-

vative synagogue, where I underwent a conversion. (Not

for me, but for the synagogue; Ive always considered

myself an unqualiied Jew.)

We are just not interested in denominations and fee-for-service membership: I go to services regularly some-

times at informal, independent groups, sometimes at any

one of a number of synagogues (none of which I am a

member of).

In short, our identities are complex, too complex to be

explained with binaries. Change has arrived in the North

American Jewish community. Bigger changes are on the

way. If we plan to hold the interest of the entire Jewish

community energetic Millenials, boomers bored with

retirement, the LGBT community, intermarried families,

Jews of color, families with young children well have to

do a lot more. We are no longer in a battle to maintain our

relevance, but to regain it. The question should no longer

be Who is a Jew? The question now is Why be Jewish?

The irst steps toward this are inclusion, diversity, and

welcoming. Not just inclusion, but active inclusion; not

just diversity, but embracing diversity; not just welcom-

ing, but encountering everyone in the Jewish communityas individuals with unique stories, needs, interests, and

longings.

As people who already are comfortable and fortunate

enough to be involved in Jewish life, we are called to learn

about, embrace, and direct into deeper engagement

these myriad individuals who make up the entire Jewish

community.

This is just a taste of the issues we will explore in this

column. And I am your flawed guide: a Millenial, for better

or for worse; a patrilineal Jew; the son of a convert; a child

of intermarriage, and well, you get the idea.


12/24

JOANNE PALMER

The story of the new mayor of

Jersey City is a goulash a rich,

highly seasoned, aromatic stew,full of disparate ingredients that

somehow blend together.

This variant is kosher.And for added authenticity, its

Hungarian.

Steven Fulops story is both as deeplyAmerican and as fully Jewish as one per-

sons story could be it is our own 21st-century version of the great American

dream.

Cooking alongside it is the story of Jer-sey City, the states second largest, with

a century-long history of corruption and

bossism that Mr. Fulop is well positioned

to turn around.Mr. Fulops story starts with his grand-

parents. All four were born in Transylva-nia, the heavily wooded, mountainous,

lushly beautiful region that has changed

hands between Hungary and Romania. Asthis story begins, it still was part of Hun-

gary. World War II came late there; his

mothers parents, the Kohns, were takenfrom the ghetto toward its end. His grand-

father, Alexander, went to a transit camp,

and his grandmother, Rosa, was on one ofthe last transports to Auschwitz in April

1944.

Her story is so painful that when her

son-in-law, Arthur Fulop, tells it, his eyes

ill, even though it is a story he has been

telling for decades.There were two lines at Auschwitz

when she got there, he said. One was

for the very young and the very old; theother was for people who could work. In

between them, making selections, decree-

ing death, was Josef Mengele, radiatingevil.

Mrs. Kohn clutched her 20-month-oldbaby, Eva, who was about to be sent to theother line. What happens to them? she

asked a guard, the story goes; he pointed

up to the black smoke fouling the sky.They are turned into that, he said. She

screamed and tried to run, and a guard

Jersey City BoyMayor Steven Fulop tells his story and his immigrant parents schep naches

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hit her on the head with a rifle, knockin

her out. She survived, and so did her huband. The rest of the family, including Ev

did not; Rosa Kohn went on to give birto Carmen Kohn Fulop, who was born Romania in 1954.

The family had been comfortable

Transylvania, but under Nicolae CeauesRomania went Communist, the family lo

what it had been able to reclaim, and M

Fulops father was badly beaten as goosearched for gold coins they believed h

to have hidden.In 1967, the family managed to fl

Romania for Brooklyn, where my paren

left everything they knew to better thechildren, Carmen Fulop said.

Arthur Fulops family lived in Tg-Mure

a small town about 120 miles from hfuture wifes home, in a place so remo

that war never fully touched it. He w

born in 1947, right after its end.In 1964, the Fulops, who had applie

for a passport, were given one and to

that it would be operational for just oweek. They left immediately, with almo

nothing. After a stop in a transit camp

Rome, they decided to go to Israel. W

Steven Fulop strides up to the

flag-bedecked podium outside

City Hall on his inauguration day.


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had family in the United States, but I said,

No. I want to go to my country, ArthurFulop said, and so they all headed east.

The familys time in Israel was not a suc-cess. The nation was in a tough economic

bind, and it was not particularly welcom-

ing to newcomers the chadashim, whom

the old-timers, the vatikim, thought ofas competition, the Fulops said. Arthur

Fulops father, Bentsi, bought a truck,

but the loads that he hoped to haul rarelymaterialized. After three years, he, his

wife, Elizabeth, and their younger songave up and moved to the United States,

where their lives inally grew roots.

Arthur, though, was 18, and had beendrafted into the Israel Defense Forces like

everyone else his age. Toward the end of

his stint, the Six-Day War broke out; hewas a sniper in the elite Golani Brigade

during that time.

When he talks about it now, the nor-mally exuberant Mr. Fulop does not

becom e less vocal but the enery that

propels his words becomes almost visiblydarker. It was a very hard time; he saw

things that he wishes he had not seen but

cannot unsee. It left him with the strongfeeling that war comes from demonizing

your opponents rather than allowing your-

self to see them as human, and that verylittle is worth the devastation that such

hatred causes.

The Fulops live in a seemingly middle-size house in Edison that opens up on

both s ides to reveal many immaculately

kept rooms once youre safely inside. Thatis where they brought up their three sons,

Daniel, Steven, and Richard. Arthur Fulop

owns a deli in Newark, down the streetfrom the courthouse. He took it over from

his parents (They bought it in 1968, rightafter the riots, when real estate there

became affordable, Steven said). Carmen

Fulop runs a service bureau for immi-grants next door.

They both work hard, they hold dear the

values of the country in which they couldlive free and prosperous lives, and they are

deeply connected to their Jewish roots.

They passed on these beliefs to their sons.Steven Fulop, like his brothers, went

to the Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva in

Edison, and then to the Solomon Schech-ter School of Union and Essex, as todays

Golda Och Academy in West Orange then

was named. He left it in 11th grade for

public school, where he could play soc-cer more seriously. The family belonged

to the local Conservative shul, Neve Sha-lom, and the boys went to Jewish summer

camps and USY.

After high school, Steven Fulop went toBinghamton University, part of New York

States public college network. He spenthis junior year abroad at Oxford Univer-

sity, studying inance at New College.

When he got back, he took a job at Gold-man Sachs in Chicago, where his older

brother already worked. I was hired into

asset management with mutual funds,then moved into equity trading, he said.

Goldman moved him back to the NewYork ofice in 2000, and Mr. Fulop boughta condo in Jersey City. He was not politi-

cally active I hadnt even registered to

vote, he said but Jersey Cit y was per-fect. It was back in New Jersey, close to his

parents, right across the river from his job,

and booming, so that any real estate dealthere was likely to be advantageous. Life

was good.

Mr. Fulop was at work at 1 New YorkPlaza in lower Manhattan on September 11,

2001. I felt the building shake when theplanes hit, he said. It shook something

inside him too. Soon I started talking to

recruiters, he said.Thats as in armed forces recruiters.

I didnt know anything when I started,

he said. I was trying to do the research,to understand the different branches. Do I

have to shave my head? Can we igure out

some other way so that I dont have to doit? When I asked the recruiters, they said

no, it doesnt work that way.

I went to the enlisted side, he contin-ued. I didnt have to I could have been

an oficer in the reserves, but I didnt want

to commit to what might possibly becomefour years of active duty, and I was willing

to serve right away.

After considering his options, StevenFulop enlisted in the Marines, and soon he

found himself in South Carolina, in boot

camp on Parris Island.He was 25 years old.

I always thought that military service

was important, he said. But in the 90s,it didnt seem relevant. I would always say

to myself that if it ever were necessary forme to do it, I would do it.

And then 9/11, and I thought OK. Here

we are. Its the crossroads.I was young enough. I didnt have kids.

I was in good shape.

So he enlisted.My parents were distraught, he said.

I was making good money, having a good

life. And they were scared.But it was their values that attracted him

to service. I had and have a lot of appre-

ciation for this country, he said. Its myfamilys sweat equity. I view my service as

a minor down payment on that.

It was very complicated emotionally, his

parents agree. When Steven irst told methat he wanted to join the Marines, I said

no, Arthur Fulop said. But then I saidSteven, you have to follow your heart.

If your heart tells you this is what you

must do, then you must do it.His Jewishness accompanied Steven

Fulop to boot camp.

Parris Island which is notorious forits toughness, and the toughness of the

Marines it turns out is very structured,he said. Every second of every minute of

Above, Steven Fulop as a

grade-school student at

the Rabbi Pesach Raymon

Yeshiva in Edison; elsewhere,

as a Marine.


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other religions beyond the basic Chris-

tian denominations. It goes above andbeyond to make sure that you can prac-

tice, he said. The only time that isntstructured is on Sundays, when youhave religious services. (OK, so they

havent gotten this whole Jewish thing

down exactly right yet) Thats also thetime when recruits are allowed to write

letters.

There is no Jewish presence on ParrisIsland, but they bring in a rabbi from

Buford, South Carolina, Mr. Fulop said.

I was the only one there. It was the onlytime the drill instructors leave you alone.

We could have a conversation. Therabbi asked how I was doing, and I said

that I was starving. He asked what I

wanted, and I said dessert. So he broughtin dessert every week.

I would come back to say to people,

Look, I have a good thing going on. Sosome of these kids would come with me.

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they couldnt do a thing about it.As for calling the other enlisted men

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years old.

It really gives you a perspective onwho is in our armed forces.

Boot camp was 13 weeks long. My

parents were at my graduation. It wasthe irst time they really got to see that

culture, Mr. Fulop said. It was incred-

ibly foreign. His parents agree, but theysay as well that they felt extraordinary

pride.After Parris Island, Mr. Fulop got to

experience culture shock in the other

direction, as he reentered GoldmanSachs.

They put me on their homepage, he

said. The irm didnt know exactly whatto make of Mr. Fulop, but they did know

that he presented them with a pub-

lic relations bonanza; of course, giventhat the irm had just suffered through

the terrors of 9/11, he also was given

real emotional support there. Later,other employees enlisted or joined the

reserves, but he was the irst. There

was no model yet for how to handle the

situation.Three months later, in January 2003,

he went to Quantico, Virginia, for reserveduty, and the commanding oficers are

going around, asking for all sorts of per-

sonal information.You could see where it was going.

They got us all together on Saturday

night and said, You are dismissed for theweekend. Come back on Tuesday with

your powers of attorney and your wills.

You are being deployed.Youre in shock, he said. You kn

its coming, but.

Carmen and Arthur Fulop had a moest house in the Poconos, their son sa

and he went there on his way home froQuantico. It must have been 2 a.m., bthey heard me come in, he said.

As soon as my mom saw me, s

started crying. She knew.Remember, Mrs. Fulop said, the r

son for the American invasion of Ir

was Saddam Husseins arsenal of weons of mass destruction. We know no

that the arsenal was a igment of ov

heated imagination, but then we did nAs far as she knew, Carmen Fulop w

saying goodbye to a son who might

gassed just as surely as the baby sisshe never had the chance to meet h

been.Early that Monday morning, Mr. Ful

went to his ofice. I go to my desk, a

I write an email to everyone I had evmet in my life, he said. Friends, fa

ily, co-workers, everyone. I say that I a

leaving on Tuesday, being deployed, aI want to thank people for being part

my life.

I have my jacket on already beforhit send. I start walking out, and som

people see me and start clapping for m

and I was crying, and they were cryinSo I got my power of attorney, a

my will, and on Tuesday we flew fro

Delaware to Camp Pendleton in Califnia we got our gas masks there a

waited for three weeks for our equ

ment. From there, we flew to KuwaPresident George W. Bush declared

Shock and Awe campaign on Mar

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He was in the 6th Engineer Supp

Battalion, attached to the 1st MariDivision; the battalions responsibi

was building bridges, purifying watand generally working on infrastructu

Mr. Fulop was in Iraq for Passov

The rabbi had a camouflage tallis, recalled.

He told a story that he said demo

strates the lengths to which the U.S. mtary will go to respect religion.

We were living in tents, he said. W

didnt shower for months. There was internet, no phones, not much of an

thing. And I saw a note in our chow h

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They gave me an escort and secrity. No other country would go to tho

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get to a seder.Mr. Fulops time on active duty w

short but intense.

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to Pendleton, and then back

home. And then I was backat Goldman all within one

year.

I look back and I feel thatI got more out of the Marine

Corps as a person and as ahuman being than it got fromme, he added.

Mr. Fulop stayed at Gold-

man for a few years and thenmoved on, pursuing what

would have looked like a

normal upward career path,the journey someone clearly

smart and ambitious would

be expected to take. He con-tinued to live in Jersey City,

active in his condo asso-ciation but not involved in

politics.

But remember that gou-lash? There was that other dish stew-

ing alongside it, this one made up of

the rather less appetizing congealedmess that was local Jersey politics. Soon,

they would come together on Steven

Fulops plate, but irst, lets look at theingredients.

When he came back to Jersey City,

Mr. Fulop said, Robert Menendez, theDemocrat who is now the states senior

U.S. senator, was his congressman. He

also was chair of the House Democraticcaucus, the most senior Hispanic federal

legislator in the country, and the states

most senior House member.New Jerseys Frank Lautenberg, then

a U.S. senator, resigned in 2001 he ran

again and took the states other seat in2003 and everyone assumed that Mr.

Menendez would replace him. But Jon

Corzine came in out of the woodworkand bought the seat, Mr. Fulop said.

Menendez decided to get more involvedin local politics in Hudson County. He

helped get Glenn Cunningham elected

mayor here Cunningham was the irstAfrican-American mayor in the city.

The mayor of Jersey City always has

been a very powerful position, ever sincethe days of Frank Hague, he added.

(Frank Hague was mayor from 1917

until 1947. He was an old-style machinepolitician; he strong-armed, threatened,

blustered, and controlled. He was cor-

rupt, and he also was eficient. Potholeswere illed, snow was removed; the city

worked.)

The friendship between Mr. Menendez

and Mr. Cunningham izzled, though,and soon they became nasty enemies,

Mr. Fulop said.Soon afterward, Mr. Fulop was invited

to City Hall so he could be honored with

a proclamation acclaiming his war ser-vice. That proclamation is hanging out-

side my door now, Mr. Fulop said. It

changed my life.Mr. Cunningham also was a war vet-

eran. He asked Mr. Fulop many ques-tions about his service, and about how

he juggled it with his work on Wa

Street. He asked me a lot of questio

about the deployment, but I didnt thinanything of it, Mr. Fulop said. Peop

always asked.Meanwhile, Mr. Fulop was working o

an M.B.A. from NYU and an M.P.A.

masters in public administration froColumbia. The work at his condo asso

ation took some time, he had a full-tim

job, and he st ill had a commitment reserve duty. He did not have spare tim

he was trying to ill; he did not have an

spare time to breathe.And then, about four months later

and I hadnt spoken to the mayor sin

then I get a phone call from the deuty mayor of Jersey City. He said, Th

mayor would like to talk to you. I thin

its strange. And then he gets on th

phone and says, Id like you to come tomorrow. I have a few things Id like

talk about.I had called the ofice to compla

about parking. I thanked him I was su

prised that hed handle it himself, and soon! But he didnt know what I was tal

ing about. He said I really should come

tomorrow, and I said OK, I would, af tthe markets close.

We went into that ofice, and we sthere, its me and him and some of h

political supporters and assembly pe

ple, and he starts talking about gettininvolved in politics when youre youn

in your 20s. Sometimes you lose befo

you can win, he said, no matter whyoure running for.

I was 26.I had no idea what he was talkin

about.

Then, Mr. Fulop said, Mr. Cunnin

ham started talking about his sour reltionship with Mr. Menendez. As it turn

out, Mr. Menendez planned on runni

a full slate of oficially approved canddates for local ofices, and Mr. Cunnin

ham wanted a slate to oppose it.

Even when Mr. Fulop grasped that hwas being asked to run, he assume

This was a target the Syrians used during the

Six Day War; fear and hatred, Arthur Fulop be

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cil seat, low on the slate.But no. Mr. Cunningham said, I know it wont be a

winning proposal, but I will help you. I want you to run

for Congress.It was the weirdest conversation I ever had.

The more he thought about it, though, the m

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