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On March 31, Israel’s Supporters Will Shop “BIG” to Counter the Boycott Movement

Arab World Still Exploding, but Now Antisemitism Is in the Mix

Pro-Israel consumers are invited to hit the stores

on Wednesday, March 30, to shop “BIG,” which is an acro-nym for “Buy Israeli Goods.” Knowing what to buy is easy; Israel’s supporters can simply follow the list of products and companies Israel’s enemies would like to see targeted by a boycott.

“We are telling people to go to their local stores, request the exact Israeli products be-ing targeted, and buy them out.

Let store managers know they should keep Israeli products well stocked on the shelves,” said Roz Rothstein, co-founder and national director of Stand with Us, which, together with the American-Israel Chamber of Congress, is spearheading the BIG project.

The date is no accident. March 30th was selected as the “Global Day of Action” by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign,

a far-left, often antisemitic international initiative that seeks to undermine support for Israel.

Ask for ProductsThe BDS National Com-

mittee is asking its supporters to protest outside stores that stock Israeli products and speak out for academic and cultural boycotts of Israeli individuals and institutions.

“Boycotters have been energetically lobbying stores

across North America to drop Israeli products, from local co-ops to Costco and Trader Joe’s,” said Ms. Rothstein.

To counter their efforts, Stand with Us is calling on schools, colleges, synagogues, community organizations, and individuals to use March 30 to shop at stores and ask specifi-cally for Israeli products.

“Whenever a boycott is called, we must respond by


Despite the heady rush of prom-ised independence in Egypt,

the ugly specter of antisemitism came on with a vengeance when protesters in Tahrir Square began brandishing posters of President Hosni Mubarak and his new vice president, Omar Suleiman, with Stars of David emblazoned on their foreheads. Sometimes the Jewish symbol was drawn on ties before the two were hung in effigy.

Their crime was their ad-herence to the 1979 Camp David Peace Treaty with Israel. The pact gave the Egyptian government almost $2 billion a year in US aid and the entire Sinai, but the Muslim Brotherhood has indicated

“The time is over for sur-render to treaties which have brought humiliation to the Egyp-tian nation,” he said, calling for the permanent opening of the Gaza crossing. Keeping it closed, he said, was a “joint conspiracy of the US, Zionist regime, and Mubarak’s regime.”

Echoing Mr. Helbawi was the Egyptian spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who, in Tahrir Square, prayed for “the conquest of the al-Aqsa Mosque,” which means the conquest of Jerusalem.

Another possible Egyptian leader, Mohammed El Baradei,

it might be willing to forego the financial incentive.

In fact, Kamal Helbawi, a senior member of the Brother-hood said there was “virtually no peace agreement with the

Zionist regime,” and, following the uprising in the country, “any treaty not approved by the Egyptian nation must be ab-rogated.”

“People world-wide want to see un-just laws scrapped. It is no surprise for the Egyptians to want the same,” he said.

Shameful TreatyHe noted that, following

the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, many previously signed treaties were discarded.

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Englewood’s New Charter School Already Filled Among the 23 charter schools

approved by Governor Chris Christie to open this September is the Shalom Academy Charter School (SACS), a Hebrew im-mersion school that is intended to service children primarily from Englewood and Teaneck.

Its mission, according to founder Raphael Bachrach, a member of the Englewood-Or-thodox community who has been shepherding the concept of a Hebrew-immersion charter school for more than four years, is to produce students who are proficient in Hebrew language.

By the end of February, just after its first application deadline, virtually all 160 spots in grades K-5 were filled. The school, which will be located

on Williams Street in Engle-wood, will add a grade each year so that, in three years, it will offer classes in grades K-8 for about 240 students.

Parental ChoiceA charter school is a public

school that is overseen by the State Department of Education but operates independently of the local district. Each charter school has its own board, administra-tion, and facility independent of local school districts.

For Mr. Bachrach, SACS is the culmination of hundreds of hours of legwork, paper work, and networking. Disregarding the many naysayers, including educational professionals who tried to discourage him—often for reasons of their own, and

members of the community, who saw little chance of success, he stayed focused on his goal, which has now been realized.

Mr. Bachrach’s own chil-dren have been attending public school in Englewood and while he said he and his wife, Nina, have been very pleased, they wanted the Hebrew immersion program. Their children and those of the other founders with whom Mr. Bachrach has been working had preference in terms of being able to secure spaces in the new school.

Other families gained their slots by applying early enough and, if necessary, winning the lottery to gain admissions. Preference went to students from Englewood and Teaneck.

Had there been room, ten per-cent of the spaces could have gone to children from outside the district.

This September, SACS will have 40 kindergarteners, 40 first graders, and grades 2-5 will each have 20 children. There will be a maximum of 20 children per class. Ev-ery kindergarten and first and second-grade classroom will have a teacher and an assis-tant. Upper grades will share “floating” assistants.

Day School Transfers?It is not yet clear what

the division will be between Englewood and Teaneck chil-dren. The school has until March 15 to provide a list of

The Current Crisis: “Even in Laughter, the Heart Can Ache”


Dr. Daniel Pipes is ready for Purim. Dressed as NY Times columnist Tom Friedman, he announced the Muammar Qaddafi International Prize for Human Rights. Past recipients include Winnie Mandela, Louis Farrakhan, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez.

This year’s winner is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who will use his prize, won for “distinguished service to humanity while sailing with terrorists masquerading as human rights workers,” to improve his oratory expertise by repeating “Islamophobia is a crime against humanity.” If that fails, he’ll practice his German.

***Sign smuggled into Tahrir Square in Cairo by an Israeli:Dear Egyptian Rioters,Please don’t damage the pyramids. We will not rebuild.

***This one appeared just to the right:Dear Muslim Brotherhood,If you break the Camp David Accords, we take back the Sinai.

***The Lebanese newspaper, As-Safir, reported last month that

an Israeli drugged a Palestinian prisoner, infecting him with po-lio. According to the article, the family back in Ramallah was frantic. “He may die at any moment, having been afflicted with polio after Israeli intelligence put a DDS pill in his drink,” said the beleaguered father.

Although the family had not been in contact with their son, they knew he was paralyzed and vomiting blood. The father’s next step, he said, was to take his family and burn themselves

alive in front of the Red Cross headquarters in Ramallah.We suggest the whole family could use DDS, which is an-

other name for Oleptro, an antidepressant.***

The Muslims-Think-Just-Like-Us Dept.:According to the official Iranian state-sponsored news agency,

IRNA, last month, Iranian intelligence operatives arrested 14 squirrels carrying spy gear from foreign agencies. The animals were stopped before they could act, thanks to the alertness of the Iranian officials.

At the same time, Wafa, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority, announced that Israel “is using wild pigs to drive Palestinians out of their homes.” But hey, that’s an im-provement. The previous week, Wafa revealed that “rats have become an Israeli weapon to displace and expel Arab residents of the occupied Old City of Jerusalem.”

In Egypt, a few rioters took time out to read that “Israel was responsible for fatal shark and lethal jellyfish attacks in the Red Sea.” According to South Sinai Governor Mohammed Abdel, the Mossad is “throwing deadly sharks into the sea to hit tour-ism in Egypt.” At the end of the article, the paper confessed the story “is not out of the question, but needs time to confirm.”

According to the BBC, in Saudi Arabia, a vulture, accused of being part of a Zionist plot, was arrested and awaits horrible punishment at the hands of sharia justice (really!).

Only in the old country? According to recently released Gitmo inmate Walid Muhammad Hajj, Jews at the base cast “spells” on the Muslim inmates, using bewitched birds and a phantom feline that tried to sodomize Walid. Gotta watch those cats, Walid. Happy Purim, All, SLR

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The question is: why are they submitting to pressure? If it is a matter of education, then we need to show that their perception of Israel as an apartheid state is inaccurate. If a performer isn’t interested in dialogue, then why bother try-ing to engage him at all.

Hava HolzhauerBoca Raton, FL

Education is freedom. Israel is more aware of human rights than any other country in the region and more open-minded. If a performer doesn’t realize this, he is either uneducated or just biased.

Joseph “JB” Ben SmihenBoca Raton, FL

When the media is so over-whelmingly pro-Arab and anti-Israel, it is not surprising that many people, including celebri-ties, are going to be influenced. Those who want to see only the Arab viewpoint should know that we want to support those who want to see ours, too.

Rick AdelmanBoca Raton, FL

Boycotting concerts or albums of anti-Israel celebri-ties is not the answer to the problem in the Middle East. It’s more important to put faces and thoughts with names and people. Letter writing directly to the individuals or their fan clubs and speaking out against their decision to boycott Israel would be a better protest.

Elana BarrishBoca Raton, FL

There is a lot of discussion about the so-called Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Some per-formers are being pressured not to come to Israel at all; some, like Theodore Bikel, decide not to perform in Judea and Samaria. At the Boca Raton Synagogue last month, the question was: What is your response to an artist who will not perform in Israel? Y

students to both districts in order to determine transpor-tation needs.

At present, it is also un-clear how many of the 160 students expected to attend SACS this fall will be children whose parents would otherwise have sent them to Hebrew Day schools or yeshivot. The obvious draw for parents who will opt for SACS is cost. As a public school, SACS is free.

Moreover, there are no entrance exams, interviews, or any other barriers to admission to SACS, other than space.

Not for EveryoneNevertheless, as Mr. Bach-

rach realizes, for many Orthodox parents, SACS’s dual-language curriculum will not be an ac-ceptable alternative. As a public school, it will not offer Jewish religious instruction as part of

the curriculum, although there will be elements of “culture” that may be included, in ad-dition, of course, to a com-mitment to total immersion in Hebrew language.

According to discussions with the founding members, it may be acceptable for SACS students to perform certain rites, such as dipping apples in honey for a sweet year on Rosh Hasha-nah, but prayers may be stickier. Some legal experts say it is ac-ceptable for public school chil-dren to recite prayers on their own, but not with any guidance from their teachers.

The school will follow the Bergen County Community College calendar, which means virtually no Jewish holidays will be observed and there will not be early dismissal on Fridays.

However, Mr. Bachrach

pointed out that, according to NJ law, all Jewish holidays fall into the category of excused absences for which no student may be penalized in anyway. The state has a list of such reli-gious holidays, which, in addi-tion to Jewish holidays, include Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Wic-can, Sikh, Bahai, Zoroastrian, Shinto, and even Church of Scientology holy days.

All classes at SACS will be co-educational, and the founders, including Mr. Bach-rach, are committed to strong outreach steps to ensure diver-sity. The Englewood and Tea-neck public school districts are heavily African-American and Hispanic. As a public school, SACS will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, disability, English pro-ficiency, socioeconomic status, or national origin.

Only Jewish Parents?While it is unclear how

many non-Jewish parents are going to be sufficiently inter-ested in a Hebrew-immersion program in Englewood, photo-graphs from the website of the Hatikvah International Acad-emy Hebrew charter school in East Brunswick, show inter-racial classes with nary a kip-pah in sight.

Englewood School Su-perintendent Richard Segall said when a Hebrew charter

school was proposed to cur-rent Englewood public school families, only about 15 children were interested. This suggests to Mr. Segall that most, if not all, of the 160 students who will be attending SACS were already enrolled in Jewish day schools.

Mr. Bachrach disagreed, saying that, as a neighborhood-based school, SACS’s demo-graphics “are likely to reflect those of the community.”

“Our hope is that all of the Englewood and Teaneck demographics will come to-gether into the school environ-ment. This includes Jewish, African-American, Latino, and so on. Since African-American history is integral to US his-tory, Shalom Academy Charter School will integrate teachings of African-American history throughout the history cur-ricula—in both Hebrew and English,” he said.

In its charter application, SACS does not indicate that the majority of its students will be Jewish or will transfer from ye-shivas. If anything, it describes itself as vehicle for helping to integrate Englewood’s schools. No one denies that, if its stu-dents are mostly white and Jewish, SACS will help even out the Englewood schools’ demographic profile.

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this past September, says its key goal is “that all children from all cultures, religions, and ethnicities make up a school community while maintaining identities and pride.”

Priti Kandlur, who is not Jewish, is a member of Hatik-vah’s board of trustees. Her son, Mihir, 5, is enrolled in the kin-dergarten because Ms. Kand-lur believes learning a second language is beneficial.

“A foreign language helps them in other subjects as well. Their grasping power actually increases,” she said.

Full CurriculumHatikvah currently serves

students in grades K-2. It plans to add a grade each year until it reaches 372 students in grades K-8. Residents of East Bruns-wick are given preference over others. As will be the case for SACS, too, an exception will be made for siblings who come from outside the district.

If Hatikvah does not fill to capacity with East Brunswick residents and siblings of cur-rent students, the school will look at applications for children from outside the district.

According to the web-site, children in the school are taught “history, literature, art, and music of many differ-ent communities of Hebrew

speakers in Israel and around the world and also learn about the impact that other cultures and languages have had on the Hebrew language.”

At Hatikvah, Hebrew cul-ture, which is permissible, means Jewish culture, history, art, music, Israeli culture, and language.

Hebrew without ReligionAsked if Hebrew can be

taught without religion, Ha-tikvah Principal Colin Hogan said public schools in the US have been doing just that for many years, especially in high schools and colleges.

“Hebrew is a distinct lan-guage, and, like any other for-eign language, can be acquired outside the realm of religion,” he said.

Ms. Kandlur said it would not bother her even if smatter-ings of Jewish religion filter into the classroom. She is pleased that her son is in a full-day, comparatively small kinder-garten for which she does not have to pay.

Because East Brunswick has a large Jewish community attending public school, the school calendar, which Ha-tikvah will follow, too, ob-serves many—but by no means all—Jewish and non-Jewish holidays.

“If parents ask to keep their children home in observance

of other holidays, we accom-modate their requests just as other East Brunswick schools do,” said Mr. Hogan.

Creative SolutionsAt an informational meeting

for parents interested in SACS last month, held at the Engle-wood Hospital and Medical Center, a packed audience of more than 500 heard educators tell them why learning a second language would be beneficial for their children.

It is doubtful many of the parents in the room would have been there if the language in question were not Hebrew. Most of those in attendance were from the Orthodox community. While some were skeptical; oth-ers thought SACS might be an option for their families.

While nothing was said about religious instruction at this meeting or on the SACS website, in previous discus-sions, there have been sug-gestions that parents may be able to rent space in the school or in a nearby facility before classes begin and after-school for activities such as services or religious instruction. The daily schedule starts at 7:30am for “early bird clubs” and break-fast. The school day is from 8 to 3, and “after school clubs” are from 3:15 to 4:15.

Some parents saw this as little more than a new spin on

the after-school Hebrew school which has not been particularly effective. Others, however, said that since Hebrew language would not have to be the focus of the extracurricular programs, their children might get more out of them.

KashruthThere has even been dis-

cussion about how the dietary laws might be observed at the school. Some charter school proponents have suggested that, if sufficient children need it, kosher food could be pro-vided.

“The school will be fully respectful of the needs and rights of all children; that’s an ongoing theme,” said Mr. Bachrach.

At the meeting, when asked if the school would administer the Jewish Education Project’s BJE (Board of Jewish Edu-cation) placement exam for yeshiva and day school high schools, Mr. Bachrach said, “Absolutely not.”

He did not say SACS stu-dents would be unprepared to take the exam in another venue.

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“As long as their Hebrew language skills are reasonable, they could be taught sufficient Yiddishkeit at home so that when they go to yeshiva or day school, they won’t be behind or have too much to catch up,” said one father who asked that his name be withheld.

At current rates, for every year in the charter school, a family could save between $10,000 and $15,000 per child.

“Multiply it by three or four children and you’re talking about real money,” said the father.

Better Than Public SchoolIt is a problem many rabbis recognize.

Rabbi Yitzchok Rosenbaum, a Teaneck resident who serves as executive director of the National Jewish Outreach Program, noted that, at Gamla, the established He-brew immersion charter school in Florida, children receive religious training after school.

While, like SACS and Hatikvah, Gamla is open to the entire community, most of its students are Jewish. This past year, with the economy still an issue and many families feeling the crunch, an increased number of Orthodox families sent their children to the school, seeing it as a better alternative than regular public school.

Rabbi Rosenbaum agreed that Hebrew immersion charter schools have the benefit of allowing children to become proficient in Hebrew language and culture, “which should not be discounted as important

facets of Jewish education.”“Shalom Academy presents an alter-

native to public school, where students run the risk of losing Jewish knowledge altogether, and consequently losing their faith,” he said.

Not a YeshivaLike many other observers, Rabbi

Rosenbaum said he suspects most ap-plicants to SACS will be Jewish fami-lies concerned with maintaining ties to the Hebrew language, such as displaced Israelis who also want a Jewish cultural connection.

No one believes it will be an adequate substitute for a full yeshiva education. Rabbi Menachem Genack, who serves as the rabbinic administrator of the Or-thodox Union as well as pulpit leader of Englewood’s Congregation Shomrei Emunah, worried that free tuition might draw families away from religious schools, encouraging them to settle for an inferior Jewish education.

Nevertheless, the advantages of SACS prompted many rabbis, including Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of Congregation Ahavath Torah and author and media personal-ity, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, as well as prominent members of the Orthodox community, such as former Englewood Mayor and immigration lawyer Michael Wildes, and Englewood Councilman Dr. Ken Rosenzweig to write letters in sup-port of the school.

Wrong Place?Yossi Prager, executive director of the

Avi Chai Foundation, a major day school supporter, opposes SACS chiefly because, he said, as a public school, it will be un-able to offer as good a Jewish education as day schools and yeshivas. He argued that because the vast majority of Jew-ish children in Teaneck and Englewood currently attend Jewish day schools, this was a poor location for a Hebrew char-ter school.

SACS supporters disagreed, pointing out that the tuition crisis coupled with the poor economy had prompted many Jewish day school families, especially those with special-needs children who often benefit from public schools’ special services, to consider public school.

More than a year ago, Mr. Bachrach addressed complaints about the Hebrew charter school’s imperfections, saying it should not be a case of “sacrificing the good because it isn’t perfect.”

Bilingual ChildrenAccording to Elizabeth Willaum, who,

until last December, served as Englewood Schools Assistant Superintendent and is now advising Mr. Bachrach and the other SACS founders, the school’s objective is to create students who are “bilingual, biliterate, and bicognitive” in English and Hebrew.

“Immersion is the way of the future,” she said, adding that, with a four-to-seven-year commitment to the immersion pro-gram, SACS students should emerge as Hebrew speakers and thinkers.

A veteran teacher, Ms. Willaum, who is SACS’s acting head of school, developed NJ’s first Spanish-English dual-language program in Englewood in 1991 and has worked on other language-immersion programs in Long Branch, Perth Amboy, Elizabeth, and Union City in New Jersey as well as in upstate Syracuse, NY.

Math in HebrewThe program is designed such that

students in kindergarten and first grade will receive 75 percent of their classes in Hebrew and 25 percent in English. Sub-jects such as math, science, and history will be taught exclusively in Hebrew.

“There will be no translation,” said Ms. Willaum, adding that total immersion “works; it’s like magic.”

By the time students are in grades two through five, only half their classes—math,



science, and Hebrew language arts—will be in Hebrew. Language arts, health, and history will be taught in English.

In grades 6-8, when content becomes more intense and their Hebrew skills are expected to be much improved, students will have only 25 percent of their classes, namely Hebrew language arts, in Hebrew. The other 75 percent of their day will be spend learning English, math, sci-ence, health, and history/social science in English.

TrackingWhile there may be some academic

“tracking” in the school, it will not be based on proficiency in Hebrew. Native English and native Hebrew speakers will not be separated in school.

According to SACS’s website, the presence of native speakers of both lan-guage groups will make the environ-ment more conducive to second-language learning. Hebrew and English will have equal status.

“Some students will know a lot of Hebrew; some will have no Hebrew what-soever, but being in an environment with everyone else will reinforce each other,” said Mr. Bachrach.

Funding New StudentsAs is usually the case when charter

schools have been approved, the educa-tional establishments in Englewood and Teaneck have been less than enthusiastic about SACS.

Englewood School Superintendent Richard Segall has complained that, in September, only about 20 of SACS’s 160 students will be former public school students. This means the district will ac-quire more than 100 students for whom expenses will have to be paid.

For many years, this has been the tug-of-war between public and Hebrew day schools over issues such as bussing. Day school parents usually point out that, by not sending their children to the public schools, they are saving the district money. Public school officials usually counter with the separation-of-church-and-state argu-ment. Privately, these officials often admit that if day school children were enrolled in public school, the testing scores in the public schools would rise dramatically.

Budget WoesTeaneck’s Interim Schools Superin-

tendent Barbara Pinsak also did not hide her disapproval upon learning that SACS

had been approved. She said the school’s plan for “an academically rigorous Hebrew language immersion program” might not attract the “variety of learners” the school, in its application, had promised.

Ms. Pinsak and Mr. Segall expressed concern about the money taken from their budgets to fund students in the new school. The exact dollar amount will depend on how many students from Teaneck and Englewood, respectively, actually opt to attend SACS.

Mr. Segall said it would have cost Englewood less money to incorporate a Hebrew immersion program within an existing school, rather than creating a new school “with all the associated overhead and operational costs.”

Supporters of the charter school point out that, as district residents, SACS students—even those who are attending public school for the first time—have a right to that funding.

The budget Mr. Bachrach expects to be approved by the state will grant SACS about $13,000 per pupil for the year, which is a few hundred dollars less than what Englewood and Teaneck spend on other S.L.R.



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Though not a member of the Orthodox community, Michael Glassner served for

seven years as a senior vice president to well-known Orthodox communal leader Howard Jonas, at his Newark-based IDT Corporation. Prior to that, for three years Mr. Glassner was chief of staff to Chair-man Lew Eisenberg at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

A Kansas native, Mr. Glassner at-tended the University of Kansas from 1981 to 1985, during which time he interned for Sen Bob Dole (R-KS), who later ran unsuccessfully for President in 1988, and again in 1996. In the interim, Mr. Glass-ner worked his way up to the position of

senior advisor to Mr. Dole, serving as his executive assistant in his run for the Presidency in 1988, and in 1996 as key aide to the then-Senate Majority Leader from the Presidential primaries through the general election.

Working with PalinAccording to Mr. Glassner’s published

biography, his campaign responsibilities included traveling with the candidate on a full-time basis, coordinating the can-didate’s schedule, crisis resolution, and day-to-day logistical arrangements.

In the 2008 McCain-Palin campaign, Mr. Glassner was director of Vice-Presidential Operations, who—again according to his published biography—directed Mrs. Palin’s campaign travel and scheduling, logistical advance, personnel, budgets, fundraising, and other campaign activities.

He managed a team of over 100 staff-ers and volunteers and served as a member of the senior staff, participating in strat-egy and planning for the McCain-Palin general election campaign.

IDTMr. Glassner’s seven-year stint as

a senior executive with IDT chairman Howard Jonas immediately preceded his joining the McCain-Palin team.

His daily proximity to Mr. Jonas must have familiarized Mr. Glassner with the communal leader’s wide array of Jewish activities, including IDT’s on-site kollel in the company’s Newark headquarters; major support for the SAR yeshiva in Riv-erdale; an oil exploration consortium—Israel Energy Initiatives—with Lord Ja-cob Rothschild and Jewish philanthropist Michael Steinhardt; and backing for joint religious-military education in Israel; as well as an arrangement with the aliyah agency Nefesh B’Nefesh, which makes jobs at the IDT-Jerusalem calling center available to new immigrants immediately upon their arrival in Israel.

In public and private statements, Mr. Glassner emphasizes that Mrs. Palin is not at present a candidate for any public office. But if she were to announce her candidacy, a man of Mr. Glassner’s experi-ence would bring invaluable Presidential campaign expertise to her organization, not to mention a nuanced understanding of Jewish and Israeli political and religious issues. Y

New SarahPac Director Michael Glassner Is One of the Tribe


It’s been a busy season for Teaneck Councilwoman Dr. Barbara Toffler. In

the course of a few short weeks, the self-styled “ethicist” faced charges of leav-ing the scene of an accident (no one was hurt), and then censure by the Teaneck Town Council for making “erroneous and unsupported” accusations against Tean-eck’s police chief, township manager, and deputy mayor.

She was also censured for “interfer-ing” with requests for public records.

To top it off, Dr. Toffler has request-ed that Teaneck cover the legal fees she incurred while defending herself against the complaint that caused her to be cen-sured. She suggested the rules calling for the town to cover an employee’s legal fees should apply to her situation.

Caught on CameraIn early January, Dr. Toffler backed

into a parked car in front of the Cross Riv-er Bank on Teaneck Road and drove off without reporting the accident, all caught on the bank’s surveillance cameras.

Although Dr. Toffler claimed she was unaware that she had caused damage to the other vehicle, she had, in fact, knocked off the front license plate.

Police served two summonses at her home, one for leaving the scene of an ac-cident and the other for failure to report the accident.

According to Teaneck Lt Tanya Balser, both offenses carry a mandatory court date.

When asked by reporters about the incident, Dr. Toffler said she had checked the hit car but did not see any damage. She said she was “embarrassed” that she had not bothered to leave her card on the car after she hit it.

She said she and the other car owner had spoken and that she had offered to pay for repair costs.

“Retaliation”When word of the incident inevita-

bly spread, Dr. Toffler promptly accused Teaneck Township Manager William Broughton of notifying council members about her summonses. She said he had acted in retaliation for her opposition to the council’s attempt to install Teaneck Police Chief Robert Wilson as Public Safety Director.

Several months earlier, Mr. Brough-

ton had actively promoted the creation of the position of Public Safety Director and sought for it to be filled by Mr. Wilson. Dr. Toffler had opposed the position.

“Retaliation, sadly, has been a mo-dus operandi of Teaneck leadership in the past. I hope it is not starting again,” she said.

ManipulationDr. Toffler then accused Messrs Wilson,

Broughton, and Teaneck’s Deputy Mayor Adam Gussen of releasing the information about her summonses to the press.

Mr. Gussen suggested the “retaliation”

accusation was actually Dr. Toffler’s ma-nipulation effort to change the focus from the “serious” charges against her after she left the scene of an accident.

“She leaves the scene of an accident and then she wants to change the story, to make it not about her behavior but about who told who about it. This is a flagrant attempt to draw attention away from her-self and her dramatic lack of judgment,” said Mr. Gussen.

AdmissionWhen Dr. Toffler was forced to ad-

TofflerWatch: Teaneck Councilwoman Charged and Censured but Wants Compensation



mit she had no evidence to substantiate her claim of re-taliation, the council voted to censure her. According to the censure resolution, which was read at a town council meeting last month, Messrs Broughton and Wilson were found to have done nothing wrong.

The censure resolution also accuses Dr. Toffler of in-terfering with public requests for documents under the Open Public Records Act (OPRA) and creating a “hostile work environment.”

The OPRA requests had been filed by Emil Lebovich, who wanted to see the police reports that were filed after of-ficers visited Dr. Toffler’s home subsequent to the incident at the bank. Mr. Lebovich also wanted to see the surveillance camera footage of her car.

Five VotesA critic of Dr. Toffler, Mr.

Lebovich has repeatedly come

to town council meetings to disparage her, often in angry loud speeches.

According to the censure resolution, Dr. Toffler, citing privacy concerns, interfered with the township’s effort to process Mr. Lebovich’s lawful public document requests.

Five of Teaneck’s seven council members voted to cen-sure her: Elie Y Katz, Yitz Stern, Monica Honis, Mr. Gussen, and Teaneck Mayor Moham-med Hameeduddin. Dr. Toffler recused herself from the vote and Councilwoman Lizette Parker abstained.

Safety?In an effort to explain

herself, especially after Mr. Broughton filed a complaint alleging that she had created a “hostile work environment” for him, Dr. Toffler sent an emailed press release in which she acknowledged that her speculation accusing Messrs

Wilson and Broughton of de-liberately spreading gossip about her was “inappropriate and erroneous” and that no evidence supported it.

She maintained, however, that she had not sought to in-terfere with Mr. Lebovich’s OPRA requests, but, rather, wanted him to undergo a crimi-nal background check before giving him the documents.

She stated that, for sev-eral months, at public coun-cil meetings, she had been subjected to Mr. Lebovich’s verbal personal attacks against her, a claim backed up by the video record.

“The nature of his ram-bling ad hominem attacks and the manner in which they were delivered led me to believe that this man posed a possible dan-ger to me, other councilmem-bers, and Teaneck residents,” she wrote.

Tucson?Fearing an incident such as

the “terrible tragedy in Tucson,” she said, “I became concerned that this information may be sought by someone who had a criminal record perhaps an ominous threat.”

Although she did not explain how preventing Mr. Lebovich from receiving the documents would mitigate against any danger, she said she brought her concerns by email to Mr. Broughton, as acting munici-pal clerk, and sent copies of that email to others whom she believed would be involved in the OPRA process.

“At no time did I attempt to interfere with the orderly processing of that OPRA re-quest, but rather asked questions and requested the aforemen-tioned background check be made prior to the distribution of those records for reason of personal, council and public safety,” she said.

Poker PlayerDr. Toffler seemed to be-

lieve that if Mr. Lebovich had a criminal record, that would preclude his receiving the doc-uments he sought. In fact, NJ State law prevents convicted criminals from obtaining only personal information related to their victims.

In her emailed statement after her censure, Dr. Toffler said, “My requests, I now be-lieve, have been viewed as interference and for this I am distressed, because that was not my intent.”

According to several web-sites, Mr. Lebovich is a 21-year-old professional poker player who seems to reside in Fair Lawn. It is not clear why he came to Teaneck Town Council meetings or why he told people he had voted for Dr. Toffler.

A Victim?Not surprisingly, Dr. Tof-

fler’s antics have prompted residents of Teaneck to com-ment on blogs. After the reports that she had left the scene of an accident surfaced, David Sarna accused her of posing as a “victim…who believes laws do not apply to her.”

“If she breaks them, she is entitled to a pass [because] some residents do not agree with her leftist, tax-crazy, and destructive views about what is good for Teaneck,” he said sarcastically. “She deems be-ing caught on camera leaving the scene of an accident to be ‘retaliation.’ How horrible. Police brutality. Let’s organize a million people to march on Washington to protest the un-speakably horrible ‘retaliation’ against this scofflaw. It is the injustice of the century.”

Teaneck resident Mildred Tucker, however, accused Mr. Broughton of not knowing his

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Asking for MoneyAt the end of February, Dr. Toffler sent

an email to Teaneck Township Attorney Stanley Turitz, protesting the “consider-able” legal fees she has amassed stemming from the complaint and censure and sug-gesting Teaneck cover the expenses.

“While the modest fees for dealing with my car incident are mine, I have considerable legal fees related to William Broughton’s letter to me and the Council censure resolution. These should be covered by those same rules in place for covering employee legal fees,” she wrote.

Apparently by error, she copied the email, which was marked “confidential”

in the subject line, to several current and former councilmembers, all of whom had served between 2006 and 2008. Former Councilman Elnatan Rudolph, whom Dr. Toffler had specifically targeted for defeat at the polls, shared the email with The Record and other journalists.

In the email, Dr. Toffler, who has en-gaged a criminal defense attorney, Joseph Rem, accepted responsibility for the fees associated with the court case stemming from her hit-and-run episode. In court, one of her summonses was dismissed and the other cost her a $100 fine.

It is unclear whether Teaneck’s code would allow Dr. Toffler to be reimbursed. The code calls for the town to defend its employees and officials in cases of crimi-nal or civil action related to the perfor-mance of their duties. But the town is not required to protect an employee or offi-cial if doing so “would create a conflict of interest between the township and the

official involved” or if the “action was brought by the township.”

“Confidential”On Teaneck Patch, an online newslet-

ter, a poster who said he disagreed with the notion of Teaneck’s paying Dr. Tof-fler’s legal fees, questioned why an email marked “confidential” was published.

For longtime “TofflerWatch” observ-ers, the response should come from “the ethicist” herself.

In 2007, Dr. Toffler was quoted in the New York Times on the issue of Ortho-dox Jews moving into Teaneck: “People worry that there’s a group that wants this [Teaneck] to become an Orthodox com-munity like some of the ones in Rock-land County. This has always been an incredibly diverse community, and from my perspective, I don’t want it to become any one thing.”

Nothing ConfidentialSeveral months later, in an apparent

attempt to sooth ruffled feathers in the community she had offended before she attempted to be appointed to public office, Dr. Toffler sent an email to Mr. Stern, a well-respected member of the Orthodox community who has served off and on the Teaneck Town Council for many years. Although he is now on the council, when Dr. Toffler wrote to him, he was not.

In her email to Mr. Stern, Dr. Toffler asked for his suggestions as to what she could do to make amends. He suggested that she begin by apologizing and then viewing, with an open mind, some of the issues that are important to the Orthodox community, such as considering variances when synagogues seek to expand.

Evidently outraged by his recommen-dation, Dr. Toffler proceeded to take Mr. Stern’s thoughtful, well-reasoned email to a town council meeting, where she read it aloud as though Mr. Stern had written it as an unsolicited demand.

When asked why she would read a private email (to say nothing of why she would misconstrue the circumstances under which it was written), Dr. Toffler, the ethicist, replied that there is no such entity as a private email, but, rather, that all emails are public. S.L.R.

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In fact, Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt was with its leaders, who made certain there was never any real peace with the Arab na-tion. The government-controlled press, television, and even educa-tional curriculum indoctrinated a generation of Egyptians with hatred and falsehoods about the Jewish state.

“The Egyptians never insti-tuted any cultural, commercial, or other normalization poli-cies with Israel, and, indeed, the policy of the government in Cairo was to attack Israel at every single international forum,” said David Shalom, former leader of Betar in the United Kingdom.

Helping StudentsBut if Israel’s reputation was

suffering in Cairo, the Egyptian uprising caused Israel’s stock to rise for several US universities whose students had just begun their semester abroad at the American University in Egypt when the riots broke out.

Five students from Elon University in North Carolina were the first to arrive. The school, maintains a student ex-change agreement with Haifa University, and when the vio-lence broke out in Cairo, Elon officials called their counterparts at Haifa’s International School, asking officials there to rescue the American students.

Haifa University hastily prepared dorm rooms for the Americans, who began their new semester in Israel at the end of February.

Frantic FamiliesArriving, Kate Donovan

said the students’ frantic families simply wanted their offspring to

get out of Egypt as quickly as possible. “At first, there were options like Lebanon or Jordan, but when they heard that Israel was an option, they preferred we come here. Once they knew we were on our way here, they were much calmer,” she said.

Student Jonathan Ordog said that although the Ameri-can University is located on an island on the Nile, they could hear gunshots and smell tear gas. “A representative from the international program of the uni-versity in Cairo took us to his home on the shore of the Red Sea and, from there, we set on our way to Israel,” he said.

Regardless of what hap-pens in Egypt, the Elon stu-dents plan to remain in Haifa throughout the semester, much to their parents’ relief.

Arabic in JerusalemA week later, 12 other stu-

dents from Egypt’s American University arrived in Israel. The students, representing Allegheny,

Vanderbilt, Michigan State, Princ-eton, UCLA, and the University of California at Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and San Diego, will spend the semester at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

“When we heard what was happening in Egypt, some col-leges, such as the University of California, reached out to us,” said Jonathan Kaplan, director of Hebrew University’s divi-sion of undergraduate studies at the Rothberg International School in Jerusalem.

The school in Jerusalem told officials at the various American universities that if their students needed assistance, “we would be happy to help out,” said Mr. Kaplan.

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East issues “at this important time in the region.”

Murdered ChildrenIn Jordan, too, there have

been demonstrations, although because denigration of the royal family can result in a three-year prison sentence, criticism of the popular roy-als has been muted.

But not the antisemitism. In the middle of February,

Jordan’s Justice Minister, Hus-sein Mujalli, joined protesters outside his own office who were demanding the release of an imprisoned terrorist who shot and killed seven Israeli teenage schoolgirls in 1997 as they toured the “peace is-land” of Naharayim, right on the Jordanian border.

The murdered 7th and 8th graders from the religious Amit School in Beit Shemesh, were on a class trip when Jordani-an soldier Ahmad Daqamseh opened fire, killing seven chil-dren and wounding six.

“Mentally Wounded”The defense claimed he was

“mentally wounded” and could not be held responsible for his actions. After the late King Hus-sein accompanied then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

on a series of shiva consolation calls to the children’s bereaved families, Mr. Daqamseh was sentenced by a military court to life in prison.

Mr. Mujalli, who had served as one of Mr. Daqamseh’s law-yers, told the protesters he agreed with them that the for-mer soldier was a “hero,” who should be released.

“If a Jewish person killed Arabs, his country would have built a statue for him instead of imprisonment,” Mr. Mujalli told AFP news, calling Israel is “a hostile, terrorist state.”

PrideMr. Mujalli said that, as far as

he was concerned, the case was not over and that he would continue to defend the murderer.

“We are proud of him as a soldier of this country,” said Mr. Mujalli, insisting that the murdered children “had made a mockery of Mohammed, Islam, and of Daqamseh himself” and had acted “in an immoral manner.”

He claimed that “all this gen-erated strong provocation,” leading to “extreme emotional distress,” grounds, he said, “for a pardon.”

Blaming IsraelThe real culprit, he implied, is

Israel, which he called “a state—

an entity—occupying Jordanian, Egyptian, and Syrian lands, and Palestine in its entirety.”

“On this occupied land, the [girls] did inappropriate things. The most basic thing he could have done, in defense of his country, his honor as a soldier, and his religion was to open fire as a natural response,” said Mr. Mujalli.

Israel’s ambassador to Jor-dan, Daniel Nevo, demanded that the Jordanian government, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, issue a condemnation of Mr. Mujalli’s statement, but Jor-danian officials would say only that the justice minister did not represent the government.

LibyaNo one could use that ex-

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Now 68, Mr. Qaddafi has been in power in Libya since 1969, making him the current longest-serving leader in the Arab world.

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While Mr. Qaddafi’s grandmother undoubt-edly converted to Islam, she, her offspring, and the offspring of any of her daughters would still be recognized as Jewish.

Some pundits in Israel said, if the story is true, Mr. Qaddafi would be eligible to immigrate to Israel and claim citizenship under the Jewish state’s Law of Return.

Forcing the Law of ReturnBut as the turmoil in Libya grew worse

last month, Mr. Qaddafi’s response to the so-

called Days of Rage was for Arabs to “capital-ize on the wave of revolts in the Middle East to amass on Israel’s borders” until the Jewish State agreed to capitulate to Arab demands for the so-called “right of return.”

He directed his call to PA Arabs and the millions who define themselves as “Palestinian refugees,” most of them de-scendants of Arabs who, in 1948, thinking it would be only a temporary absence until the Jews were all killed, obeyed the orders of Arab leaders to leave their homes.

Hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled Israel in 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence. The PA demands that Israel accept those who fled and their millions

of descendants as citizens, which would be an end to the Jewish state.

In some countries, among them Syr-ia, Lebanon, and Iraq, the descendants of Arabs who fled Israel have not been granted citizenship and live in their own separate enclaves.

“Fleets of boats should take Palestin-ians and wait by the Palestinian shores un-til the problem is resolved,” Mr. Qaddafi said on Libyan TV, explaining that the purpose of the mass march would not be to declare war on Israel, but, rather, “to create a problem for the world,” he said.

“Mad Dog”The brutality with which Mr. Qaddafi

is currently treating Libyans protesting against his regime is not new. His brutal attacks against his own people during the turmoil have prompted some pundits to call him once again by the name given to him by the late President Ronald Reagan, “the mad dog of the Middle East.”

Over the years, he has supported a wide variety of terror movements, but his favorite targets were Jews, against whom he encour-aged terror attacks throughout the world. At the UN, his representatives regularly propagate blood libels against Jews. During the Oslo War, in 2003, he paid the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade more than $2 million to bankroll a new wave of suicide attacks.

Once the center of a thriving Jewish commu-nity, there is no Jewish presence in Tripoli.

After the 1973 massacre of the Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympic Games, almost all of the Arab countries compet-ed for the bodies of the Black September terrorists who were killed at the German airport. Mr. Qaddafi, too, wanted the privi-lege of arranging the funerals to be able to hail as “heroes” and “martyrs” the five assassins of the Jewish athletes.

Achille LauroIn 1985, Palestinian terrorists hi-

jacked the Achille Lauro Italian cruise ship, killing one elderly American. The mastermind was later given a hero’s wel-come in Tripoli by Mr. Qaddafi.

The victim, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot in his wheelchair and then pushed overboard. Mr. Klinghoffer’s body washed ashore five days later in Syria.

For Mr. Klinghoffer and his wife, Marilyn, their cruise on the Achille Lauro was a celebra-tion of their 36th wedding anniversary.

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Mr. Qaddafi was involved in the bomb-ing of Pan Am flight 103 over Locker-bie, Scotland, in which 270 people were killed. A Libyan, Basset al-Megrahi, was convicted of carrying out the attack and held in in a Scottish prison.

In 2009, presumably for health reasons, Mr. al-Megrahi was released. Although doctors at the time said he had cancer and only three months to live, he has, thus far, outlived their predictions.

At the end of February, there was a report from a Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Mohammed Abud al Jeleil, who rebelled against Mr. Qaddafi, saying that the Libyan chief had personally “given the order for Lockerbie.”

“He did everything in his power to get Megrahi back from Scotland,” said Mr. al Jeleil, who accused Mr. Qaddafi of protecting Mr. al-Megrahi in order to conceal his own role in the deadly attack. “Qaddafi ordered Megrahi to do it.”

Mr. Jeleil resigned his post in protest of violence in Libya, where Mr. Qaddafi’s regime has killed an estimated 1,000 dem-onstrators. S.L.R.

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In the holy city of Tzfat, the municipal-ity’s religious council, the Hekdesh

Beit HaHachaim Tzfat, has allocated a new parcel of land to enable Jews in the Diaspora to purchase burial plots adjacent to the ancient cemetery.

The northern municipality of Tzfat has begun to expand the famed and hallowed ancient cemetery on the lower slopes of the steep Galilee mountainside, allowing Jews in Israel and worldwide the oppor-tunity to be laid to rest next to the great Jewish sages of 2,000 years ago, among them Tannaim (Mishnaic sages), Amoraim (Talmudic sages), and famed Kabbalists of the 16th century CE.

“Purchasing a burial plot during one’s lifetime is a merit for longevity, and purchas-ing a plot in Tzfat is a merit for life in the World to Come. According to Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai, the Chidah, Tzfat is a direct pathway to Lower Gan Eden,” said Moti Dayan, a representative for the Tzfat Religious Council, the Moetza Datit.

Mr. Dayan is currently in the US to meet with individuals and groups inter-ested in purchasing a plot in the ancient cemetery. Synagogues and communities may make collective purchases, he said.

According to Mr. Dayan, there have been no burials in the ancient cemetery for more than 50 years. “We recently de-

cided to expand the cemetery and give contemporary Jews the opportunity to be laid to rest there,” he said.

Sages and HeroesAmong the great leaders buried in the

Tzfat cemetery are the Prophet Hoshea; Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chananya, one of the Levites who served in the Temple; and his student, Rabbi Pinchas ben Yair.

In the heart of the cemetery are the gravesites of the great 16th-century Kabbal-ist, the holy Ari (Isaac Luria Ashkenazi), and his student, Rabbi Yosef Caro, the compiler of the Code of Jewish Law. These two scholars emigrated to Tzfat 500 years ago and re-established the city, bringing a unique spiritual intensity to the world that has guided the Jewish people ever since.

Every year, on the 5th of Av, thousands of Jews flock to pray at the Ari’s gravesite on the occasion of his yahrzeit. This year will mark the 439th anniversary of his death.

Also buried nearby are Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, author of Tomer Devorah; Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz, author of Lecha Dodi; Chana and her seven sons; and Rabbi Yaakov Beirav, who served as Chief Rabbi of Tzfat almost 500 years ago.

In another area of the mountain cem-etery are the graves of Rabbi Leib Baal HaYisurim, a Chabad chassid who emi-grated to the holy city of Hebron and died in 1836; as well as the Olei HaGardom, the 12 members of the pre-state Jewish underground—Lechi and Irgun—who were hanged by the British.

ToursThe Tzfat cemetery is administered

by a staff under the direction of the Chief Rabbi of Tzfat, Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, shlita, the son of Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, z”tl. Rav Eliyahu is directing the restoration, preservation, and development of the new section of the cemetery.

Until Purim, Mr. Dayan can be reached in the US at 347-635-5770. After Purim, he can be contacted in Israel at 011-972-4-682-0089 or on his cell, 011-972-52-429-7737. His email address is [email protected]. The website is http://www.safed-israel.net.

In the US, he will guide prospective purchasers through a computer-simulated map of the cemetery. Those who meet with him in Israel will be personally guided around the cemetery. S.L.R.

Burials Once Again Possible in Holy Ancient Cemetery of Tzfat

Yesh Shabbat Overnight Camp Offers Unique Summer Experience for Jewish Teens and Tweens

Located at Haverford College on the beautiful Philadelphia Mainline,

Julian Krinsky’s Yesh Shabbat redefines the kosher overnight summer camp ex-perience, helping Jewish teens develop their personal talents, interests, and skills through a schedule they build for them-selves. Students choose from an array of challenging programs in which they can channel their personal interests and pas-sions into a fun, constructive, and growth-oriented summer.

Yesh’s program offers a unique and diverse selection of courses which will satisfy even the most eclectic tastes. The high school enrichment program, for example, includes major courses in business, music, cooking, and fashion design, but also offers a broad range of minor and elective classes, ranging from photography to fencing, and mathematics to video-game design.

Similarly, Yesh’s Xploration program provides instruction in fields ranging from debate and public speaking to the martial arts. Other options include hip-hop, team sports, art, engineering, creative writing,

and many other selections, all geared to the diverse skills and interests of today’s students.

Through Yesh’s sports program, students may choose to attend the Ju-lian Krinsky Schools of Tennis, Golf, or Basketball at Haverford College’s state-of-the-art facilities.

Power of ShabbatThe stimulating educational and physi-

cal programs are matched by the power of Shabbat at the camp. The atmosphere, tefillot, Shabbat meals, and zemirot com-bine to create a unique Shabbat experi-ence that spills over into the new week and provides inspiration for everything else at the camp.

The family-like atmosphere, geared to conveying a deep appreciation and love for Judaism within a shomer Shabbat and glatt kosher environment, is a vital com-ponent of the Yesh experience. Through observance of halacha, fully engaging in the camp’s chesed program, and delving into Jewish heritage with Torah-related discussions and seminars, students at



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Last month, more than 100 Jews from throughout the New York metropoli-

tan area gathered at The Jewish Center in the Upper West Side of Manhattan to take part in a panel-led discussion entitled, “In-novation Israel: Shaping Israel’s Future Today,” organized by Nefesh B’Nefesh and PresenTense.

The social entrepreneurship road-trip was the first of its kind, aiming to engage Israel-conscious members of the Diaspora community in discussions about social change in Israel through innovative entrepreneurship.

The New York event marked the fi-nal stop in the panels’ weeklong road-trip throughout North America. Earlier in Feb-ruary, they had stopped in Philadelphia, Boston, Toronto, and Los Angeles.

“This is a great opportunity to create dialogue among young Jewish professionals from North America and Israel and help foster and cultivate Israel-related social ideas and initiatives,” said Marc Rosen-berg, director of Nefesh B’Nefesh’s One Aliyah department. “We believe this will help maintain Israel awareness and con-sciousness in the minds of future leaders in the Jewish world.”

Bubbles and LettersThe New York event began with a

networking session over food and drinks, giving locals an opportunity to meet, fol-lowed by a panel discussion led by Elyssa Moss-Rabinowitz (an Israeli immigrant, olah, from California), Chaim Landau (an oleh from New York), and Romi Shamai, all chosen for their inspiring contributions to social change in Israel. The panelists

introduced their various projects and il-lustrated the impact they are making on Israel, as well as their vision for the coun-try over the next few years.

Mr. Shamai began by depicting his unique initiative called “Baabua Gigantic Bubbles,” a business that produces devic-es to blow enormous bubbles, which he put on display for the participants inside the auditorium. These bubble-blowing

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our connection with history, to appreci-ate the sacrifices of past generations of Jews who paved the way for flourishing 21st-century Jewry.

For the first time, on a Baltic and Russia cruise, Kosherica will provide for a full-day stop in Berlin as well as two days in St Petersburg, where participants will have the opportunity to come face to face with both the brightest and darkest parts of Jewish history. While Berlin has become synonymous with the Holocaust, at the turn of the 20th century, it was home to some of Jewish history’s most significant players, including physicist Albert Ein-stein, director Billy Wilder, Nobel Prize laureates Shalom Yosef Agnon and Nelly

Sachs, philosopher Martin Buber, and the late leader of the Chabad movement, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

It’s clear that Kosherica did not be-come the cruise specialist overnight. It earned its title through years of researching the world’s most fascinating destinations and most luxurious cruise-liners. It also has its finger on the pulse of the Jewish traveler. Kosherica has become the glatt kosher tour leader with its ability con-sistently to generate new and exciting travel itineraries to make each getaway a memorable experience.

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paraphernalia are easy to operate and ap-peal primarily to children from all social classes in Israel, bringing them joy and also bringing people of different back-grounds together.

Mr. Shamai also founded peula.net, which allows grievance letters to businesses and government offices to be published publicly online, resulting in more account-ability to the people of Israel.

Discussions and ArtChaim Landau followed with a dis-

cussion of “Perspectives Israel,” a tour group he founded, devoted to giving stu-dents studying in Israel the opportunity to “cross borders” to meet people with whom they may not regularly associate or agree. The students, however, do want to listen to these people, focusing mainly on the Arab-Israeli conflict and enabling them to make decisions for themselves by hearing all sides.

And lastly, Ms. Moss-Rabinowitz de-scribed “Kol Haot,” which she founded, and showed her beautiful artwork. Kol Haot aims to use the power of the arts to convey and teach Jewish learning.

While it initially pertained to children, her concept of using artwork for Jewish learning has expanded to include many different age groups. It may be close to expanding beyond Israel.

A Month to DecideBen Teper, 27, who lives in Manhat-

tan, is leaning towards making aliyah in June. An entrepreneur, he splits his time between working on his own projects in new media and incorporating his skills and experiences as a fashion photogra-pher and a real estate broker.

Because he was getting ready to spend a month in Israel before making a final decision about his aliyah, he said he found the event personally meaningful.

“It is so good and refreshing to hear all these experiences and these great proj-ects that people of all ages are creating in Israel,” Mr. Teper said. “I am really look-ing to develop a new media to channel the creative energy of Israel. You hear about people making aliyah with ideas all the time, but now I‘ve really seen how much opportunity there is to develop them. Of course there are opportunities in the US as well, but much more in Israel with more help, and tonight was proof of that. Israel needs olim, and olim with ideas is that much better.”

Another participant at the event, Rivky Weinberg, from Brooklyn, was also inspired by the panel. A court reporter in New York, Ms. Weinberg speaks Hebrew, but she recognized that to be successful in her field in Israel, she will need to much more fluent. Hearing about these oppor-tunities opened more avenues for her to pursue in her aliyah ambitions.

“I’ve thought about making aliyah many times before in the past and I very much want to buy an apartment somewhere in Israel, but I can’t be a court reporter there,” Ms. Weinberg said. “Listening to the panel inspired me that I might be able to start something new in Israel and make a difference at the same time. It is some-thing to definitely think about.”

Invigorating OlimFollowing the panel discussion, par-

ticipants were invited to share their own thoughts and experiences. The event al-lowed them to glimpse into possibilities and opportunities to be able to make an impactful difference by identifying prob-lems, seeking to find solutions, and then acting upon them to bring about social change in Israel.

According to Ms. Moss-Rabinowitz, Israel benefits very strongly from this kind of event.

“The olim and their ideas and innova-tions that they bring with them are great examples that people just like you can really make a difference to the country,” she said. Y


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“Color Me Mine” Ceramics, for women, Cong Ohr HaTorah, Ber-genfield, [email protected]

Purim Masquerade Ball,

spons by Rutgers Hillel, at Rut-gers Student Center, New Bruns-wick, 8pm, 732-545-2407

Rosh Chodesh Concert for Women: Mishenichnas Adar Mar-bim B’simcha, private home in Monsey, 8pm, 845-893-1882

Mon., March 7 “Applied Judaism,” Rabbi

Steve Golden, JCC, Tenafly, 9am, 201-408-1426

Video-Lecture: “McCa-rthy Witch Hunt: A Not-So-Funny Reminiscence,” Dick Burnon, JCC, Tenafly, 11:15am, 201-408-1455

Café Europa Holocaust Survi-vor Group, Linda Storfer, Riverdale YMHA, noon, 718-548-8200

Kosher Cooking Demonstra-tion: French-Moroccan Dinner, Chef Michele Toledano, spons by Chabad of Greater Somerset County, at Mosaica Restaurant, Vauxhall, 6:30pm, 908-604-8844 ext 229

Film: “From Sarajevo to Is-rael: Two Stories,” Ilana Shafir, a hidden child from Sarajevo, spons by the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish life, Brower

Commons, New Brunswick, 7pm, 732-932-2033

“Towards a Meaningful Life: Pain, Loss, and Anxiety,” Rabbi Mendy Kasowitz, Chabad Center, West Orange, 973-486-2362; Rabbi Boruch Chazanow, Chabad House, Manalapan, 732-972-3687, 7:30pm

Rosh Chodesh Adar Women’s Event: “Food, Friends, and Fun,” Prima Pizza, Passaic, 7:45pm, 973-779-3736 or 973-246-3125

“Heidegger’s Jewish Teach-ers and Disciples: The German-Jewish Context of Heidegger’s Thought—Hermann Cohen and Edmund Husserl,” Dr. Yoni Brafman, Riverdale Jewish Cen-ter, 8pm, 718-548-1850

Confidential Divorce Sup-port Group, Dr. Carol Glaser, private location in Teaneck, 8pm, 201-833-8822

Community Synagogue of Monsey Sisterhood Book Club, private home in Monsey, 8pm, 845-356-2060

“Torah-True Instruction on Raising Children,” Rabbi Shmuel Berkovicz, separate seating, Ohel Yosef Hall, Passaic, 8pm

“Faces of the Israeli-Pal-estinian Conflict: Loss and For-giveness,” Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, who lost three daughters during the 2009 Israeli incursion into Gaza to stop rockets from being fired into Israel, and Laura Blu-menfeld, whose father was shot by a Palestinian terrorist in 1986, with Christiane Amanpour, live from the 92nd Street YMHA, by satellite, at JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 8:15pm, 845-362-4400

Teaneck Shidduch Meeting, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8:30pm, [email protected]

Latte and Learning: Mishlo-ach Manot Making, Rabbi Akiva Weiss, Rutgers Hillel, New Bruns-wick, 9pm, 732-545-2407

Tues., March 8Deadline to File for Candi-

dacy for the Teaneck Board of Education Elections, which will be held on April 27, http://www.njsba.org/candidacy/

“Towards a Meaningful Life: Pain, Loss, and Anxiety,” Rabbi Boruch Chazanow, Chabad House,

Manalapan, 732-972-3687, 10am; Rabbi Michael Gurkov, Chabad Cen-ter, Wayne, 973-694-6274, 7:30pm; Rabbi Meir Konikov, Chabad of Fort Lee, 201-886-1238, 7:30pm; Rabbi Levi Azimov, Chabad Jewish Cen-ter, North Brunswick, 7:45pm, 732-398-9492; Rabbi Dov Drizin, Valley Chabad, Woodcliff Lake, 7:45pm, 201-476-0157; Rabbi Mordechai Shain, Chabad House, Tenafly, 8pm, 201-871-1152 ext 112; Rabbis Levi Shemtov, Yitzchok Dubov, and Her-shel Weiszner, Riverdale YMHA, 8pm, 718-549-1100

Navi Shiur, Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, Cong Keter Torah, Tea-neck, 11am, 201-907-0180

Halachos and Hashkafa of Taharas Hamishpacha, for women, Ayala Goldman, spons by Passaic Torah Institute Neve, private home in Passaic, 11am, 908-278-4059

“Where’s My Miracle?” Dr. Morey Schwartz, spons by the Melton Alumni Association, UJA, Paramus, 7:30pm, 201-820-3913

Arrowsmith Program, for par-ents of children who are struggling with issues of auditory processing or memory, reading and comprehension, or attention, Rabbi Eliyahu Teitz, Jew-ish Educational Center, Elizabeth, 8pm, 908-355-4850 ext 112

Pre-Purim Party for Moth-ers of Special-Needs Children, spons by the Friendship Circle, bake hamantaschen and pack mishloach manot packages, Chabad Center, Wayne, 8pm, 973-694-6274

“Jewish Hair: Shave It? Cov-er It? Keep It?”, Rabbi Yitzchak Sebbag, Cong Anshei Lubavitch, Fair Lawn, 8pm, 201-794-3770

“A Rabbi’s Letter of Advice to His Son: Iggeres HaRambam,” from a 13th century philosopher, Rabbi David Pietruszka, spons by the Jewish Learning Experi-ence, at Torah Academy, Teaneck, 8:30pm, 201-966-4498

Wed., March 9“Women in Halacha: Women

and Zimmun,” Shayna Goldberg, Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School, Teaneck, 11am, 201-833-4307

Holocaust Lunch and Learn, survivors, liberators, and POWs, fa-cilitated by Barbara Wind, Aidekman Family Center, Lautenberg JCC,

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Whippany, noon, 973-428-9300Film: “A Thousand Clowns”

with Wine, Dessert, and Discus-sion, Prof Jason Lucero, Riverdale YMHA, 6:30pm, 718-548-8200

“What’s the Point of Purim?” Matt Nover, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 7pm, 732-545-2407

“Towards a Meaningful Life: Pain, Loss, and Anxiety,” Rabbi Mendy Herson, Chabad Jewish Center, Basking Ridge, 7:30pm, 908-604-8844; Rabbi Bo-ruch Chazanow, Chabad House, Manalapan, 732-972-3687, 7:30pm; Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan, Chabad House, Franklin Lakes, 8pm, 201-848-0449; Rabbi Ephraim Simon, Chabad House, Teaneck, 8pm, 201-907-0686

“Towards a Meaningful Life: Religion and Faith,” Rabbi Men-del Mangel, Chabad Center, Cherry Hill, 7:30pm, 856-874-1500

Support Group for Caregiv-ers, those caring for an older adult who is physically frail or suffering from memory loss, JCC, Tenafly, 7:30pm, 201-408-1450

“Weather a Job Loss: Pre-serving Your Financial Future,”

Richard Atkinson, includes a draw-ing for a free financial consultation, Jewish Family Service, Teaneck, 7:30pm, 201-837-9090

“Chicks with Sticks Knitting Circle,” hats for preemies, children with cancer, and IDF soldiers in Israel, private home in Highland Park, 8pm, 732-339-8492

“Community and Privacy,” Rabbi Shalom Baum, spons by Torah on Cedar Lane, Teaneck General Store, 8pm, 201-530-5046

“Women and Children First: Halachic Triage, Western Ethic, Neither, or Both?—Who Gets Hala-chic Priority in the Allocation of Scarce Resources in Different Sit-uations?” Joel Rich, Cong Ahawas Achim, Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 8pm, 973-736-1407

“Purim and the Persian Empire: An Historical, Archaeo-logical, and Geographical Per-spective,” Rabbi Yehuda Landy, Cong Etz Chaim, Livingston, 8pm, 973-597-1655

“Tefillah and You,” for women, Rabbi Aharon Ciment, Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, 8pm, 201-530-0043

“Connecting to the Inner

Meaning of Purim by Deepen-ing Our Connection to One An-other,” for women, Rebbetzin Te-hilla Jaeger, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8:30pm

“Emunah in Marriage,” for women, Racheli Miller, Cong Aha-vath Torah, Englewood, 9:30am, [email protected]

Thurs., March 10Deadline to Enter a Short

Film to Celebrate Jewish Heri-tage, spons by JCC Rockland, all genres—documentary, narrative, poetry, animation, clay-mattion, etc—are encouraged as long as there is Jewish content or theme, maximum of 10 minutes, on DVD or VHS for-mat, 845-362-4400 ext 175

America Eats for Israel Day, participating restaurants will do-nate 10 percent of the day’s reve-nue to Meir Panam, which works to eliminate poverty in Israel, in Teaneck: Burgers Bar, Chickie’s, Dougie’s, Mocha Bleu, Fish of the C’s, Nobo Wine and Grill, Poppy’s Bagels, Rabica, and Smokey Joe’s; in Elizabeth: Glatt Star Restaurant; in Highland Park: Jerusalem Pizza and Park Place; in Cherry Hill: Perlin’s

Vegetarian; in Livingston: Jerusalem Pizza and Super Duper Bagels; in Riverdale: Ginger Grill; for others: www.americaeatsforisrael.net

“Know Your Reputation…What Are My Capabilities? How to Build and Leverage Your Reputa-tion for Career Success,” for wom-en, Elese Tonelli, UJA Federation, Paramus, 7pm, 201-820-3952

Hamantashen Baking, for 6th grade girls, private home in Englewood, 7:15pm, 201-408-4495 or 201-568-1315

Jewish 12-Step Meeting, JACS—Jewish Alcoholics, Chem-ically Dependent Persons, and Significant Others, Jewish Family Service, Teaneck, 7:30pm, 201-837-9090, ask for IRA (Information and Referral) or 201-981-1071

Fri., March 11Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, schol-

ar-in-residence, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 6pm, 201-907-0180

Senior NCSY Oneg Shab-bat, private home in West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-736-1407

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residence, Cong Keter Torah, 10:30am; “Can We Sell Land in Israel to a Gen-tile?” 5:15pm, 201-907-0180

“The Mystery of the Second Chumash,” Rabbi Shasha Pecaric, scholar-in-residence, Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, 11:15am; “From Inside Queen Esther’s Mask,” 5:35pm, [email protected]

Bat Mitzvah Girls Learning Program, Rebbetzin Peshi Neuburger, private home in Bergenfield, 3:15pm, [email protected] Shabbat, March 12

Parent-Child Learning, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 7:15pm, 732-618-9473

Baking with Divsha, for girls in grades 2-3, Cong Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, 7:45pm, 201-837-2795

Cong Ahavas Achim of High-land Park Dinner, honoring Lori and Jonathan Caplan and Cheryl and Michael Kornfeld, Cong Aha-vas Achim, Highland Park, 8pm, 732-247-0532

High School Laugh and Learn, featuring stand-up com-edy, raffle, dinner, and dedica-tion of the new Bais Medrash, Elmora Avenue Shul, Elizabeth, 8pm, 908-355-4850

“Issues Facing Israel Today: The Impact of Recent Develop-ments in the Middle East, Diplo-matic Attacks from the UN, and the Iranian Nuclear Threat,” Yossi Siegel and Rabbis Steven Weil and Steven Pruzansky, spons by AIPAC, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8:15pm, 212-750-4110

Zayin Adar Melave Malka, honoring Rabbi Shmuel Tokayer, Dr. Herbert Ennis, and the memory of departed loved ones, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West

Orange, 8:30pm, 973-736-1407Comedy Café Night, fea-

turing Modi and Pete Dominick, Riverdale Jewish Center, 8:30pm, 718-548-1850 ext 111

Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls Scholarship Fund Dinner, honoring Dr. Howie and Paula Friedman, Abie and Dena Feigenbaum, Dr. Hillel and Linda Moed Cohen, and Shayna Gold-berg, at Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 8:30pm, 201-833-4307 ext 110

Jazzy Night of Wine Tast-ing, featuring West Hills Trio, must be 21, Cong Israel, Spring-field, 8:30pm, [email protected]

Wine and Cheese Tasting, must be over 21, with Jay Buchs-baum and Royal Wines, Cong Etz Ahaim, Highland Park, 8:30pm, [email protected]

“Jewnatra—Chairman of the Borsht,” comedy, music, wine, cheese, and other dairy delights, Cong Ahavat Achim, Fair Lawn, 8:30pm, [email protected]

Sun., March 13Daylight Savings Begins

Orientation for New Flag Football League, designed for yeshiva high school students, games to be held on Sundays in Englewood or Teaneck, private home in Teaneck, noon, [email protected], deadline to register is Sun, March 27

Deadline to Register for the Englewood Girls Spring Soccer League, for grades 1-4, Sunday mornings only, 201-803-2635 or 201-376-1948

Secret Synagogue Shopper: “You Don’t Know Me,” spons by the UJA’s Synagogue Leadership

Initiative, UJA Federation, Para-mus, 8:30am, 201-820-3904

Davening, Breakfast, and Bikur Cholim, at Daughters of Miriam, Clifton, minyan at 8:45am, [email protected]

Sort and Bag Food for the Rockland Jewish Family Service Food Pantry, for grades 6-12, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 9am, 845-362-4400 ext 173

“Make Evert Day a Mitzvah Day,” for sixth graders and their par-ents, Daniel Rothner, spons by Ar-eyvut, Cong Beth Chaim, Princeton Junction, 9am, 201-244-6702

Encounters Information Ta-ble for Purim, Shoprite, Livings-ton, 9am-9pm, volunteers needed, [email protected]

Explanatory Morning Ser-vice, Rabbi David Pietruszka, spons by the Jewish Learning Experi-ence, at Cong Keter Torah, Tean-eck, 9:15am, 201-966-4490

“Raising G-dly Teens in an Ungodly World,” spons by the OU and NCSY, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 9:30am

“My Dad and Me: Haman-taschen Bake-Off,”for fathers and children, JCC, West Orange, 9:30am, 973-929-2922

Purim Carnival, Riverdale YMHA, Early Childhood Gym Play Station, 9:30-11am; Crafts and Games, 11am-12:30pm; lunch, 11:30am; Children’s Costume Pa-rade, 12:30pm, 718-548-8200

Shomer Shabbat Cub Scout Pack 613 Rocket Derby, Cong Ahavat Achim, Fair Lawn, 9:30am, [email protected]

“Live a Life of Purpose and Passion: An In-depth Class on the 13 Ikrei Emunah of Yiddish-keit,” for women, Ayala Berney,

private home in Monsey, 10am, 845-356-0170

Purim Costume Gemach, donate a gently used costume and/or pick up a “new-to-you” costume, more than 100 costumes from infant to adult sizes, $5 donation to borrow, Cong Ohav Emeth, Highland Park, 10am-2pm, 732-572-9192

“Fun with Cookies and Cupcakes: Basic Cake Deco-rating,” for girls in grades 1-3, parve oven, Malya Goldberg, private home in Passaic, 10am, 973-246-5226

Israeli Self-Defense Seminar: Kapap (Krav Panim el Panim), for adults and teens 12 and up, includ-ing those with disabilities, Major Avi Nardia of Israel’s elite counter-terrorism unit, Yamam, Family Mar-tial Arts Academy, Highland Park, 10am-2pm, 732-296-1677

Sibshops, for children 7-12 who have a special-needs sibling, JCC, Tenafly, 10:30am

Nefesh B’Nefesh’s Lone-Soldier Program, Rabbi Yeho-shua Fass, for the more than 1600 Israeli soldiers who made aliyah without any family, private home in Edison, 11am, 732-777-0933

Boutique, spons by the JEC Elmora Ave Shul Sisterhood, at the Jewish Educational Center, Elizabeth, 11am-3pm

“Aaron’s Party under the Sea: A Musical,” for children, recalling Jewish stories, Palistage Youth Theater’s Traveling Profes-sionals, JCC, Tenafly, 11:30am and 2pm, 201-408-1393

Pre-Purim Games, Arts-and-Crafts, Entertainment, and Ice Cream, for grades 1-5, Elmora Avenue Shul, Elizabeth, 11:30am, 908-355-4850


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Amazing Purim Carnival, with Moon Bounce, Nerf Tag, Velcro wall, treats, prizes, children come in costume, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Or-ange, 12-2pm, 973-736-1407

Family Purim Carnival, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 1-3:30pm, 845-362-4400

Family Purim Carnival, with gyroscope ride, adventure surfing, rocky mountain climber, caterpillar slide, pony rides, DJ, face-painting, hair-braiding, food, and vendors, JCC, Bridgewater, 1-4pm, 908-725-6994

Simon Sings: A Jewish Holi-day Concert, with Howie Kahn, for toddlers-grade 2, Ben Porat Yosef, Paramus, 1:30pm, [email protected]

Purim Performance: “The Magical World of Yiddish Song,” Zalmen Mlotek and his children, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 2pm, 201-833-0515

Purim Carnival, Cong Netivot Shalom, Teaneck, 2-5pm, [email protected]

“Camp Siegfried and the Story of American Nazism,” Rabbi I Aizenberg, Holocaust Museum and Study Center, Spring Valley, 2pm, 845-356-2700

Purim Story Hour for Chil-dren with Special Needs, includes arts-and-crafts, spons by the Friend-ship Circle of Passaic County, at the Allwood Branch Library, Clif-ton, 2pm, 973-694-6274

Story Hour in Hebrew, for children 3-5, Shiri Wirtzler Kler includes activities, JCC, Tenafly, 4pm, 201-408-1427

Biblical Stories in Hebrew, for children 6-8, Zahava Streit, JCC, Tenafly, 4pm, 201-408-1427

Adolph H Schreiber Hebrew Academy of Rockland (ASHAR) Dinner, honoring Karen Jacobs, Dr. Joel and Beth Selter, and Rabbi

Leibel Chaitovsky, at New York Country Club, New Hempstead, 5pm, 845-357-1515

Friends of Lubavitch of Ber-gen County Dinner, honoring Yitz and Shani Norman, Mark and Deb-bie Rosalimsky, and Daniel and Carol Berlin, featuring comedy by Elon Gold, at the Woodcliff Lake Hilton, 5pm, 201-907-0686

Cong Shomrei Torah of Fair Lawn Dinner, honoring Sarah and Ed Gerstley, David Goldberg, and Carol and Harvey Granoff, 5:30pm

Cong Keter Torah Dinner, honoring Shari and Yossi Katz and Flora and Jerry Press, Teaneck, 6pm, 201-907-0180

Cong Tifereth Israel Dinner, honoring Charles and Nicole Seb-bag, Gavriel and Shira Giloni, Ozer and Deborah Herzog, and Eliezer Gorelik, Passaic, 6pm, 973-472-4996 or 973-773-2552

“How to Like the People You Love: Healthy Family Re-lationships,” Sarah Karmely, for women, Spa for the Body and Soul, includes desserts, beauty and well-being workshops, jewelry and ac-cessories vendors, Chabad Cen-ter of Northwest NJ, Rockaway, 6:15pm, 973-625-1525 ext 110

Chevra Kadisha Zayin Adar Seuda, Cong Beth Abraham, Ber-genfield, 7pm

“Proving Judaism: The Au-thority of the Senses vs the Au-thority of Reason,” Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo, Kehilas Bais Yosef, Passaic, 7:30pm, [email protected]

Music Concert, featur-ing Beatrice Long, piano; Steve Reisman, clarinet; and Howard Longman, piano, Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center, Liv-ingston, 7:30pm, 973-994-2620 or 973-994-0122

Mon., March 14Jewish Early Childhood Con-

ference, featuring “We’re All in It Together,” Gigi Schweikert, spons by the UJA Federation of Northern NJ’s Jewish Educational Services, at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hack-ensack, 8:15am, 201-820-3914

“Destination Torah: Different Paths of the Jewish Textural Tra-dition,” Rabbi Steve Golden, JCC, Tenafly, 9am, 201-408-1426

Purim Costume Super-store, Yeshiva Beis Hillel, Passa-ic, 11:30am-2:30pm and 8-10pm, 973-777-0735

Purim Story Hour, for children with special needs, includes crafts, spons by the Friendship Circle of Passaic County, Wayne Public Li-brary, 4:30pm, 973-694-6274

“Towards a Meaningful Life: Religion and Faith,” Rabbi Mendy Kasowitz, Chabad Center, West Or-ange, 973-486-2362; Rabbi Boruch Chazanow, Chabad House, Manala-pan, 732-972-3687, 7:30pm

“Heidegger’s Jewish Teach-ers and Disciples: Heidegger’s Life and Thought—‘Being and Time,’ the Disputation at Davos and the Nazi Inaugural Address,” Dr. Yoni Brafman, Riverdale Jewish Center, 8pm, 718-548-1850

Tues., March 15“Towards a Meaningful Life:

Religion and Faith,” Rabbi Boruch Chazanow, Chabad House, Manal-apan, 732-972-3687, 10am; Rabbi Michael Gurkov, Chabad Center, Wayne, 973-694-6274, 7:30pm; Rabbi Meir Konikov, Chabad of Fort Lee, 201-886-1238, 7:30pm; Rabbi Levi Azimov, Chabad Jewish Center, North Brunswick, 7:45pm, 732-398-9492; Rabbi Dov Drizin, Valley Chabad, Woodcliff Lake, 7:45pm, 201-476-0157; Rabbi Morde-chai Shain, Chabad House, Tenafly, 8pm, 201-871-1152 ext 112; Rabbis

Levi Shemtov, Yitzchok Dubov, and Hershel Weiszner, Riverdale YMHA, 8pm, 718-549-1100

Café Europa Purim Celebra-tion, for Holocaust survivors, with musician Jerry Najman, Holocaust Museum and Study Center, Spring Valley, 11am, 845-356-2700

“Purim: The Lottery of Life,” for women, Mina Glick, spons by Passaic Torah Institute Neve, private home in Passaic, 11am, 908-278-4059


Nechama Inc, for Jewish fami-lies who have experienced infant or pregnancy loss at any time in their lives, presented by Reva Judas, with recipes by Jamie Geller, Holy Name Hospital Social Hall, Tean-eck, 7:45pm, 201-692-9302

Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center Sisterhood Game Night and Mah Jongg Madness, at Teanacious, Livingston Town Center, 8pm, 973-994-2620 or 973-994-0122

“A Rabbi’s Letter of Advice to His Son: Iggeres HaRambam,” from a 13th century philosopher, Rabbi David Pietruszka, spons by the Jewish Learning Experi-ence, at Torah Academy, Teaneck, 8:30pm, 201-966-4498

Purim Shiur: “Adar to Nis-san, the Three-Month Journey of Redemption,” Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton, Passaic, 8:30pm

“Spiritual Challah Bak-ing Class,” for women, Mandana Bolour, private home in Engle-wood, 9:30pm, 201-871-1513 or 201-871-9761

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Wed., March 16“It’s All about the Grape,”

Prof Jonathan Golden and a trip to the Kosher Royal Wines Win-ery in Marlboro, NY, JCC, Tena-fly, 9:45am, 201-408-1457


Book Review Club: “Peo-ple of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks, facilitated by Lucille Schroeder, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 1pm, 845-362-4400

“Weather a Job Loss: Pre-serving Your Financial Future,” Richard Atkinson, includes draw-ing for a free financial consulta-tion, Jewish Family Service, Tea-neck, 1pm, 201-837-9090

Book Club: “Freedom” by Jonathan Franzen, facili-tated by Arlene Sandner, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7pm, 845-362-4400

Hamantaschen Baking Course, Elizabeth Kratz, CareOne, Teaneck, 7pm, 201-287-8511

Confidential Abused Wom-en’s Support Group, Jewish Fam-ily Service, Teaneck, 7:15pm, 201-837-9090

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “A Film Unfinished,” “Das Ghetto,” unfinished Nazi propa-ganda film of the Warsaw Ghetto, with Stuart Weinstock, Rockland Community College Cultural Arts Center, Suffern, 7:30pm, 845-574-4000 or 845-362-4400

“Towards a Meaningful Life: Religion and Faith,” Rabbi Mendy Herson, Chabad Jewish Center, Basking Ridge, 7:30pm, 908-604-8844; Rabbi Boruch Chazanow,

Chabad House, Manalapan, 732-972-3687, 7:30pm; Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan, Chabad House, Franklin Lakes, 8pm, 201-848-0449; Rabbi Ephraim Simon, Chabad House, Teaneck, 8pm, 201-907-0686

“Menschlachkeit on Main Street: Jewish Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Buying Local,” spons by Torah on Cedar Lane, Teaneck General Store, 8pm, 201-530-5046

“Women and Children First: Halachic Triage, Western Ethic, Neither, or Both?—Who Gets Halachic Priority in the Al-location of Scarce Resources in Different Situations?” Joel Rich, Cong Ahawas Achim, Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 8pm, 973-736-1407

Thurs., March 17Ta’anis Esther

Deadline to order Shmura Matza from the Shatzer Matza Factory, from Cong Ahavath To-rah, Englewood, 201-233-0310

Purim Costume Super-store, Yeshiva Beis Hillel, Passaic, 11:30am-1:30pm, 973-777-0735

La Leche League of Bronx/Riverdale, Mia Damond Padwa, preg-nant women, babies and small children welcome, healthy snacks, Riverdale YMHA, 9:30am, 718-543-0314

Hamantaschen Baking, Moishe House, Hoboken, 7:30pm, [email protected]

Fri., March 18Purim Costume Super-

store, Yeshiva Beis Hillel, Passaic, 11:30am-1:30pm, 973-777-0735

“A Taste of Shabbat,” for children 2-4 with adult, Aviva Kohl, JCC Rockland, West Nyack,

11:45am, 845-362-4400Purim Nursing Home Visits,

grades 8-12 distribute mishloach manot, and share gifts, stories, card games, and smiles, meet at JCC Rockland, West Nyack, noon, 845-362-4400 ext 173

Shabbat, March 19Mommy and Me, for children

ages 0-3, with a parent, Shabbat stories, games, songs, and Kiddu-sh, Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, 10:45am, [email protected]

Purim Puppet Show and Oneg, for grades Nursery-1, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 4:30pmMotzei Shabbat, March 19,

PurimAdult-Only Purim Party, Me-

gillah Reading, followed by “Abso-lut,” including food, “Magnificent Flavian” mind-reading, and Mas-querade Mania, spons by Chabad, Wayne, 7:45pm, 973-694-6174

Purim Night Party, for grades N-3, featuring Caesar the Magi-cian, Cong Rinat Yisrael, Tean-eck, 8pm, 201-837-2795

Purim Chagiga for Every-one, Elmora Avenue Shul, Eliza-beth, 8pm, 908-355-4850

Megillah Reading for Par-ents and Mad Science Show for Children, in costume, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 8pm

Megillah Under the Sea: Kid-Friendly Kosher Megilla Reading and Short Chagiga, for grades K-5, with a parent, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 8pm

Megillah Reading and Mas-querade, includes refreshments and hamantashen, Chabad Ventnor Shul, 8pm, 609-822-8500

Megillah Reading, Wine-Tasting, and Sale, Cong Etz Chaim,

Livingston, 8pm, 973-597-1655Megillah, Fun, and Fes-

tivities, Jewish Center of Tean-eck, 8:15pm

Megillah Reading, Purim Shpiel, Food, Fun, Games, Tzeda-ka Projects, featuring Ahd-D-Lo-Yadda Rockin’ Rabbi Asher Klein and his band, Cong Ahawas Achim, Bnai Jacob and David, West Or-ange, 8:15pm, 973-736-1407

Purim Chagiga, with mu-sic, food, games, costumes, raf-fles, and a prize for every child, Cong Ohav Emeth, Highland Park, 8:15pm

Purim Carnival, Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center, Livingston, 8:30pm, [email protected]

Gala Purim Chagiga, singers, actors, performers, Cong Darchei Noam, Fair Lawn, 8:45pm, 201-773-4080 or 201-376-6079

Sun., March 20, Purim“The 4 Ms of Purim: Megil-

lah, Mesiba (Seuda), Mishloach Manot, and Matanot La’Evyonim,” Jewish Center of Teaneck, 9am

Shacharit, Megillah Reading, and Dunkin’ Donuts, for grades 6-12, Cong Ahavath Torah, Engle-wood, 9am, 201-568-1315

Women’s Only Megillah Reading, JCC, West Orange, 9:15am, [email protected]

Purim Carnival, Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center, Livingston, 10am, 973-994-2620 or 973-994-0122

Purim Party, Chabad of Passaic-Clifton, Passaic, Megil-lah, 10am; Chai Tots Presenta-tion, 10:30am; “Eva the Clown,” 10:45am, 973-246-5251

Minyan Tifereth, a Shira Ha-



dasha-style Megillah reading, pri-vate home in Englewood, 10:30am, [email protected]

Women’s Megillah Reading, Deborah Wenger, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 11am, [email protected]

Shushan Purim Extravaganza, spons by Cheder N’Shei, YMHA, Clifton, book fair and other activi-ties, 11am-3pm; carnival for boys, 11am-1pm; show for boys, 1:45pm; show for girls, noon; carnival for girls, 1-3pm, 973-919-7178

Delivering Mishloach Manot Baskets to Hospitals, Shelters, and People in Need, spons by Rutgers Hillel and Tomchei Shab-bos of Highland Park, 11am-1pm, 732-545-2407

Public Megillah Reading, Iranian UN Mission, 633 Third Ave, at 40th St, Manhattan, noon, 212-828-2424

Family Purim Carnival, in-cludes characters, train ride, Moon Bounce, Double Slide, game booths, JCC, Tenafly, families with special-needs children, noon-4pm; all oth-ers, 1-4pm, 201-408-1484

Purim Palooza: Festive Char-acter Lunch, with Megillah reading, starring King Ahashveros (Mick-ey Mouse), Queen Esther (Hello Kitty), with Clifford the Big Red Dog and Captain America, wine tasting, face painting, costume contest, and Purim scavenger hunt, spons by Chabad at the Shore, at the JCC, Margate, 12:30pm, 609-822-1167 ext 138

Beth Aaron Boys Choir, Purim performance at CareOne, Teaneck, 2pm

Purim Megillah Reading and Seudah, Rutgers Hillel, New Brunswick, 2pm, 732-545-2407

Special-Needs Adult Purim Party, JCC, West Orange, 2pm

Purim Willy Wonka-Style in the Chocolate Factory, spons by Chabad Center of Passaic Coun-ty, featuring children’s concert by Bobby Doowah, chocolate-themed desserts, chocolate foun-tain, lollypop-making, and full buffet dinner, at Regency House Hotel, Pompton Plains, 5:30pm, 973-694-6274

Purim Mesiba, live music and dancing, Passaic Torah In-stitute, 6pm, 862-371-3186

Mon., March 21

First Day of the “Not Ko-sher-for-Passover Food Drive,” bring canned or dry non-expired, not-kosher-for-Pesach foods to the Riverdale YMHA food drive for City Harvest, through Fri., April 15, 718-548-8200

First Day of the Kosher-for-Passover Food Drive,” to benefit the Bronx Jewish Community Council, Riverdale YMHA, through Fri., April 8, 718-548-8200

“Applied Judaism,” Rabbi Steve Golden, JCC, Tenafly, 9am, 201-408-1426

Purim Party for Seniors, includes crafts and hamantaschen, JCC, Tenafly, 11:15am

Mini Mitzvah Makers, for children 2-6 with an adult, Tara Bernsweig, Sharon Kantrowitz, Elissa Koenig, Roberta Leitner, projects that help real people in the community, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 3:45pm, 845-362-4400

Celebrate Purim, for chil-dren 2½-5 years with adult, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 4pm, 845-362-4400

“Bully Secrets: It’s about the Bully, Not the Target,” Dr. Steve Wruble, The Venn Center, Ridge-wood, 7pm, 201-444-6824

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “One Day in September,” JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400

“Heidegger’s Jewish Teach-ers and Disciples: Heidegger’s Jewish Students—Hannah Ar-endt, Leo Strauss, and Emanu-el Levinas,” Dr. Yoni Brafman, Riverdale Jewish Center, 8pm, 718-548-1850

Confidential Divorce Sup-port Group, Dr. Carol Glaser, private location in Teaneck, 8pm, 201-833-8822

Jewish Speed Dating, spons by Rutgers Hillel, Rutgers Student Center, Room 115, New Bruns-wick, 8pm, 732-545-2407

“ADHD and the Brain: Cogmed Working Memory Train-ing, a Non-Medication Inter-vention for ADHD,” Dr. Steven Wruble, The Venn Center, Ridge-wood, 8pm, 201-444-6824

Tues., March 22Democratic NJ State Sen

Loretta Weinberg and Assem-blyman Gary Schaer, UJA, Para-mus, 10am, 201-820-3946

“Insights and Inspiration into Pesach,” for women, Tova Plotkin, spons by Passaic Torah Institute Neve, private home, Pas-saic, 11am, 908-278-4059

Purim Celebration, Cantor Mark Biddleman, YJCC, Washington Twnshp, 1pm, 201-666-6610

Euro Café for Teens and Holocaust Survivors, for grades 7-12, dinner and sharing stories, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 6pm, 845-362-4400 ext 173

First Meeting of the Erez Jewish Youth Wrestling League, for boys in grades 5-8, Torah Acad-emy, Teaneck, 6:30pm, 201-310-4184 or www.erezwrestling.com

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “Barney’s Vision,” AMC Theaters, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400

Book Discussion on “The Reliable Wife” by Robert Gool-rick, for those over 17, facilitat-ed by Sharry Friedberg, YJCC, Washington Twnshp, 7:30pm, 201-666-6610

Wed., March 23NJ Jewish Film Festival:

“The Tailor” and “The Yankles,” with director David Brooks and producer Zev Brooks, Bickford

Theater at the Morris Museum, Morristown, 5pm; gallery access, 6pm; reception, 7pm; reshowing of film, 7:30pm, 973-971-3706 or 800-494-TIXS

“Chicks with Sticks Knitting Circle,” hats for preemies, children with cancer, and IDF soldiers in Israel, private home in Highland Park, 8pm, 732-339-8492

“Shalom Bayis: Making the Most of Your Relationship,” for women, Rabbi Aharon Ciment, Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, 8pm, 201-530-0043

“The Relationship between Yehudah and Tamar,” for women, Chana Greenberg, private home in Livingston, 8pm, 973-422-0505

Israel Leadership Initiative: Meeting 4 IDF, Rutgers Hillel, 9:30pm, 732-545-2407 ext 403

Thurs., March 24Theater: “Dear Esther,”

by Richard Rashke, inspired by letters from students to Esther Raab, author of “Escape from Sobibor,” at the Goodwin Ho-locaust Museum and Education Center, Cherry Hill, 10am, 856-751-9500 ext 1249

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ers, those caring for an older adult who is physically frail or suffering from memory loss, JCC, Tenafly, 11am, 201-408-1450

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “Nora’s Will,” AMC The-aters, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “The Matchmaker,” AMC Lowes, East Hanover, 7:30pm, 973-515-1160 or 800-494-TIXS

“I Respectfully Disagree: Fostering Tolerance and Accep-tance in Our Diverse Jewish Community,” YMHA, Wayne, 7:30pm, 201-820-3946

Fri., March 25Facing History and Our-

selves: “Exploring the History of Antisemitism,” Montclair State University, Montclair, 8:30am-3-:30pm, www.facinghistory.org/workshops

Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, schol-ar-in-residence, Riverdale Jewish Center, through Shabbat, March 26, 718-548-1850

Shabbat, March 26Bat Mitzvah Girls Learning

Program, Rebbetzin Peshi Neu-burger, private home in Bergen-field, 3:15pm, [email protected]

Leadership Trial Shab-bos, for 8th graders, Elmora Av-enue Shul, Elizabeth, 3pm, 908-355-4850

Motzei Shabbat, March 26Parent-Child Learning, Cong

Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 7:30pm, 732-618-9473

Movie and Pizza Night, for grades 6-10, Riverdale Jewish Center, 8pm, 718-548-1850

“The Kettle and the Broom,”

a musical in Hebrew, JCC, Tena-fly, 8:30pm, 201-408-1427

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “Exporting Raymond,” with director Phil Rosenthal and producer John Woldenberg, Ra-mapo Cultural Arts Center, Spring Valley, 8:45pm, 845-357-6100 or 845-362-4400

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Bride Flight,” AMC Loews, East Hanover, 9pm, 973-515-1160 or 800-494-TIXS

Sun., March 27Davening, Breakfast, and

Bikur Cholim, at Daughters of Miriam, Clifton, minyan at 8:45am, [email protected]

Rosen Family Blood Drive, babysitting and snacks available, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 9am-3pm, 732-393-1018

Explanatory Morning Ser-vice, Rabbi David Pietruszka, spons by the Jewish Learning Experi-ence, at Cong Keter Torah, Tean-eck, 9:15am, 201-966-4490

Project SARAH (Stop Abu-sive Relationships at Home) Breakfast, honoring physicians who partner with Project SAR-AH: Drs Sema Bank, Ruth Bor-gen, Efrat Meier-Ginsberg, Wen-dy Hurst, Steven Schuss, Vickie Shulman, Lynn Sugarman, and David Wisotsky, featuring Dr. Susan Schulman, Cong Bnai Ye-shurun, Teaneck, 9:30am, 973-777-7638 ext 137

Shomer Shabbat Cub Scout Pack 613 Den Meeting: Com-passion, Cong Ahavat Achim, Fair Lawn, 9:30am, [email protected]

Shaimos Collection, Cloth-ing Drive to Benefit Israel, and

Seforim Sale, Cong Ohr Torah, Edison, 10am-5pm

Shul Fantasy Baseball Auc-tion, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 10am, [email protected]

Trip to Matzah Baking Fac-tory in Borough Park, spons by Rutgers Hillel, leave New Bruns-wick 10am, [email protected]

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Live and Become,” Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, 1pm, 973-994-2290 or 800-494-TIXS

Passover Sundae Funday, Lautenberg JCC, Whippany, 2-4pm, 973-229-2926

“Real to Reel: Holocaust Film,” facilitated by Carol Si-mon, Aidekman Family Center, Lautenberg JCC, Whippany, 2pm, 973-428-9300

Musical Event: “Now We Can Sing,” Holocaust Museum and Study Center, Spring Valley, 2pm, 845-356-2700

Art Circle for Children with Special Needs, spons by the Friendship Circle of Passaic County, Chabad Center, Wayne, 2:30pm, 973-694-6274

Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David of West Or-ange Dinner, honoring Susan and Shuli Moskowitz, Debra and Chaim Silverman, and Shira and Barry Hammerman, featuring mu-sic by Bnai Jazz, at the Renais-sance Hotel, Elizabeth, 5:30pm, 973-736-1407

Cong Agudath Israel of Highland Park Dinner, honor-ing Mr. and Mrs. Arya Eisner and Mr. and Mrs. Moshe Eisner, 5:30pm, 732-777-3383

Cong Ahavat Yisrael of Wes-ley Hills Dinner, honoring Micah and Rachel Katz, at the New City Jewish Center, 5:30pm, [email protected]

Cong Arzei Darom of Tea-neck Dinner, honoring Melissa and Donny Furer, at Cong Beth Shalom, Teaneck, 6pm

JACS Meeting, 12-steps meeting for Jews in recovery, Rabbi Steven Bayar, Cong B’nai Israel, Millburn, 7pm, 973-379-3811

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “La Rafle (The Round Up),” Lafayette Theater, Suf-fern, 7:30pm, 845-369-8234 or 845-362-4400

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Precious Life,” JCC, West Or-ange, 7:30pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS

“Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps,” Christo-pher Browning, spons by the Bild-ner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Douglass Campus Center, New Brunswick, 8pm, 732-932-2033 or 732-932-3345

Pre-Pesach Wine-Tasting and Sale, Cong Beth Aaron, Te-aneck, 8pm

Mon., March 28“Destination Torah: Different

Paths of the Jewish Textural Tra-dition,” Rabbi Steve Golden, JCC, Tenafly, 9am, 201-408-1426

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Pinhas,” and Lenin in October,” JCC, West Orange, 12:30pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS

Film: “Biloxi Blues,” dis-cussion with Stan Goldberg, JCC, Tenafly, 1:30pm, 201-408-1457


NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Mary Lou,” and “Anita,” JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS

Film: “Waltz with Bashir,” with Harold Chapler, JCC, Tena-fly, 7:30pm

“Heidegger’s Jewish Teachers and Disciples: Heidegger’s Effect on Modern Jewish Thought—Joseph Soloveitchik and Michael Wyschogrod,” Dr. Yoni Brafman, Riverdale Jewish Center, 8pm, 718-548-1850

Chabad Center of Passaic County Women’s Book Club: “Not Me” by Micheal Lavigne, private home in Wayne, 8pm, 973-694-6274

Rep Shelly Berkley (D-Nev), sponsored by NORPAC, private home in Englewood, 8pm, 201-894-0954 or 201-894-0107

Tues., March 29“Pesach Preparations for the

Body and Soul,” for women, Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim, spons by Passaic Torah Institute Neve, private home, Passaic, 11am, 908-278-4059

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “The Matchmaker,” JCC, West Orange, 12:30pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS

Rockland Jewish Film Festi-val: “The Yankles,” with director David Brooks and producer Zev Brooks, AMC Theaters, West Ny-ack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400

NJ Jewish Film Festival: My Father, Joe,” JCC, West Or-ange, 7:30pm; also Wed., March 30, 12:30pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “La Rafle (The Round Up),” JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm; also Wed., March 30, 12:30pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS

“Make Your Own Seder Traditions,” spons by Empow-ering Ruth and Mother’s Circle of the JCC in West Orange, at Glassworks, Morristown, 7:30pm, 973-929-2936

“Louis D. Brandeis: A Life,” Prof Melvin Urofsky, JCC, Tena-fly, 8pm, 201-408-1411

“Preparing for Pesach: Con-temporary Halachic Issues,” Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Young Israel of Pas-saic-Clifton, Passaic, 8:30pm

Wed., March 30Buy Israeli Goods to Counter

3706 or 800-494-TIXSNJ Jewish Film Festival:

“Prinz: The Courage to Speak,” Dr. Joachim Prinz, and “Brothers,” JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS

Fri., April 1Rockland Jewish Film Festi-

val: “Hava Nagilah” and “Sing-ing in the Dark,” Lafayette The-ater, Suffern, 1pm, 845-369-8234 or 845-362-4400

Rabbi Meir Goldvicht, Schol-ar-in-Residence, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, through Shabbat, April 2, 973-736-1407

Shabbat, April 2Carlebach Minyan, Cong

Darchei Noam, Fair Lawn, 8:45amMotzei Shabbat, April 2

Film: “The Matchmak-er,” JCC, Tenafly, 8:30pm, 201-408-1427

Surprise High School Pro-gram Extreme, Elmora Avenue Shul, Elizabeth, 8pm, 908-355-4850

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “Imagine This: The Mu-sical,” “Masada” in the Warsaw Ghetto, with producer Beth Tra-chtenberg, Ramapo Cultural Arts Center, Spring Valley, 8:45pm, 845-357-6100 or 845-362-4400

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “The Human Resources Manag-er,” JCC, West Orange, 9pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS

The Maccabeats in Concert, Cong Agudath Israel, Caldwell, 9:30pm, 973-227-3235 or 973-334-1872

Sun., April 3Shomer Shabbat Cub Scout

Pack 613 Den Meeting: Chessed Proj-ect, Cong Ahavat Achim, Fair Lawn, 9:30am, [email protected]

Matza Baking, Cong Beth

a Global Anti-Israel Boycott, the fifth annual Global Day of Action by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanc-tions (BDS) campaign; to counter this, think BIG (Buy Israeli Goods), http://www.buyiseaelgoods.org

Last Day for Pre-Pesach Wine Orders, Cong Beth Aar-on, Teaneck, www.bethaaron.org/winesale

Confidential Abused Wom-en’s Support Group, Jewish Fam-ily Service, Teaneck, 7:15pm, 201-837-9090

Rockland Jewish Film Festi-val: “The Loners,” Ramapo Cultural Arts Center, Spring Valley, 7:30pm, 845-357-6100 or 845-362-4400

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Ahead of Time,” photojournalist Ruth Gruber, JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm; also Thurs., March 31, 12:30pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS

Thurs., March 31“Teaching the Holocaust in

an Age of Genocide,” featuring Michael Berenbaum, Kean Uni-versity Holocaust Resource Center, Union, 8:30am, [email protected], deadline to apply is March 10

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “Grace Paley: Collected Shorts,” with director Lilly Rivkin, AMC Theaters, West Nyack, 4pm, 845-362-4400

Daughters of Israel Casino Night Fundraiser, glatt kosher buffet and Texas Hold’em Tour-nament, with prizes, Aidekman Family JCC, Whippany, 6:30pm, 973-400-3360

“UJA Ladies Night Out,” includes fashion, wine, cheese, dessert, and entertainment from Kenny B, at Neiman Marcus, Gar-den State Plaza Mall, third floor, Paramus, 7pm, 201-820-3921

Cooking: Passover Possi-bilities with Panache, Shawna Goodman, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, 201-408-1457

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “Women Unchained,” mod-ern-day agunot, with Leta Lenik, Susan Rosenbluth, Leslee Brown, Susan Aronoff, and Estelle Freil-ich, AMC Theaters, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “Gruber’s Journey,” Bickford Theater at the Morris Museum, Morristown, 7:30pm, 973-971-

Abraham, Bergenfield, 9:45amZvezdochka Russian/ Eng-

lish Toddler Play Group, for par-ents and children, JCC, Tenafly, 10am, 201-408-1437

“Israel and the World around It,” Bret Stephens, Community Synagogue of Monsey, 10:15am, 845-356-2720

Rosh Chodesh Brunch and Lecture, Synagogue of the Sub-urban Torah Center, Livingston, 973-994-2620 or 973-994-0122

“The Little Red Hen and the Passover Matzah,” Leslie Kimmelman, JCC, Bridgewater, noon, 908-725-6994 x210

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “The Yankles,” 12:30pm, and “Jews and Baseball: An Ameri-can Love Story,” 3:30pm, JCC, West Orange, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “100 Voices,” cantors in Po-land, AMC Theaters, West Nyack, 2:30pm, 845-362-4400

Bnot Pre-Pesach Boutique, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 5-9pm, [email protected]

Cong Beth Aaron of Tean-eck Dinner, honoring Menucha and Hillel Hyman and Meryl and David Rubin, at Cong Keter To-rah, Teaneck, 5:30pm

Rockland Jewish Film Fes-tival: “Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story,” with director Peter Miller, Lafayette Theater, Suffern, 7:30pm, 845-369-8234 or 845-362-4400

NJ Jewish Film Festival: “My So-Called Enemy,” with producer/director Lisa Gossels, and Melodye Feldman, of Build-ing Bridges for Peace, JCC, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-530-3444 or 800-494-TIXS Y



SundaysPractical Halacha Shiur: Kitzur Hilchos Shabbos, Rabbi Ger-

shon Tave, the Passaic Torah Institute, 8am, 973-594-4774Gemara Shiur, Rabbi Asher Bush, Cong Ahavat Yisrael of Wes-

ley Hills, 8:45am, [email protected] Englewood Girls Spring Soccer League, grades 1-4, MacKay

Park Soccer Field, Englewood, 9am, 201-803-2635 or 201-376-1948, begins April 3

Simcha and Israeli Dance, Jodi Senter, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, grades 1-2, 9am; grades 3-4, 10am, 201-384-0434

“Insights into Parshas HaShavua,” for men, Rabbi Solomon Weinberger, Cong Tifereth Israel, Passaic, 9:15am

“Jewish Learning Is for Everyone—Gan Class,” for special-needs children ages 5-8, JCC, Tenafly, 10am, 201-408-1459

“Duties of the Heart: Shaar Habitachon—Developing Trust in Hashem,” Rabbi David Bassous, Cong Etz Ahaim, Highland Park, 10am, 732-247-3839

Conversational Hebrew and Hebrew Reading Crash Course, for beginners, Rabbi Mordechai Baumgarten, Chabad Center of Northwest NJ, Rockaway, 10:15am, 973-625-1525 ext 202, begins March 6

“Bead with Me,” jewelry for girls, Chana Shiff, private home in Passaic, ages 7-9, 10:20am; ages 10-13, 11:30am, 646-837-2230

Karate Class, for girls ages 5-7, Sensei Dr. Walter Kraweic, pri-vate location in Clifton, 5pm, [email protected]

Erez Jewish Youth Wrestling League, for boys in grades 5-8, coached by high school wrestlers and coaches at Torah Academy of Bergen County, at TABC, Teaneck, 5pm, 201-310-4184

“Introduction to Talmud: Tractate Berachos—Dreams and Bless-ings,” Rabbi David Pietruszka, spons by the Jewish Learning Experience, at Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 8pm, 201-966-4498, begins March 6

“Gemara Rosh Hashana,” for men, Rabbi Yonah Lazar, Cong Tifereth Israel, Passaic, 8pm

Mondays“Understanding the Hebrew of the Torah: Finishing the Book

of Deuteronomy and Reviewing Genesis and Exodus,” Etia Segal, JCC, Tenafly, 9:30am, begins March 7, 201-408-1458

Purim and Pesach Songs and Arts-and-Crafts, for toddlers 20-30 months, private home in Teaneck, 9:30am, [email protected], begins March 7

“Insights into Bereshit,” for women, Leah Kohn, spons by the Jewish Renaissance Center, private home in Englewood, 9:45am, [email protected], 567-9777

Parsha, for women, Rabbi Ari Zahtz, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Te-aneck, 11am

“Advanced Intermediate Hebrew Reading: Finishing Second Kings with Selected Chapters in Ezra and Nechemia,” Etia Segal, JCC, Tenafly, 11:30am, begins March 7, 201-408-1458

Women’s Tehillim Group, for those in need of a refuah, library, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 7pm, 973-325-9014 or 973-731-7909

“Re Jew-venation: You Choose the Topic and Area of Inter-est,” Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 7:45pm, 201-833-0515

“Changing Habits—A Guide for the Ages: The Book of Le-viticus,” Rabbi Asher Herson, Chabad Center of Northwest NJ, Rock-away, 8pm, begins March 7, 973-625-1525 ext 227

Shiur, Rabbi Shlomo Krupka, Cong Etz Chaim, Livingston, 8pm, 973-597-1655

“Insights into the Weekly Torah Portion,” Rabbi Moshe Yas-gur, spons by the Jewish Learning Experience, at Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8:15pm, this class can also be accessed by phone, 218-862-1001, access code: 947046#, 201-966-4498

“Uncoupling: Coping with Divorce and Separation,” Judith Brauner, JCC, Tenafly, 8:15pm, 201-408-1456

New Classes this Month


Mazal TovMazal Tov to the Bar Mitzvah Boys: Eli Berg, Paul Grad, Binyomin

Kluger, Moshe Mermelstein, Isaiah Rappaport, and Raphael Shank-man; and the Bat Mitzvah Girls: Sharona Bellin, Danielle Burbank, Bracha Eisenstat, Rivka Daniella Friedman, Rachel Kraft, Sarah Lichtenstein, Adina and Elisheva Niderberg, and Naama Schwartz

Mazal Tov to Esther Levens of the Israel Unity Coalition on being honored, along with her late husband, Vrem Levens, z”l, with the Mordechai Award by the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art by the Johnson County Community College of Overland Park, KS

Mazel tov to Dr. Zevi and Elisheva Davidovics on the birth of their newest daughter, Yakira Eliora, sister to Gavriella Aliza and Adi Amalia, and to the proud grandparents, Shmuel and Judy Davi-dovics and Rabbi Menahem and Tzipora Meier, great-grandfather David Hollander, and all the happy uncles, aunts and cousins

Mazal Tov to Yigal and Tami Sklarin on the birth of a son. Mazal Tov also to the Sklarin family and grandparents Rabbi Menachem and Sarah Genack

Mazal Tov to Rabbi Ronald “Ronnie” Greenwald on receiv-ing NEFESH’s Esther Solomon Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Mental Health in the Torah Community Y

“The Centurions,” Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Cong Bnai Ye-shurun, Teaneck, 8:15pm

“New Perspectives on Familiar Words: Exploring the Prayer of Shem-oneh Esrei,” Rabbi Larry Rothwachs, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 8:30pm

TuesdaysConversational Hebrew, private home in West Orange, 9:30am,

973-325-3125Navi: Intermediate Level, for women, Shoshana Sperling, spons

by Passaic Torah Institute Neve, private home in Passaic, 9:40am, 908-278-4059

Parshat HaShavua, for women, Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler, Cong Aha-was Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 10am, 973-736-1407

“Every Treasure Has a Story: Inviting Holocaust Survivors to Share Their Personal Artifacts,” Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, personal appointments, JCC, Tenafly, 10:30am-12:30pm, 201-408-1426

Girls Connection: A Program for Enhancement of Social Skills and Self-Esteem, for grades 3-5, Chana Weitz, LCSW, private office in Monsey, 5pm, 845-362-1247

Erez Jewish Youth Wrestling League, for boys in grades 5-8, coached by high school wrestlers and coaches at Torah Academy of Bergen County, at TABC, Teaneck, 6:15pm, 201-310-4184

Shira Community Chorus on the Palisades, Matthew Lazar, songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, English, and Ladino, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, 201-569-7900

Gym Night, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, grades 4-5, 7pm; grades 6-8, 8:15pm, 973-736-1407

Beginners Hebrew: “Learn to Read in Time for the Pesach Seder;”, Mark Wagshul, spons by the Jewish Learning Experience, Torah Academy, Teaneck, 7:30pm, 201-966-4498

Parshat Hashavua, Rabbi Aharon Ciment, Cong Arzei Darom, Teaneck, 8pm, 201-530-0043

Gemara Shiur: Masechet Pesach, Rabbi Duvie Weiss, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 8pm

Gemara: Mesechet Brachot, Rabbi Daniel Fox, Cong Etz Chaim, Livingston, 8pm, 973-597-1655

Parshat HaShavua, for women, Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler, Cong Aha-was Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 8:30pm, 973-736-1407

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eur shoe store, because it sells BeautiFeel shoes, produced in a factory outside Tel Aviv.

The store’s owner, Yves Archambault, is not Jewish, but he insisted on the right to select his own inventory.

“There is no one who will tell me what I will sell in my store,” said Mr. Archambault.

Montreal, which boasts large Jewish and Arab communities,


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purchasing the very Israeli goods that are being targeted,” said Ms. Rothstein.

While Purim is before BIG day, she said, those who want to get a jump start on the initiative should certainly start while preparing for the holiday. Passover, which starts on April 18, could easily be a goal for March 30 shoppers.

Photos and VideosStand with Us has made

knowing where to shop and what to look for a simply mat-ter of visiting www.BuyIsrael-Goods.org. Not only does the website include a locator — so that participants can find local stores that carry Israeli prod-ucts — it also has suggestions ranging from books and gifts to clothing for the entire family and even furnishings.

BIG participants who go in groups are being asked to take photographs and videos of themselves purchasing Israeli products. Videos can be placed on YouTube, while photos and links can be emailed to [email protected].

“Make the photos and vid-eos positive, fun, and/or funny,” suggested Ms. Rothstein.

According to Ms. Roth-stein, the mission of Stand with Us, which has 12 offices and chapters around the world, is to “bring peace to the Middle East by education about Israel and challenging misinforma-tion that surrounds the conflict in that region.”

Israel’s MarketThe group’s “BIG” initia-

tive covers markets in which more than 75 percent of the Jewish population in the US resides.

But in the US, Israel’s supporters are hardly limited to Jews. According to a Ras-mussen poll taken at the end of February, despite the possible turn towards democracy in the

BIG on March 31 continued from page 1Arab world, most Americans want to end US foreign aid to all Arab nations. But more than half of Americans favor foreign aid to the US’s number-one recipient, Israel.

Only 20 percent of Ameri-can adults think the US should continue providing foreign aid to Arab countries in the Middle East. A full 58 per-cent say that aid should come to an end, while 21 percent

are not sure. On the other hand, 51 per-

cent of Americans favor con-tinued aid to Israel; 32 percent oppose it; and 17 percent are unsure.

Buy-CottIn January, a similar cam-

paign, calling itself “Buy-cott” was successful in Montreal, Canada, when an Iranian-born Quebec legislator, Amir Khadir, led a protest against the Le March- continued on page 42

has recently seen antisemitic vandalism at four synagogues and a Jewish school.

Producing CustomersWhen the picketing outside

the Le Marcheur storefront by Mr. Khadir and his supporters became uncomfortable, Mr. Archambault reached out to the Quebec legislature, prompt-ing legislators from across the political spectrum to purchase shoes in what was called a “buy-cott” of the store.

Marlene Jennings, for ex-ample, made a special trip to the store and walked out with a pair made in Israel which she described as “gorgeous.” Despite calls by Mr. Khadir to declare St. Denis St, on which Le Marcheur is located, “Israel Apartheid-Free Zone,” Ms. Jen-nings was one of 150 politicians and others who crowded into the store to buy shoes.

“Israel is a democracy. The shoes that are being sold are being produced legally in Israel, imported into Canada legally, and being sold at Le Marcheur legally,” she said.

Shopping BonanzaWhile most of Quebec’s

media criticized Mr. Khadir and the attempted boycott, some Montreal residents saw it as a boon for Israel.

“I believe Amir Khadir and his friends are being paid by the Israeli consulate to pro-mote Israeli products,” Nicole

Allio wrote to the Montreal Gazette. “Every time there is a demonstration against Israeli products, they sell out fast and shop owners rejoice.”

She pointed out that, in December, a store selling Aha-va products—a frequent BDS target—sold out all its products in two days. The headquarters for Ahava cosmetics and beauty supplies is a kibbutz near the Dead Sea.

“Now Montreal is aware that BeautiFeel shoes are both comfortable and fashionable, thanks to a promotion campaign worth more than $1 million,” she said.

Empty ShelvesIn Toronto, Hudson’s Bay

Company had a similar expe-rience when BDS tried to con-vince the store to stop stocking Ahava. The store issued a spe-cial announcement specifying that it would never succumb to political pressure to stop selling products.

The store’s statement was seen as resounding and some-what embarrassing defeat for the BDS movement.

The “buy-cott” in Canada continued, resulting in empty shelves in many stores af-ter buyers cleaned them out, purchasing wine, snacks, cos-metics, and hundreds of other Israeli-made products.

Cancelled MeetingIt is unclear if Jews through-

out the world will follow this lead, but in January, in France, when it was announced that the BDS movement had scheduled a meeting at the prestigious Ecole normale superieure in Paris, the school’s administra-tion cancelled it. According to some reports, the cancellation was at the behest of prominent French-Jewish intellectuals, Bernard-Henri Levy and Alain Finkielkraut.

Mr. Levy denied ever having “directly or indirectly pressured anyone to cancel a meeting in support of the partisans of the boycott of Is-rael.” In fact, he said, he would have been “more than happy” to debate BDS, because, he said, “we are faced here with a skillfully orchestrated but calumnious, bellicose, anti-democratic, and, in a word, despicable campaign.”

“One boycotts totalitarian regimes, not democracies,” he said, explaining that some boy-cotts are reasonable, such as against Sudan, “guilty of the extermination of part of the population of Darfur;” China, “guilty of massive violations of human rights in Tibet;” Iran, “a country whose lead-ers have become deaf to the language of common sense and compromise,” and “those Arab regimes whose citizens’ freedom of expression is for-bidden and punished, if nec-

essary, with blood.”“One does not boycott the

only society in the Middle East where Arabs read a free press, demonstrate when they wish to do so, send representatives to parliament, and enjoy their rights as citizens. Regardless of what one thinks of the policies of its government, one does not boycott the only country in the region, and beyond the region, where voters have the power to sanction, modify, and reverse the position of said government,” he said.

DeplorableHe insisted that regardless

of what BDS’s promoters and “useful idiots” say, “the only real, accepted, hackneyed goal of this boycott campaign is to delegitimize Israel as such.”

Their goal, he said, is “not two states, but two Palestines.”

He also disparaged as “de-plorable and indisputable” the “rather shady initiatives whose purpose is to mark Jewish—sorry, Israeli—merchandise with supposedly derogatory stickers intended for the at-tention of the vigilant French consumer.”

“Presenting the promoters of this discourse of hatred as victims speaks volumes of the current state of confusion—intellectual and moral—of a Western world one would have hoped had been cured of its worst criminal past,” he said.


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BDS in IsraelIn Israel, other tactics are

being used to combat the BDS campaign, which officials say has infected many sectors of the community.

In early January, the Pal-estinian Authority announced it was building a new city, to be named Rawabi, but would entertain bids from Israeli companies only if they commit not to purchase Jewish goods made in Judea, Samaria, the Golan, or eastern Jerusalem. Initially, Army Radio reported that as many as 20 companies had signed contracts with the PA, but the names of the com-panies were not released, pre-sumably for fear of retribution from mainstream, and nation-alist Israeli public opinion and purchasing power.

Finally, a few names ap-peared, among them Taldor Cables from Kibbutz Ein Dor, between Afula and the Sea of Galilee, and Ytong, a licensee

of the Itung Company of Ger-many, which manufactures in-sulated building blocks, but it was unclear if either had signed the controversial clause.

“Ugly”Ytong spokesman, Ye-

huda Swizer, said his com-pany “refuses to participate in any boycott of any Israeli product.”

Calling the boycott “ugly,” Mr. Swizer said it was up to the lawyers if his refusal to participate would nullify the contract with the PA. “All I can tell you is that we will have no part in any boycott,” he said.

Ytong CEO Sasson Har-Sinai agreed, explaining that the firm is “a deep-rooted Is-rael company that is a full partner is building the Land of Israel—in all parts of the Land of Israel.”

ManipulationDisassociating Ytong from

“any hint of a boycott” of Israeli

goods, he said the company had “fallen prey to a sordid manipu-lation by interested parties who are motivated by foreign interests that linked our name to boycotts of Israeli produce.”

He said that when Ytong applied to supply Rawabi, he was asked where Ytong’s instal-lations were located. He replied: Ashkelon and Pardes Hana.

“We did not realize that this innocent answer would end up tying our name to an ugly boycott of goods made in the settlements,” said Mr. Har-Sinai.

Ytong’s building blocks are widely used in Jewish commu-nities in Judea and Samaria.

At Taldor, the official re-sponse was “no comment,” but the spokesman added that Taldor is “part-owner of a factory lo-cated in the Golan Heights.”

Breaking the TreatyLikud MK Carmel Shama

HaCohen, who chairs the Knes-set Economics Committee, said

the government would insist that the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, which governs the area and has some supervision over the construction of Rawabi, release the names of the companies that caved to the demanded boycott.

“Every company that signs a political contract of that na-ture must know it will pay a price out of its own pocket,” said National Union MK Aryeh Eldad. “The US put an end to the boycott on Israel by pass-ing a law that whoever boycotts Israel will not be able to sign contracts with the US govern-ment—and that’s what Israel must do now as well.”

Israel’s Minister of Na-tional Infrastructure Uzi Lan-dau said in light of the PA’s call to boycott Israel, the eco-nomic treaties between Israel and the PA should be recon-sidered. The PA boycott is in violation of the Protocol on



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Economic Relations between the Israeli Government and the Palestinians, part of the Oslo Accords.

Unreciprocated MovesAccording to Mr. Landau,

Israel continues to abide by agreements calling for trade without borders between the Jewish state and the PA, giving PA merchants access to Israeli markets, allowing PA Arabs to work in Israel, and promoting initiatives to boost the PA’s econ-omy, despite the PA’s violation of the same agreements.

Israel also sends water, electricity, and gas to Gaza, despite Hamas’s takeover of the region. According to Mr. Landau, Israel does this out of “fear of the political backlash the state could face for violat-ing the Accords.”

He said he will appeal the government’s recent decision to issue an additional 5,000 work permits for PA Arabs. According to Mr. Landau, 11 percent of employed PA Arabs currently work for Israelis.

“Not only are we not in-sisting on separation between us, we are turning the other cheek and putting up with boycotts,” he said.

SanctionsHowever, he said, com-

panies that acquiesce to the PA’s demand to boycott areas of Israel will find themselves cut off by the National Infra-

structure Ministry. He slapped sanctions against

such firms and copies of the new directive were sent to Is-rael’s national water, electric, and natural gas authorities. Nearly half of all MKs, includ-ing Minister of Science Daniel Hershkowitz, have signed a petition calling for sanctions against firms agreeing to the PA boycott.

“It is utterly unacceptable for the Ministry of National Infrastructures to enter into any business contract with any company carrying out any work for the city of Rawabi that, for the purposes of their work there, undertook not to buy products from Israeli companies in the areas of Judea and Samaria,” said Mr. Landau.

Barring BoycottersAlso, in January, a bill was

proposed in the Knesset giving the government new powers to bar “boycott supporters and other haters of Israel” from entering the Jewish state.

If this bill were to pass, the Interior Ministry would be empowered to bar hostile activists, defined as anyone who works to boycott Israel, tries to place Israeli leaders on international trial for activities undertaken in the line of duty, or denies the Holocaust.

According to Likud MK Yariv Levin, who is working on the proposed bill with the

Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, the suggested legislation would apply to anyone who “incites against the country, carries out verbal or physi-cal attacks, organizes hostile activities, or tries to interfere with foreign diplomatic and trade relations.”

Nachi Eyal of the Legal Forum agreed, pointing out that those who act against Israeli citizens often call themselves “peace activists” or “human rights activists.”

“Right now, they are free to travel in the country without any restrictions,” said Mr. Eyal.

InvestigationsWhile most observers do

not expect Mr. Levin’s bill to move forward, the Knesset has already passed legislation to investigate the activities and funding of Israeli non-profit political organizations.

According to supporters of the new law, its purpose is to prevent money-laundering and infiltration of organiza-tions by international anti-Israel forces, especially those linked to terrorism.

“The law protects Israeli citizens from negative influence of interests that are opposed to Israel’s national good,” said the bill’s sponsor, Likud MK Ze’ev Elkin.

Two CommitteesTwo committees, one chaired

by Likud MK Danny Danon and

the other by Israel Our Home MK Fania Kirshenbaum, were origi-nally established to investigate radical far-left organizations, but, as a compromise with the leftists, have been changed to include all political groups, in-cluding nationalists. Mr. Danon’s committee will also look into the foreign funding of Arab land purchases.

Left-wing groups, many of which have long been sus-pected of receiving funds from the European Union and/or Arab countries, are actively opposed to the committees, whose establishment was sup-ported by an overwhelming majority in the Knesset.

According Ms. Kirshen-baum, who initiated the in-quiry, the left-wing groups’ efforts hamper Israel’s right to defend itself.

“The Knesset must get to the bottom of the issue,” she said.

Illegal?Despite the fact that right-

wing groups will undergo the same scrutiny, MKs from the far-left Meretz Party insist that the initiative is “illegal.”

“The extreme right is try-ing to silence legitimate criti-cism,” said Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz.

But support for the ini-tiative comes from Israel’s center as well. Kadima MK




Otniel Shneller likened the committees that will research organizations’ funding to “a democratic and Zionist fence against the use of human-rights claims at the ex-pense of Israeli patriotism.”

“These organizations apparently know why they are hiding the sources of their funding. I don’t know any West-ern democratic country in the world that would agree to have a foreign country in-vest hundreds of millions of dollars in its territory in order to undermine its values and create a new country,” he said.

National Union MK Michael Ben-Ari called the left-wing groups “traitors” who want “no less than to liquidate the Jewish state.”

“An IDF general flies to England and can’t get off the plane, because the information provided by these organiza-tions leads the British to issue a warrant for his arrest. We see how Peace Now has beautiful buildings and cars for low-level clerks. Who pays for all this? The enemies of Israel pay for this,” he said. “We have to find out about their funding and hit them where it hurts—in their pockets. We must pursue them in all legal ways, and get the Attorney General and Prosecutor to investigate them.”

Many GroupsThe groups and organizations ex-

pected to be investigated include Adallah,

a leading New Israel Fund grantee; As-sociation for Civil Rights in Israel, which also receives funds from the New Israel Fund; Ataja, an umbrella group of Arab organizations whose former head, Amir Mahoul, recently admitted to charges of espionage; B’tselem, which reports on IDF and government activity in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza; The Center for the Defense of the Individual (Hamoked); Doctors for Human Rights in Israel; Gisha; Human Rights Watch; New Pro-file, a self-described feminist pacifist group that encourages young people to avoid service in the army; Peace Now; The Public Committee against Torture in Israel; and Yesh Din.

Other groups that may be called include Breaking the Silence, which encourages IDF soldiers to speak to foreign groups to condemn the Israeli army; Machsom Watch; The Israeli Committee against Home Demolitions, which argues for Pal-estinians but not for Jews; and the Center for Alternative Information.

Adallah, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Doctors for Human Rights in Israel, Gisha, and Hamoked signed a letter to the Goldstone Commission ac-cusing the IDF of targeting civilians, mosques, and schools in Gaza during the Cast Lead incursion.

“The leftists seem afraid and they must have a reason for fearing this com-mittee,” said Mr. Danon, who said his committee will “try to find out who are the ones who arrange the riots at the Bil’in checkpoint, who funded the legal motions in the matter of Highway 443, and who fund the groups that roam the Galilee and purchase private lands with Saudi money.”

LyingIn the past few months, less than hon-

est actions undertaken by some left-wing groups have provoked ire even in the pre-dominantly left-wing Israeli media.

In January, an Arab from Jerusalem was charged with using photographs taken in 2006 to falsely accuse three Israeli police officers of beating him in 2008. In court, he testified that B’tselem and Hamoked assisted him, ensured his complaint received media coverage, and pressured Israeli officials to move the


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case forward.The attorney represent-

ing the police showed that the injuries the Arab said he had suffered were apparent on a disk taken two and half years earlier.

Pro-Terrorists’ FundsProblems for B’tselem

and Hamoked worsened when Ma’ariv reported that they and 11 other Israeli leftist groups receive funds from Arab pro-terror organizations. The report concerns a study conducted by the grassroots Israeli-nationalist group, Im Tirtzu, which tied the Israeli left-wing organizations to a Ramallah-based fund, the National Development Center. The NDC is closely linked to a fund called the Welfare Association (WA), which, in turn, receives money from the Islamic Investment Bank, Arab countries hostile to Israel, and the Al Aqsa Fund. In 2007, Al Aqsa, which also gives money to relatives of suicide bomb-ers who killed Jews, gave the WA $797,000.

According to Im Tirtzu, by receiving funding from these sources, the left-wing Israeli groups undertake to dispar-age Israel through propaganda and “lawfare,” the term used for the abuse of law and legal systems for strategic political or military ends.

According to the report, in 2008-2009, the NDC gave

the 13 left-wing Israeli groups about $2 million. Hamoked re-ceived $450,000 and B’tselem received $400,000.

Transferring MoneyThe NDC, which was

founded in 2006, is officially funded by the governments of Switzerland, Sweden, Hol-land, and Denmark. Its website says its assets, systems, and founding team came from the WA in Ramallah. According to Im Tirtzu, the WA grants aid to recipients who commit to “monitoring human rights abuses by the ‘Israeli Occupa-tion Force’” and conducting a propaganda and legal struggle against the “occupation” of Judea and Samaria.

Neither B’tselem nor Hamoked denied the report in Ma’ariv. They justified the funding by concentrating on the European support. B’tselem called NDC a “body for trans-ferring money” from the Eu-ropean governments.

“Four European nations that are friendly to Israel chose to give money to Hamoked through a pipeline knows as NDC. Any other presentation of this sim-ple fact is an underhanded at-tempt to depict the group in a bad light,” said Dalia Kirstein Hamoked’s director.

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman noted that, one day after Operation Cast Lead began, the New Israel

Fund sent out a letter calling to end the operation.

“When you look at all these facts, you ask: Why didn’t they protest Gilad Shalit’s situation even once? It is obvious that these groups have no connection to human rights,” said Mr. Lieberman.No Right-Wing Concerns

Although nationalist groups, too, will come under scrutiny from the new committees, they have not expressed the same concern as the left-wing orga-nizations. According to Im Tirt-zu, this is because “we are not funded by foreign governments or international funds.”

Some leftist groups say that is untrue, insisting that Im Tirtzu, for example, has received money from Evan-gelical Pastor John Hagee and Christians United for Israel, which, the leftists say, can be construed as receiving fund-ing from the US.

Looking to PolandLast month, a group of left-

wing academicians seemed to prove the point of those who say the investigations cannot start soon enough. Just as Pol-ish officials were about to come to Israel on a planned two-day visit, a group led by Prof Rachel Giora of Tel Aviv University, issued a letter demanding that Poland, which is about to assume the presidency of the European Union, take action against Israel for the Jewish state’s “crimes of occupation.”

The academicians demanded that Poland cancel a cooperation agreement with Israel to produce the Spike missile, which the aca-demicians claimed Israel directs against civilians. The academi-cians called on Poland to promote an “arms embargo” on Israel on behalf of the EU; send indepen-dent observers to monitor what they termed “the human rights violations perpetrated by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian terri-

tory, including East Jerusalem;” and disallow the activities of Is-raeli companies that operate in Judea and Samaria, such as the Egged bus line and Eden mineral water, which has operations in Poland as well.

Recognizing the ammunition they were handing to the MKs waiting to investigate groups like theirs, the academicians demanded that the Poles “be-gin to protest against the wave of racist legislation that was re-cently adopted by the Knesset,” a reference to the parliamentary inquiry into the funding sources of political groups.

Criminal InvestigationIn response, Kadima’s

Mr. Shneller addressed a letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, asking him to in-vestigate the letter’s signato-ries. “As a citizen who sees great importance in the right to free speech, I’m afraid that the legal system sets no clear boundaries which clarify how far one may go before harm-ing the interests of the State of Israel,” he said.

Recognizing that Ms. Giora, whose salary as a professor is covered by Israeli taxpayers, was essentially calling for a boycott of Egged and Eden, Im Tirtzu requested the Attorney General to open a criminal investigation against her. The group demanded that Tel Aviv University fire her.

Other BoycottsIn the past, Ms. Giora has

participated in groups demanding that performers boycott Israeli venues. She is usually unsuccess-ful, just as she was last month, when she demanded that British novelist Ian McEwan refuse to accept the Jerusalem Prize at the 25th annual Jerusalem In-ternational Book Fair.

Accepting what he called “a highly distinguished award,” Mr. McEwan said he was “honored



to join the backlist of writers who are previous winners.”

British Writers in Support of Palestine urged Mr. McEwan to reconsider, telling him that the book fair is organized by the municipality, which the writers called “a key institu-tion of the Israeli state and a major instrument in the illegal colonization of East Jerusalem” the general term BDS groups use for Jewish neighborhoods in southern, northern, and eastern Jerusalem where some 25,000 Jews live.

Mr. McEwan defended his right to receive the prize, not-ing that literature can serve as a bridge between people.

Polish-Israel FriendshipThe academicians also struck

out with Poland. During Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s trip to Israel, a rocket fired by terrorists in Gaza hit a house in Beersheba in the Negev. Hor-rified, Mr. Tusk told reporters, “Poland is not prepared to allow anyone to deny the existence of

Israel. Poland will not let these things happen.”

At a joint press conference, he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “You have a real friend in Europe.”

In Jerusalem, Messrs Tusk and Netanyahu signed a joint declaration saying that denial of the Holocaust and calls to destroy the state of Israel are absolutely unacceptable.

The declaration calls for strengthening cooperation between Israel and Poland on strategic affairs, the economy, defense, and academic research.

HardcoreDespite some setbacks, no

one expects BDS to disappear, which is why, in the US, Zionist Organization of America presi-dent Morton Klein supports the Knesset’s plan to investigate BDS’s proponents. Mr. Klein pointed to two polls last year indicating that a majority of Israelis found Peace Now’s activities damag-ing to their country.

“Clearly the Israeli pub-

lic believes they are serving something other than the health and vibrancy of Israeli soci-ety and institutions,” said Mr. Klein, who applauded the Is-raeli government for taking steps to investigate and “shine light on these groups’ funding and connections.”

The new Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, agreed. At the Herzliya Conference last month, as part of a panel entitled “On Criticism and Prejudice: The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Assault on Israel’s Legiti-macy,” Mr. Prosor said efforts should be made against “hard-core delegitimizers.”

“It’s important to out them, name them, and shame them so that respectable organiza-tions don’t coordinate with them. Our adversaries are crossing the red lines all the time, and we have to call it, because, if we don’t, we risk losing what we really stand for,” he said.

Characterizing the current

situation as “a battlefield,” he called for Israelis and their supporters to work together to “target the people who are trying to delegitimize us and demonize us.”

“This has become an in-tegral part of Israel’s national security,” he said.

Boycotting PeaceThis is also the central

theme of a new book, Boycotting Peace, by Fred Taub, founder of Boycott Watch and Divest-mentWatch. According to Mr. Taub, the “divest-from Israel campaign is about destroying Israel, not creating peace.”

“It is an effort to export the official Arab foreign policy to weaken and eventually bank-rupt Israel,” he said.

The book connects the dots, showing the direct connection between the BDS campaign and the PA’s rejection of an inde-pendent state for themselves as well as the UN Goldstone Commission. S.L.R.


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While some areas beyond Israel’s so-called Green

Line are stagnating, waiting for the Netanyahu government to end the de facto building freeze, another region is ex-perienced an unprecedented building boom. In the Golan Heights, there are no apart-ments for rent or sale.

“The wave of building is at a record high,” said Sammy Bar Lev, chairman of the Golan regional council in Katzrin, the region’s largest city, with a population of 8,000.

According to Mr. Bar Lev, there has been approval for more building, with a cur-rent project that will add 36 new family units.

In addition, he said, un-employment is very low. Lo-cal industry, which includes farms, a large successful win-ery, a bottled-water plant, and many boutiques has created hundreds of jobs.

The nearby ancient holy city of Tzfat in the Upper Galilee is also a source of employment.

No ExpulsionAlthough Golan residents

have been under the threat of expulsion for years, due to American-sponsored attempts to wrangle an Israeli-Syrian treaty based on the Jewish state’s surrender of the stra-tegic and water-rich area, the risk of a Gaza-style “disen-

gagement” has diminished in recent years.

First, there is little public sup-port for relinquishing the Golan, especially in light of the lack of trust in Syria’s sincerity in a quest for peace. In addition, the Knes-set has passed a law requiring a super-majority of the Knesset to approve any such evacuation as well as a public referendum on the issue, requirements that make a surrender of the Golan virtually impossible.

Mr. Bar Lev said the recent turmoil in the Arab Middle East makes the possibility of an agreement with Syria even more remote.

Part of the CovenantIsraeli devotion to the Go-

lan, called Bashan in the Bible, is based on the recognition that it is part of the Biblical ter-ritory promised to Abraham the Patriarch and the people of Israel for an everlasting covenant—the Covenant of Parts—recounted in Genesis 15. In Deuteronomy, Bashan is described as a refuge city.

According to author Vic-tor Sharpe, during the Biblical period of the Jewish Kings, a battle high on the Golan took place between King Ahab and the army of Aram.

“A Jewish victory occurred at the present site of Kibbutz Afik, which lies a few miles east of the Kinneret,” he said.

At the end of the Babylonian Exile and during the Second Temple period, Jews returned to their homes on the Golan, but the returnees were attacked by Gentiles, and Judah Maccabee brought his forces up to the Heights to defend them.

“At the conclusion of the Hasmonean period, King Alexan-der Yannai finally re-conquered the Golan and Jews returned yet again. They built communi-ties in central Golan, including the major cities of Banias and Susita, which formed part of the defense of the Golan,” said Mr. Sharpe.

Heroic BattleDuring the Great Revolt

of 135 CE, known also as the Second Uprising, residents of the Golan fought heroically against the Roman Legions.

“It was led by the charis-matic Shimeon Bat Kokhba, known as the ‘Son of a Star’ and a folk hero as great as Ar-thur or Ulysses. Some 10,000 residents of Gamla alone per-ished fighting against Rome,” said Mr. Sharpe, pointing out that some second-century CE Jewish coins, inscribed with the words “For the Redemption of Holy Jerusalem,” were found on the Golan after its libera-tion during the last days of the June 1967 Six-Day War.

According to Mr. Sharpe, in the succeeding Talmudic period,

Jewish communities flourished and expanded on the Golan. Archaeologists have found the remains of 45 synagogues.

“But Jewish life on the Golan largely ended after the defeat of the Byzantine army and the region descended into a long period of neglect when it fell under occupation by Ar-abs carrying the new banner of Islam,” he said.

Given to FranceJewish life returned yet

again towards the end of the 19th century, he said, when members of the Bnei Yehuda society from Tzfat purchased land on the Go-lan. In 1891, Baron Rothschild purchased approximately 18,000 acres in what is present-day Ra-mat Magshimim.

“The Jewish pioneers of the First Aliyah began to farm land they had purchased in the Horan region until the Turkish-Ottoman occupiers evicted them in 1898. Their land was then seized and, in 1923, the entire Golan was given away by the British to the French Mandate over Syria and Leba-non,” he said.

According to Mr. Sharpe, Zionist leaders had already de-manded the Golan be included within the new Jewish National Home because of its historic roots in Biblical and post-Bib-lical Jewish history.

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Letters to the Editor When the Media Forgets to Report Antisemitism

The press has been suspiciously quiet about the Jewish component in the heinous attack on CBS reporter Lara Logan in Cairo, Egypt. The NY Post, which did describe the brutal beating and sexual assault she sustained by a “mob of men,” neglected to mention, until a later report, the fact that while she was being attacked, she was called, “Jew, Jew” and accused of being a spy for Israel.

The Post’s Ashleigh Banfield made reference to the “violent death of Daniel Pearl,” in an article about Logan on Feb. 17, but failed to mention that one of the reasons for his beheading was that he was a Jew.

President Obama and the State Department ignored the an-tisemitic nature of the attack and simply called for the “account-ability” of the “thugs” and “anyone involved in violence during the demonstrations.” In their downplaying of the horror, one would think there was a street fight of some kind and some hoodlums lost control of themselves. This is a dangerous deception.

The group that attacked Lara Logan so brutally is not some fringe group of “animals.” They reflect the rantings of the Egyp-tian press which has been the most virulently antisemitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American in the Arab world.

If Egypt is to be considered an American ally, and if we are to bemoan the loss of the cold peace that Israel had with Egypt, let us consider just a few quotes from the Egyptian press:

“I advise the US, do not forget what happened to the Ma-rines in Lebanon, nor the bombing of the USS Cole Destroyer in Yemen.”

Columnist Bahjat Ibrahim in Al Akhbar, June 1, 2001. “The issue no longer concerns the Israeli-Arab conflict. The

real issue is the Arab-American conflict. Arabs must understand that the US is not ‘the American friend’”

Columnist Mahmoud Abd Al-Mun’im Murad in Al-Akhbar, August 26, 2001.

“At the WTC, thousands of Jews worked in finance and the stock market, but none of them were there on the day of the incident. Out of 6,000 killed, of 65 nationalities from 60 coun-tries, not one was a Jew!!”

Dr. Gamal Ali Zahran, chair of the political science faculty at Suez Canal University, in Al Ahram, October 7, 2001.

American lives are put at risk if the US government and media fail to tell the truth about the hatred and lies existing in the world of America’s so-called Arab “allies.” Let the facts—and the words—speak for themselves.

Helen FreedmanAmericans for a Safe Israel

New York, NY

Groggers on PurimIn Shushan many years ago, there was a Persian king,For beautiful young gals, this dreadful despot had a thing.He had a hefty harem, and he boasted of their beauty,But prized above them all was his Queen Vashti, a real cutie.To a drunken feast he summoned her, but Vashti wouldn’t come,A strong-willed dame, a feminist, but, frankly, pretty dumb!When Vashti balked at coming to the king when she was called,By order of Ahasuerus, from his palace she was hauled.The vain and vixen Vashti vanished from the Persian scene.How fortunate for Jews, for then dear Esther became queen.

#Now every Jewish person knows, be he scholar or just layman,The wicked machinations of the hateful, horrid Haman.He was consumed by jealousy of Torah-true Mordechai,Since Mordechai wouldn’t bow to him, Haman felt he ought to die.And if that weren’t bad enough, Haman sought to kill all the Jews,The scenario was scary, all our forebears sang the blues.Then Mordechai told Esther: “Our people’s fate rests in your hands,“The situation is dire, and your attention it demands.“If you refuse to get involved and refuse to please our case,“Then help will come from somewhere else, and the Lord will bring a “‘nase.’”

#So Esther bit the bullet; Haman’s wicked plot exposed,The king had Haman hung up high, no appeals, the case was closed.Each year when Purim comes around, Jewish people do rejoice,Our groggers drown out Haman’s name with one collective voice.But truth be told, what glee I’d feel, what overwhelming joy,If with the grogger’s twist, our hateful foes we could destroy.Ahmadinejad would head the list, but there are many others,Their hatred of the Jewish folk unites them as blood brothers.Alas, my wish is fanciful, their fate rests in G-d’s hands,Our groggers can’t wreak punishment; they won’t follow our commands.

#So we’ll just keep on making noise; we’ll shout and yell and boo,Until G-d seeks retribution, our noisy groggers will have to do.But if, perchance, Israel is forced to use a nuclear missile,Why not put a grogger on its warhead? “Good riddance!” it can whistle.

Ellen WassermanNew Rochelle, NY

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to Jewish US soldiers stationed in the US or abroad. If anyone is interested in sponsoring all or part of this, in memory or in honor of someone, please contact us at 845-354-7763 or 845-354-7641; or [email protected] or [email protected].

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Mishloach Manot and a Bridal ShowerOne of the main aspects of our program at Machon Maayan is

chessed. Earlier this year we spent one of our Thursday Seminars expe-riencing what life is like for those who, after the “disengagement,” were thrown out of their homes in Gush Katif. As a school, we were inspired. We decided to take on two projects to make their lives a little easier. The first will be a Shushan Purim carnival, held in the town of Nitzan.

For the second project, the Machon Maayan girls will be throwing a bridal shower for one of the many young women who, due to the “disengagement,” can’t throw her own.

To help raise money for these two events, we are selling mishloach manot. You can order directly from us at [email protected].

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Good for the Egyptian Goose, Good for the Israeli GanderThe Israeli government should make it clear that, if Egypt

abrogates the peace treaty with the Jewish State, as recently threatened by prominent Egyptian figures, Israel will also cancel the treaty, rescind its concessions under it, and consider reoc-cupying the Sinai desert.

Israel relinquished the Sinai, together with its precious oil fields and airbases, and uprooted 5,000 Jews living in Yamit under the terms of the treaty. It is a contractual undertaking by both sides and requires the faithful performance of all treaty obligations.

It is unthinkable that Egypt can retain all the concessions made under its terms by Israel, while Israel simply loses all it had been promised by the treaty—peace and recognition.

Egypt cannot renounce the peace treaty without automati-cally forfeiting whatever it gained by it. Israel should be making this crystal clear to those in authority in Cairo.

If Egypt rescinds the treaty, the US should end the $2 bil-lion in aid it gives Egypt under it. By doing so, Israel and the US may play a valuable, stabilizing, and restraining influence on Egypt. By showing that significant negative consequences could flow from Egypt abrogating the peace treaty, Israel and the US would reduce the likelihood of Egypt doing so.

Morton A. KleinZionist Organization of America

New York, NY, 10016Middah of the Month Update

At JEC Elementary School in Elizabeth, we’ve been very busy pursuing our Shmiras Halashon goals. We are watching what comes out of our mouths—e.g., negative comments about others, negative comments to others, and inappropriate speech in general.

Children have spent their lunch periods completing forms with what they were about to speak, and how they withheld the negativity and instead turned their conversations into positive communication. As a student makes submissions, he or she is able to move up the ranks of the Shmiras Halashon Patrol.

Some of the children have already graduated from rookie status to officer; there are even a few who have moved up to the rank of sergeant.

We can’t wait to see how many more students will scale the ranks!

Jeff KimmelWest Orange, NJ

No Takeover by Terror GroupsIt is imperative that the world see the US as unanimously

opposed to any takeover of Egypt or any other sovereign na-tion by the Muslim Brotherhood or any other terror-aligned or-ganization. We must not forget that we are a world leader, and even though world media and even some of our own may seem against our own country, the people of the world still see us and perceive us as the land of the free and the land of opportunity. Why else would decent, hardworking families want to come here to escape their totalitarian regimes?

Our nation was built on immigrants. If their perception of us changes, why would they consider coming here in the first place?

The US Government must come out very strongly against such wanton takeovers by extremist groups who would think nothing of using their “legitimized status” to form connections here which would enable them to influence our policies, weak-ening us and convincing us to become a target.

But the reasons for this request far outweigh the need to at-tract new citizens. If we, by our actions or inactions, show that we favor, or simply do not oppose these terror organizations, then what will happen to the will of people all over the world who believe in the rights of women or minorities? All the prog-ress we’ve made as a society over the last 45 years will come to naught. All the sacrifices made at home and on the battlefields will have \meant nothing.

Are we giving up? Are we saying to the world, “We just can’t fight the terrorists; democracy is just too big an ideal to fight for.”

Are we just going to roll over and let them push us all the way to a medieval society ruled by warlords and religious zealots? Does separation of church and state have no meaning anymore?

We ask, we beseech, and we demand that you take the mantle of leadership in speaking with a loud voice against such tyranny.

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“But Jewish liberation of the ancestral land was not possible until Israel was forced to fight for its very survival during the Six-Day War,” said Mr. Sharpe. “Those of us who have visited the Upper Galilee and the Golan cannot but be struck by the strategic value to Israel of control of the Heights. The Golan’s steep es-carpment rises some 1,700 feet and overlooks Israel’s fertile Hula Valley and the beautiful harp-shaped lake called the Kinneret.”

Constant ThreatMr. Sharpe noted that the Golan is

a mere 60 miles from Haifa. Before the Six-Day War, the heights were used exclu-sively by hostile occupying Syrian forces as an artillery site from which to bombard Israeli farmers in the valley below as well as fisherman on Lake Kinneret.

“The slopes of Mount Hermon, the highest point in the region, are the pres-ent-day eyes and ears of Israel,” he said.

It was not until 1980 that the Golan Heights were officially annexed to Israel. “But it was then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who first offered to give the Heights away in 1994,” he said, noting that, since then, Is-raelis have “winced at the wrenching offers made by subsequent Israeli governments and

politicians who declare publicly their desire to give the entire Heights to the Syrians in return for a delusional peace.”

Polls Show NoIn fact, polls consistently show that the

overwhelming majority of Israelis were and are adamantly opposed to any such exchange.

Mr. Sharpe recalled that five years ago, the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group (ISG) suggested the US could emerge from the Iraqi imbroglio if Israel were to give the Golan Heights away to Syria.

“This, it was believed by the ISG, would bring Syria into responsible nationhood and wean her away from support of the ‘insurgents’ attacking Iraqi and other US assets,” he said, adding that this was before the successes of the “surge,” initiated by General David Pe-traeus, made such a plan moot.

Delusional ActNow, it is President Barak Obama’s

turn to eye diplomatic relations with Syria as a way, he believes, of distancing the Arab dictatorship from its alliance with Iran. Mr. Sharp called it “yet another delusional act by the current US President.”

Unfortunately, he said, “Obama’s car-rot to the Syrian dictator will inevitably be

the Golan Heights, and brutal pressure will no doubt be applied on Israel to relinquish yet more of its Biblical patrimony.”

The pressure Mr. Sharpe expects might involve bringing down the Israeli radar stations on the Hermon Massif to the valley floor below, which, he said, would seriously degrade any warning of future hostile Syrian attacks. It would also hamper Israel’s ability to prevent attacks by Syr-ian forces or Hezbollah, which has been strengthened by Syria and Iran after the two recent wars in southern Lebanon.

Trusting Syria?“Israelis have been ill served by too

many of their leaders. The fact that any Is-raeli politician or military leader would even contemplate blowing away both ancestral and strategic territory is a recurring blight the Jewish state can ill afford,” he said.

He considers trusting any Arab nation, but especially the Iranian-backed Syrian regime, “truly mind boggling.”

“Besides which, it would be a be-trayal of those first Jewish ancestors on the Golan who long ago ‘built sheepfolds for their cattle and cities for their little ones,’” he said. S.L.R.

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