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Myths and memes on the Middle EastlThe backstory is
convoluted, as is often
the case in comic bookmythology. Briefly,
though, the title
character of Angela,
Queen Of Hel, meets
her long-dead grand-
father, Bor, father of
Odin.
Bor turns out to be
a deeply unpleasant
individual, in the
words of BleedingCool.
coms Rich Johnston,
so rather than transcribe his dialogue, the comic book blacks out the actual words and
instead puts a summary in brackets. Such as: [A LOT OF MISOGYNIST FILTH]
And in the speech balloon of interest to this page, [UNSOLICITED OPINIONS ON
ISRAEL???]
Hmm.
Okay, were not exactly sure what to make of it.
But comic books fans with time on their hands knew what to make of it: a series of
memes in which unsolicited opinions on Israel play a key role in comic book events.
Just for the record, Professor X and Bane: Whether youre a superhero or a supervillain
or even a cranky Norse god, we want to know what you think about Israel. Consider your
opinions hereby solicited. LARRY YUDELSON
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OPINION ............................................................18
COVER STORY ................................................24
HEALTHY LIVING
& ADULT LIFESTYLES ..................................33
DVAR TORAH ................................................42
ARTS & CULTURE ..........................................43
CALENDAR ......................................................44
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ................................46
GALLERY ..........................................................47
OBITUARIES ....................................................49
CLASSIFIEDS ..................................................50
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NY FASHION WEEK
Jewish prayer shawlgets moment of glamlHas a tallit become a fashion
statement?
An unidentified mens fashion
enthusiast was recently spotted
wearing a real tallit not
one of the faux H&M ones outside a Tommy Hilfiger event
in Manhattan, Racked reported
last week.
Vogue photographer Phil Oh
captured the New York Fashion
Week: Mens participant
wearing a black wool coat and
a black beanie to go with the
dark-striped prayer shawl.
The tallit has been an inspiration
for retail fashion for a long time.
Last month, H&M offered a near-
tallit scarf; later, it apologized. The
company also sold a tallit-esque
poncho back in 2011. Old Navy had a
similar cardigan last year.
But real Jewish prayer gear hitt
the fashion circuit in New York n
to mention the webpages of Vogu
seems like a new development.
GABE FRIEDMA
lAttempted genocide.
Binge drinking. Royal
concubines. Assassina-
tion plots. Inter-ethnicbloodshed. Clearly, the
Book of Esther has all
the makings of a won-
derful childrens holiday.
And with Purim barely
a month away, we bring
you a page from My
Giant Purim Fun Book.
It came to our attention
when it was posted
to the WTF section of
Reddit.com.
A friend from New
Jersey found it in a store
called Amazing Savings
in their Jewish holiday
aisle, explained the user
who posted it.
Her 5-ish-year-old daughter found
it actually, asking her
what was going on in
the picture. She said she
jokingly replied with Im
not sure .... Hey, whats
that glittery thing over
there?!
The best comment,
though, came from a user posting
as Nyawk: I can say for a fact, being
raised Christian, that there are coloring
books with a near naked guy nailed to a
cross. Beat that. LARRY YUDELSON
Hanging Purim-styleon the coloring book shelf
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and after the Olympics.Glickman went on to
be a famous and reallygreat sportscaster. As forStoller, I say this whilemost Wikipedia entriesare uneven, his is verywell-written and sourced so Google Stoller andread it for much moreinfo on him. It containsan excellent section onGlickmans and Stollerstreatment at the Games.
JAMESBURROWS,75, is often calledthe best TV sitcom
director of all time; onSunday, February 21, at 9p.m., NBC will broadcasta tribute to him. Most of
the cast of Friends isexpected to appear onthe show, including LISAKUDROW, 52, andDAVIDSCHWIMMER, 49.Burrows is the son of thelate composer/writerABEBURROWS(Howto Succeed in BusinessWithout Really Trying).Jim Burrows, a ten-timeEmmy winner, co-creat-ed and directedCheers. He alsodirected dozens of othergood sitcoms, includingFriends and Big BangTheory. Still active, hejust directed his 1000thTV episode.
N.B.
Jeremy Ferdman
AT THE MOVIES:
Race depictscareer of
Jesse Owens
James Burrows
Lisa Kudrow David Schwimmer
Race is the first
dramatic film
about Jesse
Owens, the great
African-American track
star who won four gold
medals at the 1936
Olympics, which were
held in Nazi Germany.
The film covers Owens
college career, hisdifficult time as a
movement to boycott
the Games grew in the
United States, his
performance at the
Games, and the bench-
ing of the Jewish
members of the U.S.
track team. I havent
seen the film, so I dont
know how it covers a
couple of big myths
about the Games first,
that Hitler snubbed
Owens after his wins
because Owens was
black (didnt happen),
and that Owens symboli-
cally won the Games by
establishing that blacks,
who the Nazis regarded
as sub-humans, could
beat the Nazi master
race. While reasonable
people could agree with
the latter point, the Nazis
shrugged off Owens
wins. Overall, the Games
were a great propaganda
coup for the Nazis
Germany won the most
medals and the film of
the Games, Olympia,
directed by the evil
genius Leni Riefenstahl,
greatly aided the Nazis
image.
An American boy-cott of the Games washeaded off by OlympicCommittee head Av-ery Brundage, an odi-ous anti-Semite who isplayed by Jeremy Irons
(who plays odious verywell). As shown in thefilm, at the last minute heordered the head of theAmerican track team toreplace two Jewish run-ners (MARTYGLICKMANand SAMSTOLLER) ona four-man relay teamwith two non-Jews. Themotive was clear notto embarrass Germanyby having its team loseto two Jews after losingto Owens in four events.Of course, this motivewas denied at the timewith absurd excuses,but the evidence wasso clear that in 1998 theU.S. Olympic Commit-tee awarded a specialmedal to Glickman andStoller by way of apolo-gy. (JEREMYFERDMAN,29, a Canadian lands-man with a lot of small-ish acting credits, playsGlickman.) By the way,Stoller and Owens, bothOhio natives, frequentlycompeted in high schooland college. Owens wonevery race but one, butthey were friends before
The fallout continuesfrom Gibson scandalHeres a karmic footnote to an old scandal. No
doubt you will recall that back in 2006, Mel Gibson
was arrested for drunk driving by Los Angeles Cou
deputy sheriff JAMESMEEand Gibson said to Ofi
Mee, F-cking Jews... the Jews are responsible for al
wars in the world. Are you a Jew? (Mee is Jewish.)
Gibson was friends with Lee Baca, then head of the
County Sheriffs ofice, and many suspected that Mwritten report of Gibsons behavior and statements
put into a vault at Bacas orders. The report was lea
to TMZ, and Mee was suspected of doing the leakin
but he denied it. However, Mee was on the departm
bad list, and he was ired in 2011 for allegedly violat
department rules during the arrest of a speeding m
ist. This iring was overturned in September 2015 an
he was reinstated with full back pay. Mee had hardl
write-ups before the Gibson arrest, and his lawyer
his iring was payback by Baca and others. As for G
his career has never recovered, and Baca, no longe
sheriff, was sentenced to six months in jail on Febr
ary 10 after pleading guilty to charges of lying to the
about county jail conditions in 2013.
James Mee
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached [email protected]
arent the birds frozen socialistsArent the snowclouds blocking the airfieldSocial Democratic appearances?
From a poem that Allan Ginsburg wrote in 1986 about Burlington, Verm
when Democratic (well, actually Independent, but whatever) preside
candidate Bernie Sanders was the towns mayor and the poets clear inspira
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A lifes journeyRemembering Vera Greenwald of Presov, Vineland, Milford and TeaneckJOANNE PALMER
Vera Greenwald of Teaneck, who
died at 78 on February 2, knew
all about making the most of
almost anything. The little girl
who hid in the woods with her parents
while the Nazis rampaged became a teen-
ager on a chicken farm in Vineland and
then grew up to become a Jewishly obser-
vant young wife and mother in a part o f
Pennsylvania where there were almost no
Jews.
Its not surprising that when she began
her career selling real estate, many yearslater, in Bergen County, her ability to read
people and size up situations, learned over
the course of her eventful life combined
with a kindness that may well have been
inherent to her helped her as she helped
shape Jewish Teaneck.
Vera Goodman was born in 1937 into
a large and flourishing Jewish family in
Presov, Czechoslovakia she was her
parents irst child, and until the war had
ended and theyd found a new home in
the United States, she was their only child.
Her grandfather was a successful, chari -table, and highly respected businessman
who owned a lumber and coal business;
her father worked for his father, eventu-
ally struck out on his own in the same busi-
ness, and flourished.
When the war came, almost all of Veras
parents siblings were murdered; one of
her fathers sisters had gone to the United
States before the war, a fact that was to
prove vitally important later.
When the Nazis began to coniscate
Jewish-owned businesses, the Goodmans
decided that they did not want the Nazis
to beneit from theirs, Veras son, Joel
Greenwald of Englewood, said. Instead,
they gave everything away; then they
headed for the forest, which was wild and
forbidding, but safer than home.
My mother spent about 3 1/2 years
of the war hiding in the woods with her
parents, Mr. Greenwald said. Out of the
90,000 or so Jews in Slovakia, roughly
5,000 survived, and very few of them werechildren.
My mother and her parents hid in a
makeshift bunker with 26 other Jews,
none of them children, but they soon had
to leave. The Nazis were on their trail, and
they burned down the bunker, he contin-
ued. They eventually came to another
bunker, which housed 46 people , and
they remained there for several months.
My mother was the youngest. This all hap-
pened from 1942 to 1945, so my mother
was about 4 1/2 to about 7 1/2. There also
were many Russian partisans who roamed
the woods. Once, they warned everybody
to run away. My mother ran into the woods
with her parents, and they esc aped, but
most of the other people in the bunkerswere caught and sent to the camps.
The family suffered many close calls and
escapes. With the help of the Russians,
my mother and her parents climbed over
the frozen snow-capped mountains. My
grandmother was able to locate a couple
in a village they came to who had no chil-
dren, and they took them in.
At one point, my grandfather was out-
side, helping his rescuer chop wood, and
a group of Germans drove by with a hos-
tage. The hostage recognized my grand-
father from the forest. They locked eyes,
and Mr. Goodman knew he was in danger.
Later, the hostage denounced him, and
the Germans announced that a German
family was housing Jews and they would
be shot if they were caught. The Germans
surrounded the house, but my mother
and her parents escaped through the back
door into the woods. My mother remem-
bered that.
Mr. Greenwald thinks that the family
who saved his mother survived, because
there no longer were any Jews in the
house. In fact he thinks that his mother
stayed in touch with that family for years,but the nightmare collage of his mothers
Holocaust memories makes it impossible
for him to be sure. A lot of this stuff came
to me piecemeal, he said.
The Goodmans found the survivors of
other bunkers in the woods, and joined
forces, but there was no food, just scraps
of garbage. They started to starve, Mr.
Greenwald said. For a few months, they
lived off rose hips.
There are more horror stories. Once,
Mr. Greenwald said, his mother and her
parents hid behind one tree. A few feet
away, a man and his grown daughter hid
behind another tree, but they wer
tured. My mother remembered the s
of screaming and of gunire and e
sions, he said.
Ninety-ive percent of Slovakian
died but she and her parents surv
Vera Goodman had not yet turned 8
old.
Eventually, a Russian appeared an
them that the war was over, gave
bread, and told them where to me
Russian army.
Mr. Greenwald doesnt have a details about his mothers postwar t
Europe he does know that for a ye
went to school in Prague but can p
the story in 1947, when she and he
ents, sponsored by her fathers siste
a Swedish ship called the Gripsholm
the Atlantic. Once in the United Stat
family settled in Vineland, where he
ents, like many others in that largel
ish town, owned a chicken farm.
sister, Eva who is now Eva Nordh
of Del Ray, Florida, and Suffern, N.Y.
born in Vineland, and Vera went t
school there.
Vera Greenwald recently, and with her younger sister, Eva, on the family chi
farm in Vineland.
My mother raninto the woods
with her parents,and they
escaped, butmost of the
other people inthe bunkers werecaught and sent
to the camps.
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After being in this country for four years, my
mother won an American Legion statewide essay
contest on what it means to be an American, Mr.
Greenwald said. She also learned English, which she
spoke entirely colloquially, without even the hint of
an accent, he added.
Ms. Goodman went to Douglass College, where she
majored in political science. She met my dad Mar-tin Greenwald, who died in 2012 who was a phar-
macist from Wortsboro, N.Y., at a Catskill resort called
the Sha-wan-ga Lodge.
She was a switchboard operator that summer, and
he parked cars. Think Dirty Dancing. They married
on March 20, 1960, in Philadelphia.
The couple soon moved to Milford, Penn., about 90
miles from New York City, and Mr. Greenwald bought
a pharmacy. There were not many Jews there. There
were six Jewish families in our county, Mr. Green-
wald said. Unlike the rest of those families, the Gre-
enwalds kept kosher, and they always wanted a more
Jewish life. There was a family there, a Jewish family,
that had a Christmas tree, and eventually, through my
mothers influence, the family became kosher. They
moved to Atlanta, and then to Israel, and now the
family we keep in close touch with them numbers50, and they are all black hat. They owe it all to my
mother.
The Greenwald family which soon included Joel,
his sister Shari (now Shari Mendes), and his brother
Daniel moved to Teaneck in 1973, when I was 9 and
my sister was 12, Mr. Greenwald said. My mother
wanted us to get a Jewish education and a Jewish cul-
tural life.
As soon as they got to Teaneck, the children were
enrolled in the Moriah School in Englewood; Mar-
tin Greenwald commuted 75 miles each way every
working day to his Pennsylvania pharmacy, and Verabecame an integral part of local life. After her chil-
dren were grown, Ms. Greenwald became an interior
designer, but she craved working with people, so 25
years ago, she embarked on a real estate career, her
son said. She and her business partner, Nechama
Martin and Vera Greenwald
Vera and her father in Prague after the war.
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Civil rights and being chosenMoriah students learn from state legislator at Museum of Tolerance
ABIGAIL KLEIN
LEICHMAN
Martin Luther King
Jr. Day was not a
school holiday for
pupils at Engle-
woods Moriah School.
Instead, its 250 sixth- through
eighth-graders marked Moriah
Reads Day last month with a
variety of activities culminating
their six-week interdisciplinary
unit on the American civil-rights
movement.
One of the most memorable
moments came during their tour
of the Museum of Tolerance in
Manhattan, where they met withAssemblyman Gordon M. John-
son of New Jerseys 37th District.
The district includes Englewood,
Englewood Cliffs, Fort Lee, Leo-
nia, Teaneck and Tenafly, all
home to Moriah students.
Mr. Johnson was glad that
Moriah chose to use the day for
learning about racial tolerance
and equality. He told them, If
youre the chosen people, then
you are chosen to shed light
on equality for all peoples,
said Rachel Schwartz, the chair
of the middle-school English
department.He told the children its
important to recognize that there
are people across New Jersey
and the United States who dont
have the educational opportu-
nities they have at Moriah, and
they should learn how to come
together with different com-
munities to combat racism and
anti-Semitism, Ms. Schwartz
said. Assemblyman Johnson
also talked about the historical
connection between African-
Americans and Jews, including
the participation of many Jews in
the 1963 March on Washington,
and reminded them that we face
similar challenges as minorities
in America.
Englewood eighth-grader Jona-
than Comet said he learned from
his tour of the museum that the
ight for equal rights is far from
over in many parts of the world.
In North Korea and other places,
people are dying for standing up
for what they believe in, he said.The annual Moriah Reads Day
is designed to infuse school
spirit through academics and
to open doors that the children
have never opened before, Ms.
Schwartz said. Every year we
choose a book that challenges
them academically, spiritually,
and emotionally. The teachers of
both general and Judaic studies
also read the book, so we have a
community of readers.
The title this year was March:
Book One by John Lewis,
Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell.
This graphic novel is based on
Congressman Lewis life story,
from his early years in segregated
Alabama to the March on Wash-
ington to receiving the Medal of
Freedom from President Obama
in 2011.
We have a kickoff event over
Chanukah and then the children
read the book in English class
while learning the historic per-
spective in history class, Ms.Schwartz said. We end the unit
with a day of learning, which this
year was on Martin Luther King
Jr. Day.
Rabbi Daniel Alter, Moriahs
head of school, led a learning
session with the middle-school-
ers exploring the question of
whether it is racist for Jews to
consider themselves as the cho-
sen people.
Rabbi Alter talked to us about
what a chos en people rea lly
means, Jonathan said. It sounds
like it means everyone else
doesnt matter, but weve learned
that everyone does matter. He told
us it really means that different
nations and people are chosen for
different things. We were chosen
to spread monotheism, and the
Greeks were chosen to spread phi-
losophy, for example. Its some-
thing we are good at.
Later in the day, each middle-
school student worked with one
or two ifth-grade students to cre-ate a poster about a prominent
civil-rights leader. Every com-
puter-generated poster included
a picture and short description
of the leader as well as a related
biblical verse, and each will be
displayed in the school.
We wanted it to be about Jew-
ish identity as much as about civil
rights, to inform our understand-
ing of who we are as Jews in a sec-
ular world, Ms. Schwartz said.
Jul ia Sc hwa rt z, an Engle-
wood eighth-grader, guided her
ifth-grade partner in making
a poster about Roy Wilkins, a
key leader in the NAACP
1950s and 1960s, whom shresearched before the tr
was very cool to get to talk
him, she said. In this
unit I learned so much
tolerance, and that if you
have tolerance youre not
to get very far.
Jul ia said she took aw
strong Jewish message, too
civil-rights movement wa
20 years after the Holocau
it shows how important i
accept everyone.
A short ilm about genoc
the museum introduced M
students to the fact that th
have not been the only grsuffer atrocities.
It opened their eyes to
tice across the globe and
notion that every perso
the ability to stand up and
for justice, to ind cause
believe in, Ms. Schwartz
That was our overarching
tion: What do you value en
to ight for?
At school, the stud
watched movies about civil
issues, including Rememb
Titans, based on actual
that happened in a newly
grated high school in Virg1971, when an African-Am
was brought in as head fo
coach.
The children learned
there are people over the c
of history who have been
with adversity and failure
in the midst of these chal
showed true grit and per
ance to ight for their rights
Schwartz said. At the same
there are many people w
extraordinary things and d
receive notoriety and fam
need to look up to both ty
people.
Assemblyman Gordon Johnson talks to Moriah fifth-graders at the Museum of Tolerance.
MORIAH SCHOOL
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Whats the storywith the Temple Mount?Scholar talks about background, foreground at Teaneck shulABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
The Temple Mount (Har Habayit, in Hebrew) has
been called a tinderbox and a flashpoint, a
place where few Jewish leaders dare to tread for
fear of starting a holy war.
It is a place where Jews and Christians are forbidden to
pray and visitors often have experienced verbal abuse, and
sometimes worse, from Muslim women and youth paid to
harass them.
It is dominated visually by the golden Dome of the Rock,
a seventh-century Muslim shrine built on the spot where
two Jewish temples once stood the irst commissioned by
King Solomon in 950 BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians
in 586 BCE, the second (of Chanukah story fame) built over
a long period, expanded by King Herod, and destroyed by
the Romans in 70 CE.Since the 1967 Six-Day War, when the Israel Defense
Forces liberated the Old City of Jerusalem and almost imme-
diately handed sovereignty of the Temple Mount back to the
Muslim Waqf, the main focus of Jewish prayer has become
the Western Wall the Kotel a small segment of the Herod-
era western retaining wall of the Temple Mount complex.
Though carefully monitored visits are permitted, and
thousands of Israelis and tourists of all faiths have toured
the Temple Mount since 1967 including Israeli brides and
grooms on their wedding day the Waqf sees Jewish vis-
its as provocative, while Israels ultra-Orthodox-dominated
chief rabbinate oficially forbids Jews from entering its pre-
cincts out of concern that they may violate the sites perma-
nent sanctity.
This proscription is not accepted by a growing number
of mainstream Orthodox rabbis, who maintain that whileJews should avoid the speciic areas where the Temple and
its courtyard stood, they are permitted to walk around the
rest of the Temple Mount, accompanied by a knowledge-
able guide.
Among these proponents is Professor Jeffrey Woolf, asso-
ciate professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and
director of Bar-Ilans Institute for the Study of Post-Talmudic
Halakhah (Jewish law). One of his many areas of specialty
is the interaction between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
The Kotel is not the most sacred place in Judaism; Har
Habayit is, Dr. Woolf told congregants at Teanecks Keter
Torah, when he presented Whats the Story with Har
Habayit? Halacha, History and Politics as part of a scholar-
in-residence Shabbat program recently. (The lecture is avail-
able online at YU Torah; google YU Torah Dr. Jeffrey Woolf
and Har Habayit.)
This is the message Dr. Woolf conveys during globalspeaking tours and interviews, including to media outlets
that include Time magazine, Al Jazeera, NBC Nightly News,
CBS Evening News, WABCTV, and the BBC.
A student of the late Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, from
whom he received rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva Univer-
sitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1982,
Dr. Woolf also earned a doctorate in medieval Jewish history
and literature from Harvard. He is a leading advocate and
spokesman for the development of modern Orthodoxy in
the United States and Israel.
I have been on Har Habayit a number of times, and per-
sonally found it one of the most moving, and spiritually
formative, experiences of my life, he said in an interview
during his latest U.S. speaking tour. I am in favor of Jewish
prayer rights on the Temple Mount, and I believe this could
be a paradigm for Jewish-Muslim coexistence.
Dr. Woolf said that until modern times, the Temple Mount
was the northern star of Jewish spirituality and national
awareness. Religious anthropologists emphasize there are
places in religious life that draw believers and rivet their
attention, he said. For Christians its the Holy Sepulcher
in Jerusalem, for Muslims its the Kaaba in Mecca, and for
Jews its the Temple Mount.
This inds expression in classical Jewish law and religious
culture. There is a clear sense that Har Habayit is where
everything starts and ends. You see it even in art, and not
only Jewish art. Medieval maps of the world always had Jeru-
salem at the center, and thats not just an artistic device. The
Temple Mount was always on the Jewish agenda.
Regarding the question of whether Jews may ascendto the site, he explained that prevailing tradition is to
avoid the place where the Temple actually stood, given
that in post-Temple times it is not possible to cleanse
yourself of certain forms of ritual impurity that would
deile the holy site.
However, the overwhelming majority of the area we call
the Temple Mount was part of a platform built by Herod
and does not have inherent sanctity, though portions of it
do possess a lower level of sanctity according to Jewish law,
so not everybody can go and not under all conditions, Dr.
Woolf said. Jews who go must immerse in a mikvah before -
hand, and they may not wear shoes made of leather.
There are Orthodox rabbis who say a Jew should not go
because it is not clear where the Temple actually stood,
Dr. Woolf said. Those who do go are absolutely convinced,
based on literary and archeological evidence, that we cer-
tainly know where the Temple was not, and there is noproblem going up if we prepare properly.
Jews went to the Temple Mount regularly throughout his-
tory, he added, and surprisingly Muslim authorities did not
restrict this practice until Saladin reconquered Jerusalem
from the Crusaders in 1187.
There is documented evidence that there was a syna-
gogue and house of study on the Temple Mount until the
Crusader conquest in 1099, Dr. Woolf said. Maimonides
reported in 1166 that he went and prayed on the Temple
Mount, but not where the Temple itself once was, because
he believed you couldnt go there.
So how is it that the Muslim world has come to see any
Jewish presence on the Temple Mount as provocative?
Dr. Jeffrey Woolf BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
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LARRY YUDELSON
It has been a long time since the town
of West New York boasted three
kosher poultry shops each with its
own shochet to butcher the chickens
it sold.
West New York once was a center of the
embroidery industry. It was said that 90
percent of the insignia on the uniforms
worn by the millions of American G. I.s
during World War II were embroidered
in West New York. Back then, most of the
embroiderers were Jewish, and the citys
enormous Shaare Zedek Synagogue was
illed with more than a thousand peopleon the High Holidays.
In the years that followed the war, the
Jews who lived in the one-square-mile
town were replaced by other demographic
grou ps; in the 1960s West New York
became known as Little Havana. Six miles
south of Fort Lee and the George Wash-
ington Bridge, two miles north of Wee-
hawken and the Lincoln Tunnel, bypassed
by the New Jersey Turnpike, West New
York and its Jewish history was mostly
forgotten.
Yet until late last year, a minyan con-
tinued to meet on Shabbat mornings at
Shaare Zedek. It was a minyan that brought
together old-timers who never left West
New York; Cuban Jews who had settled in
West New York to be with fellow Cubans
but were grateful to have found a syna-
gogue they could walk to, and descendants
of the founders who commuted from the
suburban diaspora in Bergen County to
help make the minyan.
Dan Kaminsky, who lives in Oradell,
is one such commuter. His great grand-
father was one of the congregations
founders, back in 1912. His great
recruited him to join the minyan, a
a time it looked like the synagogue
hold out long enough to beneit from
triication bleeding in from increa
pricey Hudson County neighbor
Has time run out for West New York shul?Barely a minyan, Shaare Zedek faces price of maintenance deferred
The sanctuary at Shaare Zedek.
Shaare Zedek, pictured in a Google Streetview image taken during Sukkot.
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Jersey City and Hoboken.
Time may have run out.
With the old-timers not getting any younger, last fallShabbat attendance began to dip below the required
ten men. (Shaare Zedek is Orthodox.) And when a
building inspector came by to approve a minor plumb-
ing repair, he closed down the whole building.
Sometimes, it turns out, maintenance deferred
inally explodes.
Its ready to collapse, Mr. Kaminsky quoted the
building inspector as saying. The womens balcony is
loose. The electricity was never updated when build-
ing codes changed. There are no ire extinguishers or
sprinklers.
Its not easy or cheap retroitting an early 20th cen-
tury building for the 21st century.
Generally, the Shabbat minyan had been meeting
in a small side building. (The congregation did use the
main sanctuary to celebrate the 70th anniversary of
Mr. Kaminskys fathers bar mitzvah.) Nobody wassaying that the womens balcony actually was safe.
Now, though, the side building is off limits until the
whole complex is repaired and that requires money
and resources that the 13 or so local synagogue mem-
bers dont have.
The easiest course of action would be to sell the
property to a developer who would tear down the
building.
Destroying the synagogue, however, is everyones
least favorite choice. My great grand parents started it
so Im emotionally attached to it, Mr. Kaminsky said.
But can they ind an institution a yeshiva, a public
school, a homeless shelter that would be willing to
keep the building and repair it?
Can they ind a deep-pocketed donor who could
help them make repairs while they keep waiting for anew generation of Jews to come to town to re-inhabit
the gorgeous old building?
Morris Herzig, 86, remembers when the build-
ing was full. He irst came to Shaare Zedek when he
was six years old. That was in 1935, when his father
moved his family from the Lower East Side to work as
a shochet at one of the chicken stores. The elder Mr.
Herzig and his wife had come to America from Galicia
in 1927, two years before Morris was born.
He remembers when Bergenline Avenue, the towns
main shopping strip, was illed with Jewish-owned
clothing stores and kosher delicatessens. It was a very
thriving Jewish environment, he said. It was a typi-
cal immigrants world. They were not shomer shabbos.
They were shul oriented they came to shul in the
morning and kosher.
Post World War Two, children left West New Yorkwhen they got married because it was basically a blue-
collar town. The housing stock was very old and they
wanted to get out of there, he said.
Jews have moved into the new upscale buildings
that have gone up in West New York. But not Jews who
want to join Shaare Zedek.
When they see whats there, with a mechitza and
everything, they dont want to get involved with that
kind of environment. Every time a high rise building
went up, the consensus was to go canvas for Jews. In
my building, something like 45 apartments are Jewish.
Theyre not interested.
Its very painful to speak about this because
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JOANNE PALMER
First, a warning about what this story
about a Lutheran pastor who discov-
ered that her apparently solidly German
Lutheran father actually was a German
Jew whose parents died in the Holocaust
is not.
It is not a conversion story.
It does not end with the Reverend Heidi
Neumark throwing over her deeply held
Protestant theoloy to become Jewish.It is a far more complicated, far more
real, far less sentimental story than that
imaginary one would have been.
So, with that out of the way, here is the
Rev. Neumarks story. It is a story that she
has told in a new book, Hidden Inheri -
tance: Family Secrets, Memory, and Faith,
and will tell in person at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades this week. (See box for
details.)
Growing up in Summit, a deeply loved
only child, Ms. Neumark knew that her
father, who was 20 years older than her
mother, was born in Germany. But thats
all she knew of his family history. True, as
a young child Heidi had gone to Switzer-land a few times to meet her grandmother;
and her aunt, her fathers sister, lived in
Queens. Heidi knew her. But her grand-
mother had been very old, she died when
Heidi was 12, and the two had no language
in common; and Aunt Lore never said a
word about the past.
So when her father implied that he was
not only baptized as Lutheran when he
was a child, the son of parents who also
had been baptized as Lutherans which
was true his daughter inferred that the
family was Lutheran all the way back. That
inference was not true.
Late one night, years after her father
died, Rev. Neumark was reading in bed
when she got a text . It was from herdaughter, Ana, who was downstairs,
gobsmacked by something she had found
while googling family names.
Mom, do you know that you are from a
prominent Jewish family, and your grand-
father died in a concentration camp? Ana
asked her mother.
I said, Ana, thats not true, Rev. Neu-
mark said. But of course it was.Rev. Neumarks father, Hans, came from
a large, close-knit family of active Jews,
who had been leaders of their synagogue,
in a German town called Wittmund, for
generations . They were indus tria list s,
wealthy people whose busine sses sup-
ported many workers.
His parents, Moritz and Ida, left Wit-
tmund soon after they married, and to
some extent shed their Jewishness, which
apparently seemed a hindrance. They
were baptized, but it seems to have been a
legal iction, and they did not pretend not
to have Jewish ancestry.
Their three children knew that they had
been born to Jewish parents, but seemed
to have identiied as Protestant. Theirparents managed to get all of them out of
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Christianor Jew?Lutheran pastor to talk at the JCC aboutdiscovering her German Jewish family
Germany. Hans, Rev. Neumarks father,
was a chemical engineer; he came to the
United States in 1938 with the connec-
tions that got him a good job and a solid
life here.
His parents, on the other hand, went
through a long period of degradation, and
inally were deported to Theresienstadt
a deportation that they were told was to
some sort of retirement village, an
which they had to pay where Morit
died.
Ida, on the other hand, survive
years in Theresienstadt, a statistical u
lihood for anyone, but even more
ishing for someone who was 70 wh
arrived in that monstrous place.
Reverend Heidi Neumark
A young Heidi with her grandmother in Switzerland.
Rev. Neumarks grandfather,
above, and both grandpar-
ents. Both pictures were
taken before the war.
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FIRST PERSON
Living the learning lifeReflections on Limmud NY
LARRY YUDELSON
Magical bowls. Yiddish lullabies.
The three ways by which a
persons character is mea-
sured, as per Rabbi Ilai in the
Babylonian Talmud.
Those are just a couple of moments at the
weekend extravaganza of Jewish learning at
Limmud NY last weekend. Yes, New York is
in its name, but Limmud took place in Con-
necticut, and New Jersey was well repre-
sented. It brought together 700 people from
the tristate area (and beyond) for four days of
study, conversation, camaraderie, and Jewish
geography.
Limmud NY is an independent group
inspired by the original Limmud conference,which meets during Christmas week in Eng-
land. There are dozens of Limmud confer-
ences across America and worldwide, includ-
ing in Russia and Israel. Most of the American
conferences pale besides Limmud NY, which
stretches over the Presidents Day weekend.
Limmud stands out from the other confer-
ences and retreats that ill the Jewish commu-
nal calendar in three ways.
First, it is run primarily by volunteers. Lim-
mud NY has one staff member, but the bulk
of the planning, organizing, and even on-site
running is handled by people committed to
the idea of Limmud and its underlying ethic
of hey, kids, lets put on a show!
Secondly, it is proudly ideologicallydiverse. On Shabbat, you could choose from
a two varieties of Orthodox services (one tra-
ditional, one a partnership minyan with
expanded roles for women), a traditional
egalitarian service, a Reform service with a
dash of Indian customs, a Jewish Renewal ser-
vice, or even just prayer-free morning yoga.
Limmud is a rare space where Jews come
together across the lines that divide them.
Name tags highlight irst names, and leave off
institutional afiliations entirely. If you dont
know the name Arnie Eisen, youd have no
way of knowing that the person youre speak-
ing to in the cholent line is the chancellor of
the Conservative movements Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary.
Thirdly, and no less importantly, Limmudis age diverse. Mine was not the only fam-
ily with three generations represented. (My
children have been going for years; this year
I convinced my father to join us. He plans on
returning next year.) There are babies and
toddlers, and middle school students and
teens, and college students and seminary
students and twentysomethings and beyond.
And while there are programs organized
for children by Camp Ramah and a teen
lounge and teenagers playing games in the
lobby on Shabbat afternoon, all Limmud ses-
sions are welcoming to children interested in
learning.
Which is how I ended up being challenged
by Eliana, a third grader from Glen Ridge.
She was one of a group of about seven peo-
ple discussing the Torah portion on Shabbat
afternoon; the rest of us were adults. One
woman I think was a rabbi, and at least three
denominations were represented. When the
conversation turned to the idea that the Tem-
ples altar symbolized peace after all, the
Torah says it could not be made of stones cut
by metal Eliana asked, penetratingly, how
could it be peaceful if it was a place of blood
and slaughtered animals?
Unexpectedly new ways of looking at old
texts was one of the threads that ran through
my Limmud experience. I heard Maggie
Anton, the author of the Rashis Daughters
series, talk about the talmudic magic that
became the background for her latest books,
Rav Hisdas Daughter and Enchantment.
The Talmud talks of magic and takes it seri -
ously, but this, she said, is only a hint at an
entire world of magical practice that archae-
ologists have uncovered. In recent years,
thousands of pottery bowls inscribed with
magical prayers to angels in Aramaic, the
language of the Talmud, have been discov-
ered in Iraq. They were buried at the corners
of houses to protect babies and pre
women.
This might all seem very esoteric e
Ms. Anton said, that the formula used in
magical inscriptions are in several ca
prayers for healing and welfare tha
made their way to our prayer books.
Magic appeared in another class I att
this one taught by Dr. Jeffrey Rubens
Englewood, a professor at New York U
sity. His work, in books like The Cul
the Babylonian Talmud, has looked
talmudic stories changed betweenappearance in the Jerusalem Talmu
their reappearance in the somewha
Babylonian Talmud. In one of the tex
Rubinstein taught on Saturday night, th
salem Talmud tells of two students wh
saved from death by snakebite becaus
had shared their bread with a starvin
They foiled the prediction of a gentile
sayer. The storys moral: The Jewish G
be satisied with half a loaf of bread.
As retold in the Babylonian Talmu
story loses a bit of its artistic symmet
it gains a new focus on saving a m
Its not all learning at Limmud.
Above, a concert featuring SoulF
Left, the dinner buffet.LIM
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Polak, founded Vera & Nechama Realty.
They helped build and grow the Jewish
community in Teaneck, New Milford, Ber-
genield, and Englewood in a big way, Mr.
Greenwald said. About 700 people came toher funeral, and so many came to pay shiva
calls, and they all said that the irst person
they met in Teaneck was her, a wonderful,
welcoming spirit and that was whether or
not they had bought through her.
She was a people person, her son said.
She read people very well, very comfortably
and very quickly. She knew how to interact
with people because she was comfortable
meeting them and understanding them. And
she had a tremendous amount of warmth
and conidence.
Nechama Polak was struck by her part-
ners compassion. She listened when people
spoke, Ms. Polak said. In our line of busi-
ness, we sometimes encounter people who
are in the depths of despair they have just
lost somebody, or have inancial dificulties.This is not always a happy business, and she
was always very compassionate.
She was very beautiful physically, she
added. She had beautiful blue eyes, and car-
ried herself regally.
She also had fun. In later years, the Gre-
enwalds owned a farm in Pennsylvania, and
sometimes the owners of Vera & Nechama
would retire there on Sundays. We would
each get into a tube and have an executive
meeting in the middle of the lake, Ms. Polak
said. She was larger than life.
I am crying a lot, she added. I am griev-
ing a lot. But as devastating as this has been
emotionally, it is the greatest tribute to her
that everyone here at Vera and Nechama
is carrying on as a group.
Betty Kay lived down the street from Ms.Greenwald in Teaneck. Since her husband
passed away, she joined us frequently for Sab-
bath meals, Ms. Kay said. She would share
her stories with us, and we would listen to
them with great excitement and at times
deep thought.
Ms. Greenwald often would speak publicly
about the Holocaust. She did not like that
task, but she thought it was incumbent upon
her to do it, Ms. Kay said. She knew that
this might be some of these children
chance to see a survivor, and she felt th
den of keeping the Holocaust from ha
ing again, a very real and very persona
Vera was someone who enriched
in every way, Ms. Kay said. She was
interesting, exciting, effervescent, inte
and experienced, and she had street sShe had so many connections to p
in this community that since her hu
passed on, I dont think there was on
that she ate by herself on Friday night
urday afternoon.
She was just one of those people
Ms. Greenwalds survivors includ
three children, her sister, her two d
ters-in-law and her son-in-law, and
grandchildren.
GreenwaldFROM PAGE 7
When Jerusalem was conquered by Sala-
din, it acquired a degree of religious signii-cance that it had not previously possessed,
Dr. Woolf said. In line with the Islamic view
that there is no other religion than Islam, it
laid exclusive claim to any number of sacred
places to which it claimed a connection. That
is the reason why Muslims assert that the
Temple Mount and the Cave of the Patriarchs
in Hebron are exclusively theirs.
More recently, Rachels Tomb in Bethle-
hem, to which they never laid claim, has also
been included. The same thing happened to
churches.
So, from the late 12th century on, Jews
stopped going not because they didnt want
to but because they werent allowed to. Their
presence, certainly their worship there, wasviewed as a blatant contradiction of Muslim
hegemony.
Now that more Jews are visiting the Temple
Mount again, the Islamic Movement in Israel
has fomented an organized campaign of
intimidation to stop them, using hired groups
of harassers who only recently were barred
from the site by the Israeli government. In
addition, the Islamic Movement has revived
the claim that Jews intend to blow up the Al-
Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount complex
and build a third Temple in its place.This libel that the Jews are planning on
blowing up Al Aqsa was irst fomented by Hit-
lers ally, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj
Amin al-Husseini, in 1920, Dr. Woolf said.
Every single major wave of anti-Jewish vio-
lence in Israel since then has been carried out
under the same banner. Ironically, Al-Aqsa is
not even on the Temple Mount proper. Its on
the Herodian platform extension.
Jews who even look as if they might be
praying on the Temple Mount are subject to
arrest or banishment by the Israeli police,
in deference to Muslim sensibilities and the
specter of violence. Thats a violation of the
basic human right of a person to pray any-
where, Dr. Woolf said.There are all kinds of people, but I can
say without hesitation that the overwhelming
majority of Jews who go there do not wish to
be provocative, he continued. They simply
wish to be in a place where according to our
tradition Gods presence never leaves. As far
as building the third Temple is concerned, I
believe that to be in Gods hands.
Dr. Woolf is among Jewish historians who
see the issue of control of the Temple Mount
as profoundly theological and emblematic
of the entire conflict between Muslims andJews.
Traditionally, Islam takes the position that
land once ruled by Muslims can never legiti-
mately be ruled by non-Muslims, he said.
Theres no such thing as shared sovereignty.
From a Jewish point of view, however, there is
nothing wrong with having both a synagogue
and a mosque there. The prophet Isaiah said:
My house will be called a house of prayer for
all nations, and Allah is the same God whom
we worship, said Prof. Woolf.
Dr. Woolfs talk in Teaneck did not address
the issue of pluralistic prayer at the Kotel.
When asked about the recently agreed-
upon compromise that would maintain the
Orthodox status quo for worshippers at theWestern Wall Plaza while establishing a new
space for Jewish prayer in other forms at the
southern section of the Western Wall, he
commented: I am happy they found a solu-
tion and I hope and trust they will set up the
new area in a way that will provide for mean-
ingful prayer while not impacting upon the
priceless archeological inds there.
He said he is deeply bothered by t
ultra-Orthodox hegemony over the
pointing out that when the Wester
Plaza was built after the reuniicatJerusalem in 1967, the divider betwee
and women was mobile (it has since
nailed down) and the womens sectio
30 percent larger than it is now. In ad
following a 2004 earthquake that ca
mudslide and damage on the women
there is no shelter from inclement w
for female worshipers.
The other religious streams have g
new place to daven but Orthodox wom
disadvantaged, Dr. Woolf said. Thats
upsetting downside of the deal. The
changing of the women there is indefe
and inexcusable.
A native of Boston, Dr. Woolf irst
to Israel in 1983 for a year at the HUniversity as a Lady Davis Graduate F
He has been a visiting professor at
Yeshiva, and New York universitie
he has written 40 scholarly monog
and written or edited four books. A
them is the most recent translation of
Soloveitchiks Kol Dodi Dofeq.
Temple MountFROM PAGE 9
obviously theres no shul now in West New
York. It has gone the way of all flesh. Its
over, he said.
Emmanuel de Miranda wouldnt be the
Jew he is were it not for Shaare Zedek.De Miranda, 73, came to America from
Cuba in 1985. His parents already were here.
His father was from an old Sephardic Jewish
family that had lived in Cuba for three gen-
erations. His mother was Catholic.
He settled into West New York, two blocks
away from the shul. One day, he noticed a
sign: This Passover, learn how to read from
right to left.
He joined the beginners Hebrew class,
studying with the congregations rabbi,
Leon Mozeson. That led to his converting to
Judaism, with all the Orthodox procedures.
I had my bar mitzvah after I was a grown up
man.
For 28 years, all my life has been around
this shul, he said. Ive attended every
Shabbos.
Before coming to America, the situa-
tion in Cuba was not very good, with com-
munism and so forth. People tried not toshow their religiousness. He had studied
international law and languages in Russia,
but he never joined the Cuban Commu-
nist Party so he couldnt work as a lawyer.
Instead, he became a language teacher and
translator. In America, he found work at a
school teaching adult ed, and later became
its director.
Back in the late 80s, when he irst came
to the synagogue, We had a membership of
almost 200. We had minyans every morning
and 50 to 60 people attended regularly on
Shabbos. We had members that had already
retired or moved to other towns nearby but
couldnt attend on Saturdays. We had a
sisterhood and regular monthly meetings
of the board of directors. We had a lot of
activities.
Now, We dont know how were going to
save the building, a landmark that nobody
seems to care about, he said.David Babani was also a member of the
shul for just more than a quarter of a cen-
tury. He came to America from Cuba when
he was 19. His parents were Sephardic Jews
from Turkey. He lived in Union City for
three years before he moved to West New
York. After Rabbi Mozeson retired, and the
rabbi who followed also retired, he took on
the role of assistant gabbai, helping to orga-
nize the services.
He recalls the hardships of growing up in
Havana but being Jewish there wasnt one
of them.
Castro took everybodys business
the shuls he didnt bother, Mr. Baban
Canadian Jews helped the Jewish co
nity in Cuba. They managed to get
matzah for Pesach, the wine, koshe
every week. In Havana we had a sh
and everything, he said.
America was a big, big change, hThe irst thing is freedom. You have f
buy and clothes to buy. In Cuba ever
is restricted, unfortunately.
Right now we need a big pocket t
his heart and to help us out, to do a
the basics of what the town expects,
the roof properly ixed and solve so
the electrical problems we have. We
somebody to help us with fundrais
pointing us in the right direction, he
This is a beautiful building thats
dred years old. Lets hope people wil
their hearts.
Shaare ZedekFROM PAGE 11
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Cantor Romalis to behonored during servicesOn Shabbat, February 20, at 10 a.m., the Renaissance Club of
Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne will lead services, assisted by
the shuls Hebrew school students. Cantor Charles Romalis
will be honored for the work he has done for the Renais-
sance Club. A kiddush luncheon will follow.The special Shabbat service is among the jubilee celebra-
tions in Cantor Romalis honor. He is the only Reform cantor
in North America to have served in one congregation for 50
years.
The Renaissance Club is a product of the Reform move-
ment. Its purpose is to provide meaningful and fun activities to adult members
congregation. Cantor Romalis was instrumental in bringing the club to the sh
information, call (973) 5956565.
Cantor Charle
Romalis
Philanthropist/Patriots ownerto keynote YU graduation
Robert K. Kraft
COURTESY YU
Dining to benefitunderprivileged in IsraelIf you eat in a local kosher restaurant
on March 6, you might participate in
Eat4Israel, a WIZO NJ program. Partic-
ipating restaurants will send 10 percentof their gross proits that day to WIZO
NJ, earmarked for hot meals for Israels
underprivileged children.
WIZO, The Womens International
Zionist Organization, is a worldwide
non-proit organization that op
more than 800 social welfare pr
in Israel. Next to the Israeli govern
WIZO is one of the largest providsocial welfare services that impro
lives of women, children and the e
living in Israel.
For information, go to www.w
org.
Agencies represented at chessed fairLast week, Areyvut and Yeshivat Noam
hosted a Chessed Fair for students and
their parents. Participants met with
representatives from a variety of orga-
nizations, including American Friends
of Leket, AMIT, the Hebrew Free
Association, Ohel, and the Hacke
Riverkeeper, pictured, to learn
volunteering and getting involved
community.
Maayanot celebrating 20 years
Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls
invites the community to mark the
schools 20th anniversary at its annual
dinner on Saturday, March 5, at 8:30
p.m. at Congregation Keter Torah in
Teaneck.
This years dinner is dedicated to the
memory of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein,
Maayanots posek (rabbinic authority)
from the schools inception. Honorees
include Ria and Tim Levart, who are
the Keter Shem Tov awardees; Chumiand Rabbi Mark Gottlieb, the Amudei
Maayanot honorees; Shera and Doug
Dubitsky, Parents of the Year; and Dr.
Julie Goldstein, Teacher of the Year.
The Levarts are being honored for
their commitment to Maayanots mis-
sion, growth, and success, including a
recently established legacy gift. In addi-
tion, Mrs. Levart has been a member of
the schools executive board, board of
trustees, and education committee,
and she is a founding chair of its adult
education committee. She also was on
the assistant principal search and board
nominating committees.
The Gottliebs are being honored for
the many signiicant ways they have
contributed to life at Maayanot. Ms.
Gottlieb has been on the board of direc-
tors and many parent committees,
including the schools recruitment and
open house committees. Rabbi Gottlieb
has worked closely with the administra-
tion, irst as a member and then as chair
of the education committee.
The Dubitskys are being honored fortheir devotion to enhancing Maayanots
academic community. In addition to
working on school recruitment events,
Ms. Dubitsky has consulted on curricu-
lum development for teenage issues.
Mr. Dubitsky has been on committees
including the schools dinner fundrais-
ing committee.
Dr. Julie Goldstein is the schools
Jewish history chair and senior grade
encounter coordinator.
For information, call Pam Ennis at
(201) 8334307, ext. 265, or email her at
Ria and Tim Levart
Shera and Doug Dubitsky
Rabbi Mark and Chumi Gottlieb
Dr. Julie Goldstein
YU establishes Athletics Hall of FamYeshiva University has announced the
establishment of the Maccabees Hall of
Fame, which honors Yeshiva Univer-
sity alumni and others who have dis-
tinguished themselves in NCAA com-
petition and who best exemplify the
universitys highest ideals and mission.The Hall of Fame is a testament to the
contributions Yeshiva University ath-
letes, coaches, and others have made
to the world of sport over more than a
century.
The Hall of Fame is accepting
nations of former Yeshiva athlete
coaches for consideration for indu
Nominations can be submitted th
May 31, at www.yumacs.com/hallo
The selection committee will bework in June and announce the i
ees in July 2016. The inaugura
induction ceremony will be held i
2017.
Yeshiva University will confer an honorary Doctor of Humane Let-
ters degree on Robert K. Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots,
at its 85th commencement on May 25. Mr. Kraft, also the founder,
chairman, and CEO of the Kraft Group, will deliver the commence-
ment address to the undergraduate and graduate students receiv-
ing their degrees.
YUs president, Richard M. Joel, noted that Mr. Kraft is well
regarded for his dedication to Israel. The Patriots observed a
moment of silence after the murder of Ezra Schwartz, a Sharon,
Mass., native studying in Israel, at a Monday Night Football game
in November.
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Conceived in liberty
Ithought Id be moved by Rabbi
Joseph Prousers reading of theGettysburg Address, which he
translated into Hebrew and set
to a haftarah trope on Monday Presi-
dents Day but I hadnt imagined that
it might make me cry.
First, there was the setting. Rabbi
Prousers shul, Temple Emanuel of
North Jersey, is set back on a low hill in
Franklin Lakes, way up in Bergen Coun-
tys outer limits, a warm old brick build-
ing, once a Dutch Reformed Church,
overlooking a lake, partially frozen on
that gray, blustery, nasty day. The sanc-
tuary, a long, narrow, white-painted
room with dark wood beams, show-
cased the ark, bimah, and furnishings
that had come from the congregationsearlier home in Paterson. Its straight-
lined and vertical, all dark wood, red
velvet, and discreet brass; very urban,
very Deco, very early 20th century.
So look at that! Already there are
potentially discordant notes a shul
in an old church, an urban interior in a
nearly exurban setting. But it all works
together harmoniously, and it escapes
the curse that can entrap the unwary
suburbanite blandness.
The haftarah was part of Shacharit.
Many local dignitaries were there. Rabbi
Prouser welcomed them graciously and
offered many of them parts in the ser-
vice. The Jews were given aliyot, askedto raise the Torah, or open the ark; the
non-Jews were given the few English-
language readings, all prayers for the
United States or Israel. But he did not
cut the service short lest the guests be
off-put by the Hebrew or bored by the
length.
The visiting politicians represented
both parties, and Rabbi Prouser made
a point of the nonpartisan nature of the
day and the service.
He prefaced the Gettysburg Address
with one of the morning blessings from
the Conservative litury. Thank you,
God, he sang in Hebrew, for having
made me free. And then he moved on to
the story of how, four score and sevenyears ago, our fathers brought forth on
this continent a new nation, conceived
in liberty, and dedicated to the proposi-
tion that all men are created equal.It was impossible for me to sit there,
listen to those great, clear, hard, real
words roll over me in Hebrew, to read
them in English, and not be moved to
(yes, quiet, discrete) tears by them.
It also was impossible not to think of
how far from them we have gone, and
how wrong our recent direction seems
to be.
Lincoln wrote the Address, according
to mytholoy, on the back of an enve-
lope, on a train taking him from Wash-
ington to Gettysburg. That might not be
true, but his skill as a writer, as a politi-
cian, and as a human being are unde-
niable. He was a backwoodsman and
a Victorian, a melancholic, a roman-tic, and a great, thunderous political
thinker.
He was also a Republican.
It is hard to think of the candidates
running for the Republican nomina-
tion for president at the same time that
we think of Lincoln, who grew up in a
log cabin but was not a vulgarian, who
was self-educated but intellectual ly
agile, who came from poverty but nei-
ther bullied nor allowed himself to be
bullied as he rose, who endured great
personal tragedy but did not let it deine
him. It is not fair to expect anyone to be
another Lincoln, of course but maybe
they could try? Just a little?Rabbi Prouser ended Shacharit that
morning with a jaunty Adon Olam, set
but of course! to Yankee Doodle.
If only we all could hold onto the
spirit in that room that morning rev-
erence for the past, hope for the future,
and a great deal of cleverness, resource-
fulness, an understanding of what can
be played with and what cannot be, and
plain old hard work put into bridging
what otherwise would have been a huge
gap maybe we could look forward to
the coming election with something
other than dread.
That this nation, under God, shall
have a new birth of freedom and that
the government of the people, by thepeople, for the people, shall not perish
from the earth. JP
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Were Jews gassed
because they rejected Jesus?
Recently Senator Ted Cruz came
under ire for accepting an endorse-
ment from evangelical Pastor Mike
Bickle of Kansas City, who said that
Jews were punished by the Holocaust for failing
to embrace Jesus. Hitler had become the hunter
promised by the prophet Isaiah.
Well destroy Bickles repulsive arguments in
a moment.
But the attack against Cruz is absurd for the
simplest of reasons. Ted Cruz has shown time
and again that he will not only
support but be hated for his
attachment to Israel.
At a 2014 gala held by a non-
partisan Christian organization,Cruz addressed the crowd on the
topic of Christian persecution.
The speech started well. But then
the topic turned to Israel. ISIS,
Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and
their state sponsors like Syria and
Iran, are all engaged in a vicious
genocida l c ampaign to destroy
religious minorities in the Middle
East In 1948 Jews throughout
the Middle East faced murder and extermina-
tion and fled to the nation of Israel. And today
Christians have no better ally than the Jewish
state.
On hearing this unflinching support of
Israel, Cruz was loudly booed. But he contin-ued, Christians have no greater ally than Israel.
Those who hate Israel hate America.
The boos grew louder.
Unfazed by the show of animosity, Cruz con-
tinued. The very same people who persecute
and murder Christians right now, who crucify
Christians, who behead children, are the very
same people who target Jews for their faith, for
the same reason.
Then he shocked the crowd by cutting his
speech short, ending with, If you will not
stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not
stand with you. Good night, and God bless.
And he walked off the stage.
This column is not a political endorsement.
It need not be. I will defend any candidate who
shows sacriice in support of Israel. And
defend any candidate who is prepared
the support of a core constituency to
with the Jewish State. Cruz is among the
est friends the Jewish people have ever
the history of the United States Senate.
Compare his actions to those of se
who took millions of dollars from the J
community over the past few years, o
play politics with Israels survival and fu
government of Iran, which promises th
holocaust.
Still, Cruz had a respon
to repudiate Bickles state
and did so. His ofice rele
statement categorically rejBickles comments abou
and the Holocaust. The
ments from Pastor Bickl
cerning Adoph [sic] Hitl
not statements with which
tor Cruz agrees. It is ind
able that Adoph [sic] Hitl
the embodiment of evil; h
a grotesque murderer wh
mitted one of the gravest
depravity in the history of mankind. G
not intend anything in Hitlers evil, an
wrong to suggest otherwise.
Now to Bickle.
Those who claim to understand Gods
tions, especially when it comes to genocifools, fakers, and fundamentalists.
Fools because they could never kno
mind of God. Fakers because, in the na
religion, they blame the victims for the
ties perpetrated against them. And fund
talists because, in their embarrassing igno
they take verses from the Bible and int
them shallowly and without any context
Hey, Pastor Bickle? When it says tha
stretched forth his hand over the Eyptia
you think he was wearing a Rolex?
Bickle, in the ultimate spiritual abomi
makes Hitler and the SS the agents of God
faithful Jews are turned into ash and
shades. That is not God but the devil.
Bickle is not offensive to Jews b
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Christians. He has turned Jesus into a mass executioner.
If that isnt blasphemy then the word has no meaning.
Would a pastor in the name of Christian love consign
1.5 million children to death by poison gas? Would a rev-
erend, in the name of his faith, claim that Nazi oficers
slept comfortably on pillows made of murdered Jewish
womens hair because it was the will of Jesus?
It would actually be much worse if Bickle were right.Then we would have to share the cosmos with a God
who views gas chamber s as c athedra ls of doctr inal
enforcement.
Anyone feel like praying?
I dont know why God allowed the Holocaust. Nor
do I care. No explanation would minimize the hor-
ror of it. Nor would it bring back my six million mur-
dered Jewish brothers and sisters. Indeed, asking for
an answer is itself immoral insofar as it attempts to rec-
oncile ourselves to the irreconcilable and to accept the
unacceptable.
Bickle himself has now written an op-ed titled What
Hitler Did Was an Utter Atrocity, in which he clariied
that When Ted Cruz thanked me for my support, he
did not endorse everything I have said during my life-
time, and I do not expect him to. For those times when I
have communicated my beliefs poorly, I apologize.Bickle continued, To be clear: Scripture is clear that
the friends of God are friends of Israel. It is the enemies
of HaShem who oppose Israel. I pray that I may always
be counted among the former.
Thank you, Pastor. Your friendship is much appre-
ciated. Now, you must repudiate utterly any previous
mentions of the Holocaust as punishment. We Jews have
suffered enough without you inflicting upon us the inal
indignity of saying that we actually deserved it.
Critics were right in asking Ted Cruz to repudiate
Bickles ugly comments. The senator did so and rose to
the occasion.
Now it is the turn of Hillary Clinton.
As I wrote in a previous column, Hillarys emails
reveal her admiration for one of the worlds most pas-
sionate Israel haters, Max Blumenthal, who comparesthe IDF to the SS, calls Israel a Nazi state, and demands
that Israel be disbanded and all the land returned to the
Arabs.
We have emails that Hillary penned personally prais-
ing and extolling Maxs disgusting anti-Israel screeds
that were sent to her by his father, Clinton conidante
Sidney Blumenthal. We have access to the dozens of
anti-Israel op-eds and advice that he forwarded from
his son.
Here are some examples of Hillarys responses regard-
ing Maxs opinion pieces on Israel.
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