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Jewish and Arab teens in Israel have found fresh territory for cooperation: outer space. The teens are taking part in collaborative research at Moona — a Space for Change, which meets in an Arab village east of Acco and features weekly courses in robotics, drones, 3D printing, and other technologies related Moona courses attract Arab and Jewish teens in the Galilee. to outer-space exploration.

Photo courtesy Israel 21c The program has attracted about 100 high school students — roughly a 50-50 split between Jews and Muslims. Its cofounders are Asaf Brimer, a veteran of the Israeli air force and aerospace sector, and Hussein Tarabeih, who heads TAEQ, an environmental initiative serving Arab villages in the Galilee.

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End of an era, 1 In an event that “symbolizes the end of an era for Israel’s cultural capital,” the Tel Aviv municipal library gave away its entire Yiddish book collection, Ha’aretz reported.

Miriam Osner, the director of the library’s main branch, said that as few as 14 of the library’s 5,000 Yiddish volumes were checked out last year.

“About two years ago, we moved all our Yiddish books from the main library down to the storage room, but we simply don’t have the means to maintain and preserve them anymore,” she said.

Dozens of people came to rummage through the stacks of now musty books, including Thomas Kleiner, a retired Protestant minister from Germany who has been studying Yiddish.

Said Daniel Galay, chair of the Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Israel: “What we’re seeing here is not only a tragedy for Yiddish literature but a tragedy for Hebrew literature as well. Yiddish literature is the basis for Hebrew literature, and you can’t really comprehend Hebrew literature without it.”

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hat’s it. I’ve had it with the second seder.

Sure the first night of Pesach is exciting. Who will read the Four Questions?

Will the questioner be adorable? Or now that the kids are older, will they still be willing to take them on?

What creative twist will we add this year?

What should we serve for karpas to keep everyone from wondering (aloud) when dinner will be served?

Should we add that kosher l’Pesach fair-trade cocoa to the seder plate this year?

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lious son: Why are we doing this again, when our friends and family in Israel hold only one seder?

The answer, which even to me is starting to wear a little thin, is tradiSee

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to start it all over again for the second seder? My father may have been a wandering Aramean, but my son has wandered from the table the second night every year since he was four, asking that question of the engaged and thoughtful, intelligent but rebel-

Hillside artist Mimi Stadler shows the matza plate she textured using actual matza.

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s Passover approaches, Hillside artist Mimi Stadler has been putting out into the world her latest designs for the seder table, but also helping others create their own.

“I made these using a sock-covered tennis ball,” she said, indicating a seder plate with gently indented areas for bitter herbs and other Passover items.

She turns to a platter textured and tinted to suggest matza and describes how she painted layers of resin over actual matza to create the mold.

Plucking inspiration from one’s surroundings and employing ingenu-

ing a visitor around the gleaming “gallery” in the basement of her home and the adjoining studio, with its electric and manual wheels, kiln, glaze ingredients, assorted brushes, and — of course — boxes of clay.

That question of competence might surprise others. Stadler, one of the organizers of the fundraiser art shows run for a numity to help express it is what she has ber of years by Jewish Family Service done with increasing fluency through of Central New Jersey, has exhibited her three decades as a potter.

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arking their first holiday at Congregation Ahavath Yisrael in Morristown, Rabbi Avremy Raksin and his wife and partner, Shaina, set out to make Purim a spirited and joyful celebration for the community with a family-friendly party.

“We aren’t only tapping into the people who need to hear the megilla reading, but also some who might just want to be in a warm environment with other Jews, who might hear something spiritual while they are there,” said Avremy.

The Raksins, who grew up in the Chabad Lubavitch hasidic movement, took the helm of the synagogue, affiliated with the Orthodox Union, just over one month ago and are still catching their collective breath.

On a recent Thursday morning, they spoke with a visitor as they sat around the dining room table in their apartment near the Rabbinical College of America, the Lubavitch seminary.

Shaina, whose grandfather, Rabbi Moshe Herson, is the director of RCA, expressed delight at returning “home” to Morristown, living just a block from her mother and father and close to her grandparents. Before the move, the Raksins were both living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

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24, with two children, Levi, two, and Reeva, 14 months — glance at each other for guidance and finish each other’s sentences as they speak about their vision for Ahavath Yisrael, also known as the Cutler Street shul.

Founded in 1980 as an Orthodox minyan at the Conservative Morristown Jewish Center (now MJC Beit Yisrael), members moved their group of worshipers first to people’s homes and ultimately to the current location later that year. Operating on a shoestring budget, it long catered to 30 or 40 people living nearby, looking for a minyan for worship within walking distance, mostly on Shabbat.

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On Purim, Rabbi Avremy Raksin addresses Ahavath Yisrael congregants. Photo by Michael Livshin

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Hundreds attend seminar on campus Israel advocacy Debra Rubin

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dvocates for Israel issued warnings and offered ways to combat anti-Semitism at institutions of higher learning throughout North America.

The March 8 program, which drew more than 400 to Congregation B’nai Tikvah in North Brunswick, was cosponsored by CAMERA, the Committee on Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

The speakers largely represented groups espousing right-leaning positions on Israel, although the program included more than 20 other program cosponsors, including Rutgers Hillel and the Jewish federations of Greater MetroWest and Heart of New Jersey.

Speeches by students and Jewish leaders and videos painted a grim picture of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on campuses, including examples of student governments that have approved resolutions urging their universities to boycott or divest from Israel.

“Political warfare is being waged on us, which is just as dangerous as conventional warfare,” warned former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Danny Ayalon.

In workshops conducted by Jasmine Patihi — New York region high school coordinator for the Israel advocacy group StandWithUs — high school and college students discussed various scenarios they may confront in college.

“Times have changed and we have missed it,” said Charles Jacobs, a founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance and the pro-Israel David Project. “We have new enemies. It used to be we killed baby Jesus.

Then we were racial vermin, according to the Nazis.

Now we have the apartheid State of Israel. It is the new anti-Semitism.”

Jacobs cautioned that anti-Israel bias has crept into academia, the media, and even high school curriculums. “The biggest threat to American-Jewish life happens in grades K-12,” said Jacobs. “The positions we hear on college campuses are now happening in high schools in courses usually called something like ‘global understanding.’ It is even more dangerous and yet not one Jewish organization is doing something about what is happening in our high schools.”

(Local ADL officials in Boston have disagreed with Jacobs’s group about the degree of anti-Israel

Jasmine Patihi, right, of the Israel advocacy group StandWithUs, discusses how to handle anti-Israel scenarios with high school and college students.

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education in the schools he has singled out.)

Samantha Mandeles, CAMERA senior campus coordinator, said that much of the anti-Israel sentiment on campus is fueled by chapters of Students for Justice Palestine.

“On many occasions Students for Justice Palestine has used slander and even violence against students who are proactively standing up as Zionists,” said Mandeles. She characterized many of their actions as “hostile street theater” that often link Israeli actions with Nazism.

She herself became a target for her pro-Israel activism while a student at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, she said.

Members of Students for Justice Palestine “broke into my apartment and even told me as a Jew I was responsible for the murder of Jesus,” said Mandeles.

“My reaction was not to hide or be intimidated.”

Instead, she planned rallies and brought in speakers, including members of the Israel Defense Forces.

“We know standing up and standing up tall is the right way to handle anti-Israel bias,” she said.

Lack of knowledge IDF reserve Sgt. Benjamin Anthony described his efforts, as founder of Our Soldiers Speak, to counter negative images of Israel’s military.

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Leaders and participants at a program on the rise of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on college campuses, from left, program chair Dr. Naomi Vilko; college counselor Johanna Baum; B’nai Tikvah Rabbi Robert Wolkoff; Samantha Mandeles of CAMERA; former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Danny Ayalon; Charles Jacobs, a founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance; IDF Sgt. (res.)

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Hope, pessimism in a ‘new’ South Africa Clashing perspectives of the ‘most beautiful country in the world’ Elaine Durbach NJJN Staff Writer

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eauty and family aside, one of my favorite parts of visiting my native South Africa are the twohour flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town. It’s not long enough to worry about being stuck next to a pain-in-the-neck — as one might on the 14-hour New York-Johannesburg leg — but it is enough for really great conversation.

On my most recent trip, last month, I had an additional mid-trip jaunt to Jo’burg, and thus doubled the pleasure. Given that most of my precious

time there is focused on relatives, this tally of strangers was doubly fascinating: • a young (Jewish) fashion designer with his own store in Cape Town • a (Czech-born) documentary filmmaker and social justice researcher • the principal of a Jewish day school • an (ethnic Indian) accountant working in the Office of the Auditor General The first one took me by surprise, though he could just as easily (accent aside) have been American. He was blond, buff, and very stylish — and evidently heterosexual.

“Everyone thinks I’m gay, and I admit — I do take advantage of that,” he confessed.

He also complained that too many girls are interested only in sex when he’d like to have a serious romantic relationship.

When I said, “So, don’t go to bed with them,” he shrugged and replied, “I’m

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a 22-year-old guy; of course, what else am I going to do?”

The filmmaker was typical of a very different kind of young South African: She is deeply upset by the economic inequality that pervades the country 21 years after its transition to democracy. “It’s tough trying to make a living doing what I do,” she said, “but if we don’t make people see what’s going on

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in the townships and the rural areas, how are we ever going to make things better?”

With my third companion, the school principal, we played Jewish geography, of course. Cheryl Lazarus, it turned out, knew some of my cousins, and works with one who is

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involved with the organization linking the city’s Jewish schools, from pre- through secondary.

Contrary to what others had said, she insisted Jewish education is thriving in Cape Town. “There was a dip in numbers a few years ago when the economy got worse,” she said, ‘but we’re back up and we’re doing really well.” Part of that is due to the reputation of the Herzlia High School. “Though we have a policy of accepting every student who applies, regardless of their academic ability, our matriculation results are only just below those of the top schools, which accept only the very best students,” she said. My cousin confirmed that.

The fourth flight companion was the biggest surprise. He told me that the government is sensitive to and responsive to the Auditor General’s assessments.

“The provincial administrations are a mess, but the central government does try to keep things straight,” he insisted.

Most South Africans I met regard President Jacob Zuma and his inner circle as grossly corrupt. There were similar complaints about all kinds of professional groups.

“I can’t function as a Realtor without certification, but everyone knows that the people in control pocket the fees we’re forced to pay,” one guy told me. I heard the same account from a rugby players’ agent, and from regular citizens dealing with issues like medical insurance, or building permits.

I kept saying similar things go on in the United States, but we really don’t have it as bad, even in Washington. The South African scene makes Congress look positively collegial.

On the night when Zuma gave his State of the Union address in Parliament, a breakaway group

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Program will link fate of Jews, Armenians Robert Wiener

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ewish and Armenian young people will embark on a joint educational program that will combine study of the Holocaust and the massacre of Armenians 100 years ago.

The program was announced March 12 by Barbara Wind, director of the Holocaust Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ, following a lunchtime session on the Armenian genocide at the Aidekman campus in Whippany.

She is enlisting other agencies in the Greater MetroWest community to join in the educational effort, saying it would be “a good idea to get our kids and Armenian kids together to learn about the two genocides.”

No concrete details have been developed; the program, said Wind, “is just in the planning stage.”

Wind is also hoping that Jewish and Armenian participants will join in planting forget-me-not seeds outside Saint Mary Armenian Church in Livingston and the Sister Rose Thering Garden at the Lester Senior Housing Community, also on the Aidekman campus.

The flower is a symbol of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, when Turks were accused of brutal forced deportations and massacres that annihilated an estimated 1.5 million Armenians.

Wind said she hopes to enlist as participants in the new venture the Diller Teen Fellows, a program for young leaders sponsored locally by the GMW federation, and young people who have “twinned” with Jewish Holocaust survivors through the council as part of their bar and bat mitzva projects.

Father Arshen Aivazian, who retired as pastor of Saint Mary Armenian Church in Livingston, said nobody can deny the Armenian genocide because, as with the Holocaust, “the evidence and eyewitnesses are too vast to deny.”

“Our role will be to encourage teens and their families to participate,” said Robert Lichtman, executive director of The Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life, the federation’s Jewish identity-building organization.

Wind said the Armenian and Jewish atrocities have deep historical parallels.

She noted that much of the outside world failed to react to reports of mass slaughter between 1915 and 1918.

“Hitler was empowered by the Armenian genocide to do whatever he wanted to the Jews because nobody ever reacted” to the earlier tragedy, said Wind.

Wind’s observations were echoed by two Armenian guest speakers at the midday program, whose audience of 40 was composed largely of Jewish Holocaust survivors.

“If the world had treated the Armenian genocide with more outrage and took a position on it there might not

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have been a Nazi Holocaust,” said Roy Stepanian, a health-care consultant from Chatham whose great-grandparents were murdered by Turkish soldiers.

Stepanian’s grandfather, who survived the attack, watched as his own father and three of his siblings were knifed to death.

Father Arshen Aivazian, who retired as pastor of Saint Mary Armenian Church in 2000, said he has heard testimony by “hundreds if not thousands of witnesses to the Armenian genocide. My father was one of them.

He was four years old when my grandfather, who was the town crier, was the first to be rounded up. They never saw him again.

“Almost invariably, every night at the dinner table my father would make sure we heard his life experience and that we did all we could to make sure not to allow anyone to destroy our dreams,” said Aivazian. “My father died as a monument to shattered dreams.”

Aivazian compared the destruction of Armenian culture and Jewish culture during the last century.

“Hundreds, thousands of churches and monasteries, the whole life of a community, was destroyed entirely.

Isn’t that what happened in the Holocaust?” he said.

Turkey has never recognized the slaughter as genocide, although the United Nations and at least 22 nations, including the United States, use the term to describe the events.

“There is a rapidly growing group of scholars and intellectuals who are coming forward and asking their government to stop the stupidity of denial,” said Aivazian. “Rest assured, nobody can deny the Nazi Holocaust

Roy Stepanian said, “If the world had treated the Armenian genocide with more outrage there might not have been a Holocaust.”

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‘We can’t ignore it’ RECOGNITION OF the Armenian genocide was given a major boost on March 10 by actor George Clooney and his wife, attorney Amal Alamuddin Clooney. As they launched a human rights group called 100 Lives, Clooney told a CNN reporter that the Armenian genocide “is the one that hasn’t been acknowledged. It is the 100th anniversary, and one of the things that is so important to us is to prevent it before it happens, and part of this is acknowledging when it happened before. We can’t just ignore it.”

South Africa from previous page from his own African National Congress tried to tackle the subject of embezzlement. They were hustled away by gun-wearing policemen. The official opposition then walked out in protest about those guns, and the president ended up addressing his own loyalists, with nary a comment about the upheaval — or the brief attempt to blur all transmissions from the chamber. The one bright aspect, I thought, was that the press freely reported on the whole fiasco.

But even that was called into question. I had one more travel encounter, at the luggage carousel after the Cape Town flight. It was with a former journalist who now works as “brand manager” for the Speaker of the House, the parliamentary official who had to try to control that mayhem during the State of the Union. Way too professional to say anything indiscreet, she just sighed and shook her head when I asked about that night. “Yeah, I didn’t exactly choose an easy job,” she admitted, and added, “And the press likes to lie.”

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However, it was from a regular Facebook user, not the press, that I found the comment that best summed up the most prevalent attitude I encountered among white, Jewish South Africans. It was written in response to a very clever — and well received — insurance advertisement playing up South Africa’s quirky charm.

“Hey, you are all fooling yourselves,” ex-pat Bram Fine (now living in Israel) wrote. “The country is basically bankrupt, whites are having serious problems getting good education and jobs as blacks have so many perks (catch up scheme). Reverse prejudice.

Rainbow, my ass. Government is brain-starved. Bribery widespread. Anti-Semitism deeply imbedded both in government and in society. Crime rampant. It’s only a matter of time before the fabric breaks down. The potential was huge, the actuality dismal. Such a pity — n as it is the most beautiful country in the world.” edurbach@njjewishnews.com

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Hillel walk to support Israel engagement REGISTRATION AND sponsorship opportunities for the fourth annual FIT (For Israel Team Hillel) 5K Run/Walk and One Mile Fun Run/Walk — to be held Sunday, April 19, in Buccleuch Park, New Brunswick — are open for students, businesses, and the general community.

Since its inception in 2011, the event, which is open to all ages, has raised $80,000 in support of the Rutgers Hillel Center for Israel Engagement and its education and advocacy programs.

Event cochairs are David Yellin, Dr. Richard and Jennifer Bullock, and Eliot and Barbara Spack, all of Edison.

Sanctioned by USA Track & Field NJ, the FIT 5K is a New Jersey Grand Prix 500-point event. Participants may register as students or community members in the run/walk division or the one-mile Fun/Run/Walk. Awards will be presented to the top three men and women in each age group, in five-year-increments, up to 85.

Registration fees are: USATF members, $22 prior to April 12, $27 thereafter; community runners, $25/$30; and students, $10/$15.

Tax-deductible sponsorship opportunities are available at $1,000, $500, $250, and $100.

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Seminar from page 6 more than my memories of war” was seeing Jewish-American college students active in the anti-Israel movement. He blamed it on a lack of knowledge of Israeli history, and said his organization launched a high school education initiative in 2012 to prepare students to weather an anti-Israel college campaign. Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston is so far the only New Jersey school to implement the program.

Anthony warned that growing anti-Israel sentiment needs to be stopped or the historical American alliance with Israel could be threatened when those students become future political leaders.

Rutgers sophomore Evan Gottesman of East Brunswick said that earlier this month, Hillel chose to largely ignore the activities connected with the annual “Israel Apartheid Week” series of events run by pro-Palestinian groups.

“If you sink to their level it often becomes confrontational,” he said.

Ron and Sharon Rockman of Scotch Plains said they came to the event because their son, now a senior at Golda Och Academy in West Orange, will soon head off to college.

“This program was extremely strong and delivered even more than we expected,” said Ron. “I only wish even more people were here to see and ■ hear this.”

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Students recapture Holocaust and Israeli history AS HAS BECOME an annual tradition, 11th-grade students at the Jewish Educational Center’s Bruriah High School for Girls in Elizabeth, under the guidance of history teacher Joel Glazer, have created their own Holocaust Memorial Museum. The displays, set up in the school’s hallways, depict the Holocaust, what preceded it, and what came after it with the establishment of the State of Israel, using archival material, photographs, original art, and text.

The museum is open for public viewing; call the Bruriah office at 908355-4850 to arrange a tour.

During a tour of Bruriah’s Holocaust museum for visiting dignitaries on March 17 are, from left, back row, Rabbi Peretz Hochbaum, principal, Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy; Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ leaders Stanley Stone (partially hidden), senior vice president, and Dov Ben Shimon, CEO; Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg; JEC dean Rav Elazar Mayer Teitz; Hillside Mayor Angela Garretson; JEC associate dean Rabbi Eliyahu Teitz; JEC executive director Steve Karp; and, front row, Bruriah faculty member Joel Glazer; Andy Schultz, JEC director of institutional advancement; Karen Secular, coordinator, Create a Jewish Legacy Program; and museum docents Devora Berman, Avigail Goldberger (curator), Meira Leiter, Kayla Garb, Shira Alter, and Esther Seif.

The curator of the museum, Avigail Goldberger, explains the displays for a visitor.

Photos by Adina Abramov, courtesy JEC

Above, an exhibit on Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann is part of the museum; right, another display gives viewers the simulated experience of wearing a yellow star, as Jews were forced to do in Nazi Europe.

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Waldor-Wexner announces new cohort THE NEXT CLASS of Wexner fellows from Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ has been announced.

The two-year Jerry Waldor Institute-Wexner Heritage Program, which brings together 20 fellows from the Greater MetroWest community, aims to give participants — through a series of shared experiences, intensive discussions, travel, study, and reflection — deeper connections and commitment to federation and the local Jewish community.

Local philanthropists and federation have partnered with the Wexner Foundation to underwrite the program, which is designed to develop the next generation of community leaders. Archie Gottesman, a Wexner alumna, and Dr. Lynne B Harrison, a devoted supporter of Jewish education, chaired the Wexner campaign to raise money for the next two-three Greater MetroWest Wexner classes. This endowment will fund two additional cohorts over the next 10 years.

The new Wexner fellows are Taryn Berelowitz, Shari Brandt, Lisa Buber, William Cohen, Lisa Gutkin, Marc Leibowitz, David Leit, Craig Levine, Jonathan Liss, Lee Murnick, Ariel Nelson, Jamie Ramsfelder, Aviva Roland, Lina Rubin, Rachel Scherzer, Maxine Schwartz, Dina Simon, Stacy Stuart, Brett Tanzman, and Jane Wilf.

“We are so grateful to Lynne and Archie — and to all of the Wexner alumni who have ‘paid it forward’ — to help ensure that there will be at least two more cohorts of Wexner classes here in Greater MetroWest,” said federation president Leslie Dannin Rosenthal. “Wexner is both a personal Jewish journey for each participant and the creation of a dynamic entity that serves as a resource for the entire Greater MetroWest community, as the individual participants take their learning out to their families, synagogues, and community organizations.”

The Wexner Foundation was conceived in 1985 by Leslie Wexner, chair and CEO of Limited Brands, as a memorial to Jewish community leader and activist Jerry Waldor.

The program has been conducted in 31 communities throughout North America; its more than 1,500 alumni have gone on to become top leaders in their communities.

Upon completion of the program — which has a faculty of distinguished professors, rabbis, professionals, and civic leaders — participants are offered opportunities to move into high-level leadership positions within federation and its network of agencies.

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continuing with Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ after the 2012 merger of the Central federation with United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ. One of his philanthropic priorities was providing scholarships to Jewish teens to study in Israel.

“Ike Heller was part of a small group of leaders who led by example.

He never sought the limelight and year after year Ike along with his wife Helaine were always there to make a difference in the lives of those in need in Israel and locally,” said Stanley Stone, who was executive vice president of the Central federation and is now senior vice president of Greater MetroWest.

“I remember vividly at an emergency fund-raising caucus we had for the Second Lebanon War, first people began giving long remarks,” said Stone. “Ike stood up and said, ‘Now is the time for action, not speeches — whatever you were thinking of giving, think about doubling it.’ He sat down and suddenly everyone started to respond.”

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the 1950s and ’60s based in Newark and later Harrison. Its best-known products included the Johnny Reb Cannon, Frogman the US Navy Commando, and vehicles and action figures based on popular television shows and recording acts.

After leaving Remco in 1965, he began a second business, I. Heller Construction Co., Inc., builders of industrial warehouses. He served as board chair and CEO of what became Heller Industrial Parks until his death.

It is one of the nation’s largest privately held industrial park owners/ developers.

“Ike cared deeply about the Jewish community and supported many causes, here and in Israel,” said Kim Hirsh, a niece of Heller and director of philanthropic initiatives for the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest.

Hirsh recalled that Heller was a major supporter of the NFTY-EIE High School in Israel program, sponsored by the Reform movement.

“Many years ago, it made a huge difference in the life of his daughter, Audrey, and he wanted to make sure other Jewish teens had the opportunity that she had,” said Hirsh.

She also remembered her uncle as a “great storyteller.”

“Sometimes at family events, there would be a small crowd of people gathered around, listening raptly and laughing, and we knew Ike was telling stories about his education in a one-room schoolhouse, or life in the Navy, or how he collected Army surplus equipment to develop toy walkie-talkies,” she said. “He led an incredibly rich and full life.”

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Helaine; four daughters, Audrey (Jack) Romberg of Tallahassee, Fla., Laurie Kaufman of Marlboro, Hollie Heller (Ralph Joseph) of Bridgewater, and Hillary (Luke) Granfield of Iowa City, Iowa; a sister, Mildred Galen of Monroe Township; a brother, Paul Heller of Dix Hills, NY; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Services were held March 11 at Temple Emanu-El, Westfield, with arrangements by Menorah Chapels at Millburn, Union. Memorial contributions may be made to the Heller Family Scholarship Fund for the benefit of NFTY-EIE High School in Israel; make checks payable to “Union for Reform Judaism” and send to Paul Reichenbach, URJ, 633 Third Ave., 7th Floor, New York, NY n 10017.

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Doing a mitzva for the animals Name: Zane Lantzman Age: 12 Town: Livingston School: Heritage Middle School, Livingston, seventh grade Parents: Zanna and Scott Lantzman Bar mitzva: April 19 Synagogue: Temple Beth Shalom, Livingston Mitzva project: Zane is collecting 180 rolls of paper towels to donate to the Mt. Pleasant Animal Shelter in East Hanover.

Inspiration: “Until our dog Oakley joined our family in November,” said Zane, “he lived in several animal

shelters, the most recent being the Mt. Pleasant Animal Shelter. When I visited there to meet and play with Oakley, I saw that many dogs and cats were there looking for new homes, and I witnessed the great care that the volunteers at the shelter gave to these animals.

“The amazing volunteers cannot do their work alone. They need help wherever they can find it, which is why I decided to dedicate my bar mitzva project to helping the shelter. Paper towels are the number one item needed, and the number 18 is very important in the Jewish religion, one of the meanings of which is ‘chai’ or ‘life.’

“Our family has provided Oakley with continued life, and now I want to make sure that all the other animals in the shelter are also given a chance to find their forever families.

How to help: Individuals can drop off donations of money or rolls of paper towels at the shelter (located at 194 Route 10, East Hanover — tell them it’s for Zane’s bar mitzva project).

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the helm. The matter went before both a civil judge and a beit din, or rabbinical court, and the shul was ordered to stay open. It has continued operating, and in August 2013 welcomed a new Torah scroll commissioned by the congregation and written by a scribe close to home — the rabbi’s son, Moshe Ber Zirkind.

The Raksins, who were not part of the shul during this period, hope they are just what the community needs to move forward. “It took a tremendous effort to keep the shul open, and now we can focus on the future. We can take it to the next level,” said Shaina.

The congregation maintains an open-door policy, and membership dues are on a sliding scale, set at $300, $600, and $900.

Although Shaina and Avremy were both raised within Chabad, known for its outreach-oriented centers in far-flung suburbs, they have no plans to change the synagogue affiliation. “There’s a really nice mix of people at the shul, and that’s the beauty of it. Anyone who feels they can’t fit in somewhere else will be fine here and will add an additional dimension to the congregation,” said Avremy.

They are now spending time getting to know their congregants. The congregation already has a sisterhood, regular minyans, and a website. They plan to add affinity groups for men, children, and teens and upgrade the website, as well as strengthen holiday programs, but not until the fall. “From now through the summer, we’re going to spend time thinking about what to do and how to do it,” said Shana.

“Everything has to be done in the right time.”

Their mostly volunteer roles are, at least for the moment, a labor of love. To earn a living, Avremy has an on-line store selling third-party products (he declined to offer more specifics). He thinks having a regular job also makes him “more relatable” to his congregants. Shaina is finishing a degree in special education from Chabad’s Michigan Jewish Institute in West Bloomfield, most of whose students, like Shaina, take advantage of its on-line courses. ​The Raksins’ guiding philosophy is happiness, which shows.

“When we make a party, like our Purim party, or a teen program, we share our joy and spread our joy,” said Shaina. “By sharing our life and sharing our happiness, we share our passion for Judaism.”

Avremy added, “We find strength in happiness.

What God is looking for in our lives is happiness. It’s Adar now, when we traditionally add to our happiness, according to the Talmud. In Av, similarly, we diminish our happiness. But whether we diminish or add, it’s all about happiness. Our goal is to share our happiness with other people.”

Asked how they plan to advance that happiness goal, they looked at each other and answered, “It’s n contagious.” jginsberg@njjewishnews.com

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Seiden, a teacher, principal, artist, and member of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, was herself a survivor who was instrumental in creating the commission’s Holocaust curriculum for grades fiveeight. The first conference was held a few months after her death in 2007.

Presenters will be Deborah A. Batiste, project director for the Anti-Defamation League’s Echoes and Reflections Holocaust education program; Alan Chernoff, former CNN and CNBC senior correspondent and author of The Tailors of Tomaszow; and Michael Zeiger, a survivor saved by a righteous rescuer whose story is depicted in the children’s book The Secret of the Village Fool.

The conference and teaching materials are free and include a copy of the “Echoes and Reflections” curriculum and DVD. Educators will receive five

FOND FAREWELL — Friends and colleagues of Suzi Adelson Wainer, third from left, gathered at The Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life on the Aidekman campus in Whippany on Feb. 26 to pay tribute to her and offer thanks for her decades of service and leadership to Jewish educators and the Jewish community as director of professional practice. With her are current and former colleagues, from left, Tracy Levine, Joan Bronspiegel Dickman, and Shaina Goldberg.

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LAUREN YOKED, executive director of American Friends of Leket Israel, will speak at erev Shabbat services at Congregation Shomrei Emunah of Montclair on Friday, March 20, at 8 p.m.

Leket Israel is Israel’s largest food rescue organization; last year, it distributed 30 million pounds of produce and perishable goods to those in need,

Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville and professor of Jewish studies.

She will conduct “Understanding Jesus in His Jewish Context: Guidelines for Preaching and Teaching,” a workshop for interfaith clergy and

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DR. AMY-JILL LEVINE will present “The Parables of Jesus: Jewish Stories Heard Through Jewish Ears” as the 2015 scholar-in-residence at Temple Sinai, Summit, Friday-Saturday, March 27-28.

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Levine’s books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus and Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi; she is the co-editor of the Jewish Annotated New Testament.

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JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE of MetroWest NJ and Adath Shalom, in collaboration with the Mental Health Association in New Jersey, will hold a two-part parent program on parenting teens, Tuesdays, March 24 and May 5, 7-8:30 p.m. at the Morris Plains synagogue.

The March 24 program will be led by JFS’s Robyn Krugman, LCSW, and will cover the teen brain, differences between teen angst and signs of depression or anxiety, challenges of parent and peer relationships, and parenting tips to help parents communicate with and support their children.

The May 5 session will be led by NJ Mental Health Players, Mental Health Association, and JFS MetroWest. Real-life scenarios will be acted out with discussions on depression, anxiety, and parent-teen communication.

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UNDER WAY — In spite of frequent inclement weather, construction of Rutgers Hillel’s new Eva and Arie Halpern Hillel House is under way and on schedule. The 35,000-squarefoot building — which will house the Marion and Norman Tanzman Dining Hall; an Israel Engagement Center; program and administrative facilities; an outdoor cafe; a Holocaust memorial garden; and Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform prayer centers — is located at 70 College Ave. on Rutgers University’s New Brunswick campus. Completion is projected for early 2016.

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International Day of Jewish Youth “Greater MetroWest J-Serve Service on Sunday, April 19, will be hosted in Greater MetroWest by 2015 will bring together hundreds of The Partnership for Jewish Learning teens from varying backgrounds and and Life at the Aidekman campus Continued on next page Solomon, LCSW, at 973-539-8549, ext. 108, or ssolomon@adathshalom.net.

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Journal from previous page locations to show their commitment to Jewish service,” said coordinator Shaina Goldberg.

Projects will include sports activities with adults with special needs, advocacy seminars on relevant issues for teens, karaoke and scrapbooking with seniors, and an Israel awareness workshop. J-Serve is held in 80 communities across 16 countries.

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A CONTINGENT OF American Girl Dolls will head to McRoberts, Ky., a community in rural Appalachia, courtesy of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hills and the Millburn-based Good People Fund.

The dolls were donated by members of the synagogue during their annual mitzva day and the collection was organized through the fund, which has an ongoing relationship with McRoberts, a former coal-mining town where families struggle to get by.

“Donations of necessities are most important for communities in need but sometimes opportunities arise where you can provide more than clothes and food,” said GPF founder and director Naomi Eisenberger. “How great to bring happiness to a child who might not have an abundance of special toys like so many of our children.”

Twenty dolls were collected at the March 1 mitzva day. Eisenberger will deliver them when she returns to McRoberts in June with a delegation from Congregation B’nai Israel in Millburn, which also has a longstanding connection with the town and has been sending a group there at least once a year since 2010.

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Bruriah grads win Jerusalem song competition PENINA ABRAMOV of Hillside and Rivkie Nissel of Passaic — 2014 graduates of Jewish Educational Center’s Bruriah High School for Girls in Elizabeth — led

their Michlalah team to victory in the annual Yeshiva University-sponsored Kedma Song Competition in Jerusalem Jan. 18.

Teams represented 16 post-high school Israel programs for women; the contest theme was “Songs of Hope.”

Over 2,000 people attended the performances. Judges represented the broad spectrum of the Jewish and Israeli music industries, including NJ-based singer/songwriter Shaindel Antelis, herself a Bruriah alumna, class of 2007.

Antelis said she was thrilled to be a part of the event, especially when she learned that representatives of her alma mater had taken first place. “I definitely shepped nachas when I saw the Bruriah girls,” she said.

Penina Abramov, left, and Rivkie Nissel Among the other Bruriah display their team’s first-place plaque. alumnae participating in the win-

ning group were Ahuva Blass of Monsey, NY, and Eliana Alter of Teaneck.

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Un-seder from page 4 tion and Halacha, or Jewish law. Back before calendars were standardized in the fourth century, holidays began when the rabbis could confirm the starting date according to the sighting of the moon in the Land of Israel.

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According to Noam Zion of The Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, the seder itself was inspired by the Greek symposium, when scholars would relax on couches, dip vegetables in sauces, drink wine, and informally debate questions high and low. (“Symposium” means “to drink together” in Greek.) Like an afterparty for a great cast from a fabulous show, we will celebrate, reliving the high points of the Exodus story. And if the weather is favorable, we may head outside to the campfire, and cook our paschal meal over the fire, as our ancestors would have done.

We’ll certainly down four glasses of wine. And more than four questions will be asked. We’ll finish the meal with the afikoman — or epikomen, which, by the way, is Greek for “what

Like an after-party for a great cast from a fabulous show, we will celebrate, reliving the high points of the Exodus story.

future calendrical confusion — and maintain the tradition of two days of hag. In the 19th century, the leaders of the Reform movement reverted to the biblical pattern of celebrating only one day, but other denominations retained the two-day requirement.

This year, I sent out invitations to our seder early, including assignments, and could have made place cards before I even chose a Purim costume. Friends and family know this is our holiday. My husband has been collecting Haggadot since he was a teenager. We regularly have up to two dozen people at our seders, and we pride ourselves on keeping our guests thoroughly engaged.

But just a couple of weeks out from the holiday, I had the stunning realization that I’d entirely passed over the second night. I hadn’t thought about our own second-night seder, and knew no invitations to join someone else’s gathering would be forthcoming. The thought of planning a second night seemed as desirable as eating a Passover diet for an extra week.

And then it came to me. We will hold an un-seder. We will acknowledge the second-day hag, but we will not sit (or lean, as the case may be) around the dining room table for a redo.

We will instead gather in our living room for a cocktail party.

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comes after,” otherwise known as dessert.

At a moment when some authorities have considered emulating the Sephardim by relaxing the Ashkenazi ban on forbidden Passover foods called kitniyot (corn, rice, millet, beans, lentils, for starters), can we not imagine a traditionalist proclaiming the second-day hag a “foolish custom”? Probably not: Conservative and Orthodox authorities almost uniformly say that there is no halachic mechanism to undo the two-day yom tov, codified in the Talmud, if not the Torah.

(However, there is one Conservative movement teshuva from 1969 that permits second-day hagim observance to be considered custom rather than obligation.)

So while we cannot eliminate the second night of Passover, we can give it a fresh spin.

The first night we will open our festive ritual meal, as we always do, with the singing of “There’s no seder like our seder” to the tune of “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”

But the second night, we’ll say, “If the rabbis had granted us just one night to be thankful for the signs and wonders with which God had taken us out of Egypt with an outstretched arm, Dayenu, it would have been n enough. Really. Dayenu.” jginsberg@njjewishnews.com

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“Have you noticed the painting parties, and couples’ art sessions, and ceramics parties?” she asked, as she and a friend looked over her bowls and cups, mezuzas and menoras.

There will always be pleasure in acquiring wonderful objects, Stadler said. But when it comes to giving gifts these days, people often opt to give experiential treats like massages or dinners or — as happened in her own family recently — an on-line class. But coming away with something tangible has an added appeal. “I think the art classes and jewelry parties are part of that,” Stadler said.

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World Winners and losers Deep divisions apparent as Israelis vote Ben Sales JTA

TEL AVIV — Relaxing on a bench on Rothschild Boulevard here, first-time voters Ellie Ashkenazi and Ziv Oran, both 18, talked about wanting to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

But they couldn’t agree on which party to support to meet that end.

Voters needed to close ranks around Netanyahu’s main challenger, Isaac Herzog, Ashkenazi said, adding that the policies of the staunchly leftist Meretz — not least the idea of dividing Jerusalem — were too “brutal” for her.

“I’m left wing, I believe in Bougie, and I want to replace Bibi,” she said, using the nicknames for Herzog and Netanyahu. “I’m worried about Bibi winning again. Anything is better than Bibi.”

Much to her chagrin, Oran had cast his ballot for Meretz — “to annoy me,” Ashkenazi joked, nudging him.

But Oran worried that with left-wing votes consolidating around Herzog’s center-left Zionist Union, Meretz would not acquire enough votes to even enter the Knesset and its voice would be absent.

“I believe in their social policies,” Oran said. “I’m center-left and I want them in Knesset. Meretz will recommend Herzog [to be prime minister], so you’re not losing votes.”

In Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, voters took advantage of the Election Day national holiday to stroll the streets with their kids, picnic on urban patches of grass, and go shopping.

They walked among political banners and dodged volunteers angling to stop them with a last-minute appeal.

But behind the carefree attitude,

Advantage Netanyahu as polls show last-stretch comeback EXIT POLLS IN Israel showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party neck and neck at the top with the center-left Zionist Union led

by Isaac Herzog.

The two parties had 27 seats each, according to the polls by the Channel 1 and Channel 10 television stations. Channel 2 had Likud with 28 and Zionist Union with 27.

The polls showed the Arab-Israeli Joint List finishing third with 13 seats, according to Channels 2 and 10, and the centrist Yesh Atid, led by Yair Lapid and currently the Knesset’s largest party, coming in fourth. The newly founded Kulanu, led by former Likud minister Moshe Kachlon, placed fifth.

According to the Channel 1 and Channel 10 polls, the right-wing haredi Orthodox bloc will hold 54 seats, with the center-left Arab bloc at 56 seats.

Channel 2 has them at 54 and 57, respectively.

President Reuven Rivlin responded to the results by calling for a unity government.

Jewish Home, the pro-settler, religious Zionist party led by Naftali Bennett, placed sixth with nine seats, according to Channel 1, down from the 12 it holds in the current Knesset.

The haredi Orthodox Shas party was seventh with seven seats followed

by United Torah Judaism with six seats, though Channel 10 had them tied at seven apiece. In a tie for ninth were the left-wing Meretz and right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu with five seats each, according to all the polls. The far-right Yachad did not win enough votes to enter Knesset.

The next Knesset will have 10 parties, two fewer than the departing parliament.

An Israeli woman voting at a polling station in Tel Aviv, March 17.

Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

voters were divided — not just between left and right, but between whether to support the flagship party of their political camp or one of the smaller, more ideologically driven factions.

“There shouldn’t be extremes this way or that,” said Yakir Yaakovi, 23, a dry fruit merchant in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market and a Netanyahu voter.

“He’s the only real one, he doesn’t mess around,” Yaakovi said of the incumbent. “If the left governs, God help us. There will be a civil war.”

Netanyahu campaign advertising dominated Jerusalem’s streets, with groups of young Likud volunteers clustering in public spaces and banners lining central squares. A man with a white beard sat outside the Central Bus Station singing Sephardi hymns and drumming a tambourine bearing a Likud sticker.

The late Likud push reflects fear that it could lose the election as rightwing voters defect to other parties.

Netanyahu gave several interviews over the weekend and spoke at a large rally in Tel Aviv to warn against rightwing division. On Election Day, Likud sent out a controversial message urging voters to come out, warning that “droves” of Arab-Israelis were heading to the polls.

Such efforts didn’t faze Gershon Swimmer, who moved to Israel in 2008 from Atlanta and is voting for Jewish Home, the religious Zionist, pro-settler party headed by Economy Minister Naftali Bennett. Swimmer felt confident that Netanyahu would win reelection and wanted to push him further to the right.

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“I feel Naftali Bennett and the party represent me,” he said, sitting at a restaurant on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street. “He doesn’t want to give back land, he’s strong on the economy, and he’s religious.

“I think Bibi will probably be prime minister. I’m more worried the left will get in the government and give away the country. I want to vote to help push Bibi to do the right thing.”

Some voters hadn’t chosen a side in the Netanyahu-Herzog debate.

Florist Roi Mothada, 27, voted for the Editor’s Note: A winner had not been declared in the Israeli elections as of press time.

centrist Kulanu, which has emphasized its economic platform and plans to join the coalition whether it’s left wing or right wing.

“I don’t support one or the other,” Mothada said, referring to Netanyahu and Herzog. “One will be elected, but I want Kulanu to be as strong as possible. It’s a decision between bad and worse.”

Some voters went even further in their protest against both left and right. Haya Dahan, a 47-year-old mother of two, cast a blank ballot, writing in her young daughter’s name instead of choosing any of the 25 possible parties. In Israel, such ballots aren’t counted as valid votes.

“I don’t know who to vote for,” she said. “I don’t trust anyone. I hope in four years someone will prove themn selves.”

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Anti-Semitic graffiti discovered at Manhattan’s John Jay College

samples.

Suha Arafat based her lawsuit on a 108-page report released to her by the University Centre of Swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs were discovered Legal Medicine in Lausanne, Switzerland, which drawn on the campus of the John Jay College of maintains that the theory that Arafat was poiCriminal Justice in Manhattan. soned is most consistent with their results. RusThe hate messages discovered last week also sian experts have maintained that Arafat was not included racist and homophobic messages, poisoned.

JTA WCBS-TV in New York reported.

The French experts “maintain that the poloThe college’s vice president, Lynette nium 210 and lead 210 found in Arafat’s grave Cook-Francis, met with representatives of the and in the samples are of an environmental Reform rabbis install first groups that were targeted in the hate messages, nature,” Nanterre prosecutor Catherine Denis according to a letter written to the campus comopenly gay president told AFP. munity by John Jay’s president, Jeremy Travis, The Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Arafat led the Palestine Liberation Organizarabbinical arm of the Reform movement, installed WCBS reported. tion for 35 years and became the first president of “We should all be concerned and offended by its first openly gay president, Rabbi Denise Eger. the Palestinian Authority in 1996. He fell violently these incidents,” Travis wrote.

“We pride ourselves Eger, 55, was inaugurated on March 16 at the as being a community that celebrates diversity and ill in October 2004 and died two weeks later, at CCAR’s annual convention in Philadelphia. She 75, in a Paris military hospital. values differences. We aspire to treat one another succeeds Richard Block.

The medical report published after Arafat’s with respect and dignity.”

The founding rabbi of the Kol Ami synagogue death listed the immediate cause as a massive College officials also reportedly met with the in Los Angeles, Eger has been on the CCAR board brain hemorrhage resulting from an infection.

New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes of trustees for four years. She was ordained in Doctors ruled out foul play; some had contended Unit.

1988.

The John Jay Hillel in an e-mail to the adminis- that Arafat died of AIDS. Eger came out in an interview with the Los Many Palestinians continue to believe that tration called the college’s response to the incident Angeles Times in 1990. She is engaged to be mar“inadequate,” The Algemeiner reported, and com- Arafat was poisoned by Israel because he was an ried. plained that the campus security handled the first obstacle to peace. Israel has denied any involveShe also was the first female and openly gay discovery of a swastika internally without notifying ment. president of the Southern California Board of the campus administration or faculty.

Rabbis, and the founding president of the Lesbian, The Hillel also called for more uniformed Gay & Bisexual Interfaith Clergy Association. Eger and plainclothes security patrols near its offices, Frightened Swedish mourners get officiated at the first legal wedding in California police protection at cemetery according to The Algemeiner. for a lesbian couple, the Philadelphia Daily News Swedish police posted officers at a Jewish cemereported. tery in Malmo after mourners said they had been Over 1,200 attend New York intimidated there by passers-by. event promoting aliya YU board supports president The alleged intimidation occurred on March More than 1,200 people attended an event in New 10 at Malmo’s Ostra, or eastern, Jewish cemetery, after faculty no-confidence vote York City to promote moving to Israel. the on-line edition of the Expressen daily reported The Yeshiva University board of trustees issued The Aliyah Mega Event held March 15 was March 14. a statement in support of President Richard Joel hosted by Nefesh B’Nefesh, The Jewish Agency for Two police officers stationed at the cemetery after the undergraduate faculty overwhelmingly Israel, Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant saw two cars speed off as they were approached passed a no-confidence resolution against him.

Absorption, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, and JNFby police shortly after midnight, according to the Board chair Dr. Henry Kressel, in a letter USA. accompanying the board’s message issued March The event included workshops and seminars on report.

Police were called to the scene by a 59-year13, called the vote that day of the faculty of Yeshiva planning aliya, assistance in speeding up medical old man who stayed at the cemetery overnight College at Yeshiva University “an unfortunate licensing for potential immigrants, and informadevelopment,” adding that the administration has tion on programs to help the transition to life in to perform a burial ritual and said he felt intimiheld several meetings with the faculty “to develop dated by several teenagers he saw in the area. The Israel. plans to enhance the quality of the educational teens hid when they noticed they were spotted by Students, professionals, and retirees attended experience at YU while saving costs.” the man. the event, according to Nefesh B’Nefesh.

In a vote that is not binding on the board, 80 The man was in a preparation room to watch Assistance in speeding up licensing procedures percent of the faculty voted no-confidence to 3 over the body of his deceased brother ahead of was offered in medicine, dentistry, physical therpercent confidence, with 17 abstentions, amid the burial — a ritual known as shmirat hamet, or apy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, nursfrustration over deep cuts in the curriculum and guarding of the dead. The mourner’s son also was ing, nutrition, and pharmacology. the announcement that some contract faculty will present. be let go. Some two-thirds of the faculty voted.

After seeing the teenagers watching him “The Board of Trustees is ultimately responsible Arafat was not poisoned, during the day, the man guarding the body, who for ensuring the University is able to move forFrench prosecutor says was not identified, called police when he feared ward with excellence,” the board said in its statement. “This responsibility includes implementing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat did not die of poi- someone was trying to break into the preparation room. soning, a French prosecutor said. a financial plan to ensure the sustainability of “We got really scared,” he told the newspaper.

The prosecutor told the French news agency the institution. Under our direction, President “Instead of mourning in peace, we focused on AFP that French experts found that Arafat was not Richard Joel, his administration, and the Board’s what was happening outside. They’re trying to outside advisers, Alvarez & Marsal, have identified poisoned, despite rumors to the contrary. scare us and, sadly, they are succeeding.”

Arafat’s widow, Suha, had filed legal action in areas across the entire university to streamline Malmo’s few hundred Jewish residents have and realign operations, while ensuring the student July 2012 asking French authorities in the western come under attack in recent years from some Paris suburb of Nanterre to look into claims that experience remains vibrant. They have performed members of the southern city’s Muslim popuher husband was poisoned. Traces of radioactive admirably in a difficult environment.” lation, which constitutes one-third of the city’s polonium were found on Arafat’s belongings.

Professor Gillian Steinberg, a member of the French prosecutors in August 2012 opened a mur- population.

Yeshiva College executive committee, told The der inquiry into Arafat’s death.

According to Expressen, over the past two New York Jewish Week that the vote was meant to After the opening of the inquiry, Arafat’s years, some 137 anti-Semitic incidents were “signal donors in a meaningful way” and “indicate tomb in Ramallah was opened to allow teams of recorded in the Malmo region, a figure higher that the board of trustees is moving in the wrong French, Swiss, and Russian investigators to collect than anywhere else in Sweden. direction.”

World in review

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Opinion Editorial

Past, present, and future Is there a future for the Jews of Europe?

Over the past few months, journalist Jeffrey Goldberg traveled the continent to find out. He interviewed community leaders in Paris and Copenhagen, French children harassed on their way to school, Swedish residents afraid to wear their kipot in public, and anti-immigrant politicians who think the rise of Islamism is a growth opportunity for their brand of nationalism. Goldberg concludes that Europe is no longer shadowed by guilt for the Holocaust, and, as he writes in the Atlantic, “what was once impermissible is again imaginable.”

On the other hand, he also speaks with French and German politicians who are strong defenders of their Jewish communities and are vowing to fight intolerance no matter who the target may be.

“Today,” Goldberg reminds readers, “Germany’s leader is among the world’s chief defenders of Jews.”

Europe’s Jews may be uneasy, and a minority has already immigrated to Israel, but they also have solid roots in their countries and pride in their historic communities. If their future is not bright, at present they are still concerned with the things every Jewish community needs: security, strong institutions, education for their children, services for their elderly and needy.

Earlier this month, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jewish Federations of North America convened a meeting of key groups that provide funding and services to Jews in Europe. Their discussion focused on a communal response, from Jewish federations and

their partners. Their agenda includes raising funds to address urgent security needs, holding solidarity events to remind Europe’s Jews that they are not alone, and funding aliya for those who want to relocate to Israel.

“In the recent past, we may have imagined a time when our communities could step back from a focus on anti-Semitism and physical threats to Jewish institutions and individuals,” wrote Michael Siegal, chair of the JFNA board of trustees. “Now, we clearly know that this is not that time. Our immediate response has been focused and strategic, providing both solidarity and assistance. Now we must look ahead, together with our historic partners and the leadership of the communities directly affected, to face these growing threats.”

Editor’s Column

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readers advice on navigating the he New York Times Magazine recently underwent a redesign, unknown waters of their adopted country. which included a new verA successful advice sion of its long-running column either meets a advice column “The real need among its readEthicist.” Chuck Klosterers, or offers a distinctive man, the latest in a line perspective that enlightof successors to the irreens readers on the worldplaceable Randy Cohen, view of its writer. “A Binhas himself been replaced tel Brief” did nothing less by a team of “Ethicists.” than teach a generation The column is now a of new Yiddish-speaking transcript of their blog of immigrants how to be the same name.

Americans. Cahan filled “The Ethicist” ran Andrew in for traditional providout of steam a while ago — the questions about Silow-Carroll ers of guidance — rabbis, parents, friends — who everyday ethical dilemmas were similarly unsure now seem repetitious, how to behave in their strange new and none of Cohen’s successors has had his wit or empathy. Cohen was a world. Almost 100 years later, “The humorist, and admitted that he came Ethicist” served a secular, educated audience that seemed hungry for to the column with zero credentials the kinds of advice for which people as a philosopher, theologian, legal used to turn to their clergy. scholar, or whatever else you might In the second category of advice need to be in order to offer ethical columns is the wonderful “Ask a advice. Instead, he brought a certain Mexican!,” which appears in alternahumility, and a “let’s work through tive newspapers. Gustavo Arellano, this together” sensibility to the task. himself Mexican-American, is a sort As I’ve written before, I suffer of mirror image of Cahan — instead from “advice column envy.” I’d love of helping immigrants acclimate to to be the guy who answers readers’ their new surroundings, he teaches questions and offers life-changing white people (gabachos, in Mexican instruction with the tap of a key. My slang) about their Hispanic neighrole model is, of course, Abraham Cahan, the editor of the Yiddish Daily bors. Sometimes he punctures a stereotype (“Why do Mexican men Forward in its early-20th-century heyday. The magisterial Cahan would always sexualize white women?” is a typical slow pitch for Arellano), and step down from his lofty editor’s sometimes he offers sage sociological peak to write “A Bintel Brief,” which perspectives (as in his answer to the offered the Forward’s immigrant

question, “Are Mexicans more conservative, liberal, or libertarian?”).

Arellano once wrote that he hopes to create “the fullest depiction of Mexicans in the land,” and after a decade of writing his column, he has largely succeeded.

Others have tried to copy Arellano’s formula, with limited success.

“Ask a Hipster,” in the San Diego Reader, offers advice on style and behavior according to the retro aesthetic and finicky code of urban trend-setters. The recurring joke is that The Hipster is both too cool to render judgments and too demanding not to.

Although I’ve despaired of coming up with a distinct and contemporary Jewish advice column, the English-language Forward has delivered nicely with “The Seesaw,” which promises to answer “all your questions about interfaith life.” The column is a smart resource for a new cohort of Jews entering unexplored territory. A rotating team of writers addresses the dilemmas of both Jewish and non-Jewish partners. “Will Chrismukkah Ruin My Nice Jewish Kids?” asked one reader. “Will Jewish Camp Turn My Sons Into Members of [the] Tribe?” asks another. “The Seesaw” provides families answers to questions Cahan might never have imagined.

As I’ve also written before, the secret of a good advice column is an insecure readership. The column only works if readers are uncertain of their place in society, or charting new emotional territory. And for

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better or worse, I suspect that American Jews are so comfortable in their Americanness and in their Jewishness that they don’t need or seek advice on either. Our questions have been answered, at least to our satisfaction.

That sounds good, I suppose — who would choose to be insecure?

But there is something to be said for living in tension, and being even just a little bit unsure of yourself and your choices. The very name “Israel” means “one who wrestles with God.” The Jewish way is to constantly ask questions, and challenge the answers.

But if we don’t need advice, maybe we need a dose of straight talk. Here’s my nomination for the next great Jewish advice columnist: Susie Essman, the comedian who played the foul-mouthed Susie Green on Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Just imagine the possibilities: Dear Susie Essman: Whenever we go out to dinner with our friends, we split the check — although I suspect my friend is charging the meal to his company credit card, and we end up giving him cash. Should I say something?

Dear Reader: Tell him he is worthless piece of &(!# and an ugly %$&* who can go $%^# with a $%*&. Meanwhile, you should man up, you $%^&@.

Now that’s an advice column I n would read.

The views expressed in this column are those of the author.

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me of my first encounast summer our famter with anti-Semitism, in ily went to southern high school. A friend saw Europe on holiday. someone Jewish walk by, During our stay at a hotel, and with no provocation our son Dylan went to the he confidently told me: swimming pool. A short “Michael, all Jews cheat in time later he came running business.” back to the room, upset. A “What are you talking man at the pool had started about?” I said. hurling insults at him.

“Michael, come on,” he My first instinct was to Michael replied. “Everyone knows ask, “Were you misbehavDouglas that.” ing?”

With little knowledge of “No,” Dylan told me what it meant to be a Jew, I through his tears.

I stared at him. And suddenly I had found myself passionately defending an awful realization of what might the Jewish people. Now, half a cenhave caused the man’s outrage: Dylan tury later, I have to defend my son.

Anti-Semitism, I’ve seen, is like a was wearing a star of David.

After calming him down, I went to disease that goes dormant, flaring up the pool and asked the attendants to with the next political trigger.

In my opinion, there are three reapoint out the man who had yelled at him. We talked. It was not a pleasant sons anti-Semitism is appearing now discussion. Afterward, I sat down with with renewed vigilance.

The first is that historically, it my son and said: “Dylan, you just had always grows more virulent whenever your first taste of anti-Semitism.”

My father, Kirk Douglas, born and wherever the economy is bad.

Issur Danielovitch, is Jewish. My In a time when income disparity is mother, Diana, is not. I had no for- growing, when hundreds of millions mal religious upbringing from either of people live in abject poverty, some of them, and the two kids I have with find Jews to be a convenient scapegoat Catherine Zeta-Jones are like me, rather than looking at the real source growing up with one parent who is of their problems.

A second root cause of anti-SemJewish and one who is not.

Several years ago Dylan, through itism derives from an irrational and his friends, developed a deep connec- misplaced hatred of Israel. Far too tion to Judaism, and when he started many people see Israel as an apartgoing to Hebrew school and studying heid state and blame the people of for his bar mitzva, I began to recon- an entire religion for what, in truth, are internal national-policy decisions. nect with the religion of my father.

While some Jews believe that not Does anyone really believe that the having a Jewish mother makes me not innocent victims in that kosher shop Jewish, I have learned the hard way in Paris and at that bar mitzva in Denthat those who hate do not make such mark had anything to do with Israeli-Palestinian policies or the building fine distinctions.

Dylan’s experience reminded of settlements 2,000 miles away?

Letters to the Editor Avoiding the obvious The entire op-ed written by Gideon Aranoff and Dan Fleshler in the March 12 edition reeks of weakness and pusillanimity (“America prefers a cold peace to a hot war”). A summary of their arguments is that we should just give Iran what it wants because they won’t give us what we need. In detail, they maintain that it is foolish to try to negotiate a zero enrichment agreement with Iran because they would never accept it.

But later they say that the United States should include “very intrusive inspections” in its demands on Iran, as if that was something that they

The third reason is simple demographics. Europe is now home to 25 million to 30 million Muslims, twice the world’s entire Jewish population.

Within any religious community that large, there will always be an extremist fringe, people who are radicalized and driven with hatred, while rejecting what all religions need to preach — respect, tolerance, and love. We’re now seeing the amplified effects of that small, radicalized element. With the Internet, its virus of hatred can

With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. now speed from nation to nation, helping fuel Europe’s new epidemic of anti-Semitism. It is time for each of us to speak up against this hate.

Speaking up is the responsibility of our political leaders. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has made it clear that anti-Semitism violates the morals and spirit of France and that violent anti-Semitic acts are a crime against all French people that must be confronted, combated, and stopped.

He challenged his nation to tell the world: Without its Jews, France would no longer be France.

Speaking up is the responsibility of our religious leaders, and Pope Francis has used his powerful voice to make his position and that of the Catholic Church clear, saying: “It’s a contradic-

Netanyahu, like Churchill, is the only foreign leader to speak before Congress three times. He gave an outstanding explanation of why the Obama administration’s reckless determination to make a foolish “deal” makes absolutely no sense for America or its allies. He hit on all of the right points, all but paraphrasing Churchill’s quote, “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.”

Sheldon Waxman Congress now clearly understands Livingston what Obama proposes and must do its duty to stop him from further Shame on Democrats endangering our country. Netanyahu was addressing the only body that Shame on all Jewish Democrats who can prevent the mad rush to make opposed or boycotted Prime Minister a bad deal with Iran, whose missiles Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. can reach America’s shores. could accept. Iran won’t accept the former demand, and they certainly won’t accept the latter demand either. I constantly wonder how people can avoid seeing the obvious.

Why does America have to accept the inevitability of an Iranian bomb?

I understand that the current president and his acolytes believe the United States should lead the world from behind, but when we actually find ourselves behind, we will find that no one cares what we think.

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tion that a Christian is anti-Semitic.

His roots are Jewish. Let anti-Semitism be banished from the heart and life of every man and every woman.”

In New York, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan is well-known for building a bridge to the Jewish community. His words and actions and the pope’s are evidence of the reconciliation between two major religions, an inspiring example of how a past full of persecution and embedded hostility can be overcome.

It’s also the responsibility of regular citizens to take action. In Oslo, members of the Muslim community joined their fellow Norwegians to form a ring of peace at a local synagogue. Such actions give me hope — they send a message that together, we can stand up to hatred of the Jewish people.

So that is our challenge in 2015, and all of us must take it up. Because if we confront anti-Semitism whenever we see it, if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

My son is strong. He is fortunate to live in a country where anti-Semitism is rare. But now he too has learned of the dangers that he as a Jew must face.

It’s a lesson that I wish I didn’t have to teach him, a lesson I hope he will never have to teach his children. n Michael Douglas, award-winning actor/producer and United Nations messenger of peace, received the 2015 Genesis Prize, which honors “exceptional people whose values and achievements will inspire the next generation of Jews.” This article first appeared in the Los Angeles Times and JTA.

America’s safety must never be a partisan issue, yet Obama and the Democratic party made it so. That Jewish Democrats put party over security, and participated in such an insult to our nation, is reprehensible.

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Renters who schedule an appointment to visit the community’s leasing office today can take advantage of this time-sensitive opportunity to pre-lease a variety of one- and two- bedroom layouts, with limited den and loft options available. With so few apartments available in the community and occupancy quickly approaching, inventory is expected to fly off the shelf.

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Monthly rents at The Hillside Club are currently starting from $2,495 for one-bedroom residences, ranging upwards of $4,995 for 1831-sq. ft. two-bedroom plus loft layouts. Regardless of home size, each apartment will boast condo-style finishes such as hardwood flooring in the living areas, plush carpeted bedrooms, nine-foot ceilings and oversized windows. High-efficiency washer/dryers are included within every home and abundant closet space is designed into each floor plan. Chef-inspired kitchens offer stone countertops, a subway tiled backsplash, pendant lighting and stainless steel appliances.

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heated outdoor pool and complimentary WiFi. A residents’ lounge offers space to entertain with billiards, fireplace, kitchenette, and lounge seating.

The Hillside Club is situated in a leafy neighborhood in Livingston just minutes from Routes 280, 10, and 24. In addition to its easy access to highways, Livingston offers a convenient commute to Manhattan via nearby NJ Transit train and bus service. Shopping and dining opportunities are abundant in the town, and attractions such as the Mall at Short Hills, Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, South Orange Performing Arts Center and the Prudential Center are all just a short drive away.

To schedule an appointment and take advantage of pre-leasing opportunities at The Hillside Club, visit RentAtHillsideClub.com or call the onsite leasing office at 973-488-6406, now open daily. The community is located at 1000 Murray Court in Livingston.

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ew Jerseyans weary of snow shoveling and de-icing their cars are breathing a collective sigh of relief as spring emerges in the Garden State.

At Vizcaya, the luxury gated community in West Orange, residents are also welcoming the incoming warm weather, but for an entirely different reason.

Vizcaya comes alive in the spring, with numerous outdoor amenities, including manicured walking paths and a grand terrace that overlooks the hilltops of western Essex County.

Winter is not an unpleasant season — residents enjoy covered parking and all snow removal is handled by the staff — but spring brings new life, new activities, and a beautiful landscape. It’s a combination that drove strong sales traffic to the community in 2014, leaving only the last few luxury townhomes and single-level residences available in the nearly sold out community.

“Home buyers who want to throw their snow shovel in the trash for good and come enjoy the intimate, resort-like lifestyle we offer at Vizcaya still have several good options available, even as the inventory gets smaller by the day,” said Kristina Hedden, Vice President of Marketing at BNE Real Estate Group, the developer of Vizcaya. “Spring is a popular time to buy here, and we expect a lot of interest in the remaining townhome and condo-style layouts, so we are urging anyone who has their heart set on the highly-amenitized, service-oriented lifestyle Vizcaya is known for to act quickly to ensure their place in the community.”

Vizcaya is a five-star residential community that graces a hilltop in scenic Western Essex County.

Overlooking a canopy of trees, it stands out as one

of the most beautiful luxury communities in New Jersey. The main building, with its traditional stone façade and European-inspired architecture, serves as the centerpiece of the estate. Luxury townhomes, manicured gardens and landscaped walking paths surround the main building.

“I first visited Vizcaya with a friend who was thinking about moving here, and once I saw the townhomes, I decided that this was the place for me,” said one Vizcaya resident. “I purchased one and I haven’t looked back. I rave about this place to anyone who will listen. No more aggravation or worry about maintaining a single-family home. I can travel and leave everything to the staff to take care of. I really enjoy my freedom living here at Vizcaya.”

Priced from $799,990, the townhomes include three bedrooms, 3.5-baths and up to 3,955 square feet of multi-level living space. All of the homes boast chef-inspired kitchens with breakfast nook, expansive living rooms, formal dining rooms, and stunning, two-story entrance foyer. Comfortable bedrooms are highlighted by an exceptional master suite, featuring his and hers walk-in closets, a private sitting area, and a five-piece master bath with shower, separate soaking tub and dual sinks.

Townhome buyers have the option of upgrading the lower level to a finished space ideal for entertainment and hobbies, such as a media room, game room, wine cellar or tasting room with wet bar. Elevators are available in select locations.

Families appreciate the personal privacy and independence the townhomes offer each member of their household. Downsizing couples find the extra bedrooms and flexible layouts especially con-

venient for hosting guests. New residents enjoy having more free time, an amenity-rich lifestyle and less maintenance.

In the main building, remaining single-level residences boast two to three bedrooms, 2 ½-3 baths and up to 2,617 square feet of living space, with only one remaining, priced at $1,437,990. Immediate closing dates are available.

Popular amenities at Vizcaya, such as the sauna, steam, massage rooms, state-of-the-art fitness center, yoga/aerobics studio, tennis court and heated indoor and outdoor pools, provide residents a yearround vacation-like experience just steps from their front door. White glove services including complimentary valet parking, gated security and 24-hour concierge service enhance the lifestyle experience.

The community is a short drive away from several gourmet restaurants, local shops, boutiques, parks and entertainment venues. The acclaimed Paper Mill Playhouse and The Mall at Short Hills are both nearby. The South Mountain Reservation and Turtle Back Zoo are just around the corner. Recreational opportunities abound with municipal and county parks, private and public golf courses, and preserved natural woodlands found throughout the 12 mile town.

Manhattan is conveniently located approximately 25 miles east, while New Jersey Transit rail stations are nearby in Millburn and South Orange.

For more information or to schedule a tour, call 973-325-6712 or visit VizcayaNJ.com. The sales center is open daily by appointment from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., six days a week (closed on Thursday), and is located at 1 Metzger Drive, West Orange.

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lorida homes are selling. Our real estate market is booming for both buyers and sellers. Home values have significantly risen and continue to do so rapidly.

Your cold weather still reminds you of our fabulous lifestyle here in warm, sunny Florida. I am selling to buyers who are heading to our shores to take advantage of our great weather, relaxed lifestyle, countless and growing cultural venues, sports activities, great restaurants, and enjoyment of life at great buys.

I am having an active selling season, including sales of waterfront condos in Boca Raton, Highland Beach, and Fort Lauderdale including Villa Magna, The Addison, Stratford Arms, The Coronado, Casuarina, Boca Highlands and La Fontana, as well as sales of homes throughout the area including Boca Pointe, Addison Reserve, all of The Valencias, Villaggio, and Bellaggio, and

many other adult communities and country club communities throughout Palm Beach County. My clientele is garnered through my many customer referrals, vast internet presence, and advertising throughout the United States and Canada.

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BEL AIR AT WEST ORANGE TOWNHOUSES OFFERED AT $779,000 Rare Encino model largest in the community 3,679 sq ft + 1,800 sq ft walk-out lower level. This beautifully decorated unit is located on a culde-sac and features all the upgrades you would wish for. There are wood floors on the entire first floor, the stairs and the second floor foyer. The gourmet’s kitchen has a large center island, the very popular white wood cabinets, granite counters, stainless steel appliances including a 5 burner cooktop and double wall ovens. The kitchen has a spacious breakfast area with a French door to the deck and is open to the Family Room.

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Sima and Javid Hakakian with their son, Jonathan, who works part time with them.

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GRACIOUS CENTER HALL COLONIAL IN COVENTRY Charming traditional style combined with an intelligent floor plan create a beautiful stately home to be enjoyed for years. This home features an impressive entry foyer, 4 spacious bedrooms plus 1st floor guest/office, 3 full and 2 half updated bathrooms, gourmet kitchen, formal dining room and more. Special details make this a home for relaxing and entertaining with a magnificently landscaped pool, patio and back yard on close to an acre of property. This is a must see! $1,450,000. Contact Gaye Pecker at (917) 903-0523 and Steve Lee at (973) 650-4742.

UPSCALE MUSEUM QUALITY BEL AIR RESERVE True 5 Bedroom + 4.1 bath with MASTER SUITE on Main Level. Gorgeous FIN Basement. Quiet Cul-de-Sac Location. $$$$ Upgrades Over 3,600 sq feet JITNEY to S Orange TRAIN STATION 1 block away. $775,000 Contact Ellen Gonik at (973) 879-9467

CHARMING SPLIT LEVEL Charming, spacious, Split Level on a big level lot with 5 bdr, 4 fbth.

This home features indoor heated pool, huge master bedr&bath w Jacuzzi tub, skylight, Multi zone heat & A/C. Convenient to NYC transportation & Houses of Worship. $849,900 Contact Lilly Fong at (973) 222-7645

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&S Designer Flooring has been serving New Jersey homeowners for 26 years, the past 15 from their expansive Morristown showroom.

The story of J&S and its owners Javid and Sima Hakakian, embodies the American dream. The couple, both of Iranian Jewish decent, migrated to the area shortly after the Iranian revolution and started their business from their small home. Today, J&S is comprised of a 20,000 sq. ft. showroom in the heart of Morristown, supported by a professional and experienced team of thirty plus employees. In addition, they operate a separate warehouse and an outlet store in Cedar Knolls.

The seemingly infinite showroom features an unequaled selection of intricately woven Persian masterpieces, one of kind vegetable–dyed rugs, contemporary and transitional Tibetans, heirloom antiques, hardwood flooring, as well as complete range of carpeting, including the prestigious Stark line, for which J&S is an exclusive dealer in NJ. “People should come to see why our showroom has grown to be one of the country’s largest and finest,” says Javid. “The most common feedback we receive from people visiting our showroom is that they feel inspired and become excited about discovering so many options that they didn’t know existed.

Just hearing that gives me satisfaction and makes all the hard work worthwhile.” Sima adds, “So many of our customers have become friends; and they started out just by coming in to look at the collection, and now they come to our home for holiday dinners.”

“We feel so fortunate to have settled in such a wonderful community, and we are proud to have based both our business and our family in Morristown,” says Javid.

Sima and Javid are both active in Jewish philanthropy and they have belonged to the Mount Freedom Jewish Center for over twenty years. The couple is also known for holding events at the store including seminars, charity functions, and book signings.

“We are hands on in every project, regardless of the size,” he adds. “Our source of pride is not in the size of our showroom or the thousands of rugs and carpets in our inventory, but in our professional team and the care and attention that we provide to every single client, every day of the week. This has been and will continue to be the foundation of our business.”

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ith April just around the corner we are in the process of preparing our homes for Passover. The holiday requires much preparation and in depth cleaning. It is also a special time for family to gather and celebrate the holiday with beautiful rituals and special foods.

While you take the time to prepare your home for the holiday, think about taking a step beyond the basic vacuuming and dusting that you typically do. For example, what’s in your front hall closet?

When was the last time you emptied out every item in the closet including the shelf with the scarves, hats, gloves, flashlights, and umbrellas? When your guests arrive for the Seder, do you have any space or extra hangers to hang up their coats, or do you throw all of your guests’ coats on your bed?

In order to make The Coat Closet Challenge productive, you need to dig down deep into your soul when you examine every article of clothing that you pull out from the closet. For example, let’s start with your winter coats. How many do you have? When was the last time you wore each of them? Do they bring you joy when you put them on?

I was taught to purchase good quality classic clothing that lasts and does not go out of style. For those of you who know me, you have seen me in my Lands End coat in an awful/dull shade of blue (what was I thinking) that I’ve had for at least 20 years. I can’t kill the thing, but guess what? It keeps me warm and it’s my go-to coat when I am dressing casual. And did I mention that it’s machine washable?

Even though I hate the color, it does stand out in a crowd and my husband is happy that I have one less item in basic black in the closet. Would I give it away?

Not until it falls apart. Bottom line, I wear it and it keeps me warm. I remember loaning it to my niece during a trip to San Francisco and she commented about

how “cozy” it felt to wear. In the case of this particular coat, there are enough joyful reasons to keep it. Can you say that about every coat in your closet?

Both my parents were products of the depression, so their mentality was to keep everything because some day the “bubble may burst.” I did not inherit that gene, for me less is truly more. I don’t keep an abundance of clothing; therefore cleaning out my front hall closet was an easy task. I ended up donating a few scarves and some pairs of gloves. I found umbrellas that were broken and hard to open so they got tossed. I am waiting to get a second shelf installed so that we can keep the hats separate from the gloves and scarves, but for now it works.

And better yet, if you were to visit my home wearing a winter coat, I have room to hang it up in my front hall closet.

You may read this and think to yourself, “It’s just a closet, what’s the big deal?” Well here is my take on it…how we maintain our home is a reflection of who we are. How do you want to present yourself? If you are feeling overwhelmed with clutter and too many visual distractions, it can detract from your ability to concentrate, be productive, and bottom line you don’t know what you have. So start small, pick a specific space in your home — and go for it! I am confident that you will feel great when you accomplish the de-cluttering process of just one space!

And for goodness sakes - enjoy the holiday with your loved ones and let them know just how special they are to you.

Give them each a big hug and tell them how much you love them. Please let me know if you take the coat closet challenge and how it worked for you.

Happy Organizing! n Eileen Bergman is a Professional Organizer located in West Orange. She may be reached by e-mail at Eileen@ eileenbergman.com for feedback and suggestions for future articles.

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abinets Direct USA with showrooms in Livingston, Orange (on the West Orange border), Paramus, Wayne, and Toms River, has earned both the 2014 Angie’s List Super Service Award and the Best of Houzz 2015 Service Awards.

The coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award reflects an exemplary year of service provided to members of the local services marketplace and consumer review site in 2014. “Only about five percent of the remodeling-kitchen and bathroom companies in New Jersey perform consistently well enough to earn our Super Service Award,” said Angie’s List founder Angie Hicks. “It’s a really high standard.”

Cabinets Direct USA has also been awarded the “Best of Houzz” for Customer Satisfaction selection by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. Cabinets Direct USA

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“We’re delighted to recognize Cabinets Direct USA among our ‘Best Of’ professionals as judged by our community of homeowners and design enthusiasts who are actively remodeling and decorating their homes,” said Liza Hausman, vice president of industry marketing for Houzz.

Cabinets Direct is located at 518 Rt. 10 West, Livingston, next to Fortunoff Backyard Store and Staples and at 566 White Street, Orange, on the West Orange border. The showrooms are open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 973-676-6700 or visit cabinetsdirectusa.com.

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Susie made it happen!” (A.M., Livingston) As a result of my passion and strengths as a people-person, my local upbringing, and being a part of a real estate family, I ventured into the world of real estate as a residential sales associate. My creativity, eye for detail, and years of knowledge as a lifelong Essex County resident are what enable me to be successful in matching clients with their ideal properties. Honesty and loyalty to my clients are always my top priority.

My goal is to satisfy my clients’ specifications on every level including location, aesthetics, and amenities in order to find them their “dream home.” Every day, I look forward to working with new and returning clients, whether they are looking to buy, sell, rent or invest in property.

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rlene Gonnella was named #1 Agent in the Millburn-Short Hills market and #2 Agent in New Jersey for 2014 by GSMLS with over $100 million in closed transactions for the year. In 2013, Arlene set a record for Essex and Morris counties for sales price with her sale of 220 Hartshorn Drive for $7,500,000. Arlene has been ranked the #1 real estate agent in the Millburn-Short Hills market for nine years, including 2014. She was also named the number one agent in the national company of Weichert Realtors for 10 consecutive years.

Arlene’s 30 years of experience and expertise is simply unmatched.

Arlene goes above and beyond for her clients. Whether it’s buying or selling a home, Arlene guides you through every step of the process, and is a trusted advisor on all matters.

Arlene is proud to introduce her new listing, 4 Chelsea Drive in Livingston.

Asking $2,288,000. This Bel Air estate luxury, modern home was custom built by the current owner to the highest specifications. It features an indoor pool, 6,800 square feet with a perfect floor plan, and is walking distance to two temples, one just across the street. It also offers high ceilings, solar panels, and three car garage. Call Arlene, 201-306-1357 today for a showing.

46 Slayton Drive, Short Hills, $1,999,000 Perfect in every way! Totally renovated to the highest specifications by present owner. The home has everything you ever wanted, gorgeous Gourmet Eat-in Kitchen with state of the art appliances.

Incredible 1st floor Master Suite w/ walk-in California closet & spa-like Master Bath with shower over Tub. 2 more bedrooms on the 1st level, two bedrooms share a bath on the 2nd level. Lower Level with natural light from windows & doors has a bedroom and bath, kitchen and Family Room that opens to blue stone patio & massive .518 acre of property with pool! Heated attached 2 car garage!

21 North Taylor Road, Short Hills. $1,748,000

120 Highland Avenue, Short Hills, $2,495,000 Grand Historic Hartshorn Home with High Ceilings, period details, spectacular 32 by 37 great room with fireplace, conservatory, Leonardis Kitchen and all new bathrooms, gorgeous wood paneled library, beautifully finished basement too! Carriage house has living area with 1.5 bath and 14 by 27 living room with fireplace. Ideally located on 1.82 acres of totally level property. Paddle tennis court. Plenty of room for a pool!

19 Western Drive, Short Hills. $2,575,000.

Welcome to your dream home, Historic Hartshorn Home built in 1913. Ideally located on 1.35 acres of totally level property. Fully restored to perfection by present owner. Huge Gourmet Eat-in Kitchen with center island & walk-in pantry totally open to gracious Family Room. This home is an oasis of relaxation, surrounded by peaceful gardens with perennials and stone walls, including a beautiful courtyard. Perfect for entertaining. Every Bath is new.

This Mint condition Center Hall Colonial sits on .45 of an acre of beautifully manicured property with waterfall, pond and gazebo. Has Gourmet eat-in Kitchen with Family room with vaulted ceiling and wood burning Fireplace. Gorgeous Master Suite with huge custom walk-in closet and spa-like bath with radiant heated floors plus 3 more bedrooms and 3 more gorgeous baths complete the 2nd floor.

Every amenity; sound system, moldings, many built-ins and wine cellar.

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CHILDREN’S STORY

Film recounts Philly couple’s Shoa rescue DEBRA RUBIN

mer at a camp run by the Brith Sholom, a benevolent association in Philadelphia.

After the summer, Beller went to live with Philip and Emily Amram in a Philahe creator of a film about the delphia suburb for a year until his mother rescue of 50 youngsters from arrived with his grandparents. His father, Nazi Europe and one of those a Polish citizen, had gone into hiding and whose story of survival is feawas later detained by the British as he tured will come together at a tried to sneak into Palestine. However, he screening of the documentary at Temple was able to join his family in 1946.

Beth O’r/Beth Torah of Clark on Sunday, “The Amrams treated me like a son,” March 29. said Beller, adding that he remained in 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. touch with their two children for many and Mrs. Kraus tells the story of Gilbert years. Beller worked in Medicare adminand Eleanor Kraus, a Philadelphia couple istration in Baltimore for 40 years and who in 1939 embarked on an improbable now volunteers as a Medicare counselor mission to Nazi-occupied Austria. They at senior centers. faced daunting obstacles as they went He and his wife, Glenda, have been about finding the youngsters and obtainmarried 58 years and have three chiling visas from the U.S. government, passports from the Nazis, and 50 affidavits The rescued children aboard the USS President Harding on their way to the United dren, seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. from American families willing to assume States.

Photos courtesy Paul Beller The film is based on a private journal responsibility for the children. written by Eleanor that Pressman’s wife, Among those who escaped the fate Liz Perle, shared with him. “At first, I of the nearly 1.5 million children killed “Conditions were terrible, and everyby the Nazis was Paul Beller of Monroe body was trying to leave,” Beller said. didn’t quite believe what I was reading” about PerTownship, who will join filmmaker Ste“The visa quotas were quite severe in le’s grandparents, Pressman told NJJN in an e-mail. ven Pressman, who is married to the America because of anti-Semitism and “But after realizing that it was all true, I was deterKrauses’ granddaughter, at the temple. the Depression.… People wanted to leave mined all these years later to bring this story to light.”

As the youngsters set out to board the but once the war started, no country In addition to serving as the producer and director of the documentary, which is narrated by Alan Alda, ship that would take them to America, would let them in.”

“One of the things I remember was my Anti-Semitism and political maneu- Pressman has also written a book about the rescue.

He said that delving into the Krauses’ daring act mother saying to me, ‘Don’t wave goodvering led to a dearth of the kind of cour“turned out to be an incredible journey of discovbye,’” said Beller in a phone conversation age needed to effect the rescue of Jews in with NJJN at the time of the HBO film’s Europe, but the Krauses, who were Jew- ery….”

What held particular meaning for him was being original airing in 2013. “Some of those ish, seized the notion that they should go parents would never see their children Paul Beller can recall to Austria and attempt to extract as many able “to tell a very important story about this country in addition to bringing some long-deserved recogniagain, and they couldn’t wave goodbye. the pain of parents who Jewish children as they could. wave goodtion to these two extraordinary people.”

■ They were told they might be arrested “couldn’t The couple — Gilbert was a lawbye” to their children. because it would look like ‘Heil Hitler,’ yer with some contacts in Washington drubin@njjewishnews.com and Jews were forbidden from giving the — interviewed hundreds of children in Nazi salute.”

Vienna. They assumed legal guardianship Beller, who was born in 1931, said his family and personal responsibility for them and found foster had a relatively good life in Austria until the 1938 parents to adopt the youngsters, who ranged in age THE EVENT at Temple Beth O’r/Beth Torah is the Anschluss, when the Jews had their rights taken away, from five to 14, if their parents didn’t survive.

25th annual program of the Edith & Mark Lief followed soon afterward by deportations to the death “A lot of Jewish people told the Krauses they Memorial Lecture Series. camps. shouldn’t be doing this because it was too risky,” said The Liefs, longtime members of the congregaBeller. “Roosevelt was not too supportive of immition, were born in Lvov and were married in 1938. gration and the State Department was quite anti-SeWhen the Germans invaded Poland, Edith left mitic.” with her sister to Siberia, while Mark, a skilled If you go “They picked 25 girls and 25 boys,” said Beller. mechanic, enlisted in the Russian army and was “The criteria was that you had to be mentally and later captured by the Germans.

What: Screening of 50 Children: The Rescue Misphysically in good health, and you had to be willing Mark escaped from a prisoner of war camp by sion of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus to travel without fear and emotional attachment to fashioning a sling, attaching it to the bottom of a Who: Survivor Paul Beller, filmmaker Steven Pressyour parents. My mother told me I was going to visit German truck, and riding out of the camp to freeman dom. He then rejoined the Russian army. relatives in the United States for the summer…. She When: Sunday, March 29, 3 p.m.

After the war neither knew if the other had surnever told me why, so I was relaxed in the interview.

Where: Temple Beth O’r/Beth Torah, Clark vived. Edith sent a postcard addressed to Mark to My mother protected me.”

Cost: Free the Moscow post office; by chance, he checked On board the USS President Harding, the children the post office and found her card. They were were prepared for their new home with lessons in Contact: Call 732-381-8403 or visit bethorbethtoreunited and came to the United States in 1949.

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Jewish baseball great Al Rosen dies at 91 RON KAPLAN

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l Rosen, who bridged the gap between Hall of Famers Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, died March 13 at the age of 91.

Rosen played for the Cleveland Indians from 1947 through 1956, including for the 1948 World Series champions — the last time Cleveland won the title. He was a unanimous selection for the American League Most Valuable Player — the first time such an honor was achieved.

Rosen retired after the 1956 season, at 32, due to lingering injuries suffered in a car accident a year earlier. Over a 162-game season, Rosen’s statistics extrapolate to an average of 30 home runs and he drove in 111 runs, which may have been worthy of the Hall of Fame consideration had he been able to play a bit longer.

Indians president Mark Shapiro called Rosen “an inspiration to us all and had a special presence, strength, and intellect. His fierce competitive nature and toughness was legendary.”

Rosen was given his nickname — “The Hebrew Hammer” — because he was a former amateur boxer, a sport he reportedly picked up after being beaten up in his Miami neighborhood, where he was one of the few Jewish boys. His boyhood idol was Detroit Tigers’ first baseman Hank Greenberg, who famously refused to play on Yom Kippur. Greenberg later became general manager of the Indians while

Rosen was a player.

Following his on-field career, Rosen worked in the front offices of the Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, and the New York Yankees.

He won the Sporting News Executive of the Year in 1987 while with the Giants, becoming the only person in baseball be selected as MVP and Executive of the Year.

Marty Appel, who had been the Yankees public relations director prior to Rosen’s tenure, told NJ Jewish News that Rosen could have had a hand in forming a different history for the New York franchise.

“Although Al had been out of baseball for more than two decades when [the late team owner] George Steinbrenner coaxed him into taking the vacant presidency of the Yankees, he was widely respected throughout the game, and long considered a very smart, very astute figure. Some years before, as a friend of Mr. Steinbrenner, he had almost enabled him to buy the Indians [but] at the last minute, the deal fell through.”

Former New York Times columnist Ira Berkow, who wrote the documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, told NJJN, “Al was one of the brightest and finest people I’ve known in sports. And he was fierce

Al Rosen, who died March 13, was fiercely proud of his Jewish heritage.

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told Al that he was sitting on the bench and knew who it was, but felt that, at that time, he simply couldn’t rat on a teammate. Rosen said he understood,” said Berkow.

Writer Scott Raab, born in that Ohio city, grew up a fan of his local teams.

In an e-mail to NJJN, Raab, now a resident of Glen Ridge, said, “To a Jewish boy in 1950s Cleveland, Al Rosen was much more than a local or tribal hero.

When he retired, in 1956, I was four, and already he had ascended to myth.

A soldier, a boxer, a bona fide majorleague All-Star — and a Jew, strong and savvy. Rosen was an exemplar, not an archetype. God rest his soul.”

According to sports historian Bob Wechsler, Hal Schacker — who appeared in six games for the Boston Braves in 1945 — becomes the oldest Jewish ex-Major Leaguer; Schacker ■ turns 90 on April 6.

about standing up for being a Jew when he faced discrimination.

“He told me that once, while playing third base for the Cleveland Indians in a game against the Chicago White Sox, someone on the Sox bench was razzing Al and spliced it with some Jew-baiting remarks.

At the end of an inning, Rosen went over to the Sox bench and challenged whoever it was saying those things to come forward. All the Sox players sat in silence. ‘No one had the guts to admit it, Rosen told me. He also said rkaplan@njjewishnews.com that years after that incident, Saul Rogovin, a Jewish pitcher with the Sox, JTA contributed to this article.

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Calendar FRIDAY, March 20 Musical Weekend. Congregation B’nai Israel, Millburn. Artist-in-Residence program with Josh Warshawsky, musician, Jewish educator, and song leader. Call 973-379-3811.

SATURDAY, March 21 Hebrew Sacred Music. Bnai Keshet, Montclair, 9 a.m. Day-long artist-in-residence program with Gabriel Meyer Halevy, a pioneer of Hebrew sacred music, Jewish and interfaith ritual, and spirituality in Israel. Visit bnaikeshet.org.

SUNDAY, March 22 Model Matza Bakery. Congregation Adath Israel, Elizabeth, 11:30 a.m. Interactive program for children about the laws of making matza, preparing their own matza, and doing Passover arts and crafts. Contact youthdepartment@gmail.com, rabbi@brisavrohom.org, or 908-289-0770.

TUESDAY, March 24 Lotsa Matza. Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, 4 p.m. A Jewish Learning program, open house, and Passover program for children entering kindergarten through grade three and their parents. RSVP to bsmall@tbanj.org or 973-994-3950.

Coping with Loss. Linda & Rudy Slucker NCJW/Essex Center for Women, Livingston, 7:15 p.m. Presentation by Judith Zucker, LCSW, specializing in hospice and palliative care. Free for NCJW members, $7 for non-members. Call 973-994-4994.

Revolution at Qumran; How the Dead Sea Scrolls Shook Up Judaism. Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, 7:30 p.m. Presentation by Prof. Gary A. Rendsburg, Rutgers University.

Call 973-994-2290.

Candlelighting: March 20 - 6:51 p.m.

The Prodigal Son/The Good Samaritan. Temple Sinai, Summit. A scholar-in-residence program featuring Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, professor at Vanderbilt University. The first discussion is held after Friday night services; the second on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

“Growing Up Jewish in…” White Meadow Temple, Rockaway, 8 p.m. A new series held on the last Friday of each month highlighting the experiences of growing up Jewish in foreign communities. Contact 973-627-4500.

SATURDAY, March 28 Giving Up Is Hard To Do. Temple Ner Tamid, Bloomfield, 7:30 p.m. A Havdalah Cafe show

by Annie Abbott. Cosponsored by Bnai Keshet. Cost is $30. Reservations at bnaikeshet. org/annie.

Grand Wine & Spirits Tasting Event. Temple Hatikvah, Flanders, 8 p.m. Program featuring more than 100 wines from around the world as well as various liquors. Cost is $40, 21 and over only. Due to state laws, tickets must be purchased in advance. Visit SpringTasting2015.com.

SUNDAY, March 29 A Broken Hallelujah: Rock n’ Roll Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen. JCC of Central NJ, Scotch Plains, 10:30 a.m. Presentation by author Liel Leibovitz as part of the Sixth Annual University Lecture Series. Call 908-889-8800 or visit jccnj.org.

New Jersey Jewish Singles 45+. Congregation Agudath Israel, Caldwell, 12:45 p.m. Cost is $10, RSVP required. Contact singles@agudath.org or 973-226-3600, ext. 145.

WEDNESDAY, April 1

Annual Model Seder. YM-YWHA of Union County, Union, 10:30 a.m. Cost is $5, $7 for non-members. Call 908-289-8112, ext. 34.

April peer support groups for women. NCJW/ Essex Center for Women, Livingston. Programs for “Widows,” “Young Widows,” and “Women Coping with Separation and Divorce.” Each series costs $45. Advance registration required. Call for dates and times, 973994-4994, or visit centerforwomenNJ.org.

THURSDAY, March 26

FRIDAY, April 3

Bubbe Meisses. Congregation B’nai Israel, Millburn, 12:30 p.m. Discussion by Hirschhorn presenter Chaim Lauer, preceded by lunch.

Cost is $12, $10 for members. Call 973-5331809 with lunch order.

Community Passover Seder. Adath Shalom, Morris Plains, 5:30 p.m. Cost is $54 for adults, $36 for children five-12, free for children under five. Contact jkarten@adathshalom.net.

Divorce and Mediation. Linda & Rudy Slucker NCJW/Essex Center for Women, Livingston, 7:15 p.m. Presentation by Joanna D. Brick, Esq., and Bonnie Jerbasi, Esq. Free for NCJW members, $7 for non-members. Call 973994-4994.

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WEDNESDAY, March 25

FRIDAY, March 27 Musical artist-in-residence. Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, South Orange, 6 p.m. Program featuring singer/songwriter Sheldon Low. Visit tsti.org.

Musical Shabbat. Temple Ner Tamid, Bloomfield, 6 p.m. Liturgical service featuring the TNT Members Shabbat Band. A dinner follows the service; cost is $12, $6 for children under 12. Reservations required. Call 973-338-1500.

Computer courses for women. NCJW/Essex Center for Women in Livingston. Five-session courses in Word, PowerPoint, or Outlook.

Each course is $85. RSVP required. Visit centerforwomenNJ.org for dates and times and to register, or call 973-994-4994.

To submit an event to the calendar — and please, only events intended for the community at large — send only the following information to Calendar@njjewishnews.com: the title and/or brief description of the event, sponsoring organization, place, date, time, fee, and contact information. Information must be received by Tuesday at noon, at least two weeks before the event. Alternately, you may list your event at njjewishnews.com.

The victorious victim

TOUCH of TORAH Vayikra Leviticus 1:1-5:26

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his Shabbat we begin Leviticus, a biblical book that has historically received “mixed reviews.” While our tradition reveres this book — its dominant theme is the role of the priests in rituals connected to the Holy Temple — in more recent times, Leviticus has become a “victim” of negative criticism. These critics maintain that Leviticus was written much later than the rest of the Bible and is inferior to the other biblical books. As a believing Jew, I disassociate myself entirely from this school and its theories.

I heard Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik say, “The more virulent the opposition to one of our beliefs, the more sacred and important we can consider that belief to be.” Viewing Leviticus as a “victim” provides an opportunity to consider the book’s lessons regarding the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim, the pursuer and the pursued.

First, a verse from Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), another biblical book that has had its share of detractors: “What is occurring now occurred long since, And what is to occur occurred long since: and God seeks the pursued.”

(Kohelet 3:15) In this verse, King Solomon, author of Kohelet, maintains that history is cyclical but that one aspect of this repetitive narrative is consistent: God is on the side of history’s victims; it is they who will ultimately prevail.

The midrash expands upon this concept: “Rabbi Huna said in the name of Rabbi Yosef, ‘God always seeks the pursued. You will find that when one righteous person pursues another righteous person, God sides with the pursued. When a villain pursues a righteous person, God sides with the pursued.

When one villain pursues another villain, God sides with the pursued.

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sues a villain, God sides with the pursued!” (Vayikra Rabbah 27:5) This passage offers examples: Abel was pursued by Cain, Abraham by Nimrod, Isaac by the Philistines, Jacob by Esau, Joseph by his brothers, Moses by Pharaoh, David by Saul, Saul by the Philistines — in each instance, God eventually vanquished the pursuer.

So too, the midrash assures us, although the people of Israel have been pursued by enemies throughout history, God will seek the pursued and favor the victim.

The Talmud takes this further: “Rabbi Abahu preached that one should always include himself among the pursued, and never among the pursuers, for no species of fowl is more pursued than pigeons and turtle doves, and yet these are the only species of fowl fit for the altar.” (Bava Kama 93a) Maimonides says the guiding principle of the Torah scholar should be “to include himself among the pursued but not among the pursuers. He should be one of those who forgives insult but never insults others.” (Hilchot De’ot 5:13) This does not mean one should be a pushover. Rather, it means we do not always need to win, that we should give others credit, that we should not trample others to get ahead, but work collaboratively.

The 19th-century rabbinic authority Rabbi Jacob of Lyssa points out that in a certain sense we are all “pursued” — by our passions, moral failings, and selfish egos. God seeks the pursued, offering succor to all those who valiantly struggle to overcome their internal temptations and strive to live an ethical and moral life.

Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb is executive vice president emeritus of the Orthodox Union.

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Vayikra We now come to the “weights and measurements” portions.

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Richard Dreyfuss will play Madoff in ABC drama A C A D E M Y AWARD WINNER Richard Dreyfuss will play Bernie Madoff in a multiple-episode drama on the ABC network.

The drama will be based on the book The Madoff Chronicles: Inside the Secret World of Richard Dreyfuss Bernie and Ruth, the Hollywood Reporter w ro t e l a s t w e ek .

ABC’s chief investigative correspondent, Brian Ross, wrote the book.

Several high-profile actresses are in the running to play Ruth, Madoff’s wife, who was the director of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, according to the Reporter.

A premiere date and the number of episodes to be screened has yet to be determined.

In 2009, Madoff, 70, pleaded guilty to 11 felonies for fabricating nearly $65 billion in profits to attract investors. He is serving a 150-year sentence at a federal prison in North Carolina.

His Ponzi scheme hit numerous Jewish philanthropies and investors particularly hard. Among those that suffered were Hadassah, the Elie Wiesel Foundation, and the American Jewish Congress.

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Audra McDonald to perform at Renaissance benefit

AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS and singer Audra Sun, and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. She made McDonald will present an afternoon of songs from her operatic debut in 2006 with the Houston Grand Broadway and beyond in a concert to benefit the Opera and has premiered music by composer John Jewish Renaissance Family of OrganiAdams in concert. On TV, she has been zations on Sunday, April 19, at 3 p.m. featured in Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, ABC’s Annie, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

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Local youngsters from four to 14 will “walk down the catwalk” in the latest fashions from area vendors to benefit pediatric cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Ashley launched the event in 2013 as a mitzva project for her bat mitzva in honor of Tallie, who is now in remission from leukemia after being treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering. So far they have raised $45,000 this year alone. To purchase tickets or make a donation, visit teamtallie.com or crowdrise.com/teamtallie.

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Yom Ha’atzmaut to be celebrated throughout the community Community members of all ages and geographic spreads will have the chance to celebrate Israel’s 67th Independence Day this year at several events and venues throughout the Greater MetroWest community.

Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ will celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut with a flurry of activities across Essex, Morris, and Union counties.

Most events are free and open to the public.

Capa’im “We believe that every Jew, no matter where, should participate in the celebrations,” said Federation executive shaliach Amir Shacham. “Israel is at the heart of our work and the center of our community and we are excited to highlight it during this special week of programming.”

One of the week’s highlights will be a community concert featuring Capa’im, an Israeli cover band based in New York City, at the JCC MetroWest in West Orange on Wednesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. Tickets will soon go on sale. Other programs include: • A special teen event on Sunday, April 19, noon-3 p.m. at the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus in Whippany.

• A Yom Hazikaron commemoration memorializing Israel’s victims of terror attacks and fallen soldiers on Tuesday, April 21, at 7 p.m. at the West Orange JCC. This year’s commemoration will honor Matan Gotlib, a graduate of Federation’s Diller Teen Fellows program who was killed in Operation Protective Edge last summer.

• A college students’ event at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, on Friday, April 24, noon-4 p.m.; and a New York City harbor cruise for young adults ages 21-30 on Saturday, April 25, at 7 p.m. in conjunction with Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. Tickets for the cruise are required.

• Yom Ha’atzmaut family events on Sunday, April 19: 10 a.m.12:30 p.m. at Adath Shalom in Morris Plains and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the West Orange JCC. Another family event will be held Thursday, April 23, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the YM-YWHA of Union County in Union.

There’s something for everyone! #CelebrateIsraelGMW Additionally, an interactive map detailing the event locations is available online at www.jfedgmw.org/celebrateisrael. For more information, contact Justine Reuben at 973-929-3054.

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COMMUNITY SUPERMARKET SWEEP nets generous bounty for food pantries Over 135 local residents purchased more than $5,800 in groceries as part of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ’s Community Supermarket Sweep initiative to help end hunger.

Community members came to the ShopRites in Clark and Greater Morristown to shop for the kosher food pantry at Jewish Family Service of Central NJ in Elizabeth and the Bobrow Kosher Food Pantry at Oheb Shalom Congregation in South Orange, as well as for clients of Jewish Family Service of MetroWest.

Another 75 people volunteered as shleppers, sorters, and stockers at the food pantries, where they helped sort the purchased goods and stocked the shelves. Over 14 local synagogues and eight Federation partner agencies were community partners for the event.

Over the past year, Oheb Shalom’s Bobrow Kosher Food Pantry and the kosher pantry at JFS of Central NJ have served an unprecedented number of people — an average of 400-500 individuals a month. With emergency food requests increasing and government funding decreasing, the sweep will go a long way toward feeding the hungry among us.

The Supermarket Sweep is an initiative of Federation’s Center for Volunteerism, and is part of Federation’s year-long effort to educate and raise awareness of the issue of hunger in our community. Supermarket Sweep cochairs were Elyse Deutsch, Mariela Dybner, Becky Freeman, and Janice Weinberg.

Federation thanks the many participating community partners.

To see a full list of participating community partners, please visit www.jfedgmw.org/sweep To see photos of the day, visit the JFEDGMW Center for Volunteerism Facebook page or search #IAMGMW.

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Community MAKING COSTUMES — Congregation Agudath Israel’s Early Childhood Center classes gathered with parents to make their own Purim costumes and then showed them off in the school-wide parade. The children also celebrated by making mishloach manot.

PURIM IN PARIS — The Chai Center, Short Hills, celebrated Purim in Paris with French cuisine and decor, in solidarity with Jews in Paris.

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MAKING HAMANTASCHEN — Temple B’nai Abraham Early School student Joss Minde cuts out dough to create hamantaschen with teacher Lucy Melillo. Students at the Livingston school took part in the hands-on experience of making and baking hamantaschen under the guidance and auspices of their teachers.

THEATER TRIP — Members of National Council of Jewish Women, West Morris Section, including West Morris fund-raising chair Lisa Barta of Fair Lawn, left, and Marilyn Semer of Succasunna recently gathered for a fund-raising theater outing to see the Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It at the Community Theatre in Morristown.

IN HER SHOES — The sisterhood of Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, recently hosted Rachel Coalition’s experiential program “In Her Shoes.” Led by coalition facilitators, participants had the opportunity to discuss challenges and FAITHS AGAINST HUNGER — Members of Jewish Renewal experiences faced by victims of abuse. Sisterhood also Congregation Or Ha Lev, Mount Arlington, gathered March presented Rachel Coalition with a donation from its recent 1 with Muslim women to prepare 150 sandwiches and sal- Bagels and Bowling fund-raiser. Receiving the contribution ads for St. Lucy’s Shelter in Jersey City. Taking part were are, from left, Rachel Coalition Steering Committee memHelene Jaros, Bernice Billig, Marilyn Semer, Dan Berek, bers Myrna Wertheimer and Linda Tarr, Rachel Coalition Beth Pletcher, Amy Elhendy, Yasmin Elhendy, Ginny Smi- chair Sheri Wolfson, and sisterhood copresidents Sandra lack, Summer Elhendy, Neil Smith, Sheila Kane, Eman Kandil, Kantor and Suzanne Weinick. Community groups interBonnie Meltz, Yvonne Billig, Barb Meltz, Reb Deb Smith, ested in presenting “In Her Shoes” should contact Shari Paul Glassberg, Daryl Berman, Don Meltz, and Ron Berman. Bloomberg at 973-765-9050 or go to rachelcoalition.com.

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Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston, held a “Mitzvah Morning” March 1, sponsored by the social action committee and membership committee along with the men’s club, sisterhood, Early School parents’ council, and Jewish Learning Program PTA. Taking part are, top left, members of the Krasney family packing lunches to be delivered to Bridges Outreach, Inc., an organization based in Summit which delivers brownbag meals, socks and underwear, and toiletry kits and donated clothing to over 21,000 people in New York City, Newark, and Irvington; members of the Jacob family creating handmade items for the “Shabbat in a Box” project for patients in local hospitals; and, below, the Epstein family packing Yom HaShoa candles for a men’s club project which delivers the candles to members of the congregation.

LifeCycle Newcomers A son, Yosef Dov Lev, to JESSICA and JASON KLEIN of Clifton on Feb. 18, 2015. The maternal grandparents are Maddy and Stephen Lashen of Rockaway. The paternal grandparents are Myra and David Klein of Teaneck. The maternal great-grandmothers are Lucille Klein and Bernice Lashen.

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JESSE HALPER, daughter of Alison and Andrew Halper of Livingston, March 14 at Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston.

DANIEL TEITELBAUM, son of Shana and Howie Teitelbaum of South Orange, March 14 at Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, South Orange.

ALEXA RICHMOND, daughter of Beth and Dr. Daniel Richmond of Warren, March 14 at Temple Har Shalom, Warren.

EMMA ZUCKERMAN, daughter of Paula and Scott Zuckerman of Livingston, March 14 at Temple B’nai Abraham, Livingston.

ANNABELLE ROSES, daughter of Maria Seigenthaler and Steven Roses of Maplewood, March 14 at Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel, South Orange.

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IAN DROGOWITZ, son of Karyn and Andy Drogowitz of Springfield, March 14 at Temple Sha’arey Shalom, Springfield.

DANNY SCHEINE, son of Stacey and Steven Frances Passner Scheine of Towaco, March 14 at Pine Brook Jewish Frances Passner of Alexandria, Va., died March 6, Center, Montville.

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DEBRA PERLMUTTER, daughter of Amy and Stuart Perlmutter of Morris Plains, March 14 at Adath Shalom, Morris Plains.

DYLAN SOMMER, son of Leslie and Joseph Sommer of Morris Plains, March 14 at Temple B’nai Or, Morristown.

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Mr. Beyer worked for Greyhound Bus Company as a safety director for over 40 years. He also repaired watches and jewelry.

He attended Mastbaum University of Technology in Philadelphia, where he studied marine electrical engineering. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II in the Ardennes, central Europe, northern France, the Rhineland, Normandy, and the Asiatic Pacific theater. He received a distinguished unit badge, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, a Purple Heart, and a Bronze Star. He also later served as a supervisor of an army rest and recreation center, writing, directing, and producing shows and entertainment for the troops.

He was a member of Free and Accepted Masons of Cherry Hill.

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Marvin Sandler, 87, of Kearny died March 5, 2015. He was born and raised in Jersey City.

Mr. Sandler had worked at his family’s clothing store, Sandler’s Department Store in Jersey City, as well as in real estate at CB Snyder in Hoboken. He began teaching math at Lyndhurst High School in 1955 and taught for the next 37 years, retiring in 1991 as supervisor of the math department.

He graduated from New York University and then from Columbia University with a master’s degree in mathematics.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he underwent training to become an interpreter. He served overseas and received a World War II Service Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and other honors.

Predeceased by his wife of 19 years, Marilyn (Epstein), in 1976, he is survived by his son, Michael Alan; his daughter, Barbara Leah (Chris) Brooks; a sister, Estelle Model; and two grandchildren.

Services were held March 8 with arrangements by Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel, Livingston. Memorial contributions may be made to Association for Hunterdon Developmental Center, c/o Gloria DupreWynn, 39 West Spring St., Somerville, NJ 08876.

Lee Kahn, 86, of West Orange died Nov. 4, 2014. Born in New York City and raised in North Bergen, he also had lived in Roseland.

After high school, Mr. Kahn went to work for his father at David Kahn & Sons, a salvage commodities business in Guttenberg.

In 1961, he and his wife, Gloria, along with his brother Bernie and his wife, Gladys, eager to build a strong Orthodox community in West Orange, gathered a small group of West Orange residents and formed B’nai David, named after their father. In 1966 it merged with Ahawas Achim B’nai Jacob to become Congregation Ahawas Achim B’nai Jacob and David. He was a past president and emeritus board member of AABJ&D, which grew to about 450 families.

Predeceased by his wife of 64 years and his son-in-law Steve, he is survived by two daughters, Meryl Levine of South Orange and Dale Kahn of West Orange; his son, Ric (Lillian) of Boston; and four grandchildren.

Services were held Nov. 6 with arrangements by Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel, Livingston. Memorial contributions may be made to Congregation AABJ&D or Daughters of Israel, West Orange.

Victor J. Parsonnet of West Orange died Feb. 28, 2015. He was born in Newark.

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