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After the flood, Israelis help Tblisi zoo Its a story that sounds almost bibli-cal. A flood in Tbilisi set the animals of the citys zoo free.So who better to

help with the cleanup than the staff of the Je-rusalem Biblical Zoo? Along with colleagues from the Ramat Gan Safari Park, they made up an Israeli delega-tion of zookeepers and veterinarians who flew to Georgias capital city to help make the flooded zoo safe for staff and animals as the water recedes.For those watching at home on

Facebook, photos of bears and hip-pos roaming the streets of Tbilisi were hilarious. But for the profession-als, the events were serious.Its a terrible shock, its a terrible

situation, the whole city is in chaos, Sigalit Hertz-Dvir, the director of mar-keting at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, said. Its not only the animals that died but they lost three members of staff while trying to save the animals. We thought they might need help from outside because the situation is horrible in the city.The European Association of Zoos

and Aquaria said in a release that it was shocked to hear of the flooding of the city of Tbilisi and its zoo, which resulted in the death of three mem-bers of zoo staff, and the escape and shooting of many of its animals.Tibilisi Zoo administrators said

that the zoo lost more than half of its animals, including all its tigers, and most of its lions and bears, when flash flooding destroyed the ani-mals enclosures. While some of the animals escaped, most of the animals

drowned or were shot dead inside the zoo park boundaries, according to reports. Only three of the zoos original 20 wolves and three of its 17 penguins survived.Tbilisi zoo begged people not

to kill the animals unless they were under attack, but many of the wild animals were shot anyway.Israels Ministry of Foreign Affairs

called on local zookeepers and veteri-narians to assist their Georgian coun-terparts, and sent Dr. Nili Avni-Magen, head veterinarian at the Jerusalem Zoo, and Dr. Yigal Horowitz, chief veterinarian of the Ramat Gan Safari, to the wrecked zoo. They also sent medical suppliesZoo associations are all connected

and we have people learning to-gether, working together, and [joining forces] on the efforts for animals in danger of extinction. Everything is done together because no zoo can succeed by itself, Hertz-Dvir said. When a member of one of the zoo organizations is in trouble, we do our best to help. We feel we can help. We have a lot of experience and knowl-edge in this area.

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Youth group as gateway drug Weve come to expect that their youth group experiences often were a decisive turning point in rabbis career paths.Whether it was NFTY (the Reform

movements National Federation of Temple Youth), USY (the Conservative movements United Synagogue Youth), or NCSY (the Orthodox National Con-ference of Synagogue Youth), high-level high school involvement in their synagogue youth group often started kids on the road that led to their de-nominations seminary.Now, though, were noticing a new

trend, which raises the question: Which youth group best prepares you for a career as a legal marijuana icon?The Forward recently reported on the

first catered Shabbat dinner prepared by Jeff the 420 Chef.Jeff grew up Orthodox, and credits

his first experience of pot to an NCSY shabbaton when he was 16. No longer Orthodox, he now prepares challah and matzah balls infused with marijuana.I know it sounds crazy, but I really

believe God and the universe is direct-ing me, he told the Forward. People love my cooking, and its all about giving back. Every single one of us is granted something special.Meanwhile, JTA has profiled Dina

Browner, the first woman to open a medical marijuana dispensary in California and the reputed inspiration for the hit Showtime series Weeds, about a suburban housewife turned pot dealer.She credits her career as a medical

marijuana consultant to her first USY convention, where she spent the day organizing Braille books at a charity for the blind. Afterward, she said, she was struck by how good helping others made her feel.I was learning about tzedakah and

giving back, she said. Thats what started me in the industry Im in now.

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The envelopes, thank you The American Jewish Press Association has announced the winners of the Rockower Awards which are like the Pulitzer Prize, except they dont come with a $10,000 cash award. Were pleased to report that the Jewish Standard re-ceived four awards.Our winningest story was

Passage to India: Local Academic Finds Jewish Parallels in Hindu Uni-versity. It received a second place award for Excellence in Feature Writing. In giving the award, the AJPA noted that Larry Yudelson per-forms a neat trick of journal-ism, deploying the detail and color essential to storytelling and using that narrative to deliver clear, original analysis of complex ideas.The photographs accompanying

that article, taken in India by Robert Carroll, won a second place award for Excellence in Photography.Our group effort on our cover story

called Can You Spare a Kidney with contributions by Shammai Engel-mayer, Abigail Klein Leichman, Joanne Palmer, and Larry Yudelson came in second in the Rambam Award for Ex-cellence in Writing About Health Care. The award is named after the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, which sponsored the award (though not, sadly, to the extent

of offering cash prizes), which in tern is named after Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides.Mississippi Burning, Re-

membered: Puffin Marks Jubilee of Freedom Summer by Larry Yudelson received second place in the Jacob Rader Marcus Award for Journalistic Excellence in American Jewish His-tory. Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995) was a Reform rabbi known as the first trained historian of the Jewish people born in America and the first to devote himself fully to the scholarly study of Americas Jews.And one of our op ed columnists,

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Shabbat table (laden with challahs) and, in later pics, a box of Israeli popsicles and cholent cooking in a slow cooker.Forgive me if I just

dont get it. Every time any celebrity is reported to be converting to Juda-ism, the Jewish media goes into a frenzy, as it did last week about Jameson, and the report seems to thrill a huge number of Jewish read-ers. However, in ten years or more of covering Jew-ish celebs, I know of only two celebs who were re-ported to be converting to Judaism AND actually completed a conversion: actress ISLA FISHER, 39, and businesswoman

IVANKA TRUMP, 33. There are a few other famous people who converted quietly and their conversion became known after the fact (like CAMPBELL BROWN, 46, former CNN anchor).Much more often, the

report of a conversion is outright false (not in Jamesons case, since the story comes from her mouth) or the famous person and the Jewish partner break up before the non-Jewish celeb hasnt done much more than making a few Shab-bos dinners. In an inordi-nate number of cases the conversion story involves someone who is not quite right. For example,

a few years ago, Lindsay Lohan, during the height of her addled period, said she was converting for her Jewish girlfriend (never happened). Likewise, during Britney Spears mental meltdown in 2008, she was dat-ing a Jew and sported a Star of David, prompt-ing conversion stories. Jameson isnt crazy, but she is not quite right. Here is a description of her 2003 autobiography from Wikipedia: It does

not omit sordid details, describing her two rapes, drug addictions, an un-happy first marriage, and numerous affairs with men and women.So, I ask, whats the

thrill? What is there to kvell about? I can un-derstand the excitement if an A-list non-Jewish movie star was reported to be converting, or if a Nobel Prize winner be-came Jewish. But Jenna Jameson?

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the famous rock band Bon Jovi will play Israel on October 3, ending a 13-country tour in Tel Aviv. MARCEL AVRAM, a French producer who worked out the concert arrangements, told the Times of Israel that Jon [Bongovi] is very happy to come, he really wants to come, and that David Bryan, the Jewish Bon Jovi keyboardist, speaks a little Yiddish and is pleased about coming to Israel.BRYAN, who was

born DAVID BRYAN RASHBAUM in 1962, has known band lead singer Jon Bongovi since high school in Edison, and they formed the band together in 1982. Their second album, released in 1985, sold millions, and the band has remained very popular. In 2003, Bryan told author SCOTT BENARDE that he was a lifelong member of his New Jersey shul (Temple Emanuel-El in Edison), that his kids went to He-brew school there, and that he was his temples High Holidays shofar blower. He added, with pride, that he thinks he holds the shul and maybe the world re-cord for the longest tekiah gadolah.

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under his stable name, Harbor View Farm. The co-owners of the farm were famous business-man LOUIS WOLFSON (1912-2007) and his sec-ond wife, PATRICE JA-COBS WOLFSON, who is now about 75. She was in the stands at Belmont, cheering for American Pharoah.

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His place in JerusalemBergenfields Rabbi Steven Burg to lead Aish HaTorah

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Rabbi Steven Burg is headed back to Jerusalem next month.Rabbi Burg, 43, spent two years there after high school; he spent another year there during his rab-binic studies, and he returned many times during the time he worked for the Ortho-dox Union.

Now though, he will have a more presti-gious address: 1 Kotel Plaza.

Thats how Aish HaTorah jokingly refers to its headquarters in Jerusalems Old City, which opens to the plaza of the Western Wall, and whose rooftop looks down over the Temple Mount.

Thats quite a draw for the fundraising events that Rabbi Burg will oversee begin-ning July 1, as he assumes the post of Aishs director general the Israeli term for chief executive officer.

In that capacity, he will lead an organi-zation that has grown over 40 years from a small yeshiva to a large institution with more than 30 outposts around the world.

Because Aish is a world-wide operation, Rabbi Burg will be able to divide his time between the Jeru-salem headquarters and the New York office. He will not have to uproot his family from its Bergenfield home.

I have to figure out what the time commit-ments are, he said. On the one hand, our heart and hub are in Jerusalem. On the other, the branches and board members and donors are in the States.

Aish HaTorah was founded in 1974 by Rabbi Noach Weinberg, who broke away from the Ohr Samayach Yeshiva, which he had co-founded. It was one of the first yeshivot to cater to baalei teshuva returnees to Orthodox Judaism. Rabbi Weinberg, born in America, had moved to Israel after his rabbinic training at Bal-timores Ner Israel yeshiva, which his brother, Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg, later headed.

The school started in a little apart-ment in the Old City, with a dormitory with freezing cold showers and bad food, Rabbi Burg said.

The core Rabbi Weinberg was focused on was to create feeling Jews and passion-ate Jews. Judaism doesnt work without inspiration, without passion, he added.

Rabbi Burg grew up in the heavily Jewish

neighborhood of Flatblush, Brooklyn. When he followed his fathers footsteps and attended Yeshiva Universitys MTA high

school, he didnt feel much passion. We were not particularly inspired by our Juda-ism, Rabbi Burg remembered.

(Nonetheless, he and his wife, Rachel, enrolled their two oldest sons at MTA. Four younger children attend the Rosen-baum Yeshiva of North Jersey in River Edge, where Ms. Burg teaches.)

Rabbi Burg found his passion for Juda-ism in his post-high school years in yeshiva in Israel. He returned to America and undergraduate studies at Yeshiva Univer-sity caring about the Jewish people and about God.

NCSY the Orthodox Unions youth group became the vehicle where he could put his passion into practice. A friend asked him to volunteer as an adviser at an NCSY Shabbaton a week-end retreat. I drove eight hours to Pitts-burgh, he said. I fell in love. I said this is

what I want to do with my life.He continued as an NCSY volunteer

adviser during his rabbinic studies at Yeshiva Universitys theological seminary. After ordination, he and his wife moved to Detroit, where he was an NCSY associate regional director. After a few years they moved to Los Angeles, where he headed NCSYs West Coast region.

Heres the story he tells to explain what makes NCSY special:

We had as part of our region a girl from Charleston, West Virginia. She was the only girl in her entire city in NCSY. She came to the regional convention, where we discussed plans for Shavuot: Kids were going to stay up all night studying back in their synagogues. But we couldnt figure out how to make it work for her, and she went back home very dejected.

So one of the staff members put together a box of 15 books for her and wrote letters for her to open the entire night recommending readings. One for 11 p.m., one for midnight, and so on. After-ward, she said she didnt feel alone. She said she felt part of the Jewish people.

Theres a real power in that.That sort of work, inspiring teens, is the

core mission of an NCSY adviser. As Rabbi Burg moved up the job ladder, his work became more management. That was par-ticularly true of his eight years as NCSYs national director and then his four years as the OUs managing director.

Two and a half years ago, Rabbi Burg became head of the New York office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Throughout my career Ive done a lot of management, learning how to deal in bureaucratic hierarchies. I have the Judaic background, which enabled me to man-age the people who were concentrated on the Judaic and spiritual content, because I knew what they wanted to accomplish. I knew how all the stakeholders were involved in the process, he said.

But the bottom line at the OU, and now at Aish, is inspiration.

Inspiration is having a direct connec-tion with God, becoming inspired by the religion, rather than hanging out within the religion because thats your social circle. People are missing that direct

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connection to God, whether it comes through prayer or Shabbos. Were trying to create people who do it because they care about the religion and care about the reason, rather than just because their fam-ily has always done it.

When people are passionate about their religion, when theyre inspired, when theyre connected to God, religion takes on a whole new level. It becomes part and parcel of who they are.

Thats the ultimate goal: To help Jews connect with God, he said.

Alongside Aishs expansion in recent years has come a broadening of its focus. Its no longer solely looking at the spiritual.

Rabbi Weinberg was also extremely concerned about physical dangers to the Jews, Rabbi Burg said. So we have the Hasbara Fellowships, where we go to col-lege campuses and recruit students to go to Israel to meet with leaders so they can go back to campus and fight the BDS movement.

Rabbi Weinberg was a real visionary. When he started talking about the physi-cal dangers to Jews, not everyone was on board, he said.

One example Rabbi Burg gives is the Sderot Information Center, formed to tell

the world about the plight of Israelis liv-ing under threat of missile fire from Gaza. Rabbi Weinberg came up with the centers initial funding.

He gave them a video camera and a car to let the world know, Rabbi Burg said. He came to the OU to talk about the dan-gers of radical Islam. He was so convinced that this was an issue and that we had to get behind it. He was way ahead of the curve on it.

Rabbi Weinberg died in 2009. Rabbi Burg compared Aishs founders focus on both Jewish spirit and Jewish safety to Moses own mission.

Moses is the one who gives the Jew-ish people the Torah, but he also saved them from slavery, he said. If you want to inspire people, you have to make sure theyre alive.

At the heart of Aish, though, past the Hasbara Fellowships, past the Jewish Inter-net content on Aish.com, You still have the yeshiva, the place of learning. When you go to Aish in Jerusalem, a whole sec-tion of the building is the executive learn-ing center, for business executives who come to learn with the rabbis. They under-stand that life is not just about money, that the Torah has tremendous value. People understand that becoming a more learned Jew, a more educated Jew, will lead to great things.

We have a tremendous amount of classes. We have this Discovery Program, a seminar for a couple of days where people can learn a lot of incredible things, he said.

The Discovery Program has been criti-cized for its use of the Torah codes the argument that patterns encoded in the Torah prove its divinity. Published papers arguing in favor of Torah Codes have been rebutted by mathematicians who have found similar patterns in Hebrew transla-tions of War and Peace and Moby Dick.

I think its just different scholarly opinions and stuff, Rabbi Burg said of the controversy. Like in any academic environment, there are people who go back and forth. Anyway, the Bible codes are just one piece of a much bigger seminar.

How big is Aish? How does it compare to the Orthodox Union?

The OU has part-time mashgichim kosher supervisors all around the globe, Rabbi Burg said. Aish probably has more full-time people working for it. In its real estate size and footprint, its probably bigger than the OU. Aish has multiple buildings and there are a num-ber of places where the branches have synagogues. Probably the amount of par-ticipants that go through Aish HaTorah is much bigger and wide-ranging.

I compare it to the structure of Hillel, the Jewish campus organization, where each campus outpost is its own organiza-tion, connected to the mother ship back in Washington, the Hillel International headquarters.

A lot of funding comes locally, he said. They are kind of independent in how they put together their board, but they all look to Aish in Jerusalem.

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Music and moneyLocal music teacher/philanthropist helps students perform at food-rescue fundraiser

ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

Buy a $25 concert ticket and feed Israels needy.Thats the win-win deal on offer at Mexicali Live in Teaneck on Monday, June 22. Two shows that night will spotlight 21 young music students of Ben Hyman of Fort Lee at the same time that it raises money for Leket Israel, Israels national food bank and largest food-res-cue network.

Mr. Hyman who is a musician, a music teacher, and the owner of BensGuitar.com explains that this will be the fifth benefit concert he has staged with pupils, most of whom are yeshiva day-school students.

I try to find a charity that has some type of relevance to the children, Mr. Hyman said. Were fortunate to live in a comfortable place, never worrying about how to get food on the table, a roof over our heads, and clothing on our backs. I want my students to be able to connect to children of the same age who have a completely different kind of life without that kind of security.

The first concert, in 2011, was the initiative of five bar mitz-vah-age musicians four of them Mr. Hymans students who raised $23,000 to buy equipment for the music-therapy pro-gram at Emunah Womens Bet Elazraki Childrens Home in Netanya, Israel. The following year, Mr. Hyman took on the project as a pilot, involving 13 of his students, and ultimately raising another $32,000 for Beit El Ezaraki.

Altogether, the concerts have raised more than $90,000 for charities, including the Hope & Heroes pediatric cancer pro-gram at Columbia University Medical Center.

This year, we decided to go with Leket because two of my students Josh Levine of Teaneck on guitar, and Sam Gold-berg of Englewood on piano recorded an album in my stu-dio last year to benefit Leket, Mr. Hyman said. They had a goal of $45,000 to buy a truck for food rescue, and they raised $30,000, so I wanted to help them reach the goal.

Leket Israel founder and chairman Joseph Gitler said the refrigerated truck is needed for a new initiative aimed at res-cuing tons of usable food from several large Israel Defense Forces bases.

The IDF takes good care of its soldiers, and that leads to staggering amounts of food waste, as revealed in a recent state comptrollers report, Mr. Gitler said. Weve been working with the army for years, but over the past year we got permis-sion to delve deeper and have formed relationships with many more bases. The success of this project will add thousands of quality meals to the poverty system on a daily basis.

To fund the entire IDF food-rescue project, Leket needs approximately $280,000. The organizations annual budget this year is about $10 million.

Both Mr. Hyman, 33, and Mr. Gitler, 40, spent their

formative years in Teaneck, but they never met one another as they became increasingly active in charitable endeavors.

My mother used to take me to homeless shelters so that I could see what it really means to be hungry, Mr. Hyman said. We grow up in a world where its not fair if we dont have the newest Apple product, because everyone else has one. Seeing homeless children really showed me what it

means to actually have nothing. Ever since the first day we visited the shelter I never forgot that there are people out there who need help.

His parents, Reuven (Robert) and Nancy Hyman, now live in Israel, as does his brother Yakir, whose band, G-Nome, has been touring across the United States. His other brother, Yaakov, lives in New York and works for BensGuitar.

As a young adult, Mr. Hyman played music in a nursing home in Israel, volunteered as a music therapist at the JCC on the Palisades Camp Dream Street, and volunteered at several Artworks Express Yourself events sponsored by the Naomi Cohain Foundation for children with serious illnesses.

Six years ago, he co-founded the Israel Service Organiza-tion with Jonathan Weiss. We raised roughly $150,000 and performed three USO-style tours for the Israeli military, he said. We met thousands of soldiers, and had a chance to sleep on the bases, eat on the bases, and really get to spend time with the soldiers in their own environment.

Mr. Gitler, a Moriah School of Englewood graduate, made aliyah in 2000, founded Leket Israel (then called Table to Table) in 2002, and won the 2011 Presidential Citation for Volunteerism as well as the Nefesh BNefesh Builders of Zion Award in 2014.

From left, Adira Levine and Elana Ginsberg of Teaneck, Sarah Schechter and Reed Leibowitz of Englewood, and Evan Kinches of Teaneck perform at the 2014 show.

From left, at last years show, Tzvi Bessler of Teaneck, Atara Schulhoff of Bergenfield, Matias Csillag of Engle-wood, Tamara Teplow of Teaneck, and Sam Goldberg of Englewood are onstage at Mexicali Live. This show featured drummer Jon Shiffman of Steel Train and Bleachers.

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With the help of more than 55,000 annual volunteers, Leket rescues some 1.5 million hot meals and 24 mil-lion pounds of produce and perishable goods, and sup-plies 8,300 sandwiches to underprivileged schoolchil-dren every day. Food that would have otherwise gone to waste is redistributed to 180 nonprofit organizations caring for the needy, reaching approximately 140,000 people every week.

We want to thank Ben Hyman for choosing to sup-port Leket Israel at this years charity concert, Mr. Gitler said. We know that the students have been working hard for many months to prepare for the per-formances, and knowing that they will enable Leket Israel to rescue more food for those in need as a result of the money they raise in ticket sales truly enhances the event.

This year Mr. Hyman is expanding to three benefit concerts. Mexicali Live doors open on June 22 at 5:45 for the concert by 10 middle-school students, and at 8 p.m. for the show by 11 high-school students. Then well do an adult program sometime after the holidays in October, he said.

He would not reveal the playlist but described it as a mix of top-40 songs from different genres.

Several professional musicians helped the young per-formers rehearse for the shows, which are co-produced by Lisa Schechter of Englewood. I always have one parent to help me coordinate everything, from seats for grandparents to getting food sponsors and promoting it in school newsletters, Mr. Hyman said.

He added that when he was a boy, there was nothing like this available to kids who were interested in pursu-ing music with the same passion that kids pursue mid-dle- and high-school sports.

I decided 10 years ago to stop performing and pursue teaching as my full-time business. I still remained active with musicians within my network, but that became my side thing, and my main business and focus became cre-ating the absolute best music experience available for local area kids. Ive been blessed to have overwhelming community support for my work.

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Jake Levine of Tenafly, left, and Natan Neugroschl of Teaneck at last years show.

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Korean Christians reach out to Jewish neighborsCultural festival will be an extravaganza, says local rabbiLOIS GOLDRICH

Several years ago, a group of Korean Christians in New Jersey sought a concrete way to show their love for Israel and the Jew-ish people. Inspired by the words of Isaiah 40:1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God they came up with a plan.

We were praying for Israel, our minds and hearts were toward the Jewish people, but we didnt know what to do except for just praying, said Changene Danny Song of Tenafly, director of strategic planning for Korean Christians for Shalom Jerusa-lem. The nonprofit organization is based in Englewood Cliffs.

So we said, why dont we do a cultural festival? Its a way of comforting Jewish peo-ple by inviting them, and for that moment, they can have fun watching the show.

The festival, which includes traditional Korean costumes, music, drama, and dance, already has attracted large audi-ences at synagogues in New York City and Washington, D.C. On June 24, it will take place at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center.

Through these performances, KCSJ wishes to build unity between the Jewish community and Korean Christians, and take a small but meaningful step towards promoting stronger international sup-port for the peace and security of Israel, according to the groups website. It is also intended to be a venue where deep repentance is expressed for the unspeak-able atrocities committed to the Jewish people throughout history. It is a symbolic but sincere action in hopes of a restora-tion of brotherhood.

Mr. Song said that his group advertises the upcoming event to Korean Christians throughout the world. Those who wish to participate fly to New York at their own expense. Between 100 and 150 perform-ers and volunteers have flown in for pre-vious shows.

They do their offering and donation, said Mr. Song, whose organization hosts the event.

KCSJ has a dual mission, he added. On one hand, it reaches out to churches, stressing the importance of Israel; on the other, we approach Jewish people to form friendships, express love, and repent.

Repentance is a big part of each festival. At the end of the program, a pastor takes the stage to announce what Mr. Song calls a statement of repentance. A rabbi then comes up and accepts the statement.

Churches awakened to recognize the importance of Israel get involved every year, Mr. Song said, noting that while his group began with the support of only a few churches, it now has dozens of them sup-porting its efforts. While outreach used to

focus mainly on the Korean community, beginning this year, KCSJ will reach out to Chinese and Japanese churches as well.

The show for next year will be differ-ent, Mr. Song said. A Chinese pastor will take the stage to announce the statement of repentance.

The cultural festival, now in its third year, has been very successful, he con-tinued. At first, we were afraid that we wouldnt get many Jewish people. We were told that the Jewish community is tightly bonded, and it would be hard to bring in an audience. Since our budget is tight, we could do limited advertising.

They did receive help, however, from several rabbis, including Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the

New York Board of Rabbis.Rabbi Potasnik helped us a lot, Mr.

Song said. Indeed, the groups website includes a quote from Potasnik, saying that If we had people like these who would stand up during the Holocaust, maybe my family and so many others would have been saved. These are people who are not afraid to come forward and to raise their voice to support for the state of Israel.

At first, Mr. Song said, the rabbis he approached were skeptical.

They were cautious of these events because Christian communities in the past approached them to say we love you but always had a hidden agenda to con-vert them or to have them do something according to a Bible prophecy. They were suspicious.

But they gave us a chance, he said, and the results have been extremely posi-tive. While the Korean group was told in

each community that turnout might be low, attendance actually was quite high. At a Brooklyn event, the congregation was overcrowded. There were 1,500 peo-ple. We were amazed. Now we want to go to all communities.

YouTube and social media have helped as well. Thanks to a YouTube video, the festival has been invited to Australia.

Mr. Song said the purpose of the festi-val is for Jews to feel happiness, have a good time, and feel the show was nice. Given that there is not much interaction between Jewish and South Korean com-munities, he also hopes that a friendship will ensue, where members of the two communities will shake hands and talk about ourselves.

Rabbi Ronald Roth, religious leader of the Fair Lawn Jewish Center, where the festival will take place, said that he received an email from KCSJ, and then he called the rabbis in those congrega-tions where the group had previously performed.

It sounded interesting, he said. Not a stranger to evangelical Christian groups performing pro-Israel programs his

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A Korean dancer performs a traditional dance at a synagogue.

previous pulpit was in Nashville, Tennessee he was intrigued by the mission of KCSJ, which has positive feelings toward the Jewish people and feel very posi-tive toward the state of Israel. They feel terrible about the Holocaust and have said the Christians have to take responsibility and apologize for the lack of pro-test by churches during that time.

Noting that the group does not have that much familiarity with individual Jews, he said, they are trying to change that. And because there is a large Korean Christian community in New Jersey, we felt strongly that this would be important to help us cre-ate connections.

Rabbi Roth said he spoke with Rabbi Bruce Lustig of the Reform Washington Hebrew Congregation, which recently hosted the cultural festival and plans to invite the group again.

He was very positive about it, Rabbi Roth said, affirming his belief that KCSJ has neither a political nor a religious agenda.

The rabbi said the festival will be an extravaganza a big production. The effort theyre putting into this is tremendous, and its free and open to the public. They are assuming the costs of production. That is an indication of how strongly they feel.

Among other events, the festival will feature a tra-dition Korean costume fashion show; a nonverbal nanta performance, integrating Korean tradition rhythms with comedy and drama; a musical perfor-mance, and a Taekwondo martial arts dance.

We as Jews should recognize that we have allies in the Christian community, Rabbi Roth said. There are strong supporters of Israel in the Christian commu-nity, especially here in northern New Jersey. There are Christians who when they read the Bible recog-nize that this is the story of our people and take it seriously as a precursor to their religion. They have a strong love of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Today, when Israel is the target of worldwide efforts to isolate it, this is especially important, he said.

It will be a spectacular, memorable evening, Rabbi Roth concluded.

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Last Sunday, 320 riders pedaled courses rang-ing from three to 50 miles, and they were joined by dozens of walkers and masses of enthusiastic onlookers at the fifth annual Wheels for Meals Ride to Fight Hunger.

The fundraiser was a project of the Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson; it supports JFSs Meals on Wheels program and its community food pantry. Last year, JFS delivered 28,000 nutritionally balanced meals to the homebound elderly and to disabled Ber-gen County residents.

This year, the three-mile course was dedi-cated to the memory of Cindy Pikul, a former ride marshal and triathelete who died of can-cer last year.

The day included music and a DJ, as well as exhibits by vendors. Corporate sponsors pro-vided both money and goods and services.

So far, JFS has raised nearly $120,000 from participants and sponsors. It will accept dona-tions until the end of the year at www.rideto-fighthunger.com.

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Riders are raring to start the 10 mile ride.

Robert Feuerstein, David Feuerstein, ABC Newss Lori Stokes, who rode on Sunday, JFSs executive director, Susan Greenbaum, and the president of its board, Shira Feuerstein, stand together at the race.

The JFSs Susan Greenbaum stands with the Jewish Standards publisher, Jamie Janoff.

Volunteers, including this group, made the day go smoothly.

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Sides clash in conversion therapy trialPlaintiffs cite science, defendants note biblical bans on homosexuality

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Two highly different views of homosexuality are being heard in Hudson County Superior Court in Jersey City, where four gay men and two of their mothers are suing a local Orthodox-based group that claims to help individuals conquer their homosexual desires.

The plaintiffs, three former Orthodox Jews and one Mormon, alleged that promises that JONAHs leaders made about undoing their same-sex attractions failed, causing them misery and embarrassment.

The lawsuit is the latest court battle over so-called conversion therapy, a practice that gay rights groups are trying to ban in more than a dozen states. In 2013, Gov. Chris Chris-tie signed legislation banning gay-to-straight conversion therapy for minors in New Jersey.

The plaintiffs are suing under a tough New Jersey statute against consumer fraud. They argue that the treatment methods used by JONAHs counselors not only were ineffec-tive, they also were painful, humiliating, and torturous.

The group, whose name is an acronym for Jews Offering New Alternatives for Homosex-uality, a name it once used in full, marketed its services to young Orthodox men.

One plaintiff, a former Lubavitcher chasid named Chaim Levin, told the jury that at a weekend therapy session JONAH partici-pants reenacted a scene from my childhood abuse, in which an older cousin demanded oral sex. Mr. Levin said that rabbis and JONAH representatives told him that the abuse had made him gay.

The plaintiffs Mr. Levin, Benjamin Unger, Sheldon Bruck, and Michael Ferguson, as well as Mr. Levins and Mr. Brucks mothers, are represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization based in Montgomery, Ala.

In his opening argument on June 3, SPLC deputy legal director David Dinielli said that the plaintiffs are gay, and were defrauded by a promise of spending money to turn them from gay to straight. He said that those who dropped out of JONAHs two- to four-year program were told they were destined for sad, lonely lives, with the possibility of depression, suicide, pedophilia, and dying of AIDS.

Charles LiMandri of the California-based Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund opened for the defense.

Mr. LiMandri argued that for most of the time they were involved with JONAH, the plaintiffs were pleased to be moving away from the same-sex attractions that brought them into conflict with their deep-seated beliefs and their lives as religious Jews.

In his testimony, Mr. Unger said that in 2007, when his parents enrolled him in

JONAH, he had been a 19-year-old modern Orthodox Jew. He believed that his religious destiny included marrying a woman and fathering children. But when he started to develop same-sex attractions, I began hav-ing stress, which continued to grow and turn into depression while he was attending yeshi-vas in Brooklyn and Jerusalem, he testified.

Mr. Ungers most emotional moments on the witness stand came when he told the jury that JONAH leaders suggested that his close relationship with his mother was a major cause of his homosexuality.

During group therapy sessions, he was instructed to put a pillow on the floor, imag-ine it to be his mother, and smash it repeat-edly with a tennis racket.

Frequently wiping tears from his eyes, Mr. Unger told the jury how disturbed he felt at going through all of this because of my mom. I was horribly cold to her. She turned to me one day and said, What did I do wrong? and I didnt know how to answer. That was the lowest point in my relationship with my mom.

Under cross-examination by Mr. LiMandri, Mr. Unger acknowledged that he wrote posi-tive emails about JONAH on a listserv for par-ticipants in the program, but said he became increasingly disillusioned and depressed until he left JONAH after 11 months there.

Now, at 27, Mr. Unger said, he is no lon-ger Orthodox, has a close relationship with his mother, works as a bartender, and fully accepts himself as a gay man.

On the trials second day, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, Lina Bensman, pointed out that Arthur Goldberg, JONAHs co-director, was a disbarred attorney. He had headed a New York underwriting firm, and in 1989 he was incarcerated for six months on federal tax fraud and conspiracy charges.

Ms. Bensman asked why Mr. Goldberg occasionally had identified himself as a doc-tor, although he was not a physician and had not earned a Ph.D.

I am a JD, a juris doctor, Mr. Goldberg said. (New lawyers are granted the JD degree when they graduate from law school. It is not common for them to call themselves doctors, although it is not inaccurate for them to do so.)

Mr. Goldberg also acknowledged that he used the title rabbi on occasion, although he was not ordained.

I was not a rabbi, he said. I have no for-mal religious training other than going to a yeshiva in grade school.

I have never been a licensed counselor, he added. I give advice.

But after being shown a signed document projected on a video screen, Mr. Goldberg acknowledged he had applied to the Ameri-can Psychotherapy Association to become a certified relationship specialist and a certified professional counselor.

But these certifications were revoked? Ms. Bensman asked.

Yes, maam he replied.And the certifications read, I certify I have

not been convicted of a felony?That is correct, he said.Under questioning by his own attorney,

Mr. Goldberg said he believed that his fel-ony fraud and conspiracy convictions were essentially nullified more than 20 years after his guilty pleas in 1989, allowing him to check no on the application.

Did you ever use these titles after they had withdrawn the certification? his lawyer asked.

I did not, Mr. Goldberg said.Mr. Goldberg described himself as an

Orthodox Jew, and a former president of Con-gregation Mount Sinai in Jersey City.

His intention, he said, is to help people achieve their personal goals. We want to help people overcome their homosexual feel-ings in a Torah-true way.

What do you mean by a Torah-true way? his attorney asked

It means following the written Torah, which is the Five Books of Moses. We look at it from a religious belief system of what the Torah says, he said.

Mr. Goldberg said he found the term gay conversion therapy a particularly obnox-ious phrase.

In all the history of Judaism we were forced to convert many times, he said. I believe in free choice. God has given us free choice. If people are happy being gay, Ill use a Yiddish phrase: Gei gezunterheit Go and be happy.

On June 11, the former president of the American Psychiatric Association testified that generally, it is unethical to engage in gay conversion and reparative therapies because of the potential of harm to patients.

Any treatment that is based on the assumption that homosexuality is a mental disorder or is based on the assumption that the patient should change his or her sexual orientation is by its nature unethical, Dr. Carol Bernstein said.

She said that traumatic re-enactments, along with the use of nudity, blindfold-ing, and shouting obscenities, could harm patients, and its use by APA members and would be grounds for expulsion from the professional association.

The next day, an unlicensed life coach who said he treated hundreds of JONAHs Ortho-dox clients defended his methods, although Dr. Bernstein branded them as unethical.

Why does the therapy include being naked with other men? one of the plain-tiff s attorneys, James Bromley, asked Alan Downing.

As he pointed to photographs of his clients, plaintiffs lawyer David Dinielli said JONAH officials warned them they were destined for sad lonely lives if they quit the program. POOL PHOTOS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, VIA NJJN.

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BCHSJS gala dinner honors sixThe Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies recently held its annual gala at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel. The schools princi-pal and director, Bess Adler, was the emcee, Rabbi Ronald Roth gave the invo-cation, and board president Elayne Kalina welcomed the group.

Lillian and Melvin Solomon of River Edge and Susan Black-Castiel and Moshe Castiel of Woodcliff Lake were the galas honorees, Rabbi Ely Allen of Bergen-field received a special recognition award and Walter Ramsfelder of Teaneck was given a distinguished service award.

From left, Moshe and Alexandra Castiel, Susan Black-Castiel, Elayne Kalina, Simon Castiel, and Bess Adler.

Elayne Kalina, Walter Ramsfelder, Bess Adler, and Steven Prystowsky. PHOTOS BY TRIPLE S STUDIOS

Lillian and Melvin Solomon, Elayne Kalina, and Bess Adler.

Rabbi Dr. Wallace Greene, left, with Elayne Kalina, Bess Adler, and Rabbi Ely Allen.

Belle Rosenbloom named Hadassah Woman of ValorThe dinner, catered by Maadan Caterers, included a power point presentation on Ms. Rosenblooms long-standing involvement with Hadassah and her com-mitment to Israel. Fellow chapter members Rhoda Fried and Millie Lerman spoke about her chapter achievements.

The groups annual ad calendar, a major fund-raiser, was distributed to attendees.

Belle Rosenbloom of Hackensack, left, formerly of Paramus, accepts a Hadassah Woman of Valor cer-tificate from Paramus-Bat Sheva Hadassah chapter president Chana Yahalom at a dinner honoring her at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah.

New principal at Golda Och AcademyMs. Stodolski comes to the school with 26 years of experi-ence in private schools. Under the leadership of the acad-emys head of school, Rabbi Marc Baker, Ms. Stodolski was the assistant head of school, dean of studies, and math department chair at the Gann Academy, a Jewish high school in Waltham, Mass. Before that, she was an assistant head of school at the Meridian Academy, an inde-pendent school affiliated with the Coali-tion of Essential Schools in Brookline, Mass. She was also the acting assistant

principal at the Taktse International School in Gangtok, India.

Ms. Stodolski received a bachelors degree from Swarthmore College and a masters in educational leadership from the Klin-genstein Center of Teach-ers College at Columbia University. In 2011, she was awarded a National

Association of Independent Schools fel-lowship for aspiring heads of school.

She will begin her new position on July 1.

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Women in LoveJoin us with Harold Chapler, who will introduce this award-winning romantic drama about best friends who fall in love with a pair of sisters, until life takes their relationships in markedly different directions. Film followed by an optional discussion. Coffee and light snacks provided.Mon, Jun 22, 7:30 pm, $5/$7

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Leaving New SquareFormer chasid Shulem Deen talks about his memoir and his life

JOANNE PALMER

What do you do if you start to realize that you simply cannot live in the culture that surrounds you?If you come to understand, slowly at first and then with increasing speed and no little horror, that your world doesnt have the right kind of oxygen for your lungs to breathe? That you will choke and sputter and eventually cease to be if you stay there?

That you have to leave your whole life behind your wife, your children, your parents, your siblings and that you risk losing them forever?

You have to be really certain that you cannot live as you have been living to risk ending your life as you know it.

Thats what Shulem Deen did, as he chronicles in his memoir, All Who Go Do Not Return, and as he discussed in a recent phone interview.

His world was New Square, in Rockland County; he was a Skverer chasid, a transplant from Brooklyn, the son of people who had made their own way to the chasidic world. He had been an enthusiastic chasid, a true believer, even an enforcer, someone who kept an eye out for other peoples infractions.

But he also had doubts, and as they filtered into his mind they expanded and tormented him, and eventually pushed him out.

Mr. Deen is a heretic now, he says, but he still is a Jew. He is a gifted writer too, so his memoir unlike so many others from people who are off the derech, who have left the straight, clearly marked path that was laid out for them is not filled with cartoon villains and gaud-ily signposted emotional reactions. It is, instead, the

rueful, painful, deeply reflective story of a man whose heart and brain, working together, left him no option but to quit the only life hed known.

The narrative is fairly straight-forward. Mr. Deen, the child of a brilliant but troubled father, who died young of what seems to have been anorexia nervosa, who loved his children but loved his studies and his communion with his God more, and a mother whose story he leaves largely untold, clearly out of love, was himself (as he does not say but anyone reading his story must see) brilliant. He was avid in everything he did, and after some early missteps he planted himself firmly in the Skverer world. He married a woman he did not love, after having met her once, an episode he describes in cringe-making detail in his book. (In his book, he mentions her only respectfully; she is, after all, the mother of his children.) He had five children; he would have had more if he had not refused, because he could not support them.

None of his children speak to him today; he hopes that some day that will change. What has not changed is his love for them. That will never change.

In conversation, Mr. Deen talks about the community he left.

One of the basic problems it faces is that it is not eco-nomically sustainable, he said. Young men are expected to continue their studies of Jewish text, even after they are married, even after they become fathers. They are given stipends, but there is no obvious source of funding beyond government aid.

Historically, the men used to work, Mr. Deen said. In the 1950s, the 60, the 70s, even the 80s, there were hun-dreds of chasidic men working in places like the diamond district. Mostly, they wouldnt go to college; they wouldnt be professionals, but they would do things like diamond cutting, skilled labor. Some would computer program-ming and engineering would be a little on the fringe, but acceptable. Accounting was acceptable.

To some extent that still is true, he said, but most of those jobs require training, even college, and such educa-tion is discouraged. Instead, mostly you get a job within

the community a low-paying job or you study in a kol-lel and get a stipend for that.

As an economic model, I think that it is very poorly thought out. It seems like there is nobody giving serious thought to how this is going to play out over the next few decades. People are making choices for themselves. Some young men in Brooklyn are deciding that they will go get college degrees. What is really sad is that they decide that after they already have three children.

Things are changing, but I dont think the model is sus-tainable. I think we will see an organic evolution, but there will be some painful periods, and some casualties.

Chasidim used to have a stronger work ethic, he con-tinued. There was not this wholesale reliance on gov-ernment benefits. My understanding is that they had not become as sophisticated as they are now in incorporating government programs in their economic model.

In New Square, the first thing every young couple does is apply for food stamps and Medicaid, Mr. Deen said. Thats true of every family, and it is absolutely a matter of course. When I got married in 1993, my kallah his bride already had taken care of it. It is one of the wom-ens jobs. In preparation for marriage, the kallah goes to the social services office and applies for food stamps and Medicaid. Thats how it works.

So what happens is that you present people with the idea that this is doable, that you dont need to get a college degree, that we will give you some money, and

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None of his children speak to him today; he hopes that some

day that will change. What has not changed is his love for them. That will never change.

Shulem Deen, left, as a Skverer chasid and right, as he looks today.

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there is some help from the government, and you are young and think that it makes sense. And then you have kids, and you see that it does not work. And what do you do now?

It is devastating to many people to realize that they do not have options.

So that is the economic pressure under which people live. There is also the pressure from the outside world pushing in on them.

The Internet is seep-ing in, Mr. Deen said. They are putting up ever taller barriers, but the barriers are not solid. They are not con-crete. No matter what strictures the commu-nity tries to enforce, some people find a way around them, he said.

He talked about other specifics of life as a Skverer. The issue of men and women walking on opposite sides of the street, which, he said, had been limited to New Square but now is finding its way to Kiryas Joel, started around 2000, when the signs first went up.

The interesting thing is that at first the signs were not official, he said. I remember how it happened. One person in New Square decided that it would be a good idea, kind of like a public service. Nobody liked it when the genders get mixed up on the sidewalk, and this way it would be like on the subway, where the signs say one side for up and one side for down. It was men on this side, women on the other. It was a convenience.

The sign went up and nobody objected. What kind of objection could the chasidim of New Square have? So eventually it just became a fixture, and now it is there.

In general, the strict gender separation is in place because it goes straight to the fear of sex and the power of sex, he said. Women represent sexuality to religious men and to the codifiers of religious law. To the ultra-Orthodox chasidic men of today, it can be a 90-year-old woman or a 3-year-old girl. They all represent sexuality.

When you are a 15-year-old boy and you are told to repress every notion of sexuality, and you are so afraid of your own hormonal urges, it is natural that when you walk on the street, you keep your eyes averted from everything female. You just dont want to go there. It can destroy you forever.

There are some advantages to being a woman in that culture, though. I have two sons, and neither one could have a conversation in English, he said. They cannot speak, write, or read English.

My daughters can. The boys study Talmud from 6 in the morning to 10 at night. The girls do not get a good or robust education, but I could take my daugh-ters to the library in secret and they could read there. They know something about the outside world.

The gap between the girls and boys in their knowl-edge of the outside culture is tremendous. Because

there is so much separation between the genders, they inhabit different worlds.

Mr. Deen did not leave his community because of its failing economic model or its strictures about gender separation, though. He left it because he stopped believ-ing that the world was con-structed in the way that he was taught it was. He stopped believing in God, and when he lost that belief, he lost every-thing that the belief supported.

It is psychically and morally destructive to live like that, pretending to believe some-thing when you really do not, Mr. Deen said. The real shame is that there are hundreds of people in that same place, but they cant make the move out. They just cant. Thats whats really terrible about trapping people in an environment that is so rejectionist and isolation-ist, with no way out.

Still, though, Mr. Deen is Jew-ish. My Jewishness not my Judaism but my Jewishness is the most important part of my identity. Maybe my maleness is even more important, but my identity as an American, a New Yorker, a Brooklynite nothing is more important than my Jewishness. I have had to find a way to embrace it, to find a way to celebrate my Jewishness, things related to Jewish culture and history and peoplehood, things that are separate from religion.

Sometimes Mr. Deen does go to shul, almost despite

himself. At the end of the book, he describes himself in a liberal Upper West Side synagogue on a Friday night, lis-tening to the words and music of kabbalat Shabbat, holding the siddur, crying, his tears dripping down onto the page, blurring the words, words that of course he has no need to read because they live deep inside him. (Although he does not mention it in the book, that shul was Congregation Bnai Jeshurun, which is known for the intensity and beauty of its music.)

Prayer is a meditative experience. There is something about the mythological that human beings always have been attracted to, and prayer is the essence of it, he said. In fact, he has looked for spirituality in other places, outside the for-mal Jewish world, but has not been able to find it there. The earnest self-consciousness of spiritual seekers put him off.

For the first few years, I just didnt know how to hold these two sides his yearning for Jewish expression and his rejection of his past in one. I didnt know how to con-tain them both.

But now I live with that tension. Living with tension is a challenge, but as modern people, its something we have to do. Theres no real way to get away from it.

there is some help from the government, and you are young and think that

lost that belief, he lost every-thing that the belief supported.

destructive to live like that, pretending to believe some-thing when you really do not, Mr. Deen said. The real shame is that there are hundreds of people in that same place, but they cant make the move out. They just cant. Thats whats really terrible about trapping people in an environment that is so rejectionist and isolation-ist, with no way out.

PEARL GABEL

The gap between the girls and boys in

their knowledge of the outside culture is

tremendous. Because there is so

much separation between the

genders, they inhabit different worlds.

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Nanuet Hebrew Center offeringsFrom Friday, July 3, to Friday, August 28, Kabbalat Shabbat services at the Nanuet Hebrew Center will begin at 6:30 p.m. On Wednesday, July 15, the NHC Book Club offers a discussion on The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, after lunch at noon. On Friday, July 31, the shuls mens club has a trip

to West Point, including services and a kosher dinner with the cadets.

The Nanuet Hebrew Center is at 411 South Little Tor Road in New City, off exit 10 of the Palisades Interstate Parkway. Call (845) 708-9181 for more information.

Center featuring computer coursesThe Adult Learning Center of Rockland, an organization of retired seniors who volunteer to teach anyone over 50 how to use computers, is accepting registra-tion for summer classes.

There is an open house the first

Thursday of the month from 1 to 3 p.m. Classes are small, with eight students per class, along with one instructor and two coaches.

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ADL slams Rockland candidate ad as anti-Orthodox and negativeThe Anti-Defamation League is slam-ming an advertisement for a candidate for Rockland County sheriff as highly offensive for its negative portrayal of chasidic Jews.

The ad for Richard Vasquez includes a photograph of Lou Falco, the countys current sheriff, surrounded by Orthodox Jews, as a narrator says the sheriff has refused to enforce illegal housing laws. The video, titled Where Does Louis Falco Stand on Illegal Housing?, pur-portedly was posted on the Internet by the Rockland Republican Party, accord-ing to the ADL.

We find the use of an image of visibly identifiable Jews in this campaign video to be deeply troubling, highly offensive, and inappropriate, as it essentially blames the Orthodox Jewish community for the sub-standard and illegal housing problems in Rockland, the ADLs New York regional director, Evan Bernstein, said in a state-ment. Voters should be encouraged to

make decisions about candidates based upon their qualifications and political positions, not on the basis of race or reli-gion without offensive insertions ascrib-ing blame on an issue to a particular reli-gious group.

Rockland County, which is estimated to be one-third Jewish and includes the chasidic village of New Square and the sprawling Orthodox community of Mon-sey, has seen intense infighting between the burgeoning Orthodox population and local opponents. A major focus has been the East Ramapo public school board, which has a chasidic majority that has been stripping local public school budgets and selling off public school buildings to yeshivas at cut-rate prices.

We urge Mr. Vasquez to edit the video and make clear that the crux of his cam-paign and this county issue has noth-ing to do with the Rockland Jewish com-munity, Bernstein said in the statement. JTA WIRE SERVICE

Eldest son of Vizhnitz rebbe dies unexpectedlyThe eldest son of the Vizhnitz chasidic sects grand rabbi died unexpectedly on June 4. He was 67.

Rabbi Pinchas Shulem Hager, whose father, Rabbi Mordechai Hager, is the international grand rabbi of the Vizhnitz chasidic sect, died after back surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.

Hager, known for officiating at many Vizhnitz weddings, served as the rabbi of the Vizhnitz Monsey Kehilla in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, according to various media outlets. He also ran sev-eral Vizhnitz educational institutions in Boro Park.

The funeral was held on the after-noon of June 4 in Boro Park, and a funeral procession in the predomi-nantly Vizhnitz village of Kaser, where the grand rabbi lives, drew thousands of people. Hager was buried in the Viznitz Cemetery on Route 306, near the Brick Church Cemetery in Monsey.

Hager is survived by a wife, nine chil-dren, and many grandchildren. Accord-ing to the Journal News, the family is related by marriage to the Twersky family, which leads the Skverer sect in New Square. JTA WIRE SERVICE

Services for Holocaust survivorsRockland Jewish Family Service offers many services for eligible Holocaust survivors. Among the offerings are home health care or companion service, case management, help with pension forms, and assistance

with food, medical, and dental expenses and transportation needs.

Call Doris Zuckerberg at (845) 354-2121, ext. 198, or email her at [email protected].

Nanuet Chamber hosting summer networkingThe Greater Nanuet Chamber of Commerce will host the second annual Joint Networking Tent Event at the Shops at Nanuet on Thurs-day, July 9, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The event, conducted in partnership with the Shops at Nanuet, will take place on Fashion Drive at the Shops. The street will be closed to vehicle traffic to accommodate this years festivities, which will be held under a large tent.

Participants will receive a directory of attendees, food from restaurants at the Shops, raffle prizes, and the presenta-tion of the first Partnership in Progress Awards developed by the Nanuet Cham-ber of Commerce.

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