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In June, the eyes of those con-cerned about deteriorating

relations between Israel and Turkey will have two events to watch: Turkish national elections on June 12, in which the question will be whether or not Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will retain sufficient power to continue his anti-Israel policies; and, at the end of the month, a planned “Freedom Flotilla II,” in which as many as 15 ships, organized by a group that is close with

Turkey Plans June Elections and “Freedom Flotilla II,” but a UN Commission May Show That Israel Respected International Law

Mr. Erdoğan, may once again try to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas-run Gaza.

At the end of May 2010, the blockade was unsuccessfully challenged by the virulently anti-Israel Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish group, IHH, a signifi-cant fundraiser for Hamas, who sent a flotilla of ships to bring what they said was “humanitar-ian” aid into Gaza without prior Israeli inspection.

Now there are reports that a UN panel charged with

investigating the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident is about to inform Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon that Israel was within her rights according to international law.

If true, this would be a reversal of the findings of a UN Human Rights Commis-sion report last year, which said Israel’s Gaza blockade was illegal. That commission’s report, which Israel rejected, said it was a crime for Israeli soldiers to kill civilians onboard

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the ships, and that the Israeli intervention had violated the rules of international law.

LinkedAccording to Uri Bar-Ner,

a senior advisor to the chair-man of the America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL) and a former Israeli ambassador to Turkey, the Turkish elections and the timing of “Freedom Flotilla II” are linked.

The new flotilla had been scheduled to take place at the

A Palestinian State on the PA’s Terms: The General Assembly Can’t Deliver; the Security Council Won’t; Can It Be Stopped?

The “Father of Return” holds the key which sym-bolizes the “right of re-turn,” and carries on his back “burdens” which together constitute the entire State of Israel. The burdens include the Bal-four Declaration; the 1948 Nakba (Catastro-phe); the 1967 Naksa (Setback); and Wye, Oslo, Taba, and Sharm al-Sheikh, all sites of meet-ings which led nowhere. continued on page 15

After a week of high-profile four-act political theater last

month between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, played out on stages throughout Washington, DC, the next Arab-Israeli flash point will likely come this September at the United Na-tions, where the Palestinians are threatening to prevail upon their friends and allies throughout the international community to legiti-mize their claim and recognize “Palestine” as a state.

While Messrs. Netanyahu and Obama pointedly disagreed

not only on where the proposed borders between Israel and the potentially future state of Palestine would lie, but also on the wisdom of discussing such pinpointed facts while the Palestinians are still refusing to negotiate directly with the Jewish state—or even recog-nize that there is such an entity as a Jewish state—it was clear that Israeli and US leadership agreed the UN is not the venue to settle the dispute.

In his speech designed to preempt the Israeli prime

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Rabbi Meir Engel, for ex-ample, born in Tel Aviv in 1914, initially volunteered to serve in the US Army in 1943. After serving in the Pacific Theatre and Occupied Japan, he left the military for civilian pulpits, until he was recalled to duty during the Korean War.

From 1954 to 1957, he served as the Jewish Affairs advisor to the US Army Com-mand in Heidelberg, Germany, and after tours of duty at Fort Dix and Fort Ord stateside, he because the first Jewish-American chaplain to serve in Vietnam.

He died in 1964 at the US Naval Hospital in Saigon.

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Congress Approves Jewish Chaplains’ Memorial at Arlington

At the end of May, one week before Memorial Day and

after years of efforts by patriotic American Jews, the House of Representatives in Washington unanimously approved a bill to allow the building of a monu-ment at Arlington National Cem-etery commemorating Jewish chaplains who served the US Armed Forces and died while on active duty.

The memorial provision won passage in the Senate af-ter consideration by the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Af-fairs. Erection of the monu-ment does not need Presiden-tial approval.

There already are monu-ments to Protestant and Catholic

chaplains, as well as one for chaplains who served during World War I. It is hoped that the new memorial, which will honor the memory of 13 Jewish chaplains who died while on active duty in the US armed forces, will be dedicated as soon as this September.

Long-Time Coming“Members of the Jewish

faith have served our country since the days of the Ameri-can Revolution, and Jewish chaplains have bravely served alongside. Their valor should be remembered in the same way that of other chaplains is remembered,” said Rabbi Harold Robinson of the Jew-ish Welfare Board’s Jewish

Chaplains’ Council.A Marine and Navy chap-

lain with the rank of admiral, Rabbi Robinson was among those who lobbied hard for the new monument.

Army Colonel Jacob Gold-stein, a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi who is one of only seven Ortho-dox-Jewish chaplains currently serving in the army, called the new monument “very, very im-portant” and “long in coming.”

“By not having a Jewish memorial, it almost says we don’t serve,” he said.

Seven Were OrthodoxSeven of the 13 Jewish

chaplains who will be named on the new monument were Orthodox rabbis.

Are we the only ones who get the distinct impression that, for President Obama, Israel’s borders are defined depend-

ing on which audience he is addressing? It’s as though whoever puts the speech on his teleprompter has to figure out which lines (pun intended) will get the most applause.

Pundit Dan Friedman suggests Israeli Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu now take the bull by the horns and demand that the President consider the “injustice and hardship” endured by Mexicans since American forces annexed Texas in 1845.

“Tens of thousands of ordinary Mexicans were driven from the only homes they had ever known and forced to live in poverty and squalor south of the border imposed by American aggres-sion. This festering wound will never heal until America takes bold steps to return to the internationally accepted lines of 1845, because the settlement activity that has taken place in occupied Mexico is clearly illegal,” Mr. Friedman imagines Bibi saying.

Asked if this hardline position could damage the US-Israel relationship, Mr. Friedman suggests Bibi tell the President that Israel’s commitment to America’s security is “rock solid” as is the unshakable friendship between the two countries.

Gee, who was it who said, “Part of friendship is being able to tell your friend the truth”?

Our friend, Haifa University Prof Steven Plaut, also has some comparisons to make. He points out that the term “Nakba” or “catastrophe” and “ethnic cleansing” that the Arabs use to define the birth of the State of Israel in 1948 must be re-examined. How about: “The Arab armies seemingly entered Palestine (in 1948) to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny, but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and leave their

homeland, imposed upon them a political and ideological block-ade and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which Jews used to live in Eastern Europe, as if we were condemned to change places with them. The Arab states succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people and destroying their unity.”

Who said that? Why, none other than Mahmoud Abbas, the current “president” of the PA, in an article published in the Beirut magazine, Falastin el-Thawra, in March 1976.

In the New York Times last month, Abbas told his own “Na-kba” story, in which he said he and his family were expelled from Safed to Syria after the UN’s partition resolution of 1947. He left out the reason they left Safed: They expected retaliation for the massacres launched by Arabs against Jews of the city in 1929.

It’s sort of like the interview in Ha’aretz with Ismail Fahr a-Din, a resident of the Golan Druse village of Majdal Shams, who claims to remember the Palestinian refugees of 1948 streaming into the town, then still under Syrian occupation. One problem: the witness is 57-years-old, born six years after Israel’s War of Independence.

***A group of wise men of Chelm, displaced to San Francisco,

have managed to get the issue of circumcision of male children on the ballot. While they talk only about Jews, it is clear that Muslims, too, would be affected. Hey, with Jews, they get angry letters and op-eds. With Muslims, these hapless would-be reformers get fatwahs.

Among other complaints, the anti-circumcisionists claim the procedure impairs the sex drive. We suggest they talk to house-keepers in fancy hotels frequented by the circumcised Dominique Strauss-Kahn or Egyptian banker Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar. Or how about the girls Tweeted by Anthony Wiener? S.L.R.

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Recently, an Orthodox rabbi from outside the New York Metropolitan area was asked to help reconcile a Jewish mother and daughter who have been estranged for more than 20 years due to a bitter custody battle when the daughter was a small child.

The daughter, who attends the rabbi’s shul, is getting married and, although the mother, who lives in NJ, begged to attend the wed-ding, the daughter adamantly refuses to permit her to come. The rabbi refused to help the mother, saying that the daughter has the right “to choose who she wants and doesn’t want to involve in her life,” and, he added, “The Talmud teaches us that sometimes the only way one can honor their mother is by completely distancing oneself from their mother.” Last month, a few spiritual leaders were asked: Is the rabbi correct? Y

If we take it as a given that these are the facts, I would strongly recommend a sincere and robust attempt at reconciliation. The rabbi should sit down with the mother and daughter and see what, if anything, he can do to ameliorate the situation. If,

Without knowing the par-ticulars of this obviously tragic case, I must point out there are extreme circumstances that would justify such a painful response. Typically, it would be a situation in which the par-ent is so abusive (physically,

Without knowing the ex-act details of the case, I have to say my initial reaction is to disagree with the rabbi’s advice. I face many such situations in which a child is distanced from a parent and wants the parent completely out of his or her life.

The response given by the out-of-town rabbi is in viola-tion of Torah law. The daughter cannot halachically choose to exclude her mother from her life. The Talmudic reference is erroneous. It refers to a psychotic mother whose behavior could

continued on page 30 continued on page 30continued on page 30 continued on page 30Rabbi Benjamin Yudin

Fair Lawn, NJRabbi Steven Pruzansky

Teaneck, NJRabbi Shmuley Boteach

Englewood, NJRabbi Moshe Dovid Tendler

Monsey, NY

Rabbi Samuel Rosen, who was born in Poland in 1907, came to the US af-ter studying at the Lomzer Yeshiva. He earned smicha and a law degree at Ye-shiva University.

In 1942, he joined the military as a chaplain and served until his death in 1955 at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

North Africa and FranceWhen he died in 1944, Yiddish-

speaking Rabbi Irving Tepper, who had earned smicha at the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago in 1939, had served in the front lines of North Africa and Europe during World War II.

Attached to an infantry combat team in the Ninth Division, he was part of the first wave to land under fire in Morocco on November 8, 1942. He saw action with his battalion in Tunisia and Sicily, and was among the first to land in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

A beloved chaplain remembered for being at the side of his soldiers, the five-foot-six, slender Rabbi Tepper was de-scribed by an officer as “a frail bundle of enthusiasm, 120 pounds, dripping wet.”

A private wrote from France to a USO worker he had known at Fort Bragg that Chaplain Tepper was doing “a great job.”

“Whenever he has services, the boys turn out in great numbers as a means of repaying him for what he did for us. He was in the thick of the African campaign and took chances that he did not have to take, but he wanted to be with us all the

time. Chaplain Tepper is not only a great chaplain, but a great soldier. The boys are all crazy about him,” the soldier wrote.

Davening under FireDevoutly religious, he insisted he

would never allow artillery or mortar fire to interfere with his prayers.

“No German is going to prevent me from davening my three times daily, 88s or no 88s,” he wrote from Africa to the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities of the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB).

Describing his marching equipment, he said he carried the Jewish chaplains’ guidon and flag on his shoulder, and in his belt he always had some JWB siddurs, songsters, and calendars.

“These were my rifle and ammuni-tion,” he wrote.

With His AddressIn his last letter to the JWB, he of-

fered greetings “from a liberated area in France.”

“Since the newspapers have carried my division’s exploits, you are no doubt familiar with my recent doings. Nothing spectacular except doing chaplain’s work up at the front—beside getting some real scares and ducking 88s and other objects, which, thank G-d, did not have my ad-dress on them,” he wrote.

Soon after writing that letter, on August 13, 1944, Chaplain Tepper was killed by a shell and buried in France. He was 31.

The Flying RabbiRabbi Louis Werfel of New York had

physical disabilities that exempted him from overseas duties. Nevertheless, he re-quested war-theatre duty, and because his duties as an Air Force chaplain involved covering large distances by plane, he be-came known as “the flying rabbi.”

He graduated from Yeshiva College in 1937 and, three years later, received smicha from YU. After serving at the Mt. Kisco Hebrew Congregation, he took a position with Knesseth Israel Synagogue in Birmingham, Alabama, where he also became a visiting chaplain at nearby Fort McClellan.

In 1942, he decided to enlist as a chap-lain. “This application is submitted after careful deliberation and is motivated by a recognition of what I consider to be my duty as a rabbi in Israel,” he wrote.

Jewish US and French TroopsIn June 1943, he was assigned to

North Africa, where he assisted not only US troops, but also Jewish soldiers in the Free French Army.

Just before he died, Chaplain Wer-fel requested from the National JWB 10,000 copies, in French translation, of the board’s siddur.

On December 24, 1943, he was killed while on his way to conduct Chanukah services as part of his duties with the 12th Air Force Service Command in North Africa. He was 27.

Father and SonThe account of the Brooklyn-based

father-son honorees, Rabbi Herman Rosen and his son, Rabbi Solomon Rosen, is the poignant story of a young man’s obvious effort to complete his father’s legacy.

When Army Chaplain Rabbi Her-man Rosen died in a drowning accident in Brighton Beach in 1943, his son, Solo-mon, then just 19, put aside his studies at the Mesifta Rabbinical Seminary, to serve with the US Army as a paratrooper.

In 1945, he survived an air disaster when the B-29 in which he was flying exploded over Texas, killing 11 men. He and a few others managed to parachute to safety.

Back in SchoolFollowing his discharge, Solomon

Rosen resumed his studies, earning smi-cha in 1946. He immediately enlisted as a chaplain, graduating with highest hon-ors from the Chaplains School at Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania.

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In May 1947, he was newly married and the newest Jewish chaplain in the US armed services. He had just completed ar-ranging and conducting services for the Jews in his area and was en route back home to Brooklyn, when he became one of 11 Air Force officers to be killed in a plane crash in eastern Oklahoma.

He was 24 years old.Karate Chaplain

Army Captain Rabbi Morton H Singer was born in New York in 1936 and man-aged to combine religious studies at Ye-shiva Tifereth Yerushalayim on the Lower East Side (from which he received smicha in 1965) with athletics. He was athletic director at a shul in Great Neck and a youth leader at the Bronx Union YMHA. He was the 1959 Eastern Intercollegiate weight-lifting champion and a Brown Belt karate expert who also taught judo.

After serving as a non-combatant volunteer in Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War, he volunteered for Paratrooper School and for service as one of four Jewish chaplains in Vietnam.

Retired Navy Lt Gary Siegel, who served in Vietnam, recalled going with Rabbi Singer to visit wounded soldiers in hospitals.

The last time Mr. Siegel, now 68, saw Chaplain Singer was at the beginning of Chanukah 1968. After conducting ser-vices in Da Nang, Chaplain Singer flew to a Marine Corps installation at Chu Lai to conduct services there. On December 17, he was on his way back to Da Nang when his plane was struck by enemy fire and crashed.

Upon his arrival in South Vietnam, shortly before his death, Chaplain Singer wrote to the JWB Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy, explaining, “The men here need our service and look forward to our visits and ministration. There is no more responsive congregation anywhere than the men in the field.”

Larger Than Life His daughter, Dr. Vera Silberberg,

was three when her father died. She said she grew up reveling in stories about the weight-lifting Orthodox rabbi who, she said, loved “cars, rock ‘n’ roll, and faith.”

A dentist in Sherman Oaks, Cali-fornia, she said the new memorial that will bear his name along with the others is important.

“From his daughter’s perspective, I

think it would have been important for him—not really for his own namesake, but so everyone who has perished should have their names equally there,” she said.

The effort to have these men’s names memorialized — as well as those of Rab-bis Nachman Arnoff, Frank Goldenberg, Henry Goody, Samuel D Hurwitz, and David Sobel — was a cooperative effort of several military and Jewish organiza-tions, including the American Legion, the American Jewish Committee, the Orthodox Union, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.

The Four ChaplainsOne of those who will be memorial-

ized on the new monument has already been recognized many times over. Rabbi Alexander Goode was one of the celebrat-ed Four Chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers when the USAT Dorchester was torpedoed by a German U-boat on February 3, 1943.

A Reform rabbi who also earned a doctorate in Oriental Languages from Johns Hopkins University, Rabbi Goode was accepted as a military chaplain in the US Army in 1942.

In January 1943, he began his first—and only—naval voyage on the Dorchester, which was transporting over 900 sol-


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diers to Britain via Greenland. He and three other chaplains, Methodist Rev George L. Fox, Roman Catholic Priest John P. Washington, and Reformed Church of America Rev Clark V. Poling, were on the ship to minister to the troops’ spiri-tual needs.

TorpedoedWhen the ship was struck

by the torpedo shortly after midnight, the troops onboard realized that it was not only sinking rapidly, but that there was an insufficient number of lifeboats and life jackets for all the men. Survivors recall hundreds of men packing the decks and scrambling for life-boats, several of which had been damaged.

In the ensuing chaos, the four chaplains not only remained calm themselves, but they also organized the frightened sol-diers, distributing lifejackets

from a locker. When the sup-ply of lifejackets ran out, each of the four chaplains gave his own to another soldier.

When the last of the lifeboats had drifted off, the chaplains stayed onboard and prayed with those unable to escape the sink-ing ship. The Dorchester sank beneath the waves less than 30 minutes after it was hit, with 672 men still onboard.

Survivors, many of whom recall bodies freezing in the icy water, said the last anyone saw of the four chaplains, they were standing on the deck, arms linked as they prayed together.

Rabbi Goode, who was 32, was survived by his wife, Teresa, a niece of Jewish per-former Al Jolson, and their daughter, Rosalie.

Posthumous HonorEach of the four chaplains

was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart, and, in 1948, an act of Congress designated February 3rd as “Four Chaplains Day.” The Four Chaplains’ Medal was established by an act of Con-gress in 1960.

But while the names of the three Christian chaplains have been inscribed on monuments in Arlington Cemetery, until now, neither Rabbi Goode’s name nor that of any of his fellow Jewish chaplains has been so honored.

But, with the bipartisan vote in Congress last month, that will now change. Private fundraising—most although not all of it Jewish—has net-ted more than $50,000 for the project.

This is important because the congressional resolution urges for the provision of space “for a memorial marker, to be paid for with private funds, to honor the memory of the Jew-ish chaplains who died while

on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States.”

Expression of Gratitude“The honor for these brave

service members is long over-due,” said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL), who serves as chairman of the House Com-mittee on Veterans’ Affairs. “I can think of no better expres-sion of our nation’s gratitude for our Jewish War Chaplains than the passage of this resolu-tion during Jewish American Heritage Month, and a week before Memorial Day.”

He pointed out that the 13 Jewish chaplains who will be honored “stood beside our troops and lent their strength during good times and bad, on the battlefield and off.”

“This memorial will serve as an inspiration to all to learn their stores that are such an important part of our nation’s history,” said Mr. Miller.

Long OverdueRep Steve Rothman (D-NJ),

The proposed memorial to the fallen Jewish chaplains


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a co-sponsor and strong supporter of the bill, agreed, saying he was proud to sup-port the memorial to honor the memory of the 13 Jewish-American chaplains “who heroically lost their lives in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam.”

“This memorial is long overdue, but nonetheless very welcome,” he said.

Another local Congressman, Scott Garrett (R-NJ) said he supported the bill “to honor the memory of Jewish chaplains who died while serving on active duty in the United States armed forces.”

Rep Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) stressed the important service offered by chaplains, especially for the many soldiers for whom “faith plays such an integral part in whether they will be successful in battle or even survive the ordeal of war.”

“This long-delayed memorial will be an expression of a nation’s gratitude to our Jewish chaplains who gave their lives while keeping the faith of American soldiers alive. We will never know, in any tangible sense, the impact these brave and selfless chaplains had on Americans who fought in defense of our country. Only G-d knows the full breadth of their service.

We only know that the United States of America would not be the nation it is to-day without them,” he said.

Jewish Fallen HeroesOn the Shabbat of Memorial Day

weekend, just a few days after Congress acted on the new memorial, Jewish War Veterans of the USA and the National Museum of American-Jewish Military History (NMAJMH) sponsored what they hoped will be the first annual National Service Honoring the Jewish Fallen He-roes of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Held at the 6th and I Historic Syna-gogue in Washington, DC, the service included reading the names of the more than 40 Jewish servicemen and women who have died in the War against Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to the organizers, tributes to these Jewish soldiers were part of Shabbat services in synagogues throughout the country.

NJ ResidentsSeveral of those to whom tribute was paid

had been Jewish residents of New Jersey, includ-ing 2nd Lt Seth Dvorin, 24, of East Brunswick; Spc Marc Seiden, 26, of Brigantine; and Sgt Alan Sherman, 36, of Ocean Township.

Some of the families of New Jersey Jewish fallen heroes traveled to Wash-ington for the service. Rimma Tarlavsky and her husband, Yuri, lost their son, Capt Michael Tarlavsky, in 2004 when his unit was attacked in Najaf, Iraq. He was 30 years old.

Born in Latvia when it was still part of the Soviet Union, Michael Tarlavsky was five when the family left in 1979, settling first in New Orleans and then in Clifton, NJ.

Melinda, Daniel, and Benjamin Kane traveled from their home in Cherry Hill to Washington to honor their son and brother, Lance Cpl Jeremy Kane, who was killed in 2010 while supporting combat operations in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. He was 22.

“Shabbat of Memorial Day weekend was set aside to read the names of the 40 Jewish fallen heroes in solemn tribute and memory, just as we remember all brave Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country throughout our history,” said NMAJMH president David Magidson, who led the tribute at the 6th and I Syna-gogue. “Our most fervent prayer is that no new names be added to the Roll of the Fallen in the years to come.” S.L.R.


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By Betty Schwartz

Finding herself infuriated by the almost pervasive demonization of Israel in

certain circles, artist and art-educator Sheryl Intrator-Urman found a satisfying response. She decided to sublimate her fury into creativity and encourage other artists to do likewise.

In conjunction with Artists 4 Israel, a collaborative, non-profit group that uses art to advance positive perceptions of the Jew-ish state, Ms. Intrator-Urman, an Englewood resident, has developed the “Response Art Exhibitions.” She and her colleagues use the power of art to communicate their passionate conviction that Israel has the right to exist within safe and secure borders.

Using her connections to Jewish art groups throughout the tri-state area, Ms. Intrator-Urman invited artists to attend one or more lectures about Israel by noted authors, executives, and political person-alities. Then the artists did what they do best: created works of art in response to the ideas they had just heard.

Now that the talks have been completed, the art works are in-progress, with exhibitions planned throughout the area. The final com-petitive juried show will be held at the Arts 4 Israel Brooklyn gallery, and there is still time for interested artists to participate.

Local EducatorsThe first show was held on Sunday, May

15, at the JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, in conjunction with a Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day, celebration. The featured art works were created in response to a talk given by Dr. Alex Grobman, historian and author of The Palestinian Right to Israel. Dr. Grobman, who serves as executive director of the America-Israel Friendship League, put forth the argument that the Palestinians have no such right.

“Nothing in the Arab—including Pales-tinian—media, political statements, religious sermons, or educational systems suggests that they have, in any way, accepted the right of Jews to govern any part of the Holy Land. This is not a political issue, but, rather a religious one. According to the Palestinians, every inch of Israel is considered holy to Islam and cannot be shared with the ‘infidels.’ A Jew-ish state, created and run by Jews, whom the Muslims consider to be, at best, second-class citizens, is an affront to their interpretation of Islam,” said Dr. Grobman.

Most of the participants at the JCC show were artists who teach in various Bergen County Jewish educational institutions.

“Reaching out to art teachers was a natural for this exhibit,” said Ms. Intrator-Urman. “These teachers have dedicated their careers to art and Jewish education and feel a tremendous bond with Israel.”

“Passover, Freedom, and Israel”Ksenija Pecaric, who teaches art at Ye-

shivat Noam in Paramus, said she was happy for the opportunity to hone her artistic skills in a way that combined her love of art with her devotion to the State of Israel.

The Teaneck resident, who holds a mas-ter’s degree in Fine Art and Art Education from the Pedagogical University in Krakow,

created a collage based on the theme of “Pass-over, Freedom, and Coming to Israel, the Promised Land for the Jewish People.”

She found the Response Art Series “a nice opportunity to show support for the land of Israel.”

Perilous DanceAhuva Mantell, director of the art

program at the Frisch Yeshiva High School in Paramus, said Dr. Grobman’s lecture resonated with ideas about which she had been thinking for some time.

A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Ms. Mantell said some of her work is “in-stinctual” while other pieces are the result of “strategic planning and reworking.”

Artists 4 Israel Support Jewish State with Creativity


Ahuva Mantell at JCC Response Art Exhibit


Ivy Weiner, art teacher at the Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, in Teaneck, displayed a piece entitled “The Dance That Never Ends,” a mixed-media work featuring two figures dancing on the land of Israel, surrounded by hostile neighbors, repre-sented by colors of fire and smoke.

Ms. Weiner said Dr. Grob-man’s talk had inspired the idea of the two figures dancing in an effort “to win this little piece of land.”

Public OpinionRoberta Ide, who teaches art

to children privately after school, exhibited a painting entitled “Who’s Your Puppet Master?”

Calling art her “obsession” that she creates when she is passionate about a subject, she said her painting depicted the role of the media in forming public opinion.

Michael Preston, a local artist who teaches in many ven-ues, works mainly in pottery and photography, but, for this exhibit, contributed paintings

In Atlantic County, NJ, which has a growing all-year-round

Jewish-Orthodox community as well as a booming number of summer visitors to the vari-ous shore resorts, the rabbinic association in charge of hala-chic and kashruth concerns has long been the Atlantic County Orthodox Vaad Harabonim and Vaad Hakashruth.

This year, under the guid-ance of its new rabbinic direc-tor, Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport, the Vaad officially changed its long and unwieldy name and has become Vaad Atlantic.

The Vaad, which, in He-brew means “association,” was formed in 1989 under the leadership of Rabbi Rapoport’s father, Rabbi Shmuel Rapo-port, director of Chabad of Atlantic County (sometimes

called Chabad at the Shore), and Rabbi Mordechai Weiss, then-spiritual leader of the Young Israel of Margate.

For 22 years, the Vaad has served the needs of the Atlantic County Orthodox-Jewish com-munity as well as visitors to the shore who turned to the rabbis for guidance relating to kosher food, minyanim, mikvah, and other such issues.

New DirectorRabbi Avrohom Rapoport,

who assumed the role of director this past April, brings to Vaad Atlantic his many years of ex-perience working closely with a wide variety of major kashruth organizations. Recognized as one of Atlantic City’s “top 40 under 40” young leaders, Rabbi Rapo-port, who just turned 30, also serves as programming director

of Chabad at the Shore.He resides in Ventnor with

his wife and young daughter and readily admits that his pas-sion is teaching and inspiring others to live more meaning-ful lives.

In addition to offering a number of classes, including a popular lunch-and-learn, he has established a branch of Chabad’s Jewish Learning In-stitute, which offers a range of sophisticated courses on Jew-ish tradition and philosophy, many of which can be taken for credit at recognized institu-tions of higher learning.

Many ActivitiesLocated on Ventnor Avenue

in the heart of Ventnor City, midway between Margate and Atlantic City, Rabbi Rapoport’s Chabad Ventnor Shul offers

services on Friday nights and Shabbat morning at 9:30am.

In the summer, Chabad at the Shore offers Camp Gan Israel for children, a number of Shabbatons and guest speak-ers, a kosher cruise, and an an-nual Jewish Summer Fest on the beach.

There is an eruv which covers most of Margate and Ventnor.

Not too far down-beach, in Margate, Chabad offers “Krafts for Kids,” a store-front venue in which children learn about their heritage in a hands-on fashion. Each Friday, children and their families can bake their own challah loaves.

“All our programming is open to the entire community—residents and guests—regardless of Jewish background or affilia-

Atlantic County Has a New Vaad Atlantic and Plenty of Activities

and a mixed-media installation that focused on the themes of “green” Israel surrounded by hostile desert nations trying to conquer it.

Owning LandMs. Intrator-Urman, who

speaks about art at area day schools in addition to teaching privately and serving as direc-tor of Art for Learning summer art camps, contributed three paintings on the subject of the “two-state solution.” They are based, she said, on Dr. Grob-man’s point that, in Islamist countries, non-Muslims are not permitted to own land.

Ms. Intrator-Urman’s daughter, Arielle, currently a student at the Hebrew Uni-versity in Jerusalem, exhibited photographs focusing on the land and its borders.

Other lectures in the Art-ists 4 Israel series were given at other times by Malcolm Hoen-lein, executive vice-president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organi-

zations; attorney and author Alan Dershowitz; and representatives from the Jewish National Fund and the David Project, an orga-nization dedicated to creating strong voices for Israel through dynamic educational seminars, workshops, and curricula. Art work based on the topics of these talks will be exhibited throughout the summer.

Winning AudiencesMs. Intrator-Urman said

these first fruits of her labors in the Response Art Exhibit at the JCC made her “proud and hap-py,” and, she said, she is looking forward to seeing the artworks based on the other lectures.

The interested in partici-pating in future Art 4 Israel Re-sponse Art Exhibits, whether as artists, viewers, or patrons, can contact Ms. Intrator-Urman at [email protected]

“All these great artists are creating work that I hope will reach a wide audience and in-spire people to think about what they see,” she said. Y


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Mainstreaming is the cutting edge of education science. Educating chil-

dren with learning and emotional profiles in a mainstream setting has many advan-tages. At the Children’s Education Initia-tive, a mainstreaming program located in the Yeshiva of Spring Valley in Monsey, youngsters with disabilities are given “ap-propriate” role models; stigmatization is avoided; and the program enables gradual mainstreaming of children with disabili-ties into the regular classroom.

David (not his name) and his parents are a typical case study. When David’s parents elected to place their son in our newly developed program for children with learning delays and social and emotional concerns, it was a decision they made with a heavy heart. After three years in which their child tried hard but could not succeed, they had no choice but to remove him from the school his siblings had attended.

With the move, they hoped he would finally receive the education he needed.

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minister before his arrival, Mr. Obama said Israel would have to retreat to the pre-1967 lines “with some agreed upon swaps,” however, he also said that no vote at the UN would ever create a Palestin-ian state, a strong indication that the US would veto a resolution recommending Palestinian membership in the 192-mem-ber world body.

Can’t HappenAt the UN, the president of the Gen-

eral Assembly (GA) said there is no way a Palestinian state could become a mem-ber of the UN without a recommendation from the Security Council.

Joseph Deiss told a news conference at the end of May that if the US or any of the other permanent members of the Security Council (Britain, France, China, or Russia) used its veto, the GA would not be able to vote on membership for Palestine.

If the issue were to pass in the Secu-rity Council, then the GA could vote on membership, and there is little doubt the Palestinians would be able to muster the required two-thirds majority.

Thus far, 112 nations, many from the so-called developing world, but a num-ber from Europe and Latin America as well, have recognized “Palestine.” The Palestinians predict that by September, they will have 135, which is more than two-thirds of the GA.

Mr. Deiss, a former president of the Swiss Confederation and a former foreign minister who led Swiss voters to approve joining the UN in 2002, said there is a distinction between UN membership and recognition of Palestine as an indepen-dent state, and the latter is certainly one of the PA’s goals.

Imitating IsraelAccording to Prof Fouad Ajami of

the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and co-chair of the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, the Palestinians are trying to appropriate Zi-onism’s narrative, hoping to duplicate the GA vote on November 29, 1947 which has often been viewed as Israel’s basic title to independence and statehood.

But the UN vote was not the decisive factor, according to Dr. Emmanuel Navon, a professor at Tel Aviv University’s Abba Eban Graduate Program for Diplomacy

Studies, who said the fear expressed by some Israelis and their supporters regard-ing the coming declaration of PA state-hood and potential recognition by the UN, is nonsense.

“What is approaching is not a Big Bang, but a Big Flop,” he said, stressing that GA resolutions, as opposed to Security Council resolutions, are not legally binding.

“They are mere recommendations. The GA does not and cannot establish states,” he said.

In fact, the GA cannot even admit new members to the UN without the ap-proval of the Security Council.

“If one of the five permanent members

of the Security Council puts its veto, the ‘State of Palestine’ will not be accepted to the UN,” said Dr. Navon, pointing to the issue of Kosovo. Its admission to the UN as a state was vetoed by Russia.

Hard WorkAccording to Dr. Navon, contrary to

widespread misconception, the UN did not establish the state of Israel. On November 29, 1947, the GA merely approved the rec-ommendation of the UN Special Committee on Palestine to divide the British Mandate between a Jewish state and an Arab one.

“This approval was a non-binding opinion,” he said.

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What established the Jew-ish state, he said, were “seven decades of labor and a war of independence in which Jews fought by themselves without any help from the UN.”

Palestinian ErrorsMr. Ajami agreed. “The

Palestinians and Arab pow-ers had rejected partition and chosen the path of war. Their choice was to prove calami-tous,” he said, stressing that the Palestinians have also misread what actually transpired at the UN in 1947.

“True, the cause of Jewish statehood had been served by the vote on partition, but the Zionist project had already prevailed on the ground,” he said, explaining that Jewish statehood was a fait accompli as much as a decade before the vote, when a military power-ful enough to defeat the Arab armies had been formed, politi-cal institutions were in place, and gifted leaders came to the fore, willing to accept what reality dictated.

According to Mr. Ajami, the “hard work” toward state-hood was accomplished during the 30 years between the Bal-four Declaration of 1917 and the UN vote on partition.

“Sadly, the Palestinian na-tional movement has known a dif-ferent kind of leadership, unique in its mix of maximalism and sense of entitlement, in its refusal

to accept what can and can’t be had in the world of nations,” he said, adding that, despite their attempts in the UN this coming fall, “for the Palestinians, there can be no escape from negotia-tions with Israel.”

Palestinian “Success”Former US Ambassador

to the UN John Bolton was not as certain. He acknowledged that the GA’s recognition of “statehood” does not mean UN membership and that, in any case, a GA vote is not legally binding, but, he said, it would nevertheless constitute a major Palestinian success.

The GA’s actions “can be politically powerful,” he said, recalling the 1975 “Zionism is racism” resolution.

“A resolution recognizing a Palestinian ‘state’ could also declare its boundaries to be the 1949 armistice lines, with or without President Obama’s ca-veat about ‘agreed upon swaps’ of land,” he said.

Counting on ObamaAccording to Mr. Bolton,

the Palestinians’ objective is to “remove the issues of statehood and boundaries from the realm of bilateral negotiations with Israel, making them fait accompli.”

He believed that, last year, when the Palestinians tried to pass a similar resolution in the Security Council, they did not believe Mr. Obama would or-der an American veto.

“Many thought the ad-ministration might even vote ‘yes’ rather than abstain,” said Mr. Bolton.

When the Palestinians realized the US would op-pose their push for statehood in the Security Council, they turned to the GA where there is no veto.

An Old StoryDr. Navon and Mr. Bolton

pointed out that the “creation” of a Palestinian state with Je-rusalem as its capital was actu-ally proclaimed on November 15, 1988, by then-Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat (who had himself named “president”), and admission of this “state”

to the UN has already been recommended many times by the GA.

In December 1988, the GA adopted a resolution acknowl-edging “the proclamation of the State of Palestine.” One hundred and four states voted in favor of the resolution; 44 abstained; two—the US and Israel—voted against.

The only change that oc-curred after that vote is that, in the UN, the term PLO was replaced with “Palestine.”

Mr. Bolton recalled that, in the wake of the name change, the Palestinians began cam-paigning to join UN bodies


Former Secretary of State James Baker: “I will recommend to the President that the United States make no further contributions, voluntary or assessed, to any international or-ganization which makes any changes in the PLO’s status as an observer organization.”Who knew James Baker prevented a Palestinian State in 1988

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such as the World Health Orga-nization, reasoning that since the UN agency charters allow only states as members, the ad-mission of “Palestine” would prove it, too, was a state.

“Ridiculous in the real world, but not in the UN,” said Mr. Bolton, pointing out that the PLO effort gained overwhelm-ing international support.

Major ThreatWhen the new adminis-

tration of George HW Bush complained that “Palestine” did not in any way meet the customary international legal standards for statehood, Third World countries rallied to “Pal-estine’s defense,” and, said Mr. Bolton, Europe’s response was “weak” because its diplomats believed Washington’s oppo-sition was merely to appease “the Jewish lobby.”

According to Mr. Bolton, then-Secretary of State James Baker, finding himself faced with the near certainty of de-

feat, issued a public warn-ing: “I will recommend to the President that the United States make no further contri-butions, voluntary or assessed, to any international organiza-tion which makes any changes in the PLO’s status as an ob-server organization.”

Mr. Bolton explained that no politician of Mr. Baker’s skill would make such a pronounce-ment unless he knew that the President would accept it, “and this was rapidly understood internationally.”

Little more was said at the UN about the PLO’s push for statehood.

According to Mr. Bolton, the lesson for the Obama admin-istration is plain. “If President Obama wants to block a GA Palestinian statehood resolu-tion, he should act essentially as Messrs. Bush and Baker did,” said Mr. Bolton.

If Mr. Obama cannot or will not act, Mr. Bolton sug-

gested turning to Congress, which, he said, “should legis-late broadly that any UN action that purports to acknowledge or authorize Palestinian state-hood will result in a cutoff of all US contributions to the of-fending agency.”

CriteriaAccording to Dr. Navon, the

most widely accepted criteria for statehood in international law were spelled out in the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States. A proposed state must have a permanent population, a de-fined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states.

Most observers say the need to present a suitable gov-ernment and defined territory before going to the UN lay be-hind the push by PA President Mahmoud Abbas to reconcile his Fatah faction, which con-trolled the PA areas of Judea and Samaria, with the terrorist

organization, Hamas, which rules in Gaza.

While the unification deal seems, on the surface, to pres-ent the PA as having a unified government, Dr. Navon pointed out that Hamas’s identity as a terrorist group will work against them.

“The Palestinians will try to obtain the ‘moral laundering’ of Hamas, and they can count on the support of countries such as Russia, Turkey, Norway, and Switzerland. Israel will try to convince the EU not to remove Hamas from its black list,” he said.

Undefined TerritoryAnother Palestinians’

problem is that its “territory” is undefined.

“It is disputed,” said Dr. Navon. “Hamas openly claims all of ‘Palestine,’ that is Israel, while Fatah will officially do with the entirety of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusa-lem although a review of PA




schoolbooks, TV programs, and public speeches in Arabic suggests otherwise.”

According to Dr. Navon, Mr. Abbas’s claim that the en-tire area of Judea and Samaria “belongs” to the Palestinians “lacks both historical and le-gal basis.”

In fact, the so-called 1949 “Green Line” was a temporary armistice line between Israel and its Arab aggressors. UN Security Council Resolution 242 does not require an Israeli withdrawal to those lines. Be-tween 1949 and 1967, the West Bank was ruled—and annexed—by Jordan. There never was a Palestinian state in the West Bank or anywhere else.

“The Palestinians are try-ing to obliterate these facts by arguing that their territorial claims are backed by interna-tional law. They are not,” said Dr. Navon.

However, there is no dis-puting that, legal or not, most countries endorse the Palestin-ians’ territorial claims. Former President George W Bush, in his famous letter to then-Prime Min-ister Ariel Sharon in April 2004, pointedly did not accept those claims. His letter, which stated that “it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949,” has not been ac-cepted by Mr. Obama.

LeverageAccording to Dr. Navon,

while the September vote will not recognize the Palestinian state, Mr. Abbas probably has three related goals. He will want Israel and its support-ers to abandon the demand that the Palestinians renounce their claim to the “right of re-turn;” he will want Hamas to be granted legitimacy despite its refusal to recognize Israel or forswear violence; and he will want to delegitimize any Jewish presence beyond the

Green Line, including in Je-rusalem’s Old City.

No one denies that the Pal-estinians are using the threat of unilateral recognition by the GA as leverage to force Israel to accede to Arab demands, including recognition that all of Judea and Samaria, includ-ing the eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, must be given to them as well as the so-called “right of return,” the demand that all Palestinians who fled their homes in 1948 and 1967—and their descendants—be permit-ted to flood back into Israel, demographically destroying the Jewish state.

Mr. Netanyahu has long called for direct talks with the PA, whose leadership has refused to sit down unless Israel formally agrees to halt all construction in Judea and Samaria. Israel took that step for ten months in 2010, but the Palestinians did not take advantage of the freeze and there were no talks.

Although Mr. Netanyahu has not conditioned negotiations on whether or not the Arabs meet Israeli demands ahead of talks, the prime minister has made it clear that he considers Palestinian recognition of Israel as “the Jew-ish state” and the understanding that if the so-called refugees are going to be resettled anywhere, it will be outside Israel’s borders, to be essential.

PA leaders, including Presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas, vowed never to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and have called the “right of return” nothing less than “sacred.”

Israeli DemandsMr. Netanyahu told Congress

that while Israel was prepared to be “generous” with the Palestin-ians in their quest for statehood, he would insist on retaining ar-eas in Judea and Samaria with large Jewish population centers. He also would demand that Pal-estine remain demilitarized and

that, at the end of negotiations, its leaders declare an end to the conflict.

“You see our conflict has never been about the establish-ment of a Palestinian state. It has always been about the existence of the Jewish state,” said Mr. Netanyahu, explaining that the Palestinians will not recognize Israel as such.

In his speech, Mr. Netan-yahu said that attitude must end and that, just as Israel has said it will accept a Palestinian state, Palestinian leaders must say, “I will accept a Jewish state.”

“Those six words will change history. They will make it clear to the Palestinians that this conflict must come to an end; that they are not building a state to continue the conflict with Israel, but to end it,” said Mr. Netanyahu.

Funding TerrorThose conditions were dif-

ficult at best for Mr. Abbas’s Fatah faction, which controls the PA areas of Judea and Sa-maria. But now that there is a unity coalition between Fatah and the terrorist organization, Hamas, which rules in Gaza and is dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state, negotiations have become impossible.

There are already reper-cussions for the Palestinians. Fearing that funds could go to the terrorists, Israel has stopped the flow to the PA of tax money collected by the Jewish state on behalf of the Palestinians.

Thus far, Israel has frozen ap-proximately $88 million. Each year, Israel collects more than $1 billion (approximately two-thirds of the PA’s annual budget) on behalf of the PA.

Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said the funds will stay in Israel’s hands un-til it is clear that none of the money will reach the coffers of Hamas.

“If the Palestinians can prove to us that there is not a joint fund between the PA and Hamas in Gaza, the funds might be unfrozen,” he said. “We ask the entire world not to fund Hamas, so we must not do so even indirectly.”

ThreatsEnraged, PA officials, who

complained that the Israeli government’s decision would make it impossible to pay Pal-estinian civil servants’ sala-ries, said they would turn to international bodies, including the UN, to demand that Israel unblock the funds.

Mr. Abbas threatened to advance his timetable for re-questing a UN General As-sembly unilateral declaration of PA statehood.

Transportation and Road Safety Minister Yisrael Katz, a member of Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said if the PA has itself declared a state, Israel should respond by applying its own sovereignty through-out Judea and Samaria.


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Strengthening the EUWhile Israel can be fairly certain that if

the issue comes before the Security Coun-cil in September 2011 the US would veto a resolution calling for the Palestinian state, especially after Mr. Obama’s statement and the proximity of the 2012 Presidential elec-tions, but it is unclear how other members of the Security Council, especially Britain and France, would vote. It is also far from certain what Mr. Obama, once ensconced in a second term, might do.

In an effort to strengthen EU countries against accepting Palestine, especially as long as Hamas is a working partner, the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome, organized by the foreign affairs think-tank, Summit, directed by Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein, urged opposition to the PA’s planned quest for endorsement at the UN.

At the conference, entitled “New Scenarios in the Middle East: The Fatah-Hamas Agreement, Unilateral Palestinian Declaration of Statehood, and Threat of a Third Intifada,” co-sponsored by the World Jewish Congress and attended by senior Italian government officials and parliamentarians, Dan Diker, WJC Sec-retary General Designate, said if the EU,

which was a witness signatory to the Oslo Accords, were to back a premature resolu-tion endorsing a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines, “it would severely undermine its integrity as an honest broker.”

“Europe’s credibility test is whether or not it will reject the Palestinian unilateral gambit,” he said, adding that European and US law makes the Fatah-Hamas coalition government a non-starter.

“Abbas has thrown sand in the eyes of President Obama by accepting his support for a Palestinian state and then partnering with a terror group,” said Mr. Diker.

IllegalAccording to the Jerusalem Center for

Public Affairs, a UN resolution to recog-nize a Palestinian State would not just be meaningless, it would be “illegal.”

According to a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, drafted by lawyers of the Legal Forum for Israel and Ambas-sador Alan Baker, director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and signed by at-torneys throughout the world who are in-volved in matters of international law, a UN resolution recognizing a Palestinian state would not just be meaningless; it would be

“illegal” and “in stark violation of all the agreements between Israel and the Palestin-ians, as well as contravening UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.” These measures call upon the parties “to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East” by negotiating in order to achieve “secure and recognized boundaries.”

Perhaps the most stinging irony would be that while the UN has maintained a persistent policy of non-recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem, de-spite the Jewish state’s historic rights to the city, in voting for the PA resolution, the UN would be recognizing a unilat-erally declared “Palestinian state,” the borders of which would include eastern Jerusalem.

“This would represent the ultimate in hypocrisy, double standards, and discrimi-nation, as well as an utter disregard of the rights of Israel and the Jewish people,” said the attorneys.

The attorneys also pointed out that a unilateral action by the Palestinians “could give rise to reciprocal initiatives in the Israeli Parliament,” including de-claring Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. S.L.R.



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for cyclists of all ages and skill lev-els, children under 12 should be ac-companied by parent or guardian, helmets are required, to benefit the Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon that sends care packages to US troops and helps and visits the wounded, ride starts at Bergen Community College, Para-mus, 45-mile ride, 8am; 25-mile ride, 8:30; 12-mile ride, 9am; and 5-mile ride, 10:30am, 201-336-7347

Nusach Hatfiloh, through the Belz School of YU, at Cong Ohr Torah, Edison, 8am, 732-572-1188

Shiur, Rabbi Yonason Sacks, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 8:30am

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

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

Shomer Shabbat Cub Scout Pack 613 Participation in the Sa-lute to Israel Parade, leave Cong Ahavat Achim, Fair Lawn, 9:30am, [email protected]

AMIT Mothers in Israel Spa Brunch, private home in Teaneck, 9:30am, 212-477-5465

Nusach Hatfiloh, through the Belz School of YU, at Cong Ohr Torah, Edison, 10am, 732-572-1188

Israel Day Parade, Ber-gen County Federation’s Theme is “Northern NJ Marches to the Beat of the Shuk,” bus leaves JCC of Paramus for parade in NY,

11:30am, 201-820-3908TV: Israel Day Parade,

WWOR-TV, channel nine will broadcast the parade and stream in live at www.my9tv.com, 12-2pm

“The Melting Pot,” by Israel Zangwill, Cong B’nai Jacob, Jer-sey City, 1pm, 201-435-5725

Reception and Meet Artist Stephen Henderson, “The Reb-be Series: In the Footsteps of the Shtetles,” JCC, Tenafly, 1-3pm, 201-408-1411

Yiddish Concert, Jewish Home at Rockleigh, 2:30pm, 201-750-4231

Musical Review: “They Changed Broadway: 100 Years of Contributions of Jewish Writ-ers, Performers, and Composers to the American Musical The-ater,” to benefit Jewish Family and Vocational Services of Middle-sex County, at the Marasco Per-forming Arts Center at Monroe (NJ) Twnshp High School, 3pm, 732-985-7348, 732-777-1940, or 609-395-7979

Cong Ahavath Torah Din-ner, honoring Ruthann and Kenny Eckstein and Debbie and Steven Siegler, featuring a “Special Trib-ute to Our Builders,” Englewood, 6pm, 201-568-1315

Bais Medrash of Bergen-field Sisterhood Shavuoth Bake Sale and Shiur, for women, Ne-chama Price, private home in Ber-genfield, 7pm, [email protected]

“Purpose and Passion: In-Depth Study of the 13 Principles of Emunah,” Ayala Berney, pri-vate home in Suffern, 8pm, 845-356-0170

“The Hidden Structure of

Law,” Lisa Pierson Weinberger, Esq, on MetroImma Facebook, http://facebook.com/metroimma, 8pm, [email protected] Tues., June 7, Erev Shavuoth

The Maccabeats, Yeshiva University a cappella group, at Cong Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn, through Shavuoth, June 9, 201-791-7910

Pre-Shavuot Program, for seniors, Debbie Druce, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 11:30am, 973-736-1407

“The Arab Awakening and Halachic Perspectives on Monar-chy,” Rabbi Aryeh Stechler, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 8:15pm

Siyum Tanach and Commu-nity Shavuoth Dinner, Cong Aha-vath Torah, Englewood, 9:15pm

“The Third Commandment: What Do We Mean by ‘Graven Images?” Rabbi Lawrence Zier-ler and artists Milton Ohring and Herb Stein, includes discussion of issues related to Shavuoth, Jewish identity and peoplehood, plus dairy refreshments, Jewish Center of Tea-neck, 9:15pm, 201-833-0515

Tikun Leil Shavuot, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, “Envy and Jealousy in Teaneck? A Curric-ulum for Children’s and Adult’s Coveting,” Rabbi Shalom Baum, 11pm; “The Hillary Clinton Pic-ture: Modesty, Truth, Loyalty, Rabbi Shalom Baum, 12am

Junior NCSY Ice Cream and Learning, for grades 5-8, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 11pm, 201-247-7961

All Night Learning Ses-sions, with Rabbis David Bas-sous, Reuven Drucker, Yaakov Luban, Steven Miodownik, and Zvi Weiss, Cong Ohav Emeth, Highland Park, 11pm

“Reversals of Fortune and Role Reversals,” for women, Rachel Frazer, private home in Teaneck, 11pm, 201-907-0780 or 201-836-0347

Tikkun Leil Shavuot, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, “Shevuot and Shavuot,” Yosef Weinberger, 10:30pm; “The Mystery behind Ruth’s Conversion,” Rabbi Eli Belizon, 11:15pm

“The Ten Commandments:

Aseret Hadibrot,” Rabbi Dovid Fohrman, Cong Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, 8pm

Mon., June 6Holy Name Medical Cen-

ter Golf Classic, Hackensack Golf Club, Oradell, morning and afternoon shot-gun starts, 201-833-7143

“Destination Torah: Dif-ferent Paths of the Jewish Tex-tural Tradition,” Rabbi Steve Golden, JCC, Tenafly, 9am, 201-408-1426

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

“Baby Bloom,” pre-Shavuoth flower sale to benefit the Puah Institute for Jewish Fertility is-sues, at Cong Rinat Yisrael, Te-aneck, 3-9pm, 718-544-7748 or 201-837-5209

Celebrate Shavuot, for chil-dren 2½-5 with an adult, create unique masks, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 4pm, 845-362-4400

Pre-Shavuoth Bake Sale, spons by Cong Netivot Shalom, private home in Teaneck, 5-8pm, 201-837-7849

Bnot Bake Sale, Platters, and House Gifts, Cong Bnai Ye-shurun, Teaneck, 5-9pm, [email protected]

Albert Einstein Synagogue Chanukat HaBayit, honoring the YU Women’s Organization, Dr. Edward and Chaya Burns, and Jed and Sandra Shivers, at the shul, Bronx, 6pm, [email protected]

“The Centurions: 19th Cen-tury CE,” Rabbi Steven Pruzan-sky, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Tean-eck, 7:30pm

“Oasis in Time: The Gift of Shabbat in a 24/7 World—The Gift of Purpose,” Rabbis Bo-ruch Klar and Mendy Kasowitz, Lubavitch Center, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-486-2362

An Evening of Comedy and Music: Improv Comedy, Play Readings, and Musicals-in-Progress, featuring Black Box Studios, at Teaneck General Store, 7:30pm, 201-530-5046

MetroImma Chat: “What Moms Need to Know about the

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The Meaning and Message,” for women, Rabbi Yehuda Halpert, spons by Cong Ahavat Shalom of the Teaneck Apartments, pri-vate home in Teaneck, 11:30pm, [email protected]

“The Attempt to Ban Ko-sher Slaughter in Europe To-day: An Historical and Halachic Perspective and Our Challenge to Respond,” Rabbi Menachem Genack, Cong Shomrei Emunah, Englewood, 11:30pm

“Becoming Reb Moshe: The Evolution of Reb Moshe Feinstein as the Posek HaDor through His Teshuvos and Other Writings,” Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, Young Is-rael of Passaic-Clifton, Passaic, 11:45pm, 973-778-7117

Limud B’Chavrusa and Shiu-rim, Yeshiva Passaic Torah Insti-tute, “Kabbalas HaTorah,” Rabbi Shlomo Singer, 11:45pm; “Maa-mad Har Sinai: The Gift of Eter-nal Life,” Rabbi Yosef Grossman, midnight, 862-371-3186

All Night Learning Ses-sions, “The Power of Bitochan,” Rabbi David Bassous; “Torah Riddles,” Rabbi Reuven Drucker; “Kol Yisrael Areivim,” Rabbi Yaa-kov Luban; “Coffee and the Jews: A Love Story,” Rabbi Steven Mi-odownik; and “The Date Line and Sod Ha’lbur: A Review,” Rabbi Zvi Weiss, Cong Ohav Emeth, Highland Park, 11:45pm

All-Night Learn-a-Thon, Chabad Center, West Orange, 11:59pm, 973-731-0770

Wed., June 8, ShavuothTikkun Leil Shavuot, Cong

Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, “Responsa from the Decalogue,” Rabbi Ste-ven Pruzansky, 12:05am; “What Are You Looking at? The Concept of Ayin Hara,” Rabbi Ari Zahtz, 2:15am; “The Rise and Fall of the Neo-Philistines,” Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, 3:30am

Tikun Leil Shavuot, for women, spons by Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, at Cong Keter To-rah, Teaneck, “The Second Luchot and the Birth of Torah She Baal Peh,” Rivka Kahn, 12:05am; “Skirt-ing around the Issue: A Look into Whether Pants Are Halachically Considered Begged Ish,” Ariella Steinreich, 12:45am; “Shavuot: The

Royal Wedding,” Adeena Eiziko-vitz, 1:25am; “How Do We Read the Torah? Plain Meaning vs As-signed Meaning of the Mitzvot,” Miri Koolyk, 2:05am; “Midrashic Insights into Har Sinai,” Chana Sce, 2:45am; “Born in the USA, Should I Make Aliyah Today?” Rivka Kaminetzy and Chaya Ka-narfogel, 3:25am; “Mashiach Myth Busters,” Talia Moss and Ilana Te-icher, 4:05am, 201-833-4307

Youth Shiurim, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, for grades 5-7, includes ice cream, 12:05am; for grades 8-12, Rabbi Sheldon Mor-ris, 12:05am; ice cream, 12:45am; Rabbi David New, 1am

Shavuos Night Shiurim, Cong Agudath Israel of Highland Park, Rabbi Yaakov Luban, 12:05am; Rabbi Eliyahu Kaufman, 1am; Rabbi Yisrael Hoffman, 2am; Rabbi Gedaliah Jaffe, 3am; Rabbi Reuven Drucker, 4am

Tikun Leyl Shavuot, Cong Netivot Shalom, Teaneck, “The Oral Law: What Did the Jewish People Receive at Sinai?” Rabbi Nathan-iel Helfgot, 12:05am; “In the Eye of the Beholder: Perspectives on Marit Ayin and Dan L’Kav Zechut,” Alan Schwartz, 1:15am; “Sancti-fying Shavuoth in the Thought of Rav Soloveitchik,” Danny Edel-man, 2:15am; Dr. Ronnie Perelis, 3:15am, 201-801-9022

Limud B’Chavrusa and Shiu-rim, Yeshiva Passaic Torah Institute, “She Insulted Me, So I Insulted Her: Shalom Bayis, Prerequisite for Kabbalos Torah,” Rabbi Ba-ruch Bodenheim, 12:45am; “Go-ing Back to Egypt: Halacha and Hashkafa,” Rabbi Moshe Silver-stein 1:20am; “Shtei Halechem and How We Can Connect to It,” Rabbi Jacobowitz, 2am; “How to Unleash Your Learning Poten-tial,” Rabbi Avraham Goldhar, 2:45am; “Organ Transplants in Halacha,” Rabbi Mordechai Rinde-now, 3:30am, 862-371-3186

“Reb Moshe Feinstein’s Influence on the Development of American Jewry through His Halachic Authority,” Rab-bi Yaakov Glasser, Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton, Passaic, 1am, 973-778-7117

“Ve’Ahavtem et Hager: The

Treatment of the Convert in Jew-ish Law and Liturgy,” Rabbi Ye-huda Halpert, spons by Cong Aha-vat Shalom of the Teaneck Apart-ments, at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, Teaneck, 1am, [email protected]

Tikkun Leil Shavuot, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, “The Gelatin Controversy Revisited: A Halach-ic Analysis,” Rabbi Duvie Weiss, 1:10am; hot food break: Mac N Cheese and More, 2:10am; “With So Many Problems Facing Our Community, Should We Still Be Doing Outreach?” Rabbi Steven Burg, 2:35am; “Talmudic and Con-temporary Proposal for a Modern Orthodox Vocation School,” Rabbi Shalom Baum, 3:45am

Senior NCSY Finals Study Session and Learning, for high school students, with ice cream and snacks, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 1:30am-morning dav-ening, 201-247-7961

Shiur, Dr. Tammy Jacobow-itz, Cong Netivot Shalom, Tean-eck, noon, 201-801-9022

Dessert, honoring the aliyah of Simone and Ethan Goldsmith,

private home in Teaneck, 3:30pm, 201-837-7478

Children’s Learning Pro-gram, Rabbi Elie Rothberger, boys, grades 1-3; Morah Devorah Rabi-nowitz, girls, grades 1-3; Rabbi Avi Wasser, boys, grades 4-6; Morah Aviva Weinraub, girls, grades 4-6, Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton, Passaic, 4:30pm

“V’Taan Lahem Miriam—And Miriam Spoke Up: Miri-am’s Unique Role in the Events of Liberation from Egypt and the Creation of the Jewish Nation,” Robyn Shoulson, spons by AMIT, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 4:30pm, [email protected]

Children’s Torah Rally, especially for public school chil-dren, spons by Chabad House of Rutgers and Cong Ohav Emeth, includes songs, reading of the Ten Commandments, a late cheese-cake Kiddush, ice cream, and a magic show, at Cong Ohav Emeth, Highland Park, 4:30pm

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cream, Cong Keter Torah, Tean-eck, 5pm

“The First and Second Lu-chot: What’s the Difference?” for women, Lynn Kraft, Cong Ohr HaTorah, Bergenfield, 5:15pm, 201-833-4307 ext 233

“I Firmly Believe in the Coming of the Messiah: How Many People Does It Take to Redeem the Jews?” for wom-en, Shuli Taubes, Cong Zichron Moshe, Teaneck, 5:30pm

Shiur, Rabbi Larry Rothwa-chs, Cong Netivot Shalom, Tean-eck, 7:30pm, 201-801-9022

“The Yetzer Harah of Tal-mud Torah,” Rabbi Shalom Baum, Cong Keter Torah, Tea-neck, 8:10pm

“Out Damn Spot: Tumah from a Different Perspective,” David Schlussel, Cong Netivot Shalom, Teaneck, 8:15pm, 201-801-9022Thurs., June 9, Shavuoth

Beth Aaron Boys Choir, Anim Zemirot and Adon Olam, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 11am

Ice Cream Kiddush, Young Israel of Teaneck, 11:30am, [email protected]

Siyyum for Community Learning Shmuel II, Rabbi Na-thaniel Helfgot, Cong Netivot Shalom, Teaneck, 11:30am, 201-801-9022

Shavuoth Luncheon, featur-ing the Maccabeats and activities for children with Etan and Kayla Bluman, Cong Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn, noon, 201-791-7910

Learning for Women, shiu-rim by Rebbetzin Ruth Glasser, Chani Maybruch, and Mahnaz Shmalo, Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton, Passaic, 4pm

Women’s Learning Program, “Anochi Hashem: Dimensions of

Faith,” Esther Lewis; “Pesach to Shavuot: Path to a Purpose,” Robin Schwartz; “What Is the Midrash Telling Us When It Says That Hashem Is Holding the Mountain over Our Heads (Shabbat 88b)?” Sharon Garber; and “The Free Will of the Jewish People,” Shuli (Atkin) Fuchs, Cong Ohav Emeth, Highland Park, 4pm

“Chosen Children: Sex Se-lection in Torah and Tradition,” Dr. Miriam Wahrman, spons by the Teaneck Women’s Tefillah, private home in Teaneck, 4pm, 201-837-0544

“Shavuot: A Genuinely Human Holiday,” for women, Shayna Goldberg, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 5pm, 201-833-4307 ext 233

Shiur, for women, Yael Gold-fischer, Cong Beth Abraham, Ber-genfield, 5pm, 201-384-0434

“Kindness and Kings: The Relevance of Megillat Ruth,” for women, Rebbetzin Debbie Baum, Cong Keter Torah, Tea-neck, 5pm

“Megillat Ruth: Layers of Heroism, Tikkun, and Chesed,” Adeena Mayerfield, private home in Teaneck, 5pm, [email protected] or [email protected]

Shavuoth Bee, for grades K-5, Cong Beth Aaron, Tean-eck, 6pm

“Cheesecake and Chick-en in the Same Oven? Shavuot Kashrut Considerations,” for women, Rabbi Yehuda Halpert, spons by Cong Ahavat Shalom of the Teaneck Apartments, pri-vate home in Teaneck, 6pm, [email protected]

“Two Days of Yom Tov and Only Half-Shabbat? What’s the Full Story?” for grades 6-8, Rabbi Jonathan Knapp, Cong Keter To-

rah, Teaneck, 8:15pm“What in the World is Ak-

damot All About?” Rabbi Na-thaniel Helfgot, Cong Netivot Shalom, Teaneck, 8:15pm, 201-801-9022

Fri., June 10Rabbi Yitzchak Blau, scholar-

in-residence, Young Israel of Tea-neck, through Shabbat, June 11

“The Sephardim in Israel Today,” Dr. Ilana Sasson, Riv-erdale YMHA, 10:30am, 718-548-8200

Our Way Family and Sin-gles Shabbaton, spons by the OU program for the deaf, featuring Dr. Ronald Hoffman, Steve Lependorf, Dr. Jeffrey Lichtman, and Jenni-fer Rosner, leading workshops on “Peer Pressure,” “Socialization,” “Spirituality,” and “Hearing Loss and Amplification,” at Cong Aha-was Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, through Sunday, June 12, 212-613-8127

Shabbat, June 11Bais Medrash of Bergenfield

Lunch, honoring Rabbi Ezra and Adina Wiener, childcare available, at Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 12:30pm, [email protected]

Nerot Dessert, for women, featuring Adina Lederer and hon-oring Yoetzet Halacha Shayna Goldberg, Cong Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, 5pm

Shabbat Afternoon Get To-gether with Rabbi Eliezer and Rebbetzin Sharon Zwickler, for congregants of Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, whose names begin with R or S, private home in West Orange, 5pm, 973-736-1407

Shiur, for women, Devora Ehrlich, Cong Adas Israel, Pas-saic, 5:30pm

Motzei Shabbat, June 11Documentary: “No Guns for

Jews,” historic use of “gun-control” to disarm and oppress Jews, with Rabbi Dovid Bendory, Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, 10pm

Sun. June 12Rutgers Jewish Xperience

Breakfast, featuring college stu-dents and community members touched by the organization, at Cong Ohr Torah, Edison, 9am, [email protected]

Health Fair, co-spons by St. Barnabas Medical Center, JCC, West Orange, 9am-1pm, 973-322-2988

Village of Wesley Hills Multi-Family Garage Sale, Village Hall parking lot; if rain, inside Village Hall, 10am-3pm, 845-354-0400

Jewish Singles Scavenger Hunt, ages 30+, bring cell phone or digital camera and team up to hunt and then photograph items, registration at Is-A-Berry Frozen Yogurt on Palisade Ave in Engle-wood, 12:30pm; hunt begins in En-glewood, 1pm, 201-264-9515

Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David Community Pic-nic, includes BBQ, games, sports, kumsitz, and arts and crafts, at Mayapple Hill Field, West Orange, 1-4pm, [email protected]

Afternoon of Crafts, to make centerpieces for the shul’s dinner, Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange, 3pm, 973-669-7320

Guns and Beef Night, featur-ing presentation by Marc Prowisor, director of security for the One Israel Fund, spons by Golani Ri-fle and Pistol Club, to benefit the One Israel Fund, food by Kosher Experience, at Gun for Hire, Bel-leville, 4pm, 201-928-0855

“The iGeneration: iPod, iPad, iPhone—from Self-Cen-tered to Self-Improvement,” Rabbi Paysach Krohn, for men and women, includes buffer din-ner, Cong Ahavat Yisrael of Wes-ley Hills: Young Israel of Mon-sey and Wesley Hills, 6pm, 845-354-3494

“An Intimate Look at Life inside the White House and an Analysis of Current Events,” for-mer White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer and WOR’s Steve Malzberg, at Cong Sons of Israel, Manalapan, 7pm, 212-922-0839

Hebrew Phrase Class, Reb-betzin Peshi Neuburger, Jewish Women’s Outreach Program, in preparation for the women’s trip to Israel, Cong Beth Abraham, Ber-genfield, 7pm, 201-384-0434

“Songs of Hope and Praise,” Shira Community Chorus on the Palisades, with director Matthew Lazar, three centuries of Jewish

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popular, secular, and liturgical music, including a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the kibbutz movement, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, 201-408-1465

Sen Robert Casey (D-PA), spons by NORPAC, private home in Teaneck, 8pm, 201-801-9078 or [email protected]

“Purpose and Passion: In-Depth Study of the 13 Principles of Emunah,” Ayala Berney, pri-vate home in Suffern, 8pm, 845-356-0170

Mon., June 13“Applied Judaism,” Rabbi

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

“Harold Arlen: Interna-tional Folk Singer and Lectur-er in Ethnomusicology, Jazz, and Musical Theatre,” Leona Schwab, JCC, Tenafly, 11:15am, 201-408-1455

Current Events, Stan Gold-berg, JCC, Tenafly, 1:30pm, 201-408-1457

Friendship Circle of Passa-ic County Evening of Volunteer Recognition, for those who have volunteered to work with special-needs children, featuring Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik and NABA Welterweight Cham-pion Dimitri Salita, honoring Ar-iel Altaras, Alex Belgrad, Elana Demby, Alex Green, and Amanda Griglack, at the Chabad Center, Wayne, 7pm, 973-694-6274

“Oasis in Time: The Gift of Shabbat in a 24/7 World—The Gift of Every Moment,” Rabbis Boruch Klar and Mendy Kasowitz, Lubavitch Center, West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-486-2362

“The Psychological Roots of Atheism, Fanaticism, and Mature Religious Belief,” Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, for the 20th yahrzeit of Rabbi Isaac Swift, z”l, Cong Ahavath Torah, 7:45pm, 201-568-5780

Rabbi Pesach Raymon Ye-shiva Parlor Meeting for Parents, featuring Helene Lockspeiser, Cha-ya Friedman, and Henie Deutsch, private home in Highland Park, 8pm, 732-572-5052 ext 132

Tues., June 14Kavvanah: A Tefillah Ex-

perience, Rabbi Steven Exler, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 9:30am, 718-796-4730

“Oasis in Time: The Gift of Shabbat in a 24/7 World—The Gift of Purpose,” Rabbi Levi Wolosow and Boruch Cha-zanow, Chabad House, Manala-pan, 10am, 732-972-3687; Rabbi Levi Dubinsky, Chabad of Moun-tain Lakes, Denville, 7:30pm, 973-551-1898; Rabbis Yitzchok Dubov, Levi Shemtov, and Her-shel Weiszner, spons by Chabad of Riverdale, at the Riverdale YMHA, 7:30pm, 718-549-1100; Rabbi Levi Azimov, Chabad Cen-ter, South Brunswick, 7:45pm, 732-398-9492; Rabbi Dov Drizin, Valley Chabad, Woodcliff Lake, 7:45pm, 201-476-0157

Cong Beth Abraham of Bergenfield Dinner, honoring Ari and Sharon Wieder and Yitz and Sharon Motechin, at Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck 5:30pm

“Creating Your Perfect Family Size,” Dr. Alan Singer, Highland Park Public Library, 7pm, 732-572-2750

Pulse 5 in Concert, featur-ing Yonatan Potash, Jared Aus-lander, and Ezra Koppel, who are performing to benefit the music therapy program for children at EMUNAH’s Beit Elazraki, at Space Odyssey, Englewood, 7pm, www.emunah.org/pulse5

Project YES Keep Our Chil-dren Safe Workshop, Rabbi Ya-kov Horowitz, Yeshiva Darchei Noam, Monsey, 8pm, 845-352-7100 ext 114

Positive Parenting: “En-hancing Spirituality at the Shab-bat Table,” Rabbi Larry Rothwa-chs, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 8:15pm, 862-377-3375

Wed., June 15“Linking Business Philan-

thropy with Employee Volunteer Program Efforts,” spons by the NJ Business Volunteer Council, at IKEA, Paramus, 8:30am, 201-489-9454 ext 114

Kosher Lunch and Learn, includes kosher Chinese and su-shi, CASE Museum, Jersey City, 12:45pm, 973-943-2306

Book Review Club: “Brook-lyn,” by Colm Toibin, facili-tated by Lucille Schroeder, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 1pm, 845-362-4400

Smart Board Training, for Hebrew teachers, Gershom Tave, at

Temple Emanuel, Woodcliff Lake, 1pm, [email protected]

“Genetics for Life: The Impact of the BRCA Gene and Breast and Ovarian Cancer in Your Jewish Family,” includes medical and psychosocial issues and a cancer survivor, Niecee Singer Schonberger, and Shera Dubitsky of Sharsheret, spons by Jewish Family Service and Sharsheret, at the YMHA, Wayne, 7pm, 973-595-0111 or 201-837-9090

“Second Generation and So-cial Interaction,” monthly discus-sion group for Second Generation, children of Holocaust survivors, Jewish Family Service, Teaneck, 7:15pm, 201-837-9090

“Seven Blessings,” novelist Ruchama King, includes book sign-ing, JCC. West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-530-3421

“An Update on Commu-nity Response to the Assault on Israel’s Legitimacy,” Martin Raffel, Jewish Community Re-lations Council, UJA, Paramus, 7:30pm, 201-820-3946

Society of Israel Philatelists (Stamp Collector) and America-Israel Numismatic Association (AINA Coin Collectors) Meet-ing, Young Israel Ohab Zedek of North Riverdale/Yonkers, 7:30pm, [email protected]

Hoboken Hadassah Closing Dinner, CASE Museum, Jersey City, 7:30pm, [email protected]

“Oasis in Time: The Gift of Shabbat in a 24/7 World—The Gift of Purpose,” Rabbi Michel Gurkov, Chabad Center, Wayne, 7:30pm, 973-694-6274; Rabbi Levi Wolosow and Bo-ruch Chazanow, Chabad House,

Manalapan, 7:30pm, 732-972-3687; Rabbi Shmuel Gancz, Chabad of Suffern, 845-368-1889, 7:30pm; Rabbi Mendel Mangel, Chabad Center, Cherry Hill, 856-874-1500, 7:30pm; Rabbi Moshe Katzman, Chabad of Staten Island, 7:30pm, 718-370-8953; Rabbi Mordechai Baumgarten, Chabad Center, Rock-away, 8pm, 973-625-1525

Community Synagogue of Monsey Sisterhood Book Club, discussing “Olive Kitteridge” by Elizabeth Strout, private home in Monsey, 8pm, 845-356-7320 or 845-356-7695

Thurs, June 16La Leche League of Bronx/

Riverdale, Mia Damond Padwa, pregnant women, babies and small children welcome, healthy snacks, Riverdale YMHA, 9:30am, 718-543-0314

Trip to the Folksbiene Yid-dish Theater to See “The Adven-tures of Hershele Ostropolyer: A Comic Tale Full of Song,” in Yiddish with English subtitles, bus leave the YMHA, Wayne, 11:15am, 973-595-0100

Kosher 20-Minute Meals or Less, Chef Meredith Spiegel, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, noon, 845-362-4400

Sandra Gold Founder’s Day Concert, featuring students and teachers of the Thurnauer Scool of music, JCC, Tenafly, 7pm, 201-408-1465

Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies Dinner, honor-ing Howard and Taran Chernin, Elayne and Ofer Kalina, Jay Fi-alkoff, and Rachel Blumenstyk, at Temple Beth Rishon, Wyckoff, 7pm, 201-410-9105

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

AMIT Alisa West Orange Chapter Pushka Dinner: When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade, those attending should bring pushkas and recipes, parve or dairy, that contain lemon as an ingredient, private home in West Orange, 7:30pm, 973-202-9828 or 917-750-6987

Fri., June 17Technology Workshop: “Plain

English IT: Maximizing Your Technology While Minimizing Your Pitfalls,” Richard Luna, in-cludes email pitfalls (secure file and email transfers), secure com-munications, and network secu-rity, Volunteer Center of Bergen County, Hackensack, 9:30am, 201-489-9454 ext 114

“What Is Zionism Today in Israel? Why Aren’t Young People Excited about Israel Anymore?” Shayna Malka Weiss, Riverdale YMHA, 718-548-8200

“A Taste of Shabbat,” for parents and children 1-5, Daniel Sonnenschein, songs, stories, and crafts, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 12:30pm, 845-362-4400

Shabbat June 18“I Wish I Understood Ev-

erything I was Saying Minyan,” Rabbi Steven Weil, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 8:45am

Sushi and Shmoozing, for teens, sushi Kiddush and discus-sion with Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, Cong Netivot Shalom, Teaneck, 11:30am, 201-801-9022 or [email protected]

Atara Spring Tea, featuring “The Power to Save, the Power to Destroy: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Influence of Women,” Yael Weil, and honoring Gila El-baum and Daphna Roth, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck 4:30pm, [email protected]

Shabbat Afternoon Get To-gether with Rabbi Eliezer and Rebbetzin Sharon Zwickler, for congregants of Cong Ahawas

Achim Bnai Jacob and David, whose names begin with T-Z, pri-vate home in West Orange, 5pm, 973-736-1407

Goodbye Party, honoring Story Hour Lady Lee Saal, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, 5pm, 973-736-1407

Motzei Shabbat, June 18“Keep the Ma’arat Hamach-

pela in Jewish Hands,” melave malka and kumsitz, spons by NJ Jewish Communities for Hebron, featuring Rabbi Simcha Hoch-baum, Hebron director of tour-ism, and Ari Lieberman, with a bonfire, BBQ, raffle, and music, in memory of David Romanoff, z”l, private home in Elizabeth, 10pm, 718-677-6886Sun., June 19, Father’s Day

Minyan Appreciation Day: Davening, Breakfast, Bikur Cholim, featuring divrei Torah by Rabbis Ira Kronenberg and Benjamin Yu-din, honoring all “minyanaires” who have visited Daughters of Miriam, especially Ronald Prost, a resident of Daughters of Miriam who attends shul daily and wel-comes everyone; and Jerry and Jonathan Karp, who have attended the minyan since before they were bar mitzvah, at Daughters of Mir-iam, Clifton, minyan at 8:45am, 201-753-5719, 201-280-8198, or [email protected]

Torah Academy of Bergen County Scholarship Breakfast, honoring Shifra and Larry Shafi-er, private home in Teaneck, 9am, 201-837-7696 ext 150

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

Bootcamp Exercise for Girls and Women, Marla Rottenstrich, includes a raffle, goods-and-ser-vices auction, and salad bar, to benefit the Young Israel of New Brunswick Mikvah renovations, babysitting, at YIEB, 10am, 732-354-5913

Ben Porat Yosef Scholar-ship Walkathon, at the school, Paramus, 10am, [email protected]

Chug Ivrit, for intermediate

to advanced Hebrew speakers, men and women, spons by Ha-dassah but open to non-members, private home in Highland Park, 11am, 732-819-9298

Cong Ahavas Yisroel of Highland Park Trip to Somerset Patriots Baseball Game, children can have baseballs autographed, 12:30pm; game at 1:35pm; after-wards children can run around the bases, 732-777-1589

Free Hatzolah and Bikur Cholim Health and Safety Fair, featuring over 30 health and safety-related booths, workshops rang-ing from advances in skin care to healthy cooking; vision, den-tal, hearing, blood pressure, and glucose screenings; children can explore an ambulance, police car, and fire truck, at Bnos Bra-cha Yeshiva Katana od Passaic, 1-5pm; magic show with Ben Cohen, 1:45 and 2:30pm; “The Twins from France” acrobats, 3pm, 973-249-8811

Cong Ahavas Israel of Pas-saic Dinner, honoring Dan and Rochel Pollack, Meir and Jen-ney Solomon, and Rabbi Shmuel Landesman, at the shul, 5:30pm, 973-919-9524

Yeshiva Tiferes Naftoli Din-ner, honoring Yaakov and Miriam Dobin, Holiday Inn, East Wind-sor, 5:30pm, 732-446-5841 or 732-247-0621

Clifton Cheder-Bais Yaa-kov Dinner, honoring Menachem and Bina Zarkhin, Allen and Kami Tischler, and Rabbis Daniel Pres-berg, Avrohom Dov Bayer, and Dovid Nojowitz, Zichron Moshe Hall, Passaic, 6:30pm, [email protected]

Mon., June 20Last Day to Drop Off a New

or Gently Used Stuffed Animal, for Avigayil Altman’s bat mitzvah project, through Bears from Ber-genfield, toys will be distributed at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, call 201-928-1611

“Destination Torah: Dif-ferent Paths of the Jewish Tex-tural Tradition,” Rabbi Steve Golden, JCC, Tenafly, 9am, 201-408-1426

Frisch Yeshiva High School Family Golf and Bike Outing, at

Minisceongo Golf Club, Pomona, NY, 10am, 201-267-9100

Cong Ohr Torah of West Or-ange Chai Anniversary Dinner, honoring Elaine Scherman, Rabbi Richard Kirsch, and Stephen Fla-tow, shul, 6pm, [email protected]

Drawing of the Rabbi Pe-sach Ramon Yeshiva Raffle, Edison, 6pm

BBQ for Children in the Cong Keter Torah Breakfast-and-Learn Program, private home in New Milford, 6:45pm, [email protected]

Israeli Film Club: “Nina’s Tragedies,” discussion led by Daniel Sonnenschein, JCC Rock-land, West Nyack, 7:30pm, 845-362-4400

Tues., June 21“Oasis in Time: The Gift of

Shabbat in a 24/7 World—The Gift of Every Moment,” Rabbi Levi Wolosow and Boruch Cha-zanow, Chabad House, Manala-pan, 10am, 732-972-3687; Rabbi Levi Dubinsky, Chabad of Moun-tain Lakes, Denville, 7:30pm, 973-551-1898; Rabbis Yitzchok Dubov, Levi Shemtov, and Her-shel Weiszner, spons by Chabad of Riverdale, at the Riverdale YMHA, 7:30pm, 718-549-1100; Rabbi Levi Azimov, Chabad Cen-ter, South Brunswick, 7:45pm, 732-398-9492; Rabbi Dov Drizin, Valley Chabad, Woodcliff Lake, 7:45pm, 201-476-0157

Holocaust Lunch and Learn, survivors, liberators, and POWs, facilitated by Barbara Wind, Aidekman Family Center, Lau-tenberg JCC, Whippany, noon, 973-428-9300

Riverdale Jewish Center Dinner, honoring Ilene and Shel-don Kupferman, Andrea Har-ris, and Kate and Daniel Davis, shul in Riverdale, 5:30pm, 718-548-1850

Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center Dinner, in mem-ory of Joanne Masini, z”l, and honoring George Brimage and Ailon Mark, shul in Livingston, 5:30pm, 973-994-2620

Positive Parenting: “Talk-ing to Your Children about In-timacy from a Torah Perspec-

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tive,” Dr. Sara Diament, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 8:15pm, 862-377-3375

Wed., June 22“Can You Spare It: A Fund-

raiser to Support the Student Phi-lanthropy Program at Yeshivat Noam,” at Bowler City, Hacken-sack, 9:30am, 201-244-6702

Jewish Educational Cen-ter Dinner, honoring Mady and Ethan Kra, at the JEC, Eliza-beth, 6pm

Alzeimer’s Workshop: “Communication: The Key to Understanding Behaviors,” Stein Assisted Living Residence, Som-erset, 6:30pm, 973-586-4300 or 732-568-1155

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

“Oasis in Time: The Gift of Shabbat in a 24/7 World—The Gift of Every Moment,” Rabbi Michel Gurkov, Chabad Center, Wayne, 7:30pm, 973-694-6274; Rabbi Levi Wolosow and Bo-ruch Chazanow, Chabad House, Manalapan, 7:30pm, 732-972-3687; Rabbi Shmuel Gancz, Chabad of Suffern, 845-368-1889, 7:30pm; Rabbi Mendel Mangel, Chabad Center, Cherry Hill, 856-874-1500, 7:30pm; Rabbi Moshe Katzman, Chabad of Staten Island, 7:30pm, 718-370-8953; Rabbi Mordechai Baumgarten, Chabad Center, Rock-away, 8pm, 973-625-1525

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

Israel Night, Rebbetzin Peshi Neuburger, Jewish Women’s Out-reach Program, in preparation for the women’s trip to Israel, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 8pm, 201-384-0434

Thurs., June 23Support Group for Caregiv-

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

Cong Etz Chaim of Liv-ingston Dinner, honoring Su-zanne and Miles Berger and Dr Arie and Fran Schwartz, Crystal Plaza, Livingston, 6:30pm, 973-597-1655

“Gilad Shalit—The Cap-tured Soldier and How You Can Help,” Daniel Sonnenschein, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 7pm, 845-362-4400

Fri., June 24Rabbi Yitz Etshalom, schol-

ar-in-residence, Cong Netivot Sha-lom, Teaneck, “Datan and Aviram: The Curious Midrashic Fate of Two Biblical Villains,” “Sequence and Meaning: The Implications of Yesh Muqdam uMe’uhar ba-Torah (or not) on Studying Sefer BaMidbar,” and “Commemorat-ing the Exodus: The Ahistoricity of Yetziat Mitzrayim in Midrashic Thought,” through Shabbat, June 25, 201-801-9022

Shabbat, June 25Shira Hadasha-Style Shab-

bat Service, Minyan Tiferet, pri-vate home in Englewood, 9:15am, [email protected]

Mystery Shabbos, host and guests of lunches, spons by Cong Ahavat Shalom of the Teaneck apartments, in private homes in Teaneck, noon, [email protected]

Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Chanoch Waxman, Cong Aha-was Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, “The Elusiveness of Unity: Why Didn’t Korach’s Band of 250 Accept Moshe’s Leader-ship,” noon; “Cloning as a Jewish Philosophical Dilemma,” before mincha; “Conflict, Truth, and the 40 Faces of Torah,” seudah shlishit, 973-736-1407

Shabbat Afternoon Get To-gether with Rabbi Eliezer and Rebbetzin Sharon Zwickler, for congregants of Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, who have not yet met with the rabbi and rebbetzin, private home in West Orange, 5pm, 973-736-1407

Sun., June 26Project Open Hearts, Open

Homes: Three Weeks in Ber-gen County, Life without Fear, providing respite and comfort to a dozen disadvantaged Israeli teens, ages 11-14, who have been victimized by terror and war; they will participate in programs at the JCC in Tenafly, through Sun., July 19, 201-408-1469

Cong Ohr Torah, Edison, Shul Picnic, noon, 732-572-1188

Cong Keter Torah Chil-dren’s Fun Day and BBQ, Vo-tee Park, Teaneck, 12-2pm, 201-907-0180

Singles BBQ and Shmooze, for ages 45-64, JCC, Tenafly, 4pm, 201-569-7900

JACS Meeting, 12-steps meeting for Jews in recovery, Rabbi Steven Bayar, Cong B’nai Israel, Millburn, 6pm, 973-379-3811

Mon., June 27Youth Leadership Program,

for students entering grades 8-10 in September, spons by the Vol-unteer Center of Bergen County, to provide skills and training usu-ally available only on the corpo-rate level, at Bergen Community College, Paramus, through Thurs., June 30, 201-489-9454 ext 118

Last Day to See Painting Exhibit “The Rebbe Series: In the Footsteps of the Shtetles,” by Prof Stephen Henderson, JCC, Tenafly, 201-408-1411

Jewish Business to Busi-ness Expo and Conference, Lake Terrace, Lakewood, 1-8pm, 718-633-0733

Tues., June 28“Jewish Burial,” Rav Hershel

Schachter, Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Or-ange, 8:30pm 973-736-1407

Wed., June 29“How Israeli Films Reflect

on Modern Israeli Society and Politics and Shape Israel’s Image to the World,” Dr. Eric Goldman, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 1:30pm, 201-833-0515 ext 200

Thurs., June 30Trip to New York for Din-

ner at My Most Favorite Dessert and Shiur by Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis at the Hineini Cen-

ter, spons by the Chabad Center Women’s Circle, leave Wayne, 5:15pm, 973-694-6274

Fri., July 1“A Taste of Shabbat,” for

parents and babies under one year, Aviva Kohl, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 10:30am, 845-362-4400

Shabbat, July 2Carlebach Minyan, Cong

Darchei Noam, Fair Lawn, 8:45am

Sun., July 3Explanatory Morning Ser-

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

Tues., July 5Contemporary Israeli Po-

etry Group, in the original with English translation and discussion, Atara Fobar, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, 7pm, 718-796-4730

Summer Soul Searching: Psalms, Rabbi Akiva Block, JCC, Tenafly, 8pm, 201-408-1426

Positive Parenting: “How to Communicate with Your Teens in an Age of Social Media,” Dr. Alex Bailey, Cong Beth Aaron, Teaneck, 8:15pm, 862-377-3375

Wed., July 6“Simply Tsfat” in Concert:

Music of Breslov Chassidim and Other Niggunim, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 7pm, 917-747-3240

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

Fri., July 8“A Taste of Shabbat,” for par-

ents and babies under one year, Aviva Kohl, JCC Rockland, West Nyack, 10:30am, 845-362-4400 Y



Mazal Tov

New Classes this Month Sundays

Practical Halacha: Kitzur Hilchos Shabbos, Rabbi Gershon Tave, Passaic Torah Institute, 8:30am, 973-594-4774

Gemara, Rabbi Yosef Posen, Cong Agudath Israel, Highland Park, 9am, 732-985-1111

Breakfast and Mishna, Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 9:30am

Gemara, Rabbi Shlomo Singer, Passaic Torah Institute, 9:30am, 973-594-4774

Torah-Kid Leagues, skills-building sports league for baseball, soccer, golf, and flag football, for boys 5-12, private location in High-land Park, 10am, 732-985-1050

Sefer Tehillim, for women, Rebbetzin Rivka Eichenstein, Cong Agudath Israel, Highland Park, 11am, 732-985-1111

Bat Mitzvah Class, Rebbetzin Debra Spivak, Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange, 7pm, 973-669-7320

“The Issur of Revenge and Bearing a Grudge,” Rabbi Zev Rivkin, Bais Medrash of Bergenfield, 8:15pm, [email protected]

MondaysIntermediate Israeli Folk Dance, Sara Burnbaum, JCC Rock-

land, West Nyack, noon, 845-362-4400, begins June 6Widowed and Widowers: You Are Not Alone, Judy Brauner,

LCSW, JCC, Tenafly, 6:30pm, 201-408-1456Learn with Your Son: Maseches Bava Metzia-Second Perek-

Eilu Metzios, on five levels from beginners to advanced, Yeshiva Pas-saic Torah Institute, 7pm, 862-371-3186

Parsha, for women, Rebbetzin Rivka Eichenstein, Cong Ohr To-rah, Edison, 8pm, 732-777-6840

“Heading Somewhere: The Biblical Book of Numbers,” Rabbi Asher Herson, Chabad Center of Northwest NJ, 8:15pm, 973-625-1525 ext 227

Navi Shiur: Sefer Shmuel II, for women, Aviva Orlian, private home in New Hempstead, 8:15pm, 845-364-5148

Uncoupling: Coping with Divorce and Separation, Judy Braun-er, JCC, Tenafly, 8:15pm, 201-408-1456

Tefillah, Rabbi Dr. C Presby, Cong Agudath Israel, Highland Park, 8:30pm, 732-985-1111

Become Self-Sufficient in Your Learning, Eilu Metzions on 5 Levels, Beginners-Advanced, Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim, Yeshiva Passaic Torah Institute, 8:30pm, 862-371-3186

Hilchos Shabbos, Avi Bodlander, Cong Agudath Israel, High-land Park, 9:30pm, 732-985-1111

TuesdaysNavi Shiur: Sefer Ovadya, Rabbi Shalom Baum, Cong Keter

Torah, Teaneck, 11amParshas HaShavua with Chumash Skills, Rabbi Doniel Weiner,

Passaic Torah Institute, 11:15am, 973-594-4774“Ivrit in Your Feet” Hebrew-English Soccer Program, for chil-

dren 4-5 years old, Edi Shvartz, Seton Park, Riverdale, 4-5 year olds, 4pm; 6-8 year olds, 5pm, [email protected]

Nach Shiur: Shmuel Alef, for women, Rabbi Nachum Muschel, private home in Monsey, 4:14pm, 845-356-3832

Parsha and Pizza, for grades 1-8 (separate classes by age), Rab-bi Josh Schulman, spons by Yeshiva University at Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 5pm, begins July 5, 201-923-5960

Weekly Bike Riding, spons by HudsonJewish.org, meet at the Ko-rean War Memorial, Jersey City, 6:30pm, [email protected]

Beginners Art, for girls, Chana Jacobs, private home in Mon-sey, 7pm, 845-893-9975

“Arabic for the Curious,” Aaron Rubin, JCC, Tenafly, 7:30pm, 201-408-1426, begins June 28

Tefillah Shiur, Rabbi Dr Abraham Twersky, Cong Zichron Mor-dechai, Teaneck, 7:45pm

Talmud, Rabbi Shalom Lubin, Cong Shaya Ahavat Torah of Par-sippany, 8pm, 973-896-6577

Partners in Torah, YMHA, Clifton, 8:15pm, 862-591-2920Halacha, Avi Kamelhar, Cong Agudath Israel, Highland Park,

8:30pm, 732-985-1111Shiur: Maseches Sukkah, Lieber Schachter, Bais Medrash of

Bergenfield, 9:20pm, [email protected]

Parsha, for women, Rebbetzin Miri Cohen, private home in High-land Park, 9:15am, 732-249-5116

Telephone Shiur: “Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: Based on the Teachings of Rabbanit Sara Yosef,” for women, taught by Chaya Hinda Allen, 10am, 215-745-3996

Sefer Ohel Rochel: The Three Women’s Mitzvos, Batsheva Berger, private home in New Hempstead, 10:30am, 845-362-2349

“Ethics in Action,” Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 11amChumash: Sefer Bereishit, Rabbi Yosef Adler, Cong Rinat Yis-

rael, Teaneck, 12:30pm, 201-837-2795

Mazal Tov to the Bat Mitzvah Girls: Rebecca Barel, Atara Goldstein, Avigayil Keiser, Ilana Markowitz, Aliza Posner, Gabrielle Safier, and Julie Sohnen; and the Bar Mitzvah Boys: Yitzchak Zev Alpert, Avery Bell, Josh Chesner, Sam Fineberg, Yehuda Fuksbrumer, David Goodman, Mordechai Kallus, Benjy Kleiner, Layvi Yitzchak Litton, Oren Mendelow, Zachary Metz-man, Aiden Shaina Ruskin, Noah Schechter, Josh Silberstein, Yadin Spielman, Noah Spitzer, and Meir Tolchin

Mazal Tov to Cong Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob and David, West Orange, Toradojo students who were promoted: Danielle Felder-man (yellow belt), Moshe Frohlinger (orange belt), Refael Frohlinger (orange belt), Sarah Simah Frohlinger (yellow belt), Dalia Goldstein (yellow belt), Tavi Lando (green belt), Eli Novick (yellow belt), Rowi Novick (orange belt), and instructor Gene White (3rd degree)

Mazal Tov to Rabbi Eliezer Kaminetzky on being hon-ored by the Highland Park Police PBA on his 20 years of service as their chaplain

Mazal Tov to Cong Shomrei Torah of Fair Lawn on receiv-ing a new Torah donated by Ralph and Rabbi Joshua Cheifetz in memory of their parents and brothers

Mazal Tov to SAR students for placing in the American Bible Contest, Jonah Chill (1st place, Middle School), Massye Kes-tenbaum (2nd Place, High School), and Adin Goldstein (5th place High School)

Mazal Tov to Phillip Kata on winning an Alisa Flatow Memorial Scholarship to attend Yeshivat Shaarei Mevaseret Zion in Israel

Mazal Tov to Cong Beth Aaron Junior NCSY on being named chapter of the year

Mazal Tov to students at the Jewish Education Center’s Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy High School in Elizabeth on being selected to compete in the Gildor Family Projects and Inventions international competition to be held in Israel in June

Mazal Tov to Ayelet and Ari Feder, Rabbi Dr. Bernhard and Rebbetzin Charlene Rosenberg, and Soshie and Elliot Feder on the birth of their daughter and granddaughter, Chava Esther

Mazal Tov to Cong Shaya Ahavat Torah of Parsippany’s Tuesday Talmud class on their recent siyyum celebrating the com-pletion of their two-year study of the Book of Sotah

Mazal Tov to Fred and Carole Samuel on their 50th wedding anniversary Y


One-on-One Tutoring and Chavruta Learning, for boys and girls, 5-18, Rabbi Josh Schulman, spons by Yeshiva University, at Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 5pm and 5:45pm, 201-923-5960, begins July 6

Pre-Teen and Teen-Age Girls Sewing Circle, Marge Kohlhagen, ncludes personal items as well as a joint project to be donated to charity, private home in Bergenfield, 7pm, 201-385-7995, begins June 29

“The Five Levels of Pleasure,” Rabbi Marc Spivak, Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange, 7pm, 973-669-7320

Knitting on Cedar Lane, Joanne Samad, at the Teaneck General Store, Teaneck, 7pm, begins June 15, 201-530-5046

Tanach Shiur, for women, Rachel Frazer, CareOne, Teaneck, 7:30pm, 201-862-3300

“A Look at Ibn Ezra,” Rabbi Marc Spivak, Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange, 8pm, 973-669-7320

Hands-On Parenting Workshops, Perl Abramovitz, private home in Passaic, 8pm, 718-640-1878 ext 3

Support Group for Orthodox-Jewish Divorced Women, Lynn, private home in Monsey, 8pm, [email protected]

“The Issur of Revenge and Bearing a Grudge,” Rabbi Zev Rivkin, Bais Medrash of Bergenfield, 8:15pm, [email protected]

Halacha, Rabbi Yisroel Hoffman, Cong Agudath Israel, Highland Park, 8:30pm, 732-985-1111

Become Self-Sufficient in Your Learning, Eilu Metzions on 5 Levels, Beginners-Advanced, Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim, Yeshiva Pas-saic Torah Institute, 8:30pm, 862-371-3186

Thursdays“Sefer Tehillim Revealed: Lessons for Life in All Its Complex-

ity,” Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, Jewish Center of Teaneck, 7:45am“Approaches to Human Suffering in the Book of Job,” Rabbi

Menahem Meier, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck 10:50am“Arabic for the Curious,” Aaron Rubin, JCC, Tenafly, 7:30pm,

201-408-1426, begins June 30Halacha, Rabbi Yitzchok Pollak, Passaic Torah Institute, 8:30pm,

973-594-4774Parsha, Rabbi Doniel Isaacs, Passaic Torah Institute, 9pm, 973-594-4774Shiur: Maseches Sukkah, Lieber Schachter, Bais Medrash of

Bergenfield, 9:20pm, [email protected], Rabbi Y Eichenstein, Cong Agudath Israel, Highland

Park, 9:30pm, 732-985-1111Mussar Based on the Parsha, Rabbi Baruch Bodenheim, includes

cholent, Passaic Torah Institute, 10:05pm, 973-594-4774Fridays

Parsha HaShavua with Chumash Skills, Rabbi Doniel Weiner, Passaic Torah Institute, 9:45am, 973-594-4774

Carlebach Minyan, Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, 7pm“The Meaning of Minhag,” Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, Jewish Cen-

ter of Teaneck, between Kabbalat Shabbat and ma’arivShabbat

Perush Hatefilo, for children, Rabbi Jonathan Feldman, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 10am

Father-Son Learning, Kehillas Beis Sholom, Clifton, 2:30pm, [email protected]

Shiur and Oneg for Bar Mitzvah Boys, Rabbi Yaakov Neuburg-er, private home in Bergenfield, 3:30pm, 201-384-0434

Mother-Daughter Learning Program, Cong Ohr HaTorah, Ber-genfield, 4pm, 201-385-4814

Father-Son Learning Program, Cong Ohr HaTorah, Bergen-field, 5pm, 201-387-0027

Pirkei Avos in Depth, for men, Rabbi Mordechai Becher, Yeshiva Passaic Torah Institute, 5:15pm, 862-371-3186

Chumash Rashi/Ohr Hachayim, with seuda shlishis, Cong Beth Abraham, Bergenfield, 6:30pm

Perek in the Park, Cong Etz Chaim, private home in Livingston,

6:30pm, 973-597-1655Pirkei Avos, for women, includes brachos party for children, pri-

vate home in New Hempstead, 4:20pm, 845-362-2349Motzei Shabbat

Navi, Rabbi Yisroel Reisman, live via satellite, Young Israel of Fair Lawn (201-797-1800); Cong Ahavas Achim, Highland Park (732-247-0532); Cong Tifereth Israel, Passaic; JEC, Elizabeth (908-591-5929); Cong Khal Zichron Mordechai, Monsey (845-356-7188); Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck; Cong Ohr Torah, West Orange (973-669-7320), 10:30pm

Specials“Ten Minutes of Torah,” Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, Jewish Center

of Teaneck, Mon, Wed, Thurs, 7:15pm, between mincha and ma’arivKollel B’nei Torah of West Orange, Sephardic Minyan of Cong Aha-

was Achim Bnai Jacob and David, Mon-Wed, 8:15pm; Thurs, 8:30pmYU-Keter Torah Summer Kollel Night Seder Beit Midrash for

Men, Rabbi Eli Belizon and Rabbi Shalom Baum, Cong Keter Torah, Teaneck, 8:45pm, Mon-Thurs, July 5-Aug 12, [email protected]

Yeshiva Unversity-Rinat Yisrael Women’s Beit Midrash Program, in-cludes Gemara, Halacha, and Tanach, with Stern College students, Mon-Thurs, July 5-28, Cong Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, evenings, [email protected]

Chesed OpsPassaic and Teaneck now have Chaverim organizations that will help,

free of charge, if your car doesn’t start or if you are locked out of your house or a car (call for medical help if a child is in the car), run out of gas, or get a flat tire. Chaverim of Teaneck will also provide disaster relief and shiva house assistance, and will lend a helping hand to the elderly and infirm. Both groups are looking for volunteers. Passaic Chaverim can be reached at 973-447-4811 and an application to volunteer can be accessed at http://www.passaicchaverim.org/Passaic-Chaverim/application-form. Chaverim of Teaneck can be reached at 201-800-HELP (4357) or at [email protected].

OHEL is looking for mature and responsible volunteers to drive children in its foster care divisions to visits with their birth parents at OHEL’s Boro Park office, 718-686-3103

In honor of her bat mitzvah, Tovah Weiskopf is collecting lip balm and non-aerosol deodorant for “A Package from Home,” an or-ganization that sends care packages to combat “lone” soldiers in Israel who do not have families in the Jewish state. Call 201-384-7338

In honor of his bar mitzvah, Eitan Schneier is collecting new comic books and other reading matter for the teen patient lounge at Hackensack University Medical Center. To drop off appropriate books and comics, call 201-692-1157

The National Museum of American-Jewish Military History, which operates under the aegis of the Jewish War Veterans of America, lists over 40 Jews who have given their lives in the defense of the US in Iraq and Afghani-stan. On Memorial Day, these Jewish servicemen from NJ were honored: 2nd Lt. Seth Dvorin, US Army, 24, of East Brunswick; Spec Marc Seiden, US Army, 26, of Brigantine; Sgt Alan Sherman, US Marine Corps Reserve, 36, of Brick; and Capt Michael Tarlavsky, US Army, 30, of Passaic. Y


Mazal Tov to the Class of 5771(2011)Mon., June 6

Torah Academy of Ber-gen County, at Cong Bnai Ye-shurun, Teaneck, 7:30pm

Sun., June 12Bruriah High School for

Girls, Elizabeth, 9:15amMa’ayanot Yeshiva

High School for Girls, at Cong Bnai Yeshurun, Tea-neck, 10am

Bat Torah—The Alisa Flatow Yeshiva High School for Girls, Paramus, 10am

Yeshiva Ktana Girls High School, Passaic, 10am

Jewish Educational Center Mesivta for Boys, Elizabeth, 10:45am

Yeshivat Noam, Para-mus, 1pm

Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, River Edge, 4pm

Mon., June 13Joseph Kushner He-

brew Academy 8th Grade, Livingston, 6pm

Adolph Schreiber He-brew Academy of Rock-land County (ASHAR), Monsey, 7:15pm

Moshe Aaron Yeshiva High School Girls Division, at Raritan Valley Academy, Piscataway, 7:30pm

Frisch Yeshiva High School, Paramus, 8pm

Tues., June 14Rae Kushner Yeshiva High

School, Livingston, 7pm

Moshe Aaron Yeshiva High School Boys Division, at Raritan Valley Academy, Piscataway, 7:30pm

Yeshivat Beit Hillel 8th Grade Girls, Passaic, 7:45pm

Wed., June 15Yeshiva Beit Hillel 8th

Grade Boys, Passaic, 7:45pmThurs., June 16The Moriah School of

Englewood, at the Bergen Tech, Hackensack, 7pm

SAR High School, Riv-erdale, 7pm

Yavneh Academy, at Paramus High School, 7:30pm

Sun., June 19Jewish Educational

Center 8th Grade Boys, Elizabeth, 9:15am

Bruriah 8th Grade Girls, Elizabeth, 10:45am

Mon., June 20Yeshiva Ktana of Pas-

saic 8th Grade Girls, Pas-saic, 6:30pm

Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva, at Middlesex County College, Edison, 7pm

Tues., June 21Yeshiva Ktana of Pas-

saic 8th Grade Boys, Pas-saic, 6:30pm

Wed., June 22Yeshiva Ohr Simcha of

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not be controlled. The Talmu-dic sage cited in the reference feared that he could not fulfill his filial responsibilities to his mother and, therefore, chose to continue his Torah studies elsewhere. It does not allude to a mother who wants to attend her daughter’s wedding.Rabbi Moshe Dovid Tendler

Monsey, NY

emotionally, verbally, or psy-chologically) to the daughter that continued interaction, even casual, is inimical to the child’s best interests and wel-fare. Since the commandment of “honoring parents” proscribes a child from responding harshly to a parent—even an abusive parent—the proper fulfillment of that commandment then re-quires the child to avoid con-tact with and absent himself/herself from that parent.

That being said, this should be an extreme and exceedingly rare response. If a reconciliation is at all possible, it should be attempted. Life is short.

Rabbi Steven PruzanskyTeaneck, NJ

I always try to reconcile the par-ent and child. This is not only because the Torah obligates us to honor our parents, but also because the reconciliation is vital to the psychological well-being of both parent and child. It is absolutely unhealthy for both parent and child to be es-tranged from one another. We all need the love and approval of our mothers and fathers, and, therefore, it is incumbent on us to do whatever we can to resolve such painful relationships. If I were the rabbi in this case, I would insist on speaking, sepa-rately at first, to the mother and the daughter to learn what the grievances are and where the hurt lies. Then I would move heaven and earth to bring about a reconciliation.

Rabbi Shmuley BoteachEnglewood, NJ

after that effort, the daughter still insists that her mother’s presence at the wedding would put a damper on the day for her, she does have the right to refuse to allow her mother to be present.

Rabbi Benjamin YudinFair Lawn, NJ

R. Yudin

R. Boteach

R. Pruzansky

R. Tendler

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Ami question begun on page 5.

end of May on the anniversary of the first one, which, in 2010, was stopped from approaching Gaza by Israeli security forces. When anti-Israel activists on one of the ships, the Turkish IHH’s Mavi Marmara, refused to heed Israeli warnings to stop, Israeli armed forces boarded the ship. On the ship, Israeli soldiers were attacked by activists wielding knives, metal rods, clubs, and live gunfire. In self-defense, the Israelis struck back, killing nine Turkish activists, including one with dual American citi-zenship. Seven Israeli soldiers were wounded.

On the other ships in the flotilla, activists offered only passive resistance, and there were no injuries.

Losing ArgumentsBecause Turkish elections are

scheduled for June 12, the new flo-tilla’s sailing has been postponed until the end of the month.

“With Erdoğan playing for centrist votes in the up-

coming elections, his sup-porters, such as the IHH, do not want to do anything that could alienate those voters,” said Mr. Bar-Ner.

Mr. Erdoğan’s govern-ment argues that Israel has no right to stop the flotilla on the “open seas,” but most experts on international law disagree, maintaining that the blockade, an effort by Israel to keep weapons out of the hands of Gaza-based Hamas terrorists who frequently target missiles at Israeli civil-ian centers, is legal.

International PassengersAccording to some reports,

the new flotilla will include ships leaving from Marseille, France; Genoa, Italy; and a port in Germany. Other countries that may be represented in the flotilla include Sweden, Belgium, Greece, Spain, the UK, and Ireland. There may also be groups of Americans, Canadians, Latin Americans, Africans, and Asians.

In response to these re-ports, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the rel-evant governments to “use their influence to discourage such flotillas, which carry the potential to escalate into vio-lent conflict.”

Mr. Ban maintained that assistance and goods destined for Gaza should be routed through legitimate crossings and estab-lished channels.

Canadian WarningIsrael has long claimed that

attempts to breach the naval blockade are political rather than genuinely humanitarian. The Jewish state has offered to transfer any bona fide aid ship-ments directly to Gaza, provided it can inspect the cargo to pre-vent arms smuggling to Hamas and other terrorist groups.

The Canadian government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has warned against Canadian involvement in the new flotilla.

“Canada recognizes Israel’s legitimate security concerns and its right to protect itself and its residents from attacks by Hamas and other terrorist groups, includ-ing by preventing the smuggling of weapons,” said Canadian For-eign Minister John Baird.

American ReactionNews that Turkey is plan-

ning to allow a reprise of last year’s flotilla escapade has not been met with cheers in the US. At the beginning of May 2011, a bipartisan group of 36 members of Congress wrote to Mr. Erdoğan, asking him to prevent Freedom Flotilla II from sailing and to “work with the Israeli government in a productive way as it continues to allow legitimate aid, but not weapons, to enter Gaza.”

In their letter, the congress-men emphasized Israel’s right to defend itself and argued that, if the ships approach Gaza, Is-rael would be forced to board

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Echoing the Congressmen’s letter, US President Barack Obama reportedly called Mr. Erdoğan to express his hope that “Turkey and Israel will find oppor-tunities to improve their relations in the interest of regional stability.”

Assistant Secretary of State for Euro-pean and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon told the US Senate Foreign Relations Sub-committee on European Affairs that, since the incident with the Mavi Marmara, Israel had eased the blockade of Gaza and “made very clear that there are alternative ways to

get humanitarian assistance to Gaza.”“So any government or NGO that

wants to send genuinely humanitarian goods to Gaza has a way of doing it that is uncontested. And we very much believe that and have been very clear with the Turkish government that that’s the case,” said Mr. Gordon, adding that he had told the Turkish government that any support for a new flotilla would “not help Turkish-US ties.”

Turkish RejectionAccording to the Turkish press, the

Turkish government has rebuffed the Amer-ican requests. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said those supporting

the planned flotilla are acting in a private capacity. He said that while Turkish-gov-ernment officials have advised organizers and participants “of the dangers they face,” the government could not tell civilians to stay away from Gaza.

“We have shared our views about the safety of our citizens with all related parties. That was the case last year and it is not any different this time,” said Mr. Davutoglu.

He said that while Ankara has “never encouraged any convoy,” it “cannot give instructions to civil society” not to embark on the attempt to break Israel’s blockade.

According to some sources, if the Turk-ish government were to intervene now, it might raise questions as to why Ankara did not stop the first flotilla in May 2010.

PA ParticipationAmong those planning to join the

new flotilla are members of Fatah, the Palestinian faction headed by PA Presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas.

According to Nabil Shaath, a senior member of the Fatah Central Committee, senior Fatah officials will be permitted to participate in the flotilla because “it is a humanitarian effort meant to lift the blockade on Gaza.”

Asked if officials would need permission from Hamas or the IDF to participate, Mr. Shaath said, “We don’t need authorization to reach our homeland—not from Hamas and not from Israeli security forces.”

Rejected by the EUMr. Bar-Ner explained that Turkey, which

used to be a close ally of Israel, dropped its ties with the Jewish state after the Europe-an Union rejected Turkey’s application for membership. At that point, Ankara began looking for allies in the Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah Islamist extremist axis.

“There was a change in foreign policy after the EU refused to accept Turkey. Vari-ous sources explained it to me in a nutshell: The EU did not want 70 million Muslims to be part of their Christian club. In addition, the EU was afraid of having to support them in a heavy way,” said Mr. Bar-Ner.

In the aftermath of this rejection, he said, the Turkish military, which had ruled the country since the days of Mus-tafa Kemal Atatürk, lost power.

Mr. Atatürk, the founder and first president of the modern Turkish state, died in 1938, leaving a legacy of a secu-



lar Turkey, which was dependent on its military for support.

Unintended ConsequencesAccording to Mr. Bar-Ner, when Mr.

Erdoğan came to office, he was told by the Europeans that, if Turkey wanted to join the EU, the country would have to limit the power of its military.

“This served Erdoğan’s purpose, and so he gladly reduced the influence of the military in favor of his own Islamists, which was certainly not what the EU meant,” said Mr. Bar-Ner.

Although the Turkish military is a shadow of its former self, it is not entirely powerless, according to Mr. Bar-Ner, and the prime minister will have to watch him-self carefully so as not to lose popularity.

Smaller MajorityAccording to Mr. Bar-Ner, Mr. Erdoğan’s

Justice and Development Party (AKP) will probably remain in power after the upcoming elections, but, he said, the party may command a much smaller majority than it currently enjoys.

“Erdoğan likes to say that the AKP is not a political party with a religious axis, implying that he would like it to be seen as not Islamist, but, rather, mainstream conservative in the European tradition. However, critics accuse it of harboring a hidden Islamist agenda, and it certainly has its roots in an Islamist party that had been banned when secularism was the rule in Turkey,” said Mr. Bar-Ner.

According to Mr. Bar-Ner, the big-gest challenge to the AKP’s bid to retain power will come from the center-left CHP, the Republican People’s Party, the faction identified with the military.

“The AKP may lose many voters to the CHP and other parties, which means Erdoğan will need the support of others in order to govern,” he said.

That could work to Israel’s benefit, he said, because while under Mr. Erdoğan, there has been a shift in Turkish governmental policy away from the Jewish state, the Turk-ish people as a whole are not anti-Israel.

Not a ModerateBut Mr. Erdoğan’s posturing as a

moderate in Turkey has not prevented him from speaking out in favor of ter-rorism elsewhere.

On May 12, Mr. Erdoğan declared in an interview with Public Broadcasting’s Charlie Rose that Hamas is not a terrorist organization despite its being classified as

such by Israel, the US, and the EU.According to Mr. Erdoğan, calling

Hamas a terrorist organization is a sign of “disrespect” for the Palestinian people.

“It is a resistance movement trying to protect its country under occupation,” said Mr. Erdoğan.

Referring to the first flotilla incident in May 2010, Mr. Erdoğan said he is still waiting for an “apology, compensation, and lifting of the embargo on Gaza” from Israel.

He has also ordered his government to petition Israel to identify the names of the Navy commandos who stopped the IHH flotilla last year from reaching Gaza. Ac-cording to press reports, Turkey has accused Israel of premeditated murder and wants

an investigation of Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.

ThreatsIt seems he will have a long wait.

According to Turkish media, the current Israeli Ambassador to Turkey, Gaby Levy, told diplomats in Ankara that his govern-ment sees the new flotilla as having been organized for “provocative purposes.”

“If a similar situation emerges again, there will not be violent actions as in the Mavi Marmara, but, be assured, all that is necessary will be undertaken [by Israel],” Mr. Levy reportedly said in a statement



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interpreted in the Turkish me-dia as a veiled threat.

Asked about this exchange, Mr. Davutoglu said, on the contrary, his government had summoned Mr. Levy to send “serious warnings” to Israel that Ankara expected Jerusalem “not to repeat the human trag-edy it caused last year.”

“It should be known that Turkey will give the necessary response to any repeated act of provocation by Israel on the high seas,” said Mr. Davutoglu.

Trying to DefuseSome observers said reports

that Egypt has now opened its border with Gaza might diffuse the situation, making the flotilla unnecessary. Under now-deposed President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt had kept its border with Gaza closed. But organizers of Freedom Flotilla II said, despite Egypt’s action, they remain determined to press ahead with their plans largely to force Israel to give up the blockade.

For a while, there were hopes that if the new UN panel, headed by former New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer and including former Colom-bian President Alvaro Uribe as well as Israeli and Turkish representatives, concludes that Israel was within its rights, it might persuade the Turks to end their involvement.

In its presentation to the UN, Israel leaned heavily on the report issued by its own Turkel Commission, which was asked to investigate the May 2010 incident.

The probe, which was led by Israeli retired Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel and overseen by two international observ-ers, Northern Irish former First Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner William David Trimble and Canadian former military judge Ken Watkin, found that Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and the Jewish state’s operation to stop the Mavi

Marmara, were in accordance with international law.

No ReconciliationNews that the UN investi-

gation appears to back Israel’s case over Turkey’s has been met with outrage in Ankara. Ac-cording to some Turkish media, there is speculation that Turkey will withdraw from the panel if the final report appears to favor Israel’s point of view.

Mr. Davutoglu, who blamed Israel for the current panel’s delay in issuing its report, said Turkey would not necessarily withdraw from the panel, but, he added, Ankara’s response “will be strong.”

He stressed that “contrary to the wishes of the Americans,” the UN mission was not to rec-oncile Turkey and Israel, but, rather, “to serve justice.”

“Why were nine civilians killed? Who dares to kill civil-ians in international waters? We want this to be described. We do not want a mediator with Israel,” he said.

ObstaclesAccording to Mr. Bar-Ner,

one of the more positive rumors circulating about the planned second flotilla is that some of the groups slated to participate are finding it difficult to raise the money neces-sary to purchase ships.

In addition, the ships may find it impossible to secure insurance. Shurat Din, a le-gal center in Tel Aviv, warned Lloyd’s of London that it could be liable for massive damages if it insures ships that are used by suspected terrorist organi-zations to sail to Gaza.

The warning came on May 17, just as the Israeli navy fired warning shots at a Malaysian-chartered ship carrying sew-erage pipes to Gaza from the Egyptian port of al-Arish, forcing it to turn back. The Malaysian group that organized the delivery said that the ship was a few hundred yards off the Gaza coast when an Israeli



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naval vessel forced it back.The ship, dubbed “The

Spirit of Rachel Corrie,” set sail from the Greek port of Piraeus with passengers from Malaysia, Ireland, India, and Canada. It was named for the young American member of the virulently anti-Israel Inter-national Solidarity Movement who, in 2003, was accidently killed in Gaza by Israeli troops while she was trying to prevent them from destroying tunnels used for smuggling weapons to terrorists.

No InsuranceIn response to the letter from

Shurat Din, Lloyd’s said it would refuse to underwrite a vessel backed by terrorists or related organiza-tions or any trip that would be in breach of sanctions.

Nitsana Darshan Leitner, an Israeli attorney who heads Shurat Din and specializes in cases involving victims of ter-rorist attacks, said that under

international law, no link has to be established between a specific terrorist attack and a particular Gaza-bound ship sponsored by a terrorist organization.

“The law in the US and Is-rael and maybe in other countries is that, when it comes to terror-ism, it is very strict that anyone aiding and abetting a designated terrorist organization, the li-ability is on you for any terror-ist attack that the organization carries out,” she said.

Election ComplicationsHe recognized that the

upcoming elections in Tur-key may have an impact on Ankara’s decisions regarding foreign policy.

In early May, it was antici-pated that, in addition to the CHP, the right-wing Turco-Islamist Nationalist Action Party, MHP, would also play a major role.

This past month, however, many politicians affiliated with

the MHP resigned in the after-math of a sex-video scandal, which their supporters say was engineered by the AKP and Mr. Erdoğan. As a result, several MHP politicians have already joined the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP.

Kurdish SympathiesThe scandal erupted just

as violent clashes between ethnic Kurdish protesters and Turkish police broke out in the middle of May. At least 12 members of the terrorist Kurdistan Worker’s party, or PKK, were killed by the coun-try’s security forces.

According to Mr. Bar-Ner, there are about 6.5 million Kurds in Turkey, mostly in the eastern part of the country, not far from Northern Iraq, where Kurds have established their own, partially autonomous Kurdistan. According to many reports, the Kurds have good, if unofficial, relations with Israel.

“The Turks are afraid of an independent Kurdistan, because they fear the Kurds living in Turkey would want their own independent state to merge with the Kurdistan in northern Iraq,” said Mr. Bar-Ner.

Armenian GenocideEven more problematic for

the Turks is the increasing global awareness of their role in mur-dering as many as 1.5 million Armenians and expelling some 500,000 more between 1915 and 1918. The Turks have steadfastly refused to recognize their par-ticipation in this catastrophe, and there is a running debate over whether or not the episode constituted genocide.

Last March, the US House For-eign Affairs Committee approved a non-binding resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide.

At least one lawmaker, Rep Dan Burton (R-IN) opposed the measure, fearing it would alienate Turkey, which he identified as

an important Mideast ally.“We have sympathy for

the people that suffered dur-ing that time. We understand tragedies occurred. We un-derstand horrible atrocities occurred. There’s no question about that. But we’re in the 21st century. We have troops in the field, and we run the risk of losing a base of operation in Turkey,” he said.

After the resolution passed, Turkey, in a pique of rage, recalled its US ambassador in protest.

In the MiddleIsrael was placed in the

middle. For many years, some Armenian activists who want the US to take a position on the Armenian genocide blamed Israel for lobbying against such rec-ognition. When Israeli-Turkish relations were good, Israel was accused of working to protect its friend and ally. When rela-tions between Israel and Turkey soured, those who still want to protect Turkey have accused the Jewish state of working to punish Ankara by remov-ing its support, thus allowing increased recognition of the Armenian catastrophe.

On May 18, for the first time, the Knesset held an open discussion on recognition of the Armenian genocide. With a number of Armenian reli-gious and lay leaders watching in the visitors’ gallery, MKs from across the political spec-trum, including the right-wing religious Shas and the secular left-wing Meretz, spoke in fa-vor of recognizing the Turkish massacres and deportations of Armenians as genocide.

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Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made no such attempt.

Ending the DenialAfter the discussion, MKs

voted unanimously to refer the subject for a further hearing in the Knesset’s Education Committee, where it will be broadcast publicly.

“I am certain that, as Israelis, who have heard so many times people attempting to deny the horror that was brought upon our people, it is impossible for the

Knesset to ignore this tragedy,” said Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin. “The historical facts supporting it are solid and well-based. There is still an argument between the Turkish nation and the Armenian nation, but this argument cannot justify even a sliver of denial regarding the Armenian people’s tragedy. We find it difficult to forgive other nations who ignore our tragedy, and thus we cannot ignore an-other nation’s tragedy. It is our

moral obligation as human be-ings and as Jews.”

Mr. Bar-Ner, who did not deny the Armenians had suffered “a major massacre,” was not as certain that the tragedy could be defined as “genocide.”

“It has yet to be deter-mined if the Muslim rulers of the Ottoman Empire gave orders to massacre the Chris-tian Armenians, like Hitler did to the Jews, or if the murders were committed without a spe-

cific plan. It does not matter to the victims, but it does when it comes to classifying it as ‘genocide,’ which is a planned attempt to wipe out a people,” said Mr. Bar-Ner.

In any case, he said, be-tween the planned Turkish-sanctioned flotilla and Israeli efforts to help the Armenians, “it may be too early to expect an improvement in the Turkish-Israeli relationship any time soon.” S.L.R.


In 2009, Joshua Meier, now 15, was the Middle School first-place champion in

the US National Chidon HaTanach compe-tition, based on the Jewish Bible, for high school students. In 2010, he represented the United States in the international con-test, Chidon HaTanach HaOlami, held in Jerusalem on Yom Ha’atzmaut.

This year, the Teaneck resident, the son of Dr. Ronny and Elizabeth Meier, spoke at the National Chidon HaTanach in New York, telling prospective contes-tants that while he thought the experience would be mainly competitive, it was, in fact, an “extraordinary” combination of tourism, hands-on learning, and, most of all, friendship-building.

He explained to the future contestants that he had been told that participating in the Chidon in Israel would be “the trip of a lifetime, but I soon learned that was an understatement.”

“Before I arrived in Israel, I thought my experience would mainly be shaped by the competition, Tanach, and sightsee-ing. I had no idea that the bonds I made with other people from all over the world would have made the biggest impact on my life. We learned so much from one another, whether Tanach-related, person-ally, communally, or culturally. I can now say that I competed in the Chidon HaTa-nach on Yom Ha’atzmaut in 2010, but,

more importantly, I can say that I have friends in 40 different countries around the world,” he said.

Chapters to StudyThe Israeli government pays for each

student’s plane fare and all expenses in the Jewish state during the competition, which was originally founded by David Ben-Gurion as a competition for adults.

In the months leading up to the in-ternational competition, American par-ticipants in the Chidon are given a set of chapters of Tanach to study. Each is given one book of the Torah, one in Early Writings, and a third in Writings. Those participating in the high school division are given a book of Later Prophets as well. In all, each student studies a total of between 70 and 100 chapters.

Throughout the year, participating students, divided into Hebrew middle and high schools and English middle and high schools, take three tests. Each region of the US crowns its own “Regional Champion,” and these winners plus those who have scored higher than 85 percent on the tests, go on to the US national competition.

National TestThe national test involves some purely

factual questions, such as “Who said this to whom?” or “Who is this section dis-cussing?” There are also questions that test the participants’ understanding of the text. The second part of the test involves showing students similar phrases in Tanach and asking them to match the citations. Students must be able to complete quotes from the Bible and show proficiency in understanding Biblical family trees.

The first place winners in each division earn the right to compete in Israel.

Once in Israel, the international com-petition is based on 400 chapters of Tanach. Because Israelis have a linguistically natu-ral edge, the winner is usually a resident of the Jewish state. Therefore, there is a separate “Diaspora Contest” for the top students from outside the country.

Bible CampAlthough Josh Meier made clear that

competing in the Chidon was a marvel-ous experience, participating in the “Bi-ble Camp,” which takes place in Israel the week before and week after the con-test, was thrilling. During Bible Camp, the youngsters travel throughout Israel, meet dignitaries, participate in the Gadna

youth military program, and, of course, study Tanach.

In New York, Mr. Meier told the prospective contestants that his arrival at the Rabin Youth Hostel in Jerusalem gave him the opportunity to meet many of the people with whom he had been com-municating through email and Facebook over the past months.

“Although we were all from different countries, spoke different languages, and were all competing, the atmosphere was so friendly and inviting,” he said.

New FriendsAs he and his three roommates—two

Israelis, Avner Netanyahu (yes, the son of the Prime Minister), Elad Nachson, and Ariyeh Sigaloff of Argentina—unpacked their bags, “we could not help but to quiz each other on Tanach,” recalled Josh.

“It was amazing how well they knew the material, and I enjoyed discussing Ta-nach with them. Although we were asking each other questions, I quickly learned this was no longer a competition; we were each helping to increase the others’ grasp of the material,” he said.

The unpacking that should have taken a few minutes stretched to more than an hour as the boys, through their studying, “began to become great friends.”

Biblical SitesAs the Bible Camp progressed, Josh

delighted in the number of sites, especially in the Old City of Jerusalem, whose fame came straight from Tanach.

“I was no longer the only one quoting phrases from the Tanach as we traveled through the streets. Everywhere we went, people were reminded of the months of studying we had all undergone,” he said.

He found Shabbat in the holy city of Tzfat and hiking with the Jewish National Fund and planting trees in the north of Israel highlights of the trip.

“In retrospect, I realized these trees really represented each of us as competi-tors. We all began our journeys as small seeds, unaware of our surroundings, but through our trip together, we grew as a forest and became one,” he said.

Staying CloseWhile Josh did not compete this year,

he watched the International Chidon live online, in the middle of the night, while skyping with his Chidon friends from all

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Use the Facts to Come to a Logical ConclusionAll sane people want peace and no wars. But it is the inter-

pretation of the “facts” which determine our opinions pertaining to which steps will lead to peace or to war.

Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain each had the same information in 1938 relating to Hitler’s demand for the Su-detenland of Czechoslovakia. Churchill, out of power, vehemently opposed appeasing Hitler by forcing Czechoslovakia to cede the Sudetenland for “peace.” Chamberlain, the sitting British Prime Minister, chose otherwise and forced Czechoslovakia to surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler. Several months later, Hitler attacked Poland with his Blitzkrieg and World War II began.

Nobody can say for certain that there would not have been World War II if Chamberlain had not forced Czechoslovakia to cede the Sudetenland. However, it is not debatable that Hitler would have had a much more difficult time if his tanks had been forced to attack the highly mountainous area of the Czech Sude-tenland. The Wehrmacht’s Blitzkrieg would have been ineffec-tive against an entrenched Czech military force rather than the killing fields of the flat lands of Poland, where Hitler’s Blitzkrieg was supremely effective. Hitler might have had second thoughts about starting World War II if he had had to deal with treacher-ous, stiff Czech-fortified mountainous resistance.

The Palestinian leadership ostensibly insists that Israel re-turn to the 1967 borders in order for the two people to live in “peace.” The US, the countries of the E.U., many Israelis, and many American Jews believe that if Israel returns to the 1967 borders, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will be resolved.

All of us have the same basic facts, but my analysis of them compels me to conclude that Prime Minister Netanyahu must take the Churchillian position in this debate.

There are three formal Palestinian documents all of which call for Israel’s destruction: The undated Fatah constitution, the Hamas constitution which surfaced in 1988, and the PLO Charter (Covenant), created in 1964 when Israel did not occupy any part of the “West Bank” and was, by definition, living within its “1967” borders.

The PLO Charter was amended in 1968 (after the 1967 War when Israel gained, for the first time, the “West Bank”) with no changes to the provisions calling for Israel’s total destruction.

Since then, the Palestinian leadership has allegedly voted to eliminate the specific “Israel destruction” clauses and other objec-tionable sections, and to redraft a new charter. As of this writing, no specific Palestinian eliminations of the objectionable clauses have appeared, and no new charter has ever been published.

The failure to modify the charter, combined with public pronouncements by the Palestinian leadership demanding “re-turn of the refugees,” plus the fact that Hamas is a client state of Iran and has agreed to unify with Abbas’ Fatah, means there is no reasonable logic to conclude that return to the 1967 borders will actually lead to peace.

On the contrary, Israel should insist that all three docu-ments and the “right of return of the refugees” be specifically nullified by the 2/3 majority vote of the Palestinian population in a public referendum.

Then the Palestinians must enact a law which precludes a Palestinian political party from running for the legislature if it

promotes the destruction of another country. These and other relevant security issues must be resolved to

Israel’s satisfaction just as the US and its allies were satisfied before they returned control to Germany and Japan after World War II.

William K LangfanPalm Beach, FL

Free Clinics, Free Malpractice Insurance, Better CareAs physicians in private practice and co-founders of the

Zarephath Heath Center, a free clinic for the poor in central NJ, my husband, John, and I and our colleagues now see 300-400 patients per month without charge. After working closely with the poor, we are convinced that the Medicaid program is not only too expensive, it actually is harmful to the poor on many levels. Its extraordinarily low fee schedule prevents it from giv-ing adequate access to physicians.

We have suggested an alternative that has caught the at-tention of many lawmakers in NJ, including State Senators and Assemblyman as well as representatives from the Governor’s office and from the NJ Department of Human Services.

We call our proposal the Volunteer Physicians Protection Act (VPPA) and have set up a website (www.NJAPPS.org) that contains most of the information to explain our extraordinarily simple plan: Physicians would donate four hours per week in non-government, non-taxpayer-funded, free clinics in exchange for state medical malpractice coverage for their private practices.

This means no claim forms and no coding, just free care in free clinics. Physicians, who know the poor need medical care, not “cov-erage,” are voicing their approval and willingness to participate.

We are not suggesting that Medicaid be ended, but, rather, changed into a program that would entail minimal administra-tive burden and cost.

Liability for our work in the free clinic is already covered by the Federal Tort Claims Act. Now we are asking the state to extend the coverage it already gives to medical school attendings, residents, and students, to the practices of physicians who will volunteer four hours a week simply to caring for poor people.

The taxpayers will be the real beneficiaries, saving huge amounts of money because the only costs will be if a lawsuit is brought against the private practice of a volunteering physician. We believe that, if this plan is instituted, the incidence of frivolous lawsuits will drop dramatically as none of the defensible suits, those in which the physician did nothing wrong and did not devi-ate from any reasonable standard of care, will get very far.

According to medical malpractice insurance executive Peter Leone, $40 million has been paid annually in NJ for just this sort of claim. He believes the plan to have the state reward physicians who provide charity care, with medical malpractice coverage for their entire practices, would have several benefits. First, taxpayers would be relieved of the enormous burden of the Medicaid system. The poor would have better access to care, and physicians would be able to practice in an environment in which they are not expected to order every possible test on their first encounter with the patient.

For more information, check out our website and contact me. Alieta Eck, MDPiscataway, NJ


Letters to the Editor

Only Israeli Leaders Make the DecisionsOn September 29th 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Cham-

berlin, signed the Munich Agreement, awarding the Czech Republic, her defensive formation of armored fortresses, and the second largest munitions plant in Europe to Adolph Hitler and Nazi Germany. Af-terwards, Chamberlin flew home to England where he declared that his cowardly concession had created “peace in our time.”

It did no such thing. It created a war in his time that would claim millions of lives.

By November 1940, Chamberlin was dead of natural causes, and it became the responsibility of millions of other people who permitted him to reward the Nazis for their aggression and to sacrifice themselves for his appeasement of the Nazis.

Perhaps Chamberlin was intimidated by the death of so many English soldiers on the battlefields of Europe in WW1 which had concluded less than 20 years earlier. Perhaps Chamberlin was merely acknowledging the Nazis’ superior martial forces and armaments.

Although history consigns blame for this mistake on Cham-berlin, ultimately it was neither his decision, nor that of Prime Minister Edward Daladier of France, nor the decision of Il Duce Benito Mussolini of Italy that doomed the millions of victims who would perish in the coming war. It was, rather, the decision of Prime Minister Edward Benes of Czechoslovakia.

The Czech people had not elected Chamberlin or Daladier to govern their country, and they could not blame representatives of other countries who refused to honor their commitments to fight for another people’s freedom. And although the British and French recognized their mistake and honored their commitment to Poland, the Poles stood virtually alone against Nazi Germany less than a year later. Their French and British allies were unable to mount an offensive against the Nazis that could have saved the Poles from the Blitzkrieg that destroyed their country.

Fast forward to September 2011 when the UN, which has served primarily to bring the Islamic nations of the world to-gether to demonize the Jewish state of Israel, will vote to create a Palestinian State. The UN has allowed thugocracies like Libya to serve on its human rights commission and has considered the application of Syria, even as the ruling elites of those hellholes regularly butcher their fellow citizens.

Mr. Obama recently spoke about the UN plan, blessing the with-drawal of Israel to the indefensible Auschwitz borders of 1967.

But Jews should feel confident that Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu is not Mr. Benes. With the hindsight of the Ho-

locaust to reassure him, Mr. Netanyahu will have no illusions about what fate awaits the Jews of Israel should he agree to this Faustian bargain.

In this cruel world, we have learned that a free people that loses the will to fight loses the right to be free. And before any land won by force of Jewish arms in Israeli wars is surrendered on the altar of a false peace, a serious deal that surrenders the right to demonize Jews must be proposed and agreed to. Fat chance of that.

Israel has no need to occupy her neighbors. Israel wants to live in peace. And although the international community, encouraged by Islamic fanatics, will never lose interest in sav-aging Israel, we can at least hope they will not achieve Israeli complicity in their efforts.

Richard ReismanBergenfield, NJ

It Would Be a Non-StarterI commend President Obama for reiterating to the entire world—

including the 22 Arab countries that surround Israel—that the United States has an unshakable commitment to the safety and security of the Jewish State of Israel. I agree with the President that the United Nations is not the place to negotiate the final parameters of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, and that Israel should not be forced to talk with parties, such as Hamas, that don’t recognize its right to exist and seek to drive it into the sea. A two-state solution agreed upon by the Israelis and Palestinians should be negotiated through direct talks, but it is important to remember that a full return to the 1967 borders would be indefensible for Israel and that talking with terrorists who want to destroy Israel is a non-starter.

Rep Steven Rothman (D-NJ)Washington, DC

Steve Rothman, who represents the 9th District, is a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittees on Defense and State and Foreign Operations.


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Book Review by Catriel Sugarman

Despite the somewhat misleading ge-neric blurbs about “vibrant Jewish

communities” on the dust jacket, A Time-less People, written by Rabbi Dr. Saul Landa and just published by Gefen Pub-lishing House, is a glorious celebration of the Orthodox “counter-revolution” that is sweeping across Jewish America.

The book concentrates on 18 growing American-Orthodox communities, six in the Northeast, four in the South, four in the Midwest, and four in the West.

A coffee-table sized book, its 380 pages feature over a thousand pictures, many taken by the author and never published before. Others are gleaned from community archives and private collections. There are pictures of synagogues, old and new; immigrants

with their push carts; dilapidated five-story walk-ups on the Lower East Side, complete with flapping laundry; venerable sages and peddlers; kosher butcher shops from the 20s; Purim se’udot from the 30s; new flourishing yeshivot; and scads and scads of children. One picture is indeed worth a thousand words!

Unexpected GemsRabbi Landa traces the historical and

cultural development of these communi-ties from their earliest beginnings, relating their triumphs and setbacks and effortless-ly joining together reminisces from “old timers” with narrations of congregational rabbis and day-school activists.

This delightful book is full of un-expected gems. For example, there is a picture of a bronze yahrzeit plaque commemorating Berush ben Mordechai Dov,

better known as Bugsy Siegel, the mobster who first put Las Vegas on the map. Who knew that Reb Berush’s forefathers sang in the Beit HaMikdash? That’s right, Bugsy was a Levi and his family seems to have been members of the famed Bialystoker Shul in the Lower East Side.

Did you know that the first Jewish Day School in the US was founded by the New York Spanish Portuguese Synagogue in 1731? By 1854, there were seven such schools. Un-fortunately, their demographic and financial base was too narrow to cope with the advent of the free public school system, and all of the early Jewish day schools folded.

Personal Discoveries On a personal note, my heart fluttered

when I saw a picture of the antique Aron Ha-Kodesh of the Lloyd Street Shul in Baltimore, the old Shomrei Mishmeret where I was bar mitzvah over a half a century ago. But even I didn’t know that the kaleidoscope-like stained-glass Magen David above the ark was the first Star of David used as ornamentation in a Jewish institution in the US.

There is a plethora of other such tid-bits scattered through the book, and Rabbi Landa invites his readers to follow him as he visits “fellow Jews in their homes and synagogues, exploring archives and attics for clues to the past.”

Rabbi Landa has no doubt that read-ers will find this a rewarding journey, and I agree with him wholeheartedly.

Do I recommend A Timeless People? I couldn’t put it down! Y

A Timeless People Is a Glorious Celebration of the Orthodox “Counter Revolution” Sweeping Jewish America

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other the world. At the same time, they were emailing their Israeli friends, including Avner Netanyahu, who was sitting in the audience in Jerusalem.

Although Josh attends the Bergen County Academy of Sci-ences, a magnet public high school in Hackensack, he manages to attend minyan every morning as well as later in the day for mincha and ma’ariv. In addition, he learns with Rabbi Menahem

Meier for two hours every day, studying Gemara, Tanach, and related Jewish studies.

According to Josh’s mother, Rabbi Meier, who had been her son’s coach for the Chidon HaTanach for two years, “is an incredible teacher and role model for our child.”

“As Josh’s talk to the future contestants shows, the Chidon im-pacts students for years to come,” said Mrs. Meier. S.L.R.

Tanach Contest continued from page 38tion,” said Rabbi Rapoport.

AdvisorsHis father, Rabbi Shmuel

Rapoport, will remain a mem-ber of Vaad Atlantic’s advisory committee, along with Rabbi Avi Richler of the Chabad of Mullica Hill and Rabbi Max Fox, spiritual leader of Atlantic City’s Orthodox Congregation Rodef Shalom.

Vaad Atlantic serves all Jewish communities in southern South Jersey, which generally

means south of the Atlantic City Expressway, which connects the shore community to Philadel-phia. This includes some smaller Orthodox communities, such as Vineland and Gloucester.

For more information, about Vaad Atlantic, visit www.vaa-datlantic.org or call 609-630-0613. For more information on Chabad at the Shore, visit www.chabadac.com or call 609-822-8500. S.L.R.

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