the savvy schlepper - TMS Mamas and Papas
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the savvy schlepper - TMS Mamas and Papas
THE SCROLL L'Chaim ON THIS PAGE: Pet Therapist Wendy Zuckerberg, daugher Samantha and Coco TO LIFE Community FROM THE SCRIBE p.6 THOSE WERE THE DAYS p.44 MAZEL TOV p.26 YESHIVAS p.22 MITZVOT p.28 WHAT'S NU? p.32 NOSHING ZEI GESUND p.36 p.41 and Magazines of 1 Garret Mountain Plaza Woodland Park, NJ 07424-0471 For advertising, call 973-569-7269 For editorial inquiries, call 347-302-3983 PUBLISHER Janice Friedman ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Ellen Zitis EDITORIAL SUPERVISOR James Emolo EDITOR Luiza Grunebaum ASSISTANT EDITOR Joseph Ritacco CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Melissa Hoffmann, Karen Kleimann, Bob & Sandy Nesoff, Allison Schiff COpy EDITOR Joan Callahan Photos by Anne-Marie Caruso SAVVY SCHLEPPERS p.38 Newspapers COUNTY of orth Jersey Media Group ON THE COVER: Ready to make his pitch, St. Louis Cardinals first round pick and Englewood Cliffs native Rob Kaminsky. THE ARTS p.42 IN BERGEN is a publication STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Anne-Marie Caruso PRODUCTION Alexander Avila, Alan Post, Frank Barbaro, Damon Cassaro, Michael Cucco, John Flynn, Glenn Garvie, Violeta Mulaj, Joram Mushinske, Michael Ostendorp, Winie Pachas Tom Ritger, Jason Tyburczy, Kimberly Wilson © 2014 North .Jersey Media Group REPRINTS; To purchase reprints of photos, visit wwvv.northjerseyimages.com or call 973-569-7017. To purchase PDF files ($99 each) of individual pages, e-mail your request to [email protected], or call 973-569-7017. As an actor, I have played many roles over my long career, but perhaps the most important has been Tevye in Fiddler on The Roof I performed it more than 2,000 times. It has meant so much to me to portray this symbol of the struggle to keep the Iewisb faith and its traditions alive. I have a deep understanding and appreciation Dignity Memorial= network's lewishfuneral of this struggle, and 1 believe that the providers understand this struggle as well. 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BIGOTS CAN'T MARCH Holocaust Museum: Skokie's Answer to the American Nazis It takes more than a swaggering neo-Nazi to scare a Holocaust survivor as a bunch of goose-stepping Neanderthals learned when they attempted to bring their particular form of hatred to Skokie, Illinois. 38 L'CHAIM SPRING 2014 BY BOB & SANDY NESOFF Barred from holding a demonstration in Chicago in 1977, the National Socialist Party (read-that as Nazis) tried to move their function to Skokie, home to one of the greatest concentration of Holocaust survivors in the United States. The legal war was on. THE SAVVY SCHLEPPER Clockwise from top: Concentration camp uniform; Photographs of Holocaust victims; The Chicago Daily Tribune from November 11, 1938. Generating most of their support from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) the Nazis went to court. The judge ruled that a swastika was a provocation. With ACLU help the Nazis finally held their demonstration in Chicago to a crowd of only a handful of people. The futile march spurred an idea in the minds of Skokie's Jewish residents and in 1981 a small storefront was created as a museum. But that wasn't enough to tell the story and efforts to increase and improve the exhibit fmally came to fruition when in 2009 the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education center was opened in Skokie. Former President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker and Elie Wiesel appeared as a special guest. Other prominent figures, such as Israeli leaders, appeared through the magic of on-line connections. It's worth noting that the name of the facility does not specify the Nazi Holocaust because it is far more encom- passing than that. Exhibits make note of the fact that other ethnic groups suffered efforts to exterminate them. It also has programs to combat the modem day scourge of bullying someone because they may be "different." Some of the exhibits are stark reminders of the cruelty of some to others. There is an actual rail car used by the Nazis to transport prisoners to concentration and death camps. Looking inside of the wooden panels of the car a visitor can almost feel the desperation SPRING 2014 L.:CHAIM 39 THE SAVVY SCHLEPPER Clockwise from top: Emblems worn by Hitler's supermen; A cattle car used to jam in Jews and others tranporting to death camps; The Wall of Remembrance honoring those who perished in the Holocaust; Holocaust victim histories; Front page of Milwaukee Sentinel from August 21, 1934. of those crowded into its small confines, gasping for what was to become their last taste of air. Adding to the realism, visitors can step in and feel the ghosts that inhabit the artifact. The Karkomi Permanent Exhibition displays more than 500 artifacts, documents and photographs that tell the story of the Holocaust. There are videos with testimony from survivors who graphically tell their stories. Most visitors take their time and move slowly through the various exhibits, drinking in and absorbing the horror that was much of Europe in the late 1930s and 1940s. The Room of Remembrance pays homage to the six million Jews and some five million non- 40 I:CHAIM SPRING 2014 Jews who were destroyed during those terrible years. On display are the striped blue and white uniforms and yellow stars Jews were forced to wear to identify them. There are passports and identity cards Jews were required to carry. Interestingly, the "neutral" Swiss government requested of the Germans that all Jewish identity cards be stamped with a red "J" so that they would know who was Jewish. Many of the identity cards indicated that the middle name of the individual carrying the document was either "Sara" or "Israel," a legal requirement for all Jews issued passports after 1938. One the floor of one room is the moving exhibit depicting Kristallnacht. Visitor walk over a glass paneled floor under which are tens of thousands of glass shards depicting the havoc wrought on the night of Nov. 9, 1938. That night Nazi orchestrated antiSemitic demonstrations in Germany and Austria were directed against Jewishowned stores, hospitals, cemeteries and homes that were vandalized; some 1,400 synagogues were burned, 30,000 Jews arrested and deported to concentration camps and more than 100 killed. Today the Center is a powerful statement to those who would do harm to others and a reminder to everyone else of what could happen when complacency takes over .• : LL o in ui t:;: ::::J o o o U f- I a..