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CONTENTS COMMUNITY Around the Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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Community Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Zvi Teichman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

PEOPLE 613 Seconds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

HUMOR & ENTERTAINMENT Centerfold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Notable Quotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

LIFESTYLES Israel Today. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 My Israel Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Health & Fitness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Pulling the Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Forgotten Heroes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Dating Dialogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Life Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Mental Health Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Gluten Free Recipe Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 In The Kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Your Money. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Dear readers, My father-in-law, Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Dubrawsky, a”h, used to say that one of the biggest punishments Hashem can give is to take away someone’s faith. Alternatively, one of the biggest assets a person can have is rock solid faith. With faith, we can excel in success, stand tall in times of stress, and get back on our feet if we ever fail. Tishrei was a month of faith. By the time we were sitting in the sukkah, you could almost touch it with your hand. Then came Simcha Torah which is normally a time of dancing around and around again—and again!—arm in arm with our fellow Yidden, k’ish echad b’lev echad. This year was a bit different yet we as a community harnessed that solid faith and fashioned it into a beautiful uplifting Yom Tov of rejoicing and dancing. Whether we were singing and dancing alone or with our children, we all felt the Simchas HaTorah and the longing to once again be able to unite together in song and dance with Achainu Bnei Yisoel. Then came the creation of the world all over again. Hashem formed a world that feels independent to eventually become His home. Mankind didn’t exactly respond the way it should have, and here we are still at the same job we were given thousands of years ago. When reading Chumash, you realize how far we’ve gotten. Yes, our world is far from perfect, but we’ve come a very long way from the days of cannibalism, open immorality, and slavery. Today, there’s a widespread belief in a Creator. Most human beings look at kindness as a virtue. And most would press a button to have world peace if there were one. Huge changes are happening at such a fast pace that we can easily overlook what’s happening right in front of our eyes. Let’s stay focused as we head toward the culmination of the Creator’s master plan, may it be in the very near future. Wishing you a wonderful Shabbos, Shalom

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Bais Hamedrash and Mesivta of Baltimore Welcomes New Bais Medrash Magid Shiur

he Bais HaMedrash and Mesivta of Baltimore welcomes HaRav Moshe Ahron Gross shlit”a of Lakewood, New Jersey to serve as the Bais Medrash Magid Shiur. Known for his tremendous scholarship and koach

hasbarah, as well as his warm and engaging personality, Rav Gross has served as the Rosh Chaburah in two of the largest and most prestigious chaburos in Bais Medrash Govoah. “We are very excited to welcome Rav Moshe Ahron into our yeshiva family,”

says the Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav Chaim Cohen shlit”a.”Hearing shiur from such a renown lamdan and talmid chochom is a wonderful opportunity for our talmidim.”

Baltimore Councilman’s Sukkah Focal Point Of Gratitude For Baltimore Police By: BJLife Newsroom BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Jeff Cohn

s the Rambam (Maimonides) has taught us, the Sukkah is meant to induce both feelings of gratitude and humility. Baltimore City Councilman Yitzy Schleifer utilized his Sukkah to

do just these things as he welcomed Baltimore City Police Commissioner Michael Harrison and several local Rabonim to express our community’s gratitude. Both the Councilman and the Rabbinical contingent thanked the Commissioner and the entire BPD for their additional security initiatives during the Yomim Noraim and Sukkos. They

particularly showed their gratitude for the officers that apprehended the suspect who assaulted a community member while she was walking on Rosh Hashana. We are blessed to have dedicated public servants, Rabbis and Law enforcement focusing on public safety during these unprecedented times. We are truly humbled by their dedication.

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Jewish Community Fall Softball League (JCFSL) by “Premier Financial” Season Begins

he inaugural season of the JCFSL by Premier Financal kicked off their season on the evening of September 6th. The league plays games on Sunday evenings, with teams playing a doubleheader each week. All teams arrived promptly to the Schmaltz Brothers fields at Reisterstown Regional Park, ready to partake in the slow pitch league. Prior to the opening week, the league’s 96 players were divided between eight teams via a draft system, ensuring parity in competition. The teams are each named for their individual team sponsors: Donny Ankri Architects, Kaylah Diamonds, The Kitchen Spot, LBSI, Seven Seas Sushi, Shimz Cars, Stutman Chiropractic, and Wig Works. All teams will compete for seven regular season games, with the top four teams facing off in a round of playoffs. The playoffs winners then

battle each other in the All State-Michael Khoshkeraman championship, where each team will vie to take home the winning Trophy.

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The opening night matchup between Wig Works and Kaylah Diamonds was a pitching duel featuring an abundance of defensive gems. On the Kaylah side, Akiva Katz and Moe Krohn held down the left side of the infield like two All-Stars. But Wig Works 3B Asher Sondhelm and SS Mordechai Scheirmeyer were absolute vacuums on their side of the field. Ultimately, the game came down to the bottom of the last inning when WW’s Shuey “MVP” Goldstein came up with 2 outs and the bas-

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The Kitchen Spot team came in to this one with high spirits and palpable energy. Pitcher Joe Openden pitched a great game (only allowing 3 runs) while OF Gershon “Guerrero Jr” Jacabovitch hit well all game and was all over the field on defense. Ultimately, contributed

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After a tough walk-off loss in their first game of the season, Kaylah Diamonds came out “shining” in the nightcap.

Kaylah started strong in the first, scoring 3 runs thanks to “dazzling” hits by Yitzy Glazer, Yoseph Orshan, Akiva Katz, Menashe Minkin, and Yaakov Spatz. In the second inning, Moe Krohn and Moshe Tuchman joined the fray as KD had 8 of their first 9 batters safely reach base and the “gold standard” was set, as they added 6 more runs. After a quiet 3rd, Kaylah “polished” off their bats and “shined” with another 4 runs in the 4th, helped by the timely hitting of Moshe Plotnik. KD couldn’t help but “sparkle and dazzle” some more in the 5th, before the game was called due to the mercy rule. Kaylah Diamonds had the perfect “setting” around the “diamond” with brilliant defense and offense to match. Kaylah Designs showed that they were more than just a good looking “team” with every player recording at least 1 hit and hitting .697 for the game. The team was also very stout defensively with “gem after gem” from Minkin, Goldberg, and Glazer and the “platinum” pitching of Yacov Benzaquen, who barely allowed any runs the entire game.

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STAR-K and the Shehebar Sephardic Center (SSC) Work Together to Support Jewish Communities [Reprinted with permission. This article first appeared in the Shehebar Sephardic Center publication.]

nbeknownst to many, the STAR-K organization - a massive and well-known Kashrut agency in a competitive market - has undertaken a unique approach to their strategy. Aside from their expertise in Kosher certification in every area of food production, STAR-K has also undertaken to support the religious development of several smaller communities where the placement of a rabbi can work providing certification and also be present to undertake prayer services and perform other religious functions. The following is the SSC interview of Rabbi Jonathan Goldschmidt. He and his wife, Rebbetzin Elisheva, are STAR-K shluchim in Southern India. We originally heard about the unique position from Rabbi Kassin, the Rosh Yeshiva of Midrash Sephardi in the Old City of Jerusalem where we had completed our semicha and were introduced to STAR-K. Within a very short time, I flew to India to meet with Rabbi Joel Weinberger of STAR-K and, also, with the ancient Jewish community of Cochin, India. After extensive training and a pilot trip with my wife and two children, we settled into what has become, for us, not only the adventure of a lifetime to assist in running the Paradesi Synagogue, but also a wholesome and productive time for our family. We found a genuine and warm welcome both from the local Jewish and Indian community and we quickly felt comfortable and at home in our new surroundings. STAR-K worked overtime to cater for our needs as an Orthodox Jewish family in the south of India with young children, and to deal with the paperwork and bureaucracy needed to live and work there. The position itself is one of a great amount of travel and adapting

to change. I have performed over 400 plant visits across Asia as a mashgiach in a variety of settings and learned incredibly interesting things about food production - and have taken some journeys into parts of India that few have had the privilege to see. Some of the more memorable moments for us at Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest running synagogue have been the dedication of a new Sefer Torah that we brought from the Old City of Jerusalem across India in hand luggage to the Paradesi Synagogue, and the renovation and reactivation of the only kosher mikveh in Southern India - managed and run by my wife. With the help of the Hallegua family, the community undertook renovation and opening of a hall near the synagogue to provide the Shabbat and Festival meals for the thousands of Jewish visitors the synagogue receives. The honor of being present as guests and running a prayer service for the rebuilding of the Kadavumbhagam (Ernakulam) Synagogue - originally built in 1549 - was a celebration made more jubilant by the presentation of a Sefer Torah gifted from a synagogue in Israel. After some time, STAR-K strengthened this beautiful and successful initiative by the addition of Rabbi Shai Beneli and his wife to be assigned to the Jewish community of Kolkata, India. Kolkata has had a Jewish community for about 200 years, and they have built one of the biggest synagogues in Asia. For about 40 years, there has been no rabbi to guide the Kolkata community -- but, thanks to STAR-K and Midrash Sephardi, they were able to be with the Kolkata community for half a year. Half a year where every single Shabbat we were able to host prayers in the magnificent Maghen David synagogue. Half a year that we had the ability to bring back life to the synagogue and to help reconnect the community with its roots. Some members of the community got the chance to experience preforming the mitzvot

of some holidays for their very first time. We were able to see that, with our time and consistency that we spent in Kolkata, the community was reviving its connection to Judaism. Prior to the placement of rabbis in India, a great deal of the Kashrut was undertaken by overseas Rabbis at great cost in terms of travel. STAR-K is privileged to have worked with Rabbi Levie and his son Yoffiel, from Mumbai, who in addition to speaking the local languages have in-depth firsthand knowledge of the food industry in India. Their assistance and guid-

ance, especially during initial training, was invaluable and has helped us to understand the specific issues in India in terms of food supply chains and production methods. Their knowledge, support and understanding of India have been crucial for our success. Throughout our experience we were able to remain in contact with Rabbi Kassin and his Halachic advisors from Midrash Sephardi - as well as STAR-K, itself - to ensure that things were undertaken the correct way to suit a variety of requirements. We are proud of the Halachic standard we have been able to uphold for the synagogue, mikveh, and the Kashrut of food production, all made especially complex by the location. From delivering kosher food, meat and wine across Asia for us, to sending Chazanim, Mashgichim and Rabbonim from Israel and abroad to India -- to assist us in running all services, festivals, the mikveh and many other circumstances requiring rabbinical supervision â&#x20AC;&#x201C; STAR-K has assisted countless individuals with their ability to keep kosher and maintain Orthodox practice, worldwide. With the assistance of STAR-K, it became more possible to visit other communities in India and provide services, ritual items, and kosher food to places which could not otherwise have been possible. We hope that with our hospitality and services we have been able to provide warmth and kiruv in a unique location and opportunity. Although, for the time being, the Coronavirus may have impeded our ability to perform shlichut for the communities, it has in no way slowed the ingenuity of STAR-K as it performs remote Kosher auditing at a variety of plants deemed suitable. We were privileged to be amongst some of the first to pilot and test the system and see its limitations as well as its advantages. We look forward to further adventures with new and existing communities in the coming years, and hope that we can return soon to the beautiful Paradesi Synagogue and to one of the most exciting chapters of our lives.

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Raise4RAJE Exceeds Expectations By: Staff Reporter BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Jeff Cohn

n September 22, RAJE Maryland – the all new Baltimore-based branch of the international Russian American Jewish Experience – launched their first ever matching campaign. The campaign was met with an outpouring of support from volunteers who showed up to make calls and texts to community members, friends and family. The campaign exceeded expectations, raising over $50k in 48 hours that was matched by several generous donors totaling $140,000. It was notable that the campaign received over 340 donations from across the Baltimore Jewish community and beyond – a very high number of new donors for a relatively new organization. The funds will go towards expanding the program as it begins its second year as well as to funding dozens of ed-

ucational trips to Israel and Europe as soon as the global pandemic resolves itself. RAJE Maryland is currently recruiting for four online interactive learning fellowships including an introductory leadership program, a level 2 program, an introduction to Gemara program, and a chavrusa program that pairs students with local community members. Online programs will be run in conjunction with RAJE branches in Philadelphia, Chicago, Toronto, New Jersey, and throughout the greater New York area. This is in line with RAJE’s mission is to create a vibrant international and local community of young Russian Jews, ages 18-33, who want to explore their unique national, ethnic, and cultural identity while learning more about their Jewish heritage. Since its founding in 2006, RAJE has engaged over 5000 young Russian Jews through a dynamic Fellowship program that culminates in a heavily subsidized educational trip to Israel and/or Europe. With hundreds

completing the program each year, RAJE has become a rite of passage for Russian Jews in many major cities. “During the Aseres Yemei Teshuva we got together and showed Hashem that we care about bringing His children closer to Him - there’s no better way to start the year!” RAJE director, Rabbi Gavriel Horan, said. “The tremendous support that we received was a testament to the incredible chesed of Jewish Baltimore. I feel so blessed to be part of this incredible community. We could not have succeeded without help from our board, our team leaders, and all the volunteers – as well as our dozens of matchers and hundreds of donors.” Team leaders helped raise almost 40% of donations during the campaign. Teams were led by the RAJE board – Aryeh Gross, Dov Ocken, and Dr. Elie Miller - along with team leaders Dr. Mordy Leybovich, Hirsch Gornbein & Apex Reimbursement Specialists, Yitzy Bortz, Avrumi Friedman & Team Merkaz

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You’re among the organizers of the shul’s annual 24-hour Causematch campaign, which was March 3. It went well, did it not? Keely: It went very well thank G-d. A team of capable people worked diligently to find matching funds, and there was a lot of coordination, especially with my mother, Rebbetzin Goldberger. We raised just over

$180,000. I would say that it being Rabbi Goldberger’s shul, is what made it such a success. Jillian: It’s an opportunity for people to show hakaras hatov to my inlaws for all the good that they do for people, whether shul members or not. They are always there for people, in whatever capacity is needed. Keely works very, very hard on this campaign. He really tries to help the shul and his parents, to make it the success that it is. Keely: The biggest part of the campaign’s success, is that the whole Baltimore community—and beyond—all stepped up. You are being honored for your contributions to the shul at this year’s anniversary concert on Sunday, October 25th, and the Israeli singer-songwriter Yonatan Razel is returning for a livestream performance. Keely: I’m very excited about it. I went to his concert last year. He’s so captivating and talented. Jillian: He had everybody on the edge of their seats through the entire performance. Keely: He has this sense of pure honesty about his trade. You can feel his enthusiasm for his music.

Jillian: I think that’s also how people feel about my father-in-law’s music too. To hear them together is fun, exciting and uplifting. You don’t want the concert to end. Tiferes Yisroel has a reputation as a special kind of place. What do you think people like about it? Keely: Everyone is going to tell you, and it’s true, that the warmth and acceptance whoever you are, are astounding. But beyond that, what I’ve found is that a lot of times in life, what you get out is what you put in—but beyond that, at my father’s shul. you’re going to gain something just by virtue of walking through the door, whether it’s the love that permeates the environment, a simple greeting, or a sense of belonging. To me, that’s beautiful. It’s unconditional love. It’s not just the Rabbi and the Rebbetzin who create that, but it’s the entire kehilla that makes it as special as it is. Jillian: Something we hear a lot from our peers, and even from strangers, when we say we’re the Goldbergers’ son and daughter-in-law, is that when they go to the shul or speak to my in-laws, they feel their sincerity and warmth. They are also remembered and feel at home when they return.

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shuls, including your father’s. Please talk about that. I’m a concrete and underground infrastructure contractor, with 15 years experience in the industry. I’ve had the privilege to be able to help out several shuls in Baltimore and D.C. area with construction of their mikvaos, including the National Synagogue, Rabbi Taub’s, and the mikvah for keilim at A to Z Savings. For my father’s shul, I’ve done various projects. such as: pouring sidewalks, ramps and fixing the parking lot. Right now my crews are in the middle of a pretty big project, involving an excavation down to the foundation to put in an ADA-compliant wheelchair ramp to the basement. It will definitely be of great benefit to have that availability, so that everybody, with whatever accessibility needs they have, can get to the social hall easily and safely.

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The two-day German “aktion” at Babi Yar, where the Germans and Ukrainians slaughtered 33,771 people decades ago, was one of the largest open-air massacres but its precise location had remained a mystery for nearly 80 years. Recently, however, a former Scotland Yard investigator solved the 1941 mystery together with the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, creating a 3D simulation of the site where at least 70,000 others were killed during the months following the original massacre. Speaking with the Times of Israel, investigator Martin Dean said, “I believe my work goes considerably beyond the previous understanding of historians that have worked on this topic. “The Germans feared the Soviets

would use any such evidence for propaganda purposes. Ironically some of what we know about the locations of the shootings comes from about a dozen former prisoners who burned the corpses but then managed to escape just before the Nazis planned to kill them.” He added, “In the end, I conducted around nine months of careful research and wrote more than 30 detailed reports, each analyzing a specific location or aspect of the mass shooting, trying to highlight any new information discovered or significant conclusions that we had reached.” After Nazi Germany was defeated in 1945, the Soviet Union committed itself to erasing the memory of the Nazi genocides, among other things by filling the ravine itself with brickpulp and other landfill materials. “The whole area of the ravine was literally flattened and turned into a park that is unrecognizable compared to the wartime terrain,” said Dean, who has mapped the route taken by the Babi Yar victims during the Yom Kippur massacre. “I discovered that a key feature [of the massacre], the ‘sand quarry,’ which can be seen in some key wartime images, did not come into existence until the late 1930s, such that even people familiar with Kyiv, were not aware of this feature and could not find it on maps.” The sand quarry was where Jews were forced to leave their clothes and belongings before being brought to the ravine’s edge, where they were shot in groups of ten. According to Dean, the mass grave was 500 feet long, and corpses were stacked in layers. Dean said that he took testimo-

nies from German and Ukrainian perpetrators, as well as the handful of wounded Jews who managed to escape death, and put them together, along with photographs and maps. “My methodology has been to combine ground photographs with aerial photography, maps, and especially witness testimony. In the postwar German legal investigations, there are hundreds of testimonies by men who acted as guards or even shooters at Babi Yar. I looked especially for any references to geographical features or descriptions of the process of how the shootings were organized,” he said. “Fortunately, there were several photographs that had overlapping views, so we could piece together a panorama of the photos by finding distinctive vegetation or terrain features that overlapped. These were then also compared to aerial photographs and maps to visualize the entire topography. By enlarging ground and aerial photographs, it was possible to identify features not obvious to the naked eye.” He also used evidence discarded by other investigators. “In particular, there were two quite primitive sketch maps drawn by Germans, which do not look very useful at first sight,” said Dean. “However, together with the testimonies of these witnesses, the sketch maps strongly corroborate the overall picture I have built from comparing the various sources.”

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government should impose additional restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said on Monday. He noted that the risk to contracting the virus is greater in pubs, restaurants, and night clubs. “The purpose of these measures

The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger and its “contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-afflicted areas.” The Norwegian Nobel Committee presented the award on Friday, praising the organization for being “a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.” A United Nations entity, WFP was

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North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s party hosted a celebration featuring tens of thousands of dancers, gymnasts, and other performers on Sunday. The Workers’ Party, which has ruled North Korea since its founding, celebrated its 75th anniversary. Photos of the event published by the party’s newspaper Rodong Sinmun on Monday showed Kim and top aides at a

According to state broadcaster KCNA, Kim was greeted by loud cheers as he made his entrance, and the national flag and Workers’ Party flags were hoisted to musical numbers. Kim and his entourage were not wearing masks in the photographs, but the crowds of spectators were. When addressing the crowd, Kim vowed to continue “strengthening” North Korea’s military for “self-defense and deterrence.” On Saturday evening, North Korea staged an unprecedented nighttime military parade, showcasing the country’s new weapons. In the parade, Pyongyang rolled out its new “massive” ICBM missile that experts say is capable of hitting anywhere in the United States. More than 6 feet longer than North Korea’s Hwasong-15, the missile appears to be the biggest ICBM in the world. According to South Korea media reports, the missile can carry multiple nuclear warheads at once and is intended to send a message to the U.S. prior to next month’s presidential election.

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On Sunday, Shlomo Sulayman, Israel’s oldest man, died at the age of 117. According to his grandson, Gil Radia, Mr. Sulayman stayed sharp even into his old age. He lived alone until the end and would attend synagogue daily. Because of the coronavirus epidemic, Mr. Sulayman was forced to stay at home by himself. It was the solitude, says Radia, that “did him harm” and caused his passing. Mr. Sulayman’s wife died a few years ago at the age of 94. According to Radia, Mr. Sulayman did not eat a lot and stayed active. “He would eat small portions,” Radia said. “In the morning a piece of bread with cream cheese; for lunch either chicken, fish or and egg with rice; and in the evening a salad with an egg.” Mr. Sulayman immigrated to Israel in 1949 with his wife and four children. He lived with his family in Netanya, and after serving in the IDF, worked in agriculture. According to Ynet, Sulayman was born in 1903, making him not only the oldest person in Israel, but the oldest in the world.

Ethiopians to Come to Israel Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told Ethiopian leader Abiy Ahmed on Friday that he would soon airlift 2,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. “I updated Prime Minister Abiy that I intend to immediately bring some 2,000 people from Addis Ababa and Gondar, as part of our commitment to continuing the Aliyah of Jews

to Israel,” Netanyahu tweeted. He added that Abiy replied that there was no issue with the plan, but added that it “symbolizes the special relationship between the peoples.” Netanyahu also said Abiy congratulated him on the recent normalization agreements signed with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and that the two discussed Israel’s agricultural assistance to Ethiopia. The Cabinet will vote on the airlift this week. The total cost of the plan is approximately $109 million and comes following covert negotiations to bring the remaining Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Netanyahu expounded on the decision during Monday’s cabinet meeting. “Six months ago, I promised to bring the remnant of the Jewish community in Ethiopia,” he said. “Today, I am submitting for Cabinet approval the bringing to Israel of 2,000 of our people, our brothers and sisters from Ethiopia. We will also act to bring all of the rest, as I instructed in the Cabinet decision that we will approve today.”

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Finance Ministry Director-General Keren Turner-Eyal stepped down abruptly after only six months on the job. As Director-General, Turner-Eyal was the most powerful official at the Finance Ministry after Minister Yisrael Katz. In her resignation letter she published on Sunday, she decried the “unprofessional decision making” that was “destroying Israel’s economy.” A veteran of the Transportation Ministry, Turner-Eyal transferred to the Treasury after her longtime boss, Yisrael Katz, was tapped as Finance Minister. But since taking the job,

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Wildfires Torch Thousands of Acres Over 4,000 acres were torched after a sudden heatwave led to widespread wildfires across Israel over the weekend. In Oranim, a village adjoining the city of Modiin in central Israel,

firefighters deployed airplanes and special units to battle out-of-control brush fires. Five-thousand residents were evacuated while dozens of homes suffered damage. In the northern city of Nof Hagalil, 20 homes were destroyed after the nearby Churchill Forest went up in flames. The wildfire resulted in over a 1,000 acres being torched along with a significant part of the forest. The evacuation efforts were hampered by the need to treat thousands of people while maintaining social distancing. By Saturday morning, the majority had returned home after police engineers declared the damaged homes safe to live in. The brush fires spread to a slew of kibbutzim adjoining the northern border with Lebanon, with the resulting heat causing minefields to detonate. Locals reported hearing loud booms throughout Friday and Saturday until authorities managed to gain control over the fires. “Firefighters continue to stubbornly fight to stop the spread of fire and protect the residents of Nof Hagalil and their homes,” shared Nizar Fares, who led the firefighting teams in Israel’s north. “Overnight we prepared for the continuation of the campaign, and at this stage the residents are not in any danger. The firefighting efforts will continue throughout the day. I call on the public to obey the instructions of the emergency bodies.” The Israel Fire and Rescue Service said in a press release that its personnel dealt with “250 fires throughout the country, with 13 very large fires.” While the majority of them were caused by a heatwave that followed an unseasonably hot September, authorities suspect that several of the blazes were the result of arson.

IDF Sets Up Two Coronavirus Hospitals With Israel’s hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, the IDF recently inaugurated two wards in Haifa’s Rambam Hospital dedicat-

ed specifically to treat those suffering from the pandemic. The wards were opened in a ceremony on Sunday attended by Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein. The makeshift hospital is staffed by uniformed IDF doctors, nurses, and paramedics and is the first time in Israel’s history that the military is called upon to treat civilians. “The IDF has never treated civilians, even in the hard days of the 1950s,” noted chief medical officer Brig. Gen. Alon Glasberg. The IDF had been preparing to operate a hospital for civilians since late September. As part of the training, soldiers were taught how to wear the full-body suits to protect from being infected by the coronavirus and using the advanced medical equipment.

“The training included theoretical and practical content that prepared the teams for treating the coronavirus patients who come to wards in the most professional and humane ways possible,” said the IDF. However, many senior medical professionals opposed the move to open these hospitals, arguing that the effort took badly-needed military doctors out of front-line units. Speaking with Channel 12, an anonymous IDF medical officer said that army doctors do not have any experience with internal medicine, noting that they mainly concentrate on healing battlefield injuries such as burns. Unlike most militaries, the IDF does not have its own hospital and utilizes civilian medical centers during wartime. “This means that any army doctor will have far less training than his civilian counterparts in dealing with respiratory difficulties caused by COVID-19,” he said.

Knesset Ratifies Israel-UAE Deal

The Israeli government voted unanimously to approve the peace deal Prime Minister Netanyahu signed last month with the United Arab Emirates. The accord will now be brought to the Knesset for its final approval. Netanyahu hailed the “historic agreement” after its approval on Monday. “The agreements reflect the dramatic change we have made in Israel’s position in the region,” the prime minister said at the beginning of the cabinet meeting. “I have no doubt that we will soon see agreements with other Arab and Muslim countries.” Earlier in the day, Netanyahu revealed that he spoke with United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Zayed for the first time since the diplomatic breakthrough in August. The two discussed different ways to implement the peace agreement and promised to meet in the near future. “This weekend I spoke with Ben Zayed. I invited him to visit Israel and he invited me to visit Abu Dhabi,” Netanyahu related at the government meeting. “But even before that, we will see a delegation from the United Arab Emirates here and another delegation of ours will go out there.” He continued, “I promise you that we will receive the delegation from the United Arab Emirates with the same warmth and great excitement, as received by the Israeli delegation in Abu Dhabi.” Netanyahu added that “we have talked about the collaborations we are promoting – in investment, tourism, energy, technology and other areas.” The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that the senior delegation would include the Ministers of

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holm, the Nobel Committee noted that the their work identified a major source of blood-borne hepatitis that couldn’t be explained by the previously discovered hepatitis A and B viruses. Their work, dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, has helped saved millions of lives. “Thanks to their discovery, highly sensitive blood tests for the virus are now available and these have essentially eliminated post-transfusion hepatitis in many parts of the world, greatly improving global health,” the committee said. “Their discovery also allowed the rapid development of antiviral drugs directed at hepatitis C,” it added. “For the first time in history, the disease can now be cured, raising hopes of eradicating hepatitis C virus from the world population.” Alter described the 4:45 a.m. phone call he got from Stockholm as “the best alarm clock I’ve ever had.” He said he ignored the first two times the phone rang before “angrily” answering it the third time, adding that his irritation dissipated “in about a second.” “It’s so kind of other-worldly,” he said of the call. “It’s something you don’t think will ever happen and sometimes you don’t think you deserve it to happen and it happens. “In this crazy COVID year where everything is turned upside down, this is another nice upside down for me,” he added. In a self-deprecating 2013 article, Alter credited his medical career to his Jewish upbringing, saying his father wanted to be a doctor but was held back by financial constraints. “Being the only son of Jewish parents in New York City, it was preordained that I would become a doctor. One of my friends, of similar background, chose not to be a doctor and has never been heard from again,” he wrote in “The road not taken or how I learned to love the liver: A personal perspective on hepatitis history.” “In any event, my father had a strong influence on my road to medicine, though I think I would have chosen this path even without his inspiration; the biologic sciences always seemed more interesting to me than any other discipline…except, of course, baseball. I would have

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A Trump supporter was shot and killed during an altercation between conservative and Antifa rallies. The victim had been participating in a “Patriot Rally” held by right-wing Trump supporters last Saturday at the Denver Art Museum. . Rallygoers had clashed with counter-protests who were holding what they called a “Black Lives Matter-Antifa Soup Drive.” In videos of the incident, the victim can be seen confronting protesters before kneeling to the floor in a pile of blood. The shooter was identified as Mathew Dollof, a Denver resident hired to work security for a local TV station. “The private security guard was

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The Justice Department announced that it arrested six individuals for plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer prior to the November election and violently overthrow the state’s government. The extremist group had decided to target Whitmer due to the heavy-handed lockdowns she has imposed on her state. Michigan’s lockdown is seen as the most onerous in the U.S., with the governor banning protests, almost all leisure activities, and even defining what products could be sold at supermarkets. Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the Michigan State Capitol has been the scene of numerous protests, some of them armed, calling for Whitmer’s resignation. The FBI said it first heard of the plot to kidnap the

governor in early 2020, and it began working to monitor the individuals’ activities. It named the suspects as Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, and that they planned to take Whitmer and others hostage at the state Capitol. Prosecutors said that the group met, discussed, and trained in their tactics, which included among other things the use of firebombs to destroy police vehicles and the use of IEDs in attacks. The group later discussed whether to kidnap Whitmer at her vacation home, or shoot it up and kill her. On September 12-13, the group met again for a training exercise at one of their properties, constructed an IED, and then drove towards Whitmer’s vacation home. Croft suggested moving forward with the plot that night, court documents noted. After that weekend, the group began to finalize its plans, hoping to carry out the attack before election day. All six were arrested last Wednesday, Andrew Birge, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, said at a Thursday news conference. “All of us standing here today want the public to know that federal and state law enforcement are committed to work them together to make sure violent extremists never succeed with their plans, particularly when they target our duly elected leaders,” Birge said. He added, “Fox and Croft in particular, according to the complaint, discussed detonating explosive devices to divert police from the area of the home and Fox even inspected the underside of a Michigan highway bridge for places to seed an explosive. The complaint further alleges that Fox purchased a taser for use in the kidnapping, and that the group successfully detonated an improvised explosive device wrapped with shrapnel to test its anti-personnel capabilities.” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said that seven other individuals “linked” to the militia group the Wolverine Watchmen have been charged under Michigan’s anti-terrorism law, adding that “our efforts uncovered elaborate plans to endanger the lives of law enforcement officers,

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Reverse Racism at Yale?

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Yale University for illegally discriminating against white and Asian-American applicants in undergraduate admissions, while favoring black and Hispanic applicants. The lawsuit was on filed Thursday in a federal court in Connecticut

and follows a threat from the government which ordered the university to end discrimination based on race or national origin by the 2020-2021 admissions cycle. Yale had refused to change its admissions process, leading the Department of Justice to take legal action. The lawsuit alleges that, from 2000-2017, the percentage of black and Hispanic students admitted to Yale was higher than the percentage who applied, while the percentage of Asian-Americans and whites admitted was lower than the percentage of those who applied. This, the Justice Department alleges, constitutes illegal discrimination. According to the U.S., Yale is using racial and ethnic data as the “determinative factor” in hundreds of admissions decisions annually, instead of as only one of many considerations, as the Supreme Court has allowed. “All persons who apply for admission to colleges and universities should expect and know that they will be judged by their character, talents, and achievements and not the color of their skin,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband. “To do otherwise is to permit our institutions to foster stereotypes, bitterness, and division.” Meanwhile, Yale President Peter Salovey has stated: “I want to be clear: Yale does not discriminate against applicants of any race or ethnicity. Our admissions practices are completely fair and lawful. Yale’s admissions policies will not change as a result of the filing of this baseless lawsuit. We look forward to defending these policies in court.” The university’s use of race in admissions is “is fully in accord with Supreme Court precedent,” the university said, adding “we hope to have the opportunity to explain our position.”

FB Bans Holocaust Denial On Monday, Facebook said that it will be banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the

Nazi genocide. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new policy in a post. He said that he believes the new policy strikes the “right balance” in drawing the lines between what is and isn’t acceptable speech. “I’ve struggled with the tension between standing for free expression and the harm caused by minimizing or denying the horror of the Holocaust,” he wrote. “My own thinking has evolved as I’ve seen data showing an increase in anti-Semitic violence, as have our wider policies on hate speech.” In a separate blog post, Monika Bickert, vice president of Facebook’s content policy, said that the company was “updating our hate speech policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.”

The move, Bickert said, “marks another step in our effort to fight hate on our services. Our decision is supported by the well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally and the alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust, especially among young people.” Surveys have shown some younger Americans believe the Holocaust was a myth or has been exaggerated. The decision comes amid a push by Holocaust survivors around the world over the summer who lent their voices to a campaign targeting Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove Holocaust denial posts from the social media site. Coordinated by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the #NoDenyingIt campaign used Facebook itself to make the survivors’ entreaties to Zuckerberg heard, posting one video per day urging him to remove Holocaustdenying groups, pages and posts as hate speech.

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If you thought that you were juggling a lot these days, you have nothing over Brianna Hill. Brianna, who recently graduated the Loyola University School of Law in Chicago, took the bar exam this month. But that’s not extraordinary. What makes this woman so unique is that Brianna took the bar exam while she was giving birth. The bar exam was pushed off due to the pandemic and so Brianna was set to take it when she was 38 weeks pregnant. “I joked about taking the test from my hospital bed,” she recalled. “Lesson learned!” The remote version of the test is four 90-minute sections spread out over two days. Hill said the exam is proctored so you have to sit in front of the computer the entire time to make sure you aren’t cheating. While taking the first section, Brianna felt like she was in labor but was only able to confirm that after the section was over. But that didn’t deter her from continuing the exam. “I took my break…called my husband, midwife, and mom, cried because I was a little panicked, then sat down to take the second part because my midwife told me I had time before I needed to go to the hospital.” She got to the hospital around 5:30 p.m. and her new baby boy arrived just after 10 p.m. Brianna, though, had two more sections to go and she wasn’t going to let a newborn stop her. And so, the next day, hospital staff provided her

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Whatever you do, don’t take tiles from the ancient city of Pompeii. Fifteen years ago, a Canadian woman took home pieces from the ancient Italian city of Pompeii. Recently, she returned the mosaic tiles that she stole, saying that they brought her only bad luck. The woman, who signed a letter of apology with the name Nicole, said she visited the Archaeological Park of Pompeii when she was “young and dumb.” She took items from the site, where hot rock, volcanic ash and noxious gas had buried the ancient city and its residents when Mount Vesuvius erupted hundreds of years ago. Nicole’s letter – which accompanied a package containing two mosaic tiles – said she had experienced a string of bad luck since the theft. “Please, take them back, they bring bad luck,” she implored. The package contained everything she took from Pompeii, except for a tile she had given away to a friend. “We are good people and I don’t want to pass this curse on to my

family, my children or myself anymore,” she wrote. “Please forgive my careless act that I did years ago.” The package was sent to a travel agent in Pompeii with a request that the items be returned to the park. This is not the first time that a piece of the famous city has been returned by frightful tourists. There have been around hundred incidents of tourists pilfering pieces of Pompeii and then returning them with notes of apology claiming the objects were cursed. The park has established a museum to display the returned items and the letters from apologetic tourists.

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“He had come to Peru with the dream of being able to enter,” Neyra said. “The Japanese citizen has entered together with our head of the park so that he can do this before returning to his country.” Before the pandemic, Machu Picchu welcomed thousands of visitors a day. Tourists typically have to apply months in advance for permits to enter an Inca trail that leads to the ancient fortress. Katayama’s pass was scheduled for March 16. Biding his time, Katayama took up daily yoga classes and taught young children how to box. Before Peru, Katayama taught boxing in Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya. After taking in the ancient site, Katayama is now ready to head back to Japan. “I stayed with the sole purpose of getting to know this wonder and I didn’t want to leave without doing so,” he said.

Longest Legs He waited for seven months, but the wait paid off. This week, Jesse Katayama visited the Machu Picchu UNESCO site – by himself. The Japanese citizen had plans to end a two-year journey around the world at the 8,000-foot-above-sea level site. But then, the pandemic struck the world, and Katayama was left stranded in Peru, unable to get to his final destination. On Sunday, after seven months of patience, Katayama was finally allowed into the 15th century Inca citadel in the Andes Mountains on a special permit granted by the Peruvian government. “The first man to visit Machu Picchu is me,” he wrote in a post on Instagram that included photos of him with a park representative. Alejandro Neyra, Peru’s culture minister, said in a virtual news conference on Monday that Katayama had been granted special access to the site in recognition of his patience.

We are not pulling your leg when we tell you that Maci Currin has a leg up on the rest of the world. Currin, 17, is now the record holder for the world’s longest female legs and longest legs on a teenager. The teenager from Texas is 6 feet, 10 inches. Her legs, though, are what’s making headlines. According to Guinness World Records, Currin’s right leg measures 52.874 inches, while her left leg is slightly longer at 53.255 inches. It’s not easy having such long legs. Currin noted that “hitting your head walking through doors, getting into cars” and “trying to find clothes that fit” are daily struggles of having such lengthy legs. Her height, though, has made her a top pick for the high school volleyball team. The previous record holder, Ekaterina Lisina, lives in Russia and is 6-feet, 8.77-inches.

“I hope tall women can see height is a gift. You should really embrace it,” Currin said. Seems like she got off on the right foot.

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If life is becoming a bit too stressful these days, you may want to hide out for a bit. Hotels.com has the answer for those looking to escape reality. The site offers visitors a chance to “live under a rock” during the first week of November as a respite from the world’s ills. Between November 2 and 7, escapists can take cover in a design-inspired cave, carved out 50 feet below ground in New Mexico. It’s the perfect opportunity for “those who are experiencing election stress disorder (this is a real thing!),” according to their website. And five nights at the inn costs just $25 plus tax – an “Abraham Lincoln-inspired” rate fit for a president of the late 19th century. “After you’ve cast your ballot, you can check out of the newsfeed negativity and check in to a man-made cave,” the website says. In case this spectacular vacation spot is booked, the site also has other rock inspired venues for you to escape to such as Rocky Gap Resort in Maryland and the Sky Rock Inn in Arizona. “Political fatigue is real regardless of the year or election,” said Hotels. com vice president Josh Belkin in a statement. “We’re transforming an age-old idiom into a bookable experience, so individuals can relax, recharge, and recover…because who knows what else 2020 has in store for us.” How about your next vacation is the beautiful community of…Far Rockaway?

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from within our lips, reflected in the lip-like willow leaf, that reel in distant and forlorn souls; the humble posture of our spine, similar to the flexible palm branch, that enables us to walk towards others in selfless concern and devotion. It is these instruments of loving kindness that capture and bond our ‘hearts’ to one another.

How does one succeed in this arduous task? How do we become the very instrument that wards off the assault of the evil inclination? What of our ears and nose, why aren’t they represented as well? What is it about these specific components of our physical body that become an ‘object of mitzva’?

When Adam ate of that tree, the Holy One deprived him of his lofty status and expelled him from the Garden of Eden. Adam then went about among all the trees, but none would let him take even one leaf, calling out to him “here comes the thief who sought to cheat G-d , ‫ — אל תבואני‬Let not come to me, ‫ — רגל גאוה‬the foot of arrogance . . .” )‫ (תהלים לו יב) (ב"ר טו ז‬-

The Four Species represent all facets of our people, those who embody Torah and Mitzvos represented by the fragrant and tasty Esrog, the aroma of Torah and the flavor of Mitzvos. The palm branch, the Lulav, which gives off fruit — Mitzvos — yet absent of scent — Torah. The aromatic Hadassim, myrtle leaves, smell of Torah though bereft of any taste of Mitzvos. The poor Aravos, the willow branch, empty of scent or taste, but nevertheless a vital part of our nation.

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Throughout the Torah it is these four parts of our bodies in particular that are associated with arrogance.

The second display of arrogant deceit and contempt was in the home of Lavan the Deceiver. He places his ‘lips’ with a ‘sincere’ kiss upon Yaakov when he first arrives in his home, and sweet talks his way through numerous schemes and evil intentions, revealing his true colors: phoniness and insincerity in all his endeavors. Lastly, we face the struggle between the brothers and Yosef, who refused to bow in submissiveness to his sterling qualities. They wouldn’t willingly accept the Divine message in his dream that would call for them to bow to him. Providence though, would bring them to prostrate their ‘spines’ as they bowed before the ‘Viceroy’ in Egypt. They too refused to take honest stock of themselves, allowing their misguided self-confidence to blind them from seeing the truth. In stark contrast to Yosef discovering his brothers, walking towards them with a posture of brotherly warmth they turn against him stripping his tunic from him casting him into a pit. The great Gaon and rabbinic figure, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich, the famed Rav of Simlau in Hun-

Eyes: One with ‫ — גבה עינים‬haughty eyes, and an expansive heart, him - I cannot bear)‫(תהלים קא ה‬ Lips: ......The tongue that speaks boastfully ... Those who have said because of our tongues we shall prevail, ‫שפתי־‬ ‫ — נו אתנו‬our lips are with us who is master over us?)‫ה‬-‫(תהלים יב ד‬ Spine (that gives us an erect posture and thus mobility): Let not come to me ‫ — רגל גאוה‬the foot of arrogance. Heart: Not proud was ‫ — לבי‬my heart‫(תה־‬ )‫לים קלא א‬ If we are to restore our stature to that of Adam prior to the sin, we must, as Reb Pinchos of Koritz directs us, become the Four Species themselves. Just as we take those four items directing them to the four corners of the earth, upward towards heaven and downward towards terra firma, we must inspire that space with our generous eyes; inviting smile and soft words; body language that speaks of humility; and a readiness to bend towards other’s needs. Only then will we open the hearts of all those we encounter to the message of truth, the word of G-d. We must each seek to illuminate our world with the brilliance of Torah and its pleasant ways.

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or many Jews, Israel has always been the “final destination,” with their current residence (even one that is several generations strong!) merely a “pitstop” on the way home. Of course, that temporary sojourn is often further protracted by the comfortable lifestyle, ever-increasing opportunities and vibrant Jewish life that the Western world has to offer. And then came COVID-19. For many of us, the lockdown last Passover was an even more powerful catalyst for introspection than the High Holidays; it was the first time we were forced to be truly present, sans the myriad distractions that so conveniently keep us away from … ourselves. Interestingly, that encounter led many people to consider some serious questions: Who am I? What do I want? Where do I want to be?

Surge in Aliyah Yael Katzman, the director of marketing and communications at Nefesh B’Nefesh, says that since COVID struck they’ve seen a massive

240% spike in people expressing interest in aliyah. The non-profit organization works mostly with North Americans, facilitating aliyah before, during and after, and increasing the retention rate of its olim to 90%. Through the height of the COVID lockdown and afterward, Nefesh B’Nefesh has continued to help absorb planefuls of new olim. “Of course, most of the people arriving now had already been in the pipeline before the coronavirus hit,” noted Yael, “but their joy in coming to Israel was palpable, regardless of the fact that they had to immediately enter isolation for 14 days.” Katzman reports that interest in aliyah is across the board, represented by singles, young families, older families, and seniors; professionals, students and retirees. “We are currently helping a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor with no children, who since COVID has been feeling lonely and wants to move to Israel to be closer to her niece,” she said. For many families, moving to Israel had always been a long-term

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dream, relegated to some distant time on the horizon. “I always believed I’d return to Israel eventually,” says Rachel Kapeluto, a toshav chozer or returning Israeli. “But you know how it is; one year led to another and then another and another. When the coronavirus crisis hit, I saw that Israel was the safest place to be, compared to Europe, the U.S. and most other countries.” Rachel is now happily resettled in Israel and says that despite the second COVID wave, she feels very secure. Additional factors such as anti-Semitism worldwide, challenges to the religious Jewish educational system in the UK and in the U.S., and the continued mass protests in some American cities are additional factors that have contributed to the feeling that the time has come to pack up and go “home.” Katzman clarifies that she doesn’t advise anyone regarding where to set down roots, but rather, provides the information to enable potential olim to make the best, most educated

decision. “No one can guarantee a future for anyone, no matter where they live. The most important thing is to have as much information as possible and to come as informed and prepared as possible.” Clearly, one of the factors impacting an oleh’s decision where to purchase housing is economic, but there will always be those for whom location takes precedence, even if that means settling for a smaller dwelling. “For me and my family, aliyah didn’t just mean Israel, it meant Yerushalayim,” says Parisian born Yoel. “Yerushalayim is the heart of the country and it is in my heart; I think that every Jew dreams about Yerushalayim.” Jerusalem today is a huge, cosmopolitan city, sprawled over a huge area and boasting dozens of neighborhoods, each with its own unique character. For Yoel, the first priority was finding an apartment that “captures as much of Yerushalayim as possible.” He found what he was looking for in the upscale Jerusalem

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are not moving away in massive numbers, but we are becoming increasingly concerned by issues of personal security and the government corruption. So, yes, there is definitely of talk of emigration,” he said. Lionel made his decision during the corona lockdown, and promptly closed the deal over the phone in the ensuing months. “I didn’t need to see it to know that I was getting the best value for my money. The location is unsurpassed, and then there are the facilities — the gym with Jacuzzi, the mikvehs, function hall and more.” Real estate attorney Yitzchak Steinberg agrees that when it comes to investment, a home in the city is the way to go. “Societal trends, globally as well as in Israel, indicate a shift to the city center, even if that means downsizing and moving the family into an apartment as opposed to a house.” He adds, “That applies to any city, all the more so to the eternal city of Yerushalayim.”

Clearly, a home in the Jerusalem Spirit project means many things to different people. For Michaela Servi, an architect and artist who has lived most of her life in Haifa, it’s about coming full circle. “When I was 17, I came to Israel on a trip with my Bnei Akiva group from my hometown of Rome, Italy. On one of our last nights, our group was sitting on the grass in Independence Park in Jerusalem. In those days, there weren’t many electric lights in the streets; the sky was clear and you could see millions of stars. I saw a shooting star and made a wish: I want to build my life here, with a husband and children.” Six years later, Michaela and her husband Fabrizio, who had been sitting next to her on that starry night, made aliyah with their infant daughter. Both students of the Technion, they settled in Haifa, where they eventually built their dream house atop Mount Carmel, overlooking the sea. Today, proud parents and grandparents, and soon-to-be great-grandparents, Michaela and Fabrizio have decided to move to the Jerusalem Spirit complex. “It’s the ultimate in all that we want at this point in our lives: within walking distance of everything we love, but with its own shul, spa and amenities so that in bad weather you don’t have to go out. This gated community has all the advantages of assisted living without the negative connotation,” she shares. “The fact that Independence Park is on my doorstep is a constant reminder to me that all my dreams were fulfilled, down to the letter!” she says.

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nfortunately, over the past half year, people have been unable to visit Israel. Sadly, plans for family vacations, to attend weddings, aliyah pilot trips, and home-buying trips were all canceled. We pray that the country will soon reopen and Jews from around the world will be able to travel home to Israel. In this article, let’s focus on the last example that I mentioned above: home-buying trips. Here’s a common – and always heartwarming – scenario: I receive a phone call, WhatsApp or email from a couple who share their dream of purchasing an apartment in Israel with the hope to make aliyah or spend significant time in Israel. They are now at the point in life where they feel emotionally and financially prepared to take the plunge, and they would like to meet me and look at properties during their upcoming trip. I respond with tremendous enthusiasm, as I get a vicarious thrill every single time that I receive this call and begin focusing them on what should be done to prepare for the trip. The first step is to create a wish

list – which we call the “buyer’s profile” – that addresses issues such as city, neighborhood, bedroom count, amenities, whether they are willing to do renovations and/or to buy “on paper” in a new project, and finally we discuss budget. I explain the associated expenses (acquisition tax, lawyer, agent, etc.) that can add upwards of 10% above the purchase price. Once that conversation is finished, often the client will ask what they can do to prepare for the trip. I explain that they should meet with a lawyer during their trip, to discuss legal aspects of purchasing a home in Israel and to fill out a power of attorney (POA) document, which permits the attorney to sign documents and transact on their behalf. I send names and contact information of several excellent real estate lawyers and suggest that they interview them prior to their trip and choose an attorney whom they feel comfortable working with. Lawyers usually charge a fee of 1%+VAT of the purchase price. I then recommend that, if they are considering taking a mortgage, they call mortgage brokers – I will

send them a few recommendations – and choose one to work with. The mortgage broker will request financial documents to determine how much money the buyer will be able to borrow. Realistically, a credit-worthy overseas buyer can borrow up to 50% of the purchase price – and sometimes an additional 10% at a higher rate to cover closing costs (Israeli residents buying a first home can borrow more). Understanding your mortgage options prior to arriving in Israel helps you determine your budget, which will guide us in determining which apartments to include in our property search. Once in Israel, you will meet the mortgage broker to sign a POA, allowing her/him to transact on your behalf. Mortgage brokers usually charge about 1% to 1.25% + VAT of the mortgage amount. When discussing their fee, ask the mortgage broker whether he/she has a minimum transaction charge. Finally, inquire whether there are additional associated charges when obtaining a mortgage; for example, many banks charge a .25% registration fee. Finally, I recommend that my

client talk to a foreign exchange professional who can help them transfer funds and convert them to shekels. In addition, the forex company can make all payments on the client’s behalf, as most banks in Israel can be challenging to work with. Forex companies usually charge .5% for their services. And yes, you will also need to meet with the forex professional to sign documents allowing them to transact on your behalf. Don’t worry if you do not address all of these matters prior to your flight, as we can help set up appointments after you have landed. However, the more legwork you do before your trip, the better prepared you will be upon your arrival. We look forward to greeting you in Israel very soon.

Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at gborvick@gmail. com.

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Giving it My Best Shot By Hylton I. Lightman, MD, DCH (SA), FAAP

om tov is over. Time to turn our thoughts to influenza or flu season which is just around the corner. Flu season generally runs from October through May. My readers know I am a proponent of the flu vaccine. The flu vaccine assumes special importance this year. Let’s start with the flu vaccine during “ordinary” years when there is no pandemic. I advise and encourage my patients to get the flu vaccine. It is not perfect, and there have been cases of flu even after being vaccinated. The flu vaccine is made of dead flu viruses. Since they’re dead, you can’t catch the flu from them. Also, when you get a vaccine, it takes about 2 weeks for your body to be ready to fight. In addition, many viruses mimic flu symptoms. The nasal flu vaccine is a live vaccine and as such is not given to immunocompromised patients or those with chronic conditions like diabetes or asthma. Nonetheless, the flu vaccine mitigates against stronger symptoms and a person becoming even sicker. Lest we forget, the flu can kill people. This was true before Covid-19 or Corona became household words. In a nutshell, this is what we need to know as “background” about the flu vaccine. Get the flu vaccine as soon as you can to protect yourself. Everyone age 6+ months should have the flu vaccine. (Under the age of 9 years, there should be a history of 2 flu seasons in one season). Children age 2 years and younger who come down with the flu are more likely to have serious complications. As a result, both the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) recommend the flu vaccine for just about everyone who are at least 6 months old. Any person with a chronic illness, heart disease, diabetes, on steroids or immunosuppressives must be vaccinated. In addition, babysitters, housekeepers, teachers, rebbes, morahs, therapists and others who work with children should also be vaccinated. Even if you’re healthy, your co-workers, friends, or family may not be. Getting vaccinated protects you and them from catching and spreading the flu. The flu vaccine assumes a special importance this year. Even if you have never had the flu vaccine previously, now is the time to get it. I’ll explain why. The flu vaccine has many benefits. First, the flu vaccine saves lives. A 2017 study in the journal called Pediatrics demonstrated that the flu vaccination reduced the risk of flu-associated death by half (51 percent) among children with underlying high-risk medical conditions and by nearly two-thirds (65 percent) among healthy children. According to the CDC, the flu vaccine prevents millions of illnesses and flu-related doctor’s visits each year. During 2018-2019, for example, flu vaccination prevented an estimated 4.4 million influenza illnesses, 2.3 million influenza-associated medical visits, 58,000 influenza-associated hospitalizations, and 3,500 influenza-associated deaths. During seasons when the flu vaccine viruses are similar to circulating flu viruses, the flu vaccine has been shown to reduce the risk of having to go to the doctor with the flu by 40-60%. Further, the flu vaccine can reduce the number of flu-related hospitalizations.

While it’s not possible to say with certainty what will happen in the rest of the fall and winter, the CDC believes it’s likely that flu viruses and the virus that causes COVID-19 will both be spreading. Further, it is possible to have both the flu and Covid-19 at the same time. Health experts do not yet have data how often this might happen. In addition to a person feeling ill when contracting both the flu and Covid-19, the combination has the potential to overwhelm an already overtaxed health care system and tax it beyond imagination. But more importantly, the effect of both viruses together in an individual is a yet unknown. The immediate and longterm sequalae may not only be fatal but longstanding. In this context, prevention – which means getting a flu vaccine – will be more important than ever. Hence, the CDC underscores that all people 6 months and older get an annual flu vaccine. Getting the flu vaccine will not protect you against Covid-19. However, getting the flu shot as early as possible in the season will help protect you against the flu, thereby reducing the chances that one might

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THE DAY WAS FRIDAY, the 12th of Tishrei, 5780. Exactly one year had passed since the sudden passing of the venerable R’ Nissen Krakinowski who, as a vibrant 90-year-old, was tragically and violently killed by a passing car on his way out of shul. While he lived a life of being a Gadol Nistar in many ways, helping and inspiring thousands, his sudden petirah was difficult for many to move past. My adult son and I shared a special relationship with him for the last 10 years of his life, and even though we weren’t related by blood we considered each other father/son/grandfather/grandson. Over the many months since his petirah, I had planned and arranged many aspects of his affairs and various people had reached out to me about “arranging a Hakomas Hamatzeivah.” For various reasons, I decided that I would not be arranging one per se and that all were free to do as they wished on their own, or collectively. No one had followed up with me with any specific plans but that did not change my planning. I intended to go that day and daven there, privately, with just my son, having some “alone time” davening for our beloved R’ Nissen, zt”l. My plan was to say kaddish in shul for him aside from the other learning and z’chusim on our own, without asking others to join us, rather each could do their own things to their own liking. The day started out as planned. We davened k’vasikin, trying to make the most of a time-consuming day shortly before Sukkos. Before davening started, I checked my GPS to see how long the drive to the Bais Olam would be from there – it read 53 minutes. Once in shul, I was informed that someone was making a siyum after davening and brought some “siyum-food.” Thinking it was a good opportunity to add some z’chusim for R’ Nissen, I asked the m’sayem if he minded if I paid for some of the food and was m’shtatef with him. We then stayed after davening for the siyum and talked a bit with people about R’ Nissen. By the time we got out of shul, 20 minutes later than planned, the GPS said it would be 1 hour and 27 minutes to the Bais Olam and once we started driving, the GPS climbed to 1 hour and 46 minutes. Being Erev Shabbos and two days before Sukkos, the pressure to get there sooner wasn’t lost on us, but we accepted the delay as being for the best. When we arrived at the Bais Olam, I inexplicably I took a route in it that I didn’t take before, and when driving, we were approached by a frum look-

ing Yid. (As an aside, this Bais Olam has many, many thousands of kevorim, yet I have never seen other frum Yidden there.) As he came to our car, he frantically asked if we had two people in it. Upon seeing that we were indeed two people, he ecstatically asked us to join his group of eight at a kever for a kaddish. Of course we agreed and gladly jumped out to assist, while he explained that two men of his group didn’t show up and that they were about to leave the Bais Olam without a minyan. We approached the kever and the group looked at each other with amazement at the sudden turn of events. The kaddish was said and while it was, I considered whether it was correct to ask them to reciprocate and go over to R’ Nissen’s kever for a kaddish there as well. There were a few women, aside from the other eight men, and I considered that perhaps it wasn’t correct to be matriach them. In the end, I did indeed ask them if they would be so kind as to walk over with us to R’ Nissen’s kever, ironically only a two minute walk away, to which they readily agreed. While walking, we asked about them their niftar and they described their father, a man named R’ Yitzchok Isaac Brody, having been in his 90s and that they were there as his children and grandchildren to daven at his kever. I noted it being an odd day to make the family outing, but figured that perhaps with it being yom tov time, this was the only time when some extended family members were local. We arrived at R’ Nissen’s kever, and I promptly said the Kaddish thanks to the Brody family. I couldn’t help but notice, as I was saying the kaddish, that one of R’ Brody’s sons, R’ Moshe, was pointing at R’ Nissen’s matzeivah to his brother-in-law R’ Reuven Scher. When I finished the kaddish, they excitedly asked me about our connection to R’ Nissen. When we explained our adopted-son-and-grandson status to them, they were eager to hear more about him. We elaborated a bit about the remarkable hidden life R’ Nissen led. While they were reveling in R’ Nissen’s lifelong accolades, as well as many anecdotes from his life spent in Canarsie, Brooklyn, they were eager to respond. When I finished, Moshe remarked that his matzeivah noted he was originally from Kovno. “You know,” he said, “our father was actually from one town over in Lithuania. Interestingly, a few years ago we went back to the town to visit our

father’s roots, and while in Kovno we were passing the Bais Olam there and a few frum Yidden who were there called out to us if we could stop so that they could say kaddish. Even more interesting, our father also lived in Canarsie for many, many years before eventually moving to Flatbush.” The hashgacha connection seemed beyond plausible. “Who knows if that act you performed in Kovno was ‘registered’ and now the favor returned for your father?” I suggested to them. When I asked them when their father was niftar, I was left utterly speechless. “The 12th of Tishrei, just last year,” they responded. My jaw dropped. It didn’t dawn on me that they were there today, specifically, because it was their father’s yahrtzeit. When they looked more carefully at R’ Nissen’s matzeivah, they realized what I just heard. Namely, that both of them were niftar on the exact same day, having lived in neighboring towns in Kovno, and also lived in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn for decades and were probably connected in more ways than just these. After the pause and shock on all our faces set in, it seemed quite obvious to us all. What are the odds? Probably too great to guess at, but does it really matter? Nothing is up to “odds” if Shomayim wants something to happen, even in the most inexplicably incredible manner. We contemplated that, had we come any earlier, or even later, these kaddeishim would not have been said. Had the Brodys left the Bais Olam two minutes earlier, or had they driven down a different road to exit, these kaddeishim would not have been said. While the Brodys planned for 10 men to be there that morning and inexplicably ended up with only eight and while we planned on coming for “alone time,” both of these two giants were in Shamayim pulling lots of “strings” to make sure that indeed they would both have a kaddish recited at their respective kevarim on their first yahrtzeit. T’hei zichrom bruchim.

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lying a fighter jet is the dream of many young pilots who enter flight training. In the early years of the Israeli Air Force, many of the planes were remnants from World War II that were not nearly as good as some of the planes that their adversaries were flying. Many of the aircraft were propeller planes but that started to change in the 1950s. Once the pilots transitioned to fighter jets, the use of cannons gave way to missiles which, in many cases, were known to malfunction. Shooting down an enemy plane with cannons was considered an amazing feat. Ace pilot Ran Ronen-Pekker was one of the best IAF pilots in using cannons during aerial combat. His career saw him in the cockpit of many different types of planes in the Israeli inventory. Ran Ronen was born in 1936 in Kfar Vitkin near Netanya. In 1954, at just 18 years old, Ronen enlisted in the IAF’s pilot course and graduated a year later. His first assignment was flying British-made Spitfire fighter propeller planes, although he soon switched to Meteor fighter jets with the 117 th Squadron. At the time, French aircraft were making their ways into the arsenal of the IAF. The Dassault Ouragan was introduced in the 1950s as an answer for the MiG-15 that the Arab countries were flying. Ronen, with the 113th Squadron, was soon in the cockpit behind the new jet plane. During the 1956 Sinai Campaign, Ronen flew the new French Dassault Mystere fighter. This wasn’t the end of the French aircraft in the IAF because in the early 1960s the Mirage III was to play a major part in the upcoming Middle East conflicts. Ronen had been a senior commander with a Mystere squadron and in 1962 became the deputy commander of the 101st Squadron who were flying Mirage III jets. A year later, he was flying a test flight when the engine suddenly lost power. To make matters worse, he was flying over a densely populated area. He remembered that

the French manufacturers had told him if he attempted to land without power from the engine, the nose would penetrate the ground at such a force that the pilot would be killed. To avoid these issues, he guided the jet to a field and ejected at the dangerously low altitude of 500 feet. Somehow, the Mirage landed intact, and Ronen was unhurt. Upon reviewing the incident, the IAF determined that the loss of

mission and was told over the radio by the commander of the IAF, “Ran, in a few minutes, you will see something that you are not authorized to shoot down.” That MiG-21 helped Israel and the United States learn of the strengths and weaknesses of the Russian-built fighter that had been giving them problems during combat. On November 13, 1966, Ronen finally got his chance to shoot at an en-

For eight minutes, they twisted and turned at very low altitudes and high speeds through a ravine.

power was due to a weak fuel pump which could now explain the previous losses of 23 Mirage IIIs, seven of which were Israeli. Ronen was soon back in the air, flying the same plane, and was commended for actions by his superior officers. In 1964, Ronen trained at the IDF Command and Staff College and was assigned as a deputy commander at Hatzor Airbase. Following that assignment, he was appointed commander of the 119th Bat Squadron. On August 16, 1966, Ronen was one of the pilots who escorted an Iraqi pilot who defected in his MiG-21. This mission was the culmination of months of efforts by the Mossad to convince the Christian pilot, Munir Redfa, to defect to Israel. Ronen was not fully briefed on the

emy plane. It was a Jordanian Hawker Hunter flown by their seasoned commander. It turned out to be the longest aerial dogfight in Israeli history. For eight minutes, they twisted and turned at very low altitudes and high speeds through a ravine. Ronen was chasing the Jordanian but couldn’t get a good angle to shoot until finally an opportunity presented itself as the enemy had to adjust to the terrain beneath. This was all Ronen needed, and he peppered the Hawker Hunter with 30mm cannon fire and recorded his first kill. During a massive air battle in the Golan Height in April 1967, Ronen shot down a Mig-21 with cannon from his Mirage. Two months later, the Six Day War broke out and Ronen achieved the status of an ace as he shot down three

more enemy planes. All three were Egyptian and took place on June 5. His fifth kill was a Mig-21 that he shot down with a Shafrir-2 missile over the Nile Delta. The 119th Squadron shot down 19 planes during the war and suffered no losses of their own. Fighting between Israel and Egypt and other Arab countries continued after the conclusion of the Six Day War. Known as the War of Attrition, it lasted from 1967 to 1970 and took place in the Sinai Peninsula on the Sothern Front. Records show that Ronen shot down at least two MiG-21 jets, while some sources have the number at four enemy planes shot down. In any case, he became the commander of an F-4 Phantom squadron in 1970. The Squadron pilots were suffering from low morale as their previous commander had been killed during an attack on Egyptian Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) batteries. Ronen restored morale in the squadron by leading intense assault raids on the SAM sites. After completing a command course at the Marine Base in Quantico, Virginia, Ronen returned to Israel, spent time as the head of the IAF training department, and was promoted to colonel. During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, he was the commander of the Tel Nof Air Base. Ran Ronen retired in 1981 with the rank of brigadier general and flew more than 350 combat and intelligence sorties during his career. He flew most planes in the IAF arsenal – from the Spitfire to the F-15 Eagle as well as transport planes and even helicopters. The next three decades, he spent in various potions at companies both in Israel and in the U.S. Ronen passed away in 2016 and left a legacy as one of the best pilots in the history of the Israeli Air Force. Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. - William Shakespeare, King Henry VI Part 2

You gotta be kidding The lawyer’s son wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps, so he went to law school. He graduated with honors, and then went home to join his father’s firm. At the end of his first day at work, he rushed into his father’s office and said, “Father, father, in one day I broke the accident case that you’ve been working on for ten years!” His father responded: “You meshuganeh! We could have lived on the funding of that case for another ten years!”

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. - Thomas Jefferson

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Supreme Court Trivia 1. How many justices are there on the Supreme Court (assuming there are no vacancies)? a. 5 b. 7 c. 9 d. 11

3. A new Supreme Court justice must be approved, or confirmed, by whom? a. The House b. The Senate c. The President d. The Justice Department

5. Which of the following is not a famous Supreme Court decision? a. Confederate States of America v. Lincoln b. Marbury v. Madison c. Roe v. Wade d. Bush v. Gore 6. Since 1930, only three Supreme Court nominees were rejected.

7. What is the annual salary of the associate justices on the Supreme Court? a. $249,300 b. $250,500 c. $325,000 d. $500,000 8. Which president appointed the most Supreme Court justices? a. George Washington b. Franklin Roosevelt c. Ronald Reagan d. Barack Obama 9. How many Supreme Court justices did President Trump nominate to the Supreme Court so far? a. 1 b. 2

c. 3 d. 4 10. Justice Joseph Story served on the Supreme Court for 33 years, from 1812 to 1845. How old was he when he was appointed to the Court?

a. 27 b. 32 c. 45 d. 60 Answers 1. C 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. D 7. A 8. A 9. C 10. B Wisdom Key 7-10 correct: Mr. Future Supreme Court Justice, I wish you good luck with the confirmation process! 4-6 correct: You are hardly the swing vote. 0-3 correct: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you just love the green and yellow robes the Supreme Court justices wear?

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Which party rejected those nominees? a. 2 were rejected by the Republicans; 1 was rejected by the Democrats b. 2 were rejected by the Democrats; 1 was rejected by the Republicans c. All 3 were rejected by the Republicans d. All 3 were rejected by the Democrats

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2. The annual Supreme Court term starts on the first Monday of which month? a. September b. January c. March d. October

Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

Opinion: Imagine what it will be like to never have to think about Trump again. - Tweet by The Washington Post, reporting on Pres. Trump contracting coronavirus

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President Trump and the first lady have paid the price for his gamble to play down the COVID-19. The news shows the severity of the US’s pandemic situation. It will impose a negative impact on the image of Trump and the US, and may also negatively affect his reelection. - Tweet by the editor of the China state-controlled media company, upon learning of Trump’s corona diagnosis

Congress might want to defund Walter Reed. It is a public health hazard. - Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, after it was announced that Trump would be discharged from Walter Reed Hospital, after having recuperated from coronavirus

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I would – believe me, on D.C. and Puerto Rico – particularly if Puerto Rico votes for it, D.C. already has voted for it and wants it – would love to make them states. And as for the filibuster, I’m not busting my chops to become Majority Leader to do very little or nothing. We are going to get a whole lot done, and as I’ve said, everything, everything is on the table. - Sen. Charles Schumer, who will become the Majority Leader if the Democrats win control of the Senate, promising to add two states to the U.S. and promising to end the filibuster, if his party wins control of the Senate, in an interview on MSNBC

I don’t think it’s ever a good sign when a fly lands on your head for two minutes. That’s a sign all through history of sin, and historically, biblically…. He who commands the fly is always seen historically as a mark of the devil. - Steve Schmidt, a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, commenting on MSNBC about a fly that landed on Vice President Pence’s head during the vice presidential debate

When Trump walked through the doors, Walter Reed had a stellar reputation. As he walks out 72 hours later, its reputation is in tatters. There’s nothing Trump can’t ruin. - Maureen Dowd, The New York Times

You may remember, I got in trouble when we were running against the senator, who was a Mormon, he was a governor, OK? - Joe Biden during a campaign stop, forgetting the name of Mitt Romney, who he and President Obama ran against in 2012

A 15 million dollar min – a 15 thousand dollar – ha. $15 dollar minimum wage. I’m dreamin’ here! - Ibid., at a rally in Nevada

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54 I believe that we in Saudi Arabia, acting on our goodwill, have always been there for [the Palestinians]. Whenever they asked for advice and help, we would provide them with both without expecting anything in return, but they would take the help and ignore the advice. Then they would fail and turn back to us again, and we would support them again, regardless of their mistakes. We even went further as a state and justified to the whole world the actions of the Palestinians, while we knew that they, indeed, were not justified, but we did not wish to stand with anyone against them. - Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan in an interview on Saudi TV

Who are the allies of the Palestinians now? Is it Iran, which is using the Palestinian cause as a pretext at the expense of the Palestinian people? … Or is it Turkey, which Hamas leaders have thanked for its stance in support of Hamas and the Palestinian cause? – Ibid.

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- Tweet by California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Please, take them back, they bring bad luck. We are good people and I don’t want to pass this curse on to my family, my children or myself anymore. Please forgive my careless act that I did years ago. - A Canadian woman who took pieces of mosaic from the ancient Italian city of Pompeii 15 years ago, returning the fragments with an apology letter

You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over. - Joe Biden, when asked by reporters whether he plans on adding more judges to the Supreme Court, beyond the current nine seats

The task is twofold: the terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and he and his enablers and his supporters and his collaborators and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs and the Sean Hannitys and the Mike Pences and the Rudy Giulianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has nearly destroyed by turning it over to a virus. - Former ESPN host Keith Olbermann

We in the World Health Organisation do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus. The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it. -Dr. David Nabarro of the World Health Organisation changing his tune this week on lockdowns

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China is not the only country with human rights violations. - Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban when asked on the Megyn Kelly Podcast why the NBA does business with China even though the Communist country is one of the biggest abusers of human rights in the world, including placing Muslims in concentration camps and forcing children to do slave labor

They are a customer of ours, and guess what, Megyn? I’m OK with doing business with China. And so, we have to pick our battles. I wish we could solve all the world’s problems. But we can’t. – Ibid.

There just wasn’t another option in my mind. - Brianna Hill, a recent graduate of the Loyola University School of Law in Chicago, who gave birth in the middle of the bar exam and continued taking the test

The election is very important. G-d help us, the EU and the whole world if there are four more years of Trump. - Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, speaking on Monday before the The Jewish Home | OCTOBER 29, 2015 29 European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee

It is time for all members of our profession to acknowledge that mathematics is created by humans and therefore inherently carries human biases. Until this occurs, our community and our students cannot reach full potential. Reaching this potential in mathematics relies upon the academy and higher education engaging in critical, challenging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the detrimental effects of race and racism on our community. The time is now to move mathematics and education forward in pursuit of justice. - Statement by the Mathematical Association of America, seemingly giving credence to a new woke movement which claims that “2+2 doesn’t necessarily equal 4”

I can even see MSNBC and CNN reporting that Trump’s overcoming COVID-19 was racist because he would not denounce as “supremacist” the strong white blood cells that cured him. – Ron Hart, Daily Caller

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What Would You Do If… Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW of The Navidaters

Dear Navidaters,

Thank you for taking the time to consider my question. My daughter, Tamar*, is dating a guy, and I am starting to see some red flags that I’m not sure I should ignore or take seriously. He is busy and is constantly requesting that she be the one who travels to him. Sometimes she comes home on cloud nine and sometimes she comes home feeling confused, wondering if she did something wrong. She’s constantly doubting herself, and trying to fix things that my husband and I think don’t need to be fixed! For example, Tamar said her phone was dead while she was on the train to see him last week, and when they got on their date, he made it a big deal that he wasn’t able to reach her, insinuating that she was irresponsible and requested she should carry a charger from now on. There are so many examples, the list goes on… In between all of these episodes, things are great and a lot of qualities mesh, but my husband and I are concerned for her. What do you think? --Concerned Ima

Disclaimer: This column is not intended to diagnose or otherwise conclude resolutions to any questions. Our intention is not to offer any definitive conclusions to any particular question, rather offer areas of exploration for the author and reader. Due to the nature of the column receiving only a short snapshot of an issue, without the benefit of an actual discussion, the panel’s role is to offer a range of possibilities. We hope to open up meaningful dialogue and individual exploration.

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. ou are smart to be concerned, Mom. The red flags seem to be indicators of serious control issues. Your daughter is sensing that something is wrong but doesn’t seem to know that they are signs of a controlling personality. Speak with her but be skillful. Elicit, don’t tell. Ask her if she feels valued or controlled. Does he hear her or does he control the conversation? Use questions to lead her to the conclusion that these are troubling. She is close enough to share her troubling instincts. Help her to sort them out and learn how to spot a problematic personality. She has the smarts. You have the smarts. Guide her to trust them.

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hose who read my answers know by now I am not one to jump to conclusions. However, based on your letter and reading between the lines, the boy Tamar is dating sounds as if he has characteristics of a typical narcissist. In every one of the psychology courses I have taken, this topic has been front and center. Narcissists come across as very engaging and often start relationships with a strong draw but then subtly use techniques (consciously or subconsciously) called gaslighting to make their friend/partner feel inferior in a way that makes the victim doubt him/herself. I did a lot of research on this topic a while back when I was having carpool issues with a woman who would constantly use this technique. She would say she sent texts that she never actually sent, conveniently “forgot” to mention she was not home many mornings in order to make me wait for no reason, and would blame me for not

receiving messages. Every day there was a new story. Things got so bizarre that she even started blaming me for bad weather. I was actually doubting my own sanity. My loved ones (G-d bless them!) had to pull me out of it as if I was stuck in quicksand before I finally realized that this person was not healthy and using techniques to belittle and make me doubt myself at every turn. In more defining terms, gaslighting is a form of manipulation in which a person places seeds of doubt in an individual, making them question their own sanity, sometimes even questioning their own memory of an incident, perception, or judgment. This, in turn, causes the victim to doubt his or herself and wonder what he or she has done wrong. Using denial, misdirection, and contradiction, gaslighting involves attempts to confuse the victim and delegitimize the victim’s beliefs. The victim often feels a constant need to bend and change due to character flaws that may not even exist. Without knowing your daughter, I cannot tell you what to do, nor can I tell you that this is the exact case with the boy your daughter is dating. What I can say is that with this newfound knowledge which I just shared, you can more attentively assess whether the constant issues you are observing are of this nature. You say she is constantly doubting herself – that was the number one flag I saw in your letter. Flag number two was how he placed seeds of doubt in her mind regarding her character – proceeding to say she was irresponsible when in reality it was a very normal incident: her phone died. To him it only meant one thing: he could not reach her at the exact moment that he wanted to therefore she was flawed and must change. Although you did not give more examples, you stress that there are many to share along these lines. I urge you to explore this topic further with your daughter before she makes any decision whether to proceed. If she is able to see a pattern of this negative behavior, she will be a lot happier without

him and will be so relieved when he is out of her life.

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Tamar should never fix herself for a guy.

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hen it comes to “red flags,” pay attention to your gut instincts. However, in the incident that you cite, I must agree with the young man. It is extremely irresponsible for your daughter to travel by train, alone, with a dead phone. It should be obvious that she needs a functioning phone and charger on these trips. It’s hard to venture an opinion here, because we’re missing a lot of information: *In the “dead phone” incident, did he criticize her gently and affectionately out of a sincere concern for her safety, or did he berate her and belittle her? *Will he always be too “busy” to treat a partner with courtesy, or is he only currently too busy (e.g. he’s in the middle of a medical residency or he’s studying for the bar exam)? *Have you and your husband taken the couple out to a long, leisurely, getto-know-you dinner at a (COVID-19 approved!) local restaurant? I’ve always felt that inviting the couple to spend a Shabbos with your family, and likewise having the couple spend a Shabbos with his family, are indispensable tools for making important judgements about prospective life partners. Good luck, and make sure your daughter wears a face mask on the train!

The Single Rena Friedman

oncerned Mother, it must be so hard to watch your daughter in a relationship where your danger sensors are constantly going off. A friend and I were both just in very similar

situations over the summer, and I learned a lot of lessons along the way. Tamar is not pregnant with her third child, trying to work, pay her mortgage, and make her husband dinner. She is dating Dovid, which is supposed to be fun, light, and airy. Yes, there are serious conversations that must be had, but overall, it should be an exciting time getting to know another person. The drastic difference between Tamar’s dates is too large. Not every single date is going to be the best date ever, but her feelings toward Dovid need to be consistently positive as time goes on. Tamar should never fix herself for a guy, whether that is changing her clothes or makeup, the way she speaks, or the things she enjoys doing. No one should be in a relationship where she doubts herself, feels the need to change or fix herself, or feels worse about herself. This is a huge red flag. Tamar should feel good and confident in who she is and what she has to offer to the world. If Dovid is demanding she change something here and there, then he probably needs a different person entirely. Tamar is looking for a husband, partner, and friend, not a father. The example you gave of Dovid being upset that Tamar didn’t answer her phone and reprimanding her is not how a healthy partner acts. I don’t care how great things can be and how their qualities mesh; this is extremely inappropriate and unacceptable. Dovid needs a serious wake up call. I understand that every situation is unique and that lives are complex, but if he is agreeing to date then he needs to be willing, able, and ready to put in the effort to do so. Tamar is a lady, and she must be treated like one. Someone, perhaps his rav or mentor or the shad-

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chan, needs to hammer him over the head. The fact that he even needs this a red flag. Is Tamar supposed to spend her entire life calling his rabbi every time he does something like this? Tamar needs to jump ship NOW. I don’t know what your relationship with Tamar is like, so you need to tread on very careful waters. Whether it is

you, her rebbetzin, or her mentor, someone needs to tell Tamar that she needs to leave. She will never be able to keep up with him. It’s extremely difficult to let go of something toxic that has those highs. Both my friend and I used an amazing dating coach who helped us each break up with the guys

we were dating. Please email me and I can send you her contact information. I know this is painful, but I also know, since I just went through it, that Tamar will have clarity and menuchas hanefesh soon. As always, all feedback, thoughts, and ideas are welcome: renafriedman2@ gmail.com.

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completely by either pulling away and neglecting her, leaving her, The Navidaters treating her like a Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists second-class citizen, or gaslighting, etc. When the partner is utterly down in the dumps, confused, second-guessear Concerned Mother, ing herself or depressed, given over in this column, Your concerns are the narcissist swoops right in to the essence of a narcissist is legitimate. With limited information begin the love bombing once again. that he/she lacks empathy for and without the luxury of an in-person The confusion partners are left with others. Everything boils down to meeting, I cannot offer you any kind is entirely real and it is a result of what whether or not people or places are of official diagnosis or assessment of has been called narcissistic abuse. self-serving. this man’s behavior. Much like Dr. Can I say with certainty that this In the first phase of a narcissist’s Galler, I would want to understand is what is going with Tamar and her love, he will “love bomb” his partner. the situation in its entirety to rule out boyfriend? Absolutely not! Do I see He will make her feel as though she is other variables. However, in my opincertain indicators that it may be what the most wonderful human being on ion, his words and behaviors, and the is going on? Yes, I do. the planet. In her work on narcissism, way Tamar is responding is indicative What can you do, as her mother? Dr. Ramani describes the love bombof something potentially unhealthy in Talk to Tamar. Have a heart-to-heart ing phase as the narcissist putting his the relationship. about what a healthy relationship looks partner on a pedestal. She is the most The following incidents leave me and feels like. Respect, admiration, beautiful, the best, the most wonderwith one eyebrow permanently raised: communication, feeling safe to exful, the smartest, etc. etc. This phase 1. Tamar is the only one traveling. press oneself… We do not have to fix of a narcissist’s love is rather intoxicat2. Tamar comes home often feeling ourselves in order to be with someone ing and addictive. It just feels so good. confused, wondering if she did someelse. This is a recipe for control and In the second stage of a narcisthing wrong. disaster. Does Tamar feel as though sist’s love, he/she will often devalue 3. Tamar is now fixing herself. this guy loves her for who she is? the partner. You are “irresponsible.” 4. Tamar is being labeled “irreParents often do not know how You must travel to me because my time sponsible.” to “behave” when an adult child is in is more important than yours. Un5. In between incidents, things are what may be an unhealthy relationderstand that with narcissistic love, great. ship. In my opinion, we have a duty to the love bombing phase is so powerful This pattern of things being great, at least try to have the conversation in that it leaves the partner usually willTamar being called “irresponsible” a supportive, non-confrontational, and ing to do almost anything or put up or being picked on in any way, and loving way. What Tamar does with the with almost anything because of the then Tamar feeling as though she did information is her choice to make. extreme confusion of the polarity of something wrong and feeling confused If I may use the column to expand the narcissist’s behavior. Ultimately, is the way a narcissist loves a partner. this topic to the broader dating readwhen the narcissist “has” his partner Though the literature on narcissism is ership… fixed, he will oftentimes discard her vast and the definition cannot be fully

Everyone deserves to be loved and deeply respected.

I know. I know you are often told by well-meaning family and friends that things will get better. Or maybe people are telling you they won’t get better but you are either so in love or not in love and worried that someone better won’t come along. I cannot tell anyone what to do. It isn’t my place as a therapist, and it certainly isn’t my place speaking in generalities from my computer screen. What I feel very comfortable saying is the following: Everyone deserves to be loved and deeply respected. If loving friends and family are seeing certain signs, please listen. They want what is best for you. The person you are dating is on his best behavior now. That’s right. If someone is making you feel badly, lacking confidence, unsettled or on shaky ground now, this typically (even always) gets worse once married. The thing is this…bringing this up to a potentially narcissistic partner through healthy communication will not help the situation. The narcissist will make you feel “crazy” for your feelings. You are not crazy! He/she may tell you that you are wrong for your feelings. He may try to prove it to you. You have to figure this one out outside of the relationship, typically with the help of trusted family or friends and with a mental health professional. Concerned Mother, I do hope that you, or someone you enlist depending on your relationship with Tamar, speaks with her and that Tamar chooses to explore this. Wishing you and Tamar all the best. Sincerely, Jennifer

Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and dating and relationship coach working with individuals, couples, and families in private practice at 123 Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst, NY. She also teaches a psychology course at Touro College. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516-224-7779, ext. 2. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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It’s Your Choice! By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

ave you ever heard the saying, “Be careful what you wish for”? We truly had a stretch of holidays with beautiful weather, especially for this time of the year. Rosh Hashana set off with a mini bang. The weather was lovely, though, there was a chill in the air. We thought, oh no, if this keeps going in this direction, Sukkos is going to be a cold one! So, we set up our insurance plans. Winter jackets came out of storage, wool outfits were prepared to replace

lighter ones, and, of course, wherever possible, heaters were put on timers to make the outdoor eating more tolerable. But hey, that’s not at all how things played out. The weather was gorgeous. The sukkah was a pleasure. Chol Hamoed was so nice people were able to take trips to parks or farms, or simply enjoy their yards. The gift kept giving, as Hoshana Raba, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah stayed as pleasant and comfortable as the first days of Sukkos.

Those who attended outdoor davening groups could not have asked for more ideal temperature settings. The price was definitely right because no A/C was necessary and no heater was needed. We could certainly have enjoyed riding this wave endlessly. But then we prayed. Yup! We wished for it. And we got it! We asked for that rain, and G-d delivered it! “Be careful what you wish for because you may get it” is the whole saying.

all-day event. In fact, it lasted even more than one day.... Now, wait a minute, this is not really an “odd or G-d” article. It’s more of a “blue or Jew” article. Let me explain. Hashem operates on His time. We don’t get to control that, though, we always hope to impact it. But we have a more immediate power – that of choice. So, when we get a rainy day, sure, we can experience it as a bleak day and thus choose to be BLUE about it,

Instead of feeling “washed out,” we can feel blessed already.

There we were, all really loving that awesome weather – savoring the walks, the bike rides, the outdoor cafes, the extended summer. We certainly could have kept going with it, why not?! But here’s the thing. Hashem answered our prayer without delay. How many times do we long for that? How much do we want to see the Hand of G-d so speedily? We all petitioned together on one day, and the next day, voila, the clouds kicked in. Yes, the last day of Sukkos we pray for rain. Rain, rain – it was no mere coincidence. It was an

or alternatively, we can see it as an answer to our prayer’s day, and be a JEW about it. A Jew has the power to see G-d’s Hand in what occurs. We can opt to see the rain this week as a wish that was answered immediately. And therefore, instead of feeling “washed out,” we can feel blessed already, as we launch into this new year! Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.

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Humanistic Psychology and The Rogerian Revolution By Rabbi Azriel Hauptman

Students of psychology are intimately aware that the term “Rogerian” refers to a theory of personality developed by the eminent psychologist, Carl Rogers (d. 1987). Rogers, based on his theory, pioneered an approach to psychotherapy that was revolutionary in his time, but is now integrated on some level in almost every modality of psychotherapy. The history of psychology is often broken down into three distinct “forces” that shaped the development of our understanding of the human con-

dition. The first force, pioneered by Sigmund Freud and many of his contemporaries, is the theory of psychoanalysis which believes that people are controlled by unconscious desires and fears and therefore the role of the therapist is to analyze the patient and try to delve into the unconscious via dream interpretation and other techniques. The second force, pioneered by B. F. Skinner, is the theory of behaviorism which believes that people’s behavior is not based as much on thoughts and feelings, but rather based

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on behavioral conditioning. This theory believes that we can change a person’s behavior by using conditioning without dealing so much with the person’s inner world. The third force, pioneered by Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, is the theory of humanistic psychology which believes that human beings have an innate knowledge, wisdom and understanding of themselves and if they have a healthy sense of selfworth they can actualize themselves on their own. The problem, according to Rogers, is that during life people are exposed to conditional love and negative regard from others that leads to distrust in one’s self. This led Carl Rogers to develop an approach of psychotherapy called Person-Centered Therapy. Rogers believed that if several factors are met within therapy, the client will develop a strong sense of self-worth and find the wisdom within themselves to know how to change. Although the details of Person-Centered Therapy can be broken down into many parts, they can be briefly summed into what is known as the three core conditions. • Empathy: Every person has their internal frame of reference based on their life experiences, background and upbringing. Person-Centered Therapy requires that the therapist communicates to the client that he appreciates and respects the client’s unique perspective, and the therapist desires to understand it to the best of his ability. Empathy in this regard is not merely feeling bad for someone else, but it is trying to put yourself into their shoes. This is sometimes referred to as empathy accuracy. • Genuineness: The therapist must be authentic and genuine with their client and not hide behind a professional facade. Carl Rogers referred to this as “congruence” since the out-

ward expression of the therapist is congruent with the therapist’s inner thoughts and feelings. This builds trust between the client and the therapist, helps the client feel valued, and also serves as a model to the client of being true to one’s self and not hiding behind a false front. • Unconditional Positive Regard: The therapist feels unconditional positive regard for the client. The therapist does not judge the client, nor does the therapist approve or disapprove of the client’s behavior. This allows the client to develop feelings of self-worth. Person-Centered Therapy in its purist form is extremely non-directive and expects the client to set their goals and reach them on their own. The field of psychotherapy, by and large, feels that although Roger’s core conditions are incredibly beneficial for creating the proper therapeutic environment, they are insufficient on their own. If the therapist constantly supports the client and never challenges them, the client can have a very difficult time in being motivated to change. Furthermore, the therapist can help a client tremendously by imparting guidance and wisdom during therapy. Nevertheless, Carl Rogers created a sea change in the field of psychotherapy. Empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard are now highly integrated into the therapeutic process. Even if Person-Centered Therapy is no longer a modality that is implemented on its own, the revolution that Rogers created with his theory of humanistic psychology still reverberates today. This is a service of Relief Resources. Relief is an organization that provides mental health referrals, education, and support to the frum community. Rabbi Yisrael Slansky is director of the Baltimore branch of Relief. He can be contacted at 410-448-8356 or at yslansky@reliefhelp.org

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was preparing the ingredients, I realized that the oven was filled with kugels.

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the oven would be available, I decided to cook the roast on

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Preparation

b1 (3-4) boneless veal roast roll b4 garlic cloves, minced b2 teaspoons paprika b2 teaspoons onion powder b2 teaspoons chili powder b2 teaspoons dried thyme b2 teaspoons kosher salt b¼ teaspoon black pepper b2 tablespoons oil b1 large onion, sliced b16 oz. cremini mushrooms, quartered b1 teaspoon kosher salt b1 cup Marsala wine b1 cup chicken broth b2 sprigs fresh thyme b1 bay leaf

2. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Sear the roast for about a minute (or less) per side, until it starts to brown. Remove roast from skillet; and set aside.

Rub garlic, and spices all over the roast, coating all sides.

In the same pan, turn heat to medium; add a tablespoon of Marsala wine to the skillet. Deglaze the pan by stirring and scraping the bottom of the pan to loosen all the meat drippings. (This will add lots of ﬂavor to the sauce.)

Add onion; cook for a few minutes, until it starts to brown. Add mushrooms and salt. Cook for 7-10 minutes, until the mushrooms have softened. Add remaining wine and broth, thyme and bay leaves. Place the veal back into the pan and nestle it into the sauce.

Cover and simmer on low for 3 hours. Alternatively, you can roast the veal roast in the oven for 3 hours covered at 325°F.

NOTE: Always slice a roast after it has properly cooled. I put mine in the fridge for several hours, which helps me get nice even slices.

Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website, www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.

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hirty-five years ago, cartoonist Bill Watterson published the very first “Calvin and Hobbes” strip. Calvin, an irrepressible six-year-old who’s surely destined for a therapist’s couch or an orange jumpsuit (or both), tells his dad he’s off to check his tiger trap: “I rigged a tuna fish sandwich yesterday, so I’m sure to have one by now.” Two panels later, Calvin’s stuffed tiger Hobbes dangles from a rope around his paw in a tree, confirming that yes, in fact, tigers will do anything for a tuna sandwich: “We’re kind of stupid that way.” Our friends at the IRS aren’t interested in luring tigers out of trees. But they’re setting different sorts of traps to lure exotic species of unreported income into captivity. For bait, they’re using a simple checkbox on a tax form (which has the added advantage of staying fresh a lot longer than Calvin’s tuna fish sandwich). In 2009, a mysterious figure calling himself Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin, a decentralized digital peer-to-peer payment network. Since then, Bitcoin and other cybercurrencies have grown into an enormous trading market, averaging north of $4 billion per day. (Ironically, few Americans have ever used the “currency”

to actually “pay” for anything.) This speculation can make price charts look more like a roller coaster than an “investment” — for example, from January through February, 2018, Bitcoin plunged by a gut-wrenching 65%. That volatility spells opportuni-

names, birthdates, addresses, and trading records for about 13,000 customers who traded more than $20,000 on their platform from 2013-2015. But chasing individual exchanges sounds like a giant game of whack-a-mole: as soon as one ex-

If you “forget” enough cryptogains, you can wind up doing your trading from a place where the most valuable “currency” is Marlboro Reds.

ty for traders who can stomach it. But because they hold their assets in virtual “wallets” that generally don’t report activity to the IRS, it’s easier for them to “overlook” their gains at tax time than if they were trading more-traditional stocks, bonds, options, or currencies. Cybercops at the IRS are already making real-world efforts to ferret out cyber-income. In 2017, they subpoenaed Coinbase, the world’s most popular exchange, for taxpayer IDs,

change complies, another pops up with no such constraints. Now the IRS is casting their net over a broader audience: everyone. Form 1040 already includes a box on Schedule One that asks, “At any time during 2019, did you receive, sell, send, exchange, or otherwise acquire any financial interest in any virtual currency?” But not everyone files Schedule One. So last week they announced they’re moving that question to Page One of Form 1040

itself, right below your address. This is where the box turns into a what prosecutors call a “perjury trap.” At the bottom of Form 1040, it says, “Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return and accompanying schedules and statements, and to the best of my knowledge and belief, they are true, correct, and complete.” In other words, if you “forget” enough cryptogains, you can wind up doing your trading from a place where the most valuable “currency” is Marlboro Reds. (A similar box at the bottom of Schedule B has helped uncover billions in unreported foreign bank income.) You probably grew up dreaming the future would bring jetpacks and flying cars, not Bitcoin and Facebook. But time and progress march on, and a big part of our work involves anticipating how those changes affect your money and taxes. So skip the tuna fish sandwiches and let us do the work for you.

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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