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JEWISH THOUGHT Parenting Today. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 A Parsha Thought. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

HUMOR & ENTERTAINMENT Notable Quotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Centerfold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Rhyme Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

COVER STORY Kastner’s Train: 70 Years Later. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

LIFESTYLES In the Kitchen: Secrets of the Top Kosher Chefs. . 43 Ten Great Chanukah Gift Ideas on a Budget. . . . . 54 A Fun Spin on Chanukah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 In the Kitchen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Light up the nights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

NEWS Global News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 National News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 That’s Odd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

ISRAEL Israel News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Dear Readers,

For many people, Chanukah is about latkes and doughnuts, family and togetherness. Growing up, Chanukah to me meant presents, a partial week of school and a different party with just about everyone you ever had some type of association with. Every family has their own way of celebrating Chanukah. Some things we do are the same-we all light the menorah and we all sing hallel and al hanissim. But the way we do all these mitzvos differ from one family to the next. We are all individuals and have our unique way of celebrating, and yet we are all one of the same. The menorah is a symbol of our uniqueness and our uniformity. Each candle on the menorah is different and separate from the others. But when we light that candle as part of the mitzvah and harness the power of its tiny light, we are performing a mitzvah that symbolizes our connection to our Creator for hundreds of years. We packed so much for you to enjoy in this week’s special Chanukah issue. For those who want to learn more about the Yom Tov, make sure to read the divrei Torah and essays on Jewish thought. For those who want to know what gifts would best suit those you love, take a peek at the gift guide for those on a budget. For those who want to include their children in the preparation and create a masterpiece to showcase at their Chanukah party, enjoy Esther Ottensosers’s “spin” on traditional menorahs. And for those who love cooking and baking and culinary delights, we have many recipes to enhance your Chanukah meals. As always I look forward to hearing from each and every one of you. Feel free to send me an email at Editor@baltimorejewishhome.com Wishing you all a Freilechen Chanukah, Yaakov

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Seeing the Yad Hashem: Raid on the Sun! On Motza’ei Shabbos, November 22, 175 fathers and sons joined us for an exciting Middle School program at TA. Rabbi Shlomo Horwitz of Baltimore gave a presentation about the nissim that occurred in the 1981 bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor. On June 8, 1981, eight F-16’s from the Israeli Air Force took off from the Etzion Air Base and flew 600 miles to destroy Saddam’s nuclear reactor near Baghdad. It was the only time in history that a nuclear reactor was destroyed. It was a mission fraught with danger and only through a string of nissim and hashgacha were the jets able to destroy their target and return home safely. In his presentation Rabbi

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Hapoel Soccer - The All-Mensch Games and the End-of-Season Banquets Hapoel Baltimore Soccer played their All-Mensch Games as well as had their End-of-Season Banquets. GIRLS

Be a Mensch. This season, the “Play Smart”/T’shuva Trophy was awarded to a player who was the anchor all season for her team. She was responsible, mature and selfless. Players and fans often recognize the

At the Girl’s All-Mensch Game, the younger and older leagues played together. Red played Blue with the Red squad winning 2-0 with goals from Faigy Lefkowitz and Hinda Leah Feigenbaum. The Girls End-of-Season Banquet was highlighted by pizza, soda and... numerous trophies. Special praise was accorded to the younger girls in each league, Kindergartners Shalva Rosenfeld, Ita Schwartz, Leah Fogel, Leora Juni, Shoshana Gross, Zehava Pepper and first grader Rena Caine as well as, for their play in the G4567 League, fourth graders Miri Fogel, Hadassah Juni, Faigy Gross and fifth graders Daniella Rose and Yakira Klein. “Play Smart”/T’shuva Award Each season, Hapoel Soccer has three “big awards”. Three big awards that correspond to Play Hard, Play Smart and

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baseball, and lacrosse through his childhood and high school years. For college, Richie attended St. Lawrence University where he played hockey for the ECAC Champion and NCAA Finalist St. Lawrence hockey team. On the playing field, besides being an exceptional athlete, Richie was a unique individual in his ability to show respect to and befriend most every person he encountered. Richie was friends with and friendly to his teammates, his coach, the referees, the fans, and most everyone else who had the good fortune of meeting him. This same personality trait was evident when he would step off the playing field. Richie showed respect to literally most everyone he met. But, there was no one he showed more respect towards than his parents. From high school until his untimely death, he called his mother and father first thing every morning and last thing every night. The level of respect he showed to everyone, especially his parents, was unique. For this reason and more, Richie was an exceptional leader, family member, and friend. After college, Richie worked for Cantor-Fitzgerald within the World Trade Center in NYC. When Richie arrived to work on the morning of September 11th, 2001, he called his parents like he did every morning. He spoke to his mother about the football game they watched the night before. The conversation was light and full of laughs like so many conversations they had previously with each other. Richie hung up the phone and started his work when he experienced a loud explosion. He knew something was very wrong. Though Richie could have done innumerable things at this moment, he chose to call his mother and tell her that something was very wrong and that he loved her. True to his personality, Richie’s last act on this earth was an act of kovid av v’em (respect for his mother and father) that few people could match. Richard H. Stewart Jr. was a ba’al kavod like few people. Sadly, we lost Richie on that morning of September 11, 2001. This season, one player most personified this midda of leadership and respect. This young man was looked up to because he’s a talented soccer player, because, as a fifth grader, he’s one of the older players in the B3456 League but, mostly, he was respected because he showed respect to everyone else. He enjoyed giving an assist as much as he enjoyed scoring a goal. He sincerely and genuinely cared about the people around him, his teammates, his coaches, his opponents. This great player had a great season and this young man was... Yishai Eagle. And, with that, we concluded the Hapoel Soccer (www.HapoelSoccer.com) season.

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Y and L survived a highly contested, competitive matchup in the semi-finals against Elle Remodeling’s chip, dink, and dunk offense by the final score of 31-25. Y and L opened the scoring with a long strike down the right sideline to an inexplicably wide open Shulie Hochman. Y and L’s subsequent 2-point conversion failed, leaving the score 6-0. In an effort to stymie Y and L’s tal-

ented and aggressive pass rush, Elle Remodeling answered with a designed QB Moshe Afrah run around the left side, allowing him to score untouched. ER then converted the extra point, snatching the lead 7-6. Taking advantage of an uncharacteristically inaccurate Yoyo Strauss, who ended up throwing 3 first half interceptions, Elle Remodeling scored again on a short pass to the dangerous TE Jeromy Bittan to go into the half up 13-6. This actually marked the first time all season Y and L was trailing at the half. However, it would not last long. In the second half, Y and L’s offensive line stepped up their game, keeping the talented Elle pass rush from providing pressure. In addition, Y and L’s pass rush amped up their intensity, changing the tide of the game. Early in the second half, under extreme pressure, Afrah threw up a slow arcing parabola to his talented All-Pro TE (and recent chasson) Mordy Friedman, but Yoyo undercut the throw, returning the interception for an easy TD. Y and L converted the extra point to tie the game at 13. Elle Remodeling answered with a long methodical drive, culminating in a fade to the corner of the endzone for a TD to WR Naftali Gardyn, putting Elle back on top 19-13. Y and L responded with a long drive of its own, surprising the Elle Remodeling D with a pass to moonlighting TE Moshe Miller, which went for a long completion. Y and L then scored on a crossing pattern which opened up Hochman for the easy TD, tying the score again, this time at 19.

be flag-pullers and the sideline to get to the red zone. Yoyo completed a short pass in the middle of the field to Hochman, who extended the ball toward the end zone, and crossed the goal line, leading to a score of 31 - 25.

3 TDs and Miller had 1. Shua Reznick had a first half INT as well for Y and L. Y and L’s O-line had a tremendous game, and the D-line played strong, and made some huge plays which forced some game-changing turnovers. Y and L began preparing to avenge its lone defeat of the season, a one point loss at the hands of Northwest Refuse.

Northwest Refuse Early Steps Therapy On the next drive, Y and L DE Moshe Miller deflected Afrah’s pass, allowing Yoyo to make what turned out to be only the second nicest catch of the day (see: Odell Beckham Jr.) for the game-saving, diving, full extension interception. Y and L took over possession with a minute left, needing only to milk the clock and/or score to advance to the finals. Y and L did neither, although Elle Remodeling was forced to its use its final 2 timeouts to conserve the clock. Elle’s defense held Y&L and forced a punt, allowing Elle once final possession to win the game and return to the Championship game for the second consecutive year.

While Elle retook the lead, thanks to a second TD reception by Gardyn, Y and L answered with another big pass to their TE, Moshe Miller, who outran the unprepared defense and took it to the house for an 80 yard TD, tying the score at 25.

On first down, Afrah’s flag was pulled inbounds. As a result of the flag pull, Afrah’s entire flag belt came off, requiring him to run to the sideline and get it back in place. While Afrah readjusted his belt, Gardyn stepped in to take the snap and, under immediate pressure from Y&L DE Yoseph Orshan, spiked the ball to stop the clock. On the penultimate play of the game, Afrah’s 3rd down pass fell harmlessly to the ground, which left Elle with one final attempt. But it was not meant to be. On 4th down, while under intense pressure, Afrah threw a desperation pass which sailed out of the end zone, thus ending the game.

On its next possession, Y and L picked up a huge chunk of yardage on a Yoyo run around the left side, evading would

Y and L survived by the final score of 31-25. Yoyo threw for 4 TDs and had 2 INTs, 1 returned for TD. Hochman had

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In a rematch of week 6, Northwest Refuse easily handled Early Steps Therapy with a 33-12 victory. Northwest’s defense had another dominating performance with 5 total interceptions. Josh Erez and Nadav Spiegler each had 2, and Yaakov Spatz added another one. Spiegler almost had his 3rd pick of the day on an unbelievable diving attempt, but it was ruled incomplete on a controversial call by the ref. The interceptions were a direct result of the constant pressure from NWR’s defensive linemen, Ben Gutman and Justin Nicholas. With all of the turnovers, NWR’s offense had great field position all day, and was able to capitalize thanks to 5 touchdown passes from QB Chaim Finkelstein. WR’s Dan Gutman and Luxenberg ran circles around EST all day, and each caught 2 touchdowns. As usual, Spatz added a touchdown. But the player of the game was Yitzy Wach. Even with a broken finger, Wach put on his big boy pants, wrapped his hand, and dominated on the offensive line all game. He gave Finkelstein plenty of time to throw, and did not surrender a sack. That’s what dedication is, children! Following the game, Northwest Refuse began preparing to play Y and L Landscaping in the championship the following week. As the two teams were so evenly matched, some prognosticators are prophesizing that the game will come down to a last second Hail Moses pass.

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It was a long and dramatic season comprised of spectacular athletic feats and strong competition between all teams. Players came out every week, hungry to play and ready to partake in an hour and a half of exciting, entertaining, and physically demanding football. As a result, rivalries developed and strong, unbreakable friendships were formed. In my book, every player in the league was a champion. But at the end of it all, one team was just a bit more of a champion than everyone else. That would be Y and L Landscaping, who pulled out a dramatic, last second win against Northwest Refuse in the 2014 JCFL Bowl, allowing them to bring home the glory and the trophy. Y and L played as a strong, cohesive unit all season long, thanks to their star QB, Yoyo Strauss, who served as a dual rushing and passing threat, a top notch set of WRs in Shulie Hochman, Dany Donaty, Josh Zaslow, Yossi Lurman, and Shua Reznick, an extremely durable offensive line made up of Jacob Rosin and Lazer Margaretten, and the swarming pass rush of Yoseph Orshan and Moshe Miller. Special congratulations go to Y and L team sponsor, Yossi Kushner. To learn more about the league, check out their website: http:// www.leaguelineup.com/welcome. asp?url=jewishcommunityfootball&sid=283687172 For a recap of the playoffs and championship, read on: Playoffs

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In a highly competitive and physical game, Y and L Landscaping won in thrilling fashion. Facing a 2 touchdown deficit with less than 4 minutes to go, Y and L rallied to shock Northwest Refuse with no time left on the clock. Y and L and NWT both featured strong but stylistically and physically slightly different quarterbacks, strong receiving corps, and quick and strong defensive lines. Y and L started the game with the ball and came up short on 4th down, failing to convert on 4th and inches despite the presence of the fastest and most elusive QB in the league. NWR took advantage of the short field and scored on a TD throw from QB Chaim Finkelstein to WR Shmuely Luxenburg. The TD made the score 6-0 after NWR failed on the extra point. Y and L’s second drive ended as a three and out but were able to make up for it on defense as Shulie Hochman intercepted Chaim Finkelstein’s pass. Y and L took advantage of the short field and scored on a TD from QB Yoyo Strauss to WR Shua Reznick. The extra point attempt failed, leaving the game tied at 6. NWR scored on its next possession on a well-designed and executed trick play. QB Finkelstein threw a lateral to backup QB Dan Gutman on the left sideline, who then threw a perfect strike to WR Rafi Strum in the end zone. NWR led 12-6 after the failed extra point attempt, which remained the score at the half. NWR started the second half with the ball and was forced to punt after some strong defensive work by the Y and L defensive backfield, led by safety Dony Donaty. On its first drive of the second half, Y and L converted the 1st down and scored on a TD from Yoyo to the league’s leading receiver, Shulie Hochman. However, the extra point failed, leaving the score 12-12. On the ensuing drive, NWR marched down the field and scored on another creatively designed and executed play. This time, facing a Y and L man defense, NWR lined up with 3 blockers in the backfield. On the snap,

part-time TE Justin Nicholas leaked out uncontested to the left side of the end zone and scored on a softly thrown ball by Finkelstein. NWR again failed to convert the extra point, leaving the score 18-12. On its next drive, Y and L punted with the hope of keeping it a one score game. NWR marched down the field, eating up time, and scored on another touchdown to Luxenburg. After the TD, there were approximately 7 minutes left on the clock. On the first attempt at the extra point, NWR was called for holding and was allowed to replay the down, using up precious clock. On the second attempt, NWR was called for a false start and the refs ended the possession. The score was 24-12 in NWR’s favor. Despite the presence of a 25 second play clock, after the TD, running clock, penalty, running clock, penalty, dispute, and still running clock, Y and L took over possession, down 2 scores, with around 3:30 left in the game. Using an extreme hurry up offense, Y and L mixed in some quick outs and timely rushes to the sidelines and marched down the field. On 4th and goal, with the season on the line, Yoyo drew up a play and then told occasional member of the offense, TE Yoseph Orshan, to run right inside the goal line and expect the shovel pass. It was executed to perfection. In a pivotal play, for the only time in the game, a team scored on its extra point attempt as Yoyo hit WR Yossi Lurman for the completion, narrowing NWR’s lead to 24-19. NWR took over possession with about 1 minute left on the clock. After a short 1st down run and the runner staying in bounds, Y&L called the first of its two timeouts. On 2nd down, Orshan managed to sack the QB and Y and L called its second and final timeout, stopping the clock at 50 seconds. On 3rd down, with Y and L unable to stop the clock again, NWR managed to get near the first down marker but was unable to convert. With the clock running, NWR made the tactically conservative but questionable decision, and punted, despite originally lining up to go for the 1st down. A conversion would have ended the game. Y and L took over at its own 20 with no timeouts left and 39 seconds left in the season. On 1st down, Yoyo

Community had his flag pulled at around the line of scrimmage, and the clock continued to tick. On 2nd down, with 11 seconds to go, Yoyo found the matchup he wanted and hit WR Josh Zaslow on the sideline who managed to get out of bounds after picking up some much needed yardage, leaving 5 seconds on the clock. Before the final play of the season, Y and L made the tactical decision to max protect Yoyo and only send out 4 receivers against 5 defensive backs. In a masterful stroke of decision-making, Zaslow rushed off the field, and Orshan hurried on as a 3rd offensive lineman. TE Moshe Miller (and part-time offensive line coach) instructed Orshan to position himself behind Miller and Lazer Margaretten and pick up whichever pass rusher beat his man first. Miller must have had ruach hakodesh because his prescience allowed Y&L’s 3 linemen (especially the 3rd one) to delay the adrenaline and fear-fueled NWT pass rushers enough for Yoyo to find an open passing lane. On his best throw of the morning, Yoyo got the ball through a tiny window and hit Hochman in the hands about 5 yards into the end zone. Standing just inside the

sideline, Hochman initially bobbled the ball and just managed to gain possession, with his feet still in the end zone, as he fell backwards out of bounds. The catch was ruled a touchdown and, with no replay camera angle available, the game was over. Y and L had won 2524. The touchdown signal set off a wild Y and L celebration and left NWT wondering how they let the championship get away. This report was compiled with the assistance of a number of people, including the many fans cheering for their respective favorite teams and players. Thank you to all those who made this league possible, including: The Baltimore County Board of Recreation and Parks, the referees, Commissioner Dovi Ziffer, Co-Commissioner Asher Sondhelm and the rest of the League leadership, all the players in the league, and for those who are married and/or have kids, their wives and children for allowing them out of the house for 2 hours every Sunday morning for 3 months. See you again next Fall!

NCSY Girls Night Out Welcomes Beth Goldsmith This past Sunday night, the girls of Baltimore NCSY GNO got together with Shira Heideman, once again for some girls-only R&R, and had a wonderful time making candles and latkes in honor of Rosh Chodesh Kislev. We also had the distinct pleasure of hearing from a real innovator in the Israel advocacy arena as well as the Associated, and an

ardent supporter of educating the Jewish youth on their heritage and unique power of women. We heard about a life changing experience and her passion for what the Jewish people can do together, and the real miracle we are celebrating on Chanukah. Thank you once again to Beth for joining us, and we look forward to learning more from you soon.

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clearly without over-enunciating and to use paper and pencil or even texting to take the orders and direct people where to go. Solomon of Me Latte café remarked, “It was great. The people were very nice and it was not hard to communicate at all!” The dinner guests were an animated bunch as hands flew quietly in lively conversation. Idioms were a popular topic of conversation. Like a spoken language, ASL has its own sayings that

JADE (Jewish Advocates for Deaf Education) ASL Meet Up. ASL Meet Ups are a great opportunity for schmoozing in Sign Language, catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. The tables filled up with deaf adults and their hearing children who sign, ASL students, interpreters and others who enjoy the beauty of American Sign Language and sought to practice their skills. The prospect of hosting a large group of people who don’t communicate in the “typical” way might have been daunting to the staff of the JCC and Me Latte Café, but thanks to JADE’s 10 tips for How to Best Communicate with a Person who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing, interactions were smooth and comfortable for all. Staff was encouraged to face the person when talking, speak

convey a message deeper than the literal meaning of the words. According to www.Smartwords.org, “Every language has its own collection of wise sayings. They offer advice about how to live and also transfer some underlying ideas, principles and values of a given culture / society…These combinations of words have (rarely complete sentences) a “figurative meaning” meaning, they basically work with “pictures”. For example, in ASL one might say “compromise”, by signing “meet” + “half”, as if to say, “meet half way”. It sounds silly in English but it looks really cool in ASL! Another example is the idiom for gullible that can be signed “fish” + “swallow”. One fellow who is Deaf from birth opined that Deaf people generally do not use many idioms, rather

they talk very straight and to the point in order to ensure that the message is very clear. But the “devil’s advocate” in me wonders if that should be taken “with a grain of salt” since most people are not cognizant of how often they use idioms in their daily language! Later, facebook posts flitted back and forth by those who came and those who missed it asking when will we do it again? JADE would like to host more ASL Meet Ups in order to nurture Jewish identity among Jews who are Deaf or hard of hearing, to attract more of this unique community to become familiar with JADE’s services, and to accustom the Jewish hearing community to interact with people who have a hearing loss. As a program of the Mack’s Center for Jewish Education one of the greatest services that JADE provides is an interpreter grant that helps subsidize the cost of sign language and oral interpreters at Jewish community events. Fun workshops like How to Communicate with a Person who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing Without Feeling Awkward are also available through JADE at no cost to children and adults of all ages. In fact, the Darrel Friedman Institute will be presenting this workshop on Wednesday, January 21 during lunch from 12-1 at the Jewish Community Service building. For those of you who are wistfully thinking, “I always wanted to learn sign language,” here’s your chance! Every February, in honor of Jewish Disability Awareness Month, the Mack’s Center for Jewish Education hosts a 4 week beginner’s class in American Sign Language at a very affordable rate! Join us on Tuesdays nights in February from 7:30-9:00 PM at the CJE for a local, low cost American Sign Language class!

Another Great Latte! Tuesday night showed why Greater Washington is the up and coming location for NCSY around the country. We had over 45 teens attending Latte on one of the coldest and rainiest nights! The dedication was felt and truly appreciat-

ed. Thank you to all the teens that came out. A special thanks to Tani Makovsky who shared a beautiful insight about striving for the level of kindness where you’re looking to do good for others.

Tips for Communicating with a Person who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing

1. Lightly tap the person on the shoulder, flash the lights or stamp on the floor to get someone’s attention. 2. Come closer instead of raising your voice. 3. Face the person you are talking to. Make your face visible; don’t block yourself with hands or hair. 4. Speak slowly and clearly, not over-enunciating. 5. Use gestures, facial expression, body language and anything visual to help get your message across. 6. Try rewording your message if it was not understood. 7. It is appropriate to write things down to facilitate communication. 8. Ask the person to REPEAT what they said (even multiple times!) if you missed their thought, rather than just nod your head in mock understanding. 9. Avoid idioms and double negatives, especially with sign language users as English is their second language. 10. In a group, make sure only 1 person talks at a time.

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Have you ever been at a restaurant with a large group of people? What happens when the person you want to chat with is all the way at the opposite end of the table? You’re stuck having to talk to the person next to you, right? Well at an ASL Meet Up that’s no problem. All you need for a conversation is a clear view of the person you want to talk to. Conversations flowed effortlessly last Monday evening at Me Latte Café at the Owings Mills JCC, the site of the

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$15 Million in Cash and Commitments Raised For Our Community Schools’ Endowment Funds BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Jeff Cohn

Baltimore Jewish day schools marked the conclusion of the Russel Generations Day School Endowment Project with the announcement that they had raised approximately $15 million in cash and commitments for their endowment funds. That, according to Amy Katz, executive director of the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education (PEJE), was the largest endowment commitment of any of the four cities which participated in the Generations program. Launched in 2012 with a lead gift from the Russel family, the Russel Generations Day School Endowment Project was created to help area day schools establish their legacy and endowment programs. A collaboration between PEJE, The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore and the AVI CHAI Foundation, it addressed day school’s biggest

challenges – providing affordable and excellent education -- while helping to ensure long-term sustainability. Baltimore was a pilot city in this program, along with Los Angeles, Boston and New York. “Jewish Day schools exist in a world of unlimited needs with very limited resources,” said Ari Krupp, chair of the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore (TA). “This program created a public awareness for the need to focus on future and long-term funding initiatives.” In addition to TA, Bais Yaakov School for Girls, Bnos Yisroel of Baltimore, Torah Institute, Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School and Krieger Schechter Day School participated in the three year project. PEJE and the AVI CHAI Foundation provided coaching, marketing and training support for the six Baltimore schools. The Associated also offered marketing and planned giving assis-

tance. In a recent celebration of the program’s success, leadership from The Associated, PEJE, AVI CHAI and the six day schools gathered to reflect on the day schools’ endowment accomplishments. “When the proposition arose to participate in a structured endowment development and training program, we jumped at the opportunity,” said Shlomo Spetner, past president of Bais Yaakov. “Providing us with professional training and working together with a broad range of experts has sharpened our skills and raised our sights.” The project started more than three years ago when the AVI CHAI Foundation and PEJE approached The Associated and asked if they would be part of a pilot project to build endowment at individual schools. Having demonstrated a long term commitment to day schools over the years, The Associated quickly took

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A raid that was intended to free a captured American photojournalist and a South African teacher failed this week; both captives were killed in the botched attempt. The raid before dawn in an al Qaeda stronghold in Yemen was the second rescue attempt in as many weeks to free Luke Somers, a 33-year-old freelance photographer and editor kidnapped just over a year ago. Militants also killed South African Pierre Korkie, abducted 18 months ago with his wife in the city of Tazi, as U.S. forces descended upon the militants’ compound. A South African aid group trying to negotiate Korkie’s release said he was a day from freedom after a deal late last month that included a three million dollar “facilitation fee” to the kidnappers. Prior to the raid, the relief organization had told Korkie’s wife that “the wait is almost over.” President Barack Obama said he ordered the raid because Somers was believed to be in “imminent danger.” The president condemned Somers’ killing as a “barbaric murder,” but did not mention the 56-year-old Korkie by name, offering condolences to the family of “a non-U.S. citizen hostage.” The South African government said it was informed that Korkie died during the mission by American Special Forces. About 40 American special operations forces were involved in the rescue attempt, which followed U.S. drone strikes in the area, U.S. officials said. The rescuers, backed by Yemeni ground forces, advanced within 110 yards of the compound in Shabwa

province under the cover of darkness. But less than 100 yards from the compound something went horribly wrong. A noise alerted the militants to the raiders’ presence, and the element of surprise was lost. A firefight ensued and 30 minutes later, when the dust settled, U.S. forces entered the compound and emerged with both Somers and Korkie, who were mortally shot by militants. Despite the risks involved, officials said it was imperative for the raid to take place on Saturday as militants threatened to kill Somers later that day, a threat officials say was serious. “They were serious,” a senior administration official said of the threat. “They were going to execute him on Saturday.”

Vegetable Crime Craze The growing global demand for a Peruvian root vegetable called maca has led to some bizarre crimes around the world. Thieves recently broke into a storehouse high in an Andes farming town and made off with 2,600 pounds of maca. Trucks have been surreptitiously crossing the Chinese border, laden with the popular root. And with the prices soaring, once-poor farmers can now bounce along their unpaved roads in shiny new vehicles.

Maca is a pungent, turnip-like vegetable heralded as a cancer-fighting super food and sold on the shelves of supermarkets like Whole Foods. It has become so popular in China that this year Chinese buyers showed up in the United States with suitcases full of cash to buy up the harvest, inciting a gold rush and setting off alarms from Lima to Los Angeles and beyond.

In News As maca booms, some Peruvians fear that they are losing control of a valuable crop with a history that goes back long before the time of the Inca empire. Officials say that many Chinese buyers smuggled the root out of the country in violation of a law that requires maca to be processed in Peru before it can be exported — a measure intended to protect local businesses. They say seeds were also smuggled out of the country illegally, despite a ban meant to prevent the root from being grown anywhere else. “Thousands of acres are being grown outside the country without authorization,” said Andrés Valladolid, the president of Peru’s National Commission Against Biopiracy. Oswaldo Castillo, a maca grower and processor, worried that the Chinese “will get a monopoly over maca and be able to set the price on the world market.” The Chinese buying spree and the clandestine export of whole maca and seeds has raised questions about the ability of developing countries to control access to native species.

N. Korean Leader’s Name Banned

There is only one Kim Jong Un in North Korea. North Korean officials have ordered people who share the name of leader Kim Jong Un to change their names immediately. Similarly, the names of the two former leaders, Kim’s father, Kim Jong II, and his grandfather, Kim II Sung, are forbidden too. This law was issued by Kim Jong II, the current leader’s father. It is not known how many people

in North Korea are currently called Kim Jong Un and will be forced to change their name, but Kim is a very common family name and Jong Un are common given names…think of it as John Smith.

The U.S. Not The World’s Largest Economic Power

The U.S. has been officially dethroned. The Chinese economy is officially the world’s largest economic power, according to the International Monetary Fund. This is the first time since 1869 that the U.S. was not named the leading economic power on the planet. At the time, Ulysses S. Grant, the nation’s 18th president, was leading the nation. This news is sure to hit Obama’s already hurting ratings. The latest numbers released on the world economy confirms experts’ growing suspicion that the “Made in China” trend just keeps getting bigger. It is expected that this year, China will produce $17.6 trillion in goods and services while the U.S. is expected to yield $17.4 trillion. That number may seem insignificant without all the zeros, but it’s a $200 billion discrepancy. To offer another perspective, China now accounts for 16.5% of the global economy, compared with 16.3% for the U.S. Last year, China surpassed the U.S. for the first time in terms of global trade. This most recent triumph may be partially due to China’s decision to bring gross domestic product calculations in line with international standard.

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will not win a new term. “His first mistake was that his call for elections does not serve the Knesset or the Israeli people, and his second mistake is that he will lose,” Lapid said from the Knesset podium. Likud MK Yariv Levin, who drafted the bill to dissolve the Knesset, said the coalition and opposition were both problematic over the term. “This was a coalition that was very, very diffi-

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Brazilian officers in a police helicopter were scouting a residential area on Friday as part of a kidnapping investigation when they were greeted with a shocking sight – an enormous swastika adorning the bottom of a swimming pool, CNN reported. Authorities believe that the disturbing embellishment has been in the pool for 13 years. However, according to Brazil law, since the symbol was discovered on private land it is not considered Nazi propaganda so no charges have been filed. The Santa Catarina region of Brazil has a history of giving refuge to those from Europe. Immigration from Germany and Austria was significant enough that the city of Blumenau hosts a popular annual Oktoberfest that “preserves the customs of their ancestors from Germany to form colonies in the South.” Many of the European immigrants are people who fled the devastations of World War II but it is an open secret that war criminals escaped to the region as well. Almost five decades ago, Nazi hunters found Fritz Stangl, who had commanded the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps, living in Sao Paolo, Brazil. He was arrested by Brazil’s police in 1967 and died in German prison in 1971. The identity of the owner of the property has not been released.

raeli lawmakers pushed through second and third readings of the bill to close the chapter on Israel’s 33rd government. The lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to dissolve parliament, officially putting an end to the current government and paving the way for new elections in March. The vote came on the heels of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s firing of Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni. Lapid warned Netanyahu that he

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Knesset on Monday. He predicted that Labor would emerge on top after the March 17 elections, and “we’ll lead the country to a better future.” On Friday, he declared that he will be the next prime minister to lead the Jewish State. Hours earlier, though, Lapid declared, “Yesh Atid will lead the center bloc. We will connect with other parties to replace the current leadership and continue with full force, exactly from the place where we stopped. Everything is ready. Everything is already on the table. Everything can be restarted.”

In News Both Lapid and Herzog were courting Livni, with reports indicating that the former justice minister was more inclined to merge with Labor. According to a poll aired on the Knesset channel on Monday, a Herzog-Livni list would receive 23 seats, compared with Likud’s 21. If the two ran separately, Hatnua would not pass the electoral threshold and Labor would only receive 17 seats, the survey found. Lapid is said to have proposed giving Livni and her colleagues in Hatnua four spots on his party’s list. Livni and Lapid were set to meet later Monday to discuss a possible alliance between their two parties. On Saturday, however, Livni confirmed that her party was on the brink of sealing a deal to merge with Herzog’s Labor, asserting that such an alliance would offer Israeli voters a viable alternative to Netanyahu’s Likud. Meanwhile, Jewish Home and the Likud signed a “surplus votes” agreement — to ensure that no votes cast for the two parties would be lost when the Knesset seats are allocated after elections under Israel’s system of pure proportional representation. A similar deal was agreed to Monday between Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu and former Likud MK Moshe Kahlon’s as-yet-unnamed party.

Netanyahu: Release Pollard Now

Recently, there was another strong push from Benjamin Netanyahu for the release of Jonathan Pollard from his U.S. prison sentence. The effort came after Pollard was hospitalized after losing consciousness last week. During a cabinet meeting, Netanyahu announced he had spoken with Pol-

lard’s wife Esther and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. “I told him that the uncertain state of Jonathan’s health is an additional reason to set him free,” said Netanyahu of his conversation with Kerry. “The time has come, for many reasons, after 30 years, for Jonathan Pollard to be released and to become a free man. He has already paid his debt and he at least deserves the same treatment that others in his position have received. We will not refrain from acting until we bring him home, here to the State of Israel,” said Netanyahu. The Conference of Presidents, a central coordinating body that represents 50 U.S. Jewish organizations, sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting Pollard’s immediate release and also issued a statement on its Facebook page on Sunday. “The reports of Jonathan Pollard’s hospitalization, following his loss of consciousness. underscore the need for immediate action for his release. It is regrettable and inexplicable that the Parole Board denied his application after serving 30 years, much of it in solitary confinement, far beyond anyone accused of a comparable crime,” the statement by the Conference of Presidents read. In a letter that was sent to President Obama, the organization wrote, “The Commission’s allegation that Mr. Pollard’s espionage ‘was the greatest compromise of U.S. security to that date’ is false, and not supported by any evidence in the public record or the classified file. Yet it was this fiction that the Parole Commission cited to deny parole.” The letter was signed by high-ranking U.S. officials including former director of the CIA Robert James Woolsey, former chairs of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Dennis DeConcini and Senator David F. Durenburger, and Former U.S. National Security Advisor Robert C. MacFarlane. Pollard was a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy when he gave Israel thousands of classified documents, the extent of which has never been fully revealed. Pollard, now 60, was arrested in 1985 and later sentenced to life in prison. Several Israeli requests to have him released have been rejected. He will be eligible for parole next year.

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Peace Pic Staged

It turns out an iconic 20-year-old photograph of a Jewish and Palestinian boy embracing each other has

been exposed as a staged fake. The often-used 1993 photo portrayed what seems to be a Jewish and Arab boy with their arms around each other while overlooking Jerusalem, and exemplified hopes for peace in Israel during the Oslo peace process. But—in the spirit of most things peaceful—the two children in the photo were actually both Israeli Jews: Zvi Shapiro, 11, wearing a yarmulke, and Zemer Aloni, 12, sporting a Palestinian keffiyeh. The photo, taken by American photojournalist Ricki Rosen, was originally shot for the Canadian news magazine Maclean’s and was reproduced countless times. In an article published this week, Rosen admitted the image was staged. “It was a symbolic illustration,” she explained. “It was never supposed to be a documentary photo.” Rosen admitted that she did not actually look for a Palestinian child to embrace Shapiro, the yarmulke-wearing youth. And, for security reasons, she was

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Six Palestinians have been arrested for stealing ancient artifacts from a cave near the Dead Sea. The Israel Antiquities Authority said this week that the group was observed excavating illegally in the Cave of Skulls, an archaeological site located in the cliffs

the Dead Sea scroll robbers, which lasted more than a year,” the IAA said in a statement. The six men were indicted at the Beersheba Magistrates Court and, if convicted, could face up to five years in prison.

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of a canyon near Masada. The men were also charged with illegally entering Israeli territory without a permit. The IAA said officers arrested the suspects in possession of antiquities, including a Roman-era lice comb, after observing them conducting illegal excavations in the cave. The IAA hailed the red-handed bust as the first of its kind in the Judean Desert in 30 years. The illegal excavation caused “critical damage to archaeological remains, and irreversible damage to archaeological strata” and destroyed numerous earthenware fragments, according to the indictment. All six men are residents of the West Bank village of Seir, near the city of Hebron. The Cave of Skulls is one of hundreds of caverns in the Judean Desert which have yielded invaluable archaeological discoveries in the past century, most notably the Dead Sea Scrolls. “The apprehension of the robbers was part of a complex operation to locate

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The Week skeptical of finding anyone willing to be photographed embracing a Jewish person. “Relations had completely broken down after the First Intifada, and Palestinians were very fearful of being seen as collaborating with Israelis, because collaborators were being killed,” she said. Rosen instead recruited Shapiro’s Israeli friend Aloni to don a traditional Palestinian headdress known as a keffiyeh. The picture was taken in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Tor, a mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhood that was home to the two subjects. The photograph was taken when Rosen was on assignment covering the peace talks between Israel and the PLO, which later culminated in the Oslo Peace Accords between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

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More Prisoners Released From Guantanamo Bay

In News A new push this week by Barack Obama to close “Gitmo” saw the release of six prisoners who were held for the past 12 years. The former Guantanamo Bay residents arrived as refugees in Uruguay, a South American nation with only a tiny Muslim population. The six men — four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian — were detained by the U.S. as suspected militants with ties to al Qaeda in 2002 but were never charged. They had been cleared for release since 2009 but could not be sent home and the U.S. struggled to find countries willing to take them. Uruguayan President Jose Mujica agreed to accept the men as a humanitarian gesture and said they would be given help getting established in a country of 3.3 million with a total Muslim population of perhaps 300 people. “We are very grateful to Uruguay for this important humanitarian action and to President Mujica for his strong leadership in providing a home for individuals who cannot return to their own countries,” U.S. State Department envoy Clifford Sloan said. Uruguay’s government issued a statement confirming the arrival, repeating the text of a letter from Mujica to Obama saying they had been subject to “an atrocious kidnapping” at Guantanamo and urging the U.S. to end its 53-year-old embargo of Cuba. Cori Crider, a lawyer from the human rights group Reprieve, praised Mujica, a former leftist guerrilla who himself was imprisoned for more than a decade. The released prisoners are coming to what may be the only country in the Americas without an Islamic mosque, Tamar Chaky, director of the Islamic Cultural Organization of Uruguay, pointed out. He promised that the local Muslim community would welcome them, but said there had been no contact with the government. The U.S. has now transferred 19 prisoners out of Guantanamo this year, all but one of them within the last 30 days, and 136 remain, the lowest number since shortly after the prison opened in January 2002. Officials say several more releases are expected by the end of the year. The U.S. now holds 67 men at Guantanamo who have been cleared for release or transfer but, like the six sent to Uruguay, can’t go home

because they might face persecution, a lack of security, or for other reasons.

Obama Nominates New Sec of Defense

President Barack Obama has announced the nomination of Ashton Carter to be his fourth Secretary of Defense in six years. He was tapped to replace outgoing Secretary Chuck Hagel, whose short-lived tenure lasted about one year. “With a record of service that has spanned more than 30 years...Ash is widely regarded as one our nation’s national security leaders,” President Obama said. The president added that he knows the Department of Defense “inside and out” and has the varied experience that will enable him to “hit the ground running” on his first day. Hagel did not attend the announcement ceremony that took place the White House. He said he wanted the day to be focused on the nominee. Carter, who served in the Pentagon’s number two job until December of last year and has served under 11 defense secretaries, will come to the job with an in-depth understanding of the department as well as the esteem of defense officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. This bipartisan respect is a rare attribute amid uneasy relationships between the White House, the GOP and the military. “I accepted [the position] because of the seriousness of the strategic challenges we face but also the bright opportunities that exist for American if we can come together,” Carter said in brief remarks. He said it was an honor to be nominated and promised to give the president candid military advice, subtly addressing a criticism made

The Week On Tuesday, an emotionally disturbed man stabbed an Israeli student in the head at Chabad-Lubavitch in Crown Heights. Calvin Peters, 49, was then shot and killed by police. In a video, Peters was seen at around 1:40am after police say he stabbed Levi Rosenblat, 22, who was studying inside, in the head. Thankfully, Rosenblat is expected to survive his injuries. Peters is seen holding a knife, surrounded by police and Jewish boys, some apparently trying to defuse the tense situation. But when Peters picks up the knife after putting it down and then lunges toward police officers, officers shoot and kill him. According to police, Peters had been arrested 19 times since 1982 and had a documented history of mental illness. He had been to ChabadLubavitch before.

One witness related that he heard Peters repeating “Kill the Jews,” although authorities are not classifying the stabbing as a hate crime.

No Charges in Garner Case

Protests erupted all over the country after a grand jury cleared a white police officer of any charges in the death of a black man selling loose,

untaxed cigarettes in Staten Island. As the demonstrations mounted, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said federal authorities would conduct a civil rights investigation into the videotaped July 17 “chokehold” death of Eric Garner at the hands of Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo. Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said the grand jury found “no reasonable cause” to bring charges, but unlike the chief prosecutor in the recent Ferguson case, he gave no details on how the panel arrived at its decision. New York protesters gathered in Times Square and converged on the heavily secured area around Rockefeller Center with a combination of professional-looking signs and handscrawled placards reading, “Black lives matter” and “Fellow white people, wake up.” And in the Staten Island neighborhood where Garner died, people reacted with angry disbelief and chanted, “I can’t breathe!”

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by two of Obama’s former Defense Secretaries who said their opinions received minimal regard in a tightly-controlled White House. The physicist-trained weapons expert was passed up for the job once before and was possibly not President Obama’s top choice. He received the nod from the president after Michele Flournoy, who was the highest-ranking woman in department as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy until she retired in 2012, informed the president that she would like to withdraw her candidacy. If the Senate confirms Carter, which the president said should happen with “speed and dispatch,” he will be tasked with overseeing a new front in the conflict in the Middle East against ISIS. Congress has also reduced the Pentagon’s budget, which has caused some at the Pentagon and in Congress to be concerned about the future of the military.

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The Week and “Hands up — don’t choke!” In his first public comments, Pantaleo said he prays for Garner’s family and hopes they accept his condolences. “I became a police officer to help people and to protect those who can’t protect themselves,” he said in the statement. “It is never my intention to harm anyone, and I feel very bad about the death of Mr. Garner.” Police union officials and Pantaleo’s lawyer argued that the officer used a takedown move taught by the police department, not a banned maneuver, because Garner was resisting arrest. They said his poor health was the main reason he died. Experts said that without knowing how prosecutors presented the case, it’s difficult to theorize how the grand jury reached its decision. To find Pantaleo criminally negligent, the panel would have had to determine he knew there was a “substantial risk” that Garner would have died. While details on the grand jurors were not disclosed, Staten Island is the most politically conservative of the city’s five boroughs and home to many police and firefighters. The district attorney said he would seek to have information on the investigation released. Pantaleo was stripped of his gun and badge and will remain on desk duty pending an internal police investigation that could result in administrative charges. As the grand jury decision drew near, police officials met with community leaders on Staten Island to head off the kind of violence seen in Ferguson, where arson and looting resulted in more than 100 arrests and the destruction of 12 commercial buildings by fire.

Remembering Pearl Harbor 73 Years Later

December 7, 2014: 73 years since the “day that will live in infamy.” On Sunday, veterans who survived the Pearl Harbor attack that launched the United States into World War II attended the 73rd anniversary ceremony with the help of canes, wheelchairs and motorized scooters. Wearing purple orchid lei, about 100 Pearl Harbor and World War II survivors attended the ceremony overlooking a memorial that sits atop sunken battleship USS Arizona. Many of them arrived well before the sun came up. This year’s anniversary of the Japanese attack is the 10th consecutive one that USS Utah survivor Gilbert Meyer attended. But it’s getting harder for Meyer, 91, to travel to Hawaii from San Antonio. Asked if he planned to attend next year’s anniversary, he responded with a chuckle, “That’s like asking me if I’ll still be alive.” Harold Johnson, 90, is making it a goal to attend the 75th anniversary,

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Least Educated in the Nation

Education is key for a successful future. And many Americans agree. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, roughly 41% of Americans aged 18 to 24 were enrolled in a two- or four-year degree-granting institution, far more than the 25.5% enrolled in 1967. But in some cities in America, residents aren’t working towards getting their diplomas. And those towns are stuck in a vicious cycle, Pedro Noguera, professor of education at New York University, says. “Low levels of education make it difficult for them to attract businesses that pay higher wages.” This results in, among other things, “young people moving away from the area as soon as they graduate from high school.” Understandably, cities with low level of college-educated adults tend to have lower median incomes. Many of the least educated cities, according to Noguera, have historically been dependent on agriculture and mining. Just 2% of the nation’s employment was in the agriculture, forestry, and mining industries as of last year. Yet, among many of the least educated cities, these sectors accounted for a far greater share of employment. For instance, the Madera, California, metro area led the nation with 23% of its workforce employed in these industries. Lake Havasu City-Kingman, Arizona, is the least educated city in the nation. Only 11.3% adults obtain a bachelor’s degree or higher and the average household income is only $39,058. Dalton, Georgia, came in second on the list. Only 12.2% of adults have

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the poverty line, although it is hoped that wages will grow in the future as the city is located near San Juan Basin, a major source of New Mexico’s budding oil boom.

Google, Apple, Yahoo, and eBay are located just a few miles away. Over 30 police officers and dozens of construction workers in white hazmat suits joined about 15 social service workers to dismantle the trashfilled community. As the group gathered alongside a busy San Jose road, people slowed down to watch the drama unfold. “People drive by and look at us like we’re circus animals,” said a crying Nancy Ortega. Ortega trembled and gripped her fleece blanket while watching in horror as tractors scooped up couches, tents, blankets, rotten food and pails of excrement and dumped it all into garbage trucks. “It’s just junk to everyone else but to us, that’s home. That’s our stuff,” she sobbed. All personal property confiscated will be stored for 90 days before being disposed of in March. “I just grabbed whatever I could

Nation’s Largest Homeless Camp Closed On Thursday, a group of police officers and social service workers visited a homeless encampment in California, urging about 50 people to gather up their few belongings and move on. The camp had been come to be known as the Jungle, one of the nation’s largest homeless camps, ironically located in the heart of Silicon Valley. In its prime, the camp was home to as many as 350 people. Ironically, the headquarters of tech giants

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That’s Odd A Town of Dummies Years ago, the village of Nagoro, Japan, was bustling with family life. Now, the town deep in the rugged mountains is home to just 35 people— and over a hundred scarecrows that are taking over the spots left empty by those who have died or have left to bigger cities. Tsukimi Ayano, 65, is one of the younger residents of the town. She came back to take care of her father and now spends her days bringing life to the decaying town. “They bring back memories,” Ayano said of the life-sized dolls she makes that are crowded into corners of her farmhouse home, perched on fences and trees, huddled side-by-side at a produce stall, the bus stop, anywhere a living person might stop to take a rest. “That old lady used to come and chat and drink tea. That old man used to love to drink sake and tell stories. It reminds me of the old times, when they were still alive and well,” she said.

Who ever said that being grumpy is the key to chasing friends away? When photos of Grumpy Cat, a cat who perpetually looks cross, went online, social media went wild. Over 1 million viewers saw the photos of the frowning feline with just 48 hours. Now, it has been revealed that Tabatha Bundesen, 29, Grumpy Cat’s owner, has been making big bucks off of her cat’s cantankerous expression. The cat has a form of dwarfism and an under-bite that yields a perpetual frown. When Tabatha’s brother posted a photo of Grumpy Cat Reddit on September 22, 2012, Tabatha was working as a waitress. But not for long. “I was able to quit my job as a waitress within days of her first appearance on social media and the phone simply hasn’t stopped ringing since,” she related. In two years, Tabatha has generated nearly $100 million from Grumpy Cat’s paid appearances, book deals, and modeling career, according to The Telegraph. (She later told Huffington

to joy to so many people — and she’s a cat.” She’s the cat’s meow.

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Post that that amount is inaccurate, but doesn’t say if it’s too high or low). Tabatha believes Grumpy Cat is “unstoppable.” “We knew she was extremely unique, but we didn’t know she would be this magnitude of special,” Tabatha said at Grumpy Cat’s second-birthday party in April. “I’m used to working every day, so this is a huge routine change,” Bundesen said. “You don’t have to have a routine when you have to take pictures of the cat.” Besides for lounging around photographing her feline, Tabatha said, “I’m getting to travel ... we get to see my family that lives in different parts of the country more often. It’s really awesome that Grumpy Cat can spread

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A group of a few dozen protesters gathered at the site holding signs reading: “Homeless people matter” and “Stand with The Jungle.” The city of San Jose has spent more than $4 million over the last year and a half to solve problems at the encampment and has housed some 135 people from the site. However, it has become too dangerous due to pollution and violence. This is not the first time the camp was cleared out. This time, though, officials will be patrolling the area to ensure that the homeless do not resettle in the area.

One doll sits next to Ayano as she drives 90 minutes to the market. When the elementary school closed down two years ago, that was the last straw for Ayano. The school is now filled with students—stuffed with hay and not knowledge—and teachers. Ayano proudly brings visitors through the town to see her life-like scarecrows. Some have their eyes shut, some are cuddling toddler scarecrows or plows. These scarecrows do the opposite of what scarecrows usually do—they are bringing in visitors instead of chasing them away. “If I hadn’t made these scarecrows, people would just drive right by,” Ayano says proudly.

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The Week Italy, by Sabatino Truffles. On Saturday, the royal fungus was sold for a whopping $61,250 at a New York City auction. A food and wine lover from Taiwan who bid by phone bought the “diamond of the kitchen.” The truffle was slightly smaller than a football; the average white truffle that’s unearthed is generally about the size of a walnut. According to Sotheby’s the previous largest white truffle ever found was 2.5 pounds.

World’s Heaviest Gown Want to weigh 400 pounds at your wedding? Wear the Fantasy gown by Gail Be and you’ll surely tip the scales. The designer from Minnesota has created the world’s largest and heaviest wedding gown—weighing a whopping 380 lbs. It took over three years to create the beaded confection, with

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22 seamstresses and one million beads used. There are 500,000 glass pearls and 400,000 crystals held together with seven miles of wire on the Fantasy gown. There is no fabric on the wedding dress. “Today’s bride, whether she is spending $1,500 or $15,000 on her wedding dress, wants to have a wedding-day look that reflects her personal style,” comments Terry Hall, Fashion Director at Kleinfeld, the famed bridal salon in New York. “And while Fantasy is very much a fantasy gown, there is a lot of inspiration brides can find from it, whether it be the silhouette, the pattern of the beads, or even the headdress.” An award-winning beader, Be set out to create this one-of-a-kind wedding dress out of her own personal collection of beads. After losing her vision in the early 1990s, Be moved from bead weaving to bead collecting, but thanks to a corneal transplant and Lasik surgery, her vision came back and she could resume her passion. “I thought I’m going to build the biggest wedding dress in the world,” Be told Mail Online. “Didn’t know what the stats were, didn’t know how to do it, but knew that I was going to be doing the big one.” Now that her work is complete—and will surely ensure her a spot in Guinness Book of World Records—Be is content knowing that no one will ever wear her piece of masterpiece. “It’s an art piece,” notes celebrity wedding planner Marcy Blum. “She set out to draw attention to her work, and she wouldn’t have gotten any press at all if it were just a tapestry.”

The front of its page highlighted positive news stories and even negative stories were given a positive twist (“no disruption on the roads despite snow”). The result was so happy— that no one wanted to read. Two-thirds of its readership dropped that day. In the newsroom, the old adage has been “if it bleeds, it leads.” But this experiment highlights our fascination with the negative and the morbid. Psychologists have said that negative events are more memorable and emotionally impactful than good ones. The media has jumped on that and has given people what they crave. Of course, despite the influx of negative news, there’s always the desire to read something happy or funny once in a while. That’s why you’re reading the “that’s odd” section!

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Over the past year, CJ Twomey has gone scuba diving in the waters off the Dominican Republic, flown over Turkey in a hot-air balloon, and ascended Peru’s Machu Picchu. He’s visited more than 100 countries, thanks to the kindness of hundreds of strangers who are helping CJ see the world. CJ, though, is not really visiting these countries. The boy died tragically in 2010 at the age of 20, and his mom, Hallie Twomey, set up the “Scattering CJ” Facebook page for her son last year to ask people around the globe to spread his ashes in “some of the world he never got to see.” He’s even been able to go to parts out of this world: In October, his ashes rode into space on a rocket as part of a Celestis memorial spaceflight, the AP re-

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Ever get sick of all the violence and strife in the headlines? A Russian news site, City Reporter, decided to take a vacation from troubling news for a day and only reported good stories for its readers.

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ports. “It dawned on me that his ashes would be sitting in that urn forever,” Hallie told the BBC. “I wanted to give CJ something he didn’t get a chance to have.” Hallie and her husband, John, were amazed at the support they have received. They anticipated a few hundred responses after their initial social media appeal, but they’ve received more than 9,000 so far. Volunteers are sent a small bag of CJ’s ashes, as well as a letter and a photo of the ex-Air Force member in his Red Sox shirt. Hallie asks that before they spread CJ’s ashes, they tell him his mom loves him. “We decided to believe that wherever CJ’s ashes ended up, that’s where they were meant to be,” his mom says.

Nobel Prize Sold for Millions

On Thursday, the Nobel Prize medal of celebrated American geneticist James Watson sold for $4.75 million in just minutes at auction in New York. The sale, the first of a Nobel Prize by a living laureate, was considerably more than the $2.5-$3.5 million estimate, the auction house Christie’s said. Made of 23-karat gold, the medal features the profile of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. Watson was awarded the prize in 1962 for discovering the double-helix structure of DNA nine years earlier – one of the 20th century’s most important scientific findings. But his reputation took a hit a few years later and he has been shunned by some in the scientific community ever since. Christie’s also sold Watson’s handwritten notes for his speech during the

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George Prior went on a soda binge recently, drinking ten 12 ounce cans of Coke a day. The fifty year old documented his soda-guzzling habit on his website, 10 Cokes a Day, to see how the whopping amounts of sugar would affect his body. “I got the idea because I read that [an actor] drank 10 Cokes a day to gain weight for his Dom Hemingway role, and I was joking with one of my brothers that that was probably a diet for some people,” Prior related. “But then we realized that amount of sugar isn’t that far from the norm for many Americans, so then I got really curious to see what would happen to me if I really drank ten Cokes, and it sounded like a fun experiment.” On day one, Prior reported in the video, “I’ve just gotten back from the doctor where I’ve had a complete physical. I’m 50 years old and in good health.” He then began consuming 10 cans of Coke per day. That’s an additional 1,400 calories and 390 grams of sugar daily. On day nine, he was already start-

Gone But Not Forgotten After 65 years, an overdue copy of Gone with the Wind has finally been returned to a high school library. The grateful school has said that it’s waiving the late fees that at 2 cents a day would have added up to $475. The long-overdue book was

checked out of the library of a high school in the city of Spokane, Washington, in 1949 and seemingly disappeared until it was found in Maine by a resident who offered to send it back to the school. “We’re delighted to have the book back, but we wonder where it has been,” Lori Wyborney, principal of John R. Rogers High School, said of the 1946 reprint of Gone With the Wind, which she estimates to be worth about $350.

Wyborney got wind of the long-overdue library book in October, after Maine resident Wayne Hachey found it in his father’s cellar, with the library paperwork still in the cover. “Not sure how the book ended up on the East Coast,” Hachey wrote in a letter addressed to the school. “I’d be willing to ship the book back if this is the same school.” Wyborney wrote back, promising to waive late fees. The slip inside the cover said it was checked out on January 4, 1949, to Betty Mandershied, whose name is listed in the school’s 1949 yearbook. Better late than never because as they say, “Tomorrow is another day.” 

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ing to feel the ill effects of the soda, weighing eight pounds more than when he started. “I’ve gained 2 pounds since yesterday,” Prior reported. “I don’t feel good.” By day 15, Prior’s body fat had jumped from 8 to 14 percent. And after the full 30 days, he had gained 23 pounds. “I feel heavier, I can’t wear my long pants to work anymore,” said Prior in the video. “My clothes all fit tightly and I can’t bend over easily.” Ten cans of Coke may seem excessive, but Americans are habitually consuming loads of sugar daily. According to the USDA, Americans eat 156 pounds of added sugar every year, which breaks down to 194 grams per day. During his challenge, Prior drank 390 grams of added sugar daily. The Recommended Daily Allowance of sugar for men is 36 grams, and 24 grams for women. “Most people know that soda is not good for them, but for some reason, they think the risk of excess sugar consumption is less than that of having too much saturated and trans fat, sodium or calories,” Kristin Kirkpatrick, R.D, wellness manager at the Cleveland Clinic, said. “Perhaps it’s sugar’s lack of sodium or fat that makes it the lesser of several evils, or perhaps people are simply of the mind frame that what they don’t know won’t hurt them.” Sugar not only makes us pack on pounds, but it can also damage your heart, is linked to cancer, is as toxic to your liver as too much alcohol and can even make your brain age quicker and accelerate memory loss. What happened on Day 31—when his challenge ended? “If I have to drink another Coke in 1,000 years it would be one Coke too soon,” Prior said after throwing out all his unopened cans of soda. Time for some delicious, refreshing glasses of water.

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Nobel banquet on December 10, 1962. Valued at $300,000-$400,000, the five pages went under the hammer for $365,000. Watson had also participated in the Nobel conference. A corrected, 46page manuscript valued at $200,000$300,000 sold for $245,000. The author of numerous scientific volumes, Watson intends to donate a portion of the proceeds to the University of Chicago, where he studied, Clare College at the University of Cambridge, where he worked, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he served as president for many years. Those are noble causes for a Nobel winner.

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“Say“Say What?” What?” I saw that on Small Business Saturday, the president went shopping at a bookstore and bought 17 books, including The Laughing Monsters, Being Mortal, and Heart of Darkness. Or as the cashier put it, “You OK, man? Maybe a little Chicken Soup for the Presidential Soul?” - Jimmy Fallon

The time has come, for many reasons, after 30 years, for Jonathan Pollard to be released and to become a free man. He has already paid his debt and he at least deserves the same treatment that others in his position have received. We will not refrain from acting until we bring him home, here to the State of Israel. –Prime Minister Netanyahu, after Jonathan Pollard recently lost consciousness in jail and had to be hospitalized A brewery in Oregon is coming out with a new Sriracha-flavored beer. That’s right, beer that tastes like hot sauce. They said it’s the perfect beverage for finding out if you’re an alcoholic: “There’s only one beer left and it has hot sauce in it — just give it to me!” - Jimmy Fallon

Over the weekend, a couple got married on the New York City subway — on the subway! The couple asked that instead of gifts you send Purell hand sanitizer. – Conan O’Brien

You’re as smart as any boy. - Vice President Joe Biden upon checking out a girl’s software program at a White House technology fair According to a new study, the larger the age difference between married couples, the more likely they are to get a divorce. Or as golddiggers call that: “the point.” - Jimmy Fallon

It’s time to take guns away from police. - Award winning journalist Tim Pool

Today Prince William went to Washington, D.C., and he met with President Obama. He said, “It feels weird being in the White House because I’m not an American.” And then Prince William said, “Yeah, me too.” - Craig Ferguson

I would say in my eight years in office I saved more black lives than any mayor in New York City. - Rudy Giuliani, responding to Mayor de Blasio’s charge that he doesn’t understand the reality of race issues in New York

The University of AlabamaBirmingham has decided to discontinue its football team. When they heard this news, New York Jets fans said, “Wait, you can do that?” – Conan O’Brien

The grand juries’ determinations to return non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases have shaken the faith of some in the integrity of the grand jury system and in the law more generally. For some law students, particularly, though not only, students of color, this chain of events is all the more profound as it threatens to undermine a sense that the law is a fundamental pillar of society designed to protect fairness, due process and equality… Students who feel that their performance on examinations will be sufficiently impaired due to the effects of these recent events may petition Dean Alice Rigas to have an examination rescheduled. - From an email by the administration of Columbia Law School

There’s been a lot of malarkey around our position on Iran—we will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon. Period. Period. End of discussion. It will not happen on our watch. - Vice President Joe Biden at the Saban Forum in Washington, D.C.

I think that’s all a bunch of hooey. - Dick Cheney’s response to a Senate Intelligence Committee report which concluded that enhanced interrogation techniques used in the War on Terror were ineffective President Obama was diagnosed with acid reflux. His approval rating is so low that he’s starting to get pushback from his esophagus. – Jimmy Kimmel Apparently, the president had a sore throat. His doctor said he needs Zantac. Sadly, that’s actually the best news President Obama’s gotten in a very long time. - Ibid. So now, Joe Biden is just a heartburn away from the Oval Office. - Ibid.

We’ve had to literally train him — as families have all over this city for decades — in how to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him. - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaking about how he had to train his mixed-race son, Dante, to avoid lethal missteps with police Police officers feel like they are being thrown under the bus. - Patrick J. Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, responding to Mayor de Blasio’s comments

This is official today. China has surpassed the U.S. and now has the No. 1 economy in the world. After hearing this, China’s children asked, “So, now can we take a lunch break?” - Conan O’Brien

Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, “It wasn’t a Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no. Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.” - Jimmy Fallon

While shaving, I think of Ebola; while eating, I think of Ebola; while sleeping, I think of Ebola. When you are at war, how can you think of anything else? - President Alpha Condé of Guinea, who has led his nation’s fight against the disease after initially minimizing the threat

I regretted having done this for many years and apologize for my selfishness. I have taken care to preserve the flag until I could return it so that it may assume its place as part of Manchester’s heritage. - From an apology note accompanying the return of a bicentennial American flag which was stolen nearly 40 years ago from the top of a Manchester, New Hampshire, observatory

There are reports that President Obama has finally found a nominee to replace Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. His nominee is named Ashton Carter. Which sounds less like a defense secretary and more like the member of a boy band. – Jimmy Fallon

Iran may have attacked ISIS. Do you know how long it’s been since I have been able to wear my “Go Iran” t-shirt? - Conan O’Brien

Man stabs another inside Brooklyn synagogue. - CNN headline after a Lubavitch chassid was stabbed at 770 in what some are calling a hate crime

My vision is I want to see millions of people living and working in space. - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at the Business Insider Ignition conference

You have employed a lot of people — mostly as secretary of defense. - Stephen Colbert to President Obama

The birthrate in the United States is at an all-time low. Whereas our death rate is still holding strong at 100 percent. - Jimmy Kimmel If these reports are true, this would mark a new era of unprecedented hostility from the White House against our strongest ally in the Middle East. It’s impossible not to notice the irony of the administration mulling sanctions on Israel while threatening to veto new sanctions against Iran. – A senior congressional aide talking to the Washington Beacon about reports that the Obama administration is considering sanctioning Israel

McDonald’s has released a video showing how its Chicken McNuggets are made. Apparently, the McNuggets die naturally after being fed the McRib. - Conan O’Brien

To honor his memory, I donate this ring. I’m hoping there’s someone out there who made lots of money this year and will buy the ring for 10 times its worth. After all, there’s no price on love or the sentimental value of this ring. But money will help the kids. – From a note attached to a diamond engagement ring placed in a Boston Salvation Army bucket by a widow in honor of her late husband

He’s one of the most known athletes in the world. - Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Jonathan Bernier at fundraiser in honor of the antiapartheid leader Nelson Mandela who died a year ago

Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It’s helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year. - Conan O’Brien

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Obama went to the hospital this weekend because of a sore throat. Everything is fine, but it was a little awkward when they asked what insurance he uses, and he said, “Blue Cross. No, I mean Obamacare.” - Jimmy Fallon

I’m sorry, I have four kids. - An apologetic female robber, addressing workers at a Florida shoe store during an armed stickup

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A village in Alaska has been without mail for days because its only postal worker quit. So if you want to reach anyone in that village, you will have no choice but to email, call, text, Facebook, tweet, Skype, or Instagram. - Conan O’Brien

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“The truth is that everyone heard and felt what was happening. As soon as we heard that Hitler had taken control, we all knew what his plans were. People say this Rebbe knew this, and that Rebbe knew that, but really, every day more news came in about the terrible things that were taking place”

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- Rabbi Ephraim Fishel Hershkowitz from Munkatch, Hungary, the Haleiner Rav, dayan of Klausenberg, and survivor of Auschwitz

Kastner’s Train: 70 Years Later BY JOE BOBKER

dolf Hitler’s troops goose-stepped “almost like sightseers” into The steely blue-eyed Eichmann, who referred to himself as “the Hungary on Sunday morning, March 19, 1944, in Operation Bloodhound,” was an aloof humorless man with large Dumbo ears Margaret, and by May, the cattle car trains began rolling to Pol- and thin lips, always armed and often drunk, a natural-born menacing ish death camps “as if they were opening a meat packing business.” liar. The Jews and the Nazi’s ghoulish negotiations were akin to hagInto this unfolding nightmare stepped Dr. (for jurisprudence) Ru- gling over barrels of pickled herring. Eichmann wanted a Blut fuer ware dolf (Rezso) Israel Kastner, 38, one of three sons of deeply religious (“Blood for goods”) deal; specifically a million Jews for 10,000 military Transylvanian Zionist Jews; his father, R’ Yitzhak, spent most of his day trucks, money, gold, diamonds, war materials (tungsten) plus 200 tons of bent over a gemara and died while reading tea, 200 tons of coffee, 2,000,000 cases of the Torah for the synagogue in Cluj-Napsoap, sugar, chocolate, and other consumer oca (Klausenburg) on the seventh day of goods. Pesach. “You can take Jews from Hungary, PoKastner was suave, sophisticated, conland, Austria, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz,” tentious, an intelligentsia who spoke five the condescending, sarcastic mass murderlanguages (including Latin), craved the imer offered, “from wherever you want. What age of a dramatis personae, and tirelessly do you want to save? Virile men? Grown helped Jewish refugees pouring into Hunwomen? Old people? Children? For every gary with accommodations, clothing, food, hundred thousand Jews, a thousand trucks. and Romanian exit visas which he procured You are getting away cheap.” through bribery. At the time, 12,000 Jews were being deTogether with Joel Brand, a gregarious ported daily to Auschwitz; obviously, even unkempt poker-playing leftist and resourcea temporary slowing down could save lives. ful rescue activist, Kastner formed the coAs Brand faltered in trying to put a deal tovert Vaadat Ezrah ve-Hatzalah (“Commitgether, Kastner continued to negotiate with Childen onboard the train tee for Aid and Rescue”) that was headed the Devil and would often mutter, “Nothing by Otto Komoly, a liberal engineer, a few leftist Jews, and two Orthodox is unholy in a holy struggle” as he put together the only successful blood Jews (Eugen Frankl and Moshe [Miklos] Krausz). This was the Vaad barter in the Holocaust. that Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl from Nitra and his secular cousin Gisi Fleischman turned to when their efforts to bribe Nazi officials stalled.1 s an act of “good faith,” Eichmann “put aside” 20,000 elderly Komoly, who would be murdered by the Arrow Cross in January Hungarian Jews and women with children as additional Aus1945, turned to Kastner and Brand and suddenly, to everybody’s surtauschjuden (“bargaining Jewish pawns”) while allowing two prise, serious talks were in progress. What changed? SS Untersturmban- transports of Jews to be diverted from death camps to neutral Switzernfuhrer Adolf Eichmann, who hated Orthodox Jews, assumed—correct- land. ly—that Mapai party Zionists such as Kastner were more influential with The first train with 1,210 Jews left without incident. It was the second the Jewish Agency in Palestine. transport that became controversial after the war and set off a firestorm The talks with Brand began on April 25, 1944, in Eichmann’s luxuri- of criticism from some strange bedfellows: secular anti-religious Labor ous offices at the Little Majestic Hotel in Budapest, or as the Nazis called Zionists and Orthodox Hungarian Jews. it, “Judapest.” After the “Kastner train” (actually, 35 cattle trucks) left Budapest

It is not what Kastner did

during the war (after all, how many Jews rescued Jews?) but what he did afterwards.

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erev Shabbos, June 30, 1944, the greedy Eichmann The transport resembled a “Noah’s Ark,” an assortdemanded another five million in Swiss francs and di- ment of Jews to ensure future Jewish survival. It inverted the terrified human cargo to Bergen-Belsen for cluded the rich and poor; the old (85 years) and young five months until he got his way. The new ransom was (one month); there were 252 Jewish child orphans onraised by Kastner’s Vaad and a special “auction” for board; one baby was born during the journey; Zionists 150 coveted seats, most and non-Zionists, athepurchased by wealthy ists and religious Jews, or well-connected Jews. an assortment of Jewish Jewish leaders fought professors, poets, artists, bitterly among themand a member of every selves for seats for their Jewish organization from own constituents. Poalei Zion to Hechalutz Negotiations were to Agudas Yisrael. So concluded when “bonwhat was the problem? bons,” code for candy boxes filled with diahe post-war acmonds, and three suitcascusations against es stuffed with cash, gold, Kastner2 were and stock certificates two-fold: favoritism and were delivered. R’ Pindeception. chas von Freudiger, the Nearly forty percent wealthy Orthodox leader of the passengers (388 Some of the passengers on the first Kastner train of Hungarian Jewry, purJews) came from Kastchased seats for his family, friends, and such major ner’s hometown of Klausenberg. They included famTorah leaders as Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar ily, friends, landsman, and his father-in-law, Dr. Josef Rav, together with his rebbetzin (Faiga Rachel) and Fisher, rosh hakal (“president”) of Kolozsvar, head of gabbai (R’ Yossel Ashkenazi). the Klausenberg Mizrahi party, and nephew of Rabbi Also onboard were around forty rabbis including Yisroel Yaakov Fisher, a dayan with the Eida haChaRabbi Moshe Stern, the Debreziner Rav; R’ Yonason reidis in Jerusalem. It was R’ Fisher who demanded Steif, the last av bes din of Budapest, Hungary’s high- the Satmar Rav, a distant relative, be onboard. est elected rabbinic post; R’ Abraham Jungreis, chief But a hundred of Kastner’s relatives were left berabbi of Szeged; his wife, two sons and daughter (Es- hind and died at Auschwitz. Kastner couldn’t even get ther, 7, the future famous columnist); R’ Yehoshua his partner Joel Brand’s eighty-year-old mother on the Menachem Mendel Aharonberg; R’ Adolph Deutsch; train. Mrs. Brand was left begging in the mud for a R’ Akiva Glasner, Rav of Klausenberg; R’ Shalom seat and was later murdered at Bergen-Belsen. Krausz, the Udvari Rav; and his brother, R’ Asher AnIn response to the accusations, Kastner, who had shel, the Ratzferter Rebbe; R’ Naftoli Klein, the Volia opportunities to leave for Palestine but stayed to care Rav; his wife, Devorah, and two children; R’ Shlomo for his widowed mother, said that the Germans speTzvi Strasser; R’ Weisz; R’ Reuven Schmeltzer, fa- cifically wanted his family on the train as ongoing security for the additional ther of the singer Lipa; ransom money. And, he R’ Shlomo Zalman Ullexplained, he put famman; R’ Yosef Frank; R’ ily aboard to reassure the Binyamin Goldschmidt, other Jewish passengers, a Hungarian orphan who all of whom were skeptiended up in Melbourne, cal of the Nazi intent, to Australia; R’ Hershkowboard. The Satmar rebitz, who gave his wife betzin, for example, did and daughters a vial not trust the deal and did of cyanide before they not want to get on the boarded (“When you see train, especially when it’s the end, take it!”); R’ Kastner himself stayed Zvi Dov Slanger, his fabehind. ther and two siblings, of No one will ever Baltimore; Devorah Halknow the truth but, right berstam, 18, daughter of or wrong, familial favorR’ Yaakov Zvi, the Sucha itism in times of danger is Rav, who was murdered human nature: a family in the Bochnia Ghetto; man will run into a burnher sister and two brothing building to rescue ers, and others, many his own wife and chilwith families and sibKastner in the early 1950s dren before his neighlings. Efforts to get other rabbis such as Rabbi Shalom bors’ family. During (and after) the Holocaust, Jewish Eliezer Halberstam, 83, Admor of Ratzfert and son of groups for personal, political, spiritual, or ideologiR’ Chaim of the Sanz chassidic dynasty, failed. Rav cal reasons looked after their own “tent” first: OrthoHalberstam was sent “to the left” by Mengele to be dox Jews tried to save Orthodox Jews, Zionists tried to save fellow Zionists, socialist and Bundist Jews incinerated on June 7, 1944. On December 7, 1944, the Kastner train finally looked after socialist and Bundist Jews, and so on. In fact, Eichmann’s original intent was to only let crossed the border into Switzerland with 1,684 (main318 Jews leave; by the time all the lobbying on the ly Hungarian) Jews on board.

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7 On board the “Kastner Train” were (1) Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum from Satmar, (2) Baltimore’s R’ Zvi Dov Slanger, (3) R’ Moshe Stern, the Debreziner Rov, (4) R’ Yonason Steif, the Vienner Rav, (5) R’ Shlomo Tzvi Strasser, (6) R’ Akiva Glasner of Klausenberg, and (7) R’ Asher Anshel Krauze of Ratzfert

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Jewish side ended, the number grew lent”), the credible Dr. Abraham to 600 and finally to 1,684 Jews. Fuchs’ Karati V’ein Oneh (“The But the more sinister charge is Unheeded Cry”), Rav Weissmandl’s this: In late April to early May 1944, angry yet sensitive Min Hameitzer SS Dieter von Wisliceny, an obese (“Out of the Depths”), and R’ Moshe Protestant pastor and brother-in-law Schonfeld’s Serufay Ha Kivshbnim of Heinrich Himmler who was on Maashimim (“The Holocaust VicKastner’s list of corrupt Nazis, told tims Accuse”), an inflammatory parhim what was in store for Hungary’s tisan blame-the-Jews literary mug800,000 Jews. Instead of warning ging (“Jewish blood is the anointing the community, he is accused of beoil needed for the wheels of the Zitraying them with such bubamases onist state”) that is popular on Ho(“fairy tales”) as being relocated to locaust denial websites, here is my Kainermeize (“Land of Bread”) and personal opinion. The Kastner train arriving in Switzerland depriving them of a chance to flee or It is not what Kastner did during hide. the war (after all, how many Jews These facts are true but the circumstances are complicated. rescued Jews?) but what he did afterwards. Firstly, the Orthodox Hungarian hierarchy would never have listened On August 4, 1947, Kastner, safe in Palestine, voluntarily returned to to Kastner (or Brand) for the same reason the Polish and Litvishe rab- Germany as a character witness for such Jew-killing scum as SS Colonel binate brushed aside the prescient Zev Jabotinsky: they were all secular Hermann Alois Krumey, Eichmann’s deputy, portraying him as a misZionist Jews. understood Good Samaratian to Jews, and worse: he came to the aid of Secondly, after six years of non-stop massacring of Polish Jewish SS lieutenant-colonel Kurt Andreas Ernst Becher, the merciless head of communities, a large segment of Orthodox Hungarian Jews had first- the SS “Economics Department,” in other words, the Nazi’s most deadhand reports about ghettos, bloodbaths, trains, and death camps from ly “shakedown” artist, a beastly man who pulled gold fillings from the the thousands of Polish (and other) Jewish refugees who sought refuge teeth of hundreds and thousands of Jewish corpses, kept the clothing in their country. And all were aware of the two day—August 27 and 28, and belongings of victims, tortured Jews before their murder to reveal 1941—killing spree at Kamenetz-Podolsk where, in the first mass offi- where they might have hidden valuables, shoved plaster of Paris in the cial slaughter in the Holocaust, Germans swept up and butchered 23,600 mouths of Jewish women and children to stop their screaming, placed non-Hungarian Jewish refugees. steel plates in his shiny boots so his noisy footsteps would strike fear in This was not a hush-hush operation in a country where the definition his Jewish prey as he approached – and emerged from behind the mounof a Hungarian anti-Semite was “a person who hates Jews more than tains of Jewish corpses as one of the richest men in western Germany. absolutely necessary.” Thanks to Kastner, this monster walked out of the International Court in December 1947 a free man. The judgment on Kastner is obviously G-d’s cheshban. But if I sat on Kastner continued to negotiate with the His jury I would demand a hybrid verdict: a free pass to Gan Eden for saving Jews with weekends rotting in Hell for helping Nazis like Becher Devil and would often mutter, “Nothing after the war had ended.

is unholy in a holy struggle” as he put together the only successful blood barter in the Holocaust. More importantly, Auschwitz was also not a secret. It had been up and running since May 1940. When the deportations began the day after Pesach 1944, the Orthodox hierarchy had information of the camp’s sudden feverish construction activity where wooden platforms were being replaced with concrete ramps in anticipation of “greeting” 750,000 new Hungarian victims. (In Nazi jargon, these Jews were referred to as “the salami Jews” because it was the main food found in their luggage after they were murdered; in the twisted SS sense-of-humor, they defined what type of Jews they were killing by their national cuisine.) Consider: “I knew what they [the Nazis] had done in all Germanoccupied states of Europe,” R’ Samu Stern, the elderly Orthodox head of the Budapest Jewish Council and a survivor, recalls, “I knew of their murders and the other [members] knew as much as I did.” Rav Weissmandl and Rav Yoel Teitelbaum were also aware via the distribution of the infamous Vrba-Wetzler “Auschwitz Protocols” and both urged the Hungarian leadership not to publicize it in order to avoid mass panic. By then, Rav Weissmandl was angry and frustrated that his earlier desperate pleas to Hungarian Jewry to flee, build bunkers, forge documents, and so on, had all gone unheeded.

eventy years after the Holocaust, Kastner is still vilified for not saving 450,000 Jews. Putting aside this Holocaust historiography, which includes Ben Hecht’s Perfidy, Fishel Shneurson’s Al Domi (“Do Not Keep Si-

Fleischman managed to get her two daughters (Judith, Alice) to Palestine but never saw them again. She was sent to Auschwitz on October 17, 1944, her body stamped Ruckkehr unerwunscht (“Return Undesirable”); the valiant Jewess, age 70, was gassed to death immediately upon arrival. Rav Weissmandl’s wife, four small daughters, and a son, were rounded up in Nitra and also sent to their deaths at Auschwitz. Rav Weissmandl managed to jump from the train, hide in a bunker in a suburb of Bratislava with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Halberstam, the Stropkover Rebbe, until, with the help of Kastner, they both escaped to Switzerland and from there to the United States 1

In 1938, Malchiel Gruenwald, an Orthodox Hungarian Jew and member of the religious Zionist Mizrahi party, was beaten up by street thugs in Vienna, Austria. All his teeth were knocked out, his legs and arms broken, his head smashed in. He lived only because his attackers thought he was dead. Upon recovery, he left for Palestine with his wife, daughter (Rina), and son (Itzcha) who was killed fighting in the Battle of Mount Zion during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. Over fifty of Gruenwald’s relatives were murdered by Hitler; one brother (Philip), the director of the Viennese Jewish Museum, was tortured and executed in 1944 together with Rabbi Fabian Herschkowitz for the “crime” of printing a leaflet in Budapest, Hungary. In August 1952, Gruenwald, 72, a man with two hobbies, stamp collecting and penning Michtavim el haveray be’Mizrahi (“Letters to my Friends in Mizrahi”), political pamphlets which hardly anybody read, accused Rudolf Kastner, a survivor who edited Israel’s largest Hungarian Jewish paper and worked in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, of treason for co-operating with the Nazis in the swift annihilation of Hungarian Jewry. The ruling Labor-Mapai party (foolishly) decided to respond to the defamation of an employee by filing a libel lawsuit (“The State of Israel vs. Malchiel Gruenwald”). The long trial ended in September 1954 when presiding Judge Benjamin Halevy, an Orthodox German Jew with a passion for music, took fourteen hours to read the verdict. Gruenwald was exonerated, Kastner charged for “selling his soul to the German Satan.” The government appealed and won. But by then an acquittal was irrelevant. In March 1957, Kastner, 57, was gunned down by three Jews (Te’ev Eckstein, Yosef Menkes, and Dan Shemer) outside his house at Emmanuel 6, Tel Aviv

Joe Bobker, alumni of Yeshivas HaRav Kook, Jerusalem, is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Jewish Times, author of the popular Torah With a Twist of Humor series, and the upcoming 12-volume Historiography of Orthodox Jews and the Holocaust. He can be reached at jbobker@gmail.com.

In The Kitchen

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it was time to visit the restaurants and begin the process of getting them to reveal those secrets. What were some of their favorite and most exciting recipes they got for the book? According to Victoria, a real prize was the Bourbon Barbecue Ribs from TFusion Steakhouse in Brooklyn. “Great spice rubs and BBQ sauces are usually the last secrets a chef would want to give away,” she explains. For Leah, it was exciting when they “got” one of the most frequently requested recipes at the very last minute, “My favorite is Shredded Short Rib Tacos … from Reserve Cut.” Both Schapira and Dwek agreed that writing the cookbook was a learning experience, and they strove to share the information they learned with their readers. But their number-one tip? Both of the authors are in agreement here: hot pans. Victoria explains, “Now, when I cook, I put the pot over the fire before I do anything else. Proteins and veggies come out so much better when they’re cooked in a hot pan.” With a great mix of recipes for everyday and special occasions, fancy food as well as kid-friendly favorites, and with mouthwatering photos for every dish, Secret Restaurant Recipes is the perfect gift for the kosher foodie. And while this book is an international volume, with restaurants in Panama City, Venice, London, and Israel, it also showcases recipes from the Five Towns’ favorite spots such as Carlos & Gabby’s, The Upper Crust, and Prime Bistro, so you’ll soon be recreating some of your very own favorite dishes — right in your home kitchen!

en k c i h C t Eggplan rlic Sauce in Ga Segal’s Oasis Grill Owner Daniel Gilkarov Phoeniz, Arizona

I had originally ordered the vegetarian version, served with firm tofu (prepare using the same method as the chicken; see note). Try the chicken version for a family-favorite dinner. - Victoria

hen Leah and I first discussed writing a restaurant cookbook, the first thought that came to my mind was, “The eggplant from Segal’s.” My last vacation-sans-kids was quite a while ago. I might have forgotten what the view of the Grand Canyon looks like before I’d forget the dish I enjoyed for dinner during my first night in Arizona. I had called the chef over to talk about it. And while my husband complimented him on the ribs, I interrupted and said, “That didn’t taste like regular eggplant. What was that?”

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hen Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek embarked on their journey to write a cookbook full of secret recipes from top kosher restaurants, lots of people were skeptical. Would enough restaurants be willing to share the recipes for some of their most popular menu items to fill an entire book? The answer is evident, as I am holding their new cookbook, Secret Restaurant Recipes. This is a hardcover, full-size cookbook that not only features most of today’s most popular kosher restaurants, but it’s also packed with mouthwatering recipes — each with a beautiful photo. Secret Restaurant Recipes also includes kitchen tips from the chefs plus menu suggestions for parties to weeknights and everything in between. Quite the opposite of their previous cookbooks, where they headed to their home kitchens and created their own recipes, for Secret Restaurant Recipes the authors headed to the “back of the house” — to the kitchens of those restaurants we frequent – to watch the chefs in action, learn from their techniques, and then share their best recipes. Last year, the authors spent a day on Central Avenue, talking to local residents about their favorite dishes at their favorite restaurants...that’s when they received requests for favorites like Carlos & Gabby’s Cedarhurst Sandwich or Prime Bistro’s Duck Spring Rolls. They asked women who work and shop in the neighborhood what they love to order for lunch (like a fun salad from The Upper Crust). Then

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Ingredients 1 lb. eggplant, cut into 1½-inch chunks kosher salt, for sprinkling 1 lb. skinless boneless chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces 3 Tbsp cornstarch, for dredging 3 Tbsp chopped garlic ¼ tsp chili pepper flakes ⅓ cup shredded carrots canola or vegetable oil, for frying Dark Sauce: ⅓ cup low-sodium soy sauce 2 Tbsp sugar

Like many out-of-town restaurants, Segal’s is a casual spot that serves some American, some Chinese, and some Middle Eastern food. There’s a sushi menu and a deli menu. But the difference is that it’s all really, really good. My husband has returned to Phoenix on business a few times since and Segal’s remains the nightly stop. Segal’s was originally a butcher shop. Back in 1967, Zalman and Pearl Segal moved to Phoenix, making kosher food available for the first time in that city. The Segal family sold the business to the Gilkarovs in 2006.

1 tsp toasted sesame oil 1 tsp ground black pepper 1 tsp cornstarch Sprinkle eggplant chunks with salt; allow to rest for 20-30 minutes (this process will prevent eggplant from soaking up too much oil during frying). Rinse salt from eggplant and drain well. Meanwhile, prepare the sauce: In a small bowl, whisk together soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, black pepper, and cornstarch. Set aside. Prepare the chicken: Place cornstarch into a shallow dish; toss the chicken in cornstarch to

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G When you see those tall, skinny Asian or Japanese eggplants in your supermarket or farmer’s market toward the end of the summer (when they’re grown locally) — grab them and make this dish. Segal’s imports Asian eggplants from Japan and they help make this dish extra special.

“Of all the rules of the kitchen that I have learned and followed over the years, I feel the most important one is if you enjoy cooking, then you do it right. Try not to cook if in a foul mood. And just have fun.” - Daniel Gilkarov, Segal’s Oasis Grill

coat very well. Heat 3-inches oil in a wok or 1-inch oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add chicken to hot oil and pan-fry until golden, 2-3 minutes per side. Remove from oil and set aside. Add the eggplant to the same pan and fry until light golden, 2-3 minutes. Remove from oil and set aside. Discard oil, leaving about 1 tablespoon in the wok or pan. Add garlic and chili pepper flakes and stir-fry for about 30 seconds. Return chicken and eggplant to the pan. Add carrots and sauce and stir-fry for 2 minutes, coating all the ingredients well with the sauce.

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G “Allaham” means “butcher” in Arabic. The family of Albert Allaham, the owner of Reserve Cut (and cousin to Prime Hospitality Group owner Joey Allaham), had been butchers in Syria for over 200 years. Albert Allaham’s family were among the final group of Jews to leave Syria in the 1990s, ending a century of migration to Brooklyn. In 2008, the family opened The Prime Cut in the heart of Syrian-Jewish Flatbush on Avenue U. The shop is renowned for its superior cuts of meat.

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Reserve Cut is especially known for its superior cuts of meat; not only is the meat super prime; each cut is also butchered to perfection and trimmed of excess fat, making every bite perfect. The sommelier will help you pair that perfect steak with a selection from the extensive wine list. - Leah

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eserve Cut is kosher’s most pampered experience. Located in Downtown Manhattan, the setting is one of the most glamorous in the city, kosher or non-kosher. From entry to exit, every aspect of your visit is five star, from the impeccable service to the classic and flawlessly executed menu. The evening (or afternoon) begins as you enter via the glasswalled wine cellar. The sleek, spacious restaurant seats 200, and features a unique glass-walled open kitchen (that’s where we like to sit). There are various party options, including use of the breathtaking private dining room housed within the wine cellar. In the main dining room, there’s plenty of room between tables to enjoy privacy as the wait staff stays attentive to your every need. The service has made Reserve Cut a go-to favorite for both business lunches and special-occasion dinners. All the dishes, from appetizers to desserts, are magnificently presented. Start with the most popular appetizer, these Smoked Short Rib Tacos, or try Wagyu Angus Ribs or King Salmon Sashimi. Even the side dishes, like Mashed Potato with Black Truffles, are luxurious. End with Raspberry Crème Brûlée or Warm Almond Cake.

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Bagels ‘n Greens Brooklyn, New York

agels ’n Greens is refreshing. Bright, green … that’s what I think of when I think about my BNG experiences. It’s the ultimate café “take a break from the day” experience … relaxing atmosphere (sit on the deck in the back of the original 18th Avenue location and you’ve left Brooklyn for a bit) … the kind of fresh, natural food that you feel good about eating … and lots of options to please the entire crew of friends, including those who want to stick to their diets and those who want to indulge. The second aspect of the Bagels ’n Greens experience that I really enjoy is the … pampering. The presentation of the food is very modern and a big part of the experience. The real pampering comes, though, when you receive a BNG gift basket. That’s the ultra-cool gift you send when you want to make someone’s day. We’ve had requests to feature one of BNG’s healthful recipes, like the low-cal zucchini soup, but this one aptly sums up that “pampering” aspect of the experience and BNG’s sweets.

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G Bagels ’n Greens gets its produce fresh from the market every single morning. No tomato ever “slept” in the BNG kitchen overnight. Leftovers are donated to charity or needy families each day. After becoming the only kosher café using the Nespressio Aguila System, BNG served 35,000 cups of espresso over a nine-month period. During the month of Chanukah, BNG sells over 55,000 donuts in 38 varieties.

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Recipes from Secret Restaurant Recipes by Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek. Reprinted with permission from the copyright holders: ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications. http://www.artscroll.com/Books/srrh.html

When Rebecca of BNG shared this recipe with us, she warned, “Wait until cool to cut (if you could wait!). Don’t forget to kiss your diet goodbye….” - Leah

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Chinuch Workshops: Practical Torah Guidelines and Strategies for Achieving Successful Chinuch The following series of articles will conclude with a project for parents to focus on each week to improve their parenting skills.

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Workshop 1

Role Modeling – The Foundation Of Chinuch

The Dynamics of Role Modeling Parental role modeling can be broadly defined as: actions, behavior or conducts that have a subtle and very powerful influence on their children. The reason for this influence is because children naturally imitate and emulate their parents’ behavior. The former Kaminetzer Mashgiach, Rav Moshe Aharon Stern, explained the dynamics of role modeling as follows: “The greatest people in a child’s eyes are his parents, and what they do is like Torah from Sinai. Children observe and study their parents’ every action and behavior and record them in their subconscious minds, leaving lasting impressions. Why is this so? Because parents are the most reliable source for priorities and values in their children’s life. Children have the simple trust that their parents won’t transmit any non-Torah or non-ethical ideals to them. Parents

are the children’s prime rebbis and educators, and their actions are the basis for their chinuch.” Moreover, since children’s intellects are not fully developed, they function mostly from their emotions rather than from logic. The result is that they learn and absorb more from what they see than from what they hear. Therefore, showing one’s children how to properly fulfill mitzvos and be a yireh shamayim has a greater impact and influence than telling them so. In a shiur on child-raising, Rabbi

tance of bentching. Rav Frand further notes that since it was done inadvertently, it made an even greater impression because it showed true sincerity. Imitating & Retaining Children also have the tendency to imitate their parents’ actions and behavior, and they observe and retain more than we realize, as illustrated by the following story: It was the night of bedikas chametz, and in order to facilitate the bedika, the

Children naturally imitate and emulate their parents’ behavior. Yissocher Frand told the following story to illustrate this concept: One day when he left his home and was on the way to giving his shiur in Yeshivas Ner Yisrael when he suddenly remembered that he hadn’t bentched. Since it was a hot and humid summer day, he was debating with himself if it was permissible to bentch away from home b’di’eved. In the end, he decided not to look for any leniencies, and he returned home, perspiring from the sweltering heat. That day, his young daughter happened to be home and asked her father in amazement why he had suddenly returned home. When he told her that he had forgotten to bentch, she exclaimed, “What! You came back to bentch?!” Rav Frand realized that he had just “scored a win.” Seeing her father’s great effort to fulfill the halachos of bentching properly made a greater impression than countless times of telling her the impor-

father assigned different parts of the home to his children, while he would do the most difficult task of checking the sefarim. After the father finished reciting the bracha of Al biyur chametz, each child went to his assigned room to do the bedika. Twenty minutes later, the children finished their bedikos and returned to their father only to find him intensely involved in looking over the sefarim. Innocently, one of the sons asked, “Tatty, what are you doing?” In total amazement, the father turned to his child, “Nu, ah-ha” and pointed to his flashlight and feather. The children returned to their rooms and started tidying up for Pesach. Ten minutes later, the children returned to their father who was still occupied with checking the sefarim. Again, one of his sons asksed, “Tatty, why are you so busy with the sefarim?” The astonished father turned to his son and in a raised voice shouted, “Nu sha!” and motioned for the boy to leave

the room. After the father finally finished checking the sefarim and saying Kol chamira etc., he called over his children and exclaimed, “What chutzpa you have for interrupting my bedika! Did you suddenly forget that tonight is bedikas chametz night?” The same son innocently replied, “But Tatty, we never saw you study from these sefarim the entire year, so why was it necessary to check them?” Main point to work and focus on for the coming week: > Parents should start becoming more aware of what they do and say in front of their children so that they will be proper role models for their children to imitate. More examples will appear in the forthcoming articles.

Rabbi Morgenstern does family counseling and lectures extensively in Israel and abroad on shalom bayis, chinuch habanim, family communication, shidduchim, dating and personal growth, and has produced a popular CD series on these topics. His articles on these topics and Jewish hashkafa have appeared internationally in Jewish newspapers and magazines. For more information or to schedule a lecture, contact Rabbi Morgenstern at 952-236-4197, 612845-0872 (Cell number when he’s in the U.S. or Canada), or at rabbi@toras-chaim. org. You can also request to receive his weekly Parsha Pearls and chinuch articles by e-mail. Please include your name in the request. Articles are dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Morgenstern’s parents, Reb Yerachmiel Yisroel Nesanel ben Reb Moshe Dov z”l and Leah Gittel bas Reb Nachman Tzvi a”h. T.N.T.B.H.

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he most important area of raising children that parents should focus on is being a good role model for their children, as the Steipler Rav once remarked, “Role modeling is 50% of child-raising.” A story is told of a young man who asked a Torah sage when and how he should prepare himself for child-raising. When the sage asked him where he was holding in life, he replied, “My wife just gave birth to our first child.” “Mazel tov,” replied the sage, “but you are a few years too late!” The sage was conveying an important message: Chinuch starts when parents are still single, when they create and mold themselves to be the best role models possible for their future children. Thus, for parents to raise well-balanced children, they must project a good model of the Torah personality and of middos tovos so that their children will follow in their footsteps.

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Vayeshev: The Struggle for Peace and Tranquility Rabbi Shmuel Silber

Yaakov had one simple desire, “Bikeysh Yaakov ley’sehv b’shaalva, Yaakov wanted to dwell in peace and tranquility (Rashi 37:2).” After running from Esav, contending with Lavan and suffering tragedy in Shechem, all Yaakov wanted was to settle in the land of his fathers, serve God and watch his family grow. “God says to the righteous, is it not enough that you will have peace in the World to Come, you also want peace in this world as well (Rashi 37:2)?” We then go on to read of the disturbing dynamic between Yosef and his brothers. Jealousy and animosity ultimately turn the brothers against Yosef and Yaakov is plunged into two decades of mourning for the son he thought had been killed. Was it too much for Yaakov to ask for peace in this world and the next? Why does it have to be an either or? What was wrong with Yaakov’s desire for tranquility and quiet after what had been a tumultuous couple of decades? Perhaps, to gain insight into Rashi’s comment we must look at an episode toward the end of the Parsha. Yosef found himself incarcerated together with the Pharaoh’s baker and butler. One morning the men awoke disturbed by dreams they had the night before. Yosef offered to listen and attempt to interpret their dreams. So the chief cupbearer related his dream to Joseph, and he said to him,

God says, this world is not for resting, this world is not for tranquility. Life is only meaningful if it is filled with perpetual growth and it is the struggle which serves as the catalyst for this growth. It is our challenges that force us to be more and do more. It is the hurdles of life that allow us to find our inner strength and resolve. It is only through challenge and struggle that we fully self-actualize. After 120, when we reach Olam HaBa, the World to Come; there we will experience true peace, tranquility and rest from our struggles. We look forward to the weekend,

we plan our vacations and we aspire to retire. But in reality, our job is to work, our mission is to struggle, our mandate is to grow. We must always look for ways to expand our soul and become more. We must learn to embrace the hard work of life and relish the opportunities to shape our circumstances. Although we may yearn for tranquility, deep down we know that true fulfillment and happiness can only be found through perpetual growth and embracing the challenges the challenges of life.

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Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan (Genesis 37:1).

“In my dream, behold, a vine is before me. And on the vine are three tendrils and it seemed to be blossoming, and its buds came out; [then] its clusters ripened into grapes. And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I placed the cup on Pharaoh’s palm (Genesis 40:9-11).” Yosef explained that in three days, the butler would be restored to his former position dutifully serving Pharaoh. Now the chief baker saw that he had interpreted well. So he said to Joseph, “Me too! In my dream, behold, there were three wicker baskets on my head. And in the topmost basket were all kinds of Pharaoh’s food, the work of a baker, and the birds were eating them from the basket atop my head (Genesis 40:9-11).” Yosef explained that in three days the baker would be executed (by Pharaoh) and the birds would pick away at his flesh. What did Yosef see in these dreams that led him to offer these differing interpretations? Rav Elchanan Wasserman (1874-1941) explains that Yosef saw a fundamental difference in the two dreams. The butler’s dream was filled with dynamic activity, the baker’s was not. The butler saw himself serving and doing, the baker saw himself passive and at rest. Where there is movement, there is life. Where there is passivity there is death. Perhaps, this insight sheds light on Yaakov’s request. What is the meaning of “Bikeysh Yaakov ley’sehv b’shaalva, Yaakov wanted to dwell in peace and tranquility?” Yaakov felt he had done what was asked of him. Unlike his father and grandfather, all of his offspring would perpetuate the code of Abrahamitic values. He had established a spiritually complete family. Yaakov wanted to rest, his beloved Rachel was gone, and he had his share of struggles and life battles – now it was time for peace. But

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Kidding!

A woman goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Chanukah cards. She says to the clerk, “May I have 50 Chanukah stamps?” The clerk says, “What denomination?” The woman says, “Oh my G-d. Has it come to this? Give me 6 Orthodox, 12 Conservative, and 32 Reform.” ***** Stan and John are walking to school one day and Stan is describing his new remote control car to John. “Where did you get that?” John asked “I got it last night for Chanukah,” said Stan. “What’s Chanukah?” John asked. “It’s a Jewish holiday, where we get presents every night for eight nights, to celebrate the Festival of Lights.” “Wow, I wish we got that!” John exclaimed. The next day, on the way to school, John runs up to Stan, curious to see what he got. He sees that Stan is upset, “What’s wrong? Where’s your present from last night?” asks John. Stan holds up a ball of crumpled wrapping paper, “It was leftovers night.”

Chanukwhat?

Riddle!

Siblings Sara, Moshe, Chaya, Leah, and Tzvi all got Chanukah presents from their parents. Sara got her present before Chaya, but after Moshe. Leah got her present first. If Tzvi got his gift after Chaya, in what order did the siblings get their presents?

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With so many ways to spell it, put the following in order of the amount of Google hits they generate:

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Answer: Correct order along with number of hits G. Hannukah : 18,300,000 E. Hanukah : 12,200,000 J. Hanukkah : 11,700,000 H. Chanuka : 11,500,000 B. Chanukah : 4,100,000 C. Channukah : 3,170,000 D. Hanukka : 3,760,000 L. Chanukka : 2,950,000 M. Hannuka : 1,090,000 F. Hannukkah : 1,060,000 A. Chanukkah : 715,000 I. Hanuka : 956,000 K. Channuka : 404,000

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Light up the Nights Trivia Submitted by Devorah Stern

Submitted by David Kagen

1. How many years ago did the miracle of Chanukah take place? a. 3206 b. 2110 c. 1461 d. 1402

3. What is the total number of candles lit during Chanukah? a. 44 b. 36 c. 54 d. 28

4. Which city did the Maccabees live in? a. Yerushalayim b. Beit Shemesh c. Modi’in d. Chevron

5. Who of the following was not one of Matisyahu’s five sons? a. Yehuda b. Yonasan c. Shimon d. Eliyahu

6. What modern day country were the “Greeks” based in? a. Syria

b. Greece c. Rome d. Iran

7. Who bowed down to Shimon Hatzadik? a. Antiyoches b. Matisyahu c. Alexander the Great d. Helifornus

8. Which of Noach’s children were the Greeks descendants of? a. Shem b. Chom c. Yofes d. His daughter Answers: 1)B 2)D 3)A 4)C 5)D 6)A 7) C 8)C Wisdom key: Answered 6-8 correctly: You know your Chanukah (but can you tell me how it’s spelled? See facing page). Answered 3-5 correctly: Do you also light only half of the candles? Answered 0-3 correctly: You’re so behind on your Chanukah facts that you probably didn’t even put up your sukkah yet.

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2. What does “maccabee” mean? a. Star b. Courage c. Soldier d. Hammer

The Great Chanukah Word Scramble

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They’ll Never Know You Only Spent Ten Dollars! It’s not easy buying Chanukah gifts, especially when you’re on a budget. If only you could purchase presents for the people you love without spending a fortune.

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Well, you can. Because it’s not the price tag that matters when you buy a gift, it’s the thought behind it. So choose wisely and always keep the lifestyle of the recipient in mind. The best gifts are the ones that say, “This is perfect for you!”

For the Family Chef Joie Dipping Cone $4.99 | KitchenClique.com If you hate it when someone “double dips,” then here’s the perfect solution. This white plastic cone has a removable dipping tray that can be filled with your favorite sauce or dressing. Use the cone for individual portions of veggie sticks, finger foods, or French fries. Kids will love it!

For the Young and Young at Heart

Heading to New York ?

Admission for One to the Children’s Museum of Manhattan $11.00 | Cmom.org Located in the Tisch Building at 212 West 83 rd Street, the museum offers interactive exhibits and programs for children (and adults) of all ages. Treat someone special to an afternoon at the museum this winter and spend some quality time together. That’s the most precious gift of all.

For Your Favorite Bookworm Multi Flex Gooseneck Book light $9.99 | BedBathandBeyond.com Remember when you used to read under the covers as a kid using a flashlight? Now your kids are doing the same thing, but they’ll be using this sleek, high tech lamp that provides glare-free light for over 100,000 hours. It clips onto a book or stands alone. Uses three AAA batteries.

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For The Lady in Your Life Manicure Gift Certificate $8.00-9.00

For Your Favorite Linguist The Easy Shmeezy Guide to Yiddish $8.99 | MenuchaPublishers.com By R’ Moshe Sherizen (soft cover)

There’s no question that Yiddish is making a comeback big-time. Brush up on those nuanced phrases that are impossible to translate into English, no matter how hard you try. This guide includes over 1,500 of the most common words and expressions in a clear, humorous context. He’ll just plotz when he sees this gift.

For The Chocoholic in Your Life Chocolate Dreidel $5.50 | Le Chocolat $5.99 | OhNuts.com Latkes are good and doughnuts are nice, but the chocoholic in the family will much prefer a Chanukah treat made out of 100% top quality chocolate. Trust me on this one. Josh at Le Chocolat says the treat is cholov yisroel dairy and can be gift wrapped to make a lovely presentation.

For Those Who Cherish the Memories

For Your Favorite Car Pool Driver

For The Techie in Your Life

Car Mezuzah

Mini Canvas Photo with Easel

$7.99 - $9.99 | JudaicaPlace.com

EveCase Tablet Carrying Case

$10.00 | Walmart.com The pictures we take reflect the times of our lives. And sharing those memories makes a very special gift. There are many ways to enlarge, reframe, and copy favorite pics, but we especially liked this 4X6 canvas that comes with its own wooden easel and can be displayed on a shelf, desk, or table. Looks like a real work of art!

(2 ½ inches high)

The perfect gift for the car pool mom, the long distance salesman, or anyone who spends hours driving. A car mezuzah safely tucked away in the glove compartment is certainly reassuring. It also shows that you care. Car mezuzahs come in a variety of styles and colors.

$9.99 | Amazon.com Let’s face it. They already have every gimmick and gadget available, so don’t even try giving them the latest i-product on the market. Instead, make their day by presenting them with this handsome and practical ultra-portable case that protects a 10.6-12 inch tablet wherever it goes. Available in hot pink, purple, or black with orange trim.

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Treat your favorite female to a manicure at her favorite local salon. Most offer gift cards for your convenience. A great idea for the young lady who recently outgrew her toys and games and is ready to start growing up or for the homemaker who is too frazzled to treat herself on a regular basis.

A miniature version of the popular Simon electronic game, this one can go with you anywhere. Test your concentration, reflexes, and agility and have fun at the same time! Great for age 7 and up! Seniors will love it, too!

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Chanukah Esther Ottensoser

A Fun Spin on Chanukah

Chocolate Dreidels These colorful and cheerful chocolate Dreidel Pops, which (in case you were wondering) really do spin, are sure to be a big hit throughout Chanukah. Supplies 3D square candy mold Wonder Melts in varied colors Wooden candy apple dowels or lollipop sticks Directions Melt the candy melts in a double boiler or microwave. Pour the melted Wonder Melts into the molds and allow to set for a couple of minutes. Meanwhile, cut sticks with a pair of scissors (approximately 2â&#x20AC;?). Put sticks into molds and place in freezer until completely set. Carefully remove from molds.

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Supplies 1 box lime Kolatin Jello 1 box raspberry or strawberry Kolatin Jello (I added in a couple of drops of blue food coloring to make a purple color) box orange Kolatin Jello Cupcake tray 9 shot glasses Glass tea light holder Narrow tray (optional) Directions Make the first color jello following directions on the box. Pour the first layer of jello into your glasses filling it approximately a third of the way. Once each glass is filled evenly, it’s time to tilt your glasses. Place glasses in a cupcake pan being careful that each jello is tilted in the same direction and angle. Place jellos inside refrigerator and allow to gel. Once the first layer is set, repeat step one using a new flavor of jello and adjusting the tilt of each jello in your cupcake pan accordingly. Make your last layer using new flavor of jello and refrigerate in an upright position. To assemble the menorah: Line up all the shot glasses in a neat row (place on tray if desired). For the “shamash,” raise the center glass by placing it on a glass tea light holder (turned upside down).

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With a couple of simple steps you can create eye-catching striped jello “candles.” You’ll find that not only are the results a conversation piece, but each step is fun and intriguing as you add each layer one by one. For best results use Kolitan Jello, as it congeals to a perfect texture for the tilts. Additionally, its colors will not “bleed” one into the other. When purchasing the shot glasses, stick with something simple. The simpler the glass, the more dramatic the projects will look.

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• Pan Fry: A dry-heat cooking method in which food is placed in a moderate amount of hot fat. • Deep Fry: a dry-heat cooking method using convection to transfer heat to a food submerged in hot fat; foods to be deep-fried are usually first coated in batter or breading. • Stir Fry: a dry-heat cooking method similar to sautéing in which foods are cooked over very high heat using little fat while stirring constantly and briskly; often done in a wok. • Sauté: a dry-heat cooking method that uses conduction to transfer heat fromsoul a hotand panfill to food theI aid of aalways small amount of hot fat; cooking is usuThere is nothing like the magic of hot soup to warm your yourwith belly. have loved soup. From Culinary Concepts: On Cooking, by Sarah Labensky ally done quickly over high temperatures These easy-to-make, hearty soups will keep you warm and satisfied any night of the year. • Sear: to brown food quickly over high heat; usually done as a prepara• Frying: a dry-heat cooking method in which foods are cooked in hot fat; I try to make a lot of different soups on one day so I have ready to go meals in the freezer on those chilly days. includes sautéing and stir frying, pan frying and deep frying. tory step for combination cooking methods s many of my long-time readers are aware, I love deep-fried foods. However, due to diet constraints, I rarely get to indulge in this. Around Chanukah, however, I take a “poetic license” to drop my diet in the spirit of the holiday and fry everything in sight. Frying gets a bad rap from a health perspective. I know it’s unhealthy, but once in a while (say for Chanukah!) it’s so much fun to treat myself and my fellow-dieters to some fried dishes. There are so many ways to fry and I have put together a few different frying techniques to educate us all.

Soup-er Soups to warm your family on cool fall nights My kids love having a bowl of soup waiting for them when they come home from school.

Beer Battered Fish

This soup is great for a Thanksgiving dinner and is perfect for fall with all the seasonal root vegetables.

Red Lentil Vegetable Soup

2 carrots, peeled and cut into ½ inch dice 1 TBS lemon juice 1 bunch baby spinach Pinch cayenne pepper

Ingredients Ingredients Preparation 1 cup red1 lentils, ½ cupssorted of flourand rinsed Add lentils, water and bay leaf to a 4 cups water 1 teaspoon salt medium saucepan. Cover and boil on a Bay leaf ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper simmer for 20 minutes until lentils are Salt 4 large eggs tender. Add 1 tablespoon salt and remove 2 TBS olive oil bottle of beer, room temperature 1 (12-oz) bay leaf; puree lentils in a blender. 2 onions,Canola diced oil Add onions to a skillet and sauté until 4 cloves 1garlic, minced ½ pounds of flounder onions are soft. Add garlic, ginger, cumin, 2-inch piece ginger, minced curry, and coriander and sauté for a few 2 tsp cumin Preparation more AddWhisk butternut squash, 1 tsp curry Sift 1 cup of flour into a bowl. Add saltminutes. and pepper. in the eggs.parsSlowly add the nip, carrots, zucchini, 1 ½ cupsfor 30 min2 tsp dried coriander beer, whisking after each addition. Allow the batter to sit at salt, roomand temperature water simmer for 10 minutes until veg2 cups butternut utes. squash, cut into ½ inch aredeep soft.fryer to 360°-375°F. dice Heat 3 inches of oil in a large pot,etables skillet or Stir lemon juice and spinach into pu-in the batter. 1 cup zucchini, peeled and cut into ½ Dredge fish in the remaining flour shaking off excess. Then coat the fish reed about lentils,3-4 then add theServe vegetables andsauce. inch dice Add fish to oil and fry until golden brown minutes. with tartar stir to combine. The heat will wilt the 1 medium parsnip, spinach. Add pepper and salt if necessary. peeledTartar and cutSauce into ½ inch dice Ingredients 4 tablespoons mayonnaise 2 tablespoons sweet relish 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons white wine or apple cider vinegar

Preparation Combine all ingredients in medium-sized bowl or container. Can be prepared in advance; refrigerate until right beforeand using. Serve with fish.and neighNaomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families individuals withinbeer-battered The Five Towns

boring 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. 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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Apple Fritters

Ingredients 2 pounds Yukon gold potatoes 1 medium onion, skin removed and end trimmed Ingredients 2 eggs, beaten Ingredients 23 pounds Yukon potatoes tablespoons allgold purpose flour 3 Granny Smith apples 1½medium onion, tablespoon saltskin removed and end trimmed ¼ cup granulated sugar 2¼eggs, beaten teaspoon ground black pepper 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 31/8 tablespoons all purpose flour teaspoon nutmeg (if desired) 2/3 cup all purpose flour ½ tablespoon salt Canola oil (for sautéing) Vegetable oil for frying ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg (if desired) Confectioner’s sugar Preparation Canola oilpotatoes, (for sautéing) Wash and grate potatoes and onions. Drain liquid. Transfer the grated potatoes

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Susan Schwamm

Light up the nights Special Chanukah Party Ideas to Wow Your Guests This Year

Fun with Food .............................

waffles or brownies as well. And don’t forget the cherry on top!

Fun ‘n Games .............................

Doughnut Bar Make Your Own Pizza

Chanukah is all about milchigs, and pizza is the perfect entrée to serve when feeding a crowd. This year, let your guests help out with the planning. Buy store-made pizza dough or pizza crusts and arrange bowls of toppings for them to choose from. Make sure to include marinara sauce, shredded cheese, balls of mozzarella cheese, oregano, basil, peppers, onions, fried eggplant, sliced olives, spinach and broccoli. Label each pan before they start their creation so you know which pizza belongs to who once it’s done. Bon appétit!

Fondue Fountain

Chewy marshmallows and cubes of fruit dipped into a geyser of chocolate—need I say more? One year I purchased a fondue fountain at a local store for a family party and the kids couldn’t get enough. Make sure to put an adult in charge as it can get a little messy. Hand out skewers and set out bowls with marshmallows, cubed pineapple, pretzels, cubes of brownies, strawberries and banana. They’ll be talking about this for the rest of the year!

My kids look forward to Chanukah all year for the endless supply of doughnuts they are treated to at every party. Instead of just giving out doughnuts for the children to enjoy, why don’t you set up a doughnut bar where children and the youngat-heart can choose toppings of their choice? Set up doughnuts or doughnut holes with tongs and your guests’ favorite toppings. Include chocolate syrup, gooey caramel, hot fudge sauce, confectioners’ sugar, shredded coconut, colored sprinkles, chopped nuts and miniature chocolate chips. You can set aside small tins or containers for them to place their unique doughnuts in to take home. I actually saw this idea on estherodesign.com. For more info, visit Esther’s blog, estherodesign.com, where you will find details about how to set one up and many other great ideas for Chanukah and year-round.

Pin the Shamash on the Menorah

For a twist on the classic “pin the tail on the donkey” game, cut out a giant menorah and candles from oaktag and have your children decorate it with glitter and colored markers. Take the time to laminate it, as it will help it maintain its shape and you will be able to use it from year to year. While blindfolded, have each child try to pin the shamash on the menorah. The one whose candle comes closest, wins!

Pass the Present

Sometimes I feel that when Chanukah comes the children are overloaded with presents. So, why not make the presents into a game? In this game, wrap some small toys (think stickers, erasers, candies) between layers of different types of wrapping paper. The big “present” gets passed around as the music plays. When the music stops, the person holding the present gets to unwrap one layer of paper and keeps the small toy found underneath. When wrapping the “present,” keep track of which toy is hidden under each wrapping paper. This way, the adult in charge of the game can stop the music when he or she feels the next small toy is appropriate for the person who will get to keep it. In this game, everyone wins!

I Scream, You Scream

If you are serving dairy, dessert is as easy as 1-2-3! Ice cream sundaes are fun and only require minimal effort. Set out tubs of ice cream, bowls of toppings and lots of napkins. No ice cream sundae is complete without chocolate syrup, sprinkles, mini chocolate chips, crushed cookies, nuts, strawberry syrup, bananas, and whipped cream. For a twist on the classic ice cream sundae, feel free to include

Family Photo Booth

This activity is so much fun and the memories will last for a lifetime! Set aside a space of around 8 feet by a wall with minimum distractions. Place a box with props such as large sunglasses, hats, fake mus-

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Musical Chairs

Family Trivia

This requires a little bit of planning beforehand, but it is truly worth it! In this game, each person receives a list of questions that pertain to different family members and they have to guess which relative it’s referring to. Speak with different family members for information to ensure that you include everyone in the family. Include hints like: “This girl loves to wear purple.” Or, “Did you know he plays three instruments?” The person who an-

fry, jar, water, yellow. Main word: Maccabee. Words not to be spoken: Yehuda, fight, soldier, Mi Kamocha. Main word: Dreidel. Words not to be spoken: Spin, penny, nes, top.

Guess the Pennies

Fill a jar with pennies and have each guest mark down how many pennies they think are in the jar when they come into the party. At the end of the night, reward the best guess-er with their very own jar of pennies!

Chanukah Taboo

For older children, a game of Chanukah Taboo will give some structure to a fun, family party. Create Taboo cards before the party and then have them play when they have the time. You will need to create at least 25 cards to make the game fun, but not all the words have to be Chanukah-related. Here are some ideas for Chanukah Taboo cards to start you off. Main word: Oil. Words not to be spoken:

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We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt

When the Maccabim won over the Greeks in the time of the Chanukah miracle, they searched high and low for the one container of pure oil in the Beis Hamikdash. At your party, have your little “Maccabim” find the hidden oil in your house. Create a treasure hunt with hidden clues around the house to lead them to the final and most important treasure—the pach shemen! This will keep them busy and excited as they go from clue to clue in anticipation of the final treasure.

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Musical chairs is always fun to play and it gives the kids a little exercise after eating all that candy. Make sure to have fun music on-hand. For added excitement, take away two chairs at a time, or even three—if you dare!

swers the most questions correctly wins the game! An added bonus? You get to learn a lot about your favorite people!

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taches, bowties, fedoras, feather boas and clown wigs. Buy one or a few very large picture frames. Have each family dress up and “frame” themselves with the frames. Snap a few pictures and then send them home with a wrapped picture frame and photo of their good time.

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