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The magnitude of suffering in India is difficult to comprehend. More than 4,000 people are dying every day because their overstretched healthcare system does not have enough oxygen to save them. We cannot look the other way as the critically ill plead for just another breath!

Without outside help, an estimated 800,000 more people could die by August.

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CONTENTS COMMUNITY

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Around the Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Community Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Zvi Teichman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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FEATURE Lessons Learned from the Recent Gaza Conflict . . 52

HUMOR & ENTERTAINMENT Centerfold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Notable Quotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

LIFESTYLES My Israel Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 World Builders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Health & Fitness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Forgotten Heroes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Dating Dialogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Mental Health Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Political Crossfire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Gluten Free Recipe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 In The Kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Your Money. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

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Dear Readers, Jewish Unity: It seems so elusive, yet its rewards are beyond measure.

What is it that makes it so difficult to accomplish? Is it the challenge of leaving our comfort zones? Do we subconsciously feel that if we welcome someone different than us we’re not being true to who we are? It definitely feels easier to raise children surrounded by like-minded people.

But A) isn’t there something we can learn from every living creature, particularly a fellow Jew? And on a deeper level, B) don’t we experience truth specifically when looking deeper than what is in front of our eyes? In the world of logic, for example, we come to a deeper truth when we are challenged by an opposite point but then find a deeper idea from which they both emanate.

When Yidden with different backgrounds and minhagim bond together, we experience yiddishkeit on a deeper level. It changes from a feeling of convenience in being the same as those around us

to one of belonging to a unique nation with a spiritual mission.

The differences are correctly seen as how we each express Judaism; what we are expressing is the same belief in Hashem and the eternity of the Torah and mitzvos.

If we can learn to respect each other and perhaps even learn from each other’s sincerity, we would be living a more complete yiddishkeit. Our children would also benefit tremendously from having a sense of the eternity of the Jewish people, which comes from connecting with members of other communities instead of falling back on our first reaction to point out why our way is better...

Perhaps part of the Divine plan is that the many communities and different paths converge at the end of golus as a preparation for the kahal gadol yashuvu heina, the great congregation which will return to Eretz Yisrael with the coming of Moshiach.

Wishing you a wonderful Shabbos, Shalom

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Darchei Noam Montessori is Baking to Bring in Money for Tragedy in Meron By: Staff Reporter

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hat teenage students are planning, shopping and baking to raise money giving 20% of profits to victims of tragedy in Meron? The Junior Girls, known as middle schoolers at a traditional school, thought beyond themselves and are learning the value of tzedakah experientially.

After processing the tragedy with school staff, the girls came to the decision to donate money from their fundraiser on their own with their Morah’s support.

This is just one example of how our Montessori students are encouraged to think beyond the walls of the classroom.

Maria Montessori envisioned the running of small businesses, on a farm or kitchen as the optimum environment for the adolescent years. The opportunity to take on adult roles, they need to do authentic and meaningful work, a chance to work with the hands in the soil, and later in the kitchen, all

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serve the needs of this “plane of development” well. Similar to the primary years, Montessori saw this age as a time of great change, as the child of 13 and 14 begins to see the adult potential within themselves. Therefore the running of small businesses, micro-economies, with the chance to grow things, make things, bake things and then sell them could be of great emotional, as well as academic, value.

The successes and mistakes inform the next venture, leading to a cycle of increased independence.

Students applied math learned in the classroom while learning life skills as they calculated how many cups of

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Organizing their own bake sales allows girls to feel the responsibility of starting and owning a business while working as a team toward the class goal. This life experience provides students an opportunity to de-

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They offered a delicious selection of handmade artisanal chocolates, chocolate peanut butter bars, sugar cookies (including gluten free), classic mini cheesecakes and gluten free brownies.

In addition to their Shavuos bake sale, students have been selling baked goods including challah, potato kugel, and hamentashen throughout the year to raise money for their end of the year trip. At Darchei Noam Montessori, students are learning how to set goals, work step by step, and reach those goals as a team with classmates.

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o kick off Kesser Torah’s matching campaign later this month, a Ksivas Oysios was held on May 31st on yeshiva’s campus. Community members took a tour of the beautiful new Makom Torah and participated in the exciting events.

The community is encouraged to participate in a Hachnasas Sefer Torah at 6 pm on June 20th on campus at 8400 Park Heights Avenue.

This Sefer Torah will be used by the talmidei ha’yeshiva for generations to come. Over the last four years, Kesser Torah has become the home of over eighty bochurim and the yeshiva only continues to expand. Next year the yeshiva will welcome its largest incoming 9th-grade class in addition to its inaugural Bais Medrash shiur under the leadership of Rabbi Nosson Newman.

As Kesser Torah becomes a vital mossad in our community, everyone is encouraged to participate in the upcoming “Raise The Crown” Matching Campaign on June 20-22. Due to generous sponsors, all donations will be matched. These funds will allow Kesser Torah’s new campus to transform from a mid-twentieth century monastery to a twenty-first-century Makom Torah.

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But we must retain the perspective that all those systems of caring and teaching are there for one purpose, and that is to develop students and community members blessed not only with knowledge of text but with strength and refinement of character, the kind of people who – like our father Avraham – exemplify and serve as a conduit for God’s goodness to all.

India is in a terrible crisis, facing a vicious double mutation of the virus.

Our community – breathing somewhat easier – is positioned to help. We must not stand by. A modest gift from each of us will not change our lives but it will save the lives of others. And it will be a gift that will make our world more of a community that cares for each other in a way that benefits and uplifts us all.

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But we must not stop there.

History has given us many examples of situations where a complete family, community, or society experienced devastating events that shook the entire traditional support system.

It is specifically at those times that the broader world must step forward to act with care and concern to save those who have been rendered helpless, but the world does not always come thru. Others have stood silent in the face of evil and passive in the presence of tragedy far too many times.

The Jewish people are keenly and painfully aware of this. And we have been reminded of it again during the past weeks of missile strikes in Israel and antisemitic attacks in America and around the world.

Silence is simply not an option.

We do not accept that this must be the reality of the world we live in. We continue to dream and to strive for a world where the rich amongst nations care for the poor and the healthy tend to the sick, where boundaries create a framework for mutual kindness rather than a barrier to extending our care to others beyond that framework, where charity begins at home but does not end there. That is what we seek within our world and the goal towards which each of us must work.

Rambam – following on the words of the Mishna – wrote of the obligation of a Jew to support the needy of other nations so as to pursue the path of peace, darkei Shalom. He clearly viewed this as more than a diplomatic stroke but rather as an extension of the generosity that G-d Himself extends to all His creatures. Moshe, the ultimate faithful shepherd and lawgiver of the Jewish people, began his journey of leadership by standing up to evil wherever he encountered it, no less when the victims were the children of the idolatrous priest of Midyan than when was it was a fellow Jew being victimized by an oppressive Egyptian.

This is a critical part of our legacy. Yes, our plates are filled with our efforts to sustain a Jewish community grappling with epic stresses. We are still assessing the harm inflicted in the latest round of missiles that rained down on millions of our brothers and

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The people of this country are blessed. The unprecedented speed of development and deployment of the vaccine for COVID-19 has brought us to a place where with G-d’s continued help and blessing we can hope that the worst of the pandemic is behind us.

But the worst seems to lie squarely ahead of India, and we must do something about it.

We have all seen the images and figures depicting the havoc the pandemic is currently wreaking in India.

As Jews, we cannot just watch this disaster unfold.

Abraham, the biological father of the Jewish people and the spiritual father of much of the world, established the absolute connection between religious devotion and social responsibility. He demonstrated care for his family, for the individual weary travelers that he welcomed into his tent, and for the city of Sodom whose wholesale destruction he could not just passively observe.

This legacy of charity and responsibility is fundamental to the character of Jewish life. Families, communities, and societies thrive on the prioritization of care and responsibility between members of the group. There is a valued intimacy and a critical bond of trust that results from our support systems, how we take care of those closest to us and put family first, loving our neighbor as ourselves.

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A Message From Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Executive Vice President, As The Orthodox Union Launches Emergency Campaign To Provide Oxygen Concentrators For India As It Fights Pandemic Surge.

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Former Baltimorean, CEO Of Chaim V’Chesed Rabbi Paysach Freedman Receives COVID Assistance Award From MK Moshe Gafni In Yerushalayim By: BJLife Israel Newsroom BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Jeff Cohn

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or going beyond the call of duty during the pandemic, former Baltimorean, CEO of Chaim V’Chesed, Rabbi Paysach Freedman today received a COVID Assistance Award from MK Moshe Gafni in Yerushalayim.

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It’s challenging to live as an English speaker in Israel. Chaim V’Chessed believes that no one should need to navigate this challenge alone.

Now, with advice and assistance available in practically every area of life, it is their hope that no one will.

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and dedication of parents, talmidim, and Rabbeim, as they gracefully embraced the challenges of this past year.

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Benny Friedman “It’s a Rebbe’s Life” is actually the sequel to a song I did last year called “My Dear Rebbe”. Both songs were written to raise awareness for an organization that helps rebbeim and to remind Klal Yisroel how precious and valuable our rebbeim are. B”H the first song was well received. “It’s a Rebbe’s Life” is a lighter, more fast-paced version, from the perspective of the rebbe. I have heard from many Rebbeim how they relate to the song, and even from former students, who are now adults, how it gave them fond memories of their rebbe. In fact, when we were filming the music video on Ocean Parkway, a car drove past and the driver yelled and waved out the window at our crew. I am somewhat used to being recognized at this point, but this person wasn’t waving at me, he was waving at his Rebbe who was filming with us! Rebbeim are giants and have tremendous effects on their students,

even years later!

What message do you want to share with the TA talmidim and the entire Baltimore community?

You should be very proud of yourselves! Ashreinu! The whole community should be very proud of you! If you can do so much in a year like we just had, imagine what you can do in a regular year when Hashem’s blessings are much more revealed!

One last question, did anybody tell you about cicadas? I don’t know what that is.

Well you’ll find out! We only see them once every 17 years! OK then!

Well I certainly hope to be in Baltimore more than once every 17 years!

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Tell us about yourself Sure, thanks for having me! I am originally from Twin Cities, Minnesota, and I currently live in Brooklyn. I got into singing at a very early age and music was an integral part of my family and my childhood growing up. You might have heard of my uncle, Avraham Fried, who was a tremendous role model for me and my family, both in music and in how to be a good ehrlich yid. I have always loved music and singing and B”H with the passage of time, I became more active and professional until what brings me to Baltimore today!

What would you say is your favorite topic to sing about?

I love singing about Jews! One of the main ideas of the Lubavitcher Rebbe is Ahavas Yisroel, how great and lofty the love that Hashem has for every single jew, and the love that each jew has for Hashem no matter how buried it may be.

I hope my music can increase the love that every Jew has for each other, no matter where they are in the world Do you have a favorite song?

Among my favorite songs are those that have themes of Ahavas Yisroel, Ahavas Hashem, Simchas Hachaim and

joy in being a jew. Ivri Anochi, and Charasho are good examples of that.

What brings you to Baltimore?

I am so excited to be joining Talmudical Academy of Baltimore for Hadran Aloch: A Celebration of Torah. The entire campaign, with its messaging of Learn It! Love It! Live It! Is something that I find very meaningful, especially after the year that we just had. This concert is not really for the community, but rather for the kids, sending them the message that despite the hardships of this year, they accomplished something incredible with their learning. For the past few days and into next week, the boys have been reviewing what they have learned this year. The learning will culminate with a siyum and concert to celebrate, and that is why I am coming.

That’s really nice! It must be a different kind of show for you since it’s mostly for the kids.

It is. And what TA is doing is incredibly inspirational. Many across the world would say the past year was a big waste, strike it from the record books, we didn’t accomplish anything. But the children and bachurim of TA who sat and learned Torah no matter the situation were given a great gift from Hashem and over the past year they took advantage and accomplished a lot. Yidden are unique in the world that we can look back at this year and say look at what a great year this actually was and it’s a reason for great celebration and recognition!

Your new song “It’s a Rebbe’s Life”, aside from being a smashing success, must really resonate in yeshivas like TA. Tell us more about it.

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Hamas Holds Victory Parade First Israeli Woman Climbs Mt. Everest Danielle Wolfson, a Tel Aviv lawyer, reached the peak of Mount Everest on Tuesday after trekking for 45 days.

Wolfson, a Russian-born 43-yearold who came to Israel at age 10, is the first Israeli woman to conquer the peak.

“I am happy and proud to be the first Israeli woman to reach the summit,” Wolfson posted on her Facebook page. “My journey to the summit began in the ‘lowest’ state possible.”

Wolfson was seriously injured in a ski accident in 2011, suffering multiple broken bones. At the time, doctors warned that she may not be able to walk again.

Speaking during the Mount Everest climb to Channel 13, Wolfson said, “I have fears, but there I feel like I’m myself,” she said, adding that she dreamed, “to stand there, to be a woman, to reach the summit and to raise the Israeli flag, and to say, ‘I was here, too, on the famous Mount Everest.’

“I told myself, ‘I will show everyone. I will climb Everest.’”

During her training period, Wolfson climbed several other peaks, including Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe, and Ojos del Salada, the highest volcano in the world, located in Chile.

“I have a rule. On every summit I hoist an Israeli flag,” she said.

She added, “If we only learn to accept those different to us and love each other, we can together achieve miraculous achievements, almost like climbing to the summit of Everest.”

The IDF is preparing for the next Israel-Gaza war, with senior IDF officials warning that Gaza terror groups could resume firing at any time despite a tenuous ceasefire.

Senior defense officials warned that the current ceasefire is “very unstable.”

Following the end of the fighting last week, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi claimed that Operation Guardian of the Walls ended in Israel’s favor, noting, “The balance of accomplishments ended in a clear advantage for the IDF, and Hamas, which started a war as the alleged defender of Jerusalem, finished it as the destroyer of Gaza.”

He added that the IDF is “already preparing for the next campaign.”

Meanwhile, Hamas on Thursday held a victory parade in Khan Younis, in which it displayed some of the various weapons systems deployed against Israeli civilians.

At the same time, Egypt is working with both Israel and Hamas to broker a long-term ceasefire and coordinate reconstruction in Gaza.

Israel is demanding that the reconstruction be conditional upon the return of four Israelis – two dead soldiers and two mentally ill Israeli civilians – who have been held by Hamas for several years. Hamas, for its part, is insisting that it cannot be “blackmailed,” and that the two issues must remain separate from the ceasefire.

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Negotiating teams from the Yesh Atid and Yamina parties met Sunday night with other parties in the “bloc for change” in an attempt to complete coalition negotiations ahead of a Wednesday deadline.

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Though agreements are nearly final, disagreements erupted over several of the ministerial portfolios.

Under the proposed government, Yamina chief MK Naftali Bennett would serve as prime minister until September 2023, when he would be replaced by Yesh Atid chief MK Yair Lapid – the MK who was tasked with forming a government after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu failed to do so.

According to reports, Lapid aims to announce a coalition by Tuesday.

On Sunday, Bennett announced that he would join Lapid’s government, saying, “The elections have proven there is no [possible] rightwing government under Netanyahu.

There’s unity or fifth elections.”

An unnamed Likud source was quoted by the Times of Israel as saying that Netanyahu “does not intend to give up, and we have seen that the situation is fragile on the right, but it is going to be almost impossible to prevent the government.”

Yamina MK Amichai Chikli, who

will not join the coalition, criticized Bennett on Monday for his decision to join with Yesh Atid.

“I believed in him, in his honesty, in his love for Israel and in his Zionism, and I supported him with full force…but this is not the way,” Chikli wrote on Facebook.

The proposed government would be comprised of 57 MKs from Yesh Atid, Yamina, Yisrael Beytenu, New Hope, Labor, Meretz, and Blue and White. It has not yet been confirmed that the United Arab List will support the government, lending it the four MKs necessary for a majority.

If the government is not formed by Wednesday, the Knesset will have 21 days to form a coalition before new elections must be held.

Dreams Come True A grandfather from southern Israel won the largest-ever lottery in Israel’s history on Tuesday, bringing home 76 million shekel ($23.4 million), Mifal

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The man had just begun a new job after being on unpaid leave for an extended period of time due to the coronavirus outbreak.

According to the story published on Mifal Hapais’ website, the morning after the lottery was held, the man decided to check his tickets prior to driving to work and noticed that one lucky winner had won the entire 76 million shekels. One of the tickets he had purchased had won nothing, but the other had all six of the winning numbers, as well as the “power” number.

The original prize was 38 million shekel, but the man had played the “double lotto,” and so won 76 million shekel.

After realizing he had won the lottery, the man called his son to say, “Now you don’t need to earn a living,” and then went to wake his wife up, telling her that “sometimes dreams come true.”

He then informed his new boss that he would not be able to come into work that day.

“I will have to call him again and

tell him that it seems I won’t be coming in at all,” the man quipped.

The winner noted that he sometimes plays the lottery, allowing the ticket machine to fill in the numbers.

Last week, he found two old tickets in a drawer and took it as a sign that it was time to play again, using the same numbers. One of those tickets won him 90 NIS, so he submitted the same numbers again prior to the Tuesday lottery.

“It seems that was a significant one-off decision,” he said, adding that he plans to split the win between his children so that they will be able to purchase homes without taking mortgages or loans.

He also said that the family is planning a long vacation abroad.

“The children want Thailand, but I am leaning more toward the U.S.,” he told Walla!. “It looks like we won’t do one trip, but two.”

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The security guard suffered light injuries.

On Monday morning, the IDF said that the terrorist had been noticed by community security officers as he walked near Sdeh Avraham, and that it is investigating how the terrorist crossed into Israel unhindered.

When the security officers approached the suspect, he pulled out a knife, stabbing one of them, who was unarmed after being barred from carrying weapons. The other security officer fired in defense, injuring the terrorist.

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Outgoing Mossad Chief Warns Against Iran

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Outgoing Mossad chief Yossi Cohen has called for Israel to increase its actions against Iran, in order to deter the Islamic Republic from further threatening Israel.

At a Sunday ceremony at Bar Ilan University, where he received an honorary doctorate, Cohen said, “Activity against the Iranian regime must be stepped up so that it understands that crossing the lines will cost it immense

damage.

“To succeed we need leadership and courage, willingness to act,” he asserted. “Today’s security operation is no less important than tomorrow’s war,” he said, adding that security is “the foundation that enables us to live a meaningful life.”

Cohen, who is seen as a close confidante of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, has served as Mossad chief since 2016.

He will soon be replaced by David Barnea.

Mossad’s Barnea Sworn In

New Mossad chief David Barnea warned on Tuesday that Iran was working to fulfill its “dream” of acquiring an atomic bomb, even as it holds talks with world powers on restoring the 2015 deal limiting its nuclear program.

“Our security challenges are very big and at the top of the list is Iran,” Barnea said at a ceremony marking his entry into office as head of the spy agency. “This needs to be said loudly and clearly: Iran is working, even at this very moment, to fulfill its nuclear dream under an international guise of protection.”

He added, “Under the protection of the agreement and without it, with lies and concealments, Iran is making constant progress toward a weapons of mass destruction program.”

Barnea, who is also known by his nickname Dedi, replaces outgoing director Yossi Cohen. He served as a combat soldier in the elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit and has been in the Mossad for the past 25 years, including in prominent operational roles that saw him rise to lead the branch that handles the organization’s agents worldwide.

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The Week In News prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.”

Speaking at the ceremony this week, Netanyahu said that if pushed to choose between a lack of friction with the U.S. or defending the country against the nuclear threat from Iran, Israel will choose to confront the Islamic republic.

Netanyahu said Israel must “do everything, but everything, in order to ensure that under no circumstance Iran arms itself with nuclear weapons.

“The greatest threat against us is the existential threat which is presented by Iran’s attempt to arm itself with nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said.

Faced with a choice between relations with the US or neutralizing Iran, “the elimination of the existential threat prevails,” he said.

Netanyahu’s remarks came the day after the UN nuclear watchdog voiced concern that Iran had not clarified queries over possible undeclared nuclear activity, adding that its enriched uranium stockpile was 16 times the limit set out in the 2015 accord.

The two reports issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday are the first substantive reports since Iran suspended some inspections in February.

Iran and world powers are engaged in talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal after former U.S. President Donald Trump walked away from it in 2018 and reimposed crippling sanctions on Tehran.

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U.S. President Joe Biden urged the intelligence community last week to “redouble their efforts” to determine the origins of COVID-19, Business Insider reported.

According to The New York Times, this push was prompted by intelligence officials, who alerted the White House to a trove of still-untouched evidence. Officials told the Times that they are likely to use an “extraordinary amount” of computer power to analyze the data but did not provide further details.

The Times added that Biden’s 90day deadline for a conclusive answer is intended to pressure U.S. allies and intelligence agencies into re-examining relevant evidence while simultaneously pursuing new intelligence.

The site also noted that, so far, efforts to bolster intelligence contributions from U.S. allies has proven mostly futile.

A month-long investigation in Wuhan, China, conducted by a team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has already determined that COVID-19 “most likely” jumped from bats to people via an intermediary animal host. However, the group was unable to definitively prove their theory or disprove the theory that COVID-19 was leaked from a laboratory. Additionally, there is much criticism to the WHO’s investigation.

Many point out that the WHO was not given full access to China’s laboratory, in additional to other problems in the investigation.

Earlier this week, China announced that it will not cooperate with any further WHO investigations on the virus’ origins.

On Wednesday, Biden admitted that two intelligence agencies believe COVID-19 was likely naturally occurring, but added that at least one other agency believed that the virus was likely to have been accidentally leaked from a lab. Neither theory is proven, the U.S. president noted.

Ukraine Again?

Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Ukrainian officials attempted to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, The New York Times reported, quoting unnamed sources “with knowledge

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The criminal investigation includes examining whether Ukraine officials used Rudy Giuliani, who at the time was former U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, to spread misinformation about Biden, according to the Times.

California: DAs Sue State

According to the Times, the inquiry is separate from a criminal investigation into Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, and it is being handled by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. In the elections investigation, Giuliani has not been accused of wrongdoing.

One of those under investigation in the elections case is Ukraine MP Andriy Derkach. Derkach has been previously described by the U.S. Treasury Department as being an “active Russian agent for over a decade.”

Over three-quarters of California’s district attorneys are suing the state over good conduct rules which could result in the early release of over 76,000 inmates.

Some of those who would be eligible are serving time for violent offenses.

The lawsuit, brought last Wednesday by 44 of the state’s 58 top prosecutors, accuses Corrections Secretary Kathleen Allison of using an emergency declaration to bypass the nor-

mal process. It also asks a judge to bar California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) from awarding the credits until it goes through the regular process and a “transparent and rigorous public comment period.”

Of the 76,000 inmates affected by the new system 63,000 were convicted of violent crimes, Fox News noted.

In a statement, Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert warned, “Allowing the early release of the most dangerous criminals, shortening sentences as much as 50%, impacts crime victims and creates a serious public safety risk.

“This lawsuit asks the court to enjoin CDCR from awarding these credits unless and until these regulations are exposed to a fair, honest and transparent debate, where the public has input on dramatic changes made through the regulatory process.”

For its part, CDCR said it acted under the authority of Proposition 57, which passed in 2016, allowing parole for most inmates and incentiv-

izing rehabilitative and educational programs, as well as good behavior activities.

Eric Carle, Author and Artist, Dies

Eric Carle, author and artist of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and dozens of other children’s books, died last week at the age of 91.

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Carle received honorary degrees from over five universities, including Amherst College and Smith College.

Carle was born in Syracuse, NY, to German immigrant parents. When he was just 6 years old, his family moved back to Germany as the Nazis were seizing power.

Though expressionist art was not permitted in Germany at the time, Carle recounted to NPR in 2011 that, when he was 12 or 13, his high school art teacher secretly showed him expressionist works at his home.

“I was used to pretty paintings with a mountain in the background.

Although I was shocked, I always carried that day in my heart,” Carle told the outlet.

Many of Carle’s famous books featured nature and animals. He credited his love of nature to his father.

“When I was a small child, as far back as I can remember, he would take me by the hand and we would go out in nature,” Carle said in a 1994 interview. “And he would show me worms and bugs and bees and ants and explain their lives to me. It was a very loving relationship.”

In 1952, Carle graduated from art school and returned to the United States where he initially made a living by working as a graphic designer with The New York Times.

He got his first big break when Bill Martin Jr. needed an illustrator for his recently completed book, “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” Martin had seen Carle’s artwork in a magazine while in a dentist’s waiting room. “The art was so striking that I knew instantly that I had found my artist!” Martin said about Carle.

In 2002, Carle and his late wife, Bobbie, opened the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts.

On Carle’s website, his family acknowledged his death by writing: “In the light of the moon, holding on to a good star, a painter of rainbows is now traveling across the night sky.”

A Speedy Summit

A teacher is now the person to have reached the top of Mount Everest in the shortest amount of time.

Tsang Yin-hung, 45, climbed from the base camp – at 17,390 feet – to the summit – at 29,032 feet – in 25 hours and 50 minutes.

The previous record for fastest female climber was held by Phunjo Jhangmu Lama, from Nepal, who scaled the mountain in 39 hours and 6 minutes.

“I just feel kind of relief and happy because I am not looking for breaking a record,” Tsang, who is from Hong Kong, said . “I feel relieved because I can prove my work to my friends, to my students.”

Tsang stopped only twice along the way so she could change clothes.

Her climb was also not hindered by other climbers on some of the highest trails. The only other climbers she met along the way to headed back down.

“For the summit, it is not just not your ability, teamwork, I think luck is very important,” Tsang revealed.

This was Tsang’s second attempt to climb Mount Everest. On May 11, she reached very close to the summit but was forced to turn back because of bad weather.

The fastest man to climb Mount Everest is Sherpa guide Lakpa Gelu, who reached the summit after only 10 hours and 56 minutes in 2003.

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He added: “I was just surprised when I actually got to there [the summit] but I was too tired to stand up, and in my summit pictures I am sitting down.”

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Somebody almost had an incredibly rare dinner.

The lobsters were identified as orange Canadian lobsters. They were on sale for about $36.

Caterer Joseph Lee reportedly spotted the lobsters while shopping.

“I went in to do my usual shopping for my catering business,” Lee told SWNS. “I saw these two orange lobsters from a distance and thought they were toys because that’s the only time I’ve seen them orange apart from when they’re cooked. I knew they wouldn’t

have put cooked lobsters in there because you need to keep lobsters in a special tank with flowing water below seven degrees.”

Turns out, these lobsters are extremely rare. More rare is the fact that two of them showed up in the same tank.

“To get one in the tank was a one in 30 million chance so the chances of having two are one in a billion,” Lee explained. “It is like getting struck by lightning three times and surviving each time.

“To have not just one but two in the tank is unimaginable.”

The lobsters were donated to the Birmingham Sea Life center.

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Never Too Late

Bill Gossett is now a college graduate. The 97-year-old had dropped out of college in World War II to join the U.S. Army Air Corps. After returning from war, he took over the family business instead of returning to school. This year, thought, Gossett donned a cap and gown to accept his college diploma.

“There was always a void there but I was busy learning to run a business.

Time went by and I finally decided to finish my degree. It was a goal of self-fulfillment,” Gossett said.

Gossett approached Lincoln College officials about returning to the school to finish his associate’s degree.

“In 2019, Mr. Gossett came to me and said he wanted to finish his associate’s degree at Lincoln College,” Lincoln College President David Gerlach said.

“After meeting with the Registrar’s Office, we determined that Gossett could re-enroll as a reverse transfer student with Prior Learning Assessment credits. We were inspired by his desire to obtain a degree 80 years after his education began,” he said.

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Gerlach surprised Gossett at the ceremony with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

Mini Mensa

Meet Kashe. She’s two years old and lives in Los Angeles with her parents. She’s also the youngest member of Mensa in the United States.

Parents Sukhjit Athwal and Devon Quest said their daughter, Kashe, 2, was accepted into the world’s oldest high IQ society after scoring 146 on an IQ test – nearly 50 points higher

than the 98-point average in the United States.

Kashe is pretty precocious. She can read full sentences, count to 100, and identify all 50 states. She is now working on identifying periodic table elements by their symbols and learning Spanish.

“She’ll wake up on a Saturday and say, ‘I wanna do elements,’ or ‘I wanna do states,’ so whenever she’s leaning into it, we’re just there to support her,” Quest said.

Still, Kashe is, in many ways, like a regular toddler.

“At the end of the day, she’s in that toddler stage,” Athwal said. “So she very much is still a normal 2-year-old where we have negotiations, we have tantrums, we have everything.”

Sounds like she’s one smart cookie.

Chocolate Cicadas They’re chocolatey. crunchy. They’re cicadas.

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ChouQuette Chocolates & Confections is churning out chocolate-covered cicadas for customers eager to munch down on insect-y confections.

Earlier this month, the store, located in Maryland, shared an Instagram post on how it’s cooking up and sweetening these insects, which is only a seven-step process.

According to ChouQuette’s instructions, the cicadas need to first be collected, frozen, boiled and oiled before they can be placed in an air fryer.

Once the bugs are cooked and cooled, they can be covered in melted chocolate. When the chocolate has hardened, they can then be served like any other chocolate-covered snack – unless of course you prefer your cicadas in a fondue style.

“Crunchy, nutty, earthy, sweet.

Like a walnut with wings, covered in chocolate and cinnamon,” ChouQuette’s CEO and chocolatier Sarah Dwyer described to Fox News.

Some people have been swarming to the store to sample the crunchy treats.

According to an update on the company’s website, it has been “inundated

with orders.”

Even so, there are some who are staying far away from the chewy creatures.

“People are polarized about eating cicadas as they are about politics in DC! I get hate messages and ‘I love bugs’ messages,” Dwyer said.

“We love to make sweet treats based on current events – Dr. Fauci was last year’s viral product – this year it is cicadas – they are plentiful, tasty and easy to catch,” Dwyer said. “We can’t believe the response.”

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There are trillions of cicadas expected to emerge from the ground over the summer. Most people, though, will view the winged insects are a mere pest and not as an option for dinner.

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Unfinished Business

By Rabbi Zvi Teichman

Although we know much about the two heroes, Yehoshua and Calev, in the episode of the spies, about all we know about the rest of the cast of spies is just their names.

Yet, the Talmud states that we have a tradition that ‘their names accord with their deeds’ — their subsequent flaws were indicated already within their names.

The Talmud goes on to say that they retained only two of the expositions from among these ten individuals.

Firstly, ‫ סתר‬,‫ ְסתּור בן ִמיכָאֵ ל‬meaning

to ‘contradict’, one who denied the deeds of the Holy One, blessed be He, the son of ‫מיכאל‬, rooted in the word ‫מך‬ which means ‘feeble’, depicting himself (perhaps a euphemism for the Almighty) as a weakling.

Secondly, ‫ נחבי‬,‫ נַחּבִ י בן וָפְ ִסי‬based on the word ‫החביא‬, to conceal, as he concealed the true words of the Holy One, blessed be He, the son of ‫ופסי‬, contracting the word ‫פסע‬, to ‘step’, as he treads on the attributes of G-d.

Certainly these ‘defects’ weren’t intended by their parents who bestowed these names upon them inno-

cently. Possibly this was a divine infiltration into their minds of the parents when naming the child that was prophetic of their future follies.

But then the question begs as to why the father’s names are associated with these blemishes? Were they too guilty of their children’s poor choices?

The Holy Kohen of Tzefas, the Sifsei Kohen, observes that after the Torah points out how initially all the spies were righteous, by referring to all of them as ‫אנשים‬, a term reserved to denote distinguished men, the Torah states ...‫ואלה שמותם‬, and these were their names, seemingly linking their names to their elevated stature. He explains that these names indeed can alternately be interpreted in a most positive vein. ‫סתור‬, refers to an ability to ‘deny’ and deflect insult, and ‫ מיכאל‬indicating personal humility. ‫נחבי‬, also intimates the trait of ‘hiding’ modestly one’s qualities, and ‫ופסי‬, a condensing of the word ‫אפס‬, meaning ‘nothing’, alluding to his admirable self-effacement.

Perhaps these families embodied the sterling qualities of genuine and healthy humility and they sought to implant within their children the Jewish trait of modesty by expressing

those hopes in the very names they conferred on their children.

The challenge though is not to allow that senses of humbleness before G-d to transform into self-doubt of our personal worthiness.

The spies, out of genuine fear of the great responsibilities placed upon them in the new arena of life in the Holy Land and all its expectations of greatness from them, began to permit self-doubt to penetrate their minds, questioning whether they were indeed worthy of such nobility. With time that vacillation metamorphosed into a denial of G-d’s ability and allegiance, leading them to retreat and rebel.

We are invested with talents, but they can be a double-edged sword that needs to be skillfully wielded lest we harm ourselves.

Perhaps that is the deeper meaning behind the Targum Yehonoson’s suggestion that it was Moshe observing Yehoshua’s humility that compelled him to pray on his behalf and alter his name. It wasn’t necessarily the fear Yehoshua would cower before them, as much as it was the concern that he too might lapse into dangerous self-recrimination and doubt.

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The Torah mentions the relationship of Gadi ben Susi from the tribe of Menashe as descending from Yosef, but omits Yosef’s association with Yehoshua, of the tribe of Efrayim, despite his being equally descended from Yosef.

The Daas Zekeinim of the Baalei Tosefos, remarks that this emphasis indicates that the flaw of Yosef in speaking slanderously against his brothers so many years earlier was still percolating, finding its expression in his seed.

The famed Mashgiach of Mir in Poland, Reb Yeruchem, notes that despite the fact that Yosef’s sin was only measurable as such by the high standards of the homes of the Patriarchs, and he endured much suffering on account of that ‘miniscule’ error, which we might have assumed cleansed that germ from his system, nevertheless it continued to fester in the body of Gadi ben Susi. We must marvel and tremble, he says, at the eternal imprint each of our choices make in life.

If this is true in implanting negative aspects into our descendants, how much more powerful must this be true when transmitting positive traits.

We each have unfinished business in bringing about the perfection of character that is incumbent upon us until such time as we reach our goal.

My beloved older brother, Dovid, shared with me a very touching tale he heard while paying a shiva call.

A woman retold how for many years she happily volunteered for the local Bikur Cholim in providing warm and delicious meals for families enduring the difficulties of dealing with the disruption of the normality of life that comes when facing illness within the family, Though she invested much time and effort in shopping, cooking and packaging the fare, she plainly couldn’t also deliver it and therefore partnered with other kind souls in getting it to the appropriate destination.

Recently though, for the very first time, a situation arose where there was simply no one available to transport the food. Despite the difficulty she pushed herself for the first time to go the extra mile and personally deliver the goods.

She arrived at the address, knocked on the door and an elderly

woman opened it and stared at her for a long few seconds. The lady finally spoke, asking her if she might be the daughter of so and so. She responded that indeed she was. She inquired of her mother’s present whereabouts and was sadly informed by her daughter that she passed away just a short while ago.

The woman thanked her profusely for her kindness and asked if she wouldn’t mind indulging her by coming in for a few minutes as she wanted to share something with her. Ever more intrigued, the younger woman eagerly agreed. She sat down and began to listen to a story that would inspire her for eternity.

The older woman was a survivor who endured all the tortures of that harrowing experience. The woman revealed that the younger woman’s mother was her barrack mate who once took very ill in the course of the internment. Illness was a death sentence, since the enemy had no use or interest for those who couldn’t contribute. Somehow this noble woman managed to cover for her mother by fulfilling the daily quotas for the both.

She also gave up from her meager ration of food to her sick friend so that she would regain the strength to recover. Obviously, they both survived miraculously to raise beautiful families. She recalled, though, how after her mother recuperated, she promised her heroic friend with overwhelming gratitude, that if she ever would need to be provided for in any way she would be there for her forever.

With tears streaming down their faces they embraced, finally bringing to fruition the promise of her mom, and completing a circle that was drawn by the Divine a lifetime ago.

We each make choices that impact our families and beyond, till eternity.

We all have unfinished business to complete.

We are still rectifying the stain that was placed upon our nation as a result of the choices the spies made.

It is incumbent upon each one of us to to be conscious of that mission and assure that we choose wisely for the sake of those in our circle.

If we acknowledge this privilege that was entrusted to us, realizing that G-d is counting on us and believes in us so lovingly, we will succeed in finally returning to where we truly belong.

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eal estate attorney Nicole Levin recently shared with me a list of eight important things to be aware of when buying “on paper” in a new project under construction.

1. Once you have chosen an apartment and agreed on the price, you will sign a registration form and pay a registration fee. Before signing, have your attorney review the document to ensure that there are no egregious terms. Once you sign the form, the developer is required to reserve the apartment for you and may not sell it to anyone else.

2. After you sign the registration form, the developer will send the contract to your attorney. Your lawyer will review and revise the contract. There is often room for negotiation at this stage, despite the fact that these are standard contracts for all units in the project.

3. The final plans may differ from the plans that you initially viewed.

The developer is only bound by the plans that are attached as an addendum to the purchase agreement. Before signing the contract, make sure that the plans match the original plans that you were shown.

4. The law mandates that the buyer’s money is protected. There are three ways this can be done; a bank guarantee is by far the most common method of financial protection and works as follows: the project funding is given by a bank, which issues the bank guarantee to the buyer. Funds paid by the buyer are deposited in an account controlled by the bank and the bank pays the construction company at predetermined completion stages of

the project.

5. The plans and technical specifications describe the apartment you are buying. These two documents are addended to the contract. The

6. The developer is responsible for delivering a product without defects. If there are any flaws in the construction, the developer is responsible to fix them. Before taking

If there are any flaws in the construction, the developer is responsible to fix them.

floor plans include the size of each room, the location of windows and doors, outdoor space, etc. The technical specifications describe apartment material quality and quantity.

The developer is required to deliver the apartment as specified in the plans and the technical specifications – and must compensate the purchaser if it fails to do so.

possession, you will view the apartment with a representative from the construction company and together prepare a protocol which lists all defects that are visible to a layperson. As the company is not required to repair any defect that could have been seen by a layperson and was not written in the protocol, we recommend hiring a building engineer

to accompany you and point out any flaws that you may overlook. Hidden problems that cannot initially be detected, such as dampness, may only appear later on. The construction company is required to repair these defects as well. Israeli law provides warranty periods for all items in the apartment.

7. Construction of the project is usually completed before registration of the property title. The developer’s attorney is responsible to register the project, your building, and your apartment in the land registry, which is done after the authorities have surveyed the land, a court order has been issued, and architectural plans have been filed. This process typically takes many years to complete; until then, the rights of the purchaser are often temporarily registered with the developer’s attorney.

8. The unpaid portion of the purchase price is linked to the building index, so plan your payments accordingly. Over the past half-decade, the index has risen approximately 1.5% per year.

If this article inspires any follow-up questions, please contact attorney Nicole Levin at nicole@levinlawoffices.co.il or visit her website www. levinlawoffices.co.il.

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After several rounds of chest compressions and assisted ventilation, the 15-year-old boy’s pulse returned and was lost a total of three times before

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Avi was later told that the ambulance team had fought for the boy’s pulse the whole way to the nearest hospital in Jerusalem. The CPR continued all the way into the ICU where the boy was attached to a ventilator in critical condition.

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we are doing and rush out to save a life, even if it means getting out of bed in the middle of the night, or leaving the Shabbat table to go save a life.”

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last spring, people in the United States gained an average of 1.5 pounds per month. Data showed that between February 1 and June 1 last year participants in the study added, on average, about 0.6 pound of body weight every 10 days after shelter-in-place orders were implemented in their areas.

“Many of us don’t fully realize how much physical activity we routinely perform when we are more freely out and about in the world, whether walking up the stairs to a meeting room, walking to the bus or even standing on the subway,” study co-author Dr. Gregory M. Marcus said. “Clicking from one Zoom to another doesn’t burn a lot of calories,” and with food “more accessible, such as while working from home ... it’s possible more calories are going to be consumed,” said Marcus, associate chief of cardiology for research at the University of California-San Francisco. In addition to consuming more food while stuck at home, with more people staying home from work or school and gyms closed, physical activity declined for many people in the United States, the researchers said. Furthermore, participants also stated that stress related to the pandemic was causing them to eat and drink more.

This spring, with the beautiful sun shining, it’s time to get outside, get active, and get back to your pre-pandemic weight. There is no greater weather than the springtime when it’s warm enough to exercise outdoors but not too hot where it becomes unbearable. Walking, jogging, running, biking, and playing sports are all excel-

lent ways to help keep you physically active in this ideal weather.

In addition to physical activity, eating the right foods can help you shed those unwanted pounds.

Eating avocado may help lose weight due to its high fiber and healthy fat content. One cup of sliced avocado contains 10 grams of fiber, almost one-third of your daily recommended intake. Fiber and weight loss go hand-in-hand because fiber suppresses your appetite, by making you feel fuller longer.

In fact, a study published last spring explained that after eating an avocado, you will feel full for up to six hours afterward. The study also concluded that people who eat avocados tend to snack less throughout the day.

A great breakfast of one slice of whole wheat toast covered in creamy avocado with two eggs on the side is about 300 calories. Yes, there is fat in this meal, but no, this breakfast will not lead to weight gain.

Something else to add into your diet this spring should be chili peppers and cayenne peppers. The ingredient that gives chili peppers a spicy kick is a compound called capsaicin, which is also the active ingredient in cayenne pepper. Capsaicin has been shown to help boost metabolism and reduce hunger by lowering the body’s production of a hunger signal called ghrelin. When ghrelin is produced, your body gets signals to feel hungry.

When ghrelin is reduced, your body will not make you feel hungry.

Coconut oil should also be on your shopping list this spring as well. Co-

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conut oil contains medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) which are thought to help boost fat burning. These MCT oils can help your body achieve ketosis, which is a metabolic state where your body burns fat as fuel as long as you keep carbohydrates to a minimum. MCTs are thought to increase feelings of satiety by helping your body get the message that it is full by releasing the appetite suppressor hormones leptin. Leptin and ghrelin are opposites. Ghrelin tells your body that it is hungry, while leptin notifies the body that it is full. When ghrelin is suppressed and leptin is released, you are off to a good start. Still, like any other oil, use coconut oil sparingly since even so-called healthy oils can add to your overall caloric intake.

A must have for all year round is quinoa. Quinoa is a nutritional allstar that belongs in your weight loss plan. One cup of cooked quinoa contains roughly 8 grams of protein and 5 grams of fiber. It has more protein than any other whole grain so it will

keep you fuller for longer than pasta or rice. The type of protein is ideal, too. Another benefit of the high protein content is that protein increases one’s metabolism and reduces your appetite by filling you up, making you eat less calories overall, thus aiding

amounts in green tea, is thought to promote weight loss. Green tea has also been shown to improve fat burning and metabolism. Furthermore, researchers believe that polyphenols found in green tea increase fat oxidation, thus reducing triglyceride levels

In addition to physical activity, eating the right foods can help you shed those unwanted pounds.

in weight loss. Quinoa is as easy to cook as rice. For a quick dinner, mix in some vegetables, nuts, or lean protein, or even leave it plain.

Your drink of choice this spring should be green tea. Studies have shown that green tea promotes weight loss. Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG), an antioxidant found in high

and increasing the rate at which your body turns food into calories. However, other studies believe that the main reason why green tea promotes weight loss is due to the fact that it is a great substitute for sugary drinks.

The weight loss promoted by green tea also indirectly reduces chances of developing Type II diabetes, heart

attack, and stroke. Try drinking your tea hot, because it takes longer to drink, providing a soothing, mindful experience.

As always, the best way to lose weight and keep it off is by eating a diet of whole plant-based foods and staying active every day. Incorporate these foods into your diet, as well as others that promote health benefits.

Find a balanced diet that works for you, get outdoors, get physically active, and get back to your pre-Covid weight!

Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN, is a Master’s level Registered Dietitian and Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist. She graduated CUNY Brooklyn College receiving a Bachelor’s in Science and Master’s degree in Nutrition and Food Sciences. She is currently a dietitian at Boro Park Center and a private nutrition consultant. She can be reached at CindyWeinberger1@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagram @EatBetterandFeelBetter.

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the need for unconventional warfare units arose, and today these capabilities have grown so much that there is a special operations command in addition to specialized units that each branch of the military maintains. As many of the operations performed by special operation units are declassified, they don’t usually make frontpage news. Here are some of the lesser-known units from World War II that give a glimpse of the scope of missions of special forces operators.

Several special forces units were formed during World War II, but it was the First Special Service Force to have the unique distinction of having soldiers from two countries. Both Americans and Canadians served with the force during its years of operations from 1942-1944. The idea behind the unit was to create a large unit capable of fighting in harsh winter conditions. Their first mission was to the inhospitable island of Kiska in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. The Japanese had vacated the island without the Americans noticing, so the force didn’t see action there so they were sent to Italy.

Known by the enemy as the Devil’s Brigade, they were very active in the mountainous regions of Italy in a campaign that saw them capture several key objectives. They were used to secure objectives like bridges behind enemy lines that would lead the way for the regular army. Later, they were

sent to southern France during Operation Dragoon and captured five ports. In December 1944, the First Special Service Force was disbanded, and the members were sent to other units.

While the First Special Service Force was fighting the enemy in harsh winter conditions, another special forces unit was battling the Japanese in the unrelenting jungle conditions of Burma. About 3,000 American soldiers were selected and trained for the unit called the 5307 th Composite Unit (Provisional). The mission was codenamed Galahad, and the soldiers affectionately called themselves Merrill’s Marauders. In February 1944, 2,750 Marauders began a 1,000mile trek behind Japanese lines to begin operations in Burma. Kachin Scouts were attached to the units to lead them through the dense jungle.

During the trek, the Marauders engaged the Japanese in several minor engagements and five larger battles.

In most of the battles, the Allies were outnumbered but managed to inflict more casualties than they sustained themselves. Disease and battlefield casualties dwindled down their numbers to a third of their full strength, but that didn’t stop the Marauders from reaching their target. Myitkyina Airfield in Northern Burma was needed to land supply airplanes for units in China.

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50 troops trained by American officers with the OSS, the American spy agency during the war. The American unit was called Detachment 101, and they were to perform several missions including guiding Merrill’s Marauders.

Among their many duties, they were to gather intelligence, disrupt Japanese supply and communication lines, identify targets for the air corps, and rescue downed pilots. Since the terrain was difficult for vehicles to pass, Allied troops had to pass through on foot. Together with local and Chinese forces, they inflicted severe casualties on the Japanese and forced them out of Burma.

The U.S. Navy had several special forces units operating during the war including the Underwater Demolition Teams which eventually morphed into the Navy SEALs. The Beach Jumpers were another tactical unit that saw a lot of action in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Beach Jumpers were tasked with deception and diversion during

amphibious landings to divert the enemy’s attention from the actual landings. The members were experts in small boat handling and could operate sophisticated equipment. Just a small number of Beach Jumpers

an entire division away from the real landing zone due to the ruse created by the Beach Jumpers who sustained no casualties in the mission.

Several other special forces groups operated during the war, in-

Together with local and Chinese forces, they inflicted severe casualties on the Japanese and forced them out of Burma.

could make it appear that a huge amphibious operation was taking place.

During Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, over 100 miles from the actual landings they utilized sound boats as well as a smokescreen, a searchlight, rockets and small arms fire to appear that a landing was imminent. The German defenders kept

cluding the well-known Rangers.

The Navy had their own scouts and raiders that provided reconnaissance and raiding capabilities. They went on many missions and saw action in North Africa, Normandy, the Pacific, and China. The Alamo Scouts were a special reconnaissance unit of the 6th Army and saw action in New Guin-

ea and the Philippines. In over 100 missions they didn’t lose a man and provided vital reconnaissance in the raid to free the Allied prisoners of the Cabanatuan prison camp.

Some missions require specialized units that are trained in specific types of operation to execute successfully.

Many countries worldwide have special forces units and learn from previous special operations units on how to operate. The American units during World War II learned quickly from other units like the British Commandos, and they themselves were able to pass on the legacy. While many of these units are now defunct, their stories live on. Their operators are forgotten heroes for the danger they faced while in combat.

Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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mashov.

It’s one of the hallmarks of Israeli society. Technically translated as “feedback,” the mashov in practice is something like a cross between group therapy and a formalized debriefing.

Like many features of Israel’s culture, the mashov originated in the military. Regardless of where they serve, soldiers in the IDF typically experience quite a few mashovim during their service. If the Logistics Corps has to execute a massive delivery of field supplies, everyone from the truck drivers to the gunsmiths will have a mashov. If an armored company conducts some routine maneuvers, there’ll be a mashov. If a lone infantry soldier is ordered to simulate taking a hill, he can expect a mashov at the end of it all dissecting how well he ran to the top.

This may sound a bit excessive, but in actuality, it is a very useful practice to inculcate. You see, far from being a dry top-down examination by superiors, all participants in a mashov are encouraged (read: required) to speak up and offer their views and comments. In this way, soldiers are taught to maintain better self-awareness and – most importantly – be comfortable with a program of learning and progressing. This democratized form of collective self-reflection has gradually infiltrated the private sector, especially into Israel’s perpetually booming start-up scene.

Today, it is very common for managers and team leads to gather their people together at the end of the work week or at the conclusion of a big project and have a candid, face-to-face chat about what they’ve succeeded or failed at over the past several days. Such scenes are not just young pro-

fessionals trying to reenact their army days. It’s applying a practice that seems to work quite well.

While far from a foolproof method, soberly recalling a group attempt to do something (whatever that thing might be) improves everyone’s ability to do it.

As the smoke clears from the most recent round of conflict in Gaza, you can bet your house there are more than a few Israeli high-ups, from military brass to policymakers, that are finding

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themselves in lengthy mashov sessions right now.

There’s no reason, however, that this should be the sole domain of the leaders. A well-executed mashov might just give us all a bit of clarity into what went down over the last few weeks – and maybe even some invaluable insight for the future.

While any Israeli-Arab flareup can be broken down to an infinite array of factors, I think it’s incumbent on us all to hone in on the bigger picture.

And that picture is, unfortunately, not very good.

EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL The entire ten-day crisis in Israel, which culminated in a full-fledged IDF operation in Gaza, was instigated by a series of land disputes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

The first point worth noting is that disputes in this area of the capital are nothing new. Disputes over ownership rights in Sheikh Jarrah have been going on for the better part of twenty years. These court cases have always consisted of complex legal claims going back decades and across eras of legal sovereignty over the neighborhood. To put this into perspective, in a census conducted by the Ottoman authorities in the early 1900s, the Sheikh Jarrah “district” consisted of “quarters” which were distinctly Jewish, Christian, and Muslim respectively.

The residents of the Jewish quarters named Shimon Hatsadik and Nahalat Shimon, both established at the end of the 19th century by various communal groups, were forced to abandon their homes when Jordan took control of the eastern part of the city in 1948. Beginning in the early 2000s, several Israeli groups began efforts to retake control of properties they claimed were, in fact, owned by the Jewish community. The very

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54 first incident in the neighborhood to attract attention began in 2001, when a group of Israeli Jews moved Israelis into a sealed section of a house owned by an Arab family, the al-Kurds. The group claimed the property was owned by Jews. After years of litigation, the Jerusalem District Court ruled that the property was part of the original Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood and as such belonged to the Sephardi Community Committee, one of the groups that had established the settlement in 1890. Despite this ruling, the Arab residents were not required to leave. Instead, they received “protected tenant” status and could remain as long as they paid rent to the legal owners.

Some (but not all) of the Arab families refused to pay, however, which led to their forced eviction.

Over the years, there have been several similar cases, nearly all of which could have been the basis for a legal drama film. In one case from 2009, lawyers from both sides argued for years on the authenticity of mutually contradicting bills of sale dating from the Ottoman era. Attorneys literally flew to foreign official archives to dig up support for their clients. The case eventually ended with the Israeli Supreme Court validating the documents presented by the Jewish plaintiffs.

But it is the most recent case, the one that sparked the powder keg, that without a doubt takes the prize for most sensational. That case, one involving the possible eviction of some seventeen families, was not a new dispute at all but rather one that has been ongoing for decades.

The legal claims of the Jewish plaintiffs were resolved decades ago in their favor. The owners in these disputes acquired their rights through an uninterrupted chain of transactions beginning in the Ottoman period. The Arab residents, on the other hand, acquired their leasehold rights through a chain of transactions which began in the 1950s and originated from the Jordanian Custodian of Enemy Property, Amman’s agency for administering areas it conquered in 1948.

Similar to other cases in Sheikh Jarrah, the Arab residents were not forced to leave their homes but were required to pay rent to the rightful Jewish owners. All received protected tenant leases on the homes they occupied. The planned evictions (which incidentally have yet to be carried out due to the personal intervention of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit) were the result of either years of contract breach by the tenants or the natural expiration of the leases.

While this is all very interesting, the main point to focus on is that this and other similar cases that preceded it are civil disputes between Israeli citizens, not a systematic attempt to rid the city of Arab residents. Not all land disputes between Arabs and Jews, whether in Jerusalem or other parts of Israel, are decided in favor of the Jewish litigant in the Holy Land. However, this case was quickly framed by Israel’s antagonists as just another symptom of the country’s racist and discriminatory policies.

A Palestinian outside the home of the Ghawi family in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem

What is ironic about all this is that the specific topic of property law involved in this case is an area pointed to by all sectors of Israeli society as one that is in serious need of reform. One does not have to hold Israel as a colonialist repressive entity to believe this. Determining property status in Israel is a tricky business, even without adding politics to the mix. Communities and ancestral lines of ownership in Israel are old – often much older than the state itself. Coming to a conclusive ruling on disputes often involves scouring through ancient records and relying on unclear evidence. And that is precisely the point.

interested in the nuances of what goes on here.

Everything and anything will be weaponized to the greatest extent possible, which means that Israel has little hope of being able to run its own affairs in a way that will ever be acceptable to its detractors.

THE SHIFTING CONVERSATION In the May 20, 2021 edition of the right-leaning Commentary Magazine, conservative pundit and former staffer of the Reagan White House John Podhoretz wrote an article entitled, “As Pogromists Activate, Chuck Schumer Cowers.”

, THIS CASE WAS QUICKLY FRAMED BY ISRAEL S ANTAGONISTS , AS JUST ANOTHER SYMPTOM OF THE COUNTRY S RACIST AND DISCRIMINATORY POLICIES. When courts in Israel hear land disputes, they are very often doing the best they can in an almost impossible situation. Can individual cases be criticized? Absolutely. Many often are and are then subsequently overturned. But to suggest that any and all rulings to the detriment of an Arab is part of a state-sanctioned program of discrimination against non-Jews is simply a vicious distortion of reality and frankly quite ridiculous.

This highlights the first of the important lessons from the last several weeks. The enemies of Israel are not, and probably never will be,

In the article, Podhoretz brings up the disturbing trend of attacks against Jewish targets in the United States and other Western nations during the Gaza campaign. He also brings up the relatively weak response by many elected officials in the U.S. Podhoretz specifically goes after New York Senator Chuck Schumer, a man who has spent years promoting himself as the “shomer” (a cute pun on his surname) of both the American Jewish community and Israel. According to Podhoretz, Schumer’s response to this string of incidents has

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56 been, at best, low-key. At the same time, Schumer has all but refrained from speaking out against other elected officials openly vilifying Israel during the recent Gaza war.

While the senator may well deserve this critique, I think Podhoretz focuses too much on summing up Schumer and not enough on a much more important phenomena. That more essential question is this: why does Schumer, who can tout pro-Israel credentials going back decades, feel compelled to sensor himself in this way?

The answer to this question seems pretty clear: the conversation in American politics on Israel has changed. That is not to say that policy toward Israel has shifted (at least not yet), but clearly the Overton window has expanded. Not long ago it would have been inconceivable that any elected official, from either party, would spew the vitriol against Israel that has been heard over the past twenty days. These attacks have not been against specific Israeli action but against Israel’s very existence. Terms like “colonialist” and “apartheid” are now loosely thrown around. It’s important to understand that in order for someone to believe these epithets apply to Israel, they have to believe that Israel in its very existence is a grave moral injustice. Of course, this view has been held by millions of people around the world since Israel’s very inception. Typically, however, those voices haven’t been heard in the halls of Capitol Hill.

Granted, for the time being, at least, the high-handed remarks are coming from the more “radical” fringes of Congress, the likes of the so-called Squad and Vermont’s Bernie Sanders.

There is, however, a more broad effect taking hold, namely the political acceptability for those types of statements to be made. Obviously, any official, or citizen for that matter, is entitled to whatever unhinged opinion they wish to espouse.

Usually, however, when that happens, fellow party members will try to rein in on those more extreme voices either publicly or privately, if for no other reason than the fact that such outbursts are a liability to the party’s image. But alas, no reining in has occurred. Indeed, many have pointed out that what we are witnessing now with anti-Israel rhetoric is merely the continuation of a trend.

In 2019, House Democrats put forth a resolution condemning “anti-Semitism” following a series of statements against Israel by Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar. The resolution did not mention Omar by name and made no mention of support for Israel to counter the congresswoman’s remarks. The watered-down resolution was tacit consent by the Democratic establishment for adopting putting forth anti-Israel positions.

So now, old-school politicians like Schumer find themselves in an awkward situation. The policy lines they have become accustomed to toeing are no longer what they were just a few short years ago. It’s not that people like Senator Schumer have suddenly sold out on any principles

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they’ve held in the past. It’s simply that they find themselves in a political milieu significantly different than what they were ever used to. Which brings us to lesson number two: the conversation on Israel among many of Israel’s allies has shifted. This does not mean substantial changes to policies are in the pipe. But it is certainly a red flag.

This reality has already been recognized for

facing new levels of challenges, challenges that will probably get worse before they get better.

Indeed, any immediate change that will come from the last round in Gaza will probably be at Israel’s diplomatic level. To be sure, Jerusalem will certainly not be diminishing ties with its traditional allies. What it will do, however, is seek ways to diversify its international relationships and alliances. The very important trend of Israel

THESE ATTACKS HAVE NOT BEEN AGAINST SPECIFIC ISRAELI , ACTION BUT AGAINST ISRAEL S VERY EXISTENCE. some time by Israel’s diplomatic establishment.

In the halls of the Foreign Ministry, an agency with a notorious progressive political slant, many senior officials are still reeling from the shock triggered by this new escalation of anti-Israel political discourse. It was probably for this reason that, according to the Prime Minister’s Office, Netanyahu himself briefed Israeli ambassadors on how to conduct interviews and deliver diplomatic addresses during the course of the recent conflict. Israel’s international representatives are

solidifying regional ties, kickstarted by last year’s Abraham Accords, will almost certainly be bolstered. Looking even farther afield, Israel will probably seek out more trading partners, suppliers, and even sources for its defense equipment and hardware.

Whatever concrete policy changes await, in either the short- or long-term, one thing is certain: Israel’s leadership is feeling the political ground shifting under its feet. Sooner or later, they will have to shift in response.

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Later that evening, Sara walked into the living room where Yankel was lounging on the couch. She sat down next to him and said to him,

Answer: Walt Frazier. Four of the starting five players were Jewish and there were two additional Jews coming off of the bench. (Amar’e Stoudemire may be onto something here!)

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2. In Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals between the Knicks and the Pacers in 1995, how many points did Reggie Miller score in 8.9 seconds? a. 5 b. 7 c. 8 d. 9

3. How many 3-pointers did John Starks miss in Game 7 of the 1994 NBA Finals? a. 6 b. 7 c. 11 d. 13

5. In which years did the Knicks win the NBA Championship? a. 1970, 1973 b. 1973, 1978 c. 1970, 1978, 1984 d. 1976, 1979, 1985

4. Which Knicks player missed four straight layup attempts in the final seconds of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals between the Knicks and Bulls, giving the Bulls a 3-2 lead in the series, after the Knicks has originally been up 2-0? a. Charles Oakley b. Anthony Mason c. Greg Anthony d. Charles Smith

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7. Who did the Knicks lose to in the 1999 NBA Finals? a. Spurs b. Jazz c. Lakers d. Suns

18 from the field, including 0-for-11 from three-point range in Game 7. Knicks coach Pat Riley famously said after the loss: “You go with your players; you go up with them, and you go down with them.”

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by Sam Mitchell. Starks missed both free throws, and although Patrick Ewing managed to get the offensive rebound, his shot was just a bit long and hit the back rim. Miller got the rebound and was fouled with 7.5 seconds left. He made both free throws.

3. C- Starks, who scored 27 points in Game 6, shot 2-for-

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Answer to Riddle: 182. The first digit must be 1 or 7. It can’t be 7 as only one digit is correct in each guess. So it’s 1.

The other digits in guess #1 (i.e., 3 and 5) must be incorrect. Therefore, from guess #3, the second digit is 8. Guess #4 has a correct digit which must be its third – the 2.

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- A Washington Post headline from February 2020, that they recently retracted because it turns out that coronavirus likely started and transmitted initially from a lab in Wuhan, China

In recent years, it has become an article of faith of the progressive left that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism and that it is slanderous to assume that someone who hates Israel hates Jews too.

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Not everyone received the memo.

Not the people who, waving Palestinian flags and chanting “Death to the Jews,” according to a witness, assaulted Jewish diners at a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles. Not the people who launched fireworks in New York’s Diamond District. Not the people who brutally beat a man wearing a kippah in Times Square. Not the people who walked through London insulting the Jews and shouting, “[Hurt] their daughters.” Not the people who gathered outside a synagogue in Germany shouting insults. Not the people who at a demonstration in Brussels chanted, “Jews, remember Khaybar. Muhammad’s army is back.”

– Brett Stephens, The New York Times

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You can never be woke enough – that’s the problem. It keeps going, it keeps going further and further and further down the line and if you get to the point where you capitulate, where you agree to all these demands, it’ll eventually get to a point where … white men aren’t allowed to talk because it’s your privilege to express yourself when other people of color have been silenced throughout history. It’ll be “you’re not allowed to go outside because so many people were imprisoned for so many years.” I’m not joking. It really will get there. It’s that crazy. I mean we just gotta be nice to each other, man. There’s a lot of people that are taking advantage of this weirdness in our culture and that becomes their thing – their thing is calling people out for their privilege, calling people out for their position.

- Podcast host Joe Rogan

I think that what we’re seeing now is Joe and the administration are essentially finishing the job. And I think it’ll be an interesting test. Ninety percent of the folks who were there in my administration, they are continuing and building on the policies we talked about.

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One of the frustrations I had while I was off is that I was watching this war go on in Israel … and it was frustrating to me because there was no one on liberal media to defend Israel, really.

Farmworker found guilty of killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts.

We’ve become this country now that we’re kind of one-sided on this issue. And I’d also like to say off the bat I don’t think kids understand –and when I say kids, I mean the younger generations – you can’t learn history from Instagram…

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The truth is that I have suffered long bouts of depression since the U.S. Open in 2018 and I have had a really hard time coping with that. Anyone that knows me knows I’m introverted, and anyone that has seen me at the tournaments will notice that I’m often wearing headphones as that helps dull my social anxiety

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- Naomi Osaka, the world No. 2 tennis player, upon withdrawing from the French Open and taking a break from tennis after she was fined for not speaking to the press

I am not a natural public speaker and get huge waves of anxiety before I speak to the world’s media. So here in Paris I was already feeling vulnerable and anxious so I thought it was better to exercise self-care and skip the press conferences.

– Ibid.

I would submit that Israel did not steal anybody’s land. This is another thing I’ve heard the last couple of weeks, words like “occupiers” and “colonizers” and “apartheid,” which I don’t think people understand the history there.

The Jews have been in that area of the world since about 1200 B.C., way before the first Muslim or Arab walked the Earth.... I mean, Jerusalem was their capital. So if it’s who got there first, it’s not even close. The Jews were the ones who were occupied by everybody; the Romans took over at some point and then the Persians and the Byzantines and then the Ottomans. So yes, there was colonization going on there. Beginning in the 19th century, they started to return to Palestine, which was never an Arab country. There was never a country called Palestine that was a distinct Arab country…

Doesn’t it behoove the people who rejected the half a loaf and continue to attack.… Hamas’s charter says they just want to wipe out Israel. Their negotiation position is, “You all die.” The two-state solution has been on the table a number of times. There could be an Arab capital in East Jerusalem now if Yasser Arafat had accepted that in 2003. He did not.

I mean, they have rejected this and went to war time and time again. And, you know, as far as Gaza goes, it’s amazing to me that the progressives think that they’re being progressive by taking that side of it, the Bella Hadids of the world, these influencers. I just want to say in February of this year, a Hamas court ruled that an unmarried woman cannot travel in Gaza without the permission of a male guardian. Really? That’s where the progressives are? Bella Hadid and her friends would run screaming to Tel Aviv if they had to live in Gaza for one day.

– Bill Maher, HBO

It’s been 3 days since Prince Harry has offered another exclusive interview regarding how much he and Meghan hate his family. Can somebody check on them?

- Tweet by Candace Owens

The CVS on my corner has started locking up basic items like clothing detergent. As so many families can’t make ends meet right now, I can’t imagine thinking that the way to solve the problem of people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them.

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

Dear Navidaters,

I am having a very hard time with shidduchim for my 28-year-old single daughter, Tamar*. She is smart, beautiful, responsible, and will make an amazing wife and mother. The problem, sadly, seems to be stemming

from my mother who is sick with dementia. She is in the earlier stages, so many

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outside of the family are not aware of this. She is losing her sense of social astuteness – putting it mildly, she is losing her marbles! I have been told by friends, neighbors, and women in the community how my mother badmouths my daughter, claiming she is not serious, has issues, and will never get married. There is no rhyme or reason to what she says. We can’t even reason with her because of her condition. How can we navigate this crazy situation?

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

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. his is a nightmarish situation! You are caught between protecting your daughter and your mother’s dignity. You are probably very involved with caregiving for your parent, which intensifies the pain.

My sense is that it is probably OK to tell people that your mother is in the early stages of dementia and is not responsible for her negativity, in general, and about your daughter, in particular.

However, it is proper to run this past your rabbi in case there are any lashon hara ramifications (which I doubt). You probably have reason to be concerned about her safety as well. I think letting people know not to trust her words will be not only permitted but smart and good for her welfare.

Once you get that green light to inform people carefully and respectfully about your mother’s dementia and negativity about your daughter which comes from concern, it would be smart to mention that you have discussed this with your rav. The same is true when you circle back to shadchanim and teachers, as well. Do mention how hard this is for you and how you were told that you must do this.

Please get back to us and let us know how this went. We are concerned for all of you.

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am so grateful for your question as it not only helps me as a shadchan understand the difficulties that may arise in some families, but also helps raise society’s awareness of the issue.

In turn, people might read this question, hear an elderly relative rattle off nasty comments about a single, dismiss it as lashon hara and recognize the true problem – dementia.

I think this is an important lesson

to our readers. x. The source must be confirmed and reliable. This is why I utterly despise the “information fishing” that goes on in the shidduch system. Anyone can say anything, and it will be believed; how could this be a good thing? Will this really help the situation or will it hurt the situation?

Now to the bread and butter of your question. The first thing I did after reading the email with your question was google the issue, as I am not aware of dementia and the difficulties it presents. Ironically, the first paragraph on the first link I clicked on started with the following warning: “People with dementia might say hurtful things. When you’re caring for an older adult with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, they might make mean comments, use hurtful words, or accuse you of terrible and untrue things.

It’s devastating to hear, but the most important thing to remember is that their disease is causing the behavior.” (“7 Ways To Reduce And Manage Mean Dementia Behavior,” dailycaring.com) I am not the one who is qualified to tell you how to deal with your mother, but based on my internet search, there are endless resources to tap into. I will, however, say this.

The same Hashem who created your mother and her dementia, also created your daughter and her bashert.

Hashem creates the refuah (treatment) before the makah (illness). They say when someone passes away, Hashem takes into account every human being who will be affected by the tragedy.

When He created your mother’s situation, He also created those around her who will hear her rattle off things about your daughter. This will not affect finding her bashert. The only thing that can negatively impact finding her bashert is improper (or not enough) hishtadlus on her part. On your end, you can make the community of your mother’s social group aware of her cognitive decline, but that is about it.

As you mentioned, Tamar is 28, and your mother only just recently developed this dementia. Tamar has been single for many years before this. May

I suggest you recommend she gets acquainted with a very good dating coach to help guide her on her journey? I think it could do wonders!

May you have much hatzlacha with your daughter and your mother.

We often try to ascribe simple causes to complex problems.

The Single Rivka Weinberg am so sorry to hear that your mother is in the earlier stages of dementia.

Unfortunately, situations can become more complicated when dealing with these types of illnesses. At times, it is frustrating when you are giving so much time, energy, and care to an individual, and you feel like they are making your own personal situations more

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complex than necessary. With that said, it is important to remember that there are multiple factors in shidduchim. Although you may feel this is one of the biggest portions, I advise your daughter to look within herself to see if there is anything she can be working on to help herself throughout the process. In addition, I believe you should do the same. Human nature often in-

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stigates us to need a tangible reason or cause of a problem to point fingers at, but sometimes it is simply not what we believe it to be. Just to clarify, I am not saying your mother is not a piece of this puzzle, rather I am suggesting you look at a greater and larger picture. If your daughter is davening to Hashem for her shidduch and putting in the appropriate hishtadlus, your mother’s condition will not impact her shidduchim.

We need to keep in mind that Hashem has a plan for each and every one of us, and the key thing to do is strengthen our emunah and daven to Hashem for clarity and guidance.

When I am redt to a boy and he says no, I think about it as Hashem filtering boys for me and saving my emotional and mental energy. I find that when I constantly remind myself of that, it makes the dating process that much easier. Hashem is the ultimate Shadchan, so I recommend you turn to Him for direction and assistance.

After davening and strengthening your emunah and bitachon, you should notify the references on your daughter’s resume about your mother’s condition, so they are aware of the situation in case they are asked specific questions.

This appears to me to be a test in emunah and bitachon from Hashem, and the best way to face it head-on is by strengthening those muscles. I encourage you to keep calling out to Hashem, and with His help your daughter will find her zivug soon. Much hatzlacha!

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t’s very sad to see a loved one suffer from dementia. It’s especially heartbreaking when this cog-

the family are not aware” of your mother’s dementia. Actually, anyone speaking to her for even a short conversation will ignore what she says when it’s clear that something is not quite right with her.

So, let me delicately suggest: We often try to ascribe simple causes to complex problems. It’s entirely possible that your daughter’s difficulty in finding the right shidduch has absolutely nothing to do with your Mom’s problem.

It might be worthwhile having your daughter spend some time with a competent dating coach, who can help her better navigate contemporary dating issues.

It’s sad that you are in the stressful position of worrying not only about your mother but also about your daughter. Best wishes and good luck.

mot her’s condition. Keep in mind that it is very likely most people have realized that your mother’s personality has changed.

If you haven’t already begun to get the phone calls, be prepared for well-meaning neighbors and friends to call you asking about your mother.

You need to tell them the truth.

I think that you need to call every shadchan you are working with and let them know about the situation as well.

It can feel uncomfortable and foreign to “air our dirty laundry” but it is very necessary here.

Perhaps your daughter can speak with a dating coach to help her navi-

gate the world of shidduchim and help bring about a sense of peace and mastery over this uncomfortable situation.

Perhaps there is something that your daughter can work on with regard to her dating, separate from any issue with her grandmother. If there is a possibility that your daughter needs guidance with dating, it’s always a good idea to speak with someone.

I am so sorry that you are experiencing your mom’s cognitive decline.

Please make sure to take good care of yourself as you are sandwiched between your mother’s dementia and your daughter’s dating. That can be a lot for one person to carry.

All the best, Jennifer

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nitive decline is causing harm to the family.

Please consider the following: First, although there is no cure for senile dementia, you can modify or slow down her decline, and, perhaps, minimize the damage to your daughter.

-Speak to a physician about medications like Aricept (Donepezil).

-Institute a daily exercise regimen for your mother.

-Have someone play word games or card games with her daily.

-Speak to her often, consistently, and repetitively with a simple message: Please don’t say bad things about your granddaughter.

Second, discuss your mother’s condition, openly and honestly, with shadchanim. Delicately explain that Mom tries to advocate for Tamar but sometimes confuses the meaning of her words and says the wrong things.

A sympathetic shadchan will possibly take greater interest in helping a girl whose grandmother is ill.

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hank you for writing into our panel! Dementia is always tragic. The cognitive decline and the disorientation it brings is devastating to the individual and to family members alike. No one understands what it is to have a parent with dementia unless one has a parent with a dementia. I am a big supporter of support groups; a group that meets regularly with a skilled facilitator where everyone in the group has a loved one with dementia. Though potentially daunting at first, anyone I know who goes to a support group for an ongoing issue or crisis is glad they went. Though

you may not find anyone who is dealing with this exact manifestation of a parent’s dementia, most people in the group will be able to relate and support you and provide you with validation, which may give you the strength to get through this and future situations. People with dementia often say untrue or downright cruel things to or about loved ones. Do not underestimate how painful this may be for you.

In my opinion, I think you have to tell community members about your

Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and dating and relationship coach working with individuals, couples, and families in private practice at 123 Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst, NY. She also teaches a psychology course at Touro College. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 718-908-0512. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email JenniferMannLCSW@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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The Bully’s Secret Weapon JUNE 3, 2021

By Rabbi Azriel Hauptman

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The Ambivalent Bystanders: Most children will not encourage or discourage the bully, but will watch the bullying without showing what side they are on.

The Defenders: Some children will actively come to the aid of the one being bullied by comforting him or by expressing their disapproval to the bully.

The role of the bystander who encourages or discourages the bully is clear. The role of the ambivalent bystander who just watches is a little less clear. Let us first explore the motivation of the bully and then we can understand the unwitting role that they play in enabling and empowering the bully.

Generally, bullies are attempting to raise their social status by picking on other kids. A bully might even be someone who is already popular in school, but still desires to raise his or her status even more at the expense of

other children. Therefore, they choose unpopular kids as their victims in order to avoid the risk of the bullying having the reverse effect of losing their social status.

The emotional health of the bully varies greatly. Some bullies are indeed themselves victims of abuse at home or in other environments and have a need to build their self-esteem. However, many school-age bullies have no trauma or abuse in their life, but are regular kids who are drawn to bullying behavior due to the natural desire of human beings to raise their social stature. Many of these bullies will outgrow this vicious form of self-promotion as they mature.

Being that the motivation of a bully is to promote his or her social status, the bully feels empowered by having other children witnessing the bullying and doing nothing. The ambivalent bystander is in essence telling the bully that you have the power to

do as you wish. Up to 80% of bystanders are from the ambivalent category, and therefore the key to stopping bullying is by educating children how to take a more active role in discouraging a bully.

Adults can teach children how to be helpful bystanders by discussing with them the roll they can play in helping victims of bullying and offering them different strategies they can use to express their disapproval of the bullying. Bullying can leave lifelong scars, and it therefore is of paramount importance to do whatever we can to prevent the bullying from occurring in the first place.

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School bullying is an unwanted and aggressive behavior between school-aged children that is repetitious (or has the potential to be repetitious) and involves an imbalance of power. The bullying can be verbal, physical, or social. The imbalance of power can be the result of an age difference, superior physical strength, or higher social status. There is one more element that enables bullying and that is the bystander. This “secret weapon” provides the bully with both the ammunition and the motivation to persist in the abuse of his victim.

There are roughly four different types of bystanders: The Assistants: This group of children do not initiate the bullying behavior, but they will cheer on the bully and sometimes participate.

The Engaged Audience: These children do not participate or encourage the bullying, but they find the bullying humorous.

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co-founded by ex-Navy SEAL Brandon Tseng after he returned from Afghanistan in 2015. Tseng’s unit had suffered casualties in an operation in Uruzgan province when he couldn’t target a hostile building because he didn’t know if civilians were inside.

Tseng knew that AI could solve this problem. He got a degree from Harvard Business School, grew his company, and hired Ambridge, a former Air Force special tactics officer, and others.

potentially hostile territory. Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of a start-up called Anduril Industries, hands me some virtual reality goggles. In their 3-D images, I can see the terrain, in real time, through the fusion of different sensors mounted on autonomous systems in the target zone.

I focus on a suspicious object and query the AI-enabled operating system, called Lattice: Where was that object 30 minutes ago? Two hours

Mission accomplished – a job that, in a real-life combat situation, could get soldiers killed.

ago? Based on AI predictions, where is it going next? The system shows me, with earlier imagery and future plotting.

The live feed I’m watching comes from Anduril’s test range in Southern California, but the technology has already been sold to the Pentagon and deployed to operational zones for force protection, and to Customs and Border Protection for monitoring U.S. frontiers. Anduril was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, a California entrepreneur who created Oculus Rift, the VR system that’s credited with revolutionizing that display technology.

Brose, who spent years campaigning for military reform as staff director of the Senate Armed Services

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Shield AI’s systems are now deployed in combat locations abroad.

The real breakthrough is that its AI brain is at the “edge,” in the quadcopter itself. It doesn’t have to communicate with a server back at headquarters – a link that would probably be jammed in a real conflict.

Let’s take another real-world military problem: force protection and perimeter defense. Soldiers regularly get killed manning checkpoints and scouting potential threats “outside the wire.” I recently watched a demonstration of a high-tech solution to that one, too.

We’re in an office building in downtown Washington, D.C., but it could be a command post anywhere.

We’re worried about the security of

Committee for the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is now “walking the talk” at Anduril. The key advantage of the autonomous AI systems, he explains, is that “rather than lots of humans operating one system, we have one human operating many systems.” In other words, rather than having a big, vulnerable aircraft carrier, we have swarms of hard-to-target drones.

For a final real-world problem, think about a Marine Corps squad out in the desert. It’s a tiny unit, just 12 Marines and a squad leader. But a new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program called Squad X is experimenting with ways to use autonomous ground and air vehicles to augment the team’s situational awareness, reach and impact.

Defense giant Lockheed Martin is prime contractor for the program, and a company called BAE Systems is creating an AI system to fuse data from the sensors and allow quicker, better decisions by the squad on the ground. (Disclosure: My wife, a BAE Systems software engineer, was part of the Squad X project.)

Wars of the future may look like video games, as operators control faraway swarms of autonomous systems, but the lethality on the ground will be devastating. What’s encouraging is that people like Tseng and Brose are taking their frustration with the human cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and turning that knowledge into new systems that will keep U.S. troops safer, at lower cost – even as they combat future adversaries.

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e’re standing outside an empty brick warehouse in Alexandria, Va., but it could just as easily be a hidden command center for hostile forces in Iraq, Afghanistan or some battlefield of the future. Our challenge is: How are we going find out who’s inside without exposing ourselves to gunfire?

An operator named Jack Ambridge removes a small quadcopter drone, less than a foot square, from his backpack and soon its tiny rotors are buzzing. “Nova 1,” as the drone is called, ascends to the nearest open window and surveys the warehouse, room by room, using artificial intelligence software called Hivemind that’s embedded in the drone. It doesn’t need to connect with a server at headquarters; it’s fully autonomous.

The tiny drone emerges from the building several minutes later with a detailed map of the structure and imaging that shows it’s empty. Mission accomplished – a job that, in a real-life combat situation, could get soldiers killed.

Welcome to the rapidly advancing world of autonomous weapons – the cheap, highly effective systems that are revolutionizing militaries around the world. These new unmanned platforms can make U.S. forces much safer, at far lower cost than aircraft carriers and fighter jets. But beware: They’re being deployed by our potential adversaries faster than the Pentagon can keep up, and they increase the risk of conflict by making it easier and less bloody for the attacker.

Nova 1 was created by a high-tech start-up called Shield AI, which was

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Gluten Free Recipe Column

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What You Will Need: Dough 2 Tbl. margarine, softened 1 cup cornstarch ¼ cup white sugar 1 cup brown rice flour 2/3 cup rice milk, warmed ¼ tsp. baking soda 1 Tbl. yeast 2 ½ tsp. xanthan gum 1 large egg 2 tsp baking powder ¼ cup canola oil ½ tsp. salt 1/3 cup potato starch 1 tsp. vanilla

Preperation: 1. Dissolve the yeast in large mixing bowl with warmed milk. Let bubble for a few minutes. Add sugar, margarine, oil, and vanilla to milk/yeast mixture. Stir to combine. Add egg and combine thoroughly.

2. In a separate bowl, mix together the salt, potato starch, cornstarch, brown rice flour, baking soda, baking powder, and xanthan gum.

Slowly add flour mixture to mixing bowl. Stir until well-combined. (You can use an electric mixer if you like.) Remove dough from mixing bowl and place in greased container. Let rise in warm place for 45-60 minutes. Dough will be sticky.

3. Roll dough to ¼ inch thickness between 2 pieces of parchment paper, well-floured with potato starch. Remove top sheet of paper and spread softened margarine on top of dough. Combine Filling: brown sugar, raisins, and cinnamon and sprinkle ¾ cup packed brown sugar over surface of greased dough. Using bottom ¼ cup raisins (opt.) sheet of parchment to assist you, roll dough into 1 ½ tsp. cinnamon a log. Carefully cut into 12 equal pieces about 1 inch wide. Place buns on parchment-lined baking 1/3 cup margarine, softened sheet, leaving about 1 inch in between to allow for rising. Let buns rise in warm oven for 40 minutes. Turn oven to 400 degrees, and bake 22 minutes until tops are golden. Check for doneness.

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While discussing and preparing for the class, one of the women from the committee,

Noemi Levi, who I had become very close

with through Instagram, told me about this super-easy, white chocolate mousse

recipe. When I say easy, it’s really easy!

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b3 bars good quality white Swiss chocolate, 300 grams b2 eggs, lightly beaten

loved this recipe. As my family is avid white

b2 cups heavy cream, whipped to stiff peaks

hint. You can serve it for seudat shlishit,

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chocolate fans, this made for an instant or for brunch � or just keep them in the

freezer in case you have guests who drop by unexpectedly.

Preparation Melt chocolate in glass bowl over a simmering pot of water. Continuously stir until it’s very smooth.

2. Once it has slightly cooled, mix in the eggs.

3. Then fold into the whipped cream with a rubber spatula.

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Divide mixture into dessert cups and place in fridge for 2 hours until it sets.

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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he Biden administration has rolled out an ambitious set of tax hikes to support new spending on infrastructure, families, and other priorities. While the plan includes raising rates, much of the action focuses on closing loopholes, especially for corporations.

But if you’ve ever had front-row seats to that particular horror show, you know that closing loopholes is like killing a vampire — much easier said than done!

Back in 1937, FDR launched a campaign against loopholes for the rich. Henry Morgenthau, his Treasury Secretary, prepared an 11-page memo, exposing strategies that the Depression-era 1% employed to pay less. It’s a classic howl of righteous indignation, with sentiment straight out of the Occupy Wall Street movement. (We’re waiting for a Ken Burns documentary.) So, what outrages did he find?

“The investigation of the income tax returns for each successive year reveals the increasingly stubborn fight of wealthy individuals and corporations against the payment of their fair share of the expenses of their Government…. But we still have too many cases of what I may

call moral fraud — that is, the defeat of taxes through doubtful legal devices which have no real business purpose nor utility, and to which a downright honest man would not resort to reduce his taxes.”

Morgenthau didn’t just reveal how, he revealed who, in a way that would land today’s Wiki-leakers in jail:

tax liability very greatly.”

George Westinghouse, Jr. “has a $3 million Bahamas corporation and in an attempt to prevent the Bureau of Internal Revenue from catching up with him, moves his home address from one small hamlet to another each year.”

“Alfred P. Sloan’s yacht is owned

by Rene Corporation, one of his per-

“But we still have too many cases of what I may call moral fraud.”

Charles Merrill and Edwin Lynch had 40 trust funds and 23 personal holding companies. “They operate a great many numbered brokerage accounts and only at the end of the year identify for whose benefit the account has been operated. In this way innumerable transactions are carried on between the different corporations and trusts which have no effect upon the beneficial interests of Merrill and Lynch, but which are designed to reduce their

sonal holding companies, along with $3 million in securities. He rents the yacht from his company and the company uses its income from securities to pay depreciation on the yacht, the wages of the captain and crew, and the expenses of operating the yacht.”

More generically, Morgenthau attacked percentage depletion as “perhaps the best example of legalized theft from the United States Treasury which the revenue laws

still permit.” Washington still hasn’t seen fit to repeal it — just drive through Houston’s stately River Oaks neighborhood to see what it’s done for the oil business.

And he marveled that “lawyers of high standing at the bar are advising their clients to utilize devious tax avoidance devices, and they are actually using them themselves.”

(No! Lawyers being clever? Say it ain’t so!)

So, what’s the answer? Garlic?

Wolfsbane? Witchcraft? We’ll see what they end up choosing this time.

Regardless, our job remains the same: to navigate the new rules to help you pay less, legally, morally, and ethically. While you probably won’t be able to rent your yacht from your company, we can be sure the new rules will include new “green lights” you can use to go without paying.

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

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