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Never Too Old At 102, Ingeborg Rapoport just passed her oral exam for her doctorate that the Nazis prevented her from getting. by Rabbi Benjamin Blech

new Guinness world record has just been set. It shows us how sometimes wrongs can be righted after many decades. It proves that it’s possible for dreams to be realized even in the late twilight of our lives. It is heartwarming and inspiring. But perhaps most of all it reminds us that age is not an insurmountable barrier to great achievements. Ingeborg Rapoport just passed her oral examination for her doctoral degree. At age 102, professors from the University of Hamburg questioned her for close to an hour on her thesis about diphtheria and were unanimous in their praise. True, the retired neonatologist who lives in Berlin had submitted her original scholarly work back in 1938 but after having her scientific conclusions validated she was not permitted to proceed with the oral exam for “racial reasons.” With a Jewish mother, the Nazis considered her ineligible for academic advancement and her medical career was categorically suspended. Emigrating to the United States, she would finally be able to achieve part of her dream. She got her MD, married and raised a family. Only her

doctorate was stolen from her by the cruelty of Nazi anti-Semitism. But recently, fate intervened. A colleague of her son, a Harvard medical school professor, shared her story with present Dean of the University of Hamburg’s medical school. Wanting to rectify the ancient wrong, the Dean allowed her now to qualify for the long denied degree. Nonetheless, she would have to pass an oral showing her knowledge of present-day advances in the field. And so Ingeborg, with failing eyesight, had friends read to her from the Internet all the current new information about diphtheria. She absorbed it all, retained it sufficiently to overwhelmingly satisfy her examiners and today occupies the unique record of being the oldest person, at the age of 102, ever to receive a doctoral degree. Grandma Moses and the A Team Of course old age is not always so kind. For many, Robert Browning’s words to “grow old along with me, the best is yet to be” seem more wishful thinking than realistic possibility. Yet, it bears noting that some of mankind’s most remarkable achievements came from those already far advanced in years. Much has been written about Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better

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known to the world as Grandma Moses, a woman who didn’t begin to paint until the age of 76, when her hands became too crippled by arthritis to hold an embroidery needle. She found herself unable to sit around and do nothing, after a long life spent working on farms, and without any formal art training began a career spanning over a quarter of a century which would make her an internationally renowned figure whose paintings were praised by President John F. Kennedy as “inspiring an entire nation.”. There have been many others who made a powerful impact on the world even after becoming octogenarians. At 89, Arthur Rubinstein gave one of his greatest recitals in New York’s Carnegie Hall. At 89, Albert Schweitzer headed a hospital in Africa. At 88, Pablo Casals was giving cello concerts. At 88, Michelangelo conceived some of his greatest architectural plans. At 85, Coco Chanel was the head of a fashion design firm. At 84, Somerset Maugham wrote Points of View. At 83, Aleksandr Kerensky wrote Russia and History’s Turning Point. At 82, Winston Churchill wrote a History of English Speaking People. At 82, Leo Tolstoy wrote I Cannot Be

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he Weinreb Brothers, natives of Monsey, have music in their blood. Growing up, one would often hear the sounds of exotic rhythmic grooves and extended musical jams floating from their basement windows. Now, years later , The Weinreb Brothers have just released their debut album, “The Weinreb Brothers- May’ain Olam Habah”, available at your local Judaica store. It is a culmination of their musical talents and knowledge, in one outstanding work and includes an eclectic mix of acoustic based jams, featuring both their original songs and totally re-

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YM: of course!! I’m not sure why I get that question a lot and people seem surprised...

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usia Dabrowska grew up in Warsaw unaware that she was Jewish, a fact she suspected and then confirmed in her teens. For the past 15 years she splits her time between Wasrsaw and Brooklyn. My grandmother, an agile woman in her mid-sixties, leaned over a pale, pink-tiled bathtub and reached behind the washing machine next to it. We were in the basement of her house. She was too small and had to climb up the bathtub ledge. Crouching, she finally reached a plastic bag. It was a dry and warm Polish summer in 1995. My grandmother was back on the floor, protectively holding the tightly wrapped package, a set of pictures of her family. The washing machine had long ago stopped working; it was a kind of treasure chest, hiding the memories of family that was unmentionable. My grandmother always believed that it was better our family history died with her. There was something unnamed, yet shameful about us. Kids said my family was ugly, polite adults said I looked Spanish, less polite adults said many other things. I grew up in

Warsaw, away from the small town my mother escaped as soon as she could, and the street my grandmother lived on her whole life, including the years she spent hiding in another basement. That was the street to which my grandmother, like her mother, belonged. She belonged to this street when it was the heart of the Jewish District. She had belonged to it the 50 years when we were the last Jews there. Even before the war ended, while still in hiding, my grandmother was christened. For the rest of her life, she strived to find her home, to belong, to pass. This obsessive need to fit in shaped my grandmother’s choices, and it echoed in my mother’s life. I grew up knowing that the most difficult aspect of fitting in is the threat that at any moment we might be discovered. The erasure of the Jewish life in our part of the world was, mildly put, a discombobulating experience for those who survived. But in Poland, it was compounded by the almost complete demolition of virtually all social structures. Moreover, communism had no interest in rebuilding social bonds based in democratic practices.

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This meant that growing up 40 years after the war, I was still vulnerable to opinions about who I was offered voluminously to me by cab drivers, lonely drunks, old women who needed a reason to cut me in the line at the store, and a neighbor who thought I played music too loud. I was not only susceptible to their opinions; I had no other point of reference. My grandmother was a Catholic who dyed her hair Henna-red and who destroyed her family pictures. The same pictures she had shared with me only once. On her deathbed in 2006, for the first time since the War, she told my mother, in utter confidentiality, that we were Jewish. My mother learned she was Jewish some 35 years before when her classmate told her he couldn’t date her. But had he not told her, there were other clear giveaways. Like the fact that my grandmother kept pictures in the washing machine. And that challah bread was most delicious on Fridays. Or that Paul Newman was the only light-haired actor that my grandmother thought handsome. Against her deepest fears, my grandmother passed on to us a wealth

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of culture, albeit an amalgam of Polish and Jewish traditions. And it was the strength of that world which guided my mother in Warsaw. She moved there in the late 1970s, approximately a decade after the last round of expulsions of Jews from Poland. But in comparison to what my mother had grown up with, the capitol brimmed with Jewish life. The socio-cultural association of Jews in Poland, formal and not, sought to make sense of the remnants of Jewish life. When I was growing up, virtually everyone my mother was friends with was Jewish. It was an unnamed network of people who kept their life stories for late night whispery conversations. They were few in numbers and had a very narrow, if any, connection to a positive sense of their ethnic, cultural, or religious identity. But out of the sense of an unspoken bond, they also supported each other, including women like my mother, a single mother from rural Poland with a sickly child, a prematurely born daughter with kidney problems. I’ve come to realize that the hardest part of overcoming the illness that marked our identity is not the cherishing of traditions that were passed on to me. It is reaching the place where I can begin to outline what was taken away from me. This sense of loss is a common sentiment among young people, Jewish or not, in Poland. However, to me,the Jewish festivals that fetishize the shtetl past are as alienating as Chabad Centers popping up in Poland. At a time when most young people, for better or worse, pick and chose their identities to then stretch them beyond accepted boundaries, being Jewish in Poland often feels as if you’re perpetually perched on the set of Fiddler on the Roof. Like many other Warsaw Jews, I felt insatiated. Ostensibly preparing to write a novel, I spent a year researching everyday practices of Jewish women in pre-World War II Varshe. At YIVO’s photo archives I looked for pictures of I.L. Peretz to

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the right place to figure out what I was missing. Did I really achieve success? Webster’s dictionary defines success as the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame. What was Judaism’s definition for success? The Talmudic Formula Judaism’s formula for success in life can be found in the tractate of Shabbat, 31a. It is a rabbinical discussion of the questions one is asked at the end of one’s days in the heavenly court. The scholars discuss the ultimate questions asked as a way of explaining what is most important in life and to determine how one can measure the success of one’s life. 1. Were you honest in your business dealings? The first question we are asked is whether or not we were honest in business. Judaism places an emphasis on one’s character and teaches that the most important thing one can do in his life is be honest, especially when the temptation is to do the opposite.

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It is not achieving wealth as Webster’s dictionary defines success, but how that wealth was obtained that defines success. If it was obtained dishonestly, it is meaningless. “Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways” (Proverbs 28:6). Judaism measures success by asking did we keep our promises, have personal integrity and put honesty above profit? When tempted with profitable but ethically questionable deals, I always think about this first question and pass on the deal. 2. Did you set aside regular time to study? Without regular study, we lose focus and often go down the wrong path. With regular study, we can continue to improve, utilize the brain

3. Did you build a family and support the education of the next generation? Success is not just what we have done personally, but what we have done to pass on Jewish values and wisdom to the next generation. Did you have children and raise them to continue the mission of improving the world around us? Whether you had your own children or not, did you make sure your community has the resources to provide a Jewish education for the children in your community? I decided it was time to get serious about finding a mate and raising a family. I changed my whole approach towards dating and stopped wasting time dating anyone that didn’t share my values. I looked for a spouse

world around you better? Success is not just achieving wealth but how we used that wealth. Did we use it only for ourselves or did we use it to help others and improve our community? I try to take this this seriously. I realized my pursuit and accumulation of wealth was not in and of itself success. Something was missing. When we have wealth, we become a steward of that wealth. It is just as difficult to find the right places to give our wealth as it is to earn the wealth. But success only comes from the complete package. Earning it without spending it right is not success. Earning it and working hard to find the best use of that wealth is how we become successful. I decided to make sure I did something every day to improve our world. I set up a foundation and regularly donated a portion of my

Without regular study, we lose focus and often go down the wrong path. With regular study, we can continue to improve, utilize the brain and talents our Creator has given us to the fullest. and talents our Creator has given us to the fullest. We need to constantly evaluate where we are in life and strive to improve. Without setting a regular time, we probably won’t do it – hence the question is whether we set up “regular” time to study. This means we made it a priority. Did you strive to improve or are you just status quo? Did you implement the things you learned? After studying this piece of Talmud, I started devoting one hour every week to study. I closed my door and studied for a hour with either a rabbi or study group. I since expanded this to almost daily study with my kids. I’m amazed how much more fulfilled I am after an hour of study. But we need to make it a priority and do it regularly, regardless of how busy we are.

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income. I became involved in the community. I found the organizations I believed were making the biggest impact on improving our local Jewish community, the State of Israel, keeping the U.S. behind Israel, educating our children, helping children with special needs and providing for the needy. I actively volunteered my time to help make organizations more efficient with the business skills I had. I encouraged and recruited others to give and become active. These questions have become my guiding light. Why not ask yourself these questions now and make sure you have the right answers when you get to heavenly court?

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bloodwork so that you can bring the lipid profile (as it is called) totally back into normal range (or close to it). Aerobic exercise keeps your blood flowing through your arteries and strengthens the heart muscle. Try to get in 5 days a week of 30 minutes each. You can use the treadmill, elliptical, or go to the gym for your aerobics. You can also make use of this beautiful spring weather and go outdoors for a bike ride or a brisk walk or even a jog (if your joints are healthy). Don’t smoke. (This may seem obvious but you can’t imagine how many people try to eat well, exercise and still smoke.) Smoking clogs the arteries and is totally forbidden. Studies have shown that one alcoholic drink a day (yes I’m talking about whiskey, schnapps or whatever you call it) can raise your HDL (good) cholesterol. That may be true, but it does not lower the LDL so it is not a good option. Eat a good diet. (Self explanatory.) But there are certain dietary pointers that can help with your blood lipids. (fats) Make sure you get at least 25 grams of fiber daily. This can come from raw vegetables, whole grains (especially oats), flaxseed or flaxseed meal, and psyllium. Fiber comes in two forms: insoluble and soluble fiber. You want to have some soluble fiber since that is what will effect your cholesterol the

most. (Oats is particularly high in the soluble form) Once you are following a healthy lifestyle, you can start drinking some red wine. (and I mean some. Don’t overdo this.) Red wine contains resveratrol which is a potent antioxidant and has been demonstrated to help with blood lipids. If you don’t want to drink wine, you can take resveratrol supplements. Niacin (one of the B vitamins) has been demonstrated to lower cholesterol and LDL. The reason why many people do not take niacin is because they cannot handle the skin flush and itchiness. The flush just lasts for about 10-15 minutes, so if you are not bothered by this then niacin can be very effective. Last but not least there is the famous Red Yeast Rice. This is almost as effective as taking a statin, however, one must be careful since even though red yeast rice is natural, it can still cause liver toxicity so that needs to be monitored while you are on this protocol. I hope this information helps you. If you know anyone who can benefit from this please pass it on. Any questions, just email me in return and I’ll try to help address your concerns. Until next time...... To Your Health,

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