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This week, Shira Diamond highlights a well-known figure in American history. Every grade school child knows that Christopher Columbus discovered America. But now there seems to be ample information to substantiate that the childhood ditty, “In 1492, Columbus was a Jew,” may actually be true. I found a lot of what she wrote to be fascinating. For example, his signature in his last will and testament may have been a directive to his sons to recite kaddish for him.

Many of the letters he wrote to his children had the Hebrew letters “beis” and “hay” written in the corner. Could it really be true that the explorer was a Jew fleeing the Inquisition in search of a way back to Israel?

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Dear Readers, It’s hard to think of Thanksgiving when it’s sleeting outside, but I’ve always loved Thanksgiving weekend. It was the only time that my father was off from work two days in a row, and although we never had an official Thanksgiving dinner, we would end up making a turkey for that Shabbos. Every year, my father would look up recipes online (my mother stayed out the kitchen that day) for the best way to cook the juiciest bird. One year, my sister and I found ourselves basting the turkey in brine every hour; another year, cooking involved a Coke can—or maybe it was beer?

On Shabbos, my father would excitedly serve the turkey, commenting on how delectable it was. No matter how well it turned out, I know there’s only one way I enjoy eating turkey—

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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, There is more to the Readers’ Poll highlighted in your November 20 issue: Should stores be open for shopping on Thanksgiving? Why not continue participating beyond the annual national Small Business Saturday, November 29th? Do the same as often as you can during the other 364 days a year. Skip the national chain stores annual Black Friday Madness, which now starts early Thursday night at most big box large retail stores. Only PC Richards puts aside financial greed in favor of allowing their employees to stay home with family and is closed. Stay home and enjoy your Thanksgiving meal with friends and family. Get a good night’s sleep and instead come out and support Small Business by shopping local. In these difficult economic times, it is especially important to patronize your neighborhood businesses. There are so many great options to choose from.

Remember these people are our neighbors. They work long hours, pay taxes and provide local employment. If we don’t patronize our local community stores and restaurants to shop and eat, they don’t eat either.

Please join me and your neighbors in continuing to support our Jewish Home newspaper. Patronize their advertisers; they provide the necessary revenues to help keep them in business.

Let them know you saw their ad. This helps keep our neighbors employed and the local economy growing.

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Dear Editor, Last week, sitting my car, I started wondering if I was still living in America. You see, I heard on the radio that President Obama decided—on his own—to pass immigration legislation. Since when do we elect someone to lead the country to implement his own ideas and plans without consideration to what the rest of America wants? The United States has a system of checks and balances to ensure that

no one branch of government becomes too strong. When the Oval Office starts to make grand, sweeping edicts, I begin to think that we are becoming too much like our enemies across the ocean. You know what they say, you sometimes hate the flaws that you have within yourself and that you see within others. Putin and Obama may not end up being too different. After all, they always do what they want—regardless of what their citizens may think.

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Dear Editor, It’s Monday night and I’m flipping between apps on my phone. I meant to go to bed an hour ago but can’t bring myself to stand up and turn off the light, so I’m flipping. “Shooting reportedly took place inside of a shul.”

Oy, a shul. I admit. I am desensitized.

I should recoil in horror at the words “shooting inside a shul,” but I am too used to hearing of terror to properly react. It’s the next words that do it...“in Har Nof, Israel.” That’s when the shutdown sets in. Har Nof? He must be getting his facts mixed up. It has to be a mistake. I read the comments. Not only is it Har Nof. It’s Rechov Agassi. It’s Rubin. The shul, formally known as Bnei Torah, just down the block. It’s not true and it’s not possible…

The picturesque, quiet, isolated world that is Har Nof has been violated. I walked up and down Agassi every day. During the five years I lived on that street and the regular visits since I moved back nearly 4 years ago, this is as close to home as it is possible to get. Though every attack is tragic and I do my best to tap into the mourning, I can always externalize it somehow.

They were in town. They were at a train station on Kvish Echad. They were in the streets of Tel Aviv. None of these excuses make the terrorism in any way less senseless, but in my mind, the option remained to stay hidden away in the remote Gan Eden of Har Nof. When you wake up from a bad dream and realize it’s not true, you

feel a sense of relief. When you wake up and realize it is true, you feel a sense of dread that sits with you but eventually lightens, as you mind absorbs the terrible reality. But when your mind is refusing to accept a new reality, every time you think of that reality, you get hit with the initial rush of dread repeatedly. And when you think of that reality a thousand times a day and every time your mind tells you it can’t be true but the news tells you it is, you feel the assault of dread a thousand times.

I go to work, and it’s life as usual. As it should be. For everyone else, this was another story in the news. Of course they care about their fellow Jews and some know Har Nof residents, so there is recognition that this is a little different. But this is not their home.

They are not mourning what was their safe, beautiful, street which has now become another statistic. I can’t think about anything else. It happened on our street. In a shul in which we’ve made many simchas. Every time I walk up Agassi in that direction, I think about how lucky I am to live there or be back there. (When I walk up Agassi in the other direction, I think of how steep it is and how out of shape I am.) During the years I lived there, Zaidy (Estee’s father, Nochum Stilerman) would greet us each morning with a jubilant, “Good morning, it’s another beautiful day in Gan Eden! Time to go learn Torah!

Nechama, I already used your mug for my coffee so I could learn before

neitz, so thank you for helping me with that mitzvah!” While I didn’t share his morning perkiness? His words resonated oh so true every day. We were living in Gan Eden, and the view from the marpeset seconded that notion. Have the Arabs come and destroyed that for us? Will Agassi forever be tainted by the massacre that occurred yesterday?

I am caught in a difficult place. Seeing life go back to normal has a tremendous healing capacity. Those who are currently on Agassi, those who chose to daven Shacharis today at Rubin, those who joined in the levaya in the park where we used to take the babies every afternoon, they get to see it go back to normal. They experienced the horror firsthand, but they are a part of the recuperation. Leah tells me that Yossi davened Mincha there yesterday and took a picture of a bullet hole. I am an insider-outsider so my experience will take a different trajectory. Iy”H I will be there in 3 weeks for my annual Chanukah trip and will see people walking up and down Agassi. … Life always goes on in Israel. Not only will we come back, but we will come back stronger. We will add learning sedarim, chessed gemachim, and tefillah rallies.

We will collect thousands of zechuyos as a response to this tragedy.

A quote I saw this morning, taken from a Mexican proverb, says it best: “They tried to bury us; they didn’t know we were seeds.”

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The German authorities have also posted notebooks online that record the buying and selling of pieces in the collection. That could help identify the owners of works that have long been regarded as missing or lost.

Eddy says the detective work necessary to determine which paintings looted is slow and painstaking; were it often requires finding old record books and databases that are stored in other

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After years of procrastinating and shunning international pressure, an Iranian official announced this week that Tehran is ready to allow nuclear inspectors access to its Marivan military site.

Marivan is a facility long suspected of being used to develop explosive weapons.

The announcement comes as Iran and six world powers hold talks in Vienna to reach a lasting agreement on Tehran’s disputed nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mentioned the Marivan site, which is close to the Iraqi border, in a 2011 report on Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons. The UN agency suggested at the time that “large scale high explosive experiments” may have been carried out at the complex.

Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany have been locked in talks with Iran since February after an interim accord gave it some relief from economic sanctions in return for nuclear curbs.

Along with Marivan, IAEA inspectors are also interested in the Parchin military base, where they suspect tests that could be applied to a potential nuclear site have been carried out. Iran has so far denied access to Parchin.

The Islamic Republic strongly denies its nuclear program is meant to build a nuclear weapon, even though the IAEA has revealed Iran is not abiding by the interim conditions in refusing to answer questions on the military aspects of its program. Likewise, a former head of the IAEA revealed this month that Iran may have five times more advanced uranium centrifuges than previously thought. If this is true, the danger that Iran would be able to quickly develop a nuclear weapon is all the more pressing.

Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Gauguin, Degas—Cornelius Gurlitt’s art collection of more than 1,200 paintings, sculptures and drawings was massive, but the collection carried with it the blood of those murdered by the Nazis.

Gurlitt was the son of Hitler’s art dealer and hid the treasured artworks in his apartment for decades. Now, after months of deliberation, an art museum in Bern, Switzerland, has decided to accept the collection of priceless works despite its contentious legacy and inclusion of works taken from Jewish families.

“They will not be keeping those works that are determined by a group of historians to have been looted from Jewish families,” ​New York Times reporter Melissa Eddy, who was at the announcement by the Kunst museum Bern on Monday in Berlin, r evealed. “Those works are to be returned to the Jewish families, and only the pieces that have been cleared will go to the museum.”

The Kunstmuseum says it will work with Germ any to ensure that any art looted by the Nazis from Jewish owners is re turned. A task force of art specialists appointed by the German government h as already found three works — including Matisse’s “Seated Woman” — that were stolen by the Nazis and will be return ed “immediately” to the rightful owners’ heirs.

The colle ction arrived “like a bolt from the blue” in May, when the museum was told that the estate of Cornelius Gurlitt had designated the Kunstmusem as his “u nrestricted and unfettered sole heir.” Gu rlitt, who died May 6, had no previous connection to the museum.

The museum’s board declared itself “surprised and delighted,” but acknowledged the fraught origins of the collection. “Th is magnificent bequest brings with it a considerable burden of responsibility, and a wealth of questions of the most difficult and sensitive kind,” they said, “questions in particular of a legal and ethical nature.”

There was also the immense hype that the collection stirred up. “The whole world descended on this apartment in Munich where Cornelius Gurlitt had lived with the art — behind closed curtains, behind closed doors — for decades,” says Eddy. The museum was concerned the gift “could end up costing them a lot of money.”

But Germany’s Culture MinMonika Grütters, stepped up ister,

countries. Combing through the entire collection could take at least a year.

“Seventy years have passed since World War II and looted art is still out there,” she says. “It’s still painful for families that lost art, and so now there’s a lot of excitement that the museum is pledging to do the right thing.”

If the first three works from this collection that have been identified as looted are returned as promised, Eddy says, “it could mark a real breakthrough in how restitution cases are handled.”

As for the works cleared of any association with Nazi looting, the Kunstmuseum hinted that a public exhibition of several hundred pieces from the Gurlitt collection could be put on display next year.

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The title of Righteous Among the Nations — a distinction awarded by Yad Vashem which is often conferred to recipients by Israel’s foreign ministry —was given posthumously to Frederika Maria Segboer and Christina Segboer, sisters who hid Jews in southern Netherlands and helped them reach safety in Spain.

Frederika’s daughter, Marijke van de Meent-Segboer, accepted the honor at a ceremony in Gorinchem near Rotterdam for her mother and aunt, who directed Jews they hid to the Westerweel group — a ring of resistance fighters who helped smuggle at least 210 Jews

out of the Netherlands, as well as hundreds of non-Jews who were wanted by the Nazi occupation forces.

Many of the Jews that the group smuggled to Spain left from there to Israel.

Earlier this month, the embassy conferred the title posthumously on another 12 recipients during a ceremony in The Hague. There, Israel’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Haim Divon, honored Cornelia Kloppenburg and her husband, Leenderd Mostard, who worked as a chauffeur near The Hague.

During the Holocaust, the couple took in a 4-year-old Jewish child, Micha Konig.

“They saved my life more than once and I will be grateful to them for as long as I live,” said 75-year-old author Micha Konig during the ceremony at the municipal building in The Hague.

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You probably have a unique view on world politics if you want a closer relationship with North Korea. But this week, the day after holding talks with a personal envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for deeper ties with North Korea to improve regional security.

Senior North Korean officials visit Moscow infrequently but the isolated country is trying to counter a U.N. resolution urging Pyongyang’s referral to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Russia is also one of five countries involved in talks with North Korea on its nuclear program. The others are South Korea, China, the United States and Japan.

Receiving the credentials of North Korea’s new ambassador to Russia, Putin said during a televised Kremlin ceremony: “We maintain friendly relations with one of our neighbors, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. A further deepening of political ties and trade and economic cooperation is definitely in the interests of the peoples of both countries and ensuring regional stability and security,” he said.

Last week, a U.N. Assembly committee dealing with human rights passed a resolution calling for the U.N. Security Council to consider referring North Korea to the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity. The vote followed a U.N. Commission of Inquiry report published in February detailing wide-ranging abuses in North Korea, including prison camps, systematic torture, starvation and killings.

North Korea has dismissed the U.N. move as part of a U.S.-led plot to destroy its political system. Diplomats say North Korea ally China would be likely to use its Security Council veto to knock down an ICC referral and that Russia would probably support Beijing’s stance.

“Black Widow” Faces Murder Charge

There are many options when it comes to making a living. Some people are plumbers and some are lawyers.

Some sell insurance, and others are teachers. 67-year-old Chisako Kakehi spent her life being a professional wife, but after marrying her seventh husband, her career has hit a minor speed bump—a murder charge.

The Japanese millionairess was finally arrested this week on suspicion of poisoning her husband with cyanide as it emerged six former partners had already died, in Japan’s latest apparent “black widow” case. Kakehi has so far been the beneficiary of a combined 800 million yen ($6.8 million) over the last two decades. This astonishing figure is a combination of insurance money and other assets she received after the seven men’s deaths.

Apparently, being married to Kakehi is the kiss of death. Husband number four Isao Kakehi fell sick suddenly at home and was confirmed dead at a hospital in December last year, less than two months after the couple married.

An autopsy found highly toxic cyanide compounds in his blood. That came after the September death of a 75-year-old husband, who fell ill suddenly after the couple ate together at a restaurant.

Kakehi’s significant others began dying in 1994 when her first husband passed away at the age of 54. In 2006, her second husband, whom she had met through a matchmaking agency, died of a stroke at the age of 69, while the third marriage ended in 2008 with the death of her 75-year-old partner.

A friend, believed to have been suffering from some form of cancer, died a year later, and in 2012, her then-fiancé met his fate after collapsing while riding a motorbike. According to media reports, traces of cyanide were detected in his body.

Police are now working on the theory that she could have been behind the deaths of at least some of the other six.

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Questioned by reporters earlier this year, former bank worker Kakehi protested her innocence. “If people suspect murder, I’d find it easier to bite my tongue off and die,” she told reporters in March. In an earlier interview, she said she was “doomed by fate” to suffer a series of deaths among those close to

her, protesting that she had no access to poison.

Most Tourists Visit Grand Bazaar Globally, travel has increased in the last year. According to the World Tour-

ism Organization (UNWTO), international tourist arrivals increased by 5% in 2013—that’s more than one billion trips, despite “global economic challenges.”

So where exactly did these millions of people travel to? Well, it wasn’t to the Bronx Zoo or Disneyworld. Travel + Leisure tallied up the world’s most-visited attractions by gathering the most

recent data supplied by the attractions themselves or from government agencies, industry reports, and reputable media outlets.

First off, for the scope of this analysis, “tourist attractions” are defined as cultural and historical sites, natural landmarks, and officially designated spaces. Beaches, bridges, and sites that draw almost exclusively religious pilgrims were omitted. Out of the top ten, four are in New York and six are in the U.S. The rest, though, will be quite a trek if you’re planning on heading out for midwinter break.

1. Grand Bazaar, Istanbul Annual Visitors: 91,250,000 2. The Zócalo, Mexico City Annual Visitors: 85,000,000 3. Times Square, NYC Annual Visitors: 50,000,000 4. Central Park, NYC (tie) Annual Visitors: 40,000,000 4. Union Station, Washington, D.C. (tie) Annual Visitors: 40,000,000 6. Las Vegas Strip Annual Visitors: 30,500,000 7. Meiji Jingu Shrine, Tokyo (tie) Annual Visitors: 30,000,000 7. Sensoji Temple, Tokyo (tie) Annual Visitors: 30,000,000 9. Niagara Falls, New York and Ontario Annual Visitors: 22,000,000 10. Grand Central Terminal, NYC Annual Visitors: 21,600,000

45 Killed in Female Suicide Attack in Nigeria On Tuesday, more than 45 people were murdered when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowded market in northeast Nigeria, the latest in a wave of such attacks attributed to Boko Haram.

The explosions in the Borno state capital targeted the same Monday Market area where at least 15 people died on July 1 in a blast also thought to have been carried out by the Islamist militants.

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The source told AFP that the first bomber stood by a motorized rickshaw packed with goods in the bustling market and took a call on her mobile phone.

“She then dropped it [the mobile phone] and at that moment she blew herself up, so people thought the bomb was concealed in the rickshaw,” he added.

“About 10 minutes later, another woman who looked about 19 and carrying what looked like a baby on her back under a hijab arrived at the scene that was crowded by rescuers and locals. She then detonated the bomb on her back.”

Northern Nigeria has been hit by a wave of suicide bomb attacks by women in recent months, including earlier this month in the northeastern state of Bauchi and Niger state in the northwest. In July, there were four such attacks within a week in Kano city.

The previous month, a woman was said to have blown herself up in a twin bombing in the southwestern city of Lagos. Weeks earlier, Nigeria saw its first female suicide bombing, when a middle-aged woman detonated her explosives at a military barracks in the northern state of Gombe.

Analysts have said that Boko Haram is using either willing volunteers or coercing young women and girls into becoming human bombs as part of its strategy to create a hardline Islamic state.

Three women said to be “female recruiters” for Boko Haram were reportedly arrested in July while an alleged trainer of women bombers was detained in Kano in August with up to 16 “trainees.”

Boko Haram has attacked Maiduguri dozens of times during its five-year insurgency, using a range of tactics from suicide attacks and bombings to fullscale assaults on military barracks. The Islamist group was founded in Maiduguri more than a decade ago and the city

was once the epicenter of the conflict until its fighters were pushed out into more rural parts of the northeast.

The terrorist group has consistently been taking over villages. Men are fleeing, as women are staying put with families. As such, Boko Haram easily manages to take over control of these towns. Boko Haram’s territorial gains are a change in strategy from its previous trademark of deadly hit-and-run raids or high-profile strikes against government, police or military targets.

Erdogan: Women Not Equal to Men

On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set off a new controversy when he declared that women are not equal to men and accused feminists of not understanding the special status that Islam attributes to mothers.

Addressing a meeting in Istanbul on women and justice, Erdogan said men and women are created differently, that women cannot be expected to undertake the same work as men, and that mothers enjoy a high position that only they can reach.

“You cannot put women and men on an equal footing,” Erdogan said. “It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. Their constitution is different.”

The president added, “Motherhood is the highest position ... You cannot explain this to feminists. They don’t accept motherhood. They have no such concern.”

His comments raised the ire of many in his country. Lawyer and women’s rights activist Hulya Gulbahar said Erdogan’s comments were in violation of Turkey’s constitution, Turkish laws and international conventions on gender equality, and didn’t help efforts to stem high incidences of violence against women in Turkey.

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U.S. Most Charitable Nation

Generous individuals make the world a kinder place. However, generosity varies from country to country.

Which countries love to give and which ones keep their wallets tightly fastened?

The recent results of the annual World Giving Index rank the most and least generous countries.

The top spot for generosity is shared by the U.S. and Myanmar, with a tied rating of 64%, followed by Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia.

The U.K.-based charity CAF-America measured three kinds of giving: helping a stranger, volunteering time, and donating money. Giving was not determined by the amount of money; it was the number of people giving as opposed to the dollar amount. The U.S. was the only country to rank in the top 10 for all three categories. Myanmar, though, ranked No. 1 for money, No. 2 for volunteering time, but only No. 63 for helping a stranger.

The list primarily reflects the culture of the countries. Myanmar is majority Buddhist, a religion which promotes a culture of giving. Myanmar received a 91% rating of people donating money, the practice of charitable giving or “dana” is integral to religious observance amongst Buddhists.

America’s increase in charitable giving may be a signal that in general people feel more optimistic about the economy. “America has increased its charitable giving year over year,” an analyst pointed out. Charitable giving rose 6% to 64%, meaning 16.9 million

Recently, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg announced a major restoration project to restore and preserve the Jewish ghetto in Venice, Italy.

The Jewish designer and philanthropist is leading the charge on a $12 million project to restore and preserve the first ghetto ever built.

“As much as this renovation is about preserving the past and the rich history of the Venetian and Jewish communities, today is about the future. All of us are responsible for making sure that future generations – 500 years from today – have access to these stories of human culture and progress,” von Furstenberg related.

The designer was born in Belgium in 1946, in the shadow of the Holocaust.

Her mother, Lily Nahmias, had recently survived 13 months in the Auschwitz and Ravensbruck concentration camps.

As she wrote in her recent book, “I didn’t know, as a very little girl in Brussels, why my mother had two lines of blue tattooed numbers on her left arm.”

The Venice ghetto, constructed in 1516, is believed to be the first ghetto ever built. Today the ghetto is clearly marked on tourist maps, and is a stop— marked in Italian and Hebrew—on the city’s popular water taxi route.

The ambitious project includes restoring the city’s five synagogues as well as its Jewish museum, and is projected to be completed by 2016, the 500th anniversary of the ghetto’s creation. Following the restoration, the former ghetto will reportedly be designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The word ghetto is largely thought to have come from the Venetian word

UN: Islamic State Received up to $45M from Ransoms On Monday, it was revealed that the Islamic State terrorist group received between $35 million and $45 million in ransom payments in the past year alone.

Yotsna Lalji told a meeting of the U.N. Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee that an estimated $120 million in ransom was paid to terrorist groups between 2004 and 2012.

Kidnapping for ransom “continues to grow,” she pointed out. In recent years, al Qaeda and its affiliates have made kidnapping “the core al Qaeda tactic for generating revenue.” She not-

ed an October 2012 recording in which al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri incited militants worldwide to kidnap Westerners.

Lalji said al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which operates from Yemen, received $20 million in ransom between 2011 and 2013, and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which operates in North Africa, received $75 million over the past four years.

She said the al Qaeda-linked extremist groups Boko Haram in Nigeria and al-Shabab in Somalia also “have collected millions of dollars over the past years,” and the Abu Sayyaf militant group in the Philippines has received about $1.5 million in ransom.

Last week, President Barack Obama ordered a review of how the United States responds when its citizens are taken hostage overseas in light of the beheadings of Americans by Islamic State militants, but it will not include changing the longstanding U.S. policy of refusing to pay ransom. Many governments do pay ransom and some family members of those killed have complained that the U.S. did not take enough action in an attempt to save their loved ones.

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ghèto or foundry. A foundry refers to the act of pouring liquid metals into a container or form. The area that was given to the Jews of Venice at the time housed a foundry, and the Jews were “poured into there” to separate them from the general inhabitants of Venezia or Venice.

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more Americans gave last year than in previous years. “The scars of the Great Recession are deeper than we may want to think,” he added. “But the stock market has never been higher. We see that as indication that we’ve weathered the recession and weathered it well.”

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har said. “Such comments aim to make women’s presence in public life — from politics to arts, from science to sports — debatable.”

Erdogan, a devout Muslim, often courts controversy with divisive public comments. He has previously angered women’s groups by stating that women should bear at least three children. Just last month, he declared that Muslims discovered America before Christopher Columbus.

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ISRAEL Netanyahu: Revoke Residency of Those who Engage in Terrorism

In the aftermath of the deadly terror attack in Har Nof, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to pass new legislation regarding Arab residents of East Jerusalem. The laws will be aimed at revoking the residency permits and social benefits of East Jerusalem Arabs who engage in terrorism or other nationalistically mo-

tivated crimes, such as incitement of violence against the state. The bill will also target the families of terrorists.

Normally, East Jerusalem residents have Israeli papers that permit them to travel freely and enjoy the social benefits bestowed to Israeli citizens. However, under the new laws, that freedom will be denied in some circumstances.

“It’s out of the question that those who commit terror against the State of Israel will also enjoy social benefits, like Bituach Leumi [Israeli social security],” Netanyahu said on Saturday.

“The families [of terrorists] should know that this tool includes deportation [to Gaza or the West Bank] and the revocation of residency permits,” said Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch.

“We know from past intifadas and past experiences that this [deterrent] works,” he added.

In the last month alone, there were five terror attacks in Jerusalem, with all the perpetrators originating from East Jerusalem neighborhoods.

Some have argued that a change of introduction of such a law is ethically problematic and a threat to freedom of speech. However, the law will not

apply to people who simply speak out against the Israeli state.

Ashkelon mayor Itamar Shimoni announced on Thursday following the brutal attack in the Har Nof shul that he would terminate construction of bomb/rocket shelters at any kindergarten where Arab workers were employed and will also order the posting of armed guards outside kindergartens near building sites that employ Arab construction workers. Of course, this bold declaration of retaliation was met with condemnation from many. Even Netanyahu himself criticized Shimoni’s announcement, saying, “There’s no place for discrimination against Israeli Arabs. We mustn’t generalize about an entire population because of a small minority of violent and belligerent [individuals].”

However, Netanyahu promised to respond harshly but in a different manner. The demolitions of the family homes of several terrorists, including the ones from Tuesday’s attack, were ordered. The government has also reportedly been considering not returning the bodies of the terrorists to their families for burial.

Training Terrorists at a Young Age

They learn to hate even before they graduate.

Palestinians teach their children to hate Israelis from grade school; we’ve all seen the photos and videos of eightyear-old boys marching and toting machine guns while wearing camouflage uniforms. A recent report by Ynet revealed that many of these children who are between the ages of 8 and 13 choose to join Palestinian protests rather than go to school.

“We are willing to die as martyrs; we have nothing else to lose,” said one

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It has been revealed that Israeli forces foiled an attempt on Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman’s life that was to take place during the Gaza War this past summer. A group of Hamas members from near Bethlehem in the West Bank planned to purchase a rocket-propelled grenade which would be shot at Liberman, who lives in an Israeli settlement in the area.

The IDF, police and Shin Bet were all involved in uncovering the plan, according to an official statement. The head of the Hamas cell was identified as Ibrahim Salim Mahmoud Zir, 37, a former convict who served time in Israeli prison for terror-related activities. Zir, his brother, Ziad Salim Mahmoud Zir, 35, and Adnan Amin Mahmoud Zabih, 31, planned to shoot the RPG at Liberman’s convoy “in order to send a message to Israel and end the war in Gaza,” according to the Shin Bet statement.

Israeli officials also uncovered during the interrogations that Hamas planned to fire weapons and carry out hit-and-run attacks against settlers and Israeli troops in the area. Meanwhile, police have released the official findings of a November 5 hit-and-run attack in the Gush Etzion bloc in the West Bank.

The remote possibility of the attack being an accident has been ruled out as a confirmed Hamas member was behind the wheel of the car that injured three soldiers.

The terrorist behind the attack was named as Hamam Mesalmeh, a 23-yearold Hamas operative from Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron in the West Bank.

Go Ahead Given For “Jewish State” Bill Over 65 years after the founding of the State of Israel, a proposal was approved to define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people in a constitutional Basic Law. The cabinet voted 14-6 to allow the government to draft a basic law that would formally define Israel as the Jewish national home.

The cabinet decision stipulated 14 “principles” that would guide the drafting of the new law. The final bill, which will be formally proposed in the Knesset

by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seeks to “define the identity of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, and to anchor the values of the state of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in the spirit of the principles of the Declaration of the Independence,” according to the cabinet decision.

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“During interrogation by the Shin Bet (security service), he confessed to running down the soldiers as part of a planned attack,” a police statement said.

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blood is not cheap. This is the time to resist, it is more important than being at school or at work. If we do not respond they will eat us. Everyone always calls on students to join the struggle,” he says.

Another student said, “My friends and I plan everyday what we will do during the day against the police officers. We’ve thrown Molotov cocktails, fireworks and stones. I’m proud of what we do.”

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young boy.

“Our heads are not in our studies. We are always planning what to do against [Israeli] police officers,” said another.

Last week, in East Jerusalem, hundreds of masked Palestinian children rioted at the entrance of the Shuafat Refugee Camp. They threw fireworks at the Israeli police officers who responded to the scene.

“We are protesting and throwing stones as a response to the martyrs that were murdered and for everything that is happening at the al-Aqsa mosque,” said one 13-year-old boy.

“Today I didn’t go to school because I want to continue our resistance as a response to the murder of the martyr Ibrahim al-Akari and all the other martyrs,” he continued, referring to the Palestinian terrorist who recently plowed through the streets of Jerusalem killing one Israeli and wounding at least 14 other people.

“We, the children, have to take some of the responsibility and protect al-Aqsa in our way. We here are not rioters as they call us but rather protectors of our land, our home, and our holy places,” an outspoken young teenager said referring to the mosque on Temple Mount that is considered Islam’s holiest site.

Another child said that his fellow comrades are willing to pay the price, even if it means their life, in the name of Palestine and al-Aqsa. ”We must have twice the response towards the occupying forces and it does not matter at what price,” he says.

“All of us are willing to sacrifice our lives and die as martyrs. We have nothing to lose. It is true we are kids but we have courage and strength to do many things like heroes. Israel attacks children and we will not let this happen quietly. Al-Aqsa is ours and we will not give up on it.”

Another boy, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, said, “We feel degraded. There are checkpoints every day and searches, grenades, tear gas – I have trouble dealing with the situation,” he explained. “I have no urge to study or go to school. Today, the only thing I think about is throwing stones at police. As long as they are here we will continue our resistance without stopping. I wait for the day when I will live in a quiet and good environment.

Unfortunately, the Israeli government is the primary inciter that causes all the mess and terror attacks. If they continue with the same behavior, it could lead us to join the attacks,” he said.

An 8-year-old boy among the rioters said his parents and friends completely support him and encourage him. “Our

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The vote followed a stormy debate between ministers that more than once turned into a shouting match between Netanyahu and other ministers. The new Basic Law would preserve many of the defining characteristics of the Jewish state in a constitutional framework, asserting that “the right to express national self-determination within the State of Israel is [reserved] only to the Jewish people.”

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These are granted only to our people, in its one and only state,” Netanyahu said at the start of the cabinet meeting.

Tel Aviv: Most Expensive City Tel Aviv is one glamourous city; it’s got the beach, the businesses, the latest technology, culture, and the arts all wrapped into one, but that all comes at a price. Israel’s second most populated city is also its most expensive for living.

With the second largest economy in the Middle East (Dubai is the largest), Tel Aviv is a technology and economic hub. Home to more than 400,000 Israelis, Tel Aviv receives about 2.5 million tourists a year.

According to a new Central Bureau of Statistics report covering Israel’s 14 largest cities, the average Tel Aviv family spends NIS 12,796, about $3,300 a month, while residents of Bat Yam have the most inexpensive monthly budget at NIS 8,373, about $2,200.

But Tel Aviv families don’t necessarily bring in the highest incomes— they just spend the most to live. In fact, Rishon Lezion boasts the highest average monthly income per family, at NIS 17,786 ($4,600). However, Bat Yam’s

low spending threshold matches their average income of about NIS 10,519 ($2,700), the lowest average income in the county.

Housing expenses is the primary reason why residents of Tel Aviv are forced to spend so much; housing accounts for an estimated of 30% percent of the average family’s overall monthly budget while in Be’er Sheva it only accounts for about 20% of monthly expenses. Apartments in Tel Aviv have an average value of NIS 2.22 million ($3.16M). If you are in need of cheaper housing, head to Be’er Sheva where homes average at NIS 894,000 ($230K).

Tel Aviv also has the highest number of households that own a home computer (87%) and an Internet subscription (82%).

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News that Hagel was let go because “he wasn’t up to the job.”

It seems like the feelings were mutual—Hagel’s long-time friend, Sen. John McCain, said in a radio interview on Monday morning that he recently spoke with Hagel, who was “very frustrated” with the White House.

The president did not name a replacement for Hagel on Monday. Once named, the nominee would have to be confirmed by the Senate.

Early speculation is that the president may nominate Michele Flournoy, the former Pentagon policy chief during the president’s first term. If nominated and confirmed, Ms. Flournoy would be the first female U.S. defense secretary.

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Hagel Chucked as Secretary of Defense After a two year stint as leader of the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel resigned on Monday. Although his departure is being termed a “resignation,” Obama administration officials are not denying that it is simply political vernacular for termination. The pending departure was announced in an icy joint press conference, during which Hagel declined to make eye contact with the president.

Secretary Hagel, 68, a Vietnam war veteran and former Nebraskan Republican senator, was appointed to bring the troops home and pare back the huge defense budget. But then Islamic State came along and all the calculations changed; Mr. Obama and his defense chief found themselves at odds. According to the Politico, the president decided to let Hagel go after a series of meetings the two had in October about the ISIS threat, during which the president was “not impressed” with Hagel. One senior White House official even told NBC

After several months of unrest in Ferguson over the fatal shooting by a police officer of Michael Brown, an African-American, a grand jury has declined to indict Officer Darren Wilson, sparking unrest in St. Louis and other cities around the country. The decision means that Darren Wilson, 28, will face no state charges in the August shooting death of 18-year-old Brown.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch, who made the announcement on Monday night, stressed that the grand jury’s job “is to separate fact and fiction.” He pointed out that many of the witnesses who spoke to the media in the immediate aftermath of the incident and who said that Wilson was shot in the back, either changed their stories or their stories were proven false by the material evidence.

Upon hearing the announcement, Brown’s parents, Michael Brown, Sr. and Lesley McSpadden, said in a statement, “We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will not face the consequence of his actions. While we understand that many others share our pain, we ask that you channel your frustration in ways that will make a posContinued on page 26

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But despite their overt pleas for peace, residents in Ferguson immediately started to riot once the verdict was made known.

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Many business owners returned to their shops to see their life’s work in shambles. Looters broke into a beauty supply store and stole hair weaves and wigs, leaving the heads of mannequins strewn in the middle of the street.

A whole row of stores were torched.

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Around the country, demonstrators took to the streets on Monday night, snarling traffic, chanting slogans and waving signs. “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” became a rallying cry. Most of the demonstrations were peaceful. In New York, crowds had gathered in Union Square on Monday evening awaiting the decision, but once it was announced, protesters mobilized and began marching north. Several thousand more people marched from Union Square to Times Square to protest. Eventually, three bridges in New York City had to be closed.

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The population of the prison at Guantanamo Bay has decreased by one this week. A prisoner who has spent the past 12 years in the jail has been sent home to Saudi Arabia. Muhammad al-Zahrani was released based on the conclusion of a U.S. government board that has been re-evaluating the need to continue holding some of the men as prisoners, the Pentagon said in a statement. He will take part in a Saudi program to rehabilitate militants.

According to military records, Al-Zahrani, who is about 45, had been held at Guantanamo since August 2002.

A report by the Periodic Review Board said he traveled to Afghanistan in 1999 and “almost certainly” joined al Qaeda, trained in military tactics, and fought the Northern Alliance.

The board cleared him for release in October, citing a number of factors including his willingness to participate in the Saudi rehabilitation program.

Al-Zahrani is the 13th prisoner to leave Guantanamo Bay this year and the seventh in just the past two weeks. Officials have said more prisoners will be released in the coming weeks as part of a renewed effort to close the site where 142 men are now being held, including 73 already cleared for release.

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An Arizona police chief, known as “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” is suing President Barack Obama. The lawsuit was filed shortly after the president imposed sweeping immigration reforms, saying the changes were unconstitutional. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose force cracked down on illegal immigrants last year, said Obama has overstepped his powers by bypassing Congress and bringing on the changes himself.

Arpaio’s lawsuit said the reforms, which eased the threat of deportation for about 4.7 million undocumented immigrants, amounted to an amnesty

and would encourage more people to cross the border illegally. “[Obama’s immigration] programs are unconstitutional abuses of the president’s role in our nation’s constitutional architecture and exceed the powers of the president within the U.S. Constitution,” read Arpaio’s complaint filed in a federal court in Washington.

The biggest overhaul to immigration in a generation has set up a confrontation between the president and Republicans. The GOP, who took full control of Congress this month, charged that the president had gone too far by imposing the changes. It was Obama’s biggest use of executive actions in a year which have become his way of working around Congress and forcing his policies on the nation.

Obama earlier dismissed Republican accusations that the changes amounted to an amnesty for illegal immigrants. “Amnesty is the immigration system we have today; millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules,” Obama said. The White House has not yet commented on the lawsuit.

NY is World’s Financial Center

According to a recent survey, NY is once again the world’s number one financial center. Of the nearly 300 financial services professionals commissioned by Kinetic Partners, a global professional services firm, in the survey, 59 percent said New York was the world’s number one financial center and 38 percent said it was London.

The UK capital’s share of the vote has fallen away dramatically in the past two years. In 2012, 65 percent of those

surveyed said that London was the world’s leading financial center; last year, it was 44 percent. Respondents appear to expect this slide to continue, with only 28 percent of those working in the financial services industry saying they believe that London will be considered the world’s pre-eminent global financial center in five years’ time.

Allison Gill, director of the regulatory compliance team at Kinetic Partners in New York, related, “The debate over the relevance and benefit of the seemingly never-ending barrage of regulation will continue, but the fact remains that the industry has largely adapted and the global community still has confidence in the importance of New York.”

Julian Korek, chief executive of Kinetic, pointed out, “This shift from just two years ago is a testament to the resilience of the New York market.”

Despite its sovereignty now, New York should not remain complacent.

Over half of respondents said Shanghai would be the leading emerging financial center by 2019.

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It is out of the frying pan and into the fire for many Buffalo, NY, residents— except in this case, the fire is freezing cold. After record snowfall upstate last week, a new fear of flooding has become a reality as the equivalent of six inches of rain will be melting all at once.

Volunteers have helped to clear as much snow possible before rain and warmer temperatures bring an increased threat of flooding. Buffalo lived up to its nickname, “the City of Good Neighbors,” as the volunteers went to work.

“They’re like angels,” said Kevin Masterson, 61, after a handful of volunteers swarmed in to free his and his brother-in-law’s cars from the drifts. “I was out shoveling and ... all of the sudden I had all these people.” One of the volunteers, Greg Schreiber, said he’d keep going “until the back gives out.”

Seneca Street in south Buffalo was jammed with dump trucks, military vehicles and front loaders rumbling through the streets as they hauled away the canyon walls of snow. “It’s just a war zone here,” said Eric Ginsburg, standing outside of his store, Ginzy’s.

“All the military here, the police. It’s just crazy…most snow I’ve ever seen.”

Weather Service meteorologists expect there to be trouble with drainage as snow and uncollected autumn leaves block drains. The threat of rain also heightened fears of roof collapses on already strained structures. Thirty major collapses have been reported.

“We don’t have a crystal ball. We can’t say exactly whether there will be a flooding problem. We can’t say what kind of structure collapses we’re going to have,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said after touring the region for a fourth day.

“But we anticipate both to some extent.”

After visiting a Buffalo hospital, Senator Charles Schumer said he would push for federal disaster assistance. He said he was moved by stories of good will, including of nurses who had been on duty for days because others couldn’t make it in. “Neighbors looking out for

Last week, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve the building of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. However, the bill did not make it through the Democrat-controlled Senate a few days later. In a nail-biter, the vote just missed a passing score with the final count just one ballot shy at 59-41.

A 60-vote majority was needed to reach President Obama’s desk for his signature.

Obama did not support the bill, but the White House has not said whether or not he would have vetoed it. Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu pushed for the vote in an effort to save her seat in a December 6 runoff election in Louisiana. She faces an uphill battle against Republican Representative Bill Cassidy, who authored the House bill.

All Republicans said publicly they supported the Senate bill, as did several moderate Democrats.

Senator Mitch McConnell who will become Senate majority leader in the new Congress in January, said the legislation will be resurrected when Republicans take Senate control next year.

The Keystone pipeline system would carry up to 830,000 barrels of oil daily from Western Canada to U.S. refineries near the Gulf Coast. The State Department has been reviewing the 1,200-mile project proposed by a Canadian company, TransCanada, but supporters have charged the Obama administration is slow-walking the application.

Environmentalists say the pipeline will encourage the development of fields containing tarlike oil sands that require more water and generate more

De Blasio Reverting to Entitlement Welfare System Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning to unravel the country’s largest local “workfare” program – which ties work requirements to welfare benefits – and revert to what critics are calling an old-fashioned “entitlement” system.

“Workfare” has been around since the late 1960’s, but was popularized in 1995 when former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani enacted the nation’s largest workfare system. The Work Experience Program requires welfare recipients to take on “non-employee” jobs across the city like answering phones or providing janitorial services.

Within five years, under Giuliani’s administration, more than 36,000 people had been assigned to the program or were already working under it. Now, roughly 56,000 people are enrolled. But under de Blasio’s proposed agenda, Giuliani’s Work Experience Program will be phased out within the next two years and replaced with internship and community service options, as well as more flexible options for education and training.

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Officials urged people to put off nonessential travel as snow removal efforts went on. The State Thruway, however, was fully reopened four days after the 132-mile stretch had to be closed and a number of motorists were stranded.

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Supporters of the move say the overhaul will end a “punitive” program that forces participants to work in lowend jobs with little more than a welfare check to show for it.

But others say de Blasio is taking a step backwards and returning to a welfare “status quo” that has been proven not to work. The push by de Blasio heads in the opposite direction from other local governments. In Maine, GOP Governor Paul LePage has tightened restrictions on welfare and Massachusetts’ incoming Republican governor is looking to go a similar route.

According to the Census Bureau, an estimated 110 million Americans currently receive some sort of government assistance.

FBI: 76 Officers Killed in Line of Duty Last Year

Every day, FBI law enforcement officers put their lives on the line protecting American citizens. On Monday, the agency announced that 76 FBI officers were killed in the line of duty last year — 27 during criminal acts and 49 in accidents. In addition, nearly 50,000 officers were attacked while on duty.

This information is “proof positive of the dangers that all officers willingly face, day in and day out, to protect the rest of us,” the FBI said.

The number of officers who died in felonious acts dropped by 22, from 49 in 2012 to 27 in 2013, but that is cold comfort for their families. Of these, six were making arrests, five were ambushed, five were investigating suspicious people, four were in “tactical

situations,” four were answering disturbance calls, two were conducting traffic stops or pursuits and one was involved in investigative activity (such as surveillance or a search), according to the FBI. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, headquartered in Washington, D.C., says that more than 20,000 U.S. law enforcement officers have “made the ultimate sacrifice” since the first known line-of-duty death in 1791.

NSA Limiting Bill Falls Short

If you are nervous about the government keeping track of your phone records, you can’t breathe easy just yet.

The Senate has blocked a bill to end the collection of American phone records by the National Security Agency.

The bill was meant to be a large part of Barack Obama’s primary proposal to rein in domestic surveillance.

The 58-42 vote was two short of the 60 needed to proceed with debate. Voting was largely along party lines, with most Democrats supporting the bill and most Republicans voting against it. The legislation would have ended the NSA’s collection of domestic calling records, requiring the agency to obtain a court order each time it wanted to analyze the records in terrorism cases.

The revelation that the spying agency had been collecting and storing domestic phone records since shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 was among the most significant revealed by Edward Snowden, a former agency network administrator who turned over secret NSA documents to journalists. The agency collects only so-called metadata — numbers called, not names — and not the content of conversations. But the possibility of the intelligence agency holding domestic calling records was disquieting to many Americans.

The law authorizing the bulk collection of phone history is part of the post9/11 USA Patriot Act and will expire in

June 2015. Congress will need to pass legislation re-authorizing the program for it to continue.

Current and former intelligence officials disagree about whether the phone record searching is a crucial counterterrorism tool. The U.S. has only been able to point to a single case that came to light exclusively through a search of domestic phone records— an Anaheim, California, cab driver who was sentenced earlier this year to six years in prison for sending money to Somalia’s al Qaeda affiliate.

Most Americans Oppose Deal with Iran

According to a new survey by American political strategist Frank Luntz, more than two-thirds of Americans oppose a deal with Iran that would allow it to maintain nuclear weapons capabilities. Americans are also overwhelmingly mistrustful of Iran and consider it to be the country that poses the greatest threat to the United States.

The survey was released the day after U.S.-led talks with Iran were extended till next July. It also found an overwhelming majority of Americans believe the Iranians are stalling rather than negotiating in good faith and that the regime in Tehran cannot be relied upon to honor any accord it may reach.

More broadly, Americans overwhelmingly feel the world to be less safe today than 10 years ago and believe America is weaker today than it was 10 years ago.

The survey revealed that 62% of Americans consider Iran to be an enemy of the U.S., while 37% consider it neutral, and 1% consider it an ally. It found that 73% of Americans consider Iran to be an enemy of Israel, while 25% consider it neutral, and 1% consider it an ally.

A staggering 81% of respondents do not believe the current government in Iran can be trusted to keep agreements, compared to 5% who think it can be trusted. And an even more overwhelming 85% do not believe the Iranians’ assertions that their nuclear program is

peaceful, as compared to 8% who do.

“When it comes to Iran, the Israeli prime minister is closer to the American people than the U.S. president,” Luntz said of the findings. This was a reference to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for any deal with Iran to provide for the dismantling of Iran’s entire nuclear weapons capability, while U.S. President Barack Obama has indicated willingness for a deal which would allow Iran to maintain a strictly supervised capacity to enrich uranium.

Broadly speaking, “no matter how you analyze it, 70% of Americans don’t want a deal that allows Iran to maintain nuclear capabilities, against 15% that are somewhat undecided and 15% who don’t care [if Iran retains a nuclear weapons capability],” said Luntz.

“That’s as universal a finding as anything I’ve done in recent years. America is polarized. But when it comes to Iran, they’re united: no nuclear — not now, not ever, no excuses, no exceptions.”

In similar vein, the survey found 49% of Americans consider Iran to be the country that constitutes the greatest threat to the United States, followed by Iraq (15%), Pakistan (13%), Afghanistan (12%), Syria (9%) and Israel (3%).

Four percent of Democrats consider Israel the greatest threat, and only 1% of Republicans.

In the current nuclear talks, where the U.S.-led P5+1 nations on Monday agreed to an extension of negotiations till the beginning of next July, 87% of Americans believe the Iranians are stalling, compared to 13% who see Tehran negotiating in good faith.

Asked what type of action should be taken to counter Iran’s nuclear program, 46% said sanctions, 19% economic diplomacy, 16% targeted strikes at Iranian nuclear facilities, and 10% support for the Iranian opposition, while 9% favor accepting the reality that Iran will eventually get nuclear weapons.

If Iran kept going with its nuclear program, the survey found 50% of Americans supporting US military action, compared to 29% opposed; and 55% supporting Israeli military action, compared to 27% opposed.

Asked broader questions about world safety and American power, 83% of respondents said the world was less safe today than 10 years ago, compared to 17% who consider it safer today. And 67% think America is weaker today than 10 years ago, compared to 33% who think it is stronger.

“America used to be the most optimistic country,” noted Luntz. “This is the first time I’ve seen Americans generally afraid for the future.”

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Ever run a marathon? Well, how about running 26.2 miles in snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures?

On Friday, 50 brave runners from 17 countries completed the 10th annual Antarctic Ice Marathon. The frigid event at the bottom of the globe attracted competitors from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Africa and the United States.

They set up camp together in the Union Glacier in Antarctica.

The 42-kilometer race was originally planned for November 18 but three days of bad weather delayed the start.

Understandably, even the most experienced runners admitted to having a case of the nerves ahead of the marathon— and not because of the distance.

“There’s just so many unknowns actually going into this: the weather, the terrain, running in all these clothes. It’ll be a learning experience as we go along.

We’ll just see how we get on,” British competitor Nicholas Horsfall related.

Horsfall eventually came in second

Men in Labor He feels your pain.

A hospital in eastern China is making sure that fathers-to-be are well aware of the labor of childbirth. In fact, they want them to experience the pain firsthand.

Empathetic husbands are treated to free sessions of torture held twice a week at Aima maternity hospital in Shandong province and about 100 men

For the simulations of labor, pads attached to a device are placed above the abdomen, giving electric shocks that induce pain. The men are tormented for up to five minutes as a nurse gradually raises the intensity on a scale of one to ten.

Song Siling is hoping to be a father soon, although he now realizes that childbirth is not for the faint of heart. “It felt like my heart and lungs were being ripped apart,” said Song, who made it to level seven before frantically waving to the nurse to turn off the system. Others dropped out within minutes when they couldn’t take the pain.

Amazingly, despite the immense pain, the on-duty nurse said the simulations could never match the torment of

actual childbirth. “Still, if men can experience this pain, then they’ll be more loving and caring to their wives,” said Lou Dezhu.

Wu Jianlong, who braved the pain right up to level 10, says the experience radically altered his views on childbirth.

“Because all women have children and it usually takes quite a long time, I had thought of it as being something really natural, something really normal that they can get through,” he said.

In China, men are generally not allowed in the rooms when their wives give birth. In some hospitals, even if they want to join in the childbirth experience, they are barred from entering labor rooms.

Maybe this will give them something to think about as they command their wives to just “breathe.”

A Concert for One Did you go to the Bob Dylan concert on Sunday? Probably not—since your name is not Fredrik Wikingsson.

The Swedish television personality was the only one in the audience at

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The competitors ran two laps of the course around the Union Glacier exploration camp, which was designed mainly for safety reasons. There were several rehydration stops on the route with hot drinks, snacks, as well as toilet facilities. The average temperature swooped down to -15°C, which sometimes became lower with the wind chill factor.

The weather and surroundings tested the endurance of the runners. The soft snow, the challenge of hydrating and maintaining a good core body temperature—never too warm and sweaty or too cold—and the layers of clothing made the race extra tough. Each runner had to be physically fit to face the elements and harsh environment. Essential gear included a full balaclava, goggles, gloves and mittens, long johns, waterproof running pants and various layers of thermal clothing under a shell.

After running for 4 hours, 12 minutes and 21 seconds, Union Glacier’s very own meteorologist Marc DeKeyser won the men’s race. “Yeah, it was hard,” he said. “The weather was good but the surface was so soft. It was hard work.

But I’m a happy man.”

In the women’s race, France’s Fredrique Laurent was victorious and crossed the line with a time of 5:16.15 hours. Australian Lyn La Canna and South African runner Genevieve Pearson took second and third positions respectively.

Despite the challenges, the stunning Antarctic scenery was unparalleled and added to the splendor and uniqueness of the event.

“The most amazing race I’ve ever run in such a pristine, beautiful environment—couldn’t ask for more,” American runner Samir Patel exuded.

“Most beautiful marathon I’ve ever run. Most memorable. It’ll always be the most memorable,” added Heather Carr.

I’m sure she’ll remember this for the rest of her life; there’s “snow” doubt about it.

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Luntz also posed questions about the recent controversy where an Obama official used an epithet to refer to the Israeli prime minister. Asked how the president should have responded to the affair, 30% said he should have found the individual responsible and fired him, 25% said he should have found the individual responsible and reprimanded him, 35% said he should have apologized to Netanyahu, and 11% said he should have ignored the episode. In practice, Secretary of State John Kerry apologized to Netanyahu.

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Wikingsson, a self-described huge fan of Dylan, had persisted for a long time to arrange the concert. He told Rolling Stone magazine that he was so nervous before the show that he could not eat. “I was smiling so much…”

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Dylan, who maintains an active touring schedule at age 73, played a more customary concert in Philadelphia later on Sunday. Admittedly, the private show was unusual for the singer.

Wikingsson, who confirmed the concert on Twitter, plans to turn the ex-

perience into a 15-minute documentary to be released next month on YouTube.

A Facebook page for the Swedish project — called Experiment Ensam, or “Experiment Alone” — will examine Wikingsson’s response to seeing Dylan without the crowds. “Will there be total euphoria or an emptiness that he cannot share the experience with someone?” it asked.

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Wikingsson told Rolling Stone that he did not go to Dylan’s public concert, saying it would be “weird” and that “nothing could top” his private show.

Instead, Wikingsson spent the evening at a karaoke bar. He selected Dylan songs — and sang with a crowd.

You know, “it’s alright Ma,” to be alone “like a rolling stone.”

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The six Robin Hooders won round one last December when a superior court judge dismissed the city’s request for an order restricting how close the protesters can come to the officers, some of whom claim they have been bumped and assailed with profanities.

That court ruled the Robin Hooders’ actions amount to protected political expression that can’t be restricted.

One of the city’s three parking enforcement officers — Alan Givetz, a veteran of Iraq — quit the job in July 2013 after repeatedly being harassed and called a “coward” and a baby-killer by the Robin Hooders, court documents say. The city claims another, Jane McDermott, was followed to a restroom and called a “liar” and a “thief.”

The Robin Hooders — affiliates of the rabble-rousing Free Keene group that protests government intervention on issues ranging from guns to legaliz-

ing marijuana — insist they’re the ones with the motorists’ well-being at heart as they feed meters, sometimes walking just ahead of the parking enforcement officers who would write a ticket.

An online recruitment effort last year to enlist additional Robin Hooders stated, “As a bonus, you get to have fun as you deny the local government gang the hard-earned dollars of the good people of Keene.”

Lawyers for Keene argue that a buffer zone of 15-feet around their parking enforcement officers would not infringe on the free speech rights of the Robin Hooders.

Attorney Charles Bauer, representing Keene, said even five feet back would be beneficial. “The proximity is the key to this case,” he argued to the justices last month.

Though its employees have reported harassment and physical contact with the Robin Hooders, Bauer said the city has no interest in arresting the protesters. “We say, ‘Continue your protest, but do it 5-10 feet back, please.’”

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dents among thousands of interactions between the protesters and enforcement officers over the past several years. He said testimony at a hearing last year indicated the demonstrators were respectful and “almost always stepped back” when asked.

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Bais Yaakov of Queens Values the Time-Honored Practice of Reading out Loud At Bais Yaakov, educators are cognizant of the fact that “read alouds” are an irresistible invitation to welcome children into the exciting world of literacy. Read alouds are powerful because they serve so many instructional purposes: to motivate, encourage, excite, build background, develop comprehension, assist children in making connections, and serve as a model of what fluent reading sounds like. During a read aloud, a teacher reads a text aloud, and students are enveloped in a risk-free learning environment that removes the pressure of achievement and the fear of failure, allowing the freedom to wonder, question, and enjoy material beyond their reading abilities.

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es takes tremendous discipline. Gar recounted that he is able to fire his weapon between his heart beats in a perfectly static position so that his body movement does not throw off the vector of his target.

What perhaps was most impressive about Steven Ga, was the fact that he is currently studying for semicha, rabbinical ordination, and serves as the head of a yeshiva, Darkeynu, for special needs children.

He concluded his remarks by reminding the talmidim that Hashem is the one who protects our people and their job in the United States was to learn Torah and do mitzvos. The conclusion of his remarks was followed by a standing

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reenacted the butchery with glee and smiles on their faces,” he said. Furthermore, upon leaving the house, they heard a little baby cry and promptly returned to the house to murder the helpless child.

Gar explained that literally every second counts when he is called in to deal with a terrorist situation. “My job is to train my men with speed and accuracy, qualities that often contradict each other,” he said. He shared videos of how it is possible to reload his gun and shoot in split seconds in order to neutralize a target. The training is so precise that “if one of my men accidentally shoots a mock up collateral target, he will be thrown out of the unit. We cannot afford any mistakes.”

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Captivating, inspiring, and riveting best describe the presentation that Steven Gar gave the students at Rambam Mesivta. Gar, a member of the Israel Special Forces unit that specializes in counterterrorism, spoke at Rambam because of the Mesivta’s long-standing commitment to Israel and Klal Yisrael.

Gar, who trains others at Caliber 3 Institute, spoke to talmidim about his mission and his work. He was one of the Special Forces that apprehended the murderers of the Fogel family in Itamar two years ago. He described how they brought the murderers back to the scene of the crime to determine what security lapses had enabled them to penetrate the village and home of the Fogels. “They

ovation and talmidim crowding around him afterwards to continue what many described as an “amazing” and “incredible” program.

CSI Is Back CSI: the Community Service Initiative of Far Rockaway, is back for its second year. Run by Sari Babad and Ilanna Schuster, this after-school program for 7th and 8th grade girls meets weekly in the White Shul to get involved in local chessed projects, make new friends, and have a great time.

Every Thursday night, a group of energetic, creative girls makes their way to the White Shul to devote their talents to helping others. In the past few weeks, they participated in several workshop discussions and hands-on activities in which they explored the importance of chessed and of working together as a team. The discussions didn’t stay purely

theoretical—the girls had a blast doing some hands-on community service projects themselves. They put their teamwork skills to good use counting and sorting over four thousand boxtops for local schools. Last week, the girls decorated and laminated Tefillas Haderech cards for lone soldiers in the IDF. Many girls included meaningful letters and messages on the back of the cards, reminding the soldiers that they are in their

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CSI is not just a great way to help others; it’s also a ton of fun for the participants! Every week, the girls are treated to dinner—pizza, fries, and sushi platters (generously donated by Sushi Tokyo)—as well as plenty of snacks. The girls were rewarded for their hard work with a special clay-molding demonstration given by the super-talented Devora Neff. Everyone had a blast sculpting mini penguins, teddy bears, and even donuts!

The evening was topped off with a surprise ice cream party.

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Around The Community HaGaon HaRav Moshe Tzadka, Shlita, Tests Talmidim of Acheinu Yeshiva on Entire Masechta Sukkah

By Yosef Sosnow was the sight of the parents of the talmiIt was a surreal scene. HaGaon HaR- dei hayeshiva, all of them secular but… av Moshe Tzadka, shlita, the distin- so very proud of their children’s accomguished Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Porat plishments.

Yosef, with an open Gemarah, Maseches Acheinu’s Yeshiva Hakedosha is an Sukkah in front of him. All of the talmi- absolutely unique yeshiva that plays a dim of Acheinu’s Yeprominent role in the shiva Hakedosha sat overall success rate of with great yiras hakaAcheinu. How was the vod as Rav Tzadka Yeshiva Hakedosha confired one question afceived? Acheinu’s pe’eiter another on the malim, all bnei Torah who sechta. Each question learn at least half a day, was answered with work with teens from lightning speed by the non-religious homes. As talmidim. Rav Tzadthese teens came closer ka was clearly very to Yiddishkeit, ultimately moved by the sight, making the life-altering especially in light of decision that they wanthis knowledge that in Harav Yisroel Belsky to address the upcoming ed to go to yeshiva, they Acheinu Flatbush Parlor Meeting the recent past, these were faced with a probboys had not been religious at all! lem. On the one hand, they were not yet This is indeed the unique quality of at the level, neither academically nor soAcheinu kiruv. Acheinu, the kiruv arm of cially to be able to join a regular yeshiva.

Dirshu, has used Dirshu’s template – a On the other hand, there was no proper system of limud haTorah with account- framework al taharas hakodesh that they ability that has transformed Klal Yisra- could join. Acheinu therefore decided el and enriched them with Shas Yidden, to open up its own yeshiva headed by poskim and Daf HaYomi B’Halacha the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Zev Hofstedter.

Yidden who truly know and retain what Acheinu’s Yeshiva Hakedosha is tailor they learn. So too, Acheinu has devised made to serve as a bridge to a regular a unique kiruv system with a success rate yeshiva. All of the talmidim are evenof more than 93%. tually mainstreamed to regular yeshivos throughout Eretz Yisrael.

From Public School to Siyum!

The major test and siyum at Acheinu’s “The Only Way is Through Learning Yeshiva Hakedosha was the culmination Torah” of a year of hard work invested by the After Rav Tzadka, Rav Dovid Hoftalmidim and their devoted pabbeim. The stedter also tested the bochurim. Latyeshiva instituted a “Marah D’Sukkah” er, Rav Dovid gave a powerful drasha campaign to encourage every talmid to outlining the difficult situation in which learn the entire Masechta Sukkah and to Jews find themselves throughout the be tested on it. It was the first siyum these world and the terrible nisyonos posed by boys ever made in their lives! the yetzer hara. “The only way to detach Just a couple of years ago, these ye- ourselves from the bad is through learnshiva bochuri – who just made their first ing Torah!” Then, turning to the parents, siyum on a masechta and been tested on he said, “It is such a zechus for parents it – were secular public school kids im- to merit sons who are learning Torah in a mersed in pop culture! holy yeshiva!”

The siyum was attended by HaGaon A deeply poignant moment was HaRav Moshe Tzadka, shlita, and the when every bachur who made a siyum Nasi of Dirshu Rav Dovid Hofstedter, was called to the podium accompanied shlita. A particularly moving moment by his father. The fathers, most of them

HaRav Moshe Tzadka gracing the Acheinu Siyum

non-religious, beamed with joy as did their mothers who watched from an adjacent room on a closed circuit hook-up.

They received from Rav Hofstedter a special diploma congratulating them on finishing Masechta Sukkah as well as a brand new Gemara Bava Kama, the next masechta that the yeshiva will be learning.

One of the most powerful speeches was given by Shaul Maimon, president of the Chevel Ha’aretz Company. Mr. Maimon is a successful businessman.

His son learns in the yeshiva and was one of the bachurim who made a siyum.

Mr. Maimon spoke openly about how it was initially very difficult for him when his son became religious but, “now,” he said, “I cannot tell you how happy we are and how proud we are of him! He illuminates our entire home. The light that he brings is the light of Torah. It was missing from our home. If I would have known before what the Yeshiva Hakedosha does, I would have sent all of my children here!”

The dancing after the siyum was simply unforgettable: Fathers, secular Jews far from Torah, dancing with their sons, wonderful yeshiva bachurim. Not only were the mothers shedding tears of joy on their personal simchas Torah, the fathers and sons were too!

From Eretz Yisroel to America: One Organization, One Goal In Eretz Yisroel, Acheinu’s name is known far and wide as a kiruv organization with an enviable record for results.

In recent years, its name and most importantly its success has spread to the United States as the kiruv movement which develops bnei Torah who remain dedicated to limud haTorah.

The Flatbush community at this year’s annual Acheinu Flatbush Parlor meeting will have the tremendous zechus to hear words of chizuk from the keynote speaker, HaGaon HaRav Yisroel Belsky, shlita, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. Rav Belsky, one of America’s foremost poskim, is familiar with Acheinu’s outstanding work in bringing lost Yiddishe neshamos back to Hashem.

Without a doubt, he will inspire the audience with a practical message that will remain with them long after the parlor meeting is over.

The event will be held on Thursday, December 4, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Simcha Applegrad, located at 1266 East 32nd Street, between Aves. L and M. It will be graced by numerous local rabbanim and introductory remarks will be delivered by Rav Shlomo Cynamon, shlita, rav of Kehal Bnei Torah and Rosh Kollel of the Dirshu Kollel of Flatbush.

Whether it is Rav Moshe Tzadka being flabbergasted at the wide-ranging knowledge of Acheinu talmidim after testing them on the entire Masechta or Rav Yisroel Belsky hailing Acheinu’s work to a Flatbush crowd of admirers and supporters, the message is one and the same. Acheinu gets results. It brings teens back to Hashem and assures that they are mainstreamed and remain basking in the light of the Shechina!

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On November 14, Todd Kaminsky, our new state assemblyman, met with residents of Woodmere to discuss the need for the LIRR to construct a walkway or overpass across the LIRR tracks further down from the Woodmere Train Station.

The Woodmere community is attractive to many families as it offers convenient transportation to Manhattan, a plethora of synagogue options, and the vibrancy of a young suburban community.

There is however, one significant obstacle to the ebb and flow of this lively community. The LIRR train tracks are conveniently situated right through the heart of the community offering access to those living on both the Southern and Northern sides of Woodmere. However, there is no passageway from one side to the other from Woodmere Boulevard all the way until Prospect Avenue – a 0.5 mile distance. This creates a dual prob-

The boys of Rabbi Spiegel’s third grade class in Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island enjoyed speaking in learning with the Menahel, Rabbi Krigsman, after they completed Parshas Vayeitzei. They also enjoyed a wonderful siyum for all their hard work.

lem as it prohibits commuters needing to catch the opposite side train from crossing the track until reaching Woodmere Boulevard and it prevents Sabbath-observant adults traveling on foot from conveniently accessing their neighbors on the other side of the tracks without taking a more circuitous route. A walkway would help to prevent commuters from feeling the need to cross the tracks while the warning gates are down.

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Rabbi Shalom Hammer Speaks at Yeshiva Har Torah

The third grade boys of Rabbi Messner’s class in Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island celebrated the completion of Parshas Vayeitzei with a siyum this week.

Mesivta Football League – Week 4 This past Sunday was a big day for Yeshiva Darchei Eretz. Preparing for a doubleheader versus Mesivta Yam HaTorah and Sha’are Torah, it was going to be a long afternoon.

YDE vs MYHT Quarterback Charlie Cohen came out strong and threw for 5 touchdowns, 3 of which were received by wide receiver Joey Cohen. On defense, Jack Gindi and Mark Hanan provided incredible coverage allowing YDE to take the clear 36-12 win over MYHT.

Rabbi Shalom Hammer visited Yeshiva Har Torah this week to discuss the importance of “Thanksgiving and Reflections on Operation Protective Edge.” Rabbi Hammer is a chaplain in the IDF and tours army bases around the country inspiring soldiers who fearlessly protect the country. Rabbi Hammer showed the students a slideshow and video of his visits to various differ-

ent IDF bases, as well as his own reflections from the difficult summer months during Operation Protective Edge.

Rabbi Hammer ended his presentation by answering questions regarding his experiences in the army.

The students left with a greater understanding of what to be thankful for and the sacrifices so many soldiers make while protecting Eretz Yisrael.

YDE vs YST The second matchup would prove to be a nail-biter. Charlie Cohen was facing his former teammates at Sha’are, but he would not be intimidated. Cohen threw for another 4 touchdowns and ran 1 in himself. Morris Basoul received 2 of the 4, with Joey Cohen and Ezra Yedid racking up 1 each. Incredible play

by Aaron Zada on defense, picking up 2 interceptions, secured the second win of the day for YDE, and Brooklyn bragging rights, 34-27.

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Around The Community Yeshiva University Student Leadership Hosts Israel Solidarity Rally in Times Square In response to the tragic terror attacks that have occurred in Israel in recent weeks, the student leadership of Yeshiva University organized a rally in solidarity with Israel in New York City’s Times Square on November 23.

The rally, which was open to all de-

nominations and faith groups, created a peaceful space for communal prayer, song and unity in support of Israel.

“Recognizing that terrorism in Israel affects all of us as Jews and Americans, Yeshiva University students came together in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Israel,” said Rabbi Kenneth Brander, vice president for university and community life at YU. “The rally impressed on the people around us that enough is enough—that there should be no more bereaved parents, no more widowed spouses, no more orphaned children,” said Shai Berman, president of the Yeshiva College Student Association. “We stressed that terror is a problem that plagues the entire free world

and that we all need to support Israel in her efforts to protect her citizens and end this senseless violence. At the same

time, we also attempted to communicate our hope for a brighter future for the State of Israel.”

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On Saturday night, November 22, One Israel Fund’s Young Professional Society hosted its first ever 3 Aces Casino Game Night and Chinese Auction at The Woodmere Club. Nearly 300

people from the tri-state Region came together in support of One Israel Fund and, specifically, to raise funds towards the building of a mikvah in the Gaza Border Community of Shlomit. This

mikvah will be reinforced to withstand mortar attacks and enable women to partake of this tremendous mitzvah, even in the most of dire circumstances.

“It is so refreshing to be able to attend a really enjoyable event in our own backyard while supporting a cause which is so incredibly important,” expressed committee member Shoshie Manela of Cedarhurst. The participants were greeted by an array of casino style games with which to spend their fake casino money. At the end of the night, each person cashed in their “winnings” for Chinese Auction tickets which were entered into drawings for terrific prizes including a custom shaitel, a custom men’s suit, an Israel Experience Package, a Ski Weekend, a flight in a fighter plane, and more. In addition, it wouldn’t be a One Israel Fund event without a delectable feast

prepared by Mauzone.

“The success of any organization is its ability to engage the next generation of supporters. Many, sadly, struggle in this regard. One Israel Fund is now blessed to have a vibrant Young Professional Society which has successfully spearheaded three events in the past few months, beginning with a Summer Siyum BBQ during the Nine Days in support of One Israel Fund’s efforts in the south during Operation Protective Edge and followed by an equally successful event for lawyers in the city with the renowned criminal attorney, Ben Brafman,” explained Scott M. Feltman, executive vice president of One Israel Fund. “This event was the brainchild of our newest senior staff member, Dov Snow, and his devoted event chairs: Jon Chubak, Asher & Esther Jungreis, Moshe & Talya Kohn,

Adam & Rivky Orlow, and Jonathan & Shana Schoenfeld. The kudos goes to each of them.”

In addition to those who attended, the evening’s success was also aided by an enormous outpouring of support from corporate and individual sponsors.

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Around The Community Five Towns Marriage Initiative Relinquishing our Bundles Rebbitzen Rothenberg is the director of an organization in Israel for young widowed women. She has a monthly newsletter that is distributed to these women to strengthen them and to supplement the support system she has created. Each newsletter includes a

thought from her and the idea that she shared recently is not just applicable to these widowed women. It has a message that we can all take to heart.

In one of her recent newsletters she focused on the fact that this year happens to be a shemittah year. We don’t

work the fields and we treat the year in a similar way that we treat Shabbos.

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on developing greater belief in Hashem and recognizing how He is the one that will provide for them, and that it is He that is truly in control.

While we can find inspiration from shemittah, how can the average person who is not a farmer best utilize and grown from the year of shemittah? One way is to realize that while generally a metaphor, that in truth, every person has a bundle, and most people have more than one. For some people they have a bundle of worry, for others it’s a bundle of fear, and for a third it’s a bundle of sorrow.

The idea of shemittah is to be like the farmer and walk away from our bundles even if it’s just for a year.

During that time, we should focus like the farmers do and emphasize how everything is from Hashem while working to strengthen our belief. Rebbitzen Rothenberg explains that the correct approach to all of life’s hardship is for us to take a step back. A person has to imagine themselves out of the picture entirely, with Hashem completely running the show. Once someone can internalize the reality that Hashem sees all and is with us always, only then can a person find the tranquility to face the life that Hashem has set before them.

While our lives might not be radically altered from how we might have hoped and dreamed, the reality still is that we are not in control of what happens to us, even from one minute to the next. The control we all “think” we have is really nothing more than an illusion. This year we can work on relinquishing those feelings of control and setting aside all our bundles. Our spouse and family will be amazed at how calm and relaxed we become, as it becomes as if we are experiencing Shabbos all year long. We can also turn working on our trust and belief into a couple or family project so that everyone will benefit from the tremendous potential hidden within this year.

Five Towns Marriage Initiative provides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:3011p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516-430-5280 or email dsgarry@msn.com.

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Around The Community For Baby Boomers Looking to Re-Start Their Careers, Hebrew Free Loan Society Offers a Basic Business Course The recession impacted thousands of working professionals in New York, and thousands of professionals are still unemployed or underemployed.

The Hebrew Free Loan Society, with the support of UJA-Federation of

New York, is offering the Encore Entrepreneurs: Basic Business Training for Baby Boomers course starting December 3, 2014. The course positions people for success by helping them hone the skills needed to create, man-

age and grow their own business.

“This highly-interactive 12-week course is designed to provide guidance and support in a group-oriented environment,” said Shana Novick, Executive Director, Hebrew Free Loan So-

ciety. “The course helps professionals learn to develop and complete a business concept, helps them determine the viability of the business idea, and even helps them overcome the loss of their previous position.”

The program, which has been offered three times, has proven successful.

In one instance, two of those taking the course combined skills to start their own business together. “Encore Entrepreneurs” taught them each valuable new business skills, ranging from identifying sources of funding for a new business to setting realistic financial goals, and it even provided social media and e-commerce marketing ideas. In addition to the concrete business skills, one of them said that the camaraderie, support and honest feedback within the class were added benefits.

This year’s course begins December 3. For more information, email Tiffany Goldberg, HFLS Director of Entrepreneurship Education, at businesstraining@hfls.org or call 917--842-0396.

The Pop-Up Shoppe is Coming to Town Something huge is about to hit the Five Towns! The first Pop-Up Shoppe is debuting on December 3rd and it will be like no other venue our community has ever experienced. This is not another school/shul/organization boutique.

We have curated a collection of the hottest, trending businesses to bring you a shopping extravaganza in fashion, home, gift and design. Our vendors are some of the most popular businesses on social media today, with large followings and distinct product lines. We will be showcasing new and vintage clothing for children and adults, home design and décor, jewelry, accessories, makeup, hair, and gift items.

The Pop-Up Shoppe is being sponsored by the Shulamith Women’s Organization in conjunction with Birch Events. It is sure to be The Event of the Season—not to be missed! Come enjoy a day of fabulous shopping and delicious food.

We look forward to welcoming our community and friends on December 3, at Beth Sholom, 390 Broadway in Lawrence, NY, from 12:00-9:00 p.m.

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Around The Community Over 1,000 people joined in HALB’s Melava Malka this past Motzei Shabbos. The fifth grade boys’ and girls’ choir, under the direction of Sandy Shmuely, sang beautiful negunim, followed by a dvar Torah from the Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky. After a video montage showing daily regular and extracurricular activities at the school put together by the 7th and 8th grade students, the students danced with parents and faculty to the tunes of the school’s in-house band. The evening ended with raffle drawings and dessert.

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Bais Yaakov’s 2nd Grade Mother Daughter Event Extends Heart

On Sunday morning, Bais Yaakov of Queens’ 2nd grade students, along with their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and administration, enjoyed extra special time together!

“The annual mother/ daughter event is a time for shared special moments and memories,” said Mrs. Finkey Levine, who coordinated the event. She, along with volunteer mothers, planned the theme, decorations, art activity, sweet treats, and entertainment.

Mrs. Sarah Bergman, principal, opened the event and addressed the gathering, inspiring everyone as she threaded the parsha, mesorah, chinuch and the theme for the activity, Heart2Heart Art. Mrs. Bergman defined the goal of Bais Yaakov’s Heart2Heart initiative as a mesorah of derech eretz and respect, joining kodesh and chol with one common language: Honesty, Empathy, Attitude, Respect and Trust. It has the whole school, morning and afternoon, as one voice with one goal.

Incorporating this idea, Mrs. Levine created BYQ Heart2Heart Art, where students make a difference in someone else’s life. All of the guests and girls handmade cards for others with the hope that the recipient will feel better, knowing someone is thinking of her, perhaps with a refuah shelaima or even happy Chanukah! The girls designed cards that will be distributed to the ill, elderly and soldiers in Eretz Yis-

roel. Tizku l’mitzvos, BYQ! Circulating through the tables, Mrs. Karen Reisbaum, assistant principal of general studies, exclaimed, “Sharing this time with our girls is so special, reconnecting with our girls’ mothers, many of whom are our former Bais Yaakov students, and their grandmothers, with whom we grew up in the community, is remarkable! Bais Yaakov truly is one, big family.”

Mrs. Nechama Jurkowitz, limudei kodesh principal, captured everyone’s attention when she spoke about the need for acknowledgment of a gift and being makir tov, an integral part of our bnos Yisroel. The message was clear, being grateful for all that we have is essential to who we are.

The morning ended with a delightful magic show! The girls were thrilled to be called up as volunteers! Everyone ooohed and ahhhhed over the wonderful magic of The Great Adeeni!

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While we’re still reeling from the excitement of the yomim noraim and Sukkos, we now have another holiday to think about: Chanukah. As early as November, eager children are awaiting the glory of Chanukah and the promise of colorful and exciting gifts and toys.

This autumn we are enjoying beautiful weather, a rainbow of fall foliage and hopefully a wealth of nachas and good health. Unfortunately, Chanukah often causes more stress for parents and single mothers who cannot afford gifts. For these individuals, Chanukah is not the exciting, sparkling prospect that it is for their children.

With just weeks left until Chanukah, the JCCRP and the JCC of Greater Five Towns Toy Drive is in full swing. At this moment there are seven Toy Drive coordinators who are working very hard along with our dedicated staff, to make this a successful endeavor. Our coordinators are: Shani Abittan, Adi Areyeh, Daphna Mishaan, Fraidy Osina, Rebecca Richman, Rocky Stern and Lily Weichholz.

This year’s Toy Drive is in loving memory of Rochel Baron, a”h, who was actually responsible for creating the Toy Drive. She passed away around Rosh Hashana in 2012, but while she was sick with cancer, she had the sensitivity and the caring to ask, “Why are sick kids the only ones to get gifts? What about people who cannot afford them?” And just like that, the idea of the Toy Drive was created. Two years later, we see the tremendous impact she’s had and how one giving, thoughtful person can really create a rippling effect and change in the community.

In the spirit of giving, our community looks to spark the seeds of generosity once again, through the joint efforts of

the JCCRP and the JCC of Greater Five Towns Toy Drive, in memory of Rochel Baron a”h. UJA-Federation of New York has been incredibly supportive in helping fund this endeavor, but a lot of work needs to be done and we need the community to participate to create the best results possible.

Community residents are so excited to participate and contribute toys to this very meaningful project. Amazingly, families who last year were on the receiving end of Hurricane Sandy relief are now so happy to be on the giving end. Families are going on Chanukah shopping sprees to buy gifts for others less fortunate. What a special feeling that is for the children who are lucky enough to get their own special Chanukah gifts year after year. ‎For those who can’t make it to the store, you can contribute online to the JCCRP website by clicking “donate to toy drive” and picking out gifts.

Together as a community and in honor and memory of Rochel Baron, a”h, we can create a Chanukah of perfect simcha for those in need, both parents and children alike. Please join us in this extraordinary community-wide effort to light up Chanukah for countless families in our area.

New, unwrapped gifts in their original packaging and/or donations can be dropped off at Brach’s Supermarket or at the JCC of the Greater Five Towns, 207 Grove Avenue in Cedarhurst. Additionally, you can donate online to help us purchase toys at www.jccrp.org/toydrive. For more information or to volunteer, please email jcctoydrive@jccrp. org or call (718) 327 7755 and ask for Elizabeth x6113 or Naamah x6124.

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Around The Community Managing Transitions Late in Life: A Special Symposium for Providers & Caregivers at Margaret Tietz

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Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld

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In an environment teeming with eagerness and expectation, over 100 professionals and caregivers convened on November 5th at the Special Symposium “Managing Transitions Late in Life” presented by Margaret Tietz Center in conjunction with Samuel Field Y, Queensboro Council for Social Welfare and PsychAssociates Group.

With opening remarks by Yoel Lichstein, MPA, LNHA Executive Director at Margaret Tietz, the Symposium addressed the Impact of Care Facility Placement on the Family, as well

as Understanding Cultural and Spiritual Needs, among other topics.

Dr. Gary J. Kennedy, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Director, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and The Leslie and Roslyn Goldstein Geriatric Fellowship Training Program, Montefiore Medical Center, spoke of the importance of having the discussions now with your family members when you are well, before any crisis occurs, about end-of-life care issues and both your desires and your

loved one’s wishes.

Dr. Barbara Gluckin, PsyD, Supervising Psychologist at PsychAssociates Group, addressed what it means to the resident and their families to transition to long term care, the need to understand their losses, and the impact of all the changes, such as moving from having all their possessions in an entire house to one small room with one dresser and one closet.

Jane C. Bardavid, LCSW, Former Director of the Community Advisory Program for Elderly (CAPE) at Samuel Field YM & YWHA, echoed Dr. Kennedy’s sentiments and reflected personally on her experience and how it’s easier to go through the dying process and end-of-life decisions when one is informed about available choices and knows what the family member would choose.

Dr. Jeanne Devine Director of Clinical Training at PsychAssociates Group enlightened the attendants on the im-

portance of being culturally sensitive to end-of-life decisions considering that there can be so many different sentiments, attitudes and decisions to make depending on one’s cultural and religious background, and all of them taking place all at once!

After a lively question and answer session, Joan Serrano Laufer, LMSW, Executive Director of the Queensboro Council on Social Welfare, delivered the closing remarks to this most informative and well-received Symposium for professionals, caregivers, rabbis and community members.

Caregivers and the community at large can access the information presented at the Symposium, look at the pictures, and watch the video of this most successful event via our website, www.tietzjewish.com. QPTV was present and also recorded the Symposium and will be airing it in the near future on their local stations.

DRS Spends Month Connecting to Medinat Yisroel The past few months have certainly been challenging ones for our brothers and sisters living in Eretz Yisroel. Of course, in America, our thoughts and prayers are constantly focused on those living there. It is often difficult, however, to feel the sense of pain and danger facing our relatives abroad. To that end, the DRS Yeshiva High School has been running programs all month to help its students become sensitive to the situation in Israel with various programs.

Last Thursday, DRS students had the tremendous privilege of welcome Mr. Uri Yifrach in their Beis Medrash.

Mr. Yifrach is the father of Eyal Yifrach H”yd, one of the three teenagers who were kidnapped and murdered this past summer. Mr. Yifrach, a true man of faith and emunah, related some of his feelings that he experienced throughout those terrible 18 days during which the entire Klal Yisroel was waiting with baited breath to hear about the status of Eyal, Gilad, and Naftali. Mr. Yifrach

spoke of the incredible nechama that he and his family received by witnessing the tremendous sense of achdut that was displayed by Jews all over the globe.

On Friday, Rabbi Moshe Taragin, Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion, shared a video made by close friends of the three boys, relating their feelings and experiences of this past summer.

Next week, a delegation of 12 IDF soldiers will visit the school to share their personal stories of faith and strength from this past summer’s war. Finally, on December 25th, at the school’s annual Father-Son Learning Program, fathers and sons will view the critically acclaimed documentary, “Beneath the Helmet,” a coming-of-age story following the lives of five Israeli soldiers from high school to the frontlines. May our continued commitment to our friends and relatives in Israel help bring a speedy end to this situation.

Join Pugatch Realty Corp. in Bringing Holiday Joy to Children Less Fortunate Donate a new, unwrapped toy or toys to Toys For Tots, a program sponsored through the United States Marine Corp. The “Drop off” toy box is located in the Pugatch Realty Corp office at 950 Broadway in Woodmere.

We would really appreciate all our friends, clients and community members participating in this charitable program to make a needy child smile especially during the holiday season. Thanking you in advance for your kindness and generosity. Happy holidays to everyone.

For more information, contact Phyllis Greenberg & Carol Braunstein: 516398-3051 and at 516-592-2206.

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As part of their parsha learning last week, the Pre-K children in HAFTR cooked lentil soup. The children got together to peel, chop, mix, and read the recipe as a community. Chopping celery, peeling carrots, stirring, and mixing are all actions that develop children’s small muscle control and eye-hand coordination. Cooking activities inspire children’s curiosity.

They learn comparative terms as they measure items for a recipe. They develop problem-solving skills through experimentation, and observe cause

Dr. David Shatz of West Hempstead Named University Professor at Yeshiva University In recognition of his outstanding achievements, Dr. David Shatz, of West Hempstead, NY, has been named University Professor of Philosophy, Ethics and Religious Thought at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women.

“I am deeply grateful for this honor,” said Shatz. “On the one hand, it feels like the culmination of a career. On the other hand it’s energizing and will inspire me to move forward into new areas of research and teaching.”

Shatz’s recent work includes publications and delivered papers on the in-

and effect when they watch the ingredients come together to form something delicious. Making soup is not just an exercise in math and science; when you see life through a Jewish lens, cooking becomes so much more. The ingredients used will determine which bracha to recite before eating. Sharing one’s food provides us with the opportunity to practice the chesed of kindness that we just saw Avraham, Sarah, and Rivka perform. Sharing in Hashem’s bounty gives us a reason to thank Hashem for On Thursday, watching over us.

November 20, the students at Shalhevet were privileged to hear from Steve Gar, a commander in the Israeli counter-terrorist unit.

Commander Gar spoke about the tremendous responsibility the counter-terrorist unit has including being the first responders to terrorist attacks and other suspicious activities. He described the intense training that mefakdim (officers) in the counter-terrorist units must endure. He stated that if anyone shoots a civilian target during practice, they are immediately expelled. The purpose of their training is to solely take out the terrorists and not kill innocent people. Commander Gar also explained that they are always improving and advancing their defense by learning from tragedies and using their knowledge to prevent future attacks. When the Fogel family a”h was murdered, an undercover member found the terrorists in a cave and brought them back to the Fogel home. They had the murderers reenact the killing to show the IDF how they can improve their intelligence. The killers had mentioned that they left the house but went back in when they heard the baby crying. The counter-terrorist unit was able to teach

tertwined issues of religious diversity, fanaticism and religious humility.

“The strength of the Stern College faculty resides in the model of the teacher/ scholar, individuals committed to educating the next generation while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of knowledge through their research and writings,” said Dr. Karen Bacon, the Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of Stern College. “Dr. David Shatz represents precisely this model, and his national reputation attests to the breadth, quality and originality of his work.”

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the IDF how to be better prepared for situations like these and how to prevent them altogether. Commander Gar also shared ways to protect yourself while waiting at bus stops in Israel and walking through the streets of Israel.

Commander Gar continued on to share his passion towards protecting his country and his family. As a father, he understands what it means to have your child taken from you, and as a mefaked, he knows it is a heavy price to pay to get them back. He also described the fear Israelis have to constantly live with including how he does not go anywhere without a gun and how something as mundane as tying your shoes can put your life at risk during a terrorist attack.

Commander Gar relayed two important messages” to understand Israeli culture and to recognize the existence of terrorism. “Terrorism is not just a problem in Israel. It’s everywhere. It’s important for us to look out for each other.”

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Flatbush Basketball League ’14-’15 Week #2 Recap In the China Glatt Division: Pizza Heaven continued to dominate this week against Ave N Pharmacy. Two season high scorers led the way, as Shimon Greenwald pumped in 34 points and Yitzy Waxman 24.

In the loss, Ezra Beyda had 16 as he continued to knock in those lay-ups.

However, Ave N Pharmacy woke up a bit too late to come back and goes to a 0-2 record. Pizza Heaven will face Oh Baby next week to see who holds the #1 seed.

In the closer game of the night, Oh Baby faced Batampte Pickles and tried to make it 2 in a row. After a close first half, Batampte was within range, however, the second half was all Oh Baby as Dovid Kapetas and Mordechai Lebovits scored 22 and 10 respectively.

In the loss, Tuli Lowy had 9, but Oh

Baby put Batampte Pickles to sleep in this one, 38-21. Batampte Pickles will face Ave N Pharmacy next week, someone will be out of a 0-2 slump; who will it be?

In the Jewish Home Division Holy Schnitzel faced Quality Carpet and it wasn’t close from the beginning, as Shilo Azarfar drained 3-three pointers to start off the second quarter, which put them up by double digits. Together with Mordechai Cohen’s 12, Holy Schnitzel took command with a 2-0 record. Quality Carpet’s new addition, Moshe Kornitzer (6 points), and Moshe Frank’s 9 weren’t enough in this bitter loss.

Can Quality bounce back and get a W? Let’s see what next week brings.

Pizza Nosh-42, ITP31: Pizza Nosh was strong throughout the entire game, as 7 out of 8 players were in the scoring column. Yossi Muller had 10 points and Yaakov Lowenthal and Moshe Dovid Rosenberg had 8 each. For ITP, Yanky Weber had 8 and Yosef Kapetas had 10.

ITP has been trying really hard to get a win in the last two weeks; however, their efforts were to no avail. ITP falls to 0-2 and Pizza Nosh shares first place with Holy Schnitzel.

In the Jewish Connection Division: Ramis Pizza gets on the winning track berating The Visual Image 32-23.

Yossie Friedman dominated inside and

out and scored a season high 17 points.

Dovid Safer and Dovid Miller had 10 and 8 but this one went Rami’s way.

No pizza for you, Neil! With the win, Rami’s goes to 1-1 on the new season.

In the final matchup of the night, with UPSET written all over this one, Pizza World was leading by 15 going into the fourth quarter; you heard right—15 against Plaza Auto Leasing

(PAL). Meir’s Pizza got cold real quick as with 3 seconds left Mendy Schiffenbauer hit a jumper from outside to send this game into OT. The shock was too much, as Pizza went scoreless in OT. Mendy’s 23 points gives Plaza to a 2-0 record atop the division. Daniel Bressler’s 18 points led Pizza World.

Final score in this one 39-33.

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Rabbi Reisman greeting Shaya Lichtman

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A lot has been happening at YKLI this week. The older boys were privileged to have a Rosh Chodesh breakfast which culminated with a speech by Rabbi Yaakov Reisman, Rav of Agudas Yisroel of Far Rockaway. The rav spoke about Chanuka and its message for us today.

He held the boys captivated both with his content and humor. The rabbeim and boys then had a chance to speak to the rav about the drasha.

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HANC High School welcomed eighth grade students and their parents to its annual Open House on Sunday, November 16. The program began with opening remarks from HANC menahel, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman, who discussed the excellence and vibrancy that define this outstanding yeshiva. The standing room only crowd then heard from junior Michelle Hoch, who described her high

school experience: the rigorous curriculum, the warmth, and the various opportunities afforded to the students at HANC. The opening session concluded with a creative and well-received student-produced video called “HANC Life.”

Parents and students proceeded to classrooms where they attended mini-lessons given by our esteemed

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faculty members in both limudei kodesh and general studies. The program continued with a panel presentation featuring our students, parents and alumni, guidance and academic showcases, and an interactive and eye-catching activities fair titled, “The HANC Palette.” Additionally, students had an opportunity to attend an Engineering and Art Expo where they observed our 3-D printer in action, student-produced projects, and an interactive computer engineering program. One visiting student commented, “I never realized there are so many opportunities available to choose from in high school!”

Simultaneously, parents attended a workshop on HANC’s integration of technology in the classroom.

At the conclusion of the Open House, prospective students and parents expressed how incredible it was to be able to interact with HANC students, parents and faculty throughout the morning. One parent remarked, “What an impressive group of students! The

ambassadors were pleasant, friendly and poised. It was refreshing to attend an Open House like this. It really gave us a genuine feel for the school.”

To schedule an interview or for additional information on HANC, please email hsadmission@hanc.org or contact Mrs. Miriam Steiner, Director of Admissions, at 516-538-8161 ext. 30.

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Just as any other field, education constantly evolves through new ideas and methodologies. To help keep faculty at the forefront of this ever-changing landscape, Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe recently held its annual Professional Development Day workshops, providing rabbeim and teachers with an opportunity to engage in continuing professional education The workshops for first, second, and third grade rabbeim was given by Mrs. Bracha Kasirer and focused on detecting and addressing reading issues in the classroom. The rabbeim for grades four through eight were addressed by Rabbi Menachem Schiff, who stressed the need to understand student errors

and outlined strategies for assisting students in identifying and rectifying their own errors. Mrs. Etti Siegel presented to the general studies staff on implementing Common Core curricula and themes in the language arts, history, and science.

While Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe always places great emphasis on professional development, the Professional Development Day workshops afford the faculty the opportunity for in-depth examination of timely, crucial topics in education. The yeshiva thanks the Parents Association for its continued support of Professional Development Days.

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*Special thanks to the mothers who chaperoned this trip: Mrs. Hellman (Sori’s mother), Mrs. Schnitzer (Rissel’s mother), Mrs. Perkal (Eliana’s mother), Mrs. Karmely (Batsheva’s mother), and Mrs. Bender (Malkie’s mother).

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migrant girl named Victoria Confino.

The facts she incorporated in her narrative have been authenticated by Victoria’s granddaughter. The tour guide recounted the challenging circumstances under which the Confinos lived.

Victoria had ten family members living in her small tenement apartment, some sleeping in the living room and some on the kitchen floor. To further enhance the girls’ experiences, they were each assigned the role of a member of a newly immigrated family. Each girl assumed the accent of the country from which she “emigrated” and asked Victoria for help in adjusting to her new circumstances in this new and confusing world.

Between the real-life narrative of Mrs. Greher and the role-playing at the museum, the girls got a real sense of the ordeals which many of their own ancestors experienced. Appropriately, the trip ended with the delicious crunch of barrel pickles purchased from an East Side vendor. Now that is really getting a taste of an era that was!

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In conjunction with their history studies about the mass European immigration in the early 1900s, BBY’s eighth graders took a fascinating trip to Manhattan’s Lower East Side. While Mrs. Devorah Wolf, the eighth grade history teacher, was arranging the trip, a student mentioned that her grandmother was one such immigrant and that, at 101 years of age, she still lived across the street from the famed Bialistoker Shul on the East Side. Moreover, Brocha Bokow asserted, her grandmother would love to share her experiences.

Mrs. Wolf quickly made arrangements to incorporate a visit to Mrs. Greher, shetichya, into the itinerary for the 8th grade trip.

What a valuable slice of history Mrs. Greher provided! Personable and charming, Mrs. Greher related her memories of her father searching for a new job every Monday morning because of his refusal to work on Shabbos. She recalled the many challenges of that era such as dragging ice up many flights of stairs to keep their icebox cool and sharing a bed with a number of her sisters.

After the informative and fascinating discussion with Mrs. Greher, the 8th graders paid a visit to the Tenement Museum. Upon their arrival, they were greeted by a costumed tour guide who reenacted the life of a Jewish Greek im-

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As we walked through the doors of the Stamford Plaza on Friday afternoon, we saw the entire hotel lobby festooned with all types of decorations from balloons to banners with the “choices” theme. We enjoyed a warm welcome

delicious lunch, the three grades participated in an exciting game called “Beat the Seniors.” The sophomores and juniors competed against the seniors in a heated dodgeball game. Everyone enthusiastically participated and had an awesome time.

from the G.O. who had come up the night before the rest of the school to decorate the hotel and get things set up for the weekend. They gave each girl a customized SKAbbaton cup filled with candy and placed a delicious box of cookies in each room. After davening mincha, we had some free time to start getting ready for the most memorable Shabbat of the year.

All the girls gathered together for kabbalat Shabbat; the men who were on the weekend joined us later for maariv so that we could have our own kabbalat Shabbat and make it extra meaningful with our singing. Throughout Shabbat, I heard various girls say that the kabbalat Shabbat we had was by far one of the most beautiful and inspiring ones they had ever had. It truly was moving; there were beautiful tunes, harmonies and a true sense of achdut and passion as all the students and teachers joined together in welcoming Shabbat. This was the perfect way to enter a life-changing Shabbat. After our tefillot on Friday night, we headed to the dining room to have dinner with all the grades, our teachers and their families. Our first Shabbat meal was filled with fun, joy, lovely songs and zemirot accompanied by an amazing choir of juniors. We were privileged to have Chevi Garfinkel as our guest speaker for Shabbat who spoke to us for the first time after dinner.

She gave an inspirational speech about how the choices we make should be to attain happiness and suggested different ways to achieve it. The night ended with an oneg Shabbat for each grade filled with singing and achdut.

The early wake up the next day was definitely worth it. The seniors put together a whole program following Shacharit and kiddush. After watching

Rambam Remembers the Kedoshim By: Gavriel Haviv, 9th Grade On November 18, a vicious terror attack occurred. Two Palestinians yielding axes and guns walked into Kehilat Bnei Torah while a Shacharit minyan was about to start. The shul-goers were putting on their tefillin.

In Rambam Mesivta, the students were informed of the events right before Shacharit started and had an assembly after breakfast. The Rosh Mesivta, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, first spoke about how the terrorists wielded guns and axes and the number of fatalities and the wounded. He then expressed his thoughts on the events. “There is no difference to the terrorists between killing a nonreligious Jew and an ultraorthodox Jew, between a fallen soldier and a civilian. We are all the Jews and they don’t care what kind we are.

We must be loving of any Jewish life… we are dealing with an enemy that really hates us.” It is taught by the Gemara, “If you give mercy to a vicious person, then you are also guilty.” He went on to tell the talmidim that terrorists promote anti-Semitism at the ages of two or three, and that if these events flipped and we went into a mosque and killed innocent people, the world would go crazy. But there is something we can

do; we daven and try to work things out and if we have to resort to it, then war—the same way Yaakov dealt with Esav.

At the assembly, Rabbi Friedman listed the four rabbis who were brutally killed: Rabbi Kalmen Zev Levine zt”l, an American citizen who was loved and always upbeat.

Rabbi Aryeh Kopinsky zt”l, also an American citizen who experienced tragedy when his 13 year old daughter passed away in her sleep.

Rabbi Avraham Goldberg zt”l, a British citizen who was 68 years old and left behind a wife and six kids.

Rabbi Moshe Twersky zt”l,: an American citizen who was 60 years old who Rabbi Friedman knew.

There were also 6 people wounded in the attack.

After Rabbi Friedman, principal Rabbi Yotav Eliach spoke. “I feel safer in Israel than anywhere else in the world,” he said. He concluded, telling the boys to think about what they would be doing in the last few moments of their lives and that we should think about tefillin more when we daven. The assembly concluded with two perakim of Tehillim recited by Rabbi Avi Haar.

a cute skit about the birth of a baby, the tenth and eleventh graders were split into nineteen groups, each headed by four or five seniors. In these groups, the seniors acted out different life scenarios accompanied by various props and the audience had to decide what choice they would make if placed in that situation. They then voted on a choice as a group which took them to many more choices! This was an effective way to execute the theme of the Shabbaton. The tasty lunch was filled with ruach and fun again as the school came together to sing songs and zemirot. During the free time after lunch, we had the option of attending shiurim given by Rabbi Eisenbach or Rabbi Rice, hanging out with our teachers or going up to our rooms to relax and recharge before the next part of the Shabbaton.

We all gathered once again for seudat shlishit, which was followed by another fabulous speech by Chevi Garfinkel and then beautiful singing. Ms. Garfinkel’s speech transitioned us into havdalah and amazing motzei Shabbat programming. We spent the entire night dancing to music by Gary Wallin and watching videos and performances at the annual SKA Talent Show. We all wanted the motzei Shabbat programming to go on and on! When the program ended, the seniors stayed behind and had their own kumsitz. They were all in shock about the fact that they had just spent their last SKAbbaton together. The memories they made on these Shabbatons are ones that will last forever.

SKAbbaton is definitely an unbelievable experience. It is a great time to strengthen friendships not only with your friends, but with your teachers and administrators as well. It is so nice to see friendships being made between girls from different grades and we all walked away with a greater understanding of the power of the choices we make. We’d like to express our hakorat hatov to everyone who made this year’s Shabbaton such a success, with a special thank you to Rabbi Yosef Zakutinsky, Director of Student Programming, Mrs. Elisheva Kaminetsky, Director of Religious Guidance, Mrs. Yafa Storch, Assistant Program Coordinator, and Jorge Bienenfeld, G.O. Advisor and Media Coordinator. SKAbbaton 2014 was such an enjoyable and meaningful experience. We were all so inspired!

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Before heading to the hotel, we had a very unique opportunity to go to Chelsea Piers in Connecticut. We had so many choices of activities to do such as ice skating, rock climbing, trampoline jumping and gymnastics. After eating a

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By: Talia Bulka, 12th Grade The annual Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls Shabbaton, also known as SKAbbaton, is by far one of the most anticipated school events of the year. This year’s Shabbaton took place at the beautiful Stamford Plaza in Connecticut on the weekend of November 21-23. SKAbbaton is an event that is worked on from spring time of the previous year; there is so much that goes into every Shabbaton. This year’s theme for Shabbaton was “choices,” and the SKA students spent the entire week leading up to the Shabbat preparing for this event. Each day was a “hands on” demonstration of student creativity. Every single student from the sophomore, junior and senior grades (the freshmen had their own retreat) had a part in the preparations for Shabbaton.

At some point throughout the week, every student took some time to think in depth about choices that they’ve made and how they came to those decisions.

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There are four people and all of them are sitting at a square table eating turkey. Their names are Mike, Al, Paul, and John. Use the clues below to figure out who sits where at the table.

John is at the left of Mike.

Mike sits on the right side of the table.

Al is on the right of Mike.

Where does Paul sit?

Answer below

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Kidding!

The pro football team had just finished their daily practice session when a large turkey came strutting onto the field.

While the players gazed in amazement, the turkey walked up to the head coach and demanded a tryout.

Everyone stared in silence as the turkey caught pass after pass and ran right through the defensive line.

When the turkey returned to the sidelines, the coach shouted, “You’re terrific! Sign up for the season, and I’ll see to it that you get a huge bonus.”

“Forget the bonus,” the turkey said, “All I want to know is: does the season go past Thanksgiving Day?”

Go buy a turkey

Step 2: Take a drink of whiskey Step 3: Put turkey in the oven Step 4: Take another 2 drinks of whiskey Step 5: Set the degree at 375 ovens Step 6: Take 3 more whiskeys of drink Step 7: Turk the bastey Step 8: Whiskey another bottle of get Step 9: Ponder the meat thermometer Step 10: Glass yourself a pour of whiskey Step 11: Bake the whiskey for 4 hours Step 12: Take the oven out of the turkey Step 13: Floor the turkey up off of the pick Step 14: Turk the carvey Step 15: Get yourself another scottle of botch Step 16: Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey Step 17: Bless the dinner and pass out

Answer to riddle: Paul sits on the left of John and across from Mike.

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In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt changed the date of Thanksgiving from the last Thursday in November to the second-to-last in an effort to lift the economy during the Great Depression.

It caused such a public outcry that people began referring to it as “Franksgiving.” After two years, Congress ditched the new policy and set the fourth Thursday of November as the legal holiday.

According to Roto-Rooter, Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for them.

When Abe Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, it was thanks to the tireless efforts of a magazine editor named Sarah Josepha Hale. Her other claim to fame? She also wrote the nursery rhyme, “Mary had a little lamb.”

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In 1920, U.S. turkey growers produced one turkey for every 29 persons in the U.S. Today growers produce nearly one turkey for every person in the country.

Gobble, gobble? Not really—only male turkeys, called toms, gobble. Females, called hens, cackle.

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If Ben Franklin had his way, the turkey would be our national bird. An eagle, he wrote in a letter to his daughter, had “bad moral character.” A turkey, on the other hand, was a “much more respectable bird.”

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Why is it called a turkey? Well, back in the day, the Europeans took a liking to the guinea fowls imported to the continent. Since the birds were imported by Turkish merchants, the English called them turkeys. Later, when the Spaniards came to America, they found a bird that tasted like those guinea fowls. When they were sent to Europe, the English called these birds “turkeys” as well.

The average person consumes approximately 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving.

There are a number of towns in the United States named after the holiday’s traditional main course. Turkey, Texas, was the most populous in 2005, with 492 residents; followed G OT

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Around The Community Rabbi Moshe Twersky, zt”l Hy”d: An Angel of Hashem

By Rabbi Raphael Fuchs “V’ha’ish Moshe anav meod mekol adam – The man Moshe was exceedingly humble, more than any other person” (Bamidbar 12:3).

It is difficult to write about such a holy person, for I fear I will not accurately portray his greatness. Rav Moshe Twersky, zt”l Hy”d, one of the four rabbis murdered by Arab terrorists in Yerushalayim on Tuesday, was a rebbe in Yeshivas Toras Moshe where I learned for three years. While I was not zocheh to learn in his shiur, many of my close friends did. The dynamics of the yeshiva had it that all of the bachurim were familiar with all of the rebbeim. As such, I was very familiar with Rav Moshe Twersky.

There was one unique middah Rav Moshe possessed that everyone could attest to: he was a kadosh v’tahor. Simply put, he was a holy man. He was a

great talmid chacham, a gaon, he had every part of the Torah clearly in his mind. He knew all of Shas, halacha, and nistar, which he had learned from Rav Elya Weintraub, zt”l.

In his hespid for Rav Moshe, Rabbi Moshe Meiselman, shlita, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Toras Moshe, said that the middah of taharas hanefesh was mashpia on every other aspect of Rav Moshe’s life. His death is a loss for all of Klal Yisrael, because this middah of taharas hanefesh is so rare today.

Everyone who knew Rav Moshe could attest to his humility. Rabbi Meiselman quoted the Gemara in Sanhedrin (88b): “Who is a ben olam habah? One who is modest and humble, enters bowing and leaves bowing, learns constantly, and doesn’t take credit for himself.”

That was Rav Moshe Twersky.

As great a gaon and tzaddik as he was, he looked for no kavod, no pub-

By Rabbi Moshe Meiselman, Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshivas Toras Moshe The world is reeling from the tragic slaughter of the four kedoshay elyon who were brutally slaughtered by bnei avloh while they were standing in front of HaKodosh Baruch Hu in tefillah. Someone who is killed because he is a Jew is a kadosh who dies al Kiddush Hashem. The gemara tells us that this is all the more so if he lived his life al Kiddush Hashem.

Among the kedoshei elyon, Rabbi Moshe Twersky, was a gadol baTorah and a tzaddik in all ways. For the past twenty-two years he was marbitz Torah in Yeshivas Toras Moshe in Yerushalayim. He raised countless talmidim in Torah and yiras Shamayim to very great heights. His talmidim are all over the world. They idolized him for they saw in him the true embodiment of all of the ideals of the Torah.

He was a descendant of two great dynasties – the dynasty of Chernobyl-Talner and the dynasty of Brisk. The intellectual brilliance and command of Torah that signified Brisk was natural and automatic to him. He toiled in Torah until late in the night. He knew major parts of Shas by heart and the rest was at his fingertips. Every one of his talmidim felt his love and he treated them as his own sons. His sons were his talmidim and his talmidim were his sons. He was a unique person in that he was just as scrupulous in chumros in bain odom lechaveiro as he was in bain odom laMakom.

The avodah of chassidus burned deeply in him and he sought out gedolay ha’avodah to inspire him and learn the intricacies of avodah. This is what brought him to master kabbalah as well – something unique to someone so steeped in the traditions of Brisk.

The hespedim at his levaya emphasized time and again his deep purity of soul that dominated his life. He was a talmid of his grandfather, Rav Yosef Dov Soloveichik, zt”l, Rav Dovid Soloveichik, shlita, and in kabbalah, Rav Yisroel Eliyahu Weintraub, zt”l. They all saw in him their true talmid, for whom they had an awed respect.

Klal Yisroel has suffered a great loss with the departure of a future gadol whose shlaimus in Torah, avodah and gemilus chassadim was recognized by everyone who came within his presence. Gedolim are few and far between and when a future gadol departs from us before he has reached his prime, the loss cannot be repaired. Mi yitain lanu temuroso.

licity, whatsoever. Even though he was a great talmid chacham and tzaddik, he never looked for credit. He would sit in the back of the shul. And in the back of the shul is where the subhuman butchers found him.

Mori v’rabi Rav Michel Shurkin shlita said at the levayah that while he is not worthy to be maspid Rav Moshe, he can testify as to who Rav Moshe was. He related that Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, zt”l, Rav Moshe’s grandfather, felt he had fulfilled his mitzvah of giving over the mesorah of the Torah with Rav Moshe. Rabbi Meiselman recounted that Rav Soloveitchik said, “I taught many people in my life time, but I had four talmidim.” Regarding Rav Moshe he said, “That is not a talmid, that is me.”

Rav Soloveitchik instilled in Rav Moshe the mesorah he’d received from his grandfather, Rav Chaim, and the Beis Halevi. Rav Shurkin added that Rav Soloveitchik told him that since the Shagas Aryeh there hasn’t been a masmid like his grandson Rav Moshe.

To the bachurim in yeshiva – even to bachurim who were not in his shiur – Rav Moshe was known as “The Rebbeh.” This title was bestowed out of reverence for the holy rebbe in our midst. His yiras Shamayim was tangible to those around him. Yet even on his great level, he would set up chavrusah sessions with any bachur who would request it.

Rav Moshe never came to eat lunch; he always had a chavrusah with different bachurim during lunch. I recall one of my friends who learned with Rav Moshe at lunch telling me that at one of his sessions Rav Moshe asked him if they could work together on making brachos with more kavanah.

Rav Moshe told him that each day they would both try to have kavanah in reciting a brachah. My friend told me that Rav Moshe’s humility had truly amazed him. Rav Moshe made all of his brachos with intense kavanah, yet he told a nineteen-year-old American bachur that they would work on this “together.”

Every one of his talmidim felt their

rebbe was a malach Hashem tzivakos, an angel of Hashem. They all felt he cared deeply about each one of them.

Many of his talmidim to this day still say he made the biggest impression on their lives.

The following story perfectly illustrates the care Rav Moshe had for his talmidim: A friend of mine, who was not in Rav Moshe’s shiur, told me that while he was studying with Rav Moshe, they went over the importance of learning the night before one’s twentieth birthday. This bachur left the yeshiva before his twentieth birthday and was learning in a yeshiva in America. On the night before he turned twenty he called Rav Moshe and asked him if there was something he should say or learn. Rav Moshe faxed him some papers and told him what to say.

Rav Shurkin cited the pasuk “Zos chukas hatorah, adam ki yamus ba’ohel – this is the chok of the Torah, a man dies in the tent” (Bamidbar 19:14). The Gemara extrapolates from this pasuk that in order for one to acquire Torah he must “kill” himself over Torah. The Gemara in Yevamos explains that this refers to mesiras nefesh, self-sacrifice.

Rav Shurkin testified that Rav Moshe fulfilled that explanation in every area of his life. He added that Rav Moshe was yamus in the ohel, and that this is the chok of the Torah we do not understand.

May he be a meilitz yosher for his family, his talmidim, and all of Klal Yisrael, amen.

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returned home emotionally exhausted from burying my friend, Aryeh Kupinsky. I entered my apartment building at the same time as my brother-in-law, Rafi, who lives in a different city but who comes into Har Nof regularly in his capacity as a counselor.

Gently, he asked me if I had personally known any of the victims of the massacre. Thinking that Rafi may recall him from various family simchos, I sadly said, “Aryeh Kupinsky.”

Now, Aryeh was a big man. He towered over most anyone, was broad in the shoulders and deep in the chest, and he had a long, red beard.

But it was not his physical appearance that allowed Rafi to recall him. Stricken, he asked, “Aryeh Kupinsky? The one who always had a big smile?”

Aryeh was a doer. When I think of him, the image my mind conjures up is one of Aryeh in motion. Long legs taking great strides, powerful arms reaching out with great sweeping gestures. And what is Aryeh doing? Why, he’s helping someone. Aryeh lived for others. His first thought was never for himself.

As Rabbi Jonathan Taub put it so well, Aryeh was simply incapable of being a guest at a simcha. If he was there early, then he would singlehandedly flip over tables and set them on their feet. He often did not leave until everything was put away. Once, a friend insisted that he sit, enjoy himself, and let those who were hired do the work.

When he next saw Aryeh, he had lugged in all of the cartons of drinks that he had located outside of the hall, and he was finishing loading them into the refrigerator.

How many times had I heard him say, “What can I do to help?” When I first came to yeshiva nearly two decades ago, someone explained to me that Aryeh Kupinsky was a person who would “do anything, for anyone, at any time.” Aryeh was recently married when I first met him, but I heard that in his dorm room when he was a bachur, he had put up a sign that read, “Please borrow anything – no need to ask.” Who does that?

Aryeh acted quickly and quietly. He asked for no recognition, and many were unaware of things

that he had done. Here is one example that comes to mind. On Tisha b’Av for the past number of years, on the Neve campus, there has been a very well-

Aryeh did not run a Gemach. He was a Gemach. attended program featuring superb lecturers. Beginning with Shacharis and ending with Mincha, the program has incorporated Kinos interspersed with hard-hitting, powerful, and sometimes fiery speech-

es. By two o’clock in the afternoon, everyone has gone home. Well, nearly everyone. There was one man who made sure that the Sefer Torah and two Haftarah scrolls that has been used for davening were returned from the dining room to the shul, and that the Aron Kodesh was properly locked.

Aryeh was a deeply emotional being; he wore his emotions on his sleeve. When speaking about a topic important to him, the passion was evident. Nowhere was this truer than when Aryeh was talking in learning. Aryeh was a ben Torah and a lamdan. When we learned for a brief period as chavrusos, he would get fired up at the drop of a hat. The truth is that over the years, when I would meet up with Aryeh, my heart would sometimes fall. You see, Aryeh was always bothered by something.

Not the “same” thing. But he was constantly nursing a shaila, turning it over, gnawing at it, trying to resolve it. And he would share it with you when he saw you. There was no such thing as, “Interesting! I’ll have to think about it.” Nor was it possible to simply suggest a teirutz. The teirutz had to be analyzed, weighed for merits and demerits, and then discussed again. When I “didn’t have the time” for this process, I would feel somewhat exasperated.

How I would love to be able to experience such a delay again …

Just days after Tisha b’Av two years ago, Aryeh’s daughter Chaya did not wake up. She was just shy of her fourteenth birthday. Chaya had been mature for her age. Until that tragic morning, she had been the one to shoulder much of the burden in the house, acting as almost a second mother to her siblings.

After her untimely passing, her parents found a private list, pages long, of personally composed tefilos which she apparently had expressed daily.

Aryeh was inconsolable after Chaya’s death. Everything reminded him of her, and tears were never far below the surface. For much of the next two years, the family did not eat their leil Shabbos night meal at home, as this family time was too painful for Aryeh to experience without his beloved eldest daughter. Sitting at another’s table allowed him to contain the sorrow – for the most part. Only when

in which he ran it.

If you know anything about Har Nof, you know that it is built around a mountain. Every street is on another level, and many are stories below or above those closest to them. The entire neighborhood is made up of long, winding streets, and steep, winding staircases.

would “do anything, for anyone, at any time.”

Leaving the kevurah, a member of the chaburah related that he had yelled at Aryeh the last time that he had spoken to him. He had come across Aryeh while he was transporting a freezer from one recipient to another. On a hand truck. This was the only mode of transportation employed by the Gemach – hand-wheeled, bumped up and down every step and along every roadway. And there was only one

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“employee.”

“Are you crazy?!” our friend asked Aryeh. “Isn’t it enough that you furnish people with a free freezer? Let them pay fifty shekel for delivery!” Aryeh recoiled. “This is my chessed!” he protested.

I have seen in these last two days blurbs describing Aryeh that mention that he ran a Gemach. Aryeh did not run a Gemach. He was a Gemach. On that fateful Tuesday morning, when the mispallelim became aware of the malevolence among them, they ran for their lives. Not so Aryeh. Numerous reports have Aryeh screaming at everyone in the shul to run, while he made sure that they could. He hurled shtenders, chairs, siddurim – whatever came to hand – at the terrorists to distract them, at one point physically restraining one of them. There were others who followed his example. After taking multiple blows – some intended for others – Aryeh fell. There is no doubt that he saved others’ lives.

There was an unexpected delay when we arrived at the plot in Har ha’Menuchos where Chaya is buried. The gaping hole in the ground was not quite long enough. We waited in the dark while the Chevra Kadisha took out their tools, and finally the earth reluctantly took Aryeh back.

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giving his other precious children brachos was Aryeh unable to contain his heart-wrenching sobs.

Being Aryeh, however, was incompatible with wallowing in pain. Kenesiyos were organized and held in Chaya’s memory, inspiring others to daven with more kavana and improve their middos. Aryeh often said that it was a great source of comfort to him that so many changed their lives for the better as a result of Chaya’s death. Yaakova Kupinsky believes that these words, heard so often by the family, serve as a focus for them now at this enormously difficult point in their lives.

But this was not enough. Aryeh sought to establish something permanent in Chaya’s memory. We live in such a world of shefa, b’Chasei Hashem.

And with so many good, kind Yidden in the world, there are hundreds of categories found listed under “Gemach” in frum directories worldwide. But Aryeh Kupinsky, ba’al chessed extraordinaire, managed to found a Gemach rare enough that – to the best of my knowledge – there is only one other one in existence. A freezer Gemach! He purchased a number of medium-sized freezers – of the six-drawer variety – and advertised that they would be available free of charge for use before yomin tovim and simchos. He told me – with a mixture of incredulity and regret – that before Rosh Hashanah, he had to turn down 92 applicants. Ninety-two! Just days before Aryeh was so brutally taken from us, he was attempting to figure out how to acquire more freezers for this noble purpose.

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By Susan Schwamm

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Zidan Saif: An Officer of Courage

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housands gathered in the northern Israeli town of Yanuh-Jat on Wednesday to pay their respects and to eulogize Officer Saif who died

protecting Jews from evil. Among the mourners were hundreds of people from the Chareidi community who felt compelled to honor the righteous gentile.

Rabbi Mordechai Rubin, the rav of Kehilat Bnei Torah, eulogized him. “We came from Jerusalem, from the place of the massacre…simply to be with you and to cry with you,” he declared. “Zidan showed courage. He was the first at the battle. He stood like a wall, with his body, with his head, in order to save the souls of those in the synagogue. The loss of Zidan is our loss as well as that of the Druze community and we feel, especially at times like this, a kinship with the Druze community. The devotion and the determination of Zidan should be an example to us all — to the Druze and to the Jews.”

Druze leader Mouafiq Tarif delivered a eulogy for the slain officer, calling for an end to “incitement and extremism.”

“You must do everything to lower the flames in the Holy City,” he said, addressing President Reuven Rivlin, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, and Israel Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino by name. “Both we and you are paying a heavy price in the form of the blood of our sons. Incitement and extremism must not prevail over common sense and tolerance.

“The Druze community is going through a difficult time, tinged with sadness and pride as we lost two of our dear sons in the past two weeks who were defending the State of Israel,” added Tarif. “The entire Druze community bows its head in honor of the families of the slain in the terrible massacre in Jerusalem, and hope for safer and quieter days.”

Saif’s sister, Kholoud, remembered, “Zidan was full of joy at life, always laughing and creating a good atmosphere. A month ago he made a big party in his home for his friends, he never did that [in the past].

The feeling is that he felt that he needed to bide farewell to everyone who knew him.”

She added, “He so much wanted and tried to teach his daughter Larin to say [Dad]. Now he will never hear her say that world, and she will know him only through photos and stories.”

President Reuven Rivlin said, “He arrived first, and stood up to the terrorist without fear, and sacrificed himself to protect the citizens of Jerusalem.”

He lamented, “What can we say to a five-month-old baby girl who will not know her father, who will grow up an orphan? We will tell her that her father was a hero?”

“There aren’t a lot of men like him, and there are no heroes like him,” Saif’s father-in-law, Ahmed Trudi, said. “He was a hero during his life, and he fell like a hero. This man sacrificed himself for the homeland.” 

There are approximately 130,000 Druze living in Israel, primarily in the Galilee and Golan Heights areas. They are considered a separate religious minority, following a monotheistic faith with roots in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. They consider themselves descendants of Jethro.

“We are the sons of Jethro. Jethro ordered us to save the eternal people, the Jewish people, and the land of Israel,” Atta Yemini Farhat, chairman of the Druze Zionist Council for Israel, told JNS.org.

In contrast with the positive relationship that the Druze community holds with Jews in Israel, Muslims in the Middle East have historically viewed Druze as an “unwanted minority,” Shmuel Shamai, a professor at the Golan Research Institute and the Tel Hai College, says, and Israeli Arabs tend to see them as “collaborating with the State of Israel.”

Since this summer’s war in Gaza, some Muslims “have been inciting [against] the Druze all over the country,” Farhat said. Recently, fighting broke out between Muslim and Druze residents of Abu Snan, a small village in the Galilee. More than 40 people were injured in the clashes.

“The land of Israel is the ancestral land of the Jewish people,” Farhat said. “The Jewish people came back to their homeland to establish again the state of Israel. … The bond between Israel and the Jewish people is a historical thing. It is Isaiah, Abraham, Jacob. They are the fathers of the ancestral Jews and their homeland is here in Israel.”

“We [Druze] try to help the Jewish people,” he added, because among “the Jewish people here in Israel we feel freedom,” unlike in the Arab countries where “women are stoned … Christians [and other] minorities are persecuted.”

Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Druze were primarily pro-Muslim. In 1948, when they realized that the Jews will be establishing a country of their own, the Druze aligned themselves with the Jews. Amin Tarif, a Druze leader at the time, convinced the Druze not to collaborate with the invading Arab armies.

Now, all Druze men are required to serve in the IDF. Many Druze living in the Golan Heights, though, are not Israeli citizens. Around 90 percent live as residents, as they fear that if the territory is returned to Syria one day, they will be persecuted for collaborating with the Jewish state.

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ast Tuesday’s brutal slaughter in a shul in Har Nof rocked the quiet neighborhood and the world as terrorists sadistically murdered four rabbis as they were davening, wrapped in their tefillin and talleisim. Despite the terrible loss of life, it is certain that if not for the courage of Officer Zidan Saif, who also perished in the attack, the number of casualties could have G-d forbid been much worse.

Saif, who joined the Israeli police force several years ago, left behind a wife and four-month-old daughter, as well as parents and four siblings.

He and his partner were the first responders to the scene of the attack. Witnesses say that Saif, a traffic cop, fearlessly shielded the people in the shul and his partner from the terrorists’ bullets. “He gave his life for his country,” Saif’s father, Nihad, told the newspaper Ma’ariv. “This was his fate and his fortune … We do not know what to tell his daughter when she grows up and asks where her father is. But we will grapple with it. We will take care of her and look after her like she was our little daughter.”

One of Saif’s cousins related, “He shielded his partner with his body and also saved many worshipers. If he had not been there, the result would have been even worse.” He continued, “This is so fitting for him to have died saving others, because he was a singular individual with a great heart, and because of this he was loved by all. He helped everyone and talked with everyone, young and old.”

Indeed, Saif’s life was about dedication to the service of protecting Israel’s citizens. His uncle lost his life while serving in the IDF in the Lebanon War. Saif was so proud to be an officer in the IDF, he told friends it was worth the 150 kilometer commute.

In a video released on Thursday, footage shows the horrific attack and the heroic act of Saif in his last moments of his life. The two terrorists were armed with guns, axes and a meat cleaver as they stormed the shul. After Saif is seen opening fire at the terrorists, one of the Palestinians emerges from the building and shoots Saif at close range. Saif later succumbs to gunshot wounds to his head.

But Saif did not die in vain. The gunman was injured by Saif’s fire and falls down near a car, eventually killed by another policeman in the vicinity.

The second terrorist runs out with a meat cleaver in hand and is shot by police. Finally, both murderers are killed.

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Torah Thought

Rabbi Berel Wein

Parshas Vayeitzei

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ur father Yaakov faced many difficult challenges in his long and tumultuous life. This week’s parsha highlights one of the major challenges that any individual can face – the physical and emotional disconnect from one’s family and familiar surroundings. To add to this challenge’s complexity, there is the fact that he is forced to live in a very hostile environment.

His work is exploited and unappreciated, his wages and payment uncertain and constantly subject to change and readjustment, and his family life is tense and sometimes even disruptive. In light of all of this, the visionary challenge of expanding on the works of his parents and grandparents in developing a special people, that will lead humanity to connect with its Creator, seems to be almost an insurmountable one.

Yet, Yaakov, who symbolizes truth and Torah in Jewish tradition, never loses sight of his true goal of nation-building and creating unity out of the diver-

sity of a large family and imposingly different personalities. That is what is meant by the truth of Yaakov. He is true to his own identity, refusing to remod-

jor challenge faced by the Jewish people, collectively and individually, has been remaining true to itself. As a small minority forced to exist in a largely hos-

The only thing that works for the Jewish people, collectively and individually, is being true unto one’s self.

el himself after his father-in-law or the general society of Haran.

He is true to his self-identity, his family’s traditions and faith. And he remains eternally true to his goal of influencing all of humanity through his family and teachings. There can be no greater expression of truth – consistently living a moral life, and expressing that truth in daily living and so-called “ordinary” behavior.

Throughout Jewish history the ma-

tile world and environment, some of the Jews always attempted to blend in and adopt the majority persona. When living in Haran, then be like Lavan – that was their mantra.

Again, all of Jewish history clearly indicates that this was a faulty, if not even fatal, choice. The only thing that works for the Jewish people, collectively and individually, is being true unto one’s self. We are witness today to the

havoc wrought by all of the assimilationist trends and movements within the Jewish societies of various countries and cultures over the past two centuries. They were all so progressive and cutting-edge that they have practically conjured themselves into irrelevance and extinction.

There are other movements and ideologies that walk the Jewish street today that have replaced those previously failed ideas and programs. But the test of their longevity and true success remains the same as it always has been – are they true to the tradition and vision of our father Yaakov? That is the ultimate arbiter of Yaakov’s eternal vision. Everything modern soon becomes obsolete, and temporary popularity and faddishness recedes into the ridiculously absurd dustbin of failed ideas.

Judaism is not opposed to change and progress. But above all, it is necessary to remain true to one’s tradition.

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Parshas Va’Yeitzei

As Yaakov Avinu is running from his parents’ home to escape from Esav, he recognizes that he is beginning a new chapter in his life. He turns to Hashem and pleads for four things: 1. Hashem should be with him.

2. Hashem should protect him.

3. Hashem should return him to his home in safety.

4. Hashem should give him food to eat and clothing to wear – parnassa.

The Medrash tells us that Hashem granted three of the requests but not the fourth, saying, “If I guarantee him his daily needs, he won’t have any reason to turn to Me.” So Hashem did not answer the request for his daily needs – parnassa (sustenance).

Who was Yaakov Avinu?

This Medrash seems difficult to understand when we take into account that this is Yaakov Avinu.

Chazal tell us that Yaakov was the greatest of the Avos. He was a man who walked with Hashem — constantly. At the core of his essence was a deep craving to be close to Hashem. He lived to serve Hashem. What difference would it make if he didn’t have to worry about making a livelihood? Of course he would still reach out to Hashem Of course he would still see Hashem in every occurrence in his life.

It almost sounds as if Hashem is saying, “I have to keep Yaakov from getting too comfortable; otherwise he will forget Me. I can’t promise him sustenance because then he won’t need Me. He won’t write. He won’t call. He won’t love Me anymore.” This is a person who was so motivated to have a relationship with Hashem that he always clung to Him. What difference would needing a parnassa have on such a relationship?

Understanding the Human The answer to this question is based

on a fundamental understanding of man. Hashem created the human in a state of flux. Hashem took a neshama

seems as if Hashem is deliberately sabotaging our well-laid plans for serving Him. And it doesn’t make much sense.

Only with needs can we become aware of that it is Hashem Who is the Provider.

– pure sechel, unadulterated intellect and understanding – and enveloped it in layers and layers of physicality. At the core of a person’s essence are certain understandings, concepts that we intuitively know, but which are blocked by the effects of being housed in a body.

The goal of the human is to cut through the layers of physicality and keenly perceive those truths of purpose that are instinctive to our neshamas.

Every man, even a man as great as Yaakov Avinu, is a still a man and requires exercise in seeing Hashem. He needs to flex his spiritual muscles by calling out to Hashem and recognizing his total dependence on Him. When a person needs something and must turn to Hashem, that process brings him to a higher level of appreciating his dependence on Hashem.

For that reason, Hashem didn’t guarantee Yaakov Avinu sustenance. Yaakov needed the need so that he would become closer to Hashem.

Life Would be Much Better If Only…

This concept has great relevance to our lives. Oftentimes we feel, “I would be better able to serve Hashem if only…” “If only making a living wasn’t so difficult. … If only I didn’t have medical issues… If only I could find my bashert...” At times it almost

One of the reasons a person has to struggle in this world is so that he will recognize that it is Hashem Who is at the center of his universe, and it is Hashem Who orchestrates every part of this creation.

The basis of our entire avodas Hashem is to perceive that Hashem is completely, totally, irrevocably involved in everything that happens in this world – and we are dependent upon Him. However, it isn’t enough for this to be a concept or thought; it has to become a reality. Much like a brick is hard, solid and heavy, I don’t think it; I know it. So too, I have to

come to the knowledge that Hashem is present and involved in my life, and I am completely dependent upon Him. To reach that level of knowing requires a change of perspective.

When I need something and am forced to cry out to Hashem for help, I come to this realization – not in theory, not in principle, but in reality. I get it. When I don’t know how I am going to make a mortgage payment and I cry out to Hashem for help and “somehow” things work out, that process – the asking, the feeling helpless, and then seeing the salvation – brings this reality home.

“Needs” aren’t annoying obstacles to my spiritual growth. Quite the opposite; they are often the catalysts to my finally getting it, to understanding that Hashem is involved in my life, that Hashem really cares about what happens to me, and that I am dependent upon Him. We need needs — real needs, deep needs — because only with needs can we become aware of that it is Hashem Who is the Provider. Only then can we recognize that we are creations dependent upon our Creator.

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Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

Do Me a Favor

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f there are three little words that make people’s hearts flutter, then these four little words make them cringe. When people ask us to do them a favor, our hearts generally sink. We know that we have a relationship (most of the time) and that we want to keep it going, but we’re afraid of what we will be asked to do.

We view doing favors for people as a necessary evil, something we need to do to keep getting the benefits of the relationship that we’re accustomed to.

Sometimes it’s easy, like when someone says, “Would you watch my chair while I go to get more food from the buffet?” or even if your buddy asks for a ride to the mechanic down the street. Five minutes, no problem. Sometimes it’s more complicated, when someone asks you to do something you really don’t want to do, like taste their new recipe for Brussels sprouts casserole.

The truth is, if we look at favors that way, we’ve got it wrong. There’s an amazing story about R’ Moshe Feinstein zt”l. Years ago, someone was giving him a ride. The driver had recently installed new-fangled seat belts in his car (this was decades before they became standard, legally-required safety items) and had himself been saved from bodily harm by wearing them. He asked R’ Moshe if he would care to put on the belt.

R’ Moshe felt it wasn’t necessary and politely declined. The driver was adamant, “But they are truly a good idea; it’s safer,” he pressed. R’ Moshe told him it was OK; he didn’t feel like he needed it. By now, the driver was feeling very antsy and blurted out, “Could you do me a favor and please put on the belt?” Suddenly, R’ Moshe responded as if electrified. “A favor? Of course!” and he quickly buckled himself in.

R’ Moshe understood that doing a favor for someone is a mitzvah, a chessed, and a great opportunity. Think about it. When you buy a gift for someone, you hope they will like it. But if they tell you exactly what they need, you know you will be getting them the right thing. Though most of us like to surprise the other person, it’s selfish to think we know them so well. In truth, we’d be better off with actual knowledge of what they want. So, if someone

is asking us for a favor, they must really need it. We should jump on the chance to assist!

When we do favors, we must also recognize what a solemn obligation we’ve got. Say someone asks you for a

my articles, but more importantly, to discharge his obligation to send the regards. He understood that he had a job to do. We ended up having a pleasant conversation for almost fifteen minutes.

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“If I don’t go out of my way, then what have I done for you?” ride. Do you take them to their destination, or do you get them as close as possible as long as it doesn’t inconvenience you? When R’ Elchonon Wasserman Hy”d was in America in the 1930’s, he was staying at a certain home in Brooklyn. The streets there are often one-way streets, and that can make for some extra driving. One evening, the fellow driving R’ Elchonon eased to a stop at the corner and directed R’ Elchonon that he could just get out and walk three houses up, which would avoid the driv-

er having to go around the long block and come down the street the other way.

R’ Elchonon refused. “You are doing a chessed,” he advised the driver, “you must take me to the door, even if it takes extra time and effort.”

He wasn’t being arrogant or stubborn. He was teaching the fellow how a Jew does a favor. People often tell us, “I need to go here, but only if it’s not out of your way.” My typical response is, “If I don’t go out of my way, then what have I done for you?”

One of my readers met my uncle who sent regards. Upon his return home, he called me to tell me he enjoys

somewhere. I could have sent it via Fed Ex or some other carrier, but I was in a hurry and it was Friday. This way, I figured, it would get there before Shabbos and I wouldn’t have to wait until they received it on Monday. I knew someone going to that neighborhood and asked them a favor. I said, “I really appreciate this, I want him to get it before Shabbos.”

The answer surprised me. “No problem,” said the young woman who took it. “If not, then Motzei Shabbos.”

I was taken aback. I had asked for a favor, made myself vulnerable by indicating that this was something I needed from her, and she was nonchalant about it.

I said nothing. I texted her several times that afternoon asking if she had been able to deliver it so I could go into Shabbos with a calm mind. I knew that based on when she was traveling she should have arrived at her destination.

As the address was a few blocks from where she was going, I assumed she would drop it off on her way in. That’s what I would have done, as once I’ve accepted to do a favor, it becomes top

priority.

She didn’t, and she wasn’t able to drop it off Saturday night either, as she was involved in a family simcha.

Again, if it were me, I would have snuck out for a few moments right after Shabbos to take care of it, especially when I knew the sender was anxious to get it to its destination.

It was finally delivered on Sunday, but what floored me was the text I received. “I delivered the package. In the future, please don’t put me in that position again. I’m happy to do a favor and deliver a package, but not if the sender is going to be so worried.”

What that means is that the woman didn’t think about the magnitude of what she was doing. R’ Moshe jumped at the chance to set a Jew’s mind at ease but she didn’t think about that. To her, she was glad to help as long as it didn’t impinge on her personal life. The fact that I had let her know how important it was to me didn’t register on her radar. She didn’t feel my anxiety that it be done quickly nor a need to put my mind at ease.

But that’s exactly what doing a favor is all about: placing the needs of someone else above your own and grabbing a chance to do a complete chessed. Think about that the next time you’re asked to do a favor, and maybe your heart will skip a beat – in a good way.

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Thanksgiving in the air, it brings our attention to the story of Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims and his famous Great Expedition. It is this time of year when Americans sit around their tables laden with delicious food and loved ones and remember the time in 1492 when Columbus risked his very life in order to reach the Orient to gather riches for the King and Queen of Spain. Instead, he became the first European to discover America.

route via the ocean to Asia. Columbus died in 1506 with no knowledge of the scope of his discovery, how he opened the New World to Europe and made Spain one of the most powerful countries of that time.

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accidentally discovered America, where the Pilgrims eventually set up home and the great democracy of America was established. But there is a part of this history that is often overlooked and remains unknown to most. Despite what By asking his children to continue to the vast majority of people believe about Columbus’ journey use the signature, it was a coded way and who he was, there is ample evidence that scholars have discovered about this man that for Columbus to request that his sons suggests quite strongly the likelihood that Columbus was actually part of the tribe. No, say kaddish for him. not part of the tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the New World when Columbus stumbled upon it, but a Jew. Columbus’ origins are not known for certain.

Christopher Columbus set sail from the Spanish port of Palos in a search for a western sea route to Most historians speculate that Columbus was from China, Asia and India with his eye on their supposed the coastal region of Liguri, and that he spent his overflow of gold and spices. He sailed in command childhood years in the Republic of Genoa, Italy. He of three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa then lived in Vico Diritto and later Maria. According to most history books, Columbus in Savona.

Scholars have brought to light a spotted land on October 12, 1492, many speculating that what he saw first was the Bahamas. He docked whole different chain of events, and the very same day, claiming the land for Spain. A few a completely distinct motivation for weeks later, the explorer spotted Cuba, and another setting sail, thereby painting a very island known then as Hispaniola, which he assumed different picture of Columbus and was Japan. Thirty nine of Columbus’ men stayed to his voyage. Less than a hundred establish a small colony there, and Columbus set sail years before Columbus set sail, the population in Spain numbered back to Spain with spices, gold and Indian captives.

Upon his return to his homeland, he was received about nine million, ten percent of as a hero, earning himself the highest honors by them were Jews. At that time, anthe Spanish court. Over the course of his lifetime, ti-Semitism began to rear its ugly Columbus traveled four separate times to the New head; many of the Jewish populaWorld, and discovered the Gulf of Mexico, Central tion went to live in other countries. and South American mainland, and other islands. He Some lived in these other countries never did accomplish his goal of finding a western openly as Jews; others lived dis-

guised as converted Christians, such as Columbus’ ancestors. But two thirds of the Jewish population still remained in Spain. Of the remaining population, about half continued life as Jews, while the other half converted, being termed the “New Christians” or conversos. Many Jews of that time agreed to publicly spurn Judaism, so as not to lose their status and wealth as doctors, lawyers and officials in the government. They continued to exhibit great wealth and lived in massive homes in the best areas of Spain.

They also kept ties with their Jewish family and friends and observed many Jewish customs and laws in the privacy of their own homes. This greatly angered the old Christians, whose jealousy and hatred of the Jews knew no bounds. They created a hateful and derogatory term to refer to these people: “marranos,” meaning swine.

When Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile married to become the King and Queen of Spain in 1469, they first took on the Muslim “problem,” seeking to get rid of all religion except Christianity and create a unified state. But war with the Muslims proved expensive, so Ferdinand and Isabella turned on the next undesirable element, the Jews. On March 31, 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella issued a proclamation that all Jews were to be expelled from Spain. This anti-Semitic edict stemmed from the Christian racism that was prevalent at the time and targeted a group of people that had done a tremendous amount in all areas for Spain. The ostensible

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scholars seem to agree that not only was Columbus a Jew, he was a very religious Jew, whose entire crusade was meant to free the Jews from their suffering in Spain. Some speculate that he went to find a new land that the Jews could inhabit. Others believe he was on a mission to find gold so that he could fund a campaign to liberate Jerusalem and rebuild the Beis Hamikdash. Still others believe he was indeed on his way to India and the Orient, but not in search of riches. Rather, he was looking

Columbus’ signature

for the Lost Tribes who he believed fled there during the times of the Bible.

Many believe his journey was paid for by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, but that is actually far from the truth. It was funded by a prominent Jew and two Spanish Jews who were forced to convert, Louis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez. The first few letters Columbus penned from his ship were to Santangel and Sanchez, telling them what he had found, and expressing his thanks for funding his journey. Rabbi Don Isaac Abarbanel also contributed to the funds for his journey.

Also noteworthy is that Columbus was meant to set sail on August 2, 1492, but that date coincided with Tisha B’av. He postponed his original date of departure to the following day, which was the day the Jews in Spain were given the choice to convert, leave Spain, or be killed. It is interesting that it is documented that on the night before they set sail, Columbus did not allow his crew members to gallivant around town drinking and having fun before their long journey into no man’s land. Instead, he ordered all crewmembers to board the three ships the night before, by 11:00 p.m. An hour later, by 12:00 a.m., it was illegal for all Jews to remain on Spanish soil. Those who suspect Columbus was a Jew don’t view this as a coincidence, but rather a very telling sign of his origins.

The more researchers delve into Columbus’ writings and actions, the more they discover what seems to lead to the fact that he was a Jew. His interests and comments into Jewish areas, as well as his connection to many Jews of Spain, are noteworthy and help scholars gather more evidence of his origins. The fact that being a Jew at that time was so dangerous and that those who were Jews were forced to hide all connection to Judaism means that to learn about Columbus’ origins one must read through the lines and gather information from hints and nuances. Will we ever know for certain the true story behind this enigmatic traveler and his true motivation for setting sail? No one will ever truly know, but perhaps Jews have a much stronger connection to Thanksgiving than we may have thought. 

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cia de la Riega and Otero Sanchez, a group of prominent Spanish scholars, concluded that Columbus (known in Spain as Cristobal Colon) himself was a Marrano. They say they have ample indications that he was forced to get rid of all evidence of his Jewish identity or face death by the brutal government that was committing atrocities against the Jews.

Columbus signed his last will and testament on May 19, 1506 and through his provisions and statements, he made many revelations about himself that has caused scholars to conclude he was in fact a Jew. When Columbus was given instructions about what should be done with his money if he doesn’t return from his dangerous voyages, he asked that one-tenth be given to the poor and to provide a dowry for poor girls, both ideas that are connected to Jewish law and tradition. He set aside some money in his will to be given to a Jew he knew who lived in the Lisbon Jewish Quarter. A signature he used on these documents, in which he asked be used in perpetuity, was made up of dots and letters, similar to what was written on Jewish gravestones at the time.

Historians believe this was a cryptic alternate way to write the kaddish. They believe that by asking his children to continue to use the signature, it was a coded way for Columbus to request that his sons say kaddish for him after his passing. He also left money for those who followed him and tried to liberate Eretz Yisroel, if he himself didn’t succeed In his letters to his son Diego, all but (many believe that his desire for spices and gold was to fund this mission). one of them have the Hebrew letters Experts who have analyzed Columbus’ diaries and writings have concluded that it was writ“beis hey” written at the top. ten in Ladino, also known as Castilian Spanish. This was basically the Yiddish of the Jews in Spain. In his letters to his quisition, Friar Tomas de Torquemada, who himself son Diego, all but one of them have the Hebrew letters “beis hey” written at the top, initials commonly was a Jew who converted to Christianity.

The decree gave Jews about four months to col- standing for baruch Hashem. Interestingly, no other lect all of their belongings, wrap up any business letters Columbus wrote have this, and the one letter they had, and get out of the country. Jews at that to his son that is missing it was a letter where he time were under incredible pressure to convert. This asked his son to bring the note to King Ferdinand.

He also quoted texts from the Bible and would was a terrible time for the Jews of Spain. They were publicly shamed and tortured, and forced to give up use excerpts from Isaiah in his writings, referring to names of family and friends who were living as Jews himself as “a light unto the gentiles.” In one of the and were not being true to Christianity. Required to books Columbus wrote about geography, he calculatwear pointed hats and face immense ridicule, these ed the dates based on the Hebrew calendar, writing, Jews had to appear before the court of the Inquisition “This is the computation of the creation of the world in the infamous auto-de-fé. They were then thrown according to the Jews....[F]rom the birth of Abraham in prison or paraded in front of large crowds and tied until the Second Temple was destroyed there were up, publicly burned alive. Their property was con- 1088 years...from the beginning of the world to this fiscated and given to the church and the king and year 1481 there were 5241 years.” He made many other Jewish references in his books, often making queen. notes by Jewish concepts and references. Next to a reference about astronomy and Jewish contributions a few years ago, Jose Erugo, to the field, Columbus wrote, “All nations derive Nicholas Dias Perez, Celco Gar- their astronomy from the Jews.”

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reason for this edict was the desire to have a unified state. They were also concerned about the “problem” of Spanish Christians converting to Judaism. As stated clearly in the translated edict issued by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, “You know well or ought to know, that whereas we have been informed that in these our kingdoms there were some wicked Christians who Judaized and apostatized from our holy Catholic faith, the great cause of which was interaction between the Jews and these Christians, in the cortes which we held in the city of Toledo in the past year of one thousand, four hundred and eighty, we ordered the separation of the said Jews in all the cities, towns and villages of our kingdoms and lordships and [commanded] that they be given Jewish quarters and separated places where they should live, hoping that by their separation the situation would remedy itself.”

The royal couple also argued that those Jews who converted to Christianity still had ties to their Jewish friends and family, and therefore they were not fully integrating into Christian culture. They reasoned that unless they get rid of all the Jews, these converts would never consider themselves real Christians.

Therefore, their edict specifically targeted Jews who refused to convert to Christianity, about 800,000 of them living in Spain at the time. Sadly, the architect of this edict, who originally posed the argument that New Christians couldn’t fully integrate if their Jewish family and friends were allowed to be around them, was the Chief Administrative officer of the In-

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because Lilly never knew when her father would erupt – and she never knew if she would make it to the safety of her closet – the experience was overwhelming to her. Because this left Lilly always on edge, she was, indeed, a trauma victim.

will still require individual treatment for her trauma. Oddly enough, Joe from our story last week, suffered the same exact lack of feeling safe from women as Lilly did from men. In fact, the more kind and loving the woman, the more unsafe Joe would feel: He

Although it can never become “normal,” it has to become “part of” one’s life experience.

Traumatized people can be disturbed by memories for years and decades without resolution. Discussing the event with friends or in therapy generally doesn’t make the memory or the bad dream go away. What is needed is a way to accept the happening and integrate it into the rest of life; although it can never become “normal,” it has to become “part of” one’s life experience.

How can this be accomplished?

The key ingredient necessary to live a healthy life after trauma is to once again be able to feel safe. In Lilly’s case, you could be a bit too logical and say that she should feel safe most of the time since she is not with her father. However, as you know from your high school studies of Pavlov’s dogs, there is a process of conditioning in which elements of the frightening situation generalize to other contexts.

For that reason, Lilly might be afraid of all men, or perhaps only men with the same build or the same accent or the same hair color as her father.

One of the most beautiful ways for her to heal might be from the gentle and patient love that her husband gives her. If she expects him to react as her father did – and her husband instead is kind and loving – then the expectation of a bad reaction will fade (or as the behaviorists say, it will extinguish).

Marital therapy to guide a spouse in reacting with wisdom and understanding can help greatly. However, Lilly

had developed a firm belief that if you love a woman, she will leave. He built some sturdy walls around himself.

I also described Aaron, who was terrified of changes. Lilly, Joe, and Aaron would benefit from a gentle therapy that engages the imagination in positive and empowering ways, especially if it could help these people create new meaning from their awful experiences. Hypnosis is just such a therapeutic tool.

Let’s peek in on therapy with Joe. Apparently, Joe doesn’t remember his shiva for his mother. He consciously blocked out thoughts of her as they were just too painful. When asked about good times earlier in his life, he can’t seem to recall those either. With Joe’s permission, the therapist walked him through a progressive relaxation of his body, coached him to take slow, deep breaths, and suggested he go into himself to capture what was bright, beautiful, and meaningful about his mother. He could do this with or without conscious awareness, whichever felt more right to him.

A highly permissive form of hypnosis like this puts the process in the client’s hands, or to be more accurate, in the client’s imagination. His thoughts are what he wants them to be. Why would a process like this help when Joe has already stated that he did not want to recall his mother?

The answer is that as painful as it is to remember a loved one who has died,

that memory also has in it a sense of warmth and closeness. The pain is there precisely because it is linked to the closeness. And closeness feels good.

Joe knows this. That is why he came to therapy in the first place.

And the beauty of this approach is that Joe can finish the session without having remembered his mother if that is how he really wants it. Instead, tears streaming down his cheeks, Joe opened his eyes and said, “My mom was president of the Sisterhood when I was in grade school. I remember!”

He had a bright smile on his face. “She was a real doer. A real giver. She loved children. That’s why this was so much of a shock.”

His voice trailed off as his thoughts stretched back in time. But he got up resolutely and thanked the therapist.

A week later, the therapist got a call from Joe. He had set up a memorial fund at the shul that he belonged to.

It would memorialize his mother and pay for seforim for children and adolescents.

As you can see, the therapist only set the stage for Joe to find his own solutions within the creativity of his unconscious. While it did involve pain, it also brought him the warmth he had missed all these years.

On an entirely different note, this Tuesday, December 2, at 12:30, I will be speaking at Traditions on: “Your In-laws—Should they Be Outlawed?: Therapy and Torah From Lavan to Yisro.” See you there.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, a Marriage & Family Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect— Together, is proud to announce that readers of The Jewish Home will receive a $50 discount on every visit to her Woodmere office. Attend the Food For Thought lectures at Traditions Restaurant in Lawrence on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM. (There is a lovely optional lunch menu for $12 cash.) Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at http://drdeb.com. All stories in Dr. Deb’s articles are fabricated.

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ast week I introduced you to three fictitious people and their stories with the idea in mind of understanding trauma a little better – and what to do about it.

The common element in trauma is that a person is shocked and overwhelmed by a great loss. That feeling of shock is important. It means that the new event can’t easily be integrated into one’s expectations of what is “normal.”

For example, a picture of “normal” would not include a terrorist running into a shul and killing people. A traumatized person might replay that scene over and over in his mind, unable to comprehend such a thing. The replaying tape does not make the event easier to accept or to understand.

A well-known therapist, Bessel van der Kolk, tells the story of this trauma repetition in the case of a Vietnam veteran who lit up a cigarette one night during his period of fighting the Viet Cong. The cigarette gave away his and his buddies’ location and the enemy fired, killing one man. As van der Kolk tells it, “From 1969 to 1986, on the exact anniversary of the death, to the hour and minute, he yearly committed ‘armed robbery’ by putting a finger in his pocket and staging a ‘holdup,’ in order to provoke gunfire from the police. The compulsive re-enactment ceased when he came to understand its meaning.”

Replaying or a sense of reliving an incomprehensible and disturbing event is one symptom of trauma. Others include poor sleep, fear and avoidance of being in a certain location or with specific people, flashbacks and extreme preoccupation. On the opposite end of possible reactions are people who block out the memory of the traumatic event. Along with this can be emotional numbing: Even good food tastes flat.

As the stories last week illustrated, trauma can result from “ordinary” things that are shocking because they are unexpected. Lilly, for example, was hit by an angry father. How rare is that? Unfortunately, not rare enough.

We could think of it as “ordinary” but

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It’s not food, it’s violence!

- Animal rights activists in California, as they stormed a grocery store to hold a “funeral” for frozen turkeys

Fifty percent of the nation is covered in snow. Record low temperatures, a very cold autumn so far.

But on the bright side, you’re one good ice storm away from getting out of Thanksgiving with the in-laws.

- Jimmy Kimmel There’s no question that our immigration system is broken. The only question is, who’s willing to step up and fix it. President Obama is stepping up because our country can’t afford to keep waiting and waiting for Congress to take action.

Hopefully this brings those opposed to common-sense reform into the fold so that Congress can finally play a role in shaping a lasting, comprehensive solution.

- U.S. Representative-Elect Kathleen Rice’s (D-4th District NY) statement on President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration

You guys can think whatever you want. But it wasn’t the money fueling this.

- Giancarlo Stanton, 25, who signed a $325 million contract with the Florida Marlins, talking to the media The Miami Marlins signed Giancarlo Stanton to a deal worth $325 million, which is the biggest contract in American sports history.

When asked what he would buy with $325 million, Stanton said, “The Miami Marlins.”

- Jimmy Fallon

After signing a contract for $325 million this week, Marlins player Giancarlo Stanton celebrated with a $20,000 bottle of champagne.

So let the road to inexplicable bankruptcy begin!

That morning he went to mikvah and he died wearing tallis and tefillin after reciting Kriyas Shema, during Shemona Esrei – Mrs. Mrs. Bashi Twersky, the almana of Rabbi Moshe Twersky Hy”d, to Mayor Nir Barkat at the shiva house My father was a man of truth, and that truth...was implemented in actions of love towards all humanity. He made every person feel loved within his path. Although he spent so many of his hours studying and you’d think that those books…distanced him from people, it actually made him closer.

- Michal Levine talking about her father, Rabbi Kalman Levine Hy’’d, who was brutally murdered in Har Nof We came from Jerusalem, from the place of the massacre…simply to be with you and to cry with you. Zidan showed courage. He was the first at the battle. He stood like a wall, with his body, with his head, in order to save the souls of those in the synagogue. The loss of Zidan is our loss as well as that of the Druze community and we feel, especially at times like this, a kinship with the Druze community. The devotion and the determination of Zidan should be an example to us all — to the Druze and to the Jews.

- Rabbi Mordechai Rubin, rav of Kehilat Bnei Torah, eulogizing Police Officer Zidan Saif, who was killed when he responded to the Har Nof massacre

You mustn’t come close to our mosques, to our churches. And we mustn’t come close to your synagogues.

- “Moderate” PA President Mahmoud Abbas, two days after the Har Nof massacre

- Jimmy Fallon There’s not much appetite in the Democratic party and around the country for somebody other than Hillary Clinton.

- Democrat pundit James Carville on ABC News

The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of the recent security failures.

When asked if he had any other ideas, he said, “Uh, make the sidewalk lower?”

- Jimmy Fallon

I think the American people, you know, they’re going to want that new car smell. You know, they want to drive something off the lot that – that doesn’t have as much mileage as me.

- President Obama on ABC’s “This Week,” when asked whether he will campaign for the Democrats in 2016

- Former Obama administration press secretary Jay Carney on CNN after President Obama announced his executive action on amnesty, discussing President Obama’s past comments that he does not have the authority to halt deportations without Congress

Israel is a Jewish democratic state.

– Prime Minister Netanyahu upon introducing a bill defining Israel as the “Jewish state”

- A doctor at an eastern China hospital explaining why the hospital now offers a program to simulate the pain of childbirth to men

I forgot something—my BlackBerry. Didn’t you guys ever forget something?

- President Obama to reporters after he hopped off the Marine One helicopter and turned back to the White House before a trip last weekend. (An AP photo shows that he had his BlackBerry on his belt when he first left for the helicopter)

I just poured gasoline on the floor, set it on fire, went to grab a drink, and came back.

- A man in Rockville, Maryland, at the scene of a massive blaze, casually admitting to a reporter, on live TV, that he set the fire

He has started picking up the same illness which I suffered from earlier — selfconfidence. He thinks he is second only to G-d, but I don’t know in charge of what really.

- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev talking about Vladimir Putin with the UK Telegraph

An earlier version of this column was published in error … quotes were taken, without attribution, from the satirical website The Daily Currant. There is no radio station WGYN in Chicago; the interview was fictitious, and should not have been included in the column.

- A correction in the entertainment section of the New York Times, regarding an article about a pop star

This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don’t have the courage to show their faces.

- Conan O’Brien I’m going to blame our bosses for not doing this the respectful way. It’s a pretty [garbage] way to find out— while you are on the air— that the station is folding. I would think that someone would have enough respect for their employees to tell us that something is up.

- Alex Quigley, a host on sports radio station The Game 87.7 FM in Chicago, after he found out while on the air that the station was closing

The weather service was off.

- Governor Andrew Cuomo deflecting blame for the state’s slow response to the blizzard in Buffalo, NY

Shame on Cuomo for throwing [the National Weather Service] under the plow. We don’t tell you how to run a state. Don’t tell us how to forecast.

- Tweet by Buffalo weatherman Kevin O’Neill

Hello to all. I have a request to make of all of my Facebook friends: My son Manuel is going to be 30 years old on 11/22/14. He loves getting postcards. My son has Downs Syndrome. I’m coming to you to ask that you to take a few minutes of your time to send him a little card and to pass this information on to your friends so as not to stop my chain. Thank you to all of you for your gesture that will make my Manu super happy.

- A Facebook posting by Lucien Parisseux of France, which garnered a response of 30,000 birthday cards to Manuel from around the globe

I didn’t dissolve the parliament. That’s not how our system works. I didn’t steal away the various clerks in the Senate and House who manage bills. They can still pass bills.

- President Barack Obama at a high school in Las Vegas, mocking Republicans for saying his executive action amnesty sabotaged the democratic process

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I think if he could have those words back, especially the first clip where he specifically talked about suspending deportations — that is literally what he is doing today.

If men can experience this pain, then they’ll be more loving and caring to their wives.

Today is Vice President Joe Biden’s birthday! Biden started the day with a dance party and a big piece of cake, and then he remembered it was his birthday.

- Seth Myers

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A man in California was arrested after he stabbed his potential employer during a job interview. Well, at least now he knows where he sees himself in five years.

- Seth Myers

Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don’t know.

- Conan O’Brien

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David Elazar Simai, MD

Dealing with Ear Infections Dear Parents, Diagnosing ear infections in pediatrics is fairly simple. Properly treating ear infections is, in my opinion, an art. I remember the overwhelming excitement I experienced when I diagnosed my first ear infection. It was at approximately 9pm; I was a first year pediatric resident at the now-Cohen’s Children’s Hospital. My mentor, Dr. Shoshana Wind, was the attending in charge of the Urgi-Center at the hospital. She was instrumental in teaching many residents how to stop pretending they see ear infections and actually re-

alize what they were staring at in those narrow ear canals. I was so proud of myself and felt I was doing such a service to the parents of an 18-month-old

girl who had cold symptoms and fever for a few hours. After confirming what I saw was actually a true ear infection, we discharged the patient with a prescription for amoxicillin and asked the parents to schedule a recheck with their pediatrician in 2 weeks.

one next. This too, was not effective.

Merely six months into my practice, I decided to be cavalier and try a new approach. I used this approach when a child presented with a clear-cut ear infection but did not appear to be in severe pain or about to rupture the ear drum.

I traded in the excitement of diagnosing ear infections with the excitement of properly diagnosing ear infections.

In the next two years, this euphoria repeated itself numerous times. After all, diagnosing ear infections is one of the most important skills a pediatrician has to acquire. I felt that I was able to diagnose these infections “in my sleep.”

However, once I started working in private practice and had the luxury of actually rechecking ear infections after just 2 weeks, that euphoria completely dissipated. I was shocked to find out that at least 50% of my patients ear infections did not respond to antibiotics. The accepted teaching at the time was that if the first antibiotic fails, try a stronger

I would give the mother a prescription for an antibiotic, but would ask her to wait 24-48 hours before giving the antibiotics to the child. In that period, I asked the mom to ensure that the child is comfortable by using analgesics (pain medicines) Tylenol or Motrin by mouth or ear drops containing topical analgesics. The mom was only asked to start the antibiotics if the child’s condition worsened in 1-2 days.

What I found was amazing. Roughly 75% of the patients healed on their own. And more shockingly was the fact that their ears looked just as clear as the

patients who were treated with antibiotics. To top it all off, the kids who did not get antibiotics did not have as many subsequent ear infections!

The best part of this story is that avoiding antibiotic use also prevents the unnecessary side effects that all antibiotics have: diarrhea, subsequent fungal diaper rash and the occasional allergic reaction to antibiotics, not to mention the risk of losing helpful bacterial flora in the gut. Currently, researchers are discovering the protective value of the normal gut bacteria. Furthermore, using antibiotics at a young age destroys the growth of bacteria and may increase chances of allergies and asthma.

Practicing medicine offers abundant opportunities to get excited. When it comes to ear infections however, I traded in the excitement of diagnosing ear infections with the excitement of properly diagnosing ear infections. Today, I take special pride when I review a medicine log of an 18-month-old patient who never took antibiotics. Yes, sometimes because of this approach I may spend more time reassuring and educating nervous parents, often in the late hours of the night. But in turn, I am able to sleep better, knowing that my patients are not victims of the wave of “defensive medicine” and antibiotic overuse.

In the next issue, I will continue with the topic of ear infections that do warrant prompt antibiotic use. Not all ear infections are created equal and careful consideration has to be given to our precious ears!

Wishing you a warm and healthy winter!

Sincerely, David Elazar Simai, M.D. Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pediatrician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In addition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, North-Shore Manhasset University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. He can be contacted for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at davidsimai@yahoo.com.

NOTE: name, gender, geographical area and other identifying information were deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.

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By Rena Zingmond

In 1902, Macy’s moved to its new home on 34th Street in Herald Square

Snoopy is the most featured character at the parade – seen here in 1969

Snoopy and Woodstock in 2001

As a nippy chill returns to the air and multi-colored leaves

cy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, as it is officially termed, is cele-

dance in the autumn breeze, New York area residents are think-

brating its 88th year and has remained a time-honored destina-

ing one of two things: “I am not ready to go through another

tion activity for individuals and families from around the world.

winter,” or “It must almost be time for the Macy’s Thanksgiv-

How did it all begin? What has changed since its inception in

ing Day Parade!” Though both sentiments ring with truth (and

1924? Most importantly, how many different Snoopy balloons

one is most unequivocally shared), the latter, more favorable

have featured in the parade? Let’s take a walk down memory

thought is the one we chose to focus on in this article. The Ma-

lane to learn more about this ultimate pre-winter event.

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iconic department store with its trademark logo emerged in 1858 from humble beginnings as a dry goods store on the corner of 14th Street and 6th Avenue. The store’s proprietor, Rowland Hussey Macy, was plagued by a series of failed retail attempts, not buoyed much by his first day’s transaction of $11.06. Fortunately, his earnings only snowballed from there and his department store, R.H. Macy & Co., went on to gross approximately $85,000 in its first year of launch. Mr. Macy added the famed red star to his logo as a throwback to his prior experience as a sailor. By 1877, R.H. Macy & Co. had grown into an outright department store, expanding to occupy the ground space of 11 adjacent buildings.

Fast forward 47 years: Macy’s became more suc-

cessful than its dimensions allowed for and it became evident that relocation was in order. In 1902, the store moved to its new home on Broadway and 34th St. in Herald Square, where it remains today. The company went public in 1922 and went on to open branches in other areas around the country.

At that point, the chain’s employee contingent was primarily comprised of immigrant workers. In 1924, as a testament to their newly-embraced American heritage, they organized a lively procession to the flagship store on 34th Street. Wearing colorful costumes, marchers were accompanied by floats, live bands and animals brought from the Central Park Zoo. Although it initially began as a X-mas parade, the event has become a symbol of the official start to the holiday shopping season, kicked off on Thanksgiving Day. And with

an attendance of over 250,000 people that first year, it’s no wonder the parade went on to be instituted as an annual proceeding from then on.

The idea of adding a further dimension to the festivities was set in motion with the arrival of Anthony Frederick Sarg. Sarg had been performing with his marionette puppets on New York City streets when Macy’s contacted him, asking if he’d be interested in designing a window display depicting the parade scene. In conjunction with Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, Sarg worked to produce the now-iconic animal-themed balloons which eventually replaced the live zoo animals. The company continued to supply the balloon materials until 1984; since then the balloons have been manufactured by Raven Aerostar, a division of Raven Industries of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Balloons and Beyond Who had the honor of opening the parade as the first oversized balloon character in 1927? Felix the Cat, of course! The popular black and white feline had become a household icon by the end of the 1920s and did not disappoint his awaiting crowd. Surprisingly, Felix was buoyed about not by helium but by air. Helium replaced air inflation beginning in the subsequent years to come.

In 1928 it was devised that, as a grand finale, the balloons would be released poetically into the sky.

While the release was indeed a moving display, what followed was less inspirational; within minutes, the balloons burst unexpectedly above surprised onlookers.

This led parade officials to include a new safety valve that would allow for the slow release of pressure and extend the lifespan of the balloons to last for a few days.

For added fun, coordinators sewed return address labels onto the balloons, announcing that the lucky finders of deflated ones could return them for a Macy’s gift.

Over the years, the balloons in the Macy’s parade have evolved in size and nature. The original balloon class consisted of novelty balloons, some of which were smaller and could be worn over the heads of performers. The larger of the novelty balloons typically required about 30 handlers. The second and most famous category is the full-size balloon class, which require a total of exactly 90 handlers. These large balloons are usually representations of familiar, licensed pop-culture characters, such as Felix in the 1920s. A third and more recent category of parade balloon known as the “Blue Sky Gallery” has joined the ranks of parade entertainment.

The “Gallery” transposes works of contemporary artists onto full-size balloons. It takes 90 minutes to inflate a large balloon.

Balloon characters over the years have included Superman, Popeye, Donald Duck, Kermit the Frog, Yogi Bear, Garfield, Bugs Bunny, Mr. Potato Head, and Snoopy, among others. Snoopy, the famous Peanuts cartoon puppy, holds the record for the most appearances in a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, boasting seven different balloon personas. In 1934, Disney joined in the fun with the inclusion of the first Mickey Mouse balloon.

In 1968, parade organizers enlisted the help of Manfred Bass for his expert opinion on another key trademark of the Macy’s Day celebration: floats. Designed by artists at the Macy’s Parade Studio, floats usually feature scenes and characters from Sesame Street, marvel Comics and other child-centered TV shows. Though these floats average an impressive 40 ft. tall and 28 ft. wide, they are engineered to collapse to a surprising 12

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The Macy’s parade continued in its success and popularity throughout the 1930s, drawing an audience of 1 million people in 1933. In 1932, the event was first broadcast on local New York radio stations and

continued through 1941, breaking for two years and resuming from 1945-1951. The two years of suspended coverage occurred during and due to World War II, when the parade was put on hold. Rubber and helium that would have otherwise been used in the making of parade balloons were instead shipped off to aid in the war effort. Festivities resumed in 1945, including the continuation of television coverage that had been likewise halted during the war. The parade received national acclaim as a result of being featured in the 1947 film, Miracle on 34th Street, which included footage of the 1946 celebration. At this point, the event and Macy’s’ established name had become sufficiently familiar to the general public.

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Parade coordinators have had the privilege of coining official nonsensical terms to describe the new-age hybrid items featured in the parade, namely the “falloon” and “balloonicle.” A falloon, of course, is a fusion of the words “float” and “balloon” and is used to describe a float with a balloon on top of it. The balloonicle merges “balloon” and “vehicle” and characterizes a self-powered balloon vehicle.

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stars of the show, the Macy’s parade also hosts a slew of real-live performers in various capacities. Vocal artists, dance troupes and marching bands have the honor of gracing the traditional festival, although by application and acceptance only. Organizations such as the Macy’s Band Selection Committee and the National Cheerleaders Association select the lucky winners following a rigorous evaluation process, granting acceptance often 18 months before the date of performance.

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For er the event. The telecast was originally only an hour protruding tree. long and was, as it still continues to be, hosted by var• In 1993, high winds pushed Rex the Dinosaur ious TV personalities. Radio coverage is now provided into a streetlight, causing his head to pop. Sonic by 1010 WINS, one of the the Hedgehog collided with a rare instances throughout lamppost at Columbus Circle, the year that the station deinjuring an off-duty police ofviates from their “all news ficer. radio” format.

• In 1995, the Dudley the The parade’s travel Dragon balloon at the head of route has also seen some the parade was impaled and changes over time. Its origdeflated by a lamppost, which showered glass onto spectainal course began at 145th tors.

St. in Harlem and continued • down to Herald Square. In In 2000, Bullwinkle was 2009, the route was modunaccompanied by his partner, ified to launch from West Rocky, when the latter acci77th St. and Central Park dentally deflated during paWest, following 7th Ave. rade preparations. through Times Square.

• In 2005, the M&M’s balDeviating from the usual loon snagged on a streetlight in Broadway track, the City Times Square. Two sisters sufof New York believed the fered minor injuries when hit by new path would allow more falling debris.

Macy’s is the second largest consumer of helium space for the parade and • In 2008, a balloon hit the after the U.S. government attendees. For this year’s NBC Broadcast Booth. parade, the projected route • In 2013, Spider-Man’s left will take the procession down 6th Ave., avoiding Times arm partially deflated after bumping into a tree Square altogether. along Central Park.

New safety precautions were incorporated in 2006 Balloon Bloopers to prevent accidents and balloon-related injuries.

Despite the efforts of parade officials to protect These included installing wind against general mishaps, the procession has still man- measurement devices to alert paaged to cause trouble in its 88-year lifespan: rade organizers as to any unsta• In 1927, the forerunning Felix the Cat balloon ble conditions that could blow the became entangled in some telephone wires and balloons off-course. Additionally, caught fire. The fire was successfully extin- parade coordinators implementguished, but Felix was removed from the parade. ed a system to keep the balloons • In 1957, Popeye the Sailor‘s hat filled with water closer to the ground during intense following heavy rain, which caused the balloon winds. If the weather forecast preto go off-course and dump its contents on the be- dicts gusts higher than 34 miles per mused crowd below. hour, all balloons will be removed • In 1982, also due to fall drizzle, the Bullwinkle from the parade. This year, six new balloon sprang a monumental nose leak just a few giant balloons will join the others, blocks shy of the finish line. having successfully completed a • In 1986, a Raggedy Ann balloon crashed into a test run two weeks beforehand at lamppost and sent it flying into the street. That Citi Field. same year, a Superman balloon lost a hand to a In addition to the inanimate

those interested in watching the magic happen, visitors are invited to watch the inflation of the big balloons on Thanksgiving eve. On 77th and 81st streets between Central Park West and Columbus Ave., dedicated parade enthusiasts flock in droves to attend the party before the party, so to speak. It’s a fun way to start the season as well as a window into the amount of effort and orchestration necessary to run such a large-scale event.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade has continued to grow exponentially in all regards with each

Felix the Cat was the first giant balloon featured at the parade in 1927

year of its existence. What with over 3.5 million live spectators and more than 50 million television viewers tuning in around the world, the event continues to retain its status as the main New York area attraction this time of year. Add to that the nearly 1,500 dancers and cheerleaders, over 750 clowns, almost 30 parade floats, more than a dozen giant balloons and marching bands from across the country, it’s no secret why the event remains the carefully preserved fall tradition  that it is.

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Most job hunters think that Mr. Niceman, the person who can connect them to the right employer, is likely to be a prominent businessman, a

chanus, that is, finding someone with a matching resume. Of course, often the match is not perfect, and the headhunter will help out by editing the resume and

When you are job hunting, tell everyone who cares about you enough to listen. Even Aunt Tilly. well-connected rabbi, or a similar mover-and-shaker type. That is because they don’t know my “Aunt Tilly” rule.

So here it is. Imagine that Aunt Tilly is 83 and lives in a nursing home, where she spends most of her day playing Mah Jong. Will you tell her about the

adding interview preparation and other types of coaching. Recruiters or headhunters may help people find entry level positions or high level executive positions. The key thing to remember is that they each serve specific types of businesses and they work for the employer,

job you are looking for? What would be the point? The point is that her Mah Jong partner’s nephew owns the company that you want to work for, and if you don’t tell her about your job hunt, you’ll never know that. So the Aunt Tilly rule is: when you are job hunting, tell everyone who cares about you enough to listen. Even Aunt Tilly. She may be just the connection you need.

So far we’ve talked about seeking out nice people, essentially amateurs, who might be able to connect you to the job you want. This is an incredibly important aspect of job hunting, but what about the professionals? What is the role of the real experts who help people find jobs?

One type of employment professional is commonly called a headhunter, or in more polite company, a recruiter.

These people work for employers. They receive a list of skills, talents, and experience that the employer is looking for, and they earn their fee by doing shad-

not the job hunter. So if you speak to one of these fellows and you are not in the field that he serves or he doesn’t currently have an opening that you could fill, you are out of luck. He may offer you resume writing, interview prep, and

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other generally applicable services that he has available. But he can’t find you a job.

All of these people, whether professionals or amateurs, can be very helpful for some people. Every job hunter should speak to as many of them as possible, clearly describing (you know this by heart) the job he is looking for and why he is the best person to do it.

But what happens when you don’t know such people, or if the ones you know haven’t made the connection you need?

What if you don’t really know what job you are looking for, or why you are the best person to do it? Where can a job hunter go to open new possibilities, to learn the best ways to find the job which is really right for them?

The best option is to find a job counselor or coach that is a disciple of the 40 year best-seller What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles, also known as the “Job-Hunter’s Bible.”

“Parachute” is an extremely valuable resource that can help anyone think about their future in a more organized, effective way. It is the guidebook for everything that Pathways to Parnassa does. I will explain how that affects the job hunt after I deal with a few more frustrations in later articles.

Rabbi Mordechai Kruger is the Director of Pathways to Parnassa, an organization dedicated to educating our community in all aspects of career choice and job search. He can be reached at myparnassa@gmail.com.

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hen people hear the job hunter’s tale of frustration after he tells about the resumes sent out that got no response, they often suggest, “Why don’t you talk to [let’s make up a name here] Mr. Niceman? He helps people get jobs.”

The frequent sad, frustrated response is, “I did, and he couldn’t help me.” This is a really depressing situation, because if even the experts can’t help you, you must really be a hopeless case. Avoiding this frustration requires some understanding of what “people who help people get jobs” do, the ways in which they can help, and, more importantly, the ways in which they can’t.

Before I go further on this topic, I want to remind everyone of the most important rule of job hunting: Job hunting is a full-time job in which one uses as many avenues as possible in pursuit of a connection to the specific job he wants. Far too many job hunters choose one route, whether answering want ads, speaking to a well-connected person, or something similar, then sit by the phone and wait. I am pointing out the shortcomings of several popular job-hunting routes so that people will understand that they must try all of the options that might move them towards the right job.

With that in mind, let’s look at the “why don’t you talk to …?” scenario again.

Here’s what usually happens. The job hunter calls Mr. Niceman and says, “I’ve heard you help people find jobs.”

“Yes, I do, send me your resume.” But how can Mr. Niceman help someone find their target if he doesn’t know what they are aiming for? So both job hunters and the nice people who want to help them need to focus on the question that leads to success: What is the job you are looking for, and why are you the best person to do it? When there is a clear answer to this question, Mr. Niceman may actually be able to connect the job hunter to an employer. The job hunter will then continue seeking as many other nice people as possible, telling each one the name of the job he is looking for, and why he is the best person to do it. He will stay in contact with each of these people, periodically updating them on his search so that he stays in their consciousness. Otherwise, the most likely result is deeper frustration.

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couple of weeks ago we discussed the origins of the aircraft carrier. By the 1940s, carriers had been in service for a couple of decades and it was time to see how they would hold up in battle. Conventional admirals thought that the battleship ruled supreme but after their fleet was disabled in Pearl Harbor, American tactics quickly switched to carrier-based fleet movements. Smaller carriers were needed in large numbers to provide air cover for smaller actions like landings and anti-submarine operations. Soon the escort carrier would carve a place for itself in history.

While large carriers were faster, heavily armored and could carry upwards of 100 planes, escort carriers were cheaper and built in a short time span. These qualities proved vital for

the American navy in WWII as time, material and money were in short supply. The Japanese built 10 of these carriers, also known as jeep carriers or baby flattops. The British built 25 during the war but similar to Japanese shipbuilders these carriers were converted from other types of ships. Usually a flight deck was placed on top and it had no elevator to bring up additional planes from below decks.

This all paled in comparison to the American carrier force. At the start of the war, the navy had only eight carriers but only six were fit were fleet action. After the start of hostilities, a total of 151 aircraft carriers were built and of these 122 were escort carriers. The Casablanca class led the way with 50 built and the Bogue class had 45 built.

Most of these were built to be carriers

and designed from experiences of other has the distinction of sinking subs small carriers. Some were just used to from multiple countries. She sank 11 ferry planes to large carriers. Most were German U-boats and one Japanese sub. One of used to provide her screening air cover in ships, the delandings, and stroyer Badin the Atlantic, ger, sank anthey were deother U-boat. ployed against The Badger, the menacing U-boat submaalong with rines. three othThe greater destroyers est threat to that were part of the group, ships and sank a thirconvoys that teenth sub. were in the AtThe loading of planes onto a carrier The Bogue lantic Ocean received the were German U-boats. They would stalk their prey coveted Presidential Unit Citation for in groups called wolf packs. Destroyers her actions during the Battle of the and other fast ships that had anti-sub- Atlantic. These hunter-killer groups marine weapons onboard were used as were working but the American high escorts. Sometimes a warship disguised command wanted more – to capture a as a merchant vessel, called a Q-ship, U-boat intact.

The Germans had a code that they would lure an unsuspecting sub in range but this practice was rarely used. thought was unbreakable. It was called The best way to locate a U-boat was by Ultra by the British who led the effort plane. This is where the escort carriers to break it once the Polish Army surrendered. (Two Polish cryptologists started to break Ultra but they didn’t have much in the way of resources.) By 1944, captured codebooks had led to most of the codes to be broken and they even replicated the machine that the Germans used to code it the first place. An actual German copy of this Enigma Machine was needed to provide further intelligence.

U-boats carried one of the precious machines into the Atlantic on patrols. On twelve patrols, The USS Badoeng Strait, the last escort carrier in the U-505 had sunk eight Allied service merchant ships and set out in came in handy. At first the baby flattop May 1944 looking for more targets. was assigned convoy duty but later in Two days before the Allied invasion of the war hunter-killer groups consisting France on June 6, the U-505 was on of at least one escort carriers and sev- course with history and the task force eral smaller warships sought out the led by escort carrier Guadalcanal.

Since Ultra intercepts could be U-boats. read, movements of German submarines were known. The Guadalcanal had been given a rough estimate as to USS Bogue the location of the subs but it took two (CVE 9) was weeks to discover that the U-505 was the trendsetter 150 miles off the coast of Morocco. A for escort carriers in the Atlantic and destroyer, guided by planes from the

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to other countries. The last of the baby flattops was sold for scrap in 1979.

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pay homage to vital work that their smaller “cousins” performed to fight fascism.

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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landings. They usually carried older types of planes but these were still effective for ground support. However, they were not meant to fight in large fleet actions as they were forced to do during the Battle off Samar. Part of the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines on October 25, 1944, six escort carriers and their screen of destroyers and destroyer escorts found themselves fighting the largest battleship ever built. Called Taffy 3, their planes were equipped with small bombs or depth charges and didn’t have time to rearm with larger 500 pound bombs.

Still, they made a heroic stand which forced the Japanese to retreat. This came at a price as the escort carrier Gambier Bay was hit several times and sank. The escort carrier St. Lo was hit by a kamikaze plane and sank as well.

After WWII, many of the escort and light carriers were used for a new type of aircraft— the helicopter. The role of the escort carrier was diminished but it still saw action until the Vietnam War. A lot were converted into other types of ships and some were handed over

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escort carrier, let go two depth charges. lot of knowledge by studying the subDepth charges are explosives set to marine temporarily renamed the USS detonate at a predetermined underwa- Nemo. After the war, she was donatter depth. Valves and pipes cracked in ed to the Chicago Museum of Science the sub and her captain, believing she and Industry where she is on permawas a goner, surfaced to let his crew nent display. escape.

The The killcarrier’s caper-hunter contain ordered voys were so a boarding successful party to enter in sinking the now-empU-boats that ty sub. They the German found code navy stopped books, papers operations in and the all-imthe Central portant EnigAtlantic. The ma Machine. escort carriers Salvage parwould target ties prepared larger supply the captured submarines submarine for known as towing to a “milch cows,” navy base at and in a peBermuda. This riod of three Escort carriers, or Jeep carriers, never received was the first months, 24 the glory afforded to their ‘bigger’ sisters enemy ship subs including captured on the high seas by the U.S. eight milch cows were sunk by the Navy since the War of 1812 and the groups. Some of these epic battles lastentire task group received the Presi- ed hours and were credited with sinkdential Unit Citation. Although she ing at least 53 U-boats during the war. wasn’t the only U-boat captured by the the Pacific, escort carriAllies, she was the most important to ers were used to resupply American researchers who gained a larger carriers or to screen

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Ask the Attorney

Roslyn D. Goldmacher, Esq.

What Needs to be Done for the Small Business Community I own a small business on Long Island. Now that the elections are over, I want to express to my legislators (new and old) what things they should be working on to help our small businesses and thus, our economy. What are some of the concerns out there in the small business community? I wonder if they match my own concerns.

The Attorney Responds: As an economic developer for over 35 years, I have had the opportunity to interact with numerous small businesses in our community. Many of the issues/ concerns expressed are long-standing: high real estate taxes, high labor costs, high utility costs, and the difficulty of finding good employees. Recently, however, I am hearing some new concerns and suggestions from our small business community:

1. A desire for less regulation.

From the local to the federal level, regulations impacting small businesses have increased substantially over the years. Many of them are grounded in necessity—to protect the safety of the end user or to protect the integrity of

find they need to pass the cost on to the small business subcontractors and the end consumers. So, in the end, more regulations costs us all more. The only bright spot is that when big businesses have to hire people for compliance— that means more jobs in our economy!

I am hearing some new concerns and suggestions from our small business community. product, etc. Some, however, are “knee jerk” reactions to a perceived crisis.

I always say, one needs to balance regulation with risk and common sense.

Many small businesses cannot afford to comply with complex regulations. Even the big businesses who can afford some

2. A need to level the playing field of government incentives as between new (pure start up) and existing businesses. There is no question that government incentives (tax credits, subsidies, low interest loans, etc.) have traditionally been geared to startup businesses or businesses coming into an area, rather than at retaining existing businesses in the region. There is recognition now that it is as important if not more important to retain the existing businesses who are growing in our region and creating/ retaining jobs.

3. We need to recognize the value of today’s retail and service companies and incentivize them properly to grow.

Resulting from our former industrial economy with its “hard” manufacturers, many of our government incentives are geared to those types of companies. The basic premise has always been that hard manufacturers sell a product that goes outside the community and brings money in, whereas in the case of retail, service companies, the money is just circulating within the community. That concept no longer applies in today’s global, internet-based economy. Even local retailers or service companies can “export” beyond the local borders.

4. There needs to be more collaboration among small businesses, big businesses, not-for-profits and governments in order to leverage

scarce resources. This is one area where government incentives can make a big difference.

5. One major concern these days is medical coverage and insurance for business owners and their employees.

It’s not just the cost that concerns many small businesses that may be subject to looming Obamacare requirements.

Small business owners and their employees are concerned about the current trend to allow bureaucrats and clerks to make medical decisions rather than trained medical professional doctors and nurses. Increasingly, decisions about what tests to cover and what procedures to fund come from regulated lists. It’s an alarming trend.

6. Overall, small business owners always complain about taxes. The estate tax is of particular concern.

A successful small business can easily achieve a value of $5 million or more.

That’s still small in our economy. Yet, on both federal and state level, there are significant taxes due for a business of that size. In the case of small business owners, generally most of their wealth is tied up in that business.

The taxes limit how they can pass that wealth onto family and/or employees.

These are some of the more pressing concerns I hear about from small business owners.

Your legislators can have a major impact on how these issues are addressed. My advice is to determine which items are most important to you as a small business owner and focus on them. Pick your battles!

And determine which legislators can best impact the item. There is no point in pressuring a legislator to do something about an issue not under his/her control.

Roslyn D. Goldmacher, Esq. runs the LI Development Corporation, a 35-year-old economic development organization helping Long Island small businesses with low cost loans, seminars and free technical assistance. For information, see www.lidc.org.

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ell, it’s turkey time across America. This week people across the country are preparing their Thanksgiving dinners. So many people have different opinions as to which is the best way to cook a turkey, such as whether to brine the turkey first (a process which is similar to marinating); to use dry rubs or marinades; or whether to tress it or not. However, I think that we can all agree that we want it to be easy to make, flavorful and moist. For years, I have heard about deep-frying a turkey.

As one might anticipate, deep-fried turkey is found in Southern cooking (along with deep-fried anything!). It’s a Southern tradition to deep-fry foods – from pickles to Oreos. Seeing as it’s almost Chanukah, I thought this would be a great idea for a Thanksgiving class with a Chanukah twist. Those who have tasted it say there is nothing like it. However, when I watch an episode on TV or YouTube about frying turkeys, they all say how dangerous it can be with the hot oil, you need to do it outside, and it becomes a big production.

After much research and testing, I have found a solution.

I recently did a cooking class for AHC Appliances in Cedarhurst with the focus of the class being Thanksgiving. Sandy Tau, the owner of AHC, sells indoor tabletop turkey fryers.

This made it so easy! We didn’t have to stand outside in the freezing cold and it was safe and so easy to use. The turkey was so moist, juicy and flavorful – and cooked in under an hour. Once it was ready, I used my food thermometer to make sure it was cooked to the correct temperature. You can see pictures and video on my Instagram page of the turkey being cooked at the demonstration.

Using an electric indoor fryer is a great way to get that crispy texture and delicious flavor without having to brave the elements. Given the high temperatures and inherent dangers of cooking with hot oil, be sure to follow these simple instructions: • Make sure you use a fresh turkey, at room-temperature and make sure it is VERY dry; I pat mine down with paper towels so there is no moisture or water droplets on the turkey.

• Remove and discard the neck and giblets. I froze my turkey neck to throw into my next batch of chicken soup.

• Add oil to the fryer, but do not exceed the maximum fill-line. Preheat oil in the fryer to 375° F—that’s

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the magic trick to cooking something in oil so that it doesn’t taste oily or greasy. If the turkey is cold, it will lower the oil temperature and result in a greasy endproduct. Note that you need a lot of oil to submerge the turkey in – so be sure to fill up to the maximum fill-line.

Once the oil is heated, slowly and carefully lower the turkey into the fryer. Set the timer and cook the turkey about 3 to 4 minutes per pound. (For example, cook a 14 pound turkey for approximately 50 minutes.)

Cook all dark meat to an internal temperature of 175° F to 180° F and all white meat to an internal temperature of 165° F to 170° F. When the turkey is done, slowly and carefully lift it from the pot and place it in a pan or on paper towels to drain.

Let the turkey stand for 20 minutes before removing it from the rack or basket to carve.

Deep-Frying Tips: • If your turkey is 14 lbs. or less, you can deep-fry it whole. If it’s 15 lbs. or more, separate the legs and thighs from the breast and fry them separately; • Be sure your turkey is completely thawed.

• Remove any excess fat.

• Do not stuff your turkey when deep-frying. Cook the stuffing separately.

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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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Ingredients 2 quarts vegetable oil for frying 1 large egg 1 cup pareve milk 2 tsp vegetable oil 1 cup pancake mix (pareve) 1 package (18 oz.) cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies such as Oreos Preparation Heat oil in deep-fryer to 375°F. Whisk together the egg, milk, and 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil in a bowl until smooth. Stir in the pancake mix until no dry lumps remain. Dip the cookies into the batter one at a time, and carefully place into the hot frying oil. Fry only 4 or 5 at a time to avoid overcrowding the deep fryer. Cook until the cookies are goldenbrown, about 2 minutes. Drain on a paper towel-lined plate before serving.

Buffalo Wings

Preparation Wash and dry chicken wings. Place them in the fryer once the oil has gotten to 375° on a thermometer and cook until golden brown. Scoop them out of the oil and drain on a paper towel.

Before serving, toss the wings in your favorite spice blend and then into Dougie’s Buffalo/BBQ sauce.

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Allan J. Rolnick, CPA

Jilting the IRS

Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

But It’s an Emergency!

The real payoff will have to wait until Sue Ann caps that great well in the sky. At that point, any taxable estate over a $5.43 million is assessed at 40%. On the bright side, her basis in that stock will be “stepped up” to its fair market value as of the date of her death, which means her heirs can sell without paying income tax on all that appreciation during her lifetime.

As for alimony and child support, which won’t factor into the Hamms’ case, courts use alimony to shift income from the higher-earning spouse to the lower-earning spouse. So alimony is deductible by the payor and taxable to the payee. Child support is nontaxable either way, meaning there’s no tax consequence to paying it or receiving it.

You’ve probably heard the joke about the husband who asks his long-suffering wife what she wants for her birthday. She says, “A divorce,” and he quips, “I wasn’t planning on spending that much.” Well, even if it may cost a pretty penny, be happy that the tax man won’t be jumping your claim, too.

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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ere I am sitting in an emergency room wondering what I’m doing here. It’s kind of the last place anyone wants to be!

At least when you’re at your doctor’s office you have a chance of being seen – in the next hour! Also, worst case, you can always leave and go back home. Because you’re not stranded off of some random highway, in the middle of who knows where, in a slow moving room called Emergency.

But the only sense of emergency you feel is to seize your phone and call 911 or Hatzalah to get some help sooner.

What moment of insanity made me come here I’ll never know—I should have gone to a psychiatrist instead!!

If you can possibly find a local doctor willing to check out your ailment, always go for it. Just sitting among the other people waiting in the waiting area can make you sick.

I know, there are certain Now, times the hospital is where you want to head. But I’m discussing those random times you’re not feeling well and the doctor says, “So go to the emergency room.”

I’m giving you my diagnosis in that case: Don’t listen, don’t go! The sickness can run its course … before you’ll ever be seen! In fact, your child can graduate medical school and have you in for an appointment –before you’ll be seen in the ER. Medicare, Obamacare, it’s hard to find a Person to Care! And that’s what you need most when you’re not feeling well.

The first question they ask is: -Are you covered? How can you be? They just dragged you out of bed to come here—that’s when you were covered!

-Are you feeling uncomfortable?

Well, wouldn’t anyone be? Half undressed, sitting in disheveled clothing, splayed out among a bunch of strang-

ers.

- And what brought you here today? Memory loss, of course! I totally forgot what torture it is sitting here just waiting to be seen!

So what should you do when you’re feeling under the weather, in some inexplicable way, and a doctor doesn’t have hours? Truthfully, I’m just sitting here wondering the same thing.

First start with a risk/reward analysis. What’s the downside of waiting? …Even a month … before going.

Then, if you still feel you need to go quickly, pack everything you can get your hands on – food , games, books, and of course, all your chargers! You may be checked in relatively quickly but after that, you’re pretty much on your own. If you don’t bring reinforcements you may just die of boredom while waiting to be cured.

If you want the best advice, start getting friendly with every type of doctor that you can think of. Then give them your cell number—“just in case they ever need anything at all!” And as a concerned friend, have them call your phone – to make sure they put your number in correctly. Terrific, now you have their cell number! Keep following that up by having them over as often as possible or by sending them gifts every chance you get.

Best case, you’ll never need anything from them – but their friendship.

But if you do, and you were a good friend, here’s betting the only ER you’ll have to visit voluntarily is: Entering their Residence!

Of course, another choice is to just be a great friend to everyone you meet.

Hopefully, then they’ll all be there for you in an emergency!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach.

She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com

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the amount the IRS uses as the “purchase” price for figuring gain or loss on a sale — is probably next to nothing.

And that basis carries over to Sue Ann. That means that when she sells, she’ll be subject to a capital gains tax of up to 20%, plus the new net investment income tax of 3.8%. Sell a hundred million of stock, and walk away with a lousy $76.2 million!

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arold Hamm was born in Lexington, Oklahoma, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers. He graduated from high school, then went straight to work in an oilfield. But he didn’t let his modest background slow him down. He hit his first gusher at age 25. Today, he’s CEO of Continental Resources, and his net worth approached $18 billion before the recent fall in oil prices.

In 1988, Harold married his second wife. Sue Ann Hamm is a lawyer who met Harold while she was negotiating land deals for his company. But sadly, the couple’s love was not to last, and in 2012, Sue Ann filed for divorce. The case attracted unusual attention because the amounts were so large. Oklahoma courts typically split the value of any assets that result from the efforts or skills of either spouse. So, how much would Sue Ann get? Would it be more than the record-setting $4.5 billion that Elenea Rybolovlev got from her ex-husband, Russian potash producer Dmitry?

Last week, the judge issued his ruling and surprised most experts by ordering Harold to pay Sue Ann a total of just $995.5 million, or six percent of his peak net worth. While most people would consider that a nice gusher of cash, Sue Ann has already announced plans to appeal. (As for Harold, if you ask him why divorce is so expensive, he’ll probably tell you “because it’s worth it.”)

So, will our friends at the IRS be excited by the outcome? Probably not, even if Sue Ann wins a richer share of her ex-husband’s fortune. Internal Revenue Code section 1041 provides that transfers of property “incident to divorce” are tax-free. That means Harold can transfer as little or as much as the court orders to Sue Ann, with no income tax consequences — it’s neither taxable to her nor deductible to him.

And there are no gift tax consequences, either.

The IRS may reap a nice windfall, however, if Sue Ann sells any of her shares from the divorce. Harold launched the company back in 1967, and still controls 68% of the company’s stock. His “basis” in that stock —

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From My Private Art Collection

Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg

James Abbott McNeill Whistler – A Famous American Painter 1834-1903

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ames Abbott McNeill Whistler in 1844 that she was told by the Scottish was born in Massachusetts. As artist Sir William Allen, whom Whistler met, “Your little boy a child, he dehas uncommon genius, veloped an illness but do not urge him beand as a result, he yond his inclination.” became moody and In 1847, he spent a lazy. Drawing began year in London with as a tool used to help family. His brother-inhim focus and to calm law who lived there, him. When his father also an artist but prosuddenly found emfessionally a doctor, ployment in Russia, bought him art suphe and his mother plies with instructions joined him there. He and introduced him to received private art the art world through lessons, and at the James Abbott McNeill Whistler lectures and art collecyoung age of eleven attended the Imperial Academy of Fine tions. He spent a tremendous amount of time studying art books and the techArts.

Whistler’s mother wrote in her diary niques of various artists. At the young

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age of fifteen, Whistler began seriously thinking about a career in art.

His father died in his late forties and the family became quite poor. He and his mother moved back to Connecticut, in the United States where she originated from. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point where he did not apply himself in academic studies but did very well in the drawing classes offered. Whistler’s teacher was the well-known artist Robert W. Weir who taught mapmaking and drawing techniques. It is interesting to note that Whistler’s own father had once taught at West Point as well. After his departure from West Point upon failing a chemistry exam, he made his decision to pursue a career in art. He worked as a draftsman of maps for military and maritime purposes, and then transferred to the U.S. Coast Survey Dept. where he picked up the art of etching and considered it a valuable art tool to have learned.

He might have been born an American, but he made a public statement that he never wished to return to America again. Whistler studied painting in France and developed unique creative talents in England, where he learned from many French painters. Whistler continued his serious study of art and adopted two principles which he used seriously in his art: 1) Line is more important than color, 2) Black is the fundamental color of harmony.

Somehow, Whistler managed to befriend wealthy people who believed in his abilities. They helped him by introducing him to famous artists and made the right connections to get his works seen.

He also began giving his works titles that showed a strong appreciation for the art of music. These titles included a musical vocabulary such as arrangement, symphony, harmony, study, and nocturne, emphasizing his appreciation of composition and tone. These titles were important to him as they contributed a stamp of approval as to the seriousness of his works.

In 1871, he painted his most famous painting, oil on canvas, known as Whis-

tler’s Mother and Arrangement in Gray and Black. It was created in mostly a monochromatic color scheme, using many shapes which he used to create emphasis. She sat while he painted; standing for so long was too difficult, as it took many hours to complete. Whistler’s mother came to stay with him.

She was a religious woman and this portrait acknowledges his appreciation for her being a pious woman. Conservative in nature, she helped him stabilize his life and attended to his needs.

This painting was not initially accepted as anything special, as it was done with simplicity and not colorful or exotic in nature, as was in style at the time. People did not understand the significance of such an outdated picture.

Whistler did not give up until it became known as a “perfect symbol of motherhood.” The French government eventually purchased it, and it became his first work to be part of a public collection.

At the Chicago World’s Fair, the piece

Whistler’s ‘million dollar painting’

of artwork became known as “a million dollar painting” and in 1934, the United States used it to adorn a postage stamp.

Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a professional art educator, artist and designer.

Among her known artwork is a floral sculpture presented to Tipper Gore, Blair House, Washington, D.C. Presently she is the Director of Operations at Shulamith School for Girls. Please feel free to email nherzberg@ optonline.net with questions and suggestions for future columns

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17.6oz

$

Tasty Yogurt

Semi-Sweet

Chocolate Baking Bar 15oz

6.25oz

4/$1

2/$3

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Snack Pak

$



$

2.99

3.99

2/$1.10

$

Jack & Jill Cookies

Glicks

Chunk Light Tuna

Tomato Sauce

In Water

$

2/ 3

$

4.49

Taanug

Glicks

Devash

$

Vegetable Oil Cooking Spray

Chick Peas

6oz

$

Milk ½ Gal

16oz

1.79

.89

2/$5

$

Meat Dept. All of our meats are beis yosef only Turkey Drumsticks $

Turkey Wings

2.49Lb

2.29Lb

$

Boneless Flanken

Super Family Pack

Pepper Steak

2.99Lb

7.49Lb

$

$

Turkey Necks

2.99Lb

$

Beef Neck Bones

3.99Lb

$

2/$3

.79

2/$3

Tivalli

Tivalli

26.5 Oz

21.2 Oz

Veggie Corn Bites

Corn Schnitzel

4.99

5.99

$

$

Produce Due to thanksgiving holiday:

Specials will be in store

Deli Dept.

Lunch Specials

Starting At

$

5.00

Fresh Hot Soup Daily

Regular 16oz

3.99

$

Large

32oz

4.99

$

Taste The Best Cholent In Town!

Bakery Beigels

Sponge & Marble Cake 15oz

$

3.99 Sale valid 11/27/14 -12/03/14. Cash & Carry only. We reserve the right to limit quanitities on sale items. Not responsible for typographical errors. While supplies last. No rain checks.

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122 Our children are more than their illnesses. Our families are more powerful than their fears. Together we can defeat the pain and isolation of serious pediatric illness for 4,300 children and their families. Join us on December 9.

Chai Lifeline

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Marriott Marquis, New York City

Chai Heritage Award

MaRK R. SulTaN, Md, FacS

Board Certified Plastic Surgeon Chief of Plastic Surgery of the St Luke’s & roosevelt divisions of the Mount Sinai health System

Master of Ceremonies ChArLie hArAry

Vision of Hope Award renA rOSenBerG

Camp Simcha Appreciation Award nAChmAn & eSTi CALKO

Dinner Chairs

menAChem & mAriAm LieBer

Pillar of Courage Award JEFF & aMY BEcKER

Camp Simcha Appreciation Award

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Dinner Chairs

mOShe reiSS

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BRENda KOhN, Md & WalTER J. MOlOFSKY, Md

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dOvid & BElla KATz

Dinner Chair

Young Leadership Chair

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Ari PeLCOviTz

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IS MY MORNING JOB. Assist an elderly relative AND get paid?

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