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CONTENTS >>Community Community Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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>> Thoughts on Sukkos The Sukkah Experience by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller. . 87 L’Chaim by Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 A Simple, Peaceful Abode by Rabbi Naphtali Hoff. . . . . 89 Bobker on Simchas Torah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

>>For Your Yom Tov Enjoyment Palms and Fronds and Citrons by Brendy J. Siev. . . . . . . 84 Rabbi Binyomin Kamenetzky: From Lithuania to Woodmere, Laying the Foundation of the Five Towns Community by Tamar Sullivan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 The Fine Art of Sukkah Shopping by Malky Lowinger. . 104 TJH Chol Hamoed Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Dear Readers, My sister lives in Miami, where it’s sometimes so hot on Sukkos people build their sukkahs with air conditioners and fans. I can’t imagine sitting in the sukkah on the first night and not feeling that slight chill in the air. The jackets and sweatshirts we sit in, all bundled up, add to the coziness of the chag. It’s funny that Sukkos engenders a feeling of coziness. After all, we’re sitting in a wooden hut with stone floors—and yet, that feeling of closeness, of everyone sitting together, is prevalent. There’s nothing like a hot bowl of soup and a chorus of voices to warm you on those cold, Sukkos nights.

Every year, we try to put together a yom tov issue filled with articles and stories to appeal to every reader. Take a trip to the Southwest of the United States and hear what the growers of our lulavim and esrogim have to say. So much work goes into preparing the trees for this tremendous mitzvah. The non-Jewish farmers who work the soil know so much about the halachos of lulav and esrog, they can even teach me a thing or two!

Need to buy a new sukkah? No longer do you have to struggle with large wooden boards and loads of nuts and bolts. There are so many options out there to help consumers construct the most beautiful, strong sukkah. This year, Malky Lowinger did the shopping for you. She spoke with managers at three major sukkah sellers to give our readers the inside scoop—and a few fun stories—on sukkah shopping.

Reading the article on Rabbi Binyomin Kamenetzky in this week’s issue takes one back in time—a time when Cedarhurst was just a community of a few families, with barely a minyan on Shabbos. I was awed at the courage and fearlessness Rabbi Binyomin exhibited when he moved to the Five Towns. Who could have imagined how a frum desert could have blossomed into the community we have today?

Of course, on Sukkos, besides for the myriad meals and beautiful davenings, there’s ample time for family fun on Chol Hamoed. Make sure to check out our packed Chol Hamoed section that includes a “guide” on things to do during those days. The truth is, even taking a walk on the boardwalk and riding bikes across the Brooklyn Bridge is more fun than ever if you do it as a family on a beautiful day of Chol Hamoed.

We’ve also included many divrei Torah and thoughts on Sukkos and Simchas Torah in this issue. Recipes for those who enjoy cooking and ideas for sukkah decorations are here as well. We hope this Sukkos will be one of simcha for you and your family.

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Hong Kong saw more clashes this week between the police and pro-democracy demonstrators. Beijing’s refusal to grant the city unrestrained democracy has led to tens of thousands crying out in the streets. Protesters screamed “Shame!” at officers in the financial district, many in gas masks and riot gear, as they tried to shield themselves from the clouds of gas.

It all started on September 26, when hundreds of students gathered in a courtyard in Central Hong Kong, demanding an end to Chinese oppression and control. China’s modern history with Hong Kong has been complicated, to say the least. For more than 150 years, Hong Kong belonged to Britain. Then, in 1997, Britain handed the country back to China in a political deal called “One Country, Two Systems,” which allowed Hong Kong to maintain some of the freedoms and independence mainland Chinese people do not have, such as freedom of the press and the right to assemble. The people of Hong Kong would even be allowed to elect their own leader in 2017.

But this summer, China started to backpedal. It announced to Hong Kong that those elections could proceed only if the Chinese government selected all the candidates. To the people of Hong Kong, that meant they wouldn’t have much control over their own government after all.

The students hit the streets, and thousands from Hong Kong rushed to join them in the days that followed. The Chinese government and the protesters have dug in their heels, and negotiations have failed. Now counter-protests from pro-China residents are complicating the situation.

This week marked a dramatic escalation of protests in the city, which rarely sees such violence, after a tense week

of largely contained student-led demonstrations exploded into mass angry street protests. Many officers had rubber bullet rifles slung over their shoulders, prompting protest leaders to call on demonstrators to pull back if police used them or if they felt their lives were threatened. “This is a matter of life or death. If their lives are threatened they should retreat and save their lives,” said professor Chan Kin-man, a co-founder of the Occupy Central group.

The protests have been dubbed the “Umbrella Revolution,” as protesters have been coming out in full force in a sea of umbrellas—partly to shade themselves from the broiling sun and partly to block the streams of tear gas coming from police.

The tear gas has done little to stem the tide of demonstrators occupying more than half a mile of a vital highway usually filled with speeding vehicles.

Fresh protests also sprung up in the busy shopping district of Mongkok in an indication that demonstrators were planning to stretch the city’s police force further.

Protesters have defiantly stuck to their demands for full democracy, after Beijing last month said it would allow elections for the city’s next leader in 2017 but will vet the candidates – a decision branded a “fake democracy” by protesters. Those in the streets are demanding that the central government in Beijing allow Hong Kong to hold fully free elections in the next vote for the territory’s leader.

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The Afghan government also is expected to sign an agreement this week with NATO that would outline the parameters of 4,000 to 5,000 additional international troops — mostly from Britain, Germany, Italy and Turkey — to stay in Afghanistan in a noncombat role after the end of this year.

Abdullah Abdullah, the country’s first chief executive, was Ahmadzai’s rival; they will now be partners in leading the country. Ghani Ahmadzai’s first act in office was to swear in Abdullah as chief executive, a role that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry helped create to give voice to both Afghanistan’s northern and southern flanks of power.

“Afghans have taken a moment of challenge and turned it into a moment of real opportunity,” Kerry said on Monday in a statement congratulating both men.

Experts expect the U.S.-Afghan relations to improve under Ghani Ahmadzai. Previous president Hamid

Karzai, the country’s only leader since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, frequently criticized the U.S. government, which obviously made ties a bit tense. Karzai was criticized for his inability or unwillingness to deal with corruption in his own government.

“We are tired of war,” Ahmadzai said in his inauguration speech. “Our message is peace, [but] this doesn’t mean we are weak.”

The Taliban responded to his words with violence. On Monday, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at an intersection that leads to Kabul’s airport, killing a half dozen people. A larger attack took place in eastern Paktia province, where a car bomb and gunfire by militants sparked a battle that killed seven Taliban fighters, four police officers and two civilians.

The U.S. has invested $104 billion in Afghanistan to train and equip the country’s security forces, pave roads, upgrade hospitals, build schools and help modernize the nation. More importantly, the U.S. lost over 2,000 service members since the country entered the territory in 2001.

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That’s a whole lot of green! A new world record has been set for the amount of trees planted in one hour.

Filipino officials announced that 3.2 million seedlings were sown in 60 minutes as part of a national forestation program. Guinness still needs to review the data to officially announce that the old record of 1.9 million trees that were planted in India on August 15, 2011 has been broken.

Over 160,000 people, including government employees, students and volunteers, planted the trees in six different areas on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, said regional environment director Marc Fragada. The trees planted were a mix of forest varieties as well as commercial crops like cacao, coffee and rubber trees, he said.

“They were chosen by the planters in hopes that the local people will take good care of them because it will be part of their livelihood,” he said.

The Philippine archipelago, once densely-forested, has lost much of its forest cover due to development, logging and slash-and-burn farming. Official figures show the area covered with “closed forest cover” declined from 2.56 million hectares in 2003 to 1.93 million in 2010. Each hectare is about 2.5 acres. President Benigno Aquino has launched a program to reverse that, targeting the planting of 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares before he steps down in 2016.

Snowden Honored in Sweden

Edward Snowden is in the news again this week for being awarded a Swedish human rights award.

The Right Livelihood Award is commonly known as the “alternative

Nobel” and is given to various rights activists from around the globe. Jacob von Uexkull, who felt that the Nobel Prize committee was ignoring some activists’ efforts, founded it in 1980.

Snowden split the honorary portion of the award with Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, which has published a series of articles on government surveillance based on documents leaked

by Snowden.

The $210,000 cash portion of the award was shared by Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir, Basil Fernando of the Asian Human Rights Commission, and U.S. environmentalist Bill McKibben.

All of the winners have been invited to the December 1 award ceremony in Stockholm, though it’s unclear whether Snowden can attend. “We will start discussions with the Swedish government and his lawyers in due course to discuss the potential arrangements for his participation,” von Uexkull said.

Snowden, who has reportedly also been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, remains exiled in Russia since leaking top-secret NSA documents to journalists last year. He has been charged under the U.S. Espionage Act and could face up to 30 years in prison in the U.S. Though the honorary award doesn’t include any money, the foundation would offer to help pay Snowden’s legal costs, von Uexkull said.

The Right Livelihood Award is typically announced just ahead of the Nobel Prize announcements, which this year will begin on October 6. There is no connection between the two, except Jacob von Uexkull established his prize after failing to persuade the Nobel Foundation to expand the categories for its prestigious awards. A wealthy stamp dealer, he sold his collection to fund the prize.

The Right Livelihood Award foundation typically honors grass-roots activists and says it’s “not an award for the world’s political, scientific or economic elite.”

North Korean athletes at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, recentlypaid tribute to their leader Kim JongUn, expressing their loyalty.

One of the 273 athletes, a gold medal weightlifter, read a poem he had written, “Night in Longing for Dear Leader Kim Jong-Un,” expressing his admiration and affection for the supreme leader. A fellow gold medalist weightlifter, Kim Un-Guk, recited a poem as well, entitled, “In Missing the Comrade Kim Jong-Un.” Participants sang songs such as “Can’t live without him” and “Burning wish.” According to state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim Yong-Hun, the North’s sports minister, said that all delegates were missing the young leader “day and night.”

“Kim Byong-Sik, head of the delegation, vowed ... to win more gold medals in a sign of loyalty for the leader,” KCNA said.

This homage came after North Korean media announced in a rare admission that the young leader wasn’t feeling well. Kim had not been seen in public since early September, sparking media speculation over his health. But state TV on Friday showed a limping Kim visiting a factory and applauded him for making the trip “despite suffering discomfort.”

The leader of North Korea is a heavy smoker and has gained weight since his father’s death in 2011. Many have been surprised at him missing key events, such as a rare second session of the North’s rubber stamp parliament last month. South Korean sources have speculated that he may have gout, diabetes, or high pressure—or possibly all of these disorders. A South Korean paper reported that he recently had surgery after fracturing both ankles.

Happy Shopping in New Zealand America is home to the biggest economy on the planet, with $15 tril-

lion in spending—that’s a whole lot of shopping. So how satisfied are you with your recent purchases?

According to Finances Online, a personal finance website, if you’re American, you may not be all that satisfied. According to the site, American customer satisfaction is declining, while it’s rising in other countries.

Shoppers in Italy are pretty content with their products and services, with an overall 92% satisfaction rating, coming in at fourth place. Italy has the world’s 8th largest economy, and the CIA World Factbook claims 60% of Italy’s GDP comes from household consumption. This is Italy’s first time gracing the world’s customer satisfaction list.

Norway and Canada also scored well, with ratings slightly higher than 92%, claiming spots two and three.

Trading Economics reports Canadian consumer spending has been steadily increasing over the last three years, and the CIA Factbook estimates household consumption makes up 56% of Canada’s nearly $2 trillion GDP. In Norway’s smaller economy of $280 billion, only 41% of GDP comes from household consumption.

The U.S. is way down on the list at spot number 14, with an 85% satisfaction rating.

So where are most shoppers leaving the mall whistling while swinging their bulging bags? The happiest customers in the world currently reside in New Zealand. New Zealand earned a 93% in the customer satisfaction survey.

Finances Online reports that nearly nine out of 10 customers would pay more for better service—listen up small businesses! A Harvard study examining company performance over a decade found that companies which put customers first averaged 233% sales growth, while companies which put shareholders first saw only 10% sales growth.

Stores in India have not listened to this rule. The country has the all-time lowest satisfaction rate at 58%.

Former Haitian Dictator Dies

Jean-Claude Duvalier, who presided over what was widely acknowledged as a corrupt and brutal regime as the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti until an uprising sent him into a 25-year exile, has died at the age of 63.

The former leader, known as “Baby Doc,” made a surprise return to Haiti in 2011, allowing victims of his regime to pursue legal claims against him in Haitian courts and prompting some old allies to rally around him. Neither side gained much traction, however, and Duvalier spent his final years in the leafy hills above the Haitian capital.

Haitian President Michel Martelly expressed his condolences to the former dictator’s family, making no mention of

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“On behalf of the entire government and people of Haiti, I take this sad occasion to extend my sincere sympathies to his family, his relatives and his supporters across the country,” Martelly said.

The elder Duvalier was a medical doctor-turned-dictator who promoted “Noirisme,” a movement that sought to highlight Haiti’s African roots over its European ones while uniting the black majority against the mulatto elite in a country divided by class and color.

“Papa Doc” tortured and killed political opponents, relying on a dreaded civilian militia known as the Tonton Macoutes.

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Since his return from exile, victims of the regime have testified in a criminal investigation of human rights abuses during his 15-year reign but the case has moved fitfully and there had been few signs of progress. His death leaves many of his victims without the closure they so desperately need. “What this means is that there will never be a trial against him and there won’t be a chance for the Haitian people to have justice and to purge from its soul the true horrors of the Duvalier era,” said Amy Wilentz, author of “The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier.” “It’s an end but there is no closure that comes with it.”

Under mounting pressure from the administration of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Duvalier made pretenses of improving the country’s human rights record by releasing political prisoners.

Still, journalists and activists were jailed or exiled. Haitians without visas or money left by boarding flimsy boats in a desperate effort to reach Florida shores.

According to the New York-based Human Rights Watch, up to 30,000 Haitians were killed, many by execution, under the regime of the two Duvaliers.

In 1986, a popular uprising swept across Haiti, and Duvalier and his wife boarded a U.S.-government C-141 for France. Then, after years in exile, on January 16, 2011, Duvalier made his surprise return to Haiti. He said he wanted to help in the reconstruction of Haiti, whose capital and outlying cities were heavily damaged by a magnitude-7.0 earthquake the year before. Many suspected he came back in an effort to reclaim money he had allegedly stashed. Others said he merely wanted to die in his homeland.

47 Die in Volcano’s Surprise Eruption

Last Saturday, a volcano erupted near the village of Otaki in Japan, killing dozens and covering the region with toxic gases and ash which halted rescue efforts. Initially, over 200 soldiers and firefighters searched the peak of 10,062

foot Mt. Ontake and recovered several victims’ bodies.

Sadly, recovery efforts for the victims’ bodies was slowed due to the ash and gases which were still spewing from the volcano. The bodies that were recovered painted a painful scene of death, where hikers were surprised by the eruption during an autumn weekend hike.

At least 47 were killed in the worst fatal eruption in postwar history, exceeding the 43 killed in the 1991 eruption of Mount Unzen in southern Japan.

Saturday’s eruption, which occurred shortly before noon, was the first fatal one in modern times at Mount Ontake, a popular climbing destination 210 kilometers (130 miles) west of Tokyo on the main Japanese island of Honshu. A similar eruption occurred in 1979, but there were no fatalities.

“Even small eruptions can cause major damage if people are around, as they get hit by rocks that come flying,” Nagoya University volcanologist Koshun Yamaoka said at a news conference Sunday.

Survivors told Japanese media that they were pelted by rocks. Shinichi Shimohara, who works at a shrine at the foot of the mountain, said he was on his way up on Saturday morning when he heard a loud noise that sounded like strong winds followed by “thunder” as the volcano erupted.

There were at least 250 tourists on the beautiful fall day when the volcano erupted. Hundreds were initially trapped on the slopes, but luckily most were able to navigate their way down unharmed by Saturday night. Another 40 people descended on Sunday, some with injuries.

Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency tallied 40 injured people, three critically.

Rare Visit Between N. Korean and S. Korean Leaders On Saturday, North Korea’s presumptive No. 2, Hwang Pyong So, and other members of Pyongyang’s inner circle met with South Korean officials in the rivals’ highest level face-to-face talks in five years, a possible indication that both sides are interested in pursuing better ties after months of animosity.

There appeared to be no major breakthrough from the meeting that came as the North’s delegation made a surprise visit to the close of the Asian Games in the South Korean port city of Incheon.

In News But the countries agreed to hold another round of talks between the end of October and the beginning of November, according to a South Korean statement.

The specific topics of Saturday’s discussions weren’t immediately known.

Still, just the fact that North Koreans at the highest levels visited the South was significant, allowing valuable contact between confidants of North Korea’s authoritarian leader and senior South Korean officials after a year that has seen a steady stream of insults between the divided neighbors and an unusual number of North Korean missile and rocket test firings.

One analyst called it a “golden opportunity” for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to test North Korea’s willingness to improve shaky ties. The South Korean statement said Park had been willing to meet with the Pyongyang officials, but the North Koreans were running out of time because they had to attend the Asian Games’ closing ceremonies. South Korea said its prime minister, largely a figurehead but technically the No. 2 position, met with the delegation later Saturday before the North Koreans left South Korea late in the evening to return home.

This visit of “a very high-octane group” offers Park a unique chance “to test the North Korean leadership’s will and intentions,” said John Delury, an Asia specialist at Seoul’s Yonsei University. “Historically, North-South breakthroughs start from the top down, and if Park is serious that she wants to improve relations and jumpstart the reunification process, this is a golden opportunity.”

Both sides expressed hope for better relations in comments to the media ahead of the private meeting.

The last such senior visit was in 2009, when high-ranking Workers’ Party official Kim Ki Nam and spy chief Kim Yang Gon, who also visited on Saturday, came to pay their respects to the late liberal South Korean President Kim Dae-jung. The North Koreans met Lee, conveyed a message from then-leader Kim Jong Il, and discussed inter-Korean cooperation.

Israel Bibi Addresses the UN Aside from all the traffic it caused, the UN General Assembly gave Benjamin Netanyahu an opportunity to deliv-

er a powerful speech to the international group.

In the wide-ranging address last week, Israel’s prime minister touched on the plague of radical Islam, the dangers of a nuclear Iran, and a new paradigm for peace with the Palestinians.

He spoke on the last day of speeches to a hall about three-quarters full.

He began his address by saying that while the people of Israel pray for peace, “our hopes and the world’s hopes for peace are in danger because everywhere we look militant Islam is on the march.” He defined the goal of militant Islam as world domination, and likened it to a cancer that if not checked immediately, will grow and attack “wider and wider areas.”

“When militant Islam succeeds anywhere, it is emboldened everywhere. When it suffers a blow in one place, it is set back in every place. That is why Israel’s fight against Hamas is not just our fight, it is your fight. Israel is fighting a fanaticism today that your countries might be facing tomorrow,” Netanyahu declared.

He called out against countries that applauded US President Barack Obama for leading action against ISIS, but condemned Israel for confronting Hamas.

He quoted from both Hamas and Islamic State leaders to prove his point: That they share a fanatical creed that seeks world Islamic domination.

“Militant Islam’s vision to dominate the world seems mad, but so too did the goals of another fanatical ideology that swept into power eight decades ago,” the prime minister said.

“The Nazis believed in a master race, the militant Islamists believe in a master faith.” The only difference among the different Islamic radical groups – Sunni and Shi’ite – is over who would be “the master of the master faith,” he pronounced.

Netanyahu also tried to focus the world’s attention by underlying the similarities between ISIS and Iran.

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In the last section of his speech, Netanyahu focused on Israeli-Palestinian peace. He said that while in the past the assumption was that an Israeli-Palestinian agreement would lead to

a compromise between Israel and the Arab world, now a partnership with the Arab world could lead to an eventual peace agreement with the Palestinians.

“To achieve that peace, we must not look only at Jerusalem and Ramallah, but also to Cairo, Amman, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and elsewhere,” he said. “I believe peace can be realized with the active involvement of Arab countries,

In News those who are willing to provide political, material and other indispensable support.”

Netanyahu heavily defended Israel from previous speeches made at the same podium calling Israel a terrorist state and accusing the country of genocide. He said that while in the past the Jews were demonized with blood libel charges and accused of deicide,

“today the Jewish state is demonized with the apartheid libel, and charges of genocide.” Netanyahu asked, “In what moral universe does genocide include warnings to the enemy civilian population to get out of harm’s way, or ensuring that they receive tons of humanitarian aid each day, even as thousands of rockets are being fired at us, or setting up a field hospital to aid their wounded?”

Referring to Abbas and the Holocaust denial paper he wrote for his doctorate at a Russian university, Netanyahu said, “I suppose it is the same moral universe where a man who wrote a dissertation of lies about the Holocaust, and who insists on a Palestine free of Jews, Judenrein, can stand on this podium and shamelessly accuse Israel of genocide and ethnic cleansing.”

The prime minister held up a picture at one point of three children playing near a rocket-launcher. He poignantly pointed out, “The profound moral difference between Israel and Hamas couldn’t have been clearer. Israel was using its missiles to protect its children, Hamas was using its children to protect its missiles.”

Netanyahu Meets with Ban Ki-Moon In a conversation with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called Hamas’ war tactics “a double war crime,” accusing the terrorist group of not only firing rockets into Israeli civilian areas but using their women and children as human shields. He compared Hamas to the Islamic State (IS).

The meeting with Ban at the UN headquarters in New York was also attended by Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman.

Netanyahu told the UN chief that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) should focus its investigation of war crimes in Gaza on Hamas, which also used UN buildings to fire rockets towards Israel. He added that

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Netanyahu also voiced his opinion on the unfairness of the UN that it has a higher standard for Israel than other countries. Netanyahu mentioned that the UN has done nothing until very recently about the 200,000 civilians massacred in Syria but constantly criticizes Israel’s right to defend itself. He reiterated that the IDF never directed its attacks on civilians while Hamas targets innocent civilians.

Finally, Netanyahu told the UN chief that there was no change in Israel’s position in terms of a demilitarized Palestinian state that will recognize Israel as the Jewish state subject to security arrangements that would allow Israel to defend itself against any threat.

Jordan Finds Israeli Explosives 45 Years Later For the last few weeks, rumors have been floating around Jordan over some

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mysterious government-sponsored archeological digs in the city of Ajloun.

Many thought that they had discovered gold or other precious, long-hidden valuables. Although the truth behind the dig is not as fantastic, it’s still very interesting.

Jordanian Army Chief of Staff Mashal Mohammad Al-Zaben has revealed that they have found Israeli spying equipment and explosives that had been buried in Jordan in 1969. The past year and a half of digging was spent safely removing the equipment without detonating any of the explosives. The Jordanian army had removed most of the other caches of weapons, but the IDF specialists were doing the dig in Ajloun to ensure no one was hurt.

“The Israelis brought all of the necessary equipment, both the electronic

equipment and the equipment needed for digging. The controlled explosions were done in the late hours of the night, and no damage was caused,” Al-Zaben reported. The unusual press conference took place at the Jordanian prime minister’s residence. Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour was present, as was Interior Minister Hussein Majali and government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani.

According to the Jordanian military chief, the Israeli espionage equipment and explosives were first uncovered on February 4, 2013, when an explosion occurred in a road in the Mafraq region, causing damage in a 400-meter radius from the site of explosion. “The military investigated the circumstances at the scene of the explosion, and it turned out it was caused by an explosive that goes off when it’s in movement. This explosive was part of Israeli spying devices buried underground decades ago,” said Al-Zaben.

After asking Israel for the location of other hidden devices, they were mostly removed. But the ones in more populated areas required Israeli expertise to extract. “This left the Jordanian

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The notoriously discreet agency has redone its website and the sleek new design includes a high-quality recruiting video and an online application option for those seeking employment. With versions in Hebrew, English, French, Russian, Arabic and Persian, the site looks to revolutionize the way Israel’s legendary agency seeks out potential agents after generations of backdoor, cloak-and-dagger antics. “We must continue to recruit the best people into our ranks so that the Mossad might continue to lead, defend and allow for the continued existence of the state of Israel,” Mossad Chief Tamir Pardo said, announcing the launch of the new website. “The Mossad’s qualitative human capital is the secret of our success.”

The Mossad is the global arm of Israel’s vaunted intelligence community and believed to be behind some of the most daring counterterrorism covert operations of the past century. Only a few have come to light, such as the killings of the leaders of Black September — the Palestinian group behind the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games — and Israeli assassinations across Africa, Europe and the Middle East. The Mossad has also been exposed in some fiascos, most notably a 1997 failed attempt to kill future Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal in Jordan when a pair of agents were caught in the act.

Most of the applicants should not expect to become the next international mysterious spy. You are more likely to land a job in the tech, cyber, or administration departments of the Mossad.

But the video that plays on the website shows satellites and drones hovering over men in dark suits and shades. A narrator announces, “Your imagination is my reality” and the banner at the top of the page reads, “Join us to see the invisible and do the impossible.”

While the Mossad’s outreach is new, some of its international counterparts, such as the CIA and the British MI6, have websites filled with historical information and a detailed section on career opportunities.

French Jew Leaves Israel NIS 74 Million Recently, an anonymous French Jew left Israel NIS 74 million. This generous gift makes it a total of NIS 110 million left to Israel between January and September of this year by Jews outside of Israel.

Surprisingly, the NIS 74 million gift is not the largest inheritance received by Israel. Several years ago, the state received a huge estate of more than NIS 200 million from one person, who had asked to donate his money to the establishment of a special rehabilitation hospital for disabled IDF veterans. The generous donor was Ignace Hellenberg, a French art dealer who died in 2004.

Thanks to the activity of the Estates and Trusts Department in the Administrator General’s Office, which got in touch with the deceased while he was still alive, the Administrator General’s Office received part of his inheritance.

Some inheritances are received by the state out of the blue, but quite often donors contact Israeli representatives in advance and express their desire to leave money for the state after their death.

Former administrator general Adv. Shlomo Shachar told Yedioth Ahronoth in a 2012 interview, “A person I met in Monaco wanted to leave Israel several million dollars, but requested to know who the administrator general was. He told me he had two children who he had lost contact with and had no intention of leaving them anything. He asked us to take care of his burial arrangements and bring his bones to Israel.

“The average sums we received from such people every year was about 100-150 million shekels,” Shachar added. “Some people have left the state strange things. There was once a person who left an estate in Colombia in which drugs are manufactured.

“A 90-year-old woman from Los Angeles, who lived on her own, showed me a picture of her children who had died in the Holocaust. She left a will stating that her entire property be handed over to Israel.”

IDF Chief of Staff: IDF Performance Lauded Just a few weeks after Operation Protective Edge, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz spoke with Yediot Ahronoth. He says Hezbollah doesn’t want

In News another all-out war, there’s no momentum for a third Palestinian intifada and ISIS is “a phenomenon that must be tackled.” Here are some excerpts from his interview.

“Since the operation, we’ve already had visits from a great many officers from armies around the world and they say to us: What you did in this combat operation, your professional performance, is unprecedented.”

Are you talking about senior US military officers who came to Israel to study the debriefings?

“Yes, and not only from the United States. We set standards for them that they don’t know how to handle. They tell us it was an extraordinary operation

carried out by our brigade-level combat teams – a multi-corps operation in complex terrain, with very praiseworthy tactical subterfuge. And they aren’t the only ones who say it was unprecedented. The same has been said by local heroes…

“You should have heard the admiration with which they spoke of the way in which the IDF operated during Protective Edge. We emerged victorious from the operation, yet we are still going to conduct probes into everything that went on there, and that includes the best air force in the world too. Every move will be investigated. Dozens of teams are already busy doing so.”

Did you assess before the operation began that it would take so long, that it would go on for 50 days?

“No, we thought it would take less time.”

In Protective Edge, he says, there were also a number of “waiting days” – the ceasefire days. The fighting was further extended by Israel’s adamant standpoint vis-à-vis the demands it placed on Hamas during the operation.

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The answer is no. We need to find a way to shorten these things. But that’s a good question only in retrospect.”

You already knew at that stage that there were tunnels crossing the border, an outright breach of sovereignty. So why didn’t you come to a decision to act against these tunnels earlier?

“By the same token, you could ask why we didn’t re-occupy the Gaza Strip a year and a half ago, when we discovered the invasive tunnels. After all, it was already clear to you, and me, and the cabinet, and to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, and to the people of Israel at large, that such tunnels existed. … Here we had a situation of the time had come, that we needed to, and so we embarked on the campaign.”

Were you aware of the operative significance of those tunnels?

“Certainly.

“In retrospect, I say to you, with all the pain it evokes: The ones in the end who encountered the threat of the tunnels were the IDF soldiers – and it’s a good thing they did, despite the cost – and not the residents of the south. We invested all our efforts into defending the south. All the fallen soldiers from the ground offensive were killed in the defense of the communities of the south.”

What are your assessments regarding ISIS? Are we not overstating this threat?

“It’s not a matter of overstating. ISIS represents a phenomenon that must be tackled. The Sykes-Picot arrangements, which determined the national borders in the region after World War I, are dead and buried. It’s the end of an era. Someone else is determining the borders in our expanse, and this someone doesn’t recognize any political institution. Its methods aren’t ones of the bombing of countries and the destruction of infrastructure, but rather shock and horror of severed heads.”

Tel Aviv U Rated Top Israeli University On Thursday, for the first time, Tel Aviv University was rated the top Israeli university in influential international rankings, surpassing the highly regarded Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Tel Aviv University ranked 188th on the list, while Hebrew University ranked 201st-225th in the 2014-2015 Times

Higher Education World Rankings. Both universities slid down the rankings from last year, but Tel Aviv University fell down less spots than Hebrew U. The Technion, or Israel Institute of Technology, held onto the same spot as last year, 201st-225th.

As in the past, the rankings’ elite spots were dominated by American and British Universities. The California Institute of Technology, known as Caltech, came in first, with Harvard University, the University of Oxford University, Stanford University, and the University of Cambridge rounding out the top five, in descending order. East Asian universities continued their annual climb up the list at the expense of their American counterparts.

Looking across the Middle East, Israel no longer boasts the top university in the land. Not even close, in fact, thanks to a surge in the rankings by Turkish universities. Turkey’s Middle East Technical University leapt to 88th, from 201st-225th last year, to replace Hebrew University as the regional leader. For the first time, three other Turkish universities ranked in the top 200, all above any Israeli university.

Two Iranian universities were included in the rankings, which top out at 400.

National CA Says No to Plastic

In News next summer, and convenience stores and pharmacies in 2016. The law does not apply to bags used for fruits, vegetables or meats, or to shopping bags used at other retailers. It also allows grocers to charge a fee of at least 10 cents for using paper bags.

State Sen. Alex Padilla credits the momentum for statewide legislation to the more than 100 cities and counties, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, that already have such bans. The law marks a major milestone for environmental activists who have successfully pushed plastic bag bans in cities across the U.S., including Chicago, Austin and Seattle. Hawaii is also on track to have a de-facto statewide ban, with all counties approving prohibitions.

“This bill is a step in the right direction — it reduces the torrent of plastic polluting our beaches, parks and even the vast ocean itself,” Governor Brown touted. “We’re the first to ban these bags, and we won’t be the last.”

But the new law is very far from having universal support. Plastic bag manufacturers have aggressively pushed back with commercials in California blasting the ban as a cash-giveaway to grocers that would lead to a loss of thousands of manufacturing jobs and only serve to allow grocery stores to make more money off the “paper bag tax.” Robert Troxell, a 69-year-old former newspaper editor, said the fees are more than an inconvenience for retirees living on fixed incomes like him. He shops daily because he has only a small refrigerator in his hotel for low-income seniors. “It becomes a flat tax on senior citizens,” Troxell, who lives off social security and other government assistance, pointed out.

Forbes’ 400 Wealthiest Americans “Paper or plastic?” That question may be something that we tell our great-grandchildren about one day. Soon, plastic bags may become extinct. Last week, California became the first state to ban single-use plastic bags. Governor Jerry Brown was driven to sign the bill by rising pollution rates on streets and waterways.

A national coalition of plastic bag manufacturers immediately said it would seek a voter referendum to repeal the law, which is scheduled to take effect in July 2015. Under SB270, plastic bags will be phased out of checkout counters at large grocery stores and supermarkets such as Wal-Mart and Target starting

It’s true: the rich just keep on getting richer. And sometimes it seems that it’s getting harder and harder to join the ranks of Forbes’ 400 richest Americans.

This year, it took $1.55 billion to get your name on the list. Last year, it only took $1.3 billion to secure a spot. And because there is so much wealth out there, 113 American billionaires didn’t even

make the cut. The average net worth of list members is $5.7 billion, $700 million more than last year.

Bill Gates is once again the richest American—for the 21st year in a row— with a net worth of $81 billion. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, came in at number 2 on the Forbes’ 400 list, with a net worth of $67 billion. He’s been number 2 since 2001. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, came in at number three, with a net worth of $50 billion.

Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with a net worth of $34 billion, didn’t even make it to the top ten.

He is now the 11th richest person in the U.S. The person with the biggest gains this year is Nicholas Woodman, founder of wearable video camera company GoPro. With a 200% increase in his net worth since his company went public in June, his fortune rose to $3.9 billion.

Overall, American billionaires earned $270 billion more than last year combined; their total combined net worth is a staggering $2.29 trillion. That’s basically Brazil’s entire economy—they have a population of 200 million.

Of the 400, 303 earned more money this year than last, only 36 people saw a decline, and the rest stayed status quo.

Six people died and another 27 were knocked off the list, being replaced by 27 newbies including Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest woman on the list at spot number 111. She is a 30-year-old self-made billionaire who dropped out of Stanford University and grew blood testing company Theranos into a firm that venture capitalists have valued at $9 billion; she has 50% stake in the company.

Here are the top ten richest Americans: 1. Bill Gates, 58: Net worth: $81 billion 2. Warren Buffett, 84: Net worth: $67 billion 3. Larry Ellison, 70: Net worth: $50 billion 4. Charles Koch, 78: Net worth: $42 billion 4. David Koch, 74: Net worth: $42 billion 6. Christy Walton, 59, and Family: Net worth: $38 billion 7. Jim Walton, 66: Net worth: $36 billion 8. Michael Bloomberg, 72: Net worth: $35 billion 9. Alice Walton, 64: Net worth: $34.9 billion 10. S. Robson Walton, 70: Net worth: $34.8 billion

FBI Busts Judge in Sting Op

Philadelphia Municipal Judge Joseph Waters Jr. found himself in some very hot water this year after the FBI ran a complicated sting operation to bust him on corruption charges. This week, Waters entered a guilty plea to federal mail and wire fraud charges. The FBI long suspected the judge of corruption and invented a fake defendant in order to bring Waters down.

Court documents reveal the details of the set-up. A man named David Khoury was invented by FBI agents and then arrested for illegally carrying an unloaded Glock .40-caliber pistol during a 2012 traffic stop. According to the documents, an unnamed campaign donor asked Waters to help Khoury, saying he was a cousin of a business associate. Waters then called a fellow judge who was scheduled to hear the case. According to Waters’ plea document, he identified Khoury as a friend and asked the judge hearing the case to help him.

Eventually, the judge hearing the case reduced the charge to a misdemeanor. The charges were ultimately dropped when the fake defendant failed to appear for trial and court staff had no address on file.

This is not the first time Waters attempted to fix cases for political donors.

In return for his interventions, he received gifts and donations that he never disclosed on campaign finance reports filed during his 2013 run for U.S. Senate.

Secret Service under Fire The Secret Service has been in the spotlight as of late, and not for anything good. Recently, there have been a number of failures by the agency to properly protect the president. On September 19, a knife-carrying intruder penetrated ring after ring of security before finally being tackled deep inside the White House.

The president was not there at the time.

On September 16, an armed federal contractor rode in an elevator with President Obama and his security detail while the president was visiting the Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The man had three convictions for assault and battery. The gun was discovered only because the contractor was questioned after he persisted in taking videos of the president.

At the Capitol, Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike expressed the view that the September 19 breach of White House security had blemished the storied agency, and several pressed for an independent inquiry into what went wrong. They were not assuaged by Secret Service Director Julia Pierson’s vow that “I’ll make sure that it does not happen again” or by the agency’s own investigation.

“I wish to G-d you protected the White House like you protected your reputation here today,” Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch told Pierson at a public hearing that was followed by a classified, closed-door briefing. Rep. Chaffetz said afterward: “The more I learn, the more it scares me.”

It seems the Secret Service had suspicions about this intruder for over a month but had never taken him in for questioning. On August 25, Army veteran Omar J. Gonzalez was stopped while carrying a small hatchet near the fence south of the White House, Pierson revealed. Weeks later, the same officers observed him “for some time” on the Pennsylvania Avenue north side but never intervened. Gonzalez later went over the fence, sprinted to the unlocked front door, and ran through half the first floor of the White House before being tackled.

Gonzalez was indicted on Tuesday on a federal charge of entering a restricted building while carrying a deadly weapon and two violations of District of Columbia law.

At the House hearing, Pierson said she did not know why Gonzalez was not intercepted earlier. “Personnel actions will be taken” once the agency’s review is complete, she said, in what appeared to be a euphemism for possible discipline or terminations.

On Wednesday, a day after taking a verbal beating from lawmakers, Pierson resigned from the Secret Service. “Congress has lost confidence in my ability to

In News run the agency,” Pierson said. “The media has made it clear that this is what they expected.”

Ebola Appears Stateside

Until recently, Ebola was a virus that was confined to the continent of Africa. Now, doctors have diagnosed the first-ever case of Ebola in the U.S. A man arrived in Texas from Liberia carrying the disease. Authorities with the Centers for Disease Control revealed the finding two days after the unidentified patient was admitted to a Dallas hospital with suspicious symptoms.

Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas put the man into “strict isolation” and sent a blood specimen to state and federal labs for testing.

Both came back positive for the dead-

ly disease, which has killed more than 3,000 people in Africa this year. According to the World Health Organization, there have been more than 6,500 Ebola cases confirmed in Africa, with Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone among the hardest hit.

“He is ill, he is under intensive care, he’s being seen by highly trained, competent specialists, and the health department is helping us in tracing any family members that might have been exposed,” Dr. Edward Goodman said at a news conference. Authorities declined to name the adult patient or even say if he is an American. “The patient was visiting family members and staying with family members who live in this country,” CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said.

The CDC has a team en-route to North Texas to help health officials retrace the man’s whereabouts since he has been in the States. Officials characterized the patient as having close contact with about a “handful” of family members while in Dallas. “While it is not impossible that there could be additional cases associated with this patient in coming weeks, I have no doubt that we will contain this,” Frieden said. “As long the out-

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Groundhog Dies; Mayor Doesn’t Care

New Yorkers were embarrassed when their new mayor dropped the royal groundhog in a ceremony on Groundhog Day this past February.

It was recently announced that just a week after Mayor de Blasio lost his grip on Charlotte (who was the groundhog that was standing in for Chuck that day), the woodchuck died.

When de Blasio found out about the rodent’s demise, he offered no condolences or regrets. “I would just refer questions to the Staten Island Zoo,” the mayor said indifferently. “They’re the experts.”

He said he wouldn’t mind if the zoo decided to bar mayors from touching the animal in future ceremonies. The real Chuck bit then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2009. “I’m certainly open to any changes,” de Blasio said.

Perhaps we need a change in City Hall.

Housing is on the Rise

Remember what your economics professor told you: buy low, sell high.

And high may be right now.

Real estate prices are increasing.

Since the recession caused the housing market to slump, the perception in a lot of places is that housing is cheap.

But new data shows that housing prices are very much on the rise. The average home price has increased, and median home prices by state range anywhere from $140,000 to $1.2 million. Median home prices in the northeast portion

of the U.S. and the West Coast tend to be most expensive, while homebuyers in the deep South and Midwest get the most square feet for their dollars.

In New York’s Battery Park, Greenwich Village, and SoHo neighborhoods, owning a home costs somewhere around $975,000. Across the Hudson River, expect to pay up to $550,000 in Tenafly, Park Ridge, and Cresskill, New Jersey.

Some trends seem to stay the same.

If you go farther north, you’ll pay much less. In Burlington, Vermont: $240,000. In Biddeford and Saco, Maine? $250,000. And in the nation’s heartland, homes are more affordable.

In West Des Moines and Urbandale, Iowa, for example, you’ll only pay around $185,000 for a house. In Southwest Omaha, Nebraska, you’ll pay about $10,000 more, on average.

Jeter Hangs Up His Pinstripes

It’s official. Derek Jeter’s Hall of Fame-worthy career has come to a close. The captain of the New York Yankees left the field at Fenway Park in the third inning after hitting an RBI single for a 3-0 lead. Jeter will finish his career with 3,465 career hits, which ranks first in Yankees history and sixth on the all-time hits list. The RBI was No. 1,311, which ranks sixth in Yankees history. And his career batting average will forever read a remarkable .309.

Jeter, who was honored before the game in a nice ceremony by the Red Sox, jogged off the field to a huge ovation and a “Derek Jeter” chant from the sold-out crowd. As he exited the field, he shared an embrace with nearly every Yankees’ teammate. While it wasn’t quite as remarkable as the final scene in his last game at Yankee Stadium where he won the game with a walk off single, it still was a very noteworthy finale to an outstanding career.

The next time Jeter will headline in the sports section will surely be his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

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the attorney general; he leaves with many accomplishments and no major undeniable missteps. Many predicted that Holder, one of only three remaining members of Obama’s original cabinet, would not serve through Obama’s second term.

Worse States for Retirement Taxes After just six years at the helm of the Justice Department, Attorney General Eric Holder has announced his resignation. On Thursday, Holder announced that as soon as his successor is named, he will step down from his position “In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice,” Holder said at the White House, thanking President Barack Obama for the “greatest honor of my professional life” as the president stood nearby in the State Dining Room.

Though he’s stepping down, Holder said that “he will never leave the work.”

“I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals,” he said, without offering any specific details.

Obama praised Holder, who was the first African-American to serve as attorney general, and applauded his civil and equal rights work while in office.

The president also mentioned that Holder’s department prosecuted hundreds of terror cases, “rooted out corruption and fought violent crime,” tackled financial fraud and “attacks on the Voting Rights Act.” Obama said Holder also helped lower crime rate and incarceration rate by 10% over the last six years.

“Eric has done a superb job,” Obama reiterated. “I just want to say thank you.”

But not all agree. After the announcement, Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina tweeted, “Good riddance Eric Holder.

Your disregard for the Constitution of the United States will not be missed.”

Some have said the attorney general should be held in contempt of court for refusing to release “Fast and Furious” documents in defiance of a judge’s order. Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee requested U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson fine Mr. Holder if he doesn’t comply with her own order issued back in August — the one where she said he couldn’t claim executive privilege to keep private certain documents related to the federal gun-running program, “Operation Fast and Furious.” He was supposed to turn the documents over by October 1.

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Retirement for many seems like a faraway dream but when you start planning, consider the states that impose the highest taxes on retirees, according to Kiplinger’s 2014 analysis of state taxes.

Looking to hang up your hat after those long days on the job? Make sure to avoid these states—the taxman will eat you alive.

Number one on the list was Rhode Island, with a state income tax of 3.75% to 5.99% and a state sales tax of 7%.

Vermont is also a state to avoid. Residents are hit with a 3.55% to 8.95% state income tax. Connecticut, Minnesota and Oregon were also listed as states to shun post-retirement.

Expelled Congressman Dies

Since the Civil War, only two congressmen have been expelled from Congress.

James Traficant, the second of the two, died this week at the age of 73. The eccentric Ohio politician was convicted in 2002 of taking bribes and kickbacks.

Traficant was seriously injured after a vintage tractor flipped over on him as he tried to park it inside a barn on the family farm near Youngstown, Ohio. He died four days later in a Youngstown hospital.

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Prosecutors said he used his office to extract bribes from businesspeople and coerced staffers to work on his farm and his houseboat on the Potomac River in Washington. He also was charged with witness tampering, destroying evidence and filing false tax returns. He spent seven years in prison.

Traficant was known for having some very strange habits and mannerisms. He was famous for his messy hair, which after he went to prison was revealed to actually be a wig. His made-for-TV rants on the House floor invariably ended with the signoff “Beam me up,” which Traficant borrowed from “Star Trek” to show his disgust or bemusement at whatever he found particularly outrageous.

In News In 2000, as he was gearing up for his ninth re-election campaign, Traficant was indicted in a grand jury investigation that targeted corruption and organized crime and led to the convictions of scores of people, including judges, a prosecutor and a sheriff. He claimed the government had tried to frame him because of his criticism of the FBI, CIA and Internal Revenue Service.

The U.S. House expelled Traficant from Congress in a 420-1 vote on July 24, 2002, three months after being convicted on 10 corruption-related counts.

He was sentenced to eight years in prison and led from the federal courtroom in handcuffs. After being released from jail, he tried again to get back into public office, with no success. He lived out his remaining years on his farm until the tragic tractor accident that took his life.

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What do you get the man who has made over $265 million in on-field earnings for his retirement? That’s the question many of Major League baseball’s teams have been asking themselves when contemplating buying Derek Jeter a sendoff gift. Well, some of the answers they came up with are pretty creative.

The major themes that seemed to be trending are the number “2” and pinstripes. The Angels gave Jeter a pinstriped surfboard and the Indians gave him a pinstriped electric guitar. He got two pairs of pinstriped cowboy boots and a brand new pinstriped canoe for some retirement fishing.

Lots of teams donated to Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation. The Mets gave $22,222.22 to the charity. They also designed little cupcakes with the number 2 on them for his retirement party. The Brewers gave his a bronze replica of his bat as well as donating $10,000 to Turn 2.

Jeter received many second bases and a bench made out of his old bats from the White Sox. A pair of cufflinks came in from the Cardinals and former President George Bush presented him with another pair of cowboy boots at a Rangers game.

Perhaps the strangest gift was a medium-sized basket filled with Maryland crabs, courtesy of the Orioles. Nothing says enjoy your retirement like a big bucket of crabs…

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According to fatalities documented by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and reports regarding stress by the website CareerCast, here are some of the worst jobs for your physical and mental health.

While many appear rather obvious— roofers will have high injury rates since they spend their days perched on rooftops—others are quite surprising. What’s dangerous or stressful about delivering packages?!

So which jobs should you avoid if you’re looking to be safe? According to this list, being a taxi driver is the worst job for your physical and mental health.

And you won’t be paid a pretty penny for driving that cab. On average, drivers only make $22,840.

Next on the list was police officers, who put their lives on the line protecting citizens. Logging workers, senior corporate executives, and newspaper reporters rounded out the top five worse jobs for your health.

In News mer president standing over her shoulder, beaming with pride and love. She captioned the photo, “@BillClinton and I are over the moon to be grandparents! One of the happiest moments of our life.”

New mom Chelsea also tweeted a sweet pic of her new family with the caption, “At 7:03 PM on September 26th, we finally met Charlotte. We’re in love.”

Earlier this month, former President George W. Bush offered some advice on grandparenting to his buddy during the Presidential Leadership Scholars program. He told Bill, “Be prepared to fall completely in love again. It’s going to be an awesome period.”

On Monday evening, the new parents, Chelsea and Marc Mezvinsky, escorted their bundle of joy out of Lenox Hospital in New York City accompanied by the new grandparents.

Chelsea is the only daughter to Bill and Hillary Clinton but this baby girl will have plenty of cousins from her father’s family. Her paternal grandmother is former Pennsylvania Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies. She will have 10 aunts and uncles and 18 first cousins from the Mezvinsky family tree.

Charlotte is the first child to Chelsea, 34, and her banker husband, Marc Mezvinsky, who married in 2010.

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There seems to be an undeniable special bond between grandparents and grandchildren, especially the first, and apparently Hillary and Bill Clinton are already feeling the boundless love and affection for their sweet, newborn granddaughter, Charlotte.

Grandpa Bill and Grandma Hillary Clinton expressed their happiness over the birth of their grandchild last week via Twitter. Secretary Clinton tweeted an adorable photo of herself cradling her brand new granddaughter with the for-

A fire that blazed at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania on Friday consumed a flag that flew over the Capitol on September 11, 2001. The fire destroyed the park’s headquarters complex. In addition to the flag, the losses included a handful of personal items of passengers and crew, DVD copies of the annual commemoration ceremony and meetings of the Flight 93 National Memorial Federal Advisory Commission, and about 100 tribute items left by visitors since 2001.

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The memorial in Shanksville marks the spot where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed during the September 11 attacks.

The plane, which was traveling from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, went down in a reclaimed strip mine after passengers fought back against its hijackers. All 33 passengers and seven crew members were killed.

America’s Oldest Workers

Some people love to work. They love it so much, that they never think of retiring. Meet some of America’s oldest workers—they’ll inspire you to keep heading back to work day after day!

At 102-years-old, Loren Wade is one of the oldest workers in the country.

For the past 30 years, he has worked at Wal-Mart’s Winfield, Kansas, store. He now works 32 hours a week as an associate in the lawn and garden department, doing everything from stocking the shelves and running the cash register to helping customers pick out flowers for their garden.

“He’s so good with customers,” said store manager Tonya Villar. “They actually seek him out.”

A former mail carrier, Wade gave retirement a try in the early 1980s but deemed it “pretty boring.”

He and his wife of 67 years live mostly off his Social Security benefits and his small Postal Service pension, but he says the paychecks from WalMart “come in handy, too.” “I can buy things that I couldn’t buy off of Social Security, like ice cream, and to go out to eat once in a while,” he said.

Despite his heavy work schedule, he and his wife have visited almost all of the 50 states and he played the saxophone in a local band for nearly 80 years.

Betty Reid Soskin is 93-years-old, and only a few years ago, she found her dream job. Seven years ago, she became a park ranger at the Rosie the Riveter/ World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif. Three times a week, she shares with visitors

what it was like to work in a segregated union hall during World War II – how she never saw herself as a “Rosie” since black women weren’t hired to do the same work as white women.

“It seems to me that all of the things I’ve done leading up to this period were in preparation for what I’m living now,” said Soskin, who is the country’s oldest full-time park ranger. “So it’s rather an enviable spot to be in. I wouldn’t think of retiring.” Soskin has worked as an office worker, a record store owner and a political staffer.

Kenneth Curzon is still cruising at 91. In a career that has spanned many decades, he’s done everything from managing service centers at car dealerships to acting as Smokey the Bear for the U.S. Forest Service. He’s also a World War II veteran who witnessed D-Day from the beaches of Normandy as a member of the British forces.

But for the past 24 years Curzon has been running the parking services at Scripps Memorial Hospital, which sees more than 3,000 vehicles come in and out every day.

His work day starts at 6:15 a.m. so he can ensure all of the equipment, including the parking lot gates and ticket machines, is working before he moves on to other duties, like preparing financial and operations reports. “I’m not sure that I’ve ever beat him in in the morning,” said hospital Chief Executive Officer Gary Fybel. “He’s always here bright and early.”

While he has worked longer than many of his coworkers have been alive, he said he has no plans to stop. “If they came to me and said I need to step aside then I would do that, but I would probably look for another job,” Curzon said.

Professor John Fraser Hart, 90, offers student a trip back in time when they take his geography classes at the University of Minnesota. The World War II veteran dons a bow tie and uses a carousel slide projector in his lectures.

“In some ways he feels like he is a relic of an earlier time but he doesn’t apologize for it at all,” said retired University of Minnesota professor John Adams, who worked with Hart for nearly 40 years.

In more than 50 years of teaching, Hart has published 15 books and taught more than 50,000 students. And he loves his job. “I’ve learned a lot and I have a chance to share with students,” he said. “Each year, I think I keep getting a little bit better at what I’m doing.”

Novalene Slatton says she owes her job to Bill Clinton. The 90-year-old has been working at the Hope-Hempstead

In News Chamber of Commerce ever since 1992, when Clinton had just won the Democratic nomination for president and his small hometown of Hope was flooded with visitors and phone calls. Needing extra help, the Chamber of Commerce hired Slatton as a receptionist. She’s been there ever since.

Now, Slatton works three days a week, manning the phones and helping the office run smoothly. But her favorite duty is soliciting donations for Hope’s annual Watermelon Festival.

The festival “is something she is extremely well known for,” said Chamber Executive Director Mark Keith.

And Slatton just keeps on kicking.

“I just don’t want to stay at home by myself and look at four walls,” says Slatton, whose second husband passed away this year. “So many people have retired, and then they say they’re bored to death.”

Judge Jack Weinstein, 93, estimates that he’s heard almost 25,000 legal cases in his careers. Nominated to the federal bench by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967, his decisions have made him “one of the most renowned judges in the history of the federal judiciary,” according to a 2013 American Bar Association journal profile of the U.S. District Court judge.

Long known for his judicial activism, Weinstein said he’s proud of the influence he has had on the law — no matter how controversial. “Society in this country is constantly changing, so the law has to be adjusted,” he said.

He still wakes each morning at 5 a.m. so he can exercise (he enjoys swimming in his pool) and make breakfast for his wife before being driven from his home in Long Island, N.Y. to the Brooklyn courthouse.

Weinstein says he has no plans to retire, citing his love for “the excitement of the law” and the opportunity to help people and “occasionally improve society, even if only very modestly.”

The State of Happiness

Money doesn’t buy happiness, so what does? It’s the pursuit of people’s entire lives and the answer is complex, but let’s start with what doesn’t make people happy. According to WalletHub.

com, a financial website, poor emotional and physical well-being, a low income, and a lack of community contribute to people’s unhappiness.

So where are people most miserable in the U.S.? Residents in the following states are all about doom ‘n gloom: 1. West Virginia 2. Alabama 3. Mississippi 4. Arkansas 5. Kentucky 6. Tennessee 7. Rhode Island 8. Ohio 9. Michigan 10. Indiana In these states, though, happiness abounds: 1. Utah 2. Minnesota 3. North Dakota 4. Colorado 5. Nebraska 6. Wyoming 7. Iowa 8. Hawaii 9. South Dakota 10. Idaho

That’s Odd Change is Good

Brother, can you spare a dime? Or two or a few thousand?

It turns out that if you add up all those nickels, pennies and dimes you find on the streets of Central Avenue, you may be able to make a nice donation to your local charity.

Rick Snyder of Bradenton, Florida, is donating a whopping $21,495 in coins to charity. Over the past 10 years, Snyder has collected the massive amount of change on his daily four-hour walks, digging them out of vending machines and car wash vacuums.

“It astounds me how wasteful people are,” Snyder, who owns a 48-unit condominium complex, said. It’s not just currency that Snyder likes to hoard. He also collects discarded towels — washing and donating them to shelters — and plastic bottles for recycling.

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has found foster families for about 100 cats—placing many of them with tenants in his condo. “People do avoid me now if they see me coming,” he joked.

So why didn’t Snyder keep the money for himself?

“I have enough money,” he quipped.

I’m sorry if I bump into you on the street tomorrow. I’m looking for loose change—thousands of dollars’ worth.

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Sometimes, police have it easy. In this case, a thief did law enforcement’s job for them.

A Louisville, Kentucky, man named Josh didn’t learn the first lesson in burglary: never leave your name at the

scene of the crime. After breaking into a home, stealing three sets of car keys, and breaking into the cars, Josh Stivers left his Subway employee hat—with his name on it—in the basement of the home.

As if that weren’t enough, and police would have had a hard time locating Josh the Thief at Subway, the phone number for the Subway was left there as well.

Authorities are considering naming Josh the most helpful burglar around.

Is There a Thin Seat?

Want to be thin? It’s not too hard— just choose the right seat.

According to Professor Brian Wansink, director of Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab and author of the new book Slim by Design, where you sit in a restaurant has a serious effect on the numbers on the scale.

The professor and his colleagues visited 27 restaurants across the country, mapping the layout of the restaurant and tracking what diners ate. So where should you sit if you want to be slimmer? Research showed that people order healthier foods if they sit by a window or in a well-lit area. People at uncomfortable high-top tables favor salads and buy fewer desserts, since it’s harder to slouch or spread out.

Eating in an area where you’re more visible makes you want to eat less. “Seeing the sunlight, people or trees outside might make you more conscious of how you look, might make you think about walking or might prompt a green salad,” Wansink writes.

Conversely, those farthest from the door eat the fewest salads and are 73 percent more likely to order dessert.

People at darkly lit tables or booths eat fattier foods. “The darker it is, the more ‘invisible’ you might feel, the less easy it is to see how much you’re eating and the less conspicuous or guilty you might feel,” Wansink writes.

Diners within two tables of the bar drink on average three more beers or mixed drinks (per tables of four) than a group just one table farther away.

TV is also dangerous in a diner. The nearer you are to the screen, the more fried food you’ll consume. You’re distracted and more likely to get seconds and refills.

In his study, Wansink points out that it’s possible that the heavier diners feel more comfortable sitting in darker areas in a restaurant. Even so, the professor writes, if one is looking to lose weight, portion control and better eating habits are key. “If you want to be skinny, do what skinny people do,” he says.

And watch what you eat, not where you eat.

Bear at Door

I know that postal workers battle rain, sleet and snow to deliver the mail.

But do you know that delivery workers sometimes have to face ferocious beasts to deliver your packages?

When Matthew Fane didn’t receive his package last week, he totally understood. In his mailbox, up the street from his home, Fane found a note from his delivery man. “Bear at door” was the explanation for not delivering the package.

The Vancouver resident posted the note on Twitter, “Ok, fair enough @ canadapostcorp that’s a decent reason to not drop the package off at my door.”

When the company offered to investigate, Fane wrote, “How come?

The service was great—just thought it was funny.”

He then posted a photo of the bear in front of his home, taken by the delivery man who took the photo as evidence in case Fane complained to the company.

That’s beary good service.

Cruising in a Crystal Car They say that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, and many young women love their cars—so what better way to join the two and Bedazzle your new car? Recently, a 21-year-old Russian

woman in London covered her Mercedes Benz with 1 million Swarovski crystals—and had passersby blinking in the brightness.

Daria Radionova, a Russian business student, related that the workers who covered every part of her 2011 Mercedes CLS 350 in crystals, from the door handles to the Mercedes badges, came over from Russia and worked “12 hours a day for two months.” Reportedly, the job used $33,000 worth of faux diamonds. When day turned to night, the diesel CLS, with a license plate reading “BAII BYY,” sparkled and shimmered. Parked outside the Levin Hotel, tourists and locals were dazzled by the display.

Radionova, ever the smart businesswoman, pointed out that she only paid £25,000 for the car that she says is worth “more than 25k.” And now, of course, with its newfound fame and crystal coat, if she ever decides to sell the car, she’ll be making money in the deal. Oh, and she says that all proceeds will go to charity, if she does end up selling.

For now, though, Radionova just wants to enjoy her shiny vehicle, “If you have the cash, why not do it?” she shrugged.

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His fellow clowns knew Creekmore not only as a performer, but as a teacher of clowns.

“He taught us by the way he did things,” said Jim Nasby, who’s known as MADD MAXX when he’s sporting clown makeup. “He taught us how to throw a pie right.”

“He made a lot of friends nationwide with his clowning,” said Clint Frank, whose clown name is Cuddles.

“He was kind of the godfather of Al Bedoo clowns.”

Nasby recalled Creekmore’s 90th birthday celebration. He was so popular that his friends threw him five separate birthday parties.

Creekmore told the Billings Gazette in 2004 that he joined the Al Bedoo Shrine and donned makeup and oversized clothes and shoes because he had a nephew in the Shrine Hospital in Spokane, Washington, “and I decided right then that I wanted to help out,” Creekmore said.

Creekmore’s routines were spontaneous and promised smiles and laughter.

Now, there are large (clown) shoes to fill with his absence.

Beware of the Wave

Oldest Clown Dies

For decades, Creeky the Clown brought smiles to thousands of faces.

Last week, at the age of 98, Floyd V. Creekmore passed away.

In 2012, Creeky earned a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest performing clown. Born July 14, 1916, in Fergus County, Creekmore had been performing since the 1980s and was recognized in February 2012 as “the oldest clown still working” at the age of 95 years, 6

Whatever you do, don’t microwave your phone. This may sound odd, but quite a few owners of the new iPhone 6 fell for a hoax claiming that microwaving their shiny new device will help charge their phone. Apparently, someone was claiming that the software that comes installed on Apple’s new gadgets contains a hidden feature which allows wireless charging in any standard kitchen microwave.

The new “feature,” called the “wave,” was touted as having “new drivers that interface with your device’s radio-baseband allowing it to synchronize with microwave frequencies and use them to recharge your

battery,” read the ad. “[Y]ou can now wave-charge your device by placing it within a household microwave for a minute and a half.” The ad looked so authentic that some users even complained that the “wave” feature was not working—along with pictures of the charred remains of their new iPhones in the microwave.

When something sounds so crazy to be true, it usually is.

Turtle with Two Heads

Are two heads better than one?

Recently, a woman in Maine found a two-headed baby snapping turtle trying to cross the road.

“I thought he had two feet in the front,” Kathleen Talbot confessed. “I thought he was deformed. I didn’t realize it was two heads until I got him home and washed him. Then he came to life—and was just starving.”

What do you name an amphibian with two faces? Talbot named her tiny pet Frank and Stein.

“I bought him reptile pellets, which he’s not sure if he likes yet, but he does like worms and flies and hamburger,” Talbot said. “My intentions aren’t to keep him, but to at least give him a good start. Then maybe the New England Aquarium or some place like that would want him.”

“He’s a feisty little rascal,” Talbot said. “He’s already eating with both heads at just 24 hours old.”

Well, with two mouths, I guess he can eat twice as fast.

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Around the Community Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder Endorses Todd Kaminsky for Assembly Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder announced his support and enthusiastic endorsement for Assembly candidate Todd Kaminsky in his neighboring 20th District. Citing Todd’s efforts to improve road conditions, protect families impacted by Hurricane Sandy and help fight skyrocketing tuition costs, Goldfeder said Kaminsky is the clear choice for the Five Towns and Nassau County.

Goldfeder, a leading voice in the Assembly on increased funding for non-public school and a visible leader in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, heralded Kaminsky as an effective ally, locally and in Albany.

“Now more than ever, I need a neighbor and a partner in the community and in Albany who can actually deliver for our struggling families,” Goldfeder said.

“Todd Kaminsky has devoted his life to public service and is the right candidate to represent the Five Towns and the entire district. I enthusiastically endorse Todd Kaminsky in his race to represent the people of 20th Assembly District.”

As a federal prosecutor representing Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens and as acting deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section, Todd took down corrupt elected officials who used taxpayer dollars to fund lavish lifestyles, as well as drug kingpins and other major felons.

Todd began his career as a prosecutor in the Queens District Attorney’s office, prosecuting domestic violence cases, robberies, shootings and other violent crimes.

“I am incredibly grateful for the support of Assemblyman Goldfeder, who has dedicated his career to improving the lives of every family,” said Todd Kaminsky. “He has been an active public servant to all communities and as his partner we will work together to help struggling parents and build our community even stronger.”

As a community advocate, Todd has worked vigorously in support of Long Island’s South Shore. He organized free legal clinics for those affected by Hurricane Sandy, and helped bring tens-ofthousands of dollars in relief funds to local residents. For his efforts, Todd was awarded the Community Service Award from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

HANC High School Launches Amud Yomi Program The Hebrew Academy of Nassau County High School is proud to announce the launching of an exciting new Amud Yomi Program. During lunch on Monday through Thursday, anywhere between 20 to 30 students can be found attending a shiur on Masechet Megilla given by Judaic Studies faculty member, Rabbi Yisroel Simcha Weingot.

The goal of this program is to complete the entire masechta over the course of the year by learning at least one amud (page) of Gemara every single shiur.

This program was created to commemorate the IDF soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice defending Eretz Yisrael this past summer.

Participation in this program is voluntary and students will be treated to a special sponsored luncheon several times throughout the year. To celebrate this wonderful accomplishment and honor the memory of these heroes, the program will conclude with a meaningful trip for the participants as well as a school-wide siyum.

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Village Board of Cedarhurst Announces Pilot Program of New Parking Meters Keeping with its longstanding tradition of being at the forefront of technology and services, the Village of Cedarhurst has launched a pilot program of new hi-tech parking meters on a portion of Central Avenue between Cedar-

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sentatives on the streets of Cedarhurst to assist village patrons,” says Parise.

“We believe this is the fairest and friendliest meter on the market today and we are committed to providing an exceptional shopping and parking experience,” says Ari Brown, a trustee in the village who first brought this new technology to Cedarhurst.

This new meter is a publicly available resource that can broadcast important messages, emergency alerts and targeted advertising. In addition, it supports two-way communications. Each meter is equipped with an 8.0 inch high-definition, color touch screen, speakers and microphone. The new meters can broadcast emergency messages to make the community aware of rules in effect during adverse weather conditions, in construction zones or in response to security threats. Depending on the application, citizens, village workers and law enforcement personnel can use it to make calls, make immediate contact with pre-defined hotlines, dial 911 with the touch of a soft key—even set up video help calls.

When the meter is in a dormant state, that is, not in the process of managing parking for a vehicle approaching, occupying or departing a stall, the screen could display a series of scrolling public service announcements or advertisements. When the sensors detect a vehicle entering the stall, a screen providing parking rates, instructions and payment options pops up. In the event that the mayor’s office or the police command center want to broadcast an emergency notice, a screen assigned the highest priority—one with that takes precedence over all others—pops up to display the message.

“There are many great features and benefits of these new meters,” says Brown, “but the best part is that it will not cost the village, its landlords or residents, one cent. As the Mayor has taught us, no new service or benefit should ever come from tax payer dollars.” The village will collect its typical annual return of all meter collection and split the difference of any additional collections with the meter company.

The meter company is responsible for supplying, installing, servicing and removal of all meters and devices. No new costs or fees will be borne on the village or its residents.

Any questions can be directed to Ari Brown at Village Hall at 516-2955770.

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New and Expanded Gesher Programming More. Bigger. Better. These are the words most often used when describing the Gesher Early Childhood Center as it enters its third year.

In just two years, Gesher has reached many milestones. Those successes have served as catalysts for new programming and services. Gesher’s mission remains to fuse high quality inter-disciplinary education with the quality chinuch standards set by our local yeshiva day schools.

As enrollment has continued to increase, so have the opportunity and the need to create the necessary infrastructure to better serve our community.

The administration of the Gesher Early Childhood Center has been hard at work developing programming. “We want to help more children,” says Mrs. Chava Bodner, Director of Gesher. “In order to provide the high level of support in conjunction with the high level of education it is extremely important that we are proactive in our preparations.”

To that end, several key staff po-

sitions have been added. Mrs. Dahlia Weiss, a highly sought after speech-language pathologist in our area, has in the past worked together with the Gesher staff as a related service provider. She has now joined the administration as Director of Student Support.

Her responsibilities include further synthesizing the practices of other disciplines with the curriculum objectives of the classroom teachers. She will also be overseeing the transition program for Gesher students who are now enrolled in local yeshivas. Mrs. Weiss is known for her creative and practical approach to education. She is currently implementing her Brain Breaks program. A Brain Break is an energized transition between lessons leading to improved concentration and optimized academic performance.

Another development in administration is the appointment of Morah Sara Leah Jaffe to the position of Assistant Director. Mrs. Jaffe, who has been with Gesher since its inception, continues

to teach her class in the morning. Mrs. Bodner explains Mrs. Jaffe’s new role, “We are committed to the success of each student and provide extensive individual attention. It is imperative that we maintain our standard as we expand.

Morah Sara Leah and I will be teaming with the teachers, related service providers and parents in order to fully support the students.”

Mrs. Jaffe is currently working on coordinating the implementation of a social skills program called the Incredibly Flexible You. It is an amazing and child-friendly program that essentially teaches children social skills as cognitive skills.

Besides the developments in programming, much attention has been paid to the physical infrastructure as well. In its first two years Gesher was housed in the preschool building of the Yeshiva of South Shore. The yeshiva has been incredibly supportive of Gesher and its purpose. As projected, Gesher required additional space to accommo-

date the growing demand.

The expansive facility of Congregation Ohr Torah in North Woodmere now serves as the new home for the Gesher Early Childhood Center. Tremendous thought and effort was expended to ready the building for the needs of the Gesher programming.

Individualized spaces and beautiful new furniture were readied for related service providers to work with students.

The indoor gym and large common area were prepared for group usage. The new playground was erected and installed.

And the children have been enjoying all of the brand new play equipment.

Gesher recognizes the need to plan for and provide the quality equipment that allows each child to maximize their potential. Plans are underway for the completion of a new state of the art sensory gym.

The Gesher Early Childhood Center is very excited to provide the community with these new programs.

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Village of Lawrence Hosts Holiday Security Conference PHOTO CREDITS: GABRIEL SOLOMON OF LIFECAPTURE IMAGES

The global threat of terrorism was addressed on the local level as residents of the Village of Lawrence, recognizing that their high profile religious demographic and close proximity to J.F.K. Airport make them a primary target, responded to Lawrence Mayor Martin Oliner’s invitation to confer with law enforcement officials.

On September 19th, Lawrence Village Hall overflowed with more than

seventy community and religious leaders, synagogue rabbis and officers, school principals, educators and elected and appointed officials.

Mayor Oliner set the tone noting: “As the sole child of Holocaust survivors, and having been born in a DP (displaced persons’) camp, I am most sensitive to the threats we face as a community and am deeply troubled by the very real dangers arrayed against us around the world. Today we come together to ensure all possible measures are implemented to provide for the safety and welfare of our community.”

In attendance to hear and respond were Nassau County District Attorney (and Congressional candidate) Kathleen Rice, Nassau County Acting Police Commissioner Thomas C. Krumpter, Detective Lt. Gary Shapiro, County Legislators Howard Kopel and Denise Ford, and Auxiliary Police Deputy Inspector Danny Gluck.

All present made it clear that the meeting’s primary goal was to articulate a unified desire to ensure that the community be secure and protected during the High Holidays, and to respectfully, but firmly, demand that government officials provide that protection through informed, well thought-out law enforcement strategies. They agreed with Oliner’s emphasis on the critical need for a more visible and consistent police presence and especially that of uniformed officers. They also endorsed the May-

or’s demand for a police presence at every synagogue within the community.

The Mayor noted that if finances were the issue, then the County should find the funds to provide the protection the current emergency situation requires.

Introducing District Attorney Rice, Mayor Oliner cited her record of aggressive prosecution of crimes affecting safety and quality of life, and praised her ongoing efforts in helping to protect

all County residents through innovative programs and effective utilization of resources, grateful for her attention to any acts of anti-Semitism.

Clearly appreciative of the audience’s grasp of the issue, and focus on indeed finding a viable local solution to a global problem threatening to invade the community, District Attorney Rice reaffirmed her commitment to fully and aggressively prosecute all hate crimes and supported both the Mayor’s and Police Commissioner’s contention that a visible police presence is the strongest deterrent and surest protection. The District Attorney emphasized that bias crimes, crimes that single out a single community and seek to paralyze it with fear, and both physically and emotionally damage its members, will not be tolerated or treated lightly by her office.

She added that members of her staff are currently working in conjunction with the Long Island Jewish Community Relations Council, which through the generosity of a concerned resident, has

increased the reward given to those who provide information regarding perpetrators of bias/hate crimes.

Police Commissioner Krumpter, joined by NCPD’s Chiefs of Department and Patrol as well as Fourth Precinct Commanders, and the Community Affairs Commanding Officer and Bias Crimes Coordinator noted that the NCPD’s 2,200 officers are all aware of the danger posed to the Jewish Community and, irrespective of their specific assignment, are trained to recognize potential threats. The Commissioner further shared the police department’s strategy that includes substantially increased uniform patrols, the dispatch of plain-clothes officers and extensive use of intelligence data to anticipate and prevent organized acts of terror.

The audience, though concerned about the potential for “lone wolf” acts and desirous of the allocation of maximum manpower and resources, was nevertheless heartened by the Commissioner’s commitment, genuine concern and willingness to consider new ideas, as well as the formation of a 100 member special investigations unit.

Leaders present were urged to promulgate among their respective constituents the practice of “if you see something, say something” and the use of 911 to report emergencies, and posters and leaflets were distributed. Announced as well, was the availability of a specially created “Nassau County Police Department Terrorism Threat/Bias Incident Dedicated Phone Line” for institutions to use during the holiday season - (516) 573-7720, with the assurance that assigned law enforcement personnel would respond and investigate each report.

Mayor Oliner offered several suggestions wherein the community could help law enforcement, including providing Lawrence’s 4th Precinct with schedules of local services so police could be at specific sites at key times when crowds are greatest.

Some attendees suggested armed

guards stationed within places of worship though the consensus was that police, auxiliary police and security posted outside would be sufficient.

The meeting demonstrated neighborhood and government coming together to confront a common threat.

The meeting’s success was apparent over Rosh Hashanah as Nassau Police units were prominent at all synagogues throughout the day and evening, and especially at “high volume” times when crowds were most concentrated. In a unique, but highly effective tactic, the Village of Lawrence, at Mayor Oliner’s direction, posted Village vehicles at prominent locations to provide yet another visible “official presence”.

Those in attendance at the security conference and the many who have since benefitted from its results, agree that law enforcement and community, working together, can provide peace, security and a level of safety for all as we confront a common foe.

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Eldercare II: Achiezer Gears Up for Massive Eldercare Conference After three years of steady requests (“When are you going to do another one?!”), Achiezer has finally announced the upcoming presentation of Eldercare II, an eldercare conference designed to address the issues and questions facing our community today. Slated for December, the conference will be even bigger, even better, and even more comprehensive than its highly successful predecessor in 2011.

“Eldercare is becoming a bigger and bigger issue for our community,” explains Rabbi Boruch Ber Bender. “More and more people are looking ahead to the future, and asking themselves about the smartest options for themselves and their parents as they face the years ahead. Some of those people are caregivers already, who are already in the thick of handling major issues with regards to the care of their elderly parents.

Others are simply mature adults who want to know that they’ve done their utmost to wisely and responsibly plan for financial and medical futures, whether their own or their parents’.”

The conference program has arisen largely in response to the hundreds

of eldercare-related questions that Achiezer fields on a regular basis. The world of eldercare is a confusing one, fraught with details and intricacies that all must be understood and properly navigated in order to achieve the best results. Achiezer has pulled together an incredible roster of experts which will address a broad array of issues from a variety of angles, including finance, rehabilitation, insurance, law, halacha, psychiatric health, endof-life, and living arrangements. The conference will also feature numerous pavilions showcasing products and services designed for eldercare, including managed care, home health, rehabilitation, accessibility, safety, medicine, insurance, emotional support, chessed organizations, and government programs.

With everything that the conference has to offer, perhaps the most valuable aspect is that of bringing our community clear-cut guidance on every aspect of eldercare, enabling everyone in our community to truly give our senior population the best care possible.

An Inspirational Rosh Hashanah at BJX Rosh Hashanah isn’t just Jewish New Years. It’s when we coronate Hashem and seek to demonstrate our love to all of Hashem’s children so that we are assured a good judgment. Where can one coronate Hashem as Kings of all kings with the full gamut of all His children present?

Where can one find inspiration and true love for all Jews?

The Brooklyn Jewish Xperience Kiruv and Chizuk Center (BJX) was packed to the gills on Rosh Hashanah. Unaffiliated and secular Jews from various parts of Brooklyn walked away inspired by Rav Fingerer’s words of wisdom and uplifted by the heart-warming melodies.

The Frum members of BJX had an especially meaningful Rosh Hashanah as they were able to showcase true ahavas Yisroel and share the yom tov spirit with unaffiliated brothers and sisters. Those who participated had the unique opportunity to coronate Hashem with the full spectrum of His children. After the davening, a long procession of young professionals made their way around the corner from

BJX to the ballroom of a local catering hall. “I saw this large parade of people proceeding down the block to the BJX Rosh Hashanah dinner. They all looked like angels. I immediately felt drawn to them,” said Dr. Faye Zakheim.

Young professionals who joined BJX for the other-worldly davening and the festive Rosh Hashanah dinner came from all over Brooklyn and from as far away as Australia, Peru and the Netherlands.

Everyone left the yom tov meal enriched and spiritually attuned to the Jewish New Year.

“When I experienced my first Rosh Hashanah with BJX several years ago in a catering hall for the Rosh Hashanah dinner, I saw for the first time that there were Jews from Brooklyn who had no idea what Rosh Hashanah was. That was a real wake up call for me,” said Moshe Caller. “Davening these past two years with BJX have has been the most powerful yomim noraim in my life,” said Caller.

Two professionals who came from downtown Brooklyn related, “This hol-

iday experience with the spiritual focus was the perfect way for us to begin the New Year. If not for tonight’s program, we wouldn’t have had a Rosh Hashanah.”

Perhaps, Paul, a young professional who works for an investment bank, summed it up best. “This was the first time I ever observed Rosh Hashanah [and Shabbos]. It was amazing. Rabbi Fingerer has more passion and energy than any rabbi I’ve ever met. He loves serving Hashem and bringing Jews closer to Judaism. Everything was great, thank you!”

Two days prior to Rosh Hashanah, BJX had the monumental zechus of making a bris for one of their students.

A 25-year-old American man who began attending classes at the Brooklyn Jewish Xperience over four years ago finally received a bris.

Clifton was presented with an Artscroll Chumash and siddur and a pair of tzitzis. He said, “I am so happy and fortunate that I am able to do this

bris.” Clifton was elated by the number of community members who came to shake his hand and wish him mazel tov on this milestone. He was escorted to his bris with singing and clapping. Rav Fingerer spoke about Clifton’s progress and achievements and saluted Clifton as an inspiration to all of klal Yisroel.

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Thousands Participating in Dirshu Daf HaYomi L’Bochurim Bein Hazemanim Program

By Chaim Gold Wherever one sees bachurim these days, one of the things they are talking about is, “Are you joining Daf HaYomi B’Halacha L’Bachurim? Did you see who is giving the shiurim?!”

This year, Dirshu’s famed Daf HaYomi B’Halacha schedule coincides with Sukkos. As the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha progresses through the final chelek of Mishnah Berurah towards completing its first seven-year cycle and its major siyum next spring, the program is providentially learning the halachos of Sukkos… on Sukkos! The hanhala of Dirshu felt that bein hazemanim would be an optimum time to afford bachurim the opportunity to learn the important halachos of hilchos yeshivas Sukkah – the laws of sitting in the sukkah, while simultaneously giving structure to the daily learning during bein hazemanim. The program provides shiurim on the halachos by prominent gedolim and poskim and offer the bachurim the chance to take tests and experience the success of accountable yedias haTorah similar to that being experienced by tens of thousands of lomdei Dirshu the world over each month.

For the program that is running both in America and Eretz Yisroel, under the title “Kinyan Sukkah,” Dirshu has published a special Mishnah Berurah booklets containing the entire seder halimud and schedule encompassing siman 639642.

The program has not only garnered the attention of the thousands of bachurim who have joined Dirshu but, even more importantly, it has earned the admiration and enthusiastic haskamos of roshei yeshiva from throughout America and Eretz Yisrael.

Bein Hazemanim – A Time to Strengthen Oneself in Learning In a letter that displays his admiration for both the bein hazemanim Daf HaYomi B’Halacha L’Bachurim program and for Dirshu’s harbatzos haTorah and chizuk haTorah, HaGaon HaRav Reuven Feinstein, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Staten Island, writes, “Immediately following the holy day of Yom Kippur is bein hazemanim where the talmidei hayeshivos leave the walls of the yeshiva’s beis medrash… It is possible [if care is not taken] to lose all of the wonderful acquisitions of the yemei ratzon, before they even return for the winter zman.

“For this reason, it is clear that the

distinguished menahelim of Dirshu, the faithful organization that is known for its efforts to strengthen Torah and Torah learners in so many different ways, has stepped into the breach by creating a special learning program [in hilchos Sukkah] for the bein hazemanim and has created shiurim by well-known maggidei shiur as well as created tests…so that the bein hazemanim will be…a continuation of the spiritual ascent accomplished during Elul zman….”

In a seminal letter hand-written by the Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha of Lakewood, HaGaon HaRav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler, shlita and co-signed by HaGaon HaRav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of South Fallsburg, and HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Feivel Schustal, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Neos Yaakov, Rav Kotler hails Dirshu and its “special program for yeshivos gedolos and mesivtos for learning halacha l’maaseh during bein hazemanim and strengthening learning during bein hazemanim and preventing a slackening off in learning…”

Shiurim on Hilchos Sukkah Given

by Roshei Yeshiva, Rabbanim and Poskim in 15 Communities One of the most exciting innovations of the Bein Hazemanim Daf HaYomi B’Halacha L’Bachurim program is the inaugural shiurim being given by leading roshei yeshiva, poskim and rabbonim on the first day of bein hazemanim, 11 Tishrei/October 5 in fifteen communities throughout the United States and Canada.

In Baltimore, Harav Yosef Berger, shlita, will be giving the inaugural shiur at his shul, Kehillas Kol Torah. In Boro Park, HaRav Yitzchok Zalman Gips, shlita, will be giving the opening shiur at his shul, Kehillas Birchas Avrohom. In Chicago, the Mashgiach of the Telshe Yeshiva, Harav Avrohom Lipschutz, shlita, will deliver the opening shiur at the Chicago Center for Torah and Chessed, and in Cleveland, Harav Boruch Hirschfeld, shlita, Rav Kehillas Ahavas Yisroel and Rosh Kollel Ateres Boruch, will deliver the shiur at the Agudas Yisroel of Cleveland. In Detroit, Harav Aharon Sorscher, shlita, R”M at Mesivta Yagdil Torah, will deliver the shiur on Monday, October 6 at the Kollel Institute of Detroit.

Moving onto the Five Towns, Harav Yaakov Bender, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, will deliver the

yashiv wrote a haskama profusely praising Dirshu’s program and especially their new halacha program of daily Mishnah Berurah, “As the Chofetz Chaim writes in his introduction to the Mishnah Berurah that the main thing learning must be is learning that brings to practical action.”

Rav Yisroel Reisman, shlita, will Rav Yaakov Bender, shlita, will In Eretz Yisroel too, give the shiur at Agudah Bais deliver the shiur at the Agudah of thousands have joined Binyomin in Flatbush West Lawrence the Bein Hazemanim Sukkos program on shiur at the Agudah of West Lawrence. In hilchos yeshivas Sukkah. At the end of Flatbush, Harav Yisroel Reisman, shlita, bein hazemanim, a test will be held and, Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and as in all of Dirshu’s programs, there will Rav of Agudas Yisroel of Madison, will be rewards for excellent scores.

Powerful letters of approbation for the give the shiur at the Agudah Bais BinySukkos Bein Hazemanim Daf HaYomi omin Branch.

In Lakewood, HaGaon HaRav Malk- B’Halacha L’Bachurim program were iel Kotler, shlita, will deliver a pesicha also written by HaGaon HaRav Aharon shiur at Kehal Shearis Adas Yisroel. Feldman, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Moving out west to Los Angeles, Harav Ner Yisrael, Baltimore, HaGaon HaRNachum Sauer, shlita, Rosh Kollel of av Dovid Olefsky, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva YULA, will deliver the shiur at Rav Ein- Mesivta Beis Yisroel, Ger, and HaGaon horn’s shul and in Monsey the shiur will HaRav Moshe Heinemann, shlita, Rav of be given by Rav Yosef Veiner at his shul, the Agudas Yisroel of Baltimore.

Kehal Sha’ar HaShamayim.

Further up north in Canada, Harav The Sweetness of Accountable Yochanan Wosner, shlita, Av Beis Din of Limud HaTorah Skver and Rov of Skver Montreal, will Perhaps the words of Rav Heinemann deliver the shiur at the Skverer Shteibel. best encapsulate the tremendous revoluIn Passaic, Harav Asher Dovid May, shl- tion being wrought by Dirshu’s bringing ita, Rosh Kollel at the Yeshiva Gedolah practical halacha to the masses in an unof Passaic, will deliver the shiur at Bais precedented fashion.

Torah U’Tefillah. In Shikun Skver, the He writes, “Moshe Rabbeinu learned shiur will be given by Harav Ephraim with klal Yisrael the halachos of every Greenbaum, shlita, Skverer Dayan at the yom tov on that particular yom tov… and main Skverer Beis Medrash. In Toronto, the Bnei Yisrael accepted on themselves the shiur will be delivered at the Agudas for future generations to always learn the Yisrael shul, by Harav Chaim Mendel halachos of each yom tov in advance of Brodsky, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva that yom tov. Dirshu is [going in that halGedolah Zichron Shmayahu, and in Wil- lowed path] and being mezakeh es haraliamsburg, the Tzhelemer Dayan, Harav bim by [facilitating this learning].”

Aharon Zilberstein, shlita, will deliver One mesivta rebbi who has severthe shiur at the Vienner Beis Medrash. al talmidim in the program exclaimed, “It is amazing to see how excited they Powerful Hamlatzos from Gedolei are about the program! I want them to Rosh Yeshiva and Rabbanim come out of the bein hazemanim not only The passionate support of the gedolim knowing hilchos Sukkah but also with in America for the Daf HaYomi B’Hala- the sweetness in their mouth of success cha program echoes the enthusiasm of in accountable limud haTorah and a feelthe poseik hador, Hagaoon Harav Yosef ing that they are part of an amazing ToShalom Elyasiv, zt”l for the Daf HaYomi rah movement that is being mezakeh klal B’Halacha program when it was first re- Yisrael!” leased six years ago. At that time, Rav El-

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Five Towns Marriage Initiative The Happiness of Being Complete Sukkos is called “Zman Simchaseinu,” the season of rejoicing. This season of rejoicing refers primarily to farmers. For the “olden day” farmer, Sukkos was soon after they completed harvesting their crops. This was the time of year that the farmer was the

wealthiest. Hashem in His infinite wisdom set up Sukkos to immediately follow the harvest. One reason for this was to ensure that we keep the proper perspective on life and not confuse wealth with happiness.

The Hebrew language has ten differ-

ent words to describe happiness. Various commentators explain the differences between the different terminologies.

The Maharal explains that simcha is the emotion one feels when one is complete and not lacking. The Malbim explains that simcha is different from other

expressions of happiness in that simcha is a constant as opposed to other terms, like gila which refer more to sudden spurts of joy. When a person feels simcha, it comes from a feeling of completeness and of not missing anything.

Exactly at the time when we are the richest Hashem commands us to leave our home and sit together with our family in a little, flimsy hut. This reminds us that even a flimsy, little hut, if it is filled with those we love, is a greater source of happiness than luxury and mansions.

It drives home the lesson to focus more on what we have than on what we don’t have.

This Sukkos let us be sure tap into the simcha of the Zman Simchaseinu by focusing on all that we have and appreciating the blessing in our life. It is a particularly appropriate time to spend some time focusing on the blessing of having a spouse. When we focus on the blessing of being married and how blessed we are to have our particular spouse, with all of his or her unique traits and strengths, we should be filled with the sense of happiness that comes from feeling complete.

May we merit this Sukkos to truly feel the happiness in this “season of rejoicing” as a result of focusing on all the sources of blessing in our lives.

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, 9:30-11p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516430-5280 or email dsgarry@msn.com.

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Around the Community Rambam Students Meet Nobel Prize Winner Rambam’s Meet the Author Book Club was pleased to meet the Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, Daniel Kahneman, at the 92nd Street Y on September 9th. Professor Kahneman, the author of the bestseller, Thinking Fast and Slow, is considered by many as one of the founding fathers of the relatively new field of Behavioral Economics, and is one of the most sought-after speakers in the country.

At this sold-out event, the Nobel winner, a professor at Princeton University, interviewed Columbia Professor Walter Mischel, about his new book, The Marshmallow Test. Mischel’s book seeks to understand if self-control is the secret to success in life and to discover if self-control is prewired, or if it can it be taught. Walter Mischel’s groundbreaking marshmallow test—in which children were presented with two marshmallows and given the choice of eating one now, or both later—revealed how will-power can predict everything from higher SAT scores to a greater sense of self-worth.

The interview featured an in-depth

look at Mischel’s career and the takeaways from his watershed test. Following the interview, the Rambam students met both authors and had their books signed. Additionally, senior Dovid Fodiman asked Professor Kahneman about his relationship to the Ponovezher Rav, his supposed relative.

After the meet and greet, the Rambam students davened Maariv, led by Meet The Author Book Club Captain, Zach Beer, and were treated to coffee/ ice-cream by the club’s adviser, Mr. Hillel Goldman.

This event marks the kick-off of this year’s Meet the Author Book Club agenda. In previous years, the Club has met Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis, Veronica Roth, Elie Wiesel, and numerous other literary luminaries. The nights are always full of intellectual pursuit, chevra,andseeingthepagecometolife.

Machon Basya Rochel Seminary Torah Inspiration for our Community’s Women Machon Basya Rochel Seminary, located in the heart of Lawrence, was instrumental in helping the women of the community prepare for the yomim noraim. In the month of September, since the beginning of the school year, the seminary hosted several inspirational events open to all women of the area.

Two showings of the Chofetz Heritage Foundation’s Elul Tiferes DVD were presented. This DVD is shown monthly and is sponsored by Henya Storch in honor of her mother, Mrs. Florence Penkin of Woodmere. The DVD was titled “The Gates of Elul” and featured Rabbi Don Kracner and Mrs. Shoshie Nissenbaum.

At the events, the seminary raffled off a beautiful white challah cover and tablecloth donated by Closeout Connections.

The winner was Mrs. Phyliss Gorfinkel.

Proceeds of the raffle went to the Machon Basya Rochel Scholarship Fund.

This fund ensures that every girl is able

to have a quality seminary education.

In addition to the Tiferes program, the seminary opened on Monday morning, September 21, for a Rosh Hashana Yom Iyun. Women of the community were able to join the seminary students for shiurim to prepare for the upcoming yom tov. Speakers included the seminary’s Chumash instructor, Mrs. Devorah Muskat, and the seminary’s Menaheles, Rebbitzen Aviva Feiner. Guest speaker was Rabbi Yehoshua Kurland, R”M in Yeshiva Sh’or Yoshuv. The women who attended were given practical thoughts on teshuva and tefilla to add to their personal yom tov. The seminary also hosted a raffle that morning with prizes donated by Closeout Connection, Amazing Savings and Judaica Plus.

Additional adult education will begin after Sukkos. For more information, please contact 516-362-5000 or mbrseminary@gmail.com.

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Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Care and Concern for their Patients Each day, at 1:50 pm, Herman care for their family members. Joseph Gancz, former resident of Kew Gardens Gurwin made the naming gift, UJA-FedHills and current resident at the Gurwin eration of NY provided a loan, and many Jewish ~ Fay J. Lindner others in the community got Residences assisted living behind the project. Before community, waits outside long, we had transformed a the doors of the lobby for surplus school into the GurRabbi Shmuel Greenhaus win Center,” he said. to pick him up. They are But once the nursing on their way to the 2:00 home opened, Friedman pm minyan, just across the says the needs of the comparking lot, at the Gurwin munity kept changing, and Jewish Nursing & RehabilGurwin changed with them. itation Center, in the syna“Right away, we saw needs gogue there. Gancz is one Executive Vice President and in the community that we of several assisted living CEO Herbert H. Friedman knew had to be filled – our residents who attend the minyan each adult day health program opened a year day, and he says the availability of that later, then our home care programs, then daily service was one of the reasons he we added another 160 beds in a new pachose to live at Gurwin’s assisted living residences.

“It’s important to me,” he said.

Gancz is one of more than 220 residents at the assisted living community, which offers limited care and an active social calendar within the framework of an observant Jewish culture, including weekly Shabbat services, traditional holiday services and elegant kosher dining.

Located just over the Suffolk County border in Commack, the assisted living community shares the Jewish Communal Campus of Long Island with Gurwin’s 460-bed nursing and rehabilitation center, home care programs and adult day health program, as well as the Suffolk vilion,” he said. Assisted living, he says, Y-JCC, for which membership is com- was the next logical step, and the one that plimentary for residents at Gurwin. would allow Gurwin’s growing health “We opened as a kosher nursing home system to care for aging adults at every with 300 beds in 1988,” says Herbert H. stage of their lives.

Friedman, a resident of Lawrence and The nursing home’s name changed the Executive Vice President and CEO of from the Gurwin Jewish Geriatric CenGurwin Jewish. “There was a group of ter to the Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Relay leaders in Suffolk County who saw habilitation Center in 2007, to reflect an the need for a kosher nursing home to emphasis on the short-term rehabilitative

The 17th Annual Kinus Teshuva of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway was held last week at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Michael Spiegel of Far Rockaway. The presenters were Rabbi Yechiel Perr, Rosh Hayeshiva, and Rabbi Aaron Brafman, menahel. Pictured here are Mr. Michael Spiegel, host, Rabbi Yechiel Perr, Rosh Hayeshiva, and Rabbi Aaron Brafman, menahel.

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care that was becoming more of a focus for the Center. “As the needs of the community change, we add services to meet those needs,” Friedman said. “Now, 120 of our 460 beds are dedicated to short term rehabilitation, where our residents spend between 10 days and three weeks with us after an extended hospital stay, complicated surgery, or an orthopedic joint replacement.”

And Friedman understands better than most the needs of the residents at Gurwin. His own father was a resident at the nursing and rehabilitation center for 26 months, and was the first patient to use the on-site dialysis center when it opened. “Our on-site medical clinic gives us the ability to provide most care our residents need right here, without sending them out. We added an on-site dialysis center for just that reason, to provide the care our residents need, right here,” he said.

As Director of Pastoral Care, Rabbi Zev Schostak cares for the religious needs of all residents, including oversight of the kosher kitchens. “Our meals are strictly kosher, with three full-time mashgichim to ensure the highest standards of kashrus supervision,” he said.

Besides caring for their residents’ physical health, Gurwin staff members make it a point to care for them socially and spiritually, as well. “Our residents, whether at the nursing & rehabilitation center or in assisted living, have a wide variety of programming available to them,” said Karen Nash, CTRS, Director

Synagogue in Gurwin’s assisted living community (Gurwin Jewish ~ Fay J. Lindner Residences)

of Therapeutic Recreation at the Center. “They attend continuing education courses, create beautiful works of art, see movies and go on trips, all as part of the outstanding Therapeutic Recreation offerings. In addition, there is ample spiritual programming, which is comforting to residents in both communities,” she said.

With so much going on, it’s hard to imagine that there would be more on the horizon for Gurwin. “We recently finalized plans for an independent housing community, which will be located on 10 acres of land contiguous to our current campus,” Friedman said. “This community will offer an upscale, active lifestyle to those 65 and over, with the ability to move into our assisted living community if needed, and to take advantage of all the services Gurwin offers as necessary.”

For more information on any of Gurwin’s services, call (631) 715-2000, or email info@gurwin.org. With all Gurwin has to offer, it’s worth the trip across the county line!

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Jewish Women Uniting in New Global Movement

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Harav Nossen Zupnik, Rosh HaYeshivah Mesivta Shaarei Chaim of Far Rockaway, checking esrogim

Perpetuating the lifework and legacy of his beloved wife, Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky z”l, the Gaon Rav Chaim Kanievsky has inaugurated a global Jewish women’s movement— Ner Echad. Thousands of Jewish women, from every background and level of observance, are now lighting Shabbos candles and praying for each other, while automatically contributing one dollar each week to the Batsheva Kanievsky Widow and Children’s Fund. The monies raised will enable Rav Chaim, and his daughter, Rebbetzin Leah Kolodetsky, with the input of a specially appointed beis din, to continue

HAFTR Hawks Win

What a way to start off a season!

Just being in the championship game of the Magen David tournament was not enough for the Hawks. The boys’ Varsity HAFTR Hawks Basketball Team opened the Magen David pre-season tournament by beating Flatbush by 10 last week. Next up was the Ramaz Rams in the semi-finals. In a hard fought game, the Hawks pulled out a 4th quarter victory and earning a berth in the championship game against the favored North Shore Stars.

In one of the most thrilling games in league history, the Hawks and Stars battled it out, staying within 3 points of each other for the entire 2nd half. You couldn’t have asked for a better championship game. With the game tied at the half and again at the end of the 3rd quarter, this was going to be won by the team that wanted it the most. HAFTR found itself down 1 with 10 seconds to go. After a missed shot by the Hawks, center Abie Perlow grabbed the rebound and got fouled with 9/10th of a

second left on the clock. Abie calmly sank both ends of the one and one foul shots to propel the Hawks to a 43-42 victory allowing HAFTR to take home the championship trophy.

While the regular season is still far away, the HAFTR Hawks sent a very loud message to the league that they are a team to watch out for.

Congratulations to the Varsity Hawks!

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to support Israel’s neediest women and children, those who received Rebbetzin Kanievsky’s financial support before her sudden and untimely passing.

Every Ner Echad member receives a weekly notification, alerting her of candle lighting time in her area, giving her the name of a fellow member to have in mind in her prayers that week, and thanking her for her weekly donation. All donations are automatically collected each Erev Shabbos and Yom Tov at the exact same moment—candle lighting time in Jerusalem, the spiritual center of the world—making it one tremendous, unified act of charity.

Women helping women and doing mitzvos together. These are the hallmarks of Ner Echad. As Rav Chaim Kanievsky declared: “Never before in the history of the Jewish people have thousands of women joined together— lighting candles, giving tzedakah, and praying for one another. Ner Echad will certainly generate a living wellspring of spiritual and material blessing, an enormous protective shield for you, your family, and the entire Jewish nation.”

To be a part of this exciting new movement, visit www.NerEchad.org or call 844-N-E-R-E-C-H-A-D.

The Sounds of the Shofar at HALB The HALB Lev Chana Early Childhood Center kindergarten and nursery 4 children enjoyed a special visit from Rabbi Yair Oppen, sofer, baal tokaya and owner of Oppen Scrolls, last week. The children sat entranced as Rabbi Oppen stood before a table crammed with shofrot from many different kosher animals.

He explained that it is the twisted horn of an ayal which is the preferred one we use to blow during Chodesh Elul and on Rosh Hashanah, because it reminds us of the horns of the animal that Avraham Aveinu pulled free from the bush at Akeidas Yitzchok. This shofar reminds Hashem how Avraham listened to Him and loved doing His mitzvot.

Rabbi Oppen demonstrated how twisted horns also remind us that we need to be humble, bent over, when we daven to Hakodesh Baruch Hu. The children were able to tell Rabbi Oppen that we blow the shofar to tell us to wake up and do teshuva and mitzvot, and to be aware that the King of the Universe, Hashem

is coming.

They were excited to be able to help Rabbi Oppen demonstrate how the three different kolot sounded like the sounds we make when we cry. Our children carefully felt the smooth and rough shofrot that were passed around. Thank you Rabbi Oppen for a fun and educational program.

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Community Yoeli Steinberg, VP of Gourmet Glatt Emporium; Senator Chuck Schumer; Congressional candidate Kathleen Rice; and Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder at Gourmet Glatt Emporium last week

Camp HASC – Where an “Ordinary” Summer is Absolutely Extraordinary This past camping season was quite an “ordinary” Camp HASC summer, similar to summers in the past...But an “ordinary” summer in Camp HASC is absolutely extraordinary!

As usual, over 300 campers with a wide variety of intellectual and physical disabilities had the greatest summer of their lives. They enjoyed the social experience of making new friends and reconnecting with old ones. They enjoyed the engaging recreation program offered in Camp HASC, which includes adaptive swimming in HASC’s wheelchair accessible, indoor heated pools, art, music, sports, Torah learning, cooking, gardening, adaptive bike riding, game room, calisthenics, indoor playground and scores of creatively themed night activity events. They worked hard with their teachers in the acclaimed HASC Summer Academics Program on improving their academic skills and meeting their personal goals. They worked steadily with their therapists towards their physical, occupational and speech therapy goals in the unique HASC Summer Program Therapy department.

As usual, quite a number of campers reached major milestone achievements this summer, including learning to feed themselves, taking their first unassisted steps, learning to swim, writing their names and making a siyum on a masechta of Mishnayos.

As usual, over 400 yeshiva and college-aged staff members’ lives were transformed as they lovingly cared for others in a way that they have never before experienced. These young men and women have returned to their yeshivot, programs and communities with new perspectives on life. They have learned to always focus on another person’s

strengths, to reject labels which limit others, to appreciate all that we are fortunate to have, and to realize that we are most fortunate to have the ability to give and care for others.

As usual, hundreds of parents and caretakers got well-deserved respite and the time to relax and reinvigorate. Family members had the opportunity to give attention to others, to go on trips or vacations, or just recharge in a way that may not have been possible during the year.

And as usual, klal Yisrael united in Camp HASC this summer! The events of this past summer touched the hearts of so many, and showed that there is so much ahavas Yisrael and “good will” inside us all, just waiting for the opportunities to shine. Some examples of the “barrier breaking” ahavas chinam which was experienced in Camp HASC this summer included: -Our connection to our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael and our support to our brave chayalim. “From Camp HASC with love to the IDF” was a beautiful video produced by our talented technology team sending our love and tefillos across the ocean to our family and friends in Eretz Yisrael.

-HASC Experience Day and Visiting Days, when over a thousand families from all walks of life and from communities around the country gathered to visit their family members and friends, to celebrate their children’s accomplishments together, and to support one another.

What special displays of ahavas Yisrael! Affiliations with a particular movement, community or label will not get in the way of Jews uniting to support their loved ones and to support the efforts to care for people with special needs!

-Visits by many rabbanim and com-

munity leaders from across the Jewish world. We were honored to host the Mashgiach of the Lakewood Yeshiva, Rav Matisyahu Solomon, as well as Rebbetzin Solomon, for a truly memorable visit. It was so special to see the Mashgiach and the Rebbetzin share brachos with the campers and staff members, and to hear them express their appreciation for the holy work which takes place in HASC. We also had the special opportunity to hear from Rav Moshe Weinberger, Mara D’asra of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere and Mashgiach Ruchani at Yeshiva University, as well as many other notable speakers and personalities.

-The celebration of Bar and Bat Mitzvahs of our campers. We were so fortunate to celebrate five special and emotional Bar and Bat Mitzvahs of our campers with their families. For so many campers and families, Camp HASC is the place where they feel completely comfortable

to be themselves and express themselves, and it is the perfect place to celebrate this special occasion.

-Every “ordinary” day in Camp HASC is a truly special achdus experience, as campers, staff and families from so many communities and backgrounds work together in harmony and grow to appreciate one another. Our counselors knew that they had signed up to work with individuals with special needs, and our camper families knew that they had signed their children up to have an enjoyable summer; but they emerged with so much more.

And as usual, even before the summer of 2014 had come to an end, planning for the summer of 2015 had already begun.

Plans to continue to improve our care and programming are well underway!

All in all, this was a pretty “ordinary” summer in Camp HASC. But an “ordinary” summer in Camp HASC is absolutely extraordinary!

CPR Saves Lives On Sunday morning, Tzom Gedaliah, nearly 60 women filled the Achiezer office on Central Avenue to partake in the ongoing community-wide health training series presented by Achiezer and Hatzalah. Feeding off the success of previous classes as well as an increase in demand, CPR and choking procedures were taught to all attendees in two separate rooms: one for Spanish caregivers and one in English for women. It was only one month ago that Achiezer received a dramatic email from an emotional mom, whose choking baby had literally been saved by a Spanish housekeeper who had just learned these proce-

dures at the last offered class.

As one attendee at last week’s class summed it up nicely in a short thank you note, “Thank you very much for hosting the CPR course today. It was extremely informative and vitally important. I really appreciate the effort Achiezer and Hatzalah put into ensuring the safety of ourselves and our families.”

Achiezer and Hatzalah would like to once again thank Mrs. Malky Tropper for instructing the women’s class and Mr. Michael Vatch, Joshua Hans and Mendy Ackerman of SeniorCare EMS for arranging the Spanish language instructor.

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The New Face of Women’s Health: Maternity-Focused Hospital Gives Dedicated Care to Women

By Daniela Berkowitz Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center (MHMC) in Bnei Brak is making waves in Israel for its attention, care and tailored services for women’s health issues.

Established in 1990, the hospital ranks 21st in size out of Israel’s nearly 50 hospitals, yet the Israel Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the state’s Ministry of Health found that MHMC ranked number three for the highest number of births, according to statistics released in November 2013.

There are at least 1,000 births each month and over 12,000 births annually, according to Dr. Benny Chayen, the hospital’s director of obstetrics and gynecology. Nearly all of these births are to Jewish families, representing Mayanei Hayeshua’s commitment to the sanctity of Jewish life.

The large birth rate is particularly because of the local population MHMC serves, said Chayen. “It is very common for our staff to deliver women who have 10, 12 or even 14 children,” he pointed out. Recently, the hospital celebrated the birth of twins, a family’s 19th and 20th children, whose mother had gave birth to all her children at MHMC. “This is what we mean by a family hospital,” said Shulamit Nahon, associate director of MHMC’s foreign relations and resource development.

The hospital stands on the value of patient-centered care, especially for expectant and new mothers. Immediately upon entering the lobby, patients see a clean hospital that is light and airy. It is modest, quiet and charming, with most services based in one building. There are two post-partum floors

that can hold 120 patients at any given time. MHMC’s high-risk unit holds 31.

There are 13 delivery room suites – all recently renovated to include a ceiling skylight and state-of-the-art monitoring equipment. Each suite has a private bathroom and a dedicated staff that monitors and assists throughout the delivery. Also at the hospital are a dedicated women’s health emergency room, neonatal unit and neonatal intensive care unit for premature babies.

The hospital is looking to build a third maternity ward to meet the rising demand and rapid expansion of MHMC’s specialized services.

The intimate, friendly feel and the experienced staff at MHMC also are attracting many secular families from across central Israel seeking quality care in a comfortable environment.

Last month, Neta Mali, a birthing coach from a nearby Tel Aviv suburb, wrote on a popular Israeli news blog about how the services at MHMC eased her worries prior to her third birth, which was considered high-risk. As a natural birth advocate, Mali was devastated when she found out she would have to deliver through a Caesarean section, but doctors at MHMC supported her and delivered her son naturally.

This is a particularly common story at MHMC, said Chayen. “Using care and technique, we deliver many women who have had one or two C-section deliveries previously, yet we are able to carefully deliver them naturally when suitable,” he explained. “Not all women are able to do this but our staff is dedicated to prioritizing women’s health, needs and requests.”

HaRav Yonason Sacks, Rosh HaYeshiva, Beis Medrash L’Talmud/Lander College for Men, spoke on Aseres Yemei Teshuva at the White Shul last week. Pictured here are Rabbi Eytan Feiner, Mara D’Asra of the White Shul, Congregation Kneseth Israel; HaRav Sacks; and Rabbi Shay Schachter, Assistant to Rabbi of the White Shul.

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In Israel, over 20% of births are by to protect the modesty of patients. The Caesarean section, but at MHMC, only program uses the most modern tech9.5% births are Caesarean sections, nology to make the testing quick and less burdensome. If the results show said Chayen. anything questionWhile offering able, women are an abundance of called in for a biopsy services, MHMC is at MHMC. Patients noted by patients for who need further care its “family feeling” are referred to oncoland relaxed ambiogy centres at other ance.

Chana Yair, area hospitals. Huna 25-year-old woman from Bnei Brak, dreds of women have recently gave birth participating in these to her first child at screenings.

MHMC. “It was a Additionally, the heavenly experience hospital regularly ofbecause the staff was fers pre-birth courses patient and relaxed for women and sepawith me, as I was rate sessions for men Dr. Benny Chayen, head of OB-GYN screaming in pain,” with doctors and rabat Mayanei Hayeshua she recalled. “I felt bis. Also on-site is a that I was in good fertility clinic that hands the whole time; I knew I was safe counsels and supports families who with the professional staff that helped may need treatment. Various seminars me through delivery. I was treated with on other public health topics take place special concern and I could not be hap- in the hospital’s conference room regularly. pier with my birth experience.”

MHMC has faced some resistance Community Prevention and to such program, though has reached Resources out to leading rabbis to give support Beyond maternity services, MHMC and approval. “We take great care to serves as a lighthouse for educating the show women that this is a necessary ultra-Orthodox community about pre- and life-saving test that is allowed and ventive health. In May, the hospital recommended by community leaders,” held a free seminar on women’s health, said Nahon. “We educate and hope that which attracted 40 women from the this spreads from mother to daughter, neighbourhood to hear from a panel of neighbors and friends.” women doctors about cancer, screenMHMC’s stance is one based in ings, genetic testing, and other related halacha, under guidance from leading topics. rabbis and Jewish scholars on Jewish “Because we are located in an insu- medical ethics. “The philosophy of lar place, we feel obligated to educate good medicine and good halacha go the community and provide as many hand-in-hand beautifully at Mayanei resources as possible to women who Hayeshua,” said Chayen. “It is never have never been taught about health a problem that most the staff is not and wellness previously,” said Nahon, religious, yet everyone is caring, unwho also coordinates the hospital’s derstanding and wonderfully skilled in free women’s screening and wellness providing care and promoting health.” programmes. Even advertising is done This unique “sanctity of life” moddiscretely and the hospital relies on el has resulted in positive results, both word-of-mouth for some of these pro- in terms of medical care and health grams. education. Mayanei Hayeshuva’s atAppealing to cultural sensitivi- mosphere of warmth and service has ties, Nahon and her colleagues have brought this relatively small and new launched a free cancer screening pro- hospital to the top of the ranks – espegram that promotes early detection, cially in offering comforts and dedicatheld in a discrete building near MHMC ed attention to women.

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Mesivta Yam Hatorah – Off to a Great Start

By Lorey Friedman The important lesson that Mesivta Yam HaTorah teaches its talmidim about always striving to improve and never being complacent with where one is was put into action by the Mesivta this year as it made many significant changes that highlight its goal of striving to be the best they can be.

In fact, the administration spent their summer putting together a program that offers opportunities both spiritually and academically. The yeshiva is dedicated to their students becoming true Ben Torah in every way.

The Mesivta welcomes Rabbi Nachum Dinowitz as their new secular principal. Rabbi Dinowitz has had an impressive career of being the science chair

in Yeshiva Darchei Torah for the past 18 years. He was the advisor to the Gildor international science competition. He holds a BA in psychology and a Master’s in Education. His dedication, vison, expertise and unstoppable energy will undoubtedly uplift the secular department.

The Hebrew Department welcomes Rabbi Yonah Stern to their staff. While he continues his important role of program director, this year (by popular demand) he has agreed to be a full time rebbe as well. Rabbi Stern, with his great ambition and dedication, will also be working with students in helping them improve their reading skills in both Gemara and Tanach as well as guiding the staff in proper teaching methodology of

reading.

Under the superb leadership of the Menahel Rabbi Eli Zoldan, the staff easily catches Rabbi Zoldan’s contagious drive to bring out the best in each and every talmid and focus on their strengths while remedying their weaknesses. Together, Rabbi Zoldan and Rosh Mesivta, Rabbi Avram Pollak, have created a mesivta with a positive environment towards growth, learning and success.

While so much goes on in the humble yeshiva currently housed in the Young Israel of Bayswater, MYHT places great emphasis on the importance of learning “outside” the classroom as well. The back to school barbeque brought tremendous achdus between the four grades.

Hot dogs and hamburgers satisfied the hungry teenage boys’ appetites while the intense volleyball tournament allowed for their athletic abilities to take over.

The winning team was treated to refreshing Slurpee’s at 7-Eleven.

Speaking of athletic ability, this year, in addition to the mesivta’s basketball team called the Wave, MYHT recently had try-outs for its new MYHT football team. Coach Akiva Goldschein of Kew Gardens Hills and his team, consisting of fourteen determined and motivated players, hope to have a great season.

Just last week, the whole yeshiva went on a super kayaking trip. Rebbes and students enjoyed the boating, water and all the fun of a day spent outdoors with friends and mentors. Sometimes the greatest lessons occur outside of the classroom.

Clubs and workshops are in formation. Sushi making, intro to guitar, and many other areas of interest to the boys will offer diversity in the boys’ schedules. Students will also be involved in the planning of carnivals, breakfasts, melava malkas, and other school and community events, together with the newly formed Parents Association.

Already in just a short time, Mesivta Yam HaTorah has shown that it is completely dedicated to their goal of producing Bnai Torah of the highest caliber.

They are in the process of making boys who learn because they want to learn, not because they have to learn. The relationships already established between rebbes/teachers and students encourage the boys to strive to be the best they can be. This is only the beginning of what’s in store for the students at Mesivta Yam HaTorah for the new year ahead.

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Otsar Joins the Five Towns for an Evening of Reflection On Tuesday night, Aseres Y’mai Tesuvah, Otsar Family Services presented a most enlightening evening lecture with two outstanding guest speakers to a spellbound audience. Esteemed rabbis, Rabbi Paysach Krohn and Rabbi Eytan Feiner of the White Shul, wowed the crowd with beautiful words of divrei Torah and chizuk.

Rabbi Teitelbaum, Morah D’Asrah of the Young Israel, started off the evening by welcoming the audience and the many new faces.

Rabbi Krohn started off his drasha giving accolades to the Otsar organization for the 34 years of working hand in hand with families of developmentally disabled children and adults. He went on to comment how happy the children and individuals are, and how they love Yiddishkeit and the holiday rituals and minhagim. Rabbi Krohn continued his speech discussing the recent war in Israel, the 18 days of fear and tragedy, especially with regard to the three innocent teenage boys who were murdered. He discussed the effect the war had on Am Yisrael, Jews in the U.S. and all across the globe, am echad k’nefesh echad.

Rabbi Feiner, dynamic and exuberant in his presentation, began by reading parts of a recent Otsar newsletter. He became very emotional as he quoted Ot-

sar’s Chevra, as they wanted to improve themselves and make positive changes in their own lives for the New Year. Rabbi Feiner went on to connect the yamim noraim and Aseres Y’mai Tesuvah to the old adage, “You are what you eat.”

In essence, we try to watch the foods we ingest; we must be more stringent with regard to what foods we eat and how we eat them. We must watch what we put into our mouths. In doing so, we will purify our hearts and enhance our tefillah to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Otsar Family Services thanks the Five Towns community for welcoming us and all our sponsors and participants for their tremendous support. May Hashem listen to our prayers during these yamim noraim and bestow us and our families the bracha of good health and happiness.

Midreshet Shalhevet Holds JCC Food Drive With all the yomim tovim coming up, Midreshet Shalhevet held a food drive to help out those in need. Over the past few weeks, the students collected non-perishable food items to be donated to the JCC of the Five Towns. After collecting boxes of food, a group of girls from each grade went to the JCC to deliver the food and stock the shelves. The JCC Food Pantry were thrilled to receive the donations of grape juice, honey, noodles, canned vegetables, soups, and more.

The JCC Food Pantry is a remarkable charity that sets their room up as a store, complete with carts and shopping bags so that everyone is treated as a real customer, no matter what they can afford. 10th

grader Yocheved Jacobs remarked, “It was incredible to see how the JCC really goes the extra mile to ensure that no one gets embarrassed from walking through their doors.” It was an amazing experience for all of the girls to see firsthand what a difference they made and a great way to start off the new year ahead!

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Children at the Learn & Live Program were treated to special guests this month.

Rabbi Zevi Trenk and Mr. M. Harbater, the baal tokea of the White Shul, showed the children different types of shofars and blew different sounds for them. On Tzom Gedaliah, Curtis the beekeeper showed the boys where honey comes from. The boys were able to bring home their very own Learn & Live honey jars.

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BBY Sherry Garber Preschool: Leading the Way in Safety Morah Yehudis Oppen, the Sherry Garber Preschool Director, has a reputation for treating her teachers like honored guests. She splurges on fruit platters, chocolate fountains, sushi, hot soup, and other assorted goodies on Rosh Chodesh and various other occasions. So it was no surprise to anyone that at one of her initial teachers’ meetings, Morah Yehudis provided beautiful paper goods and a matching jellybean décor, along with a muffin and iced cappuccino for each morah.

Dr. Debbie Dienstag was the featured speaker at the meeting. She discussed and demonstrated the use of an epi-pen in the case of an allergy emergency; taught the Heimlich maneuver; raised the awareness of various childhood diseases; and spoke about the most effective way to clean the inevitable preschool booboos. The teachers were able to direct their health questions and concerns to Dr. Dienstag which she answered in a clear and professional manner.

The Sherry Garber Preschool has es-

tablished a set of safety measures which have been in place for many years. There are no balloons allowed in school, grapes and hotdogs are cut before they are served, and popcorn is not an acceptable snack. Extreme vigilance is practiced with regards to ingredients of packaged snacks and birthday cupcakes so that no child who has allergies will ever be put in a dangerous situation. The preschool even orders special challah dough without eggs for their challah baking sessions if there is a child in the class with an egg allergy.

Safety is just one of the factors that BBY’s preschool focuses on. The children’s social, emotional, and academic life is handled with the same care and concern. Educational innovations, child assessments, classroom observations, and teacher enrichment workshops are all utilized in the pursuit of a productive and happy environment.

May all the preschool children have a safe, healthy, and successful year!

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Confidence, trusting in one’s self, trusting in others and striving for excel-

lence were just some of the many of the intended and achieved goals which were facilitated at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov’s ninth grade orientation outing to Project C.A.R.E. in Amityville last week. The freshman class had a memorable retreat through a challenging course of activities that included a tandem zip line, cat walk, high wire walk and more.

The outing was a success in helping the new arrivals bond with their peers and their rabbeim in a setting that promoted confidence, team-building, cohesiveness and cooperation.

Many talmidim faced their fears and rose above them. It was an inspiring experience for talmidim and

rabbeim alike. This event, besides being an opportunity to rejuvenate, was a great opportunity for these young men to solidify their self-esteem and confidence. “Doing these activities at Project C.A.R.E. was really challenging and scary,” said one freshman student, “but I pushed myself and feel stronger because of it.”

Rabbi Tsvi Greenfield, the Mesivta’s new Student Activities Coordinator, explained, “The goal of our freshman orientation trip is to promote individual and team growth, and this kind of outing accomplishes that. Our hope is that the students will recognize their true potential and use the tools they acquired on this trip to propel them to succeed on the highest levels.”

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How Applying for and Using your Credit Cards can Earn you Extra Money

By Eli Schreiber If you had the opportunity to earn extra money by doing almost the same amount of work, wouldn’t you do it?

Most people would agree, but when you tell them that the way to earn this money is by opening new credit cards, they

hesitate due to being afraid the new accounts will damage their credit scores, they won’t be able to keep track of these new cards or believe there’s some kind of catch. To start, credit cards are not for everyone. If you’re in the process of re-

pairing your credit, this may not be the best way for you to earn extra income.

However, opening new credit cards only affects 10% of your overall credit score and credit card companies are increasingly offering incentives to get new

or keep existing customers, which can translate into a steady source of extra income for the frum consumer.

The incentives and rewards that are currently being offered can be broken down into the following categories: signup bonuses, cash back rewards, airline miles and credit card points, and 0-percent introductory interest rates.

Cash back cards generally offer 1% cash back on purchases. However, a number of credit cards come with higher cash rebates in certain categories. This can be hard to track and is one of the reasons why people favor cards that offer steady rewards and sign up bonuses.

Credit cards that earn sign up points are another popular card option. For example, Chase Bank is currently offering new card holders 40,000 bonus points for the Sapphire Preferred card when they spend $3,000 on purchases during the first three months of card membership. These points can be redeemed from Chase for $500 in travel or cash back, or they can be redeemed by a third party for more than the credit card company offers. If spending $3,000 in three months is too much for you, the Gold Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card from American Express offers 30,000 bonus miles after making $1,000 in purchases on your new Card in the first three months of membership and a $50 statement credit after you make a Delta purchase with your new card within your first 3 months.

A word of caution: make sure to redeem your rewards promptly. Credit card companies often change the value of the miles and points programs. It might take 15,000 points to get a $150 gift card which previously cost only 10,000 points, or it might take 40,000 miles to get a plane ticket that previously was 25,000 miles. If you wait too long to redeem your rewards, you might not get as high a bonus as you anticipated.

Worse yet, you might forget to redeem your rewards altogether and forfeit what you earned.

In conclusion, if you can manage your credit cards responsibly and keep track of how you spend your money, credit card sign-up bonuses are a way to make some extra income and can be a very valuable tool in helping your financial “bottom line.”

Eli Schreiber is a partner and director of marketing at Get PEYD and PEYD Travel LLC.

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We'd like to thank all of the Rabbanim, guest speakers, visitors & musicians who joined us this summer at Camp HASC.

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The timely theme combined the meaning of Rosh Hashana and the beginning of Junior High with “Start Fresh.” The message of starting anew was presented with words of chizuk by their esteemed dean, Rabbi Mordechai Gewirtz, who focused on the significance of Elul and how we can affect change in ourselves. Mrs. Nechama Jurkowitz, the new kodesh principal, spoke of the significance of the start of a great school year and its opportuni-

ties for success, saying, “It’s all in your hands!”

To add to the moment of upcoming opportunities for their BYQ Junior High experience, the girls watched a video of extracurricular activities typically enjoyed by the Junior High. They left exclaiming, “This is going to be a great year; I’m so excited!”

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Midreshet Shalhevet students were “glowing” with happiness when they returned from their color-themed Shabbaton this past weekend at Camp Seneca.

The girls arrived at camp on Friday afternoon and participated in a school-wide “wild and wacky” scavenger hunt. Congratulations to the juniors on their first place finish! Each girl was then presented with a Shalhevet Shabbaton sweatshirt and received tie-dye to create their own sweatshirt design.

Shabbat began with a beautiful Kabbalat Shabbat as the girls sang melodiously together. The Friday night seudah was filled with singing and dancing and a heartening dvar Torah given over by 11th grader Becky Marks. Afterwards, a panel discussion was held by faculty members during the oneg where the students were able to ask any questions that came to mind. Some of the girls stayed up till the wee hours of the morning singing along with Coach Ilona Diamond.

Following davening on Shabbat morning, Tanach teacher Mrs. Feder delivered an inspirational dvar Torah. The girls enjoyed a hot kiddush before breaking into grade-wide sessions with different faculty members to discuss life after high school and overcoming social pressures. The seudah was once again filled with ruach and a moving dvar Torah by 11th grader Dina Farkas. The girls then played an exciting game of Headbands where they had to guess Shalhevet re-

lated words and find their match. Seudat Shlishit was uplifting as the entire school sat and sang harmoniously together.

After an incredible Shabbat, Shalhevet announced their participation in the Shabbos Project and discussed the importance of keeping Shabbat and reaching out to our fellow Jews. The students then dressed up in neon for the Melave Malka which held delicious food, music, and dancing. Thank you to Gary Wallin for coming up to Seneca and entertaining us with upbeat music. The night culminated in a senior-only bonfire where the students reminisced about their favorite Shalhevet memories while roasting marshmallows. Sunday morning as the girls tiredly boarded the buses, their smiles were still radiating on their faces.

Junior Tamar Yastrab said, “The Shabbaton filled me with an overwhelming love for my grade and for my school. Freshman Dina Seidenberg shared, “It was great getting to know everyone better and becoming better friends.” Plans are already in store for Shabbaton 2015!

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WHAT A ZECHUS FOR ALL OF US IF YOU SEND A CHECK TO CHICKEN FOR SHABBOSS C/O YOUNG ISRAEL ATTN: RABBI SCHONFELD 150-05 70th Road, Kew Gardens Hills, New York 11367 (718)261-9723 CHARITY IS UNDER THE DIRECT AUSPICES OF RABBI FABIAN SCHONFELD AND RABBI DONIEL LANDER, ROSH HAYESHIVA OHR HACHAIM What a Zechus it would be for all of us if you would donate online at:

www.yadeliezer.org

And please go to the tab of Agunos,Grushos & Melamdim The charity that feeds and clothes Families of Agunos, Grushos & Melamdim and their thousands of children at zero overhead

Our number 1 Goal is to leave Jews with Great Memories, So that when Hashem looks down at us, we too should be Zoche to give Hashem great memories of us!!

Chicken for Shabbos The charity that operates at Zero expenses.

That’s where your holy money went to, all of it to the penny.

May Hashem bless you and your family‘s because of it.

THE CHARITY THAT HELPS FAMILIES OF AGUNOS, GRUSHOS & MELAMDIM Our partners in Israel are Yad Eliezer.Org Please go to tab of Agunos,Grushos and Melamdim.

Dear Partners of "Chickens for Shabbos", I'm writing this letter with a huge sends of "Hakaras HaTov" to all of you.

Because of you, Chickens for Shabbos accomplished incredible things this year.l'd like to illustrate this by taking you through a month in the "life" of Chickens for Shabbos.

Last month was in some ways typical of the requests we get and the grants we give out. But because it was right before the Yamim IMoraim and Succos, it was atypical. Here's what happened - or rather- here is what you accomplished from August 15th through September 15th.

During this month we gave out $48,000 for regular monthly chickens to over 300 families of Melamdim. In addition we added $12,000 to assist another 300 Melamdim for Yom Tov with food vouchers. We also gave out nearly $7000 in "special case" money for Melamdim who had a particularly challenging situation. For example $1200 went to a Melamed with a very ill wife who was making a Bar Mitzva.

In addition, we gave to Agunos and Grushos their regular monthly chicken allowance, which allows them to feed their children in a way that they had never been able to. This cost apporoximately $15,000 a month and is matched by 2 others. These are a group of women who have been harassed or abused by ex or even current spouses and they are left to fend for themselves. They struggle heroically to bring up their children with some semblance of normalcy and the extra help they get with food makes an incredible difference in their lives. For the Chagim, we allocated $40,000 for food coupons and $20,000 to help them with clothing.

During this month we gave out help to Chayalim who needed boots (nearly $6000) during the war, and $10,000 (which was matched by Yad Eliezer) for food coupons for Chayalim Bodidim and Chayalim who come from very poor families). We gave $5000 in food vouchers to Eilat for the holidays because Eilat usually has no help at all and its' population has many many Agunos and Grushos who desperately need help.

Thank you for being such an integral part of this effort!

May HKBH bless you with the continued capacity to care for His children, in good health, with great joy and with nachas and bracha.

K'Siva V'Chasima Tova!

With Great Admiriation, Yossi Hoch, Ari Hoch, Nechemiah Hoch, Avraham Kasherim, Bernie Shafran, Simcha Neimark, Bakst Family, Rabbi Shlanger, Michael Baron, Kaniel family and Robby Neuman These families and their children are but a sample of the families that you help and helped. Thousands upon thousands of children’s future are at stake and that is why it pays to beg and beg for our holy Shomer Shabbos Brothers & Sisters. If we don’t help them who will???

Who is standing on line to help Shomer Shabbos Yiden? YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Parlor meeting at the home of Rav Dovid Bender on behalf of Bensalem Kollel & Outreach Center led by Rabbi Moshe Travitsky. Rabbi Yaakov Bender was the guest speaker.

OHEL to Honor Abraham Banda and Pomegranate Supermarket at 45th Annual Gala OHEL Children’s and Family Services is proud to honor generous community partner Abraham Banda and his Pomegranate supermarket at OHEL’s 45th Annual Gala. Abe’s heart is as large as his spacious, ultra-modern supermarket—an impressive 18,000 square feet of the freshest and finest kosher food. Abe is a model of chessed and tzedaka. His contributions to our community, and to OHEL, will be celebrated at our Annual Gala on Sunday, November 23 at the Marriott Marquis in Manhattan.

Abe is the recipient of OHEL’s 2014 Community Partner Award. We’re proud to recognize Abe’s exemplary commitment to “creating something better for a community that deserves more.” Pomegranate partners with OHEL to sponsor SibShops, a program of companionship, recreation, and support for the brothers and sisters of people with developmental disabilities. Pomegranate chefs volunteer their time to offer program participants creative experiences of kosher culinary instruction, among SibShops’ most popular activities. Abe and Pomegranate are proud to be OHEL’s food vendor for residences in Brooklyn, Long Island and the Lower East Side and providing the best food and service to OHEL individuals is paramount to Abe and his staff.

The supermarket also employs many OHEL clients with developmental dis-

abilities, including residents of OHEL Bais Ezra residential facilities, who are valued members of the Pomegranate team. “I am dedicated to including people with disabilities in our community.

They are valuable employees and add value to my team,” says Abe. He recognizes the importance of integrating people with disabilities in the life of our community and is dedicated to lessening the stigma associated with disability.

A generous and compassionate philanthropist, Abe Banda is certainly worthy of the Community Partner Award.

“We stay actively involved in causes that make the world a better, brighter place to be,” he says.

OHEL and Pomegranate are ideal partners, providing products and service our community can trust and believe in.

Looking back and giving back, moving forward together. OHEL is proud to honor Abe Banda at this year’s Gala along with Miriam Lubling a”h OHEL’s Angel of Mercy and long-time dedicated Board Member whose life accomplishments will be celebrated, and Rabbi Philiip Goldberg, chaplain at Willowbrook, who will receive the Pioneer Award, a tribute to his advocacy and concern for individuals with disabilities.

To make a reservation or place a journal ad, please call 718-972-9338 or contact gala@ohelfamily.org.

SKA’s Merit Scholarship Commendees

The Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls is proud to announce that seven SKA seniors are National Merit Scholarship Commendees.

Pictured from left to right: Brielle Broder, Rachel Moskowitz, Ilana Radinsky, Shira Wein, Leeba Erlbaum, Rache

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li Dyckman and Sarah Herman placed among the top five percent of the more than 1.5 million students who took the 2013 PSAT exam. We wish them a big mazel tov and much hatzlacha as they pursue their academic goals!

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Riddle!

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Billy Bob is determined to become a police officer and tells his friends that he’s going to the police station for an interview with the chief of police. His friends are quite skeptical because Billy Bob is “not the sharpest tool in the shed,” to say the least.

The chief begins the interview by asking Billy Bob, “What is one and one?” Billy Bob immediately responds, “Eleven.”

The chief then asks: “How many days in the week begin with the letter T?” Billy Bob responds, “2 days begin with the letter T. Today and tomorrow.”

The chief then asks: “Who killed Abraham Lincoln?” This question stumps Billy Bob so the chief tells Billy Bob, “Well, you can go home and think about it. Come back tomorrow.”

When Billy Bob gets home, his friends, who have been anxiously awaiting his arrival, ask him how the interview went.

Billy Bob is so proud, he could burst. “Not only did I get the job, I’m already investigating a murder!”

Johnny’s tractor needs exactly one gallon of oil to run effectively.

Johnny has a full barrel of oil and an empty three-gallon container and an empty five-gallon container. How can Johnny make sure that he puts exactly one gallon of oil in the tractor?

Answer on next page

Yes, You are Normal If… •

You prefer to carry 14 grocery bags in each hand than take two trips to bring the groceries in from the car.

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You turn on the shower and then wait at least 10 seconds before going in regardless of whether the water is hot or cold.

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You are walking down the street and realize that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going. But instead of just turning around and walking back in the direction from which you came, you first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the street.

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You wish MapQuest started directions from step # 6. You are pretty sure that you know how to get to the Van Wyck from your house.

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• You hear your favorite song on an elevator and feel old.

• You get nervous when you are at a gathering which requires each person in the room to say their name and where they are from. Doesn’t seem like that hard of a task. I mean, when was the last time you forgot your name and where you are from?

When someone is telling you a story all you can think about is that you can’t wait for them to finish so that you can tell your own story that’s better. (That is why it’s awesome to be Centerfold Commissioner. I get to say the stories and don’t have to hear anyone else’s.)

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You realize that you are totally wrong in middle of a heated argument.

You like all of the music on your iPod, except when it’s on shuffle, then you like about one in every twenty songs.

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You totally regret all the times you didn’t want to nap when you were younger.

As a driver you can’t stand pedestrians, and as a pedestrian you can’t stand drivers.

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Even under ideal conditions you have trouble locating car keys in your pocket, but when your alarm goes off at 5 a.m. you hit the Snooze button with ease from 3 feet away, in about 1.2 seconds with your eyes closed.

You write LOL when you have nothing to say, not when you think the text was actually funny.

• There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure that this time you leaned your chair back a little too far.

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So you think your IQ is in the top 2% of the population and you belong in the Mensa Society?

Here are 10 sample Mensa questions; see whether you really belong:

1. How many four sided figures are in this diagram?

8. Four years ago, Jane was twice as old as Sam. Four years on from now, Sam will be 3/4 of Jane’s age. How old is Jane now?

9. What is the following word when it is unscrambled: HCPRAATEU 10. If you count from 1 to 100, how many 7’s will you pass on the way?

2. Which same three-letter word can be placed in front of the following words to make a new word?

SIGN, DONE, DUCT, FOUND, FIRM, TRACT, DENSE 3. If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it now?

4. Pear is to apple as potato is to: (a) banana, (b) radish, (c) strawberry, (d) peach, (e) lettuce.

5. The same three-letter word can be placed in front of the following words to make a new word: LIGHT, BREAK, TIME 6. If a circle is one, how many is an octagon?

7. There are 1,200 elephants in a herd. Some have pink and green stripes, some are all pink and some are all blue. One third are pure pink. Is it true that 400 elephants are definitely blue?

ANSWERS: 1. 25 2. CON 3. 9pm 4. B-Both grow in the ground 5. DAY 6. 8 7. No 8. 12-4 years ago Jane was 8, Sam was 4. In 4 years from now, Jane will be 16 and Sam will be 1 9. Parachute 10. 20 Wisdom Key: 8-10 correct (in approximately 10 minutes): Genius alert!! Umm, check out Mensa…for real.

5-7 correct: You probably won’t make the cut, but you are smart enough for people to believe you if you tell them that you are a member. (Essentially, I am telling you that if you are a liar, this would be a great lie for you to say.)

2-4 correct: A for effort, but you have no shot.

0-1 correct: You are the Albert Einstein of our time! You should also see if you can sign up for the Mickey Mouse society, it’s real prestigious.

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One of rarest mitzvos was performed last Sunday at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, NY, the mitzvah of pidyon peter chamor. The firstborn male cham-

or is redeemed with a sheep given to a kohain. The speakers at the event were Rabbi Saul Kassin and Rabbi Eli Mansour. Jack Scaba of Congregation Hay-

im Shaal was the contributor and is seen making the bracha alongside his rabbi, Rabbi Aharon Simantov, also one the speakers.

PHOTO CREDIT: IVAN H NORMAN

The sheep was then handed over to the kohain which is pictured here. A tremendous crowd of men and women were present to view the tremendous mitzvah.

New York Foundation for Eldercare Marks 25th Anniversary of Geriatrician Training Program at Recognition Dinner Focusing on a training program that addresses the critical need to train geriatricians to care for the baby boomer generation, the New York Foundation for Eldercare (NYFE) will hold a fundraising recognition dinner to honor leaders in the field of training geriatric psychiatry fellows on Wednesday, October 22, at 6:30 pm at The Yale Club in New York City.

Being honored at the dinner are Gary J. Kennedy, M.D., Director, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Melinda S. Lantz, M.D., Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center; and Alessandra Scalmati, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatrist, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Montefiore Medical Center; and the Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, a member of CenterLight Health System.

The event celebrates the 25th anniversary of Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine professionals in the Bronx, working collaboratively with the Margaret Tietz

Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, in Jamaica Hills, Queens, to run a distinctive geriatric psychiatry training program.

Unique to the program is the opportunity for the facility to refer a patient for a Geri-psych conference, under the distinguished leadership of Dr. Gary J. Kennedy and the direction of Dr. Rubina A. Malik. Patients of diverse cultures and religious beliefs are referred to Geripsych program fellows for purposes of behavioral management, psychosocial interventions, medication review and recommendations for continued plans of care. Margaret Tietz has at its core a commitment to provide care for Holocaust survivors. Although the number of individuals in this particular population continues to decline, the Geri-psych program provides a forum to educate professionals, who work with survivors and their next generation, in a sensitive, culturally competent manner. In addition to the Geri-psych program fellows, participants include clinicians in training at nearby hospitals and universities, as well as the Margaret Tietz medical team,

social workers, psychology consultants, rehabilitation and recreational therapists.

Key to the success is the integration of a comprehensive review of the patient’s medical history and in-depth interviews with patients and their family members.

The multi-disciplinary sessions have yielded remarkable insights into patient personalities, attitudes and care that have had a resounding impact for individual patients. More than 60 fellows have rotated through the program over its 25year history.

“The New York Foundation for Eldercare is thrilled to recognize the leadership of Dr. Gary J. Kennedy, and the contributions of two alumnae fellows, Dr. Melinda S. Lantz, and Dr. Alessandra Scalmati, to the field of clinical geriatric psychiatric education, as well as the Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for its ongoing relationship and management of the geriatric psychiatry training program,” said Michael F. Tietz, president of the Foundation.

“Inspired by this training, many fellows have deepened their passion for geriatric

psychiatry and continued in this practice, becoming leaders in clinical settings, in academic medicine and in professional development,” he added.

The evening will be emceed by Rita Cosby, Emmy award-winning TV and radio host, best-selling author and CBS Inside Edition special correspondent.

The event will include a musical performance by members of Arts in Action, a student-led club at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and the Arts whose mission is to bring the artistic talent of students to the greater community. The students perform in senior homes, hospitals and in the residences of the homebound, and participate in sessions that bring visual art to similar locations.

The keynote address will be given

by Jonathan Bowles, Executive Director, Center for an Urban Future.

For reservations, please contact Tanya Figelman at tfigelman@nyfe.org or 718-261-3039 or visit the NYFE website at www.nyfe.org.

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The Ebola Virus T

he Ebola virus has made its ugly presence in the United States known in recent days as the first case diagnosed has been reported in Dallas, Texas. It is time to learn about this terrifying disease and what it means to us.

The Ebola virus is part of a group of viruses called Viral Hemorrhagic Fever viruses or VHF. There are five different strains of the virus named after the areas in which they originated. Ebola is named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire).

Symptoms of the disease appear from 2-21 days after infection. Early symptoms are nonspecific and can be mistaken for commonly-found diseases in Africa, i.e., malaria, typhoid fever, or meningitis. Individuals may present early with fever, headaches, muscle pain, sore throat and fatigue. Some victims then develop red eyes, rashes, and chest pain with difficulty breathing and swallowing. There is a progression to multi-organ failure with vomiting, diarrhea, impaired kidney and liver function, and bleeding, either internally or externally.

The Ebola patient requires supportive care, especially ensuring adequate hydration and oxygenation to maintain their blood pressure. Secondary infections need to be treated. There are experimental drugs recently available which were administered successfully to a physician who was evacuated to the United

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States. Presently, a vaccine is in the process of being evaluated.

The incubation period is 21 days and anyone in contact with a case is isolated for that period. An outbreak is over once 42 days have passed without any new cases.

Diseases can be classified as airborne or droplet transmission which differ in size of the viral particles. Airborne spread is from small size particles which can linger in air and move further. Droplet spread have particles that do not move very far and do not stay in air for a lengthy period, i.e., sneeze.

While highly infectious, the Ebola virus is not necessarily contagious and is spread via direct contact with bodily fluids of infected humans and animals.

As a result, there are strict guidelines established for dealing with Ebola. Those in contact with a sick individuals need to wear protective clothing such as impermeable gowns, gloves, masks and goggles. Sunlight, soap, detergents and chlorine can kill the virus.

Unfortunately, most of the outbreaks in Africa have occurred in areas where there are poor resources, including running water and adequate hygiene. Those who have contracted the disease are people who cared for ill family members or are health care workers.

Recently, a Liberian citizen with Ebola presented to a hospital in Texas after flying into the United States. At the time of boarding his flight, he was checked and found to have no fever. It is regarded as extremely unlikely that he spread the Ebola virus to his fellow passengers because Ebola is an airborne transmitted

It is regarded as extremely unlikely that he spread the Ebola virus to his fellow passengers because Ebola is an airborne transmitted disease and direct contact with bodily fluids is needed. disease and direct contact with bodily fluids is needed. However, all those who were in contact with a case would have to be monitored and possibly quarantined.

At this juncture, there is a sense of fear and dread at the sudden onset of the Ebola virus in Africa and its possible spread internationally. But as Jews, we acknowledge that Hashem is the King and He rules over the world. This is His wakeup call to teach us that we are not beyond His rule.

Dr. Hylton Lightman is a beloved Five Towns/Far Rockaway pediatrician for over thirty years. He welcomes your questions and can be reached at drlightman@ totalfamilycaremd.com.

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The Sukkah Experience

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For Your Yom Tov Enjoyment

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A Simple, Peaceful Abode

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Palms and Fronds and Citrons

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The Fine Art of Sukkah Shopping

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Palms and Fronds and Citrons

Meet the Farmers who Grow Our Lulavim and Esrogim in the American Southwest

BY BRENDY J. SIEV

Farming Fronds on Futterman Farms On Futterman Farms, in Riverside County, in Indio, California, Arthur and Gale Futterman grow lulavim. Their date farm, on a four-and-a-half acre ranch, grows the premier Dayri date trees whose leaves become perfect and prized lulavim.

Two weeks into this year’s lulav harvest, I speak to Arthur Futterman as he comes in from another 110-degree workday in the Coachella Valley. “Phoenix isn’t hot enough,” he chuckles. Originally from southern Iraq, Dayri date palms can grow in very few parts of the United States. They need extreme heat, Futterman tells me, and the heat must be dry. But

their love of desert heat doesn’t stop them from drinking: on a typical 105-degree day, a single date palm requires 185 gallons of water.

The rain-free Futterman Farms gets its irrigation from a canal that draws water from the Colorado River. So Futterman Farms, a drive from Palm Springs, is the perfect location.

Currently, Arthur Futterman has 120 producing trees; 120 young trees are not yet producing. These trees have been coaxed from saplings that sprout off the sides of older palms, as it is nearly impossible to grow healthy Dayri trees from seeds.

Once mature, a good palm tree produces approxi-

mately 18 new fronds per year. The lulav is the very center leaf that hasn’t emerged and opened. Once thorns are out of the way, the young frond is cut just enough so more will grow. In order to keep the palms alive and healthy, only between six and eight fronds can be cut per year. That means six to eight lulavim come from each Dayri palm annually.

After each lulav cutting, the lulavim are sent to a local facility for preserving them until Succos. The last cuts are packed well in crates and overnighted through FedEx to their distribution centers.

Dayri palm trees can grow 80 feet tall. Of course, past 40 feet, it becomes too difficult to harvest lulavim

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I ask, how did Arthur Futterman, a devout Bible College graduate, end up in the Succos business?

Decades ago, Futterman teamed up with the son of his father’s old friend. Both were interested in farming; Futterman had worked on several farms before.

Both were considering growing dates.

“It’s gratifying,” says Futterman. “Dates are a magnificent fruit.” He then lists the benefits of dates—their 26 antioxidants, high iron, magnesium, and potassium content, and their role in reducing colon cancer tumors.

After finishing his degree at Bible College and graduating in 1988, he and his wife set out in a UHaul for the farming life.

“She was two-and-a-half months pregnant. We entered the town at midnight. She got out of the truck, and it was 105 degrees. She started to cry.”

But that’s the farming life. Twenty-nine years later, Futterman laughs, Arthur and Gale have put a lot of work into their farm, selling their dates at farmer’s markets and living on farmer’s wages. They grow organic date palms and harvest the dates for sale, especially the Medjool and Barhi breeds.

But back when they pulled up in that U-Haul, he tells me, Futterman did not anticipate an email he received ten years ago from Shulem Ekstein from Kiryas Joel seeking to grow Dayri date palms in the United States. The man had been trying to connect with someone willing to grow the palms and farm them for him. Futterman, who had only the vaguest knowledge of Succos (Tabernacles?), knew an old date farmer who, in his 80s, was retiring. He gave the frum Ekstein family 900 offshoots. Futterman agreed to plant some of them. Now, Futterman is one of four farmers who have a special leasing-growing agreement with the Ekstein family to grow Dayri palms for lulavim.

Why Dayris? Futterman grows serious when explaining the detailed halachos of kosher lulavim.

“There are four requirements for kosher lulavim,” he declares. The lulav must be straight, green, and closed. The middle leaf must have a tip like a pleat.

If it’s open, it’s not good.

Medjool palms, that are plentiful in the United States (just note the number of Medjool dates in the supermarket), produce lulavim whose center leaf opens quickly, rendering it unkosher. The Dayri’s center pleat stays closed nicely.

There are fewer than 10,000 Dayri palms in the United States, let alone those grown for lulavim. But from 300 palms, farmers recently have coaxed 2,000 offshoots that are just now being planted. It will take years for them, however, to be ready for harvest.

Now it’s my turn. Two feet in front of my Miami kitchen window stand two palm trees, I tell Futterman. Sixteen feet further, on my front lawn, stand four more. Their leaves fan and bend like palm fronds are supposed to in all the tourist brochures, but right

in the center of the leaves stand a single green stick, a tall, ramrod straight, unopened palm frond.

A lulav?

Not so fast, says Futterman.

He quickly lists the types of palms found in Florida. Those ubiquitous trees have plenty of fronds, but they don’t meet the halachic requirements for kosher lulavim. Oh, well. We’ll just use them for Florida schach.

My final question for Futterman: Why do you do this?

“For the holiday and the people,” he says. I can tell he’s smiling.

Citron California: John Kirkpatrick’s Esrog Trees

On five acres of John Kirkpatrick’s California farm grow 800 esrog trees. He is the only kosher esrog grower in the United States.

“Less than five percent of the citrons make it to

program lesson plans on Succos esrogim.

Back in 1979, Kirkpatrick worked as a citrus farmer and real estate agent. He received a call from an Orthodox man in Brooklyn who was looking for someone to grow esrog trees for him. They spoke for an hour.

“You’re talking to the person,” he said at the time.

And so Kirkpatrick diversified his farm. He woke up every day at 5:30 and worked until bedtime at 9.

He tended to his citrus trees: lemons, tangelos, mandarins, and pomegranates. And he planted esrog tree seedlings from Israel—including the Braverman, Halpern, Chazon Ish, and Teimani varieties (among others).

“We limped along for 14 years,” he says. “Fortunately, we didn’t destroy the trees’ integrity.”

During that time, he learned about Jewish culture and what it takes to observe all halachic laws and traditions connected to growing and harvesting kosher esrogim.

After 14 years, he brought in an Israeli consultant. Kirkpatrick also visited Israel for a week, noting that his farm’s climate is most similar to the area halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. He visited esrog farms across Israel, observing the construction of their trellising, the way Israeli esrog farmers discipline their trees, and irrigate their farms.

After that, he quickly became the only successful esrog grower in the U.S.

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quality market,” says John. While he does market non-kosher esrogim to local green grocers and to three distilleries for citron vodka, most esrogim that show signs of being non-kosher are “dropped” off the trees before they even ripen. This ensures that only those most likely to be kosher are cultivated and cared for.

Lindcove Ranch, located in Tulare County, one of the major citrus counties in California, is inland from the coast. The farm, in Exeter, California, is posed in the perfect geographical location for raising esrogim.

While well over 300,000 esrogim are exported from Israel, Italy, and Morocco, Kirkpatrick’s five acres produce up to six percent—a significant portion—of the total world production.

That is why Kirkpatrick is the only successful citron grower in the United States. Several other farms are trying to grow kosher esrogim; none are currently successful. His farm is even featured in PJ Library

non-Jew, Kirkpatrick comes from a long line of farmers who started farming in North Carolina, Kansas, and Illinois. By the early 20th century, they came to California and began citrus farming. Kirkpatrick and his son, who is taking over the daily farming operations, have been working on bringing the farm into the 21st century, “one innovation at a time.” At this point, the farm has special cold storage for storing citrus; this ensures that they can start picking esrogim in early July and storing them so that they will be ready for Succos in the fall. The esrogim are even boxed on-site.

Esrogim and their care is a full-time job. Kirkpatrick’s esrogim, certified by Rabbi Avraham Teichman, are nurtured by five full-time staffers, rather than seasonal workers. The workers are Seventh-Day Adventists, so that the orchards “rest” on Shabbos. Because esrogim require skilled workers, Kirkpatrick’s staff is not only respectful and serious about their work, but they have been working on esrogim for years. In fact, one lead staffer has been caring for these esrog trees for 28 years. Kirkpatrick has a special incentive program to reward their efforts and recognize the importance of doing work correctly.

“If it has a California appellation, it should be good,” he says with pride.

And while his esrogim are primarily sold in New England, citron vodka, an increasingly popular drink, is produced all over. One distillery, owned by an Orthodox family is southern California, uses Kirkpatrick’s esrogim for Sukkah Hill Etrog Liqueur, a kosher for Passover, “grain-neutral” spirit.

“We are immersed in this,” says Kirkpatrick. “We produce fruit that qualifies for performance of the TJH mitzvah.” 

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or dates, and so the palms are sold or given to landscapers. Futterman’s palms are still under seven feet.

Of course, to be kosher, even the non-Jewish farmer Futterman must wait the requisite four years before touching the tree.

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he specifications for building a sukkah are both arcane and fascinating. The roof must be built from material (which is called schach) that comes from a living source. Branches, bamboo in its various forms, and palm fronds are popular choices.

It must be arranged in a way in which the amount of shade is greater than the amount of sunshine that can enter the sukkah. The arrangement of the schach should be such as to give us a view of the stars.

In addition, the sukkah itself must be constructed in a way in which it is an inherently temporary structure.

While it may have permanent walls (it may have four, but is ritually fit even with two and a half walls), its roof must be of an interim nature. The roof, therefore, must be rebuilt yearly.

Throughout the holiday, we are required to spend as much time as possible in the sukkah, and to treat it as our home. This often opens us to reflecting on the fact that by this time of year the weather is rather nippy, and had the holiday been set a month earlier we would find the sukkah a comfortable shady spot to sit in the balmy weather.

Let us examine each detail of these laws in order to grasp the elation that this, the most joyous of all holidays, can bring us.

encountering reality. But in the very impermanence of the sukkah lies its security, because here we realize we are not alone! The reality that we face does not have to terrify us.

The schach symbolizes to us that the world in which we live is very much one in which G-d is with us. Although there is more darkness than light, we still see the stars.

The sukkah is a living allegory for our world, which presents us with far more questions than there are answers that human wisdom can provide. However, what makes this world a place of meaning rather than one of despair is the fact that we can see what the stars em-

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enveloped in His cloud. When we reflect on the compassion we have experienced as a result of His presence in our lives in the past, we get a new take on the present and the future. Hope suddenly seems pragmatic and realistic, while despair can be seen a naïve escape mechanism, which is what it is.

Another way to clear our vision is to become aware that all of the acts of kindness that have been done on our behalf by friends and relatives ultimately are from G-d. We have paid for nothing – not the air we breathe, nor the earth upon which we stand – nor for the means by which other human beings can help us. The inspiration from their altruism stems from G-d; what they do for us is a gift from G-d.

We can never begin to repay what we have received not only from humans, but from G-d.

We must be willing to be vulnerable enough to feel gratitude. This thought counteracts the “entitlement” mentality that clouds our ability to recognize goodness.

The third way to clear our vision is to redefine the word “possible.” We must always keep in mind that with G-d anything is truly possible because G-d is not limited by any restrictions. Nothing can happen against His will, and nothing can prevent His will from being realized. Observing the ceaseless movement of the constellations and their timeless beauty can bring us back to this realization. We are in G-d’s hand just as they are. While the people in our lives may affect us, ultimately they are not more than His agents.

The final thought in Rabbi Luzzatto’s collection is that facing challenges is what life is for. We Jews are not designed for “permanent housing.” We were designed for the sukkah. The idealization of complacency has never sat well with us. When we are forced to travel the fast lane, we can be energized or frightened. It is a choice that we all make in the moments in which our faith is tested. The more we can envision the eternity of the sukkah, the more we can welcome the trek through whatever type of “desert” G-d requires us to travel.

These four ways can be transformational.

What is even more powerful is actually coming into contact with the mitzvah of sukkah in the literal sense. Our nature is that we are less readily moved by realizations and thoughts, than by actions, because actions often redefine our capacity to think along new and untried patterns.

May this year bring us the joy of learning to feel and acknowledge what has been true all along. We are TJH in G-d’s sukkah and always have been. 

The more we can envision the eternity of the sukkah, the more we can welcome the trek through whatever type of “desert” G-d requires us to travel.

Seeing G-d’s Presence

The holiday itself celebrates the fact that as we traveled forty years in the desert, we were surrounded by G-d’s presence. The physical manifestation of His encompassing love and protection were the clouds that encircled us. The laws concerning the construction of the sukkah are there to provide us with the opportunity to relive the experience of feeling G-d’s life-force surrounding us without the distractions that blind us to Him. By leaving the deceptive permanence of our homes, we let go of the first and most damaging illusion that blocks our inner eye from seeing G-d’s presence. This is the illusion that material security protects our vulnerability. But nothing material is eternal; the feeling of security and stability that comes from possessions is transient. The only enduring possession that any of us have is our essence. Still, the illusion of permanence is one that we are reluctant to surrender, because, without it, we feel as if we are abandoned to an unknowable fate.

The solid stone, bricks and mortar of our homes create the ambiance of security which is not real. The inherent impermanence of the sukkah forces us into

body – brilliance and illumination. We yearn for meaning and we find it when we focus our inner eye on the stars.

The Talmud tells us that it is no coincidence that the time of year that we celebrate our trust in G-d is the fall.

The timing of Sukkot seems almost arbitrary. After all, our stay in the desert took place over forty years, rather than a particular week in the year. The timing of Sukkot, no less than the physical structure of the sukkah, is an integral statement of our identity. We are not leaving our homes for relief from the heat of summer; we are leaving our homes to experience our vulnerability. It is only then that we are not blinded to G-d’s love.

Paths of the Just

Feeling beloved is not always easy. We all have times in our lives in which our faith is sorely tested. We lose sight of the invisible clouds of glory and fire that surround us. The classical 18th century mussar work, “The Paths of the Righteous,” explains how we often blind ourselves to the stars and presents four different ways to a solution.

One way to clear our vision is to recognize that G-d is far more compassionate than we are. It is only through His mercy that we survive either physically or emotionally all the absurd errors of judgment that have taken us to the brink of disaster. We have always been

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’chaim!” This common refrain when making a toast is so well established that it has become a noun on its own. People will say, “Let’s make a l’chaim,” or, “You’re invited to my daughter’s l’chaim.” What they mean is that there will be some sort of alcoholic drink consumed and the actual swallowing will be preceded by a hearty wish of “L’chaim! – to life!”

So where did this come from and why is it so important to the Jewish culture? Do we truly idealize the consumption of liquor? Are we praising the buzz or the escape that drinking affords a person? Of course not. There must be something deeper, something more meaningful.

One source for this custom comes from Talmudic times when wine was very strong and drinking undiluted wine could be harmful. Before one

drank wine, he would say, “Savri, maranan,” asking his companions, “What do you hold? Has it been diluted? Is this safe to drink?” Their response,

It would make sense to continue the practice if there were health concerns, and I imagine that most of us are careful to make sure that we are

WE ARE BRINGING THE PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL TOGETHER TO REMIND OURSELVES OF WHAT IT MEANS TO TRULY LIVE.

if it was safe, would be “L’chaim! To life!” to let him know that it would not hurt him. In fact, many Sefardim still have this custom during Kiddush.

When the one making Kiddush says, “Savri, How do you hold,” or alternatively, “Pay attention for I am now making a bracha,” the listeners respond with a hearty, “L’chaim!”

about to ingest something that will not kill us, at least, not instantly. Why, then, has the practice continued and more than that, achieved some sort of mystique about it?

The answer lies in something fundamental that we might have missed.

The translation of the word is not so cut-and-dried. You see, if we wanted to say “life,” or “alive,” the word would be “chai.” The fact that we use the word “chaim,” with a mem at the end, makes all the difference in the world, or actually, worlds.

When we partake of a food or beverage, we make a bracha before we do. In that way, we acquire from Hashem the right to consume the item, and we elevate it as well. We know that there are physical and spiritual aspects to everything. When we say, “L’chaim,” we are not saying “To life” but “Two lives” (or “to two lives” to be more precise).

Chaim is a plural form of chai which connotes two types of life.

One is the physical world in which we dwell and the other is the spiritual world we aim for. We ideally should be cognizant of both these existences at all times. Our job in this world is to take the physical and uplift it by giving it an aspect of the spiritual. By recognizing that the purpose of the drink is not just to indulge but to sanctify the day through kiddush, we are living not just one life, but two lives, or “chaim”!

As an extension of this, when we wish to enjoy a drink as part of a simcha, we recall the fact that the enjoyment is not purely physical but spiritual too! We wish people well on both a physical level and a spiritual one as a reminder to us and to them as well

that to truly live is to live a life now that will last for eternity.

When we use fine crystal and silver on Pesach, or when we eat on Shabbos and yom tov (and we Jews really eat on Shabbos and yom tov!), we are bringing the physical and spiritual together to remind ourselves of what it means to truly live.

The sukkah, of course, is a most amazing coalescence of these ideas.

We must have solid walls, a symbol of the physical world. However, the roof is open to Hashem’s sky, representing the limitless eternal nature of our own ruchniyus, the fact that our lives are lived for a future world as well, which is closely interconnected with our physical one.

Every time we eat, drink, relax, play, or schmooze, we can ensure that it is for, and has an aspect of, spirituality. If we eat, drink, or exercise to be healthy to serve Hashem, if we relax to be a better parent or spouse when we’re refreshed, or if we schmooze to build friendships and steer the conversations away from lashon hara, then we have successfully connected this world to the next and are living not one life, but two at the same time.

This Sukkos, as you’re sitting fully-immersed in the mitzvah that shows us how to connect the two worlds, have a cookie, look skyward, and drink to your success. L’chaim!

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Rabbi Naphtali Hoff

A Simple, Peaceful Abode

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magine the following scenario. One cool October afternoon, a religious man goes to visit his Torah observant therapist to discuss his many stressors.

He is uneasy with his material lot, and feels the strain of keeping up with all of the proverbial Goldbergs in his life. It troubles him to see others in his community who live in larger, more beautiful homes, drive fancier cars, and go on more elaborate vacations. He is pained to see the names of these same people appear on dedication plaques and as dinner honorees, while he can barely eke out a small contribution.

The therapist listens closely. After much thought and reflection, he directs his suffering client, not to medication or further counseling, but to a sukkah.

“There,” he says, “you will find relief from your troubles.” One could envision the confused and troubled look on the face of the client, especially after he receives his bill!

Yet, that is exactly one of Hashem’s primary remedies to such feelings of material inadequacy.

Every evening during Maariv we ask Hashem to “spread upon us Your sukkah of peace.” One might wonder, what is the relationship between the sukkah and peace? We understand that the act of sitting (and even sleeping) in a sukkah evokes memories of Hashem’s miraculous preservation of the Jewish people during their forty years of wandering in the Sinai Desert following their exodus from Egypt.

You shall dwell in succos [booths] for seven days…so that your generations will know that I made the people of Israel to dwell in succos, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.

(Vayikra 23:42-43) But how does such commemoration bring us to a deeper sense of peace and tranquility?

In truth, there is much more to the mitzvah of sukkah than a simple historical commemoration. Sitting in the sukkah affords us the opportunity to take a step back from the competitive rat race in which we live, and come to a fuller and more accurate understanding of what this world is really all about.

Never has this been truer than in our times. Our world is that of Madison Avenue, where the marketing of luxury products continues unabated, echoing

one basic message: Without this, your life is incomplete. Of course, depending on the target audience, “this” may refer to anything from toys and dolls, to designer clothing, to oversized houses with infinite top-end amenities, as well as sleek sports cars which can go from “0 to 60” in nanoseconds.

In such a world, a person who lacks any – or certainly all – of these comforts simply feels that they cannot find satisfaction. (Of course, we know that even those who are able to acquire these items are typically far from satisfied, as their attention is soon drawn to a new line of the “latest and greatest.”)

On Succos, we leave the comforts of our materialistic existence behind and enter a simple structure called a sukkah.

There we are to remain for seven days, living directly under Hashem’s protection without concern for our worldly comforts.

The sukkah is the great equalizer. It is there that we turn our attention away from materialistic pursuits. Instead, we gaze up at the sky above us and come to a deeper appreciation that Hashem runs the world and that only He can and does provide for us.

The sukkah reminds us that there is no physical permanence for us in this world, that all efforts at achieving materialism are fleeting and wasteful. In the words of the wisest of all men, King Solomon, “Vanity of vanities…all is vanity” (Ecclesiastes 1:2). It is for this exact reason that we read these words on Succos.

That, says Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler (Michtav M’Eliyahu, Vol. 1, pp. 106ff), is how a sukkah can bring a sense of peace to man. Peace, he says, can only exist when each person is satisfied with his lot, and does not view others as being his personal competition. Once we have been redirected away from our materialistic urges and our competitive sense has been removed, we can work together harmoniously for the common good, perfectly at ease with one another.

It should thus come as no surprise that the clouds of glory which protected the Jewish nation during their long trek through the desert were bestowed to the people in the personal merit of Aharon Hakohen (see Vayikra Rabbah 27:6, et al). Aharon was the quintessential “pursuer of peace.”

(Hillel used to say, “Be of the students of Aharon, loving peace and pursuing peace”– Avos 1:12.)

What is perhaps even more compelling is the fact that, according to one opinion in the Mishna (Sukkah 11b), the “sukkah” to which the Torah

refers was not an actual booth, but was clouds themselves. Thus, the defining characteristic of Aharon Hakohen, peace and contentment, emerges every time we sit in the structure that his merits inspired!

While the above explanation may not offer solace to our incredulous patient in the aforementioned story, it should be comforting to us, particularly in the tumultuous times in which we live, to know that we can enter our own “sukkah of peace,” which will bring us the deep sense of contentment that we all so desperately seek.

Rabbi Naphtali Hoff is an executive coach and president of Impactful Coaching and Consulting (ImpactfulCoaching.com).

He can be reached at 212-470-6139 or at president@impactfulcoaching.com.

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R’ Ben Tzion Shafier

Parshas V’Zos HaBracha Be Brave, Be Bold

“There never will be a prophet like Moshe again…and all that he did in clear sight of all of Israel.” — Devarim 34:12 In these posukim, the very last posukim of the Torah, Hashem recounts the greatness of Moshe Rabbeinu.

Rashi teaches that “all he did in clear sight of Israel” refers to the breaking of the luchos. When Moshe came down from Har Sinai, he saw the Jewish people serving the Golden Calf.

He took the luchos and in front of the entire nation, smashed them against the rocks. Afterwards Hashem said to Moshe, “Yasher koach. You did well.”

This shows that the decision to break the luchos was Moshe’s. Only after he broke them did Hashem say, “Yasher koach,” showing that Moshe made the right judgment call. The fact that he made this decision on his own illustrates his stature.

Far Worse than Burning a Sefer Torah This Rashi is difficult to understand. While it shows us how bold Moshe Rabbeinu was, it also begs the question: what right did he have to break the luchos? The luchos weren’t his property; they belonged to Hashem. Moshe was sent as an emissary to bring them to the Jewish nation.

If Moshe saw that the Jewish people weren’t worthy of receiving them, then he should have gone back to their owner and asked Him what He would like done with them.

What makes this question even more difficult is that the luchos were among the holiest objects ever created. Even the broken pieces were kept in the Aron and carried around by Jewish people for generations. Destroying them was far worse than burning a sefer Torah or even than torching a shul! For Moshe to go ahead and break them seems completely inappropriate.

Yet not only did Moshe do this, the Torah holds it up as an example of his greatness.

The answer to this question lies in understanding man’s role in the world.

When Hashem formed man, He gave

him the keys to Creation. As the Medrash tells us, Hashem said to Adam, “This is your world now. You are in

posite positions. Either a person feels that he is lacking, unaccomplished and insignificant, and so spends his life

AM I GREAT OR AM I TINY?

charge of it; take good care that you don’t destroy it.”

Be Bold; Be Brave Moshe understood his role as the leader of the Jewish people, and he understood that there are situations that call for bold decisions. He felt that the Jewish nation needed to recognize the gravity of what they had done. To understand the extent of their sin, they needed a clear visual message – almost shock therapy. Nothing would be as vivid as watching this most holy object being destroyed. So Moshe acted upon this. He didn’t hesitate.

He didn’t debate. He didn’t ask Hashem, “Do You think this is a good idea?” He was the man on the scene, given the position of leadership, and as leader, he felt it was his responsibility to teach the nation.

This was the lesson that they needed to hear. So what was the question? Do it.

This is an especially powerful point because the Torah calls Moshe the most humble man who ever lived. Typically, when we think of a humble person, we think of someone who is meek and indecisive, not a man who is bold and brave. Yet this most humble man acted with such power and conviction that it almost sounds contradictory to the concept of humility.

The reason for this paradox is that in regards to self-image, the majority of the world finds themselves on polar op-

trying to compensate for that sense of inadequacy, or he finds himself self-inflating. “I am important, significant, mighty, and great.” That person spends so much energy and effort maintaining this bloated sense of self that he has to huff and puff to keep this larger than life image filled with hot air. Both extremes are inaccurate.

Joe the Crane Operator A balanced sense of self can be better understood with a mashal. Imagine that you walk past a construction site and in the center you see a large crane.

This crane is picking up huge amounts of material with every scoop – enormous rocks, huge piles of dirt. Inside the cab sits Joe, the crane operator. You look at Joe and you can’t help but notice that he is terribly overweight; his paunch sticks out far past his belt. Then you observe that Joe is a serious chain smoker, taking cigarette after cigarette without a break.

You walk over to Joe and remark innocently, “Joe, you really should watch your health. Maybe join the gym and work out. Get into shape.” Joe turns to you incredulously and says, “Me, work out?! Can’t you see what I do for a living? All I do is lift heavy loads – thousands of pounds, moving, moving, moving. I don’t need to work out – that’s what I do all day.”

You look at Joe and say, “Joe, that

isn’t you who is lifting. The crane is lifting! You’re the little guy inside manipulating the levers.”

This is an apt parable to the human. Hashem formed the human being – the pinnacle of all Creation. Man is the reason for everything in existence and center of it all. And the human was invested with fantastic powers. He can think; he can do; he can accomplish.

He has a mind that is insightful, creative, intuitive, and brilliant. Every human should feel an overwhelming sense of pride because he is the center of the universe.

But this pride is tempered with the understanding that “I am the guy inside the crane.” I was put into this body. I didn’t make the brain. I don’t know much about weaving neurons or stretching skin. I am the little guy inside who moves the levers so that powerful things happen.

So am I great or am I tiny? The answer is both. The crane that I operate is a human being. As such, it can accomplish worlds. It is mighty, powerful and influential; it was created in the image of Hashem and is worthy of great respect. At the same time, I am the little guy who sits inside. I am Joe, the crane operator. I move the levers, and this powerful creation moves, does, and accomplishes. The crane is huge, but I am little.

Moshe Rabbeinu fully understood this, and as such, was fantastically humble. Yet he understood his role and influence. When it was time to act, he was bold because he understood the greatness of his position in the world.

Yet he remained ever modest.

This balanced perspective allows us to understand our inner greatness while maintaining our sense of humility, remembering that while it may have been worthy to create the entire cosmos for me alone, I am but a creation and servant of Hashem.

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Israel Today

Aliyah Defined

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t’s easy to lose focus on Aliyah’s big picture when you’re busy spending the first year or so battling every government agency imaginable.

Just when you think you can rest, you’re made aware of another similar official behind a similar-looking desk in a similar-looking building awaiting your arrival. More often than not, he or she is not too pleased to see you.

As the pile of official documents gets higher on the dining room table, the more you turn your attention to the mundane matters of life; by trial and error one discovers the lowest priced places to shop: the neighborhood and all its nooks and crannies takes time to explore. By the time you think you’ve settled down, the spiritual notion of Aliyah, whose shine of idealism has not yet lost its polish, has taken a back seat to the daily grind of life.

It can be similar to yamin noraim: one’s cheshbon hanefesh can be lost amidst the smells of chag and of making certain all those significant omens find a home on your table.

There are moments, however, that give you pause, that find you locked in reflection thinking, “This country is mine and I am my country. No, I don’t belong in New York or Melbourne, Australia (where I was born).

I belong here in Israel.” There comes a tipping point when, like your fellow countrymen, you take part ownership over its struggles.

At 5am every morning, I sit next to Shraga, who made Aliyah with his family a little over a year ago.

They came from Clifton, New Jersey, and like us, have a married daughter in the States. Over the last three months, they have moved out of one house into another while awaiting the closing of the home they purchased in Ma’alot.

Shraga and his wife, Beth, took it all in stride.

They’re not the complaining kind. He is a social worker. Beth is a project manager for M&Ms. She recently flew to Amsterdam on assignment. As a self-advertising chocoholic, I am constantly asking for free samples.

She wasn’t certain about the levels of kashrut in Europe and much to my chagrin came back empty-handed.

Shraga and Beth’s quiet-achiever-attitude to life impressed me enough to make mention of it to Yisrael, my next door neighbor. Israel is a giant of a man who

never misses a chance to poke fun at Americans and their accents. He calls them “Wah-Wahs” because of the way they pronounce their Hebrew vowels. When he pokes fun, he leans his enormous frame over you, not in intimidation but in preparation for the rise he hopes to get out of you.

“You’re all the same. You’re chutznikim.” He smiled waiting for me to start an argument.

“Here’s what you don’t understand,” I said to him while poking my finger gently into his chest. “Yisrael is niknet b’yisurim. That is a concept you will never comprehend. You were born here. You never had to go through the birth pangs of Aliyah. You did nothing to make this acquisition because you didn’t have to do anything. It was delivered to you on a plate. You grew up here never having to consider the struggles of Aliyah. But those of us who have made Aliyah have made sacrifices you will never have to. We’ve given up family, friends, neighborhoods, jobs, schools. In most instances, we live in diminished means. We’ve started at the very beginning of a line we oftentimes can’t see the end of. You never had to find your place here. We did.”

Yisrael listened to my harangue before dismissing me with a brush of his hand and a loud cry of “You’re a Wah-Wah, too!”

Yisrael will usually follow up his comments by placing a hand on my shoulder. I know he understands just how big a sacrifice Olim have made. At the same time, I also know he can’t resist the temptation to rile friends like me into making long-winded speeches.

Maybe it’s because I really do sound like a Wah-Wah, and he enjoys listening to my Hebrew.

Last week, we were invited to Shraga and Beth’s new home for a chanukat habayit. It was called for 6pm. A few light refreshments, a quick tour of the house, followed by minchah and putting up the first mezuzah.

The house was once a novelty in Ma’alot. It was built by one of the men responsible for a lot of innovation in solar heat. Their house was covered in solar panels: almost 30 of them. The idea was to see if it was possible to sustain the house on solar power alone.

The experiment must not have succeeded because bar two panels, the remainder came down a few years ago.

There are a few houses in Ma’alot that seem to have been more successful. Three doors away from us, our neighbor’s 32 panels are working well.

Shraga and Beth’s house has a beautiful garden where we davened minchah. It wasn’t easy to concentrate while getting bitten by more mosquitos than I

Rafi Sackville

could shake a stick at.

The scientist passed away a year ago and his widow found it too difficult to remain in the house by herself.

Not only did she sell it before moving into an old age home, but she sold it lock, stock and barrel. She took nothing with her except the photos. The furniture, the kitchen settings, the bathroom fixtures were all left behind. Shraga and Beth didn’t seem to mind. Keren took the tour and later remarked on Beth’s continuous smile.

Yisrael had sent apologies for not having been able to make it. I was sorry because he wasn’t there for the mezuzah ceremony. It might have made him think twice when talking about Wah-wahs.

After Shraga put up the mezuzah, he cleared his throat to say a few words.

“We recently read the parsha of Nitzavim. The mefarshim say that you, Bnei Yisrael, are standing here today after hearing the klalot. You’re still alive. Moshe Rabbeinu assures them that they are going to survive. I want to say my own p’shat. Not only are ‘we’ standing here today, but we are doing so in Eretz Yisrael with the wonderful opportunity of being able to buy our own home.

“Our friend Elimelech who lives down the road from us told me how his plans for shlichut were foiled time after time. Something always came up to keep him here. I told him that I’m jealous of him. Yitzchak Avinu had such a high level of kedusha, he was never allowed to leave the land. I told Elimelech that he must be on such a high madreiga to never have left here, despite his many tries.”

Shraga’s eyes had filled with tears as he put up the mezuzah. As I watched him, I seemed to rediscover the reasons we had come to live here. The supermarket runs, the government offices, the bills, the banks, they all tumbled away from my consciousness like a house of cards. In their place was the idea, the ideals, the kedusha, and the beauty of the country of our choice. The country where we belong.

I didn’t ponder these thoughts too long, however.

We still had court documents and national insurance papers to complete before the night was over. I looked around for some M&Ms, but remembering Beth’s mention of kashrut in Europe left empty-handed, but not before bidding Shraga and Beth good evening.

Then I had a change of mind about those government documents and pointed the car in the direction of Yisrael’s house. I couldn’t wait to tell him what Shraga had said, even if I knew he’d listen attentively before calling me a Wah-Wah. Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, lives in Ma’alot inWestern Galil. He teaches in the local high school.

The supermarket runs, the government offices, the bills, the banks, they all tumbled away from my consciousness like a house of cards.

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BOBKER on SIMCHAS TORAH

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

by Joe Bobker

“Jewish life is a symphony whose score is the Torah, whose composer is G-d, whose orchestra is the Jewish people, and whose most moving performance is on Simchas Torah.” - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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ewish mystics, fascinated by the form of a circle, incorporated “circling” into many life-todeath ceremonies.

Consider: brides circle the groom, Jews circle a cemetery (or coffin) at funerals, the Talmud even nicknamed R’ Honi from Jerusalem the “Circle-Drawer” because he would draw a circular ring, stand inside, pray for rain and not leave until his prayers were answered. And they had a field day in “closing” the circle on Simchas Torah by taking the last letter (lamed) of the last word (Yisrael) and adding it to the first letter (bet, or vet without the dot) of the Torah’s first word (Bereishis), to arrive at lev (“heart”) to symbolize the Torah as the heart of the Jewish people.

Commenting on the fact that there is no specific

mitzvah allocated to the dual festivities of Shemini Atzeres-Simchas Torah, R’ Henoch of Alexandria traced this to its “conclusionary” (azteret) status, “It is a day on loan from the future, for, in the future, all active mitzvot will be annulled, and all Torah will be in the mind.” This “conclusionary” aspect of the festival, he continues, is symbolized by the power of the “circle,” akin to a hakafa, a self-contained shape that flows with no dramatic beginning nor end, suggesting an endless spiral in a world that knows no boundaries or limits.

Simchas Torah swings between two extremes: from the somber elements of the just concluded Elul-Tishrei cycle to the hyperactive Purim-like command Sisu v’simchu be’simchat Torah, “rejoice with the Rejoic-

ing of the Law.” One moment we are repeating many of the most lofty piyutim from Yom Kippur; the next minute we are singing and drinking the yom tov away, even getting drunk…but not too drunk! In the only introductory paragraph in Mishnah Berurah, the Chofetz Chaim prefaces his chapter on Simchas Torah with a warning against excessive drinking.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for conventional shul decorum, Simchas Torah ain’t it: this is no orderly davening; members wander in and out noisily, circulate, chat, make Kiddush, sing, dance, give out candies and cookie to kids running around, all within a service of levity. I still recall crawling on the floor collecting the miniature flags from the apples.

The central custom of the yom tov are the haka-

of Spain, Provence, and Germany sought uniformity.

They accelerated the cycle to an annual one and chose to end it not at Pesach-time as was the then-custom, but on the last day of Succas. Why? Because this period was already heavily laden with halachik laws of joy and gaiety.

The rich soil of the Torah can be harvested on so many levels that each time one opens a page, even the same page, one discovers a new experience, a new adventure.

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imchas Torah is the only time of the year when the Torah reading is done at nighttime. Why? I don’t know. But why read the Torah again, and again, and again? Why not just study it once thoroughly, then discuss, debate, dispute it at will?

The answer comes to use from Rabbi Yosef Josel Hurvitz, der alter fun Novardok, who told his

students that the rich soil of the Torah, a Zohar concept, can be “harvested” on so many levels that each time one opens a page, even the same page, one discovers a new experience, a new adventure. And the more one looks, the more one finds; the more one finds, the more one understands; the more one understands, the more one “grows.”

Does this mean that Simchas Torah is a day dedicated to learning Torah? No. It is a day of praising the process of and commending the method of, but not necessarily the learning of, Torah. The obvious question is this: If Simchas Torah and Torah are “as One,” why do we need Shavuos, or vice versa? Remember: the giving of the Torah as represented by Shavuos chronologically precedes Simchas Torah.

So why not link the custom of giving all Jewish children an aliyah (that used to take place every seven years) to the Torah of Shavuos instead of the Torah of Simchas Torah – especially since it was customary for fathers to take their sons to their first day of cheder on Shavuos, not Simchas Torah.

And why not have tikkun leil Shavuos, the “allnight learning” Shavuos session, on Simchas Torah? And, while we’re on the topic, why aren’t Jews freilich un sameach on Shavuos as much as they are on Simchas Torah? Come to think of it: doesn’t it make more sense to finish and start the Torah cycle on Shavuos?

The clue to all these questions lies in an unusual event that occurs immediately before Shavuos.

The parsha includes a less than subtle intimation that the well-being of Jews is conditional on abeyance of mizvos, chukim, u’mishpatim. It is here that we are startled by a checklist of “do’s” and “don’t’s” that is followed by a harrowing litany of Godly blessings (“if you obey”) and curses (“if you do not”) that are so grim that the chazzan lowers his tone in fear and apprehension when reading them.

This is the only time of the year when a Jew does not seek the honor of an aliyah!

Chazal deemed it discomforting, unnatural even, to take out all the sifrei Torah and dance the night away so close to an atmosphere of punishment.

To everything there is a season. This was considered bad timing to gather all “the little ones” (kol ha’niaarim), even those not tall enough to reach the bima, up to the Torah.

Shavuos was thus kept more somber, low-key, for in the shadow of castigation it was better to learn more and rejoice less.

However, by Simchas Torah, chastisements were no longer hovering menacingly above. The mood was loose, unrestrained, the tone upbeat, vigorous, energetic. And why not? Sukkos was ending and hopes for a speedy Redemption were running high.

The time was now appropriate. Close the Gemaras, put aside the serious learning, bring in the wine and candy, and let the lively dancers and loud singers hakafa the night away. I’m exhausted just thinking TJH about it. 

Joe Bobker, alumnus of Yeshivas HaRav Kook in Jerusalem, is the former publisher and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Jewish Times, author of the popular Torah With a Twist of Humor series and the 12-volume Historiography of Orthodox Jews and the Holocaust to be published next summer by Gefen Press, Jerusalem. He can be reached at jbobker@aol.com.

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fos (“seven circlings”), a circular procession of Jews praising the Torah. Why seven? To recall the seven circuits that the priests made around the altar.

Was it always a custom to circle the synagogue clutching sifrei Torah? No. The Machzor Vitry, an 11th century liturgical work from the school of Rashi, describes how it used to be: on both Simchas Torah and Hoshana Rabba, all the Torahs were removed and held, unopened and unread, in the center of the shul whilst the congregants circled. In fact, hakafos is a relatively recent custom, traced back to Rabbi Chaim Vital, 16th century kabbalist from Sfas and pupil of R’ Lurie, the Ari. Since then, the concept of seven hakafos has not only been enthusiastically accepted as minhag eretz Yisrael, (“custom of Israel”), but has even multiplied itself to as many as three different times, both evenings plus Simchas Torah by day.

At first, the rabbis were concerned at this creeping expansion of hakafot on the evening after Shemini Atzeres because of possible desecration of a yom tov.

However, all doubts quickly collapsed in the face of a Gemara suggestion: Don’t mess with the masses (“See how the people act, and that is the law!”).

The Jews demanded hakafos, the more the merrier!

And so it stayed (if you spell minhag backwards, point out the droll Yiddishists, you get Gehenna!).

As Neil Sedaka (nee Tzedaka) once softly observed in song, “Breaking up is hard to do,” we end the annual cycle of Torah reading and immediately start all over again. But what are we celebrating? The ending? The beginning? I don’t know. I imagine it’s a bit of each.

Was the timing always so? No. In the time of the Geonim, the cycle began at mincha on Yom Kippur.

It was only in 12th-century Spain and Germany, when the day acquired greater significance as a mystical declaration of continuity, that Bereishis began on Simchas Torah, and even then the parsha was not read from a different Torah but recited just from a sefer (or by heart). When the minhag was formalized some two centuries later, no less than three sifrei Torah were involved.

This tradition, to end and start with no pause, underscores a premiere canon of Jewish faith, as expressed by Ezra: that the study of Torah is like a circle, a never-ending celebratory “renewal of the Covenant.”

We take this tradition for granted and find it hard to imagine that it wasn’t always so. But it wasn’t. The stop-start custom is nowhere mentioned in the Talmud, nor is it found in centuries of prolific rabbinic writings, not until R’ Avrohom ben Yitzchok’s of the 12th century refers to it in his Sefer HaEshkol; on the contrary, the Rambam describes how the Torah readings were spread out over three, or three-and-a-half years, ending just before Pesach.

In the fascinating 12th century travel diaries of the Jewish Marco Polo-type explorer, Benjamin of Tudela writes that it was the custom in his hometown in Spain to finish the Torah readings annually. However, he describes the tradition of two synagogues in Cairo, one for Jews from Palestine, the other for Jews from Babylon, where the former had broken the parsha into three parts and completed the full Torah reading over three years; the latter finished all the parshiyos in one year. Yet, in a show of unity, both groups got together every Simchas Torah to rejoice with the Torah, no matter where each was up to in its reading.

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ukkos is by most accounts one of the favorite holidays of the year. Commemorating the forty year period during which the children of Israel wandered in the desert and lived in “booths,” we take leave of our homes—modest or massive—and “dwell” in our sukkahs. We eat, sleep, entertain guests, and host parties in these structures and strive to make them as comfortable and attractive as possible.

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Hang curtains or drape a few yards of fabric on one wall to add color.

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Use battery operated “tea lights” or candles to create a soft ambiance.

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Decorate the “ceiling” with hanging glass vases filled with fresh or artificial floral arrangements or pomanders.

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Purchase an inexpensive indoor/ outdoor area rug to lend a feeling of warmth to your sukkah.

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Though meant to be humble, many people want their sukkahs to reflect their sense of style and creativity, and children and adults alike come up with innovative ways to enhance their temporary abodes.

The designers at The Studio did some research and offer the following suggestions with which to give your sukkah a quick makeover without incurring too much expense.

Enhance your table with “silver and diamond” beaded runners accompanied with a “silver” candelabra fitted with a floral bowl.

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For a more informal look, use woven straw mats and install a green wall of artificial grass which can be purchased in Home Depot or Lowe’s.

Purchase acrylic sea glass (a colorful light material) and have your kids create a collage or mural for the sukkah walls.

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Replace unsightly fluorescent lighting with paper lanterns or a reasonably priced chandelier. You can find some products at Ikea or at Jamali Garden online.

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Visit a local art supply store such as Michael’s to buy garlands of ivy or flowers to create festive fall foliage walls.

Suspend crystal garlands from the schach’s supporting beams for an elegant touch.

Create a gorgeous centerpiece using silk flowers which can be used inside your home after the holidays.

For more ideas on how to beautify your sukkah and to source materials from the items shown in the accompanying photos, visit our designers at The Studio in Cedarhurst.

Have a wonderful holiday!

This series on Interior Design, which will feature articles on “Latest Design Trends,” “Before and After Projects,” and “Ask the Designer,” is presented by The Studio Interior Design. The Studio, located in the parking lot off of Cedarhurst Ave. between Broadway and Central, is a full service retail design showroom open to the public and the trade, offering an extensive selection of furniture, lighting, wall coverings, fabrics, upholstery, hardware and accessories. The Studio also boasts a staff of designers experienced in projects of all sizes and caliber. Readers can reach out to Rachel Septimus and other Studio staff members at Designer@ TheStudioInteriors.com or by calling 516-612-2433.

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Rabbi Binyomin Kamenetzky From Lithuania to Woodmere Laying the Foundation of the Five Towns Community

BY TAMAR SULLIVAN

Rabbi Binyomin Kamenetzky is the oldest son of Rav Yaakov zt”l and Itta Ettil Kamenetzky a”h. Reb Binyomin was born in 1923 in Tzitivyan, Lithuania, where his father served as Rav to sixty families for a few paltry coins each week, and he attended cheder in Wilkomir, a neighboring town. He speaks admiringly about his father, Rav Yaakov. Here are some of his recollections, in his own words.

Before each of us went to cheder, he taught us how to daven and read because the cheder rebbe was a Litvak and pronounced “shins” as “sins.” “Shin” was not in their dictionary. It was important to my father that we knew how to read correctly.

My father also taught all of us children how to bench aloud, and we all had to bench together with him. Even today, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren bench with the same nusach and in the same niggun as my father did.

Throughout his 15 years in Europe, Reb Binyomin also lived in Shavel, Tavrig, Riteve, and Telshe, where he learned in the well-known Telshe Yeshiva. While his family’s commitment to Torah learning remained unwavering, serious poverty defined those early years.

How did they manage?

My mother tried to make sure there was always bread, salt, and potatoes for us. We didn’t have much

at all during those years. Potatoes were our mainstay.

Those were hard times. But I remember my mother during those times. She was concerned from morning until night with how her husband – my father – was doing. My father was always learning and writing, learning and writing. He never stopped, so she worried about him. She would ask, how is he doing, what is he eating, how is he feeling?

They made the most with what little clothing and food they had. Naturally, they saved their best foods for Shabbos and yom tov. Widespread destitution plagued most Lithuanian Jewish communities in the years leading up to WWII. The people were hungry. In fact, one Sukkos, there was so little food that someone stole our yom tov meal

straight off of our stove. We didn’t see who took it, but we later found the cutlery and the pots left in the street.

They were all used and emptied out.

In 1937, dire living conditions and the looming Holocaust pushed Reb Binyomin’s father, Rav Yaakov, to

“I had no idea what they were talking about. What is this Cedarhurst place?” seek better conditions in America. He left his family behind until he could find work, but that task proved difficult.

When my father was trying to find work, a friend offered to help publish and print some of his k’savim.

My father instructed my mother to pack up his Mekoros

Childhood town Original Toras Chaim building in East New York with a logo of the Yeshiva of South Shore (circa 1956)

A newspaper article written in 1956 about Rabbi Kamenetzky holding services at “a new Jewish congregation,” Etz Chaim in Woodmere

Photo Credits: Five Towns Jewish Heritage Society

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In front of Yeshiva of South Shore in 1966

Rabbi Binyomin and Rebbetzin Tzirel Kamenetzky

At his vort, with his father (at his right) and his future father-in-law, Rav Pinchus Eliyahu Spiegel

Receiving an award from Torah Umesorah

students commuted from a place called Cedarhurst.

I was so confused. Where was Cedarhurst? I asked the boys why they come from Cedarhurst. There is no yeshiva for boys there, they said. I asked them if there was a shul. They said that they have to walk across the tracks to get to shul. I had no idea what they were talking about. What tracks? What is this Cedarhurst place? Their father invited me to visit.

I came to see their home in Cedarhurst on Chol HaMoed Sukkos 1955. The father showed me around their home. He said, “Here is the boys’ room. Here is the girls’ room.” I asked him about the other room.

He answered me, “That is the playroom.” Playroom?

What is a playroom? I had never heard of such a thing.

I wanted the boys to have a minyan in this place called Cedarhurst, so I learned what these tracks were.

They had eight frum families on their side of the tracks.

I helped them make their first minyan on Shabbos Bereishis 1955 at a private home on Oxford Road. That was the beginning of this community.

Slowly, the eight families grew to twenty, and the now-rotating minyan continued growing with the longdistance help of Rabbi Kamenetzky. A few months later, local baalei batim came together to ask the rabbi to move to Woodmere to help build up the area. Fortified with a wife, three daughters, and his father’s bracha for hatzlacha, Rabbi Kamenetzky moved to Woodmere to help start a yeshiva for boys.

The baalei batim also needed a real shul, so they asked me to be shul rabbi too. But I was busy trying to make the yeshiva and start a girls’ school. I suggested they join an established organization, like Young Israel. So they sent a letter to Young Israel, and they received a reply denying admission to the organization because there was no known Orthodox Jewish presence in Woodmere. At the next meeting of baalei batim, Irving Bunim was there. He said, “Kamenetzky is here? So Jews will be here.” And then we started the Young Israel.

I made an effort to meet all the people running the

community – Skelos, DiSibio, Wilder – they helped me secure buildings and meet the right people. I am very close with some of them now.

From the poverty-stricken communities of Lithuania to the robust Jewish life of the Five Towns, Rabbi Kamenetzky has seen and experienced more than most of us. What does he feel is the biggest threat to today’s Orthodox world?

The parents.

I was at a doctor’s appointment recently. After the exam, the doctor asked me, “We have the most beautiful yeshivos today. Why are they not teaching yiras shamayim?”

His question reminded me of a story about a father who came to Rav Yisroel Salanter and asked what he should be learning with his four-year-old son. Rav Salanter answered, “Why didn’t you come to me five

“Kamenetzky is here?

So Jews will be here.” years ago so I could teach you how to be a father?”

The answer to why the schools are not teaching our children yiras shamayim is that the schools are not responsible for teaching it. Mothers and fathers are the ones who have to implant it in their children.

After nearly six prosperous decades laying the groundwork for Yeshiva of South Shore, Young Israel of Woodmere, Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, Congregation Bais Medrash of Cedarhurst, and Torah Academy for Girls, Rabbi Binyomin Kamenetzky has helped build one of the largest Jewish communities in North America from the ground up. The number of lives that have been and continue to be touched daily

by Rabbi Kamenetzky’s dedicated efforts render him a credit to klal Yisroel whose merits will iy”H multiply TJH eternally. 

Yeshiva Toras Chaim today

Toras Chaim building on Oak Street

On the steps of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim in Williamsburg with some of his friends

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HaRambam b’Tanach and send it to him. When she brought it to the post office, she had just enough money to send the package, but not enough to insure it. The package got lost in Germany. We never found it. It was probably burned.

That same friend helped my father find short-term employment as a rav in Seattle, which helped him get the position in Toronto a year later. My father was a rav and teacher in Toronto. He started a yeshiva there for guys who were in university – they would finish their university studies at 3:30 pm and come learn in my father’s yeshiva. My father helped them with their university homework! He knew everything from the stars to the trees and back.

Rav Yaakov then sent for his wife and five children, who boarded one of the last boats out of Poland and joined him in Toronto in September 1938. Reb Binyomin was 15 years old. No sooner had Reb Binyomin landed in Toronto than he found himself on a train bound for Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva in Brooklyn under Rav Dovid Lebowitz zt”l.

My father knew Rav Dovid Lebowitz from Europe, from Slobodka, and they were good friends. My father believed Rav Lebowitz was one of the greatest Torah scholars of that time. He told me that if he had been a rich man in Europe, he would have sent me to America to learn under him. Now that we were in Toronto, sending me to learn at his yeshiva in New York wasn’t even a question.

At the time, it was the law in Canada that no one could take any money out of the country and into America. My father was extremely careful with the laws of one’s country. He found a way to pay my fare from Toronto to New York without giving me the money directly so that he would not break that law.

After learning in New York and Baltimore for some years, Reb Binyomin married Tzirel Spiegel, daughter of the Ostrover Kalushiner Rebbe zt”l. He then took a position as a rebbe at Yeshiva Toras Chaim of East New York, until one day he discovered that two of his

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The Fine Art of Sukkah Shopping

Everything You Wanted to Know about Buying a Sukkah but Didn’t Know Who to Ask

BY MALKY LOWINGER

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hopping for a sukkah can be a daunting experience. So many options, such a huge investment.

And it’s not like you can wait to do comparison shopping in order to make an informed decision. The clock is ticking, yom tov is here. You need to get your sukkah fast.

So where do you begin? For start-

ple don’t do this properly.

“It’s not enough to measure the floor of your porch or driveway,” he says.

“You have to observe the area from all perspectives. Are there any gutters or windowsills sticking out from the home that will interfere with the assembly of the sukkah? Are there branches or overhangs that will obstruct the area?

sukkah be stored during the year? Is the area dry or humid? Is it roomy or cramped?

Once you’ve determined all of these factors, it’s time to go shopping.

PANELS OR FABRIC There was a certain charm to the sukkahs of yesteryear, with their heavy

sukkahs are assembled with minimal effort and expertise.

The panel sukkah is considered the most “balabatish-looking” of all, if that’s a consideration. And in fact, says Yechiel, it’s usually the customers who come from traditional, heimish backgrounds who opt for this look. The exterior walls of the sukkah panels are

“We shipped to Iraq during the war for the soldiers there.” ers, be wary of fly-by-night sukkah operators and work with experienced, reputable dealers that have been in the business for years. They’ve seen it all, know it all, and can steer you in the right direction. And we’ve done some of the homework for you.

The following is a summary of tips, advice, guidance, and suggestions from local sukkah sellers in our area – Mendy from The Sukkah Center, Fishel of Leiter’s Sukkahs, and Yechiel from the National Sukkah Outlet.

BEFORE YOU SHOP Before you even walk in to a sukkah store, make sure you properly measure and map out your area. This may sound like common sense, but Mendel tells us that you’d be surprised how many peo-

Will you be able to pull your garbage cans out to the curb? Your car out of the garage? You need to be aware of all of this before you start the process,” he points out.

What about height? Sukkahs are sold in seven, seven and a half, or eight foot heights. Is the area high enough to accommodate the schach that will sit several inches above the sukkah?

Are you planning to use your awning as a shlock? Be aware that they usually slope downwards and thus may not have enough clearance to cover the sukkah properly.

In addition, you should have some idea of the type of sukkah you want and its configuration. Do you wish to add windows or doors? If so, where would you place them? Also, where will your

The EZ Lock Sukkah

wood panels that were screwed and hammered together with lots of sweat and elbow grease. These days, you can leave your tools in the toolbox, as most

a rich, dark mahogany wood and the interior is a lighter color. Buyers can choose between two foot, three foot, or four foot panels that snap together when

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to flap in the breeze, causing them to become halachically questionable. But today’s sukkahs are designed with Mehadrin straps that are attached to the frame at intervals of three tefachim, making the walls virtually immobile and thus properly kosher. These sukkahs are more reasonably priced and are more easily stored as the walls can be folded up and tucked away until next Sukkos.

Standard canvas sukkahs are still being sold, but apparently are not as popular as they once were for a variety of reasons.

BUT SERIOUSLY, HOW MUCH WILL THIS COST ME? If you’re shopping around for a sukkah, you’ll discover that prices vary but not significantly. A typical 12x12 panel sukkah will run about $2,1002,300. An EZ Lock sukkah that measures 10x12 should cost between $999 and $1,039, and sometimes the schach is included. That’s about half the price, which explains why this sukkah is becoming increasingly popular with savvy shoppers.

Either way, it’s important to get the details spelled out. Find out whether the hardware, clamps, beams, supports, etc. are included in the price. Also, ask about the doors and windows. Finally,

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they’re lined up at an angle. Your sukkah store will usually have a miniature version of this mechanism on display, but of course it’s going to be a lot easier to snap together a two foot sample than an eight foot wall.

Be that as it may, panel sukkahs have some major advantages besides their good looks. They are sturdy and stable and should last for many years.

They also grow with your family, as additional panels can be purchased when necessary. Other options include doors and windows that are stationary or can open and close. Clamps and fasteners are generally available to reinforce the walls, but buyers should ascertain whether these are included in the original price or are “extras.”

The panel sukkah will need substantial storage space, which should be considered before purchasing it. It’s also significantly pricier than other types of sukkahs, especially when the smaller two foot panels are purchased.

Another popular option is the snaptogether sukkah, also known as the EZ Lock Sukkah. It has a metal frame which is assembled by lightly hammering the poles into their sockets with a rubber mallet. Once the frame is standing, the nylon walls are wrapped around and fastened with Velcro straps. Earlier versions of canvas sukkahs were prone

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inquire about tax and delivery fees.

And if the schach is included, make sure it meets your standards of kashrus.

Otherwise, an upgrade of schach will inevitably mean an upgrade in the price.

ALL ABOUT SCHACH Schach is probably the most important element of the sukkah shopping experience. It can also be the most confusing. It’s best to consult one’s rav for

guidance.

The key kashrus concern with schach, says Mendel, is that it has to have been made l’shem schach. The Star K gives a hechsher on a line of schach mats that are long-lasting and tied together with plastic string. But other rabbonim insist that mats should be tied with a natural material such as reed or cotton.

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bamboo mats, baby bamboo mats, or even single bamboo rods which were once fashionable and are still available in some areas. The kaynus mats are most popular today as they carry a Badatz hechsher. But Mendel cautions buyers to beware that not all hechsherim are what they claim to be. “I once had a Chinese guy call me trying to sell me mats and pretending that he had a kashrus certificate.”

Schach is delicate and should only be stored when it’s bone dry to avoid mold and mildew. “Leave it out in the sun for a couple of days to dry,” Mendel advises, “especially if it rained during the last days of yom tov.”

ACCESSORIES Maybe you already have a sukkah, but are looking to enhance the mitzvah by adding some upgrades or embellishments. There are a variety of optional accessories available. Fishel says he sells hand-painted panels that are decorated with murals. He also offers a sukkah sink which is fashioned out of a laundry tub with a faucet and can be hooked up to a garden hose as well as a hose to drain the water away from grass and the sukkah.

Many sukkah outlets sell folding tables and chairs, bee traps, decorations

Schach has to be cut l’shem schach

and waterproof lighting. Folding beds are generally sold in variety stores. One can also purchase flooring to give your sukkah a more homey look. Those who sleep in the sukkah are advised against installing space heaters, as they can create a fire hazard. Says Fishel, “Keep an extra sweater handy instead.”

TO SHLOCK OR NOT TO SHLOCK Frankly, shlocks are often more trouble than they’re worth, but sukkah sellers insist that some type of protection against the elements is essential.

Fishel says he sells a custom-made shlock that opens and closes, but he also adds that most customers simply buy a tarp to cover their sukkah.

Even a tarp needs to be handled with

care. Yechiel cautions that if it’s thrown on top of a sukkah haphazardly, you run the risk of having the rain water pooling in the center of the schach, creating additional weight that might cause your sukkah to cave. Or, as Mendel says, “If it’s not done correctly, the water pools in one area and it rips.” He also suggests leaving sukkah doors and windows open on blustery nights to create cross ventilation which will relieve the pressure of the howling winds.

CUSTOMIZATIONS AND CUSTOMER SERVICE There are those among us who take their sukkah décor so seriously they insist on matching the sukkah to the color of their homes. According to a local sukkah expert, “The traditional wood

her sukkah,” says Mendel.

“She said it was perfectly clean and in mint condition as it was standing in her dining room all yom tov on a carpeted floor.”

Apparently, she wasn’t aware that a kosher sukkah has to be located outdoors!

Then there are the victims of stolen sukkahs. “It happens more often than you would think,” Mendel says. “Homeless people steal them for the metal parts, especially in New York City. They will take the

She wasn’t aware that a kosher sukkah has to be located outdoors! look is actually very nice, but fiberglass sukkahs are coming back in style because people aren’t doing wood kitchens anymore. They want their sukkah to match their kitchen or the exterior of the house so they will order a fiberglass sukkah in grey, white, almond or beige. The price is about the same as the wood panel sukkah as it is made by the same manufacturer. But it’s a sleeker and more modern look.”

Mendel remembers one customer who insisted on purchasing a purple sukkah, which obviously had to be custom-made.

For the average shopper, though, customer service is an important consideration. And that means being available any time of year. Says Yechiel, “We are not disappearing after yom tov. Our office and warehouse is open year-round. When something is broken or parts need to be added, you want to buy from someone who will be there for you.”

Says Mendel, “I remember one customer telling me he bought a sukkah off a truck and it fell apart. He saved money, it’s true, but in the end his sukkah didn’t even last through yom tov.”

SUKKAH STORIES After all these years, Mendel, Yechiel, and Fishel have seen it all, and they shared with us some of their more unusual stories. “I once had a lady call after yom tov to say she wanted to return

They may be local, but sukkah dealers ship all over the world. “We shipped to Iraq during the war for the soldiers there,” says Mendel. “We also ship to Panama and Hong Kong, Germany and Israel. These aren’t necessarily Chabad shluchim [who are buying the sukkahs].

They are random people who find themselves in unusual places for yom tov.”

SUKKAH INNOVATIONS The necessity of eating in the sukkah has spawned a cottage industry of poles and leave the wood panels be- innovations. These include the travel hind.” One family left their sukkah on sukkah, the portable sukkah, and the the front lawn and the sanitation depart- popular pop-up sukkah. We’ve been ment hauled it away, thinking it was told that a new blow-up sukkah will trash. “We had to deliver a new one soon be on the market, but it’s unclear mamish erev yom tov,” Yechiel relates. whether it will be available this season.

And then there will always be the For a fee, you can hire a group of last-minute shoppers. Most sukkah sell- entrepreneurial bochurim to assemble ers will stay open late on erev yom tov and take down your sukkah. Or, if your as a service to the community. Things sukkah needs are temporary, you can happen, they say. People may change rent a sukkah and have it delivered betheir plans because of sudden medical fore yom tov and carted away after the issues, missed flights or other circum- chag. stances. “Last year,” says Mendel, “we Finally, as a chessed to the commusent out three sukkahs to customers on nity, the Sukkah Shadchan gemach was erev yom tov by car service. The or- established several years ago. Founded ders were placed at about three o’clock in Flatbush, it matches up families who in the afternoon!” Fishel remembers are discarding their sukkahs or schach a customer running into his store right with those who need them. The probefore the chag because of a sudden gram matched up 50 families last year change of plans. “The only thing I had alone and can be reached at 718-998was the EZ Lock Sukkah that was on 6596. They have been tremendously display as a model but he was more than helpful to those who could otherwise happy to take it.” never have celebrated yom tov properly.

There’s so much that goes into buying and building the perfect sukkah. And when yom tov comes and your family is gathered around the table together under the crisp night sky with the warm aromas of soup and challah wafting through the air, you know that you will truly be able to rejoice in the yom tov—v’samachta b’chagecha—in the sukkah that’s right for Building a sukkah on Yongsan Military Base in Seoul TJH you. 

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Chol Hamoed

Places to Go, Things to Do This year, Sukkos falls out in beginning of the fall season.

Take advantage of the cool, brisk temperatures and spend time with the family during chol hamoed. TJH has compiled a list of ideas, activities and places to go for you to enjoy this time spent together. Make sure to pack enough food and music for the road and have fun!

Zoos and Farms Queens County Farm Museum 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park, NY 11004 718-347-3276

$25.00 $22.00

CholHamoedSuccos PARK HOURS ONLY ON Sunday, Monday, Tuesday October 12, 13 & 14 from 11AM to 6PM

White Post Farms 250 Old County Road, Melville, NY 11747 631-351-9373

Queens Zoo 53-51 111th Street, Flushing, NY 11368 718-271-1500 Central Park Zoo 64th Street & 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10065 212-861-6030

New York Aquarium Surf Avenue & West 8th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11224 718-265-FISH Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center 431 East Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901 631-208-9200 Prospect Park Zoo 450 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 718-399-7339

There will be a Succah available on premises.

Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10460 718-220-5103

Cherry Crest Adventure Farm 150 Cherry Hill Road, Ronks, PA 17572 717-687-6843 Claws ‘N’ Paws 1475 Ledgedale Road, Lake Ariel, PA 18436 570-698-6154

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Scenic Attractions Central Park Boating, biking, the Great Lawn, model-boat sailing, carriage rides, carousel Between 5th & 8th Avenues and 59th & 106th Streets, New York, NY 212-360-3444

Bryant Park 6th Avenue, between W 40-42 Street, New York, NY 10018 212-768-4242 New York Highline Gansevoort St. to West 30 St. between Washington St. and 11 Ave., New York, NY 212-500-6035

Brooklyn Bridge Park 1 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 718-222-9939 Fort Tyron Park Riverside Drive to Broadway, W 192 Street to Dyckman Street, New York, NY New York Circle Line Pier 83 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036 212-563-3200

Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Ferries from Battery Park, NY 1 Battery Place, New York, NY 10004 212-363-3200 Old Westbury Gardens 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury, NY 11568 516-333-0048 Old Bethpage 1303 Round Swamp Road, Old Bethpage, NY 11804 516- 572-8400 Brooklyn Botanic Gardens 900 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 718-623-7200 Brooklyn Heights Promenade Downtown Brooklyn—Remsen Street to Orange Street along the East River The New York Botanical Garden 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458 718-817-8700 The Amish Village 199 Hartman Bridge Road, Ronks, PA 17572 717-687-8511 Mystic Seaport 75 Greenmanville Avenue, Mystic, CT 06355 888-973-2767

Amusement Parks

Hersheypark 100 West Hersheypark Drive, Hershey, PA 17033 1-866-946-9977, lancastersukkot.com Six Flags Great Adventure 1 Six Flags Boulevard, Jackson, NJ 08527 732-928-2000 Adventureland 2245 Broad Hollow Road (RT 110), Farmingdale, NY 11735 631-694-6868 Luna Park Coney Island 1000 Surf Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11224 718-372-0275

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Adventurers (formerly Nelie Bly Park) 1824 Shore Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11214 718-975-2748

October 14 with separate swimming hours for men and women. 2 parks for one price. Sukkah at both parks.

Dorney Park 4000 Dorney Park Road, Allentown, PA 18104 877-4-CHOLHAMOED Sunday, October 12 at Dorney Park.

Monday at Cocokey Water Resort.

Sukkah on premises.

Sahara Sam’s Oasis and Water Park & Diggerland 535 N Route 73, West Berlin, NJ 08091 856-809-4168 Splashtastic Succos on Tuesday,

Indoor Fun Parks Legoland Discovery Center Westchester 39 Fitzgerald Street, Yonkers, NY 10701 866-243-0779

Fun Fuzion at New Roc City 19 Le County Place, New Rochelle, NY 10801 914-637-7575

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Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum Pier 86, 12th Avenue and 46th Street 212-245-0072 9/11 Memorial and Museum 200 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10006 212-266-5211 Sony Wonder Technology 550 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022 212-833-8100 New York Hall of Science 47-01 111th Street, Queens, NY 11368 718-699-0005 Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128 212-423-3200 Long Island Children’s Museum 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530 516-224-5800 Brooklyn Children’s Museum 145 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213 718-735-4400

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Jewish Children’s Museum 792 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11213 718-467-0600

American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024 212-769-5100

Children’s Museum of Manhattan 212 W 83rd St, New York, NY 10024 212-721-1234

Liberty Science Center Liberty State Park, 222 Jersey City Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305 201-200-1000

Crayola Factory 30 Centre Square, Easton, PA 18042 1-866-875-5263 The Franklin Institute 222 North 20th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-448-1200

Concerts and Events

Sukkos Extravaganza Rides, games, entertainment, activities, food and a sukkah available 1550 Paerdegat Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11236 Sunday, October 12-Tuesday, October 14, 11am-6pm

Bello, Uncle Moishy and Yeshiva Boys Choir Brooklyn: Sunday, October 12, Shulamith, 12noon, 2 and 4 Five Towns: Monday, October 13, TAG, 6:30pm www.jewishtickets.com, www. unclemoishy.com

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Yeshiva Boys Choir and 8th Day Sunday, October 12, 7:30, Queens College www.ybclive.com, www.jewishtickets.com Family Fun Day Benny Friedman, the Gizmo Guys and the Hey-Ya Brothers TAG, Tuesday, October 14, 1pm www.jewishtickets.com, www. sukiding.com

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Notable

Quotes

Compiled by Nate Davis

“Say What?”

According to a new estimate, Congress has had a full work week just 14 percent of the time since 1978. Congress said they planned to address the report next week because it’s already Tuesday.

– Seth Myers

I think he wants to be president.

- Former President George W. Bush, talking about his brother Jeb

I think they [the Obama administration] should be acquainted with the facts first. You know? First of all, these are not settlements.

These are neighborhoods of Jerusalem. We have Arab neighborhoods and we have Jewish neighborhoods. It doesn’t make me feel good.

I think the important thing is to just get the facts right. I mean, start with the facts.

- Prime Minister Netanyahu on MSNBC responding to criticism from the Obama administration for Israel’s construction projects in East Jerusalem

There’s two sides to every story, and we’re only hearing one.

- The mother of a radicalized Muslim who beheaded an innocent woman in Oklahoma last week, defending her son’s character

Political reporters are complaining that the White House has been asking them to edit some of their stories to make the president look better. The White House said that’s not true, and those reporters should please change what they said.

– Jimmy Fallon

I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria.

- President Obama on 60 Minutes discussing America’s slow reaction to the rise of ISIS Excuse me, sir, bombing the Middle East and then throwing the CIA under the bus is kind of George Bush’s thing.

- Stephen Colbert

Thank you for carrying your gun today. 10% discount.

– A sign in a Louisiana restaurant

The new iPhones are out and some are complaining that their phones are bending.

They say if you squeeze the ends hard enough, the phone will bend. And if you hit it with a hammer, the phone will break. Here’s an idea.

Don’t bend the phone.

– Jimmy Kimmel

Chicago is reversing its plan to name a high school after President Obama after it received multiple complaints from people in the community. I guess parents were afraid their kids would spend eight years at the school and still not get anything done.

– Jimmy Fallon About 400,000 people marched in New York today to draw attention to climate change. They held up signs and banners. They chanted things like “Hey, hey, ho, ho, fossil fuels have got to go.”

You know when somebody begins a chant with “Hey, hey, ho, ho,” they mean business.

– Jimmy Kimmel

While highly respected, [Benjamin Franklin] was also vain, obstinate, and jealous of his prerogatives and reputation. He had decided that his role would be that of an “agent of influence” among the politically powerful in France. The Commission was “under protection” of the French government, and Franklin may have underestimated British capabilities to operate in a friendly third country…His ego may have overwhelmed his common sense. Like many government officials before and after him, he may have believed that he knew exactly what he was doing and that his judgment required no additional verification.

- From a recently declassified CIA document analyzing the Founding Fathers

Today the director of the Secret Service, Julia Pierson, resigned. She’s being replaced by the White House’s new state-of-theart security system — a scarecrow.

– Seth Myers

I had no sugars, no dairy, I had no carbs. All I ate was meat, fish, veggies and fruit.

That’s it. For 67 straight days.

- LeBron James disclosing how he slimmed down over the summer

It is now spreading in polite society, where it masquerades as legitimate criticism of Israel. For centuries, the Jewish people have been demonized with blood libels and charges of deicide.

Today, the Jewish state is demonized with the apartheid libel and charges of genocide. Genocide? In what moral universe does genocide include warning the enemy’s civilian population to get out of harm’s way? Or ensuring that they receive tons, tons of humanitarian aid each day, even as thousands of rockets are being fired at us? Or setting up a field hospital to aid for their wounded?

Well, I suppose it’s the same moral universe where a man who wrote a dissertation of lies about the Holocaust, and who insists on a Palestine free of Jews, Judenrein, can stand at this podium and shamelessly accuse Israel of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

In the past, outrageous lies against the Jews were the precursors to the wholesale slaughter of our people.

But no more.

-Excerpts from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly last week

Yesterday, Kenyan runner Dennis Kimetto ran the world’s fastest marathon by finishing the Berlin Marathon in 2 hours, 2 minutes, and 57 seconds. He also set another record by being the first guy from Kenya to be named Dennis.

– Jimmy Fallon

In a new interview, Mitt Romney referred to Hillary Clinton as an “enabler” of the president’s foreign policy. Which would be a big deal if that wasn’t the definition of being secretary of state.

– Jimmy Fallon

Big Al was known for his timeless words of wisdom, including “Life is hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”

- From an obituary for Raymond Alan Brownley in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after his September 21 passing

It’s the iPhone 6 of wars— it’s expensive, a little bigger, a little more unwieldy than you thought it was gonna be, it’s at least a two-year commitment, kinda feels like you just … got the last one!

- Jon Stewart on the war against ISIS

President Obama is facing criticism over an incident yesterday where he was holding a cup of coffee in his hand, and then used that same hand to salute a Marine. Though with all that’s going on in the world, I’m surprised he didn’t salute with a bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand and a cigarette in the other.

– Jimmy Fallon

The NFL announced possible sites for next year’s draft have been narrowed to two locations. It’s either Rikers Island or San Quentin.

- Conan O’Brien

President Obama keeps insisting that ISIS is not Islamic, well, maybe they don’t practice the Muslim faith the same way he does.

But, if vast numbers of Muslims across the world believe, and they do, that humans deserve to die for merely holding a different idea, or drawing a cartoon, or writing a book…not only does the Muslim world have something in common with ISIS, it has too much in common with ISIS. - Bill Maher After a photographer was accused of harassing the royal baby Prince George, lawyers for Prince William and Kate Middleton said that their son “must be permitted to lead as ordinary a life as possible.” They then added, “Now get away from our castle!”

- Seth Myers

Today an Indian spacecraft reached the orbit of Mars…

They were able to keep the mission’s costs down by outsourcing all of the work to themselves. And who knows?

If it keeps going, in a few years, maybe we’ll have the first call center on Mars.

- Jimmy Kimmel

The alternative, in my case, is staying home and talking to Diana about feelings. If that doesn’t get you back to work, I don’t know what would.

- Michael Bloomberg explaining to attendees at a business forum why he is returning to the top position at Bloomberg LP

Attorney General Eric Holder said today that he will resign after five years in office.

When he heard about this, President Obama said, “Oh, he’s my ride. I gotta go.”

- Seth Myers

Microsoft has announced it’s going to open its first flagship store in Manhattan. The Microsoft Store is expected to be just like the Apple Store, but without all of those pesky lines in front.

– Conan O’Brien

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The Human Rights…biased treatment of Israel is only one manifestation of the return of the world’s oldest prejudices. We hear mobs today in Europe call for the gassing of Jews. We hear some national leaders compare Israel to the Nazis. This is not a function of Israel’s policies. It’s a function of diseased minds. And that disease has a name. It’s called anti-Semitism.

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Si se puede, si votamos! Yes, we can, if we vote!

- President Obama in a speech to pro-immigration activists

We need to be more like Disney World.

We need to be more friendly, inviting.

New grandma Hillary Clinton says she couldn’t be happier about daughter Chelsea’s new baby unless the baby was a Latina in a swing state.

- Recently replaced Secret Service director Julia Pierson to Secret Service agents several months ago LeBron James’ childhood will be the subject of an episode of a new children’s TV series. Hopefully it’ll help teach kids a valuable lesson — that they can do anything they put their mind to as long as they’re amazing at basketball.

– Seth Myers

– Andrew Malcolm We don’t have peace because the Americans didn’t want peace…The war in Afghanistan is to the benefit of foreigners. But Afghans on both sides are the sacrificial lambs and victims of this war.

- Outgoing Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai taking a swipe at the U.S. in his final speech as president

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has not appeared in public for weeks. There are rumors he’s sick due to too much cheese, fried chicken, and beer. Sounds like someone is applying for American citizenship.

- Conan O’Brien

President Obama said that over 40 countries have offered to help the U.S. fight ISIS. Of course they said it the same way your friends do when they promise to help you move. “Yeah, just call me, you know, if I’m around, it’ll be fun.”

- Jimmy Kimmel

The federal government is starting to plan for climate change by making extended forecasts that can help people plan for extreme weather — because what can go wrong when you combine the efficiency of government with the accuracy of weathermen?

– Jimmy Fallon

After all the recent security breaches at the White House, Julia Pierson, the director of the Secret Service, resigned today. She said she’ll miss being in the White House, but knowing the Secret Service, she should be able to come back any time she wants. The door is always open, literally.

– Jimmy Fallon That’s how we roll.

- President Obama explaining to Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes why America always gets involved in international crises

I recently tried to refinance my mortgage, and I was unsuccessful in doing so. I’m not making that up.

- Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke during a speech to the National Bureau of Economic Research last week

You can now Wave charge your device by placing it within a household microwave for a minute in a half.

- From an internet posting, made to look like an official Apple bulletin, informing iPhone owners that there is a new feature called “Apple Wave,” which allows users to charge their iPhone 6 by heating it in a microwave. The announcement was a hoax A 102-year-old Long Island woman celebrated her birthday this weekend by going to White Castle.

Services will be held tomorrow morning.

– Seth Myers

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A Sukkah of Sophistication

By Esther Ottesoser Give your sukkah an aura of polished grace with one of these breathtaking chandeliers!

This simple craft is made of an upside-down wire hanging basket that delivers a big dose of pretty—in three different ways!

Cover it in dainty flowers, trim it to resemble a chic lamp, or stick to the classic chandelier look Any of these exquisite styles will bring elegance and sophistication to your sukkah this yom tov.

Wire hanging baskets are available in dollar stores. Take the hook of the basket hanger and put it through the bottom hole of the basket. When holding the basket from the hook, your basket will now be faced down. Tip: It will be easier to work on this project if you hang the basket from something.

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Take the ribbon and secure it by knotting it to the top of the basket. Wrap the ribbon around the basket until the entire basket is covered.

Glue the end down to secure in place.

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Cut open the necklaces so that they are long strands.

Glue one bead of one necklace at one of the intervals where the 2 wires meet on the basket. Create the scallop by continuing around the base gluing beads at intervals where wires meet. One strand of each color will not be enough, start the second strand where the first one ends.

The 2 ends can be glued to each other with a glue gun.

Repeat with second color of beads right above the first strand.

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What Should Tzachi Do?

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kay, I’m sitting in my sukkah and I’m supposed to feel this great spirituality because the sukkah represents G-d’s clouds of Divine presence. Very nice. Except nothing is happening. I’m looking out, actually, at a heavy-duty yellow and blue plastic thingy with no resemblance at all to Divine Clouds.

What’s missing here? And if I really need a spiritual uplift, how do I find it?

I can tell you where you won’t find it: You won’t find it in drugs, gambling, fooling around or other escapist things.

You won’t find it in getting a new car, fully loaded. You won’t find it by sleeping late or not getting out of bed at all.

You won’t find it by dumping the old wife and getting a new one. None of these things will help you. You can certainly try; millions of people do – to no avail.

So you may as well figure out how to tap into it in the sukkah. No, maybe not. Before the how, we need the “why.”

David Berenson starts off his book, Addiction and Spirituality, with these words: “Perhaps the most underutilized resource in Family Therapy today is G-d.” You can argue that this is because the addictions field, as I mentioned in the last article, has adopted the concept of a Higher Power very successfully.

However, the application of G-d in therapy is widening.

A 2007 book about spiritual approaches with eating disorders states, “There is growing empirical evidence that spiritual approaches to treating clients are as effective, and sometimes more effective, than secular ones.” The American Psychologist in 2003 did an overview of studies showing epidemiological evidence of the effect of spirituality on health – finding that it has a positive impact.

The 2011 Journal of Counseling and Development has an article which suggests that because spirituality has been shown to be such a potent force in counseling, therapists should routinely assess where people are holding on this issue regardless of why they wanted therapy.

It’s so ironic that the field once inhabited by people who dismissed religion and that which cannot be reduced to scientific evidence as nonsense are re-thinking this position. But why are

they? What is it that makes people so troubled anyway that they would resort to drugs? Why is it that this notion of G-d seems so useful in therapy? We haven’t answered the question yet. Perhaps a story will do.

Tzachi was in the import-export business. Like so many people I see,

spoken to in years. You see, knowing how we feel makes us more competent in knowing how others feel. This data is then used to gauge how to relate to them.

“Of course!” the therapist concluded. “It’s very easy to be content outside of the world of close relationships,

WE ARE NOT ONLY REMINDED IN THIS HOLIDAY OF G-D’S PROTECTION BUT OF OUR DEEP CONNECTION TO HIM he was alienated from himself. What does that mean? It means he took pride in not feeling. He didn’t feel pain, he didn’t feel much joy, he didn’t feel loss; he didn’t feel much compassion either. This worked for him. He didn’t have to deal with messy situations. He didn’t have to cry – men don’t cry! At his mother’s funeral, he didn’t feel anything. He later admitted that was kind of weird. You should feel something, right? Weird, but kind of nice not to be burdened with too many troublesome feelings.

Now, I want to ask you: Do you, any of you—men included—really think that this is the way G-d wants us to be? Come on, be honest. He, in His Infinite Wisdom created feelings. Did He not want us to connect with them?

Baruch Hashem, He also created women.

His wife felt alone, really alone.

She couldn’t pinpoint what was wrong with her marriage. Her husband was a good man, did his job, contributed financially to the house very nicely, in fact. But… So she brought him to marriage counseling. It was only natural for the therapist to ask him about his religious feelings since the subject was feelings.

As one would expect, he was disconnected from those, too. But who cares?

He made good parnassa, got honored for his tzedakah, and sometimes even davened for the amud. But, reluctantly, he admitted that he could not stand the fights with his wife. Yes, in this respect, he was unhappy.

He also reluctantly admitted that his relationship with his children was less than it could be and he was at war with his own brother who he hadn’t

but once you’re in the world of relationships, if you are disconnected, it doesn’t work so well.”

“First,” the therapist explained, “you have to reconnect to yourself.

That will include reconnecting to your own neshama. Then the rest of the family will follow naturally.” That is easier

said than done, isn’t it? But to quote Rabbi Feiner’s Shabbos Shuva drasha, we have everything we need to be able to do that. After all, our neshama may have been shut up, but it didn’t disappear.

It turns out that Sukkos is the perfect holiday to learn how to do all that reconnecting.

It is the one yom tov where everyone, men and women, are cocooned within the mitzvah and can be there as long as they need. But it is far more than that. It seems that there was a difference of opinion between the Tannaim Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Eliezer.

Rabbi Akiva thought the sukkos were literal booths that the Jews built as they left Mitzrayim, while Rabbi Eliezer learned out that the word sukkah refers to ananei hakavod, the Clouds of G-d’s Presence.

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DrDeb Continued from previous page because in Vayikra 23:43 it says, “I caused the Israelites to dwell in sukkot when I took them out…” This makes it sound like G-d provided something rather than that people built something.

Dr. S. Z. Aster of YU notes that the words ananei hakavod appear in two pesukim in Torah. In Shemos 16:10, the ananim appear after the people protest to Moshe that they want to return to Mitzrayim. In Bamidbar 16:17, the ananim appear after the people rise up against Moshe because of Korach’s rebellion and punishment.

Dr. Aster sees G-d’s Presence in the form of a cloud in both cases protecting us from ourselves. The Clouds serve as a Divine sign that Hashem is in charge; we need not go into rebellion: “They served to change the Israelites’ attitude by re-focusing their attention. The ananei ha-kavod essentially saved the Israelites from themselves.”

Here’s another approach: Alex Israel notes that the word sukkah is used in Tehillim to refer to protection from Hashem, so that for example, 140:8 says “You have protected my head in the day of battle” using the word “sakosa.” He notes that the word sukkah has almost the same spelling as schach which we use to cover the sukkah and which in Tehillim 91:4 uses the word “yaseich,” He will cover.

Normally, we relate to Hashem as intangible. We live in a material world and we can feel very removed from Him. But on Sukkos, He reminds us that at one time our ancestors actually experienced His Divine Presence in the form of the ananei hakavod – sukkot – which protected them in the desert.

Esther Wein, citing the Ramchal, adds that that not only is Sukkos a holiday that reminds us of Hashem’s protection, but it is z’man simchaseinu, the time of our joy, and this joy began when the red string turned white on Yom Kippur and continues into its peak at Simchas Beis Hashoeiva, the time of the water-pouring ceremony.

To understand this, go back to the Creation story. Esther Wein explains that the Netziv notes that our avodah of tefillah only came after Man was banished from the Garden. When Hashem created the water above and the water below, the water in the ground was sufficient to nourish vegetation without Man’s tefillos. We didn’t need to pray for rain.

She cites the Ramban who saw Gan Eden as an internal place, that is, where the “water” to irrigate the plants is our

connection to G-d, the neshama that our friend Tzachi was trying to avoid.

The Simchas Beis Hashoeiva ceremony represented the recognition that both the physical plants and our spiritual growth come from Hashem’s water “in the ground.” We don’t need rain to connect to our own wellsprings; the “water” is already there. That is why the sukkah and the minim are all plants.

Again and again, we are not only reminded in this holiday of G-d’s protection but of our deep connection to Him; He is, in fact, part of us; He is within.

So what is Tzachi supposed to do?

How will he bridge years that he needed “rain”? How will he begin to feel that “underground” connection that was within him all the time? Esther Wein refers to the Ramchal’s formula for accessing that wellspring within us.

It does begin with actions: When we do the halachos, we must be careful to pay full attention to what we are doing so that we do them correctly. That is the beginning. This leads to an enthusiasm for doing more of them which leads to a feeling of connecting to the Divine.

There’s one more piece that needs clarification: When we follow halacha, it must be done knowingly and with the conscious intent that this act has meaning and purpose. The purpose, of course, is to connect to the Divine – and thereby be able to deeply connect to others. The less the connection to begin with, the harder the journey. On the other hand, the greater the effort, the less Hashem conceals Himself. Tzachi must begin to learn the deeper meaning of all his tefillos and to daven with conscious focus on that. He must begin to be conscious of his words to his wife and children, and the things he tells himself.

He must want, even when the going is rough, to connect to his neshama within. But he can do it! As Rabbi Feiner said, we have everything we need to do it. No excuses, no arguments.

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Your Health Dr. Alan Winder

Making your Rosh Hashana Resolutions Work

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ealth clubs experience a surge in membership at the beginning of every new year. A few weeks later, these same people who signed up so enthusiastically are nowhere to be found. Fad diet books make their authors wealthy, but few of the people who bought them so eagerly and zealously began their diets, will stick to them for long. On Rosh Hashana, people often decide to improve themselves drastically, only to find themselves in the same bad habits a few weeks, days, or even hours later.

As we all know, it’s hard to change. It’s easy to decide to change, easy to promise to change, and not that difficult to change for a short while. What’s difficult is changing significant aspects of our lives, and at least as difficult, is maintaining these changes long-term.

There are a number of reasons for this: • Habits are hard to break. Exacerbating this is the fact that we become less flexible as we get older.

(This is true physically as well; a baby can easily chew on its toes; how many people over the age of 20 can do that without ending up in traction?) The longer a person behaves in a certain way, the more difficult it will be to change that behavior.

• Changing is admitting that you were wrong. Admitting being wrong is not something we enjoy, even for

a trivial matter. How much more so, when the wrong being admitted is something that a person has been doing for years, or even a lifetime, and may even be a major part of a person’s life? It’s much easier to justify or ig-

If a bodybuilder is able to lift 100 pounds and wants to increase this limit to 200 pounds, the best way to do this is by slowly moving up, increasing the weights in increments of 5 pounds or so. Obviously, moving up 50 pounds

HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO EVER IMPROVE OURSELVES IF CHANGE IS SO HARD?

nore these behaviors than to change them.

This all sounds pretty discouraging. How are we supposed to ever improve ourselves if change is so hard?

I have a T-Shirt that says “Motivation will get you started; discipline will get you there.” I have always found this to be poignant. Rosh Hashana has just passed, and we are hopefully motivated to think about what’s important in life and to commit ourselves to self-improvement. We’re experiencing the motivation. So now’s the time to get to the discipline.

While being disciplined is important, equally important is being disciplined in an educated and effective way.

The key to successful change is taking small, meaningful steps.

at a time would not be effective, and any bodybuilder who tries to increase his capacity so quickly would be doomed to failure (and injury!).

This is common sense and everyone knows it’s true, but as with anything related to self-change, it’s easier to know than to do.

Whatever change a person wants to make, it’s important to identify specific goals to be reached, and to divide this goal into small and manageable objectives, set within a reasonable timeframe. Otherwise, no matter how motivated a person is, he or she will fail, become discouraged, and give up rather quickly.

Another key concept in self-improvement is to expect setbacks. If a person embarks on a self-improvement project of any type expecting the path to be smooth and unhindered, this will lead to disappointment. This is clearly seen in addiction treatment – it’s vital for a recovering addict to expect failures and relapses and to consider these part of the recovery process. This is because relapses are almost inevitable, and if the addict has an “all-or-nothing” attitude towards

beating the addiction, these relapses can trigger total abandonment of the goal of recovery.

Bad habits are similar in many ways to addictions. If a person wants to change significantly, relapses and failures must be expected and considered to be a part of the self-improvement process. Expecting and tolerating these setbacks successfully will avert frustration, anger, and failure.

Another analogy to the process of self-improvement is a stock chart. If you’ve ever seen one of these, you’ll notice that even the best-performing stocks are not represented by a straight line pointing directly upward. Actually, the stock could have regressed thousands of times on the period represented by the chart, sometimes many times per day. Its ultimate success, however, is due to the fact that it overcomes these downturns, and consistently trends upward.

By doing so, it becomes considerably more valuable with the passage of time.

So, if you made some “Rosh Hashana resolutions” in past years and they don’t seem to have worked out, don’t give up. Take a step back, breathe deeply, and relax. Then, for this year, redefine your goals for self-improvement. Set a concrete, realistic timetable for achieving them, and commit to being patient with yourself. Allow yourself to not be perfect, and enjoy the process of improving your life.

Dr. Winder is a Clinical Psychologist practicing in Cedarhurst. He can be reached at (516) 345-0456 or at DrWinder@ITSPsych.com.

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In the Kitchen

A Warm Sukkos Meal

Naomi Nachman

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Overnight Potato Kugel or Yaptzik

Ingredients 2 strips flanken 8-10 large potatoes (I prefer Yukon Gold) 1 large onion 4 eggs large Salt and white pepper to taste 1 cup water or chicken soup

Preparation Place meat at the bottom of a 9 x13 inch pan.

In a food processor, grate onion, po-

tato and eggs. Add salt and pepper to taste and pour over the meat.

Bake for 1 hour and a half at 350° and remove from oven. (You are only partially cooking it, so don’t eat it.)

Before Shabbat, add one cup of water or if you have chicken soup boiling for Shabbat use some of the soup to the pan.

Place a piece of parchment papers over the kugel, then some heavy duty aluminum foil over that and cover well. Place in a 200° oven right before Shabbat. Remove right before serving the next day.

16 Hour Smokey Oven Roasted Ribs

Even though I ran this recipe several weeks ago, I think it’s a perfect dish on this topic of overnighting meat for Shabbat lunch. I have also prepared this dish for 12 hours and it was delicious too. You can cook it in advance and re-warm it for your meal.

1 tsp paprika 1 tsp onion powder 1 tsp cumin 6 cloves garlic crushed 1 cup ketchup 1 cup red wine

Ingredients 4-5 lb. rack of ribs (Ask Rabbi Yehosha Feldman at Gourmet Glatt to help choose a really meaty pieces) 1 large onion, sliced 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 2 tablespoon liquid smoke 1 tsp kosher salt Crushed black pepper

Preparation Preheat oven to 200°.

Place onions on the bottom of a large roasting pan.

In a small bowl, mix together mustard, garlic, oil and spices to form a paste. Rub the paste all over the meat.

If you have time, let the meat stand at room temperature for one hour to absorb some of the flavors.

In a separate bowl, mix the wine and ketchup and pour over the meat right before placing in the oven. Cover the meat really well and place in the oven for 16 hours.

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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In the Kitchen

Full of Flavor

By Chanie Apfelbaum

rowing up in an Ashkenazic home, it just

desire for a year of overflowing harvest. While Ashke-

wasn’t Sukkos without my mother’s holipchkes

nazim tend to eat stuffed cabbage, any stuffed recipe

(stuffed cabbage). Stuffed cabbage is traditionally

is well suited to honor this custom. You can stuff grape

served on Sukkos because the cabbage rolls remind

leaves, zucchini, peppers, or even fruit for dessert!

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us of Torah scrolls. Stuffed foods are also customary

When I married into a Sephardic family, I learned

because we want to celebrate the abundance of harvest

to appreciate other varieties of stuffed dishes (called

season.

mechshie) including tomatoes, eggplants, artichokes

Fall is when farmers harvest their wheat in Israel,

and onions. The vegetables are stuffed with a meat and

and stuffing vegetables with filling symbolizes their

rice mixture and simmered in a sweet or savory sauce.

{Mechshie} Meat & Rice Stuffed Vegetables Ingredients 2 large zucchini, cut into thirds 6 plum tomatoes Filling 1.5 lbs ground meat ½ cup rice (I prefer basmati) 1 tsp allspice ½ tsp salt ¼ cup water Sauce 1 15oz. can tomato sauce ½ can water 1/3 cup brown sugar ½ tsp allspice 1 tsp salt Juice of ½ lemon 2 cups dried apricots Preparation Prepare the filling: combine the meat, rice, allspice, salt and water in a

bowl and mix well to combine (I like to do this by hand, using gloves). Try to handle the meat gently; don’t squeeze it too much as this tends to toughen it up.

Using a paring knife (or a long vegetable corer, known as a ma’vdeh), core the tomatoes and zucchinis. Place all the pulp from the insides of the vegetables in the bottom of a greased wide saucepan. Stuff the vegetables with the meat filling, taking care not to fill them too tightly as the rice will expand during cooking. Place the stuffed zucchinis and tomatoes in the pot, and place apricots all around.

In a bowl, combine the sauce ingredients. Pour the sauce over the vegetables. Cover the pot and bring the liquid up to a boil over high heat. Lower the flame and simmer for 1 ½-2 hours. Uncover the pot and cook on high for 30 minutes, until the liquid reduces to a thick sauce.

NOTE: If you have leftover meat filling, roll it into small meatballs and place in the pot alongside the vegetables.

VARIATION: For a Sephardic ver-

sion, add 1 tsp of dried mint to the ground meat mixture, as well as ½ tsp mint to the sauce. Alternatively, you can use a few tablespoons of tamarind paste instead of the tomato sauce.

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Arancini are Italian rice balls that are often stuffed with mozzarella. In honor of Sukkos, I decided to make a meat version by stuffing them with corned beef.

Ingredients 1 ½ cups leftover risotto (recipe follows) 1 cup leftover corned beef, diced small 1 egg, lightly whisked 1 cup Italian style bread crumbs Canola oil, for frying Preparation Place egg and bread crumbs in two

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Corned Beef Arancini separate shallow bowls. Gently combine the leftover risotto and corned beef and form into balls. Dip in egg and bread crumbs.

Pour enough oil in a heavy large saucepan to reach the depth of 3 inches.

Heat the oil over medium heat to 350°.

Deep fry the risotto balls in hot oil until golden brown. Remove with a slotted spoon and transfer to paper towels to drain.

Serve hot with marinara sauce spiked with a touch of mustard.

VARIATION: If you don’t have corned beef, you can use leftover pastrami.

Dairy-Free Saffron Risotto Ingredients 3 cups chicken stock 1 bay leaf (optional) Generous pinch of saffron 1 ½ tablespoon trans-fat-free margarine 1 ½ tablespoon olive oil 1 medium onion, finely chopped 1 cup arborio rice ¼ cup dry white wine Salt and pepper, to taste Preparation Bring the chicken stock to a simmer along with the bay leaf. Remove ½ cup of the stock and pour over the saffron threads. Set aside.

Heat the olive oil and margarine in

a skillet and add the onions. Cook until translucent, but not browned. Add rice and cook, stirring continuously, until well-coated, but not browned. Add the wine and continue to stir until completely absorbed. Season with salt and pepper.

Begin adding one ladleful of stock at a time (about ½ cup), stirring continuously until all the stock is absorbed.

Do not add more stock until the previous addition is completely absorbed.

Add the saffron-infused stock towards the end (about 15 minutes after adding the wine), and continue to add stock until the rice is tender with a little bite to it (al dente), about 25 minutes total.

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Walking or Running

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o run or not to run. That is the question.

It’s chol hamoed and you recently heard that the average person gains more than 7 pounds over the holidays. You hop on the scale and realize that having “only one more cookie” may not have been the best idea after all. You tell yourself it’s time to lose weight and improve your health, but you are not sure what is the best way to maximize your exercise time: walking or running?

On one hand, people say that running puts stress on the joints, especially the knees. And walking, you wonder, how can a simple walk in the park really lead to significant weight loss and improved cardiovascular health?

It all really depends on your fitness level. For beginners, someone new to cardiovascular exercise, walking can be a great start. For those who already maintain an exercise program, ratcheting it up to running may be crucial to get the results you are looking for. For optimal results, whether walking or running, it is recommended to keep an active heart rate for 30 minutes 3-5 times a week. Before beginning any fitness program, it is important to have a medical clearance from your physician after a careful physical exam and review of family history of cardiovascular events and disease.

For walkers, the 30 minute walk shouldn’t include a 5-minute rest stop off at the bakery for a freshly baked cheese danish or the 7-minute park bench break to make sure you don’t “overdo it.” The more you rest along the way, the quicker the active heart rate decreases, and calorie burning per minute drops as well.

For runners, maintaining a healthy rhythm of inhalation through the nose and exhalation through the mouth should be a priority. Depending on your cardio strength, you may have to walk every few minutes of running in order to safely sustain a 30-minute run. For example, if you feel that you can’t run for more than 4 minutes straight, then intersperse a walk every fifth minute.

There are a few points to keep in mind during your walk/run. Always warm up to get the blood flowing. For your posture, think about standing up as tall as possible. Your chest should be

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Hire Education

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often meet jobseekers who say, “I really need a job…I’ll take anything!”

I also get calls from well-meaning friends and relatives asking me to help someone they care about. They seem to want to assure me that the fellow in question is reasonable and realistic about the difficulties of today’s job market, so I needn’t worry. After all, “He’ll take anything.” In the world of job search, very few things are guaranteed. I don’t have any magic tricks that I can promise will lead to a job. But when I hear these words, there is a promise I can make. A job search that starts with “I’ll take anything” is almost guaranteed to fail.

I know that the person who says this means well. He knows that it is important for workers to be flexible, to show willingness to adapt to the needs of the employer. Lots of folks talk about how important it is to “get started,” “get some

Don’t Look for “Anything” experience,” just find a way to “get your foot in the door.” Once a worker gets into a company, maybe he’ll find a mentor who will give him “a break.” Maybe he’ll even be “discovered” and make it “really big.”

perate, this one sounds confident and self-assured. But as jobseekers, they have both made the same fundamental error. And until they fix this mistake, they are both likely to remain unemployed.

“I’M TOO LAZY TO DO MY HOMEWORK. DO YOU WANT TO HIRE ME?”

I’ve also met jobseekers whose words sound very different, but, like bullies and cowards, underneath they are really the same. When I ask them what type of job would best match their skills and experience, they say it doesn’t matter because “I can do anything.” (Or “anything in management,” etc.) Where the first fellow sounds timid and des-

Let’s see if we can spot the common theme. The first fellow’s message to employers is: “I’m flexible, I need to get some experience, I need a break…” The second’s pitch is: “I’m talented, I’m a fast learner…” The problem is that they’re both talking about the least relevant person in the story: themselves. What they need to be talking about is the job.

I recently saw a quote that applies to many aspects of business. “Don’t waste your time doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.” For job hunters, this means that the message that they give to potential employers must be “I’m the best person to do your job. I know I am because: 1. I know what it takes to be successful in doing your job, 2. I have the background and skills that are needed, and 3. I’m ready to prove it.”

Pause for a moment and contrast that message to “I’ll take anything.” Every employer knows that what this job seeker really means is, “I have no idea how my skills or experience, whatever they may be, could be useful to you. I’m actually hoping that you will have pity on me and give me a job. I’m a lot like a beggar knocking at your door, except I’m looking to move in.” If you were an employer, which of these two jobseekers would you want to meet?

This job hunter might protest my point. He says, “No, I’m a smart, hard-working guy. I can contribute to a

business. It’s just that I don’t have experience, so I’m not sure how I could best contribute.” Well, if that’s true, then the time to start using that “smart, hard-working” stuff is now, before coming to ask for a job. First, have a serious conversation with yourself about the talents and skills you have, and what kind of job you think would match them.

Second, learn as much as you can about the company, especially about the jobs that people do there. Develop a clear, preferably written, description of the contribution you are prepared to make to the company’s success. When you get an interview, talk about what you have learned and what you are ready to do. That way, at least the employer has something to evaluate as he considers the risk you are asking him to take. Without this preparation, you are saying, “I’m too lazy to do my homework. Do you want to hire me?” What answer do you expect?

Are there any jobs you can look for without doing this kind of “homework”? What about the baggers at the supermarket? Well, you still need to decide if that’s the right job for you, and you need to come prepared to show that you are prompt, reliable, courteous, and well-groomed. The truth is that every job requires a set of skills. A successful job hunt includes demonstrating that you—more than anyone else— have those skills and that you are ready to use them.

Do I hear you saying, “But I don’t know what my skills are, or how to match them to a job, or how to get a chance to show them to an employer?”

For that, you should talk to a job search coach. You’ll have to read a few more articles to find out what that’s all about.

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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Noble Men with a Nobel Prize

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hen one pictures a Nobel Prize winner in his or her mind, the image of a guy with wild hair and a docile attitude comes to mind. Many of these people are geniuses and have spent their entire life dedicated to their work. Of the 850 winners of the prize that was first awarded in 1901, over 170 have been Jewish. Albert Einstein is the most famous of them all but he didn’t win the award for his Theory of Relativity. In 1921, he was awarded the prize for “for his services to Theoretical Physics and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.” There have been a few Jewish Nobel Prize winners who have served in the military, making for very interesting biographical sketches. While their discoveries have been extremely important, some of the details are way beyond the scope of this article.

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lbert Abraham Michelson was born in Prussia in 1852. As a toddler, his family moved to the U.S. and after graduating high school, he was appointed to the Naval Academy in Annapolis by President Grant. He was top in his class when it came to science and physics but wasn’t very good on the ships. He served in the Pacific for a stint and then returned to the Academy as an instructor. While in Annapolis, he discovered that it was possible to figure out the properties of light, which became a lifelong passion.

Michelson resigned from the navy to travel abroad to study physics but rejoined in 1917 to serve during WWI. After a tour in Europe, he came back to the U.S. and determined that the speed of light is 186,326 miles per second. He improved the interferometer; a device designed to split a beam of light, and in 1887 published the results of his findings. With his interferometer, he was able to measure the diameter of a star. Much of his work was involved with discovering the properties of light, and he published several pieces that are still held in high regard today. In 1907, Michelson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for “for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid.”

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here was a Mythbusters episode that tested the properties of a mixture of wood pulp and ice called pykrete. This concoction was invented during WWII by Geoffrey Pyke who approached the British government with an idea that would help the war effort.

A Jewish biologist named Max Perutz was the leader of the team, called Project Habakkuk, which was tasked to create a pykrete platform that could refuel aircraft in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The idea was shelved when the Allies had enough aircraft carriers to deploy in the middle of the Atlantic. The project would have required a large amount of material that would be needed to construct the base, and steel, which was needed to house the pykrete while it was freezing, was in short supply.

Perutz was born in Vienna in 1914 and studied biology locally. He already was studying in Cambridge when the Nazis took over Austria and soon gained British citizenship. In 1962, he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his studies of hemoglobin and myoglobin. Perutz

discovered the molecular structures of hemoglobin and is known for his work with x-ray analysis. He never officially retired and when asked why, he replied, “[I was] tied up in some very interesting research at the time.”

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ne would imagine that a Nobel Peace Prize winner would have never served in the military but that was the background of Frenchman Rene Cassin. Born in 1887 into a Jewish family in Bayonne, France, he received degrees in humanities and law and was a lawyer when WWI broke out. In 1914, Cassin joined the infantry and was seriously wounded. Taken to a hospital, the doctors didn’t want to operate because it would be a risky procedure. However, his mother happened to work at that particular hospital and convinced them to perform the surgery which saved his life. It also changed his views, and he became a leftist anti-war activist.

Starting in 1924, he was the French delegate to the League of Nations which folded before the start of WWII. After the war, Cassin became the French delegate to the United Nations and was the co-author with Eleanor Roosevelt of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

He was moved to write this piece that was approved by the U.N. in 1948 after seeing the tragedies of the Holocaust. In 1968, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this declaration. He also held positions on several human rights committees. Cassin was a Zionist and was a champion for Jewish civil rights worldwide.

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uring wartime (we are talking before the age of computer games that so many soldiers spend their downtime playing), servicemen have plenty of free time. Many read novels but for Saul Bellow, a Canadian-born sailor in the U.S. Merchant Marine fleet, the extra time meant he could write his first book.

Bellow was born to Jewish parents who had immigrated to Canada from Russia before he was born. The family moved to Chicago when he was nine and Saul was always interested in literary material. At Northwestern University, he majored in anthropology because he felt the literary department was anti-Semitic. While in the Merchant Marines, he wrote his first book entitled Dangling Man, which was about a young man who entered the draft. After the war, he became a professor, and in 1948, he was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship which he used to move to France. Bellow wrote many other books and novels and first reached the bestsellers list in 1964. In 1976, he won the Nobel Prize in literature for “for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.”

Most of these names as well as hundreds of other recipients of the prize are not recognizable to the public.

However, their contributions to society for their life dedication to their studies or work have actually made the world a better place.

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.

Writer Saul Bellow

Max Perutz giving a lecture

Eleanor Roosevelt and Rene Cassin, architects of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Albert Abraham Michelson

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Ask the Attorney Stephen H. Weiner, Esq.

Will Formalities:

The Declaration and the Witnesses

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ills in New York have formalities that have to be followed or the will may be found invalid. This article addresses the formalities of having a “declaration” by the person making the will and at least two witnesses to the signature of the will.

What is the Declaration by the person signing the will?

The person signing the will, known as the “testator,” must tell each of the witnesses that the instrument he is signing, or signed in their presence, is his will. It is important to ask the witnesses to be witnesses and to sign and put their residence addresses at the end of the will.

Must the testator speak English?

If the will is translated so that testator understands what he is signing, a will written in English for a non-English speaking person can be found valid. The testator’s declaration will have to be translated for any witness who doesn’t understand his language.

Who may be a witness to a will?

The basic requirement to be a witness is to be at least eighteen years of age and able to understand a will signing is taking place.

Must a witness speak English?

There is no requirement that a witness speak English, provided that the declaration is translated for the witness, so the witness understands what he is witnessing.

May the witness receive anything under the will?

Anything given to the witness under the terms of the will is void (with an exception described below), unless there are two other attesting witnesses to the will who receive nothing under the will and are able to prove the valid-

ity of the will. The exception is that a witness who would inherit a share under the law if there was no will (for example a witness-son or witness-daughter when a parent’s will is involved) would inherit that share, known as the “intestate” share.

When must the witnesses sign?

In general, right after the testator signs, the witnesses sign. However, the law permits the witnesses to sign within a thirty day period.

Is a notary public required?

A will does not have to be notarized. However, an affidavit commonly used to assist in the process of having the will accepted by the Court (probate) must be notarized.

Can an attorney-prepared draft of a will be signed and witnessed without an attorney?

I came across an interesting case involving an attorney-prepared draft of a will that the client held onto for ten years, and then had signed and had witnessed, without an affidavit about the signing. The will was found not validly executed because by the time the client was deceased (twenty years after the draft and ten years after the signing), neither witness could recall the circumstances of the signing. This is an example of why it is a bad idea to sign a will without an attorney present.

No column is a substitute for competent legal advice. Please consult with the attorney of your choice concerning specific legal questions you may have.

Stephen H. Weiner has practiced law for twenty-nine years. His office is located at 750 Third Avenue, Ninth Floor, New York, NY. He can be contacted at weiner@ sweinerlaw.com or at 212-566-4669.

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In the Kitchen Renee Chernin

Cooking for the King •

Many people are reluctant to make

Oven-Baked Glazed Corned Beef Ingredients

corned beef because it usually

• 4–5 pounds pickled beef brisket

has to simmer on the stove top

• 1 tablespoon white vinegar

for several hours, heating up the house with a pungent aroma. Once I discovered the oven method, I found the preparation much easier.

• 2 tablespoons plus 1 cup brown sugar • ¾ cup orange juice • 2 tablespoons prepared mustard • 1 teaspoon ground allspice

Preparation Preheat the oven to 350° F. Rinse the beef in cold water and place in a large, deep pan. Add the vinegar, 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar, and ½ cup of the orange juice. Fill the pan with water to cover the beef (about 2½ cups), cover tightly with foil, and bake until fork tender, 3–4 hours. Remove the beef from the oven and uncover.

In a small bowl, combine the 1 cup brown sugar, remaining ¼ cup orange juice, mustard, and allspice.

Raise the oven temperature to 400° F. Remove the beef from its juices and transfer to a baking dish fatty-side up, discarding the juices. Score the top of the brisket with a sharp knife in a diamond pattern. Spread the brown sugar glaze over the beef and bake for an additional 30 minutes.

Remove from the oven and cool. Slice across the grain. Serve with mustard, if desired.

Renee Chernin, recipe developer and creator of the popular TheKosherChannel.com, was a freestyle cook, experimenting with techniques, never making the same thing twice. When she started her own catering business, she began to write down her recipes, testing and tweaking until each dish was perfectly balanced and easy to reproduce. Passionate as she was about cooking, Renee also realized that it’s not just about great-tasting food. Food plays a crucial role in Jewish life—for nurturing our families and feeding our souls.

Recipes reprinted with permission from Renee’s new cookbook, Cooking for the King, published by Brand Name Publishing.

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• 3½ cups all-purpose flour

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• ½ teaspoon salt

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• 1 teaspoon ground cloves or ginger

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• 1 teaspoon ground allspice

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• 1 cup oil • 1 cup honey

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• ¾ cup sugar

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• ¾ cup light brown sugar • 4 eggs, room temperature

the oven (this helps to brown the bottoms properly).

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• 1 teaspoon vanilla • 1 cup coffee, strong black tea, or flat cola

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• ¹∕³ cup orange or apple juice

1–1½ hours.

• ¹∕³ cup bourbon or rum, or substitute with one of the above liquids

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Ingredients • 2 tablespoons margarine, softened

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• 2–3 tablespoons honey

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• 3 cups confectioner’s sugar

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• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon

tops spring back when pressed gently with your finger, about 12–15 minutes. Let cool, then top with the frosting.

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Lipstick on a Pig?

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he personal finance website mint.com reports that the average American woman spends $15,000 on makeup in her lifetime, including $3,770 on mascara, $2,750 on eye shadow, and $1,780 on lipstick.

Americans spent $33.3 billion on cosmetics and other beauty products in 2010 alone. (“Being a woman is easy and inexpensive,” said no one, ever.)

Our friends at the Internal Revenue Service don’t bat an eyelash at all that spending. Cosmetics companies pay

billions in taxes. And the product they sell is a nondeductible personal item.

But that doesn’t stop people from trying — including, we now learn, former United States Senator Scott Brown.

Brown has always been an ambitious sort. In 2010, after a career as a lawyer and state legislator, he won a special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy, becoming the first Republican Senator from Massachusetts since 1972. Then, in 2012, he lost his reelection bid to former Harvard pro-

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fessor Elizabeth Warren. Following his defeat, he moved north to New Hampshire and announced plans to run from the Granite State.

But Brown has always had a bit of a vain streak, too. So it can’t have come as too much of a surprise when he made six years of tax returns available to reporters and revealed that he deducted $2,149 in 2010 and $1,401 in 2011 for “TV makeup and grooming” to help promote his memoirs.

At first blush, deducting makeup might seem perfectly appropriate.

Brown probably wouldn’t wear it if he hadn’t been promoting his book.

The problem here is that the rules say that’s not enough. IRS Publication 529 reports that you can deduct the cost of work clothes if: 1) “you must wear them as a condition of your employment” and 2) “the clothes are not suitable for everyday wear.” Courts have extended this foundation to grooming expenses, holding that they’re inherently personal and nondeductible.

Most recently, the Tax Court reviewed the case of Anietra Hamper, who worked as a morning and noon news anchor for WNBS-TV in Columbus. Her station’s Women’s Wardrobe Guidelines required her to maintain her hair in a neat and professional cut and keep her fingernails at a reasonable length, finished with conservatively colored polish. Yet the Court smeared off thousands in deductions she took for contact lenses, makeup, haircuts, manicures, and teeth whitening.

Last week, a Democratic watchdog group by the name of the American Democracy Legal Fund sent a letter asking the IRS to investigate Brown’s deductions, citing a litany of cases holding that personal grooming and makeup expenses are nondeductible.

Brown’s campaign glossed over the letter as a partisan attack. But Brown is polling about four points behind incumbent Jeanne Shaheen in a close election that will help determine which party controls the Senate for the final two years of President Obama’s administration. This sort of negative publicity can’t help Brown’s chances. And it does nothing to conceal the stereotype of politicians as slick, blow-dried phonies.

Only time will tell if the IRS takes up Brown’s case or if the controversy affects his election. In the meantime, call us if you’re worried about blemishes in your finances. We’ll give you the plan you need to look flawless under the hottest lights!

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.

Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

My Hut or Yours?

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ut 1, hut 2, hut 3! Is it a football game or are we on a filled with sukkahs in the middle of Octo-

ber?

Huts: what else does football and Sukkos have in common?

They’re both played outside under the bright blue sky. There is an endless number of people stuffed together, pushing and shoving! All around, the food and beer is flowing. Everyone’s thinking the same thing: hope we get through this without getting totally drenched!

Pretty similar, huh?

One might argue football has two separate teams involved. Yet, most succahs have a home team and guests, as well.

Both football and Sukkos have a halftime break, to get up, stretch your legs and to go get more food. And the same outlook exists with both—have a ball and try to get back home safely.

Wow, they really do have a lot in common!

At both, 90% of the time everyone’s bundled up. And often, most of the

OK, so truth be told, a major difference does exist! Sukkos is supposed to have a lot more meaning to you. But does it?

crowd is wishing they were watching from indoors.

And get this: they each have the same goal. The Sukkos goal is “l’aishev ba’sukkah”—now, wouldn’t you call that a touchdown?!

Admittedly, there does certainly seem to be a lot of praying during both.

But ultimately Sukkos is about connecting to the great Quarterback in the sky.

The One who is really calling all the plays.

The idea is to recognize only one quarterback is, in fact, in there cheering for you, looking after your best interests, and rooting for your home team— or more clearly your team at home!

No one says you can’t enjoy your ballgames, your hobbies, your friend and family bonding time. But remember who gave all these things to you. That’s what Sukkos is a wakeup call to do: to stay connected and be grateful.

Have a wonderful Sukkos and a year of conscious appreciation and endless blessings!

OK, now get ready for the Hut 1, hut 2, hut 3 holiday…and go for the touchdowns—in your hut, for all your teams, and most of all, in your life!

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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Artistic Expression in Preparation for Sukkos

he colors of nature speak volumes. The leaves are beginning to change colors.

The fallen leaves excite the inquisitive mind.

What can we do with these leaves to decorate our sukkot?

A beautiful collage from leaves can be created. Once laminated, it serves as a beautiful backdrop for the walls of our sukkot.

Any picture placed directly on top of this backdrop will automatically have an unusual frame around it which will beautify the sukkah.

These same colorful leaves allow room for experimentation, as we are aware that preschoolers all around the globe use them in their finger at this time of year.

There are many projects that can be created with children for decorative purposes. How we hang them is usually the question. Using colored lanyard is a great option. The lanyard is plastic and does not disintegrate when it gets wet from the rain. Your decorations will remain hanging throughout the entire yom tov. Chains made from any form of heavy colored plastic are also a wonderful option. Always keep in mind that one day of bad weather may ruin all your hard work.

Plastic soda bottles used as containers for dried or silk flowers and then tightly secured by closing the cap will provide interesting decorations. They can be hung at various heights in a collection of sizes.

Old lenses from eyeglasses decorated with paint markers will create beautiful decorations as well. Any motif will work. Look through storybooks, coloring books and greeting cards for ideas. Glue a colorful piece of lanyard around each

lens with a hot glue gun.

Leave enough lanyard on both sides to tie a knot and make a loop for hanging.

This will become quite a conversation piece.

Press fresh flowers onto a piece of colorful tissue paper, cut to the size and shape desired, then secure in a strong Ziploc bag of the appropriate size.

This display can be attached to the walls or hung up over the sukkah table.

A tablecloth designed especially for the sukkah can be made out of any muslin, linen or a cotton fabric tablecloth.

You can even use one with stains, as the stains can be covered by the design motifs. Search for interesting pictures that can be copied from sukkah coloring books. The simplicity of the dark outlines makes it easy to copy. Draw the outlines in pencil and then trace them with a bold black permanent marker. Place a piece of shirt cardboard between the surface and cloth before using the permanent marker and then acrylic fabric paint. Paint each design in the chosen color. Let dry, and then use as a table covering in your sukkah. Cover the tablecloth with clear plastic to preserve.

Have a wonderful yom tov. I hope you will kvell at your creative work and continue to enjoy the unique designs displayed in your sukkah throughout the entire yom tov!

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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