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>> People Spying on World Countries—Nothing New . . . . . 78 Fighting for the Wall: TJH Speaks with Ronit Peskin of Women for the Wall. . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Focus on People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

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Our feature stories this week focus on Israel. Both stories highlight the tug of emotions Israelis have while living in the Holy Land.

Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was a man with strong convictions. In his early life, he was a hero to the nation, fighting wars strategically, boldly and, some say, recklessly. His leadership during the wars that plagued the country for many years was fierce; he was admired for the positions he took and for the tenacity he exhibited when defending his people.

But eight years ago, his actions prompted strong negative emotions from Israelis and Jews around the world. In an effort to obtain “peace” with the Palestinians, Sharon gave away 26 settlements from Gaza and the West Bank to our bloodthirsty neighbors. Ironically, this was a man who just years before urged Israelis to settle and build up these same lands; now, he was ripping them from their homes and razing them to the ground.

The disengagement prompted anguish not only from those who were directly involved but from everyone who saw the photos of our brothers and sisters being taken screaming away from their homeland. What caused the most heartache was the fact that we knew that the soldiers—who were just carrying out orders—were our brothers as well. They were truly not the enemy and some of them cried and prayed with their fellow brothers as they led them away.

With the passing of Sharon, many feel that a hero has been lost; others feel that they lost one who had opposed them. The State of Israel certainly lost one who strongly believed in its defense and security.

When I travel to Israel, the first place I stop is the Kotel, the place where I feel that my tefillos are more connected to the One Above. It’s easier to daven there with concentration; everyone at the Kotel is beseeching Hashem for His mercy and praying with a full heart. But recently, davening there with concentration has become difficult. On Rosh Chodesh, when Women of the Wall come with their prop tefillin and cries and screams, the sanctity of the Kotel feels threatened and the atmosphere is no longer serene.

A few months ago, Ronit Peskin and Leah Aharoni took on the battle to stand up for the Kotel and its kedusha. Women for the Wall, with the encouragement of Jews from all communities, is fighting to regain the serenity, sanctity and peacefulness for the Kotel. TJH spoke with Ronit this week to hear about how they are waging their war against those who are loud and boisterous and who try to control the media. Ronit explained that their power is knowledge. Their power is showing people the truth and highlighting the reality. She said that WOW cries about women’s rights and freedom of religion, but they denigrate those women who oppose them; they disrespect those who wish to practice Judaism in the way they have been practicing for thousands of years.

Despite how emotional it is to hear people vilify our way of life and show contempt for our holy places, Ronit insists that the only way to regain the proper sanctity of our nation and the Kotel is to show respect for others. She points out that her goal is to provide people with the proper knowledge and to hopefully quell the lies that WOW insists on putting out.

On a more personal note, I cannot end this letter without wishing a warm mazal tov to my sister and brother-in-law, Rachelli and Yehoshua, who gave birth to a delicious baby boy last night. May they always have nachas from all their children.

Wishing you a wonderful week, Shoshana

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ular community), we have never been the recipient of such a wonderful gift from a stranger. I have to say that this expression changed me greatly, and I now know the true meaning of tzedaka.

I am so proud to be a part of the greater Jewish family who include this form of expression as part of its observance.

I know that the highest form of tzedaka is to give anonymously, so...TO THE WONDERFUL ANONYMOUS DONOR – baruch Hashem, and thank you for your generosity and the learning experience you gave our family. My son is a self-motivated baal teshuva who has a love for Torah study and your kind expression only makes his journey more meaningful. Please know that as per your request, he will always put his tefillin on in memory of your parents and uncle. You should also know that I am a great believer in “carrying it forward” and will make a donation to the local Chabad, which the salesman believes you support. Shalom and toda!

Mark Sandor Dear Editor, Your article on Lola Lieber was wonderful but left me yearning for

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I have been reading “Lola’s Story” in your paper every week—it is the first thing I turn to when I have a chance to read on Friday night. It was wonderful to hear more about Lola, and I regret that you didn’t have more room to write about the little details and stories that took place in the many years after the war.

I am looking forward to reading her next book—may she continue to inspire others!

Gali Markowitz Dear Editor, I appreciated your article on former Mayor Mike Bloomberg this week. I found it be well-rounded and informative. I especially appreciated the way you handled the touchy subject of metzitza b’peh and the mayor, and laud

you for including that in your article.

Under Bloomberg’s leadership, New Yorkers and the Jewish community enjoyed a generally peaceful and safe life.

As you pointed out, he lowered crime considerably and worked tirelessly to improve our infrastructure and streamline the government process for the citizens of New York. He was a master at multi-tasking and putting the right people in the proper places in order to get things done. Yes, some may say he was a little dictatorial, but sometimes even a place like New York, which is a civilized city, needs a strong leader. We must have true hakaras hatov for all the good that he did for us. G-d knows that we didn’t always have that, and we are not guaranteed it even in the goldena medinah.

Sincerely, Harold T. Lefkowitz

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Dear Editor, Last December, my son and I were the recipient of a stranger’s generous donation. My son Scott had his bar mitzvah in early December and we decided to go to Judaica Plus in Cedarhurst to inquire about tefillin for him. While the cost of tefillin can be quite expensive, I felt it was my duty to purchase it for Scott. I mentioned to the kind salesman that he is a committed baal teshuva and we must negotiate a price that we can afford. I must have also mentioned to the salesman that even though the final price was still higher than we can afford, I will accept his offer anyway. The tefillin were then ordered for next day pick-up.

Later that night, I received a phone call from the salesman who told me that there was a gentleman nearby in the store who overheard our conversation and decided to donate the money for the tefillin, and for us to come and pick it up. When I heard this, I became so overwhelmed by this kindness that I cried for hours. While I have heard that it is not unusual to experience a gesture such as this in a frum community (we are from Queens and live in a mostly sec-

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Akademik Shokalskiy, the Russian ship that has been trapped in Antarctica, has finally cleared the ice field that was holding it captive. The rescue operation had been drawn out as one icebreaking ship after another failed to release the vessel. Several countries attempted to assist including France, China, American, Australia and Germany.

China’s powerful icebreaker, Xue Long, had raced to respond to the stranded ship, which had been carrying 74 scientists, passengers and crew, but

was unable to break through and became trapped itself. Finally this week, both ships were able to clear the ice.

The United States Coast Guard’s 399-foot long icebreaker Polar Star, which had been en route to the stranded ships, was released from the rescue and will now continue on its original mission of resupplying and refueling the U.S.’s McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott South Pole stations during the weather window provided by the Southern Hemisphere summer.

Igor Kiselyov, captain of the Russian ship, told officials that cracks had started to open in the ice around the trapped vessel and a short time later it began to make slow movements. “Finally the wind changed to the west and as a result a crack appeared in the ice,” Kiselyov explained. The ship quickly managed to clear the area containing the heaviest ice and despite the hard conditions, including thick fog and reduced visibility, began making slow progress north through lighter ice conditions.

The vessel, which has a 22-person crew onboard, took about 12 hours to leave the ice field behind and is now heading to New Zealand.

In News The captain of the Chinese ship had also managed to break free of the heaviest ice around the same time “and is now making slow progress through lighter ice conditions” and is in need of no assistance, he said. The ice surrounding the Xue Long, which has 101 people onboard, had been up to 13 feet thick.

Kerry Presents Potato Present to Russian FM

If you’re having a party, I wouldn’t suggest inviting Secretary of State John Kerry. This week, when Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Paris, he presented Lavrov with two large Idaho potatoes. Apparently, Kerry is not in the habit of handing out spuds to foreign diplomats. It was re-

ported that Lavrov mentioned Idaho potatoes during a previous meeting and that sparked the gesture.

The tater gift was appreciated, and Russia’s foreign minister smiled and remarked that the gifts were “impressive.”

The Russians, not the type to receive a gift without having one to give, presented State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki with a pink ushanka hat, for keeping warm during the Sochi Olympics.

This is not the first time the Russians have received an unusual gift from the U.S. In 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented Lavrov with a red “reset button” intended to symbolize a desire to restart the two nations’ relationship on a positive track after a split over Russia’s invasion of Georgia.

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the Olympics.” His barring reflects Putin’s growing tensions about the upcoming winter games.

Satter began working in September for RFE/RL, which is funded by the U.S. Congress to support human rights, democracy and other U.S. priorities. The Russian Foreign Ministry said the U.S. journalist had not applied for an extension of his visa within the prescribed time. Satter argued that the case was bureaucratic obfuscation, and RFE/RL President Kevin Klose said in a statement that barring Satter from entering Russia was a “fundamental violation of the right of free speech.”

Satter, 66, first worked in Moscow in 1976-1982 as a correspondent of the British newspaper Financial Times, and has written extensively about the Soviet Union and Russia since then. His books include “Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal State,” which focuses on the alleged role of Russian security agencies in apartment building explosions in 1999 that triggered the second war in Chechnya. An abridged Russian-language version was published recently in Moscow.

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“To say that I’m not allowed on the territory of the Russian Federation at the request of the security services — this I haven’t seen applied to a journalist in my entire career of writing about Russia,” the journalist said.

Banning those who are vocal against the regime is nothing new. The expulsion of Western reporters was common during Cold War times, and the Kremlin has revived the practice in recent years.

In 2011, Russia denied entry to Luke Harding, a Moscow correspondent for the London-based Guardian. In 2012, French freelance journalist Anne Nivat had her business visa canceled after she tried to gather information about opposition groups in the provinces.

Critics of the announcement point out that Russia should spend its time polishing its image as opposed to showing its tarnished side to the world. “Whoever made this decision is a fool who has inflicted much more damage on Russia than any spy,” Viktor Kremenyuk, a deputy director of the state-funded U.S.A. and Canada Institute, said in an online commentary.

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Yuriy Lutsenko was trying to stop violence at a protest outside of a courthouse in Kiev, when he took several blows to the head from police batons.

Lutsenko used to be the Interior Minister of Ukraine.

Ruling party lawmaker Yuriy Polyachenko, who visited the hospital, said Lutsenko had been transferred out of intensive care and was “in a stable condition.” Even so, “Doctors have noted a concussion,” he added.

A few hundred nationalist demonstrators had been protesting a court’s sentencing of three men to six years in prison for allegedly plotting to blow up a statue of Soviet founder Lenin near the city’s main airport in 2011. Ukrainian television showed several protesters being carried by stretcher to an ambulance that had been rushed to the scene. The

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David Satter has written several books about Russia and has been critical about the upcoming Olympic Games in Sochi. In a recent commentary posted on CNN’s website, Satter criticized the International Olympic Committee’s “irresponsibility” in choosing Sochi and warned that it could lead to “one of the greatest catastrophes in the history of

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Ukrainian nationalists have been a driving force behind anti-government protests that erupted in November after President Viktor Yanukovych ditched a historic EU trade agreement in favor of closer ties with old master Russia. The flames were fanned further by anger over violence that broke out when hundreds of officers beat dozens of demonstrators while trying to clear them from Kiev’s iconic Independence Square on November 30.

The Kiev prosecutor’s office said it had launched an investigation into the actions of protesters and the police.

“Kiev prosecutors have opened criminal proceedings into abuse of power [by the police],” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. It added that protesters were being investigated for “hooliganism, the illegal interference in the work of a court, and resisting police.”

Study on Burqa Wearing

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The pictures in the middle ranged in terms of how much of the head and face were covered.

Though the majority didn’t choose the full burqa (which includes a facial covering), most respondents showed support for some level of covering up.

Most preferred the fourth option — a white hijab that covers women’s heads, but not their faces. Majorities in Tunisia (57 percent) and Egypt (52 percent) selected this option and significant proportions in Turkey (46 percent) and Iraq (44 percent) did the same.

Saudi Arabia opted for a much stricter garb, as 63 percent chose the second option, the niqab, which covers all but a woman’s eyes. On the other side of the spectrum was Lebanon, where 49 percent of respondents chose no head covering at all.

The report did note that 27 percent of those interviewed were Christians, which might have skewed the results away from more conservative head coverings.

Interestingly, the word “burqa” is an Arabized Persian word of purda (parda) meaning curtain and veil, which have the same meaning in Persian.

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In some Middle Eastern countries, if a woman is caught wearing the wrong head covering, she may pay a very serious price. Other countries are more lenient. The Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan has conducted a study on the issue, and they have some interesting results.

The survey, which was conducted in Muslim-majority countries including Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, found that most people there prefer that a female has her hair covered when she is out in public. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that they believe her face should also be veiled.

For the study, respondents were presented with a card depicting four unlabeled styles of dress, requiring those giving their preference to do so based on a graphic interpretation. They were then

New Delhi is downplaying an incident that took place with one of their officials here in the U.S. Devyani Khobragade is India’s deputy consul general in NYC. She was arrested and indicted by a grand jury on accusations that she exploited her Indian-born housekeeper and nanny, allegedly having her work more than 100 hours a week for low pay and lying about it on a visa form.

U.S. prosecutors say Khobragade claimed to pay her housekeeper $4,500 per month in order to obtain a visa for her. But they say Khobragade actually paid only $573 per month and often forced her to work more than 100 hours a week without a single full day off.

Israel Ariel Sharon Dies at 85 On Saturday, former Israeli prime minister and decorated general Ariel Sharon died at Tel Hashomer hospital at the age of 85. Sharon fell into a coma in 2006 after suffering a stroke. In recent weeks, reports had been coming out about the former leader’s declining health.

Visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addressed Sharon’s condition ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “My thoughts are

with the Sharon family as they sit in vigil with the former prime minister of Israel, Arik Sharon,” Kerry said, referring to Sharon by his nickname. “We remember his contributions, sacrifices he made to ensure the survival and the well-being of Israel, and I have many personal thoughts about my meetings with him on many different occasions – always robust and strong and clear about his positions.”

Sharon, an iconic figure who fought in three wars before entering politics, was elected prime minister in 2001. He suffered a stroke at the height of his political power. In the months leading up to his stroke, longtime hardliner Sharon shocked his political base by expelling Jewish settlers from 21 Gaza settlements and from four on the West Bank. He also resigned as head of the Likud party and formed a new centrist party called Kadima. Sharon’s deputy, Ehud Olmert, was elected prime minister two months after he was hospitalized.

Sharon was born February 26, 1928 in the then-British Mandate of Palestine to a family of Lithuanian Jews. By the age of 10 he had entered the Zionist youth movement and later the Hagana, the military precursor to the Israel Defense Forces. His military career flourished as he became a commander in the Israeli army, celebrated as a military strategist.

He was an instrumental figure in the 1956 Suez War, the Six Day War of 1967, the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and as Minister of Defense when he directed the 1982 Lebanon War. Sharon joined the Likud party after retiring from the military, serving in a number of ministerial posts and then as party leader in 2000 before becoming prime minister from 2001-2006. Widowed twice, his sons Gilad and Omri survive him.

Palestinians Celebrate Sharon’s Death According to Palestinian news agency Safa, dozens of Palestinians took to the streets in the Gaza Strip to celebrate

the death of Ariel Sharon. While pictures of the former prime minister were lit on fire, music was played and candy was handed out to local children.

The media reported, “Participants said they consider the death of Sharon as the beginning of the demise of the Israeli entity, paving the way for liberation.”

Fadi Abu Shab, a Palestinian who took part in the celebration, said, “Today we handed out sweets over the death of the criminal Sharon, the killer of children, women, young people and the elderly.

His death is a message to the rest of the Israeli murderers that they will soon face a similar fate.”

Another Palestinian, Musab al Braim, also expressed joy over Sharon’s death. “This is the preface for the demise of the Israeli entity,” he declared. “It’s the right of all Palestinians to express joy

over the death of this murderer.”

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri wrote on his Facebook account that Sharon’s death is a “divine prodigy and a lesson to all tyrants like him.” The Palestinians, he added, “today live historic moments with the death of this criminal whose hands were stained with the blood of their sons and leaders.” In Ramallah, Fatah leader Jibril Rajoub said, “Sharon perpetrated crimes against the Palestinians. He was responsible for killing Yasser Arafat.”

Small Israeli Wineries Distinguishing Themselves Though small and medium wineries represent only 18 percent of Israeli wine sales, the number of newcomers hoping to distinguish themselves in the competitive world of wine is rapidly growing each year.

Moshe Rozen, the sommelier for the Mul Yam restaurant, says it all has to do with the amazingly different amounts

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The long hours meant she was earning $1.42 or less per hour. After about six months of working for Khobragade, the housekeeper fled and sought help from a nonprofit group that works with human trafficking victims because Khobragade refused to hand over her passport and allow her to return home, according to the indictment.

After a month-long process, Khobragade was allowed to return home to India this week. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, “There is no reason now to feel any immediate concern about any outcome that might be adverse or particularly disturbing in nature.

In due course, we will take up all issues one by one and sort them out.” After the United States requested that Khobragade leave the country, India asked Washington to withdraw a diplomat from the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. The State Department said it would comply, although with “deep regret.”

“We expect and hope that this will now come to closure, and the Indians will now take significant steps with us to improve our relationship and return it to a more constructive place,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters in Washington.

Some of India’s retaliatory measures, such as preventing the American Center in New Delhi from screening movies, were seen by some observers as petty.

But others raised alarms, including removing concrete traffic barriers around the U.S. Embassy and revoking diplomats’ ID cards.

Ties with the United States have chilled in recent years over several serious policy issues, including India’s delays in enacting more business-friendly reforms and the U.S. National Security Agency’s alleged spying on New Delhi and other foreign governments.

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“You can’t even compare the variety of wines you have today to what was on the market three or four years ago,” he said.

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Part of what’s helping the numbers grow, said Rozen, is a willingness among consumers within the Israeli wine market to pay a little more for a bottle of wine. But those that hope to grow within the crowded field are increasingly forced to look abroad. “In the coming year, a huge number of wines are expected to come onto the market.

The question is, who will drink them?”

Ben Ami said.

International consumers seem more than willing. In 2013, Israeli wine exports had a record year, according to the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute, reaching $34.7 million.

That’s a 20% increase from 2012, and over an 80% increase from 2009.

A point to remember is that the five big Israeli wineries account for the 82% of the market. Small start-ups have to really distinguish themselves in order to shine and grab their share of this vastly growing business. But good wine is certainly a commodity and there is room for them to bloom.

Stabbing in Jerusalem

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A terrorist stabbed a Jewish man near the Damascus Gate at the end of last Shabbat. According to National Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, the assailant fled the scene after stabbing the victim from behind without prov-

In News ocation. “It is clear to us that it was a terrorist attack and not a criminal incident,” he said shortly after the assault.

The victim was taken to Shaare Tzedek hospital and remains in moderate-to-stable condition. After a long surgery on his neck, he was placed in the Intensive Care Unit.

Police are searching for any suspects. Rosenfeld said that the search was opened up “near the Muslim Quarter and the main street near Damascus Gate.” The assault comes amid a pronounced uptick in terrorist activity over the past three weeks.

National Where Are People Moving?

In what may seem like an odd choice, Oregon is the place to be. The state was the number one destination among people who moved from one state to another last year. According to United Van Lines’ annual migration study, which tracked 129,000 moves in the United States in 2013, more than 61% of all interstate moves made in Oregon were for people coming to live in the state.

Oregon replaced Washington, D.C., which had held the top spot for the previous five years as workers sought out government jobs, as the most popular destination for people moving within the U.S. The nation’s capital fell to fourth place last year, tying with South Dakota. Other top destinations for those seeking to relocate included South Carolina, with 60% of moves made for those coming into the state, North Carolina (58%), and Nevada (56%).

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Lifestyle also plays a part. “We’re seeing continued migration to the Pacific Northwest as young professionals and retirees are drawn to amenities, including public transit, green space and the local arts and entertainment scene,” he said.

However, housing costs are an important factor, said Stoll. Oregon has many of the same virtues as California –mild winters, active lifestyles—but home prices are much lower, he pointed out. The median price for a single-family home in Portland, for example, is $285,000 according to Zillow. In San Francisco, it’s $881,000 and in Los Angeles, $481,000.

To no surprise, several states with high costs of living saw more people move out than move in, including New Jersey, with 64% of movers leaving the state; Illinois and New York, each with 61%; and Connecticut, losing 59%.

West Virginia was the only inexpensive place to live among the top five states that saw more people moving out.

Madoff’s Bank Pays Huge Settlement

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $1.7 billion to settle criminal charges that it ignored obvious warning signs of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme. This is the largest ever forfeiture by a U.S. bank and the largest Department of Justice penalty for a Bank Secrecy Act violation, government officials announced.

The settlement includes a “deferred prosecution agreement” that requires the bank to acknowledge failures in

In News its protections against money laundering but also allows it to avoid criminal charges. No individual executives were accused of wrongdoing.

A statement of facts included in the agreement describes internal communications at JPMorgan expressing concerns about how Madoff was generating his purported returns. It says executives were disturbed by the fact that Madoff wouldn’t let the bank examine his books. “How much do we have in Madoff at the moment?” a bank analyst wrote in a 2008 email. “To be honest, the more I think about it, the more concerned I am.”

In a statement, JPMorgan said it recognized it “could have done a better job pulling together various pieces of information and concerns about Madoff from different parts of the bank over time. We do not believe that any JPMorgan Chase employee knowingly assisted Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Madoff’s scheme was an unprecedented and widespread fraud that deceived thousands, including us, and caused many people to suffer substantial losses.” The bank said it was making “significant efforts” to strengthen its anti-money-laundering practic-

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JPMorgan was Madoff’s primary bank in the later years of a multi-decade fraud that ended in 2008 when he revealed to the FBI that his investment advisory business was a Ponzi scheme.

Account statements for thousands of clients showing $60 billion in assets were fiction. Of the roughly $17.5 billion in principal that was real, most of it was gone. Since then, a court-appointed trustee has recovered more than $9.5 billion to redistribute to burned clients.

The JPMorgan settlement is the latest in a series of major deals it has made to resolve its legal troubles. In November, the bank agreed to pay $13 billion over risky mortgage securities it sold before the financial crisis – the largest settlement to date between the Justice Department and a corporation.

Yellen to Head the Fed Last week, the Senate confirmed Janet Yellen, the first woman to ever lead the Federal Reserve. Ben Bernan-

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Vice chair of the Fed since 2010, Yellen begins her four-year term as

leader of the century-old bank on February 1. With the economy rebounding from the depths of the recession but only modestly so far, many economists expect her to focus on how to nurture growth without putting it into overdrive, which could risk fueling inflation. “The big debate will be when the Fed should tighten and how much, rather than when

In News to step on the gas pedal and how hard,” predicted Bill Cheney, chief economist for John Hancock Financial Services, who envisions a growing economy this year.

Under Bernanke, the Fed drove short-term interest rates down to near zero and flushed money into the economy with huge bond purchases, which it

has just started to ease. Yellen, a strong Bernanke ally, has supported those policies and is expected to continue them until concrete signs emerge of sustained improvement of the economy and job market.

In a written statement, President Barack Obama said Yellen’s approval means “the American people will have a fierce champion” who will protect them. “I am confident that Janet will stand up for American workers, protect consumers, foster the stability of our financial system and help keep our economy growing for years to come,” Obama said.

Yellen will preside over her first Fed meetings as chair on March 18 and 19.

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Yellen previously headed the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, chaired President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers, and has been an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

Yellen’s GOP critics have said the Fed has inflated stock and real estate prices by pumping money into the markets, creating investment bubbles that could burst and wound the economy anew. Some also warn that as the Fed starts to trim its bond holdings, it could spook financial markets, threatening the economy’s recovery by causing stock prices to drop and interest rates to rise.

Last month, the Fed announced that it will start gradually reducing its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases, trimming them back initially to $75 billion this month and taking “further measured steps” as economic conditions improve.

Stanley Fischer Named Vice Chair of Fed In a related story, President Obama nominated former Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer to be vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, replacing Janet Yellen, who will become the central bank’s chairman next month.

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The decision to divide the space between the two brands was a strategic one. “They are two distinct products that appeal to two different kinds of stays,” said Arne Sorenson, president and CEO of Marriott International, at a press conference. Both hotels share community spaces such as a fitness center on the 35th floor, a cafe on the 4th, and meeting and event rooms.

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by Marriott will cost $300 per night and up and prices at the all-suite Residence Inn will be $350 and up. Both are higher price points than the brands’ other hotels around the city. The decision to charge more is due to the enviable location near both Times Square and Central Park,

said Harry Gross, president and CEO of G Holdings, the real estate development company behind the project.

The new hotels have upgraded a few of the standard amenities to a higher level. The shared fitness center with floor-to-ceiling windows is located on the prime 35th floor, rather than being relegated to a lower floor. And with it comes a personal trainer on staff, at least for the time being. Jim McCabe, area director of Sales and Marketing for Marriott, said having a trainer is a test trial and unusual to see in these hotel brands.

Bridge over Troubled Waters It seems as if recent traffic jams in New Jersey were not due to road work or motor vehicle accidents but rather to political machinations.

Emails and text messages obtained

by AP and released last Wednesday link a top aide to NJ Governor Chris Christie to traffic jams in Fort Lee, New Jersey, that triggered lane closures on the

George Washington Bridge back in September.

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Fischer, a dual citizen of the United States and Israel, is considered a leading expert on monetary policy. He was a long-time professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Departing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was one of his students.

In selecting Fischer, Obama is tapping someone with extensive experience in global economics to serve on the Fed’s seven-member board. Fischer served as chief economist at the World Bank and deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund. He led the Bank of Israel from 2005 until 2013.

During his time as the No. 2 official at the IMF from 1994 to 2001, Fischer dealt with a number of countries in financial crises. The 1997-98 Asian currency crisis forced a number of nations to seek support packages from the IMF to stabilize their currencies and emerge from deep recessions.

“He is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading and most experienced economic policy minds, and I’m grateful he has agreed to take on this new role, and I am confident that he and Janet Yellen will make a great team,” Obama said.

David Jones, chief economist at DMJ Advisors and the author of several books on the Fed, said that Fischer had an excellent reputation in the field of monetary policy and would bring expertise in global economics. “The White House has reached out to someone who has a wealth of not only theoretical experience but practical experience in monetary policy,” Jones said.

In addition to serving as Bernanke’s faculty adviser when he was writing his doctoral thesis at MIT, Fischer also taught Mario Draghi, the current head of the European Central Bank. He also wrote or co-authored a number of influential college economics textbooks.

Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at the Martin Smith School of Business at California State University, said that Fischer’s selection to be a top official at the U.S. central bank after he had headed Israel’s central bank followed a pattern set recently by Britain.

That country tapped Mark Carney, who had been head of the Bank of Canada, to take over this year as the new head of the Bank of England. “I think we are going to see more and more such moves,” Sohn said. “Because of globalization, the world economy is now very interconnected.”

During his time as head of Israel’s central bank, Fischer earned praise for his handling of Israel’s economy in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

After leaving the IMF in 2001, Fischer worked from February 2002 to April 2005 at U.S. banking giant Citigroup, holding various positions including president of Citigroup International.

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The mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich, a Democrat, did not endorse Christie’s re-election campaign last fall.

“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Christie aide Bridget Anne Kelly wrote in August to David Wildstein, a top appointee of the governor’s to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Wildstein responded, “Got it.” Just a few short weeks later, Wildstein ordered two of three traffic lanes connecting Fort Lee to the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City to be shut down. Traffic was snarled for

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Christie had previously adamantly denied that any of his aides were involved in the lane closures. In December at a news conference, Christie described the episode as “not that big a deal.” He claimed the media was fabricating the story for grabbing headlines and that no cat fight happened here.

Wildstein is supposedly a childhood friend of the governor. Since the release of this story, he has resigned. Christie’s top Port Authority deputy, Bill Baroni, resigned as well. They have both hired lawyers to represent them as the investigation continues.

Mayor Sokolich initially dismissed the closings as punitive, before he was aware of the true story. During the lane closures, he attempted to deal with the situation at hand almost immediately.

Records show he texted Baroni: “Presently we have four very busy traffic lanes merging into only one toll booth.

The bigger problem is getting kids to school. Please help. It’s maddening.”

Apparently one of Christie’s aides commented on Sokolich’s pleas via text message to a colleagues saying, “Is it

wrong that I’m smiling?”

In one email on September 7, two days before the lane closures, Wildstein writes to Kelly, saying he’d call her “to let you know how Fort Lee goes.” Four days later, on the day Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye, an appointee of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, learned of the closings and reopened the lanes, Wildstein emailed Kelly: “We are appropriately going nuts. Samson helping us to retaliate,” referring to Port Authority Chairman David Samson, who was appointed by Christie.

Since the release of the information, some of the communications have been redacted. Most of the emails were sent through private email accounts rather than official government email addresses.

The evidence is condemning. Of course, Governor Christie is vehemently denying knowledge of this bullying that began as trivial. He issued an apology almost immediately after the story broke and fired Bridget Anne Kelly.

Many people were affected by this little playground-style conflict and therefore a class-action lawsuit is be-

In News ing considered. On Thursday, a suit was filed by a personal injury lawyer from Fort Lee on behalf of six local residents who missed work or suffered other alleged damages due to the traffic jam. It is expected that many others may join the plaintiffs if the court accepts the case.

Rosemarie Arnold, the lawyer representing the residents, says she has received “tons” of inquiries from residents. “I have no political motivation whatsoever,” said Arnold, who specializes in cases involving car accidents, defective products and wrongful death.

“I’m a Republican. I voted for [Christie].” The lawsuit names Christie, the state of New Jersey, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the governor’s aides as defendants.

Seems like we have a bully in the Garden State.

Scandal Swirls for Christie over Sandy

cycle,” Pallone wrote in the August 2013 letter addressed to David Montoya, the department’s inspector general. “However, the proposal from the less expensive firm that was not chosen during the bidding process did not propose featuring the governor [and his family] in the ads.”

“The fact that this particular proposal was chosen despite an obvious conflict of interest, in addition to the higher costs, raises serious concerns with the entire process,” Pallone continued. “I fought hard for passage of the Sandy aid package in Congress by assuring our colleagues that this funding was critical to our recovery and that it would be spent responsibly without waste, fraud and abuse.” Pallone recently told reporters that he was notified last week that a preliminary review of his concerns had become “a full-blown investigation.”

Christie’s supporters argue that the governor has always been open with both the citizens of New Jersey and the press. Last week during a nearly twohour press conference, Christie apologized for his staffers’ involvement in creating a 2013 traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge — an apparent retaliation against Fort Lee, N.J., Mayor Mark Sokolich, who had refused to endorse Christie for governor. Christie also announced the firing of two of his top aides.

Most Stressful Jobs of 2014 Another political controversy has arisen surrounding New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Investigators are looking into the disbursement of federally provided Hurricane Sandy relief funds.

According to a new report, federal investigators are looking at the state’s use of $25 million in relief funds to promote tourism at the Jersey Shore after the devastating storm. The issue was first raised last summer, when New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. sent a letter asking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to look into bidding process used by Christie for the “Stronger than the Storm” marketing campaign. The governor’s decision to award the contract to a proposal that was $2.2 million more expensive than one from a competing firm is what first drew suspicion. “These taxpayer-funded television ads feature the governor and have been aired in New Jersey and surrounding states during his reelection

Stress is a fact of life. There is nothing you can possibly do to completely avoid stress (although there are many ways to deal with it in a healthy manner but that’s for another time and place).

A tremendous source of stress in the life of an American is caused by their career, business, or profession. Forty percent of American workers complain that their job is very or extremely stressful, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Healthiest and Unhealthiest States in the U.S.

As a nation, the United States struggles with obesity and heart disease more than many other countries. But the U.S. is a large and highly populated country and there are certain regions that prove to be healthier and those that have a reputation of being less healthy.

New Jersey is the tenth-healthiest state in the nation. North Dakota, Colo-

rado, Connecticut, and Utah are the next in line. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Vermont took places in the top five. And the healthiest state in the U.S.? Hawaii. Aloha exercise!

On the other side of the scale (pun

intended), the South seems to take the cake for the least healthy states in the nation. Indiana is the tenth-least healthy state in the U.S. Tennessee, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Kentucky are the next in line. West Virginia, Alabama,

Louisiana and Arkansas fall in the top five. The least healthy state in the U.S.? Good ol’ Mississippi. I guess a state that’s known for its mud pies and pralines can’t be too obsessed with the numbers on the scale.

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Job site CareerCast published a list of the 10 most stressful and 10 least stressful jobs for 2014. “We look at things like: Is it a job in which your own life is at risk or the lives of others?” said Tony Lee, publisher of CareerCast. com and JobsRated.com. Other things considered were frequent deadlines and responsibility for others.

Some on the list are pretty obvious (firefighter) and some are rather surprising (taxi driver), but most noticeable are the large salaries and lack thereof attached to the jobs.

Here are some of the most stressful jobs in America. Keep those TUMS coming!

1 Enlisted military personnel (Median salary: $28,840) 2 Military general (Median salary: $196,300) 3 Firefighter (Median salary: $45,250) 4 Airline pilot (Median salary: $114,200) 5 Event coordinator ( Median salary: $45,810) 6 Public relations executive (Median salary: $54,170) 7 Senior corporate executive (Median salary: $168,140) 8 Newspaper reporter (Median salary: $35,870) 9 Police officer (Median salary: $55,270) 10 Taxi driver (Median salary: $22,820)

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Alex Rodriguez is being forced to sit out the 2014 Major League Baseball season. But the major league player is vehemently denying that he used performance-enhancing drugs and has promised to “take this fight to federal court.”

The suspension is without pay and therefore will cost Rodriguez $25 million in salary.

Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz reduced

Rodriguez’s suspension from 211 games to 162 plus the postseason, but MLB and Commissioner Bud Selig were clear winners in the decision over the weekend.

Of course, A-Rod’s contract with the Yankees is still valid for another $61 million over the 2015-17 seasons. Rodriguez, 38, has received one of the two largest contracts in major league history.

In addition to the $61 million remaining on his contract after 2014, if Rodriguez surpasses the record of Willie Mays’ 660 home runs, he will be paid another $6 million and an additional $6 million each for surpassing Babe Ruth’s 714 home runs, Hank Aaron’s 755 home runs, and Barry Bond’s 762 homeruns. Through the 2013 season, Alex Rodriguez has hit 654 career homers.

It is unclear whether or not Rodriquez will attend spring training since the suspension is full-season; that consideration will probably be determined in court as well. A spokesperson for Rodriguez said it was his intention to report to spring training with his teammates.

Horowitz’s verdict appears to support many findings from a yearlong MLB investigation into Rodriguez’s re-

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Thirteen other players, including Ryan Braun and Nelson Cruz, were suspended as a result of the same investigation into Biogenesis and its founder, Anthony Bosch. Rodriguez’s suspension was the harshest, and it was the only one appealed.

Rodriguez issued a statement on Saturday morning, about 45 minutes before the league announced Horowitz’s decision, reading: “The number of games sadly comes as no surprise, as the deck has been stacked against me from day one. This is one man’s decision that was not put before a fair and impartial jury. I have been clear that I did not use performance-enhancing substances as alleged in the notice of discipline, or violate the Basic Agreement or the Joint Drug Agreement in an matter, and in order to prove it I will take this fight to federal court.”

The Players’ Association said in a statement that it “strongly disagrees” with Horowitz’s decision, but that, “We recognize that a final and binding decision has been reached.” This suggests that the union will not support Rodriguez in further actions against MLB in this particular matter.

MLB issued a statement saying, “While we believe the original 211-game suspension was appropriate; we respect the decision rendered by the Panel.”

In 2009, Rodriguez admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs early in his career after a report surfaced he’d tested positive for two banned substances during 2003 league survey testing. He has claimed to be clean since, and during his recent appeal accused MLB commissioner Bud Selig of conducting a “witch hunt” against him. MLB countered, saying its investigation revealed Rodriguez’s use of banned PEDs “was longer and more pervasive than any other player,” and that Rodriguez’s career was “tarnished” after engaging in “ongoing, gross misconduct.”

A-Rod has vowed to fight the decision. Let the games begin.

Right Flight, Wrong Place This week, passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight landed in Taney

County after a rough landing. But it wasn’t the bumpy ending to the flight that jarred passengers. A few moments after they landed, the pilot came on the speaker and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m sorry to tell you we landed at the wrong airport.”

The pilots mistakenly landed at the wrong Missouri airport on Sunday night. But the mistake could have been deadly. The Taney County airport only has a small runway—3,700 feet—that is designed for small planes. The airport they should have landed in, Branson Airport, has a runway of more than 7,100 feet, designed for commercial traffic. When passengers were let out of the airliner, they noticed that the plane came dangerously close to the end of the runway, where it could have tumbled down a steep embankment.

The captain of the plane has been flying for Southwest for 15 years. Even so, both pilots were grounded after the incident.

Because no planes were supposed to land at the time, all staffers had already left the airport. They were called back to assist passengers. Passengers were bused into Branson for the 7-mile trip.

Instances of commercial jets landing at the wrong airport are unusual, but not unheard-of, according to pilots and aviation safety experts. Usually the pilots are flying “visually,” that is, without the aid of the autopilot, in clear weather. The instances also typically involve low-traffic airports situated close together with runways aligned to the same or similar compass points.

Wrong-airport landings have been happening about twice a year for the past several years, Goglia said. Safety experts believe there are many more instances of planes that almost land at the wrong airport, but the pilot realizes the mistake and aborts the landing in time.

In this case, it is curious why the other pilot, who was not flying the plane, did not notice the error in time.

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Some 300,000 residents of West Virginia were told last week not to drink, wash, or cook with their tap water. They were told they should only use the water to flush toilets. The ban was caused by a chemical spill that contaminated the water supply last Thursday. A chemical used in coal processing leaked from a Freedom Industries plant into the nearby Elk River.

Restaurants, day-care centers, and schools closed during the emergency.

This left people scrambling to leave town to take a shower, wash their dirty laundry, and eat out.

Governor Earl Tomblin announced at a news conference on Monday, five days after the ban was instituted, “The numbers we have today look good and we are finally at a point where the ‘do not use’ order has been lifted.” Residents were warned that the water may still have a lingering odor but it is in fact safe to consume. Additionally, they were instructed to flush out their systems before using the water again.

But not all residents had access to clean water on Monday. Officials lifted the ban in a systematic manner in order to make sure the water system was not overwhelmed by excessive demand, which could potentially cause additional water quality and service problems.

On Monday, residents of downtown Charleston, about 6,000 to 10,000 people of the hundreds of thousands of residents, were allowed to resume using their water. Jeff McIntyre, President of West Virginia American Water, said it may be several days before the entire effected area gets the green light on resuming water consumption. “It’s a complex system,” McIntyre explained.

School Superintendent James Phares said the largest two school systems planned to reopen on Tuesday, but cautioned: “We’re not going to be rushing

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Complaints began pouring into West Virginia American Water about a licorice-type odor in tap water. The source was the chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol that spilled out of a 40,000 gallon tank. State officials said they believe about 7,500 gallons leaked from the tank.

Some of the chemical was contained before flowing into the river. It has not been determined exactly how much of the chemical entered the water supply.

Chemical tests indicated that levels were consistently below a toxic threshold, and in some samples, there was no trace of the chemical at all. No fish kills or other impact on aquatic life, wildlife or pets have been reported.

After the ban on local drinking water was instituted, water distribution centers distributed bottled water and trucks with large tanks of water provided people with large containers of water to take home.

The chemicals stored at Freedom Industries weren’t considered hazardous enough to require environmental permitting. Of course, this incident raises big questions and there are already solutions being considered. One idea is to legally require tanks to be a certain distance from the river, Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman said.

Some say that Freedom Industries did not respond appropriately. A state law requires immediate reporting, but Huffman said state environmental workers were on the spill site at 11:15 a.m. Thursday because of a call from the water company but not Freedom Industries. Although Freedom officials were at the spill site when state officials arrived, they only actually reported the spill about an hour later. “There’s no question that they should have called earlier,” Huffman said.

Fourteen people exposed to the contaminated water were admitted to the hospital, and thankfully none were in serious condition. The chemical, even in its most concentrated form, isn’t lethal. The compound can cause symptoms ranging from skin irritation and rashes to vomiting and diarrhea.

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The Week revealed that more than half of Congress’ members had an average net worth of $1 million or more. This year, 268 of the 534 members are millionaires—that’s 11 more than last year. The average worth of congressional Democrats was $1.04 million and Republicans clocked in at $1 million.

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The average worth of all House members was $896,000; Democrats at $929,000 and Republicans at $884,000.

In the Senate, the average net worth was $2.5 million; Democrats at $1.7 million and Republicans at $2.9 million.

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Seems like they’re heading to fiscal…bliss.

Last week was cold enough to make people do some funny things. In Kentucky, it was so frigid, an escaped prisoner turned himself in just so he could warm up a bit.

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Robert Vick, 42, of Hartford told the clerk he wanted to head back to the slammer—to escape the arctic air! The escaped prisoner was checked out by paramedics and returned to Blackburn Correctional Complex. “This was definitely of his own volition,” a spokesperson said. “It’s cold out there, too cold to run around. I can understand why the suspect would turn himself in.”

Vick would have been dressed in prison-issued khaki pants, a shirt and a jacket when he escaped, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Lamb said. Wind chill readings were 20 below zero and he was checked for hypothermia before returning to incarceration.

Vick was serving a six-year sentence for burglary and criminal possession of a forged instrument at the time of the escape from Blackburn Correctional Center.

Hey Vick, maybe it’s best if you check the weather report before making your escape next time.

New Yorkers Say De Blasio’s Slice is not so Nice

Twitter. The media frenzy sparked a reaction from the mayor who defended his gastronomical habits. The mayor rejoined that he eats pizza the way they do in Italy, paying tribute to his Italian-American heritage.

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Shoeless Shyster Mario Andreas Godinez was arrested near San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday by the U.S. Marshals Service for a crime he committed two years ago. Godinez, 20, was charged with attempted murder and is being held at the Bexar County jail awaiting extradition to Weld County, Colorado.

So what did this criminal in? Believe it or not, his footwear may have been his undoing.

Service spokesman Chris Bozeman says Godinez and two others are accused of attempting a 2012 home invasion in Greeley, Colorado. Supposedly, when the trio could not get inside, they shot through the front door. Godinez’s shoe fell off as the three criminals fled the scene. The shoe will be a crucial piece of evidence—hey, if the shoe fits, you must not acquit!

Let’s just call this the Cinderella effect…without the happy ending.

Alcohol for My Lost Dog

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is quickly getting used to being in the spotlight and being analyzed from head-to-toe, inside and out. He’s used to people criticizing his politics, but he never knew that New Yorkers were vocal about everything—even his food!

During a political meeting at a Staten Island pizza store on Friday, de Blasio began eating his cheesy slice with a fork and knife. His culinary habits sparked strong reactions from many New Yorkers who feel that they are offensive to pizza eating traditions; they feel that pizza should be folded in half and eaten with your hands.

Photos of de Blasio with fork and knife in hand quickly spread across

Abigail Miller, 23, of Dayton, Ohio was devastated when her two beloved dogs ran away through an open gate on January 2. Luckily, one of her pooches was found at the local animal shelter just a few days later but Zoro, her other pet, was nowhere to be seen.

Miller needed help to search for her dog but unfortunately she did not have the monetary resources to offer a reward. What she did have on hand— beer and cigarettes—were what she an-

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Miller made fliers offering a case of beer and a pack of cigarettes for anyone who finds her dog and posted them throughout the neighborhood. Apparently, those items are good incentives.

A man called her shortly after with news of Zoro’s whereabouts. The Good Samaritan declined the reward but Miller feels very grateful and wants to show her appreciation. She says she is going to offer the man a meal from the sandwich shop where she works.

Chen’s Business Card Makes Headlines Chen Guangbiao’s business card is sure to make even highly accomplished professionals feel incompetent. Images of the Chinese businessman’s card recently hit Twitter after he handed it out to American journalists.

The simple card brags of Chen’s many talents and accomplishments.

He calls himself “The Most Influential Person of China” and “The Most Prominent Philanthropist of China” plus “The Most Well-known and Beloved Chinese Role Model.” Oh, and let’s not leave out, “China’s Foremost Environmental Preservation Expert.”

Let’s give credit where credit is due: Chen is one of China’s richest people.

He recently attempted to purchase The New York Times but his offer was rejected.

Business Insider reports that he had a personal net worth of $740 million as of 2012. According to Forbes, Chen made his money from “recycling construction materials and domestic waste in China.”

The Wall Street Journal recently discussed this odd business card with the millionaire. Chen admitted that it is simply a publicity stunt and that is part of his character and charm. He added, “Please remember one thing, whatever I say is true.”

Perhaps he should add “The Least Humble Person in China” to his extensive resume.

$15 For a Night at the Waldorf

How about a one night stay in Manhattan’s Waldorf Astoria for less than $20? Unfortunately, there is no Groupon or Priceline deal that can help you score such a deal but Tony and Jo Fioravante got the bargain of a lifetime.

The couple, who are both well into their 80s, saved their receipt from their original stay at the luxurious hotel 66 years ago on their wedding night. They wed in 1948 and paid $15.75 for their one night stay.

These days, hotel rates start at $799 for a suite and run up to $1,299 for the presidential-suite. But despite rising prices, the hotel giant agreed to match the rate for the exclusive Tower of the Waldorf on Park Avenue. The company has a tradition of honoring the original rate for couples celebrating an anniversary of 50 years or more who spent their wedding night at the Waldorf; however, a receipt must be presented.

This surprise was arranged by the elderly couple’s daughter, Sandra.

“We had a party for their 50th anniversary and I noticed the receipt and put it out with other memories,” Sandra Fioravante said. “Now that it’s their 66th anniversary, I remembered it and thought I’d get in touch with the hotel.” She added, “They were so nice,” referring to the Waldorf staff. “It really is amazing.”

Happy anniversary!

Medical Student Saves Pretend Patient’s Life University of Virginia medical student Ryan Jones was performing what was supposed to be a pretend examination on Jim Malloy last March. It is a common practice for medical schools to hire actors to fake symptoms and challenge students to make the correct diagnosis.

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Lockett and his family went to claim the grand prize and found out the unbelievable news. “They went nuts” and were dancing in the lottery office, an official said.

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When Jeremy Lockett of Malden, MA, heard that he won $50,000 in a scratch-off lottery, he was thrilled. But his excitement doubled, quadrupled and even went exponential when he found out that he won $50,000 a year for the

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Lockett, who runs his own business, bought the winning $20 “Lifetime Spectacular” ticket at a Stop N Gas in Dorchester. He selected the cash option, which is based on the prize’s minimum 20-year guaranteed payout, and re-

ceived a one-time payment of $650,000, minus taxes.

He plans on using it to pay off some debts and make some investments.

He’ll be enjoying his prize for the rest of his life.

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While Jones was conducting the physical exam, he found that Malloy’s real-life symptoms matched the pretend illness he was claiming to have, an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). An AAA isn’t life threatening if found before it ruptures, according to the National Institutes of Health. However, once it ruptures, less than 80% of people survive.

Jones says he knew almost immediately that something was very wrong.

“During the physical exam, when I first discovered the aneurysm, I took a step back because of how surprised I was to find it [knowing that it is a serious condition]. I was surprised to encounter that on the exam and I was surprised that [in my mind] UVA was allowing him to volunteer for that particular role when he had a genuine AAA. It wasn’t until six months later that I learned he and UVA had no prior knowledge of the AAA.” The patient was completely unaware as well and as Jones said, “His acting role was an extraordinary coincidence.”

Malloy had surgery to remove the aneurysm in August and recovered successfully. Thankfully he was examined by an astute medical student—he saved his life.

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Aaron’s Way Comes Back to Klal Yisroel When Being Nice Makes All the Difference

By Liba Lieberman The accident that took Aaron Shalom tor. Yosef points out, “So many parents Tepfer’s, a”h, life last August has left are looking for healthy and wholesome klal Yisroel bereft of his special nesha- activities for their children, and Aarma. The loss is most acutely felt among on’s Way not only provides so many of his peers, who are now facing a world those beneficial opportunities, but also without Aaron’s towering middos that instills boys with a love and passion for once infused those around him with the chessed.” desire to do what is kind and right. This A number of the organization’s prosentiment can be seen in an e-mail the grams are up and running. “AOK,” is a Tepfer family recently received from the homework assistance program which mother of one of Aaron’s many friends. began on Monday night, December 30th, Three years ago, her son—who was then from 7:00 – 8:15 p.m. at Yeshiva Sh’or nine years old and a friend of Aaron’s— Yoshuv. Created as a “buddy” system fractured his elbow and had to wear in groups of two, the program includes a cast for six weeks. During those six yeshivas from across Far Rockaway and weeks, each day right before dismissal, the Five Towns. “Boys will help each Aaron would come to the boy’s class other in both limudei kodesh and limudei and help him with his coat so that he chol,” Rachel explains. “Boys who are Boys learning at the A+OK Homework Program wouldn’t miss the bus. Aaron went to stronger in a particular subject, assisting another classroom daily not only to ease their friends who can use an extra push, from the properties of the elderly and camps. These programs will be conthe boy’s pain by gently assisting him is such a beautiful act of caring and help- handicapped. Each neighborhood will ducted throughout the summer months. with his ailing arm, but to give him peace ing each other.” The program will be di- have its own list of volunteers ready to The boys will receive prizes and awards of mind that he wouldn’t miss the bus! vided each week into study time and play spring into action in the event of winter sponsored by Aaron’s Way that highHearing this story, and countless oth- periods that will include basketball in the storm conditions that include snow and lights targeted middos. “This program ers like it, has prompted Aaron’s parents, yeshiva’s gym, as well as working on a ice. blends boys from all backgrounds,” RaTuli and Rachel Tepfer, to create an orga- variety of chessed projects.”

An initiative from Aaron’s Way is chel observes. “The camps are very renization l’zecher nishmas Aaron Shalom Another of Aaron’s Way sponsored bringing junior high school students, on ceptive to the idea.” to encourage boys to emulate the acts of activities took place on the Sunday be- a rotating basis, to perform in Cohen’s Although no longer among us, Aaron chessed that made Aaron so precious fore Chanukah, when local yeshiva boys Children’s Hospital and other hospitals Shalom Tepfer’s way of living remains and unforgettable. Tuli explains, “We not only purchased and packaged gifts in the New York area. Another hospi- an inspiration to Klal Yisroel—men, named our son Aaron Shalom, and he for residents of the Ohel adult home in tal-related endeavor in partnership with women, and children—all of whom rectruly embodied the middah of caring that Hewlett, but also put on a performance Achiezer is using boys to stock bikur ognize his enormous strengths as a comwas the way of Aarcholim rooms in local passionate human being who effortlessly on HaKohen. Aaron hospitals such as Long upheld the highest standards of being a was also an extremeIsland Jewish Medical “nosei b’ohl im chaveiro.” ly talented student Center, South Nassau A story told at Aaron’s levaya is and athlete, but his Communities Hospital, worth retelling, for its poignant lesson. best quality was how Mercy Medical Center, Aaron was picked to be the pitcher by his he felt for others. This and Winthrop-Universi- baseball team. At the most crucial point one middah stood out. ty Hospital. in the game, he offered the opportunity He genuinely cared One exciting proj- to pitch to his friend. He did this because about everybody, ect which Aaron’s Way he knew how much pitching meant to his and connected to evhopes to present to the friend. “Aaron cared about winning, but eryone. It was who community utilizes the he cared more about friendship and the he was. We want to singing talents of its di- feelings of others,” Tuli explains. May provide an opporturector, Yosef Wartelsky. Aaron’s Way become a beacon of light nity for boys to think “We want to create a for the boys who are zoche to participate about their friends camp-based perfor- in its programs. May Aaron smile down (L-R) Rabbi Shlomo Drebin from Yeshiva of South Shore, Rabbi Dovid Frischman and other people, so of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, Yosef Wartelsky, and Tuli Tepfer mance opportunity for upon the efforts of klal Yisroel and his that they grow and boys,” Rachel explains. loving family who miss him, but have develop as bnei Torah who think about in the home that included juggling, sing- “It can provide boys with camp-style managed to reclaim his boundless enering, a magic show, and a pizza party opportunities during the school year, and gy for kindness in these new and innothose around them. ” Called Aaron’s Way, the organization where the boys warmly mingled among give them expression for their unique tal- vative chessed projects for junior high is creating different programs that serve the members of the Ohel home. ents. Too many boys come home and sit school yeshiva students.

As the cold weather continues to set at the computer. We would rather them as platforms for boys to do chessed for For more information about Aaron’s each other and the community at large. in, another great program which Aaron’s be involved in these programs, to devel- Way, please visit aaronsway.org or email Yosef Wartelsky, currently a head coun- Way has developed in partnership with op their abilities and do chessed.” info@aaronsway.org. selor in Camp Munk and former head Achiezer is to reach out to children, Looking toward the summer months, counselor of Simcha Day Camp, has teenagers, and adults who have offered Aaron’s Way is planning to bring midReprinted with permission from Yatbeen named the organization’s direc- to help remove dangerous ice and snow dos programs to sleep-away and local ed Ne’eman.

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The Conversation Continues at Agudath Israel Shabbos in the Five Towns various shuls on Friday night, Shabbos morning, and during Shalosh Seudos.

Two community-wide oneg Shabbos programs will be held, one at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mordechai Ribowsky, 809 Empire Avenue, Far Rockaway, for the Far Rockaway, Lawrence communities, and the other at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Yaakov Spinner, 464 Arlington Road, Cedarhurst, for the Cedarhurst and Woodmere communities. Rabbi Feldman and Rabbi Jung will address an anticipated audience of several hundred boys at a special Motzoei Shabbos Avos u’Banim program in the Bais Medrash of Cedarhurst.

«This Shabbos Agudah has become an annual tradition that continues the conversation begun at the National Convention, as it serves to reinforce our ongoing relationship with the Far Rockaway and Five Towns communities” says Rabbi Yonah Feinstein, Director of Special Projects for Agudath Israel.

“It is an opportunity for the community to interact with some of our illustrious rabbonim, highly regarded mechanchim and marbitzei Torah. They will address issues of the day that affect us as individuals, families and a community.”

Lipa to Star at Young Israel of Long Beach Annual Concert The Young Israel of Long Beach will be holding their annual Scholarship Concert on Motzaei Shabbos, February 1, 2013 at 8:00 PM. It will take place in an intimate setting at the YILB Social Hall at 120 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach, New York. The concert will feature the renowned musical entertainer, Lipa Schmeltzer, who will entertain the audience with his vast repertoire of popular and chassidish Jewish music.

The Young Israel of Long Beach is the cornerstone of the Orthodox Jewish Long Beach community and is led by Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak.

Rabbi Wakslak and Joseph Langer, a past shul president, conceptualized this scholarship concert seventeen years ago. Since that time, the proceeds from this scholarship concert has allowed many local community youngsters to attend yeshiva and/or overnight summer

camps. Eight years ago, following the untimely petirah of Robert Chiger z”l, a young vibrant member of the congregation, it was decided that his memory would be most appropriately perpetuated by re-naming this scholarship fund “The Robert Chiger Scholarship Fund.” Bob had a unique connection to the youth of the synagogue and cared for their religious and character development.

He was also a strong proponent of the YILB youth and sports programs. This concert is strongly supported each year

by Beth Chiger and Neil Sambrowsky and Beth’s children, Michele & Eric Ehrenhaus, Andrea & Ariel Gantz, Elliot and Chana Chiger, and David Chiger.

General Admission tickets can be purchased for $25.00.

For further information or to order tickets, please call (646)285-5301; (516) 431-9715 or go to www.yilb.org.

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Residents of Far Rockaway and the Five Towns will have the opportunity to “continue the conversation” begun at the 92nd National Convention of Agudath Israel at the Agudath Israel Shabbos in Far Rockaway and the Five Towns to be held on Shabbos Parshas Yisro, January 17-18. Rabbi Aharon Feldman, Rosh HaYeshiva, Yeshivas Ner Yisroel, Baltimore and a chaver Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of America; Rabbi Nosson Scherman, General Editor, ArtScroll/ Mesorah; and Rabbi Pinchos Jung, Senior Lecturer, Ani Maamin Foundation, Monsey will be joined by Agudath Israel executive staff members, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, Executive Vice President; Rabbi Avi Shafran, Director of Public Affairs; and Rabbi Yehiel Kalish, Vice President for Development and State Relations.

In some 17 host shuls in Far Rockaway, Bayswater, and the Five Towns including Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, the speakers will continue to develop some of the topics discussed at the convention, including chinuch habonim, parenting perplexities, shalom bayis, the current situation in Eretz Yisroel, the Kiddush Hashem Imperative and Jews in the News. They will speak at the

Horav Yehoshua Eichenstein shlita speaking at an evening of chinuch in Cedarhurst to benefit his yeshiva, Yad Aharon in Yerushalayim.

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“Tet” Toast First Graders in Morah Shoshana’s class at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School brought the Hebrew letter tet to life

when they read a story in Ariot about a “tabach” (chef) and then dressed up as chefs and took turns making toast in a real toaster! B’tay’avon!

Watermelon fun! A Pre-1A class at Yeshiva Darchei Torah had fun with watermelons this week when Fruit Platters and More demonstrated how to make sorbets and fun shapes with the delicious fruit.

Bnos Malka Authors’ Share

On Tuesday, January 7th, the students at Bnos Malka Academy, grades Pre-1A—4, gathered together for a very special prelude to their semi-annual Author’s Share. Mrs. Nechama Sittner, author of the well-known children’s book, What Did Pinny Do?, came to share the ins and outs of being a published author with our students. Mrs. Sittner showed the girls every step a book goes through from the raw manuscript to a finished book and she also described the process she goes through when writing a book. The students were fascinated to learn that it took 2 ½ years to publish the book. Everyone enjoyed seeing the galley sheets which show how the pages of the book come off the printing press. The students were truly inspired to continue writing, both in school and at home. It was the perfect way to kick off the Author’s Share the very next day.

Students and teachers began preparing for the Author’s Share many weeks

ago. As part of the writing program at BMA, which includes the Writing Fundamentals program, students learn about the steps in the writing process and then spend time implementing what they’ve learned. Over time, they build up an impressive portfolio of writing, from which they choose a writing piece to share with others. At the Author’s Share, each class swaps their writing with another class at the same grade level. Students then read each other’s work, and leave comments on the comment sheet attached to the back of the writing.

In addition to enjoying the stories and poems, students also enjoy reading the “About the Author” page at the front of each piece of writing. The topics this year ranged from paragraphs about the five senses using descriptive words, to poetry anthologies, to personal favorites. The level of writing was quite exceptional. Students used a lot of descriptive language in their writing, and even

included dialogues, using quotation marks appropriately.

One of the many reasons students enjoy the Author’s Share so much is because it provides students with a real audience for their writing. They love reading the comments and questions the other students write. They also enjoy reading each other’s stories, and find it immensely entertaining. Leah, a 4th grade student, commented, “I like writing stories and sharing them at the Author’s Share.”

And Isabella in 2nd grade said she loves reading other people’s stories. At the end of the Author’s Share, each student received an adorable pencil or eraser to remind them to keep on writing. The

first Author’s Share of the year was a great way to cap off the first half of the year, and having Mrs. Sittner share her experiences as an author truly enhanced the writing process for the girls. The students are eagerly awaiting our next Author’s Share and our Hebrew Author’s Share, as well. Authors are always appreciated at Bnos Malka Academy.

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Bais Yaakov of Queens Students Study Aishes Chayil Mi Yimtza presented their displays to grades 4-8, with each group describing their choice of woman, presenting her as a role model for us all. The performance which followed included a dramatic play, dance, choir, with song/dance and silent drama.

The grand finale—and it was grand— was the studio choir and slide show. The girls handled every aspect of the performance: lights, curtains and moving the props on and off the fantastic BYQ stage. The grade’s display of achdus and shared spirit was palpable, and is just some of what BYQ prides itself and its students.

As evening approached, the girls’ excitement grew. Their first performance for the school was a hit! Would the evening performance for their mothers and grandmothers be one, too? To make it even more special, they began with a dvar Torah from Rivky Schechter, a seventh grade student and had a guest speaker, Mrs. Miriam Krohn, who

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This Tuesday marked the culmination of the seventh grade research project and performance entitled “Aishes Chayil Mi Yimtza—I am a Link in the Chain.” A unit of study like this takes much planning and time, so Mrs. Zehava Somerstein, the limudei kodesh principal, and Morah Chaviva Pfeiffer, the coordinator of the project, who believe in the importance of BYQ’s students recognizing their future roles among klal Yisroel, and create the time and opportunity for deeper learning. Following three weeks of immersion, the seventh grade moros devoted themselves to the girls and their learning. The project began with an introduction by Rabbi Mordechai Gewirtz, the dean of BYQ, a trip to Rebbetzin Feinstein and followed with group research, creating displays portraying women from Tanach and her middos, and much practice and preparation.

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spoke to their guests about being role models for their daughters.

With playbills in hand, the performance began! Everyone loved it, and the second time around was even better! At the end of the performance, each mother received a heartfelt letter and

rose from her daughter. It was obvious how moved the women were, their eyes glistening as they read their cherished letters from their daughters.

May we be zocheh to watch these girls grow up to be true neshei chayil.

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Chasdei Chashie L’Kallah Graces the Five Towns The evening was charged with bittersweet emotions at the Chasdei Chashie L’Kallah (CCL) event on Monday evening, January 13. Graciously hosted by Rachel Solomon of

Cedarhurst, with the expert guidance of party planner Shani Hirsch, the fundraiser drew a robust crowd and introduced the Five Towns community to this unique organization.

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The charity’s mission is to provide kallahs with quality beds and in some circumstances dinette sets as well. Esti recounted how her mother’s focus was on helping others. She imbued her children with a simchas hachayim and bitachon in Hashem that she maintained despite the pain of her illness. Unfortunately, Mrs. Weiss was nifteres not long after, followed tragically by her husband. The family of 11 children was left orphaned of parents – but not of their emunah and determination to continue the legacy of chessed by focusing their energies on their hachnosas kallah goals.

Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner followed Mrs. Goldberg by articulating her thoughts on the dichotomous aspect of hachnosas kallah. Here is an instance where a woman is at her pinnacle of joy, yet the simcha is subdued by the bitter reality of financial strain. She continued that this theme is a part of how Klal Yisroel functions and recounted how Aharon HaKohen personified simcha as described by his genuine contentment when Moshe was selected as the leader of Klal Yisroel. She continued that the pinnacle of joy is simchas kallah and we can all share this excitement by helping with a kallah’s needs.

As the evening drew to a close, it was clear that all the women were touched by Esti’s commitment to helping kallahs as well as the family’s inspirational fortitude despite their tragic circumstances. The tzedakah uses every donation towards helping its over 2,500 kallahs. Unlike many other charities, it is manned solely by committed volunteers, eliminating traditional overhead expenses.

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Bully Prevention and Social Emotional Learning at HAFTR Middle School Last year, Dr. Rochelle Brand, principal of the HAFTR Middle School, understood that the universal challenge of bully prevention was a critical need for the students.

Mrs. Yali Werzberger, the school’s psychologist and director of student services, identified the evidence-based Olweus Bully Prevention Program as a program that could help address this need. The school community eagerly embraced the program and implemented it throughout last year. Now, with their extensive training in the Olweus Bully Prevention Program, students at HAFTR Middle School are well-aware of how to identify, prevent, report and respond to bullying behavior. More importantly, they actively work to shift the culture of the school, where bullying becomes “uncool,” and where students feel comfortable and

empowered to stand up for their classmates and friends. The Olweus Bully

tured settings. Teachers also conduct classroom meetings with their students,

Prevention Program that was launched last year created a safe and bully-free culture at HAFTR Middle School, where rules against bullying are clearly posted and adult supervision is highly visible during transitions and unstruc-

where topics such as bully prevention, standing up for others, and appropriate reporting of bullying behavior are discussed.

This year, HAFTR Middle School has moved beyond bullying, and is

implementing a social and emotional learning curriculum within the school.

Mrs. Yali Werzberger, the Olweus Bully Prevention Program Coordinator, began by conducting a mandatory teachers’ workshop on social and emotional learning (SEL). The research behind SEL, its five core competencies, and the way in which social emotional learning can be implemented in a way that is most meaningful and appropriate for middle school children was discussed.

Classroom meetings then began in earnest. Under the auspices of Ms. Rebecca Zweibon, social studies teacher, a dynamic group of the middle school’s teachers and mental health professionals worked on developing a curriculum that would address both bully prevention as well as healthy social skills. Concepts such as making and maintaining friendships, calming oneself in stressful situations, acting in an assertive (and not aggressive) manner, and conflict resolution are discussed. The sixth grade boys are benefitting from class meetings with Rabbi Simcha Loiterman, their Navi teacher, and Mr. Yehuda Klinkowitz, the school’s social worker, while the sixth grade girls engage in discussions with their Chumash teacher, Ms. Alyson Jacobs. The seventh grade meanwhile, meets with Ms. Rebecca Zweibon, Ms. Leora Tanzman (school psychologist), Mrs. Miriam Shteingart (science instructor), and Mr. Yehuda Klinkowitz where student build upon the class meetings they participated in last year, and are working on self-management, social awareness and relationship skills.

The eighth graders are also building on the classroom meetings they had last year with Rebbetzin Sori Teitelbaum, Rabbi Simcha Loiterman, and Mr. Yeshaya Lieber. Classroom meetings help facilitate a real sense of cohesion and community among students, and providing students with tools to further develop their social and emotional intelligence will prove to be very useful in school and in life!

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Couragers Conquer the Snowy Mountains ordinary feeling of sitting around with friends, not worrying about the hardships that come with having a disability. Those memories helped me through the difficult surgery and recovery. Now, almost a year later, I am standing on top of Mount Snow, strapped to a snowboard ready to conquer the mountain. I hear cheers from my fellow Couragers, my friends. “You can do it!” They are watching as I and the other campers come rushing down the mountain, feeling the wind in our hair as if there is no care in the world. While on Mount Snow there are no thoughts of doctors, medications, g-tubes or pain. From the time we are strapped into our skis or onto our snowboard the thoughts in our heads are “I can do anything.”

No longer am I the girl with no arms and crooked legs. Now in this moment, I am the normal young adult about to board down a mountain.

There are those of us that cannot walk, or see, yet we are all carefree and fearless for that bit of time.

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Skiing down the slopes with the wind on your face and the glare of the sun reflecting off the snow is the ultimate winter sport for healthy able-bodied children and adults, right? Wrong!

Once again, Kids of Courage has proven its ability to “conquer illness through adventure” as 52 medically fragile Couragers braved the snowy vistas of Mount Snow on Sunday, January 5th. With the help of Ability Plus and tens of different adaptive skiing devices, the Couragers whooshed down the mountain, separated from their fellow skiers only by the larger smiles and the amazing feeling of accomplishment.

The Fifth Annual Kids of Courage Weekend kicked off on Thursday, January 2nd. After loading up at HASC, three charter buses headed to Springfield, Massachusetts, with a stop at New Roc City for arcades, bowling, laser tag and pizza. On Friday, memories were created at New England’s second most visited tourist attraction: Yankee Candle Village. Over 200 campers, volunteers and guests experienced an inspiring Shabbos with delicious food and wonderful accommodations. A rocking Melave Malka concert courtesy of Soul Farm rounded out the night. Sunday morning dawned bright and early as bleary-eyed travelers boarded the buses for Mount Snow, Vermont.

Here is one camper’s Ski Madness experience: Flash back one year to January 15, 2013. I am in the hospital getting prepped for surgery. As I sit there reminiscing about the great experience I just had on K.O.C.’s Ski Madness Adventure, I remember, the fun, the laughter, and the

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ily back home that we too can go skiing.

To many of us, Kids of Courage is not an organization, but a family that is there for us when times are tough. Kids of Courage is there – not only on trips, but throughout the year.

K.O.C. volunteers are calling us and putting smiles on our faces after a hard day.

The four instructors who were with me at Mount Snow kept asking me how each staff member knew each kid by name and how they had the energy to cheer as each one passed them. I answered that they are my family. Their constant cheering does not stop once we get off the buses. Whether it is taking a Courager out for dinner, a phone call, or a text at 2AM because they know we are awake, they are there. They are individuals who volunteer their time so we can have a dream vacation. Everyone has their favorite times; for one camper it is the skiing, for others it is spending time over Shabbos with their Kids of Courage family. Hanging out in the hotel and talking to the others who are in the same predicament, laughing and smiling, bonding over the hardships they face by living with a disability. On a Kids of Courage trip, it is not age, gender, or

religion that unites us, instead it is love and the determination to get through life with the right attitude.

The trip was over two days ago and I have not yet unpacked my suitcase. The one thing that will never be unpacked is the memory of a perfect weekend; a weekend filled with fresh snow, beautiful blue skies, laughter and amazing memories. The four days of excitement and awesome madness will stay with me until the next Kids of Courage event.

Kids of Courage appreciates the generosity of its corporate sponsors, vendors, and friends: J Drugs, Apria Healthcare, Gourmet Glatt, HASC, Peter Pan Buses, Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel, First Class Caterers, Royal Care Inc, Ability Plus, Spyder and Peak Resorts.

Many thanks to each and every one of you who helped create millions of memories.

Kids of Courage is a volunteer-based 501(C)(3) charitable organization whose mission is to improve the lives of medically fragile children and young adults and their families through year round programming and annual adventures. For more information or to make a donation, please visit kidsoc.org.

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Seventh Graders of Yeshiva Har Torah Celebrate with a Siyum The seventh grade boys at Yeshiva Har Torah, accompanied by Rabbi Silverman, Rabbi Rosenthal and Rabbi Singer, traveled to Kew Gardens Hills on Monday to celebrate their finishing of Parshat Shelach.

The boys first went to Yeshivat Ohr HaChaim to meet Rabbi Finkelman who inspired the boys with stories and thoughts about the mitzvah of tzizit. Rabbi Finkelman also spoke about the importance of bein adam l’chavero. Afterwards, the boys continued down Main St. to Carlos & Gabby’s to celebrate the siyum with great food and divrei Torah.

Clear Communication

By David Steiner, MD We are all familiar with the children’s party game “telephone.” In the game, a message is given to the first person in a line of people and then they are instructed to pass the message on by whispering it in the ear of the next person in line.

The message goes from person to person until it reaches the end of the line, and that person announces the message to the group. In most cases, the message that is announced to the group is significantly different from the message that was originally given to the first person in the line.

Major studies have been done on the game of telephone and why the message changes the way it does. However, leaving all deep and complicated reasoning aside, the major reason why the message changes is because it wasn’t said or wasn’t heard clearly. This sums up a major lesson in couple communication.

When you are saying something that is important to you say it in a way that you are sure it is being heard clearly.

There is a popular secular book on marriage communication, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. In this book, the author, John Grey, devotes hundreds of pages to explaining the idea that men and women communicate differently. The book explains how to communicate with and understand the opposite gender.

There are numerous techniques that

one can learn to help be sure that the message is being said clearly and their spouse is receiving it properly. One obvious technique is to “think before you speak.” Before saying anything that is very important to you, take ten seconds to think it out and then begin speaking.

Another important technique is “checking in.” After you speak to your spouse, check in with them and make sure that they understood what you were saying and if not clarify. There is so much heartache and disappointment that comes from miscommunication. Some of it can be avoided by being sure that what we said is what was heard.

This week, when communicating something that is important to us, let us try to remember the game of telephone and the techniques suggested. We will then have a better chance at successfully phrasing our words in a way that they are received clearly.

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, 10:00-11:00 p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516430-5280 or email dsgarry@msn.com.

The Crown of Jerusalem Comes to Town The King David’s Crown Jerusalem, the luxury development in the heart of Israel, has announced the grand opening of its New York office in the Five Towns. Located within The Five Towns Design Center in Cedarhurst, the new sales office will offer potential buyers a chance to learn about the magnificent property without having to leave town.

In conjunction with Jeffrey Mark of J. Mark Interiors, the King David’s Crown office is the most recent addition to the newly completed Five Towns Design Center. The Design Center also houses Brookville Cabinet & Design, Cedar Carpets, Leiberts Royal Green Appliance and NY Custom Closets.

Visitors to the new King David’s Crown office are met with a breathtaking mural of the regal property and the surrounding Jerusalem hills.

King David’s Crown offers an exclusive combination of innovation and history and is located at the very heart of Jerusalem. The King David’s Crown is situated in the shadow of the King David hotel and is adjacent to the sophisticated sports complex of the Y.M.C.A. The property also lies a short distance from the Old City and the Wailing Wall, the Great Synagogue, David Citadel Hotel and the Jerusalem Theater. The King David’s Crown is a stone’s throw away from the entertainment, business and

commerce sites of the most outstanding city in the world.

Built by Rassco – one of the leading construction companies in Israel with over 70 years of experience – the project offers every amenity and convenience.

The architectural design, conceived by the famous architects Spector-Amishar, combines elements of old and new.

The apartments overlook the 1.25-acre park designed by sculptor Israel Hadany to create a breathtaking setting for the best view in Jerusalem. The attention to detail, along with the perfect location, makes King David’s Crown the” jewel in the crown” of the City of David.

Last week representatives from Jerusalem came to the Five Towns to welcome visitors and discuss available units. Property Manager Aviad Goldwicht and broker Rena Haas, who worked together with Mr. Mark to coordinate the new office, welcomed guests to a New Year’s Day reception and information session. The overwhelming attendance and positive feedback made the grand opening a huge success.

J. Mark Interiors at The Five Towns Design Center is located at 461 Central Avenue in Cedarhurst. Stop by anytime to learn more about these unique residences and take a virtual tour, or visit www.king-david-crown.com.

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Yeshivat Kol Yaakov and Bnot Yaakov Melave Malka

Bnos Malka Plants Middos Tovos Tree A tree may grow in Brooklyn, but a forest is being planted in Queens! In honor of the Tu B’Shevat, the girls in 1st-4th grade at Bnos Malka have decorated leaves for giant Middos Tovos Trees. Each classroom door has its own tree which initially was adorned by the uniquely crafted leaves the girls made.

When a girl exemplifies a middah tova in school, her morah will place an “apple mitzvah note” with her name, on the tree. Every parent will have the opportunity to acknowledge the “apple of their eye” by sending in these fruit-shaped mitzvah notes as well. The Menahel, Rabbi Michael Weichselbaum, shared, “Reinforcing middos tovos and proper character traits in an ongoing and fun way is a core principle here at Bnos Malka. We are very fortunate to have such a creative staff who inspire the girls every day.”

Mrs. Nechama Strauss, director of school events, explained, “Each month we plan an activity on Rosh Chodesh that is symbolic for that month. We have the girls develop the specific connection between them.” The younger girls en-

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Mr. Potato Head joined Yeshiva Darchei Torah kindergartens to help them learn about the bracha of borei pirei ha’adama

Yeshivat Kol Yaakov and Bnot Yaakov of Great Neck hosted its annual PTA Melave Malka last Saturday night with an array of delectable dairy delights, a raffle of gifts for lucky attendees and a splash of color centerpieces displaying beautiful Tu B’Shvat flowers created by the students of Yeshivat Kol Yaakov and Bnot Yaakov. The evening also featured a slideshow and video presentation of the yeshiva’s talmidim along with display boards that portrayed student pictures and work.

Rabbi Kashani, principal of the yeshivot, welcomed everyone and introduced Rabbi Eli Mansour, the evening’s most engaging guest speaker. He discussed the spiritual foundations for the eternal staying power of the Jewish people and then focused on the beauty and intrinsic value of Persian Jewish heritage and our role in preserving that legacy. The audience listened eagerly as Rabbi Mansour

spoke and the room filled to capacity. It was an evening of food, friendship, and inspiration as current parents took the opportunity to introduce themselves to prospective parents and tell them about Great Neck’s up and coming yeshivot.

Kudos to Yeshivat Kol Yaakov and Bnot Yaakov PTA who organized the event, to our generous sponsors who helped make the evening possible, and to all the residents of Great Neck who came to share in the excitement of our ever-growing yeshiva.

Sorala’s Baby Gemach Opens in Five Towns

joyed the activity while the older grades began the month with a special kumzitz.

Appropriately, they were introduced to the song, “Ilan Ilan.”

Assistant Principal Mrs. Shuly Zuckerman explained the famous gemara and mashal of the blessing of one Amorah to another and then applied it to girls’ lives.

She said, “In every action and decision we make, we need to take a moment to ask ourselves, what will people say about me? Will they give me the same bracha that the Amorah gave, that that all seedlings and trees be like you?” Even though winter is in full force, the trees at Bnos Malka are in bloom, bearing the fruits of middos tovos that will give much nachas to all.

This week, Cedarhurst opens the newest branch of Sorala’s Baby Gemach.

The gemach provides a wide variety of baby-related items for short term loan.

These items include nursing pumps, digital baby scales, car seats, pack ’n plays, strollers, swings and more. These loans are available at no charge, although a refundable deposit is required. The gemach can be reached at 347-788-0724.

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The Cedarhurst branch comes after the tremendous success of the gemach in numerous other cities including Montreal, Baltimore, Detroit, Flatbush and Toronto. The gemach was founded l’iluy nishmas Mrs. Sorala Krigsman, Sara Esther a”h bas R’ Yisroel Chaim.

More information can be found at soralasbabygemach.com.

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Urgent Message by the Rockaway Shomrim to the Far Rockaway and Bayswater Community Regarding Car Break-Ins Due to a recent rash of car breakins in the Far Rockaway and Bayswater communities, the RCSP (Rockaway Shomrim) has beefed up patrols in the affected areas. In order to ensure the safety of the residents and the protection of property, the RCSP offers the following tips: All residents are urged to lock their car doors, even for a quick errand. Do not leave any valuables, especially tefilin, laptops, iPads, iPods, chargers, GPS units or headsets visible or suctioned onto the windshield.

Please avoid warming up the cars and leaving the keys inside in the morning. Many instances of car theft occurred

Apprehending a suspect after he tried to sell back the stolen goods

in such incidents.

If you are the victim of a car breakin, please call the NYPD (911) and the

RCSP 24-hour hotline immediately. The RCSP will in turn increase patrols in your area. It is imperative to file a police report so that recovered stolen property can be returned to the owner. In addition, police reports help the NYPD track crime stats in the area to increase patrol and notice patterns.

Should you witness any suspicious activity, even in the middle of the night, call 911 and the RCSP 24-hour hotline immediately. When calling, please provide a detailed description of the suspicious activity and the suspects, and a direction of flight. Observe the situation from afar without being seen for your own safety.

It is advisable for residents to install motion lights around the house. In case motion lights are activated, Shomrim members on patrol will notice the activity and will ensure the safety of the surroundings. Please ensure there is adequate lighting in front, back and sides of your house. House numbers should be visible at all times for all first respondents.

We highly recommend the installation of video cameras outside all homes.

With RCSP’s assistance, the NYPD has had much success making arrests after reviewing video footage. If you or a neighbor have surveillance cameras and/ or system, please notify the RCSP so you may be entered in our database in case of crimes committed in your area.

On many occasions, car break-in thieves attempted to sell to stolen items back to the owners or in the neighborhood. Should this occur, minimize your interaction with the thief and call the RCSP Hotline IMMEDIATELY. The RCSP has trained volunteers that can handle the matter with the NYPD. With the assistance of the RCSP, numerous arrests were made by the NYPD in such instances. When possible, install a tracking device on your electronics so the NYPD can track/locate the stolen goods.

The 24-Hour RCSP Hotline is 917RCSP-306 (917-727-7306)

Police apprehend a suspect

The RCSP sends weekly Security Alerts via emails. Should you be interested in receiving the weekly Security Alerts, please send an email to securityalerts@rockawaypatrol.org and enter the phrase “Sign me up” in the Subject field.

The RCSP is in need of night patrol volunteers in Far Rockaway and Bayswater. Anyone interested in volunteering should email their name and cell phone number to dispatch@rockawaypatrol.org.

To donate to the RCSP: www.fidelipay.com/RCSP; or via mail: Rockaway Citizen’s Safety Patrol, C/O A. Frankel, 774 Caffrey Avenue, Far Rockaway, NY 11691 (make check payable to RCSP).

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital Names Donald Morrish, MD, Chairman of Obstetrics/Gynecology St. John’s Episcopal Hospital has appointed Donald T. Morrish, MD, to the position of Interim Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology.

Dr. Morrish has assumed responsibilities for the Department’s operations.

“We are very pleased to have a physician of Dr. Morrish’s caliber lead our Obstetrics/Gynecology Department,” said Richard L. Brown, Chief Executive Officer, St. John’s.

“We are confident the women of the Rockaways and South Shore will be pleased with the level and quality of the Obstetrics/Gynecology services provided at St. John’s under his leadership,” he added.

Previously, Dr. Morrish was an Associate Attending Physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Residency Program

Director at Lutheran Medical Center and Lutheran Family Health Center in Brooklyn, NY. He was also in private practice at Lutheran Medical Center.

He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is the recipient of numerous national faculty awards including one from the National Faculty Teaching Award for Excellence in Resident Education from the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology and another from the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Dr. Morrish is a graduate of St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. He completed his residency

in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as a chief residency, at Saint Vincent’s Medical Center, Sisters of Charity of Medical Center.

The Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital provides comprehensive women’s health care, including obstetrics and gynecology. The department takes care of high-risk patients with a specialist in maternal fetal medicine available for consultations. Advanced level 2 ultrasounds are available, as is genetic counseling and care for patients who are hypertensive or at risk for preeclampsia or diabetes. General obstetrics provides services via a prenatal clinic, office

visits and parenting and childbirth education courses. There is an emphasis on providing education and support for breastfeeding.

All general gynecological care is provided by the Department of Obstetrics/ Gynecology at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, including preventive care, annual exams in outpatient settings, Pap smears, digital mammograms and bone densitometry. Specialty services include the care of infertility, menopausal and postmenopausal patients, urogynecology surgery for incontinence, and complete oncology care for gynecological cancers.

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital was a 2013 recipient of the IPRO Quality Award for initiatives in Improved Patient Safety, Infection Control and Quality Care.

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Shulamith Sixth Grade Visits the Met Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet and Georges Seurat. They were delighted to view paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, which they easily recognized from their classroom encounter with Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Mrs. Weintraub also led the girls through some of the Modern Art exhibits, where they enjoyed works by artists such as Jackson Pollak and Andy Warhol. Their visit to the European Galleries culminated in a chance to sketch some of what they saw.

In addition to the opportunity to enjoy paintings, the students also toured the Museum’s collection of ancient Egyptian art. Social studies

teachers Miss Naomi Gold and Mrs. Danyel Goldberg led the girls as they viewed mummies, sarcophagi, Egyp-

tian jewelry, pottery, and other artifacts.

Hieroglyphics, the sphinx, papyrus...these terms and more came to life as the students enjoyed a close up look at things they had learned about in the classroom.

The trip to the museum was educational and enjoyable.

We thank Mrs. Michelle Davies and Mrs. Tzippy Ostreicher, parent chaperones, for joining the sixth graders on this educational and exciting trip.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is world renowned for its vast collection of artwork from different cultures and time periods. On Tuesday, January 7th, the sixth graders of Shulamith Middle Divison had the wonderful opportunity to travel to the Met, as it is widely known, to tour the museum.

Accompanied by their art teacher, Mrs. Naomi Weintraub, the girls were treated to a close up look at works by famous

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Bais Yaakov of Queens’ Eight Grader Wins Jewish Education Project 2014 Spelldown Regional Bee The Jewish Educational Project held its annual inter -yeshiva regional Spelling Bee on January 13th. This year’s winner, Devorah Simon, is an eighth grade student of Bais Yaakov of Queens.

Devorah won her class spelling bee first, then competed in the 5-8 grade spelling bee that included each

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class winner.

She was thrilled to represent BYQ again. This last time, she championed and ranked first from all of the participating yeshivos.

Her winning words were “chapeau” and “commiserate.”

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On the premise that it pays to start young, the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls NCSY JUMP organizers ran an inspiring program for the preschoolers at HALB’s Lev Chana and the Yeshiva of South Shore on Tuesday, January 7. “Jumpstart to Stop Bullying” was the program’s theme of the day and the sessions promoted behaviors of how to be kind to your fellow classmates in very positive ways. The high schoolers read books on friendship aloud and encouraged the preschoolers to share their thoughts on being nice to each other.

The SKA “Jumpers” also painted small “buddy benches” to be placed in Lev

Chana’s and South Shore’s playrooms for the children to leave their handprints on; if a child feels alone, he or she can sit on the buddy bench and another child will be sure to join them! T-shirts imprinted with the program’s slogan were handed on to serve as smocks; the little ones were absolutely adorable and really enjoyed the program!

Kudos to the SKA Jump Team – Miriam Boim, Loni Donner, Rachel Frieling, Lori Joseph, Rachel Kwestel, Devora Meisels, Leelah Paul, Lauren Selevan , Sophia Srulowitz and their advisor, Mrs. Nomi Bensoussan – for an amazing program!

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The Flatbush Basketball League Week #7 Recap even close to compete with Batampte’s strength and quickness. Let’s see who will take the #1 seed next week…

Shirt Stop 43, ITP 38: With a now 6-1 record, everyone is trying to beat up on a very strong and talented Shirt Stop squad. In this game, ITP was very close to making that a reality. However, Yehudah Oppenheim and Co. had different plans as he contributed with 15 points together with Nissim Furrer’s 11 and Yitzi Weinberger’s 10 to give them the edge over ITP. In the loss, Mordechai Cohen led ITP with 15 and Sasson Azar had 10, however, a good effort by ITP fell short. ITP now holds the second seed

with a 4-3 record in the hunt to the playoffs just three weeks away.

Perfect Collision again beat up on their competition as they took control over Meir’s Pizza World.

Dovid Reiser was unstoppable hitting from almost every position, as he had a season high 52 points.

Yitzchok Kapetas and Meir Rubinfeld of course contributed as well. Pizza World’s height and quickness just couldn’t stop and keep up with Reiser and Co. Perfect is now in the third seed with a 3-4 record going into week #8, while Pizza World is still looking for their second win of the season.

In the Jewish Connection Division: In the first fantasy game of the season, Sharone’s Nosh Express got their first loss of the season to the four seed Plaza Auto Leasing (PAL). It was a tight game from the start, with Nosh Express missing some of their leading scorers but it wasn’t long before PAL took care of business. Rafi Safdie and David Sasson again took over while dominating both offensively and defensively.

PAL now stands with a 2-5 record. Who will be the next team to shut the lights on Nosh Express?? Keep it locked in here to find out.

Ready to Roll 62, Repairs on Wheels 42: In the game between the second and third seeds, Yiddy Follman was unstoppable scoring a high of 25 while Yumi Grun pumped in 15 as well.

Yehoshua Aberbach for Repairs just could not get the job done with his 12 points. These two teams are tied with 3-4 records.

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In the Jewish Home Division: China Glatt 48, Art World 45: In this close one all the way through ‘till the end, it was Shulem’s China Glatt who survived not giving them two losses in a row. Eliyakim Gelbard, Shimon Greenwald and Dovid Kapetas all finished in double digits with 17, 14 and 15 respectively. An all around team effort helped them win their 4th game of the season.

Art World, led by Binyomin Parnes’ 22 and Avrohom Kreiger’s 13, just weren’t enough to beat out China Glatt. Art World now sits alone as the fourth seed with a 2-5 record while the other three teams battle it out for first place.

Batampte Pickles beat up on a short-handed Yanky Franks Quality Carpet squad as it was a 4 on 4 for most of the game. Yosef Kapetas and Jack Mosseri, the powerhouses, exploded with 30 and 25 respectively. Ezriel Shain contributed with 15 as well. In the loss, a tireless effort by Chuli Herbst with 22 and Ahron Berman’s 13 weren’t

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When Jacob was finally given an exit visa by the Russians and allowed to immigrate to Israel, he was told he could only take what he could put into one suitcase. At the Moscow airport, he was stopped by customs and an official shouted, “Open your case at once.”

Jacob did what he was told. The official searched through his case and pulled out something wrapped in newspaper. He unwrapped it and saw it was a bust of Stalin.

“What is that?” he shouted at Jacob.

Jacob replied, “You shouldn’t ask, ‘What is that?’ You should ask, ‘Who is that?’ That is our glorious leader Stalin. I’m taking it to remind me of the wonderful things he did for me and the marvelous life that I am leaving behind.”

The official sneered. “I always knew you Jews were mad. Go, and take the bust with you.”

When Jacob arrived at Ben Gurion Airport, a customs officer said, “Shalom, welcome to Israel, open your case, please!”

Jacob’s case was once again searched and not surprisingly the bust was found. “What is that?” asked the officer.

Jacob replied, “You shouldn’t ask, ‘What is that?’ You should ask, ‘Who is that?’ That is Stalin, the meshugana. I want to spit on it every day to remind me of all the suffering and misery he caused me.”

The official laughed, “I always knew you Russians were mad. Go, and take the bust with you.”

When Jacob arrived at his new home, his young nephew watched him as he unpacked. Jacob carefully unwrapped the bust of Stalin and put it on the table.

“Who is that?” asked his nephew.

Jacob replied, “You shouldn’t ask, ‘Who is that?’ You should ask, ‘What is that?’ That is five kilos of gold.”

The Israeli army is attempting to scale a cliff sixty feet high. Every minute, the army bounds upward three feet but slips back two.

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Match the Saying with the Prime Minister Who Said It A. Benjamin Netanyahu B. Ariel Sharon C. Levi Eshkol D. David Ben-Gurion E. Golda Meir F. Yitzchak Rabin

1. Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

2. Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses.

He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.

3. Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties.

4. Give peace a chance.

5. I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on Election Day. 6. There is no bulletproof vest in my size.

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3. In 1984, the Israeli elections resulted in a tie, after which an agreement was reached that each party’s leader would be prime minister for two years. Who were the two PMs? a. Yitzchak Shamir and Yitzchak Rabin b. Yitzchak Shamir and Shimon Perez c. Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu d. Yitzchak Rabin and Shimon Perez 4. In 2005 Ariel Sharon left Likud and started a new “centrist” party. What was that party called? a. Ha’garinim b. Ha’pitzuchim c. Zevel d. Kadima 5. What is Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother, Yoni, famous for? a. He was the IDF chief of staff during the Yom Kippur War b. He was the first Israeli air force pilot c. He led the raid on Entebbe and was the only Israeli soldier killed during that raid d. He invaded Beirut during the Six Day War 6. Which PM ordered the historical strike against Iraq’s nuclear facilities? a. Golda Meir b. Menachem Begin

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2. Which Israeli prime minister served as Israel’s ambassador to the U.S.? a. Levi Eshkol b. Shimon Perez c. Yitzchak Rabin d. Benjamin Netanyahu

c. Ariel Sharon d. Yitzchok Shamir 7. Which PM met the Chofetz Chaim? a. David Ben-Gurion b. Levi Eshkol c. Shimon Perez d. Yitzchok Shamir 8. Which Israeli PM graduated from North Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? a. Moshe Sharett b. Ehud Olmart c. Benjamin Netanyahu d. Golda Meir Answers: 1. A-While leading the Irgun, which was the Jewish underground which split from the Hagana, Begin disguised himself as a rabbi. He was known as Rabbi Sassover.

In his later years, he would recall how he would conduct daring missions during the night. When he would come to shul in the morning, people would run over to him and say, “Rabbi, did you hear what the Irgun did last night?!” He would always feign surprise, so as not to blow his cover.

2. C-Rabin was the ambassador to the U.S. from 1968 to 1973.

3. B-In 1984, Labor and Likud aligned after neither party won the 61 seats necessary to form a majority party. Both parties agreed to an unusual “rotation” arrangement in which Peres would serve as prime minister and the Likud leader Yitzhak Shamir would be foreign minister. After two years, Peres and Shamir traded places.

4. D- It is speculated that Sharon named the party Kadima (“forward”), a word closely associated by Israelis with the battle-charge call of army officers, in order to highlight his vast military accomplishments to sway that sector of the public.

5. C-After leading a unit in the Six Day War, Yoni Netanyahu came to America to study in Harvard University, but, after a year, he decided that he belonged in Israel,

Answer to riddle: Fifty eight minutes. Although the net progress each minute is one foot, they reach the top on the fifty-eighth minute just before they would normally slip back two feet.

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defending his country. After returning to Israel, he returned to the army and led an elite unit in the Yom Kippur War. He led the spectacular mission to rescue the Israeli hijacked hostages who were being held in Entebbe. While the IDF jets were being loaded with the hostages, Yoni was standing on the tarmac and was shot in the back by a terrorist who was positioned on the flight control tower.

6. B 7. C- Shimon Peres was born in Poland in 1923. He often recalls that as a child his father took him to Radin to get a blessing from the Chofetz Chaim. Peres remembered, “The Chofetz Chaim blessed me that I’ll go on to greatness and live long.”

8. D-When she was a child, Golda Meir’s family emigrated to the U.S. from the Ukraine, due to anti-Semitism. She attended grade school and high school in Milwaukee. She was then a public school teacher.

An avid Zionist, she made an aliyah in 1921.

Wisdom Key: 7-8 correct: Eizeh Wy-wy! You know so much about Israeli politics, you must be a taxi driver!

4-6 correct: You are like a shwarma in a pita—if I can’t have it in a laffa, I’ll take the pita.

0-3 correct: Chaval al hazman—you Americans only care about sports!

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Shulamith Fifth and Seventh Graders Bring Joy to Seniors at Long Island Living Center On Thursday, January 2nd, Rosh Chodesh Shvat, the fifth and seventh graders of Shulamith Middle Division went to Long Island Living Center to visit

with the seniors. Before leaving, the fifth graders were given an overview of what to expect and how to conduct themselves during their visit. The orientation was led by a trained social worker and gave the students a chance to ask questions in advance of their visit. Students were grateful for the preparation before their outing, as any discomfort that they might have felt was alleviated.

During their visit to the center, the girls sang and danced with the residents. At one point, one of the seniors played his harmonica and the piano, and the girls sang along.

Other residents danced with the students.

The seniors at the Long Island Living Center enjoy the visits by Shulamith students so very much, that this time they treated the girls to hot cocoa. At the

same time, our girls love the experience of doing something so meaningful; they can’t wait to go back!

Rabbi Josh Kohl Leads as NY’s NCSY’s Regional Director When Rabbi Josh Kohl accepted the position of New York NCSY Regional Director, it was more than just a job for him. For Rabbi Kohl — a veteran kiruv educator — working for NCSY was a dream fulfilled.

Growing up in Santa Barbara, CA, Rabbi Kohl had little to do with his Jewish heritage. “We lit the Chanukah candles and that was about it,” he explained.

Even a brief foray into a religious Jewish school did little for him.

That all changed in his senior year of high school. A promising athlete and a dedicated student, Rabbi Kohl had his life planned out. Several schools had offered him scholarships and an acceptance letter from an Ivy League school was already in his hand, but then, by chance, he met Rabbi Ben Jacoby of West Coast NCSY. Rabbi Kohl recalled,

“He asked me to put together a camping trip for kids from L.A. and San Diego and for some crazy reason I agreed.”

Soon after, Rabbi Kohl decided he wanted to put together an NCSY chapter in Santa Barbara. “Next thing I knew I started wearing my kippah to school and keeping kosher,” he said.

“Halfway through the year I started keeping Shabbat.”

At graduation, he decided to put his college plans on hold and go to Israel for the year.

At the time—the year was1989— there weren’t many yeshivas for dedicated ba’alei teshuva who didn’t know that much about learning. He ended up at a small yeshiva and eventually returned back to America after several years to

launch an outreach kollel on the West Coast. Afterwards, he worked for Gateways and Aish HaTorah, but NCSY was always in his sights.

“I had NCSY in my blood,” he said. “I had a vision of wanting to give back to NCSY for all that it had given to me.”

His enthusiasm for the position was evident from his first interview.

“After spending five minutes with Rabbi Kohl, it was obvious to us that he was a perfect fit,” said Kenneth Sicklick, chairman of the board for New York NCSY. “His educational and kiruv background, as well as his enthusiasm and innovative spirit for this type of work, will help continue the tradition that has made NCSY so successful around the world.”

Rabbi Kohl takes over a thriving region that serves hundreds of Jewish teenagers in the greater New York area.

Among their most recent campaigns are NCSY Sweepstakes 2014 and Super Bowl XLVIII raffles. Each campaign endeavors to raise scholarship funds for area public school teens to attend NCSY Shabbatons, post-high school Israel programs, and for some, to make the big switch from public school to Yeshiva day school. These exciting raffles offer prizes such as $25,000, jewelry, cars, and vacation packages, as well as 2 prime seats to this year’s Super Bowl.

New York NCSY also launched the Jerusalem Journey Ambassador (TJJA) summer program that takes public school teens to Israel for the summer, and the nation-wide JUMP competition, where day school teens from across the nation compete in a variety of social action challenges in an Apprentice-style competition.

Rabbi Kohl has many plans for the region, including broadening New York NCSY’s reach to new public high schools, but he says his focus is mainly twofold: “I hope to expand what we’re doing in many different geographic areas and deepen what we’re doing,” he said.

“I want to make sure we’re not just going through a process of moving teens through clubs and programs, but really reaching them, inspiring them, and helping them navigate through their Jewish journeys.”

To this day, he still wonders exactly what it was that the regional director offered him that pulled him out of his spiritual slumber, however he says, he attempted to use some combination of that magic in his own outreach work. “It think the most significant thing that made a difference for me was the personal relationship with Rabbi Jacoby and the care I received from him,” Rabbi Kohl says.

“To this day, we’re still in touch. Ultimately teaching Torah is an extension of that care, the more we care for an individual and his personal needs, the more of an impact we’ll have on his life.”

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Parshas Yisro “And He does kindness to thousands of generations, to those who He loves and those who guard His mitzvos.” – Shemos 20:6 In the Aseres Ha’Dibros we are told that Hashem pays back the wicked for four generations and the righteous for two thousand generations. Rashi explains that the ratio of two thousand to four comes out to be five hundred to one. This teaches us that the measure of good to bad in the world is five hundred to one.

This Rashi is very difficult to understand. If the Torah is teaching us that Hashem created the world with an operating principle that the good outweighs the bad by a measure of five hundred to one, this doesn’t seem to be consistent with reality.

Granted life is good, but can anyone say that their “pleasures” outweigh their “pains” five hundred to one? Five hundred to one means that the rough spots in life are so overshadowed by the enormity of good that they are almost nonexistent. For every headache I

endure, I enjoy five hundred times the pleasure. For every stomach cramp I suffer through, I benefit from five hundred measures of delight. The problem is that this just isn’t the way life is. How do we reconcile this Rashi with reality?

A Perspective on Pleasure If we study the world, we find many features that have no functional purpose, and if the world were created strictly from a practical standpoint, they would not be there. For example: tastes in food.

Food is something that we need to

maintain our energy levels and health.

If its only function were nutrition and nothing more, then all food should be taste like soggy cardboard. Yet it doesn’t. There are so many variations, each with its own unique flavor, texture, and aroma.

What happens when you bite into an apple? You don’t get that burst of flavor that you got when you bit into an orange. You get a crunch. Why is that?

Why not design all fruit the same? The reason an apple is crunchy is because it is fun to crunch on food. So, when Hash-

Did you ever wonder why apples are red on the outside?

Why did Hashem create food this way? Why not make it all same? The reason is for our pleasure. So that eating, which we have to do, shouldn’t be a chore but should be delightful. Taste is something that Hashem added solely for our benefit – for us to enjoy.

An awful lot of thought went into creating the different foods that we eat.

Rabbi Avigdor Miller, zt”l, once described an orange. When you peel an orange, you find wedges inside. If you look closely, each of these wedges is surrounded by a thin membrane.

When you pull back the membrane, you see many tiny sacs. Inside each of those sacs is the juice of the orange. Why did Hashem created an orange in that manner, with thousands of little sacs? So that when you bite into the orange, the taste is released in a burst of flavor.

Hashem created those sacs so that there would be another dimension to our enjoyment. The sensation of eating an orange would be different without this feature. It still would have tasted delicious, but this is an additional aspect that Hashem wanted us to enjoy, so He designed the orange that way.

Did you ever wonder why apples are red on the outside?

Hashem made apples red because they are nicer to look at, and that makes the process of eating an apple more pleasing. The presentation adds much to the enjoyment of the dish. So, Hashem designed foods to have eye appeal to enhance our experience of eating.

em made apples, He designed the cells to form hard walls, so that when we bite into it, we get that crunch. It didn’t have to be that way. It was designed that way so that we should enjoy it.

What about aroma? Each of the assorted foods not only has varied tastes and textures, but markedly different smells, which contribute to our total enjoyment. When Hashem created food, He added this dimension of wonderful aromas to even further enhance our taste experience.

The food we eat comes in so many assorted flavors and textures, each one appealing to a different element of our tastes. Hashem pre-planned and created all of this for us to enjoy.

And this is but one example of countless of features that Hashem created strictly for our enjoyment. Hashem created, sights, sounds, textures, colors, 

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depth and so many other features in this glorious world so that our experience here should be more pleasure-filled. If the world was created for practical reasons only, all of this wouldn’t have to be. But Hashem put it all here for us to enjoy.

Yet how many times do we actually take the time to enjoy the foods that we eat? How much attention do we pay to the sights that we see? It takes training and concentration to consciously enjoy the life that we lead. If we do, we will see a tremendous amount of detail and concern put in for our benefit. And we will see a tremendous demonstration of the kindness that Hashem shows to man.

This seems to be what Rashi is saying. The ratio of 500:1 is accurate in this world. The problem isn’t the amount of pleasure in the world; the problem is that we lack the training to enjoy it.

When we learn to live with intention and use this world as it was designed to be used, we come to recognize the love that Hashem has for all of His creations, and we then lead a purposeful, pleasure-filled life.

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lar a son-in-law is called a choson, and a daughter-in-law a kallah.

Perhaps this can be best understood in light of the following beautiful thought from Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch (Bereishis 19:12): “The Jewish bridegroom loves his bride, the kallah, so dearly because in her he is bringing to his parental home a worthy beloved daughter, the ‘crown’ of the parental home. The Jewish bride loves her bridegroom, the choson, so dearly because she finds in him the spirit of her parental home, and knows her parents’ satisfaction with his outlook on life and his ecently, friends of ours married aims. Thus, the harmonious agreement off their oldest daughter. The between the two families is dependent morning after the wedding I tex- on the parents. They are the rocklike ted the father of the kallah: “So what’s foundation on which their children rest, it like to be married to a shvigger?” their guarantee that the parents will find His witty one word response was great, their own loving life repeated in that of their children.”

“Shver!”

The noted badParshas Yisro is chan, Rabbi Yankel often referred to as a Miller, quips that he “shverer parsha.” YisIn regards to was always taught that ro, the father-in-law of one must always show Moshe, joins klal Yisone’s in-laws, more respect to his roel and is overjoyed one always by the salvations and wife than to himself. accomplishments that He cited the following remains a the nation has merited example to demonunder his son-in-law’s strate how he is careful choson and leadership. to adhere to this cardikallah.

Although many nal obligation: “I make commentators struggle sure to show more to understand why the respect to my wife’s Torah’s account about shver and shvigger Yisro giving advice to Moshe is written than to my own shver and shvigger.” just prior to the Torahs’ description of When writing about such a topic I the giving of the Torah at Sinai, my fa- must share a personal sentiment. From ther-in-law does not think it’s strange at the day I entered his family, my fatherall. In fact, he feels it’s extremely ap- in-law always told me that he wanted to ropos. be a father to me, not a father-in-law. AlAt my afruf the Shabbos before our though no one can ever reach the level wedding, Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer of love and closeness that a child has for shlita (the then-rabbi of Kehillas Bais his parents (except parents themselves), Avrohom) noted to my (future) father- I have been blessed with in-laws that in-law that a choson (groom) and kallah have come as close as possible. (bride) officially are only granted that title from their wedding until the conclusion of the week of Sheva Berachos.

(Although people refer to an engaged Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW, is the Rabbi of couple as choson and kallah, as far as Kehillat New Hempstead, and Guidance halacha is concerned their exalted sta- Counselor/Rebbe at Yeshiva Bais Hachitus is limited to that week.) However, nuch & Ashar in Monsey, NY. He is the authere is one exception: in regards to thor of Stam Torah and can be reached at one’s in-laws one always remains a cho- stamtorah@gmail.com. His website is www. son and kallah, for in Biblical vernacu- stamtorah.info.

Before proceeding to read this week’s musings, the reader must be familiar with some rudimentary Yiddish: “Shvigger” means mother-in-law (it is important to realize that the word ‘shvigger’ has many overtones and symbolisms, not the least of which are the myriad ‘shvigger jokes’); “Shver” means father-in-law. It also means difficult or complicated (not that there’s any connection between the two meanings…)

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BRAVE & BRAZEN Ariel Sharon 1928-2014 • 5688-5774

This week, the State of Israel mourns the loss of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who died on Saturday, January 11, 2014, at the age of 85. Sharon, whose military and political careers invoked an equal barrage of support and criticism, finally succumbed to the effects of his January 2006 stroke since when he has lain incapacitated at Sheba Medical Center, a hospital near Tel Aviv. After years of remaining in what doctors termed as a “state of minimal consciousness,” the former leader’s status became precarious as vital organs began to shut down, finally ending in heart failure. His actions and influence leave the world with much to discuss and a great deal to remember. During his life, he brought out strong emotions; there were ardent supporters and harsh critics to his brash and bold initiatives.

EARLY DAYS On February 26, 1928, Ariel Sharon, formerly Scheinerman, was born to Russian immigrants Shmuel and Dvora Scheinerman in British-occupied Palestine.

The second of two children, Ariel, known as “Arik” to his friends, grew up in moshav Kfar Malal, a small, secular farming village about fifteen miles north of Tel Aviv. Sharon’s interest in defense took root early in his life, leading him to participate in regular night-patrols around the moshav. At the age of 14m he joined the Gadna, a paramilitary youth brigade, and soon after enrolled in the Haganah, the precursor to the Israel Defense Forces. Already, Sharon exhibited signs of a fierce independence when serving as instructor at the very schools he attended, supposedly ignoring the designated curriculum and substituting his own.

A WAR HERO Sharon’s military career catapulted in 1947-8 when he was promoted to platoon leader in the Alexandroni Brigade for his involvement in the attack on Bir Addas, an Iraqi base near Kfar Malal. The 20-year-old, having by then modeled his last name after the Sharon Plain where he had been assigned by the Haganah, was sent with his unit into the Battle of Latrun during the 1948 War of Independence. Described by Sharon himself as “horrible,” the unsuccessful attempt at seiz-

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After leading soldiers across the Suez Canal in a turning point in the Yom Kippur War

In 1964, Sharon was assigned the position of head of the Northern Command by Chief of Staff Yitzchak Rabin, later acquiring the title of Aluf – Major General. Sharon’s offensive strategies in the subsequent Six-Day War were credited as the reason for Israel’s incredible victory over the Jordanian, Syrian and Egyptian troops. Leading the strongest armored division on the Sinai front, Sharon directed a series of individualized, smaller attacks on enemy bases, resulting in the opponent’s inability to protect the targeted spots. Sharon regarded this victory as one of the highest moments in his life, and his unique tactical movements went on to become the subject of extensive study by military researchers.

Once again, personal tragedy struck the Sharon family. On October 4, 1967, on the eve of Rosh Hashana, eleven-year-old Gur was playing with friends with an old hunting rifle, stuffing it with gunpowder. The gun went off when a neighbor was playing with it, and Gur was shot. Sharon ran to his son when he heard the blast and rushed him to the hospital but to no avail. The child died in his father’s arms. Sharon later recalled, “There is no cure for that kind of pain,” when speaking with a reporter when he was 75-years-old.

Shortly after retiring from his military post to join the Likud political party (of which he was an instrumental originator), Sharon was called back to active duty at the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. In a move that has been termed both courageous and reckless, Sharon led 27,000 Israeli soldiers across the Suez Canal to surround and compromise the Egyptian army. This daring and ultimately successful stratagem is considered by many to have been the turning point in the war in Israel’s favor.

Pictures of Sharon with his head in a bandage – he was hit in the head by a tank part – became an iconic image of Israel’s victory.

POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT

With Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas, U.S. President George W. Bush and Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Aqaba in 2003

Retiring from active duty, Sharon turned his attention to politics. Involving himself once more with his co-created Likud party, Sharon was elected to the Knesset at the end of 1973 but soon lost interest in the day-to-day discussions and verbal calisthenics that often characterize political positions. Resigning a year later, he took a break once again from politics, alternating between reserve duties and taking care of his farm, until he was invited by Prime Minister Yitzchak

Rabin to join him as his special aide and military advisor. Preparing for the upcoming 1977 elections, Sharon planned to return to the Likud party and replace Menachem Begin as the head, but failed to be elected.

When attempts at joining the Labor and other parties failed as well, Sharon formed his own party, Shlomtzion, successfully securing two Knesset seats. Following the elections, he merged Shlomtzion with the Likud party and became Minister of Agriculture under Begin. In a passionate first move and an ironic twist of things to come, Sharon immediately advocated for the furthering of Jewish settlement and urged Israelis to populate Gaza and the West Bank, thereby ensuring Israel’s continued possession of those lands. His wishes were heeded by many, and the number of Jew-

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ish settlements ballooned in those areas. Sharon was appointed Minister of Defense in 1981.

It soon became clear that the next most imminent threat to Israel was southern Lebanon, an area that had begun launching attacks on the northern part of Israel. The last straw in Sharon’s eyes came in the form of a failed assassination attempt of Israeli Ambassador Shlomo Argov while the emissary was in London. Sharon began to organize an invasion into Lebanon, simultaneously forming an alliance with the Phalangist Party, a sympathizing Lebanese-Christian group. Promising the maneuver would only last 48 hours, Sharon and his troops proceeded into Lebanon.

It soon became apparent that, whether intentionally or otherwise, the procedure was far surpassing the initial timeframe given and included many seemingly unnecessary acts of violence that garnered criticism from all sides. Cease-fires were ignored and large-scale bombings decimated Beirut areas. The ultimate blow became what is known as the Sabra and Shatila Massa-

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ing the Latrun police compound held by the Jordanian Arab Legion left 139 of his soldiers dead and countless wounded, including himself. A bullet had pierced Sharon’s stomach and thigh, and when his requests to be left behind fell upon deaf ears, he forced himself to continue moving together with other wounded members of his force. They were eventually rescued, but that experience would serve to strengthen Sharon’s belief in his own competence as a leader as well as lead him to institute the directive never to abandon any wounded soldiers in battle.

At the age of 20, Sharon married a Romanian immigrant, Margalit Zimmerman, also known as Gali.

Sharon took a leave from the army in 1952, enrolling in the Hebrew University to study Middle Eastern history and culture. Gali became a psychiatric nurse.

A year and a half later, now with the title “major,” Sharon was commissioned by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to launch and head a specialized operations group called Unit 101, whose purpose was to retaliate against Arab attacks. The band was comprised of 50 men who underwent grueling training in the art of guerilla warfare, carrying out daring offensive maneuvers. Soon after its inception, Unit 101 was merged with the 890 Paratroopers Battalion to form the Paratroopers Brigade. The division received a violent condemnation after its infiltration into Qibya, a village in Jordan, in which 69 Palestinian civilians were killed and about 45 buildings dynamited in retaliation for the murder of an Israeli woman and her two children. Brushing off the criticism in the wake of this event, Sharon continued on to command an infantry brigade and study law at Tel Aviv University.

During the 1956 Suez War, Sharon commanded the paratrooper unit 202 and was commanded to take the grounds surrounding Sinai’s Mitla Pass. Despite the fact that neither precursory scouts nor aircraft units reported any enemy activity inside the pass, Sharon feared a surprise attack and wished to send troops to investigate. Receiving a negative from superiors, Sharon went ahead and sent a small scout group anyway, which was soon caught in unexpected crossfire.

Sharon was forced to dispatch the rest of his troops to come to their rescue. Around 40 Israeli soldiers died, and Sharon was reprimanded for failing to heed instructions as well as for putting his men in unnecessary danger.

After the dismal loss at Mitla, Sharon suffered a personal loss as well. In May 1962, his wife, Gali, was killed in a fatal car crash when a truck hit the car she was driving. Sharon later married her younger sister, Lily, and eventually they had two sons together, Omri and Gilad, in addition to the son, Gur, who Sharon fathered with Gali.

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cre, when the Phalanges invaded refugee camps filled with civilians and opened fire, despite the fact that the enclosures had already been labeled off-limits by the Americans. Hundreds of Palestinians were killed, and Sharon, though officially absolved of misconduct by the government, was encouraged to resign.

In 1983, Time Magazine published a story insinuating that Sharon had premeditated the massacre and that he had urged the Phalanges to avenge the death of their leader, Bashir Gemayel. Sharon sued the magazine for libel in Israeli and American courts and was granted partial victory in New York since, while no proof could be found to substantiate Sharon’s guilt, Sharon’s lawyers were equally unable to produce evidence that Time was acting with intended malice.

Remaining on as a minister without portfolio, Sharon’s next ten years passed in relative quiet as he assumed roles of Minister of Trade and Industry and Minister of Construction and Housing. His Knesset activity included belonging to the Foreign Affairs and Defense committee and serving as chairman for the committee overseeing Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union. Sharon tried repeatedly to oust Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir from his position as head of Likud, to no avail. Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharon was named Minister of National Infrastructure and Foreign Minister. In 1999, Sharon was finally elected as head of the Likud party after an unexpected twist of events involving Ehud Barak’s Labor party.

LEADING THE NATION AS PRIME MINISTER In September 2000, Sharon, along with an escort of over 1,000 police officers, paid a visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during a time of particular tension between the Israelis and Palestinians. Opined by critics as ill-timed, the visit was used by Palestinians as an excuse to riot against Israeli police over what they

Brig. Gen. Sharon with Prime Minister Menachem Begin on June 16, 1967

considered to be a deliberate provocation. Sharon insisted that the Palestinians merely used his visit as a pretense for violence, which continued in the form of suicide bombings for months after.

In early 2001, Sharon was elected as Israel’s 11th prime minister at the age of 73. He soon surrounded himself with an array of political supporters; his coalition consisted of members from the Likud, Labor, and Shas parties, Yisrael Beytenu, the National Union, Yisrael B’Aliya, and Am Ehad. His cabinet members

were comprised of left-wing and right-wing affiliates as well as three women. In a seeming change of heart and character, Sharon began to lean toward the notion of pursuing peace-making negotiations with the Palestinians, a change from his insistent, hawkish persona of years’ past when he vehemently advocated for Jewish occupation and settlement above all else. After first ordering air strikes against Palestinian security installations in the wake of terrorist attacks, Sharon kept Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat confined to his compound. He was imprisoned there until the end of his life.

In January 2003, Sharon was again elected prime minister for a second term. In May of later that year, Sharon supported the plan proposed by the United States, Russia and European Union called the Road Map for Peace. With American mediation, he met with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas, expressing his intention to allow for the coexistence of a Palestinian state at a future time. He began talk of a unilateral disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip while still proposing to maintain control of its coast and airspace. As to be expected, his statement was met with outrage from Israeli constituents as well as his own party members.

DISENGAGEMENT Over the course of two years, Sharon went ahead with The Disengagement Plan, Tochnit HaHinatkut, uprooting thousands of Jewish settlers from the West Bank and Gaza and increasing his growing unpopularity with many Israelis and Jews all over the world. In protest, Benjamin Netanyahu left the cabinet and attempted to initiate early primary elections to choose a new leader for Likud. Some say that Sharon went through with his plan to take the spotlight over a brewing scandal with himself and his sons.

But despite opposition and resistance from the Israeli public, the plan was put in place. 21 settlements from the Gaza Strip and 4 from the West Bank were to be evacuated. By August 16, 2005, around 8,500 people were commanded to leave the homes they built and the cities that they erected. By midnight between August 14 and 15, the Kissufim crossing was shut down, and the Gaza Strip became officially closed for entrance by Israelis.

On August 15, the evacuation commenced. Although many settlers chose to leave sadly and peacefully, others were forcibly evicted. Heart-wrenching photos circulated the globe with images of children and their parents being ripped from their land. Some soldiers were reported to be crying and praying with residents as they evacuated the troops. Soldiers went house to house, on horseback and on foot, dragging screaming and sobbing residents from houses and synagogues. In attempt to leave nothing of value for the Palestinians, some residents lit their homes on fire.

After all the residents were moved from their homes, demolition crews razed their homes to the ground. The Gush Katif cemetery was dismantled, and the bodies were reburied in other cemeteries in Israel.

On September 11, the disengagement was complete. A ceremony was held when the last Israeli flag was lowered in the IDF’s Gaza Strip divisional headquarters and all IDF forces left the Gaza Strip. On September 22, the evacuations of the four West Bank settlements were completed peacefully.

Despite Israel handing over their cherished land to the Palestinians, when the Palestinians took over,

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Sharon addresses the nation on August 15, 2005--the day when Jewish families were ripped from their homes in Gaza

it was mobs that came to take over their land, waving PLO and Hamas flags and firing guns into the air. The remaining synagogues were looted and torched and even the greenhouses which should have provided a source of income for the Palestinians were looted by mobs.

Jewish residents were to be resettled in other communities, but still some of them aren’t living in permanent residences, and harbor a deep resentment for the leader who they initially lauded.

Some say that Sharon’s goal was to ensure a strong state for the people of Israel. He viewed negotiating with Palestinian leaders as pointless; he felt they had neither the will nor the power to live up to their promises. The strong Sharon felt that by withdrawing and by building a barrier around Israel, he would ensure a strong country with defensible borders. But his goals are not really known; the future of the leader was abruptly cut short just a few months later.

UNTIL HIS DYING DAY

In November of 2005, Sharon left Likud to form his own centralist party, Kadima, while Netanyahu replaced him as the head of Likud. Once again, his coalition consisted of a motley assortment of individuals including Mayor Ehud Olmert, a former Likud member, Shinui founder Uriel Reichman, former Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter and Shimon Peres. While the formation of his new party predicted a sure victory in the upcoming elections, Sharon hit a bump in the road when he suffered his first stroke in December 2005.

While in the hospital, doctors detected a small hole in his heart, and he was ordered by physicians not to exert himself while he awaited cardiac catheterization, which was scheduled for January 5, 2006. Sharon suffered his second, more severe stroke the day before the scheduled surgery. Although doctors successfully stemmed the hemorrhaging in his brain, they were unable to prevent Sharon from entering into a coma in which state he remained for 8 years until his death last Saturday.

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riel Sharon, whose military and political career was marked with a passion and force that earned him the nicknames “King of Israel” and the “Lion of G-d,” was laid to rest at his ranch-side home in the Negev desert beside his second wife, Lily. Although he was a hero to many, the disengagement plan of 2005 will forever taint his legacy. To many, he will always be known as the Bulldozer, the force that threw thousands of families from their homes and ripped men, women and children from their homeland. A lion is a powerful and courageous animal, but when it turns against its pride, it is a dangerous, lethal force.

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The Observant Jew Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

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hen pursuing a project, what are the most important steps?

You might say planning. That’s a very key one, and in fact we have an axiom, “Measure twice; cut once.” It means that when you are contemplating something that is not undoable you must take extra precautions to make sure you’ve calculated all the outcomes so you don’t make a mistake that you will regret later.

Logistics comes to mind. While it is a part of the planning process, you also need to be sure that when things come up unexpectedly during the project itself, you will be able to deal with them and not get stopped in your tracks. Do you have the resiliency to bounce back after disappointments and adjust your work so you can complete the mission?

Are there other options for reaching your goal than the steps you are initially pursuing?

Sometimes the success of the project depends on people’s reaction to the

Next Steps completed project. “If you build it they will come,” may have worked for some people, but many an entrepreneur has learned the hard way that creating something doesn’t mean people will accept it. When you work on something, you have to make sure the finished project

of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In other words, if you want to make something happen, start. I added my own spin to this and said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step – but it must be in the right direction.”

Our projects and plans won’t come to fruition unless we keep at them. will have purpose. You might see it as an accomplishment to beat every level in Angry Birds XVIII: The Chai Life, but is it really something you’ll want to brag about?

However, if I had to suggest which is the most important step in any project, I’d say it’s the next one.

Lao-Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, is credited with saying that the journey

To my mind, it’s the existential equivalent of “measure twice; cut once,” to make sure you’re doing the right thing. I was quite satisfied with my play on someone else’s words until someone made a joking comment to me that blew my mind.

He said, “You really should say the journey begins with the second step, because sometimes after the first step you get tired and decide to stay home.” Holy Kierkegaard, Batman – what a concept!

I knew he was right. How many people made New Year’s resolutions this January 1? How many of them made it past January 2? How many times do we decide to do something that we’ve deemed worthwhile, but something happens and we get tired, distracted, disenchanted, or otherwise pre-occupied and suddenly that fantastic plan gets relegated to the garage or attic of our minds with all the other unfinished plans, goals, and self-improvement projects?

Even if we did all the planning, and we can think of other ways to achieve the goal, and we’ve gotten started, our projects and plans won’t come to fruition unless we keep at them.

You can’t say you’ve read a book when you’ve stopped mid-way through nor that you’ve climbed the ladder when you’ve only done half the rungs. Therefore, the most important step in any project is not the first, nor the second, but each step that comes next, until you’ve achieved your goal.

This is a very vital understanding because unlike trying to “uncut” a rope or “unsay” a word, when you get sidetracked from something, most of the time you can get back into it and start

again with the next step. This takes a lot of pressure off.

Say you’re trying to go to the gym every day. If you miss a day, do you throw in the towel and eat a bag of cookies? Hopefully not, because even if you don’t have a perfect record, you can continue the journey the next day.

Daf yomi is a very difficult commitment. Many people miss some days and figure, “Oh well, I’ll try again next cycle.” Why wait? You can take the next step of learning today’s Daf at any point and you will be closer to your goal of completing Shas than you were before.

There is another understanding of the saying, “The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.” It is (and some of you may have been thinking this) that you don’t have to walk a thousand miles.

You just have to take a step. When we look at something we’re trying to do as a

single act, it can be overwhelming. Start small and you’ll go the distance.

Tightrope walkers don’t look ahead to the other side, and they certainly don’t look down. They are focused on where their feet should be at this moment and the next, and that’s it.

So, whether you’re making a resolution or trying to revive an old one, remember that the most important step you can take in any situation is the very next one.

Jonathan Gewirtz is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in publications around the world. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion.

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New Taxes on Ghost Apartments

Goal Ghost apartments have understandably generated resentment from local residents who claim that these empty units reduce the country’s already limited housing supply. The goal of this new tax is to encourage owners of vacant units to either rent out or sell their apartments. As expected, the politicians who sponsored the bill lauded its passage, claiming that it will be a helpful mea-

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sure to resolve the housing crisis. Anticipating that some absentee homeowners will rent out their unoccupied homes, the rental supply will increase and rental rates will fall, allowing young families to move into neighborhoods that would otherwise be too cost prohibitive.

Reactions Immediately after these new measures were approved, a number of real estate professionals asserted that these new laws will have an insignificant impact on the real estate market. Ohad Danus, chairman of the Israel Real Estate Appraisers Association, opined in Globes, Israel’s daily business

paper, “Besides the fact that it will be very difficult to enforce the regulations, they will not be the least bit effective in lowering home prices. It is obvious that these ‘ghost apartments’ are not stan-

of rezoning and selling land will the tremendous pent-up demand be mitigated.

Until then, punitive measures such as double taxing unoccupied apartments will be mere window dressing, allow-

Anticipating that some absentee homeowners will rent out their unoccupied homes, the rental supply will increase and rental rates will fall.

dard apartments, but are generally luxury apartments, in very upscale neighborhoods. The apartment owners are wealthy people, who can also live with having the lights on nonstop in their apartments, in order to pass the electricity quota set by the Finance Committee.

This is another populist measure that will make no difference whatsoever to young couples or the middle class.”

Expectations Thankfully the Israeli population is growing; unfortunately there are not enough apartments being developed to address the housing need. The underlying reason for this shortage can be traced to Minhal’s (Israel Land Authority) historically slow pace of selling government land for development. Only when the government implements faster methods

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ing politicians to proclaim that they are addressing the housing crisis.

I do not believe that this law will generate any meaningful change to the status quo because the vast majority of buyers of these relatively expensive

homes would rather part with an extra few thousand dollars a year than to sell or rent out their apartments. In addition, most apartment owners who visit Israel sporadically will not rent out their homes when they are overseas, as very few tenants would lease an apartment on condition that they move out every time the landlord visits. However, I do expect that numerous overseas owners will consider renting out their apartments on a short-term basis between visits in order to be in compliance with this new law.

Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at gborvick@gmail.com.

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Compiled by Nate Davis

“Say What?”

Yesterday President Obama laid out plans for creating what he called “promise zones” all across the county — spots that will receive extra financial and economic attention from the government. Don’t confuse those areas with the rest of the country. Those are “broken promise” zones.

- Jay Leno

It’s been a lousy week for Governor Christie. I mean, first the bridge scandal and now the nationwide Velveeta shortage.

- David Letterman

Today President Obama invited unemployed Americans to the White House for a discussion about income inequality.

Because if there’s one way to show sympathy for the unemployed, it’s to invite them to a giant white mansion that you get to live in for free.

- Jimmy Kimmel

I was done with my workout yesterday morning and got a call from my communications director at about 8:50, 8:55 informing me of this story that had just broken on the Bergen Record website. That was the first time I knew about this.

- Governor Christie, during his “bridge-gate” press conference I haven’t had a lot of sleep for the past two nights and I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching. I’m sick over this. I have worked for the last 12 years in public life developing a reputation for honesty and directness and blunt talk, one that I think is well deserved.

- Ibid., seeming to contradict the above statement

Christie’s doing really well, not hedging or weaseling. Only 2 possibilities: he’s innocent, or he’s a Clinton-level liar.

- Tweet by pundit Byron York, during Governor Christie’s “bridge-gate” press conference

In advance of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the Russian government announced that, contrary to popular belief, people in Russia will be allowed to protest. But only in a special protest zone — known as “Siberia.”

- Jay Leno

Our relationship with the world is based on Iranian nation’s interests. In Geneva agreement world powers surrendered to Iranian nation’s will.

- Tweet by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani after an agreement to ease economic sanctions on Iran was agreed to

by President Obama

Somebody at Governor Christie’s office was involved in a traffic lane closure at the George Washington Bridge. It clogged up a major artery, causing a huge traffic jam. But Christie is denying any personal involvement. He said he was too busy clogging his own arteries at the time.

- Jay Leno

McDonald’s restaurants in Japan have started selling cheese fries that you can’t get here in the United States. That makes me wonder: Who really won World War II? - Conan O’Brien

As I guy who grew up in New Jersey, I’m disappointed.

I’m ashamed of the state I grew up in. Political payback through traffic congestion?

To see New Jersey sink to such a ... third-rate quality of corruption. This is New Jersey, a state renowned for its … first-rate quality of corruption. Planning this over email with noncoded lingo, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

“Hey, why don’t we create a traffic jam in Fort Lee as retribution?”… Here’s how it should’ve gone: “Yeah, did you take care of that thing?” “Yeah, that thing? I took care of that thing. Our good friend Lee, yeah he’s constipated alright. ... Our good friend Lee, he’s going to be backed up.”

– John Stewart

[Chris Christie] stood there for 111 minutes in an open dialogue with the press. Now, only if Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would give us 111 seconds of that, would we find out some of what we want to find out about ObamaCare, Benghazi, the IRS. - Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee. - Email by Governor Christie’s then-deputy Chief of Staff to David Wildstein (who was appointed to the MTA Board

by Governor Christie) after the mayor of Fort Lee did not endorse Christie in his reelection bid Got it.

- David Wildstein’s response, after which several lanes of the George Washington Bridge were shut down for several days, causing massive traffic jams in Fort Lee, New Jersey

Tickets will be available to fans with a billing address in WA, OR, MT, ID, AK, HI and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta.

- Statement on ticket sales website of the Seattle Seahawks, who are playing the San Francisco 49ers at home in the NFC Championship game, and who are concerned that 49er fans from California will try and come to the game

Rodman had a media meltdown. During a satellite interview from North Korea, Rodman started screaming at a CNN reporter. There was an awkward moment when Kim Jong Un said, “My G-d, this guy is a lunatic.”

- Conan O’Brien

According to a new international survey, among Catholics, Pope Francis has an approval rating of 88 percent. That is unless he comes out with FrancisCare.

Then the whole thing could plummet.

- Jay Leno

In my ancestral homeland it is more typical to eat with a fork and knife. And I have been in Italy a lot and I’ve picked up the habit for certain types of pizza. So when you have pizza like this–I had a lot on it–I often start with a knife and fork. But then I cross over to the American approach and pick it up when I go farther into the pizza.

– New York City Mayor de Blasio explaining his actions, after he was seen eating pizza with a fork and knife

You’re supposed to be champion of the middle class! Two weeks into your term, and we catch you eating pizza a la Trump? And you call yourself a radical socialist bent on destroying New York City?! Were you elected the mayor of Italy? Look out the window. You see the Sistine Chapel or Leaning Tower of Pisa? No, you don’t. You see several junkyards and a tanning salon. You know why? Because you’re in …

Staten Island!

– John Stewart New Yorkers are really upset about this because everyone knows the correct way to eat pizza is hunched over a trash can on the street after a night of drinking. That’s right, Bill de Blasio’s first scandal in office is eating pizza with a knife and fork. When he heard that, Chris Christie was like, “Wanna trade scandals?”

– Jimmy Fallon

Secretary of State John Kerry—who arrived here determined, and who operates from an incomprehensible obsession and a sense of messianism— can’t teach me anything about the conflict with the Palestinians. The only thing that might save us is if John Kerry wins the Nobel Prize and leaves us be. The American plan for security arrangements that was shown to us isn’t worth the paper it was written on.

- Statement made by Israeli defense minister Moshe Yaalon, as reported by Yediot Aharonot

FUN FACT: Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991.

- One of the “fun facts” that flashed on a television network as they aired a Hollywood award show

I am very good at working with Jews.

- Chinese tycoon Chen Guangbiao in an interview with a New York-based Chinese television station explaining why he is qualified to own The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal Dennis Rodman took six former NBA players to North Korea to play against a local team in celebration of Kim Jong Un’s 31st birthday. I guess after years of playing alongside Michael Jordan, Rodman is very comfortable with totalitarian dictators.

- Jimmy Kimmel

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Governor Chris Christie is in trouble because his staff shut down part of the George Washington Bridge to get back at a political rival.

Yesterday, Christie gave a 107-minute press conference to address the scandal. The last time Christie talked for 107 minutes, he was ordering at IHOP. - Jimmy Fallon

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Forgotten Heroes Avi Heiligman

Spying on World Countries – Nothing New Wild Bill Donovan and the Creation of the OSS

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ost world powers during World provide sufficient information. “Black” or undercover operaWar II had tions wouldn’t be needmajor spy and ed. Fortunately, Presintelligence organizaident Roosevelt did tions set up for years not see it that way and before the conflict quietly told a successstarted. The one glarful Wall Street lawyer ing exception to this named William “Wild was the United States.

Bill” Donovan to creMany politicians beate an organization lieved “that gentlecalled the Coordinator men do not read other of Information (COI). gentlemen’s mail” and That soon gave way to spying was for amathe Office of Strategic teurs. (Interesting how Services (OSS) and is things change.) The considered the grandFBI in their eyes was father of the CIA. adequate to catch spies Even though he on home soil and in Wild Bill Donovan, the creator of the OSS wasn’t Jewish, Donocase the U.S. would van unwittingly paved actually fight overseas, the military’s intelligence section would the way for the end of the war and the

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end of churban Europa. Before he be- Not surprisingly, Roosevelt appointed came America’s first true spymaster Donovan to head the agency, and a year (Allen Pinkerton’s unit during the Civil later, the office was renamed the OSS. War was a private enterprise), he was a Donovan was promoted to general, and Columbia-trained Wall Street lawyer, he carefully selected the men and womand in 1912 created a cavalry troop in en who would fight his style of unconthe New York militia. This unit was involved in the American government’s attempt to capture Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa. During World War I, Wild Bill served with the 42nd Division in France and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his daring leadership. After being promoted to colonel, he retired and spent the years in between the two world wars as a lawyer and OSS pistol glove U.S. attorney. Donovan ran for lieutenant governor in 1922 and gover- ventional and clandestine warfare. nor in 1932 but lost both times.

Throughout the war, the OSS and Donovan traveled extensively be- the FBI were at odds over territorial tween the wars and met with many disputes but since Donovan was a faprominent people including the Fascist vorite of Roosevelt, the OSS was able dictator of Italy, Benito Mussolini. As a to have an influence in almost every result of his high connections in Amer- battlefield. Even areas where American society, President Roosevelt heard ican troops weren’t deployed, the about Wild Bill and OSS was present. The even though they were FBI refused to let the from opposing political OSS operate in South parties (Donovan was America and Genera die-hard Republican al Douglas Macarthur from a devout Cathwas adamant against olic Irish family), the having OSS agents in president sent him on the Philippines. Except increasingly important in those areas, the OSS diplomatic missions in had agents, spies, radio Europe. In November operators and saboteurs 1940, he was sent to in practically every England to determine country of note. their ability to withThe OSS office Moe Berg, catcher and master spy stand a Nazi onslaught in Bern, Switzerland, and to report directly was active throughout back to the Roosevelt. After meeting most of the war and recruited the most with Prime Minister Winston Churchill important spy for the Allies during and the head of British Intelligence the conflict. Fritz Kolbe, aka George Stewart Menzies, Donovan told the Wood, was a German diplomat trusted president that the British were prepared with secret documents that were photobut the United States wasn’t in regard graphed and handed to the OSS. He was to a full-scale intelligence and spying an ardent anti-Nazi and the information service. that he passed on included information A common mistake about American on the German defenses for the Allied intelligence services was that there was landings in France, experimental airno agency to spy and gather information craft and missile details, and plans for on a global scale especially in Europe Japanese conquest in the Pacific. Kolbe and the Far East. In truth, the COI was also exposed a spy in the British embascreated in July 1941, and the U.S. en- sy in Turkey whose codename was Citered the war in December of that year. cero. (As a side point, Cicero was a but-

ploding coal, silent and tiny pistols, and SCUBA equipment. Counterfeit experts reproduced enemy currency and documents. One of these experts was “on loan” from a federal prison and was able to reproduce a person’s handwriting so well that the person himself thought he wrote the document.

After the war, the OSS was disbanded with a few of the departments dispersed to other agencies. In 1947, the CIA was founded, thus fulfilling Donavan’s dream of a peacetime intelligence service. Donovan served as an assistant to the American prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials but left the team when his method of interviewing Holocaust survivors at the trial wasn’t accepted.

He held several other positions including being appointed as ambassador to Thailand and served in that post for one year. William Donovan died in 1959 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The legacy that he and the OSS left behind is one for which the entire world can be grateful as they helped in a big way to end the world’s bloodiest conflict and depose of evil dictators.

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

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were close to having the bomb. Thankfully for everyone involved, Moe overheard Heisenberg saying to a colleague that the Germans were going to lose the war. This convinced Moe and the OSS that the Germans weren’t even close and Donovan relayed the information to the ailing Roosevelt. The president then sent his regards to the catcher.

Besides spies, the OSS sent men and women behind enemy lines to train indigenous troops and conduct sabotage operations. Unit 101 operated in Burma (today the country is called Myanmar and is located south of China and east of India) and trained Kachin villagers to attack Japanese outposts and supply lines.

Jedburgh personnel were sent in three person teams into France, Holland and Belgium to prepare the Allied-friendly locals for the D-Day landings. They also disrupted Nazi lines of communications, railroads and destroyed anything of military value.

The OSS ran many offices and operations that are too numerous to be written about in just one article. There were agents sent behind the lines to plant phony information to spread anti-Nazi propaganda. A maritime unit was set up to map out underwater coastlines for upcoming invasions. Research and development (R & D) teams created many new gadgets such as the knife pen, ex-

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ler and Kolbe was low ranking diplomat a Jewish genius who had an unusual which proves the point that anyone with background. As a catcher with the Bosenough mettle can be a successful spy.) ton Red Sox, Moe Berg went on a barnFrederick Mayer, a German-born storming tour of Japan in 1934 with All Jewish refugee, was sent back to Nazi Stars Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and other territory as a spy. He was doing well legends. Before one game, Moe disapposing as a German officer in Innsbruck peared and went to the rooftop of a Tobefore he was caught and tortured by kyo hospital in typical Japanese dress the Gestapo. They never believed that and filmed the downtown area. Eight a Jew would years later, this actually return footage was to Germany used to plan the and believed famous Doohis cover story. little raid from The German the aircraft commander of carrier Wasp. the city of InnsSubsequently, bruck was conMoe retired vinced that the from baseball war was lost and was hired for his country

by Donovan to and wanted to spy on the Gersurrender. Afmans. He knew OSS agents planning a mission ter fooling the sixteen lanGestapo that he was a high-ranking offi- guages fluently and took a crash course cer (in reality he was a sergeant), Mayer in nuclear physics. He was sent on arguconvinced the commander to surrender ably OSS’s most important mission—to his troops to him. As the Americans ap- find out if the Germans were close to proached the city, Mayer went out to building a nuclear bomb. Moe finagled greet them and said that the Germans his way into a lecture given by the leadhad surrendered. Thus a strategic and ing German scientist Werner Heisenpotentially bloody battlefield was won berg. He snuck past security with a piswithout a shot being fired. tol hidden in his jacket with the orders to The best American-born spy was shoot Heisenberg if he felt the Germans

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Fighting for the Wall

TJH Speaks with Ronit Peskin of Women for the Wall

D woke up early to imbue the holy air with their uplifting words of hallel.

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avening at the Kotel is a humbling and awe-inspiring experience. ligious freedom. Yet, they cause a mockery for those who want to practice Our prayers feel more connected to the One Above when we religion not in accordance with the way they view religion. stand before the Kotel’s stones and beseech Hashem for His merMost important about informing the public is to ensure that our repucy. At those moments, we tend to focus on the inner depths of our own souls tation as Jews remains untarnished. WOW is quick to “trash talk” Jews and feel free from some of the externalities that normally define us. It’s no and compare our religion and our practices to prohibitive societies. They wonder that some of the most iconic images of the Kotel feature chareidim equate women’s rights in Israel to those in Saudi Arabia and other counpraying alongside chilonim and chassidim praying alongside chayalim. tries. Those accusations are based on ignorance and bluster. We, as Jews, For years, the sanctity of the Kotel has been protected by Israeli law. know that. But the rest of the world is swayed by their boisterous bias.

Men pray on the left side of the mechitzah and women pray on the left. Americans should know that Judaism is not that way. In our religion, Proper decorum is ensured and the minhag of women are respected and valued. Praying in years’ past is maintained. same-gender areas is not a sign of denigraBut enter Women of the Wall (WOW), tion; it is far from it. Women are not scorned the radical group that has been advocating for because they do not wear tefillin or talleisim. “women’s rights” since 1989. Creating chaos, They are uplifted in other ways through their inciting violence and making headlines has prayer. been one of the goals of the organization. They A proof that women are respected in our are masters at manipulating the media under religion can be seen in the W4W organizathe catchphrases of “religious freedom” and tion. The group was started last year by two “women’s rights.” Their voices are loud and women—Ronit and her co-founder, Leah strident in America; in Israel, their numbers are Aharoni—who felt passionately about the few. Their members call themselves “nashot”; mockeries that WOW were performing at the the suffix “im” in Hebrew is too masculine for Kotel. With loud, disturbing prayers, using these “womyn.” tefillin and talleisim as props, and playing for But though they are adept at making headthe media, the sanctity of the Kotel was in lines, the information they spew is at many peril. The two sprang into action and garnered times far from accurate, and they attempt to support from every sect of our community; quash other voices with their cacophony of Chareidi, Da’ati Leumi, Sephardic, Litvish, Co-founders of Women for the Wall, Ronit Peskin and Leah Aharoni, at the Kotel last Rosh Chodesh drivel. If what they believe in is so “right,” Chassidish, secular—even anti-religious suphow come they won’t let others be heard? porters—came out in support of W4W. They That’s one of the questions that Ronit Peskin posed to me when we were encouraging and came out in droves to prove to the world that the spoke last week. Ronit is one of the driving forces behind Women for the Kotel was, is and always will be a place of kedusha.

Wall (W4W), a grassroots organization that endeavors to educate the public Generally, WOW conducts their Rosh Chodesh prayers early in the and the Israeli government about the sanctity of the Kotel and expose the day—6:30 or 7 in the morning. The first Rosh Chodesh that W4W called lies that WOW works on perpetrating. There are two sides to every story, for action, thousands of religious women and girls came en masse to the she maintains, and people have a right to know both sides. Through social Kotel to fill the square with sounds of sweet prayer. Ronit recalls that media, interviews, and public appearances, W4W is a stalwart force for the she only expected a handful to show up. But women from every sect of voice of truth. our community and girls from every type of seminary woke up early to In November, Ronit spoke at the Jewish Federations of North America imbue the holy air with their uplifting words of hallel. W4W is waging General Assembly in Israel in a panel discussion. Natan Sharansky, Anat war against WOW at the Kotel with words of peace and sounds of silence.

Hoffman (chairwomen of WOW), and MK Aliza Lavie were also includ- Outside of the Western Wall, their war is fought with words of truth and ed on panel. This was the only time that WOW agreed to have a discussion calls for accuracy. (if you can call it that) with W4W. After the panel, Ronit recalls that many Thankfully, Ronit relates, WOW has been grabbing less and less headaudience members came over to her to say that they came to the panel lines every month. Ronit says that this past Rosh Chodesh they weren’t supporting WOW and were leaving as supporters of W4W after hearing even in the news. She is happy to point out that there have been no reports what Ronit had to say. In fact, Ronit was so persuasive in her arguments of violence from WOW; W4W has worked to ensure that peacefulness is that after her powerful speech, MK Lavie told her she should run for the maintained between the two groups.

Knesset.

I asked Ronit about her dream for W4W and her projection for the Knowledge is power. Knowing about the issues and being informed is future. Her dream, she says, is different from the reality. In a utopian the key to success against WOW. world, in six months from now, WOW will see the error of their ways and Ronit is now on a two-week speaking tour around the United States. everyone will be able to daven at the Kotel without making a scene. There WOW’s main and most vocal supporters live in America. And why are will be respect for all people and no mudslinging against those who opthey so strong here? Because for years they have been manipulating the pose WOW. “But sadly I don’t see that dream happening,” Ronit muses. media, throwing out catchphrases of equality and discrimination. They In reality, she sees WOW garnering less and less media attention. She like to talk about women’s rights. What about the rights of women who says that W4W are passionate about getting WOW out of the spotlight and don’t agree with them, Ronit points out. WOW is quick to denigrate those creating a calmer, more peaceful situation. Hopefully, she says, they will who don’t follow their battle cry. They lament what they call a lack of re- eventually become a non-story.

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By Esther Ottensoser

As a child, I always looked forward to our family Tu B’Shvat party.

I loved the tasty and colorful array of the many fruits my mother artfully displayed. Fast forward to today where there is an even more extensive selection of dried and fresh fruit available to choose from.

Whatever your minhag, there are so many creative and fun things that can be done. Following are two ideas, one fun, and one more sophisticated for you and your family to use on Tu B’Shvat.

Tu B’Shvat Chocolate Discs Ingredients Semi-sweet chocolate Assorted toasted nut and dried fruits—any combination will work here, so choose your favorites (Craisins; chopped, dried apricots; chopped, dried kiwis; almonds; cashews; pistachios, etc.)

Preparation Melt chocolate in the microwave or in a double boiler.

Drop level tablespoonfuls of melted chocolate onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet, 2 inches apart from each other in a circle shape. Arrange dried fruit and nuts on wet chocolate. Refrigerate until set, approximately 15-20 minutes.

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Simple Advice that Will Simplify Your Life – Part II Dear Readers, In an effort to help you deliver optimal care for your loved ones, I would like to share some important information on the safety of humidifiers.

First, a short story that is vividly engraved in my memory. It was ten years ago, when I started practicing medicine in Kiryas Joel. I was asked to write a prescription for a humidifier by a kind parent. I gave her the prescription and was about to leave the room when she remarked, “Doctor, I would like to ask for a warm vaporizer, the cool mist humidifier just doesn’t work”. I told her that as far as I know, cool mist humidifiers are more effective than the warm vaporizers, and I added that warm vaporizers could easily cause burns to the infants, if they mistakenly pull on the cord or if a toddler passes her hand over the hot mist even momentarily. But the mother insisted, and I gave in.

A week later, I entered into an examination room and noticed that the mother had a large, thick white dressing wrapping her entire hand. I looked up and recognized the face; it was the same mother who insisted on the warm vaporizer. I inquired as to what happened to her hand, and my heart almost dropped. She recalled how she was sitting down in her baby’s room and she happened to extend her arm sideways when she felt scalding steam burning her skin. She forgot that the vaporizer was placed in the spot right next her and inflicted a third degree burn over a significant part of her hand.

I think of this story every time a discussion about vaporizer occurs at my office. Thanks to that woman, many parents were persuaded to stop using the dangerous machines, but my heart still aches for this regrettable story that I was unfortunately involved in.

A few months ago, I stopped advocating the use of cool mist humidifiers for several reasons: 1. Most units sold are small and do not significantly change the humidity in small rooms, especially if the doors open and close throughout the night.

2. My kids’ carpets used to get very wet from these machines, and I noticed

that when we renovated my children’s rooms, there was mold growing on several walls.

3. Humidifiers have to be cleaned once a day to ensure that they do not spread any germs or molds, a task that is very burdensome on our already overworked parents in our neighborhood.

When patients asked me what I suggest instead of humidifiers, the usual reply was: open the window in your room a few inches and you will feel the difference. Did you ever wake up with an irritated, dry, scratchy throat and wonder why you felt all the pain without having

cles that point to the inefficiency of the humidifiers in treating common colds, croup and even bronchiolitis, the statement warns of very dangerous findings.

Recently, four young patients in Israel contracted the dangerous disease known as Legionnaires’ disease, causing severe respiratory failure and subsequent septic shock. Legionella, the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires’ disease, grows in moist places, like air conditioning units and humidifiers. It was first described after an outbreak of pneumonia at a Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia in 1976. The hotel was hosting the American Legion

Did you ever wake up with an irritated, dry, scratchy throat and wonder why you felt all the pain without having strep or flu symptoms? strep or flu symptoms? It may turn out that your room is “too warm for comfort.” I advocated lowering the thermostat at home to a cool 69-71 degrees (Fahrenheit). My litmus test to discover if the temperature is set too high in the house is the following question: do you feel comfortable walking around the house without a sweater? If the answer is yes, then your home is too warm. I remind parents that they should put those expensive sweaters they purchased to use while it’s cold.

Recently, news from Israel added more power to my opinion. Israel’s Pediatric Society published a statement authored by leading committee members (three leading pediatric pulmonologists and one intensive care physician) that warns against the use of humidifiers, both cool and warm.

In addition to quoting several arti-

Convention and hence the name Legionnaires. Of the 182 cases, 29 died subsequently.

The Israeli cases: In 2013, a healthy toddler contracted the disease after use of a cool mist humidifier in her room.

In the same year, a Legionnaires outbreak was reported after being exposed to a humidifier in a newborn nursery.

In 2008, an infant was prescribed a cool mist humidifier for the treatment of croup. He was subsequently hospitalized with severe respiratory distress and eventually expired from respiratory failure. Cultures of the humidifiers were performed by the Israeli Department of Health and confirmed that all the cases were caused by Legionella.

While these are rare occurrences, the authors of the article feel that using

a humidifier poses more risk than benefit. This news was convincing enough to motivate me to dispose of the old nebulizer tucked away in my attic.

When my own kids come down with the croup, we dress them up in extra warm pajamas and use heavier blankets (for older toddlers that could handle heavy blankets, not infants!). Then, we proceed to open their windows. Each room has its own humidity requirements and sometimes I find that a window needs to be almost completely open for the child to stop barking.

Alternatives to opening windows wide open are: Use of steam showers.

A quick walk outside.

When all fails, a dose of oral prednisone can be prescribed by your doctor.

If you notice signs of respiratory distress, your child may need to be seen urgently at the emergency department.

Kids in respiratory distress show chest retractions, nasal flaring and have very persistent coughs. I will try to upload videos of children in respiratory distress to my website soon. Visit www.doctorsimai.com to check on those. Every parent should be able to tell when their children are struggling to breathe and when they are at their baseline, normal pattern. A good way to monitor breathing is to simply observe the chest area when you change your infant’s clothing. You may notice that your infant breathes a little faster than you at rest, which is totally normal.

Just as a reference, adults normally take 12- 20 breaths per minute, toddlers take 20-30 breaths per minute and newborns take 30-60 breaths per minute. Having said that, with G-d’s help, I have not admitted any patients with the croup in more than 6 years and most of my patients do not end up using oral prednisone for the croup.

I hope this advice brings you and yours quiet and restful nights. Remember my following rhyme: If you so care for your tender kids’ nares, please dare to give them some fresh air.

Sincerely, David E. Simai M.D.

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ot all cravings strike in social situations. Most people fall prey to cravings right in their own homes when they are feeling stressed, sad or just plain bored. In the comfort and privacy of your home it is deceptively easy to say “just this once.” On these occasions, the best thing you can do is take a 15-minute cool-down period. Cravings are like waves; they come in quickly and dissipate just as fast. Isn’t slim worth the 15 minutes it will take for the wave to pass? Remember how long you’ve dreamed about being slim? What’s the big deal about riding out a few minutes?

Overcoming the impulsive craving means having alternatives ready and waiting at your fingertips. Alternatives are activities that can divert your mind during the crucial 15 minutes of your cool-down. The time to plan for these cravings is now. Get an index card or piece of paper and title it, “Things to do instead of eating.” List several nonfood activities that you can do when a

craving strikes. Go for things that will feel better about life. Call them! You make you feel better and stronger about don’t even have to tell them why you yourself. Some of called. Just a few the basics might be: minutes of pleasant 1. The conversation can be Garas effective and as bage Pail. If a parFood isn’t the quickly satisfying ticular food is callonly rewarding as finishing off a ing to you, the first box of chocolates. and best defense is thing in the 3. S t r e s s to get rid of it.

2. The Phone Busters. Frustrauniverse, Friend. You can’t tion and anger are although that focus on a food powerful triggers of craving when you’re self-destructive and may be hard on the phone with a uncontrolled eating. to remember friend. Whenever If you are a person you turn to food for who eats to relieve when you’re in emotional support, stress and frustrayou miss out on a tion, it’s time to find the middle of a chance for human some alternative craving attack. contact. Find the stress busters. Inperson or persons in dulge yourself a bit. your life who can be Designate a pillow a support in times of stress, someone as your punching bag. Name it after who understands you, perhaps some- your boss, if that will help. Perhaps one who can always make you laugh or having something in your hands will

help, like needlepoint or knitting.

4. Non-food Rewards. Food isn’t the only rewarding thing in the universe, although that may be hard to remember when you’re in the middle of a craving attack. So take the time to list some of the other things in your life that give you pleasure and that can be done in 15 minutes. Play a particular song or piece of music that always lifts your spirits. Start that great book waiting for you on the shelf. Pamper yourself with a long, hot bath. Take your dog for a walk in the park.

5. Tend to Unfinished Business.

Everyone has some sort of “to do” list—odds and ends in your life that you’re always meaning to get around to but somehow never quite do. The 15-minute cool-down is a great time to finally get around to some of the projects that have been falling by the wayside, and you can also enjoy a sense of accomplishment as you cross off each completed task. What about that crossword puzzle you started last week? Or the letter you wanted to write to an old roommate? Or the closets that need cleaning out? Or all those back issues of your favorite magazine that you never had time to read?

Remember, no matter what the food that might be tempting you—nothing tastes as good as being slim feels!

Lori Boxer is the Director of Weight No MoreSM Diet Center. In addition to serving the Brooklyn, Long Island and New Jersey communities for 25years, they also provide Skinny SkypeSM service to clients nationwide and to Israel, and offer customized Workforce Weight LossSM Programs for businesses. For more information, please call Rosalie Shatzman, Rana Frankel and Linda Franklin in their Cedarhurst office: 516.569.6400.

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The Secret of Happiness lull in business but as people returned to their homes and found new ones, they wanted her advice on the salt in the ground and what plants would survive and thrive.

She took out time for her beloved shiurim and spent the week pondering the implications of what she learned in

moral stature in her eyes.

What inflamed her most was not Eddie’s rationalizing, but his absolute pronouncement that what he did was right; it’s wasn’t merely not wrong; it wasn’t a gray area. To him, it was right.

And he said it with a tone in his voice of utter contempt for any other views. Yet,

For some reason she couldn’t put her finger on, she focused on the good in her life and she was happy. her own life. When she wasn’t working and wasn’t learning, she often visited her precious grandchildren and enjoyed teasing them with silly things. Then they would all laugh; she felt so connected to them.

Her life could be considered perfect were it not for the occasional explosions between her and Eddie. Eddie did something unconscionable and no matter how many times she went over it with him, he did not see it at all. Any time that Eddie wanted validation from Susan, she saw red. She was angered by the gall that he had in thinking he was right.

Susan was a nice person; she always tried to be dan l’chaf zchus. Everyone knew that. Even Susan knew that. But she had a hard time dealing with twisted logic in support of evil. Yes, in her eyes Eddie was evil. Eddie had cooked his books. He swindled a lot of money and no one knew. Could she turn him in? Should she?

And there was Eddie acting like the nicest man on Earth. Everyone thought he was a lovely gentleman. Little did they know. One thing Susan did do is take her name off of everything. Thank G-d she made enough money herself to pay the bills. She struggled but wanted no part of the tainted cash. She also wanted no part of Eddie; he had lost all

Susan was not ready for a divorce. She hoped, daily, that Eddie would realize his error. She hoped he would fix the situation and do teshuvah. That, oddly enough, is what she was waiting for.

You would think, with this on her mind, she would go about her days a nervous wreck, but that was not the case. For some reason she couldn’t put her finger on, she focused on the good in her life and she was happy.

Susan was happy with her snug apartment, her work, her friends, her learning, her Shabbosim, her children and grandchildren; she considered herself rich and marveled at Hashem’s goodness.

But how did she get there? How could she be okay with the horror lurking in the back alleys of her life? Did she compartmentalize – and if so, was that right?

Susan’s story reminds me about one of the most powerful books I have ever read, Fear No Evil, by Natan Sharansky. Today, Sharansky is a Member of Knesset but before he was allowed out of Russia, he suffered ten years in prison camps just for requesting to emigrate. Under those conditions, you would think that he was depressed, anxious, and hopeless, but he was none of those.

In jail, Sharansky put all of his fo-

cus into sparring with the KGB over his case, a capital crime. At one point, he was put in isolation for communicating with other prisoners. He writes, “Once again, I kept busy by singing and by thinking about the past. I also solved chess problems in my head.”

While still in isolation, the Lieutenant Colonel visited him, telling him to behave better “or we’ll keep you here in the punishment cell.” “‘What’s wrong with the punishment cell?’ I said. ‘Someday I’ll go to Israel, and the people will ask me about the punishment cell in Chistopol. I must be able to answer them.’ “‘That’s exactly why we must keep you in prison,’ he replied. ‘You’re always thinking of bad things to say about us to the West.’ “‘What bad things?’ I said. ‘Are you saying that conditions in Soviet prisons are bad? That sounds like slander!’”

How does a person do that? He was hungry, having been fed bread and water every other day. He was threatened with the death penalty and had lost all his possessions. How does he manage to mock his captors? Where does a sense of humor come from under those conditions? How can a prisoner mentally get the upper-hand over the KGB? I don’t have the answers. But whatever the answer, that’s where Susan got her strength too. Life isn’t easy. Yet, paradoxically, we are told, “Ivdu es Hashem b’simcha (serve G-d with joy).

How do you do it?

I can only say that that’s what we are required to do so we have to find a way. I think the answer boils down to choice. We can choose to focus on hope and on the goodness in our lives – or not. Doesn’t it make sense to choose the positive place to spotlight rather than the painful one?

If that is difficult, I agree. But I tell my clients: Just practice it.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, a Marriage & Family Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual--Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect--Together, is proud to announce that readers of The Jewish Home will receive a $50 discount on every visit to her Woodmere office. For more information, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at drdeb.com.

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usan sat in her small apartment and looked quietly around. She was in a corner of the dining room in the late evening dusk. It was comforting to sit quietly alone and contemplate.

Her eyes feasted on the small jar of yellow roses on the table – she lost a real vase in the bad weather called “Sandy” and didn’t replace it – and it looked so pretty.

She eyed the old furniture adorning that room and the living room and was grateful that those things didn’t get ruined in the storm. She lost the couches but she never liked them anyway. The bookcases were beautiful.

The apartment was quite satisfactory; she was appreciative that HaKodosh Baruch Hu provided her a place to live when her house had become uninhabitable. The kitchen had plenty of workspace and shelf space. She’d lost her old freezer but now there was just her and Eddie, so she didn’t need much space.

Susan loved that at night she could sink into a deep, blessed sleep and not be disturbed by crying babies like when she was at her son’s house when they took refuge from the storm. Her children’s home was teeming with delicious – and noisy – grandchildren.

She was grateful that this tidy little apartment had room for all of her stuff.

Well, the “all” had been significantly reduced in the hurricane, but that was okay; she could live with it the way it was.

Her days were full and rich. She still worked; she loved her gardening and in the summer she would consult with people who wanted advice on laying out arrangements of flowers, bushes, trees, and plants in their gardens. In the winter, she had a flower shop which did a nice business because she could bring in unusual items not in season.

Susan was well known for setting up lovely arrangements when people needed flowers on banquet tables for simchas and dinners. There were times when someone would hesitatingly call, not leaving a name, and mention a wedding that they could not afford to cover.

Susan got satisfaction doing the same high-quality job for her tzedakah customers as for the ones who could pay full price.

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I have been presented with the following tragic situation. The family consisted of a mother and two adult daughters. The family home consisted of two apartments, one occupied by the mother, and the other apartment occupied by one of the adult daughters and

her family. The mother died and left the house to both sisters, with a provision in the Will (not drafted by me) stating that the resident daughter could stay in the house for two years during which time she would be responsible for paying all of the charges for the property. The

It can be a mistake for a parent to leave the house to one “responsible” child who is expected to let another child continue to live in the family home. problem is that the daughter who lives in the house cannot afford to pay for the house herself, and she and her sister disagree about selling the house.

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Does the child occupying the house owe rent to the other child/tenant in common?

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liable for all charges for the property including real estate taxes.

Can the sale of the house be forced on the child who opposes the sale?

A court can order that the home be sold based on New York RPAPL § 901(1). This provides in relevant part that a tenant in common “may maintain an action for the partition of the property, and for a sale if it appears that a partition cannot be made without great prejudice to the owners.” Courts will consider the age of the resident of the house and the length of time the person resided there before ordering a sale. For example, in a recent case of a residence owned by a parent and a son, a court expressed reluctance to force the sale of a property in which the octogenarian mother lived, based on the likelihood of great prejudice to her.

What happens if a disabled adult child lives in the family home when a parent dies?

A disabled adult can lose eligibility for government assistance if he is left property. One way to take care of a disabled adult child living in the family home is to include in the parent’s will that the home will be owned by a special needs trust for that adult child. Once again, the issues of how the expenses of the house will be paid and who will be the “trustee” in charge of the trust must

also be considered in this case. It does the disabled child little good to be left a house in trust that will have to be sold right away because it cannot be maintained.

Is leaving the home to a responsible child who will let his sibling continue to live there a good solution?

It can be a mistake for a parent to leave the house to one “responsible” child who is expected to let another child continue to live in the family home. I once represented a woman whose parents left the home to the oldest brother.

The brother moved to evict his sister after she had lived in an apartment there for over thirty years. He wanted to sell the house whose value had appreciated over time. The sister could not keep her apartment and had no right to any proceeds from the sale of the home. She would have left it penniless except for harassment by her brother’s family that included personal injury.

These examples illustrate the need to consult with an experienced attorney about all the implications involved in leaving the family home to the children.

No column is a substitute for competent legal advice. Any additional or different facts could change or affect any legal analysis. Please consult with your legal professional of choice regarding any legal question you may have.

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t’s always a challenge during the winter months making hot foods for Shabbat lunch. I came up with the idea to make a yaptzik, aka overnight potato kugel with meat. It is so easy to make and so delicious. It is always a big hit. I tried to google the origins of the recipe and the name and there wasn’t much to learn about this delicious dish.

Another idea for hot food for Shabbat day was putting a navel pastrami (a fully cooked and smoked pastrami) in the oven overnight. I bought it at Gourmet Glatt and it comes double wrapped in plastic. I take off the outer plastic layer and keep the vacuum-packed plastic on. Right before Shabbat when I am putting in my yaptzik in the oven, I place my pastrami in a Pyrex dish and fill it ¾ way up with hot water, cover it tightly and place it in the oven at 200°. The next day, I carefully take it out as the water is very hot. I drain the water, cut open the plastic and slice the pastrami. (It cuts like butter.) My guests and family go crazy over this meat. (Make sure you buy the navel pastrami as it is fully cooked already.) I serve it with different kinds of mustard. My favorite mustard is Abeles & Heymann’s Sweet and Tangy Mustard.

Yaptzik Ingredients 2 strips of meaty 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, potato 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—don’t eat it just yet.)

Before Shabbat, add one cup of water or if you have chicken soup boiling for Shabbat, use some of the soup. (It boosts the flavor of the dish.)

Place a piece of parchment paper over the kugel, then some heavy duty aluminum foil over that and cover well. Place in a 200° oven right before Shabbat. Take it out the next day right before serving. Delicious!

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BE FRUIT-FULL! CITRUS SALAD Ingredients 2 tablespoons honey 1 tsp grated lemon peel 4 tsp lemon juice ½ tsp poppy seeds 3 clementines or tangerines, peeled and segmented 1 red grapefruit, peeled and segmented 1 kiwi, peeled and sliced Handful toasted almond slivers, if desired Preparation For the dressing: In small bowl, mix honey, lemon peel, lemon juice and poppy seed.

Remove membrane from clementine and grapefruit segments if desired. Cut each section into bite-size pieces. Mix fruits in a serving bowl and then drizzle with dressing.

Add nuts, if desired. Serve chilled or at room temperature.

SPINACH SALAD WITH ORANGES, POMEGRANATE, AND ALMONDS Ingredients Fresh spinach, washed and dried 2 oranges, peeled and sliced 1 pomegranate, peeled and seeded Almonds Dressing: ½ cup POM juice 1 TBS red wine vinegar Juice of one orange 2 TBS agave nectar ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation Add fresh spinach to a large salad bowl. Add the oranges, pomegranate seeds, and almonds.

To make the dressing: in a small bowl, add the POM juice, vinegar, orange juice, and agave nectar. Whisk in the olive oil.

Add salt and pepper to taste.

Toss the salad with the dressing and serve.

CHINESE ORANGE CHICKEN Ingredients 1 ½ lb chicken cutlets, cut into 1-inch chunks 1 cup + 2 TBS cornstarch, divided 2 eggs, beaten 1 cup oil Sesame seeds, for garnish Sliced scallions, for garnish For the Marinade cup chicken broth ½ cup orange juice ½ cup sugar 1/3 cup vinegar ¼ cup soy sauce 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 TBS orange zest tsp hot sauce, or more, to taste ¼ tsp ginger ¼ tsp white pepper

Preparation To make the marinade, whisk together chicken broth, orange juice, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, orange zest, hot sauce, ginger and white pepper in a large bowl. In a gallon-size Ziploc bag or large bowl, combine chicken and 2/3 cup of the marinade; marinate for at least 30 minutes, turning the bag occasionally. Drain the chicken from the marinade, discarding the marinade.

Heat remaining marinade in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil and stir in 2 tablespoons cornstarch combined with 2 tablespoons water. Cook, stirring frequently, until thickened about 1-2 minutes; keep warm.

Dip the chicken into the eggs, then dredge in remaining 1 cup cornstarch, pressing to coat. Heat oil in a large saucepan. Add chicken and fry until golden brown and cooked through, about 1-2 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.

Serve chicken immediately, tossed or drizzled with the marinade, garnished with sesame seeds and scallion, if desired.

PINEAPPLE LAMB CHOPS Ingredients ½ cup orange juice TBS honey ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp white pepper 8-12 lamb chops, trimmed 1 TBS cornstarch 1 TBS water 8 oz. can pineapple tidbits or crushed pineapple, drained 2 TBS chopped fresh mint

Preparation Mix orange juice, honey, salt and pepper in small bowl. Place lamb chops on broiler pan.

Brush with about a quarter of the orange juice mixture. Broil about 5” from heat about 5-6 minutes or until brown. Turn, brush with more of the orange juice mixture and broil 6-9 minutes or until brown and desired doneness.

Meanwhile, in small saucepan, stir together cornstarch and water. Add remaining orange juice mixture and pineapple. Heat to boiling, stirring occasionally. Boil for 2 minutes, then stir in mint and serve warm with the lamb chops.

CRANBERRY PEAR CRUMBLE Ingredients For the filling: 5-1/2 cups ripe pears, peeled and diced cup fresh or frozen cranberries ½ tsp fresh orange zest ¼ cup honey ½ TBS cornstarch ½ tsp cinnamon For the crumble topping: 2/3 cup uncooked quick oats ¼ cup light brown sugar ½ TBS whole wheat flour 2 TBS coconut oil (or oil of your choice) ¼ cup chopped pecans 1 TBS ground flax seeds ¼ tsp salt

Preparation Preheat oven to 325°F. Lightly spray a 9-inch-square baking dish with cooking spray. Combine pears and cranberries in a large bowl, add the orange zest, honey, cornstarch and cinnamon and pour it into the baking dish.

In another bowl, combine the crumble topping ingredients and sprinkle evenly over the fruit. Bake uncovered for about 60 minutes or until browned and bubbly. Serve warm a la mode.

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Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg

The Keys to Becoming an Art Critic on the design elements used such as textures, colors, shapes and patterns.

Critiquing Art Involves Questioning the Following: Lines: Are they choppy, jagged, rhythmic, broken, smooth?

Shapes: How do they appear? Are they fat, curvy, circular?

Color: Were warm colors used? Were cool colors used?

Texture: Does the picture appear

works, seeing it in new ways and then communicating feelings of interest about the works, we develop insight into the artistic intentions. The artwork then becomes informative and sometimes adds additional historical elements to our educational pursuits and studies. Professional art critics might be an artist who writes about artists and their works, a scholarly person who writes for professional journals/ textbooks, or possibly a newspaper

When critiquing works of art, searching for clues is a key ingredient. smooth? Does it appear rough?

While critiquing art can be challenging, there is also an area of truth which must be dealt with. What did the artist actually set out to communicate?

We cannot make it up. The idea is to analyze the work until we truly understand the artwork. This is accomplished by looking at the principles of design. All of the parts together form a whole, complete picture. These ingredients unify the picture and include: a) Repetition of lines, colors and shapes, b) Proximity—the distance between objects in the artwork, c) Space— the depth created in the artwork and the horizon line, d) Balance—asymmetrical and symmetrical, e) Variation of lines, colors and shapes, f) Focal point—the most obvious part of the artwork, g) Light and dark shading.

When looking at a piece of artwork it is important to determine the complexity of the design or the simplicity of the design.

Important Words to Consider During the Critique Process: Visual texture: how the surface appears Variation: the creation of the same object in a repetitive manner with slight differences Symbols: using one thing to represent another Motif: the theme of the artwork By learning how to analyze the

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I hope that by sharing this information I have opened up some avenues of interest or doors for the beginning of an enjoyable educational experience at art museums or by studying individual art-

ists’ works at galleries.

While on your journey, become sensitive to the scenes, activities, characters, composition, the message you might come away with after studying the picture, and most of all do not be afraid to ask questions. (Curators are most always available to help you!)

References Katz, E.L., Lankford, E.L. & Plank, J.D. (1995). Themes and foundations of art, St. Paul MN: West Publishing Company 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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n art critic examines artwork with a concentrated effort with an objective to gain as much understanding to derive a meaningful experience, universally known as a critical encounter, from the work of art.

Artists express themselves in a non-verbal way. As Edgar Degas, a famous artist, said: “The fascinating thing is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light” (Katz, Lankford & Plank, 1995, p. 49). Through art, new meanings take form. Discussions as to the interpretation of works of art are done through a process known as critiquing. By doing a thorough investigation into a particular work of art, we begin to understand the “method to the madness” of a particular artist. “Art criticism is a process of asking questions about a work of art through which we may discover many of the work’s meanings” (Katz, Lankford and Plank, 1995, p. 27).

When critiquing works of art, searching for clues is a key ingredient. Think of the artwork as a mystery waiting to be solved. The steps necessary in solving the mystery and sharpening our skills are specific: 1) Check out the elements of art which are used 2) Analyze the design elements 3) Do an introductory interpretation of the supposed meaning 4) Take judgment of the work of art Become Acquainted With Important Terms: Keep in mind that imitationalism is when an artist’s primary purpose is to imitate real life in their artwork. This artwork resembles the image it is trying to capture, just like a photo does. Artists with a primary purpose to express a lot of emotions in their work create artwork known as emotionalism. This artwork expresses thoughts, imagination and deep feelings. There are plenty of artists who stay away from specifics and create exciting art which is unique, with a primary purpose of creating interest, known as formalism. This artwork concentrates

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By Alex Idov

How Coca-Cola Became Kosher

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wo years before my great-grand- inally, he sold his new creation as a mother was born in the beauti- medicinal drink at a soda fountain at ful southern city of Atlanta, GA, Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta. It soon John Pemberton was busy introducing became the world’s favorite soft drink, his new flavorful, fizzy concoction Coca-Cola (or CoCola, as pronounced by true-blood Southern– and lucky for us, a ers), instead of a medicconcoction that would inal tonic and found its one day become kosher. way into the homes (and The year was 1886, and hearts) of many AmeriPemberton, a Confedercans with the advent of ate veteran of the Civil its bottling in 1891.

War and pharmacist by But it wasn’t until trade, had recently cre1935 that the popular ated a non-alcoholic drink would become drink to replace an alkosher. Rabbi Tobias coholic coca-wine “tonGeffen, then-leader of ic” he had been selling the Orthodox Jewish for medicinal purposes community of Atlanta (non-alcoholic due to (and rabbi of Congrerestrictions imposed by John Pemberton gation Shearith Israel the Prohibition). Orig-

where my father’s family were mem- made according to this special recipe bers), had received (this run can be easiinquiries from rabbinly spotted by its yelic leaders around the low cap bearing an United States as to O-U-P symbol). This whether the drink was special run of Coconsidered acceptca-Cola has proven ably kosher. Although to be extremely pophe lived in the city ular outside of circles where the Coca-Coof people who keep la Co. was (and still Passover, as many is) headquartered, he people like the taste was unaware of the of this formula better answer and inquired than the one produced within the compayear-round (hence the ny for knowledge of new craze of importA Coca Cola bottle cap with Rabbi Geffen’s hashgacha the ingredients. The ing Coca-Cola from company shared the Mexico). drink’s top-secret inThanks to Rabgredients (though, not the exact recipe) bi Geffen’s research and involvement with Rabbi Geffen and he ruled that with the Coca-Cola Company, many due to the small amount of beef -based kosher consumers have been able to glycerin in the drink, it was not con- enjoy Coca-Cola for the past 80 years. sidered kosher to the standards of the I once asked my father, who rememOrthodox community. Wanting to gain bers Rabbi Geffen from his childhood, the kosher market within the Jewish if Rabbi Geffen’s leadership of Orthopopulation, Cola-Cola tried to find a dox Jewry is still remembered in Atsubstitute for the non-kosher glycer- lanta. He answered that unfortunately in and was fortunate to find a coconut those whose lives were affected and oil and cottonseed oiltouched by Rabbi Gefbased glycerin, profen’s religious guidance and leadership are now duced by the Proctor very few and the youngand Gamble Company. er generation does not The Coca-Cola Comseem to know of him. It pany replaced the beefis a comfort to think that based glycerin with the oil-based one and Rabwhile many may not bi Geffen approved the know or remember the beverage kosher certiimpact of this illustrious rabbi on the Atlanta fied. And the best part community, his impact of this whole deal is that on the world of kosher one doesn’t have to give will always be rememup drinking Coke for Rabbi Tobias Geffen bered. As for the rest Pesach (Passover)!

While the recipe of us, the recipe for the for Coca-Cola contained ingredients world’s favorite soft drink still remains which were by-products of grain (and a well-kept secret. therefore not kosher for Passover), Coca-Cola chemists found that by substituting cane and beet sugars for Alex Idov is a kosher food blogger who those derived from grain, and they runs the blog “Kosherology” and is a regcould continue producing Coke which ular contributing food columnist to TJH. would be acceptable to drink on Pass- He is currently studying for his bachelor’s over, without significantly altering the degree in Culinary Sustainability (food & cola’s taste. Every year the Coca-Co- agriculture). Please visit “Kosherology” at la Company continues to produce a www.exploretheworldofkosher.com and find special “Passover run” of Coca-Cola “Kosherology” on Facebook.

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We’ll start with an easy one. Last year’s “fiscal cliff” legislation raised the top marginal tax rate to 39.6%.

What’s the top effective rate?

A. 39.6% B. 43.4% (39.6% plus 3.8% Medicare tax) C. >43.4% (depending on “PEP” and “Pease” phaseouts)

Test Your Tax Knowledge Give up? It’s a trick question — all three answers can be correct, depending on your own circumstances!

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A. Boxer Manny Pacquiao, rapper MC Hammer, and racecar driver Juan Pablo Montoya B. Actor Stephen Baldwin, singer

Lauryn Hill, and “Beanie Babies” creator Ty Warner C. Actor Al Pacino, rapper Fat Joe, and Teresa Giudice Well, which did you pick? The answer is, another trick question — every single one ran into tax problems last year!

Okay, final question. We know that tax laws can be impenetrably dense and hard to understand. So maybe “context” will give you a hint. Which of these passages is taken from the 2013 fiscal cliff act, and which is taken from California’s workers’ comp regulations?

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A. “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any refund (or advance payment with respect to a refundable credit) made to any individual under this title shall not be taken into account as income, and shall not be taken into account as resources for a period of 12 months from receipt, for purposes of determining the eligibility of such individual (or any other individual) for benefits or assistance (or the amount or extent of benefits or assistance) under any Federal program or under any State or local program financed in whole or in part with Federal funds.”

B. “In the case of covered OPD services furnished on or after April 1, 2013, in a hospital described in clause (ii), if— (I) the payment rate that would otherwise apply under this subsection for stereotactic radiosurgery, complete course of treatment of cranial lesion(s) consisting of 1 session that is multisource Cobalt 60 based (identified as of January 1, 2013, by HCPCS code 77371 (and any succeeding code) and reimbursed as of such date under APC 0127 (and any succeeding classification group)); exceeds (II) the payment rate that would otherwise apply under this subsection for linear accelerator based stereotactic radiosurgery, complete course of therapy in one session (identified as of January 1, 2013, by HCPCS code G0173 (and any succeeding code) and reimbursed as of such date under APC 0067 (and any succeeding classification group)), the payment rate for the service described in subclause (I) shall be reduced to an amount equal to the payment rate for the service described in subclause (II).”

Drumroll, please . . . the answer is, it’s another trick question — both examples of sterling prose appeared in the fiscal cliff law! (Quit complaining about the trick questions — it’s a tax quiz, after all!)

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ew acquaintances always ask me, probably within the first ten minutes of us meeting, “So, tell me all about your kids.”

I’m wondering: do our kid’s acquaintances ever say to them, “So tell me about your parents?”

I’m sure they ask about their hobbies (which parents drive them to), their

house (which their parents bought, decorated, and put them into), their clothing (which their parents paid for) but ask about parents?! I don’t think so!

It just wouldn’t be cool. Unless, of

course, the kid had an amazing something, then they might say, “Wow, what does your dad do for a living?!”

To most kids, parents are a reality they have and need to deal with. They don’t speak about them that much so obviously the other kids’ parents are the other kids’ problem. Why bring them into the equation?

Yet, parents don’t mind not being the center of their kids’ world, even though their kids are the center of theirs. It’s called “wiring.” Parents are hardwired to be consumed with their children.

And anyone who ever renovated knows how important the wiring is! (Well, maybe not anymore, since everything works wirelessly these days!)

Kids aren’t thinking about their parents all the time, though, they do know everything about how they can do things better than their them.

Interestingly, when do kids really start getting what it is to be a parent?

All parents know that answer: when the kid’s a parent!

It’s the cycle of life! Suddenly, all the things they knew better than mom and dad, like how to handle that youngest kid in the family, are not as simple anymore! Once they become parents, flashbulbs go off in their heads all the time, “Wow, it’s not as easy as I thought!”

Maybe that’s why parents don’t mind their new acquaintances asking about their kids. It all seemed simple when they were kids. Now in the job, they realize they deserve a lot of credit—even if their kids are just up and running.

So enjoy raving about your children, you’ve earned the right. There is no easy formula. The only time it’s a no brainer to parents, is before you are one!

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Two Separate Paths – One Legendary Destination Her Story “A bag of matzah. I remember it vividly — it sat behind the television in the living room at our house. I was just a young girl at the time,” says Masha.

It’s incredible to think that her powerful memory as a five-year-old girl would be relevant and meaningful decades later.

Masha was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 1970, where being Jewish in an anti-Semitic country was no easy task. It was difficult for Jewish people to attend universities, there were roadblocks to getting respectable jobs, and passports clearly stated “Jew” on them. Being Jewish meant a life of teasing and bullying and it impacted Masha as a child.

Growing up in a Jewish family during hard times strengthened her feelings about who she was — a fascinating feat, considering her family was unable to practice Judaism at all, Masha understood that she was different and was still proud of who she was. She was raised to believe that despite being Jewish, she wasn’t any less of a person, nor should she feel as if she was beneath anyone else — despite the outside world telling her the opposite.

It was hard for Masha to make friends at school. When the children had to line up in pairs, she was always left without a partner — and felt singled out as a result.

She was called names and profanities and the principal even suspended her from school for having pierced ears. Other girls who were not Jewish had pierced ears and weren’t reprimanded.

Masha’s mother was literary maven who owned thousands of books, many first editions. It was difficult to leave Russia, and she had to sell every single book to get enough money to obtain the documents to leave, including international passports. It was painful and emotional, but she wanted to give Masha a better life.

They left in 1979, when 60,000 Jews emigrated. Masha’s mother had $136 in her pocket, her nine-year-old, and a few suitcases of clothing. They first went to Austria and then the United States, thanks to the Human Immigrant Aid Society and other Jewish organizations.

When they arrived to the United States, Masha went to a yeshiva for Russian immigrants. This was enlightening; she loved learning about Judaism, especially the history. In class, she’d come alive, sitting front and center with her hand raised high — she was fascinated by the beautiful stories. Going to school

with other Jewish children gave Masha a sense of belonging. On weekends she went to people’s homes for Shabbat and learned the customs of her people.

To this day, Masha’s mother is her hero — she doesn’t know where she would be without her. She gave up everything to give Masha a good life and the opportunity to succeed.

Masha received a great education and fell in love with traveling, so she decided to make it a career. She is now a successful business owner of a luxury travel company. In business for over two decades, all her clients come from word of mouth — which makes the experience personal and tailored. She plans impressive large-scale events like hotel and island takeovers and books private jets for high-profile clients. She attributes her success to her mother’s perseverance and strength.

His Story Back in Minsk, David came from a family of Jewish community leaders.

His great-grandfather was a tzaddik who helped others, and stepped up and started a matzah factory in 1920, because the Jewish people needed matzah for Passover. This was a successful venture, and ultimately David’s grandfather took over the business. This factory produced matzah for all the Jews in Minsk — and that includes the matzah Masha recalls in her childhood memory.

Although this was in Communist Russia, the government gave David’s family permission for the factory to exist.

Unfortunately, the anti-Semitism was still an obstacle. People tried to burn down the factory, but the attempts failed.

David’s great-uncle, Yefim Davidovich, faced opposition, too. A Zionist, he wanted to go to Israel, but was forbidden. It was not until he died that the Russian government allowed his body to be buried there.

David developed his love of cooking from his grandfather — who made cholent, kugel, gefilte fish, and ptcha, and still cooks it all today. He is David’s biggest inspiration and by watching him, David learned to use only pure ingredients and traditional cooking.

Like Masha, David encountered anti-Semitism in Minsk. At school, Jewish children experienced teasing and name calling and sometimes got into fights defending friends and family who were teased for being Jewish.

It wasn’t easy, but David’s family took the necessary steps to leave Russia.

They went to Vienna, then Italy, then Atlanta, and ultimately landed in Brooklyn.

Finally able to live as Jews, David also attended yeshiva, coincidentally the same school that Masha went to, although their paths did not cross there. He had a bris once he was in the United States and his family was able to practice Judaism freely and openly.

David pursued a career in cooking, building on everything he learned from his grandfather. While in Italy, his taste buds were introduced to clean, new flavors. He received professional Japanese culinary training, a cooking style that he believes you can never stop learning from — it takes a lifetime to master the art of Japanese cuisine.

David owns LOX New York City in the Jewish Museum in Manhattan where he serves familiar old world and traditional favorites but puts his own modern twists on his dishes. He is a food purist who believes in the “Zero Mile” philosophy — using locally grown produce, herbs, and spices. David also runs a catering business for high-end affairs, corporate clients, and events of all sizes.

Their Story One November day, Masha and David were both at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. They met and discovered they shared many common threads — they were born in the same city, attended the same school, belonged to the same community, and were living parallel lives. They could also relate to each other as they were both successful business owners. Their connection grew, and over time turned into a serious, loving relationship.

More recently, they decided that with Masha’s expertise with luxury travel coupled with David’s gourmet culinary background, they could combine their passions and strengths and create one powerful force — and that’s how Legendary Destinations was born.

Legendary Destinations is a Passover holiday getaway company offering an extraordinary experience in luxury settings with gourmet food, activities for all ages, and more. An all-suites program, 24-hour dining, and world-class entertainment make this escape one-of-a-kind and great for families of any size.

Masha and David worked tirelessly to select the perfect team. The company’s

“Dream Team” includes Alan Schonfeld, “The Restaurant Guy” Elan Kornblum, Nachum Segal and Miriam L. Wallach, “Jew in the City” Allison Josephs, Rabbi Dr. Noam Weinberg, Steve Bill, Steve Pagan, and many more great people.

A venture focused around Passover, which is such a rich part of David’s family history, was a natural tie for him. He is a shrewd businessman and is on top of his culinary game. Masha, with her love of travel, passion for food and cooking, and business savviness, is also an essential asset to the company. And what could be more relevant than this dynamic duo helping people enjoy their Passover experience while celebrating the freedom they so deeply cherish?

“We want to make people happy. We get pleasure out of positive feedback and raving reviews,” says Masha. “We’re elevating the experience before, during, and after the trip, so the needs of all guests are met and exceeded. We don’t have ‘no’ in our vocabulary, and guests will get exactly what they want in every aspect.”

The trip will include a unique culinary journey, and an excellent children’s program led by experienced director Debra Gold, and her team of dedicated counselors. Masha and David have three grown boys, so they know what it takes to care for and entertain children. Passover is a holiday for the whole family to enjoy — especially the little ones. Masha adds, “Our goal is to ensure the kids are happy and busy and that they always have something to do.”

From the stories of their grandparents who survived the Holocaust, watching their parents struggle, and living in fear and potential danger themselves as young children, Masha and David see how far they have come. They are very excited about Legendary Destinations.

Through it all, they don’t take their freedom for granted. Being Jewish in a free country with the opportunity to pursue your dreams is something they appreciate. They are glad they’re able to give good lives to their children, full of the promise and opportunity that they didn’t always have for themselves.

And when we think about freedom we think of the story of Passover, and with that comes the many traditions and special moments with family.

For Masha, that memory about the matzah behind the television is a fitting symbol of not only where she came from, but also where she is today.

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Features: Power Windows & Locks/AMFM-CD-MP3

2014 Chrysler Town & Country Touring

$

rad g e

199*

per month

• 36 Month Lease • 7,500 Miles Per Year • Up to $5k Damage Waiver Available

Features: Back-Up Camera/Leather/ Rear Entertainment/Power Liftgate

$

165* $ 179*

per month

• 36 Month Lease • 12,000 Miles Per Year • $5k Damage Waiver Available

Features: Bluetooth/Remote Keyless Entry/ Power Seats/AM-FM-CD-MP3

2014 Honda Odyssey

$

275*

per month

• 36 Month Lease • 12,000 Miles Per Year • Damage Waiver Included Features: Back-Up Camera/Power Seats/Bluetooth

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