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Letters to Dear Editor, I was very surprised by your poll this week. You asked readers about how many times they changed a tire. I was surprised to read that only 18% of your readers changed their own tires. I am guessing that the reason why this number is so low is that either many of the people polled never drive or they are very loyal member of AAA. Nowadays, too many people on relying on organizations like Chaveirim to do work that they themselves should be doing. I have five children—three sons and two daughters. Before allowing any of them to go for their road tests, I showed them how to change a tire and we worked together to change a tire on one of our older family cars. It has been said that it is a father’s obligation to teach his child to swim. I feel that it is a parent’s obligation to teach their children how to change a tire. Imagine being on a dark road upstate without cellphone reception and a flat tire. It is pikuach nefesh to give your children the tools to save themselves in that type of situation. Speaking of being stuck on the road. Many people take road trips during the summer months. While packing for your vacation, please remember to pack essentials for your car including flares, a flashlight, a first aid kit, a warm blanket, an empty gas can, a gallon of water, granola bars and jumper cables. These items have come in handy for me and for when I stopped to help others in trouble. It’s better to be safe than sorry. Ken Robins West Hempstead, NY Dear Editor, I am sure that Mr. Edelman and Mr. Seidemann are fine gentlemen, but I wholeheartedly disagree with their campaign slogan “Restoring unity to our community.” As a lifelong resident of Lawrence (for more than six decades), I can vouch

for the fact that despite many demographic changes in our community, we always adapted and had unity. Although at times it was difficult for some of us to see the changes, it was more important that everybody should feel together than to fight the changes. Now is no different. “Restoring unity” implies that currently there is a lack of unity. That is simply not true. What conflict is there in our community? Walk into any shul and you will see all types of kippahs and hats. Do you know of any community-related lawsuits going on or any issues involving Beit Din? I don’t. So where is the lack of unity? Some people may not realize this, but residents will be voting for two trustees out of the three that are running. So Mr. Edelman and Mr. Seidemann are not running on the same ticket, they just want anyone who is voting for one of them to vote for the other one as well. They are essential tag-teaming against Mr. Fragin. They certainly have the right to do that. I understand that by their nature elections are contentious and pit one candidate against the other, but that does not mean that there is a lack of unity. It is called democracy. If there is any community where an election should be ran on positivity, we are that community. I know that slogans win elections (i.e. “Yes we can”), but I hope that our community is smarter than that. I am not saying to vote for one candidate or another. All I am saying is don’t vote for candidate simply because of a catchy slogan which is patently false.

the Editor er mommies, abbas, bubbies, zeidys and siblings, who shepped nachas from the adorable Pre-1A’ers sweetly fulfilling their graduation exercises. Aside from the moving performance, I was impressed that some of the preschool assistants are special needs individuals. These Rebbes stood proudly near their charges—adjusting their costumes and gently directing them to sit, stand or march at the appropriate times. Darchei is to be commended for mainstreaming these special people and by giving them a purpose—front and center. Sarah Schreiber Sincerely, A proud resident of the ever-unified Village of Lawrence Dear Editor, I took this picture of my grandson Koby and my great niece Molly, and

could not resist sharing it. I can’t help but think how beautiful, joyful, pure, and meaningful, Love and Life can be when we share our feelings with each other. What a wonderful world this would be. Truly...a picture is worth a thousand words. Esther Mochan Kew Gardens Hills, NY

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To the Editor, This past Sunday, I was moved and inspired by the Siddur Party/Graduation at Darchei Torah. I, my motherin-law, my daughter and son-in-law, and their children (four generations!) were among the hundreds of oth-

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Have you ever had a pet? Yes 68% No 32%

Global Saudi Billionaire Sues Forbes

You’d think that when you have loads of money and power, you would stop worrying about what others think about you, but Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is obsessed with his standing in the world. The Saudi Arabian billionaire prince is suing Forbes magazine in London because, according to him, they underestimated his wealth on their renowned list of world’s richest people. The prince maintains that the magazine was “deliberately biased” when they ranked him at 26th place in the list of the super-wealthy. They pegged his net worth at $20 million. But the prince insists he is worth closer to $30 billion, a difference of about $9.6 billion. This differential has left the prince fuming, and he is also naming the editor of the magazine and two of its reporters to the lawsuit. Forbes may have added fuel to Bin Talal’s fire when they published an article examining the way he calculates his net worth and calling it an “alternate reality” driven partly by his need for public validation. “For the past few years, former Alwaleed executives have been telling me that the prince, while indeed one of the richest men in the world, systematically exaggerates his net worth by several billion dollars,” Forbes reporter Kerry Dolan wrote. “This led Forbes to a deeper examination of his wealth, and a stark conclusion: The value that the prince puts on his holdings at times feels like an alternate reality.” Furthermore, Dolan wrote, “Of the 1,426 billionaires on our list, not one – not even the vainglorious Donald Trump – goes to greater measure to try to affect his or her ranking.” The prince even offered Forbes the use of his private banker in Switzerland and to fly his company’s chief financial officer to New York to straighten things out for the publication.

If the magazine would have used Bin Talal’s “alternate reality” calculations, his net worth of $30 billion would have pushed his standings to ninth place on the list of the world’s wealthiest, tied with Liliane Bettencourt and her family.

Putin and Wife Call it Quits Russian President Vladimir Putin is not known for his soft side. But he has been married to his wife, Lyudmila, for 30 years. On Thursday, the couple revealed that their long marriage was now over, confirming speculations among the media and citizens that they had been separated. The president long touted traditional values and championed the causes of the conservative Russian Orthodox Church. But apparently, the politician felt the public would approve of his “coming clean” about his marriage instead of hiding a secret from his citizens.

Lyudmila, a former airline stewardess five years younger than the 60-yearold president, said it had been “our common decision.” “Our marriage is over due to the fact that we barely see each other,” she said. Putin also said it had been “a joint decision.” The Putins married in 1983 and have two daughters, both in their 20s. Rarely have they appeared together and when they did, they seemed awkward and wooden around each other. In 2008, Putin said that the media should keep their “snotty noses” out his private life when journalists asked about his marriage. Lyudmila has rarely been seen; some have even surmised that she moved into a convent. When asked about her rare public appearances, Putin said, “All my activity is linked to public affairs ... and there are people who are totally incompatible with that. Lyudmila Alexandrovna has done her shift.” The Russian leader added, “Lyudmila Alexandrovna and I will always remain close – forever, I am sure.”

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“Spy” Released from Venezuela

pretty much the onset and we retained him last week,” Tracy’s sister, Tiffany Klaasen, said of Delahunt, a member of the U.S. delegation at the March funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Both she and Delahunt also credited the U.S. State Department. The U.S. government and friends had ridiculed the idea that Tracy was spying in Venezuela. His family said he had been making a documentary about the human costs of Venezuela’s deeply polarized society.

A U.S. filmmaker jailed for alleged espionage in Venezuela was expelled from the country and returned to the United States last week in a gesture that could signal a thaw in tense relations between the two countries. The release of Timothy Tracy, 35, occurred just hours before the top diplomats of both countries agreed during a meeting in Guatemala to discuss restoring ambassador-level relations. It was secured with the help of former U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, who has long worked to improve often-strained U.S.-Venezuelan ties and was hired by Tracy’s family as an attorney in the case. “He’s been informally advising us since

Following the early morning expulsion, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on the sidelines of a regional gathering in Guatemala and agreed, said Kerry, to “begin to change the dialogue

The news about their divorce sent waves of comments throughout the world. “It’s time for the whole country to divorce him,” a group called For Honest Elections, which has used social network sites to help organize protests against Putin, said on its Twitter microblog.

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The Week between our countries and hopefully quickly move” to appoint ambassadors, which they have lacked in each other’s capitals since 2010. Delahunt acknowledged the coincidence of Tracy’s release but said Kerry set “no conditions” for the meeting with Jaua. He said he had intervened on Tracy’s behalf with officials in Venezuela, who he said did not include President Nicolas Maduro, but “I want to keep those discussions private.” “On both sides there is a desire to have an improvement in the relationship based upon respect, and that’s what’s important,” Delahunt said. Family and friends say the Hollywood producer and small-time actor had been in the country since October making a documentary about Venezuelan politics when he was arrested on April 24 at Caracas’ airport as he tried to leave the country to attend his father’s 80th birthday in suburban Detroit. Friends said Tracy hardly spoke Spanish and had been very open about his work as he met with Venezuelans on both sides of the country’s deep political divide. U.S. President Barack Obama had deemed “ridiculous” the allegations by Venezuela that he was a spy.

China and Nicaragua Join Forces to Build Stronger Panama Canal China has been in an ever-increasing contest with the U.S. for domination in global trade and influence. Last week, Nicaragua awarded a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal. The $40bn project will offer a higher-capacity alternative to the 99-year-old canal, which is currently being widened at the cost of $5.2bn. The Nicaraguan government plans to grant the Chinese government a 100-year lease to the canal. Last year, the Nicaraguan government noted that the new canal should be able to allow passage for mega-container ships with a dead weight of up to 250,000 tons. This is more than double the size of the vessels that will be able to pass through the Panama Canal after its expansion, it said. This new project will be massive in its scope. According to a bill submitted to congress last year, Nicaragua’s canal will be 22 meters deep

In News and 286 km (178 miles) long – bigger than the Panama and Suez Canals in all dimensions. It is expected that the construction will take ten years; the first ship will be able to pass through within six years, although this is not necessarily certain. Even though the project is not yet off the ground, it is riddled with controversy. Two former Colombian officials recently accused China of influencing the international court of justice to secure the territorial waters that Nicaragua needs for the project. Noemí Sanín, a former Colombian foreign secretary, and Miguel Ceballos, a former vice-minister of justice, said a Chinese judge had settled in Nicaragua’s favor on a 13-year-old dispute over 75,000 square kilometers of sea. In turn, Nicaragua has accused Colombia and Costa Rica, which has a claim on territory likely to be used by the new canal, of trying to prevent the project from going ahead.

Small Airline Makes Big Money

While much of the airline industry retreats from small cities across the U.S., one scrappy carrier has been finding big profits in their wake. Allegiant Travel Co., a 16-year-old carrier that flies just 64 jets, has achieved the lowest costs, fullest planes and highest margins in the U.S. airline industry by flying where its competitors aren’t. Over the past five years, amid bankruptcies, consolidation and soaring fuel prices, U.S. airlines have scaled back domestic air service by 14%, particularly in smaller cities, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Allegiant, meanwhile, increased its departures by 87%, adding service to third- and fourth-tier cities abandoned by other airlines, like Toledo, Ohio, and Stockton, California. “We want to be considered the hometown airline of all

the little cities around the country,” Allegiant President Andrew Levy said in an interview. Allegiant’s strategy has led to profits in 39 of its last 41 quarters. In the first quarter this year, its pretax profit margin was 18.5% on revenue of $909 million, compared with 13.4% at Spirit Airlines Inc. and 5.2% at Alaska Air Group Inc. No other publicly traded U.S. airline surpassed 2.3%. Over the past five years, Allegiant’s stock has risen 361%. While other airlines connect passengers to vast global networks that fan out to the world’s major cities, Allegiant specializes in carrying leisure travelers from 75 small, underserved U.S. cities to 14 warm-weather hot spots, including Orlando, Honolulu and Las Vegas. Allegiant’s network is so unusual that it faces competition on just 17 of its 203 routes. Virgin America Inc., a slightly larger airline, has competition on all of its 35 routes. Now Allegiant is setting its sights on Mexico, with plans to start flying to its U.S. leisure destinations from second-tier cities such as Zacatecas in central Mexico or Culiacán on the west coast. Allegiant believes its discount fares would attract middle-class Mexicans outside the reach of Mexico City who have few nonstop flights to the U.S., particularly to tourist destinations like Las Vegas. “There’s an untapped demand out there,” Mr. Levy said. “If Mexico is as successful as we think it will be, we think the opportunities extend south of Mexico. Latin America to Las Vegas is a very underserved market.” Allegiant generally flies older used aircraft that it buys for cheap. The planes guzzle gas but they’re also paid for, making it affordable to fly them only when the flight will be nearly full. As a result, 90% of its flights from Las Vegas are on peak travel days—Sunday, Monday, Thursday or Friday. “On Tuesdays, we look like a bankrupt airline,” with dozens of planes parked at the airport, but “who wants to start their vacation on a Tuesday?” Mr. Levy said. “We only fly when we can make money.” Allegiant doesn’t have connecting flights or partnerships with other airlines, and generally doesn’t share its information with travel agents or other third-party bookers, avoiding their fees. Instead, Allegiant largely depends on word-of-mouth advertising in the small cities it serves. As Jude Bricker, Allegiant’s senior vice president of planning puts it, “It helps to be the only show in town.” Continued on page 14

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Reverend Dr. Kenneth Meshoe, an outspoken member of the South Africa Parliament, recently expressed ongoing frustration with accusations that Israel is an apartheid state, calling such claims an insult to what his own nation went through. Earlier this year, Dr. Meshoe visited

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San Francisco just around the time that many American universities, especially in California, were swarming with anti-Israel propagandists whose new favorite ploy is to label Israel as a practitioner of apartheid against the Arabs of the region. “As a black South African who lived under apartheid, ...in my view, Israel cannot be compared to apartheid in South Africa,” Meshoe wrote in the San Francisco Examiner. “Those who make the accusation expose their ignorance of what apartheid really is.” Meshoe explained that under South African apartheid, which was “a legal system of segregation and oppression based on skin color,” black people such as himself could not vote, freely travel, or hold high government positions. Furthermore, they were subjected to segregation everywhere from public restrooms to schools to hospitals. “In my numerous visits to Israel, I did not see any of the above,” stated Meshoe. “Black, brown and white Jews and the Arab minority mingle freely in all public places, universities, restaurants, voting stations and public transportation. All people have the right to vote. The Arab minority has political parties, serves in

the Israeli parliament and holds positions in government ministries, the police force and the security services. In hospitals, Palestinian patients lie in beds next to Israeli Jews, and doctors and nurses are as likely to be Israeli Arabs as Jews. ...None of the above was legally permissible in apartheid South Africa!” In short, Dr. Meshoe, who heads the African Christian Democratic Party, said it was “slanderous and deceptive” to make such accusations against Israel as doing so “trivializes the word apartheid, minimizing and belittling the magnitude of the racism and suffering endured by South Africans of color.” In conclusion, he wrote, “Israel is a model of democracy, inclusion and pluralism that can be emulated by many nations, particularly in the Middle East.”

Abbas Appoints New Palestinian Prime Minister Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas picked a little-known academic as

his new prime minister following the resignation of his chief rival. Abbas appointed Rami Hamdullah, 55, to replace Salam Fayyad, a respected US-educated economist who frequently clashed with Abbas and was seen as being too independent.

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Netanyahu: Israel Prevented Five Suicide Bombings This Year

In News mon Peres and the Columbian leader signed a free trade agreement as well as deals on aviation and technological innovation. The Columbian president also held talks with Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmud Abbas on the peace process and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Colombia was one of a minority of states to abstain in November’s vote on upgrading the Palestinians Authority’s status at the United Nations.

Falk Vilifies Israel Once Again On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that the Shin Bet and the Israeli army helped to foil five potential suicide bombings since the beginning of the year. He also mentioned that they prevented 30 attempted kidnappings of Israeli soldiers. The comments were made to visiting Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. “We are happy to share our experience in the fight against terrorism with Colombia,” Netanyahu said. On Monday, Israeli President Shi-

On Monday, Richard Falk, the United Nations human rights investigator, accused Israel of imposing collective

punishment on 1.75 million Palestinians living in Gaza and said that the territory’s viability was at stake. The controversial figure also stated that 70 percent of the area’s population depends on international aid and that 90 percent of the water there is “unfit for human consumption.” This is not the first time the law professor, who is Jewish, vilified Israel. In May 2008, he compared Israeli actions in Gaza to those of Nazis during the Holocaust. Calls have been made for Falk to step down but he remains stubborn. US Ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe described him as “unfit to serve in his role as a UN special rapporteur.” Falk, though, is clinging to his post. “I don’t intend to resign and there doesn’t seem to be any formal initiative that is seeking my dismissal,” he said on Tuesday. “My role of trying to speak honestly about the situation that Palestinians are facing under this condition of prolonged occupation generates this sort of reaction that tries to paint anti-Israeli criticism as a form of anti-Semitism,” Falk said. Falk’s inflammatory comments Continued on page 19

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have not just been made against Israel. Recently, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rejected remarks by Falk suggesting the Boston marathon bombings in April were a response to U.S. foreign policy.

Germany May Boycott Israeli Goods The ties between Israel and Germany may become strained if the German government changes its policy on labeling Israeli goods that are produced in areas that Israel obtained in 1967. Until now, all Israeli goods, regardless of where they were produced, were labeled “Made in Israel.” An official document was issued in response to German opposition members. “In our view, products should be labeled ‘Made in Israel’ only if they are manufactured within the 1967 borders,” the document states, according to Israeli press reports. That would exclude products made in the more than 140 communities built on land that Israel acquired in 1967, also known as the West Bank. The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Israel Andrew Standley told Army Radio that efforts to single out products produced in these areas reflect the growing European impatience with what he called “Israeli settlements.” He said the new labeling would help European companies distinguish between products made in pre-1967 areas and post-1967 areas. The volume of trade between Israel and the EU is quite high, with total trade amounting to more than $38 billion in 2011. The EU is Israel’s largest source of imports including machinery and chemicals, and second largest market for exports, including Israeli chemicals and precious and semi-precious stones. Israel has no statistics on how much of that trade came from post-1967 areas. At least some Israeli officials did appear concerned about the potential change in German policy. “We will fight,” Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin told Army Radio. “We are handling this initiative. We have brought up this issue at every meeting, with every delegation and with every foreign minister…We are not saying that this is a lost cause. There are ups and downs. It is Israel’s duty to deal with this issue and we have the tools to do so.” There has also been growing pressure in Europe by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) to protest Israel’s continued construction

in post-1967 areas where some 600,000 Israelis now live alongside 2.3 million Palestinians. The BDS movement has pressured artists to cancel concerts in Israel and academics to boycott conferences. Last month, physicist Steven Hawking canceled his participation in a conference hosted by Israeli President Shimon Peres.

Google Acquires Israeli Company Waze for $1.1Bn

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IDF Tweets Six-Day War Replay Israel’s army was giving a “live” blow-by-blow account of the 1967 Six Day War, tweeting each air strike at the exact time it occurred 46 years ago in an epic replay which began early last Wednesday morning. @IDF1967 “is an official Israel Defense Forces account that is aimed at retweeting the events of Last week, TJH reported about speculations that the Israeli traffic app Waze will be acquired by either Google, Facebook or Apple. On Tuesday, it was revealed that Google acquired the company for $1.1billion. “The Google Maps teams have been following our progress closely and are excited about what we’ve accomplished,” Waze CEO Noam Bardin wrote in a post on the company’s site. “They share our vision of a global mapping service, updated in real time by local communities, and wish to help us accelerate. We are excited about the prospect of working with the Google Maps team to enhance our search capabilities and to join them in their ongoing efforts to build the best map of the world.” All the demands that Waze presented during negotiations were met. The company’s activities will remain in Israel for years, Google cannot fire any of Waze’s 107 workers, and the entire acquisition sum will go into the pockets of founders, investors and employees in cash—without stocks whose value can fluctuate. “Nothing practical will change here at Waze,” he continued. “We will maintain our community, brand, service and organization – the community hierarchy, responsibilities and processes will remain the same. The same Waze peo-

the Six Day War in live time,” an army spokesman said.

The account was tweeting key events in the battle against the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria that took place from June 5 to 10, 1967, and includes pictures and videos, the army said. The tweets are mostly in Hebrew, with some translated into English. “In response to repeated provocations by Egypt, the State of Israel and the IDF are going to war. We will not sit idly as the enemy forces tighten the noose around our necks,” the opening tweet said around 8:00am when Israel landed its first pre-emptive air strike 46 years ago. By the early afternoon, @

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Ben & Jerry’s Expands in Israel In what is sure to bring a smile to every seminary girl’s face, Ben & Jerry’s announced it is bringing four of its Greek Frozen Yogurt flavors to Israel instead of the two new dairy ice cream flavors it usually introduces in the country once a year. In the United States, the Greek Frozen Yogurt series includes seven flavors, building on the popularity of the Greek yogurt category in the country. The yogurt is not particularly sour and is marketed as a health product. The flavors offered in Israel are

Strawberry Shortcake, Banana Peanut Butter, Raspberry Fudge Chunk and Blueberry Vanilla Graham. Other flavors available in the U.S. include Vanilla Honey Caramel, Pineapple Passion Fruit and Liz Lemon. The Greek Frozen Yogurt tubs are slightly smaller than Ben & Jerry’s dairy ice cream packs marketed in Israel. The weight of the 473 ml tub ranges between 392 to 400 grams (13.8-14 ounces). “We will introduce 500 ml tubs when we start making them in Israel, but first we want to see how the products are received here,” Avi Zinger, CEO of American Quality Products, which manufactures and markets Ben & Jerry’s products in Israel, announced. According to the company, the Greek Frozen Yogurt products are priced like the dairy ice creams – “NIS 22-24 ($66.5) per tub,” according to Zinger. The company has been marketing the ice creams in the past year or two as part of special sales, mostly two for the price of one. “Because we manufacture all Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in Israel, we were forced to make our own real Greek yogurt at our factory in Be’er Tuvia, as

In News there was no such raw material available in Israel,” explained Zinger. “We are importing the containers at the moment, until we learn which of these flavors becomes popular in Israel.” Another difference between the dairy ice cream and the frozen yogurt is in the nutritive values. Ben & Jerry’s is one of two companies (the other is Häagen-Dazs) in Israel marketing ice cream whose main component (80%) is cream. The frozen yogurt products have 30% yogurt, meaning that they are lower in fat and contain more milk protein. According to the nutritional information on the products’ containers, the Greek frozen yogurt has 8-5 grams of fat per 100 grams compared to 13-15 grams of fat in the company’s dairy ice cream and up to 23 grams of fat in dairy ice cream containing nuts. No matter how fattening, we all scream for ice cream.

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Glenn Greenwald, a frequent and fierce critic of the national security state’s expansion since 9/11, writes in his bombshell report that the document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration, the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk—regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing. The order, issued on April 25 and valid through July 19, requires Verizon to turn over the numbers of both parties, location data, call duration and other information—though not the contents of the calls. The White House initially declined to comment, but a senior administration official has now defended the activities without confirming the specific report. “On its face, the order reprinted in the article does not allow the government to listen in on anyone’s telephone calls,” the official, who requested anonymity, wrote in an email. “The information acquired does not include the content of any communications or the name of any subscriber.” Congress has been “regularly and fully briefed” on such practices, which occur under a “robust legal regime” and “strict controls and procedures ... to ensure that they comply with the Constitution and laws of the United States and appropriately protect privacy and civil liberties,” the official added. Judge Roger Vinson’s order relies on Section 215 of the Patriot Act. That part of the law, also known as the “business records provision,” permits FBI agents to seek a court order for “any tangible things (including books, records, papers, documents, and other items)” it deems relevant to an investigation. Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has repeatedly sounded the alarm about the way the government interprets that provision—though he’s sharply limited in what he can say about classified information. Wyden and Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado, another committee member, wrote a scathing letter to Attorney General Eric Holder in September 2011 warning that Americans would be “stunned” if they learned what the government was doing. The American Civil Liberties Union denounced the scope of the surveillance. “It’s analogous to the FBI stationing an agent outside every home in the country to track who goes in and who comes out,” said Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director. The organization’s legislative counsel, Michelle Richardson, bluntly branded the surveillance “unconstitutional” and insisted “the gov-

ernment should end it and disclose its full scope, and Congress should initiate a full investigation.”

Edward Snowden: Who is the World’s Most Notorious Whistleblower?

Last week, Americans were shocked to learn about secret U.S. surveillance programs that spied on American citizens in the interest of national security. The whistleblower, Edward Snowden, 29, is responsible for one of the most significant leaks in U.S. political history. And he claims that he did for the principle of the matter. So what do we know about the man who didn’t complete high school, yet had a position in the National Security Agency that gave him access to privileged information? After several days of interviews, The Guardian came out with the identity of the whistleblower and the reason why he decided to reveal privileged information. The former technical assistant for the CIA is hiding out in Hong Kong. He fled there because he felt that they would be able to protect them and would have the gall to defy the U.S.’s request for extradition. But he knows that there will be legal battles up ahead to try to extradite him back to the U.S. and he knows that there’s a possibility the Chinese would want him for their own purposes. And yet, Snowden insists that he was determined to reveal himself as the source “because I know I have done nothing wrong.” Even though he wanted to go public, Snowden still maintains that he wants to avoid the spotlight. “I don’t want public attention because I don’t want the story to be about me. I want it to be about what the US government is doing….My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.” Snowden was born in North Carolina and subsequently moved with his family to Maryland. He was not a stel-

lar student, only received a GED instead of a high school diploma, and attended a community college in Maryland. In 2003, he joined the army for altruistic purposes. “I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.” When he broke his legs in a training accident, he was discharged. Where does a high school dropout find his first job out of the army? Snowden started working as a security guard in an NSA facility at the University of Maryland. From there, he went to the CIA and worked on IT security. His talent for computer programming enabled him to rise fairly quickly within the agency. By 2007, Snowden was living the life of a spy found in movies or in novels. The CIA stationed him with diplomatic cover in Geneva, Switzerland. His responsibility for maintaining computer network security meant he had clearance to access a wide array of classified documents. But that access, he says, made him question the CIA’s methods and ultimately led him to his great reveal. In 2013, Snowden was working for Booz Allen and living in Hawaii. He was making $200,000 a year and lived a “comfortable life.” All that, he says, he is willing to forgo for his ideals. “I’m willing to sacrifice all of that because I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.” Three weeks ago, Snowden copied the last set of documents he meant to expose. He told his boss he needed time off for treatment of his epilepsy and told his girlfriend he was going away for a while. He boarded a plane to Hong Kong and has been hiding out in a hotel room ever since. His paranoia about being spied on is immense. He lines the door of his hotel room with pillows and puts on a large red hood over his head and laptop when entering passwords on his computer. He knows the NSA and other agencies are looking for him and won’t stop until they have him back on American soil. Throughout the conversation with The Guardian, Snowden insisted on his altruistic motives. “I don’t see myself as a hero,” he said, “because what I’m doing is self-interested: I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.” He insists

In News that the NSA’s actions pose “an existential threat to democracy.” “The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to,” he reasoned. “I feel satisfied that this was all worth it. I have no regrets.”

Obama Appoints Susan Rice as National Security Advisor

Hailing her longtime role as a “trusted adviser,” President Barack Obama formally named U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as his next national security

advisor. Obama tapped Rice, a target of Republican criticism in recent months, to succeed Tom Donilon. The president also nominated Samantha Power, a longtime foreign policy adviser, to take over Rice’s role at the United Nations. “I am absolutely thrilled that she’ll be back at my side leading my national security team in my second term,” Obama said of Rice, a longtime confidant whose role in publicly explaining the administration’s initial assessment of last year’s terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, has made her a lightning rod for criticism. “I’m deeply honored and humbled to serve our country as your national security adviser,” Rice said at a White House event to formally announce the shake-up, just the latest instance of staff turnover on Obama’s foreign policy and national security teams in his second term. Rice also told Obama she was “deeply grateful for [his] enduring confidence,” a seeming nod toward the whirlwind of controversy around her role in the Benghazi explanation, which helped ruin her chances of becoming secretary of state. Republicans who targeted Rice over the handling of the 2012 attacks in

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Survivors Pulled From Collapsed Building in Pennsylvania

On Wednesday of last week, rescue workers used buckets and their bare hands to move bricks and rubble from the site of a collapsed building to free a 61-year-old woman identified as Myra Plekam of Kensington, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Public Safety Director Michael Resnick confirmed that Plekam was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and listed in critical condition. Plekam’s rescue came more than 12 hours after the building collapsed. Resnick said Plekam was the last person

In News officials knew of trapped in the rubble. Officials caution that there could still be people trapped that the fire department didn’t know about. The building was in the process of being demolished when an exterior wall that it shared with an adjoining building fell outward, collapsing into the adjoining two-story building that housed a Salvation Army Thrift Store. The thrift store was damaged but is still standing. Minutes before the woman was pulled from the rubble, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said one man and five women were among the dead. At least 13 other people have been transported to hospitals with minor injuries, according to authorities. “This has been a tough day here in the city of Philadelphia but we’re a pretty tough city and we’re quite resilient,” Nutter said. Fire officials said that 40 percent of the collapsed building still needs to be checked. Officials declined to say how much longer they would remain at the site to search for potential survivors. “We did not know and we still do not know how many people were actually in the store or possibly on the sidewalk or some other area adjacent to the Salvation Army thrift store,” Nutter said. Officials at the University of Pennsylvania hospital, which treated five victims, said that they saw mostly cuts and bruises on victims taken there. “They were a bit stunned; they were saying they heard a loud noise and then the ceiling began falling,” Dr. Elizabeth Datner said. “We saw one individual who had been trapped, but they are all talking and all in stable conditions.” Datner said that most of the victims were in the thrift store at the time of the collapse. Williams said that both the building’s owners and the contractors had all of their permits and paperwork in order and up to date, and the building had no prior code violations.

Calling Congress His Home for 57 Years Friday marked a milestone for Rep. John Dingell of Michigan. The Democrat marked his name in the history books, as he served his 20,997th day on Capitol Hill to become the longest-serving member of Congress ever. For 57 years, Dingell has worked with 11 presidents, 11 speakers of the House, cast more than 25,000 votes, and served as the chairman of the powerful Continued on page 26

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He criticized his fellow congressmen on their work habits. “Members hit this town on Monday, to make a 6:30 vote and they already inquire about how they’re gonna get a 6:30 plane out on Friday or Thursday to go home,” he said. “Everybody says, ‘We oughta be back home.’ That’s totally wrong. We oughta be here, working on the nation’s business. We oughta not be fighting. We oughta be talking about how we come together.” Looking back, Dingell says his favorite president was one he didn’t serve with but got to witness in action. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt garnered the most admiration from this politician. As a House page, Dingell witnessed FDR’s historic address to Congress and declaration of war after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. “[Roosevelt] saved the country from the Depression, saved the country from the real threat of going Communist, won World War II, and—and it was a war we could’ve lost,” he said. “And then he laid the design for lasting world peace.” Dingell named Texas Democrat Sam Rayburn his favorite speaker, but had kind words for current Speaker of the House John Boehner, calling the Ohio Republican a “really a fine individual,” who “if could get his party to follow him,” would be far more effective. “Power is a very strange thing. First of all, to be a leader, you’ve got to be a leader. But second of all to be a leader, you’ve got have followers. John Boehner’s problem is, he doesn’t have followers,” said Dingell. “Everybody says, ‘This Congress is so busy with the Democrats fighting Republicans.’ There are no Democrats fighting Republicans. It’s Republicans fighting Democrats. Or

In News rather, fighting Republicans. They don’t have time to fiddle with us Democrats.” Dingell is most proud of helping Congress usher in the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. “We solved a terrible, searing problem,” said Dingell. “We were dealing with the issue and we’d say, ‘Why is it, explain to us that a white man should be able to vote, and a black man, who’s also a citizen, cannot?’ And the people responded fairly. They said, ‘They’re not. You’re right.’” After 54 years of trying, Dingell finally saw a universal healthcare bill come to fruition. Every year, he, like his father, would introduce a universal healthcare bill to Congress. Finally, in 2010, he saw the fruits of his labor. “You will find there’s a tremendous wave of public trust [in the bill],” he said. “First of all, there’s a number of rights that citizens are given, no more pre-existing conditions to deny you healthcare. No more can they cancel your healthcare because you get sick. No more they can kick your kid off the policy until he’s 26. Those things are important.” The 82-year-old is still going strong, although he says the decision to run for reelection lies more with his wife than with him. “There’s always something to be done. … And there’s always some public need to be met. Or you can do things to help people and– and make the country better. That’s why we’re here,” Dingell said. “I’ve got a wonderful wife and I wanna see to it that she is happy. … And when she gets tired of this business, and the burden – let me tell you something. The burden in this job is not on the officeholder.”

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Storm Chasers Perish in Tornado

Tim Samaras, one of the world’s best known storm chasers, died during a tornado in El Reno, Oklahoma. His 24-year-old son Paul and fellow storm chaser Carl Young, 45, also perished in the storm. “They all unfortunately passed away but doing what they LOVED,” Jim Samaras, Tim’s brother, wrote on Facebook. Tim Samaras, who was 55, spent the past 20 years zigzagging across the Plains, predicting where tornadoes would develop and placing probes he

In News designed in a twister’s path to measure data from inside the cyclone. “Data from the probes helps us understand tornado dynamics and how they form,” Tim told National Geographic. “With that piece of the puzzle we can make more precise forecasts and ultimately give people earlier warnings.” Samaras’s instruments offered the first-ever look at the inside of a tornado by using six high-resolution video cameras that offered complete 360-degree views. He also captured lightning strikes using ultra-high-speed photography with a camera he designed to capture a million frames per second. Samaras’s interest in tornadoes began when he was six, after he saw the movie The Wizard of Oz. For the past 20 years, he spent May and June traveling through Tornado Alley, an area that has the highest frequency of tornadoes in the world. He worked with his son Paul, who was known for capturing cyclones on camera. The Samaras team used probes that Tim designed to measure the pressure drops within the tornadoes themselves. But the work could be frustrating. Tornadoes developed from only two out of every ten storms the team

tracked, and the probes were useful in only some of those tornadoes. When the probes did work, they provided information to help researchers analyze how and when tornadoes form. “This information is especially crucial, because it provides data about the lowest ten meters of a tornado, where houses, vehicles, and people are,” Samaras once said. In 2003, Samaras followed an F4 tornado that dropped from the sky on a sleepy road near Manchester, South Dakota. He deployed three probes in the tornado’s path, placing the last one from his car a hundred yards ahead of the tornado itself. “That’s the closest I’ve been to a violent tornado, and I have no desire to ever be that close again,” he said of that episode. “The rumble rattled the whole countryside, like a waterfall powered by a jet engine. Debris was flying overhead, telephone poles were snapped and flung 300 yards through the air, roads ripped from the ground, and the town of Manchester literally sucked into the clouds.” “When I downloaded the probe’s data into my computer, it was astounding to see a barometric pressure drop of

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a hundred millibars at the tornado’s center,” he said, calling it the most memorable experience of his career. “That’s the biggest drop ever recorded—like stepping into an elevator and hurtling up a thousand feet in ten seconds.” Samaras is survived by his wife Kathy and two daughters.

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Where the Living is Cheap

Booker is Favorite for NJ’s Senate Seat

The race is on in the Garden State. On Monday, candidates scrambled to meet the filing deadline for the upcoming October 16 special election to fill late-Senator Frank Lautenberg’s seat. Polls show that Newark Mayor Cory Booker has support from more than 50% of Democratic voters surveyed. Rep. Rush Holt garnered around 10% of the vote while Rep. Frank Pallone only received single-digit support in the polls. The election will determine who will complete the late Democrat’s term which ends in January 2015. On Monday, New Jersey Attorney General Jeff Chiesa, a Republican, was sworn in to serve as the interim replacement to Lautenberg, who died last week. According to Patrick Murray, founding director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, Booker “has the highest name recognition and that makes him the favorite. The question that we have is how many of his voters will actually show up in the primary.” He continued, “You’ve got to get people knocking on doors in a primary that will be low turnout. It’s all about organization.” But Booker has national prominence and charisma. He is well-known for his appearances on TV and for turning the city of Newark around. Just last year, he received national attention for running into a burning building to save a neighbor. Former Bogota mayor Steve Lonegan and Alieta Eck, a doctor, are running on the Republican side. Lonegan is better known, although it seems as if the Republicans have already written this election off as a defeat on their side.

Ever considered moving down to Texas or Illinois? If the answer is yes, the following facts will add many pros to your list. If not, the information you’re about to read may persuade you. The Council for Community and Economic Research calculated the cost of living in 307 urban areas. Its Cost of Living Index measures prices for housing, groceries, utilities, transportation, healthcare, and miscellaneous goods and services. All cities have a population over 50,000. The results may be surprising—take a look and see. Idaho Falls’ cost of living is 12% below the national average. With a population of 57,646, the median household income is about $52,762 and the median home value is $186,200. The small city’s biggest contributing factor to cheap living is its affordable housing. The average apartment rental is just $655 a month compared to the national average of $870 a month. The ninth cheapest city in America has the same name as a store where you can buy batteries for 99 cents. So it comes at no surprise that the cost of living in Conway, Arkansas, is 12.1% below average. The city’s 60,470 residents earn about $44,745 annually and their home values sit at about $147,400. Medical services are a particular bargain in this suburb of Little Rock. A visit to the doctor runs about 17% less than the national average, and a dental checkup costs 23% less. Springfield, Illinois, comes in at number eight with its cost of living 12.3% below average. With a median household income of $48,022, the average home is valued at about $114,100. The city’s 117,076 residents pay 15.2% less for utilities than the average American. The cost of living in Pueblo, Colorado, is 12.9% below average. The city of 107,577 has a median household in-

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income of $35,267 and a median home value of $77,900. The Southern Texas city has ultra-low living costs but the high unemployment rate contributes to the city’s 32% poverty rate, nearly double the statewide mark of 17%. Now, I ask again: Would you consider moving to Texas or Illinois?

In News Life is Not Just a Game

That’s Odd A Dangerous Dose of Soy Sauce A silly teenager drank a quart of soy sauce after a dare from his friends. But besides for the terrible taste, soy sauce can be deadly. The high amount of salt in the condiment can lead to death if not treated immediately.

The 19-year-old is the first person known to have deliberately overdosed on such a high amount of salt and still survive without any known neurological problems. His case was published on June 4 in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. Too much salt in the blood is called hypernatremia and is usually seen in people with psychiatric conditions who develop a strong appetite for salt. The condition is dangerous because it causes the brain to lose water and the organ can shrink and bleed. After the boy drank the soy sauce, he started having seizures and his friends immediately took him to the emergency room. When they got there, he was already in a coma and doctors flushed his system by pumping 1.5 gallons of sugar water into the man’s body. Although his brain still showed evidence of the seizure a few days after the event, about a month afterwards, he showed no sign of the overdose. This boy was lucky; a typical quart of soy sauce has more than .35 pounds of salt. We know you love your sushi, but stay off the sauce.

I spent many afternoons playing the Game of LIFE in my living room with friends. I thought it was much more fun than Monopoly, but don’t tell Hasbro. Now you can play for the game—for real. When typhoons hit the remote Japanese island of Yoron, Takanori Iwamoto spent his afternoons playing board games with young children left without power. After playing the Game of LIFE numerous times, the head of Yoron’s Chamber of Commerce noticed how the island resembled the board in the game. The intrepid organizer decided that the Game of LIFE would be the perfect lure for tourists to the island. Starting in July, visitors will be able to live the Game of LIFE. The island will feature a lifesized roulette, 18-square-foot boards and a bus parading as a game piece. Players will be shuttled from one end of the island to the other and will only have to pay a $5 entrance fee to participate. The game will be reminiscent of the popular show, “The Amazing Race”; participants will receive a map and clues of their tasks using fake Game of LIFE money. But don’t expect to come home a millionaire; there’s no extravagant prize at the end, but everyone will come out a winner with at least $1 to spend on the island. That’s the idea of the game, Iwamoto explains. The area suffered from the effects of three major typhoons last year. “We are currently still repairing and restoring a lot of the area. Roofs were ripped off of hotels and other buildings,” Iwamoto said. “The population has decreased and there are not enough people to help rebuild the area. So, this event isn’t just fun, it is part of a larger restoration plan.” Only serious “LIFE-ers” need apply.

Million Dollar Nap Sometimes when employees sleep on the job, it ends up costing their employers money. In this case, a catnap

cost this German bank employee’s company millions of euros. The exhausted worker was supposed to transfer just 62.40 euros from a bank account belonging to a retiree. But his exhaustion was overwhelming and he “fell asleep for an instant, while pushing onto the number 2 key on the keyboard.” His mistake made a transfer of 222,222,222.22 euros (that’s 222 million euros – $294 million) from the account. Thankfully, the bank discovered the error and corrected his mistake. But his colleague, who let the mistake go through while verifying the order, was fired. He then took his tired co-worker to court for losing his job. The court ruled that the worker should be reinstated to his position. Talk about getting in your zzzzs!

Million Dollar Math

Texas billionaire D. Andrew Beal may have tons of money in his bank account, but he is losing sleep over a math problem that has been plaguing him for years. The 43rd on the Forbes list of U.S. billionaires dropped out of Baylor University but has been looking to solve this math problem since 1993. In an attempt to get others to find the right solution, Beal is offering a $1 million for the one who can solve it for him. This is not the first time that Beal dangled money in front of brilliant mathematicians to compel them to solve his problem. In 1997, he offered $5,000, and in 2000 he offered $100,000 as a prize. Now, the prize money has seven figures. It all started with Beal’s determination to solve the 350-year-old mystery of Fermat’s Last Theorem: the idea that Ax + By = Cz. Beal realized that there could only be solutions to the equation when A, B, and C have a common numerical factor. “Others have looked at other closely related problems, but I believe Beal was the first to express it in that way,” Don McClure, the executive director of the American Mathematical Society. Beal took his Fermat’s Last Theorem findings to R. Daniel Mauldin, then a mathematics professor at the

University of North Texas, who came up with the idea to offer a prize to anyone who could prove the theory. Brilliant minds have tried to find the solutions, but to no avail. Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, said confirming the theory could revolutionize the field. “Any solution to this problem would signal a real new idea and not minor progress,” he said. Mauldin, who was part of a committee that has reviewed hundreds of proposed solutions over the years, said none ever worked. “It’s impossible to keep up with them, and none of them fit.” Beal explained the reasoning behind the prize money. “I’d like to inspire young people to pursue math and science. Increasing the prize is a good way to draw attention to mathematics generally. … I hope many more young people will find themselves drawn into the wonderful world of mathematics.” But the likelihood of solving the Beal Conjecture anytime soon seems slim. “I’m not holding my breath,” said the American Mathematical Society’s McClure. Hey, I got a 100 on my math regent—do you think I can solve this?

Playing the Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower symbolizes Paris and is the ideal photo op while on vacation. But composer Joseph Bertolozzi is not looking to take pictures of the landmark. He is only interested in playing it. The New York State resident just received permission from the Eiffel Tower administration to, as the composer explains, “harvest the Eiffel Tower’s sounds with microphones placed on its surfaces and record a work entitled ‘Tower Music’ or ‘Musique de la Tour,’ using only the natural sounds of the Tower itself.” “I took great care to prove to the [Eiffel Tower] administration that I

In News would not physically damage the surface,” he explained. “That would be plain wrong.” This is not the first time Bertolozzi played with a landmark. In 2009, Bertolozzi produced Bridge Music which was launched during the 400th anniversary celebrations of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the Hudson River. The composer used mallets on New York’s Mid-Hudson Bridge’s surfaces to produce different sounds, making the bridge the largest percussion instrument in the world. The CD of his recordings climbed to No. 18 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Music Chart. “[It’s] very helpful to have done it before,” he explained. “I could anticipate the challenges of mic placement, the properties of the sounds and the time it takes to collect the sounds efficiently.” So what exactly does the Eiffel Tower sound like? According to Bertolozzi, the sounds are a symphony of “a percussion ensemble of metallic drums, marimbas and the gongs of an Indonesian gamelan.” Bertolozzi hopes to complete his opus, “Tower Music,” in eight to nine months. What’s the French word for noise?

Drone Delivers a Deep-Dish

In perhaps the first bit of “technological research” to involve a flying stuffed crust, Domino’s has developed a drone capable of delivering pizzas. While the idea is likely just a PR stunt, a Domino’s franchise in the United Kingdom posted a video of the unmanned “DomiCopter” actually delivering two pizzas in the company’s signature Heatwave bags. A spokesman for the Michigan-based pizza company confirmed that the concept is “the brainchild of our independent master franchise company in the U.K.” The digital media company T and Biscuits partnered with drone firm AeroSight to bring the idea to life. But don’t expect two piping hot pizzas to be delivered to your door via drone anytime soon. A similar idea called the TacoCopter

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The Week – an app that would dispatch a drone to deliver a taco to your door – went viral last year, but the service is illegal under U.S. law. Federal Aviation Administration rules ban unmanned aircraft like drones from being used for commercial purposes. A DomiCopter in the United Kingdom seems just as unlikely. “Our emails have been going mad with inquiries as to when people may be getting their food delivered by the DomiCopter. You will have to just wait and see...,” T and Biscuits wrote on its own page unveiling the video. Domino’s U.S. spokesman Tim McIntyre made clear “this has nothing to do with us in the U.S. and we have no plans to pursue this idea.” Nevertheless, Domino’s U.K.’s press release talked about how the DomiCopter “could fit the bill” for innovative ways to deliver pizza, and said a “Domino’s Flight Academy is also rumored to be in the pipeline should the DomiCopter delivery service take off.” While the DomiCopter is perhaps the silliest example of possible drone use, it’s a burgeoning field full of legal and ethical questions. I just have one question for you once this idea comes “off the ground.” Do we have to still tip the drone for our piping hot slice?

Living the Martha Stewart Life for a Year

I love reading Martha Stewart Magazine and seeing all the ideas she has for her home and for the holidays. Is she really serious when she says she makes her own compost, trims her own hedges, bakes and decorates her cakes for parties, and sews presents for her grandchildren? Oh, and she also manages to look pristine, smiles for the camera, and runs a popular line of dishware and furniture. Is it she a myth or superwoman?

Well, Jen Lancaster set out to find out the truth. Minus the jail time for insider trading, Jen lived an entire year emulating her idol, Martha Stewart. Some domestic projects worked like textbook cases. Others “went horribly awry.” But all in all, as Martha would say, it was a good thing. The author, who documented her experiences in her latest book, The Tao of Martha, came up with the idea after finishing a year where “a thousand little things that went wrong” and deciding some organization and exacting guidelines were in order. Lancaster recalled how she “wanted to go into 2012 with a plan. I need a drill sergeant and who better than Martha Stewart?” The yearlong effort left her with a very organized kitchen, where the food in her refrigerator is organized by shelves and all her dried goods are labeled. For instance, all of Lancaster’s flours are separated into appropriately marked jars — cake, all purpose, Bisquick, self-rising. She also started making homemade gifts for friends, although that project was a little more complicated than expected. “I started knitting this year, and the scarves that I was making, between the time and the material, they’re worth about $8,000 each,” she joked. Lancaster said her husband, an organized person by nature, loved the project. “This is the greatest thing that has happened in the 18 years of our relationship,” he told her, mainly because he could finally locate things in the house. However, she said sometimes her newly discovered domesticity clashed with the way he had previously organized things, like the spice cabinet, which her husband had arranged by country of origin. “I don’t know if oregano is Mexican or if it’s Italian. I just did it alphabetically,” she said. While taking on Stewart’s numerous domestic projects can be daunting, nearly all of them can be broken down into easy-to-follow steps, said Lancaster, who was constantly surprised at what she accomplished. “The big take-away I’ve gotten from her is that you have to try. You can’t fail if you don’t try. There were some things that went horribly awry, but the things that didn’t were shocking. It was shocking to me that there are dishes that I can cook now so much more inexpensively at home than what I used to buy.” I think I’ll stick with my storebought cakes and messy pantry. I can’t imagine organizing my spices alphabetically will keep me sane.

In News Young Entrepreneur Wows with Flip Flops Madison Robinson has yet to face the rejection that many new entrepreneurs experience when they first start out. This is very fortunate because someone who is fifteen may have a difficult time being told “no.” Every buyer she has approached with her sales pitch has placed an order for her Fish Flops for Kids shoe brand. Robinson came up with the idea for her sea-creature-adorned flip-flops with battery-operated lights when she was just 8, living at the beach in Galveston Island, Texas. Her dad Dan, a former banker turned t-shirt designer, helped her turn her drawings into a product and get samples made. More than 30 stores placed orders the first time they exhibited at a trade show, so he hired an overseas manufacturer and started shipping in May 2011. Launched with “friends and family” financing, the enterprise is already profitable, the elder Robinson says. The shoes now sell online, in various retail boutiques, and at 60 Nordstrom stores nationwide for around $20 a pair. They’re also coming soon to FlipFlopShops.com, and Macy’s buyers in New York recently asked Madison to design a line for women. More than 60,000 pairs sold in 2012, making for retail sales of at least $1.2 million. That’s not all Fish Flops’ income; the Robinsons sell wholesale. But Dan Robinson says it’s safe to say that his daughter, who is about to complete 9th grade, has already socked away enough profits to cover her college tuition. The 15-year-old draws all of her own designs and chooses color combinations digitally. She has also learned how to pack shipments, stock the warehouse, explain pricing, host a tradeshow booth, and make a sales pitch. Several ideas that came from the kindness of her heart have also turned out to be savvy business moves. Her offer of free Fish Flops and volunteer work for a charity that supports the children of fallen military heroes led to a major order from the Army’s Post Exchange stores. By donating 10,000 pairs of Fish Flops to a community shoe drive and supporting the Texas Parks & Wildlife’s K-12 State Fish Art Contest, Madison has garnered more good press. Robinson says she’s learned more than just how to run a business in two years. “When I go shoe shopping now, I look carefully at the quality of the mate-

rials.” She’s also learned patience: The worst part of business, Robinson says, is “waiting for stores to decide” if they want her goods on their shelves. She’s also waiting to spend her profits. “My Dad won’t let me touch the money,” she says. “It’s for college.”

This Restaurant’s Not for Kids Sidewalks in the hip neighborhood of Del Ray in Alexandria, Virginia, are often clogged with baby strollers and young parents, but that hasn’t stopped one new sushi restaurant from banning the 18-and-under crowd. Surprisingly enough, The Sushi Bar is owned by the same person who runs the two super kid-friendly restaurants that flank it: Pork Barrel BBQ and Holy Cow, a burger joint where you might find 20 kids running around on any given night. “We thought, ‘These poor parents, they’re always doing this and that with their kids and they need a break.’ Not so much a break from their kids, but adjoining [other people’s] kids,” said owner Mike Anderson, who has three kids himself—only two of whom are old enough to dine at the new restaurant. The no-kids policy has already caused a barrage of local press and heated comments online, but Anderson says he’s shocked at the publicity. The Sushi Bar isn’t the first restaurant to cause controversy by banning kids, though other restaurants that have done so usually just ban younger kids. Anderson owns another restaurant, Mango’s, in Bethany Beach, Del., which often has 50 or 60 kids at a time in the dining room; he estimates 50 percent of them are well-behaved, 25 percent are “borderline” and the last 25 percent are, well, not so well-behaved. “Some parents take the attitude that they’re in the door, so they take the leash off,” he said. When the restaurant held a soft opening, Anderson says the feedback was 90 percent positive. “Couples have been loving it, we think we’re on the right track.” After all, lots of restaurants across the country don’t exactly welcome kids, he says. “You go in and there’s no high chairs, no kids’ menu, no crayons, and they say, ‘Yes, we’ll feed your kids, but it’s 28 bucks for a piece of salmon.’ We’re just more outspoken about it.” Steamed edamame: $6; a platter of sashimi: $25; eating dinner with your husband and knowing that your children are sleeping soundly in bed: priceless. Continued on page 38

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The Week Persian Rug Sells for Millions Riddle me this: when is a rug not just a rug? When it’s centuries old and quite expensive. Last week, a Persian rug dated back to the early 17th century sold for $33.7 million.

Sotheby’s auction house says Wednesday’s price for the Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet was more than three times the previous auction record for a carpet. The Sickle-Leaf Carpet sold in New York City to an anonymous telephone bidder. The seller was the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The carpet was part of a collection bequeathed to Corcoran in 1926 by William A. Clark, an industrialist and U.S.

senator from Montana. The previous record price for a carpet was $9.6 million for a Persian carpet sold by Christie’s in London in April 2010. I wonder if this Persian carpet has flying capabilities.

Tight Rules Prevent Graduation This year, graduation has become a battleground for some school officials and students. With schools tightening restrictions on who gets to walk, seniors are fighting for their rights in the last hours of their high school careers. Take 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer. A feather in her cap during her graduation sparked a nationwide hubbub. Her private school, Escambia Academy, is holding the Alabama grad’s diploma and transcripts until she pays a $1,000 fine—all because she hung a lone eagle feather alongside her cap’s tassel during her May 23 commencement ceremony. Ramer, a member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, told the media that the feather was an important spiritu-

In News al and cultural symbol of pride, and that she’d decided to wear it even after being warned not to by her then-headmaster, Betty Warren (who has since been replaced, though it’s unclear whether that was related to this incident). Escambia’s dress code prohibits “extraneous items during graduation exercises unless approved by the administration.” But, Ramer said after the incident, “it was worth every penny of the thousand dollars. This is what I’ve been waiting on, and I feel like I have a right to wear it.” Other recent incidents seem just as extreme: In Tennessee, honors student Austin Mendoza was banned from his graduation ceremony after he missed a mandatory rehearsal because he had to go to work to help pay for college. Having strict policies is a trend that’s been building for a while. Last year, Justin Denney, from Maine, was sent back to his seat with no diploma after he impulsively bowed and blew a kiss to his family. “There was no misbehavior. Showboating is not misbehavior,” his mother, Mary Denney, said. “A bow, a kiss to your mom is not misbehavior. There was no need of my son not getting his diploma.”

Also last year, in Cincinnati, high school senior Anthony Cornist was denied a diploma after his family’s “excessive” cheers apparently disrupted the graduation ceremony at Mt. Healthy High. “I will be holding your diploma in the main office,” read a letter from principal Marlon Styles, Jr., “due to the excessive cheering your guests displayed during the roll call.” He then demanded 20 hours of community service from Cornist, who told a news station, “I did nothing wrong except walk across the stage.” Attorney Jason Bach, whose Education Litigation Group represents students in Las Vegas, Chicago and Austin, attributes this sort of zero-tolerance discipline, which has been increasing in recent years, to “institutional arrogance.” Creating rules without thinking through how they will apply to individual situations, he explained, provides an easy out for administrators. “It’s convenient for the schools,” he said, who “won’t have to make judgment calls if they have a rule they can apply brainlessly.” Apparently, there’s more to walking down the aisle than a cap and gown. These days teens have to actually follow the rules!

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The Week Parents of Bullies Fined Bullying has become a critical issue amongst children and teenagers. Now the Wisconsin town of Monona has taken a tremendous step in an effort to fight bullying. A law was proposed that both the bully and his or her parents can be fined upward of $114 for a bullying incident. “We don’t have a bullying problem anymore than anywhere else, but it’s been escalating nationally; we just want to try to take an extra step to fight it,” Monona Police Sgt. Ryan Losby said. “It’s for the parents out there who either won’t do anything to try and stop their kids from bullying, or for those who encourage it.” In other words, children are their parents’ responsibility. Losby, who drafted the law after being inspired by a similar, 2010 law in nearby Milton, said the new ordinance is meant only as a last resort when dealing with parents of bullies who refuse to cooperate with the school and police. The part of the law being called the “parental responsibility” can fine parents of a bully $114 for a first offense and $177 for subsequent offenses, but only after sufficient written warnings. Other aspects of the comprehensive ordinance prohibit retaliation for reporting bullies. Monona’s law is unique because it targets parents. “This is the first time that we have heard of issuing a citation to parents because their child is bullying,” Julie Hertzog, director of PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center said. “Communities are clearly looking for new ways to deal with the issue.” New York City’s Department of Education proposed a law just last week that would require staff members who witness bullying to report it to authorities within 10 days. Hopefully if everyone can work together, this epidemic can be eradicated across the country.

105-Years-Old and in the Driver’s Seat Bob Edwards was born before the first Model T rolled out of Henry Ford’s factory in Detroit. Originally, he learned to drive in a French car that had a lever instead of a steering wheel. And the centenarian is still dominating the roads,

In News only now in a red four-wheel-drive Mitsubishi. Edwards is the oldest licensed driver in New Zealand, and one of the oldest in the world. He has been driving for 88 of his 105 years and has no plans to stop any time soon. “In fact, I don’t think I’m old,” Edwards says. “Not really.” His driving record is pretty good. He’s been involved in only one crash in his life and got just one speeding ticket in his entire driving career. Three years ago, he broke his left hip and his doctors said he should stop driving for six weeks but he didn’t abide. After all, he says, he only needs his right leg to drive. “As far as I’m concerned, driving is a part of me,” Edwards says.

The law in New Zealand is that drivers older than 80 must have their health and vision tested every two years in order to keep their license active. Many European countries and some U.S. states have similar requirements to ensure safety to all drivers. While many assume that elderly drivers cause crashes, it’s actually young drivers who tend to cause the most damage. “Older drivers, on a per-kilometer-driven basis, are involved in far fewer crashes than younger drivers,” said Andy Knackstedt, a spokesman for the New Zealand Transport Agency, which oversees driver testing. According to Guinness World Records, the world’s oldest driver was American Fred Hale Sr. who was on the road until his 108th birthday in 1998. Tip for travelers: stay off the roads in New Zealand.

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Parent Seminar at Kulanu: “Working Towards the Best Life Possible” Hits Home! Last Tuesday evening at the Kulanu Center for Special Services in Cedarhurst, Ellen Paige presented a moving seminar about making the best life possible for individuals with special needs. Ellen, a licensed clinical social worker and parent of a special needs adult son, spoke to a group of parents and professionals about what life was like for her “after the diagnosis.” The loss of the dream and keeping hope alive was the message of the evening. Ellen discussed the stages of grief -denial, anxiety, fear,

guilt, depression, anger, and ultimately, acknowledgement. Ellen never dreamed that her son would reach the place where he is now and certainly never imagined that she would walk him down the aisle at his recent marriage. “Our children should be given the opportunity to have the dignity of risk.” The seminar was the last in the series hosted by Kulanu’s Keren Eliana Parent Advocacy & Resource Center (PARC). PARC offers assistance to fam-

ilies by helping them navigate the maze of social, educational, vocational, medical and recreational resources. V.F., a parent of a son with special needs who lives in Far Rockaway, has used PARC services and attended the seminar said, “I am tremendously grateful to PARC for the valuable information they give to all members of our community. The information I got from PARC was extremely useful to me and was unavailable to me anywhere else.”

MAY Country Retreat – Cold but Warm! Mesivta Ateres Yaakov recently held its annual Spring Shabbaton on the beautiful campus of Camp Romimu in Monticello, NY. The fact was, that even with the weather not having cooperated until Sunday, the Shabbaton was still a resounding success as it was replete with tremendous growth in ruchniyus, ach-

dus, ahavas Hashem and ahavas haTorah. Rabbi Yossi Bennett, Assistant Menahel, commented, “Although this was the coldest Shabbaton we’ve ever had, it was also the warmest!” From start to finish, the Shabbaton was an inspiring, exciting and stimulating weekend. The Mesivta invited Rav Yisrael Shteinwurtzel, shlit”a, Maggid Shiur in Yeshivas Sh’or Yoshuv, as their guest for Shabbos. Rav Shteinwurtzel helped set the tone for the Shabbos explaining how Shabbos serves as a bond between K’lal Yisrael and Hashem. He creatively and carefully clarified and illuminated many aspects of Yiddishkeit

that some find difficult to understand. Using a colorful array of mashalim and examples, Rav Shteinwurtzel illustrated that when there is true empathy and understanding between partners, not only are questions answered, but it becomes apparent that there never really were any questions in the first place. Wth Rav Shteinwurtzel and 12th leibugraders leading the way, the dikeit throughout the Shabbos was unparalleled, with incredible singing and dancing at all meals. Rav Shteinwurtzel spoke throughout Shabbos, beginning on Friday night before Kabbalas HaTorah and ending at Shalosh Seudas, captivating the talmidim more and more with each one of his drashos. As an added dimension to this year’s Shabbaton, the Mesivta invited a group of developmentally disabled individuals from the Otzar Chevra to join them for Shabbos. Student Activities Coordinator Rabbi Shlomo Drebin, who singlehandedly organized the entire Shabbaton, remarked, “We were offered this spe-

cial opportunity and we were thrilled to include them. As is always the case with our other achdus initiatives, it was a unique and meaningful experience for both the Otzar Chevra and the Mesivta talmidim.” Motzei Shabbos sports was followed by a barbeque melava malka that capped off an amazing Shabbos. B”H Sunday brought beautiful weather that allowed the talmidim and rabbeim alike to make great use of the camp’s recreational facilities and was a great finish to a wonderful weekend!

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At the Breakfast for Bais Hatalmud This Past Sunday, Held at the Leifer Residence Photos by Tsemach Glenn

Yeshiva Darchei Torah Inspired by Yosef Mendelevich By Moshe Benoliel When Yosef Mendelevich first visited Yeshiva Darchei Torah more than 30 years ago, he had recently been released from a Soviet prison and the brutal regime in Russia was still in power. He inspired the talmidim with his heroic tale of survival and mesiras nefesh for mitzvos. The talmidim were all aware then to some degree of what the Soviet Union was doing to stymie Russian Jewry’s ability to serve Hashem. Last week, when Yosef Mendelevich visited the Yeshiva again, he faced a completely new generation of youngsters who were born after the fall of the Soviet Union and for whom the proverbial mesiras nefesh for Torah is some-

thing to be found in Jewish history, not the Jewish present. Yet Rav Mendelevich, who today is a marbitz Torah in Eretz Yisrael, succeeded in keeping the attention of an auditorium full of hundreds of talmidim with a 45-minute synopsis of his remarkable life journey, which he also published as a memoir, Unbroken Spirit. One could have wondered how his story of resilience and sacrifice despite brutal oppression would have relevance to the lives of the young American Jews that made up his audience, who have the full freedom to practice Yiddishkeit and live a long distance, both geographically and historically, from the Soviet Union.

After Rabbi Mendelevich’s speech, which included his description of having created a makeshift yarmulke in prison by cutting apart a pair of pants, Rav Yaakov Bender, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, took the microphone. Turning to Yosef, Rabbi Bender asked him to repeat and amplify that anecdote. Rabbi Bender then turned to the audience and implored the boys to take a lesson from Yosef Mendelevich’s mesiras nefesh for the mitzvah of yarmulke and ensure that their own yarmulkes stay on their heads throughout the day, even when the wind of a baseball game or the speed of a basketball session tends to loosen its hold on their Yiddishe kep.

R’ Yosef Mendelevich is welcomed to Yeshiva Darchei Torah by Rav Yaakov Bender

Perhaps that, after all, is the overarching message of Yosef Mendelevich’s story, its relevance for our time: True, our government is far from oppressive; it is even benevolent in the extent to which it enables religious life in this country. The mesiras nefesh of 1970s Russia is rare if not nonexistent. Yet the opportunity for a different form of sacrifice, a mesiras nefesh of refusing to allow the ill winds of laziness and prikas ol prevalent in 2013 America from loosening our commitment and passion for mitzvos, is very much available to this generation.

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Lawrence Republicans Take First Place at Nassau G.O.P. Convention Uri Kaufman, founder and executive leader of the Lawrence Republican Club with club president Avi Fertig accepted the Nassau G.O.P. First Place Award for Outstanding Political Performance, on behalf of the Lawrence Republican Club, at the 2013 Nassau County Republican Party Nominating Convention. The Lawrence Republican Club was founded in 2012 by Legislator Howard J. Kopel and Uri Kaufman to help the rising number of Republican voters in the Five Towns, and particularly in Lawrence, channel their growing interest in local politics into organized participation and stronger influence in government. Winning the First Place Award at this year’s convention indicates both

Pictured from left were County Executive Ed Mangano, club president Avi Fertig, club founder and executive leader Uri Kaufman, County Republican Party Chairman Joseph Mondello, and Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray.

the great need and interest among Five Towns voters for an organization such

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OHEL Bais Ezra Residents Welcomed in Communities of Great Neck and Brooklyn OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services strives to integrate individuals with disabilities into our community. OHEL Shabbatonim play an important role, both providing OHEL individuals with a warm and welcoming experience and educating the wider community about the abilities of all. In the Great Neck Synagogue in Great Neck, Long Island, individuals

from OHEL Bais Ezra residences spent a beautiful Shabbos with staff members, and community families. The residence members were welcomed with open arms, and they davened in the main minyan, receiving many different aliyot and kibbudim. Well over 100 people attended the meals, including the hosts and their children. Divrei torah and Thank you speeches were delivered by

the individuals who attended. Zmirot and dancing were followed by dessert, benching, and then home to the hosts for some time to relax. On the other side of town, in Brooklyn, members from different OHEL Bais Ezra residences attended a shabbaton along with members from Kol Israel and the Yeshiva of Flatbush. The OHEL residents received numerous aliyot and kibbudim during davening, as well as gave Dvrei Torah during Shacharis, lunch, and between Mincha/Maariv in the Main shul. For more information about OHEL’s numerous programs and services in your own community, please contact OHEL today at 1800-603OHEL, askohel@ ohelfamily.org or www.ohelfamily. org

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Avi Greenberg, son of Stu and Shari Greenberg of Woodmere, a student at Yeshiva Ketana, celebrated his bar mitzvah at the Young Israel of Woodmere on May 25. Avi took a break during the photo session to relax while catching up on the local news in his favorite Jewish newspaper.

We Must Actively Pursue Peace Pirkei Avos (1:12) says “Hillel omer, ‘Hevei mitalmidav shel Aharon, oheiv shalom virodaif shalom, oheiv es habriyos umikarvan latorah,’ Hillel says be among the disciples of Aharon, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving people and bringing them closer to the Torah.” Aharon was a “rodef shalom”; he was a “pursuer of peace.” He actively tried to bring peace between people, even going as far as to degrade himself for the sake of bringing peace between people who were arguing and specifically between husband and wife. If asked honestly, most people will answer that they love peace and they believe that peace is a worthy goal to work towards. However, to be considered a disciple of Aharon, it’s not enough for us to love peace and want to have peace – we must actively pursue it.

In marriage there are times that having peace requires us to pursue it, to extend ourselves and make an effort to bring about that peace. Sometimes a relationship hits a bumpy patch or an argument arises. Often our first instinct is to just leave things and let it “blow over.” Sometimes this works but often it doesn’t. Instead of “blowing over,” when left alone, the situation often “blows out of proportion.” At such a time it would be wise to follow the path illuminated for us by the actions of Aharon and pursue peace. The Alshich explains that the Mishnah does not tell us to become equal to Aharon, rather to be from his disciples, following his teachings to the best of our ability. Our Sages teach us that Aharon would even degrade himself for the sake of bringing peace between a husband and wife. Let us try to emulate his ways. At times we really want peace

and yet our pride or our hurt feelings stop us from pursuing peace. We become convinced that the other should really apologize to us first, or the other should be the one to try to patch things up. At a time like this we should aim to count ourselves among the students of Aharon. We should put our pride on hold and pursue peace, doing whatever it takes to bring it about. If we really make a sincere effort to “love peace and pursue peace” we will merit to be counted among the “talmidav shel Aharon” and to feel the blessing in our marriage that comes when there is peace between husband and wife. 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 516-430-5280 or email dsgarry@ msn.com.

Young Israel of Hewlett Honors Councilman Santino Young Israel of Hewlett, Congregation Ahavat Israel held their annual shul dinner at Congregation Ohr Torah. Rabbi Heshy Blumstein, the officers and members of the congregation recognized community members for their steadfast dedication to the community, its sustaining growth and improvement. The shul honored Town of Hempstead Senior Councilman Anthony J. Santino with a special community service award for his efforts during and im-

mediately after Hurricane Sandy as well as for the continued recovery from the superstorm. Thanks to the efforts of Councilman Santino, more than $1,000,000 in insurance company claims that had been previously denied by insurance companies have been paid out to homeowners, families and businesses adversely affected by the storm. Councilman Santino and his staff also continue to advocate for constituents during the recovery process to a myriad of state and federal agencies.

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Rabbi Wakslak Helps the Long Beach Hotel Cater to its Frum Clientele The Long Beach Hotel officially opened its doors this past month at 405 East Broadway, Long Beach, NY. It is located in one of Long Beach’s most historical buildings, which was fully renovated to provide an exceptional, yet affordable hotel experience. Dr. David Kadosh, owner and operator of The Long Beach Hotel, has been in consultation with Rabbi Chaim Wakslak, Rov of the Young Israel of Long Beach,

L-R: Dr. David Kadosh, Rabbi Chaim Wakslak, Eryca Kadosh

Pictured during the award presentation are (L to R) Financial Secretary Ivan Goodstein, Senior Councilman Anthony J. Santino, Rabbi Heshy Blumstein and his wife Mimi.

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in terms of addressing the specific needs of the frum hotel guest. Arrangements are being made to provide a Glatt Kosher catering service which would make the hotel a perfect venue for weekend Bar Mitzvahs, Sheva Berachos, weddings, and other catered affairs. Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak, joined by Dr. David and Eryca Kadosh, put up a mezuzah in the hotel entrance this past week.

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Around the Community Machon Basya Rochel Upcoming Shiur for Girls Back from Eretz Yisroel It is that time of year again when so many families in the neighborhood will be welcoming home their daughters who have spent the memorable year of learning in seminary in Eretz Yisroel. The girls, while excited to see their families and homes, return confused about how to incorporate what they have learned in Eretzeinu Hakadosha into their lives in America. Added to that is the idea that soon they will be pursuing college degrees and working, so different than how they have spent the previous ten months. Addressing this pressing issue of many returning girls, Machon Basya Rochel Seminary will be hosting a shiur titled “Maintaing Your Kedusha After Leaving the Land of Kedusha” given by Rebbitzen Aviva Feiner, Menaheles of the Seminary. The shiur will take place Tuesday, June 18 at 11:00 a.m. at the seminary located at 137 Lawrence Avenue across from the Lawrence Railroad Station. Rebbitzen Feiner will share insights and practical suggestions as to

how the girls can take their growth and not only maintain it but also increase it as well. Following the shiur , there will be an optional presentation of the Machon Basya Rochel Seminary’s Shana Bet program, designed for a girl who is working or in college. In the seminary environment she will not only learn, but also form connections with the seminary’s special staff of Mechanchos and Rebbeim who can support her during this time. The seminary also offers the opportunity to pursue your BA or certificate programs with Testing Training International. For more information about this shiur, the Shana Bet Program, or other educational opportunities at Machon Basya Rochel Seminary, contact 516-362-5000 or info@mbrseminary.org. Machon Basya Rochel Seminary is dedicated in memory of Mrs. Rose Edelman.

Bnos Bais Yaakov’s 8th Grade Grad Trip What a way to end the school year! For the BBY 8th graders, this year’s new version of a senior trip was the absolute best case scenario for a finale to their years in Bnos Bais Yaakov. The Retreat began on May 29th when the girls boarded the buses eager for their adventure. Joining the 8th graders was Mrs. Yitty Halpert, their beloved Menaheles. This was particularly significant because Mrs. Halpert is relocating to Lakewood at the end of this school year. Travelling with her on such an exciting expedition was a poignant and appropriate way for the 8th graders to bid Mrs. Halpert farewell. Also along for the journey were Mrs. Gitty Goldwasser (Administrative Assistant) and Morah Shulamis Feldberger (Extra-Curriculum Coordinator), Mrs. Suri Brick, Mrs. Chavi Furman and Mrs. Henny Gold (8th grade Limudei Kodesh teachers), and two staff chaperones, Faygie Rand and Danit Damty. The first official stop was made in Albany where Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder met the girls and arranged for them to attend a session in the Capitol. He also spoke to the girls about the workings of government advocacy. Lunch was enjoyed at the scenic Capitol Hill Concourse and a scavenger hunt was held in the N.Y. State Museum.

Then it was on to Camp Malka… By the time the girls disembarked, they were more than ready to stretch their legs and amble through the beautiful grounds of Camp Malka. After their refreshing stroll, the evening’s festivities began: a delicious supper, a fun warmup game, a song and dance performance, and a beautiful, emotionally evocative slide show produced by the 8th graders in tribute to Mrs. Halpert. Then, as a late night surprise, the girls were taken to a roller skating rink. And, if all that were not enough, the evening ended with brownies and ice cream for a way-pastmidnight snack! Thursday, May 30th dawned clear and crisp. The 8th graders made excellent use of the Camp Malka facilities– enjoying the ropes course, biking, and various sports activities. A heartfelt kumzitz, a delicious lunch, and the girls were off again. This time their destination was Jiminy Peak where they went alpine sliding, hiking, and manual rollercoaster riding!! The girls relaxed over a communal supper and boarded the buses to head home – exhausted, inspired, and happy. *Kudos to retreat heads – Reva Schiff, Morgalit Levy, and Aviva Sternberg. And a special thank you to Mr. Aharon Kaplan – our gracious host in Camp Malka.

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HANC Bat Mitzvah Program The sixth grade girls at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School in West Hempstead enjoyed an inspiring Bat Mitzvah program in which they celebrated being “links in the chain of the Jewish mesorah.” The sixth grade girls and their mothers heard divrei Torah from Rabbi Sadigh, principal, and from Ms. Miriam Bornstein, about the beauty of becoming a Bat Mitzvah and the many important roles of the Jewish woman. Mrs. Barbara Deutsch, associate principal, explained that the students worked on a Bat Mitzvah project during which they learned about the meaning and significance of their Jewish names and in which each girl did research about a Jewish woman

from history who continues to serve as a role model to Jewish girls and women today. Mrs. Deutsch then introduced a PowerPoint presentation that the girls created titled, “Snapshots, Role Models and Middot” in which the students explained the importance of their names, gave an overview of the role model they learned about, and explained what important middot they learned from the person they research. During the evening, the students also made beautiful beaded necklaces featuring the Hebrew initials of their name. Mazal Tov to all our Bnot Mitzvah and thank you to Morah Charna for working so hard with the girls all year long and for coordinating this special evening.

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Author Meish Goldish Visits HANC HANC Students in first through fifth grade at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School in West Hempstead had a special treat when author Meish Goldish came to visit! Mr. Goldish, who has authored over 400 books, spoke to the students about the three different genres of books, fiction, non-fiction and poetry, which he writes. Mr. Goldish explained that he enjoys writing because it allows him to use his imagination and he explained that he uses the world around him to generate ideas for books. For example, when he yawned and accidentally swallowed a bug, he started to wonder if there are people around the world (not Jewish people, of course!) who actually eat bugs

on purpose. After doing research and discovering that there are people who eat bugs all over the world, Mr. Goldish wrote a book called Bug-A- Licious (Extreme Cuisine). And when Mr. Goldish changed a light bulb that had just burned out and was still warm, he wondered if a warm light bulb might be a clue to help solve a mystery, and so he used that idea in a book called Solve It. Mr. Goldish told the students that if they write for school, then they are already authors! He also encouraged the students to always be curious about the world around them because if they keep their eyes open they might discover a great idea for a story!

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“Aladdin” Directors: Rina C. Hirsch, Eliana Hirsch, Na’ama Rosenberg, Ariana Wolfson

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Drama for Life’s Founding Director, Rina C. Hirsch and Ayalah Leibowicz of Project Extreme

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Drama for Life! presented two showings of “Aladdin” on Sunday, June 9th. Over 500 people came to the event to support community girls and Project Extreme.

YOSS SET3 Team: Over the Top In a real life version of the Little Train That Could, The Yeshiva of South Shore SET3 Team – Science Engineerin g Teamwork, Technology and Training – was awarded First Place in the recent CIJE SET3 Competition hosted at YOSS last Tuesday, June 4, 2013. The team, including 8th graders Jacob Minkin, Shlomo Graber, Eli Roth, Natan Samson, Zach Joseph, Yosef Halpern, Dani Grunstein, Zach Farrell, and Adiv Cederbaum and the team advisor, Mrs. Elisheva Pinsky, competed against other yeshivas both local and regional. This year’s competition was titled: The Big Hill. Each school’s team had to develop a solution that would advance an “O” gauge train and its target cargo of 4kg from the floor to a height of 12 inches and back down again. This sounds simple enough, but trains work 

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most efficiently along a horizontal plane; any deviation in height from that ideal creates major issues with regard to speed and torque for which the students had to devise solutions. The YOSS team met weekly with Mrs. Pinsky to learn the knowledge and background skills necessary to be able to design a winning solution. Logic, analytical thinking, perspective, drawing on prior experience, and most important of all, perseverance are among the abstract skills that the boys have learned from their experience on the SET3 Team. As the advisor, one of Mrs. Pinsky’s responsibilities is to identify and coordinate the strengths and innate abilities of the individual boys and build on those talents to create a winning team. In addition, the boys learn some of the laws of physics, cal-

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culating speed, simple machines, torque and mechanical advantage. Mrs. Tova Roth, a parent of one of the team members said it best: “Mrs. Pinsky found a way for each boy to contribute and be excited about what he learned. My son Eli loved it and wants to join extracurricular technical activities in HS. Thanks for the inspiration!” Mrs. Pinsky commented, “I am extremely proud of each team member. No matter where we placed in the competition, I consider the year a success based on the self-confidence, maturity, and work ethic that my team developed as they collaborated to solve the often times frustrating bumps encountered along the way. That Eli Roth has been inspired to pursue his interest and study of engineering means that I have succeeded in the ultimate goal of CIJE’s

SET3program!” “It was rewarding to see students take ownership and pride of their finalized project,” said Mr. Daniel Winkler, Associate Principal of the middle school at YOSS. CIJE is The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education under the direction of Mrs. Judy Lebovits. Mr. Joel Javitt is the Supervisor of the Scientific Engineering Programs at CIJE and serves as mentor to the SET3 advisors at participating schools. Mrs. Pinsky and the team members were pleased to welcome Mr. Javitt at their meetings approximately every other week throughout the year. The YOSS SET3 Team was awarded their First Place Trophies during the 8th grade graduation ceremony on Sunday, June 9th. Yasher Koach to the entire team!

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MAY Basketball Champs Again! In their first season joining the League, the Ateres Yaakov Eagles took home the intermediate division (9th and 10th grades) championship in the National Council of Young Israel’s Basketball League. The championship culminated an intense 10 game season, in which the Eagles finished with a division leading 8-2 record. “We promote healthy outlets for our talmidim whenever and wherever we can,” commented Rabbi Yossi Bennett, Assistant Menahel and Athletic Director at MAY, “when we got wind of this league and the kosher, efficient and professional way in which it was run, we decided to join on the intermediate level.” Expertly coached by local alumni Zack Hatten and Natan Cohen, the team proved to be a “force to be reckoned with” throughout the entire season. After a playoff win in a hometown rivalry

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Many happy returns! Long Island Living Center resident, Sarah Cohen is congratulated upon her 100th birthday, celebrated here with members of her family at the presentation with a citation in honor of this milestone by Eugene Shvartsman, Director of Constituent Affairs for the 23rd District, who is representing Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder. At right in both photos is Ami Shetrit, Administrator of the LILC. “All the residents and staff at Long Island Living Center are looking forward to celebrating Sarah’s 101st birthday,” said Mr. Shetrit.

against the Young Israel of Woodmere, the Eagles were slated to take on the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates in the championship game. What began as a slow starting game quickly developed into an intense matchup between the top two teams in the League. At the close of the first

quarter, however, the Eagles had taken a dominating lead, 21-11, which they would not lose the entire game. At the close, the final score was 71-47. Eagles’ captain and 10th grader, Yaakov Puderbeutel, led the team in scoring and led the Eagles in their amazing first season. May’s Menahel Rabbi Yaffe re-

marked, “We are so proud of our talmidim, both for the incredible commitment and dedication they demonstrated to their team, but more so for the menchlich and classy manner in which they conducted themselves. We hope to join the League’s senior division next year as well.”

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Holocaust Survivor to Receive the High School Diploma He Was Denied 88-year-old Holocaust survivor, Jack Ratz, will be awarded a high school diploma alongside his grandson, Brian Fine, during Rambam Mesivta’s graduation ceremony taking place on June 17 at 7:30 pm in Congregation Beth Shalom, Lawrence, New York. Mr. Ratz was 14-years-old when the Nazis invaded Latvia in 1941 and vividly recalls them immediately creating two Jewish ghettos. One ghetto was for those men who were able to work, and the other was for the infirm, children, and women who were immediately targeted for death. He opted to go with his father rather than with his mother and the children and credits that decision for saving his life. Shortly thereafter, all of the women and

children in the other ghetto were brought to the forest and mercilessly shot by the Nazis. He then spent his high school years in a labor camp, and never had the opportunity to go to high school. Coming to the United States after the war and building a family, he ended up authoring a heartfelt yet gut-wrenching book about his experiences, titled Endless Miracles. Mr. Ratz has lectured to thousands of students across the United States, and his book has become a mainstay in Holocaust education in many schools. Mr. Ratz’s grandson, Brian Fine, will be one of the 43 talmidim graduating from Rambam Mesivta this year. An honorary diploma will be conferred upon Mr. Ratz because, as Rabbi Zev

Meir Friedman, Rosh Mesivta of Rambam Mesivta, stated, “Mr. Ratz went through unspeakable horrors during his high school years and yet survived with

emunah, dignity and a message for all of us. There is so much we can all learn from him.”

Henry Kauftheil Speaks to a Packed House at The Brooklyn Jewish Xperience (BJX) Henry Kauftheil’s illustrious background as an internet entrepreneurial pioneer was fascinating for BJX students. Our unaffiliated students had the rare opportunity to meet a Chasidic businessman from Borough Park, the son of an Auschwitz survivor, whose business in the mid-1990s received a valuation of 1 billion dollars and who had business dealings in 16 countries all over the world. Kauftheil was wined and dined by kings, prime ministers and

presidents but despite numerous challenges, he never deviated from Torah observance. Kauftheil recounted several fascinating accounts of sacrificing accounts worth millions of dollars in order to keep Shabbos. He shared vignettes of his trips to Asia and how he kept kosher to the bewilderment of his hosts. He kept the students totally spellbound and captivated and inspired them greatly to exploring their roots and learning more about Torah observance.

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Connecting to Hashem at Bais Yaakov of Queens Bais Yaakov of Queens had a schoolwide Yom Iyun last week which was an overwhelming success! The theme, V’erastic Li L’olam, BYQ Connection to Hashem was both meaningful and moving. The program began with Rabbi Gewirtz addressing the entire school on ways to become close to Hashem. Following the assembly, students were entertained by their very talented Moros in a presentation entitled, “A Morning in the Day of Ahuva Katz.” The play portrayed a young student’s day, how she overcame her yetzer hora numerous times and connected with Hashem in a very practical way. Mrs. Somerstein, the Limudai Kodesh principal, felt the message “Hashem Loves Me” was successfully relayed to all the students. The 8th graders, under the direction of Mrs. Nechama Jurkowitz, performed a special theme song written for the program . She taught the beautiful melody and meaningful lyrics to the entire assembled school. The program

was followed by a visual interactive workshop presented by each teacher in her classroom. The school building entrance was decorated to resemble a wedding hall. Practical ways to connect to Hashem were printed on signs throughout the school. A full “mock wedding” was celebrated with music, dancing and a Viennese table full of treats. The final events of the day included inspiring speeches by guest speakers. Every two grades were spoken with on their level. Their speakers included Mrs. Etti Siegel, Mrs. Chaviva Pfeiffer, Mrs. Yocheved Deitsch, and Mrs. Etty Lapp. Mrs. Somerstein said, “The morning was exciting, uplifting, educational and a truly eye opening experience for our students.” The goal was to instill in the

students a feeling of love toward Hashem and to realize Hashem’s love for us and an appreciation for all that Hashem does for us. Special recognition to Mrs. Elisa Taub, who directed and implemented this beautiful program. Mrs. Somerstein was greatly impressed with the devotion and

dedication of all those who helped make the day a success, including Mrs. Nechama Jurkowitz, Mrs. Yocheved Jurkowitz and Mrs. Veeta Abramchik who gave of their own time to decorate the building and ensure the success of this wonderful program.

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Why SHUVU? What do you get when the world’s greatest skeptic confronts pure and simple, sincerity and truth? Although there are probably numerous correct answers to this question, in this case the winning response would be a Shuvu breakfast.

My involvement with this extraordinary organization is a story that I hope will impel readers to realize that this experience can be yours too! It involves a

dream, a “chance” meeting, the call of a Gadol, and a decision to take up the mantle. About two years ago, I awoke one morning to my wife, Chavi, saying, “I had a dream.” Knowing well that this was not about the civil rights movement, I awaited some additional information. Chavi’s dreams are often quite vivid and descriptive. I never got to hear what this one was about. All I got was the message, “We have to have our mezuzahs and your tefillin checked.” Everything had been checked fairly recently, so there was no requirement to have them examined again, however, I came to the conclusion that the only logical thing to do was that which was illogical. The next step was removing all the mezuzahs and bringing them, along with my tefillin, which I had been wearing daily for forty years, to our sofer. With the exception of two mezuzahs, one of which was questionable, they all checked out fine. Not wanting to mess with Chavi’s dream I even replaced the

questionable one, went home, made a brocha, and rehung them all. Then I waited. A few days later, he called. I hesitantly answered. Even though these tefillin had been checked often, and were always quite up to snuff, they had never been challenged by a foreboding dream. I was confident yet still concerned. “You can pick up your tefillin whenever you’d like. They are fine,” said the sofer’s assistant. Baruch Hashem. At the store, I asked the sofer to rate my tefillin. He gave them a very respectable 6 1/2, maybe even 7 out of 10. I inquired about a “10.” He brought out a small plastic bag containing parshios, recently received from Eretz Yisroel. It was love at first sight. These were the parshios I wanted to wear for the rest of my life. On the spot, I commissioned a new set of tefillin. I only hope my davening with them are worthy of my daily donning of them. Now the question: What should I do with my old, bar mitzvah tefillin? These tefillin were not just going to be loaner tefillin, as was suggested, collecting dust while waiting around for someone to have theirs checked. I was hoping for better. My new tefillin were placed in my old torn and worn bar mitzvah dekel. The old ones were kissed as one would a departing close friend, and placed lovingly on the shelf in my office. An appropriate purpose for them was sure to found. It was months later that it became apparent what Hakadosh Baruch Hu had in store for them, myself and Chavi. For practical purposes, I have found a wonderful morning minyon in Brooklyn near work. One morning, one of the locals, asked if he could come to my office to speak. I told him to bring lunch and come by. A few days later, Yoseph Moshe Aronoff showed up on Rogers Avenue. He didn’t bring lunch. He did better. He brought a heart as big as the world, regaling me with stories of the accomplishments of a network of sixty seven schools in Eretz

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Yisroel, educating 15,000 immigrant children, and the residual effects that this chinuch was having on their fami-

lies. Shuvu was impacting the lives of so many. Entire families were being embraced. A wonderful Kiddush Hashem, and I wanted to connect with it. Yoseph Moshe explained that many of these boys were becoming bar mitzvah but hadn’t the means to purchase tefillin. Most classes had 7 or 8 pairs for the twenty five or so boys. They shared. They davened together, and one pair of tefillin would be wrapped and unwrapped, and passed around from boy to boy during different parts of the davening. This went on every day . Shuvu had made arrangements with a prominent sofer in Eretz Yisroel to purchase nice, kosher, sets for their boys, at the reduced rate of $500.00. They needed sponsors. “Would you like to donate a set of tefillin?” Nine words that changed my life. “I will do one better,” I said. Now he listened to a story of a dream, a new set of tefillin, and an old, just checked pair, valued both monetarily and sentimentally much more than any tefillin he would purchase with my $500.00. My bar mitzvah tefillin would find a new owner 6,000 miles away, gifted to “the right boy.” Transferring my beloved tefillin may have been the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. As we stood in the shul’s hallway, I kept reaching out , poised to hand them over, and then withdrawing my arms, enabling me to hold o them for another moment or two. We had a history together of over forty years. I donned those tefillin every day. All those years, it was difficult to part ways. Finally, saying good bye in my heart, they were gone. Shuvu rarely had an experience like this before, receiving actual tefillin. It didn’t seem proper to just put them in

a box to be shipped. Perhaps a hand delivery could be arranged. And so it was. A meeting was planned to find the “right boy.” I was impressed with the seriousness given to the search. The “right boy” was chosen. Would we be traveling to Israel any time soon, they asked? In fact, we were. A special program was arranged for my tefillin presentation to the “right boy.” Honestly I was nervous. My ivrit gets me around (“eifo hasheirutim?”, “ha-im ze haautobus le Efrat?”) but a presentation? That means a speech. In Hebrew. Upon arriving at our hotel we were met with a huge, hanging sign which read, WELCOME SHUVU. We felt Hashem’s smile on us, as we just happened upon Shuvu’s annual dinner taking place there, that very evening. Arrangements were made to meet with Ayton Himmelstein later in the week. Ayton led us through a typical school building, to the classroom where the “right boy” studied. There were twenty-five right boys in that class. Waiting for the special visitor from America, sat a mixed bag of Israeli kids. A healthy blend of Klal Yisrael: Ethiopian, part

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Russian, Ashkenazim and Sfardim. Some seemingly more modern, right alongside another who looked more yeshivish. A live vision of kibbutz goliyos. Throughout the morning we became more and more impressed with this unit of kids. And they were a unit. They interacted respectfully and happily with each other appreciating what was happening in their midst. After the Rebbi and principal spoke, I was asked to present. I explained that I had worn these tefillin for more than 40 years as I joyously handed them to Alon Mizrachi, the “right boy.” His classmates gave him divrei brocho. They each arose and addressed him with words from the heart with complete absence of sarcasm and teenage coolness. These 13-year-olds acted with a maturity, a sense of values and appreciation well beyond their years, reveling in the honor bestowed upon their friend. Spontaneously, they got up and danced and sang. Could there have been more joy? Yes. It came when we met the rest of the family, the grandparents, both Russian immigrants. The father, Yoseph Mizrachi, a Sefardi Jew, works as a secu-

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rity guard on Har Hazeisim. He could not stop thanking us. He works hard, his wife is a stay-at-home mom, and he barely makes ends meet. He had been worrying about how they were going to afford tefillin for Alon and davening for a yeshuah. If you are the answer to that prayer, all you could do is smile and say thank you to The One Above for the opportunity for the incredible. Within this family were three generations of Torah observant Jews, dressed in clothing from different strands of Jewish culture. The boys in the class mirrored that same image. All appearing different, yet very much together. The ahavas Yisroel that emanated from that room was profound. Rav Pam

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would have been proud of his organization. Rav Pam was about loving Jews and Shuvu reflects his love. We are so fortunate to have been blessed with this experience. Mitzvah goreres mitzvah. Please help this extraordinary organization. During these difficult times I sincerely say that any

and all contributions are welcome. But for $500 or a pair of tefillin, I guarantee you an experience of a lifetime.

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HALB’s Fourth Grade Girls, Their Mothers and Grandmothers Join Together at the M’dor L’dor Supperette

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MAY Blood Drive…and Sheva Brachos! Another successful blood drive was hosted by Mesivta Ateres Yaakov this past Wednesday – the third of the year. A total of 103 pints of blood were donated to benefit Bikur Cholim of Maimonides Hospital. Drive organizers, Chaim Shul-

man and Yishai Zwiren, both seniors, were determined to collect over 300 pints of blood over the course of their senior year, and they succeeded in exceeding that goal by a considerable margin! Chaim and Yishai continue a longstanding legacy of dedication to “squeezing” the most out of each year’s blood drive to ensure that the greatest number of patients can benefit. They carry on a tradition of leaving no vein untapped exemplified by their

predecessor drive leaders. One of those prior leaders, MAY alumnus Moshe English, came to donate blood with his new kallah, Menucha. Moshe, who was just married a few days earlier, not only organized his senior class’s blood drive, but was instrumental in bringing Bikur Cholim to the Five Towns. When Moshe’s rabbeim saw him and his wife refreshing themselves with a bagel and juice after donating, they suggested making sheva brachos. So, together with the students who had just donated blood, the Mesivta made an impromptu sheva brachos, complete with divrei Torah, singing and a wonderful spirit. Rabbi Yossi Bennett, Assistant Men-

ahel, remarked, “We regularly attend our alumni’s weddings and sheva brochos, but I think a sheva brochos at a blood drive is a first!” The yeshiva wishes Moshe and Menucha mazel and brocha, and are so proud that they, like other MAY alumni, will clearly be incorporating the MAY chessed values into their bayis neeman!

TAG Girls Give Back to the Community By Orly Gross What do kiruv programs, busy mothers, and clothing drives have in common? They all know that they can count on TAG girls to help them out! TAG High School’s Zichron Henya Ahavas

Chessed program, under the capable leadership of Mrs. Breindy Judowitz, has become the address for many of the community’s needs. From their regular programs to their annual events, TAG

girls help out in many different ways. General Programs: Although the official community service minimum is 30 hours, many TAG students lose track of their hours since they do well over 100! Programs like tutoring, Help a Mom, and Chaverim (spending time with children with special needs) give girls a chance to help families on a one on one basis. For those who prefer to be more behind the scenes, they can pack boxes at Yad Yeshaya or prepare Packages for Patients. TAG is also involved with JEP in three different areas and sends girls to Liven up a Simcha on a regular basis! Wondering how girls get everywhere? TAG’s very own seniors are the chessed drivers who make it all happen, chauffeuring girls to and from their weekly commitments. Storm Relief: When Hurricane Sandy soaked the Five Towns/Far Rockaway area, TAG’s Chessed Program stepped in right away to help. In the chaos that followed the storm, they identified a need and came up with an innovative way to fill it. Sandy Sunday events, offered the two Sundays immediately following the storm, gave hundreds of children a camp-like atmosphere where they could play games and make projects. Dozens of TAG girls pitched in at Sh’or Yoshuv also, categorizing clothing and supplies. And the TAG building itself became a hub of activity as warm suppers were offered to the community for several days. Annual Events: Some of the most anticipated events in TAG are the yearly chessed functions. The pre-Purim Od Yosef Chai Auction raises thousands of dollars for aniyei Eretz Yisroel, while the

Chai Lifeline hospital parties bring joy to dozens of children stuck in hospitals. And the annual Sister-to-Sister Shabbaton, a weekend for single mothers, has TAG girls vying for a chance to come along as waitresses. Optional Learning Programs: TAG’s Chessed Program has also set up learning initiatives outside of school time, both for its own students and for all high school girls. The popular Naaseh V’Nishmah series, weekly learning sessions stretching from Pesach to Shavuos, give TAG students an opportunity to learn in a group setting and then hear a shiur on the same topic. The Light up Your Night events bring together girls from 5 or 6 different high schools, inspiring them with speakers such as Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein and Mr. Charlie Harary. Light up Your Night has gotten rave reviews from girls in many different schools, and they keep asking for more! In TAG, the message instilled is that chessed is not about the hours; rather, it’s about giving to others. As one girl put it, chessed “gives me the opportunity to be part of the community and give back.” And it’s true. Some girls restructure their day to offer an extra hour of tutoring. Others give up hours on weekends to participate in Chai Lifeline’s Project Mesameach. A lack of time, space or sleep is not considered an obstacle to giving to others. These girls juggle various commitments, but they make chessed a priority. There’s no doubt about it: if America runs on Dunkin, then TAG runs on Chessed, and there are thousands of grateful families who agree!

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At a Fundraising Event For Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder in Cedarhurst Last Week Photo credits: Tsemach Glenn

L-R: Pesach Osina, Rabbi Baruch Rothman, Assemblyman Goldfeder, and Village of Lawrence Trustee Michael Fragin

L-R: Assemblyman Goldfeder with Rabbi Eytan Feiner of the White Shul in Far Rockaway. Rabbi Dov Silver of Madraigos is on the right.

L-R: Moshe Feuer, Assemblyman Goldfeder, Rabbi Eytan Feiner and Gilles Gade

Leading Gedolei Yisroel to Give Chizuk and address Klal Yisroel at Dirshu Siyum in Binyanei Haumah By Chaim Gold In an unprecedented outpouring of chizuk for the Torah world, a gathering of venerated Gedolei Yisroel from across the spectrum will gather together on Sunday, 15 Tammuz/June 23, at the massive Binyanei Haumah Convention Center to celebrate the Dirshu siyum on Masechta Eruvin; mark the first yahrtzeit of the Posek Hador, HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, zt”l; and infuse the Torah world with chizuk at a time of great peril. The completion of Masechta Eruvin is undoubtedly a tremendous milestone. Eruvin, which our sages have called one of the most difficult masechtos in Shas, requires tremendous perseaverance to complete. Even more difficult is to complete it in a fashion where one is ready to be tested on it. Such a feat requires a profound sense of dedication to limud haTorah! It demands perseverance, hasmodah – diligence, and yegiah – toil. All of these traits characterize the dedicated lomed Torah and thus the gedolei Yisroel felt that an event such as this will serve as the ultimate venue wherein we, as a nation, have the opportunity to publically declare and display the supremacy of Torah in our lives. The fact that the first yahrtzeit of the Posek Hador, HaGaon HaRav Elyashiv, zt”l, is rapidly approaching gives added meaning to the event at which our Torah leaders will share their memories and the lessons learned from him that apply to today’s beleaguered Torah community. Gedolei Yisroel to Give Guidance on Burning Issues Facing Klal Yisroel Indeed, those of us old enough to remember, nostalgically recall how the gedolei hador of previous generations utilized a Torah maamad, an event such as an important siyum to address and impart daas Torah regarding vital is-

sues facing Klal Yisroel. They felt that an event which celebrates Klal Yisroel’s dedication to limud haTorah is the optimum time to impart guidance in confronting the crucial issues facing Klal Yisroel. Thousands of bnei Torah from across Eretz Yisroel are expected to flock to Binyanei Haumah to participate in a Torah gathering of a magnitude that has not been held in Eretz Yisroel since the historic Dirshu World Siyum marking the previous Siyum HaShas. In addition, many thousands more will participate via live video hook-up, between 2pm–4pm EST on Sunday June 23rd, broadcast to Jewish centers across the globe. In the Northeast there will be a number of live hook-up locations in the major Torah centers where large crowds of Lomdei Dirshu and Ohavei Torah are expected. In Brooklyn, the live video hook-up will be held at Beis Medrash Birchas Avraham, in Lakewood at Cheder Bnei Torah, in Monsey at Hamaspik Terrace and in the Catskills at the Raleigh Hotel in South Fallsburg. Advertisements in local publications will delineate the times and the places of the live hook-ups in other cities in America and across the globe. In fact, one of the participating senior gedolei hador urged the leadership of Dirshu to arrange hookups throughout Eretz Yisroel and the rest of the Jewish world so that the maximum amount of people could participate and receive chizuk and guidance in the very difficult times that the Torah community finds itself. A Live/Radio stream of the entire program will also be available in Brooklyn on 97.5 FM. In addition there will be a live telephone hookup available of the event and the important messages of the Gedolei Yisroel that can be heard throughout

the United States and Canada on Kol Halashon. Other live telephone hook-up coverage can be heard at FNW of Lakewood and Radio Kol HaTorah of Brooklyn. Thanks For the Past; Prayer for the Future One Rosh Yeshiva put it succinctly when he said, “If a person is still learning and being tested on the Daf Yomi through Masechta Eruvin, he has shown that he is on the way to completing the entire Shas. Masechta Eruvin is the demarcation line that shows that one is truly a potential Shas Yid.” Rav Shlomo Rozenstein, Dirshu’s Director of Public Affairs, related that the Gemara teaches us that before a person enters the bais medrash to learn he must give thanks to Hashem for His past kindness and he must also beg and raise his voice in prayer for the future. This historic asifa and siyum at Binyanei Haumah is a manifestation of this ideal. As we celebrate the completion of Eruvin, a milestone that displays and symbolizes the Torah world’s dedication to serious limud haTorah, we will thank Hashem for the flourishing of the Torah community over the past decades. Simultaneously we will be raising our voices in heartfelt prayer that He should continue to shower His blessing upon us and that no force in the world should hinder the continued growth and accomplishments of the Torah world. A Declaration of Achdus Through Torah Perhaps Rav Avigdor Berenstein, a senior member of the Hanhala of Dirshu, put it best when he said, “This momentous event at Binyanei Haumah celebrating limud haTorah will also demonstrate achdus. The fact that so many gedolei

Yisroel representing the entire cross-section of the Torah community will join together under one roof to encourage and celebrate the continued viability and flourishing of the Torah community will profoundly impact all Jews to whom Torah learning is dear. Not only the gedolei Yisroel but Jews of all types and stripes, who are united by their limud haTorah – the ultimate binder of Klal Yisroel – will join our leading Torah sages in declaring, ‘Torah is the most important thing in our lives.’ “In difficult times such as these, it is a most beautiful thing to celebrate a true simcha together with achdus. In this way we will show ourselves and the entire world that ‘netzach Yisroel lo yishaker – the eternal nature of Klal Yisroel as a Torah nature will continue unabated.’ Our leading Roshei Yeshiva, admorim and Rabbonim will encourage continued dedication to accountable limud haTorah and will hail Dirshu for being at the forefront of facilitating dedication to Torah and increasing knowledge of Torah at an unprecedented size and scope.” “The confluence of factors of the first yahrtzeit of HaGaon HaRav Elyashiv, zt”l, the completion of Masechta Eruvin and the achdus of so many gedolei Yisroel coming together, certainly promise to make this upcoming siyum at Binyanei Haumah an event that will broadcast the supremacy of Torah to the entire world, both religious and secular. Not only the fact that Torah learning is the defining factor in our lives but also the fact that we celebrate it! We are so glad to learn Torah as we say every evening during tefillas Arvis, “V’Nismach b’divrei Sorasecha u’vmitzvosecha, l’olam va’ed— We will rejoice with the words of your Torah and Your commandments for eternity!”

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Four men are in the hospital waiting room because their wives are having babies. A nurse goes up to the first guy and says, “Congratulations! You’re the father of twins.” “That’s odd,” answers the man. “I work for the Minnesota Twins!” A nurse says to the second guy, “Congratulations! You’re the father of triplets!” “That’s weird,” answers the second man. “I work for the 3M company!” A nurse tells the third man, “Congratulations! You’re the father of quadruplets!” “That’s strange,” he answers. “I work for the Four Seasons hotel!” The last man is groaning and banging his head against the wall. “What’s wrong?” the others ask. “I work for 7 Up!” * * * * David had just received his brand new driver’s license. The family parades out to the driveway, and climbs in the car, where he is going to take them for a ride for the first time. Dad immediately heads for the back seat, directly behind the newly minted driver. “I’ll bet you’re back there to get a change of scenery after all those months of sitting in the front passenger seat teaching me how to drive,” says the beaming boy to his father. “Nope,” comes Dad’s reply, “I’m gonna sit here and kick the back of your seat as you drive, just like you’ve been doing to me all these years.”

NINE WAYS FATHERHOOD IS DIFFERENT THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO In 1913, if a father put a roof over his family’s head, he was a success. Today, it takes a roof, deck, pool, and 4-car garage. And that’s just the vacation home. In 1913, a father waited for the doctor to tell him when the baby arrived. Today, a father must wear a smock, know how to breathe, and make sure the memory card still has room in the video camera. In 1913, fathers passed on clothing to their sons. Today, kids wouldn’t touch Dad’s clothes even if it meant freezing halfway to death.

Riddle As Dad does every Sunday, he was puttering around the house, fixing everything that you and your siblings broke over the last week. At some point, he realizes that he needs something, so he goes to a hardware store and asks for help in finding what he needs. The clerk shows him where the objects are and tells him that they cost $1 each. The man says: “I’m taking 600, so here’s $3.” What did he buy? Answers on next page

In 1913, if a father had breakfast in bed, it was eggs, cheese, hashbrowns and muffins. Today, it’s Special K, soy milk, dry toast and a lecture on cholesterol. In 1913, “a good day at the market” meant father brought home feed for the horses. Today, “a good day at the market” means Dad got in early on an IPO.

In 1913, fathers shook their children gently and whispered, “Wake up, it’s time for school.” Today, kids shake their fathers violently at 4 a.m., shouting: “Wake up, it’s time for hockey practice.”

In 1913, when fathers entered the room, children rose to attention. Today, kids glance up and grunt, “Dad, you’re blocking my view.”

In 1913, a father came home from work to find his wife and children at the supper table. Today, a father comes home to a note: “Jimmy’s at baseball, Cindy’s at gymnastics, I’m at the gym, pizza in fridge.”

ONE WAY FATHERHOOD IS THE SAME AS IT WAS A HUNDRED YEARS AGO

In 1913, fathers and sons would have heart-to-heart conversations while fishing in a stream. Today, fathers pluck the headphones off their sons’ ears and shout, “WHEN YOU HAVE A MINUTE…”

In 1913, fathers told their children, “When I was a kid we weren’t spoiled like you guys today.” Today, fathers tell their children, “When I was a kid we weren’t spoiled like you guys today.”

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2. “[Teaching Fathers how to Diaper a Baby]: Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then, fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.”

3. “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” 4.

”My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.”

5. “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” 6. “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” 7. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” 8. “[My father] was a great father before politics, a great father during politics and a great father after politics.” 9. “Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.”

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In the Kitchen In Celebration of Dads Around the World Mexican-Style Salsa

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Ingredients 2 cups seeded, chopped tomatoes (6-7 medium tomatoes) 1 bunch of fresh cilantro, leaves only, chopped 6 cloves garlic, chopped ½ onion, chopped 1 jalapeno, finely chopped ½ teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon lime juice, to taste Preparation Mix all ingredients until well incorporated. Refrigerate overnight for maximum flavor. Serve with tortilla chips.

Ingredients ¼ cup soy sauce 1 TBS Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp honey 1 tsp minced garlic ¼ tsp pepper Dash salt 1 pound boneless chicken breasts, diced into 1 inch cubes 1 pound cooked kielbasa, cut into 1 inch slices 2 cups fresh pineapple, cubed 2 cups cherry tomatoes Preparation Soak skewers in water for at least 20 minutes. In a large Ziploc bag, combine the marinade ingredients and shake well. Add the chicken and kielbasa, seal the bag, and turn to coat. Marinate in refrigerator for one hour. Drain and discard the marinade. Thread the chicken, kielbasa and pineapple onto the skewers. Top with a cherry tomato. Grill over medium heat for 10-15 minutes, turning frequently, until chicken is cooked through. Serve with duck sauce.

Korean-Style Asian Short Ribs Ingredients 1 ½ cup soy sauce ¾ cup sugar ¼ cup sesame oil 5 cloves garlic, minced ½ medium onion, chopped 3 large scallions, sliced thinly 2 TBS toasted sesame seeds ½ tsp red pepper flakes 4-6 lbs of short ribs or flanken Preparation Combine all marinade ingredients in Ziploc bag. Shake well. Add flanken to the bag and mix to coat. Refrigerate overnight. Take flanken out of the bag and discard marinade. Grill each side over medium-high heat for 3-4 minutes. Garnish with additional slices of scallions and sesame seeds.

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Ingredients 2 Vidalia onions, sliced into ½-inch rounds 3 cups beer, divided 2 teaspoons cider vinegar 1 teaspoon salt, divided ¾ teaspoon black pepper, divided 2 quarts peanut or vegetable oil ¾ cup all-purpose flour ¾ cup cornstarch 1 teaspoon baking powder Salt and black pepper, to taste

Ingredients 24 chocolate chip cookies, store-bought or homemade Two tubs Tofutti or favorite pareve ice cream Mini chocolate chips, toasted coconut, toasted nuts

Preparation In a large Ziploc bag, place the onions, 2 cups of the beer, the vinegar, ½ teaspoon of the salt and ½ teaspoon of the pepper. Seal the bag and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, or up to 2 hours. (Do not leave them for more than 2 hours, as the onions will get soggy). To prepare the batter: whisk together the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, ½ tsp salt and ¼ tsp pepper. Slowly whisk in the remaining ¾ cup beer until just combined. Add in remaining beer only if needed, 1 TBS at a time. The batter should be smooth. Heat the oil in a large pan. Remove onions from marinade, separate them into rings and pat them completely dry. Coat the onions in the batter on both sides, and once the oil reaches 350°, drop them into the oil with tongs. (Careful, the hot is really hot!) Fry each onion for about five minutes, flipping halfway through. Remove with tongs and set on paper towel-lined baking sheet. Season rings with salt and pepper and serve immediately.

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Dessert A La Mode Ingredients 24 chocolate chip cookies, store-bought or homemade Two tubs Tofutti or favorite pareve ice cream Mini chocolate chips, toasted coconut, toasted nuts Preparation Take the ice cream out of the freezer to soften. Prepare a large Tupperware container and sheets of parchment paper. Place the toppings (chocolate chips, coconut, nuts) in small bowls. Once ice cream is slightly softened, place a mound of ice cream on one cookie and then press down using another cookie to cover. You can keep even the edges of the ice cream with a butter knife, if you wish. Cover the ice cream edges in desired toppings. Place in Tupperware container. Separate the layers with parchment paper. Freeze for at least 4 hours. Take out of freezer right before serving and place on platters.

Preparation Take the ice cream out of the freezer to soften. Prepare a large Tupperware container and sheets of parchment paper. Place the toppings (chocolate chips, coconut, nuts) in small bowls. Once ice cream is slightly softened, place a mound of ice cream on one cookie and then press down using another cookie to cover. You can keep even the edges of the ice cream with a butter knife, if you wish. Cover the ice cream edges in desired toppings. Place in Tupperware container. Separate the with parchment paper. Freeze for at least 4 hours. Forlayers children Take of freezer right before serving and place on platters. birth - 3outyears

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The Perfect Gift for Every Type of Dad STEVE JOBS DAD Bring out your

dad’s “inner Steve Jobs” by buying him six black turtlenecks to wear every day of the week, except for the day of rest. Were Steve Jobs’ turtlenecks custom-made by Issey Miyake? Were they made by St. Croix? Or were they simply purchased from some other pricey clothier? It remains unclear, with several outfitters taking credit. Regardless of where he got his, you can get your dad’s at any number of places, including landsend.com, where they go for $24 each.

BUSY DAD

Poor dad, he is always on the move, running out the door to get to the next meeting on time. But, if you could get the right set of keys jingling from his waistband, hmmm, dad could get used to that. Imagine his shock when he walks out the front door and sees a Lamborghini LP650 Roadster (MSRP $465,000) in the driveway? As long as he realizes it’s a rental and not “for keeps,” his busy day will become a lot more fun. (gothamdreamcars.com, $1,950 for 1 day rental of Lamborghini LP650 Roadster) If this idea is out of your price range, you can still make dad’s day. When you know that he will spend the day driving from meeting to meeting, arrange for a luxury limousine service to be waiting curbside to chauffer him around for the day. (dial7.com, $75 per hour for an SUV, $106 per hour for a limousine)

FITNESS DAD

“Run, dad, run!” Now your dad can get instant feedback and motivation while running by wearing a Nike+ Sportband which tracks pace, distance, time, and calories burned. It also keeps track of data, including weekly run data, and total miles on device. ($59.99 at nikeplus.nike.com; $169.99 for Nike Sportswatch with GPS, which has numerous additional features)

GOURMAND DAD Is your dad a food connoisseur? Does

he have his own opinions about who makes the best burger in the Five Towns? Well, then let him have his own show...with you being his audience. For Father’s Day dinner, purchase a burger from each fleishig restaurant in the Five Towns and have dad “sample” each of them and decide which one is best. Poppa likes pop! With a home soda maker he can have it at every meal...and you can too, if he shares. ($79.95-$125.95 at sodastreamusa.com) Although your dad may be a devoted Coke consumer, home soda makers are gaining popularity as a viable alternative to even Coke and Pepsi. If dad gives you a funny look when he unwraps his gift, just tell him, “Dad, think about how much money you could save… You know money doesn’t grow on...”

DAREDEVIL DAD

Get your daredevil dad a skydiving gift certificate. He may not be too happy with you before the jump, but as dad always says, “When you commit to doing something, you just gotta do it.” Once he jumps, he will be freefalling through the sky and thanking his wonderful child for the experience. For $200 -$230 you can get a gift certificate for dad to do a Tandem Skydive, which means that he won’t jump alone but will jump along with an instructor. They will also videotape the jump, so the rest of the family can have lots of good laughs after the fact. (longislandskydiving. com, located in Hamptons region; skydivetheranch.com, located in Catskills region)

GADGETS LOVER DAD INTELLECTUAL DAD

While the rest of the world can make do with Wikipedia, this dad of superior intellect is worthy of the world famous Encyclopedia Britannica. You can purchase the final print edition on Amazon for $7,899.99. Although dad enjoys everything about books including the smell of the paper, if that is out of your price range, get him an online subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica’s website for $69.95 a year. (amazon.com; britannica.com)

Unless you are one of the lucky few who will get your hands on the 8,000 pairs of Google Glasses being released in the fall, the Powermat is a convenient and useful gift, which dad would probably love but may not purchase on his own. Powermats can charge up to three devices at once, by simply placing the devices on the mat. Not only is it sleek and cool, but dad will no longer have to fish through the junk drawer to find the appropriate charger, which will undoubtedly be tied in knots with several old obsolete cell phone chargers that he doesn’t want to throw out because “you never know...” (Duracell Powermat: $60.51 at bhphotovideo.com)

MASMID DAD

Your dad is quite the masmid with a library full of wonderful seforim. Perhaps your dad is learning about the Bais Hamikdash and wants a good visual. The Bais Hamikdash DVD features a 75-minute virtual journey through the second Bais Hamikdash, depicting its glory and splendor. ($24.99 at Judaica Plus) If you want to add an actual sefer to his library, surprise him with the newly released Artscroll Midrash Rabbah on Devorim, which features many classic Hebrew commentaries and English translations. ($34.99 at Judaica Plus)

TIRED DAD Some things

MUSICAL DAD

Who deserves a Martin Acoustic Guitar if not your dad? “Well,” you say, “it’s a nice thought to think that I can purchase my dad a $2,000 guitar, but I don’t think Guitar Center takes monopoly money.” That may be true, but dad would certainly wait for his Martin axe. A gift card here and a gift card there and before you know it, your dad will have the guitar of his dreams. As dad always says, “Great things happen to those that wait.”(guitarcenter.com; samash.com) If your dad already has the instrument, but not the skills, perhaps he can use some lessons. Whether he is trying his hand at the ukulele, violin or guitar, there are online lessons for all instruments. Monthly memberships are generally in the $12 to $20 range and can be purchased for the year. (popular guitar lessons site: guitartricks.com; popular drum lesson site: drumeoedge.com)

money can’t buy. Happiness? Well, maybe. Sleep? Certainly not. How can dad sleep with you slamming the drum set in the basement while your sister makes her fourth fruit shake in as many hours? Besides, the house is busier than the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. So how to get dad some much needed zzzz’s? Simple: Give him the gift of a 5-hour-nap. For five hours on a Sunday of his choosing, the whole family will leave the house and take all of their cell phones and ringing gadgets with them. Dad’s phone will be shut off and the home phone lines will be set to silent. The AC will be set at the icy cold climate that dad loves and he will get to nap the afternoon away, in the silent and perfectly temperatured house. The key to this present is that when you return, you don’t barge into dad’s bedroom and jump all over the beds. You let him return to the chaotic norm at his own pace. Maybe dip your head into his room and offer him a freshly brewed coffee as he awakes from his restful slumber. Also, if you can, try to stay off the drum set while dad slowly starts to realize that the next time he will experience this bliss is in a year from now on next Father’s Day.

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Davening: The Third System “And the Canaanite king of Arad who dwelled in the south heard that Israel had come by the route of the spies, and he waged war against Israel and took a captive from it.” — Bamidbar 21:1 The Reputation of Yisrael When Hashem took the Jewish nation out of Mitzrayim with an “outstretched arm,” most of Creation welcomed the news as a defining moment in history. The nation of Amalek, however, laid plans to attack Yisrael. The posuk describes the “Canaanite king” who sat in the south and heard that Yisrael was coming. But Rashi points out that it wasn’t the Canaanite nation that lived in the south of Israel; it was Amalek. Why are they referred to as the “Canaanite?” Rashi answers that, according to the Medrash, the nation that attacked was Amalek. However, when they came close, they stopped speaking their mother tongue and switched to the language of Canaan. Their reasoning was that the Jews would hear them speaking and would assume that it was Canaan that was attacking them. The Jews would then daven to Hashem to save them “from Canaan.” Since these opponents were not from Canaan, the tefillah wouldn’t work. But their plan failed because the Jews recognized something unusual. Yes, their enemies were speaking the language of Canaan, but they were dressed as Amalekim. Therefore, the Jews davened in neutral language: “Hashem, save us from this nation.” As a result, their tefillah was effective. It is clear from this Rashi that had the Bnei Yisroel davened incorrectly and said, “Hashem save us from Canaan,” their tefillah would not have worked. However, they were saved because they realized the trick and davened in a manner that included all possibilities. This Rashi is very difficult to understand. What difference would it make what expression the Jews used? Hashem would know what they meant. The Jewish nation was in trouble, faced with an enemy attacking, and they called out to their Creator. Why would it matter whether they referred to the attackers as Canaan or Amalek? Hashem would know what they were referring to, and if

they were worthy of being saved, Hashem would listen. The answer to this question cuts to the very underpinning of how prayer works. Why Daven? One of the most basic question that a person should ask about tefillah in general is “Why should we daven?” Hashem is the ultimate Giver. Hashem

needs to grow. This is the first system of prayer, whereby a person changes as a result of davening. The second system of davening is the “mercy system.” Our relationship with Hashem is that of a child to a father. Hashem loves us and has great compassion on us. The second system of davening takes advantage of that relationship. We call out to Hashem to help us not because we are worthy, but

Why should we ask Hashem for anything? If what we are asking for is truly good for us, then Hashem would have given it to us already.

is infinitely more generous and benevolent than any person. He loves every one of His creations more than we can ever imagine. That being said, why should we ask Hashem for anything? If what we are asking for is truly good for us, then Hashem would have given it to us already. And if it isn’t good for us, why should we ask for it? The answer to this question is based on understanding that tefillah functions in three distinct systems. The Three Functions of Prayer The first is the “growth system.” By davening, we change ourselves. Tefillah is a method that allows us to recognize certain truths and to live them. The reality is that we mortals get caught up in the ways of nature and tend to forget that Hashem is present and that it is He who runs the world. When we need something and recognize that we are incapable of filling that need, that forces us to reach out to our Creator. We then come to the core realization that He alone is in charge. That process changes us and helps us grow. So, it could well be that before we davened, we weren’t worthy of having our requests granted, but via the process of davening we changed, and now we merit it. For this reason, Hashem will often hold back things specifically so that man should ask because that is what he

rather as a son who calls out to his father and asks him to have mercy. This system recognizes that may we may well not be worthy of receiving that which we ask for, not before davening nor after, but we ask Hashem to overlook who we are and to give us what we need. We attempt to arouse the middah of rachamim. Chazal tell us that Hashem said to Moshe, “I will teach you something that you will need to know as the leader of this nation. There will be times when the Jewish people will be in trouble, and even their own merit and the merit of the Avos will not help them. When this happens, you are to call out the thirteen attributes of Hashem. Say the words, ‘Hashem, Hashem Kel rachum v’chanun. . .’ and I will forgive their sins.” The question is: how does this work? The Klal Yisroel didn’t change via that tefillah. They didn’t become more worthy because of it, and if it is just an issue of arousing Hashem’s mercy, why those specific words said in that specific manner? The answer to this is that Hashem created certain systems of avodah that affect the world. Just as there are laws of nature and physical actions that affect the world, so too Hashem created an upper world, and various actions affect it. In the time of the Bais HaMikdash, if a person lived through a Yom Kippur,

the korbonos of that day brought him forgiveness. Even if he wasn’t attuned to what was going on, even if he wasn’t in Yersuhalayim, and even if he slept through the entire day, just the fact that he was alive while the Kohain Gadol did the avodah brought him a certain level of forgiveness for his sins. However, there are certain rules to the system. The process is demanding and exact. Any deviation and it doesn’t work. Much like an otherwise-perfect radio can’t function if it is missing just one transistor, so too in the avodah. Any missing detail and the system doesn’t function. This seems to be the answer to this Rashi. The Amalekim were very sophisticated and were aware of the powerful functioning of the upper world, and they did their best to interrupt the Jews’ use of that system. They tried to trick the Jews so that they would daven incorrectly and thereby negate the third system of tefillah, which might have made all the difference as to whether the tefillah worked. Even though the Jews davened with kavannah and Hashem knew what they meant, that tefillah would not have carried the full power because it was inaccurate and couldn’t utilize the third system of davening. This concept is very relevant to us. While we strive to make our davening passionate and vibrant, the reality is that there will be occasions when we will find it difficult to concentrate or to feel a real emotional connection to Hashem. It is at those times that we need to remember that Chazal used a highly defined system to create the tefillos that we say. The effect of the words themselves is well beyond anything that we can imagine. While it is not the ultimate goal in davening, just mouthing the words can have a huge impact and change our destiny.

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You’re in My Seat sheepish and say, “Oops, I didn’t realize you were coming today.” Other times they just move their stuff so I can sit down. One morning, when I had already been working at my desk, I left to get something from my car. When I returned, someone was sitting in my seat, talking on the phone, but I didn’t

he was just “passing through” here on earth, and would not be so possessive about his seat or his own honor, which again, was only given to him by his “Boss” so he could work effectively. I think that we could all benefit from this awareness. We often get so excited about our honor and take ourselves way too seriously. We forget

I have a hard time believing that Avraham Avinu, the paradigm of hospitality, would throw someone out of his spot just so he could take care of himself.

say anything. You see, this time, it was my boss, who usually works in a different office. I simply made as if I didn’t notice him sitting there as I busied myself with other things in the office. I was NOT going to tell him he was in my seat. When I thought about it, it was quite humorous actually. MY seat? Who says it’s my seat? I didn’t buy it. It’s only my seat because that’s where I was put so I could work for my boss. So who owns it? The man sitting in it at this moment! He owns the business, which means that he paid for the chair. Everything in the building is his, and I just work for him. I can’t claim a stake on anything, even if it’s “my” chair or “my” computer. When the Chofetz Chaim had a chair in his home, it wasn’t “his” either. It belonged to Hashem, the Master of Everything, Who placed R’ Yisrael Meir in that home and expected him to work for his “Boss.” That may be why he didn’t feel a particular need to emphasize that his children were sitting in “his” seat, because, as we all know, the Chofetz Chaim felt

that we’re all just employees here, none of us really owning anything. I’m reminded of a story of two men arguing over a piece of property. The wise Rav who was called to adjudicate the dispute bent down and placed his ear to the ground, as if listening to what it had to say. He stood and said, “The land is amused that you are

arguing over which of you owns it. It says that on the contrary, one day you will both belong to it!” Often, we feel that things are going great, and then something bad happens and we blame G-d. We forget that the only reason things were going well in the first place is because He made it so, much like my Boss dropping in and sitting in “my” seat. Let’s all take this opportunity to learn from my experience, and remind ourselves that we’re not “working for the Man,” but working for Hashem. We should welcome Him into our personal spaces and recognize that without Him, we’d have no spaces at all. Then, when someone else steps on our toes or impinges on our turf, we’ll be able to let it slide, move aside, and take it in stride. 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. HELP PUBLISH THESE ARTICLES! We are currently gearing up for publication of a book of Obervant Jew articles. Reread your favorites; laugh, cry, scratch your head in confusion, just like the very first time! Sponsorship opportunities are available and necessary. For more information, or to sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English, e-mail info@JewishSpeechWriter.com and put Publication Sponsorship or Subscribe in the subject.

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ow often has it happened that you went to a shul for a simcha, and after you got settled in, someone showed up late and said with indignation, “That’s MY seat!”? Apologetically you move, trying to explain that you had asked where you should sit, and the other regulars or the host had placed you there. Often, they don’t buy it. It’s like their seat should have been cordoned off with a velvet rope and left open for them as a sign of respect and admiration. Other times, you come in, and people will tell you, “Don’t sit there, that’s Avi’s sit, and he’s very particular.” You try to find a place where you won’t be displacing someone else or disturbing their makom kavua, their usual place for prayer. The history of having a set place for davening is that we find Avraham Avinu stood to pray where he had prayed before. That said, the halacha doesn’t require one to be in the exact spot, and if one is within several feet it is sufficient, besides the fact that though it’s a good thing to do, it doesn’t supersede courtesy to others. Also, I have a hard time believing that Avraham Avinu, the paradigm of hospitality, would throw someone out of his spot just so he could take care of himself and that by doing so, he would somehow believe he would earn Divine favor for his prayers. We know that children are not supposed to sit in their parents’ seats as a sign of respect. The child is to understand that his convenience should not take precedence over honoring his parents, so if he wants to sit there, he should ask for permission. The Chofetz Chaim’s son, however, wrote that his father was never makpid on this, and allowed his children to sit in his seat without demanding that they move. Once again, we see that assigned seats may be nice, but it’s not worth a battle or making someone feel bad. I had another insight into this one day at work. In my day job (writing simply doesn’t pay the bills – yet,) I work out of one of several offices during the week. Though my days are somewhat scheduled, nothing is set in stone. When I arrive at one of them, I often find someone else has taken up residence in my seat. Sometimes they’re

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“Say What?” Based upon everything I’ve seen, the case is solved. If it were me, I’d wrap this case up and move on. - Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) On CNN, discussing the IRS scandal I’m telling you, America, if we don’t stop this right now, we will be remembered as the most evil nation in history of the world. We will dwarf what Germany did. This is the way totalitarian states are created. You wanna shut down the Tea Party? They can do it overnight. You wanna scoop up everybody who has ever been a part of the Tea Party, ever visited any website…All they have to do is put the connections in, hit print, round them up. There wouldn’t be a Jew alive on the planet today if Hitler had this technology. - Glenn Beck

How ironic is that? We wanted a president that listens to all Americans – now we have one. - Jay Leno

This weekend, President Obama held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. It went well, although it got awkward when Obama asked China to stop spying on America and Jinping said, “You first.” -Jimmy Fallon

Pro-Israel activist Anne Bayefsky at the 23rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, speaking against UN official Richard Falk’s report on supposed Israeli human rights abuses, after the other presenters each praised the report and gave the usual anti-Israel tirades:

Mr. Falk, you conclude in your report that you have been defamed; directly putting in issue before this counsel the truth of the charges that you are a terrorist-apologist, and anti-Semite, and a hatemonger. So, it behooves us to consider the accuracy of those allegations as you demand. In your report you defend Ahmud Jabari. He is the Hamas military leader and mastermind of the kidnap and detention of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held incommunicado and denied visits by the Red Cross for over five years, in gross violation of international law. Why? The kidnappers kept the victim in, what you call, “good health.” TERRORIST APOLOGIST, CHECK. As recently as June 7th, you published an article in which you said, and I quote, that “Israel controls the world media.” AntiSemite, Check. In your report and press release on June 6th, you argue against Israelis and Palestinians sitting down together and directly negotiating peaceful coexistence now. You said in April in Lebanon that the two-state solution is obsolete. HATE-MONGER, CHECK. You repeatedly rationalize what you call resistance. On Iranian TV on April 26th, you praise Palestinian resistance as the only means forward. In fact, you said that we should expect armed resistance in response to America’s alleged fantasies of global domination. APOLOGIST FOR VIOLENCE, CHECK. But in your defense you were chosen by this council and have been kept in your job for five years, PRECISELY because you are an ANTI-SEMITIC, TERRORISTAPOLOGIST, HATE-MONGER. The credibility problem goes way beyond you.

Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US Senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD ... - Hillary Clinton’s new Twitter profile

This whistleblower is all over TV. His name is Edward Snowden, and he’s very pleased with himself. He says he doesn’t want to live in a society where the society monitors its people. And then he fled to China. - David Letterman

What is going to be with Maariv? I still didn’t daven. - Reb Ovadia Yosef as he was brought to the hospital, after he tripped on his way to Maariv Dunkin’ Donuts will start putting bacon on a glazed doughnut. Every sandwich comes with a coupon for bypass surgery. - David Letterman

So my question should be, to all of you who defend this nonsense is, what should the penalty be for the people who destroy the constitution? They’re always worrying about how they’re going to destroy the American citizens who tell the truth to let us know what’s going on. We ask the question: what is the penalty for the people who deliberately destroy the Constitution and rationalize and say, “We have to do it for security.” Well, you know what Franklin said about that, you end up losing your security and you lose your freedoms, too. So I think we’ve embarked on a very, very dangerous course. The American people are with us on this, it’s totally out of control, and I would say if you’re confused about what we should do, just read the Constitution. What’s wrong with that? If you don’t like it, get people to repeal it and change the Constitution, but not just to deny it. - Ron Paul on the NSA scandal

More black eyes for baseball due to performance-enhancing drugs. Guys would go to an anti-aging clinic in Florida and get juiced up and then come back and play baseball. Among these players is Alex Rodriguez, who could be suspended for 100 games. A-Rod was accused, singled out. Out of habit, Lance Armstrong issued a denial. - David Letterman

You know your phone is being tapped when you’re having a conversation and you hear the attorney general breathing. - David Letterman

President Obama clarified the situation today. He said no one is listening to your phone calls. He said it’s not what the program is all about. You know, like the IRS targeting certain political groups. That’s not what it’s about. - Jay Leno

If LeBron was playing in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, he would be just an average player. - Dennis Rodman on ESPN, dispelling the argument that Lebron James is as good as Michael Jordan

We launched our streaming radio service in 2011. It’s interesting to see Apple react now and it seems they continue to play catch up. - Nokia’s statement after Apple unveiled its streaming music service

Then-candidate Obama in 2007:

I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom. That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists. The FISA court works. The separation of powers works. Our Constitution works. We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary. This Administration acts like violating civil liberties is the way to enhance our security. It is not. President Obama, June 2013, defending the NSAs tracking of American’s phone calls:

In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother, and how this is a potential program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then I think we’ve struck the right balance.

Attorney General Eric Holder said that despite all the controversies, he has no intention of stepping down. Hey, Eric, I didn’t either. Sometimes it just happens. - Jay Leno

An 84-year-old woman from Florida has come forward as the winner of the $590 million Powerball lottery. The 84-year-old would have come out sooner, but the last two weeks she has been driving home from the store where she bought the ticket. - Conan O’Brien Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up—so many emails to read! - James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, joking during a speech at a Washington banquet

A new report says if Republicans want to win over young voters they need to get up-todate with technology. Well, the GOP is listening because today they told young people everywhere to “be prepared to receive a very exciting fax from us.” - Conan O’Brien

Toyota has recalled over 200,000 Priuses. Apparently there was a problem with the engine that prevented the drivers from acting smug. - Conan O’Brien

The National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of Verizon customers since April. That explains Verizon’s new ad campaign: “They can hear you now.” - Jimmy Fallon

More problems for the IRS. Isn’t that the feel-good story of the year? They wasted $50 million over a two-year period on conferences and retreats for employees. They even spent $11,000 on a happiness expert. I have an idea how to make them happier. How about stop making everybody else’s life miserable? Start with that! - David Letterman I was fighting for the Taliban. - Maj. Nidal Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist who massacred 13 soldiers and wounded 32 others at Ft. Hood, to a judge at a hearing

Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife announced that they are getting a divorce after almost 30 years of marriage. When asked why, Putin said, “We tried to make it work, but you know what they say: Men are from Malgobek, women are from Kadnikov.” - Jimmy Fallon

I’m a little concerned that things have gotten a little out of whack. - Attorney General Eric Holder on NBC, admitting that his Justice Department went too far in its surveillance of reporters

Snap, it is gone. It is back to where you were before. - Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on the campaign trail bubble

El senado ha comenzado un debate histórico sobre una reforma migratoria comprensiva. - Sen. Tim Kaine (V-VA) announcing on the Senate floor that the Senate has begun a historic debate on comprehensive immigration reform.

She was like, “Sometimes it’s better to be patient than rich,” and I was like, “That’s right.” So I knew then no matter what, we were teaching our daughter the right thing. - Mindy Crandell, who let the 84-year-old woman who won the $590 million Powerball skip ahead of her on the lotto line, talking about her and her 10-year-old daughter’s reaction upon finding out that the elderly woman won the lotto

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Jonathan Alter got 3 out of 13 items within a range of being at least partially correct. The rest are patently, provably false and Alter either needs to check into a first year journalism program at Columbia or a rage counseling center immediately. - Fox News President Roger Ailes responding to the numerous allegations made about him in a new book written by Jonathon Alter, former editor for Newsweek

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Cover Story Richie Altabe

Why One of Your Votes on Tuesday, June 18 Should be for MICHAEL FRAGIN

With State Senator Dean Skelos

awrence residents are faced with an election next week that pits three popular community askanim against each other in a competition for two seats on the Lawrence Village Board of Trustees. Though some might view this as a divisive, I would rather put a positive spin on the entire election. The Orthodox Jewish community of Lawrence has reached a point where not only are they in a position of leadership, but they have a plethora of leaders who are willing to give of their personal time for the sake of the needs of the klal. How many times have we faced an election where we sigh and wish there was a choice called “none of the above.” Here we have to sigh and wish there was a way to choose all three candidates. I have spoken to many Lawrence residents this past week and based upon what they are telling me they plan on sitting this election out rather than making the difficult choice they are faced with this week. As someone who has been involved in local electoral politics for the past twenty years, I cannot emphasize how much it is important for us as a community to participate in EVERY election. Already the low turnout for the recent school board election (under 3,000 people voted when in years past the Orthodox community turned out 5,000 or more votes) has people wondering if the community is suffering from voter apathy. An apathetic electorate loses its political influence in the halls of Hempstead, Albany and Washington, and its voice becomes muted. On the other hand, an active elec-

torate attracts attention. The overwhelming numbers of Far Rockaway residents who voted for Pesach Osina in the recent City Council Special Election sent shockwaves throughout the world of elected officials and not coincidentally, every mayoral candidate seeks to meet with our leadership. Therefore sitting this Trustee election out is NOT an OPTION! So how should we go about making this difficult decision? Let me first disclose that as a Far Rockaway resident, I am not aware of every local issue facing the Village of Lawrence (though it would be great if they could give us free parking on Sundays!). In my view, we have to first analyze the quality of the candidates who are running and then, assuming all are equally competent, we need to see if there are any other mitigating factors that may influence our decision. As I mentioned at the outset, all three candidate are well-known community askanim. I have had the privilege of seeing their work up close and can tell you that each puts lev v’nefesh into their work. Alex Edelman has been at the forefront of our communal organizations and Yeshivos for decades. I recall attending emergency fundraising meetings in his home years ago and watching with wonder and amazement how he encouraged others to give as generously as he did. I am one of probably hundreds of individuals in the community who owe him a debt of hakaras hatov for his personal efforts on my behalf, whether it was in bringing me to Darchei Torah 25 years ago, supporting

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With Achiezer founder Rabbi Baruch Ber Bender and Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg.

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TOVA or taking care of my grandmother aâ&#x20AC;?h at the Hebrew Living Center. David Seidemann is someone who manages to do an amazing amount of quiet chessed through his law practice. I personally recall spending an evening in his home working to save a child from going to public school. He puts his heart and soul into his work and is passionate about helping our youth remain in yeshiva. His position on creating a curfew for our teens, though very controversial, was a courageous step in the right direction as parents today need all the help they can get in raising their teens. Both Alex and David deserve consideration for the office of Trustee if not for one important factor. They are running against Michael Fragin, the current incumbent. Hence if we were to choose the Seidemann-Edelman ticket, we would sending a loud message in the community that Michael Fragin is not the right choice for our community and perhaps worseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; we would be saying that Michael has not served the interests of the people of Lawrence. Though I anticipate that this article may cause me personal tzaar for taking a position, I feel morally obligated to defend Michael Fraginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record. During Hurricane Sandy, Michael Fragin worked tirelessly behind the scenes with government officials and with Met Council, UJA Federation, Five Towns JCC, JCCRP, Nivneh, and Achiezer to ensure that residents who were affected received the maximum assistance possible. In the three months following Sandy, I had over 150 emails from him sent at all hours of the day and

night letting me know of the latest updates from agencies that I was dealing with during the storm. He spent his days in Village Hall coordinating relief efforts and was our best representative to LIPA while we all sat in the dark wondering when the lights would go back on. He obtained floodlights from OEM during the storm to illuminate our darkened streets and he has been using his experience since the storm to guide future emergency preparedness. However, even before the storm, Michael accomplished major changes for the village. He eliminated wasteful overtime which stabilized village finances and was able to then use the funds saved to complete the rebuilding of the golf course. He also is spearheading the construction of an expanded garage bays at the LCFD. I am certain that as vacancies open on the village trustee board, there will be opportunities for each of the wonderful askanim who have volunteered their services to serve the community. And as stated before, I firmly believe that each has the ability to serve the needs of the people well. However, it would be a terrible message if our community were to repudiate someone who has given so much during his tenure. A contested election is healthy for a community and we dare not avoid making the difficult choice facing us. However, we should not let this election become a referendum on the good work of Michael Fragin and therefore we should choose to return him to office along with one of the two wonderfully qualified candidates who are running.

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The following are excerpts from the weekly online show, Spin Class: Politics with Michael Fragin. Listen weekly on Thursday nights on jmintheam.org. Michael: Good evening everyone. Welcome to Spin Class. We’re talking politics on the Michael Fragin Show on the Nachum Siegel Network. Thank you for joining us here on another lovely Thursday evening. The big news is the politics in New Jersey, that’s that state right across the Hudson River, and we get to them every so often. There’s always a lot of interesting stuff going on in New Jersey. Helping us to understand it all we have Alex Habib, and Alex is a New Jersey expert out there and a rising star in New Jersey politics as well as a member of NJ T.V.’s Political Round Table. He’s served in the State Assembly and he’s coming off a very successful stint in the campaign for the mayor for Jersey City. Alex, welcome to Spin Class. Alex: Well, thanks for having me. Michael: So Alex, let’s get right into it. Chris Christie had a big week. It’s sad to kind of trade on the demise of Frank Lautenberg, but I guess Chris Christie finds his way every so often into the spotlight. Alex: Well, he certainly does and you know like everything Chris Christie does, it’s always about himself. You know, he found an easy way out of an otherwise basic political situation by calling for the special election. Don’t be fooled here: you know the governor is a master chess player. Even Democrats can admire him even though his moves are incredibly calculated. There is a little bit of political genius in what the governor has done. He pits Democrats in a primary against each other and forces the party to not only split its financial resources, but also its political capital and its base. So the governor has really had a stellar week politically. He gets Democrats fighting each other, he gets his senate pick, he sent a Republican to the senate to tighten up that margin in Washington and overall he comes out on top. The governor has almost an unshakable reputation within the state of New Jersey between the Independents and the Republicans. So what he did bodes well for him locally. Nationally, however, I don’t know how well I would buy into the notion that he has damaged his brand. Republicans from the National Republican Senate Committee and the Congressional Caucus, the Congressional Arms, the political arms of the Republican party may really be

sort of upset with him. This is analogous to what happened in Massachusetts with Senator Brown. You have a Republican senator and an overwhelmingly Democratic state; you can’t realistically expect to expend political resources and scarce political resources from the Republican side to hold onto a state that you just have a natural disadvantage in. So I think what the governor has done is he’s preparing himself to make the argument that look, Republicans can never hold this seat again in New Jersey, because there’s a natural political disadvantage. He

VOTERS IN NEW JERSEY AREN’T GOING TO UNDERSTAND WHY THEY HAVE BEEN ASKED TO VOTE ONCE, TWICE, THREE, FOUR TIMES IN THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS.

sends a Republican to Washington, he gets the Democrats to fight each other and at the end of the day, the Democrats take that seat back anyway. Michael: Alex you were just involved in a Democrat mayoral race. Tell us a little bit about that race. Alex: As many people know, right across the river from New York City, when you see the mini skyline you’re likely looking at Jersey City and Hoboken. Jersey City is the second largest municipality in the state of New Jersey, and for a long time Jersey City has been the power base of Hudson County, which is the power base for the Democratic party in the state of New Jersey. So here we have Steven Fulop who’s been a resident of Jersey City for a while. He sort of ran off the line when he first came into office. And he ran successfully against the “machine” in his own words which was primarily made up of the downtown, the more gentrified part of the city. And he held onto that seat for about 8 years when he decided to make the run for mayor and it’s been this uphill battle. Steven Fulop, the councilman, was also a Marine Corps veteran. He’s served a tour in Iraq. He’s also a Wall Street Executive and he’s a first generation immigrant as well who worked in his mother and father’s deli in Newark. So this is a

guy who has very humble beginnings and very humble roots and he’s worked his way to get to where he is now. At one point he had the unfortunate moniker as working for Goldman Sachs. Michael: That’s probably only an unfortunate moniker if you’re a Democrat though. Alex: At this point Wall Street has such a negative connotation that it’s very easy to make him out to seem like he’s a Republican. Michael: So how did he get past that? It doesn’t sound dissimilar from a race that happened in Newark a couple of years ago. Alex: You’re right, it doesn’t sound all that dissimilar. Mayor-elect Fulop built his organization throughout the city over the course of four years. I mean he built this to the point where we literally had 600 volunteers across the city from very diverse sections of the city, from the African American community, from the Hispanic community, from sort of the old guard, the people that are born and raised in Jersey City. He slowly built a council majority of close to 5-4. He built alliances, he built his base in different parts and key parts of the city and in key demographics which made it very difficult and very unshakable to sort of to combat. Michael: We have on the line Yitz Stern, a Democratic councilman from Teaneck, New Jersey, one of the major Jewish strongholds in suburban Bergen County. Yitz: Just for the record, Teaneck is a non-partisan town. We do not run on any party lines, our elections are in May; we run as individuals and not as “D’s” or “R’s.” I happen to be a registered Democrat, but in terms of the state politics, the 800 pound gorilla in the room on the Democratic side is Corey Booker. He’s a great guy. I’ve met him, and I think he’s the odds-on favorite to get the nomination. We all know that Senator Lautenberg was—rest in peace—a very big, very strong Jewish individual and very, very supporter of the people of Israel and the State of Israel. And I think that what you’ll find is that Corey Booker is certainly right up there in terms of his support for all peoples, but certainly for the Jewish people based on his background. Alex: I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I think Booker is going to fare well in the suburban part of the state for the sole reason that he sort of has the Barack Obama effect where he’s incredibly intelligent, he’s incredibly articulate. Corey Booker is Continued on page 92

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well sought after to give speeches at commencement addresses and to speak across the country. Michael: Yitz, give us a rundown on Teaneck, New Jersey, which we know has a heavy Orthodox population. Yitz: Well Teaneck is one of the most diverse municipalities I believe in the entire state of New Jersey. We have just shy of 40,000 residents. Probably about 1/3rd of those residents are African-Americans, probably about 1/3rd of those residents are Jewish and the rest are various races—we have Hispanics, Latinos, Asians and so on and so forth. It’s a very, very diverse town. Probably half of that Jewish population approximately is Orthodox and that population is certainly growing. We have a non-partisan form of government, as I said; seven council members are all elected at large. Four of those council members are Orthodox. We have a Muslim mayor; the mayor is chosen by the council from amongst its members. And the other two council members are African-Americans. It’s a great community. Michael: Would you say that Governor Christie is going to be very popular in Teaneck or Bergen County in general? Yitz: It’s hard to say how Christie will fare, but he certainly has odds in his favor to be reelected as governor. Michael: A lot of times you have situations where the state government is cutting spending and a lot of that will fall onto the individual municipalities to make up the difference. Have you seen that type of stress on your municipality? Yitz: Yes, the State of New Jersey has cut back quite a bit over the last number of years to the county. Teaneck is 85% single family homes. A large burden falls on the individual single family homeowners, and that’s something that we’ve been wrestling with for years. Michael: You have a situation where you’re going to have federal election coming up and you feel that a lot of your voters are going to be sympathetic towards Cory Booker. And then a couple weeks later, you’re going to have a state election where the Republican, Christie, will be favored. That’s kind of unchartered territory as far as turnout is concerned. Yitz: I’m sure Alex can attest this, but the issue is about voter fatigue; people get tired of going out to the polls. I think the governor took that into account when he made his decision to set things up the way they are. Alex: I agree on the voter fatigue. This is indicative that the governor isn’t really particularly concerned about really filling this senate seat. Primaries in New Jersey have relatively low turnout. Let alone if you have a primary in the middle of August. You know, this is certainly a rare instance. Voters aren’t going to understand why they have been asked to vote once, twice, three, four times in the next four months. They’re not going to really understand and keep in mind you know New Jersey has 566 municipalities; an overwhelmingly number of them have moved their school board elections to November to be on the November ballet. So now not only are these people going to be asked to participate in school board elections, some are going

to be asked to participate in municipal non-partisan elections that they moved to November. Some are going to be asked for municipal partisan races. The governor’s race, state legislative races, I mean you literally have every elected office up on the ballot this year in New Jersey minus the presidency of the United States and a House seat. So you know voter fatigue is going to be a huge issue and it’s going to be a struggle on both parties to really convince voters that they really need their support in October, in November, in August; it’s going to be tough. Michael: Yitz, Alex, thank you for joining us here on Spin Class. I want to welcome Ruby Cramer from BuzzFeed. Ruby: Life is a little bit crazier in the last 72 hours for Cory Booker and for reporters like me who are covering him. He just really had to move his timetable up more than a year. He’s been running on planning to run this race for quite some time now for several months. He announced in December that he would not run for governor against Chris Christie like everybody thought that he would. He would consider running for Senate. So he’s been preparing for a long time but he just got his timetable moved up quite a bit. He’s still mayor of Newark, has about 400 days left in City Hall. So he has an entire City Hall staff but he was just getting to build up his campaign side

MAYOR BOOKER HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE KIND OF POLITICIAN WHO’S NOT AFRAID TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY AND STEP OUT OF THE STATE PARTY APPARATUS IF HE NEEDS TO.

of that. He just recently hired a communications director and the finance director. He’s got someone running communications that used to work for the Obama campaign in 2008, and he has a finance director who was doing national Democratic fundraising with some of the national committees before she moved over to Booker’s team. Mayor Booker has always been the kind of politician, the kind of person in general who’s not afraid to do things differently and step out of this kind of the state party apparatus if he needs to. He has some pretty good relationships with some of the big names in New Jersey. He’s seen as this person who is not afraid to challenge the status quo, he’s not afraid to speak out on certain things. Michael: You reported today that a large progressive Super-PAC is going to be supporting Booker, and I think that kind of plays into his narrative of a national appeal. Why is a national progressive group going to take sides in a Democratic primary? Ruby: This PAC is a group called PAC-Plus; it is kind of a national group and they focus on progressive candidate of color. They will be starting a project called Help Corey Win, which I think is a very straightforward title, but they’re planning on

making it a one to two million dollar project, and that’s no small change at all. The money will certainly help. I do fully expect that if Mayor Booker becomes the Democratic nominee for this race, there will be more national support. I mean definitely. The other thing about this is that you know like you said Mayor Booker is thought of as some kind of successor to the Obama era. How that would play out in terms of policy, I don’t think we’re quite sure yet because we haven’t really gotten a chance to see what mayor thinks about a whole host of issues. So we’ll see. Michael: Well we do know that he had some unorthodox views for a big city Democrat. He’s certainly not your machine Democrat. Let’s talk for a second about the political genius of Chris Christie in this entire episode. You have to admire Christie pulling off what can be called a political coup here in taking a pretty thorny and tough situation and making it work for him quite well. Ruby: Yes, I have to hand it to him; Christy got the best outcome for himself and managed to make a pretty good case for it too. I mean the entire idea that there had to be a special election three weeks before his own election. It’s a little ridiculous when you consider how much it cost—as high as $24 million—but when he gets up there at a press conference and says it’s not right to wait on this. I can see how voters and you know political observers would say that that is a fair argument. Michael: Can we cross the pond for a second or cross the river, should I say. I think that one tweet of yours that caught my eye the other day was that Anthony Weiner was bored B-O-R-E-D at a mayoral debate. Ruby: Yes. He’s been going to these forums, these New York mayoral debates pretty much every night. They happen quite frequently at a different community, in a different borough with a different moderator and the same candidates on the stage. They had one earlier this week at a law firm in the city and he just looked so bored. He was like glancing around the room, like not really listening, texting on his Blackberry under the table several times. He just didn’t seem too interested. He was slouching and reporters gave him a really hard time about it. So the next night at the next forum he was standing up straight, looking very attentive so at least he’s reading what people are writing out there. Michael: I think his response was, “Admit it— you were bored too”? Ruby: Yes. I asked him, “Do you even like doing these forums?” And he said, “Yes, of course I like them, but you know, I wasn’t bored.” And he said, “You were bored too.” You know that’s part of his charm that many people have pointed out already. He’ll tell it like it is which makes him likable. I think that he fully expects that he’s going to be asked a whole range of questions and is he definitely going to have the spotlight on him and I do give him credit for being willing to take every question and answer fairly candidly. Michael: Ruby, thank you for once again enlightening us. This is another addition of Spin Class—tune in next week.

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The Battle of Lanzareth and the Heroes Who Fought the Germans

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The at this most forward element in this their surroundings. and Allied positions in the Ardennes At the start of battle at about 8AM, Forest in Belgium, France, and Luxthere was another platoon of Americans embourg. The Nazi air force, the Luftnearby, but they had been withdrawn to Despite the fact that they were outnumbered waffe, had been blown out of the skies fight in another sector leaving Bouck since the American-led invasion of his men alone to fight the battalion about 25 to 1, the platoon had excellent positions. and Normandy, France, in June, 1944. They of 3rd Division German paratroopers. still had their Panzer Tanks and planned Three soldiers from the platoon scoutto use them to devastating effect. ed the advancing column and reportLed by five star General Dwight experienced but depleted 2nd Division sector. Bouck was the second young- ed back but their landline to the rear David “Ike” Eisenhower, the Allied was given a well-needed rest while the est man in the platoon; his 21st birthday American outpost had been cut in the armies were set to achieve another recently arrived 99th Division took its was on December 17. artillery barrage. They still had a handbreakthrough before winter came and positions on the front line. The green Despite the fact that they were out- held radio but were told to remain in bogged down operations. The Germans (term used for inexperienced troops) numbered about 25 to 1, the platoon positions while reinforcements would took full advantage of the lousy weather 106th Infantry Division moved into key had excellent positions. Foxholes were be brought to the line. No one came to and opened up their attack on Decem- positions near the Checkerboards (the dug in deep and all of the soldiers had assist the platoon. Continued on page 94 ber 16. 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The Germans were walking unsuspectingly down the road and were completely unaware that 22 Americans had them in their gunsights ready to pull the trigger. A young girl came out of a house and ran up to a German officer as his men were marching along the road and pointed in the direction of the American positions. The surprise attack was ruined when the officer shouted to his men, and the Americans fired upon the attackers, scattering the Germans and killing several. The Germans pulled back to reorganize. They thought that they were fighting several hundred Americans who weren’t mauled by the artillery attack. They attacked head on and again were mauled by the well-prepared defenses. The .50 caliber gun mounted on the jeep was firing nonstop but so many Germans were in their sites that they couldn’t rest it to let the gun cool off. Eventually, there was a minor explosion because the gun had overheated and was out of action. The remaining radio, which was their only communication with the rear command, was put out of action when a bullet hit it. The soldier that was talking on the radio at the time was not wounded and the unit continued the fight until late in the day. One of the last messages they received from headquarters was to “hold at all

costs.” Private Louis Kalil was hit in the face by a grenade that failed to explode but was injured by the impact. T/5Billy Queen of the observation unit that was attached to the platoon was killed by a bullet. He was the only American casualty of the battle. All throughout the first three attacks, the German advance was not properly coordinated and poorly managed which gave the Americans “a beautiful field of fire.” The Americans were dug in well and would be impossible to take out by a frontal attack. Finally, when their ammunition was almost gone, 50 German paratroopers outflanked them and came at them through a rearward movement. One by one, the exhausted American platoon gave up. At the time of surrender, the Americans were surprised that they weren’t killed because they had inflicted so much damage to the enemy, but the Germans held their fury for them later when they were sent to POW camps. Lt. Bouck was almost shot by a German officer but the gun jammed and in the next moment both officers were wounded by incoming German small arms fire. Fourteen Americans were wounded and they, along with six unwounded members of the platoon,Z were taken into captivity. Surprisingly,

they all survived the harsh winter and even more brutal German cruelty. German casualty numbers are foggy but all agree that they suffered a huge blow in their campaign where speed was paramount. They suffered at least 92 casualties and many accounts have the number of German dead at several hundred. The loss of men paled in comparison to the precious time that was lost because this delay gave the Allies time to send reinforcements and plug gaps. Without the stand of the platoon, the Germans would have outflanked the 1st Battalion of the 394th Regiment. On December 17, the Germans in the northern sector mopped up any remaining units of the 99th Division remaining in the area and captured a small fuel depot. They continued until they encountered stiff resistance at Elsenborn Ridge and the battle continued there for ten days. Unable to dislodge the Americans, the Germans retreated. All of their units were shattered and the Allied offensive finally was put back on track in January 1945. Kampfgruppe Peiper, the unit that led the attack in the Northern sector, was decimated after losing 4,000 killed and the loss of 60 tanks and big (artillery) guns. After the war, their heroic stand at Lanzerath went almost unnoticed for

20 years until a book which detailed the battle was published. As for medals and decorations, Lt. Bouck at first didn’t think that they had done much in the way of stopping enemy, and he was too weak after the war to write up commendations for the members of the unit. (There is a certain period of time that a unit commander has to write an after action report and submit his letters of commendation.) He was given a silver star but the actions of everyone else were forgotten until 1981 when they all received their belated medals in a public ceremony. Historian John Eisenhower, son of the Supreme Commander and future president, wrote, “... the action of the 2nd and 99th Divisions on the northern shoulder could be considered the most decisive of the Ardennes campaign.” These unsung heroes were the ones who unglamorously pushed back the Germans, and actions like the stand at Lanzerath by the 394th I & R Platoon were the order of the day. 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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hildhood obesity in this country has more than tripled in the past 30 years. Currently, 17% of American kids ages 2 – 19 are obese. One out of three kids are overweight. An obese teenager has over 70% greater risk of becoming an obese adult. These statistics are alarming to say the least. In the past few years, I have seen an increase of overweight children ages 9 –19 in my practice. They are wonderful, bright, creative kids who have fallen prey to the American high-fat, high-salt, fast food diet. The good news is that we have the ability to control or alter these trends. Success is realistic and attainable, but only with strong family support. The family as a whole must be willing to make some sacrifices and changes that will improve the health of all members of the family, both skinny and overweight. The following are some healthy habits every family could benefit from: 1. Dine Together: Children who eat dinner together with their parents at least five times a week tend to weigh less and have healthier habits. 2. Plate your Children’s Food: Growing up, my mother never served dinner family style. She always plated our food, even the salad, and it never occurred to us to ask for seconds! Plate everyone’s food so the overweight child will not feel different. 3. Portion Control when Eating Out: Most restaurant portions are more than one person needs at one meal. Have your children share a meal. Avoid pastas, but encourage fish, chicken, or lean meat, with veggies on the side instead of fries. 4. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: If you don’t have access to it, you cannot eat it. Minimize the junk food in the house, and “hide” the junk you deem necessary. Never display candies, cookies, nuts, etc., in bowls or canisters on the counter. 5. Healthy Snacks: The bulk of the snacks you send to school with your

kids should consist of fruits and veggies. Pretzels, popcorn, or cereal can be used as the lone “junky” snack. 6. Create a Healthy School: Pressure your children’s schools to ban snack vending machines and high sugar drinks. Get involved and help revamp the hot lunch menus to include fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. 7. Get Enough Sleep: The more you sleep, the less you will eat. Research has linked less sleep to an increase in weight in both kids and adults worldwide. A tired child is also less physically active, therefore burning fewer calories. Children who don’t get enough sleep have higher levels of cortisol, which evidence shows stimulates appetite. Ten hours of sleep a night are recommended for kids ages 4 – pre-teen, and 8 hours for teens. In today’s times, obesity is a major concern and can lead to a host of medical issues and illnesses. It creates many unnecessary health risks that could be minimized if people ate right. Obese children and adults have a much higher risk of heart disease, the number one killer in America. Diabetes is another example of a disease both prevalent and preventable, to some extent. Don’t view this eating plan as a “diet” but as a change in your lifestyle. If you follow a healthy eating plan and positively alter your lifestyle, you will achieve success. Aliza Beer is a registered dietician with a Master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz Show. Aliza’s new line of prepared, healthy meals-to-go are available at Gourmet Glatt. Aliza can be reached at alizabeer@gmail. com.

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Defining Sensory Processing Disorder My child is an adorable threeyear-old in a playgroup. Her teacher mentioned that she loves to get “into” projects—mushing the paint with her hands, smushing the play dough, etc. At home, she is lots of fun but she tends to give her younger brother great big “hugs” and complains sometimes that her clothes and shoes are too tight. I have heard about children having “sensory issues.” Can you explain what that is and what activities I can do with my child to help her with these issues, if she does have them? The Therapist Responds: Sensory processing is defined as how our neurological system receives sensory input and processes the information into responses. Typically when we think of the senses in our environment, we think of the sense of hearing, taste, touch, sight and smell. Two other senses (many of us are not familiar of them by name) are vestibular and proprioceptive, which help us with our positions of space, pressure on our joints and muscles, and speed of movement. A sensory processing disorder is defined when the neurological system does not provide the appropriate response(s) to sensory input. The telltale signal of a sensory processing disorder is when the child’s sensory difficulties are chronic and disruptive to daily life and routines. From the information you provide I would not describe your daughter as having a sensory processing disorder, since it does not appear to be disruptive to her daily life. It seems that your daughter craves the sensations of tactile and deep pressure. The threshold in which her body detects the sensation may be a couple of notches above yours and mine; hence, the great big hugs and playing with the modalities in the classroom. Her complaints of tight clothing/ shoes may or may not be sensory related. It does not sound like a chronic issue as you mention this happens “sometimes.” She may simply be using the phrase it is

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too tight from hearing someone else in her playgroup use that phrase or she may simply have a preference for loose instead of tight-fitting type clothing. This is all okay and normal. We adults have our preferences, too. In contrast, the following describes a young child who does have a sensory processing disor-

I always envisioned dressing my little boy in cute jeans and polo shirts. I laugh thinking about that now. Natan’s wardrobe consists of four wellworn sweatpants and tagless t-shirts (cotton only!). Seams bother him to no end so he wears his sock inside out. A spray of water or the smallest trickle of water on his clothing sends him running to change his outfit. -Natan’s mother For projects your daughter loves to get “into”, I’d recommend making it purposeful and functional. For example, when finger-painting, encourage her to form letters or geometric shapes. And when playing with sand, have her produce drawings or find hidden “treasures” with her eyes closed. Finally, accept the hugs she loves to give but help her learn to recognize the difference between big hugs and small hugs. You may want to use different names (mommy hugs and baby hugs, etc.). The point being that small hugs are okay, but big hugs can be too tight and hurt. Allow her to give “big hugs” to items such as a blanket and pillow, and small hugs to people. Hatzlacha! -Devorah Devorah (Gerber) Schmeltz, MS OTR/L is a 2003 alumnus of Downstate Medical Center’s OT Program. She worked as a senior occupational therapist at United Cerebral Palsy’s Brooklyn Children’s Program for 9 years. Currently, Devorah runs a private practice, Bumble & Tumble Occupational Therapy P.C in Far Rockaway. Your questions and comments are welcome. She can be reached at BumbleTumbleTherapy@gmail. com or 917-971-5327.

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Five Strategies to Get the Upper Hand with your Kids

limelech is quite clear that he is a child of the King. Even if no one told him that’s what his name means, he’s certain. At six and the youngest of eight, he’s used to those around him just stopping short of bowing down to him. Answering his every wish goes without saying. When he was four and oh-so-cute, he was irresistible. Now that two years have passed and he’s a normal schoolboy with homework and schedules, cuteness has to take a back seat to responsibility, sharing, and kindness. He may be a child of the King, but he is definitely not the King. The problem is, he doesn’t know that – yet. How can his kindly and loving parents get this child to listen and cooperate while maintaining their sanity? As my children were growing up, I tried five strategies that worked very well and I am happy to share them with you. The third strategy is very powerful but in order to pull it off, the first two must be in place. Strategy #1: Have a sense of humor. You can tell me that certain people are born with a sense of humor and others are a bit more serious. Listen, I get that. I was always the serious one and that’s because I came from such a serious family that they didn’t even see the value in having newspapers with comics. They bought the Sunday Times and when I complained that there were no comics, they kind of waved me off. In spite of this, there is an easy solution to learning to take everything more lightly. Just look around you at people you know – people with children who are challenged medically or mentally, people who have lost a loved one, people with deficits they can’t overcome – and compare your own “issue” and you will see that your situation is not as bad as you thought after all. The key here is to ask yourself: how serious is this, really? You see, once you’ve gotten out of seeing your situation from within the dark place you think you’re in and you climb out of that hole and recognize that others have it much worse, you get some perspective. This perspective, in

turn, enables you to see the humor in your circumstances. This, in turn, prepares you for the next strategy. Strategy #2: Create a program of discipline. Here is what discipline is not: • yelling • attacking the child back • defending your position So what exactly is it? Discipline is setting up a bunch of desired behaviors in a clear way with natural consequenc-

that he has brought it on himself. It should go without saying that a parent never, ever attacks a child back. That is a sign that the parent feels out of control and needs help. Finally, you don’t need to get defensive with your own child. He agreed to the plan and you are simply implementing it. Strategy #3: Agree with your child that you are just as bad as he says you are. With these two foundations in place,

So when you smile and take it lightly, you are showing that you are still in charge, unaffected by his little tantrum. es following them. It’s important to get the child’s agreement to the rules right away. Including him in the planning and getting his agreement when things are going smoothly gives you lots of leverage later on. The power of consequences is that when the child complains about them, you say, “Gee, I don’t know why you would want to lose so much bedtime.” In other words, you are shifting the responsibility back to the child – which is where it belongs. Imagine Elimelech saying, “What do you mean, why would I want to lose so much bedtime? You’re the one that took it away!” Because you got his consent when the rules were set up, your response then can be, “Hey, you agreed to the rules when we set them up. We’re all just following them.” This is so powerful that yelling becomes unnecessary. Furthermore, when you yell at the child, you’ve actually undone the power of the consequences. It’s as if you agreed with him that you are giving the punishment instead of

you are prepared for the moment when the child hurls the unthinkable words at you, “You’re a bad mommy!” I remember one of my children doing that as I marched him into his room for a time out. I smiled at him and said, “Yup!” I gently closed the door and left him to cool off for a little while before checking in. The power of this strategy is that you cannot argue with a small child. In fact, you shouldn’t be arguing with a child who is two feel taller than you are, either! When you argue or get defensive, it is as if you told them, “We are equals.” But of course, you aren’t. A child may be given a “voice” but not to use by arguing with you. So when you smile and take it lightly, you are showing that you are still in charge, unaffected by his little tantrum. By the way, this gives the child a great deal of security. A child doesn’t really want to be in charge; it’s too much of a burden. Strategy #4: Be incredibly positive This is probably made easier if you mastered strategy #1. When you are

positive, you accomplish the following: • You remain a source of positive reinforcement. All children want praise and feedback. This is how they learn how to navigate their way in the world. • When you remain the giver of positive feedback, you also remain in charge; i.e., you keep the power. • By keeping the tone of your interactions positive, you prevent anxiety from entering into that small soul in front of you. Who needs to inculcate worry in a child? It serves no benefit. Too much worry leads children to procrastinate their jobs for fear of failure. • Your own mind also remains clearer to remember clever things to say to your challenging youngster. As soon as you become frustrated and flustered, you are diverting your mental energy. For children who have been so difficult that you can’t find anything positive to say, I suggest you compliment the most ordinary things. “Elimelech, it is great that you did not tease your sister as we walked out the door today.” As we used to say when I worked in a token economy, “Catch the child being good.” You can even make a “mistake” of thanking the child for something he didn’t do so as to help him get the taste of how it feels to be on the receiving end of compliments. For example, you see your key on the table and don’t know how it got there, but you’ve been looking for it, so you say, “Oh, thanks for putting my key on the table, dear.” Elimelech may or may not say he was the one who put it there; that doesn’t matter—it was a very small thing. There are many tricks and tips to getting the upper hand. Just remember, as my rabbi in Florida once said, “Parents are adults so they should be a lot smarter than their child!”

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Lola's Story

Lola Lieber Schwartz

A World After This

A Memoir of Loss and Redemption Lola Lieber Schwartz is a world-renowned artist whose paintings have been exhibited in art galleries throughout the United States and are part of the Yad Vashem archives in Jerusalem. Most importantly, Lola is a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to many. She has myriad friends and sees life in all its vibrancy and vitality. But life was not always easy. Lola was only sixteen-yearsold when Hitler ym”sh invaded Poland, and Lola was forced into hiding and spent years on the run with her husband, Mechel. Through six years of trying times, near

starvation and brutality, Lola and her husband held onto their faith and values. It was Mechel’s words of encouragement, “There will be a world after this,” that helped them cling to the hope that there will be a life of light and joy waiting for them at the end. This is the story of Lola’s life—from her grandparents’ “enchanted garden” to meeting Eichmann ym”sh to making the Pesach seder for the Bobover Rebbe during the war—her words will take you back to a different world.

Part Six: Evil Escalates

Chapter 16 Nightmare on Pesach

did not have time to indulge in nostalgic memories from my visit to Munkach when we returned to Budapest. Goldie was in my mind at all times and present in everything I did, but I knew I had to stop this indulgence if we were to continue to survive. Mechel and I had a major problem facing us. We needed documents and we needed them quickly. Obtaining false papers was a clandestine activity, although everybody knew how to do it. We were told there was a particular shoemaker’s shop that also served as a gathering place for Polish exiles. When we got there we realized for the first time that Budapest had become a capital virtually dominated by a refugee population. Not every refugee was a Jew. This was also somewhat of a surprise to us, because we had assumed that mostly Jews were running away. We learned that enormous numbers of Polish and German refugees in Budapest were gentiles who had either deserted from the army or escaped the German work camps. There was a smattering of Austrians as well, both Christian and Jews. For the most part Budapest had become the destination of choice for all Poles who were fleeing the war, for all the reasons you can imagine. It surprised me to find so many gentile Polish intellectuals among the number of refugees. I asked Mechel why this was so as I didn’t understand that the members of the intelligentsia were also on the Nazi death lists. Mechel explained the Reich had had spread a wide net. They had decided there were plenty of people who were not Jews but still not Aryan enough to be part of the pure German race of “superior” human beings. Consequently, what had been Poland was slated to become the location where

When I needed to talk with the concierge of the building, I added a little Catholic expression or two, in a way that had become so natural to me it sent chills down my spine. “inferior” people would be moved forcibly and not permitted to leave. Slavic Poles were next on the list to be killed, after the Jews. Polish intellectuals threatened the Nazi master plan, and therefore they were hunted as well. Polish intellectuals were streaming into Hungary, just as we Jews were. Their lives were also at risk. Ordinarily they were not rounded up in large groups for mass murder, but many were included among the groups of Jews killed in the camps. We needed to become something other than Polish Jews, but nothing was a secure identity if you were a Pole. Maybe it was due to my grief about my family, but I began to lose heart. Mechel had to bolster me and remind me that we must keep our wits. He argued that we had come so far, we must not allow ourselves to give in to feelings of defeat even though we were tired and grieving. I knew we had come a long way, but we had an eternity ahead of us before we would be truly free, if ever. I also wondered if we would survive at all. I no longer had much confidence in our longevity. The underground movement in Budapest was organized and the document forgery business was an industry. It made our operation in the Bochnia Ghetto look like children’s homework assignments. Here the documents were cheap and presumably as reliable as fake papers could be. The forgers did not charge excessively because they felt that we were all together in the same survival network and that we needed each other to go on living. Mechel negotiated with the forg-

ers. He easily convinced them that he was not an escaped political offender, a politischegefangene. They asked us to pick our new names, and in the stroke of the typewriter’s keys we became new people. Introducing: Michael Nowakowski and Janka Nowakowska, a lovely Polish Catholic couple. The Polish part of the identity was not hard to prove, but our knowledge of the Catholic faith was all but nonexistent. I could perform a few rituals in public, if need be, like crossing myself at appropriate times, and we thought that between that and my gentile-looking features I could pull off the deception. Mechel’s situation posed a far greater gamble. Everything about Mechel defined him as a Polish Jew. His essence, his very core, his speech and mannerisms, and his appearance made him far more vulnerable. Incredibly, we were not consumed by terror and fear. Everyone in Budapest was a fake of one sort or another. All of us were living in denial and in disguise. We found a modest room in a pension that was something like a boarding house. After the events of the last months our life in Budapest seemed almost normal. Periodically, I would go into a deep depression about Mammiko and Tattiko. During these intervals Mechel would comfort me with extraordinary tenderness, but he no longer insisted they were safe and alive. Because of my Hungarian heritage and my language facility, I made friends with some Hungarian Jews in Budapest. Mechel had difficulty because he did not speak any Hungarian. He also said he experienced condescension on the part of

the Hungarians, which they showed toward all Poles, Jews and gentiles alike. It was petty silliness in the middle of such carnage, but perhaps anything that took your mind away from what was really happening in Europe was a tool for distraction. I became friendly with an older Hungarian Jewish woman who lived alone, and she invited us for Shabbos. It meant more to me than to Mechel, although he was certainly glad to be in the company of another Jewish person on Shabbos. For me, it was a reminder of my grandparents and Mammiko and a life I would never know again. Another distraction for me was the Neolog (Reform) Synagogue where I met the chazzan (cantor) Bela Hershkovics and his wife. When I told the chazzan I was an artist, he warmly invited us to attend services. The synagogue itself was a grand Jewish architectural statement and not at all what we had experienced previously in our religious life. Mechel was uncomfortable there. The building was too ornate and the service was conducted in Hungarian and Hebrew. Nobody in the congregation spoke any Yiddish. My husband felt like an outsider there, so I didn’t push it. Mechel said it was not a place to daven, but he thought it might be a nice place to attend the opera or a concert. Although the pension where we were staying was modest, it was also expensive. It was a landlord’s market as there were so many of us who needed immediate accommodations. All rental prices were exorbitant. We lived very carefully on the small amounts of money family members could send to us. There was another source of funds available to Jews in exile in Budapest through the administrative bureau of the kehillah, the Jewish community. These funds filtered in for Jews in need from sources in Switzerland. We did not want to tap that fund because there were many others who no longer had any family members left to assist them as we did. We did not want to press more requests on our own family

prison. Mechel took up with the Polish expatriate crowd. They met in shul and exchanged news items as well as information about jobs that might be available for men. About a dozen Jewish refugee families were in the vicinity. My Uncle Yoshe Berger was there with his daughter, Toby, and her husband and also his daughter-in-law, Rosie, and her child, Micheline. Rosie had lost her husband, Moishe, in Krakow when he was identified as a Jew. It was quite a crowd, with an additional number of Mammiko’s cousins from Budapest. At this time a strange mood came over Mechel and he threw caution to the winds. He didn’t bother to pose as a gentile in the street now. He walked to shul every single day carrying his tallis and tefillin in a briefcase. He made me so nervous I couldn’t stand it another minute. He reproached me, “Why are you so afraid? There are no Germans here. We do not have to be ashamed to be Jewish here.” Taking on the identity of a Catholic was breaking Mechel’s spirit and this was something I had not anticipated. He was in great distress and became careless in his defiance. One night we had an argument when I begged him to hide his tallis more carefully. I was moved and grateful that he went to shul to daven each day, but I recognized how reckless he had become. His next step really ter-

rified me. Without consulting me, he became the leader of a committee of Orthodox refugees. I was aghast at this action. I was also surprised and hurt that he had not talked it over with me first. Our partnership wasn’t over, but it was fraying around the edges. He was now openly associating with other Jews, yet he carried papers that said he was a Catholic. It was the perfect way to destroy our cover. Hungarians who were anti-Semitic were on the watch at all times for anyone who appeared to be Jewish. Mechel was courting disaster at every turn. I could not reason with him. He would have none of it. “I have to be around our own people. Don’t you understand? If we have to run to Romania or even to Switzerland, we must be prepared with a network in place to assist us.” With these words, the deep secret between us had been revealed. He wasn’t any more confident than I was. In fact, Mechel was being his usual practical self, but this time it had a frantic edge to it. It turned out he had been working on yet another escape scheme from the very first days we had arrived in Debrecen. Continued next week Lola wrote this book with the help of Alida Brill. A World After This was published in 2010 by Devora Publishing.

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room was in an almost palatial residence called Piszperti Poloto. The sad twist of our fate was this: the owner was a Jewish widow named Mrs. Kuper. Mrs. Kuper could not know us as fellow Jews but as gentiles who had escaped from Poland. We said we had to leave because “Michael” did not want to fight in the army against the Reich. So there we were in Debrecen, the presumably pro-German, Polish Catholic tenants of a Jewish landlady. There were so many deceptions going on at one time, it was a case of deceptions within deceptions. It was 1944. That Pesach we made a quiet Seder for the two of us. The rest of the time we didn’t do much except play cards, especially gin rummy. We took walks in the park. I sketched more and more. Our relationship was undergoing a subtle but definite shift. Now I became the more independent one. My fluent Hungarian gave me a degree of freedom impossible for Mechel. My fair complexion and non-Jewish appearance gave me even further confidence to move around. If I felt I was being observed, I crossed myself. When I needed to talk with the concierge of the building, I added a little Catholic expression or two, in a way that had become so natural to me it sent chills down my spine. I even hummed the tunes of the Catholic hymns I remembered from that awful night in

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either, because we believed they would have need of funds sooner than they realized. We would have to move again. There was no other practical option. There was also no other moral option. We were young and able to move around in order to save money. We talked to other exiles and were told that Debrecen would be a fine place to live as Mr. and Mrs. Michael Nowakowski. It was 120 miles east of Budapest on what had been the border of Romania. I had some family connections there. My Uncle Bela’s wife had come from Debrecen and members of her family, the Frankels, were still there. Another train ride, another unknown place, but at least this time we did not have to leave in the dark of night with layers of clothing piled on our weary bodies. We got off the train and found the Frankel family without difficulty. We explained that we needed to find a decent, inexpensive place to rent. They said that was no problem. All we needed to do was look in the newspaper’s classified ads for rooms available in our price range. Look in the newspaper to find a place to live? It was so routine and normal that we were a bit paralyzed by this information, but we did what they suggested. Armed with our false names and completely fake papers, we looked at a few of the listings. We decided on a room with a private bath, which was a luxury. The

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My Israel Home Gedaliah Borvick

The Knesset is on Church Land?!?

y client informed me that he wanted to purchase an apartment in Talbieh between Jabotinsky Street (home of the Inbal Hotel) and King David Street. I mentioned to him that most apartments in this area are on land owned by the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem (the “church”), which surprised him as he had never heard about this before. I then explained that over 130,000 dunam (32,500 acres) of land in central Jerusalem neighborhoods – primarily in Rechavia and Talbieh – is owned by the church. Furthermore, thousands of apartments are built on church land and many famous Jerusalem buildings, such as the Knesset, the Great Syna-

Over 130,000 dunam (32,500 acres) of land in central Jerusalem neighborhoods – primarily in Rechavia and Talbieh – is owned by the church. gogue and the Israel Museum, are built on churchowned land. If that’s the case, asked my client, does one have to make rental payments to the church, and are there any other implications of buying on church land? I first explained that the lease has been prepaid by the State of Israel and therefore individual

homeowners do not pay the church any rent. I then proceeded to give him the following overview: History The Ottoman (Turkish) Empire controlled Israel from 1516 until 1917. Towards the end of its reign, the Ottomans sold chunks of Jerusalem land to the church. In the 1920s, the church suffered major financial troubles and decided to raise funds by selling many of its Jerusalem properties. To sidestep church rules prohibiting the outright sale of real estate, the church leased most of its land to the Jewish community and received a large upfront payment in exchange for the right to use the land on a long-term basis. In 1952, the state and the church executed a 99-year lease with one 49-year lease renewal option, and in 2011 a group of private Jewish businessmen signed an agreement with the church to extend the land lease until 2150. Both of these leases included large upfront payments to the church, and no further payments to the church will be required for the next 137 years. To Buy or Not to Buy? Some people will not purchase an apartment on church land as they are uncomfortable with the risk, albeit small, of losing their apartment

in 2150. Others will not buy because they are philosophically opposed to buying on church-owned land. And many people do not share these concerns and are happily buying these apartments. I would add two points: First, it is against Israel’s best interests to allow these large portions of land to revert back to the church. If the church will refuse to renew the land leases in 2150, many expect that Israel will pass legislation similar to the U.S. laws of eminent domain, and force the church to sell the land to the state. Second, this article focused on the vast majority of church-owned land that is leased directly to the State of Israel. In the rare situations where the church leases the land directly to the apartment owners, the individual owners have less protection against the whims of the church and many attorneys would discourage these purchases. Presently, apartments on church lands tend to sell for a 5-10% discount to similar properties on state-owned land. G-d willing, Moshiach will come long before the lease agreements end in 2150, but this is an issue that purchasers should carefully consider with their at-

torney before signing a contract of sale. Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home, 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. Please visit his blog at www.myisraelhome. com.

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In the Kitchen Naomi Nachman

Super Summer Salads

uring the long summer Shabbat afternoons, we have a chance to have a great sleep, read a book, and play with our children or grandchildren – all in one day! But once all have rested and played, the family all wants to eat seuda shlishet. People are always asking me what I serve Shabbat afternoon. Adults don’t want a yogurt, bowl of cereal, tuna or egg salad on a challah roll. We like to eat something a little healthier and sophisticated. My husband and I love Greek salad. The salad described below is based on a Greek salad with a twist of the addition of the smoked salmon (lox). When making

the dressing, add fresh lemon juice as it will elevate the taste to another level. If you prefer fresh salmon, you can season a 2 pound side of fresh salmon fillet with salt, pepper, half of a fresh lemon squeezed, and 2 cloves of crushed garlic (rub all those ingredients all over the salmon) and bake on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper for 20 minutes at 350°. You can store the fish in the fridge until seuda shlishet. Served either cold or room temperature. I always double my dressing so I have them for during the week. They store well in a quart container in the refrigerator.

Smoked Salmon and Avocado Salad

Nutty Asian Noodles

(To make this salad parve and use it as an appetizer, just leave out the cheese.)

Ingredients 1 pkg angel hair pasta cooked according to directions ½ cup low sodium soy sauce ½ cup roasted or toasted sesame oil 1/3 cup sugar 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional) 1 tablespoon crunchy peanut butter

Ingredients 6 cups mesclun greens or 2 to 3 heads of romaine lettuce ½ pound smoked salmon, sliced thinly 2 medium avocados, chopped coarsely 1 medium red onion, sliced thinly ½ block of Feta cheese, crumbled 1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in half Handful of black olives slices (optional)

Dressing 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh dill 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 tablespoons honey 2 gloves garlic, crushed 1 tablespoon white vinegar 1 tablespoon olive oil Preparation Combine greens or lettuce, salmon, avocado, onion, tomato and feta in large bowl. Whisk remaining ingredients in small bowl or container then pour over salad; toss gently.

Spinach Salad with Spiced Pecans This spinach salad is a favorite of mine. When I am invited to do cooking demonstrations this is one of the most popular salads requested. I love a crunch in my salads and the sweet pecans are fabulous addition. Ingredients 2 pkgs of packages baby spinach 1 green apple, sliced 1 cup sliced mushrooms 1 red onion, sliced 1 can heart of palm, chopped Combine salad ingredients and toss with dressing before serving. Garnish with pecans over the top of the salad. Dressing 1 cup oil 1 teaspoon mustard 1/3 cup cider vinegar ¼ cup sugar 2 tablespoon corn syrup 1 tablespoon poppy seeds 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1 teaspoon celery seed

Spiced Pecans 1 egg white ¾ teaspoon vanilla 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon water 1 cup whole pecans Preparation In a large mixing bowl, beat egg white until frothy (not stiff). Add vanilla, sugar and water. Add pecans and mix to coat. Place pecans on a baking sheet covered in parchment paper and bake at 350° for 30 minutes, turning after 15 minutes.

Preparation Mix all dressing ingredients in a bowl. I do it in a food processor to make it smooth or can use a bowl and a whisk. (Less dishes to wash!) Pour the dressing over pasta while the pasta is still warm; it helps boost and absorb the flavor if pasta is still warm. Before serving, add sliced scallions, diced red pepper or sesame seeds as garnish.

Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website,www.theaussiegourmet. com or at (516) 295-9669.

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From Sea to Shining Sea: North Dakota

f you’re looking to embrace nature and enjoy the beauty and grandeur of America, North Dakota is an essential place to visit. Located way up north, this large state is the gateway to many Canadians crossing the border. It was also the place where Sacagawea, the Shoshone guide, met Lewis and Clark on their expedition to help them navigate the west. In fact, it seems fitting that the state is named “Dakota”; the word dakota means friends or allies in the language of the Sioux Indian tribe. The locals are easygoing and friendly and even the buffalo don’t seem to mind as you ride by them on your bike or in your car. North Dakota is the center of it all—literally. The town of Rugby is the geographical center of North America. A rock obelisk, about 15-feet tall, marks the location with poles flying Canadian and the United States flags. So get out your map, pack up your jacket and head to the place where you’ll find history, nature and excitement—all wrapped up in one!

Things You Won’t Want to Miss Cakes, Concerts and Car Races Traveling to North Dakota next month? North Dakota hosts its renowned state fair in July every year, and this year it’s bound to bring a lot of excitement to the state. There are concerts, car races, rodeos and the famous Fleischmann’s Yeast Best Baking Contest. Speaking of baking, for those of

you who love Martha Stewart , perhaps it’s time to sign up for the Cake Decorating Contest. The State Parade (complete with clowns!) and the Kids’ Tractor Pull are the perfect entertainment for the little ones on your vacation. And there are races for adults and for toddlers who duke it out in the Diaper Derby as they dash towards their parents at the finish line. Whatever your pleasure, you’re bound to have fun! International Peace Garden The name “peace” is not just symbolic here; the atmosphere is peaceful and relaxing as one meanders along the garden’s paths. Since 1932, this one-of-akind peace garden lies nestled on the U.S. and Canadian borders of North Dakota and Canada’s Manitoba as a symbol of friendship. Reflecting pools and colorful display of 150,000 flowers dot the terraced walkways. A 120-foot concrete Peace Tower can be seen at the end of the garden. The floral displays are constantly changing, but the one that displays the American and Canadian flags remain the same each year. Steel girders from the World Trade Center lay at rest at the 9-11 Memorial. Spend the day at this peaceful oasis and symbol of our friendship with our northern neighbors. Theodore Roosevelt National Park When Theodore Roosevelt visited Dakota Territory to hunt bison in 1883, the bespectacled dude from New York became smitten with the state. The

national park named in his honor offers visitors views and attractions that feature the grandeur and beauty of America. Its fourteen-mile scenic drive gives visitors the best way to explore the park with the whole family. Make sure to check out North Dakota’s badlands—the rugged terrain famous in this state. There are myriad hiking trails. But there are other things to do for those who are looking to get close to nature. Camping, kayaking and fishing are perfect sports to do in the warmer months. When it gets cold, visitors flock to the park for spectacular cross country skiing and snowshoeing. Maah Daah Hey Trail The Maah Daah Hey Trail is not for the faint of heart. The 96-mile trails connects the northern and southern parts of the Theodore Roosevelt National park and winds through the Little Missouri National Grasslands in North Dakota’s badlands to form the longest continuous single-track mountain biking trail in America. The trail is perfect for bikers, hikers and horseback riders who share magnificent views of the glowing sunsets and the Little Missouri River. Deer, coyotes, bighorn sheep and elk are just some of the creatures who will meander along your path.

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Does Chesed Begin at Home? I personally enjoy volunteering for a local organization. My husband encourages me to do so and we both feel that my talents and efforts are appreciated. I gain personal satisfaction as well. My children complain and send me on a guilt trip whenever I leave the house. Should I put my volunteering on hold for now?

contribute from our time, talents, and resources to various communal needs, institutions, building and maintaining communal infrastructure. In addition to helping others, you are also helping your children, your family, and yourself. You are also teaching your children the importance of being active in the community and being Sometimes you mindful of others. It The Rabbi may not be easy, but need to turn Responds: doing the right thing I know many parisn’t supposed to be. down a request ents who wish they It requires sacrifice for help if you are could spend more on their part as well time with their chilas yours. They just overextending dren, but even more need to understand yourself so, they wish their that they too are givchildren would want ing up something for and neglecting to spend more time the good of others. with them! That your If it’s practical, try your family. children enjoy havto involve them too. ing you around and Then they get to feel feel you are needed the same sense of is very nice. What is not nice is that it satisfaction of making a positive differsounds from the way you described the ence while not missing you. situation, they aren’t expressing their Still, you have to know your limits. sentiments in a respectful manner. It’s Sometimes you need to turn down a also not healthy to allow their reaction request for help if you are overextending to affect how you feel about what you yourself and neglecting your family. decide to do. There has to be time that you reserve While I believe a child should be exclusively for spending time with able and comfortable your family. In fact, to express his/her the more time you feelings on virtually spend on community any issue to a parent, service, the more you it must be done in need to show your a respectful way. children that they Independent of that, really come first. regardless of how If you spend time, they convey their effort, and money feelings, you should on others, you need evaluate the merits to spend some real of their argument, time, effort, and make a decision, and maybe some money follow through. Don’t let anyone ever let on your family. Need some ideas for a you feel guilty for doing the right thing. summer vacation family trip? Stay tuned No one can make you feel guilty. Only for upcoming issues of TJH. you decide how to react to someone’s Keep up the good work, comments or feelings. Yehoshua Levy We all know that one’s family comes first and charity starts in the Please note, the information written above home. But it doesn’t end there. We all is not meant as a rabbinic ruling. If you have communal responsibilities and ob- have any questions, please consult your ligations. No man is an island and no rabbinic authority for clarification. Yehoshua Levy, a teacher of Torah, is a family is a community. Hillary Clinton wrote that “it takes a village” to raise a writer and lecturer who dares to think outchild. Bob Dole argued that it takes a side the box to bring his thought-provoking “family” to raise a child. They are both insights and facts to his readers. He welcomes right. It almost always takes a village your comments and can be reached at edifor a family to properly raise a child. tor@fivetownsjewishhome.com. Hence, we all have a responsibility to

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I am interested in purchasing certain significant assets from an entity but have recently learned that the selling entity is a debtor in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. From my first conversation with the selling entity it has become clear that sales through the Bankruptcy Court are quite different from the ordinary business transactions I customarily engage in. Can you provide me with some insight as to the process? The Attorney Responds: Your inclination is correct. There are several layers of legal procedures that you may want to familiarize yourself with in advance of moving forward with your prospective purchase. As al-

ways, a competent attorney should be consulted regarding the issues I will address below. The primary focus of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case is to allow the debtor the opportunity to rehabilitate its business operations. Depending on the circumstances of the particular case, the debtor may choose to restructure its debts, pay off some its obligations over an extended period of time and sell some of its assets in order to transform its business into a profitable one. On the other hand, a debtor may decide to liquidate all its assets through a bankruptcy sale process and essentially wind down its operations in a structured and methodical fashion. Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code provides, in pertinent part, that a debtor-in-possession or a trustee

“after notice and a hearing, may use, sell, or lease, other than in the ordinary course of business, property of the estate”. See 11 U.S.C. § 363(b)(1). In other words, if a debtor would like to proceed with a sale of its assets in a manner that does not represent its regular day-to-day operations then such a sale would be deemed outside the “ordinary course” and would be subject to Bankruptcy Court approval. The sale process in the Bankruptcy Court may take place via public auction or through a traditional asset purchase agreement. Such sales also include an element of protection for the prospective purchaser that will be discussed herein. For the most part, Bankruptcy Courts favor the sale of assets through public auction that allows for open bidding. Such a system usually results in the bankruptcy estate realizing a higher value for the asset that will ultimately benefit the creditors of the estate. Generally, the debtor’s counsel will prepare bidding procedures that will govern the terms and conditions of the sale. Some items that you may expect to find in the bidding procedures will include, amongst a host of other things, the property (or properties) being sold, the starting bid, subsequent bidding increments, break-up fees and, of course, an auction date and location. Once the bidding procedures are finalized, the debtor’s attorney will notice all interested parties including creditors of the intended sale and seek Bankruptcy Court approval of the bidding procedures. Thereafter, a public auction will be held and interested parties will have the opportunity to submit their competing bids in an open forum. Upon learning of the sale, a prospective purchaser may want to offer his first bid in advance of the public auction. Such a bidder is known in the bankruptcy world as a “stalking horse bidder.” You might be thinking to

yourself right now, “Why would I put forth the opening bid? Would it not make more sense to simply show up to the auction and gauge the bidding situation at that point?” While such an opportunity is available to all bidders, there are several advantages in being the stalking horse bidder. The stalking horse bidder will usually have the most leverage by demanding that certain terms be placed in the bidding procedures. A prime example would be the demand of the stalking horse bidder to impose the degree and extent of overbid amounts and subsequent bidding increments at the auction. An overbid amount is the amount that subsequent bidders must bid in order to out-bid the stalking horse bidder. Subsequent bidding increments are bids that must exceed prior bids. Clearly, the stalking horse bidder will request an initial overbid to be considerably higher than its own initial bid and large bidding increments as well. This is an opportunity for the stalking horse bidder to dissuade and discourage other bidders from bidding at all. Further, the stalking horse bidder may request a break-up fee. This fee is paid to the stalking horse bidder in the event that the debtor moves forward with the sale to another party that outbid the stalking horse bidder at the auction. The rationale behind the break-up fee is obvious. It is intended to compensate the stalking horse bidder for the time, fees and expenses that incurred in connection with its negotiations with the debtor. Although the stalking horse bidder will desire a break-up fee that is as high as possible, Bankruptcy Courts will approve a reasonable break-up fee arrangement provided that it does not chill the upcoming bidding at the auction. Another advantage available to a stalking horse bidder is to condition his initial bid on the debtor setting an early auction. This will provide less time for other bidders to formulate their bids and make it more likely that additional bidders will fail to satisfy certain terms of the bidding procedures. Regardless of who the success-

ful bidder is, the debtor may ask the Bankruptcy Court to provide certain protections to the buyer as a good faith purchaser under Section 363(m) of the Bankruptcy Code. Sales through the Bankruptcy Court require certainty and finality, otherwise third-party purchasers would not be protected from later appeals and modifications of their contemplated transaction. Indeed, Section 363(m) of the Bankruptcy Code safeguards such third-party purchasers by legally preventing the reversal or modification of a sale that is subject to an appeal once the sale has closed with a good faith purchaser. In other words, Section 363(m) moots any appeal of a sale (or lease) authorized by the Bankruptcy Court once the sale has been fully consummated with an arms’ length, good faith purchaser that has not been stayed pending appeal. In conclusion, each prospective purchaser should consult with an attorney to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing assets through a bankruptcy sale and whether or not to be proactive in terms of becoming the stalking horse bidder. No column is a substitute for competent legal advice. Please consult with the attorney of your choice concerning specific legal questions you may have.

Gavriel (Jordan) Pilevsky, Esq. currently practices bankruptcy law, foreclosure defense and business law at a boutique firm on Long Island, where he has extensive experience in representing a diversity of interests in bankruptcy and insolvency related matters. He has represented corporate and consumer debtors, secured and unsecured creditors and Chapter 7 panel-trustees in a wide variety of cases. You can contact Gavriel with your legal inquires at:LaMonica Herbst & Maniscalco, LLP;3305 Jerusalem Avenue, Suite 201; Wantagh, New York 11793; Tel: 516826-6500 x221; Email: jp@lhmlawfirm. com.

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A Few Planks Of Wood Is That Asking Too Much?

as anyone been to the Long Beach Boardwalk lately? If you have, that would be amazing—cause it isn’t there! Oh sure, there are these concrete beams running about every 7 feet, but who are we kidding? What good are they with nothing above them to lend support to? If you are a really strong runner, maybe you could leap from one to the next without noticing the gaps, but for simple walkers this “boardwalk” is definitely out. No “boards”! Lethal “walk”—one step and you’re down on the ground. The word is out that they are looking to replace the former wooden boards with “rubber” slats. I guess the idea is that there if a major water rush, it will “bounce” right back into the ocean. At the present point though, the gaps are so large a cruise ship can float right through to dry land and not hit an obstacle on its way.

Everyone wants the boardwalk back so much they have a hard time acknowledging it’s not actually there. It’s like the emperor’s new clothes— no one wants to admit they don’t see it at all. They still believe it will be back up for the summer—only thing is it doesn’t spontaneously actuate. It’s not like rain or snow, it doesn’t appear from nowhere. At least some workmen need to be out there doing something! Why is the boardwalk such a big deal? Well, here are just a few simple reasons: • It’s one of the only ways of tak-

ing an uninterrupted walk along the seashore without having to stop and empty sand from your shoes every 15 seconds. • It’s the only place that provides a bathroom facility to use when you spend the day out on the beach. What’s the alternative?! • It’s a place people on bikes, folks taking hikes, and strolls with tykes can all meet up without worrying about oncoming traffic. • It’s a great date venue—it costs the person nothing yet gets credit as romantic rather than cheap. • It’s a location one can meander along thoughtfully without worrying about winding up 5 feet shorter, raring your head out of a giant hole where your foot is impaled on a kiddy shovel; or perhaps innocently kicking over a sandcastle and suffering the wrathful stare of three 8 year olds whose day’s work you just decimated. • Most of all, its that place of serenity where people can stand and look out over the sprawling sand, ocean, and horizon and admire it’s beauty from an ideal, elevated vantage point. No getting soaked and wet or negotiating steps on an uneven sandy surface. Often it’s just you and the view. Okay, sometimes it’s you, 500 strangers, and the view too, but it’s always a place to admire G-d’s gifts at their best. Here’s hoping there’s a truck somewhere on its way with a few planks of wood to give us all back the boardwalk—is that asking too much?! Hope to see you all out there enjoying THIS summer! Rivki Rosenwald is a certified life coach and relationship counselor, as well as a space design consultant. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.

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The Creative Mind and Wisdom During the Aging Process - Part II This is a continuation of the paper that I wrote on this topic based on extensive research.

he purpose of this research is to determine if the creative mind sharpened with experience, knowledge, and its innate flexibility to achieve higher awareness, may/may not lose some of its creative juices and ability during the aging process; this will/will not enhance our ability to gain more wisdom as we age. To research these questions, the following factors are being used for inquiry: creative vitality, creative development, creative mental and physical flexibility, hobbies, thinking processes, patterns of behavior, wisdom, stimulation, inspirational exposure, and an interview of a senior citizen, stroke victim, presently in the recuperation stage. The research study showed that creative juices do not deteriorate during the aging process, despite being a stroke victim. This was proven through the research and observational documentations. People go through many thought processes as they age, such as midlife crisis, feelings of liberation, and social engagement, all of which are important to evaluate. We must take into consideration diseases such as Alzheimer’s, attitudes, brain aging, cognitive development, creative aging, creative juices, flexibility, higher awareness, imagination, inspirational exposure, intelligence, learning styles, mind de-

velopment, motivation, tests such as an MRI, neuroscience, problem solving, reaffirmation of important issues, vitality and wisdom. All of these issues are

stimulation. In this way, the creative juices will continue flowing. Without creativity life would be dull. “Since the mid 1970’s, we have

The aging population does not lose brain power as they age; to maintain a creative flow and gain even more, they must receive active brain stimulation.

important to understand when factoring in the work applied to this paper and in answer to the stated questions. The hypothesis of this study was that the aging population would benefit greatly from participation in creative activities as it would stimulate their creative juices and add to their wisdom as they age. It also suggests that the aging population does not lose brain power as they age, but that to maintain a creative flow and gain even more, they must receive active brain

witnessed two major sea changes in how we think about and understand aging (Cohen, 2005), both of which have had a significant impact on research in aging and the relationship between the arts and health and illness in later life” ( Cohen, 2006, p. 7). This study, which was conducted at the George Washington University Center on Health, Aging & Humanities, observed the actual participation of older adults in art programs and how that active participation added positively to their psyche and health. Does the creative mind sharpened with experience, knowledge and its innate flexibility to achieve higher awareness, enhance our wisdom as we age? Does it lose some of its creative juices and abilities during the aging process? Creative vitality during the aging process makes a tremendous impact on our ability to use our brain power. The Creative Age (2000) was a new book which focused on this topic. The consideration of developmental issues took on new meaning as focus was placed on the idea of the creative brain and its capacity. The brain requires nourishment and a sense of control in order to func-

tion properly and operate successfully. Aging people like to feel that they have ownership of something. Their creative juices need to flow. This stimulation comes when they have control of a skill that they have mastered. Older people are also caught up with their psyche. This leads to a strong desire for them to find new avenues of expression. They also spend time reevaluating their lives, which began at mid-life. Unless they actually come up with a plan that gives them confidence and liberation, other negative issues may surface. The creative expression that we are talking about is vital for their existence in a healthy lifestyle. As people get older, they tend to want to make peace and sense out of their lives. The arts and other creative means of expression trigger the adrenalin that inspires them. The challenging activities work in their favor. Socialization is an important aspect of aging for the same reason. (Kramer et al., 2004). This work has also revolutionized our understanding of what we ourselves can do to keep our brains and minds healthy through creativity & challenging the creative brain. Gerald Fuschbach, a neurobiologist from Harvard attests to the fact that the brain cells are present throughout the life span of a person. This function is allowed to happen, because the brain contains many more neurons than it can possibly use. To be continued next week… Cohen, G. (2006). Research on creativity and aging: The positive impacts of the arts on illness. Aging and the Arts, Generations, pp. 7-13. Retrieved from http://www.peopleandstories. net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/research-on-creativity-and-aging1.pdf-

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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