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Rabbi Dov Bressler: Loving and Living the Torah. . . . . . 102

Dear Readers, For those of you who watched Sesame Street growing up, this week’s issue reminds me of the song, “Who are the people in your neighborhood?” There are many people in our world who you may have met “walking down the street” or read about in the news, but you don’t really know their story. In this week’s issue, we introduce some of those people to you—in politics, Torah, technology, and music— and give them the opportunity to speak with you and tell you about who they are.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino is running for the New York Governor’s seat in the upcoming election. There’s no doubt that Mr. Astorino has what to fix in Albany. This week, TJH met with the candidate and he spoke candidly about New York State. There’s a lot of “cronyism” that goes on in our state government. Mr. Astorino is set on fixing what he sees as a broken system.

Rabbi Dov Bressler runs a kollel in Lawrence and is a dean in Touro College in Brooklyn. He’s involved in a lot more than the article can encompass. For instance, when I spoke with him the night before we went to print, in the course of our conversation he told me that a few years ago he gave a bris to a man who was 63-years-old. Then, of course, the conversation, swung back to the topic we were discussing, although he couldn’t resist ending our chat with words of encouragement for me in my work.

Shaindel Antelis is a singer who brings inspiration to many women and girls in the frum world. Her songs are filled with lyrics that connect to teenagers and women, and her words come from the heart.

What encourages and inspires this budding singer? Shira Diamond spoke with Shaindel to hear about her journey in the Jewish music scene.

Shimon and Rubin Kolyakov are the founders of TorahAnytime.com, disseminating Torah lectures online to the Jewish community worldwide. Thousands of Jews benefit from TorahAnytime, and it all started with something so small—recording a shiur and then sharing the shiur with others. Shimon never would have believed that he would be spearheading an organization that shares hundreds of shiurim by tens of speakers to Jews around the globe!

Wishing you a wonderful week, Shoshana

The Brave Men and Women Fighting in the OSS

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Dear Editor, Why not participate in the annual Long Island Car Free Day, Monday, September 22, every day?

Millions of Americans today, including many Great Neck, New Hyde Park, Herrick, Albertson, Williston Park, Garden City, Mineola, Manhasset, Roslyn and other nearby community residents, on a daily basis utilize various public transportation alternatives. They include local and express bus, ferry, jitney, light rail, subway and commuter rail services. All of these systems use less fuel and move far more people than conventional single occupancy vehicles. Most of these systems are funded with your tax dollars.

Depending upon where you live, consider the public transportation alternative. Try riding a local or express bus, commuter van, ferry, light rail, commuter rail or subway.

Leave your car at home. For local trips in the neighborhood, walk or ride a bike. For longer travels, consider many public transportation alternatives already available. They use less fuel and move far more people than cars. In many cases, your employer can offer transit checks to help subsidize a portion of the costs. Utilize your investments and reap the benefits. You’ll be supporting a cleaner environment and be less stressed upon arrival at your final destination.

Sincerely, Larry Penner

bers are not members of Hatzalah, I applaud the volunteers who so selflessly run to care for members of our community. Their families and wives deserve a deep debt of appreciation for all the times when their husbands and fathers have to run out to help others. What a wonderful lesson for their children! No matter what is happening, their father is running to help another Yid! What a zechus!

May Hashem watch over them to keep them for harm’s way and may they always be involved in doing good for the klal.

K’sivah v’chasimah tovah, Perry L.

Dear Editor, I was extremely moved to read the Hatzalah members account of the tragedy of 9/11. Although my family mem-

Dear Editor, I read the article on the “Star Spangled Banner” with interest. Many people associate this song with the words “play ball!” but I can attest that when I listen to the words and tune of our national anthem, I feel a pride in our great country. Despite the losses we endured, there was still hope during that night and ultimately, we were named the victors. Many times, the American people have felt a loss, but we know that if we work together and unite, we can persevere. The song is a symbol of our strength and resilience.

I am planning a trip to Washington, D.C., this winter to see the “Star Spangled Banner Flag,” also known as the “Great Garrison Flag,” which Francis Scott Key saw that fateful night in 1814. The flag is now displayed in the Smithsonian Museum and I believe it is something every American should take the time to visit.

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his time of year is full of prayer and tears. We ask G-d to forgive us for our sins and to give us what we need in the year to come.

G-d always answers us, although sometimes it is hard to see or hear.

At times, “luck” is on our side, and at other times, it seems as though the world is falling apart.

Over the past few months, G-d has given me personal tests that I would rather do without. A divorce, needing to move, looking for a new job—all are things that I would have buried myself under the covers to ignore. But luckily, with the support of a good therapist, amazing parents and friends, I have been able to overcome my ostrich-like inclinations.

But there is one thing that remains. There is one thing that breaks my heart on a daily basis. It has me searching for answers and crying my heart out. My life’s challenges have impacted greatly on my daughter.

My beautiful daughter, who has always been precocious and tenacious, is now suffering because of circumstances beyond her control. That is not to say that I could have chosen differently when it came to my marriage, but when I look at my child, her pain becomes my own and I question.

With a diagnosis of ADHD since the second grade, my daughter has been on and off medications and struggles with social interaction and conforming to the expectations of her peers and teachers. Overall, it has been a challenge in school, but we were working on it – that is until my child developed behavioral issues.

There have been studies about children with Oppositional Defiance Disorder (or ODD). If a child has ADHD it is more likely for that child to also have ODD. ODD is even more prevalent in children who go through a rough family situation or trauma.

Two months after I began living separately from her father, my daughter began to have emotional outbursts.

She became verbally and physically aggressive both at home and at school. At home, I was able to give her structure and clear consequences for her actions. It was hard, but I tried to stay calm and help her with some tough love.

School was different. The yeshiva she was in was at a loss as to what to do. If my daughter thought a peer was insulting her or hurting her, she would lash out. We tried to help her. She began seeing a new therapist whose spe-

through this rough time. They all said no – very respectfully, but it was no nonetheless. The yeshivas were not equipped to deal with a child with behavioral issues.

Finally, I called the yeshiva pro-

“I WILL NEVER, EVER GIVE UP ON YOU! WE WILL WORK ON THIS TOGETHER.”

cialty was cognitive behavioral work.

We met with the administration on a regular basis and implemented their suggestions at home. We were not in denial – our child had a problem. We needed to help her fix this problem.

Still, what we did was not enough.

grams for children with learning differences – there was only one that could help, but my daughter needed to wait a year until she was in the right grade. The other programs only helped children who had learning disabilities, and my daughter did well

She still had regular outbursts. It was hard to pinpoint the stimuli. Finally, the yeshiva said that they do not think that their school was the right place for our daughter anymore and made some suggestions of alternative yeshivas.

The problem was that no other yeshivas would take her. We would explain that her behavior problems began fairly recently and we were working with the right professionals to help her. All we asked from the yeshiva in question was that they be willing to work with the professionals and us as a team to help our child

educationally; it was her behavior that was a problem.

I tried to shield my daughter from this as best as I could. She did not know about the footwork and all the calls. But one day it all came to a head. After a particularly rough day, I finally said to her, “I don’t know how I am supposed to handle this anymore.”

This was probably not the best thing to say. My daughter started crying and said, “I don’t know why I do it. I can’t help it. Why don’t we just give up?”

No! I couldn’t let my young child feel this way. Nor could I feel this

way. There is always a solution to every problem – you just have to search hard enough.

I responded the only way I could, “I will never, ever, give up on you!

We will work on this together. You are good. It is just your behavior that we need to work on. There is a way, let’s find it together.”

Sounds good…right?

My response to my daughter was loud and clear. I will not give up on her. Everything I do is worth it since she is a worthy person no matter her past actions. She wants to do better, so with G-d’s help she will.

The yeshiva world is not so forgiving. My daughter is in public school this year. Legally, the district must give her an education. Not so for the yeshivas.

Why? There are so many children who are falling through the cracks. I know there are others who have been asked to leave the yeshiva system because of behavioral issues. Yeshivas cannot handle those who do not fit into the regular mold. Trauma, ADHD, a broken home, it does not matter the cause – if a child cannot function in a normal setting they are written off as someone else’s problem. If one yeshiva gives up on a child why should another yeshiva take them in? None of us want our children with those who might be a bad influence or worse.

The “not in my backyard” defense is a moot point. It is in our backyard!

This issue is as important as children with learning or developmental differences. The Jewish community has risen up to the challenge for the before-mentioned children. Now we need to rise up to an even greater challenge.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when? We can help these children with Attentional and Behavioral Differences. We can even do it in a yeshiva setting. If we do not do it now, then these children will become adults. Their actions will affect more people. They will be lost not only to the Jewish world but to society at large.

I will not give up on the yeshiva world, even if they have given up on my daughter. There is a way. Let’s find it together.

Qatar Asks Muslim Brotherhood Leaders to Leave

On Sunday, it was revealed that several top members of the Muslim Brotherhood were asked to leave Qatar. The request from the Arab country came amid longstanding pressure against the Brotherhood in the region. The members found refuge there following the overthrow of Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and the crackdown on his supporters.

“We appreciate the great role of the state of Qatar in supporting the Egyptian people in their revolution against the military junta, and well understand the circumstances faced by the region,” said Dr. Amr Darrag, a leading member of Freedom and Justice Party, said in a statement online. The Freedom and Justice Party is the banned political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The members were “asked by authorities to move their residence outside the state of Qatar,” the statement said.

Qatar was a close ally of Morsi, naturally making it a safe haven for the Brotherhood, but their presence in Qatar had put a tremendous strain on Doha’s relations with Egypt as well as with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. They all regard the 85-year-old Islamist movement as a threat.

“I decided to move outside of the beloved Qatar ... so as not to cause any annoyance, embarrassment or problems for our brothers in Qatar,” cleric Wagdi Ghoneim said in a video message posted on his official Facebook page.

The highest ranking member of the group residing in Qatar is Mahmoud Hussein, the secretary general of the Muslim Brotherhood. According to Rassd, a news agency affiliated with the group, Hussein is among those who will

be leaving the country. This expulsion will further isolate the group; the agency said they are in search for another refuge and are strongly considering Turkey.

Lagarde: Women are Essential to Global Economy Recovery International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde addressed a gathering organized by the Japanese government and business groups last week. In her speeches, Lagarde emphasized the importance of women in the workplace.

She stressed that the global economy’s recovery is dependent on women.

The lecture was part of a campaign led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to promote a bigger role for women in the economy. Abe has made greater gender equality a priority in his “Abenomics” program intended to take the world’s third-largest economy out of a deep pit.

“Even after the crisis abates, we will face grave challenges to growth,” Lagarde said. The global economy is not utilizing women effectively and is “tossing away economic growth at a time when it cannot afford such wanton waste,” she said, mentioning the impact of women, who are responsible for about 70% of all consumer spending.

Japan faces a worker shortage as people are retiring earlier, and the country needs females to fill the gap and help drive economic growth.

Japanese women are generally highly educated but in their culture many women put their careers on hold while they raise families. Many women do return to work after their children are grown, but generally only work parttime at low paying jobs. The country has limited access to affordable child care and many women are responsible for caring for their elderly parents, making long working hours unfeasible. Additionally, the tax system is structured against working moms; sometimes it’s more beneficial for families tax-wise when mothers stay at home instead of working.

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The Week Lagarde shared practical suggestions to encourage and promote women to hop aboard the work train. She said countries need to change policies and laws, and on a more complex level, she also feels that institutions, attitudes and cultures need to be reformed in order to boost growth potential by better using female talent.

Abe told the conference, “Women will come to shoulder important decision-making. They will also change the way we work. So it means changing the rules of the game that penetrate society.”

Some firms have started responding to Abe’s campaign to appoint at least one woman to their board of directors.

Corporations and businesses also are beginning to take women’s ideas into consideration in product development, such as making car doors open wider to accommodate women holding children.

Polarizing Irish Leader Dies Ian Paisley spent a half century involved in Northern Ireland politics. He

was the Protestant minister who became the province’s most divisive politician using the slogan “Ulster Says No!” to oppose Anglo-Irish negotiations over the future of Northern Ireland.

On Friday, Paisley’s wife announced that he had died at the age of 88. She said his funeral and burial will be private events for family only but a public memorial service would be held at a later date. “Although ours is the grand hope of reunion,” she proclaimed, “naturally, as a family, we are heartbroken.”

Paisley became known for his passionate speeches and his fight against Catholicism, leading his own church for decades. His large group of followers were known as “Paisleyites.”

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On December 18, 2011, Paisley preached his final sermon as moderator of his flagship Free Presbyterian church, the Martyrs Memorial in Belfast, reflecting on the inevitability of death.

“Thank G-d I’m nearer home today than I’ve ever been,” he told the standing room only crowd of 3,000.

Pistorius Found Not Guilty of Murder

Oscar Pistorius’ dramatic trial came to an end last Friday when a South African judge found him guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting death of Reeva Steenkamp but declared him not guilty of murder.

Judge Thokozile Masipa said there was not enough evidence to support the contention that Pistorius knew Steenkamp was behind a locked bathroom door in his home when he shot through the door in the early morning of February 15. Masipa said prosecutors had not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Pistorius intended to kill Steenkamp.

“It’s a big burden off us, off our shoulders,” Pistorius’ uncle, Arnold Pistorius, said. “We always knew the facts of the matter and we never had any doubt in Oscar’s version of this tragic incident.”

Pistorius maintained throughout that trial that the shooting was a case of mistaken identity and that he accidentally shot Steenkamp because he thought there was a intruder in his home. The prosecution said that he killed her intentionally after an argument.

Pistorius is an internationally recognized athlete who has competed in the Paralympics. Both of his legs were amputated when he was an infant and he uses prosthetic legs to compete in races, earning him the nickname, the Blade

Runner.

After the trial, Pistorius was let free and left the courthouse amid a media frenzy. He will return for sentencing— he can be sentenced to a maximum of 15 years—on October 13.

A verdict in such a high-profile case is bound to have its critics. Some legal groups in South Africa have expressed concern and levied harsh criticism against the judge in the trial.

“In judging, there’s a lot of analysis of the information before the court and applying the law to what is before you,” Thabang Pooe, a researcher at legal group SECTION27, said. “Attacking the judge’s integrity and making insinuations of bribery or that she’s not fit because she’s a woman, or that she’s black, means that you’re breaking down the belief in the law.”

Masipa, 66, is a former social worker and journalist who became one of the first black female judges in South Africa, which shed white racist rule in 1994.

Her supporters have described her as a symbol of accomplishment in a country where poverty and unemployment remain obstacles for many people.

CIA: ISIS Bigger Than We Thought

New numbers have been released from Washington detailing how many fighters ISIS has in their ranks. According to the Central Intelligence Agency, Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground, which is much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000.

Among those in Syria are 15,000 foreign fighters, including 2,000 Westerners who have joined ISIS. The newest figures were revealed one day after President Barack Obama vowed to expand an offensive against IS extremists, a plan which foresees new airstrikes against IS in Syria, expanded attacks in Iraq, and new support for Iraqi government forces.

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IS militants have seized large swathes of territory in Iraq in recent months, displaying brutal tactics and releasing videos of the grisly executions of foreigners. The White House has insisted that President Barack Obama is authorized to strike IS in Iraq and Syria under a law passed by Congress after the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Malala Yousafzai’s Attacker Arrested In 2012, Malala Yousafzai became a household name when she was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for promoting women’s education in Pakistan.

Malala survived the shooting and went on to earn international praise for her courageous and determined fight for all children to have the right to go to school.

Almost immediately after the attack, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility, but no arrests had been made—until now.

According to the Pakistani army, the gunmen who shot Malala have finally been found. The detention of the 10 suspects involved the army, police and intelligence agencies and was part of the Pakistani military’s ongoing offensive against the TTP and other extremist outfits. Bringing the men to trial will likely be a long process – in Pakistan’s legal system, cases grind through the courts for years, making little progress.

Major General Asim Bajwasaid the group had a hit list of 22 targets in addi-

In News tion to Malala, all ordered by the TTP’s current leader Maulana Fazlullah. But a spokesman for the TTP’s new hardline Jamat-ul-Ahrar faction Ehsanullah Ehsan denied the military’s claims. “Three people were involved in that attack, one of them is martyred and two are alive,” Ehsan said in a statement.

After narrowly surviving the shooting – one bullet grazed her brain and passed through her neck before lodging in her shoulder – Malala was taken to Britain with her family for treatment, where she now lives. The TTP has said they will try again to kill her if she ever returns to Pakistan.

Despite the attack, Malala continues to advocate for women’s rights in her country. She won the EU’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize last year and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Turkey Largest Source of Fighters for ISIS Turkey is believed to be the largest source of foreign fighters for the Islamic

State terror group.

According to a report in the New York Times, more than 1,000 Turks are suspected to be fighting for Islamic State, many of them disaffected youths who are attracted to the jihadist group by its ideology as well as the money it pays its fighters, which may be up to $150 a day.

A recent Central Intelligence Agency estimate said that Islamic State has 20,000-31,500 fighters in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. has pressed Turkey to take a more active role in combating Islamic State by stopping the flow of foreign fighters who use Turkey as an entry point and by preventing Islamic State from using Turkish black markets to export its oil, a key revenue source for the terror group.

But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has resisted the calls to crack down on Islamic State, citing the fate of 49 Turks the terror group is currently holding hostage.

Many see that as just an excuse.

“There are clearly recruitment centers being set up in Ankara and elsewhere in Turkey, but the government doesn’t seem to care,” Aaron Stein, a fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, told the New York Times.

Additionally, Turkey has refused to allow the U.S. or other allies to use Turkish airbases for attacks on Iraq or Syria, and abstained from a declaration of support for the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State that was recently signed by Arab leaders.

U.N. to Step up Peacekeeping in Central African Republic

In the past nine months, at least 5,000 people have been killed in the Central African Republic. Now, the United Nations is set to take over a regional African peacekeeping mission.

About 1,800 additional peacekeepers and police are joining the mission as the United Nations takes over, though the force when combined with the existing African troops is still only about 65 percent of what was authorized by the U.N. Security Council in April. Human rights groups and others called for the full deployment of a nearly 12,000-strong force, which diplomats have said won’t take place until early 2015.

“The switch from AU to U.N. peacekeepers must be more than a cosmetic change: the swapping green berets for blue helmets. Instead it must serve as a fresh start for the peacekeeping operation in CAR,” said Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s campaigns deputy regional director for West and Central Africa.

The U.N. says it has taken months to solicit contributions from member states and mobilize the force now coming to

reinforce the mission previously led by peacekeepers from neighboring countries including Cameroon, Congo, Gabon and Republic of Congo. The U.N. has “worked tirelessly” since the April resolution was passed, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary-General, who emphasized that Central African Republic is “an extremely, extremely complicated logistical situation” because it is land-locked with dilapidated roads that date back to independence from France in 1960.

At least 5,204 people have been killed since the sectarian violence erupted last December. That figure is hard to corroborate, as it is based on a count of bodies and numbers gathered from survivors, priests, imams and aid workers in more than 50 of the hardest-hit communities. Civilians are still being killed “at an alarming rate,” said Lewis Mudge, Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch who conducted a field mission this month on the ground.

“There is no time to lose,” he said. “The new U.N. mission urgently needs to get more troops into eastern and central areas and take bold steps to protect civilians from these brutal attacks.”

Last week, the United States announced that it would reopen its embassy in the capital, Bangui. The U.S. suspended operations in Central African Republic and urged Americans to leave the country in December 2012 when the violence erupted. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement that progress has been made at putting the nation on “a path toward peace and stability.”

Russian Sanctions Tightened

The European Union has tightened sanctions on Russia further over its role in the Ukrainian conflict. The EU is now restricting access to financing for top Russian banks, defense and energy firms, and freezing the assets of senior politicians and rebel leaders. The United States has followed suit with its own tougher sanctions, heaping pressure on

In News Russian President Vladimir Putin after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region and sent troops to back pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

However, the drive for tougher EU sanctions faces growing opposition from a number of EU countries that fear retaliation from Russia, the bloc’s biggest energy supplier. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the EU was “choosing the path of disrupting the peace process,” and that Moscow would respond “calmly, appropriately and, most of all, from the need to protect our interests.”

In a move to assuage critics, the EU has said it could lift some or even all of the sanctions within weeks – if Moscow abides by a fragile truce in Ukraine and respects a peace plan. Publishing the latest sanctions list in the EU’s Official Journal, EU governments said it was “appropriate to take further restrictive measures in response to Russia’s actions destabilizing the situation in Ukraine.”

Russia has already banned all imports of food from the United States and all fruit and vegetables from Europe in response to previous Western sanctions. Its response to the latest Western sanctions may include caps on used car imports and other consumer goods, ac-

cording to a Kremlin official.

At the same time as stepping up sanctions, the EU will offer Russia more time to adjust to a European trade pact with Ukraine at Brussels talks on Friday, diplomats say, moving to ease tensions over an accord at the center of the Ukraine crisis.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Withdraws from Race

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Along with his announcement, Ford informed the public that his brother will be running in his place.

“My heart is heavy when I tell you that I’m unable to continue my campaign for re-election as your mayor,” Ford said in a statement. “I have asked Doug to run to become the next mayor of Toronto, because we need him. We cannot go backwards.”

Doug Ford, a city councilor, submitted his papers to run for mayor on Friday, which was the deadline to sign up.

He will face two other major candidates in the October 27 election. Despite the recent changes to the ballot, it’s unlikely the outcome to the elections will change.

Many predicted that Ford would lose after his outrageous behavior that most feel is unacceptable for a mayor.

Doug will be running against John

In News Tory, a moderate conservative, and Olivia Chow, a leftist. Tory is expected to win the election.

Mayor Rob Ford informed the public that he will seek a City Council seat representing a district in his home suburb of Etobicoke instead. This is where his conservative fiscal policies first gained a faithful following that became known as Ford Nation.

“As many of you know, I’ve been

dealing with a serious medical issue, the details of which are unknown. But I know that with the love and support of my family, I will get through this,” Ford said. Ford’s decision to step down came two days after he was hospitalized and the tumor was discovered.

Israel Gaza Imam: We Need Weapons to Establish Muslim Caliphate

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published a chilling video over the weekend of an August 29th sermon.

While addressing worshippers in the filmed sermon, Sheikh Iyad Abu Funun waved an assault rifle and cried, “The [Israelis] came to conquer the Gaza Strip. Did they succeed in doing so? No, they did not. They came to take these weapons away from us. Do I still hold this weapon or not? They came to take our guns, but the guns remain in our hands.”

He continued, “They did not manage to take a single gun, a single bullet or a single rocket from us. They came to destroy the tunnels. Did they destroy them? They came to stop us from launching rockets at them. Did the rockets stop? They came to make us surrender. Did we surrender?”

Throughout his passionate speech Abu Funun was interrupted by worshippers responding with cries of “Alla Akbar” (G-d is great).

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to brandish the gun. “These weapons are our only means to establish the Islamic state…Muhammad’s caliphate. They will take our souls before they take our weapons!”

Abu Funun served nine years of a 29-year sentence in an Israeli prison. In 2011, he was released as part of the Shalit deal. Abu Funun was later rearrested but went on a hunger strike and was finally deported to Gaza in mid-2013.

Tourism Declined in August

Generally in the summer months, Israel is flooded with tourists: families, college students, congregations, religious groups. However, due to Operation Protective Edge, the tourism industry saw a decline in Israel in the summer.

This August, incoming tourism fell 36% in the Holy Land, making it the weakest summer since 2007. The Central Bureau of Statistics released numbers that revealed that only 182,000 people visited Israel during the last month of summer and only 164,000 were tourists.

Tourism Ministry Director-General Amir Halevy says the ministry is already operating its policies for the “day after,” with the goal of minimizing the recovery time from Operation Protective Edge, and is renewing its campaigns, in the first phase in Russia and Germany, and globally via a campaign on Eurosport TV. “The Tourism Ministry is convening this week all the Israel Government Tourist Office (IGTO) directors from around the world to formulate a plan for attracting tourists back to Israel, who provide jobs to 200,000 people in the country. Everyone understands the importance of rehabilitating tourism as an engine for economic growth that injects NIS 40 billion [about $11 billion] into the economy. Compensation for this

industry will generate several times as much in revenue for the economy,” Halevy explained.

While this is an alarming stat for the economy, it does not necessarily predict future tourism patterns, ceasefire or no ceasefire holding, of course. In the first eight months of 2014, more than two million tourists entered the country, a 7% increase from 2013, a 6% increase from 2012 and a 10% increase from 2011.

Arab Bank Accused of Funding Terrorists

Shukri Bishara, finance minister for the Palestinian Authority and former chief executive at the Arab Bank, admitted before a New York federal court on Thursday that while working at the bank, he personally cut a check for thousands of dollars to a senior Hamas leader.

A total of 297 plaintiffs are suing the Arab Bank for billions of dollars.

Their suit claims that the bank is liable for wrongful death damages, because it helped transfer money that was used to finance attacks that killed their family members.

The bank is accused of funding large payments to Hamas leaders and institutions mostly between 1998 and 2004, as well as to the families of imprisoned Hamas members and suicide bombers via Saudi Arabia and Hezbollah’s al-Shahid Foundation.

The Arab Bank countered that the plaintiffs cannot prove the funds contributed to terrorist attacks and that the bank hadn’t known of any terrorist connection. The bank is one of the largest in the Middle East with locations in 30 countries.

While being questioned by his own lawyers as a supporting witness, Bishara said, “We were living in complete fear, panic.” He was referring to the time he spent living in Jerusalem during the second intifada. After a suicide bomber attacked his children’s school, he moved them to Amman, Jordan.

Bishara claimed that the banks are focused on peace and not violence. The

In News intifada “was a calamity for the economy” and the banking sector was “very close to having systemic meltdown,” he said.

Yet Bishara’s tune changed when he was under cross examination by the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Mark Werbner. A heated exchange took place when Werbner asserted that Bishara had released funds from a bank account belonging to senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan. “You gave this terrorist $8,000, the man who moves weapons and explosives,” Werbner stated. “You had no other choice than to give this terrorist $8,000?”

“My concern was to get rid of the account,” Bishara explained, having admitted he knew Hamdan was on the U.S. terrorist blacklist at the time. “There was simply no way to close the account without a court order or Hamdan being designated a terrorist by Lebanon,” he said.

Defense lawyers say the “Beirut account” was first brought to the bank’s attention in 2004 by this lawsuit. After waiting five or six months to find another solution, Bishara said, the Arab Bank ultimately cut a check to Hamdan and

closed the account.

This fund transfer has hampered the bank’s main defense, which was that most transfers were made to those who were not on any U.S. watch list at the time.

Ashkenazi Jews Descended from Just 350 People

A new study found that the majority of Ashkenazi Jews can be traced back to a small group of 350 people who lived in Europe anywhere between 600 and 800 years ago.

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The researchers analyzed the genomes of 128 Ashkenazi Jews, and then marked the contrast between those of European non-Jews to discover what genetic traits Ashkenazim possess that made them unique. They also compared their genes to the DNA of 26 Flemish people from Belgium.

The result was slightly unsettling, with researchers finding the Ashkenazis’ genetic similarities inordinately sharp, tracing their genes back to the “bottleneck” from the Middle Ages.

In an interview with Live Science, Professor Pe’er noted that within Ashkenazi Jews “everyone’s a 30th cousin.”

Currently, there are ten million Ashkenazi Jews around the world, 2.8 million of which reside in Israel. The intention of the study was to prove that

genetic disorders amongst Ashkenazi Jews are a real problem and that further research into the matter is required.

Given the fact that they descend from just a few families highlights the potential medical problems that can arise.

4 Israeli Universities Best in the World

According to the QS World University Rankings, four Israeli universities are among the 300 best in the world, with Ben-Gurion University leaping into the club after being left out for years.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem was named the best university in Israel,

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In News coming in 138th overall – just behind Dartmouth College and just ahead of the University of Virginia. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology was Israel’s next highest, at 190th, followed by Tel Aviv University, at 195th, and Ben-Gurion University, at 292nd.

While the top three Israeli universities stayed more or less where they were on the list last year, Ben-Gurion University moved up 39 spots, from 331st.

In 2012, the university was nearly 100 spots lower, at 385th. The last time the university was in the top 300 was in 2008.

“With all the criticism of ranking systems, it is an international measurement that the higher education system and the public assiduously follow each year,” said Ben-Gurion University President Prof. Rivka Carmi. “We are pleased that the sense of advancement and development that we feel is bolstered by an international objective opinion.”

The QS World University Rankings, which have come out annually since 2004, ranks more than 800 universities around the world from a pool of more than 3,000. Universities’ scores are based half on global surveys of reputation among academics and employers and half on hard data. The data measures faculty-student ratio, citations per faculty, and international-student and faculty ratios.

Earlier this year, QS put Ben-Gurion University on its Top 50 Under 50, a list of the top 50 universities in the world established in the past 50 years. The university opened its gates in 1969 to promote the development of the Negev region in line with the vision of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.

National Hillary Returns to Iowa On Sunday, Hillary Clinton returned to Iowa for the first time since her unsuccessful 2008 presidential primary bid. “I’m baaack,” she said as she approached the lectern next to Sen. Tom Harkin, the retiring Iowa Democrat who was holding his 37th and final annual steak fry. She informed the crowd that when she had been asked to speak at the event, she “wasn’t sure what to say.”

“I’ve got a few things on my mind these days,” she admitted, and the crowd began to cheer knowingly. “First, and most importantly, Bill and I are on con-

stant grandchild watch.” Their daughter, Chelsea, is pregnant with her first child and nearing her due date.

“I’m calling Chelsea every five minutes to make sure things are going all right,” Hillary Clinton said.

“And then of course, there’s that other thing,” she added. There were more cheers, louder now. “Well, it is true, I am thinking about it. But, for today, that is not why I am here.” The crowd groaned collectively, and Hillary launched into a relatively generic speech espousing the need for Democrats to support their candidates in the fall election.

Of course, Hillary couldn’t stay away from mentioning the “P” word.

“Too many people only get excited about presidential campaigns. Look, I get excited about presidential campaigns too,” she said, to more applause.

“But those campaigns only happen every four years. … So use the enthusiasm that Iowa is so well known for every presidential year and channel that into these upcoming elections.”

Bill Clinton tried his best to hang in the back, but the former president generally is attracted to the center of attention. Many in the crowd came just to hear him speak. “We saved the best for last, didn’t we, folks?” Harkin asked the crowd before introducing Mr. Clinton.

“Good things always happen when Bill Clinton comes to Iowa,” Harkin added.

“We don’t want to be around anybody who disagrees with us, more than ever before,” the former president said in his speech. “That is hurting America.”

“You can’t get a divorce from the rest of the world or the rest of your neighbors around the corridor and across the country. We are interdependent. We are in this together. Are we going to build a future together, or play a winner-takeall? Is it going to be conflict or cooperation?” he thundered at one point, pounding the lectern.

Those in the crowd loved the speeches and many are looking forward to hearing the Clintons once again in two more years.

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Driver’s Licenses Meant Unsafe Today than After for Citizens 9/11 Attacks

“Please pass the salt” may just be a more dangerous request than we thought. It turns out that 9 of 10 American children consume too much salt, which greatly raises their risk of high blood pressure and heart disease as they grow older. According a recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 40 percent of the sodium children consume comes from what are typically their favorite foods, including pizza, sandwich meats, cheese, chicken nuggets and pasta dishes.

Children between the ages of 6-18 eat an average of about 3,300 milligrams of sodium a day before salt is added at the table, the report said. That is far higher than the 2,300 milligrams per day recommended by the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

“Too many children are consuming way too much sodium, and the result will be risks of high blood pressure and heart disease in the future,” CDC director Tom Frieden stated. “Most sodium is from processed and restaurant food, not the salt shaker. Reducing sodium intake will help our children avoid tragic and expensive health problems,” he pointed out.

Lunch and dinner are usually the saltiest meals of the day, said the report. “Most sodium is already in food before you buy it or order it. About 65 percent comes from store foods, 13 percent from fast food and pizza restaurant foods, and nine percent from school cafeteria foods.” Parents and caregivers are urged to give kids plenty of fruit and vegetables, alongside wholesome, unprocessed foods as often as possible.

Schools could help by reducing sodium in food and putting lower-sodium alternatives in vending machines and cafeterias. “The dangerously high levels of sodium children are consuming demand action from the Food and Drug Administration,” said the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group. “We are sentencing all too many children to premature death from heart disease and stroke.”

Due to a vendor’s printing error, more than 500 illegal immigrants in Colorado incorrectly received driver’s licenses or photo identification cards intended for U.S. citizens. Colorado began issuing licenses to non-citizens in August under a law approved this year by state lawmakers and supported by law enforcement.

Advocates for the new law argued that letting undocumented residents receive valid licenses would make the state’s roads safer, as applicants would need to pass a driving test and buy automobile insurance. The license for illegals states on its face that it cannot be used as identification allowing the holder to vote, as a form of federal identification, or to apply for government benefits.

The vendor, MorphoTrust, said in a statement that 524 cards were printed as if they were identification cards or licenses for Colorado residents who are U.S. citizens. The company said it discovered the error three days after it began printing the credentials last month.

“The cause of this was a software update error,” the firm said. The company said it has notified the recipients of the invalid documents, and it will replace them with the proper ones after the erroneous ones are turned in.

Colorado Department of Revenue spokeswoman Daria Serna said the state took “action immediately” after learning of the error. “The Department of Motor Vehicles correctly issued the temporary state card to the customer; it was the vendor that issued the incorrect permanent state card,” she said.

Since the program was implemented, the state has issued 1,646 driver’s licenses, 343 learner’s permits and 327 photo identification cards to illegal immigrants, she said. Under the law, applicants must show they live in Colorado, have filed a state income tax return, and provide proof of their identity from their country of origin.

One week after the 13th anniversary of 9/11, almost half of Americans feel less safe than they did before the attacks, according to a new poll. 47 percent of 1,000 registered voters surveyed said the country is less safe than before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

That’s more than twice the level of fear among Americans a year after the attacks, when 20 percent said the country was less safe.

The poll also found that 26 percent of Americans now believe the nation is safer than before 9/11, while an even 26

percent said they feel about as safe.

The poll was taken after the horrific beheadings of a pair of American journalists at the hands of Islamic State militants.

According to the survey, 61 percent of American voters support the United States taking military action against IS, the terrorist group also known as ISIS and ISIL, which wants to establish an Islamic state in Syria and Iraq. Thirteen percent believe such action is not in the United States’ interest, while 24 percent said they don’t know enough to have an opinion. However, 40 percent of Americans said U.S. military action against IS should be limited to airstrikes, while 34 percent said they would support airstrikes and the use of combat troops.

A separate poll released this week found 61 percent of Americans oppose placing U.S. soldiers on the ground in Iraq and Syria to combat IS, while 38 percent do not oppose that strategy.

That’s a significant shift over a year ago, when a similar poll, conducted after widespread reporting that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its own people, found little support for U.S. military action in Syria. In that

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According to the findings, 94 percent of Americans said they had heard about the news of the beheaded journalists — a figure “higher than any other news event” the poll has measured over the past five years.

Enterovirus D68 Spreading Nationwide

Enterovirus D68, the respiratory illness suspected of hospitalizing hundreds of children in the nation, has now spread to the Northeast and is likely to hit the whole country. Connecticut and New York are the latest states to report cases of the rapidly spreading virus that has targeted young children, especially those with asthma, in 21 states.

As of Saturday, enterovirus D68 had spread to 21 states across the Midwest and East Coast, with confirmed cases spanning from New Mexico to Montana to Delaware.

The virus is likely to spread across the country. “It’s very hard for a virus to be limited by borders,” Dr. Richard Besser said. “I expect that it’s going to hit the whole country.”

Enterovirus D68 comes from a family of enteroviruses that can cause coldlike symptoms, typically during the month of September. Besser warned parents to watch out for symptoms of coughs and wheezing among their children, especially if their children are asthmatic. “The best approach for prevention is what we talk about all the time for respiratory infections, colds, and flus and that’s really good hand washing,” Besser said.

Children who contract enterovirus D68 first suffer from what appears to be a common cold, with symptoms including a runny nose, coughing, and sneezing, according to Besser. The symptoms then escalate to difficulty breathing.

Besser said parents should look out for their children exhibiting signs of wheezing, difficulty eating or speaking, and blueness around the lips.

So far, no adults have contracted the virus.

School Assignment: Compare Bush and Hitler A public school teacher apologized this week for “poor judgment and short-sightedness” after she instructed a sixth-grade class to fill in a Venn diagram comparing former US president George W. Bush with genocidal Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The homework sheet distributed to the students in the Washington, D.C. school was based on two readings — “Fighting Hitler – A Holocaust Story” and “Bush: Iraq War Justified Despite no WMD” — and was part of a “war and peace” learning unit at McKinley Middle School.

“Now that we have read about two men of power who abused their power in various ways, we will compare and contrast them and their actions,” the instructions on the worksheet read. Facing fierce backlash from parents, a statement from D.C. Public Schools said the teacher “deeply regrets this mistake, and any suggestion to malign the presidency or make any comparison in this egregious way.”

“The teacher admits to extremely poor judgment and short-sightedness and will apologize to students. The school will also send a letter home to families explaining the incident and offering to address any additional questions should they arise,” the statement added.

The school system denied that the district curriculum encouraged these sorts of comparisons. “No DCPS curriculum materials suggest in any way that teachers should compare the texts in this manner or compare Hitler to any other individual,” the statement said.

Feds Hunt Treasure Hunter

In 1989, Tommy Thompson docked a ship in Norfolk, Virginia, as hundreds cheered. The boat was crammed with what was described as the greatest lost treasure in American history— thousands of pounds of gold that sat in the ocean for 131 years after the ship carrying it sank during a hurricane.

Since then, the victorious grin

In News on Thompson’s face has faltered and the U.S. Marshals Service is hunting Thompson down for skipping a court date to explain to investors what happened to the riches. The rise and fall of the intrepid explorer is the stuff of storybooks, a tale receiving renewed attention amid a new expedition begun this year to the sunken ship.

One of the last times anyone ever saw Tommy Thompson, he was walking on the pool deck of a Florida mansion wearing nothing but eyeglasses, leather shoes, socks and underwear, his brown hair growing wild. That was two years ago.

“I think he had calculated it, whatever you want to call it, an escape plan,” Marshals agent Brad Fleming said. “I think he’s had that for a long time.”

Around 1983, Thompson grew obsessed with tracking down the SS Central America. When the ship went down off the South Carolina coast in 1857, 425 people drowned and gold worth millions was lost.

Thompson, an oceanic engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, convinced 161 people to invest in his quest, raising $12.7 million. On October 1, 1988, he finally found the treasure, which he would later describe as “otherworldly in its splendor.”

But his joy faded fast. Thirty-nine insurance companies sued Thompson, claiming they had insured the gold in 1857 and that it belonged to them.

In 1996, Thompson’s company was awarded 92 percent of the treasure, and the rest was divided among some of the insurers. Four years later, Thompson’s company netted $50 million after selling 532 gold bars and thousands of coins to a gold marketing group.

But fortune wasn’t smiling down on him.

By 2005, Thompson’s investors still had not been paid, and two sued — a now-deceased investment firm president who put in some $250,000 and the Dispatch Printing Company, which publishes The Columbus Dispatch newspaper and invested about $1 million. The following year, nine members of Thompson’s crew also sued, saying they, too, were promised some proceeds.

Thompson went into seclusion, moving into a mansion in Vero Beach, Florida. After that, his behavior turned bizarre. He refused to use his real name on his utility bills. He would walk around the pool only wearing socks, shoes and dirty underwear.

It’s unclear when Thompson, now 62, disappeared. On August 13, 2012,

he failed to appear at a hearing in the court battles, and a federal judge found him in contempt and issued an arrest warrant. Not long after, officials went inside the Florida mansion and found pre-paid disposable cellphones and bank wraps for $10,000, along with a book called “How to Live Your Life Invisible.”

The Marshals Service has splashed Thompson’s face on electronic billboards and run down hundreds of tips — from the guy who thought he might have shared an elevator with Thompson to a report that the name “Tommy” was signed on a memorial website for a dead friend of the treasure hunter.

Nothing has panned out. A “Wanted” poster even hangs in the barge making a new voyage to the Central America in a new expedition to recover more treasure from the “Ship of Gold.”

Since April, Florida-based Odyssey Marine Exploration has brought up millions of dollars in gold and silver bars and coins. That work will continue indefinitely, an Odyssey spokeswoman said, and Thompson’s original investors are expected to receive part of the recovered riches.

Kids Better at Smartphones than at Tying their Shoes

If you are two-years-old and reading this on your smartphone, put it down and go play with some blocks. A new survey conducted in London has found that kids are better at navigating smartphones and simple tasks like tying their shoes. This is not that big of a surprise as 75 percent of children under 8-yearsold have access to a mobile device of some sort.

The survey of 2,000 parents with children age 2-to 16-years old, found 59 percent could confidently use a tablet; 57 percent felt the same way about their children’s use of a smartphone. However, only 53 percent said their kids could swim or tie their shoes, and less could tell time on an analog clock.

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The Honolulu City Council has taken new measures to crack down on homeless people in the busy city. Several measures have been approved that ban activities such as sitting and lying down on sidewalks. The laws aimed at moving homeless people out of tourist hotspots were approved in a council meeting this week.

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Nevada is about to gain more national attention and it doesn’t have anything to do with gambling. Tesla Motors’ $5 billion battery factory is coming to the Silver State. Last week, Governor Brian Sandoval signed into law an extraordinary deal of incentives that sealed the deal to bring Tesla’s factory, along with 20,000 jobs, into the Western state.

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“It doesn’t get any bigger than this,” Sandoval said as he put his signature to four bills late Thursday night, shortly after the state Legislature unanimously approved the package that includes tax credits and other incentives worth up to $1.3 billion. “This is some of the most important legislation that’s hit this state in perhaps our history,” the Republican governor said. “We have changed the trajectory of this state, perhaps forever.”

Surrounded by legislative leaders and lawmakers, Sandoval presented a Nevada license plate with “TESLA” to Diarmuid O’Connell, Tesla’s vice president for business development who helped pick the site at an industrial park along Interstate 80.

“We are really excited to get going on this project,” O’Connell said, which will bring prices down for batteries to power its upcoming line of cars with a price tag less than $40,000. “It means so much for our mission, which is to catalyze sustainable transportation by creating a mass market for electric vehicles.”

Tesla will receive up to $1.1 billion in tax abatements and will pay no property taxes or payroll taxes for up to 10 years, and no local sales or use taxes for up to 20 years, a sweet deal for the California-based company. However, the clause states that in the case that they fail to spend $3.5 billion in the state within 10 years, they will need to give some or all of the tax money back. The agreement also mandates that 50% of jobs go to Nevada residents. The factory is expected to employ 6,000-plus and construction for the site should employ about 3,000.

“This really is the definition of the rising tide lifting all boats,” said Steve Hill, director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. “It wasn’t that long ago we were suffering through one of the worst recessions in Nevada history with 14.5 percent unemployment.”

Too Much Antibiotics More and more, we are hearing of infections that are resistant to antibiotics because of the trend of overprescribing.

A bug will respond to certain antibiotics more than others. But as strains of

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A new study released this week suggests that doctors in many U.S. hospitals are unnecessarily prescribing multiple antibiotics for several days when just one would do the job. The study focuses on a new issue — when hospital doctors throw more than one antibiotic at a mystery infection.

Faced with a feverish and deteriorating patient entering the hospital, doctors will at first prescribe a couple of antibiotics. That happens “when we’re not exactly sure what we’re dealing with,” as a bet that at least one of the drugs will help, explained Dr. Barry Fox. He is an expert on antibiotic use at the University of Wisconsin and was not involved in the study. Once tests are run and the bug is identified, doctors are supposed to drop any unnecessary second antibiotic, Fox explained.

But research found that often doesn’t happen. In three-quarters of the 500 hospitals studied, patients were still on more than one intravenous antibiotic after two days. The researchers looked at hospital records for 2008 through 2011. According to the authors, use of multiple, useless antibiotics can drive up medical costs and increase side effects like diarrhea.

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ers smoked in 2013, up from 14 percent in 2010, which was the city’s lowest recorded rate, according to the findings released by New York City’s Department of Health. The increase in smokers is surprising; smoking rates have been falling nationally as people have seen the dangers of puffing on what many call “cancer sticks.” Even so, the national average—18 percent—is still higher than in New York.

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The city had to scale back on expensive television advertising and did away with some of its programs aimed at helping people quit, including one to provide nicotine replacements to smokers.

The culture of smoking has also changed, Bassett said. The city has seen a rise in part-time smokers — including some social smokers who don’t turn to cigarettes every day — and that is the demographic being targeted by the government’s new $830,000 ad campaign entitled “Imagine for Life.”

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Trump Plaza Closes its Doors

On Tuesday, Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino closed its door, making it the fourth Atlantic City casino to go belly-up this year.

When Donald Trump opened the casino on May 14, 1984, he declared it the finest building in Atlantic City—and possibly the nation. But since then, the Don has left town and is no longer associated with the casino, despite it sharing his name.

The downward spiral that saw it ranked last among the city’s casinos ended on Tuesday morning as about a half-dozen gamblers who stayed to the end got up from the lone blackjack table in operation or from a few slot machines and walked out beneath the dozens of

In News glittery chandeliers for the last time.

Dealer Ruth Hardrick worked at Trump Plaza for 26 of its 30 years, but is now without a job. She’s not alone: about 8,000 Atlantic City casino workers have lost their jobs this year, and another 3,000 could join them if Trump Plaza’s parent company makes good on its threat to shutter the Trump Taj Mahal Casino resort in November.

“What’s the next step? Where do we go from here?” she asked. “It’s happening all over. A lot of us are in the same boat. You think something will come along [to save the casino]. And it didn’t.”

Atlantic City began the year with 12 casinos. It now has eight.

It was obvious that the end was nearing for Trump Plaza for years now.

Gamblers had been abandoning the casino for newer, ritzier spots. Its owners, Trump Entertainment Resorts, let it deteriorate in recent years, particularly after a sale for the bargain-basement price of $20 million to a California firm fell through last year.

Jim Redmond is a 60-year-old from Montreal who loves Atlantic City and regularly stayed at Trump Plaza. He says its decline was apparent over the last seven years.

“It did slip every year. This year they had no bedspreads and they totally gave up on the ice machines,” Jim Redmond from Montreal said. “This year the Plaza bar was closed and the

24 hour cafe closed at 2 p.m. The higher-end restaurants were closed. It was so sad to see it get a little worse every year.

They really seemed to give up about five years ago.” Redmond regularly stayed at Trump Plaza on his jaunts to Atlantic City.

Illuminated letters advertising the casino’s name on its front and back facades burned out and were never replaced. Visitors to the Miss America pageant last week at Boardwalk Hall next door saw a neon sign proclaiming “Trump Plaz Hotel & Cas.” On the Boardwalk side, the sign read, “U Laza.”

It was a sure bet to gamblers that Trump Plaza was on its way down.

Majority of Americans Support Obama’s Air Strike Bid against IS It seems that Americans are scarred from our last war against terrorism that President George W. Bush led us into following the September 11th attacks.

The wound remains open since there are still troops in Afghanistan today. That may explain why a recent poll shows that Americans are opposed to a long campaign against the Islamic State.

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This week, Obama addressed the nation and discussed his plans to escalate the strike and spread beyond Syria while containing war tactics to only air strikes against the terrorist group.

to American lives,” Clark said.

When respondents were asked if they would still support the air campaign even if it lasted two to three years, the support for Obama’s plan dropped to 53%. “There’s absolutely no appetite for re-engagement in that region in any prolonged way so we see that support drop off,” Clark pointed out.

When asked what the best response to the threat posed by the Islamic State is, 44% of people polled said airstrikes, while only 9% felt sending in troops would be a good idea. About 25% feel the U.S. should fund and support a multinational intervention against the group.

That’s Odd Ipsos pollster Julia Clark explained Americans support air strikes because they don’t see that they can lead to a long, drawn-out conflict. “People see air strikes as surgical. They think we are able to go in and do something that affects in a negative way this horrible group of people, and we are able to extract ourselves with only a very low risk

24-Year-Old Woman Has Half a Brain She had half a brain, but no one realized until now.

A 24-year-old patient went to Chinese PLA General Hospital complain-

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other part take over?”

The doctors in this woman’s case believe that other parts of her brain took over some of the function of her missing cerebellum.

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The patient was married and had a child. Though she stood and walked by herself later than most children and had unintelligible speech until she was 6 years old, she was considered to have “mild mental impairment and medium motor deficits,” the case study about the woman published in the journal Brain said.

Only when she was admitted to the hospital and when doctors took a scan of her brain, did they realize that she was missing her entire cerebellum.

The brain is primarily made of three parts: the cerebrum, cerebellum and medulla. The cerebellum is responsible for coordinating smooth body movements.

According to the National Institutes of Health, people who have strokes affecting their cerebellum experience dizziness, nausea and other problems.

New Scientist reported that the cerebellum accounts for just 10 percent of the brain’s volume but holds 50 percent of its neurons.

Given the extent of her condition, the doctors wrote that her symptoms were “less than would be expected in [complete] absence of the cerebellum.”

“There are very few reported cases of complete cerebellar agenesis [people who don’t have a cerebellum], making it challenging and controversial to understand the degree of cerebellum development necessary to avoid deficits in motor and non-motor functions,” the study authors wrote. “Further, a detailed description of neurological findings in a living adult with cerebellar agenesis is almost non-existent; most cases are reported based on autopsy reports.”

Because studying the disease in a living person is so rare, researchers were particularly excited about this case because it could help them answer several questions: “Is normal cerebellar function possible in the case of total or subtotal cerebellum damage? If one part of the cerebellum is damaged, can an-

In New York, a million dollars could buy you a nice home, but in certain neighborhoods, like in New York City’s SoHo district, a million dollars will only buy you a parking spot.

The New York Times reports that 10 underground spots at 42 Crosby St., a condo development, will cost more per square foot than the apartments upstairs.

The parking spots will run between $5,000 and $6,666 a square foot. The three-bedroom apartments will cost around $8 million to $10 million, or about $3,100 a square foot.

Brokerage firm CEO Shaun Osher says there are “few to no options” for parking in SoHo, just northeast of the World Trade Center site. He says his firm is “looking at setting the benchmark.”

For that price, I’ll just hire a chauffeur.

Cabbies to Pass Body Odor Test At San Diego International Airport, cabbies are crying foul over a new test that they have to pass. Among 52 criteria for the cabdrivers is the body odor test, but cabbies are insisting that the assessment is just perpetuating stereotypes and smacks of prejudice and discrimination.

For years, inspectors with the San Diego Regional Airport Authority run

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Leaders of the United Taxi Workers of San Diego union say the test perpetuates a stereotype that predominantly foreign-born taxi drivers smell bad. A

2013 survey of 331 drivers by San Diego State University and Center on Policy Initiatives found 94 percent were immigrants and 65 percent were from East Africa.

Additionally, there’s “no standard process” to the smell test. Who really smells? Only the nose knows—and it varies depending on whose nose it is.

Another criteria for inspection is the smell test for “foul interior odors” in the

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“If they want to bring their smell detector, they can use it to test the customers and the drivers,” said driver Negus Gebrenarian, 39, from Ethiopia. He, like other drivers, said the stench is just as likely to come from the back seat as it is from the front.

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“Taxi drivers are often the first impression that travelers receive when arriving into San Diego and we want to encourage a positive experience,” airport authority spokeswoman Rebecca Bloomfield said. Only about three drivers fail to get a passing grade each year, she said.

This odor-detecting test is nothing new. Inspectors have been smelling drivers for years. There was no controversy until a union employee waded through a 568-page airport board agenda and noticed the checklist, which had been approved in July for revisions unrelated to the body odor test.

San Diego’s policy appears to be unusually explicit about sniffing out smelly cabbies. Chicago requires drivers be “clean and neat in their appearance.” New York City’s wording is similarly broad.

Seattle long evaluated cabbies for body odor associated with infrequent bathing and not washing clothes but dropped that test last month for a more general requirement on cleanliness.

“The industry didn’t like it and they felt that we were kind of overstepping: Why are we dictating to them? We don’t tell city employees that you’ve got to shower more often,” said Denise Movius, Seattle’s deputy director of finance and administrative services.

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Officials got a laugh when they took photos of the slumbering thief moments before his arrest. He was lying next a plastic bag filled with jewelry he planned to steal.

Paying for a Clean Stay Like how you can bounce a quarter off the bed in your hotel room? Make sure to leave a few coins for your room attendant.

Marriott is launching a new program with Maria Shriver, the former first lady

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warm and comfortable. Please feel free to leave a gratuity to express your appreciation for their efforts.”

Shriver, who founded an organization called A Woman’s Nation that aims to empower women, says many travelers don’t realize tipping hotel room attendants is customary. “There’s a huge education of the traveler that needs to occur,” she said. “If you tell them, they ask, ‘How do I do that?’” She said envelopes make it easy for guests to leave cash for the right person in a secure way.

So how much should you give?

Marriott International CEO Arne Sorenson says $1 to $5 per night, depending on the room rate.

Michael Lynn, a professor at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, says his research shows that “30 percent of people stiff the maid,” while 70 percent said they usually leave a tip.

Sorenson noted that housekeepers “are less frequently tipped” than other hotel workers because they do an “invisible task.” In contrast, workers who carry bags, hail cabs and park cars tend to get tipped because they “make a personal connection” with guests, he said.

But not everyone is welcoming the nudge to pay room cleaners. “It is not Marriott’s responsibility to remind customers to tip; it’s their responsibility to pay their workers enough so that tips aren’t necessary,” said author Barbara Ehrenreich, who tried working as a hotel maid for her 2001 book “Nickel and Dimed,” which chronicled her experiences in low-wage jobs.

A Quarter for a Cause When people in Pasadena, California, are feeding the meter, they are really feeding the homeless.

The Los Angeles suburb is turning 14 parking meters into repositories for donations to nonprofits that serve the city’s homeless.

Pasadena’s housing director, Bill Huang, says the hope is that people who might be reluctant to hand spare change to a panhandler will be more open to putting it in a meter. “This is a clear alternative where people contributing know that all the money will go to effective

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The meters, painted bright orange and covered with smiley faces and inspirational sayings, are also designed to raise awareness of homelessness. And they’ve been doing a good job. In just three weeks, the first two meters raised about $270—that’s a lot of change.

Pasadena is the first city in Los Angeles County to try the meter approach to raising funds for the homeless. Officials said the primary purpose is to raise awareness about homelessness, although they acknowledge it could also reduce panhandling.

Denver, with 55 meters, says it has raised more than $30,000 annually for homeless programs while seeing panhandling decrease. But in Orlando, Florida, 15 meters have raised just $2,027 in three years, $27 more than it cost to install them.

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At least drivers there know that their change is going to help make good changes in their city.

side of the keyboard since most people are right-handed and tend to associate “good” with their more dominant hand.

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Want to know why you named your daughter Miriam? Well, it could be the Qwerty Effect.

A recent study suggests that the layout of the keyboard may play a part in how parents name their children. Researchers suggested that keys on the right hand side are viewed as more positive, because of the dominant right hand, while those on the left are viewed as more negative. And they found that people tend to favor names with letters from the right side of a keyboard – but only since the rise in popularity of the Qwerty keyboard in 1990.

Keys on the right side include the letters Y, I, O, P, H, K, L, M and N. Those on the left include the letters W, R, E, T, A, S, D, F, G, C, and B. An earlier study by Dr. Daniel Casasanto, who ran this study, revealed that people viewed words typed on the right hand side of the keyboard as more positive than those typed on the left

We all love watching those British soldier guarding the royal palaces with their stern expressions and stoic demeanor. But this week, a Grenadier Guardsman who broke strict rules by dancing on parade outside Buckingham Palace is potentially facing a 21-day prison sentence and a £1,000 fine.

Footage of the unnamed soldier, nicknamed “Private Dancer,” performing

a series of ballet-style pirouettes while on guard duty became an internet sensation. As tourists laughed and cheered, he repeatedly spun around, stopped midstride with his foot in the air for several seconds, brushed dust off his rifle and bent down as if to pick something up.

But fame wasn’t necessarily good to this soldier. Army top brass officials reacted furiously to his antics and now the guardsman is facing their ire.

A source said: “There’s no charge in the disciplinary manuals for silly walks and dancing on parade because nobody in living memory has had the cheek to do it. But this guardsman’s senior officers were livid when they saw the footage. His conduct is contrary to everything being a guardsman is about.”

The source continued, “He is facing a stint in the jail with no pay and, when he returns to the Grenadiers, he could lose privileges such as going out in London with the other lads in his company.

Twenty-one days has been discussed as a prison sentence. The hierarchy want to put a marker down so no guardsman dares prance around outside Buckingham Palace again.”

I guess the British don’t love seeing the march of the wooden soldier.

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A Great Beginning to the School Year at Gan Chamesh The teachers and staff of Gan Chamesh, Chabad’s Early Childhood Center, are prepared for a great year. Before school began, the teachers and staff all became certified in CPR and First Aid, to ensure the health and well-being of the students of the preschool.

The teachers and staff also took part in an awe-inspiring trip to the Ohel, the burial place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe z”l.

The visit presented a perfect opportunity to daven and ask Hashem for a successful and meaningful school year. They also met with preschool parents at an informative parent orientation program on September 3. The parent body had an opportunity to hear about the unique philosophies of the school. The evening highlighted some of the innovative programs that Gan Chamesh has implemented. These include the S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) program, with Gan Chamesh’s own distinct emphasis on the engineering component, the project TEAM program

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Rabbi Yitzchok Frankel, Mara D’asra of the Agudath Israel of the Five Towns, giving a daf yomi shiur at Central Perk in Cedarhurst, NY, this week

DRS Seniors Receive High Honors

for teaching middos and derech eretz, and methodology and programs consistent with the renowned Reggio-Amelia approach to preschool education.

The staff and administration of Gan Chamesh look forward to working together with the parent body to ensure that the children have a great, successful year at Gan Chamesh.

Dr. Gerald Kirshenbaum, principal, Yehuda Inslicht, Daniel Aharon, Yoni Goldberg, Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky, menahel

Machon Basya Rochel Seminary Presents Yomim Noraim Yom Iyun for Women As Rosh Hashana approaches, Machon Basya Rochel Seminary is proud to present the women of the community the chance to properly prepare. On Monday, September 22, the seminary will host its Fifth Yomim Noraim Yom Iyun. Machon Basya Rochel Seminary, dedicated in honor of Mrs. Rose Edelman, is entering its fifth year. The seminary has consistently been providing the women of the community the opportunity to be part of the seminary’s activities by hosting yemei iyun with the theme of the upcoming Yom Tov or a topic of interest.

The schedule on Monday, September 22 begins at 9:30 a.m. with Mrs. Devorah Muskat, seminary instructor. Her shiur

will be “How Can We Be Zoche Ba’din?”

This shiur will be followed at 10:30 a.m.

by Rebbitzen Aviva Feiner, seminary Menaheles. She will be speaking on “Sarah, Chana, and the Rosh Hashana Tefillos.” The final shiur, at 11:30 a.m., will be given by special guest speaker, Rabbi Yehoshua Kurland on “A Time to Come Home.” Women are welcome to join for one shiur or the whole morning.

Machon Basya Rochel Seminary is located in a charming building at 137 Lawrence Avenue across from the Lawrence train station in the heart of Lawrence. The seminary phone number is 516-362-5000 and the email is mbrseminary@gmail.com.

In each of the past two years, two DRS seniors have qualified as National Merit Scholarship Finalists. This year, three seniors, Yehuda Inslicht, Daniel Aharon, and Yoni Goldberg, have so far qualified as National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalists. This is an extremely prestigious honor, and it reflects the high level of education that DRS strives to deliver to their students, as well as the level of commitment and work they expect from them.

The National Merit Scholarship Program is a United States academic

scholarship competition for recognition and college scholarships administered

by National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a privately funded, non-for-profit organization. Each year, approximately 10,500 scholarships are awarded through NMSC programs, which represents less than 1% of the initial pool of entrants. Students who qualify as a Finalists have an outstanding academic record, are endorsed and recommended by a school officials, and earn extremely high PSAT scores. 50% of all finalists are awarded the special scholarship.

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Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Alumni Night Kollel Celebrates Siyum

By Avi Goldberg

This past Wednesday night, the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway alumni night kollel celebrated a siyum on Meseches Rosh Hashana.

Since its inception almost 4 ½ years ago, the kollel, under the guidance of its Rosh Kollel Rabbi Eli Halpert, has thus far finished Meseches Brachos, Megillah, Rosh Hashana and Perek Arvei P’sachim. The kollel, comprised mainly of YFR alumni, learns every night from 9:00 – 10:30 pm with tremendous hasmadah and pilpulei chaverim and a real simchas haTorah.

The festive siyum on Wednesday was a culmination of an exhilarating mesechta, one that has many sugyos pertaining to the upcoming yom tov of Rosh Hashana.

The kollel, named Zichron Ephraim in memory of R’ Ephraim Fishel Ben R’ Meir Yitzchok Fernbach a’h, has been dedicated by his son, R’ Zindel Fernbach. Reb Fernbach, as he learns alongside the yungerleit, brings along a ruach of neimus haTorah, and the kollel has benefitted tremendously from his constant support.

The siyum, which was hosted by the Fernbachs, was on the yahrtzeit of his father, R’ Ephraim Fishel, and was made l’iluei nishmas R’ Yoni Abbot. One of the chavrei hakollel made the actual siyum and R’ Yehoshua Gastwirth said a shtikel Torah. Divrei brachos were given as well by Reb Zindel Fernbach and the Rosh Kollel, Rav Eli Halpert. Rav Avrohom Perr,

who was and is the driving force behind the night kollel, gave over a personal message from the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Yechiel Perr shlita, who was unable to attend personally.

We wish the kollel much hatzlacha as they start Meseches Yuma, and give them a bracha that they should continue to be able to learn and be mesayim many more mesechtos.

HANC High School Freshmen Retreat The HANC High School Class of 2018 was inaugurated into high school at the annual Freshman Retreat this past Sunday and Monday, September 14 and 15, at Camp Kaylie in Wurtsboro, NY. The students participated in two days of activities, learning sessions, entertainment and “just getting to know one another” activities. The sprawling lawns with the fall foliage as the backdrop set the scene for the opening team building session and the class photo.

The retreat started with an incredible hike in Harriman State Park where students climbed to the peak. Students were awed at the beautiful vista and were overheard saying, “Mah rabu ma’asecha Hashem.”

The learning sessions gave the stu-

dents the opportunity to see the sources in Tanach and Chazal that delve into their retreat theme of “k’ish echad b’lev echad – like one man with one heart.”

The night activity game of Team Balderdash, generated team excitement and the most fictitious answers that we have never heard or seen before.

(What did happen on May 19, 2010?)

Ninth grader Batsheva Moskowitz recalls that the students had a chance to meet new people and have a great time.

The highlight, of course, was the

situation dilemma skit performed by faculty, which the students found amusing. Administrators and teachers impersonated a new student trying to make new friends. The students are looking forward to their next four years

as the Class of 2018 embarks on their high school careers.

Thank you to Rabbi Aharon Friedler for organizing the retreat, and the faculty and senior student advisors who helped make this event a success.

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Charles & Naomi Steinberg Sponsor Fishing Trip for HASC Center This past Sunday, the participants of HASC Center programs were once again treated to a wonderful experience

sible through the generosity of Charles and Noami Steinberg. The Steinbergs have been hosting individuals affiliated with HASC Center for the past several years.

The initial shidduch was established through the intervention of Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak, their Rav, who is also the clinical director of HASC Center.

This annual trip is sponsored by Charles and Naomi in memory of their beloved son, Steven, z”l who died at an early age. In effort to find a suitable tribute to his memory, they reflected upon his all too short life and found that Steven had a profound interest in working with special needs individuals and was also a “fisherman” of sorts. Charles Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak & Charles Steinberg relates that Steven had actually worked on a that has become an annual event. An boat and was enamored with the occaentire group of almost a hundred young sions that special needs children were adults and children with special needs brought onto the boat. He was able to accompanied by their parents and coun- familiarize them with the boat and help selors came to Freeport, Long Island, them fish. This background acted as to board the Dolphin fishing boat for the impetus, and the idea of sponsoring an amazing fishing expedition. This ex- a fishing trip for special needs individceptional adventure was made by pos- uals in Steven’s memory was born.

HASC Center participants boarding the fishing boat

During this year’s trip, the excitement was palpable. As everyone boarded the boat, there were shrieks of glee blended with a sense of cautious tentativeness. For some, this was the first time that they had ever been on a boat, and for most, it would be the first time they had the opportunity to go fishing. As the boat pulled away from the dock, fishing poles were distributed, hooks baited and the “fishing” started in earnest. The ship’s crew and Mr. Steinberg himself went from one person to the next providing assistance and guidance. All of a sudden, shouts of excitement could be heard as the first fish was reeled in to the delight of everyone. Many more such “catches” took place over the course of the trip.

Dr. Wakslak commented, “It is quite amazing to observe how focused and relaxed everyone seemed despite the length of the journey.”

Time passed quickly, and sooner than anticipated the boat turned around and made its way back to the dock silhouetted by a magnificent sunset. Prior to debarking, everyone gathered in the main cabin to daven Mincha. As each person left the boat and made their way back to terra firma, they thanked the Steinbergs for a wonderful experience, made their way back to the bus and within short order were on their way back to Brooklyn. There is little question that everyone’s minds were filled with memories of a wonderful end-ofthe-summer experience.

Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe Dedicates Learning Program L’ilui Nishmas the Three Kedoshim

The 2013-14 school year ended with Klal Yisrael beseeching Hashem for the safe return of the three kidnapped teens. Unfortunately, on June 30th, our worst fears were realized and the three teens were found murdered. In response to this tragedy, Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe dedicated a new after-school Mishnayos program l’ilui nishmas Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Fraenkel and Gilad Shaar h”yd.

Close to 80 boys in fifth through eighth grade are participating in this new after-school program. For those boys who participate consistently in this learning program, the Menahel, Rabbi Yaakov May, will take the boys on a culturally enriching trip to Boston at the end of the school year.

On Monday, September 8, the program began with Rabbi Hersh Kasirer teaching Mesaches Shabbos to the seventh and eighth grade participants. Pizza and sushi were served to the boys to enhance the learning experience.

The program continued on Tuesday, September 9th with Rabbi Kasirer teaching Mesaches Shabbos to the fifth and sixth grade participants. Rabbi Kasirer’s enthusiasm has all the boys excited to join this program and learn the Mishnayos.

May the boys’ learning be an aliya for the neshamos of Eyal ben Uriel Yifrach, Yaakov Naftali ben Avraham Fraenkel and Gilad Michael ben Ofir Shaar.

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Congressional candidate for the 4th District, Republican Bruce Blakeman, proudly displaying the Israeli flag, was accompanied to CHAZAQ’s 2nd Annual Dinner by activists (L-R) Dr. Joseph Frager and Dr. Paul Brody. To Blakeman’s left is Guest of Honor, MK Nissim Ze’ev, founder of the Shas Party; activist Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie of the Safra Synagogue; and Yaniv Meirov, prime mover of the dynamic CHAZAQ organization, together with his brother Rabbi Ilan Meirov (not shown). Blakeman recently returned from visiting Israel where he met many important figures.

This past Sunday, members of the HAFTR community joined together as TEAM HAFTR in the Gift of Life Walk for Life (Bone Marrow Foundation) at Eisenhower Park. Students, parents and faculty members participated in the 1 mile walk.

Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation is Dr. Karen Lish, HAFTR parent, and Rabbi Dovid Kupchik, Menahel N-8 an internationally recognized bone marrow and blood stem 235,000 donors, and has facilitated over cell registry. Every year 10,000 patients 2,700 transplants.

The HAFTR community has overseen several community drives over the past decade, resulting in over 30 potentially life-saving matches. By contributing or participating in this important event, you will play a vital role in savRabbi Dovid Kupchik and HAFTR high school boys ing lives. suffering from leukemia, lymphoma, other cancers, and genetic disorders, need a bone marrow transplant, but have no donor match in their family.

These patients must rely on a complete stranger to save their life. The Gift of Life facilitates these transplants through a network of volunteer donors. The Gift of Life registry contains more than

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The Annual Teshuva Shmuz The Annual Teshuva Shmuz, given by Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier of the Shmuz, was presented in a few different states in the last few weeks to give inspiration and chizuk to the Klal.

On Thursday, September 4, Rabbi Shafier travelled to Chicago and pre-

sented “Teshuva—A Fresh New Start” to Kehillat Chovevei Tzion in Skokie, which was well received. He spent Shabbos with Beis Medrash Mikor Hachaim. An anonymous donor and talmid of Rabbi Shafier felt it would be a perfect shidduch for his shul – and it

was! The content over Shabbos was classic for the yomim noraim and helped everyone transition themselves from the summer months to the seriousness of the next few weeks. 235 people from the kehillah joined Rabbi Shafier for Shabbos lunch where he drew from his advanced

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The Shalosh Seudos crowd doubled its normal attendance to hear how to develop our yiras shomayim and to get practical tips on how to enhance our davening.

The Marriage Seminar was presented to the men over Shabbos and for women at a brunch on Sunday. The popular seminar was enjoyed by all and his direct approach was appreciated.

While in Chicago, Rabbi Shafier also addressed the talmidim of the Skokie Yeshiva, the girls in Hanna Sacks High School, and a crowd in Buffalo Grove to help prepare them for Rosh Hashana.

The next stop for the Annual Teshuva Shmuz was in Lakewood, New Jersey, where Rabbi Shafier has a loyal following. He spoke in Rabbi Gissinger’s shul on the message of teshuva which had a powerful impact. Comments from attendees speak for themselves: “The Shmuz was motivating, giving real life lessons to walk away with.” ”It was motivating and inspiring.” “It’s always refreshing to hear Rabbi Shafier, especially now in Elul. Hearing the Shmuz gives me a clear focus of the steps to follow.”

On Sunday, September 14, the Alumni Association of the Yeshiva of Central queens invited the Queens community to the Teshuva Shmuz. Rabbi Shafier is an alumnus of YCQ and they felt honored and privileged to have him share with them words of chizuk.

The Shmuz will be joining Lakewood once again on Tzom Gedalya for “Teshuva is Easy, Change is Difficult” and another Shmuz will be presented in Queens for Chazaq on September 30.

The Shmuz is a Torah lecture that offers a worldview on major life issues ranging from working on our middos to learning to be a better spouse, from understanding the meaning of our davening to what our purpose is in this world.

Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier has been delivering these lectures across America and beyond for a decade.

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Welcome to our Hebrew Classroom HALB Lev Chana Early Childhood Center is proud to announce the opening of its Hebrew language immersion classroom where all speaking by students as well as by teachers is done in Hebrew. The three year old Nursery, four year old Nursery, and Kindergar-

ten children visit the classroom 2, 3 or 4 times a week where Morah Judi, our Ivrit teacher, involves them in activities that will facilitate the growth of our children’s oral Hebrew language acquisition. Our children are constantly absorbing vocabulary and learning to communicate in Hebrew as they play games, sing songs, use dramatic play and continuously interact with Morah Judi.

The children have already learned to introduce themselves to

each other, and sing and act out Rosh Hashana songs incorporating family members with puppets and pictures.

Body parts are taught through “Shimon Omer” and other games.

Our goal is to give our children a superb base from which to build Hebrew language communication skills.

We want the children to understand Hebrew as a living language, a bridge from chutz la’aretz to our “family” in Eretz Yisrael. By hearing and speaking only Hebrew in a fun-filled relaxed environment, the children are able to absorb and respond with ease.

We are extremely excited to launch this new program at Lev Chana!

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A Fresh Start for Freshmen: Beginning the Year at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls By: Yael Scheinman, 9th Grade For most people, the thought of entering high school is pretty intimidating.

It brings with it a longer school day, new teachers, more work, harder tests and many new girls to meet. I was very nervous before the Ninth Grade Orientation, but as soon as I walked into SKA, I began to feel at ease. We were greeted with big smiles from Mrs. Helen Spirn, Head of School, Ms. Raizi Chechik, Principal Grades 9-10, several faculty members and some older SKA students, all of whom later formally welcomed us along with our Grade Level Advisors.

We were then split into three rotating groups, each of which would partake in a different program with the intention of making us feel more comfortable in SKA. One group had the privilege of having Mrs. Elisheva Kaminetsky, Director of Religious Guidance, address them about the importance of tzinius and SKA’s student generated “Code of Conduct.” A second group had a thrill-

ing and informative scavenger hunt around the school, which helped us become more familiar with the building. The final group was shown to their lockers and had the chance to meet their new locker buddies; some girls even began to decorate their lockers in their own style!

After a delicious snack of ice cream, we heard from Mrs. Spirn and Ms. Chechik about what to expect on the first day of school, how to handle the workload, and how to cope with the transition from elementary to high school. They reassured us that if we became overwhelmed at any time in the year, they would be there to help us in any way possible—a comforting message to a group of anxious new students!

We davened Mincha together as one grade and then ate a lovely dinner during which we hear a dvar Torah from our fellow classmate, Aliza Rothman.

Afterwards, we went bowling, a trip en-

joyed by all. It allowed us to meet new friends and share the first of many fun experiences together. Upon our return to school, we were introduced to our G.O. who shared with us some of their funny stories of experiences that happened to them when they were new to SKA. This helped us realize that everyone is new at one point and doesn’t know where to go or what to do. It certainly lessened our worries about entering high school! It

was a perfect conclusion to a wonderful day.

As I sat in my room back home at the end of the day, I reflected on my fears from earlier that morning, realizing how absurd they seemed now and feeling a comfort and excitement knowing that the following week I would walk through the doors of SKA and begin what will be, iy”H, an amazing four years!

Worldwide Shabbos Project Initiative in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway

By Chaya Feldstein “Taking a Day out of Life to Live.”

The Shabbos Project is an initiative that began a year ago in South Africa. The aim was to involve as many Jews of all ages and stages in religiosity in keeping one Shabbos together. The results were unprecedented: it was a success beyond all expectations! It was an inspiration to all involved, observant or not.

Rabbi Warren Goldstein, the Chief Rabbi of South Africa who initiated the Project, was subsequently called upon by other Jewish communities to initiate the first ever Worldwide Shabbos Project.

To date, over 170 cities across the globe have signed up to be part of this initiative on the weekend of Parshas Noach, October 23rd – 25th.

The Five Towns/Far Rockaway community is blessed with many Project Inspire partners and much local talent.

Rabbi Yaakov Trump, whose origin is South Africa and who is currently the assistant Rabbi of Young Israel Lawrence-Cedarhurst, has jumped at the opportunity to unite our community in joining Jews around the world in spending Shabbos together as one family. The initial meeting took place just a few weeks

ago and the excitement is in there air!

The project’s goal is to empower those who keep Shabbos to reconnect to it and invite those who are not exposed to Shabbos to become a part of it. This will be accomplished by individuals pledging to take steps to improve the quality of their Shabbos, and by inviting their less-affiliated friends, family, and colleagues to join them for that Shabbos.

In addition to its basic aim, this is a unique opportunity to create unparalleled unity among the Five Towns and Far Rockaway communities for a positive reason, in contrast to the crisis-based unity during Hurricane Sandy. This unity can arise both from Shabbos invitations as well as from community members coming together to volunteer to make the project a success.

The weekend will begin with a giant all-women’s challah baking event which will take place on the Thursday evening prior (October 23rd) at the Sephardic Temple on Branch Blvd at 7:30 PM. Much help is needed in ensuring its success in the expected 1,000 attendees.

Inviting someone for Shabbos is of utmost importance; shuls in each neigh-

borhood will serve as “hubs,” hosting Shabbos programs for all hosts and guests. These include lively Friday night davenings, onegs, and shiurim. Other shuls that so choose will have their own events such as shul meals. Then after Shabbos, the weekend will conclude with an inspiring Havdala concert (more details to come). As of yet, more than 20 local Shuls and their Rabbanim are on board. Each shul in the area will play an integral part through its congregants’ volunteer efforts and Shabbos invitations.

We are fortunate to host Rabbi Goldstein this Shabbos in our own community. He will be speaking in numerous locations about the project. Look out for ads and fliers detailing his schedule.

There are many aspects to the project and each and every part is integral.

Whether you’d like to get involved in the challah baking, inviting guests, volunteering for your shul’s programming, Havdala, PR or anything else that you have to offer, please go to the following website which has been set up for our community, http://www.theshabbosproject5tfr.com/ or email fivetowns@theshabbosproject.com.

This Shabbos will enable us to unite with Jews around the world and throughout the ages.

Together we embark on this great adventure to rediscover our G-d-given gift of Shabbos. As Mordechai Ben David made world famous, “Just one Shabbos and we’ll all be free, just one Shabbos come and join with me…” May we be zoche to that freedom with the coming of Moshiach b’mheira b’yameinu.

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Five Towns Professionals Meet and Network The Five Towns Wellcomed each professional ness Center held their first to view others as colnetworking event on Sunday, laborators in creating a September 14. Their team community environment of clinical therapists invited in which seeking menschool faculty, rabbis, psychital health care is safe atrists, and psychotherapists and comfortable. When to meet for an elegant evening dedicated clinicians join of professional collaboration through networking, in their newly renovated prothey become more aware fessional office in Cedarhurst. of the other specialists The incredible turnout pointed who are practicing in the to the dedication of those in neighborhood, and gain the professional community to the ability to make referLeft to right: Dvorah Levy, LCSW, Sara Schwartz-Gluck, LCSW, learning about local resources rals that address specific Motti Shanet, LCSW. Not pictured: Karen Herrmann, LCSW in order to provide the best needs. To that end, all possible service.

The Five Towns Wellness Center mans to share with someone when life was established with the goals of provid- events impact us. Motti Shanet, LCSW ing a high standard of individual, group, compared the role of therapists to that of and family counseling, and also to sup- potters. They may need to take broken port local mental health professionals shards of people who feel broken and through supervision and networking. help them become whole again. Karen As evidenced by the warm and positive Herrmann, LCSW urged the audience of This Sunday evening, September 21, energy at the event, it seems that many helping professionals to never underestiElaine and Yossi Farber will be hosting a local clinicians supported that vision. mate the importance of simply providing shiur and bake sale to benefit the Yehuda Each member of the 5TWC team a safe space for people. Aside from proMemorial Center Bikur Cholim hospitalshared a short message with their atten- viding evidence-based treatment, someity rooms. dant colleagues. Dvorah Levy, LCSW times therapists are able to make an im The Yehuda Memorial Center was spoke of the healing power of connec- pact through being empathic and present. founded by Mrs. Miriam Alexander of tion and the innate need we have as huSara Schwartz-Gluck, LCSW welMonsey, NY. Faces with a devastating

attendees were welcomed to introduce themselves and their work to the crowd.

It was astounding to see that many of them had worked with one another for years, over phone or email, but had never before had the opportunity to meet in person. The phrase, “It’s so nice to finally put a face to the name!” came up quite a few times over the course of the evening.

The team at the Five Towns Wellness Center looks forward to hosting more networking events in the future as they work to support local individuals, families, organizations, and professionals.

For more information about the services they offer, please see 5TWC.com.

Bake Sale and Shiur to Benefit Yehuda Memorial Center Bikur Cholim illness, Mrs. Alexander became aware of a pressing need faced by Jewish families and friends in New York hospitals.

Where could they go when they have to spend hours or days in the hospital with a family member? What about Shabbos and yom tov? She dreamed of setting up a place within the hospital that would service their needs. She knocked on doors of presidents of these hospitals. Her dream became a reality as she opened rooms in these hospitals and stocked them with kosher food, snacks, drinks and all Shabbos necessities.

In addition, the rooms are equipped with tefillin, siddurim and Tehillim. Hundreds of patients and their families have used these rooms since the first opening in 2006, and thanked us for the comfort it had provided them.

This organization is fully run by volunteers and has no paid employees. All donations are used to maintain the hospitality rooms.

Please come and show your support for Yehuda Memorial Center on this Sunday evening at 7:45 at the home of Elaine and Yossi Farber, 333 Buckingham Court in Cedarhurst. Mrs. Michal Horowitz will be the special guest speaker. The bake sale will commence after the shiur and will continue on Monday, September 22, from 10am-5pm. There will be wonderful boutiques on Monday as well. Gluten-free, sugar-free baked goods and Siegelman cakes will be available for purchase.

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Rabbi Shmuel Braun, Educational Director of Congregation Aish Kodesh, was the speaker at the monthly Rosh Chodesh Shiur for Far Rockaway and the Five Towns this week. His topic was “Our Nearness to the King’s Love: Preparing for the Rosh Hashana Encounter.”

Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum Rav of YILC addressed HAFTR High School students before the Yomim Noraim. Rabbi Teitelbaum spoke about the importance of personalizing the Yomim Noraim.

The students were very inspired by his speech.

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SKA Senior Named National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalist The administration of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls is proud to announce that Adina Singer, a member of the Class of 2015, has been named a Semi-Finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Competition. A leader in the school, Adina spent this past summer involved in research at the Garcia Center at Stony Brook University, studying a method of cutting DNA to simplify the sequencing process. She was Associate Editor in Chief of The Looking Glass, the SKA newspaper, is Captain of the SKA College Bowl Team, and is a member of the Debate Team and Science Olympiad. She also organized a fundraising Walk-a-Thon for

the Alzheimer’s Association in memory of her grandfather z”l.

The National Merit Scholarship Program is a national academic scholarship competition for recognition and college scholarships administered by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a privately funded, non-profit organization.

Each year, approximately 10,500 scholarships are awarded through NMSC programs, representing less than 1% of the initial pool of entrants.

Mazel tov, Adina! May you continue to grow mei’chayil l’chayil. Your teachers and classmates applaud your prestigious accomplishment.

Something to Snack On

Surely, had the cow known what her milk was being transformed into, her ego would’ve blossomed out of proportion. She certainly wasn’t imagining the delectable line of cheese snacks that Mehadrin produced for the delighted Jewish consumer.

All of us have memories that involve flat wooden spoons that scrape across the smoothest of creamy surfaces. Cheese snacks have always been a special treat, the kind that activated salivary glands when brought into sight.

And now, Mehadrin has taken standard cheese snacks to a whole new level, introducing a selection that includes Diet Cheese Snacks, Greek Cheese

Snack, Diet Greek Cheese Snack, and the latest, award-winning twist, Chocolate Greek Cheese Snack. (A favorite treat with chocolate? Sounds like a plan!)

Cheese snacks make for an ideal mini-meal or quick snack. Mothers greatly appreciate the high protein content their children consume in what the children consider a rare treat. Satisfying to both hunger and food cravings, cheese snacks are the ideal item to throw into your cart as you do your grocery shopping. Just make sure to hide them well in your fridge when you get home lest they’ll be gone before your order is unpacked.

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HANC Commemorates September 11th The students in fourth to sixth grade at HANC Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School participated in a special assembly to commemorate the tragic events of September 11, 2001. The assembly began with the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of Hatikvah and continued with a presentation

by Mr. Jeremy Strauss, a HANC parent and Hatzalah member, who was a first responder on 9/11.

Mr. Strauss explained that he was working at his office on September 11th when a Hatzalah call went out asking all volunteers to go to the World Trade Center to help. Mr. Strauss immediately rushed to the World Trade Center, where he saw many other Hatzalah members, EMTs, Fire Department personnel and NYPD officers all helping to rescue people and treat those who were injured. Mr. Strauss explained to the students, none of whom were born yet on September 11, 2001, that the events that took place that fateful day are not ancient history and that all their parents and older siblings will always remember the impact that 9/11 had on them. After describing how difficult it was to be

there and watch as the Towers fell, Mr. Strauss showed the students the hard hat that saved his life from falling debris. Mr. Strauss explained that although we don’t always know or understand Hashem’s plan, we have to continue to believe in Him. After Mr. Strauss’ presentation, social studies teacher Mrs. Karen Spitalnik, reminded the students of the importance of the American flag and all it represents. Mrs. Spitanik then showed the students an American flag that she ordered and which flew over the Capitol building on September 11, 2002, the first anniversary of 9/11. The flag came with a certificate that reads that it was flown at the Capitol building in memory of those who gave their lives on September 11th. The assembly concluded with the recitation of Tehillim.

May we never forget and may the memories of all those who perished be blessed.

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Annual Rambam Shabbaton: Unprecedented Ruach Over the Shabbos of Parshas Ki Tavo, the talmidim at Rambam Mesivta attended the school’s annual Shabbaton at Camp Seneca Lake for a weekend that featured chevra, learning, sports (including a Homerun Derby/Gold Glove Tournament and a Flag Football Tournament), and unprecedented ruach!

As always, the freshman class is comprised of boys from a myriad of elementary schools, so Rambam arranges for them to arrive in camp a day early to have an opportunity to bond with their new classmates. Following a delicious lunch, the boys were free to swim, play basketball, hockey, football and softball. In the 2nd Annual Homerun Derby and Gold Glove Tournament, Freshman Dovid Rabinovich was crowned 9th Grade Champion with Yoni Grossman a close 2nd. The two also qualified to compete in the school-wide Homerun Derby which was held post-Melava Malka. After a day of sports (not to mention the music room and spin room) and another delicious meal, the boys were introduced to an activity on perspective and individuality by Assistant Principal, Mr. Hillel Goldman, who asked them to “Zoom” in and out when making decisions. The night culminated with a competitive and friendly game of “Crazy Dodgeball: Senior Advisers (and Mr. Goldman!) vs. Freshmen.” Despite the best efforts of the senior team, the over two-score freshmen overwhelmed them on their way to a dramatic victory…the first time in school history the freshmen have prevailed!

On Friday, another session led by Mr. Goldman, this time on the importance of maintaining individuality in the face of adversity, was held. A few hours later, the rest of the school arrived and the Rambam freshmen now had an opportunity to cement the kesher with the upperclassmen. One of the hallmarks of Rambam Mesivta is that the school is close-knit, and freshmen and sophomores and even juniors and seniors can know one another by name and forge friendships. Soon the camp was filled with talmidim, rebbeim, teachers, and advisers playing Frisbee, softball, football, roller hockey, floor hockey, and basketball in the spirit of achdus. The

Flag Football Tournament, this year featuring eight teams and participation from over 60 students, also kicked off at this time with the finals set for a Motzei Shabbos Super Bowl!

Kabbalat Shabbot, highlighted by new Rebbe, Rabbi Noam Singer’s davening, and a dvar Torah concerning the importance of achdus, shared

by Mr. Goldman, was followed by another outstanding meal filled with booming zemirot. The beautiful zemirot were so lively and effervescent that the entire Yeshiva was standing on benches with interlocked arms. Se-

nior Chezky Freiden delivered a dvar Torah, and the singing and dancing continued at a post-meal tisch led by Rabbi Yossi Ziskind and Rabbi Singer.

The achdus seen at Seudat Shlisheet epitomized the weekend’s theme of achdus. Led by Rabbi Aryeh Young, who shared a personal story about achdus, the crowd was deeply moved. Rabbi David Block, Rambam alum and now Rambam Rebbe, as well as a former Maccabeat, gave a dvar Torah. Seniors Ephraim Fruchter and Ben Silverstein also discussed the parsha and its connection to achdus. Rabbi Avrum Haar then question the Mesivta about the true definition of the word “achdus.” In a spirited discussion it was eventually understood that real achdus is unselfishness and giving. The boys sang into overtime, davened Maariv and heard Rabbi Singer make Havdala. The entire school then broke out into dancing as they were still clinging to the spirit of Shabbos and chevra that had been created over the last few days.

Motzei Shabbos continued with the

talmidim once again engaging in sports activities. The Flag Football Super Bowl almost went into overtime as the Fighting Fruchters battled the Frieden Fanatics under the lights and color commentary from freshman Charlie “Garrulous” Grill. In the end, Team Frieden won and Chezky “The Architect” Frieden was named Tournament MVP. Everyone then eagerly headed toward the dining room for a Melave Malka with pizza, ice-cream, and ruach, provided by world-class guitarist, and 9th and 12th grade Rebbe, Rabbi Ari Boiangiu. Rabbi Boiangiu’s band included an amazing keyboardist and premier drummer, Mr.

Halbfinger, father of senior Shmuel Halbfinger who himself took the mike!

The night ended with the final round of the Homerun Derby, as Freshman Dovid Rabinovich took home the first place trophy with senior Yitzy Laster a close second. Last year’s Gold Glove Winner, Daniel Petrikovsky was this year’s Gold Glove runner-up as freshman, Akiva Schuck was crowned the Gold Glove Champion. The seniors then retreated to a late, late BBQ and bonfire by the lake under the careful gaze of Mr. Shmuli Goldner.

The Rambam Mesvita Shabbaton promoted learning, achdus, and new friendships. The year is already off a great start as the echoes of the singing and learning of the Shabbaton will surely reverberate throughout the halls of Rambam as the memories of time wellspent will only grow upon reflection.

Hachnosas Sefer Torah This Sunday The community is invited to participate as Ateres Yaakov completes its first Sefer Torah, iy”H on Sunday, September 21 at 131 Washington Avenue in Lawrence. The celebration will begin with the kesivas osios at 10:30am, followed by dancing and hakafos together with the bnei yeshiva at 11:30am.

The Torah is dedicated in the name of R’ Mark Braunstein, a”h, the father of our Rosh Yeshiva Gedolah, Rabbi Meir Braunstein. R’ Mark Braunstein led a life guided by limud and hachzakas haTorah. Therefore, it is very befitting that Ateres Yaakov’s first Sefer Torah was written in his memory, l’ilui nishmas R’ Moshe Reuven ben Rav Simcha Gadol a”h.

Ateres Yaakov has experienced tre-

mendous growth in recent years. Under the leadership of its dynamic Menahel, Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe, Ateres Yaakov has emerged as an exceptional makom Torah and makom tefillah in our community. Among the divisions of Ateres Yaakov, the Mesivta and Yeshiva Gedolah are comprised of over 250 talmidim, and its Kollel under the guidance of Rabbi Akiva Willig has 15 kollel yungerleit. Additionally, Ateres Yaakov has a growing Kehilla, with its membership of more than 150 member families. Ateres Yaakov’s influence on the community is far-reaching, and impacts more than 400 families.

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Five Towns Marriage Initiative Appreciating the Greatness in People Acher was a Tanna who reached a level of “pardes,” which is a level that only four great people have achieved.

From that high level, he plummeted to the lowest of lows to the point where he sinned and caused others to sin as well.

A Heavenly voice announced that everyone could be accepted back if they repent, “chutz me’Acher,” except for Acher. The distinction that the voice was making was that everyone else can repent by taking a few small actions and then Hashem helps them the rest of the way, while for Acher, repenting would not be so simple. In a way, he was one of the worst sinners because he knew so much and yet he abandoned it all to do some of the worst sins. He could not say that he did not know better and if he wanted to repent, he would have to put in more effort than most.

In truth, we view repentance in an accepted way. We have Elul and Rosh Hashanah every year and we accept the

concept as a reality we have always had.

The Jews in the time of the prophets did not take repentance so simply. Every prophet had to come and exhort them to repent because the concept of repentance was so difficult for them to accept.

The difference between them and us is twofold. First, they had a hard time accepting how the past can be changed, while we are just so used to the concept that we don’t think about it. The concept of repentance really should boggle the mind. When an action is taken, it should be impossible to undo, especially if you take your cues from the laws of nature.

When a person is killed, they are no longer amongst the living and all the repentance won’t turn back the clock.

When a mamzer is created, there is no way to undo what was done and have a regular Jew take the person’s place.

Even getting a get from the first spouse won’t change the living mamzer’s status. These and many other examples

can show us how it goes contrary to the regular running of nature and yet Hashem created a very real concept of repentance that does “turn back the clock” in a spiritual way, and our slates get wiped clean, as the prophet tells us, we become white and pure like snow.

The second big difference between our predecessors and us is that they appreciated the greatness of man.

Adam, the first man, was able to change the whole path the world was supposed to take. All the painful childbirths and saddening deaths that we live with as a reality would never have been if not for the sin of Adam. We don’t appreciate the power a human wields, while our ancestors had more of an idea, and therefore they had a harder time accepting that what man does can be undone through repentance. By us, everything is chilled, and we view punishment in the next world like we view a parking ticket; an annoyance and a pain,

but not much more than that, while really it’s so much more.

We need to start taking life seriously and appreciating just how much of an effect we have on the world. We need to repent for that lack of understanding that gave us the allowance to sin in the first place. When we appreciate our own greatness, we can begin to understand the greatness of the others around us too, and most importantly, we can begin to appreciate the greatness of our spouse.

Five Towns Marriage Initiative provides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:30-11p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516430-5280 or email dsgarry@msn.com.

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Assemblyman Goldfeder Awards State Funds to JCCRP Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder announced on Tuesday that he has provided a state grant in the amount of $5K to assist the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula (JCCRP) and allow them to continue their wide range of excellent services to the Rockaway community.

“This funding will go a long way to help our local chesed organization continue to provide the relief and services that our community desperately needs,” said Assemblyman Goldfeder.

“The JCCRP has always been a strong community partner and I know this funding will be put to good use to help

serve our families. I want to thank Nathan Krasnovsky, the staff and board for their tireless efforts on behalf of the community.”

Since 1972, the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula (JCCRP) has been providing services to those in need and advocating on

issues of concern to the community.

Ranging from the elderly to the poor or near poor, the JCCRP has met each individual’s needs by providing either food, clothing, education, or offering other services to help improve their lives and wellbeing.

“This additional state funding from Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder will help the JCCRP fulfill our mission and help a community still struggling to recover from Sandy,” said Nathan Krasnovsky, executive director of JCCRP. “We work tirelessly to assist individuals in need and appreciate the support that will allow us to reach more families throughout the community.”

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Shmittah Comes Alive at Yeshiva of South Shore For most of us here in chutz la’aretz, shmittah is a mitzvah that is not generally relevant to us personally. After all, we don’t own farms in Eretz Yisrael, and the produce we purchase generally does not come from there.

Yeshiva of South Shore is bringing shmittah to life this year. It began last week when they invited Mr. Baruch Adiri, a shmittah-observing farmer from Eretz Yisrael to address the talmidim and to share his story, insight, and enthusiasm for keeping this special mitzvah.

After brief opening remarks from Rabbi Shlomo Drebin, special programs coordinator, the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, introduced

Mr. Baruch Adiri. Mr. Adiri spoke to the boys about his personal odyssey towards religious observance. He spoke about his background being a secular atheist when

he was miraculously saved from almost certain death during the Yom Kippur War and how he discovered Hashem and slowly traveled the path towards Torah observance. He admitted that it seemed absurd that he undertook the exception-

Thousands to Protest at Metropolitan Opera Gala Opening A coalition of organizations will protest at Lincoln Center on Monday evening, September 22, at 4 PM, across the street from the Lincoln Center Plaza at Columbus Avenue & 65th Street to protest the Metropolitan Opera House’s decision to air the “The Death of Klinghoffer.” Monday evening is the first night of the gala opening of the Metropolitan opera season.

Dignitaries and elected officials are expected to join the thousands of demonstrators who will gather to raise their voices against this opera which promotes terrorism, and anti-Semitism.

Confirmed participants include Michael Mukasey, the former Attorney General of the United States; Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY); Dr. Bill Donahue, President, Catholic League; criminal defense attorney Ben Brafman; Rabbi Avi Weiss; Assemblyman Dov Hikind; Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis; Rabbi Zev Meir

ally difficult mitzvah of shmittah in the year 5747 before he became fully observant and how it has remained very dear to his heart during all subsequent shmittah cycles. He also gave a riveting account of the nissim, miracles, he witnesses with his own eyes which he attributes to Hashem’s kindness in response to his keeping shmittah.

For most of the talmidim, it was the first time they met a frum Israeli farmer and knew they were in the presence of a deeply courageous man who is making great financial sacrifices to do the will of Hashem.

The hanhallah of the Yeshiva, moved

by Mr. Adiri’s message, has committed

to partner with him and the thousands of other courageous shmittah-observing farmers through Keren Hashviis. The goal is to get every class involved by taking an active role in this extraordinary initiative through the purchase of privately owned agricultural land in Eretz Yisrael.

In addition, some middle school classes will host a shmittah fair later this year under the direction of Rabbi Binyamin Z. Karman, the Yeshiva’s curriculum coordinator. The fair, which the entire student body will view, will display the many halachos of shmittah which will enhance and complement their classroom learning.

Shmittah is very much alive and relevant at Yeshiva of South Shore.

Shomrim Aids in Arrest of Local Thief

Friedman, Dean of the Rambam Mesivta and Shalhevet High Schools; Dr. Bill Donahue, Catholic League; Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America; Actor Tony LoBianco and others.

Protestors will hold American flags and have wheelchairs to illustrate the plight of 69-year old New-Yorker Leon Klinghoffer, who was killed by terrorists of the Palestine Liberation Front (PFLF).

Sponsoring organizations include the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), AFSI, AMCHA, Catholic League, Christians’ Israel Public Action Campaign (CIPAC), Congregation Ohab Zedek, Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, Lincoln Square Synagogue, RAJE, One Israel Fund, the Jewish Political Education Foundation (JPEF), based in Great Neck, Stand With Us, the International Committee for the Land of Israel, Westchester High School, Rambam Mesivta High School, Shalhevet High School for Girls and others.

For two months, the RCSP, Far Rockaway’s Shomrim organization, and local police were called several times after residents reported missing taleisim, tefillin, and other items from local shuls. Finally, on Sunday, a suspect was arrested by police officers in the 101 precinct. The suspect is a black man who disguised himself as an Orthodox Jew—wearing a yarmulke, tzitzis, and a white shirt and black pants.

Surveillance videos from Yeshiva of Far Rockaway on Friday night, August 29, shows the suspect entering the yeshiva and stealing some items, including a tefillin bag. Authorities put out a photo of the suspect to the public, and an arrest was made after Shomrim received a call on Sunday morning that the suspect was walking around the area.

When Shomrim volunteers responded to the scene, they noticed the thief walking into the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway. They called the police, who arrested Theron Rucker, 46, from Jamaica. He was charged with burglary and criminal

trespassing.

Rucker has at least five previous arrests.

Following the arrest, local 101 precinct inspector William Wynne tweeted: “Great job on the synagogue burglary arrest Det Russo, 101pct patrol & @ RockawayPatrol.”

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“John is a very rich man!” said Bob. “As a matter of fact, he owns 100 or more cars.”

“Not a chance,” replied Mike. “I know for a fact he owns fewer than 100 cars.”

Frank joined in, “Well, he owns at least one car.”

If only one of their statements is true, how many cars does John own?

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At the U.N. General Assembly, the following questions was posed: “Would you please give your opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”

The survey was a huge failure: In Latin America, they didn’t know what please meant.

In China, they didn’t know what opinion meant.

In the Middle East, they didn’t know what solution meant.

In Europe, they didn’t know what shortage meant.

In Africa, they didn’t know what food meant.

In the United States, they didn’t know what the rest of the world meant.

Trivia Which of the following people never held the position of the Secretary General of the U.N.?

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1. Kurt Waldheim of Austria served as U.N. Secretary General from 1972 to 1981.

In 1985, Waldheim became embroiled in the “Waldheim Affair,” when it was discovered that: a. He accepted bribes from Arab countries while he was U.N. Secretary General. b. He was in the Nazi German army during World War II. c. He stole stashes of food from the U.N. food banks and resold them on the black market. d. He falsified data about nuclear material in the U.S.S.R. to protect them from world condemnation.

2. President Roosevelt came up with the name “United Nations” and ran the name by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Where was Churchill when Roosevelt told him the name? a. He was visiting with the Queen of England and quickly turned to her and asked her if she approved of the name.

When she said, “Aye,” he congratulated Roosevelt for coming up with the winning name. b. He was in a hospital bed recovering from gallbladder surgery. The nurse had to scream the name into his ear several times and then told Roosevelt—who was waiting on the phone line—that Churchill approved and was wiggling his toes in a “yes formation.” c. Churchill was on a tour of Hitler’s bunker and a military aid passed him a telegraph from Roosevelt. He sent a telegraph back saying: “As I tour the darkest of places, I am comforted by the light that shall shine forth from the United Nations.” d. Churchill was sitting in a White House bathtub when Roosevelt excitedly burst in and told him the name that he came up with.

3. Which of the following countries is not currently on the Human Rights Council? a. China b. Cuba c. Kuwait d. Saudi Arabia e. Pakistan f. Britain 4. At the 1960 U.N. Assembly meeting, the delegate from the Philippines declared that Eastern Europe had been “deprived of political and civil rights” and had effectively been “swallowed up by the Soviet Union.” What did the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who took offense to the comments, do? a. He stood up, spat towards the podium and then walked out. b. He shouted “Хотите совершить экскурсию Сибири?” (translation: Want to take a tour of Siberia?) c. He started banging a table with both his fists and then took off his right shoe and started banging it on the table. d. He punched the delegate in the face when he finished his speech and was walking back to his seat.

5. In 1975, the U.N. passed Resolution 3379, which said that: a. Women in the Middle East should not be forced into unwilling marriages b. Tribes in Africa should stop killing all of those who prescribe to different religious beliefs c. The U.S.S.R. should allow the sick to leave the Iron Curtain for medical treatment d. Zionism is racism

been several omissions about Waldheim’s life between 1938 and 1945 in his then-recently published autobiography. The World Jewish Congress and other organizations then conducted an investigation and discovered that Waldheim fought for the Nazis. Waldheim won the Austrian elections anyway, providing further proof that the country of Hitler’s birth remained deeply anti-Semitic. Throughout his term as president, Waldheim and his wife Elisabeth were put on a watch list of persons banned from entering the United States.

2. D- I guess we also can learn from this story that Churchill didn’t lock the bathroom door when he took a bath.

3. F 4. C 5. D- The U.N finally revoked the resolution in 1991.

Wisdom Key 4-5 correct: You could be the next Secretary General of the United Nations…if your name is something like BakaWaka DingDong.

2-3 correct: You don’t know much…you belong in the U.N. 0-1 correct: I must say, congratulations!

The less you know about the U.N., the better it is!

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Answer to riddle: John doesn’t own any cars. If the first statement is true, then the last is true as well. If the last is true, then so is either the first or the second statement. But if the second is true, the first and last aren’t necessarily true.

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Torah Thought Rabbi Berel Wein

Parshas Nitzavim-Vayelech

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he Torah reading for this week is a fitting conclusion to the year that is about to depart from us. At the end of his long life and after decades of service to the Jewish people, Moshe renews the covenant between G-d and the people of Israel. He makes clear to the new generation of Jews standing before him, a generation that was not part of the experience of Egypt nor present at the moment of revelation at Sinai, that the original covenant between G-d and the Jewish people remains in force. And he states that it will continue to be so throughout the Jewish future.

The covenant cannot be repealed, altered or ignored. It is the basis for all Jewish life and it is the leitmotif of all of Jewish history. Moshe admits that there will be events and occurrences in the story of the Jewish people that will be cruel, inexplicable and irrational. As he phrases it, there will be many “hidden, mysterious” events that the Jewish people will have to experience.

He offers no easy explanation to those events except to say that somehow they are related to the attempts of sections of the Jewish people to annul the covenant and its resultant conse-

out the centuries. The other nations of the world harbor resentment against us because of the uniqueness of our relationship to the Creator of all, as exemplified by this covenant. Many Jewish

THE COVENANT HAS REMAINED THE ROCK OF JEWISH IDENTITY OVER ALL OF THE AGES.

quences. The “hidden” part of the covenant belongs to G-d. The revealed part of the covenant – the obligations of Torah commandments and Jewish life – belong to the Jewish people and are relevant in all of their generations and locales. The Jewish people and the Jewish State will always be judged through its relationship to this eternal covenant.

The existence of the covenant has caused us much pain and angst through-

thinkers have attributed anti-Semitism, in all of its virulent and even more benign forms, to a jealousy over the existence of G-d’s covenant with the Jewish people.

The covenant has, nevertheless, remained the rock of Jewish identity over all of the ages. Just the knowledge of its existence has created a stubborn Jewish people – with a resolve to maintain its faith and lifestyle though a very small

minority in a world of many billions.

The Torah itself is the very essence of this covenant. It details its terms and conditions, and its study helps formulate the life that Jews are expected to live.

That is why the Torah demands that we study and are aware of this covenant morning and night, traveling, at home, in all times and places. There were, and unfortunately still are, those amongst us who wish to discard the covenant and its obligations and merely to blend in with the surrounding general society.

The L-rd, so to speak, has warned us many times that He would not allow this to occur. All of Jewish history teaches us regarding the strength and eternity of this great covenant. In the year that is now dawning upon us, we should all resolutely renew the covenant in our hearts, minds and actions, in order to be blessed with a year of health, success and serenity.

Shabbat shalom. K’tiva v’chatima tova.

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ROB ASTORINO’S PLAN TO WIN New York’s Gubernatorial Race

By Naftali Halpern

The following are excerpts from a wideranging discussion that TJH had with Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who is running against Governor Andrew Cuomo in the upcoming gubernatorial race.

NH: If I am going to write an article titled “Rob Astorino’s Plan to Win,” what would be written in the story?

RA: Well, I’ll tell you the dirty little secret on this race. The state is basically three pies during elections: New York City, the suburbs, and upstate. And a gubernatorial race is very different in turnout than a presidential race. In a presidential race, New York City comes out in droves; in the last five gubernatorial races, total votes for New York City was approximately 28% of the vote. This means that I could lose New York City 70% to 30% and still not have a problem winning the election. Upstate is half of the total voting in this race, and we can win big upstate on a lot of issues.

So the whole bowl of wax is in the suburbs, where I want it to be. Westchester, which has one million people, is 2 to 1 Democrat, yet I won twice there by 13 points. Nassau and Suffolk is split in registration but has a lot of similar issues to Westchester—high

taxes, high energy costs. So the same way Westchester voters voted for me, I am confident that Nassau and Suffolk voters will as well.

How did you win in a 2 to 1 Democrat county?

We got a lot of Democratic support. In the 2009 Westchester County Executive race, I was 30 points down in the polls going into the fall. There was a powerful Democratic machine and a popular Democratic incumbent who outspent me 5 to 1. And when it was all said and done, we won by 13 points. The reason was because the climate was right, and we were able to get the message out to the voters. Now, too, there are a lot of political issues that are playing into our hands, and we have the political winds with us, not against us.

As you campaign around the state, what are New Yorkers most concerned about?

What I found is that most of the issues are the same

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everywhere. People are being driven out of the state in record numbers because it has become unaffordable and taxes are just way too high. Businesses are struggling to stay afloat and are getting harassed by the state with regulations and are being nickel and dimed by government.

Middle class families are having a hard time trying to afford education. That is why the Education Investment Tax credit is something I supported very heavily. And I was very disappointed when the governor lied and said that he would put it in the budget and he didn’t.

What about the massive financial edge that Governor Cuomo has?

Well, first of all, the governor had a three year head start to raise money. We raised almost $7 million in four months and we are getting a significant influx in

donations, especially since the Moreland Commission scandal. This is Cuomo’s Watergate. It’s not ending now; it’s just beginning. You have Moreland Commission members who are claiming interference; you have a federal prosecutor who has documents; you have calls for a special prosecutor to see what the state crimes are because he may have violated state laws.

Jimmy Fallon said, “Well, now that Cuomo has a scandal of his own, maybe he can become governor of New Jersey.” Do you think this Moreland Commission scandal will resonate with voters or are they jaded by political scandals already?

Take Cuomo’s own words. When he was running

“Voters should not settle for corruption.”

The federal prosecutor is a registered Democrat. Do you think that he will hold off on any prosecution until after the election?

I certainly hope not. The voters have the right to know whether their governor is a crook or not. I think that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is going to do a full investigation and I call on him to do it expeditiously.

The governor has lied to the public four times so far. He started off by saying that Moreland was an independent commission that could look into anyone, anywhere. Then, when the investigation got too close to him, he cut off the Commission. Then, he claimed that it was not an independent Commission.

Then he sends a letter to the New York Times contradicting that statement. Then he contradicted his own statement which he made to the New York Times.

The governor actually had no authority to meddle in the affairs of the investigation.

And the fact that he pulled people into his office and threatened them to pull back subpoenas, that’s a crime.

four years ago, he said that New York had become a national joke and was an embarrassment and that he would clean the cesspool in Albany. Well, he took a deep dive and is swimming in the cesspool. Voters should not settle for the corruption. It’s more than just a couple of dirty politicians being walked away in handcuffs—the corruption is paid for by average New Yorkers, because it drives up costs and property taxes, etc.

You ask an important question in your campaign: “Are New Yorker’s winning or losing?” How does a voter who doesn’t know much about politics or economics answer that question?

I think that voters are increasingly saying we are losing. 40% of New Yorkers said they would move out of the state if they could. 400,000 have left the state in the past 3 years. So we are losing badly. We have the highest taxes in the nation, we have a horrible business climate, the AARP say it’s the worse state to re-

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tire in, it is rated near the bottom for small businesses because of all of the regulations. I liken New York to a prison sentence—people are counting the days until they could leave.

So what type of bold plans do you have?

I will give you some quick highlights. If we are dead last in taxes, then we have to go dramatically in the other direction. Texas, Florida, the Carolinas are booming because they have lower taxes.

Would you allow fracking?

Absolutely. We have 31 states that have natural gas. 30 are safely drilling. They have set up proper regulations to safeguard the public’s health and have moved forward. As a result, they are benefiting from billions in revenue, putting tens of thousands of people back to work and have brought down energy costs. Remember, more natural gas means lower prices.

This governor wants to close Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. 25% of our region’s energy comes from Indian Point and he doesn’t want to allow new energy from natural gas to come here, so if that happens, energy prices will skyrocket.

Governor Chris Christie, who is the head of the Republican Governor’s Association, has decided not get involved in this race. Do you have a relationship with Governor Christie?

We both won in 2009 in upsets and spent time in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that year at a Republican National Committee function. And we had a good relationship since then, until very recently.

The polls show Governor Cuomo up by a lot.

When will the pendulum shift?

First of all, you can’t rely on polls. How did it work out for Eric Cantor, who was 45% up in the polls? How did it work out for Mario Cuomo who was up 12-15 points on Election Day [in 1994 when he was defeated by Governor Pataki]? I was down 30 points in the summer of 2009 and won by 13%. So the polls don’t matter. But what is important is what people feel about the state.

Once they learn about me and what I have done in Westchester to lower taxes and to reduce the size of the budget in a responsible way, they will like that.

Will you be having debates?

No debates are scheduled yet. I have challenged Governor Cuomo to eight regional debates. One specific to Long Island, etc.

I will debate him every day if he wants.

Last year, when I was running for reelection, the conventional wisdom was don’t debate your opponent—I debated him 5 times. Because, A) I was proud of my own record; B) I was going to put an end to his lies; C) I wanted to challenge him on what he was running on.

If the governor had any courage, he would stand up and debate me one-onone on the issues. I am sure he will try to get out of the debates because he can’t defend his record.

“40% of New Yorkers said they would move out of the state if they could.”

Why did Governor Christie decide not to support you in this race?

People are speculating that he has a “wink-wink, nod-nod” relationship with Cuomo because of Bridgegate. As such, he has not been able to effectively do his job as RGA chair in regard to this race.

Have other Republican governors been supportive of your effort?

Gov. Walker (R-WI) was already in to do a fundraiser. We have Gov. Perry (R-TX), Gov. Jindal (RLA) and Gov. Pence (R-IN) lined up to do events with me. We have some other prominent national Republicans and big donors getting involved.

What are you hearing from Long Islanders about the State’s response to Hurricane Sandy?

People are angry. The State, through its bureaucratic bungling, has tied up money related to New York Rising and hurricane relief money. And the audacity of the governor to take almost 40 million of hurricane relief money and putting on TV for his “Start-up NY Campaign,” which is false advertising to begin with, is crazy.

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Are you saying that those are really campaign ads?

Of course. Here’s what he has done. He has taken $200 million in tax money to create an “Alice in Wonderland,” “Isn’t everything in New York great?” ad campaign. Then he has taken $40 million from what could have been dirty money and used that to attack me with false advertising and lies. Since April, he has spent millions of dollars on negative ads against me. That should tell you something—$9 million for a governor who is supposed to be invincible?

That is raising a lot of eyebrows in this State.

Because he has nothing good to say about himself, he has gone to the low road right off the bat to falsely attack me.

You must admit that he is a pretty popular governor, at least to the low-information-voters.

Not at all. They are ambivalent about him. They are saying let’s hear more about this Astorino guy.

So, talking about this Astorino guy, why do you want to be governor anyway?

Good question.

It’s the same reason I ran in 2009: I was fed up with the way things were going. My wife and I have three kids, an 11-year-old son and two daughters, ages 9 and 4. They don’t have a shot of living in New York in 15 years or when they get married.

Does your wife work?

She is a Special Education teacher and has not been working recently. But my little one is starting kindergarten so she plans on going back to work.

But we are a typical family, trying to survive here against a government that is hounding us left and right and taxing us into oblivion.

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With his wife in Israel

You were a producer for ESPN radio and actually launched ESPN radio. Tell me about that in a nutshell.

It was great. I was there when we flipped the switch.

I was brought on to launch the channel. I worked with Michael Kay and hired a lot of the on-air personalities.

As a former radio guy, what makes Mike Francesca [a host on 660 WFAN] so successful?

He’s opinionated, which you have to be in talk radio; he’s not afraid of taking a side. Also, he has a little arrogance about him and he definitely has sports knowledge. He is an institution here in New York.

What are your hobbies?

Well, I love golf but I didn’t get to play any this year. My wife and I love to travel. We are hoping to get away right after the election. And, of course, I love spending time with my kids.

Have you ever been to Israel?

I have been. Two years ago, my wife and I went with the JCRC to Israel. We went for a week, and it was an eye-opener. Right when we landed, we got on a bus and met with the Israeli Air Force. We were in the Golan, Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem. We spent an afternoon in Sderot. The police chief showed us the cache of missiles that have landed there. It was incredible. I took a picture of this brother and sister who were about the age of my kids. And I was thinking, these are kids who are just trying to have a normal life but they have 15 seconds to get to the bomb shelters.

Yet, they are an amazingly productive society.

We also went floating in the Dead Sea, which was fun. And Masada was incredible. It was like 115 degrees up there and really hot. We were wiped out from that.

Hey, they were just trying to get you ready for the campaign.

Yes…that’s right.

It was a pleasure meeting with you. Best of luck to you with the upcoming election.

TJH Thank you so much. We are looking forward. 

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R’ Ben Tzion Shafier

Parshas Nitzavim “It is not in the heavens for you to say, ‘Who can ascend to the heaven for us and take it for us so that we can listen to it and perform it?’. . . Rather the matter is very near to you, in your mouth and your heart, to perform it.”

– Devarim 30:12-14 After many grave warnings against leaving the ways of the Torah, Moshe Rabbeinu tells Klal Yisroel that learning and keeping the Torah is within easy grasp of each of us. “Acquiring it doesn’t require wings to fly to the heavens, and studying it doesn’t demand crossing oceans.” Rather, Torah is well within the reach of each person.

Rashi, in commenting on the words, “It is not in the heavens,” adds the explanation: “For if it were in the heavens, you would be obligated to go up after it to learn it.”

This Rashi is difficult to understand. Rashi’s role in Chumash is to clarify what the Torah means. As an aid to understanding, he may use examples and parables, but the goal is always to explain the pshat — the straightforward meaning of the posuk.

Not only doesn’t this comment help us understand what the Torah is telling us—it isn’t true. Since time immemorial man has dreamed about flying, but man cannot sprout wings and fly. How can the Torah expect the impossible from us?

And even more, this explanation is the opposite of what the Torah is trying to tell us. The entire paragraph outlines how close the Torah is and how easy it is to attain it. What is Rashi trying to teach us with his comment, “If it were in the heavens, you would be obligated to go up after it to learn it?”

The answer to this can best be understood with a mashal: An Amazing Feat of Strength In 1997, in Tallahassee, Florida,

a young boy was involved in an accident, and ended up being pinned under the wheel of a car. Rescuers couldn’t help him; he was trapped. An onlooker, seeing the danger, rushed over, and almost without thinking, reached for the fender of the car, lifted it off the

what does that say about the rest of my life? Have I wasted it?”

After further discussion, Dr. Garfield asked her what she would like to do. She explained that she had never had the opportunity to further her education after high school. So after some

“IF I WAS ABLE TO DO THIS, WHEN I DIDN’T THINK IT WAS POSSIBLE, WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT THE REST OF MY LIFE?”

ground, and freed the boy – a feat of amazing strength.

The unusual part of the story is that the hero, the one who lifted the car, was not a trained emergency professional or some big, burly fireman; she was the boy’s 63-year-old grandmother who had never before lifted anything heavier than a bag of dog food.

The story became a media sensation and Dr. Charles Garfield, the author of a book of fantastic sports feats entitled Peak Performance, decided he wanted to interview her. However, she wasn’t interested in talking to him. She wouldn’t return his calls, and she did everything she could to avoid discussing the event. Finally, Dr. Garfield, being a convincing fellow, got her to agree to a meeting, and the reason she was reluctant to discuss the act turned out to be almost as amazing as the event itself.

During the discussion, the grandmother said she didn’t like to talk about the incident because it challenged her beliefs about what she could and could not do — about what was possible. “If I was able to do this, when I didn’t think it was possible,

coaching, Mrs. Laura Shultz began college at the age of 63. She received her degree and then went on to teach science in a community college.

Our Attitude Determines our Altitude This story is illustrative of a very human tendency. Our understanding of what is and what is not possible creates imagined ceilings of opportunity for us. If I were smarter, I would have. . . If I were more talented, I could have. . . but I just can’t do it. Yet some people, who aren’t any more talented, who weren’t given all the breaks, just seem to plow through and somehow make the seemingly impossible happen. It almost seems that their attitude is their single greatest asset. 

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This seems to be the answer to this Rashi. The Torah isn’t telling us that we need to sprout wings and fly. Rather, this is a mashal for the drive that a person must have to succeed. If a person’s attitude is: “Whatever it takes.

No mountain is too high, no obstacle too difficult. If it were up in the heavens, I would fly there,” then he will reach heights. However, if that enthusiasm is lacking, no matter how close the Torah is, he will not acquire it.

You don’t need to fly to the skies, but you need be ready to. Once that drive is in place, nothing can stop you.

No matter what a person’s natural capacity and life circumstances, if he sets his goal as the attainment of Torah, Hashem will help so that he can reach the stars. Is the journey difficult? While there are many challenges along the way, the ways of the Torah are pleasant, and a Jew has unique aptitude to absorb it. The only difficult part is setting our sights high enough and holding the course. However, if a person sets out with a drive to do whatever it takes, even if it means “flying to the heavens,” then Hashem helps, and that person can reach his personal level of greatness on par with the greatest of Torah giants.

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y 10 a.m. the waiting area in the outpatient clinic at the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya was almost full. Our appointment was for 9 a.m. A nurse told us the doctor was running behind schedule. When I asked her the reason why, she told me it was because he hadn’t yet arrived.

Fair enough. I called Keren to cancel our late morning plans because I doubted we wouldn’t be seen until at least 11 a.m.

Observing those around me has become so habitual that there are times my wife has to ask me to stop staring.

Waiting rooms usually provide wonderful fodder for my pen, but this morning I was too bored to observe those around me. I was sick and tired of the Western Galilee Hospital and its green walls and tendrils of cigarette smoke that can be seen or smelled outside every window or exit.

As persistent as she was, the woman

Enough Said on my left barely registered on my radar until she raised her voice and made a comment to no one in particular complaining about waiting for the doctor.

It is best to be wary of general comments bandied about by people in need of conversation.

Comments made on lines at the post office, the supermarket or outpa-

her comments directly at me. I wasn’t biting anything bigger than three perfunctory “no’s.” I wasn’t in the mood for feigning interest about how long she’d been waiting, or whether it bothered me to wait so long, or if I thought it was fair to keep people waiting.

Not being able to elicit a sufficient response, she busied herself by rum-

“You think I’m no longer religious because of the way I’m dressed?!” tient clinics should be shunned like the plague. It is imperative to avoid falling into a verbal exchange upon hearing comments like “Isn’t the weather hot today” or “Where’s the bloody doctor?”

Realizing her inane comments were going unanswered, she then addressed

maging through her large bag. While doing so, a man sat opposite us. He would have been in his mid-forties. He had a full head of hair and a rough facial growth that may or may not have been connected to the thick white bandage covering his left eye. He was wearing black shorts, running shoes, and an orange t-shirt. He was strong looking, a man who didn’t look the type to complain when he was hurt.

I heard the rummaging stop to my left just in time to see the woman’s face light up. “Shalom, Shimon,” she said to the man.

“Ah, shalom, Mrs. Biton. How are you?” he replied without much interest.

“Waiting on line for the doctor.

Aside, I have no complaints.”

Shimon, who for a reason I couldn’t pinpoint, looked vaguely familiar to me.

I couldn’t recall seeing his face before, but there was something about his voice that I recognized. He must have thought Mrs. Biton’s enquiries were over because he had turned to the man who sat next to him. They looked identical, but separated by about 25 years. I assumed the gentleman to be his father.

“Where did you park the car?” Shimon asked him.

“Fourth floor. We can take the elevator when we leave,” his father replied.

“If we get seen before they close the parking lot tonight.”

Mrs. Biton, however, had not quite released Shimon from her clutches. She asked about his wife and children. She mentioned that she hadn’t seen him in months. And then she asked him a question that drew a short breath from me. I looked up to see Shimon’s reaction.

“So, I didn’t know you were chozer

ba’she’ela. [Someone who has gone from religious to secular.] When did that happen?” she asked him.

What nerve, I thought. Shimon appeared to register slowly, not because he hadn’t understood, (and I’m only guessing) due to the audacity of the question. There was a short moment when you could see he wasn’t sure if she was joking with him or not. Then his face hardened.

Whatever injury he’d done to himself I was certain both of his eyes were now open. By the time he spoke, he left no doubt that he considered her question insulting.

“Chozer ba’she’ela? You can’t be serious. What on Earth gives you that impression?”

“I just thought, you know, the clothes you’re wearing,” she replied.

“What? Oh, you think I’m no longer religious because of the way I’m dressed? You’ve got to be joking.”

“I see you in shul when you’re dressed in a nice pair of pants and white shirt,” said Mrs. Biton as her eyes raked him from sole to crown.

“What? I can’t be religious in my work clothes? You cannot be serious?”

“I just thought that...you know,” “No, I don’t know. Do you think that wearing shorts excludes one from the faithful? Did you think this orange shirt means I’ve joined a Dutch cult?”

He pulled up his shirt to show his tzitzit before taking off his cap. He was wearing a huge black kippa.

Mrs. Biton was not only a chatterbox, but a woman impervious to criticism. She shrugged her shoulders, took a short peek at me, smiled sheepishly and shrugged again.

“I was just asking,” she said without a hint of contrition.

I had never heard a sitting room conversation quite like this. It was absurd. Surreal. I didn’t want it to end.

“What is it you do?” asked Mrs. Biton without skipping a beat. Not to berate Shimon, but I was certain he would continue voicing his displeasure with her. Instead, he told her what he did for a living. He was a semi-trailer driver.

Mrs. Biton asked whether he worked regular hours.

“With the size of my semi? I have to beat the morning traffic every morning.

I leave the house at 2 a.m. for Hadera. I carry flattened cardboard boxes. A pal-

his father. He was asking him what he thought of Mrs. Biton’s comments. Unlike his son, Shimon’s father was a man of few words. All he would say was, “She didn’t mean any harm.” His words were an open invitation for Shimon to line up his sights (his good eye at least) and have a few more shots at Mrs. Biton.

I glanced at Mrs. Biton, who by now had understood the ramifications of her comment.

She looked at me again, but without her previous smile.

I’ve never seen anyone so eager to see a doctor.

What surprised me more was that we’d just finished the parshiot of Tazria and Metzora, both which admonish us against speaking lashon hara. Both Mrs. Biton and Shimon (I assumed him to be Mr. Danino, my students’ father) had flung more barbs and arrows at each other than any situation warranted.

I leaned forward and said, “Hello, Mr. Danino.”

Shimon, Mr. Danino, was floored for the second time in the few minutes he’d been sitting in the waiting area.

“How do you know who I am? Who are you?” he answered gruffly.

“I don’t believe we’ve had the pleasure of meeting before, but I spoke to you a few weeks ago concerning Ofek.

I’m Rafi. I teach in Ort, Ma’alot. I also teach Shenhav.”

Shimon Danino’s attention had finally been drawn away from the now cowering Mrs. Biton.

“Rafi? Yes, yes. Of course.”

I had distracted him, but he was still visibly upset with Mrs. Biton.

“Did you hear what that woman said to me?”

“I’m sorry? I haven’t heard anything. I’ve been too busy reading,” I lied. “By the looks of things you’re not doing too well. What happened to your eye?”

The conversation had finally turned away from the poor woman.

“It’s not to worry about. I’ll be fine.

Are you here to see the doctor, too?”

“No, this is my son, Yehuda. He’s here for a follow up examination.”

“Refuah shleimah.”

Yehuda, who up until now had his

head in a word puzzle book, looked up and thanked him.

“You have very fine children,” I said to him.

“Baruch Hashem. They’ve been bought up in a good home. I give all the credit to my wife. I’m sorry I can’t come to the school, but I’m always on the road. My hours are quite crazy.”

“I understand.”

There was an uneasy pause between us until Shimon brought up the topic of Mrs. Biton, but his comments were superfluous as a nurse walked out of one of the rooms and called her name.

Off she scampered without even a glance in his direction. Then there was not much more to say until Yehuda was called to see the doctor. Shimon and I spent the rest of our time together chatting about nothing in particular.

The incident in the waiting room left me pondering the power of speech.

When I returned home and Keren asked me about our trip to the hospital, I kept my report to a minimum. I felt good not saying anything about it.

Then I ruined it all by writing this TJH story.  Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, lives in Ma’alot inWestern Galil. He teaches in the local high school.

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ate of boxes came loose as I was loading this morning and the wind blew something into my eye. That’s why I’m here.”

Shimon’s phone rang.

“You’re not going to believe this, but as we speak I’m sitting opposite Mrs. Biton. Yes, that Mrs. Biton. No, I’m still here waiting to see the doctor. No, I’m not in pain. Anyway, you know what she asked me? Mrs. Biton.

She asked me if I was still religious. She thinks my shorts and t-shirt makes me look like... Hey, Mrs. Biton, what do these shorts make me look like? She’s not saying anything. She’s just smirking. My wife isn’t impressed, Mrs. Biton. Yes, as soon as I get out of here. No, I’m not going back to Hadera. Yes, I’ll be home as soon as I finish here. Don’t be silly. Abba drove me here and will bring me back. Tell Shenhav I’ll call her when I’m on my way home, but I might be a while. Okay. Bye.” My heart skipped a beat. I have a student whose father’s name is Shimon and who drives a semi-trailer. I had never met the man, but after even closer inspection of his face I thought I could detect a bit of both his daughter and her brother around his jowls. Could it be possible that Shimon was Shenhav’s father?

Shimon had turned his attention to

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any times, you’ll be in a place and they’ll want to see who is interested in something.

It may be a vote for what to order for lunch, it may be asking people to attend a meeting or help to form a minyan, but often they use the same phrase: by a show of hands. In other words, they ask people to raise their hands to show their commitment to the project or topic at hand, and this is actually more significant than you might realize.

For example, if someone says, “We’re trying to make a special minyan tomorrow morning because Mr. So-and-so has yahrtzeit. Who can attend? Please raise your hand.” Yes, they are trying to count how many people there are for the minyan but if people just call out, “We have more than ten,” the questioner may still ask

people to raise their hands. Why? Because he understands what raising the hand means.

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The way to do it is by taking action So, who’s with me that this year immediately. That cements the im- is one in which we’re going to make pulse into our beings and makes it eas- some changes that stick and come out ier to carry on. For example, if some- better than we were before? Can I get one hears an appeal and is inspired to a show of hands? contribute, he can pull out a check and start filling it in even before he knows Now in bookstores, The Observant Jew, a the name of the organization. If he compilation of some of Rabbi Gewirtz’s best doesn’t have a check, he can pull out articles from years past, is receiving critical a quarter and tell himself, “This is part acclaim. With short, funny, insightful selections, this book is the perfect summertime of what I’m going to give.”

Even if it’s not money-related, one companion. Look for it in your favorite can use tzedaka as a means of solid- Jewish Book Store or visit Feldheim.com. ifying his intent. If he is inspired to Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational be more considerate or to learn more, he can immediately put some money writer and speaker whose work has apin tzedaka or pull out a chumash and peared in publications around the world. learn a posuk in order to start the pro- He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech cess of whatever he is planning to do.

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r u o o t n e t Li s d l r o W l u Be a u t i f The Inspiration behind Shaindel Antelis’ Music

HAILING FROM ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, AND GROWING UP IN A LOVING ORTHODOX HOME—ONE MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY EXPECT THAT THIS WOULD BE THE MAKINGS OF A FEMALE JEWISH SINGER WHO INSPIRES WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD WITH HER BEAUTIFUL VOICE AND SPIRITUAL YEARNINGS. BUT SHAINDEL ANTELIS DOES JUST THAT AND MUCH MORE WITH THE INCREDIBLE MUSICAL POWER THAT SHE POSSESSES. DESPITE THE NAYSAYERS WHO TOLD HER A WOMAN WOULD NEVER MAKE IT IN THE JEWISH MUSIC SCENE, SHE DEFIED THEM ALL AND BROUGHT THE GIFT OF A BEAUTIFUL VOICE AND SONG TO WOMEN EVERYWHERE.

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rowing up, music was a big part of Shaindel’s life. Her family is very musically oriented, and her father, Moshe Antelis, is a musician who has his own recording studio. Needless to say, music is in her blood. “I would go into the studio for hours after hours and sing,” she says. “I just kept practicing and practicing.” Shaindel was always a more intuitive girl, writing poetry and songs to express her feelings. She started writing her own songs at the age of ten, and she recorded her first song when she was only 12 years old.

Shaindel loved performing and was always in her high school productions. She felt like she wanted to take her music to the next level and become a professional singer, but felt stuck as a frum woman wanting to get into the music field. She admits she was frustrated and turned off from the whole idea for a while. A woman in the Jewish music field is extremely limited and there are many obstacles to overcome while getting her name out there. But when Shaindel finally decided that this is what she had to do and began to pursue it, Hashem was right there beside her guiding her along the way. “When I really decided this is what I wanted to do, Hashem really helped me find different venues to do it,” Shaindel points out.

Shaindel gets a lot of the inspiration for her music from her personal life experiences, and that adds a load of meaning and feeling into each song. She explains, “In my teenage years, I didn’t really feel like people understood me. I always felt a little bit different than everyone else. I wrote a lot of songs about what I was feeling at that time in my life.” What helps and encourages her even more is when teenage girls email her and tell her how they are going through a tough time in their lives and explain that Shaindel’s songs have helped them get through it. They identify with the songs, and it helps them feel that they are not alone. Shaindel believes every life experience has a purpose and feels that perhaps she went through her dif-

Songs are a bout bea utiful concepts that help direct a person.

also released a new music video called “The Palace,” which received thousands of views in the first couple days of its release and her very popular website, www.ShaindelAntelis.com, continues to receive tons of visitors. Her growing popularity is in part due to the fact that she uses her life experiences to compose her songs.

When she was a child, Shaindel moved to a new neighborhood and a new school. She felt alone and ignored by her peers. There was a girl from her school who she wasn’t friends with at the time, but later after their year in Israel, they became friends. Shaindel took the opportunity to ask her why people didn’t reach out to her when she was new in the neighborhood. The girl explained that people treated their own friends like that, too. This was very troubling to Shaindel, and it inspired her to compose a song about a girl being ignored and left out at school. “Am I invisible/does anyone care/is anyone there? I wish that I could disappear/to anywhere but here,” are some of the lyrics to this touching and sad song. But like most of Shaindel’s songs, it ends on a positive note, affirming that there are people who care. Shaindel uses this song to teach people, especially children and teenagers, to notice those around them and to be nice to everyone. She is hoping her song can make a dent in the bullying and teasing that goes on in our schools. This is one of the common threads that run throughout all her songs, that lessons can be learned from every life experience.

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n the ultimate expression of her soul, Shaindel has followed her heart and allowed it many avenues of expression. Intertwined in her songs and music is the undertone of helping others through her creativity. Wherever life may take you, there’s a lesson that can be learned and inspiration that can be gleaned. Listening to Shaindel’s songs brings you into a world of growth, a world of happiness, and a TJH world of love for Hashem and His creations. 

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ficult teenage years so she could help inspire others.

Shaindel points out that the beautiful thing about being in the Jewish music scene is the focus. It’s not about money and fame but about inspiring others to grow. Songs are about beautiful concepts that help direct a person, not negative ones that bring a person down.

When Shaindel was growing up, she used every opportunity to put pen to paper and compose songs. When she was studying in Israel, her teachers really encouraged her, and she went to open mike night about once a week.

That really got her comfortable with the spotlight, which would come in handy in the future.

Her teachers continued to push her to pursue her dreams, and for the first time, she began to feel like she could pursue a career in singing as long as she did it properly. When Shaindel came home last June, she began recording her songs onto her first CD. Her brother, Jake Antelis, is her producer, and he has been indispensable along the way. He helped her narrow her song selection for her CD from about 50 down to 13. “We finished that first CD in December and then I went straight back to learn in Neve Yerushalayim,” says Shaindel. She was so inspired by her learning, that new songs just flowed. “As soon as I returned from Israel, I recorded another new album.”

Shaindel feels that she is really filling a void in the Jewish world, one that would have been beneficial for her as a young girl. “In high school, I would have really gained from a Jewish artist singing about life,” she says. Many kids nowadays feel lost without direction, and are looking for a role model to look up to. They often turn to non-kosher avenues when they don’t find it in the Jewish world. Shaindel is a great role model for young girls feeling lost, alone or even just going through your average, run-of-the-mill teenage angst.

She also writes about topics that are important to every female. For example, the lyrics, “Thank you for picking up the phone/ I was feeling so alone/ but you knew just what to say/ you’re a friend/always there for me/ like a lovely melody,” can connect to almost everyone. Her relevant lyrics and her breathtakingly beautiful voice make her music very popular.

Despite its apparent limitations, women have always been greatly involved in Jewish music. From the time of Devorah the Prophetess who would sing songs of praise to Hashem up until today, women have been involved in the Jewish music scene. Many women are also behind famous compositions that are sung by men.

In fact, entire CD’s on the Jewish market are composed by women but sung by men. Even the famous “Yesh Tikvah” sung by Benny Friedman was written by a woman, Miriam Israeli. Women-only CD’s are also becoming more plentiful, as several female artists have produced CD’s in the past 10 years. As always, however subtle or obvious, women leave their influence on this major part of Jewish life.

Shaindel’s album has really been successful, and she has been all over the world performing her songs. She explains, “I said, ‘Hashem I’m doing this for You,’ and it just took off.” She has performed in many unlikely places, including Las Vegas (“Even there you have kedushah!”) as well as Florida, Canada, England and New York, among many other places. It can be a little nerve-racking performing for crowds, but she insists her early days doing open mike night really prepared her immensely.

Shaindel’s creative side is expressed in several different avenues in her life. Besides music, Shaindel is a makeup artist in a beauty store in Brooklyn. She spends much of her day making customers look beautiful and feel great about themselves.

She also sells natural makeup which she feels helps women look good and is good for them too. She even created her own jewelry line which she puts out at concerts to sell. Shaindel explains, “I am trying to do things that I enjoy because life should be enjoyable,” and so she uses any creative avenue she can to express herself.

Last November, Shaindel released an inspiring album called “Live Today.” She

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can remember watching my children playing on the floor and wondering how parents can come to hurt their kids. When I realized that those parents themselves were perhaps hurt, it challenged me to figure out just what would be the best place to intervene: With the adults or with the children? I still don’t know so I work all sides of the matter.

One thing I have created to help the children is through my new internet radio show, “Parents and Kids.” It is on the Chazaq organization’s radio station.

(They are based in Queens and have done wonderful work with children, teens, and their parents.)

For the last two weeks, my program (which can be found at chazaqradio. com on Thursdays from 3-4) has been pre-recorded because I have visited several schools and spoken to teachers and principals on just exactly what are the key ingredients of helping children get the new school year off to a great start.

If you can’t listen at the time the broadcast goes on, you can access these recordings in the archive section and I think they are well worth it. For example, on September 4, Ms. Temmy Gober an English Language Arts teacher from the Jewish Institute of Queens and the Ohr Chana High School, was gracious enough to spend the full hour with me.

Amongst other things, she explained what an IEP is – Individualized Educational Programming – and how a child could benefit from it.

Often parents are uncomfortable with the idea that their child is not the most brilliant one in the class. However, only one person can ever be at the top, so her wise advice on appreciating just who your child really is will give enormous relief to parents who may very well want to avail themselves of such services.

On September 11, I had the privilege of speaking to two illustrious educators. Rabbi Leibel Lamm of Shaarei Tzion in Forest Hills shared with me some counterintuitive advice. He maintains, among other things covered in the program, that the worst possible way to get cooperation out of a misbehaving child is to get into a battle of wills with him.

If you want your child to be ready in the morning to rise and shine, be sure to

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Kids and School create the right environment the night before. To Rabbi Lamm, the right environment is created with words, words that affirm the goodness of the child and your belief in advance that your child really wants to do the right thing.

The key to getting that cooperation is making bedtime fun, paying attention

able to read; it was a mystery, but Mrs. Brander set about clearing that up.

For example, she suggested that a parent can listen to a child read and ask the child to picture in his mind what is happening in the story. Now, at that point, I was surprised and I asked her, “Don’t people normally picture what is

THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT IS CREATED WITH WORDS, WORDS THAT AFFIRM THE GOODNESS OF THE CHILD.

to them, and pleasantly implanting a message of the wonderful day they will have tomorrow. He also suggested that saying the Shema will help children get past fears of the night, among the many great ideas that he presented.

One secret he offers is that there should be no surprises for children: Warn them of approaching bedtime.

Also, he suggests parents offer children choices, for example: Do you want to go to bed now or in 5 minutes?

Next on the same program was Mrs.

Ellyn Brander. Those of you who are or were Queens residents may recognize the name Brander as belonging to the principal of Yeshiva Central Queens for 30 years. Indeed, that is Rabbi Brander and his wife, Mrs. Brander, was a reading teacher for many years.

I always thought, when my children passed through pre-school into kindergarten, that somehow the teachers worked magic on them for they would come out knowing how to read. I never understood what alchemistry had to be worked on children to get them to be

happening in their minds as they read?”

She explained that little kids who are struggling to pronounce each word may very well lose the storyline in their minds. By stopping them and asking them to picture what they are reading, it not only holds the storyline in their awareness but that in turn helps them figure out what the words probably are as they read them. Mrs. Brander also recommends making word searches and crossword puzzles for children of all ages to make the whole process fun.

There is far more that each of the interviewees contributed than I could possibly go over here, and each idea was a true gem.

When I started the radio program, I was hoping to get callers calling into the show when it aired live. The phone number to do that, incidentally, is 718285-6120. But people are shy sometimes and I didn’t fill my hour with call-ins. Now I have to tell you that it is not fun to speak “to” a microphone. It is one thing to speak into a microphone but quite another when the only one lis-

tening is that inanimate object.

So I decided, or rather, the founder of the Chazaq organization, Yaniv Meirov, suggested that I do interviews.

And it works! I like talking to people so if they are not going to be callers, then expert educators will do.

While the Yomim Noraim are upon us, don’t think for a minute that school should take a back seat. To children, school is their work and although they may be off a few extra days for yom tov, their social ease, their academic achievement, in fact, their very identities, are all formed to a large degree at school.

For that reason, for the next few weeks, except for the days of yom tov, I will be continuing these interviews.

The topic right now is: What can parents do to help their children get a great start in the school year? But after that, we will move into other school-related themes. If you would like to recommend a teacher or principal who has a great message for the radio audience, let me know or have them contact me.

If you prefer to listen on your phone, why not get the app so you can access the show with just a click? Download JStream for Android and Jewish Radio for iPhone. Or just listen by dialing 401-283-6664.

School has a powerful effect on children, not only academically. It affects their happiness, their social adaptation, and even their identity. See how you can help your children and grandchildren get off to a great start in the new school year.

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I think our efforts to get Jim freed were an annoyance, you know? It didn’t seem to be in our strategic interest, if you will. I was appalled as an American. Jim would have been saddened. Jim believed until the end that his country would come to their aid. I pray that our government would be willing to learn from the mistakes that were made and to acknowledge that there are better ways for American citizens to be treated.

– Jim Foley’s mother, Diane Foley, in an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN

Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo won the Democratic primary after a close race against an opponent named Zephyr Teachout. I know what you’re thinking: Is Zypher Teachout a man or a woman? And the answer is . . . probably.

- Jimmy Fallon

A young violinist from Lithuania played violin for three hours while she was undergoing brain surgery.

Yeah, she was undergoing brain surgery and she played the violin the whole time.

Man, those are some strict parents.

– Conan O’Brien

After just a few minutes, I had no choice. I told them that if you will not stand with Israel, if you will not stand with the Jews, then I will not stand with you.

– Senator Ted Cruz, explaining why he walked off the stage at a Christian organization’s dinner, after he was booed by a vocal minority while explaining the importance of supporting Israel

Joe Biden will be in Baltimore this weekend to celebrate the 200th anniversary of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Yeah, 200 years — or, roughly how long it takes today’s pop singers to finish the national anthem.

- Jimmy Fallon

Hello, Iowa, I’m baaaaack!

- Hillary Clinton at an annual steak fry in Iowa (before holding up a pre-cooked steak which she pretended to grill)

New York City is now selling something like 10 prime parking spots. Each parking spot will cost you a million dollars. In a related story, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will pay you a million dollars for the spot he’s in.

– David Letterman

President Obama’s speech to the nation on Wednesday night delivered a simple, clear, and forceful message: “Don’t blame me.”

A new condo development in New York is charging a million dollars for parking spots. A million dollars to park your car — wouldn’t it be cheaper to just get a ticket every day for the rest of your life and park wherever you want?

- Jimmy Kimmel

- David Frum, in The Atlantic, summing up President Obama’s primetime speech about ISIS

This is epic.

- Apple CEO Tim Cook talking to USA Today about the new iWatch

Earlier tonight, President Obama spoke to Americans.

Obama is getting tough with ISIS. He’s now going to force them to sell their NBA team.

- David Letterman Here is Obama’s 3-part plan.

First, we’re going to gather intelligence. Next, we’re going to launch air strikes.

And third, his plan is to lose the midterm elections. So he’s got a full plate ahead of him.

- Ibid

At the Apple store, the people waiting in line for the iPhone 6 were trampled by the people waiting for the iPhone 7.

– David Letterman

In order to get where we want to go, we have to be clear where we are and how we got here. And it’s clear in my judgment that this president has stood by with a golf club in his hands and watched the blood-bought gains of those who secured Iraq before evaporate, and I believe that he owes a profound apology to George Bush and every man and woman in the United States who died in Iraq securing those gains.

- Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks on Thursday after attending a classified briefing on ISIS

Tonight President Obama will make a prime-time speech about how we’re going to deal with violent extremists and their sickening behavior.

And when he’s done talking about the NFL, he’ll talk about ISIS. - Conan O’Brien

It’s never good news when the president addresses the nation in prime time. He never comes out and says, “Great job, everybody. I’m throwing y’all a pizza party.”

- Jimmy Kimmel

If we don’t force [Netanyahu] to have peace, we won’t have peace … Netanyahu is not the guy.

- A pro-Palestinian activist at a rally in Iowa I agree with that.

- Bill Clinton, in response

Stop killing each other and unite against the American campaign and its evil coalition that threatens us all. Make the unity of the infidel nations against you a reason for your unity against them.

- From a joint statement by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)

During a speech last night, President Obama announced that the U.S. will lead a huge multination coalition to fight the terror groups in Iraq.

Of course, most people just turned it off because they thought it was a rerun.

– Jimmy Fallon Apple is now saying that the new Apple Watch needs to be charged every single day.

Also charged every single day: someone in the NFL. – Conan O’Brien

Our dad would want you to know that you should move forward with your life. You should not let this define you. You should love yourself – and love your family. Some day we hope that we can meet you, hug you, and tell you that it’s okay.

- The four children of Charles Vacca, the gun instructor who was killed when a nine-year-old girl lost control of an Uzi at an Arizona gun range last month, in a video message to the unnamed girl

The President & FLOTUS joined millions to #Remember911 with service by assembling backpacks with @KaBOOM volunteers.

- Tweet sent out by Michele Obama on September 11th (the one day they would have been better served by visiting an organization of a different name)

Don’t think, “I’m frustrated with politics right now, so I’ll walk out the door and never come back.” If you don’t like me, I won’t be here forever. If you don’t like this government, it won’t last forever. But if you leave the UK, that will be forever.

- Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron in a final plea to Scottish voters in advance of their referendum on whether Scotland should secede from Britain I believe that every person has the right to be a member of an independent nation, to have sovereignty, to live in peace and to enjoy equality…I believe independence will be positive as it will encourage personal exchanges and provide both countries with business chances. North Korea is rich in natural resources and we like the taste of Scotch whisky, so we can be beneficial to each other.

- Editorial by the managing editor of the North Korean-backed Choson Sinbo newspaper, persuading Scotland to secede from Britain

I think the United States needs to get busy and we need to bomb them. We need to take them out. I would like for us to hit them so hard and so often that every time they hear a propeller on a plane or a jet aircraft engine they urinate down both legs.

Microsoft plans on renaming its smartphone. So far, their first choice is the “Microsoft iPhone.”

- Conan O’Brien

The New York Times had to issue a correction after an article referred to Dick Cheney as president of the United States. The Times apologized to Dick Cheney and changed his title to “former president of the United States.”

- Conan O’Brien

- Texas Sheriff Gary Painter on Fox News, on what the U.S. should do about ISIS (which he believes will be coming into the U.S. through the open Mexican border)

Today, The New York Times had to issue a correction after it mistakenly referred to Dick Cheney as a former president. Of course, George W. Bush made that same mistake all the time.

- Seth Myers

The National Organization for Women is calling for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to resign. They made their demand in a video that Commissioner Goodell said he will watch in five months.

– Conan O’Brien

Apple announced the iPhone 6 today, which they say has a more durable screen that won’t crack or scratch as easily. Or as your kids put it, “Challenge accepted!”

- Jimmy Fallon

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- NFL sponsor, Anheuser-Busch, in a statement on their website

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Rabbi Mordechai Kruger

The Next Big Thing

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was visiting a shul recently, and I went over to the rabbi to introduce myself. He asked what I do, and when I answered, “I’m a job search and career coach,” he asked, “So what field is hot these days?” He looked at me strangely when I answered, “Any field can be hot.” He then explained, “No, I mean what field do you recommend to people? Where can they find jobs?”

I suspect that many people would ask this question and expect me to give my expert vision of the future or at least a well-considered evaluation of the present. But I will stick to my answer, and I mean it. Any field can be hot or cold. Because you never go searching based on what the job is. Your search for a job begins with who you are.

Law school graduates have been in the news recently. Many of them can’t find jobs and some are even suing their alma maters, claiming that they were duped into investing years of their lives and huge sums of money, all in pursuit of a mirage. I’m not denying their pain and anger, but does that mean no one should go to law school?

No, of course not. There is great demand for lawyers, and there always will be. No, let’s rephrase that. There is no great demand for lawyers, but there is demand for great lawyers. If someone dreams of practicing law, is blessed with some reasonable talent, and is willing to work very hard to make that dream come true, then law school is a great idea.

There are three qualifications listed in that last sentence. They need

some careful attention because, like the message on the answering machine always says, our options have recently changed. Given the demographic most likely to be reading this column, “reasonable talent” is not that rare. Your mother probably thinks you have it.

Your grandmother thinks you’re a genius. But “dreams of practicing law” and “willing to work very hard” make

employer that you really want to do the job, and that you care enough about the work to do it very well. So while there is no guarantee that you will find your dream job, if you don’t have a dream, you may find no job at all.

You might say, “That’s fine if your dream is law school. Or at least something reasonable. After all, you can’t spend your life doing something

YOUR SEARCH FOR A JOB BEGINS WITH WHO YOU ARE.

people uncomfortable. Law school used to be seen as a type of finishing school, where you went while you decided what you really wanted to do, assured that you needn’t worry about the future because “you can do anything with a law degree.” Today, over 40% of recent law school graduates, while carrying a ton of student debt, are either working in a position that doesn’t require a J.D. or are unemployed. The two factors repeatedly cited by successful graduates are a deep desire to excel in the practice of law and a strong class ranking.

These factors are not uniquely relevant to future attorneys. They reflect the reality of the world of work, regardless of the field, now and in the future. Finding a job in any field depends on demonstrating to a potential

silly.” This is true, of course, but it’s really hard to tell what’s reasonable and what’s not. What if a successful lawyer wants to give up her career so she can pursue her love, which is baking cupcakes? Pretty silly, no? Wall Street attorney Mia Bauer convinced her husband to give up his real estate career and the two of them founded Crumbs Bakery, which grew to dozens of locations selling enormous cupcakes.

Every wildly successful enterprise that today seems visionary used to seem—to some people—pretty silly.

Now, let’s be honest about this. That lawyer didn’t drop her briefcase in the trash and start cranking out cupcakes the next day. She spent years developing her business plan, doing research, building skills and perfecting her products. When she opened her doors, she was ready to run a business and deliver great cupcakes. She did the hard work that turns a dream into reality. But then the story really gets interesting.

Some of you might be smirking right now, because you know that Crumbs Bakery recently filed for bankruptcy. So much for the big talker columnist, telling people that they need to have a dream, and that their future

success may depend on it. Mia Bauer’s dream seems to have ended with dark empty stores. But if you look more carefully, you’ll see something different. The investors who have bought Crumbs, plan to revive it by “returning to the founder’s original vision,” which had been lost over the years. What really happened is that when Crumbs stopped being the expression of a committed leader’s vision, it failed.

Dreams don’t come true easily. Meridian Capital’s Ralph Herzka said that he was turned down by 18 banks before he closed his first deal. Tofutti’s David Mintz was ready to quit until the Lubavitcher Rebbe urged him to keep trying. “Chicken Soup” author Jack Canfield tells that he was turned down by hundreds of publishers until one said yes because they might sell about 20,000 copies. The series has now sold over 200 million copies in 37 languages.

So the Next Big Thing? It exists, inside each of us. Every person has a unique set of talents, interests, background, and motivation that, combined with hard work, will enable him to find and succeed in a job which is emotionally and financially rewarding. Sounds like a dream come true? It should, because dreams really are what job hunting is all about.

Rabbi Mordechai Kruger is the Director of Pathways to Parnassa, an organization dedicated to educating our community in all aspects of career choice and job search.

He can be reached at myparnassa@gmail. com.

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Rabbi Dov Bressler

LOVING AND LIVING THE TORAH

By Tamar Sullivan ONE OF FAR ROCKAWAY’S HIDDEN GEMS, RABBI DOV BRESSLER, LIVES AND TEACHES FOR THE SAKE OF TORAH AND FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS. WHEN I COULDN’T ARRANGE A MEETING WITH HIM FOR WEEKS BECAUSE OF HIS BUSY SCHEDULE, RABBI BRESSLER RESPONDED WITH HIS PHILOSOPHY ON LIFE, “THINGS THAT ARE HARD ARE WORTH DOING.”

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abbi Bressler is the rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Long Island (HILI) Beis Medrash, the academic dean of Touro’s Business School in Brooklyn, and the morning and evening Rosh Kollel of Kollel Tiferes Avos at Shaaray Tefila. Does he have time for anything else? Yes, but aside from family and giving eitzos to the countless who turn to him, the only “else” that exists for Rabbi Bressler is harbotzas Torah.

HILI Beis Medrash was formed in the 1950s and was the third shul in Far Rockaway when the Jewish population was largely on the west side of town. Incredibly, HILI is still housed in its original location on Beach 17th street, though everything around it has changed. When Rabbi Bressler came to the shul in 1985, many people had begun moving towards Lawrence. But, the Rav said, it is “a quaint shul that has survived.” HILI currently has a weekday minyan, and its core group on Shabbos mornings – about 30 men and 20 women – is more than devoted to their beloved rabbi and look forward to his inspirational weekly Torah insights that help carry them through the week.

Rabbi Bressler is also the academic dean of the Touro Business School at the Brooklyn campus. The vast majority of the students would identify themselves as yeshivish, and the general consensus is that secular studies

are a means to an end, and as such, Rabbi Bressler views his job as vital to ensuring the kashrus of those “means.”

“Rav Moshe Feinstein outlined three conditions that must be met when teaching secular studies to yeshiva students,” he explained. “First, men and women must learn separately. Second, the teachers should be observant and of good character. And third, none of the readings or assignments should be of questionable material. Part of my job is that we live up to those conditions.”

Not only does he ensure that the campus maintains an environment fitting for even the most devout of students, Rabbi Bressler also devotes himself to making school possible for people who have logistical or practical difficulties, such as joining a class via Skype for a student who cannot attend classes due to distance or family constraints. He tries to make it work for every student by taking into account individual circumstances.

Other than being a shul rabbi and a dean, Rabbi Bressler spends much of his time teaching at Kollel Tiferes Avos. The morning kollel has 20 core members who appreciate Rabbi Bressler’s deliberate and thorough style; they delve into each and every line, commentary, and commentary on commentary. Great stress is also placed on deriving the final halacha from each daf studied. There are eight kollel members who learn in pairs b’chavrusa.

Periodically, each of them presents an original chabura in addition to Rabbi Bressler’s shiur klali. The night kollel, involving an additional 12 members, includes a few weekly shiurim that range from learning Gemara to machshava. Rabbi Bressler’s Shabbos shiur, which began in 1972, is the longest continuous shiur in the neighborhood. Incredibly, some of those who attend today are from the original group that began attending over four decades ago, may they all be healthy and well.

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t’s clear that Rabbi Bressler lives, breaths, and teaches Torah with a passion. Who were his biggest inspirations?

He largely credits his parents, frum American-born parents who raised him in a Jewish neighborhood in East New York near Brownsville.

harbotzas Torah must be combined with chesed, and it seems that whenever there is time for Rabbi Bressler to give advice, his phone is ringing with serious questions that range from shidduchim to chinuch to shalom bayis to halacha. If there is anyone who can draw on his vast amounts of Torah knowledge and answer with wisdom and sensitivity, it is Rabbi Dov Bressler.

When I pushed for another accomplishment, Rabbi Bressler cited something he had picked up from a mentor, Rav Tuvia Goldstein, z”l, Rosh Kollel of Kollel Emek Halacha: Rav Goldstein refused to be paid a salary by the kollel.

“Teaching Torah without taking money for it is an ideal I strive for,” said the rabbi. “The Rambam is a great champion of this, and I try to emulate this approach.” Rabbi Bressler feels blessed to have his position at Touro, which offers him the parnassa he needs to teach and learn Torah without worrying about income from those sources.

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asked Rabbi Bressler to pinpoint the major challenges facing today’s yeshiva community.

First, he said, the Orthodox world must re-establish itself in the broader Jewish and non-Jewish communities. “We’ve lost a lot of respect as a community because when people see scandals and a lack of values, they blame us all,” the Rabbi explained.

“We have never had such beautiful yeshivos and shuls in the history of the Jewish people,” he continued, “and even though learning has also increased, so has our loss of integrity. Money, power, and political scandals are not few and far between enough; they are beginning to characterize us to the world – and to our very own children. How can our children grow

“How can our children grow up believing in pure honesty and uprightness when they take a look around them?” up believing in pure honesty and uprightness when they take a look around them?” he wondered aloud. “We cannot tolerate such behavior; we must reestablish doing things l’shma even if we are getting paid to do it.”

Second, he continued, our biggest challenge is guiding our students to plan for their futures. “Everyone should want to be a talmid chacham, but not everyone should expect their parnassa to come from avodas hakodesh.

Yeshivas must recognize and guide students in how to obtain parnassa. It is honorable to be baalei bayit with the right ideals in life. It’s not secondclass, and people should not feel that it is. I remember Harav Avraham Pam z”l, who I knew very well from childhood, saying that yeshiva was created primarily to create baalei batim true to the Torah.”

As the academic dean at Touro Business School in Brooklyn, Rabbi Bressler believes that most yeshivish families do not think about parnassa early enough, and the burden later falls on the wives because our communities are producing too many husbands who cannot write or speak intelligibly. In his opinion, this is a recipe for many disasters, most notably for shalom bayis. Rabbi Bressler bemoaned the situation in which many young men find themselves today – having very few marketable skills and turning to Touro Brooklyn out of enormous desperation, sometimes too late. At least we have somewhere for them to turn.

Rabbi Bressler and his Rebbetzin, who is a college graduate and a true role model to emulate, live in Far Rockaway and have lovingly imparted their healthy values to their grown kids. Their son is a husband, father, talmid chacham, and shoel u’mashiv in Lakewood who always excelled in his studies. Their daughter in Chicago is an accomplished social worker, wife to a husband who learns, gives shiurim, and is a rebbe, and mother to this year’s high school valedictorian at the Bais Yaakov of Chicago.

Rabbi Bressler is not just a magnificent teacher living in our midst. He has thought long and hard about what a true eved Hashem looks like and has TJH spent the majority of his days becoming just that. 

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While most residents were Jewish, the majority were not Torah observant. Because the obstacles to staying frum were enormously challenging at the time, the fact that his parents were steadfast in their observance firmly implanted within him the notion that Yiddishkeit is an insepaGiving shiur rable part of life, an inheritance more valuable than all the riches in the world.

It’s also safe to say that Rabbi Bressler grew up among some of the greatest American Torah minds of the past century. He attended Rabbi Chaim Berlin Yeshiva primary school in Brooklyn, Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz’s Yeshiva, and Mesivta Chaim Berlin, where Rav Yitzchak Hutner zt”l was his Rosh Yeshiva and where Rabbi Bressler’s zest for learning only intensified.

For this, he greatly credits two selfless marbitzei Torah: the unforgettable Rabbi Leizer Rabinowitz, z”l, and, ybc”l, Rabbi Mendel Morris.

“Education was different in those days. I started Gemara in detail in 4th grade,” said Rabbi Bressler. But the humble rabbi doesn’t take much of the credit. “Because learning came easy to me, it became a love of mine,” he explained. In fact, nothing could compare to the pleasure and the uplifting feeling he got from learning. With practicality in mind, however, he also made sure to earn a degree alongside his peers at the nearby Brooklyn College.

Rabbi Bressler became a teacher of Torah at an early age. Oftentimes, he explained, the menahel of the Beis Medrash, Rav Mordechai Weinberg, would approach him, inform him that he needed a substitute rebbe for a lower grade, and expect him to begin teaching within a few minutes. “I was thrown into the water and expected to swim,” Rabbi Bressler recalled with a smile, “And I loved the challenge and the joy of it.” In fact, when he was offered remuneration, he turned it down because he couldn’t imagine taking money for teaching Torah.

In a similar experience, Rabbi Bressler’s childhood shul, Young Israel of New Lots, often turned to him for divrei Torah while they searched for a permanent rabbi. “It was an injection of imparting Torah on a whim,” Rabbi Bressler said nostalgically. He was hooked and hasn’t stopped teaching since.

When Rabbi Bressler and his wife married, they lived in East Flatbush where he davened with the Rosh Yeshiva’s minyanim, which for a time included such future dignitaries such as Rav Aharon Schechter, Rav Dovid Cohen, and Rav Mottel Weinberg. When the Bresslers looked for a place to settle permanently, however, they looked to the Five Towns, where Mrs. Bressler’s well-known father, Rabbi Alexander Friedman, had settled when he left rabbanus to go into education. Rabbi Friedman was the principal of South Shore, TAG, and then Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah in Queens.

“Things were open here in Far Rockaway and Lawrence, especially for someone who wanted to make a contribution to adult Torah learning. It was an attractive place to go. Darchei Torah was just opening its doors.

Yeshiva of Far Rockaway had recently launched its mesivta. There was a lot to accomplish,” he recalled. And accomplish he certainly has.

Of all the Torah he has learned and taught, I asked Rabbi Bressler to name one accomplishment of which he is most proud. Without hesitation, he answered that he hopes he was successful at combining harbotzas Torah with the chesed of providing eitza to people. At last year’s annual breakfast for Kollel Tiferes Avos at Shaaray Tefila in Lawrence He firmly believes that

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‫בס"ד‬ ‫למע"כ הרבנים הגאונים שליט"א‪ ,‬רועי עדת ישורון בעירנו ליקוואוד יצ"ו‪.‬‬ ‫אחרי דרך מבוא השלום לכם ולכל הנלוים אליכם שיחיו‪,‬‬ ‫הנה לאחרונה התפתח והתפשט בעולם שמחוץ למחנה היהדות עסק של רמאות‪ ,‬ע"י אינשי דלא מעלי המציעים‬ ‫לאנשים לפתוח חשבונות של כרטיסי אשראי (‪ ,)credit cards‬ומצוי שמבצעים עסקאות מדומות‬ ‫"‪ "manufactured spending‬באופנים ובתחבולות שונים ושאר פעולות עסקים שאינן הגונות‪.‬‬ ‫בתור רבני הקהילות הקדושות בעירנו‪ ,‬חובה עלינו לעמוד על המשמר ולקדם פני הרעה‪ ,‬להזהיר מפני דרכי‬ ‫עקלקלות שכאלו אשר הם עלולים ביותר להביא לידי חילול השם נורא [אף את"ל באופנים שאין בהם גזל ממש]‪,‬‬ ‫ואיתא בתוספתא (ב"ק פ"י) חמור גזל הנכרי מגזל ישראל מפני חילול השם‪ ,‬וגרום במישרין ובעקיפין לשנאת‬ ‫ורדיפת עם ישראל [וידוע ע"פ גדולי ישראל דהגורם שנאת ישראל לרבים הוי כגורם שפ"ד]‪ ,‬השם ישמרנו‪ .‬וכבר‬ ‫הזהיר בסמ"ג (מ"ע עד) וז"ל‪ ,‬כי עתה שהאריך הגלות יותר מדאי יש לישראל להבדיל מהבלי העולם ולאחוז‬ ‫בחותמו של הקב"ה שהוא אמת ושלא לשקר לא לישראל ולא לגוים ולא להטעותם בשום ענין כו'‪ ,‬ע"ש שהאריך‪.‬‬ ‫ובכן‪ ,‬הירא את דבר השם ישים לבו להישמר ולהתרחק ממעשים שכאלו ודומיהם העוכרים את שם ישראל‬ ‫בעמים רח"ל‪ ,‬ושארית ישראל הנאמנה ודאי לא יעשו עוולה‪ .‬ובהרבותנו כבוד שמים נעורר עת רצון לתקן עולם‬ ‫במלכות שקי‪ ,‬בגאולה שלימה וקרובה‪ ,‬אמן‪.‬‬ ‫וע"ז באנו על החתום בחדש סיון תשע"ד לפ"ק‬

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FRIENDS OF THE IDF LONG ISLAND CHAPTER

THANKS YOU for supporting the needs of Israeli soldiers during

OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE. FIDF continues to support all of the IDF soldiers who took part in Operation Protective Edge by Adopting the Combat Brigades that played a central role in this operation, helping the wounded soldiers, caring for the families of fallen soldiers, supporting Lone Soldiers from all over the world, and granting IMPACT! Scholarships to combat veterans.

We wish you and yours a Happy & Healthy New Year!

For more information about the Long Island Chapter visit FIDF.ORG/LI or contact Deborah.Sason@fidf.org or (646) 274-9661 Their Job is to Look After Israel. Ours is to Look After Them.

In Memory of Mrs. Rose Edelman

Monday, September 22

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s the school year is in full swing, it’s important to note that we’re interested in protecting our home and loved ones from the dangerous places on the internet. Filtering what information we have access to falls into the general category of IT security. And when it comes to security, it’s best done in layers. Think of the process one has to go through to board an airplane – in any country! A person first checks in with their luggage where it’s screened and boarding passes are granted. Then this person has to go through a security checkpoint where ID must be shown and a thorough search is conducted for objects not permitted on planes. Even if they’ve made it this far, they’re still subject to random security checks before boarding.

These many layers make it inconvenient, but they are necessary to protect everyone else on the plane from anyone who has discovered a way to bypass a single point of security.

It’s the same with internet access.

We don’t want to give full access to everyone for everything on the net. Layers must be created to prevent quick passage to improper material if a person attempts to bypass them.

A number of filters and solutions exist that make it simple to the home user and don’t require a technician to implement. This guide will outline the trending solutions in our community. Keep in mind that these options are great for those who wish to customize the internet access according to the chinuch in their own home. Most local schools (and some shuls) have their own internet policy and you can adjust settings to fit that policy.

NetNanny. NetNanny is the premier full feature internet filter. If you want to completely disable the internet and only allow access during some hours of the day, this software has that option. It can be set up with different user accounts so that one user has one set of filtering options and the second has a completely different set. In homes where there are differing ages of boys and girls, this is particularly useful. It offers tracking logs and social media monitoring. (www.NetNanny.com; $40/per computer/per year – compatible with PC, Apple, Android, and iPhone devices) Blue Coat K9 Web Protection. This

Adiel Lejbovitz

Internet Filtering for PC’s software has far fewer features than the NetNanny software but you get far more than you pay for with this free program.

Popular because of its zero cost, this filter has seriously stepped up their game in the last few years. It does a solid job of filtering inappropriate content. There are no “per user” filtering options so it’s a

good option for homes which have a flat internet policy for anyone using the computer it’s installed on. It only filters internet access done through a web browser (like Internet Explorer and Firefox) and doesn’t filter other forms of internet traffic (like certain video games or PC apps). (www.K9WebProtection.com; FREE/10 licenses per email account – compatible with PC and Apple computers) OpenDNS. OpenDNS filters your internet traffic via the network and not via software installed on the PC. Without getting overly technical, DNS (Domain Name Service) is an address book system for the internet. For example, if you use Verizon for internet service, you’re probably using their DNS (or address book) system to get to websites like Google and YouTube. But you’re not bound to use their DNS service. You can set up your PC to use any DNS. OpenDNS offers a blazing fast DNS service. Their method of network security is to simply remove access to inappropriate websites from their address book.

If a user tries to go directly to an inappropriate website, the DNS service kicks in and redirects them to an OpenDNS page which alerts them that it is blocked.

This is a great “second layer” of filtering in case a primary filter (K9 or NetNanny) doesn’t kick in or gets bypassed. If guests come to visit and they don’t have a filter installed on their portable device, the OpenDNS will still offer a basic level of protection within your home (and no one will know the difference).

OpenDNS is a little more technical to set up and instructions can be found on their website. OpenDNS is recommended even for those who don’t want to filter inappropriate content but just want fast

DNS and be able to block malware and virus traffic on their network. (www.

OpenDNS.com; free for basic home use and $20/year for enhanced controls) Accountability Software. In addition to a filter, some find another layer of security by installing a system monitor and lettings users know about it. When users know that they are being recorded and have to justify their actions to a third party, they’ll be more cautious about which sites they visit. This might seem a little extreme but it is a good practice in a desperate situation. WebChaver (www. webchaver.com) is a repackaged Jewish version of the very Christian software Covenant Eyes (www.covenanteyes. com) and both offer email alerts to the third party when inappropriate content is accessed. A “panic” button is available to users who may feel overwhelmed online and wish to disable internet access.

An honorable mention goes out to VCF Pro for making a web-based internet filter for the religious Jewish community. It is very similar to OpenDNS,

but the software is installed on a per device basis. (www.venishmartem.com $14/month) Every device, network, and home is unique in their chinuch and internet needs, so use common sense when implementing these options in your own home. A good “default setup” would be to set up the home with K9 and Covenant Eyes on a laptop (layer 1 and 2), and OpenDNS on your modem/router, usually a device which is provided to the home user by the Internet Service Provider (layer 3). This way, when the laptop is being used outside the home, it’s still being filtered and monitored. By creating layers of security, we can protect our PC’s from malware and viruses while protecting ourselves from the dangers of the internet.

Adiel Lejbovitz is a freelance IT consultant at Siyata Computers. He services the technology needs of the residents and small businesses within the Far Rockaway/Five Towns community. He can be reached at adiel@siyata.com or 917-535-7294.

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Focus on People Avi Heiligman

The Brave Men and Women Fighting in the OSS CIA operations are kept secret for years for fear of harm to its operators and assets. The OSS, the cloak and dagger unit for America during WWII that became the CIA in 1947, was a little different in that after Germany and Japan fell, its operators weren’t at risk and so their past missions were able to be publicized. The operations are for the most part known but most did not reach the front page of newspapers when they occurred and so are not so famous.

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t the outbreak of WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt was worried that the U.S. didn’t have adequate intelligence coming from overseas and appointed WWI hero and Wall Street lawyer William Donovan to create this unit from scratch. They had very little training experience, so the first recruits were sent to Canada to learn the trade from the British. About 24,000 men and women joined the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) and were sent to the hotspots around the world. There were several branches of operations and those described below are units that as a whole crippled the Axis Powers.

Detachment 101 was sent to Japanese-held Burma (now Myanmar and south of China) to perform several types of missions. Among their many duties, they were to gather intelligence, disrupt Japanese supply and communication lines, identify targets for the air corps, and rescue downed pilots. Since the terrain was difficult for vehicles to pass, Allied troops had passed through on foot. Units such as Wingate’s raiders and Merrill’s Marauders were assisted by the men of Detachment 101, which only numbered in the hundreds.

Together with local and Chinese forces, they inflicted severe casualties on the Japanese and successfully forced them out of Burma.

The detachment had another very important task that eventually became the basis of the Green Beret’s training. Local forces wanted to fight the invading Japanese but needed training and weapons. The Allies needed their manpower, so Detachment 101 was sent to fill the important role of training and leading these locals in battle. Known as Kachin Rangers, they particularly hated the Japanese. They achieved the highest kill/loss ratio of any ground unit during the war and earned the Presidential Unit Citation which read: “The courage and fighting spirit displayed by its officers and men in offensive action against overwhelming enemy strength reflect the highest tradition of the armed forces of the United States.” It was signed by General Dwight Eisenhower who had much admira-

tion for the men who had taken out the equivalent of whole division (over 15,000 soldiers) during the course of the war.

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iplomatic relations with foreign countries was paramount to getting them to fight against the fascists. The French government was in exile while a puppet government was really run by the Nazis. Many French citizens wanted to fight the Germans but were behind the lines. The OSS parachuted teams into Nazi-held France, Belgium and Holland to organize these groups and wreak havoc on the fascists. Most teams, called Jedburgh, consisted of an officer, his executive officer and a radio operator. Unlike spies, they wore standard uniforms so if captured they could claim they were regular soldiers.

Jedburgh teams coordinated the underground movements and set up communications between them and Allied headquarters. Weapons, ammunition, explosives, medical supplies and spies were parachuted in to assist these teams. Right before the landings at Normandy, codes were sent out to teams in the area to blow up rail lines, communications and anything else that Nazi soldiers could use to reach the frontlines.

In early 1945, a couple of teams were sent into Burma to help local resistance movements rise up against the Japanese (these were separate from De-

Aaron Bank with members of the Iron Cross mission in German uniforms A Jedburgh operator ready to jump Team Frederick- a Jedburgh team that was compromised in the days leading up to D-Day by the Germans

A Martime Unit member on a training mission

Kachin Rangers with their OSS Detachment 101 trainers

Maritime Unit members

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tachment 101). but fought anyways.) They were recruited from POW to shore. “Swimmandos” (swim commandos), as During the Battle of the Bulge (December 16, camps and were told of the impending doom on Ger- they were called, operated around the globe and even 1944-early January 1945), the Germans slipped over many. Needing little convincing, they readily agreed worked alongside Italian swimmers (who were known 100 English-speaking men in to assist the Americans in any to be the best sea commandos during the war) after American uniforms behind Allied way. Bank wanted them to blend their country surrendered. The Maritime Unit (MU) lines. They were tasked with disin with the rest of the soldiers should not be confused with UDTs, the forerunner to rupting communications and creonce they were in the Redoubt the SEALs, although they performed similar missions. ating disturbances while the main and gave them Nazi uniforms. Many MU operators worked as regular OSS agents German thrust penetrated the “soft He told them that if they were once they reached land. Several landed in Burma and spots” on the American lines in caught, they would face certain trained Kachin Rangers in their operations. MU rethe Ardennes Forest. Orders came death as traitors cruited from the Navy as well as from Allied headquarters that these but they chose Coast Guardsmen and sent them Germans should be shot as if they to join the operwell behind enemy lines. were spies. ation despite this Many of the missions that After the battle, the OSS think warning. Generthese operators performed may tank produced a similar plan that al Donovan sent never be known. Some were killed would be equally as daring. The a message to in the line of duty or the records Allied high command was getting the group, “Tell have been kept classified for secuintelligence, which proved to be Bank to get Hitrity purposes. Historians do know false, that the Nazi hierarchy was ler.” However, some of the basic assignments like planning to move into the Austrian Jedburgh operotors training with small arms despite them blowing up railroads, capturing Alps to conduct operations against the invading Allied being prepared to complete the misenemy soldiers and agents, and armies. This was called the National Redoubt, and Ei- sion, the parachute drop was canceled training locals to fight the enemy senhower was really concerned that they may have to because of the weather, and the enbut the details on many missions fight a resurgent Nazi army holed up in hard to reach tire mission was scrapped. Soon the have been hidden from the history areas. If they could get troops in the Redoubt, then the rapidly advancing American army books. These men performed clanNazis would have difficulties establishing their pres- entered the Alps and discovered that destine and covert activities that Colonel Aaron Bank ence altogether. The OSS was tasked with this mis- there was no hint of a Redoubt. helped rescue the world from fassion.

OSS operations weren’t restricted to air and land. cism and their bravery will never be forgotten.

Operation Iron Cross was led by Colonel Aaron A maritime unit was set up to enable resupply, infilBank who is known as the “father of the Green Berets.. tration and sabotage all from the sea. They learned to The 150 men in his command were German POWs that breathe underwater with new inventions such as SCU- Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. even when captured had questionable allegiance to the BA and the Lambertsen Rebreathing Unit. Many were He welcomes your comments and suggestions.for future colNazis. (Many German soldiers didn’t like the Nazis trained as parachutists to land in the water and swim umns and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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From My Private Art Collection Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg

Illustrations for Children’s Books Part III

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here are many things to consider when planning this exciting and creative venture. Included is a list of questions which you might want to ask yourself.

• What will the title be?

• What is my basic summary?

• Do I need titles for each chapter?

• Will there be competition on this topic?

• Will the advantages outweigh the disadvantages? If so, then how?

Included are some important points from A-Z which a successful book should include: Artistic content, broad perspectives, constructed within an organized framework, demonstrative, explanations of difficult concepts, format,

great quotes, humor at times, i d e n t i fi c a t i o n , joy, kindness, laughter, motivation, new ideas, openness, proven points, quality, realism, seriousness at times, talent, uniqueness, value, wondrous ideas, x-ray vision, yen and zeal.

The communication in a picture book is accomplished through a series of pictures. These pic- tures represent simple actions which continue on

in a sequence to tell a story. There must be a clear progression of these simple actions until they accomplish a complete action. The illustrations are considered good if they hold the interest of the readers until the book is completed.

The illustrations for storybooks should coordinate with the simplicity of words which offset the pictures. Try to use word images which are bold and portray a visual image. Other points to consider are the 3 R’s, which are repetition, rhyme, and rhythm. The process is a slow one.

Illustrations can be done in pencil, charcoal, ink, watercolor, etc. The studio experience should include a comfortable chair, a drawing table of correct height, and proper lighting. It is important to sit up straight with feet touching the floor. These positions help with the drawing techniques which you would like to master.

Knowing the color chart and taking notice of all the specific tones will help in the progression of your work. There needs to be a common denominator amongst the pictures and illustrations. The process might seem tedious in the beginning but it will eventually become second nature with added experience.

Keep in mind the quote: “You do not learn to run, before you learn to walk.” Take small, baby steps in the

beginning and enjoy your inspiring creative journey. This is the end of a series of articles on this topic, but hopefully the beginning of an artistic and expressive voyage for many.

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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T H E J E W I S H H O M E n M AY 2 4 , 2012

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Apples to Apples Apple Turn

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Apple Stra

wberry Cobb

Ingredients 6 cups peeled and cubed Granny Smith apples 2 cups halved strawberries 1/4 cup sugar ½ tsp ground cinnamon Topping 1½ cups oats 1½ cups flour 1½ cups packed brown sugar 1 tsp ground cinnamon ¾ cup margarine

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Preparation Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat an 11x7-inch baking dish with non- stick cooking spray. In a large bowl, toss apples, strawberries, sugar and cinnamon.

Place in prepared baking dish.

For the topping, in a large bowl, mix oats, flour, brown sugar and cinnamon.

Add margarine, mixing with a fork until crumbly. Sprinkle over fruit.

Bake uncovered for 25 minutes.

Loosely cover crisp with aluminum foil and bake an additional 10 minutes.

Ingredients 3-4 Granny Smith apples, peeled and cut into small cubes 5½ tablespoons granulated sugar, divided ¾ teaspoon cinnamon, divided Water ¾ teaspoon freshly squeezed juice from 1 lemon Pinch kosher salt Puff pastry sheets 1 large egg, beaten Preparation Preheat oven to 400°F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a large saucepan, combine apples, 1 ½ tablespoons of sugar, ¼ teaspoon cinnamon, and 6 tablespoons water and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until apples have softened but still hold their shape, 8 to 10 minutes;

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Ingredients 6 lbs. apples, peeled and cut into 8 slices 1 cup apple juice or cider Juice of 1 lemon ½ cup brown sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon

add more water, 1 tablespoon at a time, if apples becomes too dry. Stir in lemon juice and salt. Set aside to cool completely.

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Roll puff pastry into a 5 ½ by 21inch rectangle that is about 1/4-inch thick. Trim edges and cut into four rectangles. Place puff pastry squares on prepared baking sheet.

Lightly brush edges of pastry with egg wash. Place apple filling in center of squares. Fold over puff pastry to create a triangle and gently press edges together. Using a fork, press edges to seal. Brush with egg wash and sprinkle tops with cinnamon/sugar mixture.

Prick tops of turnovers a few times with fork. Bake until pastry is crisp and golden, about 20 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

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Torah Anytime

A Tale of Two Brothers When I met Shimon and Rubin Kolyakov, the founders of

music playing and the sound of customers chatting, but it all faded

TorahAnytime.com, and Yosef Davis for this interview in a local

in the background as their story unfolded before me. Two hours

bagel store, I had no idea of what I would hear. There was soft

later, I left with a full notebook and a heart full of inspiration.

SH: How did you create Torah Anytime? How did it begin?

Shimon Kolyakov: Let’s begin with a timeline.

[Of course any organization that focuses on how people spend their time, “Torah Anytime,” would need to start with a discussion about time.] We want our story to inspire others to show what regular people can accomplish with Hashem’s help.

I was a student at Yeshiva Institute (now called Yeshiva Primary), a school that brings public school students to yeshiva and then mainstreams them into regular yeshivot. Rabbi Zalman Deutscher, the dean, urged me to continue in yeshiva but I chose to attend Forest Hills High School instead. However, even though I enrolled in public school, the seeds of Yiddishkeit had been planted. During my high school years, I found myself exploring Judaism, and I longed to attach myself to it. I became observant in high school through the positive influences of rabbanim that I kept in touch with, and then the domino effect happened. My brother and parents soon embraced Yiddishkeit as well.

At that time, I became passionate about Torah lectures. I knew that the lectures were priceless, and people should have access to them. I don’t consciously

know what caused me to begin doing this, but I was driven to start recording lectures which were given in the Beth Gavriel Community Center in 2003. I was a one man show, frantically recording lectures and burning DVDs for the many people requesting them.

So how did it grow into Torah Anytime?

I knew there were many audio Torah classes available, but I also knew the value of making video shiurim available—“a picture is worth a thousand words.”

The passion behind the speaker’s words is visible and builds a stronger bond with the listener than just the audio experience. In fact, it is scientifically proven that you actually remember the information better when visual is added to the audio.

It didn’t take long for people to suggest putting recordings of lectures online. Around the same time, my brother, Rubin, took a course in web development and began to create our very first webpage in 2006.

With my concept and recordings and Rubin’s technical knowledge, the puzzle pieces were falling into place to make TorahAnytime.com a reality. At that time, the website consisted of the most basic design and functionality.

When did it first start going online?

Rubin Kolyakov: In March of 2006, we produced the first video recorded for the online viewers: a shiur with Rabbi Yossi Mizrachi, who had played a vital role in us becoming observant. We had no idea then how big TorahAnytime would become. Shimon would announce at the Beth Gavriel Community Center that if someone missed the shiur, they could access it on TorahAnytime.com. At that time, our website name was KolYakov.org and it was created in memory of our grandfather, Bechor ben Rivka Kolyakov.

Tell about how you selected the name TorahAnytime.

Hashgacha pratis brought us the name TorahAnytime. We tried 11 other names but none of them were available for us. TorahAnytime.com was the only one available. It turned out to be the best name!

Tell about the growth of the website.

Shimon Kolyakov: When we began the site in March, we received 50 hits. By April, we had 250 hits and it kept growing exponentially. Initially, the only marketing was word of mouth. I was personally re-

Shimon (left) and Rubin Kolyakov

cording every shiur. I felt an enormous sense of responsibility. Missing a shiur was not an option. Hundreds of people were now depending on me to make Torah, the way they preferred to learn, available to them. I realized I needed help as it was impossible to be everywhere all the time.

So what did you do?

Hashem works in amazing ways. At that time, Hashem orchestrated a meeting that greatly helped TorahAnytime.

There was a small group of friends who learned regularly in the back of Rav Noach Isaac Oelbaum’s shul, Khal Nachlas Yitzchok. I heard that the rav was scheduled to deliver a private shmuz to these bochurim and so I showed up with my camera. One of the attendees, Yosef Davis, was intrigued and approached me. When Yosef found out what I was doing, he asked if he could be a part of this project to help it grow.

hours of Torah learning a month. This amazing shidduch took flight and Chesky agreed to be part of the team. After Chesky’s involvement, the team was supercharged. The years of dreaming about creating a clean and simple design with original, life-enhancing features had become a reality.

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by day, TorahAnytime is growing into the site the two Kolyakov brothers and Yosef Davis had originally dreamed it would be. It’s on its way to becoming one of the most sophisticated Torah websites in the world in terms of functionality, features and user-friendliness. The goal was and always will be to make learning comfortable, accessible, and enjoyable for everyone.

Shimon noted that his parents bought the first two cameras he used so all the zechut of the spreading of Torah on TorahAnytime goes to them. “It’s an amazing feeling to take inspiring speakers to an entirely uncharted level,” he enthused. Shimon expressed that What was your next move?

Shimon Kolyakvo: At this he is so grateful to be a partner with these speakers point, I was determined to constantly improve the in disseminating Torah all over the world. So many quality of the TorahAnytime recordings. I used spe- people around the world would otherwise not have cial equipment for crystal clear audio. I was focused access to quality lectures from amazing organizations on delivering the best possible experience for the user. such as Chazaq and Ohr Naava.

All services on the site are free. TorahAnytime reAt the same time, Yosef developed TorahAnytime satellite stations in Israel, California, Toronto, and 13 lies solely on donations in order to keep Torah learnother locations worldwide. Volunteers went out with ing accessible to everyone. They recently released a cameras whenever possible to record inspiring Torah revolutionary Smartphone Mobile App with features classes. They were trained how to access the backend not found in any other Torah learning app. In addition, in March of 2014, El AL Airlines began offering TorahAnytime lectures on select flights. TorahAnytime also plans on offering telephone dial-in services for those without a computer or a smartphone where people will have access to every lecture. They envision taking advantage of the future of internet TV by having their own dedicated channel. Their goal is to reach and inspire every Jewin order to upload the shiurim as soon as they ended.

Originally, it was a primitive site, but it served its ish person in the world no matter what their current purpose well enough. TorahAnytime had a sixteen level of observance may be.

TorahAnytime reaches Jews all over the world. page list of features that it wanted to incorporate to Jews in China, Monmake the site more usergolia, Greenland, friendly.

New Zealand, Zimbabwe and in 100 other Tell about some of your countries watch Torah challenges. lectures on TorahAShimon Kolyakov: nytime.com. A soldier For several years, we in Iraq contacted them sought out and hired over and thanked them for 10 different programming their website. The teams to try to upgrade TorahAnytime team the site, but we faced treasures letters that disappointment time and are received from time again. No one could their viewers, some of finish the job. Then, with whom are unemployed Hashem’s help, a solution individuals, the sick, emerged. A good friend and the elderly, who of Torahanytime.com inwrite that TorahAnytroduced Yosef to Chesky time gives them hope Kauftheil, founder of Yosef Davis and lifts their spirits Mishkan Yecheskel. In more than anything else.

October 2012, we all met with him for the first time.

Anyone with skills that can help TorahAnytime Finally, we found someone who not only shared our vision for spreading as much Torah as possible to spread even more Torah, should contact them. The to the masses, free of charge, but who was able to team feels that TorahAnytime is G-d’s reason for the light the way on the path to successfully rebuilding Internet. It’s not only helping to bring closer the comand launching the new and very much improved To- ing of Moshiach, but will most likely record his arTJH rahAnytime.com 2.0. The goal is to spread 1 million rival as well! 

“It’s an amazing feeling to take inspiring speakers to an entirely uncharted level.”

Yosef, what drew you to this?

Yosef Davis: I had just returned from the Israeli army and I wanted to accomplish something big. Following the conversation when I met Shimon, I remember thinking, “Building a revolutionary new system to spread Torah to mass amounts of Jews by harnessing the widely misused power of technology? I cannot not do this.” So I stepped in as the first TorahAnytime volunteer. I have to say that when you work with people you love, it’s not work!

Shimon, how did you feel about Yosef joining TorahAnytime?

Shimon Kolyakov: It was truly a blessing that Yosef became part of the organization. My brother, Rubin, and Yosef and I became the perfect team. At that time, Rabbi Bentzion Shafier from TheShmuz. com encouraged us to build the infrastructure of TorahAnytime to become an officially recognized 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. Aside from working full time at Touro College as an IT Specialist, Rubin used all his free time converting, uploading and creating new lecture pages manually so users could keep coming back for more updated content. Some classes took up to 7 hours just to upload! With their bandwidth maxed out, rabbis would complain that shiurim were being posted way after it was delivered.

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Rubin, tell about your role in TorahAnytime.

Rubin Kolyakov: In 2011, Shimon and Yosef asked me to leave Touro College and come to work for TorahAnytime full time.

With support from my wife, I decided to leave Touro College and start my dream of being involved with TorahAnytime all day long.

It was another move that would yield yet more great benefits for the klal. All three of us worked full-time in the back of a small storefront business, which at the time was called Mr. Computer Doctor located on Main Street in Kew Gardens Hills.

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Claims of Emotional Distress:

Compensating One for the Injury of Another Claimant #1: “I was inconsolable when the doctor came out of surgery and said that because of his ‘little mistake’ my best friend’s recovery will be six months instead of six days. Can I sue for my emotional distress?”

Claimant #2: “My brother’s wrist was broken and displaced when we were rear-ended, and I was in complete shock. Do I have a claim for emotional distress?”

The simple answer to Claimant #1 is “No.” The simple answer to Claimant #2 is “Yes.” What follows is an explanation as to why.

These scenarios raise the issue of the right of compensation for a witness to an accident for negligent infliction of emotional distress. In New York State, the law has created a “zone of danger” rule that allows for the compensation of such witnesses under specific circumstances. In other words, it seems that Claimant #1’s best friend has a strong claim against the doctor and Claimant #2’s brother has a strong claim against the responsible driver. Nevertheless, whether Claimant #1 or Claimant #2 has an independent claim for emotional distress depends on whether or not they meet the elements of the “zone of danger” rule. To have a viable claim under this rule, each of the following three elements must be true: • Element I - The negligent conduct of a defendant created an unreasonable risk of bodily harm to the claimant; • Element II - At the moment of the accident, the claimant observed an immediate family member presumably suffering serious injury; • Element III - The claimant suffered an emotional injury, such as shock or fright, as a direct result of witnessing the accident.

The following Court decisions provide some clarification. In one, a fire erupted as the result of another’s negligence in an injured plaintiff’s home, trapping her until she escaped through cellar stairs. Meanwhile, her husband and two sons had attempted to rescue her. Under the circumstances, her husband and two sons had viable claims for negligent infliction of emotional distress because they were in the zone of danger when they were exposed to the fire while attempting to rescue their wife and mother. Interestingly, the court

denied the same claim by the injured plaintiff’s daughter since she ran out of the house when the fire began and was never in the zone of danger.1 In another case, the three elements were met in a case involving an assault by a criminal on a claimant’s father.2 Although the claimant, a minor, was not physically injured by the assault on his father, the claimant’s attempt to stop the assault and his “contemporaneous observation of [his father’s] serious physical injury” placed the minor within the zone of danger.3 By comparison, Element I was not met for a mother in a case where her son was bitten by a dog since she was not at harm herself.4 In another case, Elements I and II were not met by a mother when her daughter was physically abused since the mother was not in danger herself, nor did she observe the abuse.5 You might roll over laughing from this real case from Upstate New York: A couple was casually riding their ATVs when the husband unknowingly became a “target” of a National Guard war game exercise after he accidentally triggered a trip flare which was a part of the exercise. He was immediately surrounded by armed men who pointed their weapons at him and fired blanks.

“He was told to shut up and that he was their prisoner.” 6 In court, the wife’s claims for negligent infliction of emotional distress were dismissed because her own physical safety was never threatened and her husband was not physically injured.7 To go back to the original questions, it becomes clear that Claimant #1 cannot support a claim because no risk of harm ever existed to Claimant #1 (Element I). Also, she did not observe the incident (Element II). In addition, the injured party is a close friend, not an immediate family member (also Element II). Immediate family members include one’s mother, father, spouse, son, daughter, brother, or sister.8 On the other hand, Claimant #2 has a viable claim since all three elements

are supported.

Finally, it is important to note that the compensation that someone like Claimant #2 believes he or she is entitled to, may not be the actual value of the case. In other words, he or she would likely believe that the claim has a far greater value than an average, unbiased person would believe. Accordingly, due to the time, effort and expense involved in pursuing his or her claim, it may not be worth pursuing it. That, my esteemed readers, is an issue worthy of its own article.

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Any number of additional facts could alter the above analysis and therefore should be considered educational and not actual legal advice. Should you have a claim to pursue, please consult with your attorney of choice.

Sol Z. Sokel, Esq. (a/k/a Shlomo) is associated with the AV rated law firm, Kelly, Rode & Kelly LLP based out of Mineola & Riverhead and lives in Cedarhurst with his wife and their five children. He can be reached at szsokel@krklaw.com and (516)7390400.

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.89

Gefen

Gefen

16oz

Strawberry Kiwi, Fruit Punch 4pk

15oz

Strawberry Twizzlers

5lb

Cucumbers In Brine

72ct

13.99

1.99

.89

.99

5lb Oblong

7oz

Aluminum Pans

Plastic Cups

4/$1

$

9”

Microwavable 100ct

Plastic Plates

4.99

$

$

Paskesz

Ner Mitzvah

Ner Mitzvah

Taanug

1.05oz

50ct

Tea Lights

Sun. - Sep. 21 8am-10pm

Yartziet Tins

.99

Bran Flakes 17.3oz

4/$1

2/$5

2/$.89

2/$5

Pomodori

Gefen

Liebers

Liebers

8sl

2lb

Pizza

Honey

Chocolate Chips

Chewy Cookies 14oz

10oz

1.19

7.99

$

$

Devash

Fresh & Frozen

½ Gal

22oz

Milk

Gefilte Fish

2/$5

$

Tomato Sauce

$

Noshkees

1.99

$

Juice Box Drinks

2/$5

#7-9 19oz

$

Chunk Light Tuna

$

Flour

2.99

$

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3.99

$

Mon. - Sep. 22 7am-10pm

Tues. - Sep. 23 7am-12am

6.99

1.99

3.99

$

$

Liebers

Osem

Gefen

1oz

2.99

Mini Wows

Mini Croutons

4/$1

2.99

‫ערב ראש השנה‬

12oz

2/$3

$

Wed. - Sep. 24 7am - 4pm

Vanilla Sugar

‫ראש השנה‬

Thur. - Sep. 25 Closed

‫ראש השנה‬

Fri. - Sep. 26 Closed

The staff at Kosher World wishes all of our loyal customers

A Happy & Healthy New Year

Sale valid 9/18/14 -10/01/14. Cash & Carry only. We reserve the right to limit quanitities on sale items. Not responsible for typographical errors. While supplies last. No rain checks.

ORDERS CAN BE EMAILED, FAXED, OR CALLED IN 1913 Cornaga Ave. • Far Rockaway • T. 718.471.7555 • F. 718.471.9102 • E. Kosherworldorders@yahoo.com

FREE PARKING • FREE DELIVERY • FRIENDLY SERVICE • CURB SIDE SERVICE Store hours: Sun 8-8 • Mon. - Tue. 7-8 • Wed. 7-10 • Thu. 7-12 • Fri. 7-1 1/2 Hours Before Shabbos

Beigels

Fruits & Veg.

Beigels

Black & White Cookies

5x6

Mini Cupcakes

Tomatoes

10oz

Green

Macintosh

Grapes

Apples

11oz

3.99

$

$

3.99

$

Super Yom Tov Special Beigels

Loose

Oberlander’s

Honey Cake & Cupcakes

.79Lb

Carrots

Honey Cookies

$

1.49Lb

.79Lb

$

Golden Delicious

Apples

Red

Peppers

10oz

3.59

$

$

$

2.99

.49Lb

$

.99Lb

.99Lb

$

Meat Dept. All of our meats are beis yosef only Shoulder Roast

$

Chicken Legs (By The Case)

8.99Lb

2.39Lb

$

Brick Roast

7.99Lb

$

Chuck Eye Roast

$

8.99Lb

Brisket

1st And 2nd Cut

$

7.99Lb

Deli Dept.

YOM TOV KUGELS 9x13 •Sweet Noodle •Salt & Pepper •Potato

Classic Stuffed Cabbage $

Old Wolrd Tzimmes $

(Kugel And Platter Orders Must Be In By Mon.9/22)

$

22.99Ea.

8.99Lb

WE CATER

Any Event, Any Size!

Order

YOMTOV PLATTERS Now!

Deli, Fruit, Schnitzel, Or Pastry

WE DO THE WORK, SO YOU CAN ENJOY!

5.99Lb

Thursday

Cholent & Kugel $

5.00

Cholent Special While Supplies Last.

Please call us for more details

Sale valid 9/18/14 -10/01/14. Cash & Carry only. We reserve the right to limit quanitities on sale items. Not responsible for typographical errors. While supplies last. No rain checks.

ORDERS CAN BE EMAILED, FAXED, OR CALLED IN 1913 Cornaga Ave. • Far Rockaway • T. 718.471.7555 • F. 718.471.9102 • E. Kosherworldorders@yahoo.com

FREE PARKING • FREE DELIVERY • FRIENDLY SERVICE • CURB SIDE SERVICE Store hours: Sun 8-8 • Mon. - Tue. 7-8 • Wed. 7-10 • Thu. 7-12 • Fri. 7-1 1/2 Hours Before Shabbos

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Kapporos Sunday, Sept. 28th ’hksd oum

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PRICE:

18

$

No reservations necessary

NOTE: We will not be shechting on premises.

All Kapporos are returned to plant for Shechita the same day

Bnos Bais Yaakov

613 Beach 9th Street Far Rockaway 9:00AM–10:00PM Note Extended hours!

Congregation Aish Kodesh

894 Woodmere Pl., Woodmere 3:00–6:30PM

Congregation Kneseth Israel 728 Empire Ave., Far Rockaway 1:00PM–6:00PM

NEW! — For home delivery, please email — yrichtman@siachyitzchok.org

by Sept. 21, 2014

A COMMUNITY PROJECT OF

Young Israel of Law./Ced. 8 Spruce St., Cedarhurst 3:00–6:30PM

Young Israel of Bayswater 2716 Healy Ave., Bayswater 5:00–6:15PM

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Your Money

Allan J. Rolnick CPA

No Such Thing as a Tax-Free Lunch

S

ilicon Valley’s high-tech employers are famous for feeding their employees at work. It’s not entirely selfless — feeding people helps attract talented workers and keep them chained to their desks. At this point, it’s no longer a novelty — it’s an expected part of Silicon Valley culture. Companies routinely make headlines for luring away each other’s executives and programmers.

But back in 2008, Facebook made headlines for poaching Google’s chef!

Employers know that if they’re go-

ing to use lunch to compete for talent, it oughta be good. The average computer nerd may be perfectly happy scarfing down Cheetos in his parents’ basement.

But six-figure software engineers demand more. So, for example, Google offers employees 30 different “cafes” at their Mountain View campus, serving delicacies like squash-cornpecan dumplings, and daal saagwala from Northern India: “a mix of soft kale,

spinach, and mustard greens, tossed with three types of beans and lentils in a broth singing with distinct cumin notes and a pleasant cilantro flourish.”

The best part? It’s all free! But that may not be true much longer, if the food critics at the IRS have their way. Last month, they released their 2014-2015 Priority Guidance Plan, which reveals their 317 priority “projects we intend to work on actively during the

plan year.” And there, on Page 7, sandwiched between “Regulations under §86 regarding rules for lump-sum elections” and “Regulations on cafeteria plans under §125,” you’ll find “Guidance under §§119 and 132 regarding employer-provided meals.”

Ironically, free lunches have nothing to do with “cafeteria plans.” The relevant regulations at 26 CFR 1.119-1 provide that “the value of meals furnished to an employee by his employer shall be excluded from the employee’s gross income if two tests are met: (i) The meals are furnished on the business premises of the employer, and (ii) the meals are furnished for the convenience of the employer.”

Sounds pretty straightforward, right?

Marketing software maker Moz.com gives employees a never-ending cereal bar. They serve it at their business headquarters, and they do it to keep employees from running to the In-N-Out Burger down the street. So what’s the problem?

Well, the IRS thinks that all that Cap’n Crunch may be more than just a convenient employee perk. They’re worried that it’s actually disguised compensation. And they’re licking their chops at the thought of all the tasty revenue they can raise if they’re right. (Don’t even get them started on that 24-7 on-tap keg at apartmentrental.com!)

If the IRS concludes that meals are part of compensation, they’ll be included in employees’ W2s and taxed just like the rest of their paychecks. And while the occasional daal saagwala might not sound like much, those meals can add up fast. Let’s see here . . . 1,000 employees eating $8 meals, five times per week, adds up to $2 million in new taxable income per year from just this one example — plus more for Social Security and Medicare. No wonder the carnivores at the IRS are sharpening their knives! (Of course, they’ll have to issue even more new regulations telling us how to value all those meals. But bureaucrats love writing regulations even more than they love Cap’n Crunch!)

You may not be worried about all this if you’re not getting a free lunch at work.

But remember, the IRS has 316 other “priority projects” on its plate. Make sure to protect your tax return from the IRS predators this upcoming April 15.

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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Life Coach

Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

A Soup and a Sandwich Go Together Like…

A

soup and a sandwich go together like...

Certain words go together and certain words should go together. Chairs and tables do, men and women do, but diet and Elul should go together! There is no more ominous time than Elul both spiritually and definitely physically.

Sure, we are about to be judged but if we don’t get our diet going, there is going to be a lot more to us to judge.

These holidays are descending upon us at a fast and furious pace. And if we aren’t programmed in time to control our food intake, we are in for a major shock to the system. More calories will be consumed by us in fewer hours than holders of major world eating records.

No one can outdo the Jewish mother for too fattening, too greasy and way too delicious. If we don’t hone our resistance now, we are doomed to failure.

So how to go about it? First thing to do is start walking—everywhere and anywhere that you can. Drop that car key back in the drawer and factor in an

extra hour to get wherever you are going.

Meetings, shopping, appointments… walk there!

Second, eat when you are not hungry! You heard me—don’t wait till you are starving because then you tend to grab and eat the first thing in sight. If you eat when you are not hungry yet, you have hope.

There is time to think through the smart choices to make.

Salads are great. Throw chicken, tuna, salmon, turkey or nuts in it. Don’t throw chips, crackers, soup noodles or croutons in. Despite popular opinion, that is still snack food with some vegetables straggling along—it is in no way a salad! Try not to sugar it up with fruits or drown it in dressing, either. Do not deceive yourself by making a healthy array of vegetables into a vehicle for sweets, mayo, or other high calorie accompaniments. Let a salad be a salad. Protein is the only enhancement you should make.

Take an egg and toss out the yellow.

That’s it—just fling it into the wind. You want only the whites, as many as you

like. They are high in protein and low in calorie. You can put any vegetable you want in it, but no crackers, chips, croutons...get where this is going?

Basically, the best team is protein and vegetables or for variety ... vegetables with protein!

I know…you need something sweet.

Who doesn’t?

Try low-fat or no-fat frozen yogurt, preferably sugar-free. And a kiddy size

is best! Yes, I said kiddy size, even though you are a grown up.

Drink a lot, if you can. Water is ideal. But tea and coffee are OK too. Anything to keep your mouth thinking it’s busy and your stomach occupied, too.

An apple is always a great snack.

It takes long to eat. It’s sweet, it’s striking in color, it’s noisy, it’s dripping. It keeps all your senses quite involved. The more you keep yourself busy with food that is good to eat, the less you’ll be busy with the foods that defeat you.

Now grab a water bottle. Grab an apple. Head for the nearest door. Stop reading this and … take a walk! It’s the only way to survive the barrage of calories in store for all of us with the onslaught of holidays just around the corner!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach.

She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com

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CHOL HAMOED 5775

SUKKOT MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 19 TISHREI

OCTOBER 14 TUESDAY, 20 TISHREI

THE WESTERN NEGEV OUR PROTECTED EDGE

IT’S A DATE! JORDAN VALLEY

Exclusive tour for One Israel Fund due to our unique relationship with these communities • We start our day in the southwest at the KATIF HERITAGE CENTER in NITZAN and their Sukkot Happening • A high level expert tour of NETIV Ha’ASARA, their hothouses and an overlook into Gaza.

• After lunch in a local Sukkah, we will go to a private security-agricultural tour of ALUMIM by the security chief. The residents stayed home during Protective Edge despite mortars, bombs and tunnels. We will get up close and personal

All this and more. Don’t miss the opportunity to be inspired and educated literally in the field.

TRIP DETAILS COST: $75pp / $65 children 12 and under WHEN: Trips depart from the Liberty Bell

Parking Lot promptly at 8:30am and return approximately 6:30pm.

• With SHADMOT farmer Udi Panini in his date plantation we’ll stand under living schach, learn about the lulav of this festival and its connection to Eretz Yisrael. Shemitta and the boycott - 2 challenges that will be met.

• The funky crew of the artist village, BROSH HABIKA’A, are fixing up an abandoned building on Road 90. We will visit and give a hand to their new creative venture.

• Delicious dairy lunch in the sukkah of NIMROD’S CAFE CAFE. Then a birds-eye view of Moav from near the SARTABA, where ancient bonfires lit the way for announcing new months and holidays.

• Always inspirational - The Atidyas at their EINOT KEDEM Sheep Ranch and an opportunity to buy organic olive oil and dates. Did someone say ‘buycott’?

• Why is KASR AL YAHUD so crowded on Sukkot? Where we entered the Land with Joshua and what it means to others as a place of new beginnings.

For reservations & additional information visit

WWW.ONEISRAELFUND.ORG/DAYTRIPS Email to daytrips@oneisraelfund.org or contact: In US: Ruthie 516.239.9202 x10 In Israel: Chaim 058-650-9974

FOR TERMS AND CONDITIONS, PLEASE VISIT THE WEBSITE OR CONTACT OUR OFFICE. ITINERARY SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS DETERMINED BY SECURITY AND WEATHER CONSIDERATIONS.

day trips with Eve Harow

NEW YEAR. NEW MENU. Try a kosher personal chef!

• Custom designed gourmet meals to fit your personal dietary needs and taste preferences.

• Can be prepared in your own kitchen, or ours.

• Feel like a guest without having to leave your home!

• Check out our new menu online at www.theaussiegourmet.com

Now accepting orders for Yom Tov! Listen to Table For Two with Naomi Nachman live every Friday mornings 9amET on www.nachumsegal.com

Contact Naomi Nachman 516-295-9669 | nznachman@yahoo.com | www.theaussiegourmet.com Become a Fan on Facebook!

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S BBO SHA P R O J E C T We welcome to the Five Towns Far Rockaway community, the Chief Rabbi of South Africa RABBI DR WARREN GOLDSTEIN, founder of the Shabbos Project, for this coming Shabbos.

SEPTEMBER 19-20 Hear from this inspirational leader at the following times: FRIDAY NIGHT AT MAARIV: Young Israel Lawrence Cedarhurst SHABBOS MORNING DRASHA: Young Israel of Woodmere PRE-MINCHA SHIUR FOR MEN AND WOMEN @ 5:15pm: The White Shul SHALOSH SEUDOS: Congregation Beth Sholom

170 C I TIES, 11 TIME ZONES, 25 HOUR S

JEWISH UNITY www.theshabbosproject.org For d etails in our area: www.theshabbosproject5tfr.c om

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“THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER,” WHICH GLORIFIES TERRORISM

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 4:30 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA AT LINCOLN CENTER BROADWAY & WEST 65 STREET

SHAME ON THE MET FOR GLORIFYING TERRORISM SPONSORS AND PARTICIPATING GROUPS ADVOCATES FOR ISRAEL (AFI), AMCHA, AMERICAN FOR A SAFE ISRAEL (AFSI), THE BRIDGE PROJECT, CATHOLIC LEAGUE, CHRISTIANS’ ISRAEL PUBLIC ACTION CAMPAIGN (CIPAC), CITIZENS OPPOSED TO PROPAGANDA MASQUERADING AS ART (COPMA), CONGREGATION OHAB ZEDEK, CONGREGATION OR ZARUA, ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH (EMET), HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS, HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION AGAINST RADICAL ISLAM (HRCARI), INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE LAND OF ISRAEL, ISRAEL FOREVER FOUNDATION, ISRAEL’S VOICE, JCCWATCH.ORG, JEWISH ACTION ALLIANCE, JEWISH POLITICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION, MERCL, MOTHERS AGAINST TERRORISM, ONE ISRAEL FUND, RAMBAM MESIVTA HS, SHALHEVET HS FOR GIRLS, SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER, STANDWITHUS, STRENGTH TO STRENGTH, WESTCHESTER HEBREW HIGH SCHOOL (WHHS), ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA (ZOA)

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RALLY AGAINST THE METROPOLITAN OPERA’S PERFORMANCE OF