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Rabbi Katz’s Shul Rebuilds Again Page 49

Rav Shmuel Dishon shlita Visits Ateres Yaakov Page 47

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...The November Next 29th Helping Our Youth

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Contents >>Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 >>Community Readers’ Poll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Community Happenings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

>> News Global . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 National . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Odd-but-True Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

>> Israel Israel News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Amud Anan Protecting Our Brothers . . . . . . . 67

>> People Splitting of the Sea for 2,146 Couples and Counting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 The True Story of Ewen Montagu and Operation Mincemeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

>>Parsha The Shmuz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

>> Jewish Thought

Dear Readers, The news coming out of Israel these days is terrifying. Rockets are hitting cities and homes, and people are running to shelters in fear as the air raid alarms go off. As I write this, I am reading about the horrific bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv. There has not been a bombing in Tel Aviv since April of 2006 and that’s what makes this incident so shocking.

23 people were injured and will have to live with the scars of the bombing for the rest of their lives. I am also pained by the apparent media bias against our homeland. The media portrays Israel as a big bully, as an instigator. In truth, Israel has done all that it could to prevent a war but after being provoked for so long and having rockets destroy its land, it was forced to defend itself. I know that every one of us is pained when we hear about the terror that our brothers and sisters are going through. Imagine the piercing wails of the sirens as they go off, waking babies and parents, as they run for cover. Imagine the frightening booms of the rockets as they slam into buildings and streets. Imagine your son in the army, waiting for his call to make sure that all is well with him and his unit. I hope and pray that the fighting will end soon and that our enemies will let us live in peace. May Hashem protect our brothers and sisters in Israel and watch over the men and women fighting for our land.

Somehow, when we read of Yitzchak or Yaakov finding their spouses, it seems so easy. But many singles in our community know that finding the right person to marry and build their homes takes a lot of time, energy and may come with a lot of frustration. To help the singles in our community navigate this “parsha,” many wonderful individuals and organizations have put together programs to make it easier to find one’s soul mate. Shabbatons, speed-dating, and matchmakers have all become de rigueur these days. But the internet has become a major part of our lives and although dating “on the web” may at first seem odd, over 4,000 Jews have met their match on just one website alone. Ben Rabizadeh is the CEO of JWed, formerly called Frumster. Shira Diamond spoke with Ben about the exciting aspect of helping so many singles find their match. I found the article to be interesting; after all, how many get to make others happy for a living?

Every week, Avi Heiligman writes compelling articles about people and events that helped shape our history. These “forgotten heroes,” who are truly not forgotten as so many now know of these acts of heroism, come to life in Avi’s articles. This week he writes about an amazing piece of history—how Ewen Montagu, a British Jew, helped deceive the Germans in what was known as Operation Mincemeat. I was fascinated by his narrative. What was done was simple, yet ingenious, and helped the Allies come to victory.

The Power of One. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

As always, we look forward to hearing from our readers. Feel free to email me at editor@fivetownsjewishhome.com.

Ask the Rabbi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Wishing you and your family a wonderful, relaxing Thanksgiving,

>> Parenting

Shoshana

Social Smarts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

>>Health & Fitness

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Storms and Thanksgiving,

by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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Friday, November 23 Parshas Vayeitzei — Candle Lighting: 4:14 Shabbos Ends: 5:15 Rabbeinu Tam: 5:43

Recipes: A Perfect Thanksgiving Dinner for a Crowd

by Jamie Geller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Travel: Delaware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Ask the Attorney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

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Thanksgiving with the Family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Savvy Savta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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Dear Editor, I just wanted to give public recognition and thanks to Accentuations by Design, in Boro Park, NY. Last week, I was one of over 20 flood victims that received a beautiful, completely free bedroom or dining room set. They gave us brand new sets, not scratched up floor

samples. They gave us the choice from 3 amazing sets (valued between $3,2005,600) and not just a set they can’t sell.

They did not pressure us to look at their other beautiful furniture or make any sales pitch whatsoever. They will even store it for 2 months till we settle in a new home. This is truly an amazing,

Readers Poll Compiled by Jannah Eichenbaum

Where do you go for Thanksgiving?  We stay home 61%  We go to friends/relatives for Thanksgiving dinner 32%  We get ready for Black Friday shopping 27%  We go on a short vacation 7% **Some respondents agreed with more than one statement.

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Next week’s question will be: Would you rather be stuck on the Van Wyck for two hours in traffic or on line in the DMV?  In traffic for two hours  On line at the DMV for hours

Send your answers to editor@fivetownsjewishhome.com.

the Editor pure chessed and may Hashem repay them for their unbelievably, generous support of their brothers and sisters in need. Mi k’amcha Yisroel.

A.D. Far Rockaway, NY Dear Editor, Hi! I figure this is a long shot but I moved to Baltimore from Queens and I miss The Jewish Home!! Is there any way for me to get it sent here???

Thanks!

H.B. Dear Editor, Thank you for your article “The Beauty of Bayswater.” The response of the community and those who came to help from other areas was remarkable.

But I think it’s important to note that other communities were hit much harder. Following the storm, I participated in the safety patrol, driving down every street in Bayswater. I counted a total of five downed trees, only one of which hit a house. No doubt many basements were flooded, and perhaps some first floors. The Agudah was totally ruined.

Many houses, like ours, had no damage at all. It was difficult to manage without electric power for two weeks, but compared to others, we were blessed. I have seen much more damage in Far Rockaway than in Bayswater, and of course Belle Harbor, Long Beach, and parts of the Five Towns were devastated.

Gerald Sacks Dear Editor, I was heartened by a letter printed last week about Dr. Lightman. There are so many heroes over the past few weeks and we all noticed different ones.

But I was thinking, there are so many people who are always heroes in our community but we are too busy with our own lives to stop and think about

them. These people like Dr. Lightman and others who are always there for the community are the ones that make this place a great place to live all year round and they are an integral part of the fabric of our community.

One story that was particularly touching to me: There is a young rebbe in the community who is very learned and spends all of his time learning.

He is known to motivate his students to learn as much Torah as possible.

When the storm hit, he went into the Beis Medrash and said to his students, “Now is not the time to learn. It is the time to practice Derech Eretz Kodmoh L’Torah.” For the next several days, this rebbe and his students spent their days cleaning out moldy basements. It’s no wonder that his students will surely be true Bnei Torah and Baalei Middos who care about others and will do anything to help others. This rebbe may be recognized as a good teacher, but Sandy made me recognize that he is a hero.

May we merit to be able to see the hero in each other without having to go through a crisis like Hurricane Sandy.

J. Gruenfeld A proud member of the Five Towns community Dovid Yosef’s Acrostic Poem Hurricane Sandy 2012 Submitted by his mother Elisheva Far Rockaway my city was totally Looted, Ocean waves destroyed, Our beautiful homes.

Dovid Yosef is very sad.

Individuals are left with no heat, power, and homes.

Never-ending lines at the gas station.

Garments and possessions washed away forever.

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The Week Global Obama’s Historic Trip to Myanmar

President Obama’s trip to Myanmar this week is a symbol of the growing changes that the country is experiencing. The Asian country, also known as Burma, has been making reforms that were evident by the president’s visit.

Obama is the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar and he spoke in Yangon University, a place that has seen the destruction, isolation and oppression that was once symbolic of the country. But

now, with the release of political prisoners and greater freedom of press, the country is well on the road to an enlightened path.

Just last Sunday, Team Optimist was held in a hotel in downtown Yangon.

Here entrepreneurs spoke about their ideas for products or businesses. One spoke about bringing jobs and skilled people back to Myanmar. Another mentioned, “There’s so much enthusiasm here.”

On his visit, President Obama met with President Thein Sein, a former junta member who has spearheaded reforms since taking office in March of 2011. He also met with worldrenowned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, an opposition leader who was elected to parliament after her release from prison.

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Of course, Fifth Avenue still has a prime spot on the list however it has now dropped to number two instead of number one.

The study was based on the most expensive retail locations and the rent

for a square foot per year.

Four of the ten locations are in New York, five are in Asia, and one is in France.

• Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, rent $2,630 a square foot per year • Fifth Avenue, $2,500 a square foot per year • Times Square, $2,100 • Hong Kong, Central $1,856 • Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui, $1,547 • Paris, Avenue de ChampsElysees, $1,129 • New York, East 57th Street, $1,100 • New York, Madison Avenue, $1,100 • Tokyo, Ginza $1,057 • Tokyo, Omotesando, $972 The study also reported, “Despite a backdrop of a lower global economy and continued uncertainty surrounding the euro zone, prime retail rents were generally resilient over the year to June 2012.”

Time to go shopping.

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Was Claudia Schmid, head of domestic intelligence in the city-state of Berlin, trying to cover something up when she shredded hundreds of files that could have been relevant to a nationwide investigation of a neo-Nazi group?

Following the incident, the senior German intelligence official announced

her resignation.

Schmid headed surveillance of neoNazis, leftwing and Islamist extremists in the capital. In last several weeks, there were reports that officials under her control had shredded files in 2010 dealing with “Blood and Honor,” another neo-Nazi movement.

“I do not believe the worst. I still believe it was human error,” Berlin Interior Minister Frank Henkel was quoted as saying. “But even a series of mistakes creates a disastrous impression.”

None of the files were linked to the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which is suspected of killing 10 people between 2000 and 2007.

Four other top Germany security officials have resigned this year due to “mistakes” in the NSU investigation.

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“We fundamentally believe that Israel has the right to defend itself and its citizens from terrorist threats,” stated Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird.

“Far too often, the Jewish people find themselves on the front lines in the struggle against terrorism, the great struggle of our generation.” Baird added that Canada “condemns the terrorist group Hamas and stands with Israel as it deals with regional threats to peace and security.”

The Obama Administration also issued a statement of support.

“We strongly condemn the barrage of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel,” said US State Department spokesman Mark Toner. “We support Israel’s right to defend itself…We encourage Israel to continue to take every effort to avoid civilian casualties.”

Predictably, Russia and the Arab world condemned Israel’s military response in Gaza while basically ignoring the Hamas rocket barrage that preceded it. Europe expressed its disapproval over the “disproportionate” nature of the Israeli action. I wonder what their calculations are based on.

Egypt recalled its ambassador to Israel in protest, and Israel returned the favor.

American Jihadist Added to FBI’s Most Wanted List The FBI’s Most Wanted List has just been updated to include an Alabamaborn rapping jihadi.

Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansoor al-Amriki, has been fighting with the Somalia-based terror group al-Shabaab since 2006. Hammami has allegedly been a propagandist for the al Qaeda-linked group and has released several rap songs praising jihad against the West. He was originally indicted in the U.S. on terrorism-related charges in 2007 and faced additional charges in a superseding indictment in 2009.

Hammami grew up in Alabama to a Syrian father and an American-born mother. He played on his high school’s soccer team and went to Southern Alabama University before dropping out due to his strict Salafist interpretation of Islam.

Douglas Astralaga, the Supervisory Special Agent for the FBI in Mobile, Alabama couldn’t comment on exactly

why Hammami was being added to the list now, but said there is an ongoing investigation into Hammami’s alleged terrorist activities and, after a lengthy review, information against him “met the criteria” for being added to the list.

Earlier this year, Hammami posted a video online saying that he feared for his life. It wasn’t the American government that was inflicting the fear but he clarified in his video that he suspected his fellow militants may turn their guns on him due to ideological “differences.”

Hammami recently penned an autobiography and posted it online. In his memoir he describes a daily fear of drone strikes and jokes that the drones are “racist” – they prefer to target white people in Somalia.

In September 2011, a high-profile al-Qaeda recruiter, Anwar al-Awlaki, and an al-Qaeda propagandist, Samir Khan, were killed in a CIA drone strike.

Both were American citizens so Hammami might have valid anxiety.

Taliban Accidentally Reveals Hundreds of Email Addresses

One Taliban member made a big error last week while sending out a routine email. This can happen to anybody, but it’s far worse when you’re dealing in the world of terror. The Taliban spokesper-

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son, Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, mistakenly publicly cc-ed the names of everyone on his mailing list.

The email was a press release he received from the account of Zabihullah Mujahid, another Taliban spokesperson. Ahmedi then forwarded Mujahid’s email to the full Taliban mailing list, but rather than using the BCC function which keeps email addresses private, Ahmedi accidentally made the addresses public.

“Taliban have included all 4 of my email addresses on the leaked distribution list,” tweeted journalist Mustafa Kazemi, a prolific Kabul-based tweeter with more than 9,500 followers. “Quite reassuring to my safety.”

There were more than 400 recipients on lists consisting primarily of journalists, but also includes an address appearing to belong to a provincial governor, an Afghan legislator, several academics and activists, an Afghan consultative committee, and a representative of Gulbuddein Hekmatar, an Afghan warlord whose outlawed group Hezb-iIslami is believed to be behind several attacks against coalition troops.

The Taliban routinely send out press releases to their mailing list, often claiming responsibility for attacks against Afghan and coalition targets.

They are known for exaggerating casualty figures.

In recent weeks, the Taliban have increased the number of emails from about 5 every week to several per day.

Most of the emails are sent from Ahmedi’s account. The increase coincides with the end of the annual Taliban fighting season, prompting one local journalist to joke, “I guess when fighting season ends, emailing season begins.”

Qari Yousuf Ahmedi did not comment on the incident.

The killing spree began on Thursday with a helicopter dropping specially designed poison bait onto the island.

This is the second phase of a campaign to clear out non-native rodents from the archipelago by 2020.

The invasive Norway and black rats, introduced by whalers and buccaneers beginning in the 17th century, feed on the eggs and hatchlings of the islands’ native species, which include giant tortoises, lava lizards, snakes, hawks and iguanas. Rats also have depleted plants on which native species feed. The Galapagos is a dream for tourists and scientists for the myriad species that call the islands their home.

The rats have critically endangered bird species on the 19-island cluster 600 miles from Ecuador’s coast.

“It’s one of the worst problems the Galapagos have. (Rats) reproduce every three months and eat everything,” said Juan Carlos Gonzalez, a specialist with the Nature Conservancy.

The goal is to kill off all nonnative rodents, beginning with the Galapagos’ smaller islands, without endangering other wildlife. The islands where humans reside, Isabela and Santa Cruz, will come last.

“This is a very expensive but totally necessary war,” said Gonzalez.

The current $1.8 million phase of the project is financed by the national park and nonprofit conservation groups including Island Conservation.

Many were concerned as to whether a large number of decomposing rats would create an environmental problem. However, experts have reassured that the poison was specially engineered with a strong anti-coagulant that will make the rats dry up and disintegrate in less than eight days without leaving a stench.

180 Million Rats Sentenced to Die

Oil on the Rise

Ecuadorean authorities have announced a plan to kill about 180 million rats. The rat killing massacre will be in order to preserve unique birds and reptile species that call Galapagos Island home.

The price of oil is rapidly rising across the globe due to the Israel-Gaza conflict…

Investors are afraid that oil supplies could be disrupted if the Israel-Hamas conflict engulfs countries elsewhere in the Middle East since those countries are the primary producers of crude oil.

Gordon Kwan, head of energy research at Mirae Asset Securities Ltd. in Hong Kong, said, “The market is putting a geopolitical premium on the price of oil amid escalating tensions between Israel and Palestine and that could continue for some time.”

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The Week The timing could have been better since winter is just arriving and generally the energy demand climbs in the winter months in the U.S. and China.

In Asia, oil rose to nearly $88 a barrel. Benchmark oil for December delivery was up 95 cents to $87.87 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract added $1.05 to finish at $86.92 per barrel on Friday.

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The prices of other oils rose as well.

Heating oil rose 2.5 cents to $3.019 per gallon. Wholesale gasoline rose 1.5 cents to $2.697 per gallon. Natural gas rose 3.7 cents to $3.827 per 1,000 cubic feet.

It’s amazing how much significance and power a tiny country can have.

This conflict has affected all corners of the earth…

Israel IDF’s Iron Domes Intercept Rockets

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This was the third series of attacks on the heavily populated city.

Both on Thursday and Friday, red alert air raid sirens sounded in the capital causing residents to flee for shelter.

The Israeli Defense Ministry installed an upgraded Iron Dome battery in the Gush Dan area in the center of Israel on Saturday morning, after speeding up its production due to the escalation the violence. The battery is the fifth Iron Dome system operational in Israel.

In total (as we go to print –Ed.), Palestinians have fired 740 rockets toward Israel since the beginning of this violent fight. Iron Domes intercepted 245 missiles in total, maintaining a 90% intercept rate.

Israel Mobilizes Troops Two Iranian-made Fajr-5 missiles were headed for Tel Aviv on Saturday but thankfully the Iron Dome intercept-

Israel’s cabinet authorized the mobilization of up to 75,000 reservists preparing the ground for a possible Palestinian invasion.

Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, claimed responsibility for firing rockets in the last several days.

Supposedly, Jerusalem was last struck by a Palestinian rocket in 1970.

The city was not a target when Saddam Hussein’s Iraq fired missiles at Israel in the 1991 Gulf War. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a four-hour strategy session with a group of senior ministers in Tel Aviv on widening the military camContinued on page 22

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The Week paign, while other cabinet members were polled by telephone on raising the mobilization level.

The decision more than doubles the current reserve troop quota.

Israel’s armed forces announced that a highway leading to the territory and two roads bordering the enclave of 1.7 million Palestinians would be off-limits to civilian traffic. Tanks and self-propelled guns were seen near the border area on Friday, and the military said it had already called 16,000 reservists to active duty. “The Israel Defense Forces will continue to hit Hamas hard and are prepared to broaden the action inside Gaza,” Netanyahu said.

When asked about Israel preparing forces for a possible Gaza invasion, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri answered, “The Israelis should be aware of the grave results of such a raid, and they should bring their body bags.”

May Hashem protect and bless our brothers and sisters!

Egypt Fires Rockets The tense situation in the south of

Israel has already gotten more severe as rockets were fired from Egypt into Israel on Friday night.

“Terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula launched rockets into Israel Friday night,” reported the Jerusalem Post.

“The rockets fell near an Israeli village on the southern border, causing some damage, but no injuries.” The Israeli daily Haaretz reported, “Rockets fired from direction of Egypt toward Eshkol Regional Council.”

Fortunately there was no apparent damage.

On Friday, Egyptian prime minister visited Gaza to express solidarity with the Palestinians.

There was no official confirmation that the rockets were indeed launched from Egypt.

One news site reported, “After Tel Aviv metropolitan area, capital under fire too. An air raid siren was sounded in Jerusalem and surrounding communities early Friday evening. After residents reported hearing blast sounds, security forces confirmed that one rocket had landed in the Gush Etzion area near a Palestinian village.”

“There were no reports of injuries

In News or damage. This was the first air raid siren sounded in the area since the IDF launched Operation Pillar of Defense in the Gaza Strip. Air raid sirens were sounded in southern communities throughout the day and a barrage of missiles hit the area.”

Hamas has taken responsibility for majority of the attacks and those rockets were suspected to have been launched from the Gaza Strip.

Israel Targets Hamas Military Chief Israel has killed Ahmed Jabari, senior commander of Hamas’ military, the Ezzidine Al-Qassam Brigades. The head of the militant wing was killed along with seven others during a series of airstrikes over Gaza.

A statement released from the AlQassam Brigades said that Israel had “opened the gates of hell” and that their “blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are.”

Jabari is the most senior Hamas official to be killed by the Israeli military since the killing of Saeed Seyam four years ago.

Bus Bomb Rips Through Tel Aviv On Wednesday afternoon, terrorists detonated an explosive device on a bus on Shaul Hamelech Street in central Tel Aviv. Thankfully, no one was killed, but at least 23 people were injured. Two with the most serious injuries were teenagers but thank G-d, the injuries were not life-threatening.

The bombing was not a suicide attack and the police are searching for other explosive devices in the area. It seemed that the device was placed under the seats in the middle of the bus. The driver of the bus, Nachum Hertzi, 53, said he did not see anyone suspicious on the bus. He said that after the explosion he noted that the bus seemed rather empty.

An eyewitness said, “I heard a boom and then saw a black cloud.” Another eyewitness reported, “There was a horrible explosion; we were sure at first that it’s a hit on Tel Aviv and the sirens just didn’t go off. I opened my office window and saw the bus crushed.” Yoni Yossef, a member of ZAKA, was one of the first people to arrive at the scene.

“There were panic and chaos. People were lying outside the bus. Paramedics started to arrive. People aren’t used to this. It’s taking us years back.”

Yoel Ohayon, the Tel Aviv police chief, asked the public to stay alert. He also said that although it did not appear to be a suicide bombing, “It is very difficult to say exactly what happened.”

Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich arrived at the scene and stated, “Such a terror attack has great significance. Hamas is a murderous organization that stands for the destruction of Israel. We have to strike all terror hubs.”

Fatah-linked Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responbility for the attack, according to Palestinian media reports.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri praised the bombing but did not claim responsibility for the attack. A reporter of the al-Mayadeen network in Gaza reported of shots being fired in the air as a sign of joy over the explosion.

The attack comes on the eighth day of the IDF Operation Pillar of Defense in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of rockets have been fired into Israel and four of them have fallen in the Tel Aviv area.

This is the first bomb to hit Tel Aviv since April of 2006. At that time, a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people when he detonated his bomb near a sandwich stand near the old central bus station.

President Barack Obama spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday, begging him to avoid civilian casualties. The president condemned the rocket fire and confirmed the United States’ full support for Israel’s right to protect itself following rocket attacks launched from Gaza.

In a frequently updated live blog chronicling the attacks, the Israel Defense Forces claimed it had targeted “dozens” of Hamas’ medium-range underground rocket launch sites and other weapons storage facilities.

“If I were a senior Hamas activist – I would look for a place to hide,” IDF spokesman Brgi. Gen. Yoav (Poly) Moredechai said in a statement published online. Moredechai said the possibility of a ground invasion is not out of

the question and Israel is considering all possible options to protect themselves.

His statement read, “All options that allow us to cause seriously damage to Hamas and the other terrorist organizations are on the table.”

Prior to attacks, Israel sent out leaflets urging residents to steer clear of known places of Hamas in order to avoid casualties.

Israel’s War in Cyberspace It seems that Israel has to be defending itself on numerous fronts. More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made against the Israeli government websites since Wednesday. Only one hacking attempt was successful, according to Finance Minister Yuval Steinmetz, but that site was up and running only ten minutes after the strike.

The ministry confirmed that there are a few hundred hacking attempts a day on Israeli sites and attempts on defense-related sites are the highest. Most attacks have come from within Israel and Palestinian territories.

“The ministry’s computer division will continue to block the millions of cyber-attacks,” Steinitz said. “We are enjoying the fruits of our investment in recent years in developing computerized defense systems.”

Carmela Avner, Israel’s chief information officer, said, “The war is taking place on three fronts. The first is physical, the second is on the world of social networks and the third is cyber.” Both the Israeli and Palestinians have been active on social media. The IDF in particular established a presence on nearly every platform available. Palestinian militants have been active on Twitter.

Shaare Zedek Helps Americans in Israel Deal with Sandy Aftermath Aside from the physical damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, the storm caused tremendous emotional pain and stress as well. That pain was felt by Americans all over the world whose relatives or birthplaces were affected.

Therefore, Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center developed a telephone service to accommodate Americans who made Aliyah but were feeling the aftermath of the superstorm.

The services are intended for any individual who is experiencing symptoms

of trauma and the goal is to help them work out their understandable anxiety.

“I myself, was evacuated from Atlantic Beach, Long Island, and experienced the challenges of no electricity and heat since that Monday (of the storm),” explained Dr. Judith Guedalia, director of the neuropsychology unit and chief psychologist at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, who is the brainchild behind this service. “Fortunately, I was able to return home on El Al not long after JFK Airport in New York reopened.”

“I think there are a lot of people who are without water and electricity for weeks already. We have in our unit a social work student from Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and she told me she was also traumatized. The farther away you are from your home, the more terrible things you imagine. Some have returned to destroyed homes,” said Guedalia.

Volunteer Israeli-licensed and certified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapists will examine those in need of care, process clients’ distressing memories, attempt to help decrease their enduring influ-

ence, and let individuals develop more adaptive coping mechanisms.

Turkey Calls Israel a “Terrorist State”

In News Israel is a terrorist state, and its acts are terrorist acts.”

Hamas is demanding Israel stop its five-year blockade of the Gaza Strip in order to get a cease-fire deal done. Militant groups have staged rocket attacks against Israel, which has responded by assassinating the military chief of the ruling Hamas militant group and conducting dozens of airstrikes on suspected rocket-launching sites and other Hamas targets in Gaza. In an effort to spare civilian casualties, the IDF has circulated leaflets advising civilians to leave the area of known Hamas militants.

Israeli Company Trains Mice to Detect Bombs According to a top Turkish official, Israel is a terrorist state and is committing acts of terrorism by defending itself.

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said, “Those who associate Islam with terrorism close their eyes in the face of mass killing of Muslims, turn their heads from the massacre of children in Gaza. For this reason, I say that

BioExplorers is an Israeli company that believes they have mice trained to sniff out bombs. The company claims that their rodents are capable of discovering potential threats.

BioExplorers has developed a system where a person is hit by a small blast of air that is immediately pushed into a chamber where eight mice are

waiting. The mice then smell the air for potentially hazardous or incendiary materials. They can detect bombs, drugs, and money.

If the person or object presents a threat, the mice gather in a separate compartment as a means of alerting humans.

“The idea began in 2000-2001, when there were many suicide bombings on [Israeli] buses,” BioExplorers founder and chief technology officer Eran Lumbroso was quoted as saying at the Israel Homeland Security exhibition in Tel Aviv. He further explained, “I was in the army at the time, and the idea emerged to use small animals instead of dogs in detecting suicide bombers.

The mice can also be easily trained, and thanks to their small size, you can use a small group of them and have multiple sensors,” added Lumbroso.

The animals work for four hours and are then replaced with another shift of eight-mice.

BioExplorer researchers are careful to treat the mice better than ordinary lab rodents.

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Scott Gilbert, the family’s lawyer, said that the lawsuit he filed on behalf of Judith Gross in a federal court in Washington D.C. seeks to “hold Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) and the United States Government accountable for their role in Mr. Gross’ detention and imprisonment, including their abject failure to advise, train and protect him.”

A spokeswoman said the family is seeking $60 million from the government and DAI. A separate lawsuit, filed the same day, seeks $10 million for benefits the family says Gross’ insurer, Federal Insurance Company, has denied.

Gilbert’s release alleges that Gross’ “role in the project required Mr. Gross to make multiple trips to Cuba over a short period, the fifth of which resulted in his wrongful arrest and detention.”

“Mr. and Mrs. Gross claim that DAI and the US government failed to disclose adequately to Mr. Gross, both before and after he began traveling to

National Wife of Alan Gross Files Lawsuit

Last year, Alan Gross, 63, of Potomac Maryland was sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison for “crimes against the state.” He was arrested in 2009 for allegedly bringing satellite phones and computer equipment to members of Cuba’s Jewish community.

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In News Cuba, the material risks that he faced due to his participation in the project,” the release says.

DAI issued a statement saying, “Alan Gross is a colleague and friend whom we respect for his many years of international development experience and his expertise,” the DAI statement says. “We are disappointed that the Gross family has chosen to file a lawsuit at this point in time. As much as we would like to address the numerous disagreements we have with the content of the complaint, the fact is that doing so will not advance the cause of bringing Alan home, which remains our highest priority.”

Hostess Brand Files for Bankruptcy, Lays Off Workers, and Wants to Sell Name Hostess, the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, is going out of business after 82 years. The company will lay off its 18,500 workers and sell its snack cake and bread brands.

The Texas-based company blames a nationwide strike for its demise, saying that due to the recent strike, the company is no longer able to make and deliver its products.

Thousands of employees of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union went on strike last week after rejecting a contract proposed in September that cut wages and benefits. Hostess defended itself saying that the company is unprofitable “under its current cost structure, much of which is determined by union wages and pension costs.”

As of November 16, Hostess suspended bakery operations at all factories. Stores remained open for several days just to sell already-baked products.

The company had warned employees that if their strike didn’t end it would file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to sell its business and assets.

The privately-held company filed for Chapter 11 protection last January, its second time declaring bankruptcy in less than a decade.

“Many people have worked incredibly long and hard to keep this from happening, but now Hostess Brands has no other alternative than to begin the process of winding down and preparing for the sale of our iconic brands,” CEO Gregory F. Rayburn said in a letter to

employees posted on the company website.

He added that all employees will eventually lose their jobs, “some sooner than others.” “Unfortunately, because we are in bankruptcy, there are severe limits on the assistance the (company) can offer you at this time,” Rayburn wrote.

Other factors that have contributed to the company’s decline are increasing competition and the new reality that Americans are growing increasingly conscious about healthy eating.

As we go to print, a bankruptcy judge has asked the Hostess brand and the union to go to mediation to see if they can sort out the situation without having to resort to bankruptcy. If the measure is successful, the brand will be able to save 18,500 jobs that are on the line.

And that would be “wonder”-ful.

Paying for Obamacare Next Time You Eat Out Seems like the average consumers are the ones who will be funding Obamacare…

One Florida restaurateur who operates about 40 Denny’s locations and five Hurricane Grill & Wings franchises in Florida, Virginia and Georgia plans on adding a 5 percent surcharge to customers’ bills to compensate for his Obamacare costs.

Obamacare is set to begin in January 2014 when the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented.

“People are trying to find ways to avoid the penalties and to avoid having to pay for Obamacare,” John Metz said in an interview. “Everyone’s looking for a way to not have to provide insurance for their employees. It’s essentially a huge tax on all us business people.”

Metz employs about 1,200 people and as president and CEO of RREMC Restaurants, LLC, he said he will also be forced to cut the staff’s time to fewer than 30 hours per week. Employees will

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“I want to explain it to everybody, to let them know what’s coming down the pike,” he said. “We like to keep our employees informed.” Due to the changes, some workers will have no choice but to seek second jobs, Metz said, but he simply cannot afford the penalties associated with Obamacare.

“It’s a great concept,” he said. “We want to have everyone insured. The problem is, who is going to pay for it and how are we going to accomplish this?”

Under the current law, all employers with more than 50 full-time employees will be charged a penalty for the number of employees exceeding 30 fulltime staffers who are not covered.

Metz has an average of 35 full-time employees per location, which is about a $2,000 penalty per worker and totals about $70,000 per restaurant.

“It’s going to be a big issue for all of us — for my employees and for me,” said Metz, who has been in the industry since 1975. “The ones that are working more than 28 hours, they’re going to act as if I’m cutting their hours and they’ll have to find another job.”

At Denny’s restaurants operated by Metz, the average customer’s check is $9. If the ObamaCare surcharge is implemented it would add on 45 cents to that bill. At Hurricane Grill & Wings locations, the average bill is $14.50 and the surcharge would be an additional 72 cents. Metz feels that eventually the entire restaurant industry will have to implement some sort of similar program.

“That is what I foresee and that is the easier, least painful way to deal with these added costs,” he said. “In a true playing field, everybody will impose this, from McDonald’s to Denny’s to even maybe the fine dining restaurants in order to have the funds to be able to pay for either insurance or the penalty for not providing insurance to their employees.”

“It’s never good news, but it is what it is,” Metz said of increasing customers’ checks. “We really should look for a better or different way to pay for [Obamacare]. I think what we’re going to ultimately see here is a Europeantype system where we have a value added tax or a national sales tax.”

Metz continued, “I have a choice: try to live within the rules, or go out of business.”

In a statement, the National Restaurant Association said it’s “premature” to evaluate exactly how the health care law will affect businesses.

Owner of Pharmacy Responsible for Meningitis Outbreak Pleads the Fifth

A recent outbreak of fungal meningitis caused by contaminated pain drugs that have killed 32 people and made 461 people sick is being blamed on the a pharmacy for the New England Compounding Center.

Cadden, the president, co-owner, and director of the pharmacy, refused to testify at a hearing on Wednesday.

The family of his first victim was present but somehow Barry Cadden avoided facing them. He stayed in a separate room with his lawyers while the wife of his first victim testified.

He pleaded the fifth, invoking his constitutional rights not to testify.

Members of the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee spent hours criticizing the Food and Drug Administration. Despite their outrage over the growing toll from the outbreak, members of the committee made it clear they are not ready to change any legislation just yet.

“We will be living with this nightmare for ages to come,” Joyce Lovelace of Albany, Ky., whose husband, Eddie, was the first person to die in the outbreak of fungal meningitis traced to the pharmacy, told the hearing. “We now know that New England Compounding Pharmacy Inc. killed Eddie. I have lost my soul-mate and life’s partner with whom I worked side by side, day after day for more than 50 years,” said Lovelace, her voice cracking as she testified.

“It was not an easy death that we witnessed,” she added.

Lovelace said her husband, a 78-year-old judge, had been healthy and active before the spinal injections that killed him. “I am asking this committee to find out how and why this happened

In News and to plug the loopholes that allow these industries to escape meaningful inspection,” Lovelace said. “I would ask that you inquire how such a product became so widely distributed. Why did so many medical providers purchase this product from unregulated or poorly regulated sources? Don’t just investigate. Instead, legislate and regulate.”

Cadden and his lawyers waited until Lovelace, who uses a wheelchair, was wheeled out of the courtroom before they entered the committee room.

“Will you invoke your Fifth Amendment rights to all questions today?”

Rep. Cliff Stearns, the Florida Republican who chairs the panel, asked Cadden. “Yes,” Cadden replied. Stearns then excused him.

Thousands Sign Petition Urging Macy’s to Ditch Trump Macy’s recently released an ad for the holiday season featuring Donald Trump. The department store sells a line of Trump-branded ties and fragrances.

Well, as always, Trump stirs up many emotions, and many Macy’s cardholders are upset about the commercial and are threatening to cut up their Macy’s store credit cards in boycott unless the company cuts ties with Donald Trump. An online petition lead

by Angelo Carusone, which was started prior to the release of the ad, accumulated over half-a-million signers.

Carusone said the ad struck him as a cynical “embracing” of Trump’s brand.

He plans to deliver the final petition to Macy’s in-person by Thanksgiving, just in time for Black Friday, one of the year’s biggest shopping days.

Carusone said he emailed Macy’s CEO, along with his executive personal assistant, repeatedly before beginning the campaign and throughout it and got “zero response.” This is not the first time he spearheaded a petition to create change. In the past, Carusone, working independently, spearheaded online efforts to get Glen Beck ousted from Fox News.

The Donald, as usual, appeared unfazed by the growing online uproar.

Trump spokesman Michael Cohen said, “The Trump Organization values its long standing relationship with Macy’s and looks forward to many more years of continued success.”

Macy’s has made no indication of any changes. Macy’s senior vice-president of corporate communications said, “Macy’s marketing and merchandise offerings are not representative of any political position. Many of the individuals associated with products sold at Macy’s – or at any retailer, for that matter – express personal opinions that are not related to the merchandise we sell or to the philosophies of our company. In our merchandise assortment, we strive to meet our customers’ expectations for unique and interesting products across a broad array of styles, categories and brands. This allows our customers to choose what they prefer. A longtime focus of Macy’s holiday advertising has been to celebrate the season’s spirit of generosity and goodwill through our ongoing ‘Believe’ campaign, and that is the sole message of our … commercials.”

Former Comptroller Pleads Guilty to Stealing $53M

Carusone, 30, said he started the petition on October 24th because he was a fan of the retailer and Trump’s brand “doesn’t reflect the magic of Macy’s.”

He said Trump’s brand was built on “consequence-free bullying,” noting the birther-ism controversy, and Trump’s history of negative comments about women.

Rita Crundwell pleaded guilty to a

federal fraud charge that claimed she stole millions from the city’s accounts.

The former longtime comptroller for Dixon, Illinois faces up to 20 years in prison, the Justice Department said in a news release.

As part of her plea agreement with the government, Crundwell admitted to one count of wire fraud and engagement in illegal money laundering. Crundwell has pleaded not guilty to 60 separate but related felony theft counts in Lee County, Illionois.

Allegedly, since 1990, Crundwell stole more than $53 million from Dixon, where she oversaw public finances as the city comptroller. She was able to funnel the funds by diverting it to an account she had set up for personal use.

Authorities say Crundwell used the money to buy luxury homes and cars.

She also spent millions on her horsebreeding operation, RC Quarter Horses LLC, which produced 52 world champions in exhibitions run by the American Quarter Horse Association.

The Justice Department said she will be obligated to reimburse the city more than $53.7 million, “minus any credit for funds repaid prior to sentencing.”

“Since the outset of this case, we have used every available means, including both criminal and civil forfeiture proceedings, to ensure the recovery of as much money as possible for the City of Dixon, its residents and taxpayers,” said Gary S. Shapiro, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.

Crundwell’s attorney Paul Gazianno said his client’s guilty plea saved the government a costly and lengthy trial.

“Rita, since the day of her arrest, has worked with the government to accomplish the sale of her assets, including her beloved horses, all with the goal of hoping to recoup the losses for the city of Dixon,” Gazianno said.

So far, approximately $7.4 million of Crundwell’s assets have been liquidated, including 400 quarter horses, vehicles, trailers, tack and a luxury motor home.

Dixon is about 100 miles southwest of Chicago and has a population of approximately 15,733. The town’s mayor, James Burke, feels Crundwell deserves a long prison sentence. She handled all the city’s finances from 1983 until her arrest back in April.

“We’re very happy that she pleaded guilty,” Burke said. “There’s no feeling sorry for her at all.”

Train Collides with Heroes Parade

In News “was deeply saddened by news of the tragic accident involving veterans, heroes and their spouses in Midland,” Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement. “His thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims, with those injured in this incident, and with the entire community.”

Homeless People in Nevada City Will Require a Permit A tragic incident happened in Midland, Texas last Thursday when a freight train collided into a parade float carrying wounded veterans. Four people were killed and 17 injured. Two died on the scene and two others passed away later at Midland Memorial Hospital.

Witnesses reported that at about 4:30pm, the train plowed through just as one of two flatbed tractor-trailers carrying wounded veterans and their families crossed the tracks. The floats were transporting the heroes to an honorary banquet during Show of Support’s Hunt for Heroes parade.

One man, Army Sgt. Joshua Michael, 34, tragically died saved his wife.

His mother-in-law, Mary Hefley said, “He pushed his wife off the float — my daughter. He was that kind of guy.

He always had a smile on his face. He would do for others before he would do for himself.”

About twenty four veterans and their spouses had been sitting in chairs on the back of a flatbed tractor-trailer decorated with American flags and signs identifying each veteran.

The first truck crossed the tracks in time, but the second did not.

The impact, witnesses say, was deafening. Patricia Howle was sitting traffic with her daughter watching the parade go by when she heard the train honking its horn. “It was horrible. It was nothing that I’d ever want to see again,” Howle said with tears in her eyes.

The National Transportation Safety Board was at the scene and has launched an investigation into the accident. Upon examining the train’s black box, investigators should be able to detect the speed of the train and whether or not the train’s horn was sounded prior to the accident.

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Some homeless will be able to call Nevada City “Home Sweet Home” with confidence…

Police Chief James Wickham has an idea that will manage the growing homeless presence in his city. Nevada City is seeking a new law that will allow them the power to hand out permits to a small group of homeless, which would give them permission to sleep in public.

Those without permits will be obliged by law to stay away.

“The goal is to start managing the

homeless population within our city,” said Chief James Wickham. Wickham asked council members to pass a nocamping ordinance.

“It just basically means you can’t set up a tent. You can’t live in your vehicle.

You can’t live in the woods in Nevada City,” he said, unless you have a permit.

“There’s some of us out there like me who try to blend in with the community,” said William Peach, a man without a home there.

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Thank You! The sudden impact and complete devastation of Hurricane Sandy was felt throughout the Five Towns, Far Rockaway, Bayswater and surrounding communities.

Achiezer's crisis intervention team immediately propelled to action, serving as a clearinghouse for the relief effort— coordinating food, shelter, clothing, cleanup crews, shaimos trucks, generators, FEMA applications, funds, Shabbos arrangements, psychological support— providing many suffering families with sorely needed comfort, care and guidance.

There is still much to do and we will provide more assistance, as the community continues to recover from this disaster.

Without the aid of the many amazing dedicated and selfless groups, organizations and individuals this would not have been possible. Thank you, we applaud you and continue to rely on you.

David Ackerman Dovid Azman Rabbi Moshe Bender Shainy Bender Simcha Bernath Alex & Dina Berger Aliza Berger Gavriel & Naomi Berger Sarah Bergman Goldie Bloom Moshe Brooks Chaim & Miriam Chait Rivky Chait Chaim Carrey Bracha Carrey Akiva Carrey Meira Carrey Dr. Zev Carrey

Chaim Dahan Shmuelli Danziger Ilana David Vickie Davis Shani Devor Mindy Dershowitz Carolyn Diamond Adina Elefant Elisheva Elefant Rabbi Elisha Feinberg Michael Fragin Ari Friedman Shua Fogel Dovi Fogel Tova Fuchs Ariel Gantz Chaya Gibber

Evan & Chaya Sora Genack Alon & Chanie Goldberger Sam Goldberger Naftali Goldgrab Chani Greenfield Aharon Michoel Guttman Ari Hoch Nechemia Hoch Dovi Jaroslawicz Yaffa Jungreis Brian Kalb David Kapelowitz Jill Kay Milka Keilson Dr. Duvi Klein Naomi Krasnow Devorah Kurland Chanie Kurland Dr. Moshe Lazar Rabbi Leiber Shragi Leiber Temima Levine Dr. Hylton Lightman Ben Lowinger Shai Markowitz Matis Melnicke Miri Miller Shani Moerman Fayge Neuberg

Toby Neuberg Gavriel Neufeld Menachem Neufeld Aviva Paneth The Pick Family Laya Pfeiffer Tova Plaut Yaakov Pollack Baruch Rabinowitz Rabbi Aron Rosenberg Pnina Rosenberg Sruly Rosenberg Lisa Rosenblatt Leah Rosenman Moshe Rubinovich Chani Scharf Lipa Schmeltzer Sima Schwab Miriam Schubert Braha Schulhoff Deenie Schuss Motti Seidenfeld Aron Solomon Michael Weiss Srully & Aviva Wulliger Moshe Wulliger Sarah Zafir

The hundreds of volunteers who came from far and wide to help the clean up effort Frank Storch and the Baltimore team • Chaskel Bennett and the Brooklyn team Gavriel Berger and the Toronto team • The Wesley Hills Crew

We are very grateful to these public officials who provided much needed assistance in our time of need: NYC and Nasaau OEM NYS Homeland Security Commisioner Hauer Police Commissioner Ray Kelly Senator Charles Schumer Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder Congressman Gregory Meeks Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio Legislator Howard Kopel Avi Fertig & Town of Hempstead

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Members of Hatzolah and Chaverim rescuing people from flooded houses

Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Rabbi Boruch B. Bender, Rabbi Yehiel Kalish, Lloyd Keilson at Achiezer's temporary headquarters during the aftermath of the storm.

With everlasting hakoras hatov to...

The Communities of Baltimore, Boro Park, Flatbush, Five Towns, Lakewood, Monsey, New Rochelle, Passaic, Toronto, Upper West Side, Cincinnati, Chicago and Detroit The Syrian Community • Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Achiezer’s Rabbinical Leader Rabbi David Greenblatt, Elisha Brecher, and the Community Assistance Fund Trustees Insurance/FEMA Task Force led by Ephraim Diamond, Carmi Gruenbaum & Asher Schoor Ettie Schoor and her dedicated group of volunteers • Five Towns Community Chest Aron Zelig Rosenberg, Richie Sinnreich & the dedicated office of Herb Olitsky Consulting Dr. Brucha Lowinger, Psy.D. and her devoted staff of mental health professionals Yanky Brach & Yitzy Pretter of Brachs • Yoeli Steinberg & Moshe Ratner of Gourmet Glatt Michael Schick / Bobby’s Place • Hawkeye Jackets • Seven-Mile Market, Baltimore Alan Botwinick, CPA of Roth & Co. • Avi Blonder Communications • Zvi Bloom/Seasons

Rabbi Yehiel M. Kalish of Agudath Israel of America for leading the fundraising effort on behalf of our community.

Thanks to the numerous out-of-town cities for hosting fundraising functions, kinnos and asifos to raise much needed funds for those affected by the storm

We join Klal Yisroel in thanking the leadership of these amazing organizations and mosdos: Ateres Naava Bais Yaakov of Ramapo Chabad of Cedarhurst Chessed Shel Emes Congregation Beth Sholom Simcha Bernath/BP Shomrim Chai Lifeline • Chasdei Lev Chaverim • Flatbush Shomrim Chevra Hatzolah and their countless volunteers HAFTR • JCC• JCCRP • Misaskim Mesivta Ateres Yaakov Mesores Bais Yaakov • Met Council OHEL • RCSP • TAG • UJA Westside Kollel • The White Shul Yeshiva Darchei Torah Yeshiva Shor Yoshuv Yeshiva Torah Vodaath Young Israel of Bayswater Young Israel of Woodmere

Hosts of events Young Israel of Kew Garden Hills Ateres Reva of Lakewood • West Side Agudah of Ave L • Chicago Community

Partial view of a crowd at the Young Israel of Kew Garden Hills at a fundraiser for the emergency fund

Most of all, the incredible staff at Achiezer, who have served as a beacon of light during these dark times Representatives of 50 local Shuls discussing the financial assistance program at Achiezer’s offices in Lawrence

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“If they’re homeless and heartless, hey, we got a place for them,” said James, who is homeless. “It’s called county jail.”

Wickham says he’s identified at least 60 homeless in his community. For now, the police chief will give out about 10 permits. He’ll check in six months to see if the program is helping to solve the problem. If it is, then he will issue more permits.

Riis Park Serves as Dump Post-Sandy What used to be a parking lot for New York beachgoers is now a gigantic waste collection site. The area of Riis Park is about half a mile long and quarter-mile wide. It is piled high with debris from Hurricane Sandy.

The temporary garbage dump at Jacob Riis Park in Queens is one of many

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sites around the city being used this way. The size of the dump reflects the enormity of the damage caused by the storm.

New York City officials have determined that around 350 homes in the city are beyond salvation, including 80 in Breezy Point alone, said Fred Strickland, the resident engineer from the Army Corps of Engineers, which is helping the New York Department of Sanitation with the cleanup.

The area is filled with twisted steel,

waterlogged wood, broken furniture, mattresses, and many other random objects. Hundreds of trucks come and deliver material around the clock, bringing debris collected from the streets of the Rockaways and Breezy Point, where water from Sandy’s storm surge tore apart homes and buildings.

“Our mission is to clear the right of way – sidewalk to sidewalk,” said Strickland.

Strickland said his collectors are making constant rounds of the hardesthit neighborhoods, going back for more debris as homeowners clean out flooddamaged homes. He expects his assignment, paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to take four months.

Strickland works out of a high-tech trailer parked on the edge of the dump.

Inside are maps of the New York area, tasks and reminders scribbled onto whiteboards, and several computers. He says by the end of the week he expects to have a thousand vehicles and roughly four thousand people working on the cleanup.

That’s Odd Diet for a Sweet Tooth

Ever been told to hold off on the chocolate or cake to keep your weight down? Well, here are some brave souls who pigged out on the “forbidden” stuff and even lost weight doing it!

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He didn’t go too crazy, though. He also supplemented with vitamins, exercise and fresh vegetables. The real twist?

He didn’t just lose weight—his HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol) went up too! Kids, don’t try this at home or you won’t have any appetite left for your supper.

Do you love Starbucks and can’t survive without your cup of joe? Well, meet Christine Hall, a 66-year-old law librarian who ate every one of her meals for two years at Starbucks. Yep—every one! Thanks to Starbucks’ everexpanding menu, Hall was able to eat paninis for dinner and bistro boxes for lunch. And of course, she was able to stay caffeinated all day long. The best part? She lost 80 pounds and was even able to qualify to be an organ donor. I’ll take a grande, extra skinny, mocha, iced tea, frap, caramel, double shot—you know what I mean.

Ever think that Tex-Mex food could be slimming? Eric at Chipotless.com posted for about nine months about his Chipotles diet. Here he ate a burrito bowl for breakfast and lunch along with an egg in the morning. Talk about boring. But guess what? He lost 91 pounds and only ate around 1,481 calories a day. Hey—who would believe that burritos can be dietetic?

McDonalds is not known for its healthy fare, but one man, nicknamed “McRunner,” ran the Los Angeles Marathon powered only by eating McDonalds for the month prior. Guess what?

He ran his best time ever, at 2:36:14.

He told Runner’s World, “I feel as good as I’ve ever felt. I actually ended up losing a bit of body fat during all of this.” Certainly his extensive exercise regimen had nothing to do with that.

Savings in a Shoe Never throw out your wife’s old shoes—you never know how much she values them!

A Texas thought he was doing some good by giving his wife’s shoes away to Goodwill. After all, they were just sitting at the bottom of her closet. But women have funny places to hide things and this was his wife’s hiding place for $3,300. A Goodwill worker notice 33 $100 bills stuffed into the black loafer and they set the cash aside for seven days to see if anyone would claim it.

Just a few days later, the woman

came in to pick up what was rightfully hers. She described the cash in detail and “was so grateful. She was crying.”

Clarence Cope works at Goodwill and was there when the cash and owner were reunited. “We were so happy that we were able to get the money to the right person,” he said.

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Scientists Find Way to Get Paralyzed Dogs to Walk Again

In an ingenious study, scientists have found a way to allow dogs who were paralyzed regain motion in their back legs. The dogs were injected with cells grown from the lining of their noses into the spinal cord. The olfactory ensheathing cells found in the nose are the only part of the body where nerve fibers continue to grow in adults. This study gives hope to scientists looking for a way to give motion back to humans with paralysis in the legs and bladder area.

Professor Robin Franklin, a regeneration biologist at the Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute and report co-author, said, “Our findings are extremely exciting because they show for the first time that transplanting these types of cell into a severely damaged spinal cord can bring about significant improvement.

“We’re confident that the technique might be able to restore at least a small amount of movement in human patients with spinal cord injuries.”

Jasper, a 10-year-old dachshund, is one of the dogs which took part in the trial. His owner, May Hay, said, “Before the treatment we used to have to wheel Jasper round on a trolley because his back legs were useless. Now he whizzes around the house and garden and is able to keep up with the other dogs. It’s wonderful.”

Chocolate lovers, now is the time to book your ticket to Brussels. The longest chocolate structure ever—a model of a train—is now on display there.

Better book your ticket soon before they say, “All aboard!”

The train was designed by Andrew Farrugia who produced it in Malta and then had to transfer it in boxes to display it in Brussels. It took him 784 hours (that’s over 65 days—if he worked day and night), measures 112-feet, and used 2,832 pounds of chocolate.

“I had this idea for a while, and I said what do you think if we do this realization of a long chocolate train, you know, because a train you can make it as long as you like. Actually, it was going to be much smaller than it was, but I kept on adding another wagon and another wagon and it’s the size it is today,” Farrugia explained.

Spectators were excited and wowed when they saw the cocoa caboose. “It looks yummy,” one said. Another said it was “absolutely fantastic.”

Tickets please, all passengers on the Chocolate Express.

Robber Leaves Car and Photos at Crime Scene This guy ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed…

Detectives are looking for a man who robbed a home in Arleta, Los Angeles. They won’t have to search too hard since the burglar left behind his car, evidence, and photos of himself.

Police have identified Miguel Luna, 25, as the man who kicked in the front door of a home in the 10500 block of

Sharp Avenue on Tuesday. The house had several posted surveillance security cameras which caught the incident.

“He kicked in the door of the home near high noon, leaving his footprint below the door knob. He began ransacking a bedroom, not realizing the owner was asleep in another room,” Lt. Paul Vernon said.

When Luna was confronted by the homeowner, he begged him not to call authorities, claiming he was a friend of his daughter.

“The owner finally chased him out of the home, picked up a hoe from the yard, and hit Luna over the head,” said Vernon.

Luna was unconscious for a brief time before he got up and walked away, leaving his 1989 Honda in the victim’s driveway, full of items stolen from the home.

“This crime scene was really a study in how to get caught,” Vernon explained. “Every manner of evidence was present: video surveillance, blood DNA from the hoe, pictures on the iPad, footprint on the door, a traffic citation with signature, a car, fingerprints, and eyewitness identification.”

Anyone with information on Luna’s whereabouts should contact the Los Angeles Police Department or maybe Luna should just give himself in.

Sleeping Beauty Disorder Imagine sleeping through the most important moments in your life.

Nicole Delien, 17, of North Fayette, Pittsburgh is suffering from a very rare sleeping disorder called Kleine-Levin or Sleeping Beauty Syndrome.

Nicole’s mom, Vick, says her daughter generally sleeps for 18 or 19 hours a day. When she wakes up to eat she says Nicole is in a sleepwalking state and doesn’t remember. She slept for 64 days during her longest sleeping episode.

Vicki said they went to many hospitals until they received a diagnosis at Allegheny General Hospital.

Nicole has missed many memorable

occasions including on holidays, birthdays, and the first family trip to Disney World. Medication prescribed to the teenager helps spread the sleeping episodes further apart. The last one was in March, but Nicole is afraid of when it may overcome her again.

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Twitter Shut Accounts of Jew from NY Without warning, Twitter suspended a series of three accounts after one of them tweeted a cartoon depicting the Obama administration stabbing Israel in the back. The account belonged to an Orthodox Jew from New York City.

The suspended accounts, named @RealGazaPeace, @RealGazaPeace1 and @GazaRealStory, were all operated by 25-year-old Benjamin Reisman.

“Social media sites have an awesome responsibility to keep to our right of free speech,” he said.

Twitter hasn’t taken similar action against the terror group Hamas and its supporters for tweeting “Death to the Jews” and other threats of violence.

Twitter would not comment as to why it shut the accounts.

Sandy Uncovers Shipwreck Hurricane Sandy’s powerful winds and surges uncovered and exposed a wrecked schooner long buried on Fire Island. The remains are thought to be the 90-year-old Bessie White, said Paula Valentine, public affairs specialist for the park.

Historic photographs and news accounts don’t agree on the exact year of ship’s grounding, but here is an outline of its story: The ship, a four-mast Canadian schooner, went aground in heavy fog about a mile west of Smith’s Point, Long Island, in either 1919 or 1922.

The men onboard escaped in two boats.

One capsized in the surf, injuring one crew member, but everyone made it to shore safely. But the crew couldn’t save the three-year-old ship or its tons of coal. The ship was salvaged in the following weeks.

The bus-size ship’s skeleton has poked up through the sand before exposing long boards and metal pegs.

During Sandy, the dune that used to bury the wreck eroded back an average of 72 feet, said U.S. Geological Survey coastal geologist Cheryl Hapke, who is

Archaeologists and park officials are scurrying to document the shipwreck before the sea reburies it with sand.

“There’s so little of it left we may not be not be able to determine which ship it actually is, but we may be able to learn more about its age,” she said.

“It’s just a rare treat to see something exposed.”

Fire Island is a barrier island, a natural system that suffers damage during powerful hurricanes and winter storms.

The entire island was submerged following Hurricane Sandy, 80 percent of homes were flooded and seawater breached the island in four places.

Chaplain Finds Winning Lottery Ticket

While cleaning out his desk, a retired hospice chaplain, Ron Yurcus from Illinois, found a $1 million winning lottery ticket. The ticket was discovered two months after the winning numbers were announced.

Yurcus, 68, claims he doesn’t habitually buy lottery tickets.

“Occasionally while I buy gas, if the [lottery] prize is higher, I’ll buy one or two tickets,” Yurcus said. He said he gathered about 12 tickets within two months, but didn’t check to see if any were winners until a few weeks ago. “I

In News bought them and never really rush home and check numbers right away. I throw them in a pile,” he said.

He was shocked to learn he not only had a couple tickets that won $2, but a $1 million Powerball drawing prize from the August 22 drawing.

“When I went to the payoff page and saw $1 million, I wanted to scream but no one was home,” he said, then checking the number about 25 times that night and asking his wife, a school secretary, to re-check the numbers once she returned home.

“I don’t really have a retirement package put together. This is my retirement,” he said. He said he will use some winnings to support his three children and four grandchildren.

When asked if he will continue buying lottery tickets casually, Yurcus said he doesn’t promote it. “Being in ministry, it saddens me seeing people spending large amounts of money on things they can’t afford,” he said. He cautions people to “use the lottery wisely.”

“It’s a fun thing but the odds are against you. This is so surreal. That’s why people tell me they have never

met anyone who has won $1 million,” he said. Apparently he doesn’t exactly practice what he preaches.

Smuggler Swallows 220 Diamonds

Authorities intercepted a Lebanese diamond smuggler in the O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A tip prompted police to run a scan on the traveler flying out of the country to Dubai. They discovered 220 polished diamonds in his stomach.

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“He was intercepted just as he was about to go through the security checkpoint. They took him for a scan where we discovered where he was hiding the diamonds,” said Captain Paul Ramaloka of the South African Police Service.

South Africa is one of the world’s top producers of diamonds, therefore investigators are always watching closely for smugglers. Ramaloka believes their efforts have deterred much of the crime.

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ingesting substances used to be quite common but has now fallen off due to increased security,” Ramaloka said. He said the last such incident was in January of this year when another Lebanese national was arrested at the airport with more than $1 million worth of diamonds in his stomach.

Police are investigating if the cases are related. They are still working to find the source of the supplier of diamonds recovered this week.

Goodwill Store Receives Expensive Art

Someone might have been unaware of the value of an etching drawn by surrealist and mustache aficionado Salvador Dali that was dropped off at a Goodwill store in Tacoma, Washington.

Eager to make the most of the find, Goodwill put the piece of art up for auction. As of Thursday, the highest bid was $7,505 with about four days left before the auction ended.

It’s unclear if the donor knew the monetary value of the piece.

Likely he or she did and wished for Goodwill and its recipients to benefit.

Some suspect that the donor was aware of the monetary value of this piece since it is clearly signed by Dali and comes with a certificate of authenticity from an art gallery. The colored etching was numbered 126/150. According to the Goodwill site, “The paper has some warping, as if from humidity. The upper right area of matting has some discolored speckling.

The other damage is to the frame and glass—a few deep scratches and scuffs.”

The piece was recognized by a Goodwill employee as a “high-value” item so rather than sticking it on a shelf, it was sent to the online auction department.

Do You Know Whose Face is On a $100 Bill?

Police say a man passed counterfeit $100 bills with the watermark of a $5 bill on them at Target in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. Even more odd was that Lincoln’s image instead of Franklin’s image was posed on the bill.

The suspect, Dana T. Leland, 29, was detained in Rhode Island after a Central Falls police officer recognized a surveillance photo local police gave out to law enforcement agencies. He was arraigned Wednesday in Attleboro District Court.

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Art1.Sale $412.3M PickEarns up Cleaners 2. Grocery Order in One Evening 3. Asdfasdfs dasdfsdf Tuesday night Sotheby’s made its highest-ever total with a postwar and contemporary auction that came to $375.1 million. Earlier in the evening, a Christie’s sale in the same category brought in $412.3 million, the highest total ever for an auction of contemporary art.

The auction was led by house auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen. The sale topped its high estimate of $411.8 million and set new records for artists Richard Serra, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Franz Kline, Richard Diebenkorn, Donald Judd, Mark Grotjahn and Jeff Koons.

Mr. Koons is now the second most expensive living artist at auction, after Gerhard Richter.

At a press conference after the sale, Koji Inoue, head of evening sales for the postwar and contemporary department, called the auction “four aces across the board.”

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This is the highest price ever paid for a co-op in Manhattan, according to Jonathan Miller, president at Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants.

Geffen already lives in the building; his apartment is directly below the one he just bought. Sources say that he plans on selling his old place rather than combining the two properties.

The penthouse sits on Fifth Avenue, and has 11-foot ceilings and custom mahogany doors. The pad has seven bedrooms, 11 baths, a library, two fireplaces, wraparound terraces, two kitchens, a full gym, and a professional recording studio. Geffen’s monthly maintenance fee will be $25,000.

Forbes estimates Geffen’s net worth to be $5.5billion.

Courtney I and Courtney II It was a case of the mixed-up Courtneys.

Courtney Durr was waiting to be picked up by her mom’s friend after school in Gloucester City, N.J., on Tuesday. At the same location, Art Deaner was supposed to pick up his friend’s daughter, Courtney Fetters.

When Deaner arrived and saw Courtney Durr, who looked vaguely like the girl he was told to pick up, he called for her to come inside his vehicle. “I told her I was looking for Courtney,’” said Deaner. “And the young girl said her name was Courtney.”

“I got off the bus and he pulled up and he asked if there was a Courtney,” said Courtney Durr. “I said, ‘Yeah.’ My crossing guard let me go and I went with him.”

Courtney Durr knew she was being picked up by her mom’s friend so she reluctantly went inside. There was only one problem: Deaner was supposed to pick up 6-year-old Courtney Fetters, not 9-year-old Courtney Durr.

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Deaner said he started to realize something wasn’t right when he talked with the girl about a recent vacation.

“He was like, ‘You weren’t with Aunt Mary in Maine?’” said Courtney Durr. “No, I would never have been in Maine.”

“I know Courtney was in Maine for two weeks,” said Deaner. “I had to turn around and take her back. I got the wrong Courtney.”

The crossing guard realized that Durr went inside a vehicle that she didn’t normally go in. Fearing abduction, the crossing guard recorded Deaner’s license number and alerted police. After asking him several questions, however, police say they realized it was all a mix up and didn’t file charges.

Courtney Fetters was found safe and sound while Courtney Durr was reunited with her mother.

“I forgive them!” said Pam Durr.

“They didn’t know any better because they haven’t seen her in a while.”

Spaceship Home

There is a unique home for sale for $499,000 in Lake Quivira, Kansas. This geometric home looks like a spaceship that made its landing. The “Four Seasons House” was built in 1968 for John Hilburn, a lighting engineer. It was built on a lot that was considered “unbuildable.” “The terrain slopes very quickly and the house is supported on three concrete piers,” real estate agent Bob Myers explains. “So technically, the house is not resting on the ground, but on the piers.”

Despite its odd shape, the house has beautiful views of the lake and golf course nearby. And its affordable too!

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder was joined on a tour of Rockaway by White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew to discuss federal response to Super Storm Sandy and potential future funding to assist with recovery effort.

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Rambam Learning is Relocated, Not Stopped, Due to Storm No SmartBoards. Not even chalkboards. No building. Barely any books.

No problem!

Hurricane Sandy displaced many people, families, and even schools. Rambam Mesivta, however, would not let a hurricane stop its learning for long and so they took up residence in West Hempstead, thanks to the gen-

erosity of Congregation Anshei Shalom.

“We were happy to do it,” explained the Shul’s president, Josh Lieber. Prior to the move, rebbeim were conducting dial-in shiurim and driving from town to town to set up mobile learning shiurim when possible.

Using every available room, the Shul, the Kiddush room, the upstairs, the Sephardic Shul, the Teen Minyan Room and the classrooms used for groups, 90% of the school with students from Great Neck, Queens, Brooklyn, Plainview, the Five Towns, and many more, made the daily commute to join their West Hempstead hosts for three days of learning of what the students were eventually calling “real school.”

It is truly a testament to the dedicated rebbeim and teachers of Rambam Me-

sivta that, despite the gas shortage, they too overwhelmingly made the trip to West Hempstead to see their students. Local businesses, including Hunki’s Pizza, Wing Wan, EJ’s Too, and I&D Glatt welcomed our students. Mr. Hillel Goldman, Assistant Principal of Rambam, Anshi Shalom member, and Wing Wan regular, was pleased to hear from its manager, the famous Amy, that “he had very nice boys.”

“Throughout the ordeal, the boys conducted themselves with hakaras hatov toward Anshei and Rabbi Pearl,” said the school’s Rosh Mesivta, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman. “They saw Anshei’s generosity as a lesson in true hachnasat orchim and last Wednesday,

when it started snowing, the guys took turns shoveling the snow as an instinctive response to help clean up their new home.”

Rambam Mesivta also said “thank you” to members of Anshei Shalom by sponsoring a hot cholent and kugel Kiddush in special appreciation to a place that so warmly opened its doors.

Bnos Bais Yaakov’s Rosh Chodesh Assembly Brings Happiness and Smiles Rosh Chodesh assemblies in BBY are always a measured mix of relevant lessons and interactive fun which serves as reinforcement of those lessons. It’s a formula that works very well. But the Rosh Chodesh Kislev assembly held on Thursday November 15th was too close to the devastation of Hurricane Sandy to be treated just like any other assembly.

Something lighter was needed – some form of healthy release.

Enter Mrs. Surie Levilev a.k.a. “Morah Music.” With her fingers flying over her casio while she sang with unflagging enthusiasm, Morah Music brought a level of Simcha to the girls of BBY that was such a welcome diversion from the difficult reality of their home lives in this

post-Sandy era. Girls who are not living in their own homes, girls who feel keenly their parents’ anxiety, girls whose possessions were swept away in the swirling waters, girls who are first now processing the fear of those awful hurricane days – they danced and sang and played with unrestrained joy. Many of the Moros danced along with their talmidos and

more than a few cried at witnessing the happiness of their beloved students.

The pulse in the Simcha Hall was positive, healthy, leibedig, and full of Ahavas Yisroel. We all hope and daven that that we can help our girls maintain this feeling and that their parents experience Yeshuos quickly.

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and did a “getting to know you” activity, the buddies picked out books and the older buddies read to their younger buddies. The girls cherish these new friendships and can’t wait to meet together to read more books, do various projects and share in the joy of reading.

The program was created with a few

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Bais Yaakov of Queens Reading Buddies The sounds of reading can be heard throughout the halls in BYQ! The eagerly anticipated “reading buddy” program began again this year as third and fourth graders come together with first graders to read and share in the joys of literacy.

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Seeing the Good in Hurricane Sandy Even throughout the rains and winds of Hurricane Sandy, the Brecher family of Far Rockaway kept their spirits up by seeing the good in everything.

Here, the Brecher children play in front of a tree that fell on his car when

he was driving to a Hatzalah call. BH he was not hurt, but his car certainly was!

They are also shown on a boat that floated to their house in the storm and landed in the perfect spot for them to play!

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Community ICRF To Honor Oncologist Dr. Yashar Hirshaut

The Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) will host its 2012 Tower of Hope Gala on December 3 at the Pierre Hotel at 2 East 61st Street in New York city. The evening’s honored guests will be oncologist Dr. Yashar Hirshaut, who will receive the Tower of Hope Lifetime Achievement Award, and Peter and Mary Max who will accepting the Tower of Hope Humanitarian Award for Philanthropic Leadership and Service.

Benjamin Brafman will serve as Master of Ceremonies.

Dr. Yashar Hirshaut, a renowned oncologist and resident of Long Island, has dedicated his life to fighting the war against cancer. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Hirshaut is an Attending Physician at Lenox Hill Hospital; Beth Israel Hospital, New York Hospital and Mt. Sinai Medical Center. He is author of the book, “Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide,” as well as founder and editor of the journal, Cancer Investigation.

Dr. Hirshaut, is President and Chairman Emeritus of ICRF and was recently appointed President of the Israel Cancer Research Fund International Scientific Council.

The evening will begin at 6:00 pm with a reception, silent and Chinese auc-

tions, followed by dinner and an awards ceremony. Tickets are $600 per person.

For more information, please Shoshana Ellihou, New York Director of Development, Tel.(212) 969-9800,ext. 225 or Shoshana.ellihou@icrfny.org.

According to Bradley Goldhar, president of ICRF, “ICRF has identified and funded world class cancer research scientists working in Israel. The organization is focused on funding both established scientists and young researchers who are just starting their careers. Our targeted funding has helped lead to the discovery of significant cancer fighting drugs such as Doxil, Gleevec and Velcade. These drugs are helping thousands of cancer patients in North America and around the world.”

The Israel Cancer Research Fund is the single largest source of private funds for cancer research in Israel. Since its establishment in 1975, it has provided more than 1,937 grants totaling $45,795,000 to outstanding scientists who work at all of the leading research institutions in Israel. The scientists include two recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and an awardee of the prestigious G.H.A. Clowes award from the American Research Association.

Dr. Deb to Present at the Positive Jewish Parenting Conference Our own ‘Dr. Deb’ Hirschhorn will be presenting at the Positive Jewish Parenting Conference which has been rescheduled to Sunday, December 2nd, 2012. The location will remain the same: Shulamith School in Brooklyn at 1274 East 14th Street.

Dr. Deb will be speaking on two topics: Fostering Independence in the Dependent Child Do Your Children Receive the Messages You Think You’re Giving Both topics are based on Dr. Deb’s position that the main ingredients of love – attachment, giving, respect, and valuing – are also components of all the interactions we have with those we love, including our children. The presentation will include stories, audience participation, research results, and – most importantly – tips and tricks for parents!

Here’s a tidbit: Did you know,

speaking of helicopter parenting, that 1 parent in 10 participated in their adult children’s discussion of salary and benefits on the job interview?

Here is Benji’s story: Benji’s parents did not agree on their parenting.

One was, in the other parent’s opinion, a bit harsh, a bit too severe. The other was, in the other parent’s opinion, too much of a marshmallow, spoiling the child by giving in to everything Benji wanted. The problem was that the more Mommy felt she needed to compensate for Daddy’s harshness, the more alarmed Daddy became over what he perceived as spoiling – and reacted with increasing severity. This, as you can guess, led to Mom’s further compensating for the severity. How does the vastly different parenting style of each affect Benji’s sense of self-confidence?

Join Dr. Deb on December 2nd to find out more.

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Around the Community Senator Dean Skelos Tours Chabad

On Friday, November 9, Senator Dean Skelos (R) paid a visit to Chabad to take questions from the audience.

Senator Skelos called Sandy, “Our Katrina,” emphasizing the enormous damage wreaked on the community. Rebbetzin Chanie Wolowik emphasized to the Senator the depths of the losses that are unknown until you see it for yourself. Rebbetzin Hadassah Geisinsky explained the special hardships of being in a house without power for a large family with small children. Vari-

ous others expressed frustration to the Senator with the many difficulties with FEMA, LIPA, gas shortages, and other issues. Though the Senator was pressed for time and had many locations to visit, he answered everyone’s questions as best he could and promised we should all see results soon. We hope that the Senator will be able to use his influence to help the many residents get the help they need. Thanks to Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky and Meir Krengel who arranged for the Senator to visit Chabad.

Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein and Rabbi Lazer Brody Draw Crowds in Queens

On Sunday night, November 4th, CHAZAQ and the Beth Gavriel Center presented a special event featuring renowned lecturer Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein, who is the founder of Ohr Naava Women’s Torah Center in Flatbush.

Hundreds of men and women packed the Beth Gavriel Community Center in Forest Hills to hear the inspirational lecture.

On Tuesday night, November 6th,

CHAZAQ presented yet another special event featuring renowned lecturer Rabbi Lazer Brody, who is the English voice of the renowned Rav Shalom Arush from Breslov Israel. Hundreds of men and women came to the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills to hear the inspirational lecture. For information on future CHAZAQ events, please call 718-2859132, email info@Chazaq.org or visit www.CHAZAQ.org.

OHEL Initiates Major Recruitment Drive For New Project Hope Crisis Counseling Program In response to the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy, OHEL will be launching The Project Hope Crisis Counseling Program at OHEL. The program will provide a number of key services to the thousands of individuals and families affected by Hurricane Sandy and will be made available free of charge. These services will include individual crisis counseling, community networking and support, group crisis counseling as well as public education.

Immediate job openings are in Brooklyn, Staten Island and Far Rockaway and include the positions of a Clin-

ical Coordinator, a Fiscal Coordinator, Team Leaders, Crisis Counselors and Administrative Assistants.

OHEL will be holding two Job Fairs specifically looking to recruit such candidates: on Thursday, November 22 between 10am-2pm at OHEL’s Main Office, at 4510 16th Avenue, Brooklyn, and on Friday, November 23 between 9am-12pm at The White Shul, 728 Empire Avenue, in Far Rockaway.

For more information, please call 718 686-3232, email resumes@ohelfamily.org , or visit ohelfamily.org/projecthope.

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Community Mercy Medical Center Free Presentation on Diabetes at Bellmore Library

Mercy Medical Center invites the community to a free lecture on Living With Diabetes During The Holidays to be presented at the Bellmore Memorial Library on Wednesday, December 12th at 11:00 a.m..

The hour-long presentation will be given by Dr. Michael Moskowitz of Bellmore Family Practice.

The focus on food and drink during the holiday season can be a trying time for diabetics and their families. But Dr.

Moskowitz will explain how proper planning for holiday mealtimes can enable diabetics to enjoy every bit of the celebrating.

There is no charge for attending the presentation and advance registration is not required to attend.

The Bellmore Memorial Library is located at 2288 Bedford Avenue. For travel directions and information, call the Library at 516-7852990.

Rav Shmuel Dishon shlita Visits Ateres Yaakov

Rav Shmuel Dishon shlita visited Ateres Yaakov this past Monday to give much needed chizuk to the talmidim of the Mesivta and Yeshiva Gedola. Rav Dishon reminded the boys of Hashem’s hashgacha over the world to the minutest detail of which leaf stayed on a tree and which leaf fell. He further encouraged the boys to continue assisting their neighbors and friends in the relief effort and was happy to hear that the Mesivta was sending out shiurim daily to help those in need.

Rav Pinchus Weinberger, shlita, Rav of Bais Tefillah of Inwood and Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivas Nishmas HaTorah, spoke to the talmidim of Mesivta Ateres Yaakov last Thursday at their monthly Rosh Chodesh breakfast. Rabbi Weinberger reminded the talmidim of their incredible, innate kochos and urged them to “soar like an eagle.”

Rav Asher Weiss, shlita, author of the acclaimed series Minchas Asher and noted Rosh HaYeshiva, Posek and Dayan in Eretz Yisrael visited Mesivta Ateres Yaakov to give post Hurricane Sandy chizuk to the the talmidim and sensitize them to the plight of our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael. He stressed the importance of limud Torah in difficult times such as these.

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lowing services to the chayalim/ HAFTR High School is chayalot (soldiers) and their famicommitting to provide direct lies: financial support and chizuk * Every Shabbat for the duto chayalim and chayalot in ration of Operation Pillar of Dethe Golan who are defendfense, the Yeshiva will host all of ing our homeland. Our High the wives and children of the IDF School Judaic Studies PrinciReservists from Ramat Ha’Golan. pal, Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, is * The Yeshiva is also providin constant contact with Reb ing basic necessities for these Rafael, a Mefaked in the Isfamilies while their husbands/farael Defense Force, as well as thers are in battle. one of the heads of Yeshivat * Packages of basic necessiHesder Ha’Golan in Chitzties will be prepared for the chaypin, which is in the Ramat Ha’Golan. More than half of Left to right: Josh Lederer, Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen and Rachel Gelnick alim/chayalot. submitting letters and donations to our soldiers. * Pizza and nosh packages the Yeshiva students are waiting on the Gaza border for the will be given to the children of der with Syria. order move into Gaza, and many other our chayalim and chayalot.

HAFTR High School is raising funds Yeshiva students are situated on the bor- so that the Yeshiva can provide the folIf you would like to donate to this

cause, please e-mail geoppen@haftr.org.

HAFTR High School is also asking students and parents to write a personal letter of chizuk to a chayal or chayelet, indicating their support for the mission, gratitude for their service, and prayers for their safety and well-being. If you are interested in writing a letter, please submit the letter to geoppen@haftr.org.

Four years ago, during the last Gaza war, the Bostoner Rebbe zt”l encouraged an undertaking in which Jews would daven and learn on behalf of an Israeli soldier in active duty. The concept has now been re-launched for the present operation in Gaza, with a global response from Jews from various walks of life.

If you wish to daven and learn for a soldier or give a name of a soldier to be davened for, please contact Rabbi Oppen at geoppen@haftr.org or dial 011.972.2.581.1911.

Mincha and Maariv delivered by Rabbi Yair Hoffman. Each morning after the second Shacharis Minyan, a Daf Yomi Chaburah is also held.

The esteemed Rabbonim of the Shul are Rav Shimshon Katz, a Rosh Yeshiva at the Pupa Shul in Williamsburg, Rav Motel Katz, a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva

Torah V’Daas in Kensington, and their brother and brother-in-law.

Donations can be made to Congregation Shomrei Shabbos Hurricane Fund and can be mailed to: c/o Dr. Moshe Lazar 555 Oak Drive Far Rockaway, NY 11691

HAFTR High School Shows Support for Soldiers of Israel

The Little Shul that Could

By David Greenbaum It is one of the oldest Shuls in Far Rockaway, and the only shul in the area that was completely devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Congregation Shomrei Shabbos, also known as Rabbi Katz’s Shul, was inundated with close to four feet of water. It is located at 515 Hicksville Road, at the edge of Zone A in Far Rockaway.

“The saltwater entered the flooring, the walls, the chairs, the bookcases, the Seforim, and the Taleisim and Tefillin.

As the hurricane was transpiring, some brave individuals did what they could to raise the Seforim above the waterline, but eventually they had to succumb,” remarked Dr. Moshe Lazar, who is heading the rebuilding committee.

“It was just too much for them.

So many Seforim, and no place to put them,” he continued.

The damage that Hurricane Sandy has caused is estimated at well over $75,000.

“This figure does not include the cost of replacing the Seforim,” added David

Greenbaum, a regular at the shul.

Congregation Shomrei Shabbos is home to hundreds of mispallelim, with two Shacharis minyanim (and more during Bein HaZemanim) an early Minchah, and a regular Mincha and Maariv. There are many important Rabbis in the community that daven there.

“There is no question that this shul, which has serviced the community in so many ways, must be rebuilt,” stated Rabbi Katz. “The problem is that so many people in the area have been devastated and have suffered significant losses, that the members must reach out to the greater community for assistance.”

The shul desperately needs your help. Congregation Shomrei Shabbos does not have a membership fee, and it is open to one and all. Many young people in the community come to Daven in the shul with an open-door and welcoming policy.

The Shul also has a Daf Yomi shiur given each morning by Rabbi Pinchas Birnhack, and a Halacha shiur between

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Mesivta Football League Launches One might consider it as three years in the making, or three months, but this past Sunday kicked off the season opener for the Mesivta Football League (MFL, pun intended). The League, a high school level interschool flag football competition, is the brainchild of Richard Altabe, Principal of Yeshivat Shaare Torah of Flatbush, and Rabbi Yossi Bennett, Assistant Menahel/Assistant Principal of Mesivta Ateres Yaakov.

“Together with Rabbi Yaffe, our Menahel, I had been working on developing a high school flag football league for close to 3 years,” commented Rabbi Bennett, “I had thought to latch onto

one of the adult leagues already in existence, but nothing ever panned out.

When Mr. Altabe approached us just

over two months ago about a starting our own league, I was ecstatic.”

Flag football has become an increasingly popular sport, specifically among yeshivos. In Eretz Yisrael, the Kraft Flag Football League is widely popular, and draws out over 60 teams from a wide variety of yeshivos and other post high school institutions in two separate divisions. The majority of post high school yeshivos, which many local graduates attend, field teams in the Kraft League.

“We thought it was obvious,” commented Mr. Altabe. “If the majority, if not all, of our talmidim will be playing flag football in Eretz Yisrael after they graduate, it was a no-brainer that a high school league would be popular.”

The goal of this groundbreaking program is to provide a healthy, kosher outlet for high school boys, while maintaining the competitiveness, intensity and professionalism of an official league.

The League is being established with a Torah hashkafa about sports. With that being the case, it goes without saying that proper sportsmanship and

menchlechkeit is a top priority. Head coverings must be worn during games and no female fans are permitted at the games to ensure the focus on a healthy athletic outlet.

Rabbi Bennett and Mr. Altabe, who are working behind the scenes as the League Administrators, hired Eliezer “Zezzy” Fuld, Youth Director of the White Shul and Senior Division Head at Simcha Day Camp, to serve as the League’s commissioner. Fields have been leased for the length of the season at the Aviator Sports and Events Center at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn and at the Lawrence Middle School.

“I couldn’t commit quick enough,” commented Zezzy Fuld, “I am incredibly excited for this League to take off.

We’ve rented out excellent fields, hired

professional referees and are hoping for a fun, competitive season. It is a fantastic idea that is long overdue.”

Currently, in the first season of the League, there are four pioneering schools: Ateres Yaakov, DRS, Shaare Torah and Darchei Eretz. Many other schools showed a tremendous interest, but could not field a team this year. It is expected that many more schools will join next year.

Opening Day Results DRS 41 – MAY 26 YST 37 – YDE 12 Next Game: “The Turkey Bowl” Wednesday, November 21, 7:00 PM at The Aviator YST vs MAY DRS vs YDE

Central Dedicates the Dr. Martin Lilker Learning Center

(L-R) Bruce and Sandy Lilker of Woodmere, Mrs. Paula Lilker, Molly and Phil Lilker of Lawrence, Lisa (Lilker) and Michael Reich, stand next to the plaque and picture commemorating their late father and husband, Dr. Martin Lilker, at the dedication of the Dr. Martin Lilker Learning Center at Central – Yeshiva University High School for Girls on Sunday, Nov. 11.

On Sunday, November 11, Central (Yeshiva University High School for Girls) dedicated the Dr. Martin Lilker Learning Center with a special reception. The event coincided with Dr. Lilker’s first yartzheit. Dr. Lilker, a”h, was a teacher at YU’s Central and TA High Schools in Brooklyn and the founding administrator/principal of YU’s Central High School for Girls in Manhattan. He educated and supervised thousands of young women and men during his tenure from the 1940’s to the ear-

ly 1970’s. As a fitting tribute and memorial to Dr. Lilker, the Lilker family felt it appropriate to link his name with a program at Central that focuses on helping those with diverse learning needs. The Learning Center’s association with Dr. Lilker’s name will perpetuate both his memory and his dedication to academic success for every student.

For more information about the Dr. Lilker Learning Center, available dedication opportunities and the annual campaign to raise funds to support it, please contact Rabbi Moshe Kinderlehrer, director of Institutional Advancement, YU High Schools, at mkinder@ yu.edu, call 212.960.5489, or visit www. yu.edu/lilker.

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Living Torah Museum Introduces Sefer Bereishis of Parsha Series Have you ever visited the Living Torah Museum? If so, chances are you were amazed. There’s so much history to be absorbed, so much to learn and

discover, that you come out wishing you could take some of that inspiration home with you.

Now you can.

In response to the urging of HaRav Chaim Kanievsky shlita and other Gedolim, Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, founder of the Living Torah Museum, has published the first volume of the Living Torah Museum Parsha Series.

This volume focuses on the parshios of Sefer Bereishis.

The Living Torah Museum’s three locations in Brooklyn, in Lakewood and in Fallsburg, NY brings the Torah to life for young and old, scholar and layman. Its many artifacts, which include coins, cosmetics, weapons, pottery, and a vast selection of ancient Judaica, help us to understand the many references in the Torah to these objects. Says Rabbi Deutsch, “The museum’s exhibitions serve as visual aids in clarifying topics in the Torah and Talmud.”

Yuval was the very first musician in the world, as per the posuk in Parshas Bereishis. According to Rashi, he invented the harp and the flute. Most of us would be satisfied with that explanation, but not Rabbi Deutsch. He set out to find ancient coins and mosaics that illustrate what these instruments looked like. He also found real flutes that date back to ancient times. Pictured in the book, to the delight of all his readers, are genuine cymbals, castanets, wooden clappers, and a whistle all from many centuries ago. All this and more is presented to us in the section on Parshas Bereishis alone.

Just as the museum itself is appropriate and meaningful to anyone with a healthy sense of curiosity, so is this

volume suitable for all. The book offers clear and concise information about the items that are pictured and their relevance to the Torah. The photographs are clear, colorful, and intriguing. Ever wonder what an ancient baby rattle looks like? A tunic? An eyeliner? A nose ring? A chariot? A ring to ward off ayin hora? A drinking bowl? All this, and much more, is clearly and concisely depicted in Sefer Bereishis of the Parsha Series. Even the photos of the various Rabbonim who visited the museum are sure to delight many a young aspiring Torah scholar.

Rabbi Deutsch has made it his life’s calling to educate us about terms and concepts that are found in the Torah and Talmud. “The reason I decided to write this series,” he explains, “is to correct misconceptions that are common when learning Chumash and Gemorah because of a lack of knowledge of the ancient world.” He laments the fact that people who study Torah often skip over the confusing terms that describe ancient items because they cannot grasp their meaning. This series, he says, encourages us to visualize many of these concepts and thus to enrich our understanding of what we are learning. What type of tool did Avraham use when he was commanded to have a bris milah? How much did Avraham actually pay Ephron for Me’oras Hamachpelah? What weapon did Shimon and Levi probably use when the attacked Shechem? What vessel did Pharoah use to drink wine? How did Yosef store the grains that were collected during the seven years of plenty?

Rabbi Deutsch is a masterful storyteller, and this volume is a pleasure to read. It makes a lovely and meaningful gift, as well as a handsome addition to one’s own Judaica library. To date, over 300,000 people have visited the Living Torah Museum and enjoyed the experience immensely. Now we can finally enjoy the Museum’s treasures in the comfort of our own homes.

Get your copy of the first volume of The Living Torah Museum’s Parsha Series by contacting the Museum at 877-Plan-A-Tour (877-752-6286).

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No Matter the Outcome of the Election Seventh grade boys at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island took on the challenge of an Election Day debate to highlight the priorities and policies of the two presidential candidates: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

The Election Selection Debate was conceived and organized by General Studies Director, Mrs. Larissa Steele, to hone the student’s research and public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and prepare these students for life and for their roles within the community.

Then came Hurricane Sandy. Trained professionals were consulted since many lives had been severely disrupted by it and its aftermath, and the boys had missed days of school; the decision was made to go ahead with this activity. With the encouragement of their teacher, Mr. Arthur Roseman, they decided it would give them something positive on which to focus. The fact that they were eager to put on their debate “before it was too late” – after all, it was Election Day! – was also an important factor.

The audience, third and fourth graders, teachers and staff, were impressed by the depth of their research and knowledge and were especially taken by the sincerity of their arguments. This is, of course, the value of a spirited debate:

to learn to argue differing points of view with intelligence and depth of knowledge, anticipating and rebuffing the opposing side’s arguments.

Tracking the same issues that concerned the nation, these seventh graders were well prepared and ready to tackle some hefty election topics.

Mordechai Gerstley led the Obama supporting team while the Romney team was headed by Shai Silverstein. Avi Heskowitz was the moderator for the Obama panel, while other class members asked probing questions including Avi Greenberg and Ashi Bitterman who debated the issues of gas prices and green energy and Rafi Levin who took on the hot topic of taxes. Dani Vegh was responsible for discussing the issue of terrorism whereas Raphael Yehuda Glazer narrowed his focus on Osama bin Laden. Chaim Goodman spoke on immigration and unemployment while Eitan Carroll focused on foreign policy and Ami Birnbaum spoke about

housing prices.

Getting up in front of an audience is usually challenging for most boys in Middle School but these young men were superb. They were enthusiastic yet polite, and observed the rules of debating quite well. They were especially impressive with the depth of their preparation and research, thanks to the assistance of their excellent teachers. All of the participating boys will receive Presidential Recognition Awards.

One of the practical purposes of the Debate was to give the younger grades information about the process of cam-

paigning and how debates provide platform statements about the candidates so that they could decide how they would vote. Following the debate, the students were ready to go to the “polls” and cast their votes. The debate was energetic, drawing many questions from the third and fourth grade participants, demonstrating just how powerful this interactive experience was for all.

Indeed, regardless of the outcome of the national election, the real winners were the participating YKLI students who grew in poise, public speaking and practical citizenship.

Ossie Schonfeld Toy Fund Brings Smiles to Children of All Ages Some of us think about doing great things while others actually get up and do them. Having started the incredible organization known as the Ossie Schonfeld Toy Fund, Robbie Schonfeld and his family belong to the latter group. It all started in 2001 when the family flew to Eretz Yisrael to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of Robbie’s oldest son Moishie.

At the time, there was a lot of upheaval in the town of Chevron, and the people living there were living in a state of anxiety and turmoil. The family decided that they wanted to do something to help the children of the community and try to make them happy during this difficult time. When they returned to the States, they began spreading the word that they were collecting toys for this cause. A mere three days before the Schonfelds were scheduled to deliver what they had collected, they realized that they did not have nearly to give enough toys to give these children and they decided that they would fund the cause themselves.

However, within the next 48 hours, they

managed to pull together a large amount of money and many toys to donate as well. In fact, they had collected so much extra, that they called Chai Lifeline and asked if they could help them manage the donations and distribute them. The Schonfelds were connected to their Israel division, Chaiyanu, who explained to them about their famous “Wishlist” that allows sick children to request their most desired gifts in the hope that they would receive them. Robbie asked them to send him the wish list, and then informed them that he could fund 70% of the items on the list. The Director of Chaiyanu almost fainted when he heard the wonderful news.

The Ossie Schonfeld Toy Fund has grown to do some incredible things over the past ten years. They collect money and toys and then travel to Eretz Yisrael in order to distribute the requested gifts to children who suffer from serious medical conditions. They also give out winter coats to those in need, allowing many children from sick families that

don’t have enough money to purchase a proper coat, to stay warm in the winter.

They once gave a coat to a sick boy who was wearing a threadbare jacket in the dead of winter as he left Hadassah Hospital. Later, with tears in her eyes, his mother told Mrs. Schonfeld that she was forced to choose between paying for her son’s medication and buying him a coat, for she could not afford both. But due to the efforts of the Ossie Schonfeld Toy Fund, he now had both his medication and a warm winter coat.

For the past eight years, the toy fund has partnered with New York’s premiere, professional medical clowning organization, Lev Letyzan: The Heart of Compassionate Clowning, Inc. and its Executive Director, Dr. Neal C . Goldberg. The Toy Fund and Lev Leytzan work tirelessly in 14 hour days distributing these long waited for Chanukah presents. But these toys are not just any toys; as Robbie explains, “I wouldn’t buy anything that I wouldn’t give to my own kids.” Kids all over Eretz Yisrael

benefit from this incredible chessed.

Over the years, The Ossie Schonfeld Toy Fund and Lev Leytzan included other partners throughout Eretz Yisrael – Shalva, Siach Sod, Alyn, Aleh, as well as orphanages and schools for disabled children. Their main goal is simply to see the children smile and experience a few moments of normalcy.

On December 1st, at 8 pm the Schonfelds will be hosting a Melavah Malka in order to raise the needed funds for this amazing chessed. Divrei chizuk u’bracha of “Weathering the Storm” will be given by guest speaker, Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstien of Ohr Naava. Guests can also enjoy a delicious sushi and dessert bar. Please join the Ossie Schonfeld Toy Fund at the home of Judy and Robbie Schonfeld at 850 Broadway in Woodmere. Help them continue to make these children’s dreams come true.

For more information please call 516-791-2158 or email ossiestoyfund@ aol.com.

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Around the Community Stella K. Abraham HS for Girls NCSY JUMP Team Presented JUMP with Studio Inna on Motzei Shabbos, November 17th. Mrs. Elisheva Kaminetsky, Director of Religious Guidance at SKA, delivered divrei chizuk.

Everyone had a wonderful time working out with instructors from Studio Inna. It was a real breather from the storm.

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To give chizuk to the communities of the Five Towns and others devastated by Hurricane Sandy, Rabbi Asher Weiss, renowned Av Bais Din, posek for Shaarei Tzedek Hospital, and Rosh Kollel of Minchas Asher in Israel, made a special trip to the New York area. The entire student body of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls was privileged to hear him speak at the school on Monday, November 19. Although Rabbi Weiss’ original intention was to bring words of strength to our community about the storm, his words encompassed what is going on in Eretz Yisroel at the same time.

“Nothing that happens in the world is a coincidence,” Rabbi Weiss said.

“How do we respond to calamity?

Hashem is calling out to us to be close to Him.” Noting the auditorium filled with red-wearing students demonstrating their stand with Israel’s “red alert,” Rabbi Weiss praised the girls’ solidarity with Israel. “Kol Yisroel Areivim Zeh Lazeh,” he said. “This is exactly what Rabbi Yaakov Emden meant in the introduction to this siddur, written 250 years ago. What is the biggest miracle of the Jewish people? That we are still here. After all we have gone through and remember, this was written before the Holocaust, the Jewish people are still here. The reason is because we are one entity, one neshama in many bodies.”

“It was so nice for me to hear Rabbi Weiss’ words,” one girl said. “We are always so involved with what is going on in Israel; it was remarkable for me to

Rabbi Asher Weiss and Rabbi Yosef Zakutinsky, SKA Director of Student Programming

hear that Israelis care about us as well.”

Another insight was shared by a faculty member. “His words really touched my soul. As a people, we are able to help Klal Yisroel when we get close to Hashem.”

Exhorting the audience to accept “one more mitzvah” than the day before in the z’chus of Hashem’s mercy, Rabbi Weiss blessed the students and faculty to know days of peace and nachas.

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Mesivta Ateres Yaakov 9th Grade Melava Malka Huge Success

As part of Mesivta Ateres Yaakov’s aim to provide healthy extracurricular outlets for their talmidim and to foster strong, long-lasting relationships between Rabbeim and talmidim, the Mesivta arranges a variety of Melava Malkas throughout the school year. This

kumsitz. Director of Student Activities, Rabbi Shlomo Drebin, who arranged the entire event, provided accompaniment on the keyboard. Rabbi Yaffe tried to focus much of the boys’ attention on the frightening situation in Eretz Yisrael and encouraged the boys to empathize

past Motzei Shabbos, the 9th grade had their annual grade Melava Malka held at the Lawrence Middle School. Although a voluntary event, the turnout was just shy of 100% participation.

The evening began with a catered meal including pizza, french fries, zep-

with their brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael. The kumsitz ended with an inspirational d’var Torah from 9th grade Rebbe Rabbi Shalom Greenspan on the same theme followed by spirited dancing initiated by the talmidim.

The new gym at the Middle School

polis and soda. Boys sat together with their friends and Rabbeim, enjoying the camaraderie that a late Motzei Shabbos engenders. Following the seuda, the boys gathered around their Menahel, Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe, who, together with his trusty 12-string, led a stirring

was then made available to the boys for some recreational use, where they played basketball and some indoor football for over an hour. It was an enjoyable evening for all and a great way to start a new week of yeshiva.

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Chabad of Hewlett Establishes Tefillin Club For Unity and Prayer in Support of Israel The Chabad of Hewlett called the community together to offer prayers Sunday morning, in memory of those who were killed in Israel, for the speedy recovery of those wounded, and for lasting peace.

“With Israel under attack, a call to action is needed,” says Rabbi Nochem Tenenboim in response to the violence and killings in Israel. “We have been in touch with the Chabad community in Kiryat Malachi [where Gazan missiles landed] and have offered our support and prayers.”

For many people that came to the

Sunday morning meeting, it was a time to show solidarity as Jews as well as offer spiritual support for those in Israel.

“We had some really lively discussion about the current events, but we also took some time to reflect on the events.”

“The Talmud teaches us that in times of danger there is a great need for

unity and prayer, especially the Mitzvah of Tefillin” said Rabbi Tenenboim.

“Tefillin is especially important for the security of the Jewish people.” Several men put on Tefillin as part of their prayer. “It was a very intense and satisfying feeling for them,” said Tenenboim.

The group decided that they would like to meet again. Rabbi Tenenboim agreed. “Part of the prayer included putting on Tefillin. One man brought the Tefillin he received on his Bar Mitzvah and never wore,” said Tenenboim.

Rabbi Tenenboim says that the Chabad of Hewlett will continue to host the Tefillin Club every Sunday Morning at 9:00 at their new location near the Hewlett train. Everyone in the community is welcome regardless of affiliation.

A light breakfast is served. For more information visit www.jewishhewlett. com.

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Space Exploration Comes Alive at Yeshiva Ketana Of Long Island Last week the students at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island had an experience of a lifetime as they looked at the Earth from the perspective of the astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station. Outer space is so compelling for everyone, and through a sophisticated technological networking endeavor, the boys at YKLI really felt as if they took that incredible leap beyond the Earth’s confines.

Thanks to the collaborative effort between the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC and NASA, orbiting astronauts “conferenced” with over 100,000 Earth-based students via real-time feed. Of the many participating schools from across the nation which submitted questions for an astronaut Q&A ses-

sion, YKLI was one of the twenty-four schools whose questions were selected to be addressed by the panel. The students were proud that the questions they developed were deemed truly intellectually intriguing and, therefore, were among those which were posed to the astronauts. The YKLI students were well-prepared for the much anticipated event as their dedicated teachers created age-appropriate lessons to maximize the opportunity.

A Glimpse into a Wonderful School They came, they saw, and BYQ conquered! This past Wednesday, November 14th, Bais Yaakov of Queens held its annual Open House. The administration, staff and volunteers welcomed parents who came to observe this outstanding school. Perspective parents met the administration, took tours of the school and sat in on classes. Visitors were enchanted by the enthusiasm of the students and their involvement in their learning.

When parents visited the pre-school, which is renown in the professional community and sought after for all for workshops, they were amazed at the creative ways young students were learning. The moros had the opportunity to share their research based philosophy of best practice in education.

The tours throughout the building offered a glimpse of the 21st century learning with Smart board technology in both Hebrew and English studies which add and deepen the students’ understanding and relate the subject matter to them more visually. Parents

loved being a part of the hands on learning that takes place at Bais Yaakkov as they stayed to partake in the sessions.

They also visited the magnificent library, science lab, multiple computer and Gruss labs, gym, Junior High student activity room, resource centers and so much more. To their delight, they were invited to participate in the 7th grade science lesson which had students actively engaged using microscopes to examine plant cell slides. As they passed the library, they were awed by the giggles of the students who were listening to a story being read by the school librarian. The banter, following the reading, was filled with excited little voices expressing big ideas.

As a group, the students witnessed the fantastic spectacle as they viewed the planet Earth from the Space Station with amazing clarity. They could feel the awesomeness of the world and the palpable grandeur of the Creator. The excitement continued when the astronauts began to address the thousands of linked-in students and it reached a high when the Earth-based announcer asked the question submitted by the YKLI students and named the Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island in Inwood, New York.

You could hear the boys’ actual cheers as well as the virtual rendition thereof as their cheers reverberated from the speakers via the live hook-up.

The YKLI boys wanted to know what the astronauts considered to be their first “ah ha” moment in space and they listened, enthralled, to the response of Ms. Sunita Williams, the International Space Station 33 Commander.

First, she acknowledged the unbelievable physical dimension. She described how the gravitational pull that allows our bodies to rest comfortably and naturally on Earth is absent in space.

When she attempted to rest in space, she had to hold down her arms because they kept floating up. Second, she shared how amazed she was by the green aura that surrounded the Earth representing the tremendous energy that exists in space. The enormous potential of this resource and the possibilities for harnessing it were particularly intriguing to her. The students discussed the Commander’s comments and worked with their teachers to process the enormity of what they saw and heard.

For Larissa Steele, the Director of General Studies, the event was a fantastic actualization of YKLI’s educational outlook. “By participating in a real conversation with a real astronaut with a real view of their planet from such an amazing vantage point, the students felt like astronauts themselves. It was literally a dream come true for so many of the boys who have that almost universal yearning for space exploration.” The whole experience represented the truly powerful learning that occurs when academic inquiry is combined with relevant application.

Rabbi Dov Edell, Principal of the

Elementary School, explained that giving the boys a chance to see the Earth from outer space allowed them to visualize their place in the world. “We always strive to teach our talmidim to see beyond themselves. By actually viewing the enormity of the universe, they could perhaps better intuit that the world is larger than it seems to be, and, yet, this awesome, exciting world was created for each of them.” The Rabbeim and teaching staff saw the multi-faceted potential of this event and collaborated to make it all-encompassing for the students.

“At YKLI we have always been committed to making rigorous academic inquiry an integral component of the boys’ education. With a concerted effort to foster love of learning combined

with hands-on opportunities for selfdiscovery, YKLI has sought to make the STEM disciplines more accessible and relevant to the students,” explained Rabbi Ginian, Executive Director of YKLI. By working together to use the Yeshiva’s technological resources to the fullest, the YKLI administrative team successfully hooked up to the live video downlink with the International Space Station and participated in the real-time conversation among orbiting astronauts and thousands of fellow students on Earth. The first and second graders watched on their pre-programmed Smart Boards while the third, fourth and fifth graders watched it in the auditorium on a jumbo screen with surround sound. “This program is indicative of how we invest not only in educational technology but we also invest significantly in our efforts to integrate that technology into the classroom in the most meaningful ways. In this case, our use of technology made it possible for the boys to grasp how technology can make the previously unimaginable into a truly accessible reality,” Rabbi Ginian shared enthusiastically.

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Rambam Open House Opens with Support for Israel Rambam Mesivta, under the leadership of Rosh Mesivta Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman and Principal Rabbi Yotav Eliach, has long been a leading institution promoting excellence in Limud HaTorah, academics and religious Zionism. True to form, at what was a packed Open House, even the “Overflow Room” was overflowing, a night that was supposed to be about what Rambam Mesivta was all about, began with what the school was all about. After getting an update about the crisis in Israel, Tehillim and mi sh’barech for Tzahal, were led by Rabbi Avi Haar, the school’s senior rebbe.

The program also began with senior and school SGO President Chanani Levy and Sophomore Ben Silverstein, recognized those impacted by Hurricane Sandy and noted that Rambam Mesivta has been running a “Daycare Center” at the school, every day from 4:00PM-6:00PM for children affected by the hurricane. They urged everyone there to send their kids to this program for a warm environment stocked with hundreds of toys collected by Rambam’s Chesed/Drive Committee for victims of the hurricane.

As Rambam Mesivta celebrated its 20-plus years of producing bnei Torah, academic scholars, and community activists, prospective parents and 8th graders were welcomed with open arms to experience the chevra and warmth that are hallmarks of the school’s success.

Due to Hurricane Sandy, the school had its first ever “Motzei Shabbos Open House” and the school was outfitted with special lighting and music played by sophomore Yoni Greenblatt as befitted a Motzei Shabbos event. Rambam Students volunteers dressed in suits, ties, and in some cases bow-ties and vests, served scrumptious Carlos and Gabby’s Hors d’œuvre to the guests.

The program began with students and principals literally opening doors for their guests. The parents and 8th graders were then ushered to the Shul for a slide-show that featured Rambam events such as Blood Drives, Sukkah building, rallies, father/son learning, 5K & Family Day, cemetery clean-up, 3-on-3 Basketball tournaments and pictures from over 200 academic and sporting events that are held over the course of a school year.

After being introduced by Chanani and Ben, Rosh Mesivta, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman went on to discuss the

school’s ideal graduate: A boy who can learn, earn a living, is a mensch, makes a Kiddush Hashem and isn’t afraid to speak out on behalf of Israel, America, and what is right. Rabbi Friedman was proud to detail the Mesivta’s successful efforts to deport Nazi war criminals and act as the vanguard of many protests.

Senior Raphi Cooper and junior Sam Cohen then introduced Assistant Principal Mr. Hillel Goldman who elaborated on the school’s extensive activities program and how commitment to chesed serves as the main function of the extracurricular activities mission.

He also discussed the school’s diverse student body which includes an everyday Sephardic minyan, and students from Queens, Brooklyn, West Hempstead, Five Towns, Plainview, and how it combined as a determining factor to the school’s success. This year’s 9th grade class is represented by 12 different elementary schools of likeminded students who are “less focused on where they’ve been than where they are going.”

He also outlined the myriad extra learning opportunities made available by the school including daily voluntary lunch learning, night learning, and halacha shiurim. He spoke about the Rebbe/Talmid relationship which takes place both inside and outside the classroom through various tisches, Shabbatonim, and all-night learn-a-thons. This kesher continues to grow even after graduation.

Before Rabbi Yotav Eliach began his discussion of “Academic Excellence,” he discussed the situation in Gaza having recently been briefed by a number of Israeli Military contacts, and he suggested a number of concrete proposals for helping Israel.

He then went on to discuss the 20plus year track-record of academic success of the school. He mentioned that Rambam students consistently garner approximately $1-1.5 million in meritbased scholarships for all of its graduating classes. “The average SAT score for all students is approximately 1250 (based on the old scale), approximately 50% of our students score 90 and above on all Regents exams, students are disproportionately admitted to Cooper Union, Macauley Honors College, and other top universities. And the list goes on and on,” he said.

Rabbi Ari Boiangiu, 9th grade Gemara Iyun Rebbe, was then called up to

introduce a video about achdus that was created by the school’s choir, The Harmonides. He explained that the beauty of the video and its song was its message of “Kol Yisrael Aravim Ze La Ze” and that, in light of what is happening in Israel, it couldn’t be more appropriate.

The video, currently averaging over a thousand views per day on YouTube can be seen there under the search: “Some Nights Jewish Lyrics.” The video drew tears of appreciation and meaningful applause from the crowd.

Following the video, parents were able to see classrooms and interact with teachers on their tour while the boys experienced a lesson on Halacha from Rambam 9th grade Gemara Iyun rebbeim Rabbi Yosef Ziskind and Rabbi Ari Boiangiu. They then went over some complex math brain-teasers with Rambam Math teacher (and graduate) Mr. Jeff Ganeles, and were treated to some science wizardry from the Biology teacher, Ms. Lisa Butler and technological magic from Mr. Chanan Zupnick, the school’s Advanced Computers teacher.. They then went to play basketball with Rambam Gym teacher and former European League basketball

star, Steve Howard, and received 20th Anniversary Rambam sweatpants and knapsacks.

After the tours, the guests were treated to wraps and Carlos and Gabby’s while Rabbi Boiangiu, “Jewish Guitarist Extraordinaire,” filled the air with inspirational melodies. While the food was enjoyed, Sophomores Jonathan Deutsch and Daniel Peretz, members of Rambam’s Robotics team which won the RoboCup Championship last year, displayed their “flying machines.”

Sophomore Yishai Pearl, editor of Hamasmid, Rambam’s Weekly Dvar Torah Publication, also manned a table highlighting the more than six publications produced by the school’s writing program.

The Rambam Open House became an opportunity for people to get together, daven, and reflect on the past, present, and future. With delicious food, presents, smiles, music, and a real interest in each boy as an individual, the Rambam Open House was a success, not just because people were brought into the building, but because everyone did, indeed, feel warm, feel safe, and feel home.

Young Israel of West Hempstead Sisterhood Presents Allison Josephs Founder and Director of Jew in the City on Sunday November 25th The Young Israel of West Hempstead’s (YIWH) sisterhood is excited to announce that Allison Josephs will be addressing the synagogue on Sunday, November 25th at 8:00 pm. Ms. Josephs is the creator of Jew in the City, an organization that aims to dispel common myths about Orthodox Judaism through short YouTube videos, written articles and a blog. Josephs will be speaking about “Finding G-d in Hawaii,” her signature talk on her search for meaning and how she found it.

Since 2007 Ms. Josephs has been showing the world that Jewish women can be hip, funny and educated in the secular world while maintaining their core religious values.

“We are thrilled to be hosting an individual who exemplifies being a frum woman and mother while also being an orthodox role model in such a positive

light,” says one of the sisterhood’s copresidents.

The sisterhood is hosting Josephs about a year after they presented her famous chavruta, Mayim Bialik. Ms. Bialik inspired the sold out crowd with her talk on her unique road to observant Judaism. Bonnie Kupchik, sisterhood co-president, explains, “It is exciting to have Allison Josephs speak to our shul especially after we had the privilege of hosting her chavruta Mayim Bialik last winter.” Kupchik adds, “Our community could really use a fun and inspirational event now, only weeks after Hurricane Sandy, where so many members of our community have been housing families displaced by the storm, collecting needed items and helping clean up homes and synagogues destroyed by the storm.”

For more information please contact the sisterhood at sisterhood@yiwh.org.

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Submitted by Avi Kirsch

A doctor says to his patient, “I have bad news and worse news.”

“Oh dear, what’s the bad news?” asks the patient.

The doctor replies, “You only have 24 hours to live.”

“That’s terrible,” says the patient. “How can the news possibly be worse?”

The doctor replies, “I’ve been trying to contact you since yesterday.”

Submitted by Chana Devorah Goodman Two Japanese people who have never seen each other bump into each other at the New York Japanese Embassy. They begin talking and go for lunch. They then realize that one of them is the father of the other one’s son. How is this possible?

*************** Q: If the Pilgrims were alive today, what would they be most famous for?

A: Their AGE! Q: What did the mama turkey say to her naughty son?

A: If your papa could see you now, he’d turn over in his gravy!

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13. Pass the turkey please.

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1. JFK’s killer.

4. Resigns as VP due to charges of income tax evasion on kickbacks received while governor of Maryland.

7. The nation focused on these hanging things in Florida after the 2000 elections.

8. Wins Heisman Trophy Award in 1968 but is most infamous for the crimes leading to a white Ford Explorer chase through L.A.

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12. In 1962, these guys from Liverpool have their 1st recording session under the name of their newly formed band.

14. Egyptian President makes historic visit to Israel.

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15. President Reagan reveals secret arm deal.

16. Celebration of those who serve.

17. “Four score and seven years ago…”

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2. How many days did it take the Mayflower to cross the Atlantic Ocean? a. 12 days b. 32 days c. 64 days d. 76 days 3. Who declared Thanksgiving a national holiday? a. George Washington b. Thomas Jefferson c. Abraham Lincoln d. Teddy Roosevelt Answers 1. D- According to the National Retail Federation 227 million Americans shopped on Black Friday weekend and spent $52.4 billion.

2. C 3. C- Sarah Josepha Hale, an American magazine editor, persuaded Abraham Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday. She is also the author of the popular nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

4. A, D- The Philadelphia Police Department first used the term “Black Friday” in the 1960s because it was a day of chaos. The name eventually came to symbolize the financial aspects of the day.

5. A- But please pass the wasabi anyways.

6. B-In 1989, President George H.W. Bush began

4. The day after Thanksgiving is called “Black Friday” because of which of the following 2 reasons: a. The Philadelphia Police Department coined the phrase to describe the mayhem surrounding the congestion of pedestrian and auto traffic due to all the shopping and activities. b. People wake up so stuffed that they can’t see anymore. c. In 1836 there was a milkshortage and since all the milk was used on Thanksgiving, the next morning everyone had to drink black coffee. d. It is the day that retailers’ bottom lines turn from”red” (losses) to”black” (profit).

5. What Native American tribe celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the colonists? a. Wampanoags b. Passthewassabis c. Wannagoshoppings d. Palewyamis

the custom of officially pardoning two turkeys. The custom has been continued ever since. Some of these turkeys have made their way to petting zoos. Others have actually been fortunate enough to be honorary grand marshals at Disneyland’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

7. D- Yes, I should be fired for option A. Answer key 5-7 correct: Your brain is really stuffed with Thanksgiving facts!

3-5 correct: As long as you didn’t guess option A for question 5, not bad.

0-2 correct: Hey, I guess that’s another good turkey fact: Did you know that sometimes even turkeys pay TJH trivia?

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6. What does the President do with the turkeys that are presented to him by the National Turkey Federation? a. He makes them honorary members of Congress (how do you think Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner got their jobs?) b. He pardons them. c. He uses their feathers for the feather pens that are used for signing legislation. d. He presents them to the White House chef to be cooked.

7. What is the name of the rock on which the Pilgrims landed when they arrived at the location of their permanent settlement in 1620? a. Far Rock b. Hard Rock c. Pilgrim Rock d. Plymouth Rock

Answers to Crossword Puzzle Across 1. Lee Harvey Oswald 4. Spiro Agnew 7. Chads 8. OJ Simpson 12. Beatles 14. Sadat 15. Iran Contra 16. Veterans Day 17. Gettysburg Address

Down 2. Dewey Defeats Truman 3. Oliver Wendell Holmes 5. Irving Berlin 6. Joe Montana 9. James Polk 10. Sputnik 11. Partition Plan 13. Thanksgiving

Answer to riddle: The Japanese are husband and wife and both blind since birth.

1. Approximately 122 million people voted in the 2012 presidential elections. How many people went shopping on Black Friday and the rest of the Thanksgiving weekend of last year? a. 104 million b. 122 million (crazy coincidence) c. 164 million d. 227 million

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The Shmuz

R’ Ben Tzion Shafier

Parshas Vayeitzei

The Sensitivity of a Tzadik “Then Yaakov kissed Rochel. and he raised his voice and wept.” Bereishis 29: 11

When Yaakov met Rochel at the well, he experienced conflicting emotions. He felt tremendous joy at having finally met his bashert, yet he raised his voice and cried. Rashi explains that he cried because he came empty-handed. He said, “My father’s servant came with ten camels laden with gifts and finery, and I come with empty hands.”

Rashi goes on to explain to us why he didn’t bring a gift for Rochel. When Yaakov found out that Aisav was plotting to kill him, he fled from his father’s home. Aisav sent his son Alifaz to chase down Yaakov. Alifaz was a Tzaddik, and when he approached Yaakov, he said, “I can’t kill you because you are an innocent man. On the other hand, what will be with the command of my father?”

One of the greatest acts of kindness that I can do for another person is to treat him with honor.

Yaakov said to him, “A poor man has the halachic status of a dead man. Take my money, and it will be considered as if you killed me, so on some level you will have fulfilled your father’s words.” As a result, Yaakov came to the well emptyhanded. When it was time to propose to Rochel, he didn’t have the gifts that would be expected, and so, he raised his voice and cried.

This Rashi become difficult to understand when we focus on who these people were. The Avos may have walked the same planet as do you and I, but they lived in a very different orbit. Their every waking moment was

occupied by thoughts of Hashem. They lived and breathed to attain closeness to Hashem. That was the focus of their lives and existence. It was the only thing that mattered to them.

Did Rochel Really Care About Trinkets?

For many years, Rochel knew that she was to marry Yaakov and be a matriarch of the Jewish people. You have to assume that when she finally met her bashert, she was overcome with joy.

Here was the man that she had waited for! Here in front of her was this great Tzaddik, the man of her dreams, offering to marry her so she could take her place in destiny. Her very life’s ambitions and desires were now coming to fulfillment.

Could you envision any greater joy? At that moment, it is hard to imagine that she was concerned about glitter and trinkets. It is difficult to imagine that the lack of a little yellow, soft metal in the shape of a circle would bother her.

Yet Yaakov cried because he didn’t have a diamond ring to give her. The question is – why? All that Rochel really wanted was being delivered to her. If so, why did Yaakov cry?

It seems that the answer is that the lack of gifts may not have bothered Rochel much, but the bottom line was that it wasn’t respectful to her. When you come to your Kallah, you bring her a gift. That is the way that dignified people act. That is the way of the world, and it isn’t proper to come without a gift. On some level, it isn’t treating her with the kavod due to her, and that caused Yaakov pain – so much pain that he raised his voice and cried. On some

level, it was a slight to the honor of Rochel. It wasn’t befitting her significance, so it moved him to tears.

Every Person Hungers for Recognition This is a tremendous lesson to us because the people that we live amongst aren’t on the level of Rochel. To them, a slight to their honor is something that causes them real pain. People will go to great lengths to protect their reputation and dignity because these things are very important to them. And for that reason, we need to develop a real sensitivity to other people’s dignity and honor.

But this concept goes much further.

The reality is that there are few people who get enough recognition and respect.

We humans have many needs. We need food and drink, we need shelter and protection, and we need friends and companionship—most of our needs are met.

The one need that that is almost never met is the need to be appreciated. It is something that we hunger for, something that is basic to our success and vitality. Yet there is no store in which it can be bought, no marketplace in which it can be acquired. And oftentimes, a person can go around with a deep hunger, not even realizing what is amiss.

One of the greatest acts of kindness that I can do for another person is to treat him with honor. If I find your currency and can acknowledge you in that vein, I can give you that which you deeply crave – and it costs me nothing.

The great dichotomy of human conduct is that I must run from my own kavod, yet run after yours. When it comes to my honor, I have to train myself that it is vain and frivolous, yet when it comes to yours, I have to do everything in my power to give you as much honor as I am able. A person who learns to find this balance becomes a popular and welcome companion, and is able to help others meet one of their deepest, unmet needs.

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Israel Today

Yehudit Tayar

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esterday, while I was in the area around Gaza, I experienced the true meaning of being a Jew in our Land. How fitting that this operation of defending our Land and people is called “Amud Anan” or Cloud Pillar.

While the sirens went off time after time and we sought shelter from the missiles aimed at us, we experienced some very special moments.

The blue skies and clouds were invaded by rocket fire and then we saw them destroyed by a zooming cloud—our Iron Helmet that has literally saved millions of innocent lives thousands of times. The cloud trail and explosion were very loud and absolutely incredible. We saw the rockets destroyed over our heads, and the cloud train of the “Iron Helmet” that destroyed it.

During one of the “Color Red,” (the call before the sirens go and an attack is occurring), before the rockets exploded, we all raced to find safety, and I saw the blessing of Am Yisrael time after time. There were Mothers with their babies running for shelter, soldiers standing with us calmly with their heavy gear on and next to them, all of us looking up at the sky and praying. Praying for our soldiers and not for ourselves.

One of the men put his hands over his eyes and shouted, “L-rd of Israel protect your soldiers and people. We know you will because you are our Father!”

The tens of thousands of men and women who left their lives and answered the emergency mobilization is something not to be taken for granted. The determination of millions of people to try and continue to live their lives in the endless rocket attacks is not to be taken lightly.

One of the moving stories that I heard is about 2 young “lone soldiers” who came without their families to do their military service and had left together a little over a week ago to visit their families. After a year of service, a lone soldier can be flown to see his or her family. One of the young soldiers received an emergency mobilization and landed back here in Israel yesterday to serve our country.

Our sons have been mobilized, we and our loved ones are under missile attack and even inside of our country our “neighbors” attempt to murder us with the pathetic excuse of “occupation.”

I look to the sky—and I speak to Hashem—we all do each in our own way.

Some of our people are more observant of our religious laws, some are less but all of us are one family—one Nation.

Amud Anan—Cloud Pillar is the perfect description of our struggle for survival. We are here in this Land because of who we are as a people. We are here because our L-rd sanctioned it.

I pray that we are blessed with a Cloud Pillar–Amud Anan that will protect our Land, our people, our Torah. May Hashem protect and bless each and every one of our soldiers, and our people with a Cloud Pillar which will never allow our enemies to destroy us—not physically and our love for our Land will never be destroyed no matter what.

May the L-rd of Israel protect and defend us and guide us to be His messengers.

Yehudit Tayar is a veteran spokesman for the Jewish pioneers in Yesha, serves as an immediate response medic, and works with the security forces and emergency teams. She lives with her family in Bet Horon in the Benjamin Region for over 32 years.

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The Observant Jew Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

The Power of One The following article was originally printed in 2006 during the Lebanon War. As we stand on the verge of another war in Israel, its message is just as relevant as when it was written.

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here is a famous story about a young apikores who approached R’ Meir Shapiro z”l (of Daf Yomi fame) and said, “The Torah is bigoted.”

He based his claim on the Gemara that explains the posuk in Yechezkel (34:31), which compares Klal Yisrael to sheep. Yechezkel prophesied, “You My sheep, the sheep of my flock, you are Man.” The Gemara learns from this that the Jews are called “Man,” and not Gentiles.

R’ Meir answered him that the Gemara is not saying Gentiles are not people. Rather, it is saying that the Jewish People is “one man” Just as one who stubs his toe can feel it in his head or other extremities, so do the Jewish peo-

ple feel each other’s pain despite vast distances.

Last Sunday evening, nearly a thousand men gathered in the Yeshiva of Spring Valley in Monsey, NY for one purpose. They came together to daven,

posuk is written in HaShem’s Tefillin?

‘Who is like your nation Israel? A nation that is one, unique upon the earth.’”

What made this night most special to me was that this was an evening not of generals, but of soldiers. It was not

We knew our words and entreaties were as powerful as any rockets or planes, if not more powerful. We felt like soldiers, going to do our duty and fight for our nation.

and to say Tehillim for our brothers and sisters in distress in Eretz Yisrael and around the world. This event, like so many others around the globe, personified the glory of Klal Yisrael – which is its unity. As Chazal tell us, “What

sponsored by a particular group; there was no long roster of speakers seeking to impress their audience. In fact, the evening was the brainchild of a fellow

who preferred anonymity. Rather, these men came together simply to wage war against our enemies as our forefather Yaakov did – with prayer and pleading before the Al-mighty.

I recall another time when we raised up our voices in prayer. During the Gulf War, in 1991, I was a student at the Telshe Yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio.

I recall eating dinner one evening when a bochur ran into the dining room and announced, “They are firing SCUDs at Yerushalayim, and we’re saying Tehillim in the Bais HaMedrash now.”

Wordlessly, we pushed our plates away, rose, and strode purposefully towards the Bais HaMedrash. We were not going fearfully, but matter-of-factly.

We were going to fight the war the way Jews do. We knew our words and entreaties were as powerful as any rockets or planes, if not more powerful. We felt like soldiers, going to do our duty and fight for our nation.

To this day, I remember the determi-

nation I felt as I marched to join the Tehillim, and now we have done it again.

The times we live in are terrifying.

Daily we hear of tragedies, atrocities, and suffering. It seems that we are more than ready to come to the aid of our fellow Jews by praying for them in their time of need. But I wonder.

Do we consider ourselves soldiers in the army of the Al-mighty, or are we just in the reserves? Does it take war to mobilize us or do we fight the good fight daily? We should realize that as soldiers of G-d we must be on our guard constantly. We must repel the enemy within, our Yetzer Hara, and know that our failure to do so jeopardizes our entire army.

It is important to understand and remember that suffering that happens across the globe is not just happening to our brethren, it is happening to us. HaKadosh Boruch Hu sends warnings to our nation through His acts to individuals. If we do not heed the warnings, then the enemy fire may hit closer to home.

We must mobilize ourselves to repent every single day and motivate ourselves to acts of kindness and increased study of Torah. These are our weapons with which we will be able to subdue our spiritual AND physical enemies.

We have seen that we can come together as one; we know that we are loyal soldiers. By remaining on the front lines daily, we can strengthen our position and put an end to the exile. The troops have been mobilized; the enemy is on the run. Let’s finish him off for good. We have the power – the power of One. EXCITING NEWS! The first book of articles from The Observant Jew is being prepared for publication and there are a number of sponsorship opportunities available.

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Savvy Savta Yehoshua Levy

UnHoly Smokes Dear Rabbi, My Dad has been a lifelong smoker since Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man. Sometimes when I’m out, he’ll call me and ask me to pick him up a pack.

Does my obligation to honor my father require me to listen, or is real honor to withhold from him a harmful substance, even against his will?

Kevin P.

clotting of the arteries and heart attack. (Just ask the guy who nearly died in April at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas while downing the “Triple Bypass Burger”.) In that case, it would be forbidden for the father to eat such a meal, and likewise, for the son to provide it for him.

The issue of smoking in Jewish law is controversial, and while the vast majority of modern day rabbinical authoriThe Rabbi Responds: ties forbid being a smoker, there are I hope your Mom isn’t a smoker and those who stop short of classifying it as knows how to handle your Dad. If she a clear violation of Jewish law. If your could convince him to quit smoking, or father’s health is poor and the doctor at least not to put you in such a predica- has already warned him of the dangers of ment, that would be the best solution. smoking even just occasionally, it could To put your question into perspective, be argued that smoking for him is clearly let us paint two forbidden and for contrasting sceyou to abet him. narios. If someIf he is in good one has normal health, and has If your father’s blood pressure, had no apparent health is poor and healthy cholesterill effects from his ol levels and clear smoking habits, the doctor has arteries, but likes the question bealready warned him fried chicken, it’s comes more comnot necessarily a plex. Your father of the dangers of violation of the can claim to folsmoking even just Torah’s directive low the minorto guard one’s ity opinion, which occasionally, it health law to have puts you in a very some deep fried difficult position. could be argued that wings. Although Additionally, it’s smoking for him is frequent connot necessarily sumption of foods a prohibition to clearly forbidden. that are high in have one smoke. saturated fats can The problem is contribute to corbeing a smoker. onary disease and other illnesses, no one So, if you can’t avoid the situation, you particular dining experience with fried may be permitted or even obligated to foods —even trans fats— poses on its get him his “’Boros”. (Will he go for own a deadly threat to a healthy person. Lights instead of Reds?) If there’s a way Still, abstaining from eating these foods, that you can avoid being available, “to or at least limiting their intake, is defi- be or not to be,” that is the answer. nitely wise, not to mention a fulfillment All the best, of the mitzvah to guard one’s health. But, Yehoshua Levy if your Dad is healthy and asks for you to bring him some buffalo wings for dinner, Please note, the information written above you would be obligated to listen (but you is not meant as a rabbinic ruling. If you can ask that he give you his credit card have any questions, please consult your rabbinic authority for clarification. to pay for it).

Yehoshua Levy, a teacher of Torah, is a If, on the other hand, someone suffered from severe heart disease and writer and lecturer who dares to think outcompromised circulation, one high-fat side the box to bring his thought-provoking meal would be bad for his health, and ac- insights and facts to his readers. He welcomes cording to some physicians, could even your comments and can be reached at edidirectly contribute to life-threatening tor@fivetownsjewishhome.com.

Moderated by Sarah Schwartz-Schreiber

I Want to Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving Every year my husband and I are placed in the same awkward situation.

My side of the family celebrates Thanksgiving dinner at my grandmother’s house. We have turkey, pumpkin pie and all the trimmings. It’s important to my parents and grandparents that we attend. All my cousins are there and we all contribute something to the dinner. It’s great fun for me and my kids, as they get to spend time with relatives they don’t see too often. My husband’s side of the family also celebrates Thanksgiving but they all go out to eat in a restaurant. This saves my mother-in-law a lot of time in the kitchen cooking and cleaning. But here’s the question: we can’t be at two parties at once, especially when one is in a restaurant and you can’t just drop in for a few minutes there. Other years we tried to spend equal time at both dinners, but then we just made both sides unhappy. Do you have any suggestions on how to make everyone (including ourselves) happy and enjoy Thanksgiving this year?

Melissa K., Cedarhurst, NY

Rachel from Brooklyn responds: the kids will enjoy their time there with I have found that it is true when they grandma and grandpa. You can tell your say you can’t dance at two weddings at in-laws that you really want to spend once. In this situation, I would suggest quality time with them and that you feel that you only go that the children to one Thanksgivwill feel more ing dinner. Yes, comfortable in a Thanksgiving one side will be home instead of disappointed, but a restaurant. Also should be relaxing there are other make sure to tell and enjoyable – it’s times to spend them how much time with that you appreciate a time to count your side of the famthem and all that ily. How about they do for the blessings and spend going to your parfamily—isn’t that time with family. ents or in-laws for what Thanksgivthe Shabbos after ing is about?

Thanksgiving or inviting them to your home? This way Simie from Cedarhurst responds: you get to spend quality time together Sometimes I tell my kids (and myand will be able to relax and enjoy each self) that we do things that are hard beother’s company. The next year, of cause they are the right thing to do. In course, you can go to the other side and this case, although it may be hard on you make this a every-other-year tradition. and your kids, it will mean a lot to both My children come to me for the seder sides of your family if you join in their only every other year; the other times meal. I would suggest though, that you they are at their in-laws and I totally un- show up at the restaurant at the beginderstand their decision. Best of luck—I ning of the meal and gently tell your hope this Thanksgiving will be more re- in-laws that you can only stay an hour laxing for you! so you won’t be ordering mains (kitchens in restaurants on Thanksgiving are Tziona from Cedarhurst responds: so backed up!) but will be delighted to I know that so many people find join them for appetizers. This way, you themselves in the same predicament as can spend time with them on the holiyourself. Because of this, a lot of Amer- day and do it at a time before the kids icans find the holidays to be stressful. get restless and are still on their best beBut they shouldn’t be. Thanksgiving havior. I always found that after a long should be relaxing and enjoyable—it’s a day, my children were less likely to sit time to count your blessings and spend still. So spend the latter part of the day time with family. With that in mind, at your parents’ house where they can perhaps you’d like to visit your in-laws act like children and eat the rest of the earlier in the day. This way, you can meal. And you can please everyone – spend time with them at their home and even yourself!

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Shira Diamond

for 2,146 Couples and Counting The Story of How Frum Matchmaking Has Taken to the Web

Ben points out that the biggest thing to be aware of is that common sense is required with online dating just as it is with traditional dating.

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he face of the world is constantly changing, with new technology altering the way we do most everyday activities.

Even considering something as seemingly timeless as shidduchim, the playing field has changed drastically. From the time when parents prearranged their children’s shidduchim when they were mere toddlers, the process has morphed many times and has taken on new dimensions never thought possible. Over the years, the twists and turns of shidduchim have caused people to think outside of the box and explore other avenues of meeting people. Fifteen years ago, the thought of a single finding their shidduch on the internet seemed like a scene out of a futuristic movie. But that scene is replaying every many times over on a website called JWed. JWed is the new name of Frumster, a website many people involved in the dating scene are familiar with. Frumster was started in 2001 by a friend of a friend of Ben Rabizadeh. Ben, who grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, a small town in close proximity to Philadelphia, started out his career in the pharmacy industry. After a while though, he began to realize that the industry wasn’t a shomer Shabbos friendly industry, and he started to look for another path that would be more accommodating to his Jewish lifestyle. In 2003, he decided to purchase Frumster, a Jewish dating site that Ben belonged to as a member. Ben and his team took the site to the next level, upping its professionalism and adding customer service, and on a whole making it more user-friendly. They have recently changed their name to JWed as it reflects the goals of the website more accurately: that of helping Jewish singles find their soul mates and marry. And being successful at this goal is an understatement. To date, 2,146 couples have reported to the website that they met and gotten engaged through its services. And the numbers are estimated to be even higher than that, as not everyone informs JWed when they get engaged. The thought that the website has contributed to creating so many Jewish homes is something Ben and his team

should be proud of, especially considering how difficult the dating scene can be for Jewish singles.

Being in the dating scene online may be strange for some people, but Ben assures me that it is becoming much more mainstream every single day. Ten years ago, the whole concept was quite new, and people were a little hesitant of the whole idea.

But now it is so mainstream in many communities that some people will sign up as soon as they start dating. Ben finds that only those in the Chassidish or very yeshivish groups will wait till they are a little older to sign up and utilize the website. I ask Ben if people feel like it may be unsecure to meet people on the internet, but he answers by bringing up a very good point. “In some ways, it’s even more secure than some other dating methods. Meeting someone on the internet requires that the person do a lot of extensive research on the other person, as opposed to meeting someone on a singles’ Shabbaton or at work, at a party or at shul. Most of the information about a person is found out in the beginning stages, before the couple ever meets each other.”

Ben also finds that this dating method empowers women. JWed (and Frumster) received feedback from women who wished to be able to be proactive about dating. The website is therefore designed in a way that enables women to make contact with any man they find is a good match, and not have to sit around waiting for someone to contact them, feeling hopeless and desperate.

And women take advantage of this opportunity too. In fact more than half of the matches made on the site were initiated by women! Another important benefit, Ben points out, is that people who take a little more time to feel comfortable with someone else can work at their own speed. Usually people begin by exchanging emails, then they speak on the phone, until finally meeting in person. Depending on the preference of the couple, this can take a couple of days, weeks or months. Ben points out that the biggest thing to be aware of is that common sense is required with online dating just as it is with traditional dating. Whenever you

Every single day he is helping to create Jewish families, and that’s an incredible reason to get out of bed and go to work every morning.

meet anyone anywhere, one has to take time to make sure they are who they say they are. But the benefits of having so many profiles at your fingertips definitely make online dating a tool for so many searching for their future spouse. Ben also says that the site may begin offering a shadchan service at some point in the future, where a third party can search through profiles and attempt to match up those who seem to be good matches. He says there is a lot of demand for that, and it is something they are seriously considering for the future.

With all this talk about dating and marriage we discuss Ben’s personal life as well. Ben has recently gotten married, and although he was a member of the site, he did not meet his wife through it, although he says he did meet a lot of really great people on the site. It also allowed him to explore who he is as a person and what he wants in a spouse, as well as define himself hashkafically. And this work is so extremely fulfilling for Ben. Every single day he is helping to create Jewish families, and that’s an incredible reason to get out of bed and go to work every morning. There is an almost continual flow of weddings of couples who met on the site, about 4 a week, which brings intense nachas for Ben. One of the many benefits of JWed is that it is so well-known, that it is considered a mainstream dating method for so many.

JWed has a huge database of members, which means people who use the site can search for a match from a large number of people, thereby giving them many more options than a site with many less members. They currently have 20,000 active members, defined as people who have logged into the site within the past 90 days. And they have over 100,000 people who have signed up to the site since its inception! The website works in a very easy, user-friendly way and promotes privacy and confidentiality. When a person signs up, they must answer a series of questions that is set to determine two things. One is they have to be ready to commit to marriage and two is that they must be halachically Jewish.

As a result, fifteen percent of people who sign up to the site are rejected because they do not meet the qualifications. After one’s application is accepted, they create an anonymous profile (using your last name is discouraged for privacy purposes). Members can also upload a photo to the site, and can choose to keep the photo private and only share it with those who they are in contact with. After this process is completed, the new member is ready to go. A member can search through profiles of people, and contact anyone they find might be a good match. The site uses many filters in order to help people narrow down their search of profiles that are in line with what they are looking for in a mate. There are religious filters that help a person see profiles of people that share similar religious levels as themselves. A person can choose a specific category of religious affiliation that they prefer, such as Modern Orthodox machmir, Modern Orthodox liberal, Yeshivish Modern, Carelbachian, Chassidish, Shomer Mitzvos and so on. One of the benefits to having to narrow down what you are looking for, Ben points out, is “being able to know clearly exactly what you are looking for, and being able to define yourself better as well.”

Times continue to change, and no one knows what dating will be like in ten years from now. It could be done in ways we might not even be able to dream up in 2012. But for now, the future seems to be pointing to the internet, and for many that is a tremendous tool in helping them find a spouse. Ben and his team certainly add a lot to the field, with their professional and useful website that helps singles navigate this most difficult aspect of their lives. Ben hopes that the number of matches the site has helped create continues to grow, and that they can continue to have the zechus of creating shidduchim. Not many have a resume like Ben and JWed, who can boast 2146 shidduchim and counting. And considering that making shidduchim is harder than splitting the sea, I’d say the staff at JWed should feel pretty good about that.

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Forgotten Heroes

Avi Heiligman

The True Story of Ewen Montagu and Operation Mincemeat

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he story during World War II of a corpse fooling Hitler and the German High Command into thinking that an Allied landing was to take place on one beach when in actuality the landings were hundreds of miles away is one of the most fascinating tales of the war. It’s also one of the most mistold stories of an undercover operation in history. What’s even more unbelievable was that it was the brainchild of a semi-religious Jew from the office of the British Admiralty.

This is the true story of Ewen Montagu and Operation Mincemeat.

Ewen Montagu was born in 1901 to a prominent Jewish family and was a machine gun instructor during World War I. He was educated at prestigious universities such as Cambridge and Harvard and was called to the bar in 1924. During World War II, when London was bombarded with bombs coming from German planes, he had the rank of lieutenant commander in the Naval Intelligence Division of the British Admiralty.

One of the tasks given to the division was to think long term on how to protect Allied invasions. The idea to place corpses carrying falsified information wasn’t new. In August 1942, during the North African Campaign, a corpse was found by the German 90th Division showing British minefields. The mines weren’t there but the Germans went around the area and got bogged down in soft sand. In September of that year, an American courier’s body washed up on the Spanish coast. He was carrying a letter that contained the names of spies as well as the dates for the American landings in North Africa (Operation Torch) but the Germans thought it was a plant and ignored it, even though this time the information was real. When Montagu’s office was given the task of protecting the secret information, they came up with a brilliant plan that was almost foolproof. They would also use a corpse but prepare it in a way that that it would reach the German High Command and Hitler himself.

Montagu worked closely with Flight Lieutenant Charles Cholmondeley who was the one who came up with the idea of dropping a corpse out of an airplane.

There were problems with that plan so Montagu thought of the idea to launch

Gently they pushed the major into the sea about a mile off the coast and Jewell signaled, “Mincemeat Completed.” The British had done their part and now it was in the hands of the Germans to see if the ploy had worked.

the body out of a submarine. The corpse the legacy of Major William Martin was would have an attaché case containing born.

Now the team needed to outfit Mahighly sensitive documents outlining future operations. It would be launched jor Martin. First they needed him to look off the coast of Spain near a town where like a young marine officer but important the British Intelligence knew a certain enough to be carrying vital information.

Abwehr (the German intelligence ser- He was dressed in battle uniform and not dress clothes like members of other vice) agent was operating.

Montagu put himself in the minds of service branches would be on this type the German counterintelligence agents of mission. Some of the personal effects and thought about what they would included a snapshot of “his girlfriend” consider genuine and what was a plant. Pam (who in actuality was a clerk in the Therefore, in preparing the body and office), two letters and ticket stubs to a documents, Montagu paid attention to London theater.

All of this stuff was easy to obtain, every detail. The body itself couldn’t be just any corpse. They searched and fi- but his ID card was another story. Nornally found a 34-year-old man who had mally, navy or army personnel wouldn’t died of pneumonia (documents released carry ID but Royal Marines did. Montagu decided to recently reveal take a risk and that he may give him a rehave died of placement card. rat poison). A This would renowned pashow him as a thologist was bit careless and consulted and could make the he said that it Germans wonwould appear der why such a to the Germans man would be like the body given a sensihad drowned or tive document. died of hypoHowever, if the thermia and had Ewen Montagu, The Man Who Never Was Germans bought washed up on the shore. The corpse was obtained from into it, then it would put a touch of rea coroner with the instructions from the ality to the situation and it would make family that his real name never be re- him more believable. Then when putting vealed. We now know that his name was together the ID card, they realized they Glyndwr Michael but he would have to didn’t have a picture. They didn’t want be given a new identity. The division de- to use a real picture of Michael because it cided to make a Royal Marines so that would be shameful to his family. Instead, way there would be reason for him to Montagu had a stroke of luck when he carry sensitive documents. However, the found someone who could have been the Royal Marines were a tight knit group dead man’s twin. After putting the ID toand since most officers knew of one an- gether, Montagu wanted to make it look other, Montagu picked a surname that used, so he rubbed it against his pants was common among the service. Thus until it looked battered.

The entire operation was put into motion to try to deceive the German into thinking that the Allied invasion was going to be at Corsica and Sardinia with another attack on Greece. The actual invasion site was the island of Sicily and the entire British team knew that just by looking on a map, it would be obvious to the Germans that it would be the site of the next invasion. Therefore, Montagu felt there was no harm to write in the deception letters that Sicily wasn’t the target. Some cautious officers in the British General Staff felt that it would tip the Allied hand even more and so the matter was brought before Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He was told that if the operation went wrong then the Germans could pinpoint Sicily, to which he replied, “I don’t see that that matters. Anybody but a…fool would know it is Sicily.” There was also the risk that a Spaniard would find the body and return it directly to the British instead of the Germans. Churchill was not worried about that either, “I don’t see that that matters either. We can always try again!”

With the prime minister’s approval, as well as the go-ahead from American General Dwight Eisenhower who would be in charge of the invasion, the mission was put into action.

Montagu and his team prepared Major Martin for his journey and delivered the canister containing the major to the submarine HMS Seraph. The entire operation was so secret that most of the men onboard the sub were told that it was a meteorological device. The Seraph, commanded by Lieutenant Bill Jewell, left Scotland on April 19, 1943 and arrived off the coast of Huelva, Spain on April 30. With the enlisted men below deck, the officers, who knew about Major Martin, went about preparing him for launch. They fitted him with his clothing, inflated his Mae West (life preserver) and said a prayer. Gently they pushed him into the sea about a mile off the coast. The canister was sunk by machine gun fire and Jewell signaled, “Mincemeat Completed.” The British had done their part and now it was in the hands of the Germans to see if the ploy had worked.

The deception plan went down like clockwork. José Antonio Rey Maria, a Spanish fisherman, found the body and

Operation Mincemeat Team

After the war, it was learned that the letters had been copied and translated and made their way to the German High Command.

The question still remained: did the letters of deception do their job in fooling the Germans of the actual invasion site or did all of the effort go to waste? During the war, Montagu only found out a few facts. Operation Husky, the codename for the Sicily landings, had taken place on July 9, 1943 and it quickly discovered that the Germans had been expecting a landing on the northern coast and not on the southern beaches where they actually took place. Even if the Allies were to have landed on Sardinia and Greece, they still would have needed to invade Sicily, but would have done so from the northern coasts. This clearly took the Germans by surprise, but the full effect of Operation Mincemeat was not learned until after the war by examining captured German documents.

Hitler had swallowed Mincemeat whole. He sent one of his best generals, Erwin Rommel, to spruce up the defenses in Greece.

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“The Man Who He also sent Never Was” a squadron of which was later R-boats, fast motor torpedo made into a launches capamovie. An inble of hamperteresting side ing an invasion, note to this and minelayers story is Ewen’s to the Greek brother, Ivor.

A death announcement for Major Martin coast. Panzer He was a filmdivisions were maker who was moved to Greece, away from the Rus- accused after the war as being a spy for sian front, which Stalin never fully ap- the Russians. preciated, and far away from any fightEwen Montagu died in 1985 but he ing at the crucial moment. served his country and the Jewish nation Hitler and the German intelligence an invaluable service. With his ingenious units were surprised when the landings plan that was right out of a spy novel, he took place on the southern coast of Sic- duped Hitler, thereby saving countless ily. They were so taken aback that they Allied lives in the subsequent invasion. were so wary of another plant by the Al- To that extension, he almost singlehandlies that when the Allies did slip up and edly helped bring the war closer to its valuable documents reached the Ger- end and the Allies rescuing the surviving mans, they weren’t believed to be true. Jews from the concentration camps.

Mincemeat was more successful than anyone would have imagined when it Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes was first suggested.

After the war, Ewen Montagu was your comments and suggestions.for the Judge Advocate of the Fleet for al- future columns and can be reached at most 30 years. He was also the president aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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soon it was reported to the local German Abwehr agent, Adolf Clauss. On May 3, the British Naval Attaché in Madrid signaled Montagu’s office that they had been informed by the Vice-Consul in Huelva that a body of a Major Martin had been found by a fisherman. The body was returned to the Vice-Consul for proper burial. Major Martin received a full military funeral in Huelva.

However, in the signal there was no mention of the briefcase which carried the deception papers. After a few inquiries that were made to sound genuine, Montagu found out that that the briefcase had been handed over to the Spanish Military and was now on its way to England intact. When it arrived and was examined, it was determined that the two most important letters had been opened but were carefully replaced and resealed.

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From My Private Art Collection

Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg

Art + Science + Food for Thought = Autumn Foliage

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love the beauty of the ever changing colors of fall foliage, as I am sure many people do. I can never get enough of those scenic drives to my home upstate where warm and inviting colors dress all the trees. What is the science behind this magic formula that seems to captivate the hearts of so many?

The leaves are part of a plant that gets its nourishment from the roots in the ground. These roots supply them with water, while the air supplies them with carbon dioxide. Sunlight combined with water and carbon dioxide turns into oxygen and glucose, which in scientific terms is a process called “photosynthesis.”

The color of green leaves comes from a combination of sunlight and chlorophyll, which is a chemical that is released and initially gives them their color. As the seasons change and the winter days are approaching and getting shorter, the plants need to get ready for winter. The ever-present flow of water begins to disappear as the connection between the roots and the leaves starts to be blocked. Slowly, new colors seem to evolve. Due to the lack of all the sunlight that is present in a longer day, the plants do not get enough nourishment for photo-

synthesis to take place. Fortunately, they do have reserves to keep them nourished from what was stored up. Slowly, the colors start to change as the green begins to disappear and the beautiful shades of orange, yellow, purple, red and brown begin to emerge. These magnificent pigments also protect the leaves from the cold.

The changing of the colors takes place as the plants continue to be nourished by the food and waste that has been stored up in the leaves. Eventually, the leaves will dry up completely and fall from the trees.

I highly recommend capturing the moment by taking photographs of the wonderful phenomenon of the changing of colors and then framing them. They make wonderful works of art, as well as a great conversation piece.

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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Quotes

Compiled by Nate Davis

“Say What?”

“Loren G. ‘Sam’ Lickteig passed away on Nov. 14, 2012 of complications from MS and heartbreaking disappointment caused by the Kansas City Chiefs football team.”

- Obituary appearing in the Kansas City Star. It was prepared by Sam Lickteig before he passed away “Air raid sirens wail in Jerusalem, signaling a possible rocket attack aimed at Israel’s capital.”

- An AP news tweet “Air raid sirens in Jerusalem signal a possible rocket attack aimed at Israel’s self-declared capital.”

- An AP “correction” tweet moments later “You’re not asking about Hostess Twinkies, are you? What’s the next question. I’m not answering a question about … I’m on Saturday Night Live enough, you think you’re getting me – you think you’re getting me behind this microphone, having me talk about Twinkies?

This is a setup, man, I know it. You people are the worst! This is a setup. I am not answering questions on Twinkies. It’s bad enough that I even mentioned the word Twinkies from behind this microphone. What’s the next question going to be about, Devil Dogs?”

- New Jersey Governor Christie, in response to a question about the Hostess factory closing in New Jersey

“A woman in Arizona ran over her husband with her Jeep because she blamed him for Obama getting reelected. See, I don’t think the woman is being fair. If Obama hadn’t saved the auto industry, she wouldn’t have been able to run over her husband with an American-made car.”

- Jay Leno “Well, I say with great respect, that’s one of the dumbest questions I’ve ever heard.”

- Senator John McCain when asked by a reporter whether former CIA Director David Petraeus posed a greater threat to national security than the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya “So as the president said when he was up here with the governor, we’re not going anywhere.

We’re not not going anywhere. And you’ve got a homeboy in the deal who gets it.”

- VP Biden, while touring storm damage in NJ, reassuring its residents that they can rely on President Obama “We’re working on this budget; we’re going to need a lot of prayer for that.”

- President Obama joking to a monk at the Wat Pho Royal Monastery in Thailand “There are now reports that President Obama will name Massachusetts Senator John Kerry

Does Hakadosh Baruch Hu have a problem to frighten Yerushalayim or Beit Shemesh?

What is decreed on mortals will occur. It does not matter where one will be. Here in Bnei Brak the zchus of Torah protects us and this is not the time to leave yeshiva.

- Reb Aaron Leib Steinman telling people not to flee Bnei Brak

to be the next secretary of defense. Apparently this is part of America’s new defense strategy to bore our enemies to death.”

- Jay Leno “My trip to Iowa has nothing to do with 2016.”

- Sen. Marco Rubio who last week gave a keynote speech at an Iowa fundraiser “Markets will crater if we run into any evidence that we can’t solve this [fiscal cliff] problem. If we get out of this with a moderate recession, I would say that the price is very cheap.”

- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Bloomberg Television “It’s nuts. First of all, it’s insulting. This would be like Wal-Mart having a bad week and going, ‘The customers have really been unruly.’ I mean, the job of a political leader in part is to understand the people. If we can’t offer a better future that is believable to more people, we’re not going to win.”

- Newt Gingrich on ABC’s “This Week” discussing Mitt Romney’s assertion that Obama won because he gave more “gifts” to voters “Democrats haven’t changed anyone’s mind.

They changed the people.”

- Ann Coulter

When the Chazon Ish said that bombs wouldn’t fall in Bnei Brak...that applies today as well.

- Reb Chaim Kanievsky

Quotes

Compiled by Nate Davis

“Say What?”

“Why Is Jewish owned press so consistently anti- Israel in every crisis?”

- Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation

a heavy drinker. And the closer you live to Dunkin’ Donuts, the more likely you are to become the governor of New Jersey.”

“You want some pizza?”

- What a drunk Indianapolis man said to residents of a home after he crashed his car into it

- Conan O’Brien “I feel very strongly about the righteousness of Israeli’s cause, particularly when its citizens are under missile attack. So I do get very upset when I see coverage that I feel is unfair and biased towards Israel. But I should have stuck to the substance of the issue and not bring in irrelevant and incorrect ethnic matters.”

- Rupert Murdoch in an apology letter to the ADL “Oh [shucks], I’m in the wrong meeting.”

- Congressman-elect Chris Collins, R-NY, when realizing that he was sitting in a Democratic caucus meeting rather than the Republican caucus meeting “We had 20 Republican debates, that was absolutely nuts. It opened us up to gaffes and to material that could be used against us in the general, and we were fighting these debates for a year, and the incumbent president just sat back and laughed.”

- Mitt Romney while discussing some of the issues of the 2012 campaign with donors “The White House turkey ‘pardon’ is a sorely outdated event. It makes light of the mass slaughter of some 46 million gentle, intelligent birds and portrays the United States’ president as being in some sort of business partnership with the turkey-killing industry.

Turkeys do not need to be ‘pardoned’—they are not guilty of anything other than being born into a world of prejudice. They are innocents who should be respected for who they are: good mothers, smart birds, and interesting animals. This year, we encourage you to forgo this event, which so many Americans find offensive, and choose a delicious, healthy Tofurky roast for your family’s holiday table.”

- Excerpt from a letter from PETA president Ingrid Newkirk to the White House released on Tuesday “New research revealed that the closer you live to a bar, the more likely you are to become

“Last night, we aired this video showing a man being pulled from flames in Gaza. After the video aired, we were pointed to an Israeli website that showed another image, this image—the man who was being dragged was standing and conscious. The allegation was that the man was playing for the cameras as he was seen dragged away and was not, in fact, wounded. The video came from Reuters and their video to us did not include the image of the man standing.”

- A rare retraction by CNN, after they played a Palestinian propaganda video “Living under the threat of rocket attack is certainly a psychological trauma. But what would you say to those who argue that the rockets are essentially very ineffective, they rarely do damage and that the response from Israelis is disproportional to the threat they’re under.”

- MSNBC’s Mara Schiavocampo interviewing Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren

“For whatever reason, Hamas provoked Israel.

And this week, in what it calls Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel responded with a provocation of its own, assassinating Hamas military chief Ahmed al-Jabari.”

- Peter Beinart in Newsweek “I strongly support state legislation that will allow every Chicagoan, regardless of legal status, to enjoy the rights and responsibilities that come with a driver’s license.”

- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel “Facebook just launched a new app. They teamed up with the Department of Labor to create what they call the social jobs app. You can browse through 2 million job listings. You know it’s bad when even Facebook thinks it’s time for you to get a job.”

- Jimmy Kimmel “I’m not going to deny that I’m interested.”

- Senator Rand Paul discussing running for president in 2016

“Tomorrow is Speaker Boehner’s birthday.

We’re not going to embarrass him with a cake, because we didn’t know how many candles we’d need.”

- President Obama before starting a meeting with Speaker Boehner about the fiscal cliff “We recommend that no Hamas operative, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above grounds in the days ahead.”

- An IDF twitter message “Hamas is playing with fire and endangering your lives for naught. The IDF is proceeding to the next phase. For your own safety, we ask you to adhere to our instructions and distance yourselves from Hamas operatives and infrastructure. Sincerely, THE IDF.” - IDF leaflets dropped over the Gaza Strip

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Health & Fitness

Benjie Stern, PhD

Helping Our Children Post Hurricane Sandy

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ow can children cope with trauma, disasters, and tragedies in today’s society?

It is important to keep in mind that reactions to trauma are a process, not an event, and may manifest in different ways over time. The following are some dos and don’ts that parents and school personnel may use to help children cope: Do:

• Stay calm and collected. The child will be looking to you for safety signals.

• Take time to deal with your own reactions; seek support and comfort if needed.

• Ask the child to tell you what he knows of the events; use the child’s level of understanding to steer your response.

• Encourage questions and discussion; let the child’s questions be your guide to the content of the conversation.

• Answer questions honestly and accurately, but limit information to necessary details.

• Speak to the child in terms and

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language that he understands at his level. Use metaphors and analogies. Young children may benefit from play or drawings.

• Acknowledge and accept the child’s fears; let him know that it is normal and natural to feel upset, worried or angry.

• Share your own reactions (within reason), to normalize the child’s experience, but not to overburden him.

• Reassure the child that he is safe and protected.

Older children and teenagers may benefit from knowing all the measures being taken to ensure their safety, whereas young children merely need to know that they are safe.

• Give children as many valid reasons as possible about why they are unlikely targets, but acknowledge, if necessary, that sometimes, bad things do happen. Some children push for guarantees about safety, and may need to know that absolute safety can neither be predicted nor guaranteed.

• Be physically and emotionally available to provide nurturing and comfort as needed.

• Make extra time to be with the child in the mornings, evenings and at bedtime, to allow opportunities for the child to express feelings and ask questions.

• Help the child distinguish between real and imagined fears.

• Teach the child how to communicate distress and to ask for help as needed.

• Use the Feeling Thermometer as an index of intensity and change in emotions.

• Limit exposure to graphic replays of the events in the media.

• Avoid detailed adult discussions of the events in front of the child.

• Dispel misinformation and misconceptions; learn and share the facts.

• Model the behavior the child is expected to learn. Be aware of your own feelings and channel them appropriately.

• Teach the child that anger and conflicts are best resolved with words rather than physically or by “lashing out” inappropriately.

• Get “back to business”; resume normal routines as soon as possible.

• Spend extra time doing enjoyable things with the child; provide distracting activities.

• Maintain regular bedtime schedules, but provide extra comfort if needed such as a nightlight, special toys or sitting with the child until he falls asleep.

• Express emunah, hope and optimism about returning to normalcy.

• Help the child (if old enough and so inclined) to show caring and empathy for victims—to donate clothes or toys, collect money, write letters, attend a prayer service or organize a relief effort. Such actions lessen feelings of helplessness.

• Give the child opportunities to come up with ideas about how to cope or to help the victims. The child’s ideas may be very practical and creative.

• Reach for your emunah, family or friends when you need support or understanding.

• Remember that any behavior is worsened by stress. If the child is prone to anxiety, expect her to be more nervous, tearful and clingy, on edge, distractible, regressed and to have nightmares, (especially if she has seen graphic pictures or stories).

• Be vigilant and anticipate signs of excessive or disproportionate distress.

• If fears or distress are severe, continue for over a month, or start to generalize, seek help from a mental health professional.

Don’t: • Assume that there is one orderly or predictable way for the child to cope with trauma.

• Rush the child to “get over” the events; every child responds differently.

Allow the child to take his time to figure things out.

• Volunteer information if the child does not seem to know about the events; instead, remain vigilant for signs of worry or distress.

• Overload the child with information. Let the child’s questions steer the conversation.

• Discuss worst-case scenarios.

• Misrepresent, distort or be dishonest about the facts.

• Burden the child with your intense feelings. The child may be overwhelmed, interpret your reactions as reason for fear, and feel responsible for taking care of you.

• Push teenagers or older children to discuss the events. Respect their wishes if they choose not to do so. Let them know you will be available if and when they are ready.

• Suppress teenage humor as a way of coping, but channel it appropriately.

• Speculate about perpetrators, motives or other details. Be honest when facts are few.

• Perpetuate or allow stereotyping of people from different subgroups, cultures or countries; the child may easily generalize these beliefs.

• Express or condone hatred or inappropriate anger. The child may find it difficult to sort through and manage intense emotions.

• Allow or condone physical expressions of anger.

• Dr. Stern, a psychologist at Magen David Yeshivah, has a private practice in Brooklyn and Five Towns specializing in the treatment of anxiety, depression, and OCD for children and adolescents. Dr. Stern has been visiting local schools conducting crisis intervention groups seeking to mitigate the social and psychological effects on children.

To schedule a consultation, please call (917) 864-6274.

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keep obsessing over the boxes.

Which boxes shall I pack to unpack and which ones shall I pack to store in storage? All this worry is because I live on Longacre, on the wrong side of Peninsula and I’m convinced – now that we got flooded twice (last year my son’s car was totaled innocently parked on the street) – that this isn’t the last time.

My house is soggy and every time I go back there to pack, I make sure to wear boots. It’s cold, too, and smelly.

It’s not the warm home that I tried to create when we moved here, smelling of fresh baking challah and warm with the company we would enjoy over Shabbos.

The good part is that we didn’t own it. We rented because – blessing of blessings – we’d heard there were so many fantastic, wonderful shuls in the area that maybe we would prefer a different one. We decided to rent and shul hop to figure out where we wanted to be.

The bad part is that our “stuff” took a hit. And that’s hard to take.

If I hear one more time, “It’s just ‘stuff,’” I might scream. Photo albums, old letters, high school yearbooks, original copies of journal articles I wrote, and my mother’s recipe box are not “just stuff.” They’re special stuff. They mark time; they concretize the ephemeral. That’s a nice thing for “stuff” to be able to do. You might say that stuff has the interesting and important job of bridging the spiritual (in the form of meaning) and the physical (in the form of the objects that retain that meaning).

But there’s more. Even things that don’t have special memories attached to them have meaning and value to us.

Dishes, furniture, pots and pans have their own meaning whether it is the esthetics that you enjoy or the purely utilitarian value of being able to get a job done with them. Yes, unlike things imbued with memories, these items can be more readily replaced, but even then it takes time to do so and time is a spiritual thing. It’s measurable, true, but irreplaceable.

I have a complete set of parve cookware, both chometz and for Pesach.

I thoroughly enjoy using my garlic crusher to make my extremely good creamy garlic salad dressing, and I like to have my powerful mixer at hand

to make loaves of bread without the work. And my cookware matches, I’ll have you know. And I enjoy that too. I take pleasure in it.

When I first left home, I got a job in New Hampshire in a school for adolescent boys referred by the court. My mom had been cooking with spices because the doctor had told her to stop using so much salt. Because of this, I really enjoyed experimenting with spices and herbs and so my parents bought me a spice rack as a house gift for my first apartment. It was a bright, lacquered red. I don’t have that rack anymore; over the years, the number of spices I obtained left this little rack in the dust. But my parve became red.

And maybe I enjoy being just a tad idiosyncratic by using the “wrong” color for parve. That’s my pleasure, too, and it’s a good thing.

Yaakov Aveinu went back across the river to fetch some small jars. Why in the world were these jars so important? Weren’t they “just stuff”? We are taught that Yaakov set the example for us of valuing the physical world. Those jars can only be replaced with time and

and the floor is what got flooded?

What are you supposed to feel when you spend inordinate amounts of time placing ruined things in black trash bags and walking all of them out to the curb? What are you supposed to feel when your days are spent in what seems like such unproductive activity?

I think you’d be justified to feel overwhelmed, sad, confused, disappointed, devastated, frustrated, anxious, and maybe just a little annoyed at the One who ordered up the storm. If you’ve felt any of those things, don’t let anyone make you feel guilty for it. Hashem placed within you the possibility of feeling those feelings, so go ahead and feel them.

Photo albums, old letters, high school yearbooks, and my mother’s recipe box are not “just stuff.” They’re special stuff.

They mark time; they concretize the ephemeral.

money. Money is also a bracha that is not to be taken for granted.

So don’t let anyone tell you that your “stuff” is “just” stuff. It’s important and it has spiritual roots. You could even argue that because Hashem gave us this beautiful physical world, He expects us to value it as much as the spiritual world that He also gave us. Since it came from Him, the physical is spiritual.

So what are you supposed to feel when you lose it? When you lose seforim that you painstakingly wrote yellow sticky notes in? When you lose your mother’s dairy fish mold because it got rusty sitting so long in that murky water? When you lose all your black shoes because shoes go on the floor

But He also gave us the refuah. In fact, He had the refuah in place before He commanded the storm.

For me, the refuah is Thanksgiving.

You see, it comes around my birthday and since I was a small child, my parents made a big fuss over this holiday.

Aside from the cake that I never had room for after the Thanksgiving dinner, I always liked this holiday because I think it’s great to have one more way to say todah to Hashem.

As a therapist, one of my favorite homework assignments is to have people spend a good five minutes with modeh ani in the morning, thanking HaKodosh Baruch Hu for life, health, children, a roof over our heads, and all the goodness that we have. When He restores our souls, we should be cogni-

zant of all that comes with it.

So, too, when we eat that turkey – especially if we are displaced, as I am – it’s a good moment to recognize how much we generally take for granted

our warm houses, dishes, furniture, and “stuff” that we are suddenly bereft of now. Going forward, it’s a safe bet that we will not take them for granted any more. As we replace what has been lost, we will perhaps value our things in a way we didn’t before. And that feeling of placing value on things is a good feeling. It’s good to be connected in an intense and personal way to the gifts Hashem gives us; that experience brings us closer to Him. This year, I’ll probably be making my birthday turkey at my macheteinister’s house and eating it with my daughter for Shabbos. It’s easier on her not to have an extra holiday, but I’ll be surrounded by grandchildren arguing over who gets to sit next to savta. You can’t put a price tag on that.

Will I miss the leaves of my beautiful dining room table that got mildewed? Yes, of course. I’ll be sad about them. But my losses add piquancy to my hakoras hatov for my family, a substitute warm house, and the love within it.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn has had over 35 years clinical experience. She has been in numerous publications, both professional and for the public, and has appeared on TV and has been featured on radio. She practices Marriage-Friendly Therapy. She has a local practice in Woodmere, N.Y. See her website, http://drdeb.com, or call her at 646-54-DRDEB.

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Ask the Attorney

Shlomo Steiman, Esq

Can I Pay Just Pennies to the IRS For My Large Tax Bill?

Times have been tough and I’ve had trouble paying bills, including my taxes. Is it really true what I hear on the radio that if I call the right people I can get off paying only pennies on the dollar for my tax liabilities?

The Attorney Responds: The short answer is maybe. Now I know that sounds too much like a lawyer’s response, but I say that since it depends on your financial situation. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as well as the New York Department of Taxation and Finance, is in business to collect money to run our ever-expanding government and not to merely settle for “pennies.” Therefore, unless your financial situation is sufficiently grave, and you are able to adequately document it for them so that they believe

they will not be able to collect anything from you now or for the foreseeable future, they will not be willing to settle.

With that said, tax authorities do settle for less than the full amount, and it is the responsibility of tax attorneys like

a better understanding of the entire tax collection process.

As an individual, you must usually pay your taxes by April 15th of the year after it was earned, even if you file an extension. If you are unable to pay your

The IRS, as well as the New York Department of Taxation and Finance, is in business to collect money to run our ever-expanding government and not to merely settle for “pennies.” me to present that information in a way that makes them more likely to settle.

But before we talk about settling, let me backtrack for a moment, so you can get

entire liability by the due date, you may enter into an installment agreement with the IRS, stretching out payments over a period of months or years. If you do not make an agreement and do not pay your taxes, the IRS or New York State may eventually place a lien on your property, garnish your wages, and/or take money out of your bank account, usually when you need it most (although there are ways to stop it).

To enter into an agreement, you must first have filed all required tax returns. Then, you must disclose to the IRS all your assets, liabilities, income and expenses, in order to obtain IRS approval. Once approved, penalties may be reduced, although interest continues to accrue on the outstanding balance until the balance is paid off in full. If the total tax liability does not exceed $50,000, the process is streamlined and there is no need to supply financial statements. Per the agreement, the entire liability will have to be paid off within 72 months, directly debited from your account. However, it is not a good idea to enter into such an agreement unless you realistically believe you will be able to make all required payments.

If your financial situation is such that it will be impossible to fully pay off your liabilities, you may be a candidate for an Offer in Compromise. An Offer in Compromise is an agreement between you and the IRS allowing you to settle your liability for less than the amount owed. This allows you, after paying the amount agreed upon, to achieve a fresh start with the IRS. Before accepting

your offer, the IRS looks at your income and assets and determines whether you would be able to pay the full amount owed, either at once or over a longer period of time. If convinced that you do not have the wherewithal to pay the entire amount owed, the IRS may agree to a reduced amount, which in extreme cases may be for pennies on the dollar. Although you may submit the offer yourself, you would likewise be best off contacting a tax attorney familiar with the process and knowledgeable in the methods of presenting your situation in the most favorable light to help assure you obtain the maximum benefit to which you are legally entitled. The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has a similar program for state tax liabilities; however, it is usually less generous than the IRS. This article is published for informational purposes only. It is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein.

Shlomo Steiman, a former Justice Department Auditor, is a Queens attorney with an office in Manhattan. His practice focuses on tax and non-profit organizations. He can be reached by phone at 917-838-5923 or by email at ssteiman@steimanlaw.com.

CNG Networking Group is an Orthodox Jewish networking group which meets in Queens and Long Island. The attorney sub-group of CNG has 8 members with various specialties: Trusts & Estates, Real Estate, Matrimonial, Criminal, Personal Injury, Trademarks/Copyright, Tax, Nonprofits, Litigation. We welcome questions from readers on a wide range of legal matters. Please submit your legal questions to SchechterLaw@gmail.com. While we do not provide specific legal advice, we hope to present readers with a greater understanding of the issues presented and potential means of resolving difficulties. No column is a substitute for competent legal advice.

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Sensory Processing Disorder Q: I have one daughter whom I hope you can help me with. She is 12 and quite mature in some ways, coping amazingly well academically and socially in a class above her correct age. It’s at home that she displays odd behavior, which is inappropriate for her age and disturbing to those around her. We have encouraged her to conform more, unsuccessfully. Examples include: • Constantly fiddling with belts, necklaces, buckles etc.

• Standing ON TOP of people rather than keeping a reasonable distance • Failing to blow her nose properly so then sniffing all the time How can she become aware of these issues and take them seriously?

A: From what you have described, it sounds like your daughter has a sensory processing disorder. Sensory processing disorders can present themselves in multiple ways. The three most common are: Overresponsive, underresponsive, and sensory seeking. Carol Stock Kranowitz, author of The Out of Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder, explains the symptoms in the chart below: Overresponsive Child

Underresponsive Child

SensorySeeking Child

Response to sensation

“Oh no!”

“Ho, hum”

“More!”

Touch

Avoids touching or being touched.

Reacts strongly to certain textures of clothing or food.

Is unaware of messy hands, face, or clothes/ Does not notice how things feel and often drops them.

Seeks out every sensation: chews on shirts cuffs, rubs against walls, and bumps into people.

Movement and balance

Avoids movement.

Keeps feet on the ground and gets carsick.

Unaware of falling and protects self poorly. Can swing for a long time without getting dizzy.

Craves fast movement. Moves constantly in often-dangerous positions.

Body position and muscle control

Rigid and uncoordinated.

Avoids activities that require strong sensory input.

Lacks inner drive to move for play, but can become more alert after actively pushing, or pulling.

Craves bear hugs and being squeezed. Seeks vigorous activity.

Sights

Gets overexcited with too much to look at.

Ignores new stimuli – even objects in his path.

Seeks visually stimulating scenes for lengthy times.

Sounds, smells, tastes

Objects to loud sounds, strong odors, and certain textures or temperatures of food.

Is unaware or unresponsive to loud sounds, unpleasant odors, and spicy foods.

Welcomes loud noises (may speak in a booming voice), seeks strong odors, and prefers spicy or very hot foods.

Your daughter’s constant fiddling with objects that make noise, standing on top of others, and regular sniffling point to a sensory-seeking child. Of course, it is impossible for me to make this diagnosis without actually meeting your daughter, but perhaps the following tip can help.

As someone who is seeking sensory information, your daughter might be mak-

ing other people uncomfortable. However, if you provide her with opportunities throughout her day for extra sensory information, she might be able to better control her impulses. This plan to add sensory information into her day would be part of her “balanced sensory diet.”

A balanced sensory diet is a planned and schedule activity program that a therapist or special educator develops to help meet the needs of a specific child’s nervous system. Dr. Kranowitz writes that, “Its purpose is to help the child become better regulated, more focused, adaptable, and skillful.” Just as nutritional food provides daily nourishment, a sensory diet fulfills physical and emotional needs.

For someone like your daughter, working with multiple calming activities will help her decrease her need to seek out additional sensory information. Some calming activities include: • Sucking a hard candy, frozen fruit bar, or spoonful of peanut butter • Pushing against walls with the hands, shoulders, back and head • Rocking or swaying slowly back and forth • Cuddling • Taking a bath Depending on your child’s needs, these activities can be structured in various sequences throughout the day.

So, maybe it is not that your child needs to become aware of the bracelet playing, close talking, and sniffling, but rather that you can help her replace those behaviors with ones that are more pleasant to those around her. Once the need for more sensory information has been fulfilled, perhaps then you can help her break out of the original awkward behavior.

The opinions expressed in this article reflect the view of the author and those cited by her.

In all matters of hashkafah and chinuch, readers should seek reliable rabbinical guidance.

Mrs. Rifka Schonfeld, founder and director of Strategies for Optimum Success (S.O.S.) in 1980, services all grade levels in secular as well as Hebrew studies. A long-time kriah and reading specialist, she offers evaluations, as well as G.E.D. preparation, social skills training and shidduch coaching. She can be reached at 718-382-5437 or at rifkaschonfeld@ verizon.net.

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Celebrating Thanksgiving with the Family

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can’t believe that it’s Thanksgiving this week. I felt that it crept up on us very fast this year. These past few weeks have been really hectic for everyone in our area of Long Island and Far Rockaway. Although many of us have suffered, as a community we have a lot to be thankful for – as we have seen friends, neighbors and our community at large mobilize to help those of us who are in need during these very trying times. I am proud to be a part of this community.

Instead of the “regular” turkey, I wanted to make something a bit different this

year – a turkey breast roast. I often make this during the year for the chagim but this year I thought it would be a nice change to have it for Thanksgiving.

Ask your butcher to prepare the turkey breast roast with the fresh sliced deli pastrami stuffed inside. I order mine from Levi Baron from Seasons; they do an excellent job and I ask them not to season the outside of the turkey. It’s on sale this week at Seasons (you can call 516-295-3300 to order it, even when it’s not Thanksgiving week).

Red Lentil Vegetable Soup

Curried Turkey & Zucchini Salad

I always get lots of compliments on this soup. I make this every Thanksgiving dinner and I couldn’t leave it out of this year’s article.

This is a great salad for Shabbat lunch to use up any turkey leftovers. Don’t be afraid of the curry. It’s a small amount and it really kicks up the flavor.

Ingredients 1 cup red lentils, sorted and rinsed 4 cups water Bay leaf Salt 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 onions, diced 4 cloves minced garlic 2-inch piece ginger, minced 2 teaspoon cumin 1 teaspoon curry 2 teaspoon coriander 2 cups butternut squash, cut into ½ inch dice 1 cup zucchini, peeled and cut into ½ inch dice 1 medium parsnip, peeled and cut into ½ inch dice 2 carrots, peeled and cut into ½ inch dice 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 bunch baby spinach Pinch cayenne pepper

Ingredients 1/3 cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar 1 teaspoon grated onion 1/2 teaspoon curry powder ¼ teaspoon salt 2 cups shredded cooked turkey 1 cup seedless red grapes 1 medium zucchini, cut into matchstick-size strips 1 head romaine lettuce ¼ cup slivered almonds, toasted, or Terra chip stix

Directions Add lentils, water and bay leaf to a medium saucepan. Cover and boil on a simmer for 20 minutes until lentils are tender. Add 1 tablespoon salt and remove bay leaf. Puree lentils in a blender.

Add onions to a skillet and sauté until onions are soft. Add garlic, ginger, cumin, curry, and coriander and sauté for a few more minutes. Add butternut squash, parsnip, carrots, zucchini, salt, and 1 ½ cups of water. Simmer for 10 minutes until vegetables are soft.

Stir lemon juice and spinach into pureed lentils then add the vegetables; stir to combine. The heat will wilt the spinach. Add pepper and salt if necessary.

Directions Combine mayonnaise, sweet chili sauce, vinegar, onion, curry powder and salt in large bowl; stir until smooth. Add turkey, grapes and zucchini; toss to coat.

Arrange lettuce on platter. Top with chicken mixture; sprinkle with almonds or Terra chip Stix.

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Heat pan, then add oil. Once oil is hot, add turkey and sear on all sides for a few minutes. Place turkey in a baking dish.

In the same pan, add a drop more oil and add onion and peppers and sauté until soft on a medium heat. Add the entire can of pineapple chunks with their juices and stir until it becomes concentrated.

Pour sauce over turkey and insert probe and set to 165°. Bake for 1 ½ hours at 350°, making sure to not overcook it as turkey dries out fast.

Slice when it has cooled. Serve warm with sauce.

Apple Cinnamon Pie Ingredients 4 to 5 green apples, peeled and sliced or use assorted apples you have in the fridge 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon sugar 3 eggs 1 ½ cups sugar 1 ½ cups oil 3 teaspoons of vanilla extract 1-½ cups of plain flour Extra cinnamon sugar mixture for sprinkling on top Directions Preheat oven to 350°.

Place apples in the center of a 9-inch round pan so they come 1/3 up on the sides of the pan. In a separate bowl, mix together cinnamon and sugar.

Sprinkle 1 ½ tablespoons of cinnamon and sugar all over the apples, reserving the rest for later.

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Spoon the batter on top of the apple mixture and then sprinkle a little more cinnamon and sugar on top of the batter.

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I have been asked numerous times in the past two weeks regarding the extent of kitchen cabinets being damaged by Hurricane Sandy. What items can be saved and what damage did the water really do?

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nfortunately, many people have suffered considerable damage due to Hurricane Sandy that blew through a few weeks ago. The question is if their beautiful kitchens are all trashed or can be salvaged somewhat.

When it comes to wood cabinets, the worst thing to get in contact with them is water. Cabinets are made not only of wood doors that you see but the construction of the box is made entirely out of wood. Some cabinet companies offer two different constructions in their lines where the cabinet can either be made out of plywood or flake board which is pressed wood or a combination of the two. When water reaches cabinets that are made out of flake board, the water penetrates the wood and begins to expand fairly soon causing it to start to warp and bend. On plywood cabinets it doesn’t penetrate as much but can begin to wear away at the wood and cause them to warp as well.

When talking about Hurricane Sandy, these issues multiply. We are not simply talking about a leak from a faucet but a major flood that was sitting against your base cabinets for an extended period of time. This flood water penetrated the construction of your cabinets now and even though you might not see it right away, it will cause the wood to rot and warp over time and the integrity of the cabinet is damaged forever. Another issue to deal with after this hurricane is that a lot of the water that seeped into the houses was contaminated. The water infiltrated every part of your cabinets and the places where you keep your dishes and pots. The water can be lingering on the lining of the shelves and interior walls and can continue to contaminate and smell long after.

A lot of people have also asked me

regarding their doors on the cabinets and if those can be saved even though they know their cabinet boxes cannot.

The cabinet doors are usually about ž of the price of the actual cabinet and it is tempting to keep those doors even if you cannot save the cabinet, but unfortunately there are issues that will arise as well with the water affecting those doors. The doors are usually made with a frame around the center panel and they are especially made with some gapping around with molding so that the change in weather from cold to hot does not crack the door and just expands with the change in temperature.

When this flood came on top of the doors, the water can seep into those gaps and penetrate the wood door.

When this happens, it will cause the wood to swell like it does by the cabinet box and will expand and start to crack and warp the door. Another issue that will come up is that the water after soaking in the cabinets will have weakened the holes that hold the hinges on the cabinet as well as rust the hinges themselves and you will only have hardship in the future trying to open and close your doors.

This has been a very hard time for many whether you have just put in a brand new kitchen or have had your kitchen for many years. It is never easy to have to get rid of something you love but certain items cannot be fixed once damaged. My heart goes out to all those that have homes that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy and I am offering 20% off on all orders to anyone affected by the storm. I hope in the future to never have to deal with these types of questions again. Good luck.

Naftali Landau is owner and chief designer of Exclusive Cabinetry and Design and has been designing kitchens for the past 12 years. For questions or ideas for future articles, he can be reached at 917-468-7693 or at naftalilandau@gmail.com

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efore I write any humorous or lighthearted article, first I start with a bracha for the safety of all our children in Israel and our extended family, the people of Israel, that Hashem should help resolve the situation in Israel without casualties and for the long term. Amen.

Some people shared with me a trauma they lived through these past weeks they considered worse than their house floating away—even with them in it!!

Worse also, they said, than having their car relegated to a fossil state (and I don’t mean fossil fuel). Rather, they vented about the need to succumb to moving in with their “mothers-in-law.”

No hurricane, storm, or tornado seems to create the “flood” of emotions or sense of “displacement” this event stirs.

How is it that someone’s honored mother becomes someone else’s nightmare?!

Perhaps it may be that they weren’t necessarily the easiest mother to have all those years, but the spouse had a

childhood to acclimate. Or maybe the spouse is secretly happy to be bringing you home with them to deflect the attention off of them.

Granted, there are people who have a truly beautiful relationship with their mother-in-law. However, no one will deny there is a certain segment of the population that gets a raging ulcer whenever they just hear the word.

That’s why I will use “MIL” for the remainder of this article, when possible.

In many cases, this person gifted you your soul mate, so why is it that when you are around them you feel like an inmate?

How can we make it better?

Look, one day I’ll be in that role and I want my in-law children to be able to survive me! Or even on a stretch, to love me!

Perhaps some helpful tools might be worth exploring: First of all, maybe we need to de-

till this day. That would mean your MIL is stuck in a vicious trickle down cycle and is not necessarily completely responsible for her actions.

Or how about this—maybe a mother-in- you know…can’t figure out their role. They know you have your mother

My mother-in-law was supposed to be my second mother. If I accept that as a fact and try to find a way to appreciate her in all her glory, maybe, just maybe, she’ll get to appreciate me in all of mine!

fine MIL differently. “Mother in Love” or “Madly in Love” might be a good start. Get away from the old definitions!

Then maybe it would be good to find a common enemy—that always brings people together. Like why not gang up against the fathers-in-law. They always seem to get off easy! No one makes father-in-law jokes. After all, did you ever suspect maybe it really isn’t the mother in … [fill in the blank] who is making all the trouble? You know the world was created with ten utterances. It is said women got nine parts of speech to use in this world while men, along with any other talking creatures, share the other one part. So maybe fathers-in-law are preserving their limited word supply and instigating in the background and just using their wives as the front man to express themselves.

Or how about this—maybe it’s not really your MIL’s fault, but really her MIL who started the trend and treated her badly. In fact maybe it can be traced back to some downtrodden, abused, frustrated woman in a babushka in Romania centuries ago who set the tone and has given MILs a bad rap

to confide in, shop with, complain to, ask advice from, etc…they are simply seeking a role in your life. Unfortunately, they have too often opted for the one of the villain. Perhaps if you can give them a different position they could run with it (i.e. like recipient of all the compliments you meant to give your spouse but didn’t have time to before he ran out this morning).

Think about this: even if you showed up at your mother-in-law’s door (there I said it) tired, frustrated, and depleted, and felt less than comfortable and welcomed during this storm—you can take solace in the fact that she did after all take you in. My friend said you’re ahead of the game, her mother-in-law never called, and

put out a “Do Not Disturb” sign when she showed up.

Perhaps there is something that can be learned from everything.

Listen: you were not a mother till someone said “mama”; you were just a person! You were not a full-fledged parent till someone said, “You are embarrassing me” and you knew you achieved parent status. Well, no “MIL” is a mother-in-law till we make them one either. Maybe we can give them a different chance. We can find it in us to say they are my second mom. This was all part of G-d’s original plan. He gave me my first mother. I had no choice and I developed a relationship with her despite her embarrassing qualities. Now this was also in His plan; my MIL was supposed to be my second mother. If I accept that as a fact and try to find a way to appreciate her in all her glory, maybe, just maybe, she’ll get to appreciate me in all of mine!

Try to close your ears like kids do when you are trying to talk to them, and open your heart like kids do. Don’t listen so sensitively to what they are saying to you (be happy they’re talking to you at all!). Just say, “This is supposed to be my second mom and I’m going to love her just like I love my own mom, “Come … or High Waters.”

And maybe that way she’ll take you in with open arms before the “...and High Water” hit next time.

Let’s keep praying for peace in Israel and peace in our families too!

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In the Kitchen Jamie Geller

A Perfect Thanksgiving Dinner for a Crowd

Roasted Turkey Roasted turkey is perfect for holidays and entertaining. Plus, turkey is one of the most economical and delicious ways to feed a crowd.

Ingredients 1 turkey, about 10 pounds 1 lemon, halved 6 sprigs fresh thyme 3 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed 3 large onions, peeled and quartered; divided 1 tablespoon paprika 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 tablespoon coarse black pepper 4 tablespoons margarine, melted 1/3 cup olive oil Directions Preheat oven to 350°. Lightly spray a 12×17-inch roasting pan with non-stick cooking spray. Rinse turkey inside and out under cold running water. Pat dry. Place turkey in prepared pan. Stuff cavity of turkey with lemon, thyme, garlic and 1 of the onions.

In a bowl combine paprika, salt, pepper, margarine and olive oil. Microwave on high for about 20-30 seconds or until margarine has melted. Mix well. Baste and rub the mixture on the turkey and under the skin. Scatter the other 2 onions around the bottom of the pan. Loosely cover turkey with aluminum foil.

Bake, loosely covered, at 350° for 2 hours and 30 minutes (15 minutes per

Maple Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Pecans Ingredients 4 pounds sweet potatoes, scrubbed clean and cut into 1/2inch thick wedges 5 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon kosher salt 6 tablespoons maple syrup 2 cups chopped pecans Directions Preheat oven to 400°.

Divide sweet potatoes evenly between two sheet pans in a single layer. Drizzle with olive oil and salt and roast for 30 minutes. Remove and toss with maple syrup and pecans. Return to oven and roast 5 to 10 minutes more or until tender and slightly browned.

pound for turkeys less than 12 pounds and 12 minutes per pound for turkeys larger than 12 pounds), basting occasionally. The turkey is done when an instant-read digital meat thermometer inserted into the inner thigh reads 180° to 185°, or when the juices run clear when a long-tined fork is inserted into the thickest part of the inner thigh. For golden and crisp skin, remove foil for last 45 minutes of baking.

For neater slicing, let turkey stand for 20 minutes before carving.

During the last hour of baking, surround the turkey with 20 baby carrots; 3 sweet potatoes, sliced; 20 red bliss potatoes, halved; and 3 large heads of fennel, quartered. Sprinkle vegetables with kosher salt and pour 2 cups of water over them.

Cider Glazed Vegetables This simple apple cider glaze works well with any fresh or frozen vegetable you happen to have on hand for a quick side dish. This recipe uses green beans but it’s great on sliced carrots, parsnips or other winter root vegetables. Also try it with other types of vinegar or different kinds of nuts.

Ingredients 2 pounds green beans, washed and trimmed 4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons honey 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup sliced almonds Directions Preheat oven to 400°.

Spread green beans out on a large sheet pan in a single layer. Toss with vinegar, olive oil, honey and salt. Roast 8 to 10 minutes or until tender but still crisp. Transfer to a serving platter and sprinkle with sliced almonds.

Chocolate Pumpkin Marble Cake

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Layer chocolate and pumpkin batters and swirl with a knife to create the gorgeous marble effect. Top with a sprinkling of powdered sugar or a chocolate glaze.

Ingredients 1-1/2 cups margarine, room temperature 3 cups sugar 6 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 1-1/4 cups canned pumpkin 2-3/4 cups all-purpose or whole wheat flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice mix 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 2/3 cup soy milk mixed with 1 teaspoon lemon juice Chocolate glaze or powdered sugar for serving Directions In the bowl of stand mixer, beat margarine and sugar until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Scrape half the mixture into another bowl.

Make pumpkin batter: Beat the pumpkin into the half of the mixture in the mixer, until well blended. In another bowl, stir together 1-3/4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and pumpkin pie spice. Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and beat on low speed just until blended.

To make chocolate batter: In another bowl, mix remaining 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and the cocoa. Add flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk to the other half of the batter mixture (starting and ending with flour mixture), beating after each addition just until blended.

Spray and flour a 12 cup bundt pan. Spoon half the pumpkin batter into pan.

Spoon half of the chocolate batter over top and repeat with the rest of batters. Gently run the blade of a butter knife around the center of the pan several times, then draw the knife across the width of the pan in 10 to 12 places to swirl batters.

Bake in a 350° oven until a wood skewer inserted into center of cake comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 55 to 60 minutes. Let cake cool 10 minutes in pan, then invert onto a rack, lift off pan, and cool cake completely.

Top with powdered sugar or make a quick glaze by mixing 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar with 1/4 cup cocoa powder and 1-2 tablespoons soy milk.

Pumpkin Pie with Caramel Whipped Cream To save time use a store bought prepared graham cracker pie shell instead of making your own.

Ingredients For Pie 1½ cup crushed chocolate graham crackers 4 tablespoons margarine, melted 1 cup pumpkin puree (15-ounce) 1 cup soy milk 2 large eggs ½ cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons maple syrup 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg For Caramel Whipped Cream 4 tablespoons caramel sauce 2 cups pareve whipped cream

Jamie Geller is the only cookbook author who wants to get you out of the kitchen – not because she doesn’t love food – but because she has tons to do. As “The Bride Who Knew Nothing” Jamie found her niche as everybody’s favorite cook next-door. Specializing in scrumptious meals that are a snap to prepare, she authored the Quick & Kosher Cookbook series and is co- founder of the Kosher Media Network, which recently launched the Joy of Kosher with Jamie Geller magazine and companion website JoyofKosher.com, a social network for foodies. Jamie hosts the popular Quick & Kosher cooking show online at youtube.com/ joyofkosher and on-air on JLTV. Jamie and her “hubby” live in Israel. Their five children give her plenty of reasons to get out of the kitchen — fast.

Directions Preheat oven to 350°. In a small bowl, combine crushed graham crackers and margarine and stir. Press mixture into a 9-inch pie plate in an even layer, across the bottom and up the sides. Bake for 10 minutes and remove.

Increase oven temperature to 400°. In a large bowl, combine pumpkin, soy milk, eggs, sugar, maple syrup and spices and whisk. Gently pour into pie shell and bake 40 minutes or until set. Let cool completely or refrigerate overnight for best results.

Gently fold 4 tablespoons caramel into whipped cream. Spread over chilled pie just before serving and slicing.

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From Sea to Shining Sea : Delaware

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In 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, earning it the nickname of The First State. There is much history here and Delawareans are proud of it.

Things You Won’t Want to Miss Winterthur Museum and Garden Founded by Henry Francis du Pont, Winterthur is the premier museum of American decorative arts, showcasing both early America and the du Pont family’s life here. It is home to a 60-acre garden that is among the country’s best, and the famed research library serves scholars from around the globe.

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dren will delight in the Kite Festival. For those who like to hike, take time to enjoy the three-mile trek along with a paved trail within the park. A climb to the top of the World War II Observation Tower will reward you with a 360-degree view of the spectacular vistas.

Elsie Williams Doll Collection This spot is perfect for the little girls on your trip. Elsie Williams, the wife of US Senator John Williams, had the opportunity to travel the world and collect dolls from all countries and cultures. The American Doll lovers on your family vacation will truly delight in this substantial collection.

Governor Ross Mansion and Plantation A visit here will take you back into time before the Civil War. Explore a complete Victorian mansion with slave quarters, barns and sheds. Learn much about life then and how much has changed over the last 150 years.

Mason Dixon Marker Throughout the many years of tension between the north and the south, the Mason Dixon line symbolized the many differences between the two sides.

In 1794, surveyors Mason and Dixon marked the boundaries between the lands of Lord Calvert’s Maryland and the Pennsylvania and Delaware holdings of the family of William Penn. Years later, when slavery was in dispute, the line divided the slavery and non-slavery states of the north and south. Today, a double crown-state bearing the coats of arms of the Calverts and the Penns still stands here, in memory.

Bennett Orchards When visiting Delaware in the summer and spring, make sure to spend some time at Bennett Orchards picking lush peaches and nectarines. With a warm weather and juicy fruits, a good time will be had by all.

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