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ost of us, looking back, can remember where we were a year ago. We can remember which shul we davened in on Rosh Hashana; we can remember the things that weighed heavily on our minds. Now, a year later, we are in a different place. Many of us will not be davening in the same place as we davened for the past few years. And for many of us, if we will be davening in the same place, our shuls will look markedly different than in previous years. Our thoughts and our prayers, although perhaps primarily the same, have been colored by the year’s events. We have changed, and we have experienced, and we have grown in our perspective on things. Rosh Hashana davening is an emotional time of prayer. The words and the tunes bring people back to their core. In other years, when things were “normal,” people would travel to the shuls they were most accustomed to for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur davening. The soulful melodies, the chazzan’s voice, the poignant mood that permeates the atmosphere, the

yearning of those gathered in shul – those pieces merge and help our tefillos to soar. But we have to remember that, regardless of where we are, regardless of the tunes we sing, regardless of the circumstance we find ourselves in, our tefillos can still soar. Rosh Hashana is a day when we coronate Hashem as our King. We crown Him as King of the world, but most importantly, we crown Him as King over ourselves. We remind ourselves that He is the Creator and the Ruler of us all. We remind ourselves that our existence is a gift bestowed upon us. And we ask Him to grant us another year filled with goodness so we can serve Him in the best way. May this year be filled with only good things for the world and for all of Klal Yisroel. May we see the goodness that Hashem constantly bestows upon us. And may this year be the year when all of the world will recognize that Hashem is the true King. Kesiva v’chasima tova, Shoshana

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

Community Happenings

Mrs. Dvora Leah Hecht, a”h

In Memory of My Daughter by Lisa Rosenblatt

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ISRAEL Israel News

My Israel Home

JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein on the Parsha

Iyov’s Memories by Rav Moshe Weinberger

The Three Stages of Teshuva by Shmuel Reichman

G-d’s Alarm Clock by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

The Journey of Teshuva by Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

PEOPLE Rosh Hashana Jew by David Perlow

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Keeping Kosher in Dubai

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HEALTH & FITNESS What To Do with Feelings by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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FOOD & LEISURE The Aussie Gourmet: Simanim Chicken

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Dear Editor, As we’ve all seen in the papers and on all our social media, one of our local mosdos in FR/Five Towns has launched a very nice campaign to raise money to help their rebbeim with the expenses of their family simchas. This is a great initiative, and I plan on donating to it. However, if my memory serves me right, this is the second such campaign they’ve made in the last few years, in which (I think) they raised several million dollars for this fund. It’s very nice that the yeshiva is going the extra mile and helping their dedicated staff. This had me thinking: if one of the schools were able to put together several millions for this, how much would a simcha “takana hall” cost? Five Towns/Far Rockaway is one of the only communities that haven’t come up with a nice and respectable wedding option for people that can’t afford tens of thousands of dollars for their weddings. Why not make this a community-wide initiative with all the schools appealing to their parent body and alumni? We could raise the funds needed for a nonprofit hall, and instead of cutting their rebbeim a check for $10,000 (I’m making that number up), you can decrease their costs by $15,000. It would become a good option for the community members who would want to make simchas there on nights that it would be available.

We could have a tiered system in which rebbeim would have “first dibs,” followed by community members, and then people from other communities (I’m sure Queens, West Hempstead, Brooklyn would also be thrilled with a nice option within a 30-40 min drive). We could even give priority to community members that “invest” with generous donations during the fundraising stage. I’m sure many would take advantage. This would also benefit all local schools whose tuition boards receive applications every year asking for tuition breaks due to people’s finances being strained from marrying off a child or making a bar mitzvah. Helping the community save money on simchas will certainly add more money to the tuition pool. And last but not least, I’m sure every wedding guest (and yeshiva leadership) would appreciate not having to shlep to Lakewood, Passaic, Monsey, Williamsburg etc. for a wedding. Here are just a few ideas my friends came up with when I floated this idea: -With airlines on the decline, perhaps there are spaces near JFK that are opening up. -With retail dying, there should be some big spaces open in or near Green Acres Mall. -Make a double-hall like they have in Israel. With one kitchen, you Continued on page 10

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can make double the food and costs wouldn’t double. -It would be a new source of Jewish jobs, also helping the community. -Have a schedule in which Sunday/Thursday will be higher-end weddings and a Mon/Tuesday/ Wednesday could be “takana nights,” with the more premium nights offsetting the costs of the takana weddings further. Perhaps this campaign can be a springboard for the leadership of all the schools in the area to work together for something that would benefit their rebbeim and the community at large in a more permanent way. AD Far Rockaway Dear Editor, I do not write to newspapers. However, after reading David S. Pecoraro’s letter last week, I cannot help it. The letter was tough to get through: He started by saying that all these riots are taking place on Trump’s watch. He forgot to mention, however, that all these riots are taking place in cities run by Democrats who refuse government assistance and it is worth it for them politically for the unrest to continue. He then goes on to point out some of President Trump’s flaws but that is what a typical Democrat will do while ignoring all of the good that the president has done. The president is an oheiv Yisroel unlike any other but that is to be expected. Then he talks about the choice we have. We can elect a mensch like Joe Biden. Joe Biden is a man in his upper seventies who is clearly suffering from what looks to be dementia. Who cares if he met every single Israeli prime minister? Who cares about a bill he passed thirty

years ago? He was competent then. Now he is being controlled by the likes of Bernie Sanders and AOC. Heaven help us if he wins. But what really gets me is the part about Kamala Harris and her husband. “A woman who as a child went door to door collecting donations to plant trees in Israel.” Really? Is this all someone needs to do to run for vice president? She is one of the most far left radical senators who supports the rioting in the streets and the Green New Deal. If Biden and Harris win, she will, in essence, be president. David is willing to elect a left-wing radical senator to be the president because as a child she wanted to plant trees in Israel. He then talks about Douglass Emhoff, who will be the first Jewish spouse. Really? A man whose ancestors sacrificed to remain Jewish for all these years goes and marries a shiksa and cuts off the Jewish heritage from his family? We already have frum Jews in the White House. A Reader Dear Editor, I am very disappointed to see such propaganda printed in last week’s edition. David S. Pecoraro wrote in last week spreading fake news. He makes several points, all of which are misrepresented or not true. He writes, “Every single riot taking place is on his (Trump’s) watch. Every single peaceful protester...” So in one breath he contradicts himself, because riots don’t have peaceful protesters. Also, all the riots are in cities and states run by Democrats. Portland, Oregon: Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler and Democratic Governor Sally Boynton Brown. New York City: Democratic Mayor Bill De Blasio and Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo. Chicago, Illinois: Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker. Seattle, Washington:

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Democratic Mayor Jenny Durkan and Democratic Governor Jay Inslee. Kenosha, Wisconsin: Democratic Mayor John Antaramian and Democratic Governor Tony Evers. This isn’t Trump’s America; this is the left’s America. When he said, “A president who said that there were good people on both sides when neo-Nazis and Klansmen were on one side,” Trump wasn’t talking about those people, he was talking about the good, patriotic Americans who were on “that side” clashing with anti-America rioters. When he writes, “When you see his (Trump’s) henchmen display vile white power symbols,” it’s just not true. It’s typical fake news designed to attack the president because there’s nothing that is true that the left could use against him. He writes, “When the gunmen who murder congregants at Tree of Life or Poway quote Trump’s hateful rhetoric, it too is happening in Trump’s America,” no hateful things they said were said by Trump, and, realize this, Tree of Life is in Pittsburgh, another Democratic-run city. One thing he doesn’t point out is the hateful speech chanted by “peaceful protesters” quoted from terrorist organizations (Antifa). He writes, “If you cannot safely attend High Holy Days services in person, that, too, is in Trump’s America due to his criminally inept response to COVID 19,” that’s also fake news. Trump wants to open the country up, It’s the Democratic mayors and governors (De Blasio and Cuomo) that are keeping everything shut down. When he spews anti-Semitism saying, “Hate-filled rallies reminiscent of the Third Reich” – more fake news. First maybe he should visit the Holocaust museum to see what those rallies looked like. Second, Trump only held rallies where the local officials permitted it. He writes, “Ignoring both his Presidential Daily Briefings and the sage advice of former VP Joe Biden.” Taking advice from someone who can’t remember what office he’s running for (“vote for me for NY Senate”), who tells Chuck Graham who’s in a wheelchair to stand up, and who said “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” isn’t usually the best idea. And in terms of the Presidential Briefings, I don’t know how you know what was said considering those briefings are confidential. He says, “We can elect a leader

who has supported good police officers,” the only candidate that has protected law enforcement is Trump. He writes, “We can elect a leader…who has the respect of every ally on this planet.” Which administration brokered a historic peace deal with the UAE? Which administration moved the embassy to Jerusalem? Trump. Which administration signed a disastrous deal which allowed Iran to build nuclear weapons? Obama Biden. “I cannot wait to cast my vote… for the Biden/ Harris.” If you wish to have riots in the streets, and have catastrophic foreign policy, vote for Sleepy Joe. But if you want to have the greatest economy in history, the lowest unemployment in black and Hispanic communities in history, and historic peace in the Middle East, vote for Trump like all pro-America voters. For all those who want their Trump vote to be counted, DO NOT rely on mail-in ballots as there has been mass voter fraud in elections that have already been held. A Pro-American Reader Dear Editor, While your Notable Quotes section is typically over-the-top in its pro-Trump propaganda. It really jumped the shark last week when it referred to Trump’s odious quotes about dead soldiers as “completely debunked.” In fact, the original report in The Atlantic was confirmed by several other news organizations including the revered and worshipped Fox News which independently reported that two senior administration officials confirmed the report. Sadly, but unsurprisingly, their own reporter’s work was buried on their own network as their commentariats were free to falsely call it a hoax. Furthermore, let’s not forget that Trump is still the man that proudly stated when referring to POWs: “I like people that weren’t captured.” It is another example that the constant whiners about alleged fake news are the ones that are actually purveying it. Sincerely, Anonymous Source Dear Editor, The silent majority is ready to vote President Trump back in office. The Jewish community thanks him for all of his accomplishments! From, The Jewish Silent Majority

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Fresh off the new normalization deal with Israel, the United Arab Emirates has instructed its gleaming hotels to offer kosher food for the expected flood of Jewish tourists. In a missive sent out last week, Abu Dhabi’s Ministry of Tourism and Culture ordered all hotel managers to offer kosher food to its Jewish guests. Citing its commitment to “all visitors and tourists in the emirate of Abu Dhabi,” hotel establishments were “advised to include kosher food options on room service menus and at all food and beverage outlets in their establishments.” The recommended measures included instructions to “designate an area in all kitchens for the preparation of kosher food and to label kosher menu items with a visible reference and recognizable symbol denoting the item is kosher.” Ross Kriel, who serves as the president of the Jewish Council of the Emirates, thanked the UAE leadership for their “wonderful expression of welcome and hospitality.” Since announcing that it would normalize relations with Israel, the UAE has been making an effort to prepare its 160 hotels for the expected flood of Jewish tourists. Currently, Dubai and Abu Dhabi have three synagogues and a Jewish school with 40 students. The UAE’s kashrut supervision will be overseen by the Orthodox Union (OU), which was contacted directly by the Emirates monarchy in late August. The OU has since been working on recruiting kashrut in-

China has given the go-ahead to begin clinical trials on what it hopes will be the world’s first coronavirus vaccine. The experimental nasal spray will begin phase I trials in November that will involve giving the vaccine to 100 volunteers. It is being developed by scientists at Xiamen University, Hong Kong University, and Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise. According to China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, “the intranasal spray contains weakened flu virus that carries the genetic segments of the coronavirus’s spike protein.” Once it enters the body, the vaccine “mimics the natural infection of respiratory viruses to stimulate the body’s immune response against the pathogen that cause Covid-19.” The vaccine is China’s tenth to begin clinical trials, joining other ones currently being produced by CanSino Biologics Inc. and state-owned China National Biotec Group Co. China is viewed first in the global race to produce a safe vaccine for the coronavirus, especially after UK-based pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca announced that it paused trials on its vaccine. The UK vaccine, which had been a favorite to be the world’s first, had progressed to Phase III trials when a subject fell ill. Now, the vaccine is on hold and the company has scrapped its plans to begin production in October.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to grant Belarus a $1.5 billion loan during a sit-down last week with embattled leader Alexander Lukashenko. The commitment came during a meeting the two held at the Russian resort town of Sochi. The summit was the first time Lukashenko left Belarus since massive protests calling for his resignation began last month. “We regard Belarus as our closest ally and, of course, as I have told you many times over our telephone conversations, we will honor all our commitments,” said Putin. “We agreed that during this complicated period Moscow would grant Minsk a state loan of $1.5 billion, and we will do so.” Putin also threw his support behind Lukashenko’s proposed constitutional reforms, calling them “a logical, timely and proper thing to do.” While Lukashenko has pledged to change Belarus’ constitution, the move has been dismissed as an effort to soften the public anger towards him. At a press conference following the sit-down, Putin called on Belarussians to “work out their issues” without foreign intervention. “We want Belarusians themselves, without prompting and pressure from outside,

to sort out this situation in a calm manner and through dialogue and to find a common solution,” Putin said. The 66-year-old autocrat, who has been in power since 1994, is seen as a close ally to Russia and has appealed to Putin for assistance to help him survive the strongest-ever challenge to retain his position. Lukashenko’s visit to Russia came a day after thousands were arrested in the sixth straight week of protests calling for him to step down. The unrest has refused to die down ever since Lukashenko allegedly falsified the results of Belarus’ presidential election on August 9. After emerging victorious by a suspiciously high margin, hundreds of thousands took to the streets to demand that the long-serving politician step down.

Impeachment in Peru

Peru’s Congress approved opening impeachment proceedings against President Martin Vizcarra for allegedly attempting to foil a probe into his corrupt dealings. The decision was approved last Friday by a majority of 36 in favor and 24 against. According to Peruvian law, a third of the 130-member Congress needs to vote in favor of commencing impeachment. A presi-

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dent can only be removed from office with 87 votes. Vizcarra found himself in hot water after recordings surfaced that apparently show the president obstructing a corruption probe into illicit government contracts received by popular singer Richard Cisneros. The performer, who goes by the name Richard Swing, was given $49,000 by the government for motivational speeches during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The government contracts are now being investigated by both Congress and Peru’s auditor general. In the audio, which was played for legislators prior to Friday’s vote, Vizcarra can be heard telling his staff to cover up the fact that he had two private meetings with Cisneros. Opposition parties allege that the recordings prove the president was deeply involved in the illicit contracts and then tried to hide his actions from the law. Vizcarra denies the allegations and called them “a plot to destabilize the government” after the impeachment vote on Friday. “I am not going to resign. I have a commitment to Peru, and I will fulfil it until the last day of my mandate,” he asserted.

The UAE’s Man in D.C.

On Tuesday, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain officially signed what some are already calling “a geopolitical earthquake in the Middle East.” The normalization agreement marks the first time that Arab nations agreed to openly deal with the Jewish State since Israel inked a peace deal with Jordan in 1995. While the aforementioned countries have long been rumored to have a thriving covert relationship, most assumed that Israel’s ties with the UAE would remain under the surface. With much of the Arab world fervently opposing Israel’s existence, the thought of Israelis openly vacationing in Abu Dhabi’s

gleaming hotels was thought to be the stuff of science fiction. The historical breakthrough could not have happened without Yousef Al Otaiba, the current United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States and one of the most powerful diplomats in Washington. The suave and shrewd official had maintained warm ties with senior American Jewish figures for years and played a key role in hammering out the normalization deal with the Mossad intelligence agency. Otaiba, 46, was born to a wealthy family and grew up in Cairo. His father, Mana Saeed Al Otaiba, was close to the UAE’s founding elite and served as the country’s first minister of petroleum. Throughout his childhood, Otaiba was surrounded by the Persian Gulf’s most influential figures including Saudi princes, Kuwaiti oil barons, and decorated military officers. While at school, Otaiba’s polished English, intelligence, and oratory skills caught the eye of the UAE’s rulers. Tapped as someone who could manage the UAE’s tangled web of alliances, he was sent by the country’s leadership to study international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The connections he formed at the elitist school landed him the job as director of international affairs for Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed. In 2008, Otaiba was appointed the UAE’s ambassador in Washington, arguably the kingdom’s most sensitive diplomatic posting. He would quickly cultivate close relationships with some of the most powerful people in the U.S. government. Otaiba’s spending on galas, hospital wings, dinner parties, and birthday bashes have since become famous and catapulted the young diplomat into the limelight. When the 2011 Arab Spring turned into an Iranian winter, Otaibah was one of the loudest voices in the UAE in favor of forming close ties with Israel. Pointing out Israel’s proven track record in combating Iranian subversion, Otaibah reached out to senior Israeli intelligence officials such as current Mossad chief Yossi Cohen. The initial feelers Otaibah sent out to influential Israeli and Jewish officials soon bore fruit. By 2015, Israel’s relations with the UAE had become an open secret in Washington. The New Yorker described how after President Obama signed the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, “U.S. intelligence agencies learned of phone calls between senior United Arab Emirates and Israeli offi-

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cials, including calls between a senior Emirati leader and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.” Allegedly, Hillary Clinton was heard telling people as a presidential candidate that she “knew that the UAE and Saudi Arabia were already working together behind the scenes with Mossad to counter Iranian influence.” The New Yorker added that “U.S. intelligence also intercepted and picked up on a secret meeting between senior UAE and Israeli leaders in Cyprus.” Now, the relationship between Israel and the UAE has gone public, and many credit Otaiba as the driving force behind the historical breakthrough. According to Mark Dubowitz, the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Otaiba’s success comes from “a combination of understanding the United States and Washington very well and also having been here for a long time.” “It’s worth remembering that he is also a minister at the Emirati government,” said Dubowitz. “So, he’s not just an ambassador, but he’s a minister, and people know in Washington that when you speak to Yousef, you’re speaking to someone who is very close to the top leadership.”

Iran Targets U.S. Amb.

The CIA believes that Iran seeks to assassinate the U.S. envoy to South Africa in retaliation for the killing of Iranian General Qassem Sulemeini in January, Sulemeini had been killed by a U.S. drone strike as he left Baghdad Airport. The head of Tehran’s shadowy Quds Force, the assassination was a major shock to the Islamic Republic. In a report released on Monday, the CIA said that Tehran would likely target Ambassador Linda Marx due to her close relationship with President Donald Trump. A member of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago country club in Florida, Marx has been friends with Trump for more than two decades. The report added that Iran chose Marx, as it would have an easier

time operating in South Africa than in European capitals. Hezbollah, a terror group backed by the Islamic Republic, is thought to have a sprawling intelligence apparatus on the continent. In addition, an assassination on European soil would likely alienate the very nations Iran needs to thwart U.S. sanctions and keep the 2015 nuclear deal alive. While Iran had been making preparations for Marx’s assassination for months, the plan “intensified” in recent weeks. The murder plot was coordinated by Iran’s embassy in Pretoria, South Africa. Marx has already been warned, and the U.S. Embassy has tightened security. The U.S. intelligence community believes that Iran is still waiting for the appropriate time to retaliate for Sulemeini’s death. While Tehran had launched a volley of ballistic missiles at U.S. bases in Iraq days after Sulemeini was killed, the CIA estimated that it would wait to carry out a spectacular attack to avenge the loss of the decorated general. While the missile salvo left dozens of U.S. troops with serious brain injuries, Trump refrained from attacking, saying that “Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good

thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world.”

Iran Executes Wrestler

Despite a growing international outcry, Iran executed wrestler Navid Afkari after he was found guilty of killing a security guard. In a statement, Justice Ministry spokesperson Kazem Mousavi confirmed that Afkari “was executed… after legal procedures were carried out at the insistence of the parents and the family of the victim.” Afkari, 27, was hanged in Shiraz, a metropolis in southern Iran. His lawyer claimed after the execution that, contrary to Iranian law, he was not allowed to see his family members before his death. “Were you in such a hurry to carry out the sentence that you deprived Navid of a

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to a crime that he did not commit. Afkari’s brothers Vahid and Habib were also found guilty in the case and received 54 and 27 years in prison, respectively. In recent weeks, Iran had come under an avalanche of international pressure to spare Afkari’s life. U.S. President Donald Trump asked Tehran to refrain from putting Afkari to death, tweeting that his “sole act was an anti-government demonstra-

tion on the streets.” The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in a statement that Afkari’s death was “very sad news” and called it “deeply upsetting that the pleas of athletes from around the world and all the behind-the-scenes work of the IOC...did not achieve our goal.” Human rights organization Amnesty International said Afkari’s death was a “travesty of justice.”

China and India’s foreign ministers agreed last week to “disengage” their troops from a disputed border that has seen frequent clashes over the past month. The agreement between India’s S. Jaishankar and China’s Wang Yi came on the sidelines of a conference in Moscow. In a joint statement, both agreed to withdraw their soldiers with the understanding that “the current situation in the border areas is not in the interest of either side.” The foreign ministers did not set any timeline for the disengagement of tens of thousands of troops who have been stuck in violent skirmishes for over four months but agreed that “both sides shall abide by all the existing agreements and protocol on China-India boundary affairs, maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas, and avoid any action that could escalate matters.” The flashpoint in question is the Line of Actual Control, a 3,500-kilometer (2,175-mile) India-Chinese border and India-controlled Ladakh. The exact border lines are disputed by both countries, which are in the process of constructing a slew of infrastructure projects to cement their hold on the border. In addition, troops from both militaries come face to face with each other at many points, and routine patrols often deteriorate into episodes of violence. Tensions have spiked since a massive brawl broke out in June in the Galwan Valley that resulted in the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers. In August, India accused China of acting aggressively towards its troops at several border locations, while China said that Indian soldiers opened fire on a patrol in September. Both countries fought a war over the Ladakh region in 1962 that resulted in a humiliating defeat for India.

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Sar Hatorah’s Brocho and Appreciation of Shas Yiden In response to recent developments at Shas Yiden and to his requests, Maran Sar Hatorah, Hagaon Hagadol Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shlit”a, was moved to write a special brocho to Shas Yiden and its supporters. “As the new year approaches, I extend my brochos to all those who support the Shas Yiden Kollel Network.” A Million Blatt Minimum in 5781 As the Nasi of Shas Yiden, he is immensely proud the increase of avreichim geonim to 74. With each completing a minimum of 13.555 blatt a year, Shas Yiden avreichim will complete at least

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‫ב"ה‬ ‫ימי הרחמים והסליחות תש"פ‬ ‫בפרוס השנה החד‬ ‫שה הבעל"ט הנני בזה לברך לכל תומכי‬ ‫רשת הכול‬ ‫לים ש"ס איד'ן הנוסד ע"י ידידי הגאון‬ ‫רבי אבר‬ ‫הם הלוי אייזען שליט"א גאב"ד פוזנא‬ ‫אשר לומדים שם תל‬ ‫מידי חכמים מופלגים וחשובים ביותר‬ ‫הזוכים ללמוד גפ"ת‬ ‫ולסיים את הש"ס כולו מידי שנה בשנה‬ .‫ביגיעה ובידיעה ברורה‬ ‫וכבר כמה פעמים‬ ‫שהיו אצלי ובחנתים אותם על הש"ס‬ ‫והפליאו בידיעותיהם‬ .‫המפליגות בכל הש"ס בעיון ובבקיאות‬ ‫ובפרט בשנה זו זכה להע‬ ‫נות לבקשתי בפתיחת עוד שני כוללים‬ .‫בארה"ק ובחו"ל – בביתר ובלונדון‬ ‫ואשרי אלו הזו‬ ‫כים לתמוך ברשת הכוללים ש"ס איד'ן‬ ‫בהסכם שות‬ ,‫פות יששכר זבולון המהודרת ביותר‬ ‫ואברך אותם שבזכות זו‬ ‫יזכו לכל משאלות לבם לטובה בברכה‬ ‫והצל‬ .‫חה בכל הענינים ולשנה טובה ומתוקה‬ ‫ולכל הברכות האמורות בת‬ ‫ורה לפרנסה טובה ולרפואה וישועות‬ ‫עד‬ .‫ביאת גואל צדק אמן בברכת כתוח"ט‬

1,003,070 blatt in 5781! The Sar Hatorah extolls the prowess and capabilities of the Shas Yiden avreichim geonim – “incredible talmidei chachomim of great stature, who are able to study and complete the entire ‫( גפ”ת‬Gemora, Peirush (Rashi), Tosfos) – every year, diligently and with thorough understanding.” ‘Rav Chaim’ has had numerous opportunities to test and speak to the avreichim, at least once a year, when they crowd into his home where he offers them refreshments, a warm smile, and then ‘gets down to Torah business’. “They have visited with me numerous times and I have tested them on Shas. They were amazing with their incredible knowledge of the entire Shas, in depth and in breadth.” Requested TWO New Kollelim This Last Year In acknowledgement of the unique Shas Yiden system of learning that enables completion of Shas five times in the course of a year - getting to know Shas, Rashi and Tosfos by heart, plus completing the entire Mishnayos which are not in Shas Bavli. At one of the annual farhers after asking questions from each masechto, one by one, after a complex ‘trick’ question, the Sar Hatorah exclaimed: “Zei kennen Shas!” (They know Shas!) Not surprising that the Sar Hatorah writes in his brocho: “This year, in response to my request to open additional such kollelim in Israel and abroad, two were opened – in Beitar and London.” The new Rosh Kollel of Shas Yiden (London) is Hagaon Harav Avraham David Olevsky, formerly one of the avreichim geonim at Shas Yiden (Yerushalayim). The Most mehudar Yissachar-Zevulun Partnership Pact “Praised are they who merit to support the Shas Yiden Kollel Network by entering the most mehudar Yissachar-Zevulun partnership pact.” Unique to Shas Yiden, is that the learning for such a partnership in the entire Shas, both in olam hazeh and continued in olam haba, can be completed in the period of just one year. “I bless them that in the merit of such support, all the wishes of their hearts will be fulfilled for the good, with brocho and hatzlocho in all matters, and for a good and sweet year. They shall be blessed with all the brochos written in the Torah - for good parnosso, refuah and yeshu’os until the coming of the Righteous Redeemer – amen. With blessing for a ‫כתיבה וחתימה‬ ‫ טובה‬- Chaim Kanievsky. For more information on Shas Yiden, to see live farhers or to donate, click on www.shasyiden.org

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kidnapping scenario in which terrorists forcibly sped off with a soldier guarding a popular thoroughfare. The reaction saw special forces quickly sealing off Hebron and raiding hundreds of homes in a short period of time in an effort to locate the “missing” conscript. Kidnappings are viewed as the IDF’s worst-case scenario, as Israel has often freed thousands of violent terrorists in lopsided prisoner swaps. In the most recent such arrangement, Israel released 1,027 Arab prisoners in 2011 for the return of Gilad Shalit, a tank loader kidnapped by Hamas in 2006. The drill comes as intelligence reports warn of a growing possibility of widespread social unrest amidst the Palestinians due to economic fallout from the coronavirus and a lack of trust in the Palestinian Authority. “Throughout the past week, we conducted an exercise that was long and exhaustive that brought together a series of preparations for operational plans in the case of an escalation of violence in Judea and Samaria,” said Central Command head, Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai. “Throughout the exercise, different scenarios were examined based on situational assessments and past events and readiness for events of the future,” Yadai added. “We are assessing the exercise with satisfaction from the preparedness and actions of the troops in the field, and with a number of topics that we must learn from and dig deeper into going forward.”

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“Another HISTORIC breakthrough today! Our two GREAT friends Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain agree to a Peace Deal – the second Arab country to make peace with Israel in 30 days!” Trump tweeted. A statement released later by the White House confirmed that Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Salman al-Khalifa and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conversed “and agreed to the establishment of full diplomatic relations between Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain.” Khalid al-Khalifa, a senior advisor to Bahrain’s king, told reporters on Saturday that normalization “sends a positive and encouraging message to the people of Israel, that a just and comprehensive peace with the Palestinian people is the best path and the true interest for their future and the future of the peoples of the region.” Following the announcement, the Gulf State joined the United Arab Emirates in signing a peace deal with Israel at the White House on Tuesday. The UAE had announced that it would normalize its relations with Israel on August 13, leading to speculation that other Arab countries would follow. As part of the agreement, Bah-

rain and Israel will open embassies in each other’s capitals and exchange ambassadors. An Israeli delegation is slated to fly to Bahrain’s capital to begin preparations later this month. The Palestinian Authority condemned Bahrain’s accord with Israel, calling it an “act of treason” that was “a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people.” The Hamas terror group slammed Bahrain’s “act of aggression” that caused “serious harm” to the Palestinian people. A small island located in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain had refused to recognize Israel’s existence since declaring independence in 1971. However, relentless subversion efforts by neighboring Iran among Bahrain’s 1.5 million Shiites have resulted in the monarchy drawing closer to Israel in order to fight off their common enemy. Bahrain is seen as especially close to Saudi Arabia, with the latter even deploying troops on the island in 2011 to crush an Iranian-backed uprising. The close ties between the two countries have raised speculation that Riyadh will soon unveil its own peace deal with Israel, as Bahrain was unlikely to normalize without Saudi Arabia’s acquiescence.

Medical Tourism Initiative with UAE

After having normalized relations with Israel, the United Arab Emirates wants to launch a medical tourism initiative with Tel Aviv’s Sheba Medical Center. Israel’s biggest hospital just inked a memorandum of understanding with the UAE’s biggest investment fund. The signing ceremony will take place at the end of September in Abu Dhabi and will be attended by senior members of the royal family. The agreement would see thousands of Emiratis traveling to Sheba in Israel to undergo complicated medical procedures and would fund joint research on medical innovation, professional training, medical tourism, and COVID-19 treatment. The hospital, which was recently ranked as the world’s ninth best by Newsweek, is a leader in rehabilitation, pediatrics, women’s health, post-traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders. The agreement marks the first public instance of cooperation between an Israeli hospital with an Emirati company since both countries announced that they would normalize relations in August. U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman lauded the development, calling it “fitting” that the first bilateral agreement would involve Israel’s world-renowned health care industry. “It is fitting that the first significant partnership between Israel and the UAE is in health care,” said Amb. Friedman. “The Abraham Accords are already making the Middle East safer and more prosperous.” According to Yoel Hareven, the director of Sheba’s international division, the short, two-hour flight between the UAE and Israel, along with the medical center’s Arabic-speaking medical staff, will prove to be particularly attractive. “There is limited knowledge and lots of complicated cases that are

sent outside the UAE, so now they will have a new solution that is closer than Europe, and cheaper than the United States,” Hareven told the Times of Israel. “It’s welcoming, as so many medical staff speak Arabic. It can be almost home away from home.” Several Gulf states have had thriving relations with Sheba even prior to the normalization announcement, with senior officials from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates reportedly having visited the medical center earlier this year for a conference on the coronavirus.

3 Week Lockdown

Israelis will spend the holiday period in their own homes after the government voted in favor of the country’s second lockdown since the initial coronavirus outbreak in March. The lockdown will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday and will last for 21 days, with an option of extending it if daily infection totals remain insufficiently low. The guidelines ban Israelis from venturing more than 500 meters from their homes other than for purchasing food or medicine and shutters places of leisure such as restaurants, bars, and movie theaters along with the public sector. Other businesses will be allowed to continue operating but will be banned from being opened to the general public. All schools will be closed during the three-week period, and prayers will be allowed but under severe limitations. The government’s approval came after days of infighting in which several senior ministers decried the regulations as abnormally harsh. The original Health Ministry plan would have implemented a lockdown for an entire month, prohibited incoming and outgoing flights for two weeks, and prevented people from attending Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur prayers.

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Israel’s second lockdown was announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a press conference he gave shortly before heading to Washington to sign a peace deal with the UAE. Acknowledging the rising public anger against the government’s failures to stem the coronavirus outbreak, Netanyahu said that the overflowing hospital wards left Israel no other choice. “I know these steps are a heavy price for us all,” the prime minister said. “These are not the holidays we are used to. We certainly won’t be able to celebrate with our extended families. “If we are not careful to follow these basic steps, the virus will spread,” warned Netanyahu. “Anyone who does not keep the directives is harming other people.” He exhorted the public to “beat the virus,” promising that he “saw the vaccine on the way.” “For three months, I tried to avoid a lockdown. I did everything so that we could live alongside the coronavirus, with rules here and there,” he said. “Under the circumstances that were created, we had no choice.” The Bank of Israel had strongly opposed implementing a lengthy closure, warning that the economy is

expected to suffer a $1.5 billion loss. One out of every 5 restaurants are expected to declare bankruptcy, along with 25% of hotels. Netanyahu was attacked by opposition lawmakers following his announcement, who called on him to resign for his mismanagement of the pandemic. “Netanyahu simply can’t admit that he failed and apologize to the Israeli public,” tweeted opposition leader MK Yair Lapid. “That was the minimum he had to do this evening. Those who are incapable of admitting failure also can’t rectify it. You failed. Resign.”

3 Life Sentences for Jewish Perp The Lod District Court sentenced Amiram Ben-Uliel to three life sentences for killing members of the Palestinian Dawabshe family in 2015. Ben-Uliel was also ordered to pay NIS 258,000 to the surviving family members along with an additional NIS 200,000 fine. In the ruling, the three-judge panel wrote that BenUliel acted out of “extreme ideology and racism” and noted that he did not

express remorse for his actions. The court added that Ben-Uliel’s actions “were meticulously planned” and “aimed at harming innocent life.” It said the punishment was “close to the maximum penalty prescribed by the law.” Ben-Uliel was found guilty in May of firebombing the Dawabshe home in the Palestinian city of Duma in 2015. The resulting inferno killed Saad and Riham Dawabshe and their 18-month-old child Ali. The firebombing resulted in a wave of Palestinian terror and led Israel’s government to ask the Shin Bet to probe the case after the police failed to come up with any leads. The Shin Bet called the verdict “an important milestone in the struggle against Jewish terrorism.” The sentence came despite the fact that Ben-Uliel confessed to the crime after undergoing weeks of torture by the Shin Bet internal security service. Ben-Uliel’s attorneys had argued that their client confessed to a crime that he did not commit in order to get the pain to stop, pointing out that the Shin Bet did not consider his reenactment of the attack an accurate depiction of events. Orian Ben-Uliel, Amiram’s wife, maintained at the trial on Monday

that “the judges didn’t seek justice or truth. They decided to incriminate my husband at any price.” She vowed to appeal the sentence to Israel’s Supreme Court.

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115 ppb for the first time since 2008. Adding to the high smog levels are California’s raging wildfires which have burned over 3.2 million acres of land. The large pillars of smoke have caused California’s skies to turn an unnatural shade of red and contributed to the unseasonably hot September the state is suffering from. More than 16,500 firefighters are currently fighting 28 major wildfires, which have killed 24 people and devastated 4,200 homes. The

aftermath has left California with rolling blackouts and billions in economic damage. “The combination of a major wildfire and extreme heat can really send ozone levels through the roof,” noted UCLA environmental studies professor Yifang Zhu. “Both are important, and they came together at a very unfortunate time, and that helps explain why we were seeing such extreme levels of ozone last weekend.”

After engineering a slew of diplomatic achievements over the past month, President Donald Trump earned his second nomination for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. The latest nomination came from Swedish MP Magnus Jacobsson, who said that he tapped Trump for the prize for his work in brokering a peace deal between Kosovo and Serbia. “I have nominated the U.S. government and the governments of Kosovo and Serbia for the Nobel Peace Prize for their joint work for peace and economic development, through the cooperation agreement signed in the White House,” announced Jacobsson last Friday. “Trade and communications are important building blocks for peace,” he added. Following month-long negotiations overseen by the Trump administration, Kosovo and Serbia signed an economic accord that is expected to lead to full normalization between the two countries. The peace deal was the first diplomatic breakthrough since a ceasefire ended the bloody decade-long civil war between the two countries. “Truly, it is historic,” Trump said at the signing ceremony flanked by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovan Prime Minister Abdullah Hoti. “I look forward to going to both countries in the not-too-distant future.” Trump had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize earlier in the month by Norwegian lawmaker Christian Tybring-Gjedde for his work in normalizing ties between Israel and the UAE. The parliamentarian nominated him “for a peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel which opens up for possible peace in the Middle East.” In the filing to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Tybring-Gjedde praised Trump for “breaking a 39-year-old streak of American pres-

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President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Sgt. Major Thomas “Patrick” Payne for saving 75 ISIS hostages in a 2015 raid in Iraq. Calling Payne “one of the bravest men anywhere in the world,” Trump awarded him America’s highest military honor in a White House ceremony last Friday. “Today he joins the immortal company of our most revered American heroes,” said Trump as he pinned the award on him. “Pat, you personify the motto: ‘Rangers lead the way.’” Payne, 36, was born in South Carolina and enlisted into the armed forces after graduating high school and passed the punishing Ranger Indoctrination Program. After serving for three years as a Ranger sniper, Payne was recruited into the Army’s Delta Force, a top-secret special operations unit. In October 2015, Payne’s unit raided an ISIS hideout in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. During the subsequent shootout, Payne noticed a burning prison filled with ISIS hostages that were unable to free themselves and flee to safety. Ignoring the bullets whizzing past his head, Payne grabbed a pair of pliers and forcibly dismantled the prison door’s lock, enabling the 75 hostages to flee the flaming inferno. After landing safely back in the U.S., Payne’s commanders nominated him for the

Medal of Honor, leading to Friday’s ceremony on the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Upon receiving the award, Payne became the first living Delta Force operative to receive the prestigious honor. In the ceremony attended by his family and fellow Delta Force members, Trump praised him as representing the finest of what America had to offer. “He ran right back into that raging blaze,” the president said. “He sliced the final lock and released the rest of the hostages. As the building began to collapse, he received orders to evacuate but he refused to do so. He didn’t want to leave anyone behind. “Pat ran back into the burning building that was collapsing,” Trump continued. “Two more times. He saved multiple hostages, and he was the last man to leave.” Payne had previously won the Best Ranger Competition after surviving the grueling week-long competition against his fellow soldiers in 2012. He also completed 17 deployments and overcame injuries from a grenade blast to return to active military service.

Top Prosecutor on Durham Probe Quits

Nora Dannehy, a top prosecutor working on U.S. Attorney John H. Durham’s probe of the Russian interference investigation, abruptly quit on Thursday. Durham is currently leading a probe into the origins of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation that examined President Trump’s alleged connections with Russian intelligence. As a senior aide to Durham, Dannehy played a central role in the team’s effort to rout out malfeasance at the highest levels of America’s national security apparatus. However, Dannehy suddenly decided to resign after feeling that the Durham probe was being used for political reasons. According to her

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political weapon by one party against another is not to deliver tit-for-tat, it’s not to use the tactics of the other side, it’s to uphold the rule of law, use the right standard, and that’s what I’m trying to do.” Barr had tapped Durham to look into the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation and decide whether the probe into Trump’s 2016 campaign was “lawful and appropriate.” In August, the Durham investigation brought out its first indictment by bringing charges against former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith for faking an email to obtain a wiretap on a Trump aide.

It’s Mueller Again

Senate Republicans are calling for a probe after reports alleged that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team

wiped at least 24 cellphones used in the Trump probe. Officially known as the “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election,” the Mueller team examined connections between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence. The investigation’s findings were published in 2019 and did not find any evidence of collusion by President Donald Trump or his campaign. Last week, newly-released Department of Justice records showed that the team’s investigators systematically wiped clean more than two dozen cellphones they used by repeatedly entering the wrong password. The phones’ contents were automatically deleted, preventing others from witnessing the team’s correspondence. Now, Senate Republicans want to investigate whether Mueller Report staffers violated federal records-keeping laws. In a missive to the FBI, Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley asked that the Bureau investigate whether the deletions were part of a “widespread intentional effort” to cover up wrongdoing. Grassley also requested that the Department of Justice publicize all of the phone records from the Mueller probe.

Meanwhile, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson pressed Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz to look into the matter as well. “These reports are troubling and raise concerns about record retention and transparency,” wrote Johnson. “Therefore, I respectfully request that your office open an investigation into this matter to determine what, why, and how information was wiped, whether any wrongdoing occurred, and who these devices belonged to.” President Trump also called for an investigation, tweeting on Monday that “action must be taken.”

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Wildfires Rage

At least 36 people have been killed and 5 million acres have been torched from the almost 100 wildfires that have ravaged America’s West Coast. The blazes began in late August in California and have since spread to Oregon and Washington. In California, pyrotechnics from a baby shower party resulted in a runaway blaze that scorched more than 3.2 million acres and burned 4,000 homes. In Oregon, an unseasonably hot summer and drought conditions resulted in the Beachie Creek Fire, which has burned 900,000 acres and killed 10 people. Governor Jay Inslee has activated tens of thousands of reserve firefighters and declared a state of emergency. “This is not an act of G-d,” Inslee said. “This has happened because we have changed the climate.” The billowing pillars of smoke from the wildfires have turned the skies above the West Coast a foreboding shade of orange and caused residents to suffer from what many call the world’s worst air quality. “Wind gusts will be in the 25-30 mph range,” California’s Fire Center warned. “Smoke will impact visibility and air quality across much of the western United States.” President Donald Trump visited the fire-ravaged West Coast on Monday and huddled with California Gov. Gavin Newsom and emergency officials. The fires have already caused billions of dollars in damages in a region already reeling from the coronavirus, with credit agency A.M. Best predicting that the losses could top the $13 billion California suffered from wildfires in 2017.

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The unexplained shooting, in a neighborhood with a high crime rate and a history of tension between the police and black community, drew media and political attention toward the dangers police face on the job. “These are real people doing a tough job, and it just shows the dangers of the job, in the blink of an eye,” LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said after the shooting. Villanueva lashed out on Monday at protesters who showed up Saturday night at the hospital where the two officers were being treated, with some reportedly shouting “death to the police” as they tried to force their way into the emergency room. “They were chanting that they wish the deputies died,” Villanueva told KNX. “And I don’t even know how to be begin to describe that, other than repulsive, reprehensible.” Two people were arrested during the protest outside the hospital, including a journalist for NPR who was accused of “interfering with a lawful arrest.”

Million-Dollar Settlement The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the family of Breonna Taylor, the emergency medical technician shot to death by police in her own home in March. Taylor was sleeping inside her Louisville apartment when officers with the Louisville Metro Police Department attempted to execute a “noknock” search warrant. Three plainclothes officers opened Taylor’s front

door and “blindly” opened fire into her apartment, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed in April by Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer.

Taylor, a licensed EMT, was shot at least eight times and died. The warrant was issued because Taylor was accused of accepting USPS packages for an ex-boyfriend who police were investigating as an alleged drug trafficker. According to police, officers knocked several times before ramming down the door and were allegedly met with gunfire. The three officers involved in the shooting, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly and detectives Brett Hankinson and Myles Cosgrove, were placed on administrative reassignment pending the results of an investigation. Hankison was later fired for his role in the incident. According to his termination letter that was shared with local reporters, Hankison violated procedure when he fired 10 rounds into Taylor’s apartment while executing the warrant.

Protections End for Some Immigrants

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In a 2-1 ruling Monday, a panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals found that, under the TPS statute, the Department of Homeland Security secretary “possesses full and unreviewable discretion as to whether to consider intervening events in making a TPS determination.” TPS holders and their U.S. citizen children had challenged the planned move to end the protections, arguing in part that the decision was motivated by racism. The court panel’s ma-

jority concluded that “there is still no evidentiary support for the conclusion that this overarching goal was motivated by racial animus.” “This government has failed me and the other 250,000 U.S. citizen children of TPS holders. If this decision stands, it means Trump’s termination of TPS will move ahead and TPS holders will only have until January 2021 to legally live and work in this country,” said Crista Ramos, lead plaintiff in the case.

Last year, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the administration would extend the validity of work permits for El Salvadorans with protected status through January 4, 2021. That decision came on the heels of an agreement with El Salvador that would allow the U.S. to send some asylum seekers to that country to seek humanitarian protections there. As a result, El Salvadorans with protected status have an additional year after

Charles “Chuck” Feeney has no money, and he couldn’t be happier. The 89-year-old had cofounded Duty Free Shoppers in 1960 and had become a billionaire. But Feeney didn’t want to take his money to his grave. He pioneered the idea of Giving While Living – spending most of your fortune on big, hands-on charities instead of funding a foundation upon death. On September 14, 2020, Feeney achieved his dream and shuttered his philanthropic organization after giving it all to charity. “We learned a lot. We would do some things differently, but I am very satisfied. I feel very good about completing this on my watch,” Feeney told Forbes. “My thanks to all who joined us on this journey. And to those wondering about Giving While Living: try it, you’ll like it.” Over the last four decades, Feeney donated more than $8 billion to charities, universities, and foundations worldwide through his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies. Many of his donations were done anonymously. Forbes called him the James Bond of Philanthropy. Feeney gave $3.7 billion to education including nearly $1 billion to his alma mater Cornell, which he attended on the G.I. Bill. More than $870 million went to human rights and social change, like $62 million in grants to abolish the death penalty in the U.S. and $76 million for grassroots campaigns supporting the passage of Obamacare. He gave more than $700 million in gifts to health ranging from a $270 grant to improve public healthcare in Vietnam to a $176 million gift to the Global Brain Health Institute at University of California, San Francisco. One of his final gifts was $350 million for Cornell to build a technology campus on New York City’s Roosevelt Island. And now he’s broke – and couldn’t be happier.

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to the Kentucky Rumbler and Air Race thrill rides, has also boosted its safety guidelines in response to COVID-19, by implementing new sanitizing measures and requiring masks worn inside the park. Better act fast if you want to ride rollercoasters with your family ad nauseum. The park closes for the season on September 19. What a wild ride.

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is in touch with seniors and Holocaust survivors to check in and perform wellness checks. Activities are being shared so that they can stay healthy and engaged.

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is conducting remote counseling sessions with vulnerable and isolated community members who are anxious and need support at this time.

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A lock of President Abraham Lincoln’s hair and a telegram smeared with his blood sold for more than $81,000 at auction. The historic items sold at an auction that ended Saturday by a buyer who chose to remain anonymous. A 2-inch lock of the president’s hair was clipped during a postmortem examination a day after he was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. The hair was given to Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd, a cousin of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Having nothing to wrap the lock of hair with, Dr. Todd reached into his pocket and used a War Department telegram sent soon after the president was shot. “He wrapped the lock, stained with blood or brain fluid, in this telegram and hastily wrote on it in pencil: ‘Hair of A. Lincoln,’” Todd’s son wrote in a caption. Todd’s son, James A. Todd, outlined the details of the hair and the telegram in a letter dated February 12, 1945. “The lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair…was cut from his head and given to my father during the performance of the postmortem and has remained entirely in the custody of our family since that time,” Todd’s son wrote in the 1945 letter. The telegram was received at 11 p.m. the night Lincoln was shot. Todd was appointed the postmaster in Lexington in 1861 after Lincoln became president. He made history when he stayed at Lincoln’s bedside in the president’s final hours at the Petersen House

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One diamond lover is about to get the gift of a lifetime. Sotheby’s announced last week that it is auctioning off a 102-carat diamond, which is expected to fetch between $10 million to $30 million. It could potentially be the most expensive stone ever sold. The sparkler is a 102.39-carat D Colour Flawless Oval Diamond. The

gem is the second-largest oval diamond ever to be up for sale at auction, according to Sotheby’s. Only seven D Colour white diamonds over 100 carats have ever been sold at auction. Want to start bidding? Bidding starts online on September 15; the live auction will be held on October 5. The diamond was cut from a 271-carat rough and discovered in Ontario, Canada, in 2018, in the Victor Mine. For over a year, the rough diamond was cut and polished by diamond specialists. Sounds like this is to “di” for.

Double Handed

Seeking recognition for her talents, Aadi Swaroopa wrote 45 minutes in one minute using both hands at the same time. The 16-year-old from India is attempting to set a Guinness World Record for her double-handed feat. She had previously been recognized as a record holder by the nonprofit school administration organization LATA Foundation of Raibareli, Uttar Pradesh, after showing off her ability to write with both hands at the same time. Swaroopa managed to write 40 words in one minute – beating the previous record of 25 words. Swaroopa is not new at this talent. Her parents noticed that she was ambidextrous when she was only 2 years old. She was a clever child and learned to read when she was just 18 months old. Since learning how to write, she has expanded her writing skills by writing in unidirectional, opposite direction, right-hand speed, left-hand speed, reverse running, mirror image, dancing and blindfolded. Phew! Swaroopa doesn’t just want to use her talents for writing. “As am multi-talented, I want to set national and world records in diverse areas like mimicry, Rubik’s Cube, music and writing more words (60) per minute with both hands simultaneously,” Swaroopa said. Swaroopa, we stand by and applaud you –with both hands.

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Village of Lawrence Election

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The winning team, Eli Kutner, Mayor Alex Edelman, and Paris Popack, on election night

n Tuesday, September 15, Village of Lawrence Mayor Alex Edelman handily won reelection against Daniel Goldstein. Mayor Edelman and his “A Team,” composed of Eli Kutner, Paris Popack, and Gary Mandel, sailed to victory. The results are as follows: Mayor Mayor Alex Edelman: 1,127 Daniel Goldstein: 178

Trustee (2 seats) Eli Kutner: 920 Paris Popack: 871 Uri Kaufman: 268 Joel Preminger: 200 Lawrence Idel Kolodny: 160 Bruce Backman: 104 Village Justice Gary Mandel: 1,096 Shraga Rokosz: 176

Hear the Sound of the Shofar

n preparation for the upcoming holiday of Rosh Hashana, the fifth grade students at HANC’s Samuel and Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School in West Hempstead traveled virtually to the Biblical Museum in Beit Shemesh. As the children sat in their classrooms, they were able to watch and interact with Rabbi Noson Slifkin and his staff via Zoom. In order to explain which horns are able to be formed into a kosher shofar, Rabbi Slifkin showed the children many types of horns from animals that they had never seen before. Showing sample horns from an elk, moose, antelope, narwhal, unicorn fish, buffalo, oryx and sable, the children were able to discover which horns were naturally hollow and which were not. Rabbi Slifkin also blew on many types of horns so that the children could hear the different sounds that they made. Throughout the course of the

program, the students responded to questions that were posed by the museum staff. One thought-provoking question was why we don’t use horns from cows to create a shofar. One of the students answered correctly that this would remind us of the sin of the Golden Calf. As a result, these horns are avoided when making shofars. At the conclusion of the lesson, the children saw how the internal bone is removed and how the sheath of keratin is prepared to become a kosher shofar. This experience helped the children to develop a deeper understanding of the process and the significance of how a shofar is created to enable us to perform this very important mitzvah. Special thanks to the staff of the Biblical Museum for providing the children with a fascinating learning experience and for bringing the students closer to Israel.

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RNSP-Hatzalah-NYPD Baseball Game

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ommunity policing,” “engagement,” “backing the blue,” and the “thin blue line” are buzzwords that have been floating around in recent years. Now, in the ever-changing environment that the men and women of law enforcement work in, these buzzwords have become part of who they are amid the shifting roles that police officers play, while at the same time keeping civilians safe. Sadly, law enforcement is under attack, both physically and in spirit. They are demonized, antagonized, and disrespected. All the while, they are charged to remain calm, cool and collected and perform their duties as effectively as they ever have. In our community, we value law and order, respect those who put their life on the line to keep us safe, and we openly show support to the men and women of law enforcement as we “back the blue.” This was perfectly personified on Sunday, August 23 by the volunteers of Hatzalah and RNSP Shomrim, as they joined police officers from Far Rockaway’s 101st Precinct in a friendly game of softball – The First Responders Annual Softball Game, a true kiddush Hashem. The players were all emergency respond-

ers from the NYPD, RNSP Shomrim, and Hatzalah of the Rockaways and Nassau County; the spectators were anyone who chose to come to the event, which was open to the entire community. At this event, a free barbeque lunch was made available to

everyone. It was a fun-filled afternoon for the whole family to enjoy, while also showing support to the heroes who keep them safe and healthy every single day. The event began with the singing of the National Anthem, as beautifully sung by RNSP Shomrim member and rising Jewish music sensation Yisrael Hoffman. It was a seven-inning game in the sweltering heat of a hot sunny summer afternoon. During the “4th inning stretch,” something very spe-

cial transpired. Hatzalah and RNSP Shomrim held a moving tribute in memory of Inspector Justin Lenz, the former commanding officer of the NYPD’s 101st Precinct and US Army veteran. Sadly, this national and local hero died of a sudden heart attack

earlier this summer, leaving behind a wife and two children, all of whom were present at this event. Needless to say, they were moved to the core by the honor bestowed upon their departed loved one. Inspector Lenz was a man who kept our neighborhood safe as crime rates around the city soared. He was a leader who maintained law and order. At the same time, he was a visionary who embraced the initiative of community policing. To that end, the precinct piloted the NCO program, which, of course, was a smashing success that set an example for all other precincts around the city to follow. He was always open to listening to anyone in the community and humble enough to follow their suggestions. He was embraced by all within the community and certainly by the men and women who worked under his command. Following the tribute in memory of Inspector Lenz, Hatzalah and the RNSP Shomrim surprised Police Of-

ficer Lynn Blanchette with honor and recognition for the outstanding work she does as the leader of the 101st Precinct’s expanded Community Affairs team. Through Lynn’s leadership, the relationship between all three emergency response groups remains as great as it has always been. Additionally, Police Officer Blanchette makes it her duty to ensure that there are great relationships between the precinct and the community’s youth, seniors, schools, organizations, and religious institutions. She goes above and beyond to understand all of the different culture groups that make up and call Far Rockaway home. As observant Jews, we know more than ever the complexities that come along with who we are, what we do, and how we live our lives. We are so thankful to have someone running the affairs of our community that treats our way of life with sensitivity, while doing the same for all other cultural groups residing in the area. It is for her leadership and disposition that Hatzalah and RNSP Shomrim recognized P.O. Lynn Blanchette for the work she does for our community. In the end, the message was clear. Whereas the rest of the country is reeling from racial tensions and identity politics, and whereas law enforcement is under great scrutiny, the culturally diverse neighborhood that we call home is unified in its appreciation for the men and women who put their lives on the line to serve and protect us no matter what. This was the message of the First Responders Softball Game, and the message was made loud and clear and accepted by a united community. On the afternoon of August 23rd, we were truly one heart, one community!

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Barriers, Not Obstacles at YOSS

ince that fateful day in March, when yeshivos and shuls closed their doors, the hanhalah and administration of Yeshiva of South Shore, together with a dedicated committee of parents, have worked tirelessly to ensure that the doors to yeshiva could be reopened in September. With much chessed from Hashem, the dream became a reality, and the YOSS campus is

once again pulsing with the vibrant sounds of children learning and growing. It took many layers, including masks, barriers, cohorts, staggered schedules, creative usages of the facility, and so much more. While these layers may seem to be obstacles that separate the students from their rabbeim, teachers and friends, the reality is that the trademark

YOSS ruach and warmth continues to shine forth and no amount of barriers can hold it back. The boys are once again connecting to rabbeim and teachers, and the smiles on their faces (even when masked) is the greatest proof that the rich and powerful mesorah is being transmitted to the next generation. When a child feels good about himself and experiences the sweet taste of suc-

cess, no barrier in the world can stop him from wanting more and more. Although we daven for the day that corona is but a memory, we know that, until then, the boys are growing, developing, and thriving! As we enter into the yimei ha’din, we daven that our precious children be zocheh to remain in their yeshivos and that their Torah learning be a zechus for us all!

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YCQ Goes Back to School

eshiva of Central Queens got off to a great start last week, as faculty and students returned to the physical building for the first time in six months. Students and staff were patient as everyone began to acclimate to the new environment. The Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) decorated the yeshiva with banners, flags, and signs welcoming students and staff back from a very long break. Having our YCQ family’s safety and security in mind, our students and staff were required to wear masks and found their classrooms complete with barriers surrounding their desks for added protection. The YCQ Covid task force team spent the summer organizing and planning to create a learning environment that was safe for the return to in-school learning. As the students entered their new classrooms, they found a gift bag from the PTO with hand sanitizers, mask lanyards, and a special treat to help kick off the new year. The yard was separated into seven fenced-off sections, allowing for additional recess and outdoor time. The children loved having the additional resources added to the schedules so that they could spend some time outside

getting some fresh air after sitting in a classroom all day. No matter how difficult the changes were for some, the children are more excited about being back with their friends and learning in a real classroom and were willing to comply with the school safety guidelines. Teachers and members of the school social work department went out of their way making sure that the transition back into a physical classroom learning environment went as smoothly as possible. Specialty teachers went to the children’s classes to provide art and music. Grades five through eight began their Chromebook program. The idea is to help students benefit from all the educational technology that is out there. Teachers worked on creative activities to help with the transition and make the start of the school year exciting. As a special surprise on Friday in honor of Shabbat, assistant principal of Judaic studies in the elementary school, Rabbi Ribalt, along with two of the members of his former a cappella group and current members of Y-Studs, visited each class in the elementary school and entertained the students with some favorite songs.

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Gan Chamesh Ushers in the New School Year

eachers and staff at Gan Chamesh, Chabad’s Early Childhood Center, were thrilled and excited to open their doors and welcome their young students back into the classrooms. The children quickly adjusted and are all immersed in various hands-on multi-sensory explorations to help them learn about the upcoming yom tov of Rosh Hashana. We are looking forward to a year of continued social, emotional and academic growth. Shana tova!

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Rambam Students Return to the Building

he last time students graced the halls of Rambam Mesivta was a lifetime ago back in March. This past week saw the long-awaited return of the Rambam Men to 15 Frost Lane. Shouts of joy were heard throughout the building as rebbeim and talmidim were reunited live and in person. Old friendships were rekindled, and growth spurts seemed to be all over the building. It was amazing to be back! The freshmen hit the ground running with an orientation that started on Tuesday where they were equipped with books and safety barriers and given the lay of the land. At the day’s close, they were treated to assorted cakes and Snapple. The rest of the student body followed suit with their orientations and also received their barriers and snacks. The highlight of those orientations was an Awards Assembly where champions from last year’s virtual contests and competitions were awarded their plaques and glory! The 2019-2020 Masmidim were also

called up to receive their Rambam Masmidim swag in the form of shtark kippot. Everyone was assured by Rosh Mesivta Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, Principal Rabbi Yotav Eliach, Associate Principal Mr. Hillel Goldman and

Director of Israel Guidance Rabbi Avi Herschman that they felt confident this year would be fun-filled, meaningful, and exciting despite some of the challenges presented by the pandemic. The Administration, and especially the team of Aaron, Naomi, and Rabbi Herschman, worked tirelessly over the summer to make sure the school would open and be safe come September. Rabbi Friedman, Rabbi Eliach, and Mr. Goldman made a point of thanking all of them publicly for their commitment to the school. Junior Yaakov Zerykier was also singled out and thanked for his work on the safety COVID-check app. The students are davening in seven separate minyanim which helps with the safety precautions and also allows for more opportunities to be chazzan and to lein. Classes are exciting, and there is tremendous energy in the building with everyone learning! The Zoom students are also a presence, and answer and ask questions and the

Merged Model of Learning is shaping up to be top-notch. Rambam extracurriculars are beginning as well. Everything from Masmidim Extra Learning, Contest of the Month, Debate and Torah Bowl Tryouts, Learn-A-Thons, Read-AThons, Classic Film Club, and more are forming. The Question/Torah Question/Photo/Caption of the Week competitions are already fierce! The Freshman Academic Scholars also received their hard-won iPads and assorted electronic devices. Congratulations to Samuel Feder, Shlomo Inoyatov, Michael Gordon, Siggy Orenbuch, Benyamin Silber, and Jeremy Sicklick on this achievement. On Friday, Rabbi Eliach held the school’s Annual 9/11 Memorial Assembly via Zoom. Rabbi Friedman was introduced by Rabbi Eliach and spoke about the historical and hashkafic concept of Amalek and its relationship to 9/11. He also stressed the heroism of the first responders and discussed the role leadership plays in times of crisis. Rabbi Eliach then shared a PragerU video made by a young college student that focused on the motivations of the terrorists. Rabbi Eliach also showed a video from the History Channel that focused on the details of the attacks and those who fought back on Flight 93. He concluded by sharing a Gemara that spoke about Sancheiriv mixing the nations and that Amalek, as a result of this, is always there in one guise or another. He stressed introspection at this time of Elul and the significance of remembering 9/11. Finally, the week concluded with the students being waved goodbye by rebbeim and administrators alike as they feasted on their “End of the First Week Donuts.” Looking forward to Week 2!

Did you know? Jared Kushner presented a Torah to the king of Bahrain this week for use in the country’s only synagogue

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Around the Community Rabbeim and bachurim engaged in Torah study at Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid last week

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The Benkoe, Brukner, and Epstein families brought snacks to the police officers in the First and Fourth Precincts in a tribute of hakarat hatov for all that they do

MTA’s Socially Distant Selfie Contest

n Thursday, September 10, MTA’s Student Activities Department challenged each shiur to take a creative, socially distant selfie with an original theme. It was a great way for talmidim to bond with their friends and rebbeim and work together as a team. Each shiur made sure to include talmidim who are participating in yeshiva via Zoom and had a great time coming up with fun ideas and ways to fit everyone into the photos in a socially distanced way. Talmidim in Rabbi Genachowski’s shiur even logged into Zoom from their classroom for a computer selfie to make sure they all fit into the shot! Congratulations to Rabbi Axelrod’s sophomore shiur on the win for their fencing-themed selfie!

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Nishmas Hatorah New Beginnings

n Nishmas Hatorah, a new year has brought new beginnings. B’siyata d’Shmaya, the Yeshiva now has over 40 bochurim in 9th, 10th and 11th grade. Due to the efforts of the Rosh Kollel, R’ Nesonel

Feit, there are over 20 advanced lomdim in the kollel as well. Due to the increased size and Covid precautions, the yeshiva leased an additional property that houses the entire Mesivta. Along with R’ Pinchus

Weinberger and R’ Michoel Fink, the Yeshiva hired two additional rebbeim, R’ Yehuda Abecassis and R’ Emanuel Zerubavelli. The stellar secular studies program, run by R’ Nochum Dinowitz, has added to its

staff as well. With all of these new additions, the yeshiva is looking forward to a safe and productive year b’ruchniyus u’bgashmius.

Oceanside Strong

e are all too familiar with the difficulties and challenges that this year has brought to many. Life as we knew it changed in an instant, and our worlds turned upside down. However, this year also reinforced our faith in humanity and presented unprecedented opportunities to perform acts of kindness and chessed. The pandemic was and continues to be a dark time for many, but we must also focus on the incredible lights that were able to shine through. The ones that found the tiniest sliver through which to send their beams. To make a difference and to brighten the day and life of one. Or many.

Being the strong and caring community that we are, many of our members turned outward at the start of the pandemic to create a large and mighty chessed army. This powerful force included countless men and women of all ages, as well many children. This army mobilized and performed many different acts of chessed. A phone squad was quickly formed to make regular calls and check in with some of our homebound members. A buddy system was put in place to help those who were unable to get to the supermarket or drugstore; members of the Oceanside community shopped for and delivered

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groceries to anyone who was homebound. One very organized member of the community even made a shareable spreadsheet where anyone in the community was able to add to her existing shopping list. Other members, with the help of their children, made cards and fresh homemade baked goods to be delivered in time for Shabbat. Some made socially distant Shabbat visits to anyone in need of company and a friendly face. Even craft supplies were dropped off to help provide activities for those at home. Cards of gratitude and appreciation were made for and sent to essential workers at the frontlines. Our community was also inspired by our spiritual leaders, the wonderful Rabbi and Rebbetzin Jonathan and Yael Muskat. They made phone calls, or in-person visits, to almost every member of the community. In addition, they went out of their way to hand deliver beautiful Shavuot

packages which included cheesecake, potato kugel and flowers, to each and every local member of their congregation and arranged for flowers to be delivered to out-of-town members. When most will look back at the year of 2020, they will remember the pandemic, the lockdown and hardship. But when the world had shut its doors, the community members of Oceanside opened their hearts and became beacons of light that shone through the darkness. And

though Covid created times of uncertainty, what remained certain was the strength, solidarity, and kindness of the Oceanside community. May we enter the new Jewish year with our hearts open. On behalf of the Young Israel of Oceanside, we wish everyone a gmar chasiva tova and a happy and healthy new year. If you are interested in learning more about Oceanside, please visit our website, yiooceanside.org, or email Office@yiooceanside.org.

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HAFTR board member Baruch Glaubach attended the signing of the Abraham Accord on Tuesday at the White House

Mr. Sol Werdiger, Chairman of Agudath Israel of America’s Board of Trustees, and Rabbi Aaron Kotler, President and CEO of Beth Medrash Govoha, presented a shofar to Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi, Consul General of Japan in New York, last in appreciation of the heroism of Japanese diplomats during World War II. The actions of these diplomats saved countless Jewish lives in the midst of the Holocaust.

HANC Commemorates 9/11

eptember 11 is a day of infamy and filled with grief. On this tragically eventful day, The World Trade Center was crashed into by hijacked airplanes, an airplane taken hostage had crashed into the Pentagon, and the heroic passengers of Flight 93 fought their hijackers over Pennsylvania. HANC, a Long Island yeshiva, was honored to host guest speaker Ben Diamond, a volunteer EMT who portrayed his emotional, heroic story for the students, in a riveting program honoring the fallen. Each listener was left stunned by Benjamin’s actions. Ben was just nineteen years old on that fateful day, but that did not stop him from doing his job as a first

responder. When that life-altering dispatched phone call was made, emergency personnel thought that the crash was an accident. Little did they know it would be America’s worst terrorist attack, and a day that will not be forgotten. Ben got stuck in an

ambulance that was being crushed by debris. He was trapped with patients who needed oxygen and required immediate help. As a first responder, he needed to prioritize the injuries, treating multiple victims simultaneously. The actions Ben Diamond and

other heroes took that day are directly responsible for saving many people, the lives of neither of which, will ever be the same. September 11 has permanently altered the face of this nation. And we will never forget.

Coming Clean with Keren Neki Kapayim

t’s that time of year again. Klal Yisroel is fully transitioned into teshuva mode. We’re working on our tefillah, introspecting on our daily lives, seeking to make amends with our acquaintances, and just looking to become better people overall. But for many of us, there’s that one little dormant space in our heart that gives us a sense of uneasiness. We each have our own stories. Something we’ve damaged or something we’ve borrowed way back when. Of course, we want to come clean and make good on our mishaps. It’s just that we don’t know

whom we even owe. Sometimes, it can be something more significant. A business deal or other transaction that somehow landed us with money or merchandise that’s not ours – yet we have no way of figuring out whose money it really is. The possibilities are endless. And for many of us, at this time of year, these stories create gnawing feelings in our heart. How dare we stand before the Ribbono Shel Olam asking for bracha when our hands are sullied by money or assets that are wrongfully in our possession?

The good news is that, yes, there is a solution; something brand new, or actually, almost brand new. Keren Neki Kapayim is a recently devised initiative developed by leading Gedolei Haposkim in Eretz Yisroel. The process involves a five-step method designed to immediately effectuate a complete and permanent return of the possessions of their rightful owner, whoever or wherever they might be. The funds are deposited into a well-established gemach, which will generate infinite zechusim for the owner until the time that he can be identified and take possession of the

actual funds. Each year, the dayanim of Keren Neki Kapayim hold a special Ma’amad Hashava session on Erev Yom Kippur, where they effectuate the hakna’ah on behalf all depositors. This year, the Keren has expanded its operations, opening a special American headquarters to serve Yidden from across the United States. For more information or to actually perform a return via Keren Neki Kapayim’s automated system, please call the new U.S. hotline at 732-5699740 or visit the website at www.nekikapayim.org.

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SHS Freshman Retreat The girls are off to a great start at the Ganger Early Childhood Division of Torah Academy for Girls

A Special Bat Mitzvah Celebration for Nageela Girls

hulamith High School’s Director of Student Activities, Ms. Esty Munk, is known for her unique creativity which has been best showcased during recent times, when remaining socially distant should make programming impossible. Nothing, however, is impossible for Ms. Esty Munk. Freshmen were treated to a full day getaway to Skytop Lodge in Skytop, PA. Masked students boarded two coach buses ready for a full day of bonding and fun! In addition to Esty, Principal Mrs. Sara Munk, Dean of Students Mrs. Ricky Gaerman, Religious Life Coordinator Ms. Batya Feigenbaum, ninth grade Advisor Mrs. Adina Wolf, and SHS Social Worker Mrs. Channi Packer joined the SHS class of 2024. Principal Munk opened the day by discussing true bravery. Bravery is not when a person is unafraid, rather, it is taking the extra step – even when one is unsure – in all situations, with friends, in school, and when starting a new journey, like in high school. After, students began the intense ropes course at Skytop. The Treetop Adventure Course includes 3,000 feet with various obstacles and six-

teen different ziplines. Following the ropes course, students were divided into teams for a round of archery tag (bows were equipped with foam arrows) which encouraged students to communicate with their classmates and work as a team. A waterfall hike was a perfect way to shmooze with new friends and enjoy the beauty of nature. Individually packed pizza lunches at a park helped rejuvenate students. Debriefing about what they learned about stepping out of comfort zones, trusting peers, and starting a new year prepared students for the second part of the day. After returning to Skytop, SHS freshmen gathered for a thrilling game of “Face Your Fears.” “I had my own bucket of ice water. I had to put my head in and find the gummies. I couldn’t find any!” one student said laughing. Over a bonfire, Mrs. Adina Wolf told a true story that imparted a message of remaining confident in our Yiddishkeit – in our observance – and to always be proud. From start to finish, the excitement and positivity was tangible. Old friendships strengthened, and new friendships were formed. As the year begins, SHS freshmen are off to an awesome start!

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very year, one of the highlights in Camp Nageela Girls is the bat mitzvah celebration at the end of visiting day. The “Sophie” bunk – bat mitzvah age girls – are spotlighted at a fancy reception with their parents in attendance. Each camper receives a set of seforim, and the party continues with the campers enjoying the evening. Mrs. Basi Shenker and Rabbi Dovid Shenker, Camp Nageela founding directors, got calls from children and their parents about how this milestone would be missed because of the pandemic. Of course, there was no stopping Camp Nageela from turning a challenge into a beautiful opportunity. “It was hard to make a bat mitzvah during the summer with having to maintain social distancing. The kids kept saying to us that they were so upset they were missing their bat mitzvah. We decided we had to do something extra special,” said Mrs. Shenker.

The Shenkers made personal deliveries of beautiful necklaces for the girls and a personalized cake with their names on it that said “Mazel Tov.” Girls located out of state were sent the necklace, and all bat mitzvah celebrants received a poem. One camper texted, “Mrs. Shenker, thank you so much for the wonderful surprise. It was so good to see you and Rabbi Shenker today. The cake was delicious and the necklace is so beautiful. Thank you again. See you soon.” The mother of another bat mitzvah girl wrote, “Mrs. Shenker, thank you for stopping by and making [my daughter] feel so special. We are truly blessed to be part of the Nageela family. See you on Rosh Hashana.” Camp Nageela anticipates a wonderful Rosh Hashanah upstate with our camp families. We’re following the protocol of Covid with social distancing. For more information and to help sponsor these events, please contact jenz@jepli.org. Tizku l’mitzvot.

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Rabbi Greenberg’s sixth grade shiur at YOSS measuring amos as they learn hilchos sukkah

Rabbi Avraham Reit visits the new Judaica store, By the Book Judaica, in Woodmere, NY, to educate people on how to blow the shofar

Shevach Orientations Generate Great Enthusiasm

Hidden Sparks Addresses SocialEmotional Learning Dynamics

n Tuesday, September 1, the enthusiasm was palpable throughout the building, as Shevach High School held its faculty and student orientations. Rebbetzin Rochelle HIrtz, Shevach’s principal, opened the meeting to welcome both new and previous faculty members to a new year. Mr. Heshy Neuman, Shevach’s co-president, then described all the various upgrades and innovations that have taken place over the summer in order to prepare the building for the safe and secure opening of the coming school year. Students and staff alike were particularly excited to be back in the classrooms, after being away for close to six months, due to the trying times of corona. Shevach’s goal is to maintain its superior level of academics, while simultaneously upgrading its extracurricular activities. To provide a fun filled experience as a backdrop to the serious learning. Shevach students can look forward to more programming and more activities which will enhance the incoming year. Dr. Jay Begun, a well-known pediatrician and Shevach parent, then addressed the teachers about COVID-19 from a medical perspective. He spoke of what is known about COVID-19, and what is not known,

and which protocols should be followed based on that reality. His clarifications and suggested precautions to ensure Shevach’s safe reopening were well received The faculty was also addressed by Dr. Tamar Pearlman, a renowned mental health professional. She explained that the classroom needs to be a safe space at all times but especially to adolescents at this particular time. There needs to be predictability, empathy, and love. Dr. Pearlman presented tools that teachers and mechanchos can use to create this kind of space in their students’ lives. The orientation culminated with the students themselves arriving, staggered by grade. Dr. Pearlman then provided inspiring chizuk to every grade, while acknowledging the challenges of transitioning to school during this time. She captured the girls’ attention with a unique topic for each grade, connecting positive mental health and resilience to Torah, as portrayed by women in Tanach. Beyond schedules and policy announcements, there was a very palpable optimism as we all approach 2020-2021 in school. The seriousness of Elul and Yomim Noraim, coupled with the positivity of a brand new school year, promises to be a wonderful year like no other.

eachers from Shulamith are taking part in an elite training program to better address the social and emotional needs of their students whose academic year will start off differently due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hidden Sparks, a nonprofit dedicated to training teachers and providing them with the tools to support struggling students in mainstream Jewish day schools, is conducting the training, which focuses on Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and is helping teachers establish classrooms routines which could be easily transitioned online if local authorities and administrators deem it necessary for the school to move to a virtual learning model. The program will take place over several months. As part of the training, Hidden Sparks SEL Coach Lily Howard Scott is working with teachers in Shulamith during the back-to-school season to help them prepare their students for success in the coming year. The program’s goals are to empower teachers with strategies to support students’ emotional responses to the pandemic and to train teachers on how to establish new classroom routines and practices that boost students’ sense of connection, engagement and investment at school.

Lily Howard Scott, MS, is a teacher as well as a curriculum developer. Her work – both written and video-based – has been used in graduate school programs and professional development seminars around the country. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and Bank Street College of Education. “Research shows that the way students feel in the classroom is inextricably linked to how well they perform educationally, and that their social and emotional wellbeing is tethered to their academic wellbeing,” said Hidden Sparks Executive Director Debbie Niderberg. “We’re thrilled that Lily is guiding our educators on how to welcome their students back to school and how to talk about pandemic. Given that students are most successful when they feel connected to and a sense of belonging in their classes, she is also helping teachers to nurture caring and connected classrooms for all pupils.” The workshops will include strategies for both virtual and in-person classrooms. Throughout the months of August and September, Lily Howard Scott met virtually with the faculty team and will continue to consult with and further train educators based on the needs of their specific students and classrooms.

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Around the Community The JCCRP was joined by local elected officials as they distributed food to over 600 families for Rosh Hashana

Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Chaim-Bais Binyamin of South Shore, presenting Gemaros to the fifth grade talmidim of Rabbi Adler’s class

JCCRP director Moshe Brandsdorfer with Assemblymember Pheffer-Amato and Senator Joseph Addabbo

Hagaon Harav Betzalel Rudinsky to Lead Community in Ramat Givat Zeev

R Moshe Brandsdorfer with community askan Pesach Osina

amat Givat Zeev is a luxurious neighborhood that includes many spacious parks, a magnificent mikveh, a shopping center, shuls, and schools. Now the community leaders are working toward strengthening the community of American olim, with the arrival of Hagaon Harav Betzalel Rudinsky, one of the leading rabbis in the American Orthodox community. Over the past three decades, Rav Rudinsky has established educational institutions in Monsey, NY, catering to thousands of students. This year, Rav Rudisnky is planning on recreating that successful model in Ramat Givat Zeev, starting with a Kollel for American yungerleit, to be opened already in the coming months, followed by a yeshiva. The arrival of Rav Rudinsky and his insti-

tutions are expected to make a powerful impact on the community, contributing to the Torah atmosphere. Ramat Givat Zeev is becoming an increasingly popular, sought-after neighborhood in Israel. Located approximately 20 minutes from the center of Jerusalem, it boasts an impressive standard of infrastructure and development. At the moment, the community numbers approximately 500 families and is constantly growing. In the last few months especially, demand has accelerated, with dozens of units sold since the beginning of this month alone. Ramat Givat Zeev is unquestionably one of the most suitable locations for families of new olim who seek a “soft landing” as they find their place within this vibrant, dynamic community.

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On Yahrtzeit of the Chofetz Chaim, Gedolim Urge Learning the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha Mishnah Berurah Program By Chaim Gold

he Chofetz Chaim’s yahrtzeit is a tremendous eis ratzon, a remarkable time to invoke Divine mercy. In the last generations, there has perhaps been no one person who has had as profound an impact on Klal Yisrael as the Chofetz Chaim. The list of what he gifted Klal Yisroel is endless. Two of his greatest gifts were his sefer Chofetz Chaim, where he outlines and arouses awareness to the tremendous transgressions of lashon hara and rechilus and the absolutely unparalleled power to invoke rachmei shamayim is found when one takes care in matters of speech. The next colossal gift that the Chofetz Chaim bestowed on Klal Yisrael was the Mishnah Berurah, which became and remains the halacha handbook required by every Yid to observe halacha properly in daily life. A Yid cannot move without the Mishnah Berurah! It is for that reason that the yahrtzeit of the Chofetz Chaim is such an eis ratzon, a time when we can access the endless zechusim of the Chofetz Chaim. That is why Dirshu, for the past six years, has designated the day of the Chofetz Chaim’s yahrtzeit as a yom limud u’tefillah where hundreds of thousands of Yidden across the world make a special effort to learn the Chofetz Chaim’s sefarim and daven for Klal Yisrael. Unifying Klal Yisrael The Yom Limud u’Tefillah on the auspicious occasion of the Chofetz Chaim’s yahrtzeit right before Rosh Hashana was specifically established by Dirshu for the dual purpose of uniting all of Klal Yisrael in tefillah on behalf of Klal Yisrael and to encourage the contin-

Siyum on Chelek Gimmel of Mishnah Berurah at the home of HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, 2018

ued learning of the Chofetz Chaim’s sefarim that have such power to invoke rachamei shamayim. Organizers of the Yom Limud u’Tefillah clearly tapped into the innate feeling of every Jewish neshama in these extraordinary times when Klal Yisrael is facing clearly unprecedented challenges. This concentrated effort in tefillah and achdus was designed to arouse heavenly mercy in the zechus of the heiligeh Chofetz Chaim who was so moser nefesh to promote these ideals among Klal Yisrael. This year was no different. Worldwide, in Eretz Yisrael, North America, South America, Europe, South Africa and Australia, well over a half million people joined, including, many hundreds of schools that had special programing to bring the message of the Chofetz Chaim to tinokos shel bais rabban and Bais Yaakovs. Many Gedolei Yisrael have joined Dirshu in encouraging Klal Yisrael to connect on a personal level with the Chofetz Chaim’s legacy. They have come out publicly to urge Yidden the world over to bring daily learning of halacha into their lives by joining the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha Mishnah Berurah learning program and to be inspired by the program’s daily dose of mussar from the sefarim of the Chofetz Chaim. In his introduction to

chelek gimmel of the Mishnah Berurah, the Chofetz Chaim writes that it is impossible not to transgress the prohibitions of Shabbos without learning hilchos Shabbos. This applies to all areas of halacha. If a person does not learn halacha, how can he know what to do in his daily life? Rav Chaim Kanievsky The Sar HaTorah, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita said, “It is obvious that chizuk in the learning of daily halacha with a program such as Daf HaYomi B’Halacha coupled with the words and ideals of mussar from the Chofetz Chaim can serve as a shield and a source of salvation during this difficult period.” Indeed, we are living in an unprecedented difficult period. With a worldwide pandemic wreaking havoc on the world and within our own communities, with civil unrest and instability, we Yidden realize that now more than ever we need the zechus of the Chofetz Chaim to help us. Rav Yeruchem Olshin The Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha of Lakewood, HaGaon HaRav Yeruchem Olshin, shlita, pointed this out when he said, “Klal Yisrael is being buffeted by many tzaros. We see that we can’t rely on anybody, not even our ostensible friends. We need the hatzalah of a Daf! And the Daf HaY-

omi B’Halacha is a gevaldige koach harabbim that has the power to immeasurably help Klal Yisrael!” Now, more than ever, as the Yamim Noraim are upon us and everyone is looking for ways to be zoche b’din, imagine what can be accomplished by a kabbalah to learn Mishnah Berurah daily, to live with Hashem by knowing how to conduct one’s life in accordance?! Rav Shlomo Feivel Schustal Hilchos Shabbos is one of the most complex areas of halacha that every Yid is obligated to know. Daf HaYomi B’Halacha learners spent more than a year and a half learning those halachos. HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Feivel Schutal, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva Gedola Tiferes Yerachmiel, recently, wrote, “I have come to strengthen the distinguished Dirshu organization who have established a holy and sublime daily Mishnah Berurah learning program…He then remembered a seminal hesped that HaGaon HaRav Shneur Kotler, zt”l, said at the levaya of Rav Yaakov Katz, who was married to an adopted daughter of Rav Aharon Kotler. Rav Shneur praised Rav Yaakov as one who possessed a comprehensive knowledge of hilchos Shabbos. At that levaya, Rav Shneur demanded, ‘A Yid must know hilchos Shabbos. How can one be a Yid without knowledge of hilchos Shabbos?!’ “In our time, we have become a bit weak in this important area. Some think that a person can be a Yid and even a ben Torah without proper knowledge of hilchos Shabbos….May the leaders of Dirshu be blessed and in the zechus of shmiras Shabbos, which is the ‘source of all bracha,’ may the be blessed with hatzlacha!”

Rav Shmuel Eliezer Stern Indeed, HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Eliezer Stern, shlita, a talmid muvhak of Rav Shmuel Wosner who serves as Av Beis Din of Beis Din Shaarei Horaah and Rav of Western Bnei Brak, said, “Through learning Daf HaYomi B’Halacha day in and day out, a person merits to go on the path of Torah and yirah. In this way, a person is assured a place in Olam Haba’ah and eternal life!” Knowledge of Halacha and Yiras Shamayim HaGaon HaRav Aryeh Zilberstein, rav of the Gerrer community in Bnei Brak, put it succinctly when he said, “In one place, the Gemara mentions that Hashem can be found in the four amos of halacha. In another place, the Gemara says that the only treasure house that Hashem has is the treasure house of yiras Shamayim. When one learns halacha, he gains both these critical qualities because learning halacha brings with it both knowledge of halacha and yiras Shamayim.” Rav Zilberstein concluded with a powerful message that so resonates in our times, “The Chofetz Chaim’s zechus will certainly offer daily protection to a person who learns halacha every day, especially now during the Yamim Noraim.” Now, as a zechus for the New Year, is the time to tap into this eis ratzon and join Daf HaYomi B’Halacha – which is currently learning the end of Mishnah Berurah Chelek Hei, Hilchos Yom Tov – to bring Hashem’s four amos of halacha and yiras Shamayim into your own life. To join, call 1-888-5Dirshu or email, info@kolleldirshu.org.

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Mrs. Dvora Leah Hecht, a”h By Her Only Son By Yossi Hecht

habbos was the Hebrew yahrtzeit of the collapse of the Twin Towers. This past Shabbos, 23 Elul, we experienced our own loss of the Twin Towers. Something taller than every single building in the world, larger than anything physical being in the universe, Klal Yisroel mourns the loss of the most special lady in the whole wide world. Although I am not worthy to be maspid such a holy woman, my mother would be so proud of me to speak. She was always so proud of me – whenever I davened for the amud, whenever I lained, or whenever I spoke. Therefore, as the only son, I stand here as humble as ever to represent my sisters and to try to be maspid such a great mother. The Ramban had a talmid who was very sick, and the Ramban wrote down a list of questions he would ask in Shamayim. The talmid returned a few months later and said that he tried asking the questions but they all fell away. We all have questions in this world of sheker, but Ima has no questions. To be honest, she never had questions even down here on this world – Ima grew up in the Lower East Side in the home of my dear grandparents, Savta and Zaidy, a house that is so fortified in emunah that all the children internalized it, which, in turn, passed it down to their children and grandchildren. But perhaps Ima was so strong

because of the following pshat: if a person thanks Hashem in the boker, in the light when things are going well, then he’s going to thank Hashem even in the dark, in the difficulties! A person who can accept hardships like my special mother is on the pedestal of only the greatest tzidkaniyos. Even the goyim understood this – my cleaning lady did not stop crying after my mother passed away. Additionally, I have my own aid help, who exclaimed, “Your mom always made me take food and drink while working, and even when I left, I had to take a water bottle with me.” She was so special to anyone who met her. There’s not a person in this room who can tell me that my mother ever said a bad word to them. Ima ac-

quired what Chazal say as Keser shem tov oleh al kulam, everyone feels the same way about her. Students from 15 years ago would meet my mother and be so excited to see her and catch up on life. Even my own friends all know how amazing she is. When I was in Bais Medrash, we used to have an oneg on Friday night, and all my friends have such fond memories of how amazing she was and made sure everyone had what to eat. This is because she had such an ayin tova on everyone, that, in turn, everyone looked at her the same way – with a positive outlook. When I had my 10-hour surgery last summer, my choshuve Rebbe, Rabbi Keilson, was making a few calls to tell people to daven for me. The people he called

were bewildered because they said that they just spoke to Mrs. Hecht and she said everything is fine with me. But it was with everyone – her talmidos, her nephews and nieces everyone – she had an ayin tov for them and they returned that ayin tov back to her. Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro said that Elul stands for Aviv l’ma’aleh v’nechmad l’mateh. That’s what it means kol she’ruach ha’briyos nocheh hei’menu ha’Makom nocheh mei’hem. Since she was so well liked down here, we know up there she is liked as well. When she was younger, she always used to tell me how she visited Rebbetzin Feinstein every Shabbos. Rebbetzin! My mother’s parents are here, her siblings are here, and her children are all down here; take her straight up to Rav Moshe and advocate to Hashem that enough is enough. Tell Hashem that my sisters need shidduchim, tell Hashem that I need to walk again regular. Ima always told me, “Since I’m not so strong, I want to see you walk.” Mom! There is no other reason why I will continue my therapy but to make you proud! It is not logical by any means for me to progress forward but because of your unwavering support, I will continue to get stronger and stronger! I will picture your affectious smile smiling at me saying how I’m doing great. The smile that emanated from your beautiful face was because of your simchas ha’chaim. I don’t know of happier person than

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you – and your smile and happiness was contagious. R’ Shamshon Raphael Hirsch says that simcha and somech are interchangeable as they sound similar. I believe the reason she was so happy was because she was somech on Hashem. Her goodness to me was especially overflowing. She was amazing to all my siblings, but I was the little boy; I was her prince. I was spoiled since I was a baby. She always went with me to the suit store, and for years and years and years she gave me rides to yeshiva. Ima always would ask my rebbeim how I am doing, and whenever she saw Rabbi Bender, she would say “how is my Yossi?” I was her pride and joy. But this past summer, her goodness was taken to the next level that I still cannot begin to imagine. For three months straight, she did not miss ONE SINGLE day in the hospital with me! On June 30 of last year,

my 21 st birthday, we made a stayhome BBQ dinner and I still recall the light blue tablecloth on the table. Guess what? When I came home three months later, I saw that same

cared about was if I had supper that night! At the same time, she was the most normal, down-to-earth lady in the whole world. I still vividly remem-

The reason she was so happy was because she was somech on Hashem.

tablecloth still sitting on the table! My parents did not miss one Shabbos spending time with me in the hospital. I cannot imagine how I would’ve got through my personal tzara without my loving mother! She would always give me her loving hugs and kisses and always telling me you’ll be OK and you’re going to get better. The last words that she asked me was: Did you order supper? All she

ber how, when I was in the hospital, they gave us issues with having a lot of visitors. So, she would get my roommate, Donell, kosher bagels and cleverly tell him that we would pretend that my visitors were really visiting him so the administration wouldn’t have any problems with all the visitors. My holy mother was nifteres at

the age of 58, which is the gematria is chein. The chein was contagious to all those who met her – always having a nice word for everybody. Therefore, how befitting is it that the Chofetz Chaim’s yahrtzeit is also today who would be so proud of her and is surely greeting her in shamayim. She always said tehillim and davened for all of Klal Yisroel. Now, at this point in time in the world, I feel like she is a shliach tzibbur to advocate for us to the Borei Olam. Ima was moser nefesh that my father can run the Mir yeshiva as he came home late but she still kept up the house. Not only that, but she was so proud of our own learning! We love you, Abba, and we’ll be there for you. “The Geula is coming” came off her lips constantly. So, I’m begging you, Hashem wanted you back, but please tell Him that dai l’tzorosienu and that it’s time to bring Moshiach already!

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Wordisms Words that should be but aren’t

AQUADEXTROUS [ak wa deks’trus] (adj.) – Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub tap on and off with your toes.

CARPERPETUATION [kar’pur pet u a shun] (n.) – The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

DESSERTION [dez ert’ shun] (n.) – The act of making your husband leave the wedding, even though the Viennese tables have not yet been brought out. (That’s right, because no man would leave early on his own in that situation)

GLU T TEN V Y [glut e’n vee] (n) – The sweeping bitterness you feel when the food you ordered doesn’t look as good as another diner’s.

NOODLECIDE [noo du’hl syde] (n.): When you’re boiling pasta and the noodle you want to test gets scared and leaps off the spoon and plummets beneath the burner.

PARKANOIA [park uh’ noy uh] (n.) – The act of parking your new car miles away from a store entrance to protect it from stray shopping carts

DISCONFECT [dis kon fekt’] (v.) – To sterilize the piece of confection (a lollypop) you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, assuming this will somehow “remove” all the germs.

PEPPIER [peph ee ay’] (n.) – The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want fresh ground pepper.

P P

PHONESIA [fo nee’ z’ huh] (n.) – The affliction of dialing a phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer.

ELBONICS [el bon’iks] (n.) – The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest on a plane

FRUST [frust] (n.) – The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.

You gotta be

kidding

P P P

TELECRASTINATION [tel e kras tin ay’ shun] (n.) – The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up.

Morris, who is in his high 80s, is driving down the freeway in Florida when his wife, Sadie, calls him. In a frantic voice she says, “Morris, are you okay? I just heard on the news that there’s a car going the wrong way down the freeway. Be careful out there!” Morris replies, “Sadie, it’s not just one, it’s two hundred of them!”

Answer to Riddle: 5

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Fruitrivia 1. Befitting an ancient fruit, the pomegranate’s name comes from the Latin “pomum granatus.” What does “pomum granatus” mean? a. Seeded apple b. Tart fruit c. Red pulp d. It means: If you stain yourself with this fruit, you will have to send your shirt to the cleaners seven times to get the stain out. So pick up that napkin and tuck it in deep! 2. What part of a grape can be pressed to produce an oil? a. Pulp b. Stem c. Skin d. Seeds 3. What is contained in an apple seed? a. Oil b. Vitamin D c. Cyanide d. Vitamin B-17

c. China d. Columbia 5. How long can olive trees live? a. 10-20 years b. Over 50 years c. Over 100 years d. Over 2,000 years 6. The common garden strawberry is genetically an octoploid, meaning it has eight sets of what? a. Chromosomes b. Chloroplasts c. Tentacles d. Nucleobases 7. Which one of the following is not a fruit? a. Tomato b. String bean c. Onion d. Zucchini

4. Which country grows and exports the most pears in the world? a. U.S.A. b. Argentina

Riddle me this? Mr. and Mrs. Adler have three daughters and each daughter has two brothers. How many children do Mr. and Mrs. Adler have? See answer on opposite page

Answers: 1. A 2. D 3. B- That is right, apple seeds do not contain Vitamin D, but they do contain small traces of cyanide. It is not dangerous to eat apple seeds because the cyanide that is being released is usually in small enough doses that it either passes through the digestive system or the body can combat it. 4. C- It’s not just your Apple iPods that are made in China. 55% of worldwide production of pears is in China. (Ever feel like you are eating a “knock-off” pear?) 5. D- On Har Hazeisim, there are olive trees that are believed to be approximately 2,000 years old. A botanist from Bar Ilan University in Israel supposedly located an olive tree near Beer Sheva that is believed to be to be close to 3,000 years old. 6. A- Humans are diploids, meaning they have two copies of each chromosome, one from the mother and one from the father. Strawberries have eight. Polyploidy (multiple sets of chromosomes) is common in plants, but extremely rare in animals. Strawberries’ polyploidy has made them good candidates in the field of genetic research. 7. B Wisdom key: 4-7 correct: You know a mighty lot about fruits. I guess you are a real fruitcake! 2-3 correct: A moderate amount of fruit is still better than nothing; a moderate amount of knowledge will get you nowhere, though. 0-1 correct: You’re the type to put tomatoes in a fruit soup. (That’s right I stole the line… “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit soup.”)

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Rosh Hashana By Rabbi Berel Wein

believe that all of us can agree that this year the awesome days of Rosh Hashana will be diﬀerent than in past years. Many of us may not even be allowed to attend the synagogue for public worship. Others will pray and assemble in open, outside areas. There is a rhythm to our holidays that this coronavirus has interrupted. Nevertheless, Rosh Hashana will take place, and Jews worldwide will commemorate it according to our halachic and traditional customs. But perhaps, most importantly, I feel, and I certainly hope, that it will be a more introspective Rosh Hashana than we perhaps have experienced in

past years. The prayers for life and family, success and prosperity, peace and tranquility, accomplishment and productivity, purposefulness and meaning will have a more intensive, personal tone. This year it requires little imagination to realize that we stand before the heavenly court and pass, in single ﬁle, to be judged and blessed. There are those who, because of circumstances in their synagogues or community, may curtail the prayer service and omit certain paragraphs that are ordinarily so much a part of the holiday service of the day. I respect the opinion of rabbis who chose

to follow this route because of the local situation in which they ﬁnd themselves, however, to me every word of the holiday prayer book now takes on even greater meaning and relevance. I cannot imagine that under the present circumstances that exist here in my synagogue we will omit any prayers. We can all do without sermons and other additions but the holy words that have been sanctiﬁed over the centuries by the tears and even the blood of millions of Jews who stood before their Creator for judgment and blessing should not be absent from our lives and lips. We need

that the Talmud did not present us here with an either/or choice – soldiers or sheep. Rather, it meant to teach us that all human beings are both at the same time. We have within us enormous strength and capability, potential and firmness of purpose and behavior, while at the same time we are but dust and ashes, putty in the hands, so to speak, of the Holy One who has fashioned us. It is the challenge of life, its experiences, and events that confront us as to when we should stand erect and firm as soldiers or whether we should be humble and adopt a low profile,

This year it requires little imagination to realize that we stand before the heavenly court and pass, in single file, to be judged and blessed.

to remember that wherever we are it is Rosh Hashana and that it should be treated and observed as such. The Talmud records that we passed before the heavenly court as soldiers in the army of King David. It also compares us to the sheep that exist around Mount Meron. Sheep and soldiers, at first glance, seem to be opposite descriptions and scenarios. Soldiers stand erect and march proudly, while sheep always have a low profile and are not given to represent strength and firmness. Yet, I believe that we can well understand

like sheep. Rosh Hashana brings us face-toface with this challenge. As far as Torah values and the Jewish people are concerned, we are certainly to be soldiers in the army of King David. But as far as our own personal wants and desires, social behavior, and communal responsibility, we should lower our egos and allow ourselves to be counted as the sheep of Mount Meron. I send you my blessings for the new year and for a ketiva v’chatima tova.

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From the Fire

Rosh Hashana Iyov’s Memories By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

he truth is that one is not supposed to darshen, to speak, on Rosh Hashana. But if one is going to teach Torah, it should not be with words of mussar, of rebuke. Rather, it should only be words which seek out the positive things in the Jewish people. And because Rosh Hashana is the birthday of Adam HaRishon, the first man, it is our birthday to. So let us speak about what kind of birthday present we would ask for from the Master of the World. The shofar is the call to freedom, as we say in Shemonah Esreh every day, “Sound the great shofar of our freedom.” And the Gemara (Rosh Hashana 33b) derives the simple nature of the sound of the tekiyah, the first and last shofar blasts of each set, from a pasuk regarding the blowing of the shofar on the jubilee year in which all slaves are set free. But in each set, there is a teruah blast in between the simple tekiyah blasts. While there is a dispute in the Gemara there regarding the specific nature of the teruah – whether it is made up of several medium-length sounds or a number of shorter sounds – it is clear that the sound is meant to represent the sound of crying. We see from the Gemara that the order of the shofar blowing is a strong clear tekiyah at the beginning, broken, mournful teruah sounds in the middle, and a strong clear tekiyah at the end. In truth, this is the pattern of our individual lives as well as the life of our nation. As a child, each person begins with a clear, simple, optimistic note. Then, when a person grows up a bit, life becomes complicated. We hit obstacles and suﬀer setbacks, disap-

cy he brought into the world. What thoughts were going through Avraham’s mind during those three days? How many memories of his time with Yitzchak ﬂashed before his eyes? How many tears did he shed for what he and the world were about to lose as the minutes turned into hours and the hours turned into days as they slowly journeyed toward their destination? Those three days must have been the most mournful teruah in Avraham’s life. But when they arrived and the time came to carry out Hashem’s will, Avraham’s simple, clear desire to do Hashem’s will returned: “I am here!” (ibid. 11).

Iyov’s Memories pointments, and pain. But then, eventually, one reaches a stage in life when he or she is able to look back on his early years, everything in between, and all of his accomplishments and feel that simple, clear sense of satisfaction and nachas. People often ask me how I would characterize the difference between teaching and meeting with the bochurim in yeshiva and teaching and speaking with the members of this shul. I love the yeshiva. And I love this shul. But it is a completely different experience. Speaking with the bochurim in yeshiva can be compared to the initial, clear, simple tekiyah blast. They are filled with optimism, hope, and idealism for the future. Even if they regret certain mistakes, they look forward to how they will go in a new direction. This is completely different from speaking with people who are older, middle-aged, or already grandparents. They have al-

ready experienced so many of the ups and downs, the complications of life. They have had their share of teruos, broken shofar blasts.

Avraham’s Three-Day Journey Our great-grandfather Avraham Avinu experienced this pattern as well in the parsha of the Akeida, the binding of Yitzchak, which we read on the second day of Rosh Hashana. When the time came, the pasuk (Bereishis 22:3) says, “And Avraham got up early in the morning.” The day started with a crystal clear and simple tekiyah blast. Avraham was ready to do Hashem’s will, whatever that meant. But he was not immediately able to fulfill Hashem’s command. Rather, he had to walk with Yitzchak for three days before he arrived at the place where he would bind and slaughter his beloved son, his only heir to the spiritual lega-

And much later, there was another tzdadik who experienced his own tekiyah – teruah – tekiyah: Iyov. There was something that bothered me as I learned through sefer Iyov on Tisha B’Av. Iyov’s life began with a grand, clear tekiyah blast. He was a wealthy tzaddik with a beautiful wife and children. What could have been better? But in one long staccato teruah, he lost everything and everyone precious to him in quick succession. In the end, however, Iyov experienced another tekiyah, a clear shofar blast. The pesukim say (Iyov 42:12-17) that Hashem restored Iyov’s wealth. He remarried and had many more children. He was even more blessed than before. I cannot help but not be satisfied with that ending. While there is no doubt that Iyov loved his new wife and children, how often did he think about his first wife and first children with sadness? My parents

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lost everyone that they loved in the Holocaust. While they loved my sister and I, I have no doubt that they always mourned all of the loved ones they lost. When I imagine Iyov with his new wife and children, it reminds me of a powerful Journeys song called “Memories” by Abie Rotenberg: When I hold my grandson close to me And his fingers trace the pattern of my tears He asks me, Zaide Tell me why do you cry What is it that you fear? And I tell him there once was another child Who smelled this sweet and felt this warm But he was taken from before my eyes And only I remain to mourn During the final tekiyah of Iyov’s life, what was he thinking when his

children or grandchildren sat on his lap? They certainly gave him nachas, but I have no doubt that the memories of his children who left the world never stopped haunting him.

length of the final tekiyah of one set of shofar blasts, the second half of that blast cannot count as the first tekiyah of the next set of blasts. Why not? Because one simply cannot compare

One reaches a stage in life when he or she is able to look back on his early years, everything in between, and all of his accomplishments and feel that simple, clear sense of satisfaction and nachas.

His previous wife and children were Iyov’s zichronos, shofar blasts of remembrance.

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the simple, upbeat, fresh optimism of a new beginning with the nachas later on in a full life saturated with the memories of all of the ups, downs, and disappointments of the previous years. They are not in any way interchangeable.

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We therefore ask that Hashem look at our people now. We ask that he listen to our tekiyah gedolah, our final great and clear shofar blast filled with thousands of years of disappointments, losses, and pain. May He finally “sound the great shofar of our redemption.” As we say in the Rosh Hashana Shemonah Esreh, may Hashem grant “happiness to Your land, joy to Your city, a blossoming of the horn of Dovid Your servant, and the establishment of the candle of the son of Yishai, Your anointed one, may it be soon in our days.” It has been too long already. All we want on our birthday is that Hashem finally sound the great shofar. Call and end to this long process and bring us back to our land with the coming of Moshiach this year! Rav Moshe Weinberger, shlita, is the founding Morah d’Asrah of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY, and serves as leader of the new mechina Emek HaMelech.

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Rosh Hashana The Three Stages of Teshuva By Shmuel Reichman

he birth of a new year is a time of reflection and resolution, when hope and inspiration fill the air. We dream about what this upcoming year holds in store for us, how we can make the rest of our life the best of our life. We all have ideas, ambitions, and aspirations that we yearn to bring to fruition, and the new year gives us “permission” to revisit these goals and breathe new life into them. For a brief moment, everything is crystal clear, we see our purpose and our path with vivid clarity. However, there is an underlying frustration that accompanies this time period as well. If we reflect honestly, we often realize that our new year’s resolutions are awfully similar to those of last year, and the year before, and the year before… We have brief moments of inspiration, but they soon fade into oblivion, only to be resuscitated for a few more days the next year in the hopes that somehow this year might be diﬀerent. However, there is another option, a way to actually make this year diﬀerent. By truly understanding this time of year and fully tapping into its powerful themes, we can turn what was previously fleeting inspiration into lasting, eternal change.

The Deeper Themes of Teshuva Elul and Rosh Hashanah revolve around the concept of teshuva, which literally means “return,” but whom, or perhaps what, are we returning to? The Gemara (Kidushin 39b) explains that Hashem created teshuva before creating the world itself. What is the meaning of this enigmatic statement, and what lessons and implications does it have for us as we proceed through the teshuva process? The Rambam (Hilchos Teshuva

1:1) discusses the three-step process of teshuva: • First, one must reflect on their past and acknowledge that a problem exists; • One must then transition into the present and strongly feel the pain of their mistake, regretting it wholeheartedly; • Finally, one must look towards the future and resolve to never commit this same mistake again. This three-step guide is the practical process of teshuva. However, the essence of teshuva is the deep foundation for these three steps, and understanding this essence is the key to truly transforming ourselves through these three steps. Genuine teshuva is not just about self-transformation, it’s about self-expression, returning to your true and higher self. The Gemara (Niddah 30b) states that while we were in the womb we were in a perfect and transcendent state of being, and a malach, angel, teaches us kol ha’Torah kulah (all of Torah). As the Vilna Gaon explains,

this refers to the deepest realms of Torah, a transcendent Torah that lies far beyond this world, beyond the confines of space and time. This Torah is the very root of reality and you were granted complete understanding of its every detail. Not only were you shown this level of Torah, but you also learned your specific share of Torah – you were shown your unique purpose in the world and how your unique role fits into the larger scheme of the human story as a whole. You were given a taste of your own perfection, of what you could, should, and hopefully will become. And from this transcendent realm, you were birthed into the physical world with the mission to actualize everything you were shown in the womb, while in your perfect, primordial state. In essence, your job in this world is not to create yourself, but rather to recreate yourself, to re-attain your original state of perfection, as you were shown by the malach. This time, however, it must be done through free will, by choosing to become great. Only by overcoming challenge and

diﬃculty, only by asserting your willpower, can you fulfill your true potential. In essence, our entire life is a story of teshuva – returning to our original, higher, and true self. The shofar is a wake-up blast, meant to shake us from our stupor and return us to our true self. When we hear the shofar’s piercing cry, we yearn to return to our source, to our higher selves. The word “shofar” shares a root with “l’shaper,” to perfect and beautify. Strikingly, it also shares a root with “mei shafir,” the amniotic fluid which surrounds the fetus while in the womb. When we blow the shofar, we are reminded to improve and perfect ourselves, to return to our fetal state of perfection we once knew, to return to our true selves.

The Three Stages of Teshuva There are three stages of genuine teshuva: The first is individual teshuva, whereby we return to our higher selves, our fetal selves, our true selves. The second stage of teshuva goes beyond the limited self, turning the focus from individual to community. The Rambam, in discussing the laws of teshuva, states that someone who removes himself from the Jewish community has no share in Olam Haba. In other words, even if this person keeps all of Torah and mitzvos and is an upstanding Jew, if he disconnects himself from the community, he loses his eternal existence. This requires explanation. After all, this person didn’t commit a heinous or evil act, he merely chose a life of isolation. Why should this warrant such extreme punishment? The answer is profound. As human beings, we begin our lives as completely self-centered creatures, perceiving

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ourselves as isolated, separate, and disconnected from everyone else. As we progress through life, we learn to break down those walls and psychological barriers, recognizing that we are part of a bigger self, a collective self, a higher consciousness. At root, all of Klal Yisrael is one, an interconnected self. Each of our individual neshamos are part of a bigger whole, like individual cells that make up a single human body. A central aspect of the experience of Olam Haba is experiencing yourself as part of Klal Yisrael, as part of your true, collective reality. If, however, one disconnects themselves from Klal Yisrael, they have uprooted themselves from reality itself and simply cannot exist. Just as if you unplug a light bulb from its electric circuit, the light extinguishes, if a soul is disconnected from its root, it ceases to exist. This is not a punishment, merely a consequence. This is the second stage of teshuva, returning to our collective self, to the single soul of Klal Yisrael. The third stage of teshuva is returning to our absolute root and source, to the Source of all sources, to Hashem Himself. The Nefesh Ha’Chaim refers to Hashem as the “Neshama shel neshamos,” the Soul of all souls. Hashem is the root of existence, the absolute root of all our souls. Our entire journey through life is about sourcing our existence back to Hashem – this is the ultimate teshuva. We can now explain the Gemara which states that teshuva preceded Creation. This not merely a chronological phenomenon, this is a fundamental principle: teshuva is the root of this world, all of existence is created with the purpose of returning to their source, to fully reflect their absolute root, Hashem Himself. Let us now briefly display how the three themes of the Rosh Hashana tefillah reflect these stages.

The Three Themes of the Rosh Hashana Tefillah The three themes of the Rosh Hashana davening are Malchiyos, Zichronos, and Shofros. Shofros relates to the blowing of the shofar, Zichronos relates to remembering seminal events from Jewish history and Hashem’s covenant with the Jewish People, and Malchiyos is the process by which we

crown Hashem King. Judaism is a holistic religion, in which everything is interconnected, expressing an underlying oneness. How, then, do these three themes connect under a larger unifying theme?

Shofros The shofar represents one’s individual spiritual yearning. It is a haunting, wordless cry that returns us to our higher self, our fetal self. The bracha we recite on the shofar refers to the “kol shofar,” the voice of the shofar. This is because blowing the shofar is meant to draw our attention to the unique depth of the shofar’s role in our tefillah. We blow the shofar as a part of the Rosh Hashanah prayers, but it is unique amongst the tefillos. While all the other prayers utilize

This is also why the concept of kol is always connected to crying. When does one cry? When the clear path ahead loses its clarity and expression. When one hears the doctor’s report and finds out that instead of fifty years, one has only weeks left to live, they cry. Or, when one thinks they only have days left in this world, and they receive the news that they have been cured of their illness, they cry. When the clear and expressed path breaks down, we cry. This is because the spiritual concept of crying is the breakdown in expression. This is why the Hebrew word for tears, dim’a, is also the Hebrew word for “mixture,” something that is unclear and confusing. This is also why the Hebrew word for crying, bocheh, also means “confusion.”

All of existence is created with the purpose of returning to their source.

words, the shofar is a wordless cry. What is the meaning behind this? Speech is always a limited expression of one’s inner thoughts. Formulating ideas and feelings into words requires taking that which is abstract, beyond finite form, and giving it concrete form and expression. By doing so, one limits that infinite potential into just the words that are spoken. This is why words often fail to describe and convey that which is most important. Words are a limited form of expression, one that does not loyally convey the full force of “self” contained within it. Kol, however, is the root form of verbal expression, a speech that has not yet been formed into words. The wordless cry of the voice is not limited to specific words – it is beyond words, beyond finite expression. On Rosh Hashana, we cry out with the resounding kol of the shofar, expressing our deep yearning to return to our root selves, a yearning that cannot be expressed in words alone. As the blast of the shofar jars us from our stupor, we join in its cry, as our souls beg to return to their root.

On Rosh Hashana, we cry out with a resounding kol, expressing how deeply we yearn to return to our source, to Hashem. The concepts of kol and crying reflect the concept of focusing on the root and source without focusing on the expression. On Rosh Hashana, we take a step back from the expressed physical world and return back to our transcendent source.

Zichronos Zichronos refers to the concept of memory, building upon this same theme. Memory represents tracing something from the present back into the past. It is an exercise in sourcing something back to its root. On Rosh Hashana, as we discuss the Akeidah and other seminal moments in Jewish history, we connect back to our collective self, the root soul of all of Klal Yisrael. The Akeidah holds infinite layers of depth and meaning and has striking implications for us as we trace ourselves back to our collective self. At the Akeidah, Yitzchak was willing to give up his life. The very willingness to give

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up one’s life for Hashem reflects the belief that one is not merely a physical being but a spiritual consciousness that transcends one’s body. This is why Chazal note that the letters of Yitzchak’s name spells “keitz chai,” he who lives (chai) while paradoxically also existing beyond life (keitz). At the Akeidah, Yitzchak rooted himself beyond space and time, while still living within it. On Rosh Hashana, we remember this, and tap into our unique nature as Klal Yisrael, a nation that transcends this world while paradoxically living fully within it. The root of our ability to do so stems from Yitzchak and the Akeidah.

Malchiyos On Rosh Hashana, we crown Hashem as our Melech, our King. We declare Hashem to be the source of everything, our ultimate root. This is our mission in this world, to become a walking kiddush Hashem – fully connecting ourselves back to Hashem, our Creator. It is for this reason that we don’t mention Viduy or any of our sins on Rosh Hashana. Our singular goal on this day is to source ourselves back to Hashem, crown Him as our King, and root ourselves within reality, connected to Hashem. While all three of these themes are connected to all three forms of teshuva, Shofros most deeply reflects our individual teshuva, Zichronos most deeply reflects our collective teshuva back to our collective self, and Malchiyos most deeply reflects our ultimate teshuva, sourcing ourselves back to Hashem Himself. May we be inspired to fully actualize all three forms of teshuva this Rosh Hashana and seal ourselves in the book of life, the book of true existence. Shmuel Reichman is an inspirational speaker, writer, and coach who has lectured internationally at shuls, conferences, and Jewish communities on topics of Jewish thought and Jewish medical ethics. He is the founder and CEO of Self-Mastery Academy (ShmuelReichman.com), the transformative online course that is revolutionizing how we engage in self-development. You can find more inspirational lectures, videos, and articles from Shmuel on his website, ShmuelReichman.com.

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Jewish Thought

G-d’s Alarm Clock By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

here are many lovely explanations for why we blow the shofar on Rosh Hashana, but one of the most powerful is given by the Rambam. For the Rambam, the shofar is G-d’s alarm clock, waking us up from the “slumber” in which we spend many of our days. What did he mean? G-d’s greatest gift to us is time, and He gives it to us on equal terms. Whether we are rich or poor, there are still only 24 hours in a day, seven days in a week and a span of years that is all too short. Often, we spend our time on things that in the Rambam’s words “neither help nor save.” How many people, looking back on a lifetime, say, “I wish I had spent more time at committee meetings”? By contrast, how many say, “I wish I had spent more time with my children, or helping others, or simply enjoying being alive”? Sometimes we can be so busy making a living that we hardly have time to live. Experts on time management speak about two types of activity: the urgent and the important. Often our days are spent on the urgent, and we lose out on the important. I remember a conversation with someone who had been a workaholic, busy seven days a week. As a result of a personal crisis he decided to keep Shabbat. He later told me it was the best decision he ever made. “Now,” he said, “I have time for my wife and child and for my friends. Going to shul has made me part of a community. The strange thing is that the work still gets done, in six days, not seven.” Shabbat teaches us to take time for what is important, even though it isn’t urgent. Thirty years ago, when technology was less advanced, most people who wrote about the future saw it as an age of leisure when we would have far more free time. It has not happened that way. We seem more pressurized than ever and less relaxed. Mobile phones, e-mails, and

pocket computers mean that we are constantly on call. As Wordsworth said, “The world is too much with us; late and soon / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” The Psalmist put it best: “Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are when we number our days. Asking to be written in the Book of Life,

stood at Sinai more than 3,000 years ago. Teshuva asks us: did we grow in the past year or did we stand still? Did we study the texts of our heritage? Did we keep one more mitzvah? Did we live fully and confidently as Jews? Teshuva is our satellite navigation system giving us a direction in life. Tefillah means prayer. It is our conversation with G-d. We speak, but if we are wise, we also listen, to

Often our days are spent on the urgent, and we lose out on the important.

we think about life and how we use it. In this context the three key words of the Unesaneh Tokef prayer are fundamental: teshuva (repentance), tefillah (prayer) and tzedaka (charity). Teshuva is about our relationship with ourselves. Tefillah is about our relationship with G-d. Tzedakah is about our relationship with other people. Teshuva means not only “repentance” but also “returning” – to our roots, our faith, our people’s history and our vocation as heirs to those who

the voice of G-d as refracted through the prayers of a hundred generations of our ancestors. Tefillah is less about asking G-d for what we want, more about asking G-d to teach us what to want. A new car? A better job? An exotic holiday? Our prayers do not speak about these things because life is about more than these things. It is less about what we own than about what we do and who we aspire to be. We speak about forgiveness and about G-d’s presence in our lives. We remind ourselves that, short though

our time on earth is, by connecting with G-d we touch eternity. Tefillah is our “mobile phone to Heaven.” Tzedaka is about the good we do for others. Sir Moses Montefiore was one of the great figures of Victorian Jewry. He was a wealthy man and devoted much of his long life to serving the Jewish people in Britain and worldwide (he built the windmill in Jerusalem, and the area of which it is a part — Yemin Moshe — is named after him). Someone once asked him how much he was worth, and he gave him a figure. “But,” said the questioner, “I know you own more than that.” “You didn’t ask me what I own but what I am worth. The figure I gave you was how much money I have given this year to charity, because we are worth what we are willing to share with others.” That is tzedaka. Certain mitzvot in Judaism are rehearsals for a time to come. Shabbat is a rehearsal for the messianic age when strife will end and peace will reign. Yom Kippur – when we do not eat or drink or engage in physical pleasure, and when there is a custom to wear a kittel like a shroud – is a dress rehearsal for death. It forces us to ask the ultimate question: what did I do in my life that was worthwhile? Did I waste time or did I share it, with my faith, with G-d, and with those in need? Knowing that none of us will live forever, we ask G-d for another year: to grow, to pray and to give. That is what the Rambam meant when he called the shofar “G-d’s alarm call,” asking us not to slumber through life, but to use it to bring blessings. May the Al-mighty bless us, our families and the Jewish people, and may He write us all in the Book of Life.

To read more from Rabbi Sacks, please visit www.rabbisacks.org and follow @ RabbiSacks on social media.

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The Journey of Teshuva One Small Step BY RABBI DANIEL GLATSTEIN The Challenge of Teshuva The Aseres Yemei Teshuva offer us the opportunity of a lifetime. Rav Yonason Eibeshutz teaches that through the seven days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, one can repair all of one’s sins committed on all the corresponding days of the week of the prior year. For instance, if one does teshuva and performs maasim tovim on the Sunday of the Aseres Yemei teshuva, he can rectify the sins he did on all of the Sundays of the previous year. The same applies to each of these seven days. While, on the one hand, this is a unique opportunity, on the other hand, the teshuva process can appear to be a very daunting task because it is very difficult for a person to truly change his ways. Although it is a real challenge to improve and to change our habitual behavior, studying the following concepts can be a great source of encouragement.

The Mikveh Analogy The days of teshuva are analogous to a mikveh. Rabbi Akiva declares at the end of Meseches Yoma, “Just as a mikveh purifies the impure, so too will Hashem purify the Bnei Yisrael.” When one immerses in a mikveh, whether he is spiritually ready or not, he becomes tahor, pure. The same is true for the Yamim Noraim. Even if a person puts in minimal effort and is not truly prepared to make a drastic change in his conduct, he still emerges a different person. The Bnei Yisasschar extends this analogy. Just as a mikveh contains forty se’ah of water, there are forty days during which to do teshuva from Rosh Chodesh Elul through Yom Kippur. Calculating further, we

to be mevatel our spiritual impurities through the mechanism of immersion into the 960 lugin of a mikveh. Likewise, the Bnei Yisasschar teaches us that we can be mevatel our sins and purify ourselves through experiencing the 960 hours of the 40 days of teshuva.

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can compute forty se’ah equal 960 lugin. Thus, there are 960 lugin in a mikveh. Correspondingly, the forty days between Rosh Chodesh Elul through Yom Kippur contain a total of 960 hours during which we can do teshuva (24 hours x 40 days = 960 hours). These analogies between mikveh and the Yemei Teshuva teach us that, just as someone who immerses in a mikveh emerges purified as a new person, regardless of his preparation and readiness, so, too, does one emerge from the Yamim Noraim purified, as a new person. The Bnei Yissaschar adds an interesting detail. He calculates the numerical value of the word Tishrei with its nekudos. Tishrei itself has a gematria of 910: yud = 10; reish = 200; shin = 300; and taf = 400. Al pi kabbalah, the nekudos also have gematria: The chirik, which is formed by one dot, has the numerical value of 10. The shva and the tzeirei each have two dots, and thus each has the numerical value of 20, for a total of 50. Thus, Tishrei with its nekudos has

the gematria of 960: the same value as the lugin in a mikveh and as the hours in the Yemei Teshuva. This is an additional remez hinting that the month of Tishrei functions as does a mikveh. Even if insufficient teshuva is done, Tishrei can purify a person to some extent; it will elevate us spiritually.

Bitul of a Beriyah: 1/960 If a very small amount of treifah falls into kosher soup, the soup remains kosher; utilizing the principle of batel b’shishim, the treifah element is nullified in content that is sixty times larger in volume. However, if a single ant falls into a huge vat of kosher food, the food becomes prohibited. This is because the rule of batel b’shishim does not apply to a complete beriyah, a complete creature. The Talmud Bavli rules that it is not batel even in a ratio of 1:1,000. However, the Talmud Yerushalmi disagrees, stating that an entire beriyah is batel in a ratio of 1:960. Although we, too, are complete beriyos, we still have the opportunity

The Mishnah at the end of Yoma cited above states: Rabbi Akiva declares that Klal Yisrael is fortunate, for it is Hashem, our Father in heaven, Who purifies us. As the verses state: Then I will sprinkle pure water upon you, that you may become cleansed (Yechezkel 36:25) and Hashem [is] our Mikveh” (Yirmiyah 17:13). Just as a mikveh purifies the impure, so, too, will Hashem purify the Bnei Yisrael. Rav Avraham Pam was fond of quoting the son of Rav Yitzchak Elchanan Spector, who asks why Rabbi Akiva quoted the two aforementioned pesukim when it seems that one would have sufficed. He explains that these two pesukim are cited because there are two types of tahara and thus two corresponding types of teshuva. We are most familiar with the purification of the mikveh, in which complete immersion renders a person or object pure. There can be no chatzitzah, interposition, between the object or person being purified and the waters of the mikveh, and the immersion must be total. If even one tiny part, one hair, is not immersed, the purification is not effective. Although 99 percent of the object may have been immersed, the object or person is not 99 percent purified. Without complete and total immer-

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sion, purification in the mikveh is not effective at all. The second type of purification is through the waters of purification that are sprinkled on the impure. If a tamei person is sprinkled with the water in which the ashes of the parah adumah are mixed, even if the water touches only a part of the body, even merely one hair, the person has achieved a significant level of purification.

Two Types of Teshuva There are also two types of teshuva that directly parallel these two methods of purification. One type of teshuva occurs when a person says that he regrets all his aveiros and avers that he is never going to repeat his mistakes. In this type of teshuva, the penitent is transformed into an entirely new person. It is as if his entirety is immersed in the teshuva process, and he emerges from this purification as a new being. This is the perfect teshuva, which at times may seem very daunting to attempt. The second type of teshuva, however, is analogous to the water used to purify someone who is tamei. With this method, a person realistically knows he is not going to become a perfect tzaddik in the coming year. But he chooses one action, such as reciting one bracha in Shemoneh Esrei with kavana. He knows he cannot commit himself to never speaking lashon hara again, but he can at least ensure that his Shabbos table is free from lashon hara. A commitment to one small thing — something that is truly a change for the better — can also be considered teshuva. While it is not complete teshuva, it is meaningful teshuva nonetheless. The ultimate goal that we strive for is complete and total teshuva — teshuva sheleimah. But even if this seems to be beyond our reach, we can take heart knowing there is another valid option as to how to do teshuva.

Teshuva Is Great This approach to teshuva is illustrated by introducing an expanded and novel system of gematria. Parshas Ki Savo states, You shall inscribe on the stones all the words of this Torah, well clarified (Devarim 27:8). On the words “be’air haitev, well clarified,” Rashi comments that the

Torah was to be written in all seventy languages. The Mizrachi explains the source for Rashi’s comment. When the word haitev is written out, starting with the first letter alone and then adding each subsequent letter one at a time, the gematria is 70. Rav Shamshon M’Ashtropoli introduced a chiddush that he said was revealed to him from Heaven, which applies this expanded system of gematria to the words Kisei HaKavod. Tallying the gematria of these letter combinations gives the same numeric value as the word teshuva: 713. This alludes to what we have been taught; i.e., teshuva is great because it reaches to the Kisei HaKavod of the Ribbono shel Olam.

The Ladder of Teshuva Sefer Mishnas Yosef writes that this chiddush teaches us an incredible lesson in teshuva. One does not reach the Kisei HaKavod in one leap.

The King Will Come to You The Pesikta Rabbasi teaches us a parable that illustrates this concept of teshuva. A prince is very far from the palace where the king, his father, resides. He is at a distance of a hundred days’ travel from the palace when he receives word that his father wants him to come home. The distance, however, seems too far for him to traverse, and he does not think he can make the long and arduous journey. The king sends word that if the prince starts heading out — if he takes even just a few steps in the right direction — then the king will travel the remaining miles to meet his son and bring him home. “You take a few steps, and I will travel the rest of the way to get you; I will take you the rest of the way.” This is what the pasuk means when it says, Return to Me and I will return to you! (Malachi 3:7). We have to do the best we are capable of, and

One must climb the ladder of teshuva one rung at a time — one letter at a time. One cannot suddenly become a completely new person. Rather, one must climb the ladder of teshuva one rung at a time — one letter at a time. Sometimes, what it takes is changing one’s ways in one small area every year. Eventually the sum of these small steps will add up to complete teshuva. For example, as noted, one may want to work on his davening by adding one bracha every year that he davens with extra devotion. After nineteen years, he will have improved his entire Shemoneh Esrei! It is important for us to be mekabel upon ourselves one small thing that we know we can uphold throughout the year. To perform the type of teshuva that will reach the Kisei HaKavod, one must approach it one letter at a time. Hashem simplifies the teshuva process for us, accepting even small steps and small changes from us, rather than demanding complete reform all at once.

then Hashem will come to us — He is willing and ready to cover the vast majority of the distance that separates us from Him, so long as we make an honest effort. When we try to do teshuva, Hashem will elevate us to levels we never thought we could achieve. The Chofetz Chaim was very interested when the invention of the elevator came to his attention, saying that it was the perfect metaphor for teshuva. One simply presses the button to summon the elevator and enters the compartment; then the elevator carries him the rest of the way. So too, if one merely makes a meaningful effort to return to Him, Hashem will provide the siyata d’Shmaya to elevate him to even higher levels of teshuva.

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suk in Parashas Balak, said at the beginning of Shacharis, How goodly are your tents, O Yaakov (Bamidbar 24:5). The simple pshat, as explained by Rashi, is he saw that the doors were not aligned. Bilaam was very impressed by the modesty he noted in the arrangement of the tents of Bnei Yisrael, as the doorways of their tents were not situated opposite their neighbors’, preventing them from seeing into one another’s homes. Rav Meir Shapiro explained the verse homiletically. The Midrash says that Hashem tells Bnei Yisrael, “You open a small opening [of teshuva], as small as the point of a needle, and I will open for you an entrance to allow wagons to enter.” Hashem is telling us that we must make one small improvement, and then He will take us the rest of the way. This is what pained Bilaam: He saw that the “doorways were not aligned” — a Jew’s “doorway” of teshuva is required to be only a tiny opening and then Hashem will open a vast entrance for him. Bilaam was very jealous that even the smallest effort on our part is matched many times over by Hashem. Bilaam was commenting on what he felt was an expression of Hashem’s unparalleled love for Klal Yisrael.

The Shofar Perhaps we can suggest that this concept is alluded to by the shape of the shofar that we sound on Rosh Hashana, which has a very small opening on the bottom, while the top has a much wider opening. This indicates that even if we sincerely open our hearts only a small amount to do teshuva, then Hashem will widen that small opening and elevate us. Let us take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity of the Aseres Yemei Teshuva and utilize this gift from Hashem by making even the smallest — albeit sincere — effort at coming back to Hashem with teshuva. When we accept upon ourselves a modest attempt to improve, the Ribbono shel Olam will provide siyata d’Shmaya and enable us to return to Him completely, b’teshuva sheleimah.

A Tiny Opening Is Enough Rav Meir Shapiro was invited to give a drasha in a city he was visiting. His drasha focused on the pa-

Excerpted from The Mystery and the Majesty by Rabbi Daniel Glatstein, published by Artscroll/Mesorah.

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My Israel Home

Real Estate and Estate Planning By Gedaliah Borvick

client recently inquired how – from an estate planning perspective – purchasers from overseas should structure the acquisition of a second home in Israel. Attorney Michael Sacofsky, who specializes in real estate transactional law as well as trust and estates law,

explained what the purchaser should do to protect their assets.

U.S. Ownership Structure In the United States, properties are often owned by a husband and wife in “joint tenancy with rights of survivorship,” meaning each person

has equal ownership rights, and upon the death of one spouse, the surviving spouse is generally entitled to full ownership of the property. Many of our clients automatically believe that this law is the same in Israel, but that is not the case.

bequeathing the deceased person’s proportionate home ownership initially to his/her spouse, and upon the surviving spouse’s death, to their children or other beneficiaries.

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To make the Israeli probate process quicker and less problematic, Mr. Sacofsky generally advises clients to prepare two wills, which operate in the following complementary manner: The primary will would state that it applies to all of the deceased’s worldwide assets except for Israel, and the Israeli will would state that it only applies to the deceased’s Israeli assets. The Israeli court system will then follow the Israeli will’s directives regarding dividing the assets to the beneficiaries. Michael Sacofsky is one of the exceptional lawyers whom I recommend to overseas purchasers. If this article inspires any follow-up questions, feel free to contact Michael at msacofsky1@gmail.com. This article is meant for informational purposes only. Please contact an attorney should you require legal counsel.

When a husband and wife purchase a property in Israel using a standard purchase agreement structure, ownership gets registered in equal shares with each spouse being a 50% owner. Upon the death of one spouse, their 50% ownership would be divided in accordance with their Last Will and Testament. However, if there is no valid will, the deceased spouse’s 50% ownership gets divided as follows: the surviving spouse will receive half of the deceased person’s ownership and the children would receive the other half (this percentage can change when the person dies without children and in some other scenarios). Thus, in the absence of a valid will or other contractual or prenuptial agreement, the grieving spouse may be in a situation where he/she will have to seek permission of the children, or some other lawful heirs of the deceased spouse, to continue living in their home.

Draft a Will! This unfortunate situation can be avoided through the drafting of a will which would allow the surviving spouse to remain in their home by

Even Better, Draft Two Wills!

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

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Rosh Hashana

Jew BY DAVID PERLOW

few years ago, I made a life-changing decision. I moved to Israel and joined the Golani 13 Brigade. I was what you’d call a Rosh Hashana Jew – my Judaism consisted of going to shul once a year on Rosh Hashana (and in college, I managed to miss that a couple of times). I just didn’t connect to my Jewish heritage. Then something sparked inside when I was clubbing in Europe. I felt alone, like I had no meaning. I just slammed a shot of absinth after blowing out the fire. Waking up the next day something was calling me to take advantage of the time away from Arizona and connect to something Jewish. I was in Prague and decided to visit the Jewish community. I hadn’t been in a synagogue in a long time. I had my bar mitzvah, and I thought I was done. But something was telling me that I needed to know more about who I was. I discovered the Holocaust museum in the center of Prague. Entering into this small room the size of most luxury home living rooms, I saw thousands of names written on the wall. My heart skipped a beat, my eyes opened, and my stomach started to sink. Then the tears flowed as I entered the synagogue situated next to the museum. Wearing a paper skullcap, I poured out my heart. Memories flashed before me. The parties, the girls, the drinks, and regret. This was a turning point. I was in a place where my own people suffered the worst suffering imaginable. Last night, I was partying, and only half a century ago the Holocaust was raging. Something was off. The tears wouldn’t stop flowing as I listened to my favorite songs on my MP3. Not really remembering how to read Hebrew

Last night, I was partying, and only half a century ago the Holocaust was raging.

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from the siddur, I prayed from my heart. What’s my purpose? Why am I here? I was an amateur model and DJ who was going from party to party. Something suddenly opened inside of me, and I left Prague promising myself to pay more attention to my Jewish identity and be open to learning more about my Jewish heritage.

back to the U.S., I connected to my campus rabbi at Arizona State, Rabbi Jordan Brumer, to ask questions like: “Are we really the chosen people?” and “Why is there anti-Semitism in the world?” Week after week, we’d meet at Starbucks, and I’d drill him with my latest nagging question. That’s when I told him that I had signed up for a trip to Israel through Taglit-Birthright. He made some arrangements and said that, if I wanted, I could go to the Aish Essentials program after the tour. I was grateful for the opportunity to learn about my heritage in the heart of Jerusalem facing the Western Wall. My observance began to slowly grow. I ordered a pair of tefillin from the Internet, not knowing the importance of having them certified by a scribe. I later found out they weren’t kosher. My trip to Israel was so uplifting. It helped me foster a love for the Land of Israel and its people. After my 10-day Birthright trip, I made my Lighting menorah in the army way to Aish HaTorah where I immersed in the treasures of Judaism at my own pace. My time there was short since I needed to finish college, but I found a way to get credit while staying in the Holy Land. I interned at the Jaffa Gate Tourism office for a few months, helping tourists from all over the world discover the beauty of Israel. I was living a dream, living in Jerusalem, helping people and getting school credit. That’s when I read the Jerusalem Post article about Michael Levin, a lone soldier who was killed in combat.

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had been on leave in America when the Second Lebanon War broke out. Instead of staying safe at his home in Pennsylvania, he got on a plane to join his paratrooper unit in battle and he fell sacrificing his life for his nation. His story struck me to the core. Inspiration and imagination overcame me; I wanted to follow his path. I graduated and then needed to figure out my next step. After failing to make headway in the real estate boom of Arizona in 2006, I decided to push myself in the direction I knew my soul was calling out for. I called my grandpa one morning when things weren’t really working out, “Grandpa, I think I want to make aliyah and join the Israeli army.” From that moment, it was a focused effort to find myself in Israel and make my dream a reality. I merited moving to Israel and joining the IDF, like my hero Michael, who today my son is named after.

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amazing took place while I was serving on the Gaza border. It was the eve of Rosh Hashana. We were stationed at our post which housed a 120mm GPS Cannon. We couldn’t leave our position to go to shul but luckily some of our buddies replaced us. We had only four religious guys in our unit, and another two decided to join our prayer quorum of ten men. But we lacked another four guys. Over the last month while serving in Gaza, tons of soldiers had been getting interested in their Judaism, and a bunch decided to join us for the prayer service. We gave them kippahs, and we temporarily laid our guns down. The shul was no bigger than a garage but our joy was overwhelming. We were singing at the top of our lungs, totally rejoicing with each other, brothers in arms on the border of Gaza. All because of these non-religious guys who joined us. We finished the prayer service, hugging each other. The love and brotherhood that permeated the synagogue was something beyond what many of us had ever experienced. We entered the cafeteria glowing, charged by the unforgettable prayer service. My Ethiopian friend made kiddush. There was delicious gourmet food (food during the holidays is better than usual since soldiers aren’t at home with their families). At this moment, I knew I was fulfilling my dream. During my service in the army, I always kept in mind what Rav Noah Weinberg, a”h, would say during his 48 Ways series: pleasure requires pain. We had endured plenty of pain. Basic and advanced training were far behind us. We had finished a few months guarding the Lebanon border. Now we were on the Gaza border where I’d listen to MP3s of Rabbi Weinberg’s classes, which helped me be a strong soldier. At that moment, during kiddush, just as we were about to shout ”l’chaim!” together, a huge explosion

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At that moment, during kiddush, just as we were about to shout ”l’chaim!” together, a huge explosion ripped through the air.

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ripped through the air. Sirens blasted and red lights spun in circles. Our emergency units ran out to their stations and the rest of us ran to the bomb shelter. Some of us began reciting psalms, not knowing what would happen next. This was a similar feeling that we had when one of our leading commanders was killed on the Lebanon border. Would we be going in? After all, we were about 100 yards from Hamas on the other side of the border. Our minds and hearts were racing. The situation calmed down a bit, and we got the clearance to go out of the shelter. The ﬁrst thing we wanted to know was where did the rocket hit? We found the spot and were shocked to the core. It was right next to the hangout bench where everyone chills after meals. Since more people wanted to join the Rosh Hashana prayer service, the meal was postponed for half an hour. If there was no prayer service, we would have all been hanging out at that exact location when the rocket hit. With his wife, Ronit

Jew has the power to step up and do more for his people. Whether it’s learning, praying or donating, everyone plays a part, and we need to grab our opportunities and step up and do what we can to help the Jewish people this new year. With the increase in anti-Semitism around the world, let’s unite and rejoice in who we are. We are one, and no one will stop our love.

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David’s book, Not a Lone Soldier, can be found on Amazon.

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Keeping Kosher in Dubai

TJH Speaks with Rabbi Yissachar Krakowski

BY SUSAN SCHWAMM

Last month, when representatives from the United States, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates gathered in Dubai to solidify the normalization of relations between the Jewish State and the UAE, Rabbi Yissachar Krakowski, of the OU, was on hand to ensure that kosher-observers were able to eat with their counterparts without concern. TJH recently spoke with Rabbi Krakowski about his experience with keeping the event kosher in the Arab country.

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Rabbi Krakowski, you're the head of the OU Kosher Israel office. Yes. And I’ve been working on expanding into the Gulf region, to reach out beyond the borders of Israel, including the Palestinian areas. Before I came to the OU, they were more reluctant to certify things in Palestinian territories. Now, that’s less so the case, and we’re definitely reaching out to other Arab countries. So Dubai is going to be your new frontier? We’ve been certifying companies both from the Emirates and other Arab countries for a while. It’s not something that’s brand new. Until the Arab Spring, we were certifying companies in Syria even. Not now, obviously, because of safety of mashgichim. I don’t think it’s safe to send even Muslims to Syria right now, let alone Jews. These countries have no problem with you coming there on an Israeli passport? I don’t come on an Israeli passport. I come on an American passport. It took a little bit of ingenuity to get to the United Arab Emirates from Israel for the event. Well, I was coming from Israel, and I had to get there before the delegation in order to kasher everything. With Covid, it’s a bit harder to travel. In the past, when I flew to the Emirates, I flew through Amman, Jordan, which is just one stopover and is not that much out of the way. But the airport in Amman is closed because of COVID-19. So I had to fly to Europe to fly to Dubai, as ironic as it sounds. On the way there, I flew through Bulgaria, and then on the way back, I flew through Athens, Greece. I had to leave there very, very early in the morning to get to Bulgaria. There was a whole issue because they don’t allow Americans into Bulgaria. I had to pull strings there to be able to get to my flight. In the end, they took me in a border police car from one terminal to the other terminal, so I didn’t actually step foot over the border. I was also busy with my suitcases because I had three oversized suitcases with food that I brought along for the delegation. Initially, they planned a fleishigs menu and I packed food for that, but they opted out of the fleshing menu when they heard what was involved. That was decided when I was already in transit, so I was bringing the food along. Coming home, I flew through Athens, but I had a very long stopover – almost five hours. The meals were served starting on Monday. When did you get there to handle the kashering? I worked with somebody locally to kasher the kitchen, and he started kashering it before I came.

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He sent me pictures and videos of the equipment that had to be taken care of in order to kasher the kitchen, so I was involved before I even got there. When I came, I followed up, and I checked up on it. The truth is, in a certain way, it’s much easier actually to do these types of programs than to do a Pesach program somewhere or a vacation program. Really? I did a similar program earlier this year in February in Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. It was for the COP, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations; they had a conference there. At the invitation of the Royal Court, I did the kashrus there for them. In both of these instances – in Saudi Arabia and in the event in Dubai – when you’re doing something for the Royal Courts of these types of countries, they spare not a cent. Whatever it costs, whatever you need, if this is what the royalty wants, that’s what’s going to be. They want to be hospitable, and they want to be able to feed their guests and to honor them with food. How did that manifest itself in Dubai? Well, to give you an example, this time they used new plates at every single meal. There were people eating kosher and not kosher next to each other at the same meal. Hotels have codes that they need to use a certain standard and certain size and everything has to be the same pattern in terms of their crockery and their cutlery, flatware, silverware, etc. The event was at the St. Regis in Abu Dhabi. For this event, all those things were brand new at every single meal. They’d give us 150 pieces brand new for all our guests. A mashgiach stood and saw them unwrapping them from the boxes before each and every meal. To ensure that there wasn’t any confusion as to what was kosher or non-kosher, the plates that were used for the kosher eaters did not go back into the kosher kitchen after the meal. They were sent to a different area in the hotel, to a different kitchen, where they were washed and used for non-kosher. They did this – using new dishes, etc. – without batting an eyelash. There was no worry about costs involved. In terms of not sparing any expense, what else did that translate into? For one of the dishes, the chefs needed truffles. Truffles are kosher. You just need to check them to ensure they’re not infested with bugs. So I told them that they could use them. But then, a little while later, I saw a jar of truffle sauce and I look at it and it had wine, which is obviously not kosher and had other ingredients in the sauce. I said to him, “This doesn’t have a kosher certification. This isn’t kosher.” And he told me, “You told me I could use truffles.” “Well, you can use truffles, but this is

truffle sauce, and it’s not kosher.” He said, “Oh, man, what are we going to do? That’s what I put on the menus already.” So I said, “OK, make your own truffle sauce.” “That’s a great idea. Let me get truffles.” He started making phone calls. Truffles are a relatively high-end type of food. So we started making phone calls trying to get ahold of fresh truffles. We finally found one place that had them but they told him they couldn’t deliver. He only needed one or two kilos of truffles. He told them that he’d pay them 2,000 dirhams – which is around $600 – for the truffles. “Send it in a taxi and meet me here in 15 minutes,” he said. For them, the word “budget” doesn’t exist. They’re very cooperative because this is coming from His Royal Highness. This is what the royalty wants. In that culture, this is royalty, this is a dynasty, they listen to every word of what he says. The more liberal Muslims are very excited about the accord because they can’t wait to – unfortunately – come to Tel Aviv to party. Obviously, that’s not what I want to hear. But that’s the truth of it. But when you speak to the more conservative Muslims, as they call themselves, and you ask them what their thoughts are about the accord, they say, “We trust our royalty implicitly.” They believe that they all come from Mohammed and that they’re innately holy just by default. And the royalty has immense power. There’s no saying no to them. When you’re the one who is asked to do something by the royalty, it’s a different ballpark. No one second-guesses you or balks at what needs to get done. Do you speak Arabic? I have a pocketful of vocabulary but not more than that. I would like to learn, but that hasn’t happened. Who translated for you? They all speak English fluently over there. It’s not like Jordan or Egypt, where many of

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them are uneducated. Maybe if you go to the marketplace or other places, you’ll meet some common folk in the UAE who are less educated. But, by and large, most of the people you’re dealing with either in terms of hotel staff and other things speak English fluently. Wow, that's refreshing. What was on the menu? Originally, as I mentioned, we were going to have a meat menu and for various reasons because of complications in the kitchen, they decided to take off the meat from the menu. I brough kilos of cheese from Israel. They had dairy products. There was fish which they bought locally but they cleaned and gutted and it in the hotel under kashrus supervision. Some of their fish I let them descale as long as they left some scales on, just for halachic reasons, we needed a siman. The kosher menu, by and large, had two fish options and a vegetarian or vegan option at every meal for a main course. And then there was all sorts of different side courses. Breakfast was buffet.

Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. What's the most interesting location that you've been to in order to certify a meal or products? It’s kind of hard to say. I guess Riyadh is probably the most far-out, the most unthought-of type of place to go. The OU certifies a few companies in Saudi Arabia on a regular basis and people from the office in New York go there, but it’s not typical of kosher assignments. But yes, each place is a little different. Each circumstance is different. For this event, there were challenges that I didn’t have before. In Riyadh, for example, everyone was eating kosher. Over here, in Dubai, we had people sitting at the same table eating kosher and non-kosher one right next to the other, so it presented an obstacle in terms of how to create a separation between those eating kosher and not kosher. For one, we had to ensure that everyone got the right meal, and halachically, there’s another issue. It’s like if you’re sitting at a table, and you’re eating dairy and your friend is eating meat. The halacha is that you have to put a heker, something to remind you that you can’t eat from the other person’s plate

little card with the letter K on it that we put in front of each person’s plate. This way, we would know who was eating kosher and it would be a heker as well – it reminds people the whole time that they’re eating that they’re eating kosher. What was interesting was, once I told the waiters to give the cards to whoever was eating kosher, they said, “No. No. No. We don’t want them to feel like second-rate, like we’re marking them because they keep kosher.” So they put down a card at every seat at the table. Once people sat down, the waiters asked if they wanted a kosher meal, and if they didn’t, then they took away the “K” card. That is very respectful. Yes, that was the Emiratis’ approach because they want to be hospitable. It’s interesting because one of the Arab newspapers quoted me as saying how making things kosher in Dubai is important to the peace process because if people can eat together, it brings about peace. But truthfully, that was taken out of context and is the opposite of what is true via a halacha vantage point. In halacha, Chazal made a lot of

Were you able to taste a little bit? Unfortunately, probably too much. The caterer lives in the Emirates, correct? Right. It was catered by Elli’s Kosher Catering. Her husband is the president of the Jewish community in Dubai. She runs more of a mom-and-pop type of business right now, although she’s signing a contract for an industrial kitchen and then she plans on getting OU supervision on a regular basis. And right now, by request, if somebody wants OU on the event she’ll bring out OU mashgichim to make sure that it’s up to OU standards and do it that way. Who invited you to ensure things were kosher at the event? Meir Ben Shabbat. He was the head of the delegation on the Israeli side. He made it clear that he was only going to eat fruits and vegetables, nothing else, when he got to the UAE. But they said, “No. We want to get you kosher food.” So they reached out to Elli’s Kosher Kitchen. They worked with her in the past on other types of things for what’s called MOPA, Ministry of Presidential Affairs, and the Emirati Institution especially for His Highness the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. Elli reached out to me and asked me if I would come. She didn’t just want a mashgiach. She wanted somebody very identifiably OU. I told her that I have two bosses: my wife and Rabbi Genack, head of OU Kosher. And that I had to check with both of them. You mentioned that you were in

When you're the one who is asked to do something by the royalty, it's a different ballpark. because otherwise, your friend could say, “Wow, this sandwich is really good,” while she’s in the middle of eating her cheese sandwich. You want a taste and you just took a bite out of your meat sandwich a minute ago and you’re like, “Well, yeah. I’ll take a taste,” and you cut off a corner of her sandwich and eat it and then you just had milchigs right after fleishigs. In order to avoid that, Chazal say that you have to put something in between you, so you shouldn’t end up sharing from the other person’s food. The object that you put down shouldn’t be something that you usually have on the table, like a salt shaker. It should be something different as a reminder. Over here, I had a different issue because many people don’t think of this issue when it comes to kosher and non-kosher because most people are never put into that situation. It’s really not a common scenario. Even those who know halacha and are familiar with halacha don’t realize that there is this problem. And so, to take care of this, I came up with a

takanos to avoid getting too close to the other nations. Bishul akum, pas akum, all these types of things, so we don’t get extra friendly. One time I spoke to a group on a college campus and I pointed out that if they want to maintain a Jewish identity, kosher is the best way of doing it because every time they sit down at a social event, eating kosher reminds them of who they are. So, it’s true that they’re making things kosher in the UAE to allow Jews and Arabs to eat together, and it bridges a certain gap in terms of that to make peace. But the fact that they need us to do it and that we know that the food needs to be kosher, that helps us maintain a certain healthy distance to live in harmony but not, chas v’shalom, to cause detriment to Am Yisrael, with assimilation, etc. To me, it was very important that from the onset of this whole process that kosher came into place because I think that speak volumes in both directions – both by accommodating our needs and at the same time keeping things distinctive between the nations.

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Dating Dialogue

What Would You Do If… Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW of The Navidaters

Dear Navidaters,

I’ve been married for almost a decade, however, my best friend since childhood, Leora*, just recently started dating after a very messy divorce. She’s a great girl, very pretty and put together, in her upper 20s. I happen to know that she went through a lot of trauma with her ex-husband and the messy divorce that ensued. When she told me she wanted to start dating again, I was hesitant to tell her but I truly did not think she was ready. She listed reasons for dating such as being lonely, wanting to share her life with someone who would finally be somewhat “normal,” wanting to be able to give all she has to someone new. I could see her being a catch in the machmir dating scene especially amongst other divorcees. I would never get involved if not for the fact that she put me as a reference on her new resume. I do not have the heart to tell her I don’t feel suitable to be a reference, but I really don’t. She is not at a place where she should be dating, and she needs to take time to process her divorce. I also happen to believe she is very unhealthy emotionally and will carry a lot of baggage into her new relationships. What should I do? -Rivka

Disclaimer: This column is not intended to diagnose or otherwise conclude resolutions to any questions. Our intention is not to offer any definitive conclusions to any particular question, rather offer areas of exploration for the author and reader. Due to the nature of the column receiving only a short snapshot of an issue, without the benefit of an actual discussion, the panel’s role is to offer a range of possibilities. We hope to open up meaningful dialogue and individual exploration.

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. ivka, you are smart as well as sensitive. And you are sincere in your caring about Leora, both in the short term and long term. My suggestion is to buy time with care and use the sandwich approach in your communication. In other words, I would tell her that I have thought the matter over and would love to help her and be there for her as she tries to find a mate. Empathize and say that, especially given what she went through, you want to be supportive of the next phase of her journey. However, you know that you are going to be asked questions such as whether she has gone through therapy since her divorce, what is her current level of bitterness, and whether she has processed things since her divorce. Tell her that you want to say that she is past it, has been through therapy, and so on and therefore you would be more comfortable serving as a reference after some time has elapsed. You want to be in the best position to be a reference going forward but you think you will do that more effectively after some time has passed. Then, once again, stress how you want to help her, care about her, etc. You can offer to check out guys for her and be helpful to her in other ways. Then go ahead and be a real friend to Leora. Call her regularly. Invite her over. Do girlfriend things with her. Keep her close but bide your time before serving as a reference.

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level, they’re also not good enough because people will raise their eyebrows. “Why is she putting someone she barely knows on her resume?” I know this process way too well from the singles I help, and it is not easy. You say, “I do not have the heart to tell her I don’t feel suitable to be a reference.” But I ask you: do you have the heart to watch her dive into another bad marriage? As her best friend since childhood, you have license to tell her that you do not think she is an emotional fit for remarriage right now. Her reasons for remarriage sound as if they are coming out of loneliness; she craves companionship and love. The problem is that below all that is a lot of trauma and pain that are sure to protrude in her next marriage if she does not work through them before dating. Here is an example of a way to start the conversation with her: “Leora, you know I love you like a sister. I’m here for you in every way, I always have and I always will. I got a reference call for you, and I can’t bring myself to answer appropriately. I’ve watched the difficulties you’ve encountered throughout your divorce. It was traumatizing for me to watch you go through that, and even more so how traumatizing it must have been for you to be the one going through it. As your best friend I truly believe working through the emotional rollercoaster you went through with a great therapist will help get you on track for a successful second marriage. At that point, I’ll be able to be more of an effective reference.” She may not thank you now, but she will thank you later.

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Michelle Mond

eferences. One of the most sticky parts of the shidduch process. If you know them too well, they’re not a good reference because you know too much. If you only know them on surface

Dr. Jeffrey Galler

ou sound like a very good friend. Besides worrying that Leora is not emotionally ready to start dating, you are concerned about handling prospective shidduch reference calls.

Let’s address both issues. First, are you sure that Leora is not yet healthy enough? When she expresses how “she wants to share her life with someone ‘normal’ and wants to share what she has to offer with someone new” that sounds like a person with a practical and a healthy attitude. However, just in case your assessment is correct, here’s my suggestion. Get her to sit down with you for an uninterrupted, face-to-face, girl-togirl talk. Tell her: “You’ve been my best friend for the last 20 years. It’s great that you’ve been able to get out of a bad marriage, but I worry that you’re not fully healed from the trauma that you’ve been through. “When combat soldiers retire, there is a very high incidence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). That’s why the army makes sure that even the toughest, strongest, most battle-hardened veterans get counseling before returning to civilian life. “Leora, you’ve been through a major trauma, and I am worried that you might have a bit of PTSD. Please take my advice and treat yourself to a few sessions of counseling before you start dating again. “Repressing what you’ve gone through isn’t healthy. It’s like having a messy linen closet that’s stuffed with all kinds of junk. You can’t just close the door and go on with your life, because that door will inevitably pop open again, when you least expect it. You need counseling in order to open that closet, go through it carefully, process it, fold everything up neatly, put it all away, and then you can move on with your life.” And be sure to bring a box of tissues for this coffee klatch meeting. But, even if you simply cannot get yourself to have this heart-to-heart talk with your friend, it might still be okay. After your friend starts dating, she may soon realize, all by herself, that: *Second-time relationships are very complex.

Do you have the heart to watch her dive into another bad marriage? *She needs some more time and some more healing before starting a new, serious relationship. Secondly, handling shidduch reference calls shouldn’t really be a problem for you. When asked, simply report all the positives that you know about your friend. You can truthfully report that you’ve known Leora since childhood, she’s always been your very best friend, she’s a beautiful and wonderful person, etc. If a caller asks about her divorce, you can simply reply, “Leora was able to walk away from a bad marriage and she wants to start a new, healthy relationship.” If someone asks for more details, you can either answer that you don’t know, or you can ask Leora how she would like you to respond to those kinds of questions. I hope Leora realizes and appreciates what a special friend you are.

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ow, you are asking a tough question. It is not easy to be a reference for someone who is not healthy enough to be married yet. It is even harder to tell that to a friend who trusted you enough to put you down as a reference. You did say that she is your closest friend from childhood. Those friendships tend to be very strong and very deep. It does not mean that negativity and toeles (constructive criticism) won’t hurt and possibly affect the re-

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lationship in the short term. However, it does mean that you can have a real heart-to-heart with her. As I have mentioned in a previous response, a famous idea that my mother always taught me was: “It’s not what you say but how you say it.” If you sit down and speak to her in the most caring way possible and explain your concerns and how you would love to help her address some of the emotional

scars that a bad marriage might have caused her, you can be doing tremendous good. I know from these types of conversations that I have had that people initially feel hurt but they also get the message and usually do something with the advice. It is hard to hear anything negative about oneself but it is even harder to experience another pa i n f u l

Pulling It All Together The Navidaters Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists

ear Rivka, Thank you for writing in! I’ve had people schedule one-time sessions with me to discuss very similar situations. So please know that this is quite common, and you are not alone. The advice the panelists have provided in on target, in my opinion. If I had to guess, I’d say you are an excellent friend and Leora is so blessed to have you in her life. Leora has confided in you about her marriage and what she has been through, and you see that your friend has not processed or healed from the trauma of her marriage and divorce. I get the clear impression that you have never told her your feelings about this, otherwise, she may not have asked you to be a reference. There are all different types of friendships. And different friendships have different “unwritten rules.” The unwritten rule in one friendship might be something along the lines of There is No Subject Off Limits, while the unwritten rule in another friendship might be We Share What We Are Going Through But We Do Not Offer Opinions. And then there are some friendships that are much lighter and

the unwritten rule is We Talk About the Kids, Vacations, and Yom Tov Menus. It feels to me as though this new situation you have been put in is testing the boundaries and the status quo of whatever the unwritten rules are in your relationship with Leora. Speaking to Leora openly about your feeling that she may not be ready for a second marriage may be brand new territory. And whenever we are entering brand new relationship territory (be it with a spouse, a friend, a boss, employee or neighbor), we can feel quite scared or terrified of disrupting the friendship to the point of potentially losing this person. Here’s the thing, Rivka... Sometimes pushing the boundary of a friendship can indeed cause the friendship to end. And other times, it can take the friendship to new and beautiful heights with a gorgeous, breathtaking view. Being a reference aside, the deeper issue, in my humble opinion, is that this new situation you have been placed in is going to cause a stir in your friendship. You want the best for Leora, and I also understand

It’s like having a messy linen closet that’s stuffed with all kinds of junk.

and difficult marriage. The shortterm conversation may be a hard one but the long-term goal is what really matters. Remember when you talk to her to take a non-judgmental approach and to express empathy and a deep understanding of where she is coming from. It is not easy but I do encourage you to talk to her. You can be saving her next marriage in the long run. I wish you much luck and pray that your friend heals in all the ways she

needs so that she can then enter a marriage as a fresh “new” person who is developed, someone who is ready to build a healthy and happy bayis ne’eman b’Yisroel.

you not wanting to lie or share what you feel like is an untruth. You don’t want to see your friend, Leora, in potentially what may be a second bad marriage because she is so deeply unhealed from her first. Look, I can share my opinion with you about true friendship, but it is only that...my opinion. The women in my life who are my truest friends tell me like it is – with love and warmth and complete safety. I like it that way. I respect what these women tell me about myself because I value their opinions and feedback and I know in my heart they understand me and want what is best for me. Leora has offered you her story. If I understood correctly, she has shared with you the specifics of her marriage and divorce. So, I ask you to think about what has held you back from giving her your honest feedback until now? I also ask if you are willing to risk feeling uncomfortable or whatever may ensue to potentially help your friend? Personally, I would not make this about being a reference. That’s small potatoes in the grander scheme of things. Have a heart-to-heart with your dear friend, Leora. Ask her how she is doing. Tell her that you know she has been through so much. You can share with her exactly what you shared with us in your email. Let her

know that you feel uncomfortable having this conversation and that she is an adult who will make her own decisions, but that you love her and care for her and you feel like she has some processing and healing to do before she moves on. You would never tell her this if you didn’t care for her so deeply. She may get the hint and drop the reference request immediately. You may not even have to talk about that with her. If she becomes visibly upset, you will be there to comfort and support her. If she becomes defensive or combative, you will know that you pushed past the boundary of the potential for this friendship. You had to speak your truth because you love your friend that much. She will either come back to you after she processes, or she won’t. I also have to mention the slight possibility that you are off in your assessment of your friend. It is possible she has been in therapy throughout, or has been processing on her own and there are things you simply aren’t aware of. This may be revealed to you in your heart-to-heart. Your friendship will either move to the next level, or it will not be able to withstand the situation. Friendships are not static; they are fluid. Some are forever, and some are seasonal. The time is now to have the conversation. Either way, you will have been a good friend. Sincerely, Jennifer Mann, LCSW

Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and dating and relationship coach working with individuals, couples, and families in private practice at 123 Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst, NY. She also teaches a psychology course at Touro College. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516-224-7779, ext. 2. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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Two Truths and a Lie about Middle Age By Sara Brejt, JD

’ll give you three statements. You ﬁgure out which two are the truths and which is the lie. 1) We stop thinking we’re going to live forever. 2) Our ability to address our challenges decreases. 3) We can multitask better than ever.

less able to ﬁx those problems.

1) We stop thinking we’re going to live forever TRUE When we’re young, we say things like: “Why not try it? What do I have to lose?” “If Plan A doesn’t work, I can go to Plan B (and then C, D etc...)” ‘Cuz we have all the time in the world. We think. But – as we get older – we start realizing we don’t necessarily have that time. Maybe it’s because of all the people who are no longer with us. Maybe it’s because we don’t have the energy we once had. Maybe it’s because of all the missed opportunities that we’ve witnessed. Whatever the reason. Time becomes more precious. We choose more wisely. Hopefully. I love Gretchen Rubin’s Secret of Adulthood, “The days are long, but the years are short.” Bottom line: Choose to come to terms with reality.

It’s an odd situation because we see more. At the same time, we have less control. The same is true of watching other people. We’ve learned – through our

2) Our ability to address challenges decreases. TRUE As we gain experience in life, we see so many challenges and problems. Things go wrong, lo aleinu. The worriers among us imagine the worst. Even non-worriers invariably notice potential problems. At the same time, we’re less and

Take grandparenting for example. When we’re blessed to become grandparents, we might, at times, be caring for the grandchildren. But we’re not the parents. We don’t have a say in their upbringing. We are observers. Spectators.

are now parents of adult children… or, we’re just the grandparents, or, maybe we are no longer employed. Maybe our health precludes our participating fully. Whatever the situation, our roles may be receding. So…we don’t intervene. We wait to be asked for advice before giving it. We have a growing clarity that we really don’t control anything. Truly, we never had much power to ﬁx things, we just thought we did. (Corona certainly conﬁrmed that for us!)

I love Gretchen Rubin’s Secret of Adulthood, “The days are long, but the years are short.”

life experiences – that certain behaviors can seriously aﬀect relationships. And, yet, we zip our lips. Our appropriate place is on the sidelines. Here’s a favorite analogy: Right around your 40th birthday, you started to hold the paper farther and farther from your eyes. In order to see better. You remember this, don’t you? Just at the time that we don’t see too well from up-close and personal, we are also getting emotionally ready to look at life from afar. I call it “taking the long view.” [As a total digression, I heard that, in Israel, this condition is called “short hand syndrome.” I always thought that was very cute!] Very often, we are the observer, outside the arena of what’s happening. Whether it’s because we

Bottom line: Choose clarity over the illusion of control. 3) You can multitask better than ever. FALSE When the kids were young, we could listen to homework, make supper, keep an eye on two children who were ﬁghting, er, playing, in the other room. All at the same time. But, today, it seems that we can no longer accomplish a few things at once. Even talking on the phone, while cooking, seems hard to do at the same time. What happened? Where did our superb multitasking skills go? James Clear, author of the fantastic new book, Atomic Habits, has much to say about what he calls “The Myth of Multitasking”:

“Yes, we are capable of doing two things at the same time. It is possible, for example, to watch TV while cooking dinner or to answer an email while talking on the phone. “What is impossible, however, is concentrating on two tasks at once. Multitasking forces your brain to switch back and forth very quickly from one task to another.” That’s the point. We can multitask when the activities are those that don’t require concentration. Those that we could accomplish while on autopilot. Like diapering or feeding a baby. Like taking a young child for a ride in the stroller. Today, in middle age, so much of what we do is listening, really listening, to a child, or to a friend. Like discussing how my (or her!) day is going. Or talking over the next step to take in our day, or in life. Or researching shidduchim… It is emotional connecting rather than physical connecting. These require more focus. More concentration. Bottom Line: Choose concentration and focus over multi-tasking. Wishing you a thought-provoking day. P.S. Whether you’d like to send compliments or complaints, please do get in touch with me at Sara@Jewish WomenofWisdom.org. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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What To Do With Feelings By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

he very first section of my course is recognizing your own feelings. And feelings come up all the time throughout the program because often people do not actually know what they feel and certainly not why they feel what they do. You may argue with me that, of course, you know your feelings. But I will challenge you on that with a story of my own. Last night, motzei Shabbos, I came home from my grandson’s bar mitzvah. It was an amazing, wonderful Shabbos. I was so proud and filled with joy. Yet, in the car coming home, I felt…I don’t know…sort of sad. My music went on automatically since it’s on my phone and my phone is synched to the car. But I didn’t perk up. I couldn’t sing with the music. I lowered it to get it out of the way, thinking maybe as background it would be helpful. But no luck. Where was this… sad…feeling coming from? I looked inside and couldn’t figure it out. Also, I knew I wasn’t sad. So then what, exactly, was I feeling? I didn’t know. I’ll return to this in a moment. Has that happened to you at all? Can you always pinpoint how you feel? Can you name it? Do you know why it is? It’s super important to have the answer to this because if you don’t, someone is likely to tell you that you have something wrong with the chemistry of your brain which has somehow in some unknown way gotten programmed to be “bad.” Or, as

they like to say, you have a chemical “imbalance.” Which, as I’ve said before, has no data to back it up and is referred to by scientists as nonsense. At any rate, I went about my business packing for my trip when I got home and decided to revisit my feelings in the morning if I was still something related to “sad.” In the morning, I noticed the feeling again but I had no trouble zero-

perfectly normal and that the poignancy is beautiful. Besides all that, I then got in the car to run an errand this morning, and as my music played, I started to sing with it. So knowing what the feeling was and why it was also seemed to lift my spirits. It’s as if I honored my feeling by naming it and accepting it – which gave me permission to let it go and go on with the other experiences in my life.

Know why they are and what they’re telling you to do.

ing in on it this time: I was touched. Moved. My grandson’s bar mitzvah is also a turning point in my life. It’s a special moment of him getting older and starting to leave childhood behind. His voice changed this summer; he was so mature yesterday. He handled the whole thing with such aplomb It’s not sadness at all. It’s joy mixed with sadness when the joy is greater but the sadness leaves its mark nevertheless. Happy sadness. The kind the mother of the bride or groom feels at her child’s wedding. Naming the feeling means I didn’t have to worry about it. Didn’t have to worry about why I should be sad on a happy occasion. And knowing it is

This issue came up today for a client who felt shame over his feelings. Never feel shame over your feelings! They are what they are. Know why they are and what they’re telling you to do. Then you can choose to act on them – or not. For example, a drug addict may “want” drugs and those are her feelings. They’re real feelings, and it’s foolish to be ashamed of them. Knowing that they come from the brain having been stimulated in the past in unnatural ways means that feeling the cravings should lead to measures to stop those cravings. In other words, “wrong” feelings also need to be acknowledged and the fact that they’re unhealthy and should not be entertained also needs to be

acknowledged. But there cannot be shame there. Feelings are what they are in the same way as an appetite or hunger are simply feelings that need to be addressed. The worst thing a person can do with a “bad” feeling is pretend it wasn’t there. Because it was. And it was for a reason. So it’s necessary to uncover what the reason was so that it can be properly addressed. Often, we have improper desires because something is going wrong or went terribly wrong in our lives. It’s necessary to go to the source of the problem and deal with it directly. But self-condemnation is not useful; on the contrary, it hinders the process of getting past the problem. The ﬂip side is also true: Feeling something inappropriate doesn’t mean it’s correct, either. We can’t muddy the waters between good and bad. Acknowledging that the feeling was not good and then working on the problem at its source is the best bet. Self-condemnation is not a healthy or helpful tactic and neither is a free pass. May your Rosh Hashana introspection be meaningful – and productive.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn is a Marriage and Family Therapist. If you want help with your marriage, begin by signing up to watch her Masterclass at https://drdeb. com/myw-masterclass.

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Rosh Hashana The Right Weigh By Aliza Beer MS, RD, CDN

he new year is the best time to re-evaluate your lifestyle choices and implement significant changes to help achieve healthier goals. Start right now – don’t wait till after the chagim – and set yourself upon the right path today. It’s human nature to procrastinate and push off till “after yom tov” or “tomorrow.” Instead of procrastinating, be proactive and start cleaning up your daily diet and food consumption now. This will enable you to navigate through Rosh Hashana and Sukkos without gaining weight, or at the very least minimizing a weight gain. The yomim tovim are set up this year mostly as Shabbos and Sunday, the best possible scenario! Let’s discuss some strategies to help start your new year the right way. • Challah is not a good carb: I mention this in practically every pre-yom tov article, and yes, I know I sound like a broken record, but challah is almost identical to cake and should be consumed mindfully and with caution. There are four Shabbos/yom tov meals, so how about eating matzah at two of them? For the meals that you are treating yourself to the challah, limit it to one slice. • One light meal: Of the four meals, try to make one of them “light,” meaning fish or eggs, not chicken/ beef. The best meal to do that this year will be the motzei Shabbos dinner, which is the second night of yom tov. It’s late at night, and we just had two heavy, big Shabbos meals. That night, try to eat just fish, soup and salad. If it is your minhag to eat fleishigs at all yom tov meals, then eat a small piece of chicken and fill up on more veggies/soup. • Bake less: Most of us will not be having much company this Rosh

Hashana, and therefore should not need so many baked goods, such as cookies and cake. They are super caloric and comprised mainly of sugar, white ﬂour, and bad fats. Bake or buy a minimal amount – just what your family requires for a two-day yom tov. The best time to mindfully indulge in these treats are the morning or latest at lunchtime. Late at night is the worst time to have that babka because what we eat at night is only sticking to us. What we consume earlier in the day has a chance to be burned oﬀ to some extent.

• Hold the beef: Beef has more fat and (artery-clogging) calories than chicken, so try to limit it to no more than two out of the four meals. Look for leaner cuts and trim off any excess fat. • Standout sides: If you are eating challah/matzah at every meal, then try to avoid carby sides like potato kugel, rice, and pasta. Stick to an assortment of veggies like broccoli, cauliflower rice, zucchini chips, eggplant steaks, cabbage, string beans, and brussels sprouts. Veggie soups are also a great filler, like a zucchini

Late at night is the worst time to have that babka because what we eat at night is only sticking to us.

• Hey there, honey! Honey is basically another name for sugar. In fact, honey contains more grams of sugar than sugar! It’s healthier because it’s not processed like sugar, but the body will ultimately break it down into sugar. Of course, you should dip your apple into the honey. Just don’t slather it all over everything in sight. • Skip some appetizers: Appetizers will typically add extra calories to your meal that you don’t necessarily need. If the appetizer is a protein like ﬁsh, or grilled chicken salad, then by all means have it, but avoid the high fat/high carb ones like gnocchi or beef in a puﬀ pastry dough. Don’t eat an appetizer and main dish at every single meal for four meals in a row. Try skipping some apps or have both but keep the portions small.

leek soup, or celery soup. Roast your veggies on parchment lined cookie sheets with a little olive or avocado oil and any herbs and spices you prefer. Kosher salt and black pepper will make any veggie taste delicious! • Walk: September is one of the best times of the year for walking, as long as it doesn’t rain. Weather permitting, try to take a long walk each day. It will help you burn oﬀ some of those extra calories. • Stay out of the kitchen: When it’s not mealtime, please avoid the kitchen as much as possible. The kitchen is a dangerous place that can often lead many astray. Every week, I have clients that lament the snacking they did only because they were hanging out in the kitchen and the food was there in all of its glory and

not because they were hungry. In addition, keep the baked goods out of sight, in cabinets or drawers, and they will be out of mind, too. • Moderation, not deprivation: This is my motto and the key to successful weight maintenance and a healthy life, both physically and emotionally. Eat a few bites of all the foods you desire, and you won’t see a signiﬁcant uptick on the scale. You will be happy that you enjoyed your chag, got to taste everything you really wanted, and no damage was done. • Don’t eat standing up! Much damage can be done when one is prepping or cleaning up after a meal and picking/nibbling ensues. This mindless eating does not register in the brain, and you feel like you haven’t eaten. Make it your rule that you can only eat sitting down, and this will inhibit a lot of this behavior. Rosh Hashana is the perfect time to work on our middos and our mindset. Having discipline and control is part of the frum way of life. Plan your meals for yom tov in advance and try your best not to deviate from your plan. Indulge in moderation, watch your portions, and try to get in some physical activity. Remember, one over-the-top meal should not ruin a whole two days. Get yourself back on track, and make the next meal a better one. This is not a diet, but a weigh of life! Wishing all of my readers and clients a ksiva vachasima tova! Aliza Beer is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at alizabeer@gmail.com, and you can follow her on Instagram at @alizabeer

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Health & F tness

Giving “Kavod” to One Another, Not COVID By Hylton I. Lightman, MD, DCH (SA), FAAP

he moving target called Covid-19 has taxed us all. For physicians and other health care professionals, it has been perhaps the most challenging era of our careers. Patients call seeking guidance, and we are expected to have information available. My colleagues and I invest countless hours conferring with experts and one another, learning from one another with the specific goal of helping each of you. Further, many people seek our “haskama” to do as they want, expecting us to rubber stamp their behavior with practically a guarantee that all will be fine and there will be no repercussions for whatever they choose to do and go. Please don’t saddle us with that responsibility. It is neither flattering nor realistic. In fact, it is irresponsible. We are entering the Yamim Noraim with a pandemic that endures. There are steps we can take to assure our health and the health of fellow community members. Fellow pediatrician Aliza Minkin, MD, wrote the following guidelines that are relevant to people of all ages:

Back to Basics of COVID-19 We (physicians in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway) wrote these guidelines because we are all in this together, and we should all have this knowledge base. While there are many reliable sources of information, there is also so much misinformation. It feels like the rules are changing every day, and it is hard to know who to trust. We have come a long way from last

spring when we first painfully shut down our shuls and schools. Our children have eagerly returned to school and we are anticipating being together in shul, whether indoors or in an outdoor minyan, for the upcoming Yamim Noraim and chagim. When we started writing this, the COVID-19 rates in our frum communities were, like the surrounding areas, quite low. Now, there is unfortunately a rising number of cases in many of these Orthodox neighborhoods. Many of these cases can be traced to attending large simchas. We now know that our frum communities do not have “herd immunity” and second infections are already occurring. This rise in cases has already led to schools in other areas to shut down. We cannot go back to those awful days of “lockdown”! We need to keep our shuls, schools and businesses open and thriving! While we cannot completely prevent the spread of this virus, there are four very simple and important things we can do to limit it: -Physical distancing -Face covering (mask-wearing) when unable to physically distance -Hand washing -Staying home if you were exposed to or think you are contagious with COVID-19. Here are some common questions and misunderstandings I have come across as a pediatrician or heard about from other physician: 1. When can I test for COVID19-? I just found out I was exposed today. You can NOT test out of quaran-

tine. If you had a significant exposure (at least 10 to 15 minutes within 6 feet of another person infectious with COVID-19), you have to quarantine for 14 days because that is how long it may take to develop the illness. The incubation period is 2 to 14 days, with an average of about 5 to 7 days. You could test as early as day 2, but day 5 is better. BUT, if you test negative, you must still quarantine for the full 14 days, because it may have been too early, and there is also a significant chance the test was falsely negative. 2. I could not possibly have COVID19-. I was not exposed to anyone with it! This virus is highly contagious up to two days before a person develops any symptoms, and many people are contagious with it without getting any symptoms at all. You should assume everyone you come in contact with outside your home may have the virus, and follow the above guidelines of distancing and masking when not able to distance. 3. I don’t believe I have it, the test is probably wrong. I feel fine! Why should I stay home? The most important thing to do here is talk to your health care professional! As above, it is common to have little or no symptoms with COVID-19. The rapid tests we have now are not as reliable as the PCR: false positives definitely occur. If you test positive

on PCR, you must assume you have it and are contagious, with the exception discussed next. 4. I had COVID19- last month and was just exposed. Do I need to be tested? Quarantined? Again, talk to your health care professional, but current guidelines recommend NOT getting a new test for someone who had this virus in the past three months and has no symptoms. The PCR test may remain positive for that length of time without the person actually being contagious. If you develop symptoms, then you should be tested, even if you had COVID-19 in the last three months. 5. But I have antibodies! I don’t need to wear a mask, distance, etc. We are now seeing second infections. There is so much we still do not know about COVID-19, including how long immunity lasts and how best to measure this immunity. It is safer to follow the same distancing and masking guidelines as everyone else. 6. I went to a wedding because I felt fine. How was I supposed to know that my test would turn out positive a day later? Please never go to a simcha or other large event while waiting for your COVID-19 test to come back. If you were tested because you had some symptoms or were exposed, you need to stay home until you are sure you are not contagious. Unfortunately, some weddings have become

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“superspreader” events from people attending these events while contagious with COVID-19. This happens more commonly in large crowded indoor events, but can also happen at outdoor simchas. 7. This virus is like any other, it is usually so mild! No one is dying anymore! We know how to treat it now! The current rise in cases appears to be mainly in younger adults and children, who, on average, have mild to no symptoms. Even in this age group, however, there are very serious cases. There is often a lag time of weeks between a rise in cases in general and a rise in ICU admissions and even deaths. While we are better at treating these more severe cases, we are a long way from a reliable cure or vaccine. While our ICUs are thankfully not overcrowded as they were last spring, that does not mean you want to be a patient there. Also, while you may be healthy and do fine, others exposed to you may not do as well. We need to think

of and protect our most vulnerable members, including our babies, elderly, pregnant women, people with chronic illnesses, or the immunocompromised. We hope that the guidelines we compiled, available on our website

Dr. Minkin’s advice is sound and should be heeded. There is another area to be addressed. This may be the “third rail” in the Orthodox Jewish world and I daven for siyata dishmaya that I use

There is so much we still do not know about COVID-19, including how long immunity lasts and how best to measure this immunity

jowma.org, will help us all work together as a community to limit the spread of COVID-19 so that we can keep our shuls, schools and businesses open and protect the most vulnerable among us.

the right words and they are accepted with full hearts. Rabbanim and physicians need to be on the same page. In Maseches Brachos, we learn that during a “magayfa” or plague,

we either walk on the sidewalk or in the middle of the road, depending on the circumstances. Unfortunately, today, we cannot walk in the middle of the road nor on the sidewalk. Furthermore, having antibodies is not a “posy” (as in the nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosy”) that we carry around to prevent the plague. Yom HaDin is imminent. There has been no other trying time like this on a global scale in recent decades. I daven that we set aside our differences and step in line together to assure each person’s health and wellbeing, thereby bringing to actuality the words in the Rosh Hashana Mussaf – v’asu kulam agudah achas la’asos retzoncha b’layvav shalem. As always, daven. Dr. Hylton I. Lightman is a pediatrician and Medical Director of Total Family Care of the 5 Towns and Rockaway PC. He can be reached at drlightman@totalfamilycaremd.com, on Instagram at Dr.Lightman_ or visit him on Facebook.

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In The K

tchen

Simanim Chicken By Naomi Nachman

I wrote this recipe for Rosh Hashana in collaboration with Empire Kosher. For the

first night meal of the chag, I am serving a variety of dishes, each featuring one of

the simanim (the symbolic foods that one eats

on Rosh Hashana which we hope will bring about

a prosperous and healthy new year). When you pair naturally juicy

and flavorful chicken with the traditional tzimmes of carrots, honey and dates (all of which are simanim), the result is a delicious masterpiece.

Ingredients CARROT MIXTURE b2 tablespoons canola oil b2 medium onions, sliced into ½ moon rings b2 teaspoons kosher salt, divided b3 10 oz. bags shredded carrots b1 teaspoon cumin b½ teaspoon cinnamon b1 ½ cups dried dates, pitted and quartered b2 cups white wine b1/3 cup honey b8 pieces chicken legs CHICKEN SPICES bOlive oil bHoney bCumin bSmoked paprika bGarlic powder bKosher salt

Preparation 1.

Pre-heat oven to 400°F.

2. Set aside two 9”x13” pans. 3. In a sauté pan on medium heat, add oil until it gets hot, then add onions and cook until they are translucent. Add 1 teaspoon of kosher salt followed by the carrots. 4.

Sauté the carrots and onions for several minutes on low until carrots are soft. Add in the cumin and cinnamon, stir. Add in the dates, wine, and honey. Mix well and cover and let simmer on low for 10 minutes. This process will plump up the dates and release their ﬂavor.

5. After 10 minutes, split the carrot mixture into the two prepared pans. 6. Place four pieces of chicken into each pan and season with spices. 7. Rub with small amount of oil and drizzle with honey, smearing all over each piece of chicken. Cover each pan with foil and bake for 40 minutes. 8. After 40 minutes, baste the chicken with the juices in the pan and ﬁnish cooking for another 30 minutes uncovered, or until internal temperature reaches 165°F.

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

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

We learned a lot. We would do some things differently, but I am very satisfied. I feel very good about completing this on my watch. - Charles “Chuck” Feeney, 89, who pioneered the idea of Giving While Living, talking to Forbes after completing his pledge of giving away all of his $8 billion during his lifetime, other than $2 million which he kept to live off of

Cause if you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure …take care runnin’ a, you know, a department store uh, thing, you know, where, in the second floor of the ladies department or whatever, you know what I mean? - Joe Biden at a roundtable with veterans to talk about veterans’ issues

I don’t think at all that it’s anything improper. You get people who are overworked, who make mistakes. - Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who led the team that illegally spied on the Trump campaign, in an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning”

We hope they die! - Black Lives Matter protesters chanting, while blocking the entrance to a Los Angeles hospital where two LA police officers were brought after being shot in the face while sitting in the their patrol car

The oppressor has been slain. If this is the beginning of retribution, this is a good start! – Black activist Kevin Wharton Price, who met with the Los Angeles mayor on numerous occasions to discuss cultural competency and how to get local businesses to be more tolerant, celebrating the shooting of two LA police officers, in an online rant

For others — women…people of color — Beethoven’s symphony is predominantly a reminder of classical music’s history of exclusion and elitism. - Nate Sloan, writing on Vox.com that Beethoven’s 5th Symphony is a symbol of racism

I will not — there will be no federal dollars — I’m not Betsy DeVos — nor will my, my Secretary of Education be anything like her in terms of her attitudes about public schools. No privately funded charter school will receive or private charter school will receive a penny of federal money. None. – Joe Biden, at a conference with public school teachers, promising not to give any money to private schools or charter schools, which historically have been the best tool to change lives in inner-city neighborhoods

We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier 2 or to reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, in early November. - Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, in leaked audio from a private meeting

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[Lebron James] is a man that lives in a one hundred million dollar mansion in Bel Air, and I always say if you’re suffering through racism please give me some of that. He’s got a white gardener, a white chef, various white people that work for him, a white driver — so if that’s racism, LeBron, please share some of that with the rest of us. – Conservative commentator Candace Owens on Fox News

[Palestinians] need to want to help themselves as well, and perhaps instead of using the traditional criticisms and curses, they actually look at what we are trying to do. - Emirati Assistant Minister for Cultural and Public Diplomacy Omar Saif Ghobash in an interview with Times of Israel

May G-d protect me. Baruch Hashem. - Luiz Fux, the first Jewish justice on Brazil’s highest court, at the closing of his swearing-in ceremony making him the head of the court

The press has dropped, in my view – and I’m talking about the national mainstream media – has dropped any pretense of professional objectivity and are political actors, highly partisan who try to shape what they’re reporting to achieve a political purpose and support a political narrative that has nothing to do with the truth. They’re very mendacious about it. It’s very destructive to our Republic; it’s very destructive to the Democratic system to have that, especially being so monolithic. It’s contributing to a lot of the intensity and partisanship. - Attorney General William Barr, in an interview with Townhall.com

I love people. I always love people. - World War II veteran Lawrence Brooks, who just turned 111, talking to a local Louisiana TV station about the secret of his longevity

Giving the peace prize to no one at all is a tradition the Nobel Committee should revive, perhaps on a permanent basis. The record of achievement of the peace laureates is so spotty, and the rationales for their awards so eclectic, that the committee should take a long break to consider whether peace is a category coherent enough to be worth recognizing. – Graeme Wood, writing in the Atlantic how the Nobel Peace Prize is antiquated, after President Trump was nominated for the award

The NBA is whack and it has nothing to do with my dad being dead & everything to do with black lives matter. – Tweet by Craig Sager II, son of the late legendary NBA broadcaster, Craig Sager

Well, I don’t think science knows, actually. - President Trump, at a California roundtable, when California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot declared that climate change is real and dangerous

We love Israel and I have great respect for the countries that have stepped up. - President Trump at the conclusion of his press conference after the signing of the Abraham Peace Accords at the White House

#RIPJKRowling - A trending Twitter hashtag – which the tech giant did not remove despite its threatening nature – about Harry Potter author JK Rowling who angered some depraved people by not subscribing to their psychotic redefining of biology

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When something is looted, that thing’s nature as a commodity is destroyed by it’s being taken for free… Everything in the store goes from being a commodity to becoming a gift. - Vicky Osterweil, in a new book that NPR pushed, titled In Defense of Looting

The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is a theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like permission to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), please contact permissions@hbgusa.com. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. – The ironic message printed on the inside cover of In Defense of Looting

TRUMP HOLDS WHITE HOUSE EVENT WITH LARGE CROWD, LITTLE SOCIAL DISTANCING. - CNN headline “about” the White House event commemorating the historic peace deal between Israel, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain

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Political Crossfire

If Trump Lied, So Did Fauci By Marc A. Thiessen

emocratic presidential nominee Joe Biden accused President Donald Trump of “a life-and-death betrayal of the American people” last Wednesday, after Bob Woodward revealed that Trump was warned in January about the potential deadliness of COVID-19. The president’s failure to act, Biden said, was “beyond despicable. It’s a dereliction of duty, a disgrace. He knew how deadly it was. He knew and purposely played it down. Worse, he lied.” Well, if Trump lied, so did Anthony Fauci. No doubt there are many things Trump said in those early days (and since) that he wishes he could take back – such as promising in February that the 15 U.S. cases “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero,” or that the virus would weaken “in the warmer weather,” or that Chinese President Xi Jinping was “powerfully focused on leading the counterattack” against the virus. But there are also a lot of things I’m sure Fauci wishes he could take back – which shows that neither he nor Trump had any idea we were facing a virus deadly enough to shut down the U.S. economy, put tens of millions out of work, and kill nearly 200,000 Americans. On January 21, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview that “this is not a major threat for the people of the United States, and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.” On January 26, when he was asked whether Americans should be scared, Fauci replied, “I don’t think so. The American people should not be worried or frightened by this. It’s a very, very low risk to the

United States, but it’s something that we, as public health oﬃcials, need to take very seriously.” On January 31 (the day Trump announced banning travel from China, saving countless lives), Fauci said, “We still have a low risk to the American public, but we want to keep it at a low risk.” On February 3, Fauci predicted that because of the travel restrictions

On February 28, Fauci ﬁnally acknowledged, “It could be really, really bad,” but added, “I don’t think it’s gonna be, because I think we’d be able to do the kind of mitigation. It could be mild.” On February 29, he said, “Right now, at this moment, there is no need to change anything that you’re doing on a day-by-day basis. Right now, the risk is still low, but this could

Until mid-March, no one knew we were facing a once-in-a-generation pathogen

Trump had put in place, “I think you are going to see a dampening down” of U.S. cases. On February 17, Fauci told USA Today that the danger to Americans was “just minuscule” and that people should be more worried about the “real and present danger” of seasonal ﬂu. He further warned against “outlandish extrapolations of fear” and advised that “now, in the United States, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask.”

change…. I mean, this could be a major outbreak. I hope not. Or it could be something that’s reasonably well controlled. At the end of the day, this will ultimately go down.” On March 9, he said, “If you are a healthy young person, there is no reason if you want to go on a cruise ship, go on a cruise ship. But…an elderly person who has an underlying condition, I would recommend strongly that they do not go on a cruise ship.”

As late as March 10, Fauci was still adamant that “as a nation, the risk is relatively low” but admitted that “there are parts of the country right now that are having community spread in which the risk there is clearly a bit more than that.” He added that “we would like the country to realize that as a nation, we can’t be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago. That it doesn’t matter if you’re in a state that has no cases or one case.” Three days later, on March 13, Trump declared a national emergency. And on March 16, the president urged all Americans to avoid restaurants, bars, discretionary travel and groups of more than 10 people, while states began issuing orders to shelter in place. What this shows is that until midMarch, no one knew we were facing a once-in-a-generation pathogen. The real question is: why did Fauci and all of the government’s smartest medical minds take so long to recognize the danger and advise the president to take action? The answer is because they expected this outbreak to be like the SARS, avian flu, swine flu, Middle East respiratory syndrome, Zika and Ebola outbreaks before it – a serious public health crisis, but one they could handle. They were wrong. When they finally realized they were wrong, and advised the president to implement mitigation measures, he did so – shutting down a booming economy to protect public health. The suggestion that Trump knew how dangerous the virus was, but intentionally misled Americans and failed to take action, is demonstrably wrong. What is “beyond despicable” is for Biden to suggest that he did. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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Political Crossfire

Bahrain’s Diplomatic Agreement With Israel is a Building Block By David Ignatius

ith Bahrain’s announcement Friday that it will join the United Arab Emirates in establishing diplomatic relations with Israel, the dominoes are falling in the Middle East in the right direction for a change. Bahrain’s decision to join the Emiratis is a second solid gain for the Trump administration’s eﬀorts to bridge the gap between Israel and Arab states. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser on the Middle East, said in an interview that the move shows that “a lot of the leaders in the region are tired of waiting for the Palestinians” before recognizing the reality of Israel. The signiﬁcance of Bahrain’s action is partly that it wouldn’t have happened without the blessing of Saudi Arabia, which is joined by a causeway to the small Persian Gulf state. The Saudis have historically exercised what amounts to a veto over Bahraini policy. In this case, the Saudis silently endorsed their tiny neighbor’s decision, rather than vetoing it. Kushner believes that the Saudis are waiting to see how the normalization process plays out before taking the move themselves. He thinks an eventual Saudi normalization is inevitable, if not imminent. The Sau-

dis gave tacit approval of the Emirati decision last month by publicly announcing they would allow commercial jets traveling between Israel and the U.A.E. to ﬂy over Saudi territory. President Trump will have a prized photo opportunity when he hosts Bahraini, Emirati and Israeli leaders at a

That statement makes a good political sound bite in this election year, but it’s also true. Bahrain took a ﬁrst step toward Friday’s announcement when it hosted a meeting in June 2019 between Israeli and Arab leaders to discuss economic aspects of Kushner’s thus-far stalled plan for the Palestinians. Because of this earlier public engagement with Israel, Bahrain was seen as a likely next country to follow the U.A.E. The administration is courting other Arab states to join the process. Brian Hook, the State Department oﬃcial who has worked closely with Kushner on the normalization process, said the discussions are shaped

The move shows that “a lot of the leaders in the region are tired of waiting for the Palestinians” before recognizing the reality of Israel.

White House ceremony to celebrate the agreements. This shouldn’t be confused with a Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement – which looks as far away today as ever – but it’s still a signiﬁcant achievement. Kushner noted the symbolism that the Bahrain agreement was announced on the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: “On 9/11, there is no stronger counter to extremism than bringing countries together for tolerance and peace.”

by the fact that a younger generation of leaders – such as Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa – is taking power in the Arab world. Sudan appears to be close: Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, the head of the ruling military council that replaced Omar al-Bashir, is said to support an agreement with Israel now, but Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other political factions apparently aren’t convinced. In Oman, Sultan Haitham bin

Tariq, who took the throne in January, has publicly supported the UAE-Israel deal and rebuffed Palestinian attempts to condemn the Emiratis. Although Haitham is still gaining his footing, his country has already hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which makes an eventual move toward full normalization easier. Morocco, which has a large Jewish population and for decades has maintained secret contacts with Israel, is another likely prospect. But the process is complicated by Morocco’s desire that the United States recognize its controversial claims of sovereignty in the contested western Sahara region. The dilemma for the Palestinians – whose suffering is largely ignored amid the celebrations of diplomatic progress – is how to influence a process that is accelerating despite their bitter opposition. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas failed to win Arab League endorsement this week for a resolution condemning the U.A.E. normalization decision. That was another sign that Palestinians have lost their veto power over Arab decisions on Israel. The decision by two wealthy Gulf countries to recognize Israel doesn’t help the shattered nations of the Middle East, such as Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Libya. And it doesn’t represent Middle East peace, whatever may be said at the White House next week. But for a region that sometimes seems to be in slow-motion collapse, it’s a building block for a better future. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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Raizel Malka bas Yona (Rebecca Rosenblatt Felsman) by Lisa Rosenblatt

t’s been five years since we received the call that changed our lives forever. Five years of trying to make sense of the impossible. Five years of trying to come to terms with a loss so significant that it seems impossible to accept. It has also been five years of tremendous growth, five years of introspection, reflection, doubts, blame, anger, and frustration. We pleaded, we begged, we davened, and Hashem answered our prayers, granting us an extra ten days. Ten is a significant number in Jewish thought: the Aseres Hadibros, ten men become a minyan, ten sefiros, ma’aser, and the Ten Days of Repentance. Hashem granted Raizy ten extra days to be with us, ten days for her neshama to cleanse, ten days for us to say our goodbyes, ask mechila, and begin the mourning process for lost hopes and dreams. During those ten precious days, Klal Yisroel cried, davened, and pleaded for a miracle. In the hospital, we held her hand, shared memories, and cajoled her to awaken, praying for the best and preparing for the worst. Raizy was nifteres at the age of 26, which in gematria represents the name of Hashem’s middah of Rachamim. Being in a coma, Raizy spent ten days between two worlds. On the first day of Rosh Hashana, Hashem, in His loving mercy, brought her back to be by His side. The past five years have been a rollercoaster ride. Some days have been better than others; over time, the pain has eased up as I am now able to see the light in the cracks of

my broken heart. In previous years, Elul has been the start of my grieving, knowing Tishrei is just around the corner; however, this year, I had a head start and the tears started in Av. It could be this has been a year of loss. The pain we experienced on a national and global level has been immeasurable. Having experienced the agony of death, each time I heard an ambulance pass by or with each incoming email notifying us of another loss, my heart tore open. No one should ever experience loss, but the loss that has taken place over the past year is indescribable. I thank Hashem that we had a shiva; truth be told, we were prepared to sit for a few minutes at the cemetery with no shiva. Shiva is a source of much comfort for the bereaved. For those who lost a loved one during the pandemic, my heart sincerely breaks for you. Five years down the road, I can say the grief process has changed. There have been unexpected twists and turns, many ups and downs. However, the important thing is that with each passing year life gets a little easier to live. There are days that I still think to myself: This is impossible! How could it be she is dead? Where did I go wrong? If only this, if only that. And then I remember Ain Od Milvado. There was nothing wrong with my parenting, our relationship, her friends. Hashem brings us into this world for a purpose, and when our job is complete, He takes us back. The loss of a loved one affects each of us differently, yet no human

can grasp the pain of the Shechina as it has been grieving the loss of Her home and children for thousands of years. This past year has brought the world to its knees. The Shechina has been wailing for years, begging us to return; the ripple effect of Her pain has been felt by all. The world has experienced unprecedented loss; communities are grieving; individuals are looking for hope. Pain has the potential to break us, “How can I live without…” or build us. The difference is trying to go through the murky waters of grief alone or holding onto the Hashem as only the drowning can do. As I trudged through these past five years, moving purposefully towards light, I have gained much clarity. Most importantly, there is no doubt in my mind of Hashem’s enduring love for each of us. I’ve had many situations arise in the past five years that I begged, cried, and yearned for, and Hashem’s response was not what I wanted. I turned to the Torah to seek repose and find Hashem said no to us many times and that was always for our good. Like a loving parent who potches their child for running in the street when a moving car is speeding by, Hashem doesn’t give me what I want, but what He gives me is always for my best. Although I grew up frum, my journey through grief brought me closer to Hashem through His Torah and my connection with tzaddikim and their teachings. I’ve learned that the Torah has the answers to every problem and challenge in life, and when we turn to it, the pains of galus become more

palpable. The lessons I’ve learned since that fateful day has been numerous. Although forever broken, my heart has healed enough to allow the sunlight to shine through the cracks, and the light of hope has been my guiding light. Ten is a special number for my family, and as an aliyas neshama for my precious daughter, Raizel Malka bas Yona, I ask that we all utilize the gift of ten that Hashem gives us each year. Please take on a kabbalah, daven harder, learn something, most important, connect to Hashem during the Aseres Yemei Teshuva. These are ten days that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave us as a gift. Why would we not take advantage of such a time? It’s a matter of life and death. May we all be zocheh to a gmar k’s iva v’chasima tova and greet Mashiach Tzidkeinu b’ mhara v’yameinu. If, for some reason, he does not arrive before Rosh Hashana, please do a mitzvah l’ilui nishmas Raizel Malka bas Yona, and may we be blessed with good health, parnassah, shidduchim, healthy children, and a vaccine for this pandemic.

Lisa is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice, specializing in trauma and grief. She ran a support group this summer through Amudim for adult children who lost a parent during the pandemic and will iy”H be running another one, through LINKS, for girls who lost a parent this past year. She can be reached at Lisa.rosenblattlcsw@gmail.com.

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The HMS Conquero was able to engage and sink an enemy ship with torpedoes

ubmarines, due to the invention of the diesel-electric engine, have seen extensive use in the past century and have progressed their capabilities and tasks tremendously in that time. Many countries like the U.S. have an all-volunteer policy regarding the crews that serve in the “Silent Service.” Most of the time, life on a submarine is uneventful, and living below the ocean’s surface is not for everyone. But there are times that things get interesting while on patrol. Here are some interesting submarine stories. During both World Wars, submarines had a variety of missions including sinking enemy vessels, scouting enemy fleets, rescuing stranded personnel, and delivering troops and supplies in areas where surface ships would have difficulty operating. Rarely were they used to attack enemy submarines. Surface ships like destroyers and other crafts

were designed to hunt submarines lurking below the surface. This is the reason that the battle on February 9, 1945 off the coast of Norway was so unique. German submarine U-864 was on a special mission to deliver aircraft parts, missile guidance systems, and 65 tons of mercury (to be used to produce weapons) to Japan and was headed through the Kiel Canal. She scraped her hull on the bottom and had to head to the port of Bergen for repairs. After the repairs had been completed, British code breakers discovered her mission, and the Admiralty sent the submarine HMS Venturer, who had already sunk another U-boat during a surface action in 1944, after her. Using underwater microphones called hydrophones, the Venturer detected the U-864. The officer on watch noticed an object that turned out to be the U-boat’s snorkel. The British captain waited for hours

The USS Triton circumnavigated the globe

for the enemy sub to surface but it stayed submerged. Using methods that were designed to shoot torpedoes at surface vessels, the British captain fired all four of his bow torpedoes. The fourth torpedo hit, and the U-boat sank with all hands. This is the only time in history that one submarine sank another submarine while both were below the ocean’s surface (there are several incidences of submarines sinking other subs but all except this incident were on the surface). Large ships, especially oil tankers and cargo ships, were the targets of American submarines but it was the large Japanese warship that created a buzz when seen through the periscope. The battleship Shinano was converted into an aircraft carrier and was sunk just ten days after her commissioning by the submarine USS Archerfish. The sinking occurred in November 1944 near Tokyo Bay, and the crew of the subma-

rine was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation. It was only after the war that the existence of this carrier was confirmed. Official navy sources thought that no carrier was operating in this stretch of ocean. In the post-war years, submarines were rarely used to sink other ships and were mainly used as deterrents, projection of power, and other purposes. They became a lot quieter and much more efficient due to the addition of nuclear power plants. Jewish Admiral Hyman Rickover while on assignment to the nuclear facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, learned the details of nuclear power and took this knowledge with him as he lobbied for a nuclear navy. For five years, scientists overcame many obstacles in creating the USS Nautilus – the world’s first nuclear ship. In August 1958, the Nautilus made history when she sailed under the ice range of the North Pole. The second nuclear submarine, USS Seawolf,

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used a liquid sodium reactor, as the scientists were looking for methods to improve on the original design and capabilities of a nuclear sub. The advantages of a nuclear submarine are that it could stay underwater for years (estimated at about 25 years) and is only limited to the crew’s endurance and food supply. The sub doesn’t need to resurface to recharge its batteries like a diesel-powered sub and is much safer (no accidents were ever reported on any U.S. Navy nuclear ships). The navy brass wanted to see if it was possible to sail around the world without surfacing even once, and the USS Triton was picked for the task. She was the only submarine to have two reactors and was in service for only two months before setting out on her historic trip. She left on February 16, 1960 and returned on April 25 for a total of 61 days submerged while circumnavigating the globe. During the excursion, they had to

partially surface to transfer a sailor with a kidney stone to another ship. Nuclear submarines are very expensive to build and dismantle once they have been decommissioned.

She left on February 16, 1960 and returned on April 25 for a total of 61 days submerged while circumnavigating the globe.

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off a Polish flagged ship. The device was being towed behind the ship, and the Conqueror was able to cut it loose and steal it by using cutters fixed to her bow. These are just some of the submarine stories that are publicly known but most don’t make headline news. The mission to tap Soviet underwater communication cables, known as Operation Ivy Bells, as well as other Cold War sub operations, are the subject of the book entitled Blind Man’s Bluff. Those who served on submarines know that the public might not know much about the “Silent Service” but serve with pride and distinction.

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

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Money

You Can Run, But.... By Allan Rolnick, CPA

he world of law enforcement lost a pioneer last week with the death of Gerald Shur. As a young prosecutor targeting what one member described as “a certain Italian-American subculture,” he realized his informants would be more likely to testify on Monday morning if they weren’t afraid of winding up dead on Monday afternoon. Shur’s insight led to the birth of the U.S. Marshals Witness Security Program, better known as Witness Protection. He wrote the manual on the program, decided who to accept, and took credit for helping jail over 10,000 card-carrying bad guys. Today, the program counts more than 8,600 witnesses – mostly criminals – as “alumni.” According to their website, “No Witness Security Program participant, following program guidelines, has been harmed or killed while under the active protection of the U.S. Marshals Service.” Of course, some witnesses literally can’t get with the program. Mobster Henry Hill, for example, immortalized in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, indiscreetly posed for newspaper photos while operating a horse-drawn carriage business on Cincinnati’s Fountain Square. (So much for living like a schnook.) Tax cheats typically wear suits instead of stripes. They commit their

crimes with the stroke of a pen or the click of a mouse instead of knives or guns. But confidentiality can be just as valuable to help the IRS catch white-collar offenders, too — even though it’s not quite so cloak-anddagger. The IRS naturally encourages whistleblowers to rat out their partners in crime. There’s even a form for reporting tax cheats: Form 3949-A. The IRS gets tens of thousands of

lic’s right to know their identity. There’s a whole series of cases with names like Whistleblower 1562816W v. Commissioner splitting those hairs. (In that case, the Court let a whistleblower alleging 3$ billion in fraud provide information anonymously but ruled that if he wound up collecting a potential billion-dollar bounty, that might change.) Code Section 7623 requires the

He wound up serving 40 months in a federal penitentiary for his part in the scheme but went on to claim a $104 million bounty.

reports every year and investigates about 5% of them. Section C of that form lets you choose whether or not to identify yourself. The Tax Court sometimes lets whistleblowers proceed anonymously if they can show that the danger in cooperating (like when the target is mobbed up) outweighs the pub-

IRS to reward informants with 1530% of whatever they collect in certain cases. (File Form 211 to apply.) Typically, they pay out $50-100 million in rewards per year. Bradley Birkenfeld was a Swiss banker helping clients avoid tax on hidden accounts when he blew the whistle on his employer. He wound up serving

40 months in a federal penitentiary for his part in the scheme but went on to claim a $104 million bounty. (That’s a tradeoff a lot of people would be happy to make.) Sadly, disappearing into witness protection won’t help you outrun your tax bill. U.S. Marshals give you a new Social Security number, which you’ll use to keep filing returns. The program used to be legendarily generous – Jimmy “the Weasel” Fratianno’s wife got plastic surgery, a facelift, and dental work. But today’s fugitives can expect about $60,000 in “getting started” money and six months’ of allowance until it’s back to work. (Maybe that’s why about 20% of witnesses keep committing crimes after going underground.) There’s no “lesson” in this week’s story – no grand strategy to help you if you choose a life of crime, then decide the only way to “retire” is to rat out a bigger crook. Just take comfort in knowing that whatever fresh adventures the rest of 2020 may bring, you’ll finish the year with the same name as you started!

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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Rosh Hashana Head of the Year? By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

all it new beginnings or maybe starting over. How about another chance or Adam and Eve’s birthday? There are endless possibilities, so why call it head of the year?

And why not feet, or hands, or even belly button. Why head?! Perhaps to get the answer it pays to use your head. And therein lies the reason. Because it is a time to use your head to

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think through why we are here, our purpose, our goals.... The head also has important parts on it to make it happen. We can use our head to get ahead: Don’t be “eye-dle.” Don’t be nosy. Avoid hair-brained schemes. Don’t be a “BeArD” person. Face your challenges. Sink your teeth into growth. Bridge a path to a better future. Furthermore, the head doesn’t have other parts above it to block it. It looks up and sees the world, un-

reach out to help. And we can run to do for others. Our heads can also recognize that it takes something to run the show. No one’s body is running right without a coordinator at the helm. Ergo, it can make the jump that, just as a head is needed to run the body, G-d is needed to run the universe; nothing can just happen without a Conductor. It is this realization that comes as we hear the name Rosh Hashana, head of the year, we are being reminded that G-d is Head of the year,

It looks up and sees the world, unhindered.

hindered, for instance, by flailing arms or a full belly. The head can see that the world is greater than just more of us. The head can see that we end and others begin, allowing us to be aware that others exist, too. If we have aches, they have aches; if we have pains, they have pains; if we have struggles, they have struggles. Our head can see this, our minds can embrace this, and our bodies can do something about this. We can

Head of the years, actually Head of the whole shebang! So, let’s head to connection to prayer to re-align ourselves with the Head of the world and ask for a year that heads us all in the right direction.

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-7052004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.

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