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A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

World Powers Laud Nuclear Deal with Tehran as Israel Looks on in Horror

Around the COMMUNITY An Evening of Cooking and Camaraderie at the Levi Yitzchak Library’s Annual Chinese Auction 49

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The Life of Mrs. Harriet Keilson a”h

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BY RABBI DOVID FLEISCHMANN

3 Days of Fun for “Kaylie Kids”

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Remembering Mrs. Harriet Keilson a”h BY SHOSHANA SOROKA

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Av: Disaster and Consolation by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller PAGE 75 – See page 22

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A Very Personal Story by Rafi Sackville

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Contents Letters to the Editor

Community Readers’ Poll

Community Happenings

The Life of Mrs. Harriet Keilson a”h by Rabbi Dovid Fleischmann

Remembering Harriet Keilson a”h by Shoshana Soroka

This Week We’re Talking to… Camp Toras Chaim

News Global

National

Odd-but-True Stories

A Deal with the Devil

Israel Israel News

A Very Personal Story by Rafi Sackville

People Is it a Bird or a Plane? by Avi Heiligman

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Dear Readers, It was September 2012 when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ascended the podium at the UN General Assembly with a red magic marker. The Israeli leader drew a stark red line over a drawing of a bomb right below a label reading “final stage,” illustrating to the world that Iran is 90 percent along the path to having sufficient nuclear weapons-grade material. He’s been calling doomsday for years. And for much of that time, the other world powers have been rolling their eyes, pointing at Netanyahu as the ever-anxious, overly concerned leader. He pushed for more sanctions and a harder stance against the Persian regime despite world scorn. Finally, though, Iran’s belligerence became too hard—and too scary— to ignore. The world powers were forced to step in to prevent the

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Av: Disaster and Consolation by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller

All of Our Friends by Rabbi YY Rubinstein

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the history books. In fact, much of the details of the agreement won’t be made public and that’s OK: the deal is done, hands have been shaken, photos have been taken. Peace is here, they herald. We have saved the world from nuclear annihilation. This is not the first time in history that leaders have fallen prey to their ego and it certainly won’t be the last. Leaders certainly have to have a healthy dose of self-worth, but when their ego and their quest for an everlasting legacy gets in the way of helping their people, perhaps they shouldn’t be serving any longer. It’s time for our politicians to take a step back and truly consider who they are working for: their constituents or their legacies.

nation from producing nuclear weapons to be used against their enemies. But even though Iran really wanted to deal—truly, they just want use of their frozen assets—world powers were not able to show them who’s boss. In fact, it seemed as if Iran was running the negotiations. Every “red line” that the negotiators set forth was dismantled and disregarded. Time and time again, the P5+1 capitulated to Iranian demands. It was frustrating to hear how these powerful nations couldn’t show strength when dealing with the shrewd Rouhani. Is he so much more clever than us? I think, though, that the constant capitulations stem from one thing: ego. Every one of those negotiators wanted to be there when a deal was reached. Every leader—especially Mr. Obama— wanted their names highlighted in

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Please daven for the speedy recovery of Esther Mindel bas Gittel Miriam and Moshe HaKohen ben Miriam Rus May Hashem grant them a refuah shleimah.

Readers Poll

Did world powers make the right decision in brokering an agreement with Iran? 22% Yes

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Dear Editor, Your article about the Broken Windows Policy and what Mayor de Blasio is turning New York City into was off the mark. I understand that as frum Jews most of us are conservative and will be opposed to any politician who doesn’t share our philosophies or views. But remember, Mayor Bloomberg was hardly a conservative and his predecessor Giuliani was a social liberal. Mayor de Blasio is charged with handling a massive city with all types of people. People, who by the way,

are mostly liberal in their views. So why would you expect him to govern as a conservative? If he did that, there would be something wrong with him, and you’d probably use that against him. He is doing a fine job. Crime is down and more people than ever are flocking to the city. And he happens to be very good to the frum community, even though he is obviously not appreciated in our community. Sincerely, A proud, frum Jew who supports Mayor de Blasio

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Dear Editor, Your article in the July 9th issue of TJH was a wake up and reminder that those expelled from Gush are currently in need of our aid, just as they were ten years ago. Anyone who visits the Gush Museum in Jerusalem will find, as I have, that the pain and anguish of the

Gush residents is still strong and many currently suffer from the loss of their incomes and profession lives. This awareness prompted me to publish Cook for Gush: Easy Recipes for the Man Who Doesn’t Cook but May Have To. Please ask your readers to contact me to obtain a copy of this cookbook so that they can be part of the support system via jobkatif. Thank you, Miriam Baum Benkoe 516-678-1585 miriambaumbenkoe@gmail.com

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Dear Editor, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Senator Charles Schumer were like children playing Clark Kent and Kojak concerning the chase to capture escaped prisoners Richard Matt and David Sweat. Perhaps both harbor secret desires to become either a newscaster or police officer. Cuomo and Schumer should stick to their day jobs people elected them to do rather than try to play cops and robbers. Leave reporting the news and fighting crime to the professionals—not Batman (Schumer) & Robin (Cuomo)! Sincerely, Larry Penner

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Dear Editor, I happen to be a big fan of Israel’s “Operation Thunderbolt.” I find it to be very interesting but what bothers me is that although I am going into my first year of high school, whenever I bring it up with kids my age, they are always say, “What is that?” Last Shabbat, I read the article Entebbe Documents Released and although it was one of the minor articles, I thought it was very informative. Thanks to you guys there might be a few more people who now know about the heroism that took place in Operation Thunderbolt. I wish that Israel would be more like it was back then when it wouldn’t ever even think about negotiating with terrorists. I also wish that more people would acknowledge the heroism that took place at that time and how Yoni Netanyahu gave his life to protect the people of Israel. Best Regards, A Young Reader

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Global El Chapo Escapes Mexican Prison—Again He’s Mexico’s most notorious drug lord and now Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has another title to add to his name: serial prison escapee.

The leader of the Sinaloa cartel was arrested last year in Mexico after eluding authorities for 13 years. He initially escaped from a maximum security prison in 2001 in a laundry cart. After his arrest, the United States begged Mexico to extradite him, pointing to the power of the cartels in the country and high levels of corruption. But Mexico was confident in their ability to keep Guzman in jail. His ar-

rest was a victory in their war against the cartels. On Saturday night, though, he stepped into a shower and vanished through a hole in the floor, squeezing through a mile-long tunnel dug just for him. Guzman undoubtedly had extensive help from both the outside and inside of the prison walls in order to carry off the escape. There was a video monitoring his every move in his cell and he was wearing an electronic bracelet to

track his activities. The video, though, had two blind spots which he exploited and the bracelet was left behind in his cell during his escape.

An extensive manhunt is underway. Highway checkpoints were set up, border security was amped up, and an international airport was temporarily shut down but there was no trace of “El Chapo.” The government put up a reward of 60 million pesos ($3.8 million) for information that leads to his capture. “All the accolades that Mexico has received in their counter-drug efforts will be erased by this one event” if Guzman is not recaptured, Michael S. Vigil, a retired U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief of international operations, pointed out. Previously Mexico was pressured into extraditing drug lords to the U.S. but they insisted they could deal with imprisoning and punishing drug cartels on their own soil. According to a report from the Congressional Research Service in May, extraditions from Mexico to the U.S. peaked at 115 in 2012, the last year of President Pena Nieto’s predecessor, Felipe Calderon. There were only 66 last year. The national pride that appeared to motivate Pena Nieto’s administration to prosecute drug lords like Guzman through its own court system has now turned into a national embarrassment, proving them incapable. “This is regrettable, very bad, because it without doubt affects the image of Mexico in the world,” Mexican Sen. Luis Miguel Barbosa told journalists. “You have to completely renew the Mexican prison system. The arrest of all warders and managers is not enough,” he said. “This happened due to collaboration from within the jail at the highest level.” Guzman is the head of the Sinaloa cartel, which the U.S. Justice Department says is “one of the world’s most prolific, violent and powerful drug cartels.” He was considered the world’s most powerful drug lord until his last arrest. “It’s estimated that he may have murdered or ordered the murders of more than 10,000 people,” Tom Fuentes, a CNN law enforcement analyst and a former assistant director of the FBI, said. “He is a complete savage,” Fuentes

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The Week In News added. “What they do, and how they do business, is based on complete terror. ... They kill journalists, politicians, police officers, corrections officers. And then not just that person, but every member of their family.” The Sinaloa cartel moves drugs by land, air and sea, including cargo aircraft, private aircraft, buses, fishing vessels and even submarines. The cartel has become so powerful that Forbes magazine listed Guzman among the ranks of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in its 2009 list of “self-made” billionaires. Guzman’s estimated fortune at the time was $1 billion.

Volcano Strands Hundreds Sometimes there is bad weather that delays flights at an airport for a while. But this week, it’s terrible weather—a volcanic eruption—and a very long while—a whole week—that delayed flights in Indonesia. Five airports have been closed amid an eruption of Mount Raung in East Java, which has caused

250 flights to be cancelled and left thousands of vacationers stranded.

The country’s Garuda Indonesia airline cancelled all its flights, with the airport closures also affecting the popular tourist islands of Bali and Lombok. “Bali is our second largest hub and this will also affect our international connecting flights,” said Garuda Indonesia airline spokesperson Ikhsan Rosan. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, but Bali is an enclave of Hinduism in the country. It attracts millions of foreign tourists each year, and the volcano cancellations come amid peak holiday season. Many Australians are heading home after the spending school break in Bali and millions of Indonesian tourists are setting off on holiday ahead of the Muslim cel-

ebration of Eid. “It’s pretty chaotic,” Katie Nagar, an American expatriate living in Indonesia, told reporters at the airport. She said that she had arrived at Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport only to find that her Monday morning Jakarta flight was rescheduled to Sunday. “There is basically just hundreds of people camped out on the grassy lawns in front of the airport. There are lines of hundreds of people waiting to talk to customer service.”

Record Prices for Items Once Belonging to the Lubavitcher Rebbe

A Message from the Holocaust behind the Walls

While he was renovating his house in the Dutch town of Bilthoven, Jelle Kapitein dismantled a wooden panel of an attic door frame and spotted an old, unclear text. A restoration of the panel revealed the pencil-written request from a few Jews who had hid in the house during the Holocaust: Locate our family. The couple, Levie Sajet and Ester Zilberstein, wrote their personal details, dates of birth and address in the message in 1942, and asked that whoever found it would try to find their relatives after the war. They added a blessing for the person who would discover their message, saying: “The G-d of Israel, have mercy upon your humiliated brothers.” The house’s owner, who was not able to find information about the couple’s fate and whether they or their relatives survived the Holocaust, turned to a local television station and invited a crew to take pictures of the old door with the text left by the couple, hoping that their family members would hear about it. “I would like to contact their relatives and relay the message to them,” Kapitein said. The list of Pages of Testimony on the Yad Vashem website contains names identical to the ones of the Jewish couple which hid in the Bilthoven attic. According to the Friends of Yad Vashem association in Holland, Levi Sajet and Ester Zilberstein were murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz.

Nine sentimental items which once belonged to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, were sold last week to a collector for over $80,000 (NIS 300,000). The items were all used or associated with the Lubavitcher Rebbe before his death 21 years ago. The items include a Tehillim used by him, a siddur signed by him, and Shabbos tableware. Experts say the items were sold for record prices for such artifacts in the past generation. Many of the items were kept at the Rebbe’s home in Brooklyn, New York, and some have been exchanging hands over the years. Some items were under the authority of the shul managers, and some were under the ownership of ordinary Chasidim. In last week’s sale, $21,650 was paid for the siddur, $14,425 for silver and glass utensils for serving compote, and $13,230 for a silver platter with the letters MS engraved on it, the initials of Rebbetzin Mushka Schneerson. A cloth napkin was sold for $6,600, a silver napkin holder for $4,800, a spoon with the letter S – for Schneerson – engraved on it was sold for $4,300, and a similar sum was paid for the Tehillim. In addition, a $100 bill was auctioned off for $6,000; it was given by the Rebbe as a donation for a mikvah in South Africa. The first printed version of the Tanya, written by Lubavitch’s founder, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, in the Ukrainian city of Slavuta about 220 years ago, was sold for $19,100. Meron Aran, one of the owners of the Kedem Auction House, related, “The reason for the high prices is mainly a very high demand for such items among Chabad Hasidim and people associated with the Hasidic movement abroad.”

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This week, an Iranian court ordered the United States to compensate the Islamic Republic with $50 billion for damages incurred since the 1979 revolution. The expensive verdict was announced by Iran’s Judiciary Spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, formerly the attorney general, as world powers and Iran in Vienna were working to finalize a nuclear deal. The ruling maintains the Obama administration must “compensate for a part of the losses it has inflicted on Iranian legal entities and real persons.” “Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, the U.S. has inflicted

Russia Offers Help for those Addicted to Selfies The word “selfie” has been trending heavily lately. In fact, people have created careers and products from this popular trend. We’ve been taking photos of ourselves for years. The term, though, is relatively new. As always, with new trends comes a whole new slew of issues and problems. Selfie-taking has become an addiction for some teenagers and young

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heavy loss and damage on the country, including killing the Iranian nationals by assisting their enemies, including Saddam and different terrorist groups against Tehran,” said a news report, explaining the verdict. The decision came as diplomats from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany were negotiating with Tehran for a deal that would see Iran scale down its atomic activities in exchange for sanctions relief.

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corruption possible in our state. Besides he’s been a drug addict for years. I’ve known it all along.” A week later, Hitler and his companion, Eva Braun, killed themselves. Shortly after Hitler’s suicide, his Berlin bunker was overrun by Soviet soldiers. More than a month later, U.S. Army Capt. Benjamin M. Bradin entered the bunker and brought home documents that he found in Hitler’s lair. Apparently unaware of their contents, he put them in his local bank vault, where they stayed until 1958. Years later Bradin’s son James took the papers to his history professor who examined the telegram and immediately recognized its importance. He encouraged James Bradin to base his senior thesis on the documents. On Tuesday, a Maryland-based auction house put the telegram up for sale. It was expected to sell for between $15,000 and 20,000 but sold for $54,675 to an unnamed North American buyer. The Bradin family will not get a profit. Goering was put under house arrest but freed by the Luftwaffe, the Nazi air force. He then made his way west in the hope of surrendering to the Americans instead of the Soviets. He was captured by the U.S. Army on May 6 and imprisoned in Luxembourg and later Nuremberg, where he was among the top Nazi officials to be put on trial. He was sentenced to hang but killed himself hours before by swallowing a cyanide capsule.

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assume, in case by 2200 o’clock no answer is forthcoming, that you have lost your freedom of action. I shall then view the conditions of your decree as fulfilled and take action for the well being of Nation and Fatherland. You know what I feel for you in these most difficult hours of my life and I cannot express this in words. G-d protect you and allow you despite everything to come here as soon as possible. Your faithful Hermann Goering According to an autobiography by Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect turned minister of armaments and war production, which was written while serving 20 years in prison following his trial at Nuremberg, those close to Hitler used the telegram to pollute Hitler’s already crumbling attitude towards Goering: . . . there was a flurry of excitement in the vestibule. A telegram had arrived from Goering, which Bormann hastily brought to Hitler. … In the telegram Goering merely asked Hitler whether, in keeping with the decree on succession, he should assume the leadership of the entire Reich if Hitler remained in Fortress Berlin. But Bormann claimed that Goering had launched a coup d’etat; perhaps this was Bormann’s last effort to induce Hitler to fly to Berchtesgaden and take control there. At first, Hitler responded to this news with the same apathy he had shown all day long. But Bormann’s theory was given fresh support when another radio message from Goering arrived. I pocketed a copy which in the general confusion lay unnoticed in the bunker. It read: To Reich Minister von Ribbentrop I have asked the Fuehrer to provide me with instructions by 10 p.m. April 23. If by this time it is apparent that the Fuehrer has been deprived of his freedom of action to conduct the affairs of the Reich, his decree of June 29, 1941, becomes effective, according to which I am heir to all his offices as his deputy. [If] by 12 midnight April 23, 1945, you receive no other word either from the Fuehrer directly or from me, you are to come to me at once by air. (Signed) Goering, Reich Marshal This was proof for Bormann. “Goering is engaged in treason!” he exclaimed excitedly. “He’s already sending telegrams to members of the government and announcing that on the basis of his powers he will assume your office at twelve o’clock tonight, mein Fuhrer.” Hitler eventually became furious and said: “I’ve known it all along. I know that Goering is lazy. He let the air force go to pot. He was corrupt. His example made

In response, Russia has begun a campaign against the dangers of taking selfies, promoting “safe selfies.” Moscow authorities introduced 24/7 phone support for anyone who is concerned that they might be addicted to taking the arms-length snaps. The head of Moscow’s narcology unit, Yevgeny Bryun, announced, “More and more Muscovites suffer from selfie addiction, putting themselves in danger. We have created a round-the-clock emergency service providing psycho-

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The Week In News logical support by the MNPC narcology for such aficionados [of selfies].” “If you feel that you cannot live without selfies, call our psychology desk – you will receive counseling and be offered support,” Bryun added. Later in the week, the Interior Ministry issued leaflets warning young people against posing for pics in dangerous places. The Interior Ministry posted a memo on its website which instructs young people on how to take a selfie without hurting themselves. The campaign’s leaflet shows a stick figure getting injured while taking a selfie in hazardous conditions such as in front of a wild animal, on a rooftop and even while holding a gun. The campaign is in response to the death of several young people who were killed while trying to take selfies. In April of last year, 17-year-old Xenia Ignatyeva fell to her death from a bridge in St. Petersburg while trying to take a photo of herself, and in January two teenage boys died after posing for a photo with a grenade with the pin pulled out. Councilors from Russia’s ruling United Russia party in Moscow have discussed extending the initiative to

building signs in sites across the capital where young people may be at risk of taking an “unsafe selfie,” estimating that as many as 100 people a year get injured in the capital while taking a photo of themselves.

Over 4 Million Syrian Refugees

Since the beginning of Syria’s civil war more than four million Syrians have fled their country, with many now despairing that they will never return to their conflict-wracked homeland. “I

dream of leaving to Europe,” Osama alRaqa, 22, who missed out on university because of the war, said. Syria’s conflict began with anti-government protests but spiraled into a war after a regime crackdown. It has since claimed more than 230,000 lives, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor. The UN refugee agency UNHCR recently said that the number of Syrian refugees now stands at 4,013,000 people, with another 7.6 million displaced inside the country. “This is the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation,” UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres pointed out. UNHCR said one million Syrians had become refugees in just the last 10 months, and the overall number could grow to 4.27 million by the end of the year if the pace continues. The crisis is the largest handled by UNHCR in a single conflict for nearly 25 years, since the agency assisted some 4.6 million Afghan refugees in 1992. Most Syrian refugees are finding shelter in neighboring countries, including Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, where many live in poverty with few legal protections. “Worsening conditions

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Israeli security officials have officially announced that Israel will not release Hamas prisoners in return for two Israelis who are currently held in Gaza. Israel has engaged in prisoner swaps with Hamas in the past, most notably in 2011, when Gilad Shalit was released in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails. Dozens of those ex-prisoners have been rounded up by Israel since, outraging Hamas, which signaled that until they were freed again it would refuse to respond to charges that they are holding two Israeli captives. “There will be no talk about a prisoner swap before Israel releases all Palestinians who were re-arrested in the West Bank after they had

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the State of Israel’s founding. Doucet’s tweets promoting “Children of Gaza” also shed light on the channel’s coverage of last year’s war. One screenshot depicts an Israeli child hiding in a bomb shelter after having only 14 seconds warning that a rocket would strike. During the war, watchdog organizations argued that the news station focused on portraying Gazans as victims and Israelis as aggressors. In fact, media monitoring group BBC Watch has pointed out that the station clearly had footage of Israelis having to run for shelter as their homes were being attacked, yet chose not to air it. The BBC has long been criticized for bias in favor of Palestinians. After several high-profile instances, such as when one journalist described her tears at seeing Yassir Arafat in poor health, senior editorial advisor Malcolm Balin conducted an investigation into the station’s objectivity. Completed in 2004, the BBC still refuses to publicly release the Balin Report; the station even spent almost $460,000 fighting against Freedom of Information Act appeals in order to ensure that the public could not read it.

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mentary, entitled, “Children of Gaza,” aims to depict how Operation Protective Edge affected children living in and around the Gaza Strip. The program has not yet aired, but according to reports, the Palestinians’ testimonies were mistranslated in order to cover up frequent anti-Semitic comments. The Palestinian children regularly used the word “yahud,” meaning “Jew,” when talking about their enemies. In the documentary, BBC’s translators insisted on changing the word “Jews” to “Israelis” in order to make the Palestinians appear more tolerant. In one instance, a child claims that “the Jews are massacring us,” which appears in the subtitles as “Israel is massacring us.” The station’s chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, justified the edits by saying, “We talked to people in Gaza, we talked to translators. When [the children] say ‘Jews,’ they mean ‘Israelis.’” Despite the translators’ claims, examples of Palestinian children being taught to hate Jews collectively are well-documented. For example, it has been reported that there are summer camps in Gaza where children learn to glorify terrorism and recite anti-Semitic chants that date back to centuries before

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Despite the fact that “Jerusalem, the controversial capital of Israel, is at the crux of an ancient and ongoing conflict,” Time says the ancient city has “new upmarket appeal” thanks to its new luxury apartments and high-end eateries. Among the 4,000-year-old city’s highlights mentioned in the list are the Western Wall, excavations near the Temple Mount, and the Old City’s Austrian Hospice. Jerusalem came in at No. 10 behind Cape Town, South Africa; Barcelona, Spain; Krakow, Poland; Bangkok, Thailand; Rome and Florence, Italy; Siem Reap, Cambodia; Charleston, South Carolina; and Kyoto, Japan.

been freed in the 2011 Shalit deal,” said Mahmoud al-Zahar, a top Hamas official. One of the two missing Israelis is Avraham Mangisto, a 29-year-old from Ashkelon. Mangisto went missing in the early hours of September 8, 2014, when he crossed the border into Gaza. A second citizen, a Bedouin resident of the south, crossed the border into the Strip, also of his own accord, in April 2015. The young Bedouin is said to be mentally ill and had tried to cross into Gaza in the past. Mangisto was last seen walking on the beach, heading south. An IDF lookout identified suspicious movement and pointed the observation camera at Mangisto’s direction. At this point, Mangisto touched the electric fence, which set off an alarm with troops from the IDF Gaza Division’s northern brigade. The army lookouts sent a patrol unit to the area, but Mangisto managed to jump over the fence and cross into Gaza before the troops got there. The troops fired in the air as a warning sign and called on Mangisto to return to Israel, but he ignored them. He was seen joining a group of fishermen, but his trail has since gone cold. Mangisto crossed the border only two weeks after the end of Operation Protective Edge. During that time, there was still a lot of commotion around the Gaza Strip, with many troops still in the area. Along the Gaza border fence, the IDF’s radars, observation cameras and troops are all pointed south or west – towards the Strip, and not towards Israel. That is why any civilian who wants to cross into Gaza can do so in only a minute or two of climbing the fence. On Friday, Prime Minister Netanyahu visited the Mangisto family and insisted that Israel “will do everything” to get back their son.

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capable of defeating Israel on its own. In a recent interview with Syrian state TV, Nasrallah explained that despite boasts by himself and other Hezbollah leaders about the group’s capabilities, it is incapable of mounting a war against Israel independently.

National The Removal of the Flag Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has directly linked his group’s military campaign to the “Palestinian cause.” In remarks in honor of the Iranian AlQuds Day, Nasrallah also claimed that all opponents of Iran oppose “Palestine” as well. The Hezbollah chief trumpeted Iran’s role in the region, saying that the Islamic Republic was the only state that posed an existential threat to Israel. “After G-d, Iran is the only remaining hope to free Palestine,” Nasrallah declared, admitting that while his group poses a strategic threat to Israel, it could not destroy it. “If you are an enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, then you are an enemy of Palestine,” he insisted. Nasrallah has continuously threatened Israel. Only a month ago he threatened that his group would displace “millions” in Israel if the Jewish state attacks Lebanon. His threat came in a televised address weeks after an Israeli army official warned that Israel would “have to” target civilian areas in Lebanon in a future confrontation with Hezbollah. Even though he has continued to threaten Israel, Nasrallah has admitted in the past that his terrorist group is in-

On Friday, the Confederate flag that was flying on the Capitol of South Carolina was summarily taken down. It was taken to the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum and placed in storage until it could be decided how it should be displayed.

emergency resolution to end the boycott. NAACP President Cornell William Brooks praised the state’s action in a Thursday statement, saying their decision “will make South Carolina more welcoming and affirming of all people irrespective of their skin color.” The South Carolina state legislature voted to remove the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds last week. The state legislature debated the issue after a tragic shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, left 9 dead, reigniting impassioned opposition to the flag’s presence at the Capitol.

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murdered my dad.” According to former patient Christopher Sobieray, doctors he consulted after Fata’s scheme was exposed were “appalled” by his massive overtreatment for testicular cancer. “Look at what’s left of my mouth — I have one tooth left,” he said. “They had no idea how I was sitting in their office. … I will never be the same.” Teddy Howard was another former patient of Fata’s. He does not have cancer and now must take additional medicine for the rest of his life as a result of the phony treatments. “What really makes me angry is the fact that he lied,” Howard said. “He knew he was lying, he gave the drugs to me anyway, and I had no knowledge of it, and now my life is turned upside down. I can’t do anything about it. I don’t know how long I’m going to live.”

De Blasio: No More Need for Bail for Some Offenders Over the last 15 years, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has been boycotting the state of South Carolina but since the flag was taken down, it has agreed to reconcile. Back in 2000, when the Confederate flag was placed on top of the State House as a Confederate memorial on the Capital grounds, the boycott started. The boycott was also observed by the NCAA and United Auto Workers, among other groups. The NAACP tweeted Saturday that the National Board of Directors voted in an

Instead of healing his patients, Dr. Farid Fata used his medical license to fraud the sick and vulnerable. On Friday, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Paul Borman. The fifty-year-old doctor was accused of misdiagnosing at least 2,000 patients and giving them unnecessary chemotherapy treatments. He admitted to purposely misdiagnosing and exposing his cancer patients to unnecessary and excessive rounds of chemotherapy to collect payments from both them and their insurance companies. In total, his scam affected roughly 550 victims and racked up $34.7 million in payments. Fata’s restitution hearing is still coming; he has already agreed to turn over $17.6 million. Dr. Soe Maunglav, a colleague of Fata, began noticing something off in patient records soon after he was hired at Fata’s practice in 2012. Some of the patients never showed signs or symptoms of having cancer at all; it was entirely fabricated by Fata. “Farid Fata, I hate you,” said Laura Stedtfeld, whose father passed away while under Fata’s medical care, according to US News & World Report. “You are repulsive. You disgust me. You are a monster. … You poisoned, tortured, and

The de Blasio administration made a grand announcement on Wednesday that will change the justice system in New York for low-level or non-violent crimes. The mayor proposed a plan for all these detainees to be freed without posting bail. A $17.8 million fund will allow judges to substitute bail for an estimated 3,000 low-risk defendants with a modern supervision system beginning next year. The supervision would include daily check-ins, text message notices, and linking them with drug counseling and behavior treatment. Studies have illustrated that poor minorities accused of low-level crimes are more likely to get stuck in jail because they can’t afford to post even small amounts of money for bail. “There is a very real human cost to how our criminal justice system treats people while they wait for trial,” Mayor de Blasio said in a statement. “Money bail is a problem because — as the system currently operates in New York — some people are being detained based

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from seized assets collected by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. About 41% of criminal defendants who pass through city courts each year are released on their own recognizance and another 14%, or 45,500 people, are held on bail, authorities said. This plan still needs to be approved by state lawmakers in Albany.

The Good Life for a Chinese Counterfeiter It is widely known that the making and selling of counterfeit luxury goods is illegal across the globe. The act of buying one of these items seems to be more

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of a gray area. While the majority of fakes are made in China, many are sold in America. In the U.S., counterfeiting is rarely prosecuted as a crime but rather as a civil case brought by victimized companies, enabling counterfeiters to continue their successful businesses. Lawyers say criminal cases, which carry the possibility of jail time, are a more effective deterrent. “A person is more likely to be struck by lightning than imprisoned for counterfeiting,” Geoffrey Potter, an intellectual property lawyer at New York’s Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, pointed out. Xu Ting, 45, of China, created a career for herself out of the sales of “fake” designer handbags. Eventually she was caught and sued by eight luxury brands. She currently owes Chanel Inc. $6.9 million for selling products online under its brand name. But that hefty fine and the legal action taken against her have not stopped Ms. Ting from living a happy and comfortable life. Xu Ting is currently a legal resident of California. She resides in a comfortable suburban town in San Diego with her husband and toddler son.

Xu Ting obtained a green card in February 2014. Dan Kowalski, an immigration attorney and editor of Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, said it’s likely that immigration officials did not know about Xu Ting’s legal problems, but even if they did they probably didn’t consider them a disqualification. Grounds for denying a green card range from committing a serious crime to having communicable disease but there’s nothing about civil liabilities. “There’s a million ways to game the system,” said Dan Plane, an intellectual property lawyer in Hong Kong. “Probably the only thing that’s going to stop her is when she passes away – probably on an island resort somewhere – or if she gets arrested.” To date, Xu Ting has failed to show up in court. According to public records, she recently purchased a home for $585,000 and accumulated at least $890,000 in bank accounts in China. She has attended San Diego State University where she is working towards a graduate degree. “The essential point for Chanel is really shutting down the counterfeiting operations which we did successfully,”

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New York City to Pay $5.9M to Family of Eric Garner According to the New York Times, the City of New York and the family of Eric Garner have reached an agreement. The wife of Garner is suing the city for the wrongful death of her husband who died on July 17, 2014 in Staten Island after he was questioned for selling loose cigarettes.

A police officer allegedly put him in a chokehold after he resisted arrest for about 15 to 19 seconds. A video taken on a passerby’s cellphone shows the middle-aged man saying, “I can’t breathe.” The officers called for medical attention but later in the day Garner was pronounced dead. The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office attributed Garner’s death to a combination of a chokehold, compression of his chest, and poor health. New York City Police Department policy prohibits the use of chokeholds, and the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, a NYPD police union, has said that the officer did not use a chokehold. According to the New York Times, NYC agreed to pay $5.9 million to Garner’s widow in order to resolve the claim.

The Youngest Looking Cities in the U.S. By now it’s been proven that unfortunately there is no fountain of youth. But there are factors that have quite the opposite effect and can contribute to making a person look older. In a recent survey, researchers an-

alyzed cities in which people look younger. The survey considered lifestyle factors that affect skin aging, like sun exposure, stress, pollution, average sleep logged, fitness levels, and the prevalence of smoking and alcohol consumption in American cities with populations over 300,000. Yes, products and attentive skincare can certainly help skin look younger, but it’s our daily lifestyles that influence the way we look the most. “Age management has to do with managing your stress levels and learning to say ‘no’ when you’re overwhelmed, taking care of yourself and making sure you exercise regularly,” says Montclair, New Jersey, dermatologist Jeanine B. Downie, MD. “As we get older, we need to sleep more to help our bodies recover,” she adds. “As you get older, regularly exercising more intensely for shorter bursts of time is one of the best ways to stay fit and young as we age in our stressful society,” advises Downie. Interval training, short 15 to 20 minute bursts of high intensity workouts as opposed to longer light or moderate workouts, is shown to oxygenate the body to help relieve stress, and also offers a variety of anti-aging benefits, including burning more fat and moving

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The Week In News Hack Bigger than We Thought The previously announced number of people whose information was hacked off of the Office of Personnel Management’s computer system has

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live with the applicants. Some records also include findings from interviews conducted by background investigators, and about 1.1 million include fingerprints, officials said. The lapse enabled hackers to gain access not only to personnel files but also personal details about millions of individuals with government security clearances — information a foreign intelligence service could potentially use to recruit spies. Because the exposed records included information on individuals who served as references on security clearance applications, U.S. officials said that stolen data includes details on certain employees’ relatives and friends.

Although officials have said that the hackers worked for the Chinese government, the Obama administration has not formally accused Beijing. “It is an enormous breach, and a huge amount of data that is personal and sensitive … was available to adversaries,” FBI Director James Comey said at a Senate Intelligence Committee “We’re talking about millions and millions of people affected by this,” he said. “I’m sure the adversary has my SF86 now,” referring to the Standard Form 86, which all applicants for security clearances must fill out. He noted it lists “every place I’ve lived since I was 18, every foreign trip I’ve taken, all of my family and their addresses… I’ve got siblings. I’ve got five kids. All of that is in there.” The government has already begun taking steps to mitigate the damage in the intelligence and counterintelligence arena, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said. “We’re going to be doing that for years, in terms of the whole range of steps that we’ll have to take to protect our people and our sources and methods.” He added: “The consequences will be very far-reaching.”

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The Week In News Obama Commutes 46 Sentences of Nonviolent Offenders On Monday, 46 nonviolent drug offenders were extremely grateful to

President Obama as he commuted their sentences as part of a bigger effort to try to ease such people out of the federal prison system. The president introduced this initiative last year when he vowed to free nonviolent offenders who were, according to then-Attorney General Eric Holder, “deserving individuals who do

not pose a threat to public safety.” More than 35,000 inmates have applied for early releases under this new enterprise. According to Obama, many of these prisoners were sent to jail during a different era, when sentencing guidelines were much stricter. As such, the offenders may be serving longer prison sentences than necessary; if they would

be sentenced for such crimes today, they would be sent to jail for a shorter term than they initially received.

Interestingly, a presidential commutation is generally rarer than a presidential pardon. The commutations granted on Monday, though, more than double the amount that Obama has issued since taking office. Before this week, he had granted 43 commutations and 64 pardons. Obama has now commuted more sentences than any president since Lyndon B. Johnson, who commuted 226 sentences during his time in the Oval Office, according to federal statistics. He has also commuted more sentences than the number granted by his four immediate predecessors — Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

That’s Odd Feeding the Hungry

Next week, restaurant goers in Baltimore will be lining up for sumptuous dinners at a discounted price during the city’s Restaurant Week. Tabrizi’s, though, will be feeding a different clientele than other eateries in the area. The Mediterranean restaurant will be hosting “Homeless Restaurant Week” and will be feeding 1,000 meals to the city’s homeless population over the course of six days. Sorry, your money won’t be good here. “I live in the city and see homeless people all the time going home late night. I saw a sign a homeless man was holding at the traffic light [that read], ‘I

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The Newest Demo-Cat

Watch out Hillary. There’s fierce competition in the presidential race. The newest 2016 hopeful is sweet and adorable. In fact, what may set him apart from the other 458 candidates is that he loves tuna—maybe a bit too much. Limberbutt McCubbins is a registered Democrat but his campaign literature describe him as a “Demo-cat.”

When is a penny not just a penny? When it’s a penny for a cause. Stephen Coyle used 11,000 pennies in protest at his college when he had to pay a $110 fine. The student at University of North Carolina got two parking tickets in June and then learned that only 20 percent of monies collected through fines are used on campus. The rest are redistributed to other schools. “We have a beautiful campus, but

The Money Tree You know that money doesn’t grow on trees. But this weekend, passersby at

a campsite in a small German town may have thought differently when 50 euro notes (which are around $200,000) in cash starting falling from the trees. A plastic bag had been hanging on a pipe between two branches but after a heatwave struck the area, the pipe bent and the bag opened, sending the paper money floating to the ground.

Who owns the cash is not certain. Police suspect the bag may have to do with a cottage fire that took place on the campsite earlier in the week. If the owner is not found within six months, the people who found the money will be entitled to the entire sum. They have already been rewarded $6,000 for reporting the findings.

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11,000 Pennies in Protest

there’s some severely neglected buildings. Lecture halls have missing seats, ceiling tiles are missing – some of that money can be reinvested into the buildings,” the 26-year-old said. Coyle went to three local banks and collected 11,000 pennies to pay his fines. “There were 25 dollars in each box and 50 rolls,” he explained. “I brought the pennies in loose – in three separate buckets.” Because pennies are legal currency, the office had to accept them. The office initially said he would have to count the pennies in front of their employees, but then Coyle argued that it was their responsibility to ensure all the money was there. It took two of the office’s employees three hours and 40 minutes to count the coins. You know what they say: in for a penny, in for a pound—of protest.

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The furry feline is confident about the upcoming election. His slogan is “Together, we cat.” Want to contribute to Mr. McCubbins’ campaign? As opposed to his opponents, your dollars aren’t good here. “We are not taking donations at this time,” says 17-year-old Isaac Weiss, one of the cat’s two campaign managers. “If we later decided to take them, they will most likely be forwarded to the Humane Society or another organization for animals.” McCubbins actually has all his papers filed with the FEC. Weiss points out that just by running McCubbins is showing that much needs to be done with regards to election reform. Others issues that are close to this kitten’s heart? Protecting the environment and the legalization of catnip are things worth campaigning for. What does the candidate do in his spare time? “Sleeping, playing with his scratching post” and tearing paper – especially model government paraphernalia – the cat-didate’s owner and co-campaign manager, 18-year-old Emilee McCubbins, says. “He’s a good cat,” she adds. Weiss, the ever-positive campaign manager, knows that McCubbins deserves a shot at the White House. “For over 200 years, man has been running the show,” he says. “And now, it’s cats’ turn to help lead the way.” The time is meow.

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am hungry, will work for food,’” owner Michael Tabrizi related. “I felt a warm urge to invite this person to my restaurant. I gave him my business card and told him to come and eat whenever he wants. Then I thought, ‘Why not invite all of them?’ So I did.” Now he partners with Baltimore’s shelters to bring in as many homeless people as possible from July 20 to 25. The shelters will bus in people with volunteer drivers, and more than 200 people volunteered to work the week for free as greeters, buffet staff and servers. “Our staff is volunteering, too, because they believe it’s a great cause. Management also offered a flat fee of $100 a shift from noon until 7 p.m. as an average income,” Tabrizi said. “Many employees declined; they want to do it for free.” What’s on the menu? The lucky diners will be treated to chicken Cordon Bleu, salad, sparkling apple cider, and ice cream in a waffle cup. They can choose to eat at the restaurant at 1pm, 3pm or 5pm daily. “It feels right, it looks right and it tastes right! Seeing happy shiny eyes of a forgotten homeless person is priceless. Giving the homeless a feeling of hope and respect is everything they want,” Tabrizi exuded. “I receive hundreds of emails a days from people across the country and overseas commending this gesture. “My reply to all these kind people is to do one good [deed] to a stranger every day, even a smile. It goes a long way.” It doesn’t hurt when you fill their bellies with gourmet, delicious food, too.

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She’s 108 and she’s still rooting for the home team. On Saturday, Seattle Mariners fan Evelyn Jones celebrated her 108th birthday in epic and record-breaking fashion. The centenarian has been a Mariners fan for the team’s whole life; she was 69 when they debuted in 1977. This year, she was invited to Safeco

Field to throw out the ceremonial pitch. As she wound up for the pitch, Ms. Jones became the oldest person to throw a ceremonial first pitch at a major league game. The previous record holder was 105-year-old Agnes McKee, who threw out a pitch before a San Diego Padres game on July 20, 2014. The team didn’t let her down on Saturday, winning 5-0 against the Los Angeles Angels. The avid fan lives in a retirement community but heads to her room to watch the Mariners play so the other residents don’t disturb her focus on the game. When she’s not rooting for the home team, Ms. Jones passes the time doing crossword puzzles, reading, and watching Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. According to the Seattle Times, the oldest player on the Mariners is Joe Beimel, who is 38. He was born in 1977, when Ms. Jones was 70. Taijuan Walker, the youngest player on the team, is 23. He was born in 1992, when Ms. Jones was 85. Yes, age is just a number but baseball seems to unite young and old.

A Hotspot up High

Looking for free Wi-Fi? You may want to head north—and we mean way up high. In an effort to boost its annual visitor numbers to 20 million before Tokyo hosts the 2020 Olympics, the country is now offering free Wi-Fi on Mt. Fuji. Now, after climbing the highest mountain in Japan, one can check their email and send out smiling selfies 3,776 meters in the air. There are eight hotspots on the mountain for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who visit every year.

“We hope people will use the service not only to tell about the attractions of Mount Fuji to people abroad but also to obtain weather and other information to ensure their safety,” a tourism official related. Besides for free Wi-Fi, the government is pressuring banks to make more of their ATMs compatible with foreign cards, long on the wish list of visitors and expats. In May, the nation’s “travel balance”—the amount that foreign visitors spend in Japan less what Japanese spend overseas—turned positive for the first time 55 years. Must all that free Wi-Fi that’s making people flock to the Land of the Rising Sun. 

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JCCRP Helps Send Local Children to Day Camps

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The JCCRP continues to service the community thanks to the ongoing support of the UJA-Federation of New York. The JCCRP is a proud beneficiary agency of UJA Federation of NY. The JCCRP provides a range of services for any clients who need assistance in social services or resource directing within the community. Please contact the JCCRP for further information; they are located at 1525 Central Avenue (entrance on Foam Place), Far Rockaway, NY, 11691. Call the JCCRP at (718) 3277755 or visit them on the web at www.jccrp.org.

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With the summer off into full swing now, local children and their parents are enjoying the many benefits of summer camp. Between the interactive games, promising night activities, social skill building, and continuation of Torah learning, summer camp can play a strong, positive role in the formative years of a child’s life. Unfortunately, not all families are able to make this a reality for their children. The need for financial assistance has been high, and thanks to the UJA-Federation of NY, the Rabbi Michael Scholar Camp Scholarship Fund has been able to assist 142 children in going to camp this summer. The Rabbi Michael Scholar Memorial Fund was started to help those parents who otherwise could not afford to send their children to day camp. The fund, named after a former president of the JCCRP, provides scholarships to make it possible for Jewish children from needy families to attend Jewish summer day camps. The fund sponsors Jewish children from needy backgrounds who attend both yeshivas and attend public schools. The purpose of the fund is to make sure that these children spend the summer in an environment with their peers that will enhance what they learned in school and strengthen—or even create—their love for Yiddishkeit. The fund ensures that these children are involved in activities that draw them close to an enriched Judaism, creating long-lasting friendships, and learning from and admiring the warm rebbes and morahs that run these camps. Due to the outstanding support of the UJA-Federation of NY, the Rabbi Michael Scholar Memorial Fund has had the privilege of sending its scholarship recipients to 17 camps this summer. In appreciation to all those who so generously donated to the fund, the JCCRP wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable rest of the summer. It is our hope that those who were helped by the fund will greatly benefit from the impacting experience that is summer camp.

Richard Altabe, Chairman of the Board of the JCCRP, and Shalom Becker, Treasurer of the Board of the JCCRP, handing a scholarship fund check to head staff at Orah Day Camp

Richard Altabe, Chairman of the Board of the JCCRP, and Shalom Becker, Treasurer of the Board of the JCCRP, handing a scholarship fund check to Rabbi Brafman of Camp MaTov

Richard Altabe, Chairman of the Board of the JCCRP, and Shalom Becker, Treasurer of the Board of the JCCRP, handing a scholarship fund check to R’ Yanky Hersh of Camp Areivim

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Richard Altabe, Chairman of the Board of the JCCRP, and Shalom Becker, Treasurer of the Board of the JCCRP, handing a scholarship fund check to R’ Ben Jacoby of Camp Machane Yisrael

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Around The Community Officials Call on State to Strengthen Laws to Fight Symbol of Hate About 72 hours after beachgoers witnessed the disturbing sight of an airplane towing a banner which displayed swastikas over south shore beaches, Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray and Senior Councilman Anthony J. Santino met with a throng of local religious leaders and concerned neighbors at one of the scenes where the swastikas were displayed, Town Park Point Lookout, and called on the New York State Legislature to strengthen laws that prohibit the display of hate speech at public places, including beaches, parks, government offices and buildings, among other locations. Murray and Santino condemned the actions of the organization that supported the public display of the swastika by airplane over a number of South Shore beaches on Saturday. “I was horrified and offended, along with thousands of families, who had to witness a sickening display of hatred

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at South Shore beaches this weekend,” Murray said. “Subjecting families to the public display of the swastika, a universally recognized symbol of hatred, is wrong and painful for many residents. We should stand united to oppose this type of anti-Semitic and hate fueled speech. That’s why government officials and religious leaders and other groups are working together to prevent the parading of this anti-Semitic symbol on our shores and in our communities.” “Spreading this symbol of hate is unacceptable, and we’re calling for stronger legislation to stop this from happening again,” Santino added. The offensive display over the beach was arranged by the International Raelian Movement, which claims its mission is to rehabilitate the reputation of the swastika. The banner included a swastika, a peace sign, a heart, the name of the group’s website, as well as an image of a swastika inside the Star of David. “I believe that nobody should minimize the pain suffered by victims of the Nazi regime under the banner of the swastika during World War II,” stated Murray. “Displaying the swastika inside a Star of David is thinly veiled anti-Semitism, and such displays are the essence of a hate crime.” With support from New York State Assemblyman Ed Ra, Murray and Santino have called for the strengthening of section 240-31 of New York State Penal Law, which covers crimes that can be charged under the hate crime statute. The

statute currently addresses the “etching, painting, drawing and placing” of swastikas, but it does not mention the “display” of swastikas. The law does cover the “displaying” of nooses, commonly seen as a symbol of racism and intimidation. “I am pleased to be working with Supervisor Kate Murray and Councilman Anthony Santino, as well as concerned citizens, to fight anti-Semitism in all of its forms,” said Ra. “I will work in Albany to amend the hate crime statute to protect residents from the pain and humiliation that comes from those who engage in hate speech.”

“Amending the state law by adding ‘the display of’ the swastika on public or private property could make it a crime to display the hateful emblem of the Nazi regime in the future,” Murray said. “Our beautiful island is home to many who survived the evils perpetrated by the Nazi regime in World War II, and they, as well as their families, deserve much better than to be subjected to public displays of a symbol that is synonymous with the essence of evil. Though we cannot change what happened this weekend, we can take action to prevent this symbol of hate from appearing on our shores again.”

On Tuesday, 221 people made Aliyah from 14 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and four Canadian provinces. There were 95 children on the flight. An estimated 4,000 newcomers are expected to move to Israel this Israel from North America.

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Fun and Excitement for Camp Matov Campers

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Orah Day Camp “Nose” How to Have Fun The “nose” knows and those in the know follow their “noses” to Orah Day Camp where fun is the first odor… I mean order of the day. Can you smell that? There are fragrant besamim hanging all over camp. We added cloves to lemons and apples and hung them so that everyone can enjoy the scent. The “faces” hanging all over camp now have “noses” and certain people have been walking around camp sporting

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some rather interesting animal “noses!” We also had clown “noses” for everyone—if they were game to wear them! This week you can smell the excitement in the air as our campers continue to go on all sorts of exciting trips. The 3rd graders went to the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. The “Oar”ah 5th graders used some “elbow” grease and went canoeing. The 7th graders went on the highly anticipated and eagerly awaited overnight—they did not drag their “heels” as they climbed onto the luxurious coach bus and rode off to “Sahara Sam” Water Park! Our girls joined other camps for an exclusive women’s night at the water park. The girls had a magnificent time, and the following day after a scrumptious breakfast they were off and running to go bowling. I bet our younger girls can’t wait to be in 7th grade. Until the younger campers make it to the upper division we have plenty of trips to keep their cups full. The Nursery and Kindergarten went to Cup O’ Fun and the 1st grades had a chance to go to Fitwize – they worked on building

their “muscles” and strengthening their “bones.” Our Pre-1A bunks went to the Fun Station and everyone “nose” how much fun that place is for our younger campers. Meanwhile, “back” at camp there is so much going on! In Main Event this week, we had a scavenger hunt for the younger division. They sniffed out the clues hidden all over the building and figured out the final prize which they could smell everywhere—fresh popped popcorn! The older division had a Main Event that as we go to press is still a secret—and I’m going to cut off my “nose” in spite of my face and not tell you what it is or how wonderful it was but 1-2-3-4, we all want this Main Event. The entertainment at Orah continues even after the camp day is done – sometimes you need to count on your “fingers” and “toes” how many hours of fun there are in a single day. This week the 5th and 6th grades had their Late Night swim and BBQ dinner. After dismissal the girls got to use our beautiful outdoor, Olympic-size inground pool and then enjoyed a dinner

just for them—it is “scent”-sational. The specialty that fits best into “nose week” would have to be baking. The aromas that fill camp are “mouth”-watering. Working backwards, every Friday, every camper, makes challah from the fresh dough our magnifi-“scent” baking morahs, Bracha Gluck and Arona Waldman, prepare. The smell really makes it feel like Shabbos is coming (and we’re so happy). During the rest of the week the campers work on delightful goodies like rainbow cookies, fudge pies and chocolate babka, all homemade and “hand” crafted. The smells that waft up from the baking room, that tickle our “noses” and whet our appetites, are enough to challenge anyone on a diet, but take it from me—each baked good is worth it, a treat for our eyes, noses, mouths and stomachs. There is so much in store! You should keep your “chin” up, your “eyes” peeled, your “nose” to the grindstone and your “ear” to the ground so you can hear all about what’s going on here at Orah Day Camp, the “HEAD”quarters for fun.

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you ever imagine that your Would housekeeper could cost you several hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Did you ever think about what would happen if your nanny was injured while working for you? Are you taking your housekeeper to the bungalows for the summer? It was a nice sunny day when the mailman delivered the letter to Chaya Gitty. As Chaya Gitty opened up the envelope and began reading her heart started pounding. “This letter is to let you know that Angela R. sustained a work related injury while taking out your garbage.” Is this some kind of joke? thought Chaya Gitty as she continued reading. “Her doctor says she is ‘totally disabled’ and can’t work at all. She has a herniated disc L4-L5 with neck pain radiating down to her arms and shoulder. Please notify us immediately to let us know the name of your Workers’ Compensation insurance company.” Name of insurance company? Huh?! Who has insurance for their housekeeper? She only worked for me for two weeks. This is crazy! From a dollars and cents perspective Chaya Gitty and her family were facing exposure of over $200,000. Without proper insurance coverage, they would be responsible for payment of lost wages, medical bills, any permanent impairment/scarring awards and attorney fees for litigation. A story involving the Miller family began with a phone call stating that, while Mrs. Miller was out, her housekeeper fell down her basement steps and was rushed to the hospital. Five days and two surgeries later panic mode had set in at the Miller household. They were at a loss of what to do next. Notices arrived in the mail and the phone was ringing every day seeking the insurance information to handle this Workers’ Compensation claim. Medical bills started arriving in the mail. The Millers were facing huge out of pocket expenses. Five days in the hospital…plastic surgery…lost time wages…scarring award…litigation…this would quickly add up to over $250,000. Things got worse when the housekeeper retained a workers’ comp lawyer. NY Workers’ Comp lawyers representing claimants do not charge any upfront fees. Any injured worker can retain an attorney even if they do not have the funds to do so. Claimants’ attorneys receive their payments from the money awarded to the injured party. Whether it’s ongoing monetary benefits or a lump sum settlement, that is when their attorney gets paid. Therefore, nothing stops an injured employee from hiring an attorney because the attorney will only get paid if they get paid. How could this possibly happen? My housekeeper

was so nice? Why would I be responsible for this? This makes no sense!

Ignorance is Not Bliss

PRISM, the nationally recognized Workers’ Compensation experts, is reaching out to the community to ensure that everyone is aware of this potentially severe issue facing many frum neighborhoods. Even though PRISM was able to successfully reduce the costs of many housekeeper claims and save people hundreds of thousands of dollars, we would like to prevent anyone from having to pay any out-of-pocket expenses and prevent any exposure to having these types of claims. Bottom line is that if you have an employee working for you, having Workers’ Compensation insurance is like any other necessary insurance – it offers protection in the event that you need it. Your nanny could trip over a toy and sprain her ankle. Your housekeeper could fall down your stairs. Burns, strains, cuts and falls are all amongst the unhappy possibilities that can start the frightening process. While it may be seen as a safeguard for employees, it really is above all a financial protection for the employer – you. Unfortunately, many New York insurance brokers have erroneously told policy holders that their New York homeowner’s insurance policy will cover all domestic workers. This is a fallacy! Many homeowner’s policies seem to indicate that the policy covers a domestic employee who works less than 40 hours per week. However, there is an additional clause on most policies which states it only covers domestic employees where it is required by law to have Workers’ Compensation coverage. The NYS Law requires an employer to obtain coverage for a domestic employee who works 40 or more hours a week; therefore this negates the previously mentioned coverage for domestic help under the homeowner’s policy. A live-in is presumed to work 40 hours or more or week. You might be covered for a domestic’s injury if... 1. Employee works less than 40 hours a week 2. By law you are required to purchase coverage for the employee *** You need both of the above to be covered by your Homeowners’ policy*** NY State Law states that you are obligated to have Workers’ Comp cov-

erage for a domestic employee that works 40 hours a week or more. Therefore, if the domestic works less than 40 hours per week the employer is not obligated to obtain coverage and you are not covered under your homeowner’s policy. If the employee works 40 or more hours per week, the policy will not cover the claim. Either way, under this policy verbiage you are not covered. It is highly recommended that workers’ compensation coverage be in place whether you have part-time or full-time help. The policy cost is a few hundred dollars a year and the protection can be worth a few hundred thousand dollars. Domestic Employee coverage is within reason. A typical NY Workers’ Comp policy would cost less than $1,000 a year for a full-time employee and approximately $300/year for a part-time employee. A very common misconception is that undocumented workers or those in the country on a visitors’ visa or the like cannot file a workers’ compensation claim, therefore, the employer is automatically protected against a claim. This is completely false. Those working illegally in the country can, do, and will file a claim against their employer. Not only are they entitled to do so, the employer may face additional fines and penalties for hiring the individual if they start threatening their worker with deportation because they were not legally allowed to hire this person. A domestic worker is someone employed and paid by a single person or a couple in a domestic partnership within their private household. Domestic workers can perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family. The following list provides several examples of domestic workers. It is important to note that domestics must be providing household services. • Maids • Cooks • Housekeepers • Laundry Workers • Butlers • Companions • Gardeners • Chauffeurs • Nannies • Au Pairs • Babysitters

Do I Need to Have Workers’ Compensation Insurance?

Each individual domestic who works 40 or more hours per week for the same employer by law must be covered by Workers’ Compensation insurance. The hours counted toward the 40 hour limit include all hours on premises. Some

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Not only does your insurance carrier not cover domestic claims under your business policy, but not having the proper coverage could lead to fines and penalties. It is imperative that everyone who is an employer, owner of a small business, or employs domestic help understands how Worker’s Comp works in their state. Workers’ Compensation Coverage is Required for Full- and Part-time Domestic Staff In: • Alaska • California • Connecticut • Delaware • District of Columbia • Hawaii • Iowa • Kansas • Maryland • Massachusetts • Minnesota • New Hampshire • Ohio

Penalties for Noncompliance

Failure To Secure Coverage (Civil) Section 52 [5] of the Workers’ Compensation Law provides that the Chair, upon finding that an employer has failed for a period of not less than ten consecutive days to make the provision for payment of compensation may impose upon such employer, in addition to all other penalties, fines or assessments, a penalty of up to $2,000 dollars for each ten day period of non-compliance. Another common area which can cost thousands upon thousands of dollars to well meaning but simply unaware small business owners are the laws surrounding Workers’ Compensation coverage. According to the NY Workers’ Compensation laws, as long as there is even one employee on payroll, a Workers’ Compensation policy is required. There are stories upon stories of small business owners who did not have the necessary coverage and received a notice from the Workers’ Compensation Board notifying them of their penalty ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 depending on the length of the violation. In every case, the owner has a reason why coverage was not secured or why the coverage lapsed. “I only had one part-time summer employee.” “My insurance broker didn’t tell me that my policy was canceled.” “I only hired family members.” The Workers’ Comp Board takes this very seriously. Failure to obtain insurance may involve criminal penalties under the law. Pursuant to Section 52 of the Workers’ Compensation Law: Failure to secure the payment of compensation for five or less employees within a twelve month period shall constitute a misdemeanor, and is punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars. Failure to secure the payment of compensation for more than five employees within a twelve month period shall constitute a class E felony, and is punishable by a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor

Knowledge is Key

PRISM, renowned Workers’ Compensation experts, believe that if provided with the information from those with the experience in the unique laws regarding Workers’ Compensation, the community will be better protected. Nobody should have to go through what these families have experienced. There is a simple solution: Get coverage! It’s fast, it’s simple and it’s cheap!

The PRISM Difference

PRISM has been in business for twenty years and was the 2015 recipient of the WC Power Broker Award. PRISM specializes in providing a unique and exceptionally effective approach to workers’ compensation insurance and risk management. Through its outstanding insurance programs, vigilance in claims oversight, rigorous metrics, and attentiveness to injured employees, PRISM combines unparalleled service with highly effective risk transfer solutions. PRISM has saved clients millions of dollars in reduced premiums, reduced fines and significantly cheaper claim outcomes than any other service company. PRISM has also found creative insurance solutions for large clients that have workers’ comp issues. PRISM aggressively manages high-exposure claims using proven techniques. Tapping into their wealth of knowledge and experience, PRISM works closely with top Workers’ Compensation attorneys in many states. Surveillance, independent medical exams and settlement discussions are just some of the tools used to mitigate each claim’s exposure. For more information or to sign up for a domestic help Workers’ Compensation policy, visit their website at DHCoverage.com or contact them via phone at 516-499-5230. For questions or inquiries, email them at info@dhcoverage.com.

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Please note that the standard New York Workers’ Compensation insurance rider of a homeowner’s insurance policy does not cover any domestic employees for workers’ compensation benefits nor does it cover people working for home-based businesses. For example, this rider could cover contractors that are deemed employees under the Workers’ Comp Law and working a total of less than 40 hours a week in or around a one, two, three or four family owner occupied residence.

Workers’ Compensation Coverage is Required for Full-Time Domestic Staff in: • Colorado • Illinois • Kentucky • Michigan • New Jersey • New York • Utah • Washington

more than fifty thousand dollars in addition to any other penalties otherwise provided by law. It shall be an affirmative defense to any criminal prosecution under this section that the employer took reasonable steps to obtain workers compensation insurance may involve criminal penalties. Time and time again these people reach out to PRISM. The conversations start by PRISM explaining the laws and the process from this point on with the goal to do as much damage control as possible. Insurance brokers know insurance markets and work very hard to secure their client the best possible quotes. However, generally speaking, they do not understand workers’ compensation and in many instances they provide individuals with mistaken information.

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domestic workers live within the household where they work. A “live-in” domestic worker means they live on the household’s premises. Live in domestics are considered to be working more than 40 hours per week regardless of set hours they may have. Another example of reaching the 40 or more hour limit would be a nanny or house sitter who stays overnight. If you hire a domestic to be in your home from 6:00pm Friday – 6:00pm Sunday, this would be 48 hours of work and a policy would be required. Workers’ Compensation Insurance is required from the first day of the first week in which a domestic will be working 40 or more hours or living on the premises.

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Inspiring Programs at Chazaq Over the past month, Chazaq events and programs touched upon various topics of interest, inspiring hundreds of community members. The month of June began with a Chazaq lecture by Rav Shaya Cohen at Congregation Ahavas Yisroel in Kew Gardens Hills. Rav Cohen inspired the audience by offering practical ways to

rise above the challenges of life and flourish in tough times. On Sunday, June 7, Chazaq hosted a memorial lecture at the Beth Gavriel Center in Forest Hills in memory of a young and active community member, Rubin ben Bella, who tragically passed away at the age of 23. Numerous rabbis spoke at the gathering, including

Chazaq Director Rabbi Ilan Meirov and the leader of the Beth Gavriel Youth Minyan, Rabbi Israel Itshakov. Rabbi Meirov stressed that we must realize that life is very beautiful and precious yet also very fragile. We must be grateful for everything we have and not take anything for granted. Then, on Thursday, June 11, Chazaq

hosted a special musical kumsitz at Congregation Beth Eliyahu in Fresh Meadows, featuring Rabbi Yonatan Hakimian. The crowd was treated to delicious food, along with the kumsitz and words of inspiration sprinkled in. Three days later, on Sunday, June 14, Chazaq joined Councilman Rory Lancman and the QJCC in presenting a community-wide children’s Jewish Cultural Carnival at the Yeshiva of Central Queens. Hundreds of children enjoyed the day under the sun for a fabulous day of entertainment, along with jumping on the inflatable bounces and competing in various games. The following night, Chazaq hosted Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein at the Young Israel of Queens Valley. Rabbi Wallerstein enlightened the crowd with his powerful speech on the dangers of rationalizing and how it brought on the downfall of many great people. On Sunday, June 21, Chazaq held a special double-header, featuring a shiur by Rav Moshe Meir Weiss at Congregation Nachlas Yitzchok in Kew Gardens Hills and a shiur (in Russian) by Rabbi Michael Gitik in Forest Hills. Both lectures inspired their respective audiences to strive further in all aspects of personal growth. Aside from all the wonderful Chazaq lectures, Chazaq’s teen division was in full force throughout the month. The boys and girls had their respective sessions focusing on overcoming the challenges of the summer months. Dozens of students have signed up to local and sleep-away camps, and a handful have also registered for yeshiva for the coming school year. The older girls who completed their course on reading lashon ha’kodesh also celebrated their first siddur party! Special thanks go to all the community members for their support of Chazaq’s programs. All the chizuk of the past month is thanks to their support. May Hashem grant them brachah v’hatzlachah in all that they do.

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Left to Right: Lawrence-Cedarhurst American Legion Post #339 Members with Adjutant Al Landi, Frank Ruggio Capital One Bank, Mayor Benjamin Weinstock, Ronald Spirn of Law Offices of Ronald Spirn, Bob Block of Cedarhurst Business Improvement District, Trustee Myrna Zisman, Deputy Mayor Ronald Lanzilotta Sr., Trustee Ari Brown, Trustee Israel Wasser, and Village Administrator Salvatore Evola

“Tonight begins a summer-long celebration – a tradition in Cedarhurst,” announced Mayor Benjamin Weinstock, as he initiated the 2015 Tuesday Night Concert Under the Gazebo. This year’s summer concert series promises entertainment for people of all ages. The first concert was kicked off with award-winning magician DiDi Maxx. She mesmerized children and parents alike with her illusions featuring props, swords, and balloon animals. This outstanding performance was

a great opening for the 20-piece Swingtime Big Band. Toes were tapping and fingers were snapping as the band played old swing favorites and classics from the Great American Songbook. The pavilion served as the perfect dance floor. Children hearing the tunes for the first time twirled alongside couples revisiting their youth. Over 60 benefactors contributed to the 2015 concert series including the opening night sponsors: TD Bank, Five Towns Mason Materials Inc., Capital

One Bank, Cedarhurst Business Improvement District, Jildor Shoes, Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream Shop, Lawrence – Cedarhurst American Legion Post #339, John F. Capobianco, Architect, and Law Offices of Ronald A. Spirn. Mayor Weinstock explained, “All of our sponsors play a vital part in making these concerts available at absolutely no expense to our taxpayers.” Mayor Benjamin Weinstock, the Board of Trustees, and public officials, along with our generous sponsors from

local businesses and corporations, are very enthusiastic about the rest of the lineup. The complete concert schedule can be found at www.cedarhurst.gov or at the Cedarhurst Village Hall on Cedarhurst Avenue. Spend some time on Tuesday nights at the park, and while you are there, we invite you to bring your children and grandchildren to enjoy our playground and water park. You will be happy you did!

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Around The Community Camp Avnet Campers Show off Their Brand New Jerseys Avnet, the Woodmere campus, would like to thank this year’s league sponsors for their team softball jerseys: • Warren Levy Martial Arts • Sharmel Caterers • Gourmet Glatt Emporium • Picture This Portraits by Ira Thomas Creations • Apple Bank for Savings • Tito’s Hair Stylist • Off the Wall • Traditions Eatery and, of course, • Sushi Tokyo, for the umpires’ jerseys.

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Informational Meeting for Sandy Victims Nassau County Legislator Howard J. Kopel, Supervisor Kate Murray, Senior Councilman Anthony Santino and Councilman Bruce Blakeman invite concerned Sandy victims to an informational session to learn how to obtain a review of their Sandy-related flood insurance claim. The session will be held on Tuesday, July 21 from 7-9pm at East Rockaway Village Hall, 376 Atlantic Avenue, East Rockaway, NY 11518. FEMA is mailing letters to 140,000+ Superstorm Sandy victims offering review of flood insurance claim. Kopel

and Town of Hempstead officials will have a FEMA representative and an insurance attorney at the meeting to explain the review process for all attendees. (NOTE: An attorney is not required for this process, but will be available at this meeting to help victims navigate this process.) If you have any concerns that your insurance claim was not properly handled or you have already received a letter from FEMA about this review process, please attend this meeting to learn how to best obtain a proper review.

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“Horseback riding was my favorite part of the day because it was cool to ride on the back of a horse,” said Yaakov Lubetsky. Campers also enjoyed the campwide carnival, having a great time on the myriad of attractions with friends. “The carnival was my favorite part of the day,” said Yoni Taragin. “I liked the giant water slide because it was humongous and a lot of fun to go down!” A foam pit, bubble ball race, cotton candy and basketball challenge were also part of the fun. To top off the incredible first day, campers had a blast at the late night swim activity, enjoying the new Jaffa Family pool. “It was tons of fun,” said Hillel Fried. “I passed the deep water test,” he added enthusiastically. Dov Klahr agreed. “Night swim was my favorite part of the day,” he said. “The

new water slide was a lot of fun.” From tennis and basketball to ropes and zip lining, campers had an awesome time on action-packed day two of their time in camp. “Kaylie Kids is amazing,” exclaimed Akiva Fried. “The activities are so much fun.” Campers started off their day with davening and chinuch, followed by intense basketball games and tennis matches. “Tennis and basketball were my favorite activities because they were a lot of fun,” said Hillel Fried. “The gym here is so nice,” he added. After sports, campers enjoyed the zip line, rock climbing and ropes course. “It was a lot of fun climbing and zip lining by the ropes course and rock climbing activity,” said Yaakov Lubetsky. Rafi Schick agrees. “My favorite part of camp is the rock climbing because it was a lot of fun and the zipline because we go really high and fast,” he said. The go-kart track and woodworking were also popular activities. “My favorite thing today was the go-karting because we were speeding really fast in the cars,” said Dovi Goldberg. Binyamin Schienfeld liked woodworking best and built his very own mini-gumball machine during the activity. “We made gumball machines today and they work really well,” he said enthusiastically. Kaylie Kids parents Lisa and Aaron from Maryland remarked, “Gabriel came home so excited, and we heard all the details about the amazing activities, the ruach, the beauty of the camp, and mostly the comradery amongst the boys. Gabriel is not a New Yorker, but he felt welcomed and part of the group. The counselors were attentive, he was comfortable in the camp, and overall

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told us what a great time he had! We look forward to his attending Camp Kaylie next summer!” Kaylie Kids is a great way for prospective campers and their families to

experience all that Camp Kaylie has to offer. The goal is to provide children an exhilarating time with the sensitivity that this is probably his/her ﬁrst overnight stay.

Around The Community Spirits are Flying for Ruach Campers

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Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, Commissioner Joe Esposito and his team from New York City Emergency Management, together with over a dozen other city and state government agencies, non-profits, elected officials and local civic associations, joined in a roundtable conference to discuss emergency storm preparedness ahead of the upcoming Hurricane season. The full-day event held on July 7 was the third and most comprehensive gathering in a series of roundtables organized by Goldfeder and the city agency and provided an open discussion into best practices and strategies in the wake of the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky to Share “Heroic” Stories with Children at the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library “Every Hero Has a Story” is the theme of this year’s Summer Reading Program and to help tell these tales, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky will be participating in an evening story time at the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. The program, which takes place in the Story Hour Room on Thursday, July 23 at 6:30 PM, is open to children ages 4 to 7. Youngsters may attend in their pajamas and bring a favorite stuffed animal. Because of limited space, in-person or

The Ruach spirit was flying high this week as we geared up for our Ruach Book of Records Day (our version of the Guinness Book). This event began several years ago, but many new names were documented for establishing new records. From hula hooping to running bases to fastest recitation of the AlephBet, the campers were set on a mission to get themselves into the Ruach Records Book. We sure do have a motivated group of campers! Another highlight of the week was our electrifying Neon party! Many of the campers dressed in bright neon colors, and everyone attended our fantastic party. Campers participated in a variety of activities, including “pin the neon postit on the counselor,” neon “volleyball,” and create your own wacky neon glasses. Throughout the day, campers had the

opportunity to take pictures in our neon photo booth. With our trip program in full swing, activities at Ruach Day Camp are never ending. Our conclusion to the week was a beautiful oneg Shabbat program.

phone registration is required. There will be songs, movement, and stories of everyday heroes read by Assemblyman Kaminsky. In addition, those who attend will receive bookmarks and reading calendars to encourage further summer reading. The Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library is located at 1125 Broadway, Hewlett. To register by phone or for more information, call 516-374-1967.

Rally for Peace Through Strength A massive gathering to prevent a nuclear Iran, entitled “Rally for Peace Through Strength,” will be held on Wednesday, July 22, at 5:30 p.m. at Times Square, 42nd Street and 7th Ave in New York city. The event is being organized by the Jewish Rapid Response Coalition along with over fifty sponsoring organizations. There will be a host of noted speakers, including Pete Hoekstra, former U.S. Congressman and Chair

of the House Intelligence Committee; Caroline Glick, journalist and author; and Paul Vellely , retired U.S. General and Chairman of Stand up America. According to organizer Jeff Wiesenfeld, “The Administration is prepared to give Iran effectively all that it needs to get to the bomb and to release 150 billion dollars which Iran would use to expand worldwide terror to untold proportions. We must speak out now.”

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the Library. Chef Tanabe was The library is assisted by his sous chef Laudesigned to engage ren who worked closely with entire families with a vast collection of Scott & Ilene Fagin of Traditions\Oasis Catering. Scott books, multimedia and Ilene did an outstanding activities, resourcjob preparing the chef’s siges, programs and nature dishes and a delicious creative outlets buffet for event attendees to that represent traenjoy. ditional Jewish The Library depends on values. It inspires its volunteers who have comvisitors of all ages mitted themselves to helpand backgrounds ing out in a variety of ways. to grow and interSome commit to helping out Sous Chef Lauren & Chef Katsuji with Lisa Hawk & Chanie Wolowik act together in a on a weekly basis, while othwarm environment ers give of their time to help out with nization and IRS recognized 501c(3) of discovery and learning. It is a place programs and/or fundraising efforts. charity that is primarily supported by children, teens and adults call their The Annual Summer Auction was a the community and transcends both very own. success due to the dedication of Com- school and shul mittee Chairs Sharrone Glick and Julie affiliation. In S u m m e r Feinberg and Creative Director Tzippy the past four Hours: Sunday: Perlstein of creativecopyTC who lent years, the Levi 11-5, Monday: their experience and expertise while Yitzchak Library 11-6, Tuesday: working tirelessly with the Library di- has grown to 2-7, Wednesday: 11-6, Thursday: rectors, staff and an incredible team of become an inteJeff & Meira Neckenoff 11-6. volunteers to ensure that the event is a gral part of our Levi Yitzchak Library’s Annual Chi- huge success. Jewish commuFor more innese Auction and Event. The evening The rooms’ decor was meticulous- nity, serving as formation or to was headlined by award-winning chef ly planned and executed by Tzipora a go-to place for learn about upKatsuji Tanabe who came in from Los Sax in perfect complement to the 47 learning and fun coming events, Angeles to tantalize and entertain over amazing auction packages which in- for all ages, all please call: 350 event participants with his unique cluded a Kosherica cruise for two, a in the merit of a European wig beautiful young (516) 374-BOOK by Jacquelyn boy who loved (2665) or email: International, a learning Torah info@lylibrary. MacBook Pro, and whose life org jewelry by the was cut short at Jeweler’s Wife, the tender age of and an Apple 9, Levi Yitzchak Chef Katsuji with Berel Wolowik of Gourmet Glatt Watch, all gen- Wolowik, a”h. erously sponsored. Jason Hagler and his Rapid Motion Te c h n o l o g y team, as well as Yosef Kramer who recorded the evening events, ensured Rabbi Zalman Wolowik with State Assemblyman Todd Kamnisky that everyone cooking style and clever wit. Chef in attendance had a good view of the Tanabe, half-Japanese and half-Mexi- cooking demo from every vantage can, was a winner on Food Network’s point. The evening was emceed by the Chopped cooking show and a runner one and only Aussie Gourmet, Chef up on Top Chef. Not kosher himself, Naomi Nachman, who did a fantastic Chef Tanabe wows his kosher patrons job at energizing the audience in her who flock from all over to his popular intro of Chef Tanabe and while the kosher restaurant, MexiKosher. Sup- winners were being drawn. porting this evening was event sponsor The Levi Yitzchak Library is an Gourmet Glatt, a staunch supporter of independent community-based orga-

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By Larry Domnitch and Dr. Paul Brody Join over fifty organizations in warning the world of the dangers of the nuclear Iran deal on July 22 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Times Square (42nd Street and 7th Ave.) in NYC, at the “Stop Iran Now Rally – For Peace Through Strength.” We say, “Never again” will Jews be silent. We speak of the inaction by major U.S. Jewish organizations in the late 1930s as the threat of Nazi Germany grew and during the horrors of the Holocaust. Will we be silent as well? Will the same sin be repeated? Following the release of the negotiated Iran agreement with the six nations, with a visible gaze of distress on his face, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a “stunning and historic mistake for the world.” He added, “Iran is going to receive a sure path to nuclear weapons. Many of the restrictions that were supposed to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons will be lifted.” We hear the news and gasp. How, over twelve years, has a deal morphed from the demand for dismantling of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program into one that allows Iran to maintain its nuclear program, without even a clear route for inspections? In Tehran, the extremists who took over the nation in 1979 are rejoicing as they burn American and Israeli flags and call for the destruction of the United States and Israel. So, too, the many proxies of Iran, like Hezbollah and Hamas, are celebrating. No doubt, North Korean leaders, whose negotiations with the U.S. allowed them to develop nuclear weapons, are laughing once again at the United States.

Nations who claimed to negotiate on behalf of the world community have lost their way. A rogue nation’s quest for the world’s most dangerous weapons has been validated. The lifting of sanctions will allow the greatest sponsor of global terror to intensify its heinous attacks. The administration promises that violations of the accord will reset the sanctions, but really, it would be like putting Pandora back into the box. Without “anytime, anywhere inspections,” how are violations to be discovered? The failure of the international community to stop a perilous threat occurred many times during the period preceding World War II. Nazi Germany arose when the world community, still weary from “The Great War,” was preoccupied and did not react when Germany invaded the Rhineland in violation of the Versailles Treaty in 1936. When months later, the Olympics were held in Berlin while persecution of Jews and political dissidents was in full swing. When the Nazis invaded Austria in the Anschluss in 1938, no nation stood in Germany’s path. The disastrous negotiations at Munich in 1938, when the Sudetenland was handed over to Hitler, followed years of capitulations. Although the Iran deal has been forged, it is not yet final. Congress has sixty days to approve or reject the deal. While President Obama has promised that he will veto any congressional rejection, a two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress can override the President’s veto. It is incumbent on each and every one of us to make that happen. Your attendance at the rally will send a powerful message to Congress and to the American people. Let your voice be heard.

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ing in this way, Hashem will act towards us with chesed. We see that the merit to be saved from the birth pangs of Mashiach requires us to involve ourselves in unique acts of chesed, taking chesed to a whole new level. The ultimate chesed is in marriage where we have a built-in opportunity on a constant basis to be there for one another, living with somebody else around the clock and having to do for our fellow in all three areas that the Chofetz Chaim mentions—physically, spiritually and with what we possess. Let us act with kindness to our spouse out of joy, appreciating this chance to actualize the character trait of chesed and through this may we merit to greet Mashiach.

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The Gemara in Sanhedrin says that R’ Eliezer’s students asked him what a person can do to save himself from the birth pangs of Mashiach. The Chofetz Chaim asks if it can be that R’ Eliezer’s students were not aware of the fact that all mitzvos serve to protect and save a person. Additionally, why did R’ Eliezer choose to mention two specific mitzvos? The Chofetz Chaim gives a parable of a fire. A small fire needs a little bit of water to extinguish it. A larger fire requires more water to put out the flames. By the time of Mashiach Hashem’s attribute of justice will be very much at the forefront, so only the two mitzvos specifically mentioned by R’ Eliezer will be powerful enough to combat the strict judgement that we will be facing. The Chofetz Chaim, in his sefer Ahavas Chesed, explains what chesed is all about. If a person has a chance to do something for a friend, whether it’s with his physical self, within a spiritual context, or with his possessions, he is obligated to do so and look after the friend like he would look after himself. By act-

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The Life of Mrs. Harriet Keilson a”h By Rabbi Dovid Fleischmann

his past Shabbos, Far Rockaway, Lawrence and the Five Towns lost a pillar of the community, a pioneer and promoter of the development of its rich Jewish life. Mrs. Harriet Keilson, beloved wife of noted activist and askan Lloyd Keilson, returned her soul to her maker at the age of 68. Although I, as a son-in-law, am not capable of truly encapsulating her life and achievements in writing, based on the stories heard from her and her children I will attempt to give a glimpse of who she was.

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Born to her parents Rosa and Jack Bodner, Harriet lived in Washington Heights until she was 11 years old. Her father was a World War II veteran who met her mother while on duty in Italy. Rosa Weiss was one of six girls and one boy who grew up in Fiume, Italy. When war broke out, most of the family fled to Switzerland. Jack and Rosa married in Trieste, Italy, shortly after the war, and settled in the USA. Most of the Weiss siblings followed “Rosie” to these shores, and though the last of the siblings passed on recently, their children and grandchildren remain connected till this day. During her childhood Harriet developed a close relationship with her paternal grandmother Bubby Becky, who lived in her parents’ home. A strong woman with ideals forged in a world lost forever, she conveyed to her offspring a feeling of the Yiddishkeit of the last generation. In those early years Harriet even shared a bed with her. Later, Harriet attributed her sensitivity and conviction to aspire for spiritual growth to her close connection to her grandmother. She internalized all that she witnessed, and tried to emulate her in many ways. When Harriet was eleven, her family moved to the Far Rockaway community where they joined the Kneseth Israel congregation, now known as The White Shul. At Harriet’s levaya, Rabbi Pelcovitz shlita recalled that his daughters were friends with Harriet, and one even celebrated her birthday a few days apart from her. Rabbi Pelcovitz remained closely involved with Harriet and her family, proudly recalling how instrumental he was in the establishment of the home she created with Lloyd, officiating at their wedding in the pavilion outside the shul. He even went so far as to suggest that the home’s ultimate success can be traced to the blessing he imparted to the young couple from the depth and honesty of his heart. Indeed, the couple cherished their relationship with Rabbi Pelcovitz throughout their marriage; he officiated at their bechor Avi’s wedding as well. Harriet Bodner attended HILI for eighth grade and high school, catching the eye of a classmate – Lloyd Keilson – who pursued her relentlessly, even winning the approval of her discerning fa-

ther. In their senior year, the two were in fact yearbook editors. Incorporating HILI as a part of their eternal history, Lloyd proposed to Harriet on the basketball court of their school. (As a fascinating addendum to the narration of this period of her life, fifty years later the couple planned and coordinated a reunion for their graduating class on June 6, 2010 at the HILI campus, now home to Yeshiva Darchei Torah.) In school, Harriet was known as a social and friendly girl, outgoing and lively, a magnet to friends and strangers alike. She was an ardent photographer, developed her own pictures and amassed a roomful of evidence of her memories. Harriet was always on the cutting edge of technology, updating her computer skills as technology advanced. She gave computer classes and sold computer programs from her home. She played on the HILI basketball team and was an avid tennis player. A plaque in her kitchen summed up her sentiment, “Tennis forever, housework whenever.” After their marriage, the couple settled in Forest Hills as Lloyd participated in the semichah program of Yeshiva University, while attending law school at night. This left the financial development of their new home in the hands of his wife, Harriet. Harriet worked as a computer programmer for Equitable Life Insurance, working to sustain the home and pay the bills to enable her husband to follow his dreams. Lloyd eventually received his rabbinic ordination from his Rebbe, Rabbi J.B.

With their children and grandchildren

Soloveichik. The couple moved to Sage Street in Far Rockaway shortly after the birth of their firstborn, Avi, who was followed in succession by brothers Tzvi, Dovi and Yair. The four boys matured under the keen eye of their mother, who developed each one according to their own unique abilities. They displayed extraordinary talent in their musical abilities, and with her encouragement, they even produced numerous albums under the label, “Achim”. She was extremely proud of her boys, especially their zemiros at the Shabbos table when they sang in unison, beautifully harmonizing with each other. The boys were followed by a sister, Rachell, named after Harriet’s mother who had

passed away just a few years earlier at the age of 52. Harriet was extremely close to her mother and her sudden death left a searing pain in her heart for the rest of her life. Lloyd and Harriet were among the first to move to their present neighborhood, pioneering the move eastward from Far Rockaway to Lawrence. In those days, Lloyd and the boys had to walk twenty minutes to shul as there was no local neighborhood shul at the time. As their children grew older, Lloyd became very involved in their school, Yeshiva Darchei Torah. Together with Yisroel Bloom zt”l and R’ Mendy Goldberg, he was instrumental in bringing Rabbi Bender to the yeshiva. Though he was simultaneously building his business, which involved long days and nights, he nevertheless undertook many projects and initiatives on behalf of the school, as well as other community affairs. This left Harriet to raise her children virtually on her own. She good-naturedly described her life as being a single parent, referring to her children’s relationship with their father as having a “Shabbos Abba.” Harriet herself was also instrumental in the development and endurance of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, the institution that her sons attended and thrived in. As Lloyd was active as chairman of the board for many years, Harriet invested her energies in the Women’s League, founding and running many projects to alleviate the financial stress of the growing institution. She ran a “Silver Show” selling gold and silver, with all proceeds given to the Yeshiva, produced the Darchei calendar, and ran the Chinese Auction. Additionally, she sold plants and flowers for Shavuos using the profit to purchase toys for the preschool. Life in Lawrence was put on a happy pause in 1988 when the family went on sabbatical to Eretz Yisroel and experienced Israeli life. Harriet and

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Lloyd had purchased an apartment in Har Nof, relished in discussing with her children and grand- her and soothing her, as they sang songs by her and the two spent a year immersed in Torah, with children the beauty of the world around her, initiat- request. Amazingly, she joined them in song from Lloyd attending shiurim at Aish Hatorah and Har- ing them in their quest to find yad Hashem in their amidst her delirious state, singing the words “Barriet participating lives. Although chi nafshi es Hashem” and “Ein anachnu maspiin various Torah she suffered from kim lihodos lecha Hashem.” After saying Amen classes as well. numerous medical to her daughter Rachell’s Birchas Hashachar, Eventually, they conditions which on Shabbos July 11th, she took leave of her fambought a home required constant ily encircled by the singing children she was so in Bayit Vegan, monitoring, she al- proud of. At the moment of yetziyas neshama where they spent ways took note of her children cried Shema Yisroel and Hashem Hu almost every yom all she had to be Ha’elokim, escorting her to the Next World with tov thereafter. They purity and holiness. thankful for. shared their love Harriet enjoyed for Eretz Yisroel attending and liswith their children During the period of her illness, my mother-intening to shiurim and many started from local rab- law worried about her legacy, afraid that her chiltheir married life in banim, as well as dren and grandchildren would eventually forget that very house. shiurim by Esther her. As I’ve described above, her impression on Harriet was Wein. But most of her family is deep and eternal, and in fact, there proud of her chilall, she enjoyed is no need for her to have worried about its endurdren and their hearing her son ance. Still, I’d like to conclude this article with a achievements, and Dovi’s vaadim, story that my mother-in-law told many times. It Harriet a”h and her husband, Lloyd, ybc”l appreciated their which he delivered describes how the Keilsons first got involved with spouses’ suitability and recorded in Yeshiva Darchei Torah, and it is a testament to her for each one. She was extremely close to each of Yeshiva Darchei Torah where he serves as mash- conviction and its impact on the family’s destiny. her children which is evident from the fact that giach. It gave her immense pride to see her son My in-laws, in fact, had not been planning to each chose to live within walking distance of her surrounded by high school boys soaking in his enroll their children in the fledgling new school in home. She was an integral part of her children and words of Torah and mussar. At the levaya, Rabbi the neighborhood. Their background and upbringgrandchildren’s lives. Her grandchildren meant Bender attributed Dovi’s emunah and tzidkus to ing would have steered them to some other local the world to her, and before falling asleep each the lessons he imbibed from his mother. A friend institution. One day, my mother-in-law walked night, she would recite their names in age order. whom she noticed reading secular novels was ad- through the halls of that new yeshiva and heard the Every simcha in the family was a highlight, as she monished with her classic soft and eidel way. This children singing with their rebbe, joyously prodelighted in being surrounded by her children and woman took heart and those words were an impe- nouncing the words and sounds of the Aleph Bais. grandchildren. tus to her spiritual growth. She now runs her own Hearing their sweet voices she knew she wanted Despite her myriad interests and talents, her seminary and attributes her achievements to those her children to attend that yeshiva, Yeshiva Darchei Torah. friends and family remember her for her achieve- words long ago. We might say that the levaya, held in the study ments of a different kind. She was known for posHarriet was a close friend to many, easy to talk sessing a lev tov, a good heart, always finding the to, always offering a sympathetic ear or a word halls of that yeshiva, was the closing of a circle. good in others and her encounters with them. As of advice to her relatives and friends. Her cousin, Harriet’s vision lives on. One can come any day of the year to those her son Avi, an accomplished lawyer, relayed at Sima Krischer, rehalls and hear the the funeral, his mother “always built up the good lates that although same Aleph Bais qualities we possessed, and minimized the bad.” Harriet was “just” being sung by He described his mother as being his best friend a cousin, she the rebbe, with throughout his life, remarking that his long daily served the roles the same joy, the commutes to his jobs always featured a lengthy of mother, sister, same exuberance. schmooze with his mother. He and other maspi- and friend. Harriet One can come any dim described her parenting method as chanoch shared a special day and observe l’na’ar al pi darko, finding ways for each of her relationship with the bais medrash children to achieve and excel. The Rosh Yeshiva each of her grandpacked with young of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, Rabbi Bender, attrib- children, acting as men ignoring the uted the success of her children and grandchildren bubby as well as frivolities of the to her input and careful involvement and direc- friend. She patientoutside world, fotion. Rabbi Bender noted that Harriet and Lloyd ly spoke to each on cusing on the words initiated and facilitated the Benders’ move to Far their own level, of Hashem, disRockaway, recalling how Harriet even looked at reveling in their Harriet with two of her granddaughters cussing and arguing their present home together with his wife when wit and personality intently while joythey were in need of a new home. Her grandson, as they grew older. Shlomo Keilson, a student in Yeshiva Heichal Harriet was diagnosed with cancer in August ously singing the words of Torah. But nowadays, Dovid, YDT, representing the grandchildren, de- 2013. Her son, Yair, by now a doctor of oncol- among those men and boys are her own grandchilscribed his grandmother’s ayin tova, always see- ogy, headed the charge as she fought the disease dren. And chief among those rabbeim who mold ing the positive in others, her experiences and ev- assisted by Doctors Carrey, Dottino, Bashevkin young boys to Torah true men is the mashgiach, ery situation. and Hirschfeld. Although she confronted the de- her son Dovi. Wherever life will take her progeny, Harriet’s sincerity and honesty in her avodas bilitating treatments with a heart full of faith, the the legacy of their matriarch will lead them in the Hashem was well-known to her family and friends. illness recurred the next summer. Harriet accepted path she chose for them that fateful morning. Harriet Keilson, a”h, is survived by her lovHer day didn’t start before she davened slowly, us- the news with her well-known grace and belief. ing a large siddur and a shtender, and didn’t end Instead of questioning her fate, she recognized ing husband, Lloyd; her brother Allan Bodner of before she recited krias shema al hamitah and all the good Hashem provided and showered her Oceanside; her sister, Miriam Chait of Far Rockaway; and her children Avi, Tzvi, Dovi, Yair, Rachhamapil. She recited asher yatzar with great con- with, throughout her life. centration. Her days were filled with recognition During her last weeks, as she was confined to ell (Fleischmann and their spouses.) May her leg of Hashem’s hand in her life and in nature. She her bed, her children surrounded her, singing to acy be a light for them forever.

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The Trustees, Executive Board, Administration and Staff of

Bnos Bais Yaakov and Tichon Meir Moshe High School mourn the loss of

Mrs. Harriet Keilson v”g

beloved wife of our grandparent and invaluable friend

Mr. Lloyd Keilson u”hv and beloved mother of

Mr. Avi Keilson, Mr. Tzvi Keilson, Rabbi Dovie Keilson Dr. Yair Keilson and Mrs. Rachell Fleischman Harriet Keilson, together with her husband Lloyd, was a longtime supporter of BBY/TMM. The impact of their guidance and stewardship over the years will be felt by our students for many years to come.

May the family know of no more Tza’ar.

ohkaurhu iuhm hkct rta lu,c of,t ojbh ouenv

“Think Positive and Thank Hashem for Whatever He Throws Your Way” BY SHOSHANA SOROKA

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hen one looks at the Five Towns today one sees a vast oasis of Torah Jewry ensconced in a comfortable level of material success. It’s no wonder that this neighborhood has become a prime location for frum Jews from all communities to settle and raise their families. But the Five Towns wasn’t always so large. A mere 50 years ago it was a fledgling small community which was considered “out of town.” The numerous mosdos, schools, shuls and organizations were mostly non-existent. So how did this community spring up as it did? Like every great community, it was the foresight, vision and hard work of community pillars: Dynamic rabbis. Well-trained educators. Smart businessmen. And, people like Harriet Keilson a”h. Harriet’s family moved to the Five Towns from Washington Heights when she was 11-years-old and she lived most of her life here. As a top student at HILI Academy (the school located on the current Yeshiva Darchei Torah campus), she had a classmate who graduated alongside her in elementary school and high school: Lloyd Keilson. As Mr. Keilson recalled at the levaya, “I pursued you like no person every pursued their beloved. Your parents were skeptical. I won them over sooner than I won you over.” Did she know that that boy was one of a kind? Did she see that that boy had unique leadership qualities which would make him one of the paramount leaders of this community? Did she see that this was the person who would become her partner in raising a vibrant, close-knit family? She must have. On July 3, 1968, Harriet Bodner and Lloyd Keilson were married under an outdoor chupah at the White Shul. Rabbi Raphael Pelcovitz, who was mesader kedushin at the wedding, noted in his hesped how he recalls the feelings of simcha that he had at the wedding. Not only were his own daughters friends with Harriet, but also, due to the small nature of the community, the entire shul felt like family with both the Bodner and Keilson families. “The brochos that I gave to them at that time were given ma’umka d’liba [from the depths of my soul]. They were brochos given with integrity, honesty of a heart overflowing with joy,” recalled Rabbi Pelcovitz. “I am so thankful to Hakadosh Baruch Hu for having had some type of chelek in their upbringing, in their growth, in their development.” Over the next 47 years, Lloyd and Harriet went on to raise an exceptional family of four sons, Tzvi, Avi, Dovi and Yair, one daughter, Rachell, and more than 30 grandchildren, k”ah. Even in the early years, while Harriet was laser-focused on raising her children, she already played a role in setting in motion events that would change this community.

Rabbi Yaakov Bender, shlita, who was originally brought to Yeshiva Darchei Torah by Loyd Keilson 35 years ago, recalled at the levaya how Harriet went house shopping with the Bender family and convinced them to purchase their home so that they can move from Flatbush to Far Rockaway. Rabbi Bender recalled how he used to go to the Keilsons every Friday before traveling back to Flatbush, not just to get a bite to eat, but to talk to Mrs. Keilson. He noted, “I could say unequivocally: probably fifteen to twenty thousand families have come through the Yeshiva since I’ve known her in the last 35 years and there wasn’t a finer baalas middos and baalas hashpa’a than her.” As Rabbi Bender pointed out, Harriet did not only play a role in establishing Darchei Torah, but as Lloyd’s wife she played a role in practically every other mossad in this community as well. “Out of her home came the leadership of this community,” he noted. Despite Harriet’s brilliance and various talents, she spent most of her days raising her family and being a homemaker. Everything was secondary to being a supportive wife, raising her children, and, once her children were married, being close to her children, children-inlaw and grandchildren. One of the most important crafts in the frum world is being mechanech our children. What were the keys to her success? As her children said at the levaya, her motto was “Chanosh la’naar al pi darcho,” educate each child in accordance with that child’s uniqueness, and she lived it to the fullest. As son Avi said during his hesped, “You encouraged each of your children and grandchildren to focus on our strengths. You recognized our weaknesses but you minimized them.” It’s no wonder then that she spoke to every one of her children every single day. Aside for seeing the uniqueness of each of her children and grandchildren, she also was exceptionally positive. As Mr. Keilson noted at the levaya, “She taught math and computers. She loved to attend local shiurim given by women. She loved Eretz Yisroel. But overall she loved people. She was the eternal optimist. She was sameach b’chelka.” Grandson Shlomo echoed that sentiment and noted, “Of all of her meilos: how she davened … attended shiurim, her ability to be misameach b’chelka was her most outstanding quality.” Her son Tzvi noted that her constant refrain was, “Think positive and thank Hashem for whatever He throws your way.” Perhaps it was this positive outlook on life that made her so endearing and loved by all. Not only was she beloved by her husband, children, over-thirty grandchildren, brother Allan and sister Miriam Chait who she

spoke to every day, she was loved by all who knew her. Over the past two years, as she battled her sickness, Harriet clung to her positive outlook, imparting lifelong lessons to her children, grandchildren and the entire community. Her grandson Shlomo recalled at the levaya that after a certain medical test came back with ominous results, he asked his brother Yosef, “How are Bubby’s spirits?” Yosef responded, “She’s Bubby. She’s always happy.” When her son Avi complimented her on her positive outlook despite a bad diagnosis, she responded, “Avi, It’s an avoda. I work on it all day.” Her happiness came from gratitude to Hashem and always being thankful for everything that she had. Son R’ Dovi noted, “There was one mantra—focus on the blessings that Hashem has given us.” One time when R’ Dovi was noticeably sad about her illness, Harriet said to him, “Don’t be depressed, just follow my lead. I’m not depressed and you shouldn’t be either.” R’ Dovi recalls how several weeks ago as the children and grandchildren sat around her bed singing to her, as they often did during her final months, she closed her eyes and said, “Thank you Hashem for the beautiful family that you have given me.” Perhaps sensing the situation, Harriet summed up her attitude on life the best when she noted the following in her diary after receiving her diagnosis: “I told my kids tonight, boruch Hashem I have had a good life. The past 66 years have been sensational. Not too many people have been blessed with all that I had: A good marriage, a loving husband who has made my life interesting, wonderful bright, caring, frum children who have been zoche to special spouses and of course, the crème de la crème, my bli ayin hara thirty grandchildren who live near me so that I feel part of their lives. Nobody has everything, I told my kids. Always look at what you do have, not what you don’t have. Count your blessings and be thankful always…” Summing up Harriet’s life and the mark that she left on her family and the Five Towns, Rabbi Pelcovitz noted, “Both Lloyd and Harriet realize that when you come to an eretz lo zarua, you don’t leave it unplanted. Look at what they planted wherever they lived. Look at what they planted right here where we stand in Yeshiva Darchei Torah. Look at what they planted in so far as the future doros are concerned. Look how they followed Hakadosh Baruch Hu in an eretz that may have been lo zarua but they planted and made sure that it should grow and flourish forever, until biyas goel.” That sentiment was echoed by Rabbi Bender who declared: “Hencha Hadasa bas Reb Yaakov helped build this city.” May she be a melitz yosher for her entire family, this entire community, and all of Klal Yisroel. 

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n a Tuesday evening in early June we drove and beautiful location in Israel. I daresay that Batya, For the boys the transition back to Israeli life was to Kfar Tikvah in Emek Yizrael to partic- who has made the trip out a few times herself, thinks seamless. They spent their days at Marag, the beauipate in its 50th anniversary celebration. the same. tiful day center in Kfar Vradim. The center houses The Kfar is situated just north of Yokne’am at the several workshops and a delightful cafe. Each boy end of Kvish 6. It sits on top of a hill from where found their niche. Laizer loved ceramics, Yonatan it commands a wonderful view of the surrounding became involved in the woodshop, while Dovi becountryside. gan working in the kitchen before joining the ceramIt is home to over 200 “challenged” individuals ic group. ages 20 and older who have never been part of the For thirteen years I didn’t stop speaking to them mainstream, who have been educated in “special in Hebrew. It has paid rich dividends for they easily schools,” and for whom a basic accommodation to converse in Hebrew today. the simple human interactions of life is a constant The country we returned to has changed in our and Sisyphean quest for acceptance. absence. For example, Ma’alot, the town we moved On the outskirts of the Kfar we chanced upon our to, is home to thousands of Russians. There are some youngest daughter, Batya, walking through KiryThe reason we love Kfar Tikva so much is be- sections of the city where you can hear it spoken at Tivon. Batya had bussed up from Yerushalayim. cause three of its members are our beloved sons, to the exclusion of all other languages. One of our Only Elisheva, our eldest daughter, and her family Dovi, Laizer and Yonamost delightful discovliving in Far Rockaway were missing. Feeling her tan. eries was finding a home absence we had someone take a photo of us and sent Although all our chilin the lower Galil, an it to her as soon as we arrived. dren were born in Israel, area we were not familFor an hour we wandered around the Kfar’s many in the summer of 2000 iar with. It is verdant, workshops. There is a candle making factory, an ol- Keren and I brought although not as rich in ive oil production studio, the bakery was serving them to New York. We cultural life as the center homemade delicacies, the ceramics studio had lately were looking to offer the of the country. produced a beautiful collection of pomegranates— boys opportunities they Some things never the fruits of its labor, a handmade pomegranate tree were lacking at the time change, however, particin the middle of the gardens—the cultural center was here in Israel. We stayed ularly the bureaucracy, showing video clips of the oldest residents, the mu- for thirteen long years. which is as annoying sic group played for us, and the Tulip winery that is The boys were weland maddening as ever. on the grounds was open for tasting. comed wherever they We have fought so many Aerial view of Kfar Tikvah It’s a Kfar in the true sense of the word. The feel went. The friendships agencies to get our boys of farm life is evident everywhere. The stable hous- they made in The Five the rights they deserve. es a horse and donkey and several friendly goats, Towns and Far Rockaway are still strong despite For every downside to the obstacles we have faced there’s a kennel that specializes in dogs whose own- our returning back home. For example, we worried with one agency or other there has been an ever presers are on vacation, pheasants that Dovi’s closeness to his ent upside, for we have always known that eventualand peacocks roam free, and a friend Jordan would make ly, one day, our three boys would be settled. new organic garden fertilized his return here difficult. For Keren and I, the boys’ departure has been from three large compost heaps Two years later they still emotionally difficult. Their constant presence over were showing the first growth of phone one another regular- the last 28 years followed by their rapid departure legumes and tomatoes. ly. from our home has at times found us lost. There’s less The Kfar is peppered with There came a time food to buy, less laundry to do, less banter around the small apartments that each house during our stay in New house. We feel as if we’re back to the infancy of our two residents who are provided York when we realized that marriage, which isn’t a bad thing; we consider it a with a wardrobe, a comfortable the only future for the boys fantastic opportunity to begin to experience our lives sitting area, and an ample bathlay back home in Israel. We together. Just the two of us. room. They also enjoy modern didn’t want them to spend We plan to do some traveling and go out more amenities like a refrigerator, the remainder of their lives often than we’ve been accustomed to till now. And if television and a computer conin New York. Two years we find the need to “chill” with our three wonderful nection. ago we returned. Keren sons, it’s good to know they’re just an hour away by Between the two of us, Keren and I were heartbroken to car. (my wife) and I have made at leave Elisheva and her famleast a dozen trips to the Kfar ily behind, but what is life P.S. Visit Kfar Tikva’s website at http://www. over the last two years. Somewithout the occasional sac- kfar-tikva.org.il/. times we make the hour journey rifice? Having them in New only to stay for a few minutes York is a constant reminder before returning home. For us it of the price our family has Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, lives in Ma’alot in L to R- Batya, Keren, Laizer, Yonatan, Rafi and Dovi Western Galil. He teaches in the local high school. has become the most important had to pay.

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EXTEND THEIR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES UPON THE LOSS OF

MRS. HARRIET KEILSON v”g BELOVED WIFE OF OUR DEDICATED SENIOR TRUSTEE

MR. LLOYD KEILSON y”jkch

MR. KEILSON HAS BEEN AN INTEGRAL FORCE BEHIND ACHIEZER SINCE ITS INCEPTION AND THE MASTERMIND BEHIND SO MANY MOSDOS AND YESHIVOS THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS LUCKY TO HAVE. MRS. HARRIET KEILSON WAS A LOVING PARTNER IN ALL OF THIS FOR SO MANY DECADES AND HER LOSS IS A DIFFICULT ONE THAT WILL BE FELT AND REMEMBERED FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. WE ALSO EXTEND OUR CONDOLENCES TO MRS. KEILSON’S DEAR CHILDREN:

AVI & ILANA, TZVI & PERRI, R’ DOVIE & RIVKY, RACHELL & R’ DOVID AND SPECIFICALLY TO

DR. YAIR & MILKA WHO HAS CONTINUED IN HER FAMILY’S LEGENDARY TRADITION OF BEING ruchm hfrmc exug, BY WORKING HERE AT ACHIEZER. IT IS OUR FERVENT TEFILAH THAT OUR COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE AND THE ENTIRE EXTENDED KEILSON-BODNER FAMILY EXPERIENCE NO MORE SORROW OR PAIN.

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Exciting Camp Feature! Back for a Second Year!

CAMP TORAS CHAIM By Brendy J. Siev

How are the Five Towns’ youngest residents spending their summer? Over the next eight weeks, we’ll be speaking to different local day camps to learn how their campers are spending their 104 days of summer vacation.

Camp Toras Chaim has a great reputation for specializing in the littlest campers. This week, we spoke with camp director Mrs. Sora Kamenetzky about some of the exciting goings-on at the South Shore. TJH: Camp Toras Chaim gives a great time to their campers. SK: You got it! We’re a preschool camp, focusing on boys and girls from ages 2 ½ to five. We were the first preschool camp in the Five Towns, and, b”H, we’re now in our 25th year. Campers can be enrolled from the time they’re going into nursery and transitioning into an organized day program or school, until they’re entering Pre-1-A (or kindergarten, depending on the school). Some parents actually have their children repeat the oldest bunk because they love the program so much! This year we had a turn-away crowd; we limited ourselves to seven bunks. Campers come from all over the communities: different hashkafos, different preschools. We represent a wide range of children from our community. For some kids, this is their first camp experience. Some may not even have gone to school. How do you

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Age of youngest campers in Camp Toras Chaim Summers that Camp Toras Chaim has been giving preschoolers fun

Smiling bunks This year’s theme: It’s DOUBLE the Fun!

They were here first! Camp Toras Chaim was the first preschool camp in the Five Towns

ease that transition? We have only experienced preschool morahs working in our camp. We have excellent camper-to-staff ratios. Each morah is handpicked for her warmth, her devotion, and her love of children. We provide a lot of supervision and a structured day that helps campers transition and understand what’s expected. They have a lot of fun and get very involved. The campers not only get a real camp experience here, but one that they can appreciate without getting overwhelmed. Sounds like a wonderful program. What’s this year’s theme? Like “big kids’” camp, we have a theme that changes every year. So many kids have gone to our camp that, each winter, people on the street start asking me about next summer’s theme! Even our campers’ extended families come by to give some input about what the upcoming theme should be. Last year’s theme was “Imagine the Fun.” Now, this year, we have “DOUBLE the FUN.” All the campers know this year’s theme song. They love it: it’s to the tune of “Fulfill Your Tefilah,” by Benny Friedman. What are some themebased activities? We’ve been focusing on twos, doubles, and pairs, because it’s Double the Fun! One week, we focused on twins. Another week, we focused on pairs—wheels, mittens, etc. This week, we worked on body parts that are double (eyes, ears, hands, feet).

We’ll be looking at opposites such as light and dark, and, during the Nine Days, we’ll focus on mitzvos that have two’s, like two signs that an animal is kosher, honoring two parents, neiros and challos. The children must love it! What are some unique activities that your campers enjoy? We bring in a lot of programs. This week, we had an amazing show involving all bunks. We brought in a “director” who brought his own props and costumes—all made from balloons! He directed all the children in a little play, the famous story where the rabbi advises a man complaining that his house is too crowded to fill the house with all his animals. The children filled the house, acting out different roles in the story. Then, as the rabbi advised them, they emptied the house of the animals. Eventually, our budding actors declared that the house was just right and spacious. We go on trips, though we limit ourselves to local ones so the campers won’t travel too much. We take them to Fun Station, bowling, and the Children’s Safari. We try to nurture the campers’ heart for Yaha-

You pack a lot into one day. So, tell us the secret: Did anyone unplug the moon bounce this year? Not yet. [Laughter.] And they never have. Seriously, we have a lot of supervision here.

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Sounds like the “pair-fect” activities! What’s a typical day like at Camp Toras Chaim? Campers arrive between 9:20 and 9:30 and go directly into a big room to meet their counselors. Then, they go to their bunks’ rooms for free play, followed by davening and circle time. They’re then ready for daily activities. These include options like sports, swimming, music, special activities, playground games, or gym time with bikes and balls. We provide lunch and encourage parents to send in a veggie or fruit snack for the morning. We also give the afternoon snack.

What’s the cutest thing a camper said this summer? Hmm...good question. They’re always saying cute things! But here’s one: On Bubble Day, the campers had a gum hunt. Then the counselors had a bubble gum blowing contest to see who could make the biggest bubble. The campers were totally excited, until one three year old stood up and stole the show. He declared, “That’s not so great. I can do that with my mouth!” And he started blowing bubbles.

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What are some of the creative projects your campers did this past week? Last week, during Twin Week, the campers made twin puppets. This week, we focused on parts of the body that come in pairs so we did foot painting! The children used their feet to make paintings of butterflies. They used their hands for bowling and made al netilas yadayim hand-washing cups.

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dus, davening, middos, and Shabbos. We have a Friday music teacher. We also have a big oneg Shabbos. We have a Shabbos party, and we bake. Then we have a special activity involving the counselors. The campers love it! Last week, a pair (Double the Fun!) of counselors stood next to each other while a third counselor wrapped them in toilet paper. The campers were delighted! During twin week, we had races pushing actual campers who are twins in double strollers. Then, the smallest counselors were pushed. Like I said, the campers loved it! During the Nine Days, we create a mitzvah book that we send home at the end of the week. Together we work on rebuilding the Beis Hamikdash. We have a fully-equipped building, gym, and playground. We do really great sports with our designated sports counselor. Our lifeguard teaches the children to swim or watches them while they engage in water play. And they love special days like Bunk Day, when they wear costumes and sing their bunk song for an end-of-day presentation.

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Yankel and Moshe are out one afternoon on a lake when their boat starts sinking. Yankel says to Moshe, “So listen, Moshe, you know I don’t swim so well.” Moshe remembers how to carry another swimmer from his lifeguard class when he was just a kid, so he begins tugging Yankel toward shore. After ten minutes, he begins to tire. Finally about 100 feet from shore, Moshe asks Yankel, “So Yankel, do you suppose you could float alone?” Yankel replies, “Moshe, please, this is the wrong time to be asking for money!”

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3. In 1983, this American League outfielder hit the first grand slam in All-Star history. Who was he? a. Fred Lynn b. George Brett c. Reggie Jackson d. Dave Winfield 4. Who is the first manager to win three consecutive All-Star games? a. John McGraw b. Casey Stengel c. Joe Torre d. Tony La Russa 5. Stan Musial, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron are tied for playing in the most All-Star games. How many did they play in? a. 13 b. 15 c. 17 d. 19 e. 21 f. 24 6. Since the year 2000, how many times has the National League won the All-Star game? a. 3 b. 5 c. 7

d. 9 e. 12 7. The first All-Star game was played in 1933 in what ballpark? a. Yankee Stadium, New York b. Municipal Stadium, Cleveland c. Comiskey Park, Chicago d. Polo Grounds, New York 8. Which of these sluggers never won the All-Star Home Run Derby? a. Ken Griffey Jr. b. Mark McGwire c. Sammy Sosa d. Jose Canseco 9. Why did the 2002 All-Star game ended in a tie? a. It was rained out b. Both teams ran out of pitchers c. There was a bomb scare d. Time constraints Answers: 1. C 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. F 6. A 7. C 8. D 9. C Scorecard: 7-9 Correct: You are an All-Star starter! (I guess you don’t play for the Yankees or the Mets) 4-6 Correct: You are an All-Star backup player… so if game goes into the 19th inning, maybe you’ll get to play for a few minutes. All three people who are still watching the game will get to witness this historical moment. 0-3 Correct: What are you, from Nigeria or something?! OK, we’ll do cricket trivia Comm Let the next week. issio

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Torah Thought Parshas Matot-Masei

he opening theme of this week’s double parsha/Torah reading, concerns itself with the laws of vows and verbal commitments. The Torah nevertheless introduces this subject by stating that these laws and values were transmitted to the heads of the tribes of Israel. Since these laws are binding upon the entire Jewish people and are clearly discussed and explained in the Talmud in the tractate of Nedar-

im, the question obviously is raised as to why the emphasis was placed on teaching these laws to the leaders of the tribes of Israel. Since they are binding on all Jews then why the special notation re-

garding the heads of the tribes of Israel? Over the centuries, the great commentators to the Torah have offered varied explanations and different comments regarding this matter. In our time when democratic elections take place on a regular basis and politicians are constantly running for office, I believe that we can understand a special relevance to Moshe’s first emphasizing these laws to the leaders of the tribes of Israel. Leaders have a tendency to speak in exaggerated terms and make exorbitant promises. We are witness to the famous excuse “that one sees when in office what one did not see when campaigning for that office.” Thus the intelligent citizen will always inject a note of skepticism regarding campaign promises, party platforms or policy pledges. The Torah views the spoken word as being sacrosanct. “What comes forth from one’s mouth should be honored and observed and implemented.” Since the

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tendency of leaders is somehow to be loose with promises, the Torah makes a special point of addressing these laws regarding verbal commitments to the leaders of the tribes of Israel. In general, the Torah always places special emphasis and importance on the spoken word. “Life and death are dependent upon the spoken word of the tongue.” In the Talmud we are taught which verbal commitments are legally binding and which are to be taken only as “words” without legal consequence. Nevertheless, the Talmud emphasizes that mere “words” even if not legally binding are of moral importance. In the times of the Talmud, one could publicly issue a harsh criticism of someone who did not stand by his or her word even if that verbal commitment was not legally actionable or enforceable. The highest compliment even in

today’s sometimes cutthroat economic world is that “so and so is a person of his or her word.” Exaggerations abound, negotiating positions are ploys and not to be taken seriously and yet even when we realize this, we are taken aback and disappointed when seeming commitments and spoken promises are ignored. There is an inner voice within us that demands that what we say should be what we mean and should be carried out effectively in behavior and action. This is true for all of us no matter what our circumstances may be. But it is doubly true for leaders and public figures whose words are taken seriously by their listeners and can have devastating effects when not honored or fulfilled. This is an important lesson for our current times and society. Shabbat shalom.

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hile a neder is a halachically binding vow, there are methods to annul it. For example, if a husband becomes aware of his wife’s neder and feels it is inappropriate, he can refuse it, rendering it not binding. This refusal can be done with or without her knowledge. The Torah states that if a husband refuses his wife’s neder, Hashem will forgive her. Rashi is bothered by the expression, “HASHEM will forgive her.” If a woman made a neder and her husband annulled it, there is nothing binding upon her. What does she need forgiveness for? Rashi explains that this is speaking of a case in which a woman made a neder, her husband overheard and annulled it, but she was unaware of it. In her mind, the neder still stood. If she then went and violated her neder, if she did that which she vowed not to do, even though her neder was absolved, she still needs forgiveness. This explanation seems difficult to understand. If, in fact, her husband successfully undid the neder, then it wasn’t binding. If so, she did nothing wrong. The question remains: what does she need forgiveness for? This is equivalent to a situation in which, for whatever reason, I decide to eat a cheeseburger. After finishing it, I find out that it wasn’t really a cheeseburger. Unbeknownst to me, someone switched the cheese for an imitation cheese product made of soybeans. The meat was kosher, and the fake cheese wasn’t dairy. The sandwich turns out to be kosher. In that case, I didn’t eat treif, and I shouldn’t need atonement. So too with the woman whose husband annulled her vow. Even though she may not have been aware of it, she didn’t violate her word, and she shouldn’t need forgiveness.

Two Elements to Every Sin The answer to this question is that there are two elements to every sin. The first element is the damage that it does to me. Hashem gave the Torah as the ultimate system of self-perfection. Each mitzvah is part of the program that helps

This seems to be the answer to question on Rashi. In the case of the woman whose neder was annulled, she was unaware that her husband undid it. In her mind, the vow still stood. So in her mind, what she was doing was forbidden. She was violating the command

Each mitzvah is part of the program that helps me grow and shapes me into who I will be for eternity.

me grow and shapes me into who I will be for eternity. On the flip side, each aveirah damages me. Each sin has been singled out by the Creator as containing the ingredients to both impede my spiritual growth as well as to directly damage me. We may not recognize the adverse affect of eating forbidden foods, but they leave an indelible imprint. The Gemara tells us that treif foods deaden the heart. When I consume them, it becomes more difficult for me to experience Hashem’s presence. Treif foods make it more difficult for me to feel Shabbos. They make it harder for me to experience another Jew’s pain. For that reason, Hashem forbids us to eat them and warns us against them. That is the first element to every sin — the direct damage it has on me. But every sin has a second element to it: I was commanded by my Creator not to do it. Hashem created me, maintains my existence, provides my sustenance, and watches out for my best interests 24/7. That alone is reason enough for me to obey Hashem. However, even if Hashem wasn’t as involved in my life as He is, just the fact that the great King of Kings, the Master of the Universe, has commanded me in something obligates me in it. Whether I am aware of the reason or not, whether there is a reason or not, if the King has commanded me in a given action, I am obligated to fulfill it. If I violate the will of the King, that is considered an audacious act.

of the King. Granted, she got lucky, and the actual damage of the sin wasn’t there, but that’s only because the essence of the neder was gone. She still acted against what she understood to be the King’s command. She showed disregard for the King’s wishes, and for that, she requires kapparah. This concept has great relevance to us. Many times we take the attitude that mitzvos are good things to do because they benefit and help us. Much like eating well and exercising, we see mitzvos as things that we really should do. And while that is true, there is an entirely different dimension to our fulfilling mitzvos, and that is that we are commanded in them. The word “mitzvah” comes from the root “command.” Mitzvos aren’t suggestions, and they’re

not recommended procedures. We are obligated. I don’t have that prerogative when it comes to mitzvos. Even though Hashem gave them to me for my growth and my good, I didn’t choose the program, nor was I given the right to opt out. Whether I like it or not, Hashem has put me on this track of success. Whether I am pleased with it right now or not, the King has commanded me in the various activities that are for my good. Hashem commanded us in activities and a lifestyle that is for our benefit, and even if we don’t fully recognize their value and preciousness now, there will come a time — whether in this life or perhaps only when we leave this earth — that we will recognize the extraordinary value and preciousness of every mitzvah. Then, we will thank Hashem for putting us on the track towards greatness. For that reason, Hashem commands us to keep the mitzvahs — with the understanding that at some point we will be eternally grateful for the great opportunity called life.

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The Truth about Getting High

hen I was deciding what I could bring my daughter for visiting day, I realized she had plenty of junk food. She had reading material (including a copy of my book, though she lent it to her counselor to read), and she had tutus and suspenders and funky accessories. I tried to think of something we could enjoy together. I remembered how much fun we’d had flying a kite and thought that might be something I’d bring. I didn’t end up finding one, but it did get me to thinking about it. When people are flying kites, there’s a certain aura of excitement around them. People stand around and look at them high up in the air, dancing in the atmosphere, and are a bit awestruck. Now, when you start to fly a kite, it’s not so pristine. First of all, the kite has to be aerodynamically-designed to get lift. Some designs are easier to get off the ground than others. It’s not enough to just cut a shape out of cardboard and tie a string to it. I know, because I tried it when I was younger. Once you’ve got a kite that’s made for flying, you have to give it enough string to be free to rise, but not so much that you can’t get the necessary tension for liftoff. Now for some artificial wind.

Taking one end of the string, you start running, creating airflow and hopefully lifting the kite up in the air. If the kite is angled incorrectly, it will end up thudding along the ground as if bouncing unceremoniously on its head. Instead of going up, you’ve arranged for it to go down. Let’s fix that and rearrange the

and start enjoying the admiration of the crowd that has most likely gathered to watch your success. And this, my friends, like nearly everything else in this world, is an analogy for life. We’re all kites. Some of us are a little more cut out for speedy takeoff, and some of us need a little more work.

And here comes the glorious moment of the flight… flight path. Ah…now you’ve got it going up in the air. You need to let out more string. Wait! Not so fast. If it isn’t taut, the kite will flounder, lose its heading, and crash to earth. That’s it, a little at a time. And here comes the glorious moment of the flight… The kite has now reached an altitude at which the updrafts and wind seventy-five, a hundred, or two hundred feet high work to keep pressing it higher. It suddenly becomes easier to fly the kite. Now you’re not running with it anymore. Instead, you’re keeping a close eye on it and making little adjustments as necessary. Pull the string a little here, give it a little more leeway there,

Which way we’re headed is important because if our goals are not properly directed, we’ll end up ignominiously bumping our heads on the road of life. We can’t be let loose because it’s precisely the tension and resistance, whether in the realm of refining our middos and character traits or maybe fighting our natural tendencies when it comes to performing mitzvos, that lift us up and help us go higher. On the other hand, we must be given enough room to grow and not be kept on such a tight leash that we can’t catch the wind under our wings to fly. If we’re too tied down, we’ll never get off the ground. And now comes the secret you’ve

been waiting for; the truth about getting high. You see, once you get above a certain level, it gets easier! That’s right. When you rise to a sufficient height in your self-refinement that you’re now surrounded and supported by others at that altitude, you don’t have to work as hard. If you’ve been working on proper speech, not being negative or cynical, not using vulgarity or gossip, you’ve likely migrated towards a circle of friends who are like-minded. Together, you each share the burden of watching your tongues and you lift each other so it’s easier to maintain your lofty state. And repetition helps too. For exam-

ple, when I first started listening to Torah lectures in the car, I could handle it for a few minutes but then I needed some music or news. However, as I continued to listen, I was able to enjoy it for the full commute. It got to a point where if I didn’t put on the Torah CD, I’d feel like something was missing. That was the benefit of Mr. Kite: that when we’re uplifted, we have Hashem’s assistance to keep us upwardly mobile. So, when life sometimes feels like a struggle, like you’re banging your head and getting nowhere, adjust your attitude and direction, give it another shot, and pretty soon you’ll be flying high. Oh, yeah: and then everyone will stand around and marvel at your success. Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English. E-mail info@JewishSpeech Writer.com and put Subscribe in the subject.

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we knew when we left the camps, it was that what we are and what we want to be cannot even remotely resemble what the Germans have chosen to make of themselves. This is not unique to the Holocaust, but rather is what has prevented us from disappearing into Babylon, Spain, or Greece. In each instance we rediscovered ourselves by facing the mirror and rejecting the image that we once thought was our own, knowing now beyond a shadow of doubt that it is not our image, nor it will ever be.

On that day, G-d made a covenant with Abram saying, “To your descendants I have given the land.” (Genesis, 15:9-18) G-d is telling Abraham that there are two ways that our identity will be preserved. One way is through the sacrificial offerings. It isn’t necessary to view sacrifices as archaic. The Hebrew word for sacrifice, “korban,” literally means an object that brings something close. The animal self within us (and let us be honest, we have quite a menagerie tucked away in our psyche) can distance us from G-d by making us less and less aware of the part of us that is real, enduring, and ultimately most genuine – our spiritual selves. The way the animal self was uplifted during the time of the Temple was actually through touching and offering an animal that was, in a certain sense, our twin, and letting the experience change us. Today, we uplift our inner selves through prayer, and the outer world through mitzvot (observing G-d’s commandments) that involve our relationship to our animal selves. Mitzvot like the laws of keeping kosher, take us along Abraham’s path of seamless devotion to G-d, uniting the physical and spiritual worlds. Suppose we opt out? Free choice is never removed. But G-d will not allow us to choose, as a nation, spiritual oblivion. We will be exposed to beastly empires. The German wolf was no mascot. It was a symbol of everything German. We will suffer, be enslaved, and find alienation where we yearned for acceptance. “Your descendants will be foreigners in a land which is not theirs....they will be enslaved and oppressed.” We have lived out this prophecy in Egypt (the first exile, and prototype of all future editions), in Babylon, Greece, and Rome. While these names seem distant and dusty, they are underpinnings of the civilizations that have attacked us with bestiality that almost defies words. What words are there in human vocabulary that described what happened in Auschwitz, in Treblinka, in Eastern Europe? In York where a castle was burned along with the Jews hiding inside? In Spain where they burnt people at the stake for the crime of being Jewish? We have not disappeared from the map. We have emerged from each confrontation with the vulture that seeks to consume us, shaken but alive. Whatever else

he month of Av is the time in which we confront this aspect of our history. The astral sign of the month is the lion. It symbolizes our encounter with raw force. Interestingly, the first day of Av is the anniversary of the passing of Aaron, Moses’ brother, who was known as the ultimate man of peace. What this tells us is that that although we may currently be distant from G-d and from our higher selves, ultimately there will be the peace that He envisioned; peace that is based on the emergence of our higher selves and the part of us that is man not beast. Nothing can be further from this than the peace based on mutual fear that is all we can realistically aspire to if we see the current war in Israel without its historical frame. The Talmud tells us that the Messiah will be born on the 9th of Av. This is the day in which both Temples were destroyed, the Spanish expulsion of the Jews took place, and World War I, the “parent” of World War II, broke out. What this tells us is that the same covenant that promises suffering, promises redemption. They are two sides of one coin—labor and birth. We may never allow ourselves to forget what we have suffered. The fact that G-d is committed to never allowing us to disappear does not exonerate those who have perpetrated history’s worst crimes against us. Their intentions were evil, their choices were made consciously, and most significant of all, their bestiality knew no bounds. We must also not allow ourselves to forget who we are, and why we have survived. We are G-d’s people with a mission to fulfill Abraham’s covenant. We aim towards living seamless lives, elevating the physical, and having faith in G-d. The fact that we are here at all in the 21st century, that we have not forgotten who we are, and that we are committed to continuing to live out our covenant is nothing less than a miracle. The 15th of Av was a time of joy. In ancient times it was a day in which marriages were arranged, and new beginnings celebrated. It was a time in which we began again, expressing not just who we don’t want to be, but who we can be. May this Av bring us joy, fulfillment, and consolation.  Reprinted with permission from aish.com.

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y every measure the Jewish month of Av is tragically unique, one in which the worst disasters in our history took place. Disaster is no stranger to us. In many ways it is part and parcel of G-d’s covenant with Abraham. When Abraham was told that his people would be chosen, G-d told him that there would be a price to pay. What is that price? One look at Jewish history tells us two pieces of information that make us unique. One is that we don’t disappear because we recognize that we are a people who are united in what the Vilna Gaon would refer to as “rectifying ourselves and rectifying the world.” The other is that the when we try to disappear, the results have been disastrous. Abraham was a seeker. His search took him far beyond his one land, and even further from the assumptions that virtually everyone else in the entire world had about life. To Abraham, G-d was not only in the heavens, but very much here in the earth, with us. Abraham integrated the world of thought with the world of action. While other religious thinkers at the time would be deep in meditation, Abraham was chopping vegetables and serving platters of food to his innumerable guests. He was not a glorified version of Conrad Hilton of the ancient world. What did Abraham have in mind? Abraham believed that the world of thought, emotion, and action were never meant to be fragmented into three autonomous worlds, out of touch with each other. Life should be seamless. God promised him that his path would not disappear when he dies. He would father a nation, and they would preserve his heritage. When G-d promised him a future, Abraham had one question. “How do I know that I will pass on this inheritance?” Abraham did not doubt G-d’s power. He had followed G-d from Ur to Israel, Egypt, and back to Israel without ever once expressing the slightest reservation. He was concerned that his descendants might make choices that would in effect divorce them from their Creator. The fact that he was devoted, compassionate, and willing to make sacrifices was no guarantee that his children would not be self-centered materialists. After all, how many of us live lives that are really carbon copies of the lives of our parents and grandparents? In reply, G-d said: Bring me threefold heifers, threefold goats, threefold rams, a dove and a young pigeon. (Abram) brought all these for Him. He split them in half, and placed one half opposite the other. The birds, however he did not split. Vultures descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. When the sun was setting, Abram fell into a trance, and he was stricken by a deep dark dread. (G-d) said to Abram, “Know for sure that your descendants will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs for 400 years. They will be enslaved and oppressed... A smoking furnace and flaming torch passed between he halves of the animals.

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A Deal with the Devil World Powers Laud Nuclear Deal with Tehran as Israel Looks on in Horror BY SUSAN SCHWAMM

was lauded as “historic,” “groundbreaking,” “unprecedented.” It’s the deal of the century; the agreement that will cement peace in the Middle East and glorify President Obama’s legacy in the pages of history. Or is it? Many see it as the deal with the devil. They point out that the leopard doesn’t quickly change its spots. Surely, although the wolf is wearing Grandmother’s clothes we know that she has great big claws and pointy teeth. But shouldn’t we be giving the wolf a chance? Shouldn’t we allow her to prove to us how she’s changed, how she’s dedicated to a peaceful way of life? No, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserts, a deal with Iran is a “stunning historic mistake.” Not so, countered President Obama on Tuesday morning when the two-year-in-the-making deal was completed.

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two years the five permanent members of the United States Security Council, led by the United States, have worked on a pact with Iran to try to limit their proliferation of nuclear energy. Formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the 159-page document amounts to the most significant multilateral agreement reached in several decades. For years Iran has been subject to sanctions by the major players of the world. The sanctions stem as far as back as President Carter’s era when the United States froze about $12 billion in Iranian assets including bank deposits, gold and real estate during the Iranian Hostage Crisis. The economic squeeze continued and in 1984 sanctions were approved that prohibited weapons sales and all assistance to Iran. The Iran Sanctions Act is the basis of current sanctions against Iran. In 2013, members of Congress voted in favor of toughened sanctions against the Persian country. Money is always a wonderful motivator. Iran only came to the table in these negotiations with the governments of Britain, France, Russia, China, the United States and Germany in the desire to have crippling UN sanctions lifted on the Islamic Republic. As soon as the deal is implemented, Iran will have immediate access to its frozen assets. Banking activities will resume abroad. Full trade will essentially

resume. After five years, the arms embargo against Iran will end. After eight years, the missile embargo against Iran will end. Included in Iran’s commitments in the deal is the requirement on Iran to cap and partially roll back much of its nuclear infrastructure for ten to fifteen years and enable the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, access to monitor that program with inspections. Iran, though, will still be able to retain much of its nuclear infrastructure and will be able to enrich uranium on its own soil but has agreed not to work on technologies for the construction of a nuclear warhead. Newly developed electronic seals will physically cap much of Iran’s declared nuclear infrastructure. The IAEA will also use new, online enrichment measurements to monitor activity in the cascades of centrifuges Iran will be allowed to retain. 5,060 centrifuges, first constructed

“If a nuclear bomb explodes in London or New York, we know that we can trace it down to July 14, 2015.”

in the 1970s, will be allowed to be used to enrich uranium to a low grade at Natanz for the first decade of the deal. The Arak installation will be converted into an altogether new design, based on conceptual models of a peaceful plutonium reactor that still uses heavy water. Iran’s heavy water stocks— stored in “beer kegs”— will also be monitored. When will Iran receive full sanctions relief, including access to around $100 billion in frozen assets overseas? That day, known as “implementation day,” should be taking place within the next few months as long as Iran prepares to implement the agreed-to conditions: reduce its stockpile to just 300 kilograms of uranium hexafluoride, disconnect and remove some of its nuclear infrastructure, and neuter its heavy-water plutonium reactor at Arak. Ten years seems like a long time but in the history of nations and the world stage, a decade is a blip on the screen. By the year 2025, “breakout time,” Iran will no longer be subjected to many of these guidelines. For the next ten years, it will be prohibited from constructing an industrial-sized nuclear pro-

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day review period to scrutinize and nullify the deal. gram. The regime cannot produce the materials necsought to build a nuclear bomb, a claim world leaders essary for building a nuclear weapon without giving The administration has five days to certify the agreehave greeted with cynicism. Why make a deal with the world one year’s notice. But in ten years, officials ment and then formally present it to Congress with all a people who have failed to keep their promises and won’t have a say. The future of its nuclear program its details. 60 days from that point Congress has the who don’t engender credibility? will then be decided between the IAEA and Tehran— opportunity to voice its disapproval. the same IAEA that has been hoodwinked by so many But despite the president’s assurances that he will a better way to look at the other Middle East nabe listening to lawdivisive agreement is to see tions and by Iran hermakers’ concerns, on who was applauding when the deal was done. self. In Iran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said “a Tuesday he vowed to According to Tuesnew chapter” had begun in his nation’s relations with veto any resolution, esday’s agreement, the the world. sentially steamrolling IAEA will be moni“Today is the end to acts of tyranny against our over Americans’ appretoring Iran’s nuclear nation and the start of cooperation with the world,” hensions. “I will veto plants to ensure that he exulted. “This is a reciprocal deal. If they stick to any legislation that nuclear weapons are it, we will. The Iranian nation has always observed its prevents the successful not being produced. promises and treaties.” implementation of this But the agreements Indeed, Tehran is consistent with one thing: their deal,” Obama pledged. failed to set up a stanhatred of Israel, the United States’ major ally in the Congress can techdard of “anytime, Middle East. In fact, during last minute negotiations, nically override the anywhere” access that on July 10, the country celebrate Al Quds day in its veto, but it’s improbIranian Foreign Minister Zarif laughs out loud after the talks are done several members of usual fashion: burning Israeli and American flags and able it would be able the American Conshouting “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” to obtain the necessary gress had demanded. Rouhani himself joined in one of the rallies and did amount of votes for the Instead, if Iran objects to an IAEA request for an innot protest when he saw citizens burning posters of override. spection of a specific site, each side will be granted 14 Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Obama, and Senator Marco Rubio pointed out that Obama days to negotiate. If those 14 days pass without any King Salman of Saudi Arabia. gave “concession after concession to a regime that has resolution between Iran and the IAEA, the Joint Com“Another advantage of Al Quds Day 2015 was American blood on its hands, holds Americans hosmission would have seven days to advise them on how that it coincided with the final hours of Iran’s nuclear tage, and has consistently violated every agreement it to move forward. Iran would then have three days to talks because these talks are in fact the confrontation ever signed.” He said the deal “undermines our nabetween the Islamic Revolution of Iran and world arcomply with the commission’s final advice—24 days tional security.” By voting no, lawmakers will be tellrogant powers,” Ayatolafter IAEA inspectors initially requested access. ing Iranians—and the lah Mohsen Araki, SecMany have expressed concern over this clause in world—that the deal retary General of the the agreement. Giving a regime 24 days to prepare put forth is “Barack World Forum of Islamfor an inspection seems almost silly and downright Obama’s deal, not an ic Schools of Thought, naïve. agreement with lastsaid. Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett pointing support from the In Tuesday’s aded out, “We keep on hearing it’s a verifiable sanction United States.” dress to the nation, regime. In order to go and make an inspection you Secretary of State Rouhani concluded his have to notify the Iranians 24 days in advance. That’s John Kerry attempted speech by poking fun at a farce! Of course within the 24 days they’re gonna to stronghold Conthe Jewish State. “Toclean up the facility, get away with the inspections gress on Tuesday. “If day people in Lebanon Congress were to veto and go on with what they do. Imagine a police staand Palestine are happy the deal,” Kerry said, tion raiding a drug baron and giving him a month’s because Zionists have “the United States of notice,” he said facetiously. tried to block this deal America would be in what’s to stop Iran from continuing on its but failed,” Rouhani non-compliance with path to nuclear proliferation? Should the gloated. this agreement, and regime fail to comply with the tenets of the agree“Do not be deceived contrary to all of the by the propaganda of ment or with the commission’s requests, a majority other countries in the the usurper Zionist recan vote to refer the complaint to the UN Security world. gime,” he advised, addCouncil. A vote will be held to determine if sanctions “I don’t think Iranians burn posters with American and Israeli flags on Al Quds day, July 10, 2015 ing that “the Zionist relief should be kept in effect—and only one permathat’s going to hapstate has failed in its efnent member’s veto will be required to end it. Propen,” he continued. “I forts” to obstruct the deal and Iran’s nuclear program. ponents on U.S. soil have pointed out that sanctions really don’t believe that people would turn their backs Prime Minister Netanyahu has been the most vocould snap into place with just the wave of the United on an agreement which has such extraordinary steps cal world leader against the Iran deal, perhaps beStates’ pen, should the deal go bad. in it with respect to Iran’s program as well as access “If Iran violates the deal, all of these sanctions cause the small, democratic state that is surrounded and verification,” he warned. will snap back into place,” Obama lauded. “So there’s by enemies and is a target of Iranian venom has the Despite Obama’s warnings and threats of a veto, a very clear incentive for Iran to follow through, and most to lose. there is bound to be pushback from the American there are very real consequences for a violation.” “What a stunning, historic mistake,” the prime public and Congress over this controversial agreeThat’s a major argument put forth by the Obama minister said, stressing that Israel is not bound by the ment. Many see making a deal with Iran as a contraadministration in persuading the American public to deal. “We will always defend ourselves,” he added. diction. Indeed, the president has said that the deal see the benefits of this week’s agreement. Under“This cash bonanza will fuel Iran’s terrorism reached on Tuesday is not one based on “trust”; it’s standably, Congress has been giving the president worldwide, its aggression in region, and its efforts based on “verification.” Apparently, the Iranian remajor pushback on the deal. A few months ago, to destroy Israel, which are ongoing,” Netanyahu gime is not an entity to be trusted. Time and time Obama assured lawmakers that they would have a 60pointed out. Iran is a major supporter of anti-Israel again the Iranian leaders have insisted that they never

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groups in the area, including Hamas and Hezbollah. An influx of cash will undoubtedly bolster these terrorist groups. This is not the first time world powers endeavored to control nuclear proliferation. The last attempt was with North Korea, in which a system of inspections and verifications failed to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons capability. This deal with Iran will “repeat the mistakes” the international community made with the Hermit Kingdom. And when the ten years of prevention are up, an “unreformed, unrepentant and far richer terrorist regime” in Tehran will have the capacity to build an entire nuclear arsenal, Netanyahu predicted. Others in Israel echoed Netanyahu’s warnings. On CNN, Education Minister Naftali Bennett was ominous in his criticism of the deal. “If a nuclear bomb explodes in London or New York, we know that we can trace it down to July 14, 2015.” “This deal is a mistake of historic proportions. It effectively paves the way for Iran to become a terror nuclear superpower. The world is going to be funneling half a trillion dollars to the world’s biggest exporter of terror,” he said. The gloomy sentiment was reflected across party lines in Israel. “This is a regime based in deceit, and now they are going to do what they did for the last 20 years, which is trying to get themselves nuclear weapons behind the back of the world,” Yair Lapid, the head of the opposition Yesh Atid Party, related. “Now they are going to do it with the help of the international community.” Sadly, although Israel has been a staunch ally and an unrepentant holdout of democracy in the Middle East, the United States has yet to stand by her side, instead choosing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those who call for her destruction. “The fact is, is that he’s [Netanyahu’s] frankly been making comments that are way over the top,” Secretary of State Kerry said about Netanyahu’s foreboding messages. On the other side of democracy, Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded Tuesday’s deal and said that it brought the world “a sigh of relief.” Syria’s President Bashar Assad said the signing of a nuclear agreement is “a historic turning point” in the history of Iran and its relationship with countries of the region and beyond. He added that coming days will witness a

A done deal: Foreign Minister of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday

“strengthening of the constructive role played by Iran in supporting the rights of nations.” Iran has poured millions of dollars into helping Assad’s regime in recent years. A relief of sanctions for Tehran would translate into millions more for Assad’s reign of terror.

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the Iran deal was brokered in 2015, international powers have known about its nuclear capabilities for many years. In 2002, two covert facilities—a uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and a heavy-water plutonium facility at Arak—were discovered by Western intelligence agencies. These two facilities were built for the production of fissile material necessary for nuclear weapons, hardly a peaceful nuclear program. The following year, Britain, France and Germany

“Today people in Lebanon and Palestine are happy because Zionists have tried to block this deal but failed.” initiated talks with Iran. The efforts of E3, as the three powers were known, failed, and Iran arrogantly expanded its nuclear program despite several calls from the UN Security Council to halt enrichment completely. After 2006, Tehran belligerently refused to answer any of the IAEA’s questions about its nuclear programs and the UN Security Council imposed its first set of sanctions on Iran, including banning the sale of sensitive nuclear technology. By November 2007, the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges assembled by Iran reached about 3,000 from just a few hundred in 2002. Its stockpile of low-enriched uranium also grew, giving Tehran the capability to make enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb within a year. In 2008, the United States joined in talks with the P5+1 group which includes the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. In 2009, though, another covert facility—this one burrowed inside a mountain—was uncovered. The UN Security Council passed a total of eight sanctions resolutions against Iran by 2010. An oil embargo was implemented by the European Union, and Iran was cut off from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, better known as SWIFT, which

Obama tries to persuade the American public that the Iran nuclear deal is essential to world peace

made basic transactions a struggle for the regime. Talks between the world powers and Iran came in starts and stops over the past few years. Negotiations were halted for 15 months after Iran refused to make deep cuts in its nuclear program in January 2011. The next January the European Union froze the assets of Iran’s central bank and halted Iranian oil imports. But then, in April, negotiations restarted—and then stopped. In August 2013, Rouhani took over the reins of the nation and declared that his country was ready for serious negotiations. At the time, Iran had about 20,000 centrifuges and the United States estimated that the regime was only a few months away from nuclear weapons capability. The next month, talks began in earnest, with Rouhani and Obama speaking by telephone, the highest-level exchange between the two countries since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. November 2013 saw an interim agreement that temporarily curbed Tehran’s nuclear program and unfroze some Iranian assets. For the next two years, talks were started and then halted as deadlines were missed. Then in April of this year, a framework deal was announced. This week, on July 14, at the Palais Coburg in Vienna, world powers shook hands with Iran and celebrated a comprehensive nuclear agreement.

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on the State Floor of the White House alongside Vice President Biden, Obama told the nation, “History shows that America must lead not just with our might, but with our principles. It shows we are stronger not when we are alone, but when we bring the world together.” “Today’s announcement marks one more chapter,” he concluded, “in this pursuit of a safer, and more helpful, and more hopeful world.” When dealing with a rogue nation like Iran it seems like hope is the only answer. We can only hope that we are not giving Tehran a carte blanche endorsement of their nuclear program, as we hand them the keys to their deep coffers. Imagine a country with unfettered access to billions of dollars, the capability to build a nuclear bomb, and a burning hatred of the West and what is stands for. Soon, we won’t have to imagine that nation: Iran will be brandishing its new, legitimate status as we all look on with bated breath, hoping—yes, hoping—that the rogue state will keep to its promises. 

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All of Our Friends “There is no comfort from all of those who once loved her, all her friends have betrayed her, they have become enemies.” The Chovos HaLevavos adds a further word of caution to my friend’s op-

From Chamberlain’s criminal naiveté that he could trust Hitler to the Allies’ refusal to bomb Auschwitz, he was proven terribly right. tration had declared essential to any acceptable deal,” Of course, after years of negotiations and deadline after deadline being breached, although a deal has been struck to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb, most people believe it will get one. The thought of that threat hanging over the heads of the majority of the world’s Jews, who now live in the State of Israel, is too terrible to contemplate. A friend of mine in Manhattan called me last night worried about all of this. Despite his concern, he held onto a glimmer of hope. Because the latest talks breached the deadline set for them, the Congress has sixty days to scrutinize and analyze the final deal. If enough Democrats can be found to oppose it (and so close to presidential elections that is possible) then it might well be the beginning of the end for the “worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history.” “So,” my friend assured me, “even if the president seems to have abandoned the State of Israel, we can always rely on the checks and balances of the Constitution and Congress to reject this act of insanity.”

wouldn’t be so sanguine. The echoes of this moment in history reverberate across the millennia in a dirge soon to be chanted yet again.

timism at the beginning of Shaar HaBitachon. “It is impossible for a person to be free of worries unless he relies on Hashem. If he relies instead, even a little bit, on someone or something else ... the Almighty removes his supervision and control of that person’s life, leaving it in the hands of the thing or person he has chosen to depend on.” And those sobering words give us pause to consider whether relying on Congress to reverse the folly of the current U.S. president and protect the Jewish people, is after all, a wise thing to do. Rabbi Dessler in his essay on Tisha B’Av asks precisely what does the Torah’s expression and accusation

against the Jewish people mean when it writes, “You have cried a crying for nothing...” He says, “Those tears flowed from a lack of bitachon.” Reb Matisyohu Salomon shlita in his recently published vaadim on Shaar HaBitachon, decides not to translate bitachon as “trust in Hashem,” rather he renders it, “certainty in Hashem.” Returning to Rabbi Dessler in his conclusion about the wasted tears that led to Tisha B’Av and the myriad tragedies it produced, it was because of “the lack of Klal Yisroel’s certainty in Hashem,” he ominously continues, “that would and could only be repaired through tears that would be shed again and again across two thousand years.” Those tears would be shed as the Jewish people through the ages discovered that those they thought they could trust and who promised to protect them reneged on their word and turned their backs. Those tears were the tears we shed in our hurt and disappointment in those we trusted. Reb Elchonon Wasserman zt”l warned the Jewish people in his time that the democracies would prove no different. From Chamberlain’s criminal naiveté that he could trust Hitler to the Allies’ refusal to bomb Auschwitz, he was proven terribly right. And now in the reign of the 44th president of the State of Israel’s most powerful ally, the words of Eichah resonate clearly again, “There is no comfort from all of those who once loved her, all her friends have betrayed her.” 

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cently penned a piece for the Washington Post entitled, “The Worst Agreement in U.S. Diplomatic History.” In it he pointed out, “Desperate for a legacy deal, Obama has played the supplicant, abandoning every red line his adminis-

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t’s the deal that President Obama wants above all others. He repeatedly refers to it as the one thing that will be his legacy and define his stewardship of America. The deal with Iran. As I write this today on the 14th July in Vienna, he has got his wish. For those who are pathologically incapable of tolerating even the slightest criticism of America’s 44th president, i.e. America’s Left, it all makes perfect sense. Iran will emerge through the United States as the Middle East’s undisputed superpower. The Shia nation will destroy the Sunni, ISIS. The anarchy of Iraq will be controlled and stabilized. Iran will return “to the community of nations,” as the president repeatedly says. For everyone else, including the House of Saud who recently dispatched one of its princes to visit the State of Israel, Obama’s mindset defies any rational understanding. They know their large Persian neighbor very well. They believe that this deal will just make the neighborhood bully a much bigger and better financed tormenter. Then there are all the extremely nasty (although in the Middle East the word “nasty” applies far and wide) people Iran has been sending weapons and money to for decades. President Assad of Syria, for example, and of course Hezbollah in Lebanon. These clients have had to tighten their belts as the international sanctions squeezed their benefactor. Obama started to loosen those sanctions ahead of any deal being achieved, and in 2014 Iran’s economy actually started to grow. More money for Iran means more money for Hezbollah et al. If the deal is signed and Iran is returned “to the community of nations” (and its banks are too) the good times for Shia terrorist organizations from Yemen to Kurdistan will start to roll. The president is, of course, aware of the concerns of America’s traditional allies in the region. He convened a summit of Persian Gulf states to reassure them. Leaders of four of the six invited nations were “unavailable” that day. The White House struggled to deny accusations of a “snub.” American Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer re-

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Parenting Pearls

Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW

Chores My husband and I feel that it’s important for our children to have set responsibilities around the house. However, we have been having a hard time ensuring that the chores get done. It’s just easier for us to do it ourselves than to deal with the arguing and groans of “None of our friends have to do this stuff” and “You’re so mean!” Also, should we pay our children to perform their chores? Rabbi Staum Responds: Anyone who deals with children will tell you that he/she can tell when a child has chores and responsibilities at home versus when a child has no specific responsibilities. I once heard a lecturer say that when he asks a room full of adults what the greatest memory from their youth is, over 90% reply that it was a time they were asked to be helpful or contribute to something in a meaningful way. Infants and toddlers often pick up a broom or mop and try to imitate our actions of cleaning up. Without realizing it we often squelch those efforts by grabbing away the broom or mop because we know the child’s helping will only make it more difficult for us. But there is an innate desire and need for every person to be helpful and to feel like they are contributing. The problem is that there is also a superficial laziness that masks that desire. As parents, we often have to prod

our children to get them past that initial laziness to attain that sense of accomplishment. (As mature adults we have to do the same for ourselves.)

their responsibility. In some families, parents first decide which chores need to be performed, and then the family decides together who will perform each

The reward for the chores is the sense of pride and mastery involved in doing them. To be sure, very rare is the child who will thank us for giving them chores so that they can develop their sense of responsibility, but doing so inevitably will help them in the long run. As one of my high school rabbeim once quipped: “Work on yourself now or your motherin-law will later.” As a camp counselor I remember one twelve year old camper who did not know how to sweep the floor. When I gave him the broom and insisted that he do his job he sat down on his bed and began to cry. The maid at home did all the cleaning and he didn’t even know how to sweep. His loving parents who spared him the trivial chores at home unwittingly did him a great disservice. The child could hardly fend for himself, was extremely irresponsible, and got on his bunkmate’s nerves with his obnoxious sense of entitlement. Every member of the family should have certain chores that are uniquely

chore. Then a chart is drawn up which details who has to do what and on which night. On Thursday night or Friday there may be certain added chores in honor of Shabbos, and there may be added chores on Motzei Shabbos or Sunday to clean up from Shabbos. We should not be paying our children to perform basic chores. Chores are the shared responsibilities of the family. By simply being a member of the family it is our responsibility to fulfill those responsibilities. The reward for the chores is the sense of pride and mastery involved in doing them. What if a child doesn’t perform his/her chores? Once it has become clear what the child’s responsibilities are, sometimes the best response is to have no response at the time. Perhaps you should even do the chore for the child. Then, when there is something special that other children receive, the child who didn’t do his chores can be calmly informed that unfortunately he is unable to receive the treat because his family responsibilities weren’t performed. Perhaps it may be an outing that he can’t join. The consequence should be a calm yet firm message that states that the child is losing out because he did not fulfill his familial responsibility. What about when children roll their eyes and grumble about their chores? As much as possible try to ignore it and not waste your energy fighting it. Perhaps it’s worth even telling the child that you appreciate their doing it even

though they don’t want to. Then bite your tongue and walk away. At a later time, when both parent and child are calm, it may be worth sitting down with the child and revisiting what happened, discussing whether the child would like it if supper was served with a grunt and eye rolling. Perhaps parent and child can even laugh together as they act it out. But one thing is for sure – lectures and threats in the heat of the moment don’t accomplish anything positive. KEY POINTS: • Chores are important for building responsibility and a sense of belonging • Don’t pay children to do their chores • If a child doesn’t fulfill responsibilities, let the consequences do the teaching

Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW, is the Rabbi of Kehillat New Hempstead. He is also fifth grade Rebbe and Guidance Counselor in ASHAR in Monsey, and Principal of Mesivta Ohr Naftoli of New Windsor, NY, and a division head at Camp Dora Golding . Rabbi Staum offers parenting classes based on the acclaimed Love & Logic Program. He can be reached at stamtorah@gmail.com. His website is www.stamtorah.info.

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search would include having the researcher speak to the prospective date’s siblings, not just parents. Perhaps that is left for the third date. Yet, in spite of the best efforts at re-

with anyone they were dating. Even so, this is to be respected. If a person is anxious then there is a reason – although that reason may lay more in the childhood of the person with the anx-

If they see what you see and there is nothing you are hiding from yourself, then you need not worry. search, it is possible to end up with any of the three cases above and feel confused as to the next step. Let’s look at each of them: Nerves I have found, when speaking to those in the dating game, that it is generally not because the person just has a case of “nerves.” Here is why: Usually a person has a reason for the nerves. The reason may be unclear to them; they may not be able to articulate it – or they may be afraid to face it – but there is a reason. For example, a person may be so excited to have found someone who, on paper, is wonderful, that they don’t want to look too deeply at what they can pass off as caused by “nerves.” So they do not know why they have this particular feeling and they brush it off. I’ve had people who were brave enough come to me to understand themselves better – and although they felt great relief to get at the bottom of where the “nerves” came from, they did decide to end their relationship with the person in question, and that is sad. It’s sad to let go of dreams. It is generally a good idea to trust one’s gut although this is not always the case. Some people are such worrywarts that they would have a case of “nerves”

iety than in the date. Still, this means that the individual needs to get help for this or it will have a negative impact on the shidduch. A rule for families: If your child has “nerves,” get to the bottom of it; never dismiss it. No Feelings at All When a person says they don’t feel anything but they do not want to give up the shidduch, this usually is not an accurate statement. If questioned, they will say that the person they are dating is wonderful, perfect, and all other good things. That doesn’t sound to me like they have no feelings, so what’s going on? W h e n questioned further, what they really mean is that violins are not playing and the stars haven’t come out when they are together. That’s the absence of romantic feelings. That’s actually normal and healthy. It’s normal because having been raised in a frum family and gone to frum schools, they are not letting themselves have those feelings. It’s also healthy because, as you can see from the research that opened up this article, it is waaaay too easy to “fall in love,” and the last thing anyone should do is fall in love with the wrong person. It’s healthy to be super careful

about your choice. There is plenty of time for the cascade of feelings after the important question has been popped. (I wish our schools and families would go out of their way to teach our children that it is right and proper to have those feelings as soon as you “know” that this is the person you will be marrying. Many young people still feel constrained because of their upbringing to allow themselves to have that deep attachment, but that is for a different article.) You are Incredibly Happy – Is it Real? This could happen when the cart was put before the horse, i.e., when the checking wasn’t done but all the excitement of romance and a wedding took reality out of the picture. Or it could happen when excellent checking was done and those feelings are appropriate. So how would a person know? This isn’t as hard as it seems: Ask others about this prospective person’s character. Do they see him or her the same way as you do? If they see what you see and there is nothing you are hiding from yourself, then you need not worry. Just enjoy. If there is one takeaway from all this, I would say it is not to ignore those deep-in-the-middle-of-the-night worries. Either you will calm yourself in the morning by double- and triple-checking the thing that worried you and you will know for sure that your decision was good, or you will research further into the nagging doubt and find there was a basis for it. Honor your gut; it has more nerve endings than your brain. Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, is a Marriage & Family Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—Together. Attend the Food For Thought lectures at Traditions Restaurant in Lawrence on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM. (There is a lovely optional lunch menu for $12 cash.) Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at http://drdeb.com. All stories in Dr. Deb’s articles are fabricated. See Dr. Deb on TorahAnytime.com.

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eelings are such a pain in the neck. We want to have them but when we do, we’re not sure what to make of them. This is a real challenge in the dating parsha. The problem has many forms when it comes to feelings about the person you are dating: • You feel kind of negative and think that that is due to nerves and should be ignored. • You don’t feel anything yet you think you shouldn’t give up the person. • You feel like you are in heaven and wonder if that is just romantic stuff confusing you. Before considering the three situations above, let’s just have a short look at feelings. I was talking about them in my Food For Thought luncheon last Tuesday – and it is posted on Torah Anytime – and it is absolutely fascinating how the Borei Olam put us together. As I shared with the group, it is possible to have romantic feelings for a total stranger if you (a) speak to him/her for a half hour and (b) look silently into that person’s eyes for four minutes! In a study I cited, of the total strangers that participated, two pairs ended up getting married! This is because of the important role of our brain chemistry and the chemicals that come into play to further bonding and romantic attachment. From this piece of research alone, we can see how very important it is to get as much information as possible about the person we will go out with before we get emotionally involved. It really is possible for our emotions to grab hold of us before we know exactly to whom we may be committing the rest of our lives. Obviously, the research would include hashkafa, economic values, where you want to live, personality – which must include questions about the less desirable middos such as a temper – childrearing values and opinions, relationships with family, mental health and health issues, life goals, and other important areas of compatibility like neat freak vs. messy, morning vs. night, social vs. loner, and the household division of labor. A really good job of doing that re-

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Is it a Bird or a Plane?

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The H-4 Spruce Goose

The P-82 Twin Mustang being flight tested in California

The Stipa-Caproni barrel-shaped plane

he term military aircraft usually conjures up imag- it the longest trip by a propeller plane. es of F-16 Falcons, B-52 Stratofortress bombers, The Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the Spruce and Blackhawk helicopters. For those into history, Goose, set the records for the largest wingspan of any plane the Huey helicopter and C-46 transport aircraft will ring and is the largest flying boat in history. Intended to carry a bell. However, for every one of these successful planes, up to 750 on transatlantic flights, the wooden plane only there are several that aren’t well known and many made one brief flight before being retired for good. that never went into production. There is the flying The eight engine plane (to my knowledge no other wing, the “twin” fighter, and a flying boat that was plane had more than six engines) was made from designed to carry up to 750 passengers. These birch and not spruce as its nickname indicates. It are some of the most unusual aircraft built for weighed an incredible 250,000-pounds and had a military purposes. 150,000-pound payload. The Spruce Goose was not Weird-shaped aircraft have been around seen a viable option for the air force and the only since the dawn of aviation. Before WWII, plane built is on display in California. manufacturers had been struggling to Another experimental plane that unfortunately find the perfect design with a mixed for plane enthusiasts (of which bag of results. One of these was I am a proud to be) never the experimental (meaning it it made it to the producnever went into production) tion floor was the XB-35 Stipa-Caproni. The ItalFlying Wing. A month ian-built plane had a holbefore the Japanese HZ-1 Aerocycle low barrel-shaped fuselage bombed Pearl Harbor, the that had a max speed of 81 Army Air Force ordered mph. Many thought that it couldn’t fly but on October 7, two Flying Wings for testing. Northrop Corporation had 1932 it took to the air with a two man crew. The inventors developed the bomber in the 1930s with the idea of reducthought that the plane would create less drag by having ing drag and with a range of over 8,000 miles. It made its the hollow fuselage but that advantage was canceled out first flight the year after the war ended and was preordered by the propeller design. Only one was built because the by the air force. However, after more testing, serious probStipa didn’t perform better than conventionally designed lems came to light including vibrations and engine issues. planes. After years of trying to fix the Flying Wing, the entire Aircraft engineers are always looking for new ways to project was canceled in favor of another bomber. get planes to perform better. This has caused the developBefore the days of the jet pack and other single manned ment of some interesting designs that usually end up in the flight-worthy vehicles, there was the HZ-1 Aerocycle. Descrap heap. The M.29B Libellula was a bomber developed signed as a personal helicopter, the user was supposed to by the British during WWII. The design was so radical— be able to fly it after only 20 minutes of instruction. It it had two sets of wings and the front ones looked like was meant for reconnaissance missions and had a range whiskers—that it’s worth looking at its picture to proper- of only 15 miles. A dozen were built in the 1950s but afly understand its uniqueness. It was to be a carrier-based ter several crashes the idea was shelved. Today only one bomber that would give the pilot advantage upon landing. example remains but the idea for a short range reconnaisOnly one plane was produced and it was scrapped in 1944 sance aircraft has been used in tiny drones that can be used after two accidents. by the regular soldier on the battlefield. The P-51 Mustang was considered one of the best Most unusual aircraft don’t make it to full scale profighter aircraft of WWII. It was so successful—over duction and from the ones mentioned in this article only 15,000 were produced and it used by air forces world- the Twin Mustang actually saw action. Successful planes wide—that the engineers at North American (an airplane and helicopters are based on principles that are tried and manufacturer) came up with the brilliant idea of combin- true. Deviating from the beaten path can lead to interesting ing two Mustangs into one beast of an aircraft. Called the aerial vehicles but most are unstable for action. Even the P-82 Twin Mustang, it was introduced into the air force in new generation of fighter aircraft need years of testing and 1946. It was radar equipped and was used as all-weather redesigning to work out all of the kinks before they are and night fighter. Replacing the P-61 Black Widow (the ready for the frontlines. Many aircraft projects are kept stories behind this particular plane would need an article secret from the public, one of which was the XB-35 Flyof its own), it was used during the Korean War with con- ing Wing, and in a couple of weeks we’ll discuss a certain siderable success. The first three Communist planes that place where many classified aircraft are tested. (I’ll keep were shot down by the U.S. during the war are attributed you in suspense as to which place it is but it’s not Area 51.) to the P-82. Over 350 of the two-man crewed P-82s were produced and it was retired after the Korean War. The Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He Twin Mustang proved its long range in 1947 when one welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns made a non-stop flight from Hawaii to New York, making and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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start the day right! Cookies to soldiers at the Pina Chama; we’ll buy them fresh in Neve daniel with a view from the highest point in yehuda. then to sussya: taste goat yogurt and puddings at Chalav haaretz dairy, visit the incredible dahlia har sinai at her sheep ranch and buy organic flours, honey and cheeses. Mincha in the new/old Judean style synagogue. Light lunch at the Visitors Center with a chance to buy local crafts. then an in depth tour of ancient sussya, a talmudic era town.

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Moreshet gush Katif; the moving, inspirational story of the Jews of gaza and a tour of the new community in Nitzan. then visit kibbutzim on the gaza border and the security chiefs who protect them, via One Israel Fund who are providing upgraded security equipment for the security chiefs and their communities. Lunch at alumim, the kibbutz that remained during Protective edge. hear from anita tucker at her new home in ein tzurim, and much much more.

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Notable Quotes

Compiled by Nate Davis

“Say What?” Today Scott Walker announced that he is running for president, making him the 15th Republican candidate to enter the race. Which I think means we get the 16th one for free. I’ve got a punch card.

I want to thank de Blasio for taking it easy on us. It’s easier for me to get by. Because of him, nobody bothers me… It’s not like 10 or 20 years ago, when I would get harassed by police all the time. People just leave me alone, and I get some money sometimes, too. – A homeless man in Manhattan praising Mayor Bill de Blasio to the New York Post Twenty-two months of negotiation means we have managed to charm the world, and it’s an art. – Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, during a meeting last weekend

Today we are all witnessing today, perhaps, truly the beginning of the end of the Civil War. - Author Isabel Wilkerson on MSNBC, as the Confederate flag was removed from South Carolina’s State House

– Jimmy Fallon

Mexico’s No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They are sending us their best. – Conan O’Brien

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Keep [messing] around and I’m going to make you eat your … words. - Tweet by El Chapo Guzman in response to Trump.

For him to be paid to raise money for veterans that were wounded in combat under his orders, I don’t think that’s right. … It’s kind of a slap in the face. - Former Marine Eddie Wright, who lost both hands in a rocket attack in Iraq in 2004, after learning that former President George W. Bush received a $100,000 speaking fee at a fundraising event for wounded warriors

He never responded to me at all. Not once. - Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban after free-agent center DeAndre Jordan reneged on an $80 million deal to play for the Mavs, went into seclusion and refused to accept calls from Cuban before re-signing with the Los Angeles Clippers

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El Chapo and the Mexican drug cartels use the border unimpeded like it was a vacuum cleaner, sucking drugs and death right into the U.S. - Tweet by Donald Trump after Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo Guzman escaped from a highsecurity Mexican prison

About the hatred we have against the Jewish people: As Palestinians, first, we don’t have hatred. Second, we don’t recognize the existence of the Jewish people—there is no Jewish people. - PLO Ambassador to Chile Nabil Jada at a Chilean conference for Peace in Palestine and Israel

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These are two Roman ballista balls from Gamla, from a residential quarter at the foot of the summit. I stole them in July 1995 and since then they have brought me nothing but trouble. Please, do not steal antiquities. - An anonymous note left with two 2,000-year-old Roman sling stones which were returned to a museum in Israel, after having been stolen 20 years ago

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Before taking a selfie, everyone should think about the fact that racing after a high number of “likes” could lead him on a journey to death and his last extreme photo could turn out to be posthumous. - Yelena Alexeyeva, an aide to Russia’s interior minister, explaining why the government issued a list of recommendations for practicing “safe selfies”

Jeb Bush… oy, yoy, yoy. How can I be tied with this guy? He’s terrible. Terrible. – Donald Trump during a campaign speech in Phoenix, bemoaning the fact that polls show that he and Jeb Bush are leading the Republican pack The drug lord is on the run. His name is El Chapo. Donald Trump is in a Twitter feud with this Mexican drug lord. It’s historic — the first time Americans have ever sided with a Mexican drug lord. – Conan O’Brien I personally am trying to lose weight. - Mayor de Blasio dismissing former U.S. Sen. Al D’Amato’s suggestion that de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo, both of Italian heritage, have a “pasta summit” to sort out their differences. I have to watch my waistline. - Governor Cuomo, dismissing the idea as well The G-d of Israel, have mercy upon your humiliated brothers. - Writing recently found on a piece of beam in an attic of a home in the Dutch town of Bilthoven, where a Jewish couple hid during the Holocaust

Chuck Schumer is supposed to be the guardian of Israel. He goes around everywhere and says, “My name is Schumer. It means guardian of Israel.” Well, if you care about Israel, you will not put her in this box. If you care about the United States, you will not allow our chief antagonist to become a nuclear threshold nation guaranteed in nature with no restrictions for them to go beyond that. - Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) This is a bad mistake of historic proportions…One cannot prevent an agreement when the negotiators are willing to make more and more concessions to those who, even during the talks, keep chanting: “Death to America.” We knew very well that the desire to sign an agreement was stronger than anything, and therefore we did not commit to preventing an agreement. We did commit to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and this commitment still stands. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the Iran deal was reached this week [Netanyahu] said the same thing about the interim agreement and he was wrong. The fact is, is that he’s frankly been making comments that are way over the top. - U.S. State Secretary John Kerry on MSNBC If a nuclear bomb explodes in London or New York, we know that we can trace it down to July 14, 2015. - Israel’s Education Minister and Bayit Yehudi’s party chief Naftali Bennett on CNN Isn’t it odd how every pundit and politician who’s been antagonistic towards Israel is also super excited about an Iranian deal that’s allegedly going to help protect the Jewish State from the threat of nuclear Iran? - David Harsani, The Federalist

Let us have faith that America is incapable of any misstep [against Iran], and that it cannot even attack Iranian facilities without the White House being destroyed in under 10 minutes. Let us have faith that the old “village leader” [i.e. the U.S.] has fallen onto his deathbed, and that even in his youth, he never made the mistake [of daring to attack Iran], and that he, like Israel, remains mired in quicksand. - Editorial in an Iranian newspaper affiliated with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei And you @EPN, don’t call me a delinquent because I give people work unlike you, you cowardly politician. – Tweet by El Chapo Guzman directed at Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto Never say never, this world keeps turning. In this life, he who risks nothing cannot win. - Ibid., addressing the fact that Mexican officials said he would never be able to break out of prison

After 17 hours of negotiations, European leaders agreed early this morning to a tentative deal to resolve the debt crisis in Greece. Seventeen hours — or as Greeks call that, a workweek. – Seth Myers

My aspirations for the country – and I believe we can achieve it – is for 4 percent growth as far as the eye can see. Which means we have to be a lot more productive. Workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people need to work longer hours and, through their productivity, gain more income for their families. That’s the only way we are going to get out of this rut that we’re in. - Jeb Bush in an interview with a New Hampshire newspaper

Scott Walker’s campaign slogan is “Reform. Growth. Safety.” Which is actually similar to Donald Trump’s new slogan: “Mexico. Money. Crazy.” – Jimmy Fallon

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Obama Plays the Lottery in the Middle East best evidence of what they want is what they’re doing right now to destabilize the region without nuclear weapons.” There is no evidence that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a Gorbachev-like fig-

sponse, throwing their support behind a Sunni rebel alliance that includes the Nusra Front, a local al-Qaeda affiliate. Assad, after a series of military reverses, leads a battered and diminished

Is Obama’s bet a reasonable one? Is he playing blackjack or the lottery? ure. Iran gives every indication of being an aggressive, revolutionary power. It is rallying, arming and directing military forces in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq. The reported agreement to partially lift the arms embargo against Iran – a dramatic concession – must seem to America’s Sunni allies and partners like de facto U.S. recognition of Iranian spheres of military influence across the region. Because it is. Syria is a good example of the side effects of Obama’s bet. During four years of civil war, America has hardly been a factor. This has resulted, in part, from habits of indecision that have added up to a policy of nonintervention. But American strategy in Syria has also shown increasing deference to Iran – and thus Iran’s proxy, the Bashar al-Assad regime – in order to avoid confrontations that might disrupt nuclear negotiations. The shift has been remarkable. Obama has gone from demanding in 2011 that Assad “step aside” to downplaying, earlier this year, the Syrian ruler’s use of chlorine gas, since it has “historically not been listed as a chemical weapon.” The fragile nuclear talks could not be jostled, at apparently any cost. For years, the Sunni powers called for more aggressive American leadership in Syria. But American support for its proxies, such as the Free Syrian Army, proved minimal and unreliable, pushing many recruits toward better-armed, more radical alternatives. Now Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have given up on an American-led re-

army, only sustained by Iranian cash and supplies. His collapse – now a distinct possibility – might set off a race for Damascus between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. And the U.S. – having betrayed its proxies and alienated its allies – would merely be a bystander as a terrorist flag is raised over the capital of a ruined and wretched country. This bystander status looks like

America’s future in much of the Middle East. The economic payout of the nuclear deal will fund Iranian military activities across the region. And haggling over implementation will continue indefinitely. Just as Obama has been loath to throw away the possibility of a deal by getting tough with Iran, he will be loath to throw away the reality of a deal by getting tough with Iran. And the economic pressure that has influenced Iranian behavior in the past will be gone, with no realistic hope for a “snap back” of sanctions. The deal amounts to the gradual passing of a leadership baton to one of the worst regimes in the world, on the hope its nature will change. Obama has bet the future of the Middle East, and America’s influence in the region, on a  play of the lottery. (c) 2015, Washington Post Writers Group

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Iran will emerge from this period as a nuclear threshold state, free from most sanctions, but hopefully, by that point, a “key to peace.” The alternative, the president argues, is a path of isolation and confrontation that is likely to lead to war. But is Obama’s bet a reasonable one? Is he playing blackjack or the lottery? In an interview with Ruth Marcus and myself for The Washington Post Campaign Close-up series, Sen Lindsey Graham describes Obama’s approach to Iran as “dangerously naïve.” “I think he’s misjudging what the Iranians want,” Graham argued. “And the

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s the world and the U.S. Congress examine the Iran deal’s fine print, the strategic large print is clear enough. “Obama wants this [deal] as a centerpiece of his legacy,” an anonymous American diplomat is quoted, “and he believes a peaceful Iran could be a bulwark against ISIS in the Middle East and the key to peace there.” The determination to engage enemies is a hallmark of Obama’s foreign policy. With Iran, as with Cuba, he hopes to upend old strategies of isolation and sanctions, drawing rivals into a web of cooperation that ends up improving their behavior. It is Obama’s version of regime change – the nonviolent advance of rational, modern norms because they are, well, rational, modern norms. So the Iran deal is really a highstakes, strategic bet. The agreement allows a decade of managed and monitored nuclear proliferation while Iran is engaged, first on security, but eventually across the range of the relationship. Under the terms of the agreement,

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Naomi Nachman

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s the Nine Days are fast approaching, I am getting

so excited to make lots of different dairy dishes. There is nothing more amazing than latkes right out of the frying pan. My mother makes the best cheese latkes. Whenever she visits us from Australia, my house smells of these Ricotta Cheese Latkes every Sunday morning. However, the challenging part is that this recipe comes from her mother (my grandmother) and, rather

Ricotta Pancakes Ingredients 1 ½ cups ricotta cheese ½ cup milk ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 2 eggs, separated ¼ cup sugar 1 cup flour 1 tsp baking powder Pinch kosher salt 2 tsp canola oil Preparation Place ricotta, milk, vanilla extract and egg yolks in a bowl and mix well. Stir in sugar, flour, baking powder and salt and mix gently until smooth. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites to soft peaks, then fold them into the cheese mixture. Heat oil in a 9 inch pan till oil is hot. Drop 1/8 cup worth of batter into pan, lower heat to medium and cook on both sides until brown, about 2 minutes per side.

than having fixed measurements, they simply eyeball all their recipes and use their estimations. When I asked my mother for the recipe, it was “a little of this, and a pinch of that…”

So, on her

last visit, I watched, measured and wrote down exactly what she did. Next thing I know (viola!), I have the precise recipe on paper and I can now share it with my family and all of you too!

Mrs. Newman’s Blintz Soufflé When I spent my first summer in America, I stayed with a dear friend who made me a delicious meal for erev Tisha B’Av. I had never had a blintz soufflé before, and it was the beginning of a love affair with the dish. To this day, I am obsessed with it and make it for my family and clients on a regular basis – including almost every erev Tisha B’Av. Ingredients 2 packs Ratner’s Blintzes (any flavor) ¼ lb. butter 4 eggs, well beaten 1 ½ cups sour cream ¼ cup sugar ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon orange juice Preparation Melt butter in 2 quart casserole and place blintzes over butter in one layer. Blend other ingredients with well beaten eggs and pour over blintzes. Bake for 45 minutes in 350° F oven or until the tops start to brown. Serve with powdered sugar, strawberries, raspberries or sour cream.

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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Avocado Strawberry Spinach Salad INGREDIENTS Salad • 6 cups fresh baby spinach • 1 pint strawberries, hulled and sliced • 1 avocado, diced • 4 ounces crumbled blue cheese • ¼ cup sliced almonds, toasted • Half a small red onion, thinly sliced Poppy Seed Dressing • ½ cup avocado or olive oil • 3 TBS apple cider vinegar • 2 TBS honey • 1 TBS poppy seeds • Salt and pepper, to taste PREPARATION Whisk all dressing ingredients until combined. Toss all the salad ingredients in large bowl. Drizzle salad with dressing and toss until combined. Serve immediately.

Asian Quinoa Salad

Perfect Sweet Potato Fries

INGREDIENTS • ½ cup cooked quinoa • 2 medium carrots, spiraled or shredded • 1/3 cup edamame bean • ¼ cup diced red pepper • 2 TBS sesame seeds • 2 TBS cilantro, minced

INGREDIENTS • 6 whole sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into thin sticks • 1 stick salted butter • 2 cloves garlic, pressed • 1 teaspoon salt • 1 teaspoon chili powder • ½ teaspoon black pepper • ½ cup mayonnaise • 2 tablespoons ketchup or sriracha

Dressing • 2 ½ TBS sesame oil • 1 ½ TBS tamari sauce • 1 tsp. rice wine vinegar • 1 tsp. lemon juice • 1 tsp. maple syrup • 1 tsp. sriracha sauce • Salt and pepper, to taste PREPARATION Combine cooked, cooled quinoa with diced pepper, edamame, and carrot. Whisk all dressing ingredients together and then pour over salad. Top with minced cilantro, sesame seeds and extra sriracha if you wish.

PREPARATION Preheat oven to 450°F. Melt the butter and skim off the foam. Add garlic, seasoned salt, chili powder, and black pepper. Stir with a fork. In a large bowl, toss the sweet potatoes in the butter/seasoning mixture. Arrange on two baking sheets and bake in the oven for 15 to 17 minutes, shaking the pans halfway through, until the fries are sizzling (watch so that the edges don’t burn). Remove from the oven and allow to sit on the pan for 5 minutes. Sprinkle generously with salt. Mix the mayonnaise with the ketchup (or sriracha). Serve fries with the dipping sauce.

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PREPARATION Heat oil in a large, deep skillet over mediumhigh heat. Add mushrooms and cook until just golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Add garlic and green onions and cook 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in peas, salt and pepper. Immediately cover and cook until just tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl and set aside. In the same skillet over medium heat, toss hot, drained pasta with reserved pasta water, cheese and lemon juice. Gently toss mushroom mixture and tomatoes into pasta. Transfer to serving bowls, top with basil and serve.

Grilled Salmon Skewers INGREDIENTS • 1 ½ lbs. salmon fillets, cut into 1-inch squares • 2 large lemons thinly sliced • 16 (10-inch) bamboo skewers For the Marinade • 2 TBS parsley, freshly chopped • 2 large garlic cloves, pressed • ½ TBS Dijon mustard • ½ tsp salt

Cheesy Spinach Quiche INGREDIENTS • 1 frozen pie crust, prebaked • 1 box (10 oz.) frozen spinach • 8 oz. fresh mushrooms, sliced • 1 tsp minced garlic • 4 large eggs, • 1 cup whole milk • 1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese • 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese • Salt and pepper, to taste PREPARATION Preheat oven to 350°F. If your frozen spinach is not already thawed, thaw it in the microwave per box directions. Drain the spinach in a colander while you prepare the rest of the ingredients. Place sliced mushrooms in a skillet coated with 1 teaspoon olive oil or nonstick spray, add the garlic, and a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Sauté for about 6-7 minutes. Whisk together the eggs, milk, and parmesan cheese until combined. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Set aside. Blot and squeeze the rest of the water out of the thawed spinach. Spread spinach on top of prebaked pie crust. Add the cooked mushrooms and shredded cheeses. Pour the egg mixture on top. If desired, sprinkle the top lightly with more parmesan cheese and/or salt and pepper. Bake the quiche until it is golden brown on top and the center is set, 45 minutes to an hour. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before slicing and serving.

INGREDIENTS • 2 pounds fresh salmon, skin removed • 2 egg whites • 1 TBS Dijon mustard • ½ cup fresh bread crumbs • ½ teaspoon kosher salt • 2 TBS fresh dill, chopped • 2 TBS olive oil • 4 brioche buns, toasted PREPARATION Mince the salmon, then place half in a large sealable plastic bag and use a flat-surfaced meat pounder or a rolling pin to mash it. Place all the salmon in a large bowl and combine with the egg whites, mustard, bread crumbs, salt, and dill. Form 4 patties, each 3/4 inch thick. Place on a medium-hot grill and cook 4 to 5 minutes per side. (To cook on a stovetop, heat the olive oil in a grill pan over medium heat and cook the patties 5 minutes per side.) Top with coleslaw, if desired, lettuce, tomato and tartar sauce and serve on the brioche buns.

Peach Berry Cobbler INGREDIENTS • 3 cups fresh peach slices (about 3 medium) • 2 cups fresh blueberries • 1 large egg • 1 large egg yolk • 1 cup sugar • ¾ cup flour • ½ cup oats • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt • ½ cup butter, melted PREPARATION Preheat oven to 375°F. Place peaches and berries in an 11- x 7-inch baking dish. Stir together egg, egg yolk, and next 4 ingredients with a fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over fruit; drizzle melted butter over topping. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until light brown and bubbly. Let stand 10 minutes; serve warm with vanilla ice cream. 

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INGREDIENTS • 1 pound fettuccine, cooked and drained (reserving 3/4 cup liquid) • 2 TBS extra-virgin olive oil • ½ lb. button mushrooms, sliced • 3 cloves garlic, chopped • 2 large spring (or 4 green) onions, thinly sliced • 1 ½ cups fresh (or frozen and thawed) green peas • ½ teaspoon fine sea salt • ½ teaspoon ground black pepper • ¾ cup grated parmesan cheese • 2 TBS lemon juice • 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved • 1/2 cup roughly chopped basil (optional)

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PREPARATION Soak bamboo skewers at least 1 hour to keep them from catching fire. Preheat grill to medium heat (about 375˚F). In a medium bowl, stir together all of the marinade ingredients: chopped parsley, garlic cloves, Dijon mustard, salt, pepper, olive oil, and lemon juice. Double skewer the salmon and lemon slices folded in half intermittently onto two skewers at a time. Brush both sides of skewered salmon with marinade. Oil the grates and then carefully place salmon skewers onto the hot BBQ. Grill kebobs for 3-4 minutes per side or until salmon is cooked through and opaque.

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JALAPENO BAY by Chef Jackie Hong Chen, Sushi Tokyo (Brooklyn, NY)

INGREDIENTS 4 jalapeno peppers 1 cup tempura flour ¾ cup water Oil for deep frying

Filling: 5.5 oz. fresh tuna / fresh Scottish salmon 0.5 oz. crunchy flakes 2 tablespoons spicy mayo

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Cut peppers into halves. Scoop out the seeds in a bowl. Mix tempura flour with water to a smooth blend in a separate bowl and combine filling ingredients. Stuff peppers with filling. Bring oil to a boil and dip filled peppers in tempura mix. Make sure all sides are fully covered. Deep fry till color of tempura mix changes to golden brown. Remove from oil and place on paper towel to absorb oil. Top with Sushi Tokyo’s sweet sauce and decorate with vegetables to your taste.

This recipe was reprinted from the 2015 Edition of Great Kosher Restaurants Magazine. Elan Kornblum, a.k.a. “The Restaurant Guy,” is the publisher of Great Kosher Restaurants International Magazine and its accompanying website www.gkrm. net. The 2015 edition, available on www.GreatKosherDeals.com, has 256 glossy pages and provides a visual description with menus to over 200 top kosher restaurants alongside 400 stunning high resolution color photos. Kornblum’s top ranked website, awardwinning newsletter, comprehensive app and hugely popular Facebook Foodies page makes sure everyone is up to date on the latest restaurant news. Email info@gkrm.net for any questions or comments.

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ou know what’s even worse than paying tax on money you make? Try taking a loss on money you lose. Make $100, pay a 40% tax, and you’ve still got $60 left. But lose $100, take a tax loss, and you’re still out your $100. Yeah, you can deduct it against future income. But it’s kind of like those “mail-in” rebates you get when you walk out of Staples with a new printer. It sounds good when you’re still in the store. But in the back of your mind, you realize you’ll probably never actually mail it in. It’s no fun if you lose money in a bad investment. It’s no fun if you get ripped off in some sort of fraud. It’s even worse if you get ripped off in an investment fraud! And that brings us to this week’s story, which starts out in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob SquarePants is a kids’ cartoon chronicling the adventures of a sponge named Bob, who lives with his pet snail Gary in a pineapple on the ocean floor. (If you’re a parent of a young child, you can just skip ahead to the next paragraph.) SpongeBob has become Nickleodeon’s most popular series, squeezing up a boatload of awards and spawning two movies. In 2011, mycologists working in Malaysia even discovered a new species of fungus in the Bolotaceae family which they named spongiforma squarpantsii. With a franchise that successful, every huckster within 20,000 leagues wants a SpongeBob tie-in to promote their business. One of those hucksters was a company called SpongeTech. Don’t let the “tech” fool you; these guys were in the decidedly low-tech business of selling soap-filled sponges, including a SpongeBob SquarePants model filled with baby soap. But their real business was soaking investors — and after all the hype was washed away, SpongeTech was just another penny-stock scam. Scratch that — as one reporter put it, “SpongeTech was no ordinary pump-and-dump penny-stock scheme; it was, to play on Churchill’s famous definition of Rus-

sia, a fraud wrapped in a stock-market rig inside a money-laundering conspiracy.” Robert and Penny Greenberger were two of those unlucky investors who watched their “investment” in SpongeTech circle down the drain. By the time the company filed for bankruptcy, the Greenbergers had lost $569,220. In 2010, they wrote the capital loss off on their taxes. Which was fine, except for one thing. They can carry that loss forward to absorb future gains. But they can only deduct $3,000 per year against their ordinary income. At that rate, they’ll still be writing it off in the 23rd century. But theft losses are deductible against ordinary income. Right now! So, in 2012, the Greenbergers amended their 2010 return to claim a theft loss, and asked the IRS to send them a refund for $177,102. The IRS said no, and everyone sailed off to court. Last month, Judge James Gwin ruled that, to prove theft, the Greenbergers had to show two things: 1) that SpongeTech’s “nauty” scammers acted specifically to take their money through fraud, and 2) that the Greenbergers had transferred their property to the thieves. Unfortunately for our losing investors, they had bought their stock on “the open market, without any knowledge of who was on the other side of the transaction.” And with that, he sank the Greenbergers’ case. Remember when you were a kid and your mom told you not to buy something just because there was a cartoon character on it? She was right, and she would tell you the same thing about your portfolio. The most important lesson here may be to make the right financial decision first, then find the most tax-efficient way to do it. Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 yea rs in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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Ten pounds heavier and ten times holier! It’s worth the price – every calorie of it. supplying Xanax, you’ll throw that in for good measure. Then the question always arises – drink the water or not? Bottle or tap? Your stomach stability is of major concern. However, it is countered by the all-important concern of the state of

your body’s hydration, especially in the heat. Drink, don’t drink, don’t? The struggle goes on. The question you never struggle with is: eat? That is something you do from the second you land on the holy earth of Israel till you board the plane to go back

home. My sister used to say when she called from Israel, “I’m not here three hours; so far, I’m here 3,000 calories.” The eating is not mandatory, it just seems uncontrollable. I know there’s certainly more to being back in Israel than sleep, drink and be merry/eating; however, this always seems to be my starting point. After that, the touring, the connecting, and the spiritual moments do take over and I return back to New York completely filled. The problem is it’s not just spiritually full but physically as well. Ten pounds heavier and ten times holier! It’s worth the price – every calorie of it. And that’s why I keep coming back! Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@ rosenwalds.com

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id you ever notice that no matter how you fly—first class, second class, coach, you name it—when you get to Israel you are exhausted? In fact, some people are asleep as you are exiting the plane—hopefully not the person walking in front of you. Oddly, some people are asleep from the time they board till you leave the plane; sadly they are sitting in the cockpit! Thank Gd for autopilot! So you get to Israel and you are just looking forward to hitting the mattress, all day, no matter what time you arrive, that is until you actually hit the mattress! Then your eyes are wide open, sleep eludes you completely. You are on New York time and you are raring to go! Suddenly, you, who practically never takes an Advil, are popping every possible sleep aid you can get your hands on. And as long as someone’s pushing and

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