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oday I went to Staples and bought school supplies. No, I’m not the most organized or prepared person. I was there to buy something else and I figured I’d buy pencils and folders. And I didn’t buy them in an organized fashion. I couldn’t pull up my kids’ school supply lists on my phone, so I ended up buying things that I thought they would need – and then, after I came home, my son’s school sent out his list, so even if I had wanted to be organized I couldn’t have been. So I’m not on top of that department at all, although I wish I would be.

I also wish that I could hold onto summer.

When Rosh Hashana comes so early in the year and when schools start early too so our children can get in some learning before the yomim tovim, I feel the summer freedom slowly seeping out of August like grains of sand in an hourglass. We’re still enjoying late nights and barbecues and hours in the pool, but in the back of my mind I know that there is soon going to be a rush of uniform shopping, shoe shopping, yom tov shopping…you know how it is!

What if we could bottle summer? What if we could store the feelings of freedom that children have when they know that camp is their sole occupation and bike riding is their only homework? What if we could pack away the sunny mornings and fresh air and sweet

smell of freshly mowed grass? I’d love to take out those feelings from the cupboard in the frigid months of winter, breathe them in, and take a mini vacation in my living room as the cold winds swirl outside.

Perhaps, one day, as technology advances, we’ll be able to do something like that. Don’t knock it. Did any of our grandparents think there would come a time when they could write a letter to someone and it would get there mere seconds after they hit send? Or order groceries from a computer or phone?

Wait, they didn’t even have computers or cellphones. And some people just a few decades ago didn’t even have phones attached to the walls of their home. So technology should never be doubted. It only takes a few people to have a dream and work towards it and change the world.

For now, though, while August steams us with its heat, I am going to take in the rest of the summer. I am going to try to barbecue more, bike more, swim more, and let my kids eat mounds of ices every day (just kidding, kids! Please close the freezer). But all kidding aside, enjoy the heat and enjoy the freedom that summer affords us. Pretty soon, we’ll be busy with other things.

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

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Community Happenings

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This Week We’re Talking to … Camp Revach

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NEWS Global

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National

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Odd-but-True Stories

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ISRAEL

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Israel News

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My Israel Home

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Breaking Barriers by Rafi Sackville

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PEOPLE Davy, Davy Crockett, Hero of the Wild Frontier by Avi Heiligman

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PARSHA Rabbi Wein

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Search Required by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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JEWISH THOUGHT The Gift of Giving by Eytan Kobre

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HEALTH & FITNESS G-d Has My Back by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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Acai Bowls: Are They Berry Healthy? by Aliza Beer, MS RD

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Putting Sugar in its Proper Place by Dr. Hylton I Lightman

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FOOD & LEISURE It’s All About That Base by Naphtali Sobel 82 The Aussie Gourmet: Zucchini Parmesan Chips 84

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Dear Editor, Thank you for showing the non-Orthodox reporter a small part of our large community last week and thank you for the “shout out” in this week’s “Dear Reader” column.

I’d like to make one clarification.

The Reform movement in Israel is less than 1% of the Israeli community. They are not influential at all. However, the American Reform movement claims that in America they are the largest and most influential, which is not true. Their intermarriage rate is over 70%.

Their membership is dwindling, their temples are empty, their Sunday schools are closing, they are losing their next generation. They have become the religion of “tikkun olam,” not of any Jewish tradition.

They go to Israel and claim they are the biggest and most active in the U.S. and that the Orthodox community is small and not vibrant.And we know otherwise.

The Orthodox community is the only Jewish community that is growing, that is vibrant, that has a future.

Unfortunately, Jews associated with the non-Orthodox movements are being lost to Judaism, daily.

Our short tour of the local Orthodox Jewish day camps, in just two hours, showed the non-religious reporter our vibrancy, our growing community. And we all need to do something similar. We need to share with anyone who will listen that

the Orthodox Jewish community is growing, is vibrant, is active.

Thank you, Rabbi Pesach Lerner President Coalition for Jewish Values

Dear Editor, I am always flabbergasted when I observe the amount of hakoras hatov (gratitude) requested by readers to President Trump. True, he moved the embassy, but exactly what has it done for Israel? On the other hand, no one ever asked us to give hakoras hatov to all the past presidents who lavished Israel with weapons and arms. That country only needs 2 items: 1) Hashem’s help and 2) weapons to defend itself. The fawning of the Orthodox community to a demagogue such as Trump (who will pay for the Wall? Mexico, Mexico!) is scary. Demagogues can turn on you on a dime. Or a tweet.

Yours, A Reader New York City

Dear Editor, I think it’s extremely important to encourage all your readers to vote in the coming election especially considering that the people who don’t work and generally vote for Democrats have a lot of time on their Continued on page 10

LIFESTYLES Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW 72

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Second Session by Jon Kranz

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Where’s the Outrage? by Mark Thiessen 91 The Triumph of Downward Mobility by Robert Samuelson CLASSIFIEDS

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hands and, especially with the recent leftist hysteria, more of them will go out to vote. We need to counteract this, otherwise we will lose our country, considering where the Democratic Party is going. I don’t have to describe how important it is that the Congress and the Senate stay Republican. Most of our readers live in districts with Democratic congressmen and NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (who recently withdrew her support for the Israel Anti-Boycott Act). So even if one of them gets replaced by a republican, it would be a great victory. Considering that fewer people generally vote in the midterm elections than in the presidential elections, each of our votes counts even more. Since all the rabbis consider it a chiyuv gamur to vote, I don’t see any reason we should look for excuses. Do we want to live in the world where the leftists who hate moral values and hate Israel will rule over us?

Michael Rosen

Dear Editor, Every week you interview another camp in the area and it helps to give me a flavor of what goes on in different camps throughout the summer. I have a suggestion, and please don’t think that I’m being presumptuous.

There are so many different schools in our neighborhood. Perhaps during the year you can do a column or an “interview” with each school so each school can be highlighted and we can see the good and wonderful aspects of each school in the neighborhood. All the schools consider you to be the premier paper for their families and I know that they will sure welcome the column.

Best of luck to you, Tzirel Berger

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An Answer to the Bermuda Triangle

A group of British scientists has come up with a new theory about the Bermuda Triangle and why several boats have disappeared in the area.

Within the last 100 years, at least 1,000 people have been lost in the mysterious body of water that lies in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean and stretches 270,271 square miles between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. On average, 4 planes and about 13 boats are lost there every year.

Experts at the University of Southampton think that a natural phenomenon known as “rogue waves” is responsible for the huge loss of life in the area. Satellites first took notice of the huge waves off the coast of South Africa in 1997. The waves are caused by three massive storms coming together.

Scientists have used indoor simulators to re-create the monster water surges.

“There are storms to the south and north, which come together,” explains Dr. Simon Boxall, an ocean and earth scientist. “And if there are additional ones from Florida, it can be a potentially deadly formation of rogue waves ... They are steep, they are high — we’ve measured waves in excess of 30 meters (98 feet).”

The simulator in the documentary uses a model of the USS Cyclops, which went down in the Bermuda Triangle in 1918, claiming 300 lives.

Because of its size and flat base Boxall surmises that the Cyclops could have been snapped in two in just a couple of minutes.

The Bermuda Triangle is also known as the Devil’s Triangle. There

have been numerous explanations throughout the years – including those involving aliens – for the mysterious disappearance of numerous boats and aircrafts that traveled through there.

U.S. Re-imposes Sanctions on Iran

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On Tuesday, 90 days after President Trump withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, the White House administration moved to re-impose the first round of trade sanctions against the Persian regime.

The renewed sanctions highlighted President Trump’s stance and the difference between the U.S. and its allies on this matter. The European countries involved in the agreement said they would protect their own companies from legal reprisals and work to maintain Iran’s access to the financial system and its continued export of oil and gas that forms a large share of its income.

“The JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] is working and delivering on its goal, namely to ensure that the Iranian program remains exclusively peaceful,” said a statement from the European Union, Britain, France and Germany.

In an early morning tweet on Tuesday, President Trump said, “The Iran sanctions have officially been cast. These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed, and in November they ratchet up to yet another level.

Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States.”

The president added, “I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less!”

Trump has demanded that Iran undergo significant changes in policy and behavior for sanctions to be lifted. In response, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the United

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States should be prepared to discuss compensation for decades of intervention in Iran.

“We urge all nations to take such steps to make clear that the Iranian regime faces a choice,” said Trump in a statement. “Either change its threatening, destabilizing behavior and reintegrate with the global economy, or continue down a path of economic isolation.”

Rouhani slammed U.S. sanctions as ineffective, and boasted of Iran’s ties to the European Union, Russia and China, saying Beijing is Tehran’s “closest financial ally.”

The sanctions forbid Iran from using U.S. dollars, the primary currency for international financial transactions and oil purchases. Trade in metals and sales of Iranian-made cars are banned, and permits allowing the import of Iranian carpets and food, such as pistachios, are revoked.

So are licenses that have allowed Tehran to buy U.S. and European aircraft and parts — a restriction that came just days after Iran acquired five new commercial planes from Europe.

In a statement, Trump slammed the Obama administration’s agreement, saying: “The JCPOA, a horrible, one-sided deal, failed to achieve

the fundamental objective of blocking all paths to an Iranian nuclear bomb, and it threw a lifeline of cash to a murderous dictatorship that has continued to spread bloodshed, violence, and chaos.”

Trump said he remains “open to reaching a more comprehensive deal that addresses the full range of the regime’s malign activities, including its ballistic missile program and its support for terrorism.”

Trump also expressed his distaste for Rouhani, albeit subtlety. “The United States continues to stand with the long-suffering Iranian people, who are the rightful heirs to Iran’s rich heritage and the real victims of the regime’s policies,” he said. “We look forward to the day when the people of Iran, and all people across the region, can prosper together in safety and peace.”

On Tuesday, German carmaker Daimler announced it had suspended its activities in Iran “until further notice according to applicable sanctions.” The company – which makes Mercedes-Benz cars –has not sold cars in Iran since 2010, but in 2016 had announced plans to return to Iran after economic sanctions were lifted.

Assassination Attempt on Venezuelan Prez

After surviving an assassination attempt, the president of Venezuela is begging the White House to help him fight off terrorism. Venezuela is currently suffering from extreme poverty with reports of people starving to death. On Saturday, as President Nicolas Maduro addressed a military parade in Caracas on live TV, an explosion went off. The event was being held to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Bolivarian National Guard when a “flying device” exploded in front of the president.

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Maduro was delivering his remarks saying, “To the conscious Venezuela, we are going to bet for the good of our country, the hour of the economic recovery has come and we need…” when he abruptly stopped upon noticing the explosion. Seconds later, there was another explosion.

The video coverage captures Maduro’s and his wife’s sheer panic and then shows the audience and military personnel from the parade fleeing.

Within seconds Maduro and his wife, Cilia, were bombarded with security carrying bulletproof shields. Both of them were uninjured in the attack.

In the aftermath, Maduro, 55, accused, “They have tried to assassinate me and everything points to the Venezuelan ultra-right in alliance with the Colombian far right and that the name of [Columbian President] Juan Manuel Santos is behind this attack.”

Hours later, he named the state of Florida as a place of interest for the attack since many Venezuelan exiles live there. He said several plotters had been arrested, without giving any further details.

Colombia denied any involvement, and a senior Colombian official speaking on condition of anonymity said Maduro’s accusation was “base-

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There were many other conspiracy theories about the attack ranging from the U.S. being behind it to suggestions that the Maduro regime faked the assassination attempt.

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Over 80 people died this week when a 6.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia’s resort islands of Bali and Lombok. More and more people were taken to local hospitals and thousands of homes were damaged in the quake and its very large aftershocks.

The deadly earthquake was 19 miles underground and struck near Loloan on the northern end of Lombok. It followed a 6.4 magnitude quake that shook the island on July 29, killing more than a dozen people.

Hundreds of hikers were stranded on the slopes of a volcano following July’s quake.

A tsunami warning was issued by Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System after this most recent quake.

The warning was later lifted, according to the country’s National Disaster Management Agency. Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism released a statement saying that no tourists had been “injured or impacted” by the quake.

Four Red Cross volunteers were also reported among the injured.

Due to tsunami concerns, Red Cross workers had been moving people to higher ground. The injured workers were taken to a hospital and are in stable condition.

Indonesia sits in the Pacific Ring of Fire, a 40,000-kilometer (25,000mile) area of intense seismic and volcanic activity where most of the world’s earthquakes occur. The area stretches all the way from Japan to California.

Thirteen people have contracted Ebola in Congo, three of whom have died due to the virus. The World Health Organization is warning that the new outbreak poses a particularly big threat due to violence and discord in the region. Several groups in the North Kivu province are armed and thousands have been displaced due to the bloodshed.

Containing the disease is also difficult because the large city of Beni is nearby, and the infection zone’s borders with Uganda and Rwanda are quite close by. The virus is spread via contact with bodily fluids of those infected, including the dead. The newest outbreak was declared only one week after the most recent outbreak was determined to be under control.

Thirty-three people lost their lives to the last outbreak. The new outbreak, which is more than 1,550 miles away, is not necessarily related, according to local health experts.

The previous outbreak was controlled with the swift vaccination of 3,300 people. The WHO announced that they hope to know soon if this new strain of the virus can be controlled with the vaccine. 3,000 doses of the vaccine are still being held in Congo’s capital. The WHO can mobilize up to 300,000 more doses “at very short notice,” said Dr. Peter Salama.

This is Congo’s tenth outbreak of the virus since 1976. Depending on the strain, the virus can be fatal in up to 90 percent of cases.

Iran Running “Exercises” at Sea This week, Iran said that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps held a naval exercise in the Strait of

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Dozens of nations of the international community put their naval forces in for exercises to clear the straits.

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thousands of Turkish military personnel, civil servants, educators, academics, dissidents, and journalists.

At the time, Brunson was applying for Turkish permanent residency, after residing there for 23 years.

He was accused of being a member of the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government considers to be a terrorist organization. The charges were later amended to include spying and attempting to overthrow the government.

Brunson is married with three children. His wife, Norine, was initially arrested alongside him but was released after 13 days. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have promised to fight for his release. On July 25, 2018, Brunson was released and put under house arrest, reigniting the debate.

Last Wednesday the White House imposed sanctions on Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu and Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul. The sanctions freeze any of their personal property or assets on American soil, and forbid U.S. citizens from engaging in business with them.

Turkey didn’t take sanctions well and responded with similar action.

“Today I will give our friends in-

structions to freeze the assets in Turkey of the American justice and interior ministers, if they have any (such assets),” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised speech.

He did not specify which members of the U.S. administration he was referring to.

Although neither of these sanctions will likely have significant effects, it is a reflection of the intense dispute the two nations are embroiled in.

“Although it is unlikely the sanctions will have much practical effect in either case, it is significant and unprecedented that two NATO allies have sanctioned members of each other’s government,” Amanda Sloat, a former State Department official said.

Erdogan says that he is willing to talk and compromise. He said during his speech, “We don’t want to be a party to lose-lose games. Moving political and judicial disputes into an economic dimension will be harmful for both sides.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who discussed the issue with Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday, said he was “hopeful” of progress in the “days and weeks to come.”

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Bin Laden’s Mother Says He Was “A Very Good Kid”

Alia Ghanem, the mother of Osama bin Laden, has given an interview for the first time to The Guardian.

Ghanem is known to have been very close to her son, the mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks. Proving that mothers can love their children even if they become murderers and terrorists, Ghanem says bin Laden was “a very good kid and he loved me so much.”

Mohammed bin Laden, Osama’s father, had 53 other children with some 20 wives. He died in a plane crash when Osama was 10. Osama was raised by Ghanem’s second husband, Mohammed al-Attas. Ghanem and her family live in the affluent section of Jeddah, living a lifestyle supported by the bin Laden construction business, which is one of the largest in the Middle East.

The interview was given with the full support of the Saudi Arabian government. 32-year-old Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman allowed the interview to prove that bin Laden had no support from the Saudi state, despite claims made in an ongoing lawsuit by the families of the victims of 9/11.

Bin Laden’s mother blames many people for “brainwashing” her son and converting him to jihadism. His Palestinian mentor, Abdullah Azzam, is particularly blamed for influencing him when he was a young man in his 20s fighting the “holy war” against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the ‘80s.

Azzam was killed by an assassin in Pakistan in 1989.

Within two days of the 9/11 attacks, Ghanem learned that her son was responsible. She says she was “shocked. ... We all felt ashamed of him. We knew all of us were going to face horrible consequences.” She said

the last time she saw her son was in the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan in 1999. It was one year after the al Qaeda’s attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed more than 200 people.

In the interview it was also revealed that Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza bin Laden, is married to the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the 9/11 terror attacks. It is believed that Hamza has a senior position in the terror group and is intent on taking revenge for his father’s death. Hamza is the son of one of Osama bin Laden’s three surviving wives, Khairiah Sabar, who was living with her husband in a compound in Abbottabad, near a large Pakistani military base, when he was killed. Hamza has since made public statements urging followers to wage war on Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv and is seen as a deputy to the terrorist group’s current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Gas Truck Explosion Melts Italian Road

A tanker truck in the Italian city of Bologna exploded with highly flammable gas on board this week. At least two people were killed and up to 70 people were injured when part of the raised expressway collapsed in the explosion.

The truck rear-ended a tractor-trailer and the resulting fireball shut down a highway north of the city that is a key route between the Adriatic Coast and other southern metropolises including Florence and Rome. A police video of the crash was released showing the tanker slamming into the rear of a truck that was stopped in traffic. There was an initial explosion that was followed by a huge fireball going off that spanned the eight-lane highway and beyond.

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roadway to collapse and a heat explosion spread to new car parking lots nearby, incinerating dozens of automobiles.

Ambassadors from Saudi Arabia, Canada Recalled

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There’s drama brewing between Saudi Arabia and Canada. On Sunday, the Saudis demanded that Canada’s ambassador leave the country. At the same time, Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador from Canada. Both the Saudi and Canadian ambassadors were away on leave at the time of the announcement.

Saudi Arabia also announced that they will freeze all new trade and investment transactions with Canada. Saudi Arabia is one of Canada’s largest export markets in the region, and some 10 percent of Canadian crude oil imports come from Saudi Arabia. All this was in response to Canada’s demand for the release of human rights activists imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, including Samar Badawi.

The spark first ignited on Twitter on Friday when Global Affairs Canada tweeted, “Canada is gravely concerned about additional arrests of civil society and women’s rights activists in Saudi Arabia, including Samar Badawi. We urge the Saudi authorities to immediately release them and all other peaceful human rights activists.”

The Saudis claim that all those apprehended were “committing crimes that should be stopped” and that their rights were “assured” in the process.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry called the use of the term “immediately release” in Canada’s tweet “unfortunate, reprehensible, and unacceptable in relations between states.” It dismissed Canada’s characterization of the activists as “an incorrect claim” and said Canada’s attitude was “surprising.”

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“Any other attempt to interfere with our internal affairs from Canada means that we are allowed to interfere in Canada’s internal affairs,” it said.

Saudi state television later reported that the Education Ministry was formulating an “urgent plan” to transfer thousands of Saudi scholarship students out of Canadian schools to other countries.

Many believe the strong reaction of Saudi Arabia was prompted by Crown

Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The young leader has been making bold decisions in recent months including those involving the war in Yemen and the boycott of Qatar.

Despite Saudi Arabia’s sharp response to Canada meddling in its affairs, Canada wasn’t too quick to rescind its stance on its human rights concerns. Foreign Affairs Minister spokesperson Chrystia Freeland issued a brief response. “We are se-

riously concerned by these media reports and are seeking greater clarity on the recent statement from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” she said.

“Canada will always stand up for the protection of human rights, very much including women’s rights, and freedom of expression around the world.

Our government will never hesitate to promote these values and believes that this dialogue is critical to international diplomacy.”

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U.S. Ambassador Escapes Attack

Armed men attacked the convoy that was carrying the U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh in the capital city of Dhaka this week. Ambassador Marcia Bernicat and her team were all unharmed in the attack, thanks to the quick response of local police.

The country has erupted in protests recently, mostly by students calling for safer roads. Political activists belonging to the country’s ruling party have been accused of beating protesters, and police have been using rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the crowds. At least 130 people have been seriously injured so far.

The U.S. Embassy had previously released a statement condemning the

violence against protestors. “Nothing can justify the brutal attacks and violence over the weekend against the thousands of young people who have been peacefully exercising their democratic rights,” the embassy said on Facebook. “The peaceful demonstrations of the past week in favor of better vehicle and road safety, led by students and school children across Bangladesh, have united and captured the imagination of the whole country,” the embassy said. The statement was released before the ambassador’s envoy was attacked.

The death of two students at the hands of a speeding bus sparked the unrest. In an effort to stop the demonstrations, mobile internet access has been cut by the government in many parts of the country.

Namibia Brings Germany to Court The Germans systematically persecuted the Jews during World War II but their history of oppression goes way back. A group of activists from

Namibia are petitioning for recognition from the German government that a group of their ancestors were persecuted way before the Holocaust.

Between the 19th and 20th centuries, Imperial Germany controlled regions in Africa including modern-day Togo, Cameroon and Tanzania. Today’s Namibia was known as German South West Africa, and there the Germans tortured the natives.

In October 1904, after people from the Herero and Nama tribes rebelled against German colonial settlers in South West Africa, German General Lothar von Trotha issued a written extermination order, saying: “Within the German borders, every Herero, with or without a gun, with or without cattle, will be shot.”

The edict did not protect women and children. Between the years of 1904 and 1908 tens of thousands of Herero and Nama were starved to death in concentration camps in the desert or mass murdered. It has been estimated that 80 percent of the Herero and Nama people were killed.

In 1985, a United Nations report deemed the events in German South West Africa as “the first genocide of the 20th century.”

Now, more than 100 years later, descendants of the tribes are seeking justice. The group, using the Alien Tort Statue, which allows non-U.S. residents to make a claim in an American court for international law violations, brought the case before the New York Southern District Court.

They are demanding a complete and formal apology from the German government, and reparations that could stretch into the billions. Over the years the Germans have been pressured to compensate Jews for the atrocities of the Holocaust and since 1952 have paid an estimated $70 billion in repartitions to survivors.

Esther Muinjangue, the chairperson of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation, is leading the initiative.

She said, “The genocide was always alive in the form of stories and tales

narrated through the generations but people didn’t always comprehend the nature and scale of the atrocities.”

She continued, “We are not looking for money to line our pockets; the purpose is to restore dignity. This is the land where people were killed, and we have always felt that our demands have fallen on deaf ears. Allowing communities to be part of the reparation process would be a part of healing those wounds.”

Kushner Questions UNRWA

A report in Foreign Policy has shown that Jared Kushner, son-inlaw and senior advisor to President Donald Trump, is investigating the possibility of removing the refugee status from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Such a change in status would remove the right of return issue from the negotiating table, according to the report.

E-mails written by Kushner to members of his team, including Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt, show Kushner discussing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In one email from January, Kushner writes: “It is important to have an honest and sincere effort to disrupt UNRWA ... This (agency) perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn’t help peace.”

The United States has been supplying the funding for the UNRWA since it was established in 1949 after the War of Independence in Israel.

The Trump administration is the first to come out against the agency and has cut more than half of its $300 million in funding. Many critics of the

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agency say that UNRWA perpetuates a problem rather than trying to fix it by keeping hope alive for Palestinians who have been living in parts of Israel for the many decades since it’s become a nation.

“We believe that UNRWA needs to pass from the world as it is an organization that advocates politically against Israel and perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem,” said Elad Strohmayer, a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

The issue is also about refugee status of those originally affected by the 1948 War versus their descendants. Two Republican Congressmen, Doug Lamborn and James Lankford, have proposed two separate bills that would either only support original refugees or redirect U.S. funds altogether. “Instead of resettling Palestinian refugees displaced as a result of the Arab-Israeli Conflict of 1948, UNRWA provides aid to those they define as Palestinian refugees until there is a solution they deem acceptable to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This policy does not help resettle the refugees from 1948 but instead maintains a refugee population in perpetuity,” Lamborn’s bill states. Because descendants of those who were originally considered “refugees” in 1948

are also considered “refugees” as well the problem continues without any seeming resolution.

“The people that are suffering should still get assistance, but through appropriately defined humanitarian channels and aid programs,” added Lamborn’s aide.

Israel Blamed for Death of Syrian Rocket Scientist

The Mossad is being accused of killing a top research director linked to Syria’s chemical weapons program.

Azzi Azbar, of the Scientific Studies and Research Center, died when his car blew up last week in Syria’s Hama province. Azbar specialized in developing rocket systems at the military’s Masyaf facility.

The Syrian media is accusing Israel of the assassination, though Israel has issued no official response.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman downplayed the explosion. “Every day in the Middle East there are hundreds of explosions and settling of scores. Every time they try to place the blame on us. So we won’t take this too seriously,” he told Israeli media outlets.

Responsibility for the killing was claimed by the Abu Amara Brigades, an insurgent group that has previously claimed it was behind similar attacks. Abu Amara says it has killed many military officials and militia commanders inside of Syria. A bomb was placed in the headrest of Azbar’s seat in the car. Hezbollah global terror chief Imad Mughinyeh was killed in the same way supposedly in a joint U.S.-Israel mission in 2008.

Israeli media reported that the dead scientist was in charge of improving the range and accuracy of Syrian Scud missiles. Reportedly, Iranian missile operations were also taking place at the same compound in which Azbar worked.

The Syrian government has not made any official accusations, but Israel has been blamed for the deaths of several scientists in recent years, including two Hamas engineers in the past 18 months.

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ment. Kadri Abu Baker, a member of the ruling Fatah faction’s Revolutionary Council, is heading the committee. This is not the only recent surprising move made by Abbas.

Last week, PA presidency spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh was appointed as deputy prime minister and minister of information, much to the surprise of many officials.

No reason was given for Qarade’s dismissal. Some point to strife in the PA’s inner circles. Other commentators are speculating that the firing was linked to growing pressure from the United States and Israel to halt payments to terrorists and their families. Qarade recently made it very well known that he was against the PA government’s economic sanctions against the Gaza Strip that include halting payments to murderers and their families.

Although President Abbas announced that payments to terrorists and their families will not stop, many see the move as avoiding accusations that U.S. and EU funds were being used for that purpose.

Palestinians across the political spectrum have come out against Abbas’ decision. “This decision is an extension to the Palestinian Authority’s surrender to external dictates,” said Talal Abu Tharifeh, a senior official with the PLO. “The Palestinian Authority is standing against the prisoners by accepting orders from Washington and Netanyahu.” Senior Hamas official Musa Dudeen denounced the decision as a “blatant assault on the prisoners and their rights.” He claimed that Abbas’s decision was “consistent with the policy of undermining the steadfastness of our prisoners.”

Have the Palestinians Lost the PR Battle?

Minister Issa Qarade, the head of the PLO’s Committee for Detainees and Ex-Detainees, has been fired by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Many in the Palestinian government were very critical of the decision to fire the leader of the group that is in charge of Palestinian security prisoners held in Israeli prisons.

Qarade is a former security prisoner and very well liked.

A special committee has been appointed by Abbas to run the depart-

Earlier in the year Ahmed Abu Artema called for peaceful protests against Israel. Since his call, largescale, often violent, Friday demonstrations have been held along the Israel-Gaza border fence. Israel has accused Hamas, which rules Gaza, of using the demonstrations as cover for attacks and attempts to breach the security fence.

Last week, Abu Artema changed his tune and called for the protests to stop. “We have lost the battle for

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dozens of those killed were members of the terror group.

One Israeli soldier was killed by a Palestinian sniper.

public opinion,” Abu Artema, who is a political activist and journalist who is now a spokesman for the so-called “March of Return,” explained.

Abu Artema had originally called for the marches to be mass, peaceful protests seeking an end to the siege on Gaza and a return to what Palestinians call their ancestral homes in Israel. They have instead become hotbeds of violence.

The March of Return “has been

an attempt to create a certain model,” the 33-year-old said on August 1, in remarks broadcast by Al Jazeera and translated on Monday by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). “We tried to associate this form of struggle with images of life and beauty. This is the philosophy of peaceful struggle… [Israel] is trying to present us in an image of death and terrorism.”

But, he said, “unfortunately we

have lost the battle for public opinion in the March of Return, when it became associated in people’s minds with blood and the loss of limbs,” he said. “This is very scary.”

At least 160 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire and thousands have been wounded since the protests began, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Hamas, a terror group that has vowed to destroy Israel, has acknowledged that

The March of Return protests have also seen Palestinians fly airborne incendiary devices toward Israeli territory nearly daily, sparking hundreds of fires in southern Israel and causing millions of shekels in estimated damages. Hundreds of rockets and mortars have been launched toward Israeli towns.

Domestic pressure on the military to halt the burning flying objects has intensified, leading to Israel carrying out warning airstrikes and increasing the possibility that violence could escalate.

Speaking at a symposium titled “The Palestinian Cause – Proposals on the Table” organized by Hamas, Abu Artema said, “The images of torn limbs, wounded people, blood and martyrs are very painful, and must drive us to reexamine all our tactics and to invent new ones.”

“This is not an attempt to water down the March of Return, but it is okay, from time to time, to engage in a tactical withdrawal, if you sense that your path has become too costly,” he assured. “There is nothing wrong with a tactical withdrawal, which will preserve the original idea. We want to save the idea itself from death.”

Palestinians say the demonstrations are aimed at the return of refugees and their descendants to their former and ancestral homes in Israel, and to bring about the lifting of Israeli restrictions on the movement of people and goods into and out of the coastal enclave.

Both Israel and Egypt have imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip, saying the restrictions are needed to prevent terror groups from importing weapons and equipment for their military campaigns. Goods arrive at Israeli ports and are then brought to Gaza on hundreds of trucks a day.

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Iceland as its runway.”

Until now, Flytrex’s drone system had operated along one route, bridging by air two parts of the city separated by a large bay. The packages were delivered from one delivery company on one side of the bay to another on the other side of the bay, cutting delivery times from a halfhour to minutes.

Following a meticulous regulatory process with the Icelandic Transport Authority and hundreds of flights to preassigned drop-off points, the system will now be able to reach nearly half the city of Reykjavik. Drones will be able to veer off their path by 700 meters to deliver to certain homes along their route. Flytex hopes to expand its home delivery to every resident in the capital in the coming months.

For now, at the drop-off point — either on their property or at a designated public location — the customer can order the drones to gently lower the package to the ground via an app, the statement said. Once the package touches down, its wire detaches from the drone, which then returns to the drone-port.

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Russian Mole Working in U.S. Embassy Dinner by Drone Thanks to an Israeli technology firm, dinner is served by drone to hungry Icelanders living in the capital of Reykjavik.

Flytrex is increasing its drone fleet to a total of 13. Now half of the city will be serviced by the flying delivery service. Flytrex is partnered with Aha. is, Iceland’s on-demand supplier of

restaurant food.

Dinner – and breakfast and lunch – is not just delivered by drone. A new “InAir” wiredrop system will safely lower packages directly to consumers’ backyards, beginning with a limited number of addresses and expanding pending approval by property owners, according to the company.

“We’re reaching new heights in Iceland,” said the CEO and co-founder of Flytrex, Yariv Bash, who is also

behind a project to launch Israel’s first spacecraft to the moon.

“The people of Reykjavik can now order sushi or countless other consumer goods straight to their homes via drone,” he added. “The city’s citizens have come to expect instantaneous, on-demand food delivery, and now, with our direct-to-consumer wire drops, we’re bringing the drone revolution to their doorsteps. Dronebased disruption is flying high, with

Ever search for something that was in your pocket the entire time?

Don’t feel foolish; the State Department does the same thing.

Last year a Russian woman was fired from her position at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for allegedly being a Russian spy. Supposedly the woman had been employed for over a decade and worked for the U.S. Secret Service. In 2016, during one of the State Department regional secu-

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rity office’s routine security reviews, the suspect came under suspicion.

The security office discovered that the woman was meeting regularly with the FSB, Russia’s intelligence service.

“We figure that all of them are talking to the FSB, but she was giving them way more information than she should have. We knew it was happening and it was just a process of playing it out and giving her specific information that we saw her give back to the FSB,” an official said.

The official clarified that the suspect only had access to the Secret Service’s intranet and email systems but “did not have access to highly classified information.”

The Secret Service “recognizes that all Foreign Service Nationals (FSN) who provide services in furtherance of our mission, administrative or otherwise, can be subjected to foreign intelligence influence,” a statement said.

“This is of particular emphasis in Russia,” the agency added. “As such, all Foreign Service Nationals are managed accordingly, to ensure that Secret Service and United States Government interests are protected at all times. As a result, the duties

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Canada’s “Boycott USA” Movement

Some Canadians, upset with metal tariffs imposed by the United States and by President Trump’s less than flattering words about their prime minister, are boycotting American products and buying Canadian instead.

The push to buy more Canadian products – and to boycott American ones – gained strength after the U.S. levied 25 percent tariffs on Canadian steel and 10 percent on aluminum starting June 1 and when President Trump called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “very dishonest & weak” on Twitter following a Group of Seven meeting the following week.

Canada, in turn, imposed retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. products,

including foodstuffs such as ketchup, orange juice and yogurt.

“People sort of feel that we’re getting a raw deal from the U.S. and we have to stick up for ourselves,” said Tom Legere, marketing manager for Ontario-based Kawartha Dairy Ltd., which has seen more interest in its ice cream recently. “And this is their way at the supermarket of trying to do so.”

But Canadians’ efforts to buy more local products often run into a problem. What’s really Canadian?

The country is the U.S.’s top export market, taking a little more than 18 percent of all U.S. goods that are sold abroad.

Sylvain Charlebois, a professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, estimates that roughly 40-60 percent of food on Canada’s grocery shelves is from the U.S. And closely-linked production chains make it tough to determine how much of any given item was produced domestically. So what exactly are Canadians boycotting?

For example, for one shopper, Beth Mouratidis, it’s about research.

She was convinced that a certain brand of chips was Canadian until she realized that the parent company is based in Minnesota. Even so, she still

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The Secret Service went on to say that part of the duties of the FSN position in Moscow are “to assist our attaches and agency by engaging the Russian government, including the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian Ministry of the Interior (MVD), and the Russian Federal Protective Service (FSO) in furtherance of Secret Service interests.”

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buys those chips because the chips themselves are made in Canada.

A list circulating online recently that ranked consumers’ best options for Canadian products puts French’s ketchup ahead of Heinz because it is manufactured in Canada.

One sector where the boycott efforts do not seem to be working is travel. Although some people are deliberately staying away from the U.S., overall cross-border car trips

by Canadians were up 12.7 percent in June from the same month last year, according to Statistics Canada.

Lyme Disease in All 50 States

If you thought you were safe from Lyme disease because you’re living

somewhere in Texas, think again.

Now, all 50 states including the District of Columbia have residents who have tested positive for Lyme, a bacterial infection that can cause a wide variety of symptoms, including joint aches, fatigue, facial palsy and neck stiffness.

This news comes from a report from the clinical laboratory Quest Diagnostics, which analyzed the results of 6 million blood tests doctors had ordered to diagnose Lyme disease in their patients. The report found that Pennsylvania had the most positive cases last year: 10,001.

The Pennsylvania tally, along with that of the six New England states – Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont – accounted for about 60 percent of the country’s Lyme disease cases. Positive results grew by 50 percent in New England and by 78 percent in Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2017.

However, the number of positive tests spiked in some areas not traditionally linked to Lyme disease. Florida, for instance, had 501 infections, up 77 percent since 2015. California had 483 people with positive test re-

withdraw the 14,000 Americans still in the country but the deal needs to be carefully negotiated as the Taliban still controls about one-third of Afghanistan.

sults – a 194.5 percent increase from 2015.

A telltale sign of Lyme disease is a bull’s-eye rash, but rashes with other shapes are common, too. Oral antibiotics cure most cases, especially when treatment starts early, but the infection can spread beyond the site of the bite if not treated. Some people have complained of symptoms that persist, and the National Institutes of Health is conducting research into chronic (or post-treatment) Lyme disease syndrome.

Senior members of the Taliban have claimed that the U.S. has proposed the possibility of handing over whole regions of the country or becoming members of the government in exchange for an agreement, a claim that has not been confirmed yet. Another issue is the Haqqani network, a wealthy aggressive militant group within the Taliban. The Haqqanis have been behind some of the bloodiest attacks against U.S. troops and civilians in Afghanistan. This group was responsible for the abduction of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and American Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, and their

Talking with the Taliban The U.S. and Afghanistan have a long history. Since 9/11 more than 2,400 American soldiers have been killed on Afghan soil in the U.S.-led invasion to topple the Taliban regime. The Afghan Taliban protected Osama bin Laden as he plotted the 9/11 attacks, and now, 17 years later, the U.S. government is finally talking with the militant group about ending America’s longest war.

President Donald Trump hopes to

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TSA Considers Retracting Security in Small Airports

children in 2012. Coleman and her family were rescued in October.

It doesn’t seem that the Afghan government is letting go too soon.

President Ashraf Ghani has publicly stated that Washington and other NATO members will remain in Afghanistan. “Support will be extended to 2024,” Ghani said during a NATO meeting in Brussels in July.

About $45 billion of the U.S. budget each year goes to help Afghanistan boost its economy, yet it is still

one of the world’s poorest countries.

These funds support education and healthcare, the fundamentals of a functioning society.

Barnett Rubin, a former senior advisor on Afghanistan and Pakistan for the State Department and ex-advisor to the U.N. on Afghanistan, said the U.S. needs to remain engaged to bring stability. “Afghanistan is the poorest country in the world except for a handful of sub-Saharan countries,” he said. “If the country cannot

pay for schools and teachers, the level of education will decline, and that will have very little to do with a deal with the Taliban. Same for healthcare.”

In recent months the Taliban has claimed that they are focusing on stabilizing the economy by trying to get investors. “The Taliban will invite investors to the country – in mining and in agriculture and also to manage water services,” a senior member of the Taliban said.

In a surprising turn, the Transportation Security Administration is thinking of reversing passenger screening at small- and medium-sized airports in the U.S., according to senior agency officials and internal documents obtained by CNN. The change could affect 150 airports throughout America that have been safeguarded by thorough security checks since the September 11th attacks in 2001. It would target flights that have 60 or fewer passengers.

According to the proposal, all passengers and luggage would be required to go through screening when arriving at major airports for connecting flights.

Until now, screened passengers were allowed to bypass security. In general, larger, busier airports have more sophisticated and intense security measures than smaller locations, the documents say.

CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank said it was “stunning that this is even seriously being considered.”

“Al Qaeda and ISIS still regard aviation as a priority target – that includes aircraft where you have fewer than 60 people on board,” he said.

“They would see that as a way to hit the headlines. They would see that as a way to inflict severe economic damage on the United States. If you have an aircraft of 50 or so people being blown out of the sky there is going to be a great amount of panic and there will indeed be significant economic reverberations, and of course significant loss of life.”

Two of the terrorists involved in the 9/11 attacks left a small airport in Portland, Maine, headed for Boston.

That’s where they boarded the American Airlines Flight 11, which they hijacked and flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

The proposal from the TSA argues that small aircrafts are not a target for

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terrorists since the “payoff” wouldn’t be great enough for terrorists because “the potential for loss of life” would be lower than terrorists could achieve with larger planes.

Juliette Kayyem, who was an assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs at the Department of Homeland Security in the Obama administration, said small planes could still be weaponized to cause major loss of life.

“People, weapons, dangerous goods and what’s boarding the plane are all potential risks,” said Kayyem, a CNN analyst. “TSA is falling into the trap that this is just about terror. A gun could be brought on board too.”

Historically anti-terrorism measures have included all levels of commercial aircraft. When the White House announced the laptop ban in June 2017 that affected close to 280 airports in more than 100 countries, then-DHS Secretary John Kelly said, “Terrorists want to bring down aircraft to instill fear, disrupt our economies and undermine our way of life. And it works, which is why they still see aviation as the crown jewel target.” He continued, “The threat has not diminished. In fact, I am concerned that we are seeing renewed interest on the part of terrorist groups to go after the aviation sector – from bombing aircraft to attacking airports on the ground.”

The change in TSA policy could save $115 million annually, and the proposal suggests that the saved funds could be used to improve security at highly-populated airports. The proposal would affect about 10,000 passengers who are screened by 1,299 TSA employees each day, about 0.5% of the daily population of people flying out of U.S. airports.

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called for the safe return of his three children and 12 grandchildren, who authorities said were missing.

The emaciated children were found alive in a trailer buried in the compound.

The Muslim Alliance in North America confirmed that the religious leader – the first Muslim to offer an opening prayer before the U.S. House of Representatives – is the father of suspect Siraj Wahhaj, 40, with both men going by the same name. The imam was also a character witness for convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Omar Abdel-Rahman.

The younger Siraj Wahhaj is wanted by Georgia authorities on charges related to the disappearance of his son, Abdul Ghani Wahhaj, eight months ago. Abdul’s mother reported him missing in Atlanta on December 3. She said her son left to go to the park with his father on November 30 and that they never returned. Abdul has trouble walking and sometimes wears braces on his legs.

Initially, there was no child abduction warrant against Wahhaj because he was married to his son’s mother; they both had equal custody, Clayton County police said. A juvenile court judge eventually issued an arrest warrant to question Wahhaj after he failed to let the mother know where Abdul was.

It was a tip relating to the search for young Abdul, who turned 4 years old on Monday, that led to the horrid discovery of the compound last Friday.

A message apparently sent from someone at the compound was forwarded to a Georgia detective last week. It contained a desperate plea: “We are starving and need food and water.” The message provided grounds for the Taos County Sheriff’s Office and state authorities to execute a search warrant.

When authorities entered the compound, they found Wahhaj and Lucas Morten heavily armed and with a cache of weapons and ammo.

The 11 children – ranging in age from 1 to 15 – and three women, Hu-

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jrah Wahhaj, 38; Subhannah Wahhaj, 35; and Jany Leveille, 35, were inside a trailer buried in the ground and covered in plastic. The children were taken into protective custody.

Abdul is still missing.

heit.

“The coolest, hottest mission, baby, that’s what it is,” said Nicola Fox, the project scientist at Johns Hopkins University.

Roughly the size of a small car, Parker will get nearly seven times closer to the sun than previous spacecraft. To snuggle up to the sun, it will fly past Venus seven times over seven years. Each flyby will provide an orbit-shaping gravity boost, drawing it ever closer to the sun and straight into the corona – the sun’s outermost atmosphere.

The closer, the better, for figuring out why the corona is hundreds of times hotter than the sun’s surface.

Another mystery scientists hope to solve: What drives the solar wind?

That’s the steady, supersonic stream of charged particles blasting off the corona and into space in all directions.

“There are missions that are studying the solar wind, but we’re going to get to the birthplace,” Fox said.

Scientists expect the $1.5 billion mission to shed light not only on our own dynamic sun, but the billions of other yellow dwarf stars – and other types of stars – out there in the Milky Way and beyond. While

Touching the Sun

We’re about to get closer to one of the hottest places in the world.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which is scheduled to liftoff on Saturday, is set to be the first spacecraft to “touch” the sun, hurtling through the sizzling solar atmosphere and coming within just 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface. The spacecraft has a heat shield that’s capable of withstanding 2,500 degrees Fahren-

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granting us life, the sun also has the power to disrupt spacecraft in orbit, and communications and electronics on Earth.

The project was proposed in 1958 to a brand-new NASA, and “60 years later, and it’s becoming a reality,” said project manager Andy Driesman, of Johns Hopkins , which designed and built the spacecraft. The technology for surviving such a close solar encounter, while still being light enough for flight, wasn’t available until now.

The spacecraft will hit 430,000 mph in the corona at closest approach. That’s equivalent to going from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia in a split second. Or Chicago to Beijing in under a minute. It’s expected that the spacecraft will have its first encounter with Venus less than two months after liftoff and will have its first brush with the sun in November.

In all, the spacecraft will make 24 elongated laps around the sun, closer than the orbit of Mercury, the innermost planet. The records will start falling with the first orbit, when the Parker probe comes within 15.5 million miles (25 million kilometers) of the sun and beats the current re-

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cord holder, NASA’s former Helios 2 spacecraft. Helios 2 got within 27 million miles (43 million kilometers) of the sun in 1976.

The Parker probe’s final three orbits – in 2024 and 2025 -= will be the closest. The spacecraft eventually will run out of fuel and, no longer able to keep its heat shield pointed toward the sun, will burn and break apart, except perhaps for the rugged heat shield, which is pretty tough.

Betting Ban

Some bets are just not worth it, especially if it’s only $80 you’re hop-

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ing to win.

This week, an Irish citizen living in Vancouver, Canada, raced across Safeco Field in Seattle during a Mariners’ game. He wasn’t supposed to be on the field – and he should have been wearing clothes, either way. He had rushed the field on a dare hoping to win $80 from his friends.

But now the Irish clothes-less man is getting more than he bargained for. Authorities say he may be facing deportation after the stunt he pulled.

His friends, who put him there in the first place, are trying to start a GoFundMe campaign to bail him out now that he’s been arrested.

The Blue Jays ended up winning the game, 5-1. Irish dude? He’s a sure loser.

Nuts for Nutella

If you put Nutella on bread as a snack and on your acai bowl in the morning, this job is for you.

Ferrero, the manufacturer of Nutella, has said that they are hiring 60 “sensory judges” to taste food items at its offices in Alba, Italy. The job posting, which was written in Italian, said that its research company is looking for someone interested in learning “how to taste cocoa, hazelnut and other semi-finished sweet products.” The group would undergo a three-month training program that would include developing their taste and smell senses, before just 40 people are placed in two tasting panels.In other words, if you don’t have the taste, I mean, the touch, then you won’t make the cut.

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Nabbing the position won’t take much. They are looking for “regular consumers” who need to know how to use a computer and cannot be allergic to anything. And it won’t be for that long. Those chosen will be working for two days a week for two hours a day.

Sounds like a sweet deal.

The Big Cheese

This is too gouda to brie true.

Earlier this month, the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin created the world’s largest cheeseboard with a gooey 4,437-pound smorgasbord of cheese.

They used a whopping 145 different varieties, types and styles of the beloved fare and laid them out on a ginormous board measuring 35 feet long and 7 feet wide, housed inside a digitally fabricated barn that took up an entire street in downtown Madison.

Arranged around a 2,000-pound wheel of Henning’s cheddar, other special cheeses on display included blue-veined and cave aged cheddars, fresh feta and squeaky curds, as well as hand-rubbed wheels and pungent Brick, the release stated. The 2017 U.S. Cheese Champion, Sartori Black Pepper BellaVitano, also held a spot.

“The ultimate cheese lover’s fantasy was a true team effort – taking over 60 people to prep, transport, house, style and weigh all of the cheeses,” a press release detailed, noting that the spectacle surpassed the previous European record holder by 1,000 pounds.

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More than 45,000 cheese lovers gathered to see the dairy treat. The lucky first 2,000 walked away with a “curated cheese plate to-go.”

“We wanted to showcase the amazing breadth of the award winning cheeses in Wisconsin and we thought, what better way to do that than to create the world’s largest cheeseboard,” Suzanne Fanning, a Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin exec, said of the record. “Wisconsin’s licensed cheesemakers put the art in artisan, drawing from their rich European heritage, cheese making traditions and impressive innovations, and we’re thrilled to share their masterful creations with the world in a unique and fun way.”

The leftover cheese was donated to charity, so that none would go to waste.

If only they served wine and crackers, it would have been a grand party.

K-Mart Krazy If K-Mart is the love of your life then you have a lot of problems.

One woman from Australia is so in love with the box store that she had a tattoo of the K-Mart symbol emblazoned on her ankle. She posted a photo of the garish logo on a Facebook fan page called Kmart Hacks & Roasts in tribute to her lifelong “Kmart addiction.”

“So I know I’ll get bombarded by Negative Nancys, but this happened today and no, I’m not regretting it and I won’t regret it,” the woman wrote. Perhaps she is trying to convince herself that it was a good idea.

We’re just horrified.

“The story behind getting this tattoo… my Kmart addiction, which started back when I was little and would go with my nan shopping at Kmart and having lunch at [the cafe] once a week, good times,” she con-

tinued. “Still to this day I’m addicted [to] going to Kmart every chance I get.”

She added, “There’s so many Kmart stories over my 35 years, so many memories behind this one tattoo…”

Amazed that she had this done?

So are we. But she’s not really through. Once the tattoo heals, she says she will be going back to add the word “addict” underneath.

Would someone please tell this woman there’s a whole other amazing world out there aside for K-Mart?

Boat Escape

It was like a scene out of a movie. A pair of thieves managed to steal some of Sweden’s priceless crown

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jewels on Tuesday – and sped off on a speedboat to elude authorities.

Two crowns and an orb – the 17th century funeral regalia of King Karl IX and his wife Queen Kristina – were stolen from a glass case at a cathedral in Strängnäs, which is near Stockholm. The suspects were seen fleeing the cathedral in a motorboat after the heist. Authorities say they fled the scene on women’s bicycles and then continued their escape by motorboat.

The jewels were originally interred in Karl IX’s grave but were later exhumed and put on display. They are decorated with gold, precious stones and pearls, marking “an enormous loss in cultural value and economic value,” Catharina Fröjd, a spokeswoman at Strängnäs cathedral, said.

This may give thieves a hard time if they choose to sell them, as the pieces are one of a kind. They are worth more than $13 million, although their sentimental value is so much more.

So far authorities have not tracked down the sticky-fingered culprits although they say that blood found at the scene may belong to one of the thieves.

Stay tuned for the sequel of the movie.

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Senate Majority Law Extends Superstorm Sandy Tax Break

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he New York State Senate recently announced that legislation to extend the tax exemption for residential property owners affected by Superstorm Sandy was signed into law. The bill (S7339, Chapter 130), sponsored by Senator Phil Boyle (R-C-I, Suffolk County), will extend the tax exemption to eligible Superstorm Sandy victims by two years to 2020 in an effort to help all affected homeowners recover.

Senator Boyle said, “As we approach the six year anniversary, it is vital that we ensure those impacted

by Superstorm Sandy are not victimized twice. I applaud Governor Cuomo for signing this bill into law as we work to provide as much relief as possible to those property owners who have already suffered far too much.”

Six years after one of the most deadly and costly hurricanes on record struck, many New York homeowners continue to do extensive

repairs and reconstruction so that they can remain or return to their homes. As a result, homeowners recovering in regions affected by the storm have seen their property assessments increase substantially, while also facing the financial burdens of loan payments for unfinished reconstruction costs, as well as increased property taxes. This new law will give Superstorm Sandy victims more time to fix property damage and save on taxes so they can finish their construction and get back in their homes.

Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan said, “Nearly six years later, many residents on the South Shore are still affected by the ongoing struggle to recover from after Superstorm Sandy’s damage. This new law helps continue to make it more affordable for property owners to rebuild and strengthen communities throughout our region.”

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Margaret Tietz Hires Associate Administrator to Increase Patients’ Comfort and Connection to Jewish Community

By Susie Garber

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argaret Tietz Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a unique institution in our community. Founded in 1971 with the mission of serving Holocaust survivors, it continues with that mission and, today, this kosher facility offers many services to the Orthodox Jewish community as well as to the community at large.

Recently, Margaret Tietz created a special new position unique to their facility when they hired Mr. Emanuel Lichtik as Associate Administrator. Mrs. Linda Spiegel, Director of Public Affairs at Margaret Tietz, noted, “Emanuel’s position doesn’t exist anywhere else. It shows the commitment of Margaret Tietz.” Mr. Lichtik is on the premises six days a week from early afternoon until 11 p.m. “The idea is that he is here to make sure everything runs smoothly, and patients’ and residents’ needs are met.” He helps prioritize needs when, for example, many call bells go off at once and he helps support the staff at night. Mrs. Spiegel shared, “We’re trying to grow the Jewish population in Margaret Tietz. This is important to us.”

She noted that Margaret Tietz has relations with all the local rabbanim in Queens. Every Shabbos there are guests in the facility’s bikur cholim apartment. Shabbos meals are offered in the facility and there are religious services on Shabbos. Margaret Tietz offers a daily minyan and it has a fulltime rabbi on staff, which is unique.

Mr. Lichtik’s experience includes working at HASC and at Women’s League. He holds an MBA in Health Care Management from Hofstra University. It was clear when meeting him that he is well-suited to this job because of his enthusiasm for what

he does and his compassion for the elderly and those in need.

Mrs. Spiegel noted, “The residents and families all love him.” She pointed out how there are Holocaust survivors in the facility and Mr. Lichtik is attuned to their needs. She stated, “He has a big heart.”

Mr. Lichtik shared that the best part of the job is working with the patients and trying to make sure people get what they need. “I do whatever I can to make sure they are comfortable.”

When asked about his advice for working with the elderly, Mr. Lichtik stated that activities are important for the elderly and receiving visitors.

A friendly hello or good-bye changes their day. He shared how a few days ago an elderly man asked him to take him for a spin. “I took him all over and he had a good time. I felt he had a nice time and I felt it vicariously.”

Mr. Lichtik noted, “Without the elderly, we would not be here.

Yiddishkeit is about tradition.” He lamented that sometimes we forget the elderly. His advice to people relating to the elderly is to be a good listener. “Just listen to them. Hear what they can’t say. They want to be heard. Listening to them can help

them think. They may have a lot bottled up inside. You can accomplish a lot by just listening.”

He shared how once he caught a health issue by listening and noticing someone wasn’t breathing right. He stated, “Listening can save a life.”

When asked for his vision for Margaret Tietz, he suggested offering regular shiurim at Margaret Tietz and having more minyanim that would bring in more people from the community. Currently, men from Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim come to make a minyan in the morning. He noted that there are patients who can’t walk, and they feel confined. This is especially true of Holocaust survivors. It would be nice if people from the community would come and take them outside. They would feel the community is there for them. Mrs. Spiegel shared that the facility receives patients from every hospital.

“You would be surprised how many people come with no family.”

Mr. Lichtik commented that he never saw a facility with so many private rooms.

The community is grateful for all the services provided by Margaret Tietz, and we wish Mr. Lichtik much hatzlacha and bracha in his new job.

Yameinu K’Kedem. The team colors were gold vs. silver, and our campers looked adorable with all their accessories.

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Camp Atara Has a Ball

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ake me out to the ball game!” This week was sports week in Camp Atara. We began the week with different aerobic drills to see how strong

we are. After working so hard, we cooled off with our incredible Camp Atara water bottles. The week continued with our exciting color war!

Our color war theme is Chadesh

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A Spectacular Evening to Support Yeshiva Ohr Meir of North Woodmere

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n Monday night July 30th close to 200 people joined together to support Yeshiva Ohr Meir. The sensational music group Pumpidisa played to a beautiful waterfront backdrop at the home of Joe and Miri Stern. The catered food featured the debut of Bud’s Texas BBQ side by side with Judd’s Memphis Kitchen. The event was enhanced by presentations recognizing the yeshiva’s bond with Congregation Ohr Torah and the efforts of Mr. Sruly Perlow. One of the bochurim in the yeshiva, Aharon Ackerman, capped the event with a lively siyum on masechta Megillah. The evening was successful and enjoyable.

Most of all the evening was a testament to the effective work done

by Yeshiva Ohr Meir throughout the year. Yeshiva Ohr Meir is a unique yeshiva, located in the quiet, serene community of North Woodmere. The yeshiva is run by Rabbi Yonah Stern and Rabbi Aryeh Dachs, both notably dedicated to their talmidim. Together they have successfully built a yeshiva that is uniquely focused on a mission to create an atmosphere that encourages productive growth in ruchnius along with a focus on productivity outside of the daily learning sedarim. There are many bochurim who appreciate the necessity to be in yeshiva yet need space to work, intern, or attend college during the day.

The yeshiva boasts beautiful housing arrangements and a warm yeshiva environment, with all the benefits of

a full yeshiva experience. The yeshiva holds regular morning and night sedarim and shiurim, along with steady in-Shabbosim, melave malkas, guest speakers and other programming.

In the afternoons, Rabbi Dachs is available and committed to helping bochurim get set up with jobs and a general path forward.

Rabbi Dachs’ message to the crowd at the event conveyed that only when each and every member of the community does what they are meant to do according to their own path does the entire community succeed in their specific, collective, divine mission.

The yeshiva will start its third year this Elul. Rabbi Dachs and Rabbi Stern look forward to welcoming a host of new bochurim from across the country for another year of growth.

For more information on Yeshiva Ohr Meir email: YeshivaOhrMeir@ gmail.com or call the Yeshiva office 516-882-4868.

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NEW PROGRAM!

Works for Me at HASC Center

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orks for Me” is a new affiliate program of HASC Center. This vocational program is designed to be fully community integrated with an emphasis on reducing any perceived stigma of a program for individuals with disabilities. Consequently, the program, located at 1563 49th Street in the heart of Boro Park, will have the functionality of a regular training/educational facility and will present all participants with a professional and mainstreamed program.

The mission of the program is to offer work-focused experiences leading to employment and job placement. The goal is to allow the men and women in the programs an opportunity to experience work-related community integration while being productive throughout their day. To ensure long term success the program will offer a robust discovery process that will identify skill sets, vocational strengths and weaknesses designed to assess individuals who have the desire to work but lack any real work experience. The program’s intent is to expand the repertoire of marketable skills and range of proficiency within the area of their choice and capability Some of the training components

include: (a) exposure to work readiness topics, (b) money management and transportation skills training, (c) community-based internships, GED preparation, and (d) specific modules in pre-school assistant, food service assistant, office skills amongst others. Additionally, support groups, extra-curricular functions, recreational programs, socialization and davening/learning opportunities will be available and encouraged. Individuals can enroll in the program for a full day or choose to attend on a parttime basis.

Once an individual is deemed to have reached a reliable degree of competency to maintain a paid job in the competitive workforce, our employment team will work with the individual, along with their circle of supports, to find a job in that is conducive to success and consistent with the needs and wants of the individual.

Do you know someone who can benefit at “Works for Me”? Do you think you have the abilities to make a difference in the lives of the program participants?

For more information or application details, please contact Mimi Fruchthandler at WorksForMe@ hasccenter.org.

Annual Lecture Co-Sponsored

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he Annual Nine Days Conference at the Fallsview Estates Shul in the Catskills was sponsored by the United Task Force and cosponsored by OHEL Children’s Home, Torah Umesorah and MASK. This year we welcomed Dr. David Pelcovitz, who spoke about “Is Giving Our Children Everything Really Giving Them Nothing? Children, Values, and Us.” Dr. Pelcovitz, Straus Chair in Psychology and Education, Azrieli Graduate School, was joined by a panel featuring Rabbi Mordechai Besser, Executive School Consultant, Torah Umesorah; Hindie M. Klein, PsyD, OHEL Director of Clinical Projects; and Faye Zakheim, PhD, Co-Chair UTF and Assistant Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work; for a post-lecture Question and Answer

session.

Dr. Pelcovitz spoke about proper values in child rearing, specifically about creating appropriate boundaries in a nurturing and guided way. He also provided guidance about ideal methods in creating these boundaries effectively and lovingly.

After the insightful and practical lecture, many in the audience asked important questions and received expert answers from the panel.

Special thank you to Fallsview Estates for sponsoring the buffet refreshments, in addition to hosting this vital event. Said one participant, “The teamwork of three organizations coming together and answering our questions helped us get the most out of Dr. Pelcovitz’s outstanding lecture.”

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Animal Week Fun and a Firetruck Visit at Camp Funshine

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away, We've been doing our best to keep them at bay With Mike and Ike missing, the camp was chaotic Their activities range from absurd to exotic They welcome us all as we start off our day Breakouts and getups, in their hilarious way contests and shows while we're trying to eat But we'll never stand up 'cuz we may get fat feet!

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This week in sports was extremely enjoyable and educational. Younger campers were given the opportunity to work on their physical skills, balance and coordination. They learned to kick a ball properly by anticipating and properly applying force behind it! We were sure to corporate squatting and running as well. Other games included frisbee throwing skills, jumping and hopping! For the older campers, games were developed to encourage teamwork, skills-building and understanding. With Newcombe, relay races, kickball and tee ball, campers got the ultimate athletic experience! Children were encouraged to take turns to build camaraderie and had a really super experience .

Rachel Stahler is an ACE certified health coach and has added so much professionalism to the Orah Camping Experience

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amp Shira campers enjoyed a rocking Shimi Adar concert last week! Girls danced and cheered for an hour and a half straight. Campers then wouldn’t let her leave camp for at least another hour as they sang with her and chatted with her and then they even got Shimi to go down the water park slide in her clothes!

Camp Shira campers were so excited for her visit that each camper

made a tutu from scratch to match Shimi’s signature wardrobe item!

The Art Room was filled with 16,000 yards of pink and purple tulle and the girls made the tutus by looping and knotting the tulle in an elaborate fashion.

Shimi Adar is the premier Jewish entertainer for girls in the New York area and across America. Her ruach, energy and passion are infectious and her events feel like a cross between a

rock concert, a kumzits, and a danceoff. One of the girls’ favorite moments was when many of them got to go up on stage to teach Shimi the words and moves to the Camp Shira 2018 theme song!

The campers loved the concert!

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She makes Jewish music and dancing fun and cool!”

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Lake County: The New Napa

By Ari Lockspeiser

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ow do you choose a wine?

You might walk into the store looking for a red or a white, perhaps for a medium dry or a sweet wine with a fruity finish. A good wine is a complex experience and we’re blessed to have many producers of high quality kosher wines.

But what do you do when you’re standing at the wine display and cannot recall which wines you enjoyed last week, or there doesn’t seem to be any more bottles of that wine? After all, part of the experience of wine is the ebb and flow of vintages as one season passes and the next season’s crop comes along.

You could start reading the descriptions on the back of the bottle, but trying to compare a number of wines by these descriptions may not help much. You could choose your wines by brand and the varietal (such as Cabernet, Merlot or Chardonnay), but your favorite brand may offer a number of wines for each varietal they produce.

What if there was a way to narrow down your choices without having to wade through the tasting notes?

Even better, what if that information was just a few words, and not too hard to remember?

That shortcut to choosing a wine is the “Appellation of Origin.” It’s well-known that the same grapes, when grown in a different region, will produce a very different wine. The features of the area, specifically the

soil and climate, are often referred to as the “terroir,” and when a winery wants to tell you the geographic pedigree of its wine, it uses a tag on its label: the appellation.

Appellations are sometimes defined by political boundaries such as the county, state or county, and in the U.S. there are federally recognized regions called American Viticultural Areas (AVAs). “Viniculture” is the cultivation of grapes (especially for use in making wine), and there are currently 240 AVAs designated by

the U.S. government. An AVA is an area with similar climate, soil types, elevation and physical features like mountains or bodies of water.

Some people focus on the countries or states where a wine was produced, but today, the quality of the wine is not defined by it being from France or Northern California.

There’s a discernable difference in wines produced in AVAs that are only a few miles apart. This is because the features of a region have a significant impact on the growing of wine

grapes. For example, rocky soil and warm temperatures are excellent for growing Cabernets, while cooler microclimates and sandier soil provide great growing conditions for grapes like Sauvignon Blanc.

There are currently 107 AVAs in California alone, and most have picturesque (and easily remembered) names like the “Russian River Valley”, “Suisun Valley” and “Red Hills Lake County.” In order for a wine to be labeled with the name of an AVA, a minimum of 85% of the grapes must be from that region. Some AVAs have sub-regions, which develop reputations of their own for consistently producing high quality wines. One such sub-region in northern California is called “Lake County.” To get a sense of the effect of different AVAs on wine-making, we will explore the history and terroir of Lake County.

Lake County has deep roots in winemaking. The first vineyards were planted in the 1870s and by 1900 the region had produced a number of internationally recognized wines. As in many regions, Prohibition stopped wine grape production in the 1920s.

It didn’t reemerge until the 1960s, when families who had grown crops like pears and walnuts began to plant vineyards. In 1965 there were less than 100 acres of vineyards, but today the acreage has grown to nearly 10,000 acres. Because of the outstanding quality of the grapes from the region, the acreage is expected to double in the next few years.

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tion, microclimates, soil types, and nearby Clear Lake, which is the largest inland body of water in the state of California. The Mayacamas Mountain Range, sometimes referred to as the “Axis of Cab” runs through Lake County, and Lake County vintners have moved beyond Cabernet Sauvignon and begun growing numerous other varietals like Petite Sirah, Merlot, Syrah, Cabernet franc, Zinfandel, Chardonnay, and Riesling.

With the majority of the vineyards planted above 1,500 feet and some of the best air quality in the state, the higher and drier growing environment reduces the threat of mildew and pest pressure, resulting in lower pesticide use. Lake County is fast becoming a leader in high-altitude wine grape production and has hosted international symposia on the topic. Lake County wines have been winning awards and receiving critical acclaim.

In 2017, Herzog Wine Cellars whose operations are based in Oxnard, CA, purchased a vineyard in Lake County. Many great wines are expected to be released within the coming years from the grapes that are being grown there.

There are already three excellent wines that truly showcase the capabilities of this region and which happen to be kosher, as well.

We mentioned the rich history of Cabernet grapes in Lake County, and the Herzog Special Reserve Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 was the first Herzog Cabernet Sauvignon harvested from the Lake County region. Herzog Wine Cellars are already up to the 2016 vintage now. It follows in the footsteps of the award-winning Herzog Reserves from Alexander and Napa Valley, opening with rich aromas of blackberry jam, cassis and mocha with hints of sandalwood and vanilla.

On the palate, concentrated favors of cherry and spice combine with velvety tannins and subtle notes of leather over a lasting finish. This is a wine that can comfortably age for the next 8-10 years. But it’s not just the reds that flourish in this very special wine county.

Herzog just released this summer its Lineage Sauvignon Blanc Musqué Clone. The Musqué clone is a rare type of Sauvignon Blanc which has

gained its prestige in the great white wines of Bordeaux. The appellation of Pessac-Léognan there is well-known for producing great, age-worthy white wines from the Musqué clone, wines that are even more expensive than their red counterparts! The Herzog Lineage Sauvignon Blanc is wine that offers notes of lime, honeydew and freshly cut grass with vibrant acidity and a refreshing finish.

On the other end of the spectrum is the Hagafen Lake County Riesling.

Riesling grapes are known for their high acidity and flowery aromas and tend to thrive in cooler wine growing regions. This varietal originated in Germany, and new-world plantings now rank in complexity with their old-world wine region ancestors.

Because the Riesling grape is known to express the terroir of where it’s grown, the region’s cool climate is perfect for the long-ripening necessary to produce the tropical bouquet and feel this wine displays.

The Hagafen Lake County White Riesling is light yellow in color, but clear and clean. The aroma has tropical scents like pineapple, citrus, lime and apple peel. The wine has a very new-world smell with good fruit aromas. The wine is light bodied with a fair amount of sweetness, but the sweetness is not overpowering, and it allows the acidity to come on soft in the mid-palate and stays soft the whole time through to the finish. The finish is light with more pineapple and citrus flavors.

Now that you are familiar with the concept of regions and AVAs, the next time you enjoy a great bottle of wine, you can note the Appellation of Origin and keep an eye out for the next year’s harvest. You may want to sample other wines from that region and enjoy the effects of the terroir on different vintages.

And the next time you are faced with what may seem like too many choices of wine at a store display or online, you can look for wines produced in your favorite regions as you continue to develop your knowledge of the amazing and ever-changing world of wine.

L’chaim!

Ari Lockspeiser is a wine consultant for Kosherwine.com and Jwines.com.

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This Week TJH Speaks with...

1, 2, 3…8 weeks of amazing summer fun! For two months of the year our children bask in the sun, swimming, singing, and soaking up the fun every day. How are they spending their time away from their desks? In this feature series we speak with camp directors and head counselors to learn more about our community’s amazing, spectacular, incredible, marvelous, unbelievable (you get the point!) camps.

Camp Revach

By Susan Schwamm

Saying that teenage girls enjoy their summers at Camp Revach is an understatement. Camp Revach is a sunny place where the ruach is always rocking - every day of camp! Between cotton balls, MINNA and Hatzalah dodgeball, creativity seeps into every aspect of camp. This week we spoke with the head staff at Camp Revach, Elana Jacobs, Sori Schwartz and Reba Singer, to learn more about why these girls can’t stop singing about their beloved camp.

So tell us, what sets Camp Revach apart from other camps?

Camp Revach is amazing because not only is it insanely fun but it is built on a mission to build its campers confidence. Every activity and trip is geared towards helping them grow from that experience. Girls are encouraged to “get out of their (comfort) zone and get in the game!” Camp Revach is also built on positivity!

When did you open?

We started nine years ago.

You must have some very special peopl e working at camp.

We have the best staff ever! Our head staff represents TAG, Bnos Bais Yaakov, Ateres Miriam, and H A NC. They are carefully chosen for their creat i v it y, being unbelievably fun, organized, and great

Sounds like a bundle of How many campers enjoy their summer at Camp Revach fun! What every summer? are the We have around 100 girls each year. campers’ favorite I know that Camp Revach is not for al l ages. What grades activities?

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Girls entering 4th-7 th grade.

How do you structure the camp so every camper is involved?

Our belief is if the staff is having a great time then so are the campers. The campers and staff want to do everything and get involved. Our staff is carefully chosen for this reason so that they serve as role models to the girls, whether is for tznuis, their middos, doing activities, and enjoying the ruach. For instance, our staff goes swimming with our campers. They have fun together in the pool!

This is just one example of how we get everyone involved.

Tel l us about your campus.

We have the best of the best at camp. We have an indoor pool, an outdoor pool, a water park, an enormous gym, an outside play area and a huge air conditioned building! What more could we ask for?

eryone has a different answer. Some say that sports are their favorite. “Nish nosh,” is what some say, although anything Atara does is fun so she does everything, kinda like the salad – everything goes!

But other campers say they like the team building, main activity, art, baking, and dance. According to Batsheva, “I love all the activities but I like the activities that are messy and crazy the best.”

Batsheva sounds like my type of girl! Did you do anything different for the Three Weeks or the Nine Days in camp?

We MINNA-ed! Our color war activities focused on Middos, (positive) Interaction and Achdus. We had a chessed marathon called Mitzvos in Action.

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T h e “Duct T a p e Lady” c a m e one day, one night we had a paint night and we also had a Nine Days trivia game show. We were so busy and we combined fun with chessed, which was wonderful.

paint relay races – wouldn’t you want to do a wheelbarrow race with a plate filled with paint? – and they went on a mystery hunt to find neon green hipsters.

Wow! Camp Revach has the most creative and exciting activities in town! What about for the campers who like to do art?

Our art department doesn’t just decorate – we create from nothing! It’s not rare to see our campers sawing and sanding wood. They just finished making their very own French memo boards made from scratch! All our projects teach them a new artistic style.

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eryone get IN.” Our camp song is always playing and we always cheer, “Get out of your zone, get in the game, win an ice cream cone!”

Watch out for the Revach ice cream van coming to a neighborhood near you!

As you walk around camp, what are three things that you Trips, trips, trips! What trips do you go on? hear the most throughout the day?

Three things? Hmmm… Our camp song, cheering and laughing, and music!

What is the girl s’ favorite sport?

Definitely Hatzalah Dodge, which is like dodgeball, but you can get back in the game if a Hatzalah member tags you.

Trips are another one of our specialties. We’ve gone to the ropes course, an amusement park twice, a water park twice, trampoline parks, the Tarzan boat, and a Revach classic – a chessed marathon!

Every camper also goes to Spring Gymnastics once a week as well as on random trips for slurpees and ice cream.

Sounds interesting. I guess you have to be there to real l y The trips sound amazing! What about l ate nights?

Late nights? Our late nights are the best! We understand it! What about other activities? Can you give us have about five late nights throughout the summer the top five?

Let’s see. Definitely double Dutch jump rope!

They loved it when the National Double Dutch team came – they were on America’s Got Talent – and they did cartwheels into the rope and they did pushups and cool dance moves all while jumping rope. It was amazing! And then every camper learned how to double Dutch.

The girls also love Clippies and Shnozzels.

Clippies and Shnozzel s?

It’s a little crazy but it when they put Vaseline on their noses and pick up cotton balls while using clothes pins that are in their mouth to collect them.

Oh, and they loved when they did the blindfolded makeup artists activities, they played

and stop at nothing – dinner, paint night, a water park, bonfires, glow in the dark tag, and dance parties.

Sounds like these girl s can’t stop having fun! What about lunchtime? How do you get the girl s revved up during lunch or on trips?

Revach spelled in Hebrew is the same as ruach – it’s in our name, in our blood!

We play wacky games by lunch, conduct hysterical interviews and cheer! Prizeeee wyzees go a looong way too!

I think I can hear them cheering. Is there a camp song or theme or slo gan?

The theme of camp is “Ev-

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TJH You gotta be kidding A man at a garage sale walks up to a brand new 50-inch flat screen television that is being sold for $1. “Is that TV seriously $1?” he asks the homeowner.

“Sure is, even comes with surround sound!” replies the homeowner.

“What’s the catch then?” asks the incredulous man.

The homeowner replies, “The volume is stuck on high and it’s always going to be loud.”

“Well, I can’t turn that down!” replies the man.

Centerfold TJH Summer Reading List Uninteresting Tales by I. M. Yawning How to Enjoy a Roller Coaster Ride by Ivana Herl A Trip to the Dentist by Lord Howard Hurts Crack in the Sidewalk by Bobby Tript What Old Cars Have by Rust E. Paint My Plan to Find the Real Killers by O. J. Simpson Detroit – A Travel Guide 101 Things to do on a Sunny Day in England by Ray Ning

Riddle me this?

Mr. Schlimiel hit his head while fixing the roof earlier today. In the hospital they asked him his age, but he couldn’t remember. Finally, he remembered something that would help determine his age. He told the doctor: “If you add my age and my son’s age, you get 55.

My age is my son’s age reversed.” The doctor nodded and wrote down Mr. Schlimiel’s age. What was it?

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See answer on bottom of the opposite page

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Olde Tyme Baseball Trivia 1. Who invented baseball?

World Series. Where did he perform the maneuver?

3. By what method was a base runner originally called out while running the bases?

a. Bobby Base b. Benjamin Franklin c. Jamison Smith

2. Ray Chapman was the only pro-baseball player ever killed during a baseball game. How did it happen?

b. If it took him more than 20 seconds to run between base c. If he didn’t touch the base with his right hand before the fielder of that base caught the ball

a. He ran around the bases and had a heart attack b. He slid into home and his neck hit the catcher’s thigh, causing him to break his back and die shortly thereafter

d. If he didn’t jump on the base five times before the fielder touched the base

b. Ebbets Field c. Yankee Stadium d. Fenway Park 5. On July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig was honored in Yankee Stadium after it was disclosed that he had the degenerative ALS disease. He stepped up to the podium and started his speech with the following:

c. He was hit by a pitch 4. Babe Ruth’s famous and controversial “called shot” took place during the third game of the 1932

d. He became dehydrated by the outfield’s sun and heat

d. “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”

a. Wrigley Field

a. The baseball would be thrown at the runner and if it hit him he was out

d. Alexander Cartwright

c. “My fellow Yankee players, win it all this year for me.”

6. Mickey Mantle and which other player who played with him were known as the “M&M boys”?

a. “Knowing what I now know about my health, I realize how little winning a baseball game really means.”

 Answers

a. Bob Meusel b. Gil McDougald c. Bobby Murcer

b. “This is a very hard time for me, and I appreciate all your support.”

 Scorecard 5-6 correct: You are the Big Bambino!

3-4 correct: You know a bit about the old times...

0-2 correct: You are a real baseball historian... What’s your second favorite sport?

d.

Roger Maris

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6. D 3. B- The original rules allowed fielders to get runners out by throwing the ball at them. This was called “soaking the runner.”

2. C- On August 16, 1920, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman was hit in the head with a spitball thrown by New York Yankee pitcher Carl Mays and killed. Chapman was a star shortstop and, in the view of the Cleveland News, he was the “greatest shortstop, that is, considering all-around ability,

batting, throwing, base-running, bunting, fielding and ground covering ability, to mention nothing of his fight, spirit and conscientiousness, ever to wear a Cleveland uniform.”

1. D- Baseball evolved from other games such as English Rounders, cricket, and American Town Ball.

Alexander Cartwright is first credited with drawing up the rules of baseball in 1845.

5. D 4. A

Answer to Riddle Me This: Mr. Schlimiel is 41 and his son is 14.

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Torah Thought

Parshas Re’eh

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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here are many things in life that appear to be simple and logical to one person and yet remain beyond the understanding of one’s companion, friend or acquaintance. To our great teacher Moshe, someone who is blessed with the immense powers of prophecy and who is spiritually able to communicate with Heaven almost at will, the mission of life and of the Jewish

people is simple and visible to all. It is to obey and treasure the laws and values that are represented in the Torah as elucidated and explained

by Moshe to the entire congregation of Israel.

All these rules and values are, in his opinion, self-evident and visible to all. The choices that are presented to the people are stark and clear.

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eternity and passing trends. It is all so simple to the prophetic eyes of Moshe. Part of his frustration with the Jewish people is their inability to see things as he sees them and to understand the challenges of life and history, as he perceives them.

The Torah reading this week, and the entire book of D’varim as spoken and taught by Moshe, is an expression of this frustration of the great and the holy, who see the obvious but are unable to make others see it easily as well.

The Jewish people, who heard the words of Moshe over three millennia ago in the desert of Sinai, had to appreciate and believe his message because of their faith in him and in the experiences of G-dly

words of Moshe, but rather we have the benefit of thousands of years of experience and history. We can look back and correctly assess the choices made by the Jewish people over all these millennia of its existence. We can judge which decisions were wise and which were foolish, which led to survival and eternity and which led to destruction.

Because of this ability to read and know our history, one would think that we could choose wisely based on facts and experiences that are self-evident and obvious to serious students of our past. Yet, the Jewish people have a propensity to make bad choices and to ignore the clear lessons of our history.

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revelation that they had witnessed and in which they had participated.

They had to believe in the future that had not yet arrived and had to make their choices based on faith in that future alone.

In our time, well over 3,000 years later, we need not rely solely on the prophetic advice and the

statement of Moshe – that we should see clearly even today the choices that face us and the decisions that we perforce are bound to make – we should look to our past to teach us in which direction these decisions should go and what pitfalls we should avoid.

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From the Fire

Parshas Re’eh Search Required

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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e hope and pray that Hashem will soon cause His presence to become apparent in the world through the long-awaited rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash.

The search for the Beis Hamikdash is one of the central points in this week’s parsha. Without specifically identifying its location, the pasuk (Devarim 12:5) says, “… the place Hashem your G-d will choose from all of your tribes to affix His name there, you shall seek Him there at His dwelling and come there.” The Torah is telling us that an integral part of the building of the Beis Hamikdash is that we must “seek Him there…”

The Location – Predetermined or Subject to Choice Instead of specifying the place where the Beis Hamikdash would be built, the Torah repeatedly says that the Beis Hamikdash shall be in “the place Hashem your G-d will choose.”

This phrase is used no less than sixteen times in this week’s parsha alone.

According to our Sages, this is why the Beis Hamikdash is called “Beis Ha’bechira, The House of Choice.”

But why is the location of the Beis Hamikdash treated by the Torah as such a mystery? Why must the Torah repeatedly say that it is in “the place Hashem your G-d will choose”? It is clear from Chazal that Hashem designated the future location of the Beis Hamikdash from the beginning of time, even carving out the site of the altar and canals for the wine libations at the time of the six days of creation (Sukkah 49a). The Rambam (Beis Habechira 2:2) teaches that:

There is a tradition maintained by everyone that the place where Dovid and Shlomo built the altar is the same place where Avraham built an altar and bound Yitzchak, the same place where Noach built [an altar] when he left the ark. It is the [location of] the altar on which Kayin and Hevel offered sacrifices, and on which Adam sacrificed an offering when he was created, and Adam was created from that place.

The sages say, “Man was formed from the place of his atonement.”

It is clear that we have known from the time of creation that the Beis Hamikdash would be built on a certain mountain in Yerushalayim. According to the Midrash (Pirkei D’Rebbe Eliezer 28), Avraham circumcised himself at the future location of the Beis Hamikdash and his blood flowed into the earth that would eventually fill the altar. If this was known long before Hashem gave us the Torah, why does He conceal the location? Rav Shlomo Hakohein Rabinowicz of Radomsk, zt”l, the “Tiferes Shlomo,” expressed the question clearly: Why did the pasuk not explicitly say, “the place that Hashem will choose, the holy mountain in Yerushalayim”? It would have been much clearer. Why the mystery?

The answer to our question lies in the very same pasuk we started with.

In order to find the location of the Beis Hamikdash, “you shall seek Him there at His dwelling.” We must seek it out.

As the Midrash (Sifri) says, commenting on the pasuk, “Seek and you shall find it. And afterward, the prophet will tell you [that it is the correct spot].” Expanding on the Ramban, zt”l, on the same pasuk, the Malbim, zt”l, says:

“This teaches them that Hashem will not reveal the chosen place through His prophets until they make an effort and seek it out. Then, [Hashem] will pour a spirit from above upon them after the appropriate preparation…”

Along these lines, the Chasam Sofer, zt”l (Resp. Yoreh Deah 234), teaches that the location of the Beis Hamikdash was “hidden until [Hashem] illuminated their eyes in the days of Dovid Hamelech.”

In other words, Hashem is telling us that it is not enough that He chose the location of the Beis Hamikdash.

We must choose it, seek it out, long for it, and do everything we can to find it.

And who finally revealed Hashem’s choice as the actual location of the Beis Hamikdash? The man who felt more “unchosen” than anyone else in the world: Dovid Hamelech.

Dovid wrote about himself (Tehillim 118:22), “The stone despised by the builders became the cornerstone.”

It became the very foundation of the entire Beis Hamikdash. Even after Shmuel Hanavi told Yishai that one of his sons would be the next anointed king and excluded all of Dovid’s other brothers, it still never even occurred to his father and brothers that Dovid could possibly be the anointed one (Shmuel I 16:6-11). Yet Dovid, the “stone despised by the builders,” became the cornerstone, the beginning of a new dynasty to which Moshiach himself would eventually trace his lineage.

Dovid said (Tehillim 42:8), “All of Your breakers and waves passed over me.” He went through so much suffering. Chazal even discuss (see Yevamos 77a-b) whether Dovid was allowed to marry into the Jewish people! Dovid

certainly knew what it meant to feel “unchosen” and what it mean to seek, work, long, pray, and toil until he found his place in the Jewish people. Hashem therefore chose him to clearly reveal the location of the Beis Hamikdash and build its foundation. Dovid Hamelech represented the pinnacle of choice, the highest fulfillment of our obligation to “seek Him there at His dwelling and come there.”

In verses that Chazal say refer to Dovid, Shlomo Hamelech described this attribute of his father as follows (Shir Hashirim 3:1-2): “In my bed at night I sought that which my soul loves; I sought but I did not find. I will arise and walk around the city, in the market places and city squares. I will seek that which my soul loves. I sought but I did not find.” What was it that he sought out so deeply? What was it that robbed him of sleep? Dovid wrote in Tehillim (132:1, 3-5), “A song of ascents: Remember, Hashem, Dovid, all of his affliction [in his toil to find a place for Hashem’s presence to rest – Rashi]… I shall not come into the tent of my house, I shall not go upon the bed that was prepared for me. Nor shall I give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my pupils until I find a place for Hashem, dwelling-places for the Mighty One of Yaakov.”

All Dovid Hamelech sought was the place where Hashem’s presence could be felt on a permanent basis in this world. He conducted his investigation by indefatigably searching through the streets and markets of Yerushalayim, looking for clues, comparing each location to maps and psukim, trying to find the exact location of the altar and the Holy of Holies. That is why Hashem answered his prayers and rewarded his

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search with success. Hashem chose the place where we chose Him (ibid. at 1314), “For Hashem has chosen Zion, He desired it for a dwelling-place. This is My resting place forever, here I shall dwell, for I desired it.”

It is the same now. We may know the location of the Beis Hamikdash but strangers defile it every single day and we cannot rebuild. Vile terrorists fire rockets at Yerushalayim and Jews all over Eretz Yisroel. So we continue to daven for the Beis Hamikdash, to seek it out. As the Tiferes Shlomo says, “Even if we know this place, that it is in Yerushalayim, and that no other place will be chosen, nevertheless, it is still impossible to build [the Beis Hamikdash] there until Hashem chooses our prayers and desires ‘from all of your tribes,’ that they are worthy that it should be built for them and that Hashem should cause His presence to dwell among them.”

We may know where the Beis Hamikdash will be rebuilt, but there is so much impurity standing in the way and the right time has not yet arrived. In fulfillment of the pasuk, “you shall seek Him there at His dwelling,” we must daven and hope for the rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash constantly.

Marriage – Predetermined or Chosen Just like one must seek out Hashem, the One without Whom we are incomplete, we also seek out a marriage partner, the one with whom we will build a home that serves as a microcosm of the Beis Hamikdash.

Why is there so much searching involved in finding one’s mate? We know Chazal say (Sota 2a), “Forty days before a fetus is formed, a Heavenly Voice goes out and says, ‘the daughter of so-and-so to so-and-so!’” If the right person is predetermined, why is it so hard to find one’s destined soul-mate?

First, one cannot find his mate without first feeling a profound sense of loneliness. One must feel he is missing an essential part of himself, that “it is not good for man to be alone” (Bereishis 2:18). One must first experience that existential loneliness before he is reunited with his other half and can say (ibid. at 23), “This time it is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.”

The pasuk which personifies the connection between marriage and our

loving relationship with Hashem is (Shir Hashirim 6:3), “Ani l’dodi v’dodi li, I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.” We know that Chazal teach that the first letters of those words spell Elul, the month in the Hebrew calendar which starts this week and marks the beginning of the teshuva process. This pasuk shows that we must first seek out our beloved. Only when “I am my

i.e., we did not make ourselves. We must know that our relationship with Hashem must exclude the perception that we take credit for any aspect of attainments, skills, or accomplishments.

It is a word of exclusion. But the word is also read as if it says, “Lo, His.” According to this reading, the pasuk says, “He made us and we are His.” It is not enough to look to Hashem alone and

We must choose it, seek it out, long for it, and do everything we can to find it.

beloved’s,” when I search out the one I love, will I merit to attain the level called “And my beloved is mine.” Anyone in a successful relationship knows this to be true. It is so sad to have a wife and to give up searching for her, to have a child and to no longer seek him out.

This two-stage process is also reflected in the double meaning of the Hebrew word for “betrothed, mekudeshes.” The chosson says to his bride, “Harei at mekudeshes li, Behold you are betrothed to me.” On one hand, the word implies that she is forbidden to every other man in the world. Betrothed here is a word signifying exclusion. This meaning of the word is related to the word “hekdesh, sanctified to the Beis Hamikdash,” i.e., forbidden to everyone such that no one may use the sanctified object for anything other than its designated purpose. So too, the bride and groom agree, through their betrothal, not to look anywhere else in the world. But the word “betrothed, mekudeshes,” also means that the two are dedicated to one another. This usage implies inclusion, a positive, proactive dedication to one another. They are saying that they one have eyes for one another.

These two aspects of the relationship between a husband and wife are also apparent in our relationship with Hashem, as hinted at in the pasuk (Tehillim 100:3), “He made us and we are His.” The word for “His,” however is read one way and written another way. It is written as if says “Lo, no/ not.” According to this reading, the pasuk says, “He made us and not us,”

not give ourselves credit for anything we have. We must also realize that we are His, we have a unique and special relationship with Him. In fact, if we put the two ways of reading that word together it contains the same letters as the month of Elul.

Whether it is an intimate human

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relationship, our relationship with Hashem, or meriting the fulfillment of Hashem’s dwelling place on earth, where the intimacy of the relationship between the Jewish nation and G-d is most revealed, there is always a duel nature. On one hand, there is the exclusion of all else which is personified by searching and longing. And there is the dedication to one another, the intimacy personified by Hashem’s revelation of the location of the Beis Hamikdash after our search and by the way a husband and wife find each other.

May Hashem put all of our difficulties behind us, may He reveal the way forward toward the rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash soon in our days, and may every husband and wife merit finding one another and never looking at anyone else but their beloved.

Rav Moshe Weinberger, shlita, is the founding Morah d’Asrah of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY, and serves as leader of the new mechina Emek HaMelech.

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Between the Lines

The Gift of Giving

By Eytan Kobre

I have tithed every dollar G-d has entrusted to me...

If I had not tithed the first dollar I made, I would not have tithed the first million dollars I made.

-John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

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enry Crowell, founder of Quaker Oats Company, knew the power of spending money wisely. When he began his business in a little Ohio factory, he promised G-d that he would honor Him through his giving.

As his fledgling business grew, Crowell increased his giving, and, after more than forty years of donating 60 percent of his income to charitable causes, Crowell testified, “I’ve never gotten ahead of G-d; He has always been ahead of me in giving.”

Crowell had discovered the gift of giving.

The gift of giving means that the charity donor receives as much as, or more than, the recipient (Vayikra Rabba 34:8-10; Rus Rabba 5:9). In fact, when speaking of the

donations to the Mishkan, G-d instructed Moshe to tell the Jewish people to “take” a donation because, in giving, they were actually taking (Shemos 25:1-3). Viewed in this way, G-d made people poor to help the wealthy, not vice versa (Bava Basra 9a; Shabbos 151a).

There are, of course, financial returns on charitable giving (and not just through Chinese auction winnings). “Salt your money,” we are advised, “by diminishing it” (Kesubos 66b; see also Eruvin 64a). Before the advent of refrigeration, meat was preserved by salting it and draining its juices, which diminished the size of the meat but preserved it. The same goes for wealth: to preserve it, diminish it through charity. This is especially true of tithing, which, we are assured, yields dividends (Devarim 14:22; Shabbos 119a; Taanis 9a). As one philanthropist put it, “As much as we shovel out to charity, G-d shovels back to us, but G-d’s shovel is much bigger.”

Then there are the spiritual benefits to charitable giving: it merits the Divine presence (Bava Basra 10a; Rabbeinu Bachaye, Devarim 15:10), and it protects the donor in this world and the next (Bava Basra 10a; Mishlei 10:2 and 11:4; Rosh Hashana 18a; Rashi, Avoda Zara 17b;

Tana d’Bei Eliyahu Zuta 1).

There are also psychological and emotional benefits to giving. As a 2006 National Institute of Health study found, charitable giving activates regions of the brain associated with pleasure, social connection, and trust, creating a “warm glow” effect.

But giving is perhaps most beneficial because of who we become in the process – different, better, more generous people. Indeed, the purpose of charity is not only to create a better society for others but also to better ourselves (Sefer HaChinuch 66; Shaarei Teshuva 3:35-36; Alei Shur, Vol. 2, pg. 198). The very notion of is called “tzedaka” because it aims to engender within us a sense of tzedek, justice (Moreh Nevuchim, Part III, Chapter 53).

This notion finds expression in halacha. Authorities debate how to dole out charity: some maintain that it is preferable to give smaller but more numerous donations because it “multiplies the spirit of generosity” (Rambam, Avos 3:15). Others insist that it is preferable to make larger but fewer donations because “one conquers one’s will more by giving a large sum of charity, which is very weighty, than by giving smaller sums, which are not that weighty”

(Lechem Shamayim, Avos 3:15). But either way, the impact on the donor is paramount.

When asked how much he was worth, Baron Rothschild would respond with the amount of charity he had given. To him, that was the truest statement of his worth. His business ventures could collapse, his stock could devalue, and his real estate could be seized. Only his charity could never be taken from him. It became a part of his value as a person (see also Bava Basra 11a [King Munbaz]).

In stories of survivors of the Nazi (ym”sh) death camps, giving was one of the things that distinguished between survivors and those who perished. If one was on the verge of starvation but had a scrap of potato or crumb of bread to share with a fellow Jew, it meant there was a psychological and spiritual potential for survival. As a survivor of Treblinka put it, “In our group, we shared everything, and the moment one of the group ate something without sharing it, we knew it was the beginning of the end for that person.” Because giving is not only an inherently Jewish trait (Rambam, Matnos Aniyim 9:3 and 10:1-2; Yevamos 89a), it is what makes us human.

The Torah’s statement that “your

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heart shall not be saddened when you give” (Devarim 15:10) is a challenge and also a promise. It is a challenge to avoid the distress that could result from parting with one’s money; it is a promise that the giving itself will become a joy. Indeed, an integral part of the festive holiday sacrifices obligates the host to give a portion of those sacrifices to the needy because we believe that a host simply cannot achieve the requisite joy without sharing with the less fortunate (Rambam, Chagiga 2:14; Devarim 16:14; Mo’adim UZmanim, Vol. VII, No. 115).

Because the positive feelings engendered by giving spawn more giving, the gift of giving is the gift that keeps on giving. R’ Tarfon once invested 4,000 gold dinars with R’ Akiva, who instead distributed the money to poor scholars (Kalla 5:1).

When R’ Tarfon later asked to see his investment, R’ Akiva brought him to the Bais Medrash and showed him the people learning. “Here’s your investment,” said R’ Akiva. R’ Tarfon kissed him and said, “Akiva, you are my master in wisdom, and leader in the ways of the world.” The usually thrifty R’ Tarfon thereafter increased his giving because, having experienced the joy of giving, he changed.

More recently, while raising money to ransom Jewish prisoners, R’ Shneur Zalman of Liadi, first Lubavitcher Rebbe, was told of a famously stingy miser who, despite his considerable wealth, was loathe to donate, no matter the cause. Those who unwittingly knocked on his door were offered but a single rusty copper coin, which even the most desperate beggar would refuse.

Still, the Rebbe made his way to the miser’s house accompanied by two of his disciples. Before entering, the Rebbe asked his companions not to utter a word – no matter what.

Minutes later, they were sitting in the miser’s luxurious front room, and the miser produced a small velvet money pouch. “Yes,” said the miser after yawning through the Rebbe’s pitch. “Touching story. Please accept my humble donation.”

To the miser’s surprise, the Rebbe seemed pleased with the contribution. “Thank you. May G-d bless

and protect you always,” said the Rebbe, shaking the man’s hand.

“And now,” he added, turning to his two companions, “we must be on our way. We have much collecting to do tonight.” As the three walked to the

entire sum needed for the ransom.

Here it is. Please count it to see that I have not made a mistake.” It was five thousand rubles.

“What is the meaning of this?” wondered the Rebbe’s astonished

The gift of giving means that the charity donor receives as much as, or more than, the recipient.

door, the Rebbe turned and bade his host a warm farewell.

When the door closed behind them, one of the disciples exclaimed, “You should have thrown it back in his face. That was an insult!”

“Don’t say another word,” the Rebbe shot back.

Within moments, the door swung open behind them. “Rabbis, rabbis, please come back,” the miser called out.

They soon found themselves back in the miser’s plush drawing room.

After pacing back and forth, the miser stopped and turned to the Rebbe.

“How much money do you need to ransom these prisoners?”

“Five thousand rubles.”

“Well, here is one thousand…you may count it if you want.” The miser plucked a stack of bills from his jacket pocket and laid it on the table.

The Rebbe’s escorts were in shock.

They stared at the money. Then at the Rebbe. Then back at the money, afraid even to look at the miser for fear he would change his mind.

The Rebbe shook the miser’s hand and thanked him profusely, and the three were on their way again.

“Miraculous!” the Rebbe’s escorts declared, but the Rebbe demanded silence once more.

And, again, the miser’s door swung open behind them. “Rabbis, please come back. I have changed my mind.”

No sooner had they returned to the miser’s house that he blurted out, “I have decided to give the

companions after they finally left.

“How did you get that notorious miser to donate five thousand rubles?”

“That man is no miser,” said the Rebbe. “No Jewish soul truly is. But everyone to whom he gave that rusty penny threw it back in his face. How could he want to give if he never experienced the joy of giving?”

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Only through the simple joy of giving did the miser grow to love giving.

In a 1994 speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Mother Theresa urged her devotees to “give until it hurts.”

We are charged to do just the opposite. Give, “and your heart shall not become saddened when you give” (Devarim 15:10). When we give, we change for the better – we become refined and elevated, overcoming society’s apathetic and ego-centric mores.

So, give for the financial returns.

Give for the spiritual protections.

Give for the mental health boost.

But, above all, give for the kind of person you become in the process.

Eytan Kobre is a writer, speaker, and attorney living in Kew Gardens Hills.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

E-mail eakobre@outlook.com.

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My Israel Home

Zichron Yaakov Celebrating Diversity

By Gedaliah Borvick

Baron Edmond and Mrs. Adelheid Rothschild visiting Zichron Yaakov in 1914

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hen making Aliyah, most people buying a home tend to purchase in communities which have a nucleus of families with similar backgrounds and hashkfafot, or world views. Such an arrangement offers immigrants a network of like-minded families, affording them educational, spiritual and social support. Sometimes, however, we meet clients who want to either hit the “reset” button and start afresh, such as the Wall Street financier whose dream is to become a winemaker in the Golan, or merely a family desirous of moving north to a warm, accepting, quiet community. Both types often end up in unique communities such as Zichron Yaakov.

Located twenty miles south of Haifa, Zichron Yaakov is a charming city of 25,000 people situated on the southern end of the Carmel Mountain range. One of the oldest cities in modern Israel, it was established at the end of 1882 by one hundred pioneers from Romania, members of the Hovevei Tzion – or Lovers of Zion – movement. Hovevei Tzion was one of several organizations

that gained traction in Europe in response to the waves of pogroms and openly anti-Semitic laws that had the cumulative effect of causing approximately 2,000,000 Jews to relocate, a minority of whom made their way to Israel.

Most of Zichron Yaakov’s original settlers were unable to survive the initial year, owing to the exceedingly challenging rocky terrain, which made farming practically impossible, coupled with an outbreak of malaria. However, Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, who was a winemaker, realized that the slopes of the Carmel mountain range offered superb wine-growing properties and decided to establish a winemaking town. He put all the farmers on salary and created a community-wide master plan comprised of residential housing and farming lots. Baron Rothschild named the settlement in memory of his father James – or Yaakov – Mayer de Rothschild.

Soon thereafter, Rothschild founded Carmel Winery, which was the first winery in Israel. The winery, as well as the huge wine cellars that were carved

Ohel Yaakov Synagogue, completed in 1884, commissioned by Baron Rothschild in memory of his father

into the mountain over a century ago, are still in use today.

Modern Zichron Yaakov oozes with charm, boasting a quaint brick-paved downtown district, stunning views of the Mediterranean Sea, attractive parks, beautiful homes, lovely neighborhoods and good schools. Accordingly, it has become a desirable bedroom community for the hi-tech hubs and universities in Haifa. It also has become a magnet to olim: approximately ten percent of its residents immigrated to Israel within the past fifteen years.

What makes Zichron Yaakov particularly unique, though, is its religious landscape. The city is comprised of all stripes and colors from yeshivish on one end of the spectrum all the way to non-religious, with many shades of religious observance in between: There are two charedi communities, many traditional dati leumi – or national-religious – synagogues, egalitarian synagogues, a Conservative synagogue and a Reform community. Such a wide range of religious observance in a small Israeli town is unique, but what is truly rare is the strong interaction between the sub-

groups. The city’s rabbinic and professional leadership work hard to nurture communal shalom bayit by fostering open dialogue among the members of the various communities.

Real estate is more expensive in Zichron Yaakov than most northern cities but is reasonable compared to large cities such as Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Prices range from under $400,000 for a 2-bedroom apartment to around $500,000 for a townhouse, to $800,000 and up for private homes.

Unlike many Israeli communities, the houses are not cookie-cutter, or “tract,” homes built from the same mold, rather each private home has its own unique character.

It’s easy to understand why many people looking for something different fall in love with this delightful town.

Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel.

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Breaking Barriers A Peek into the Druze Community, with a Different Kind of Zionism

Members of the Druze community demonstrating against Israel’s new nation-state law

By Rafi Sackville

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hree years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, newly elected Prime Minister Netanyahu made the decision to open the Western Wall Tunnel. This decision led to what were known as the Western Wall Riots.

During a particularly deadly siege around Joseph’s Tomb, the commander of the Southern Brigade, Brigadier Colonel Assaf Shavit, was seriously injured. Then the situation in Gaza rapidly deteriorated.

Despite being on vacation, the commander of the Northern Brigade in Gaza, Colonel Nabi Mari, drove from the north of the country, where he lived, to take command.

Well-liked and respected, Nabi made his way to Point 22 on the Philadelphia corridor, the strip that runs between the border with Egypt. The plan was to calm the rioting crowd that had gathered there. Just before reaching the outpost, Nabi and the men under his command began to take on heavy fire.

Taking position in the southern observation post, Nabi went to the south window and began firing. He said that he had identified a sniper. He fired a short burst, walked back a little, and then, when he began shooting again, he was shot by a sniper’s bullet. The bullet entered his right upper chest. Within moments, he lost the coloring in his face. His life petered out of him not long after.

Nabi Marie was the highest ranking Druze soldier to lose his life in battle. His funeral and mourning period was led by a parade of hundreds of Israeli army elite, politicians from the prime minister down,

and thousands of visitors to the Maries’ hometown of Hurfeish, only ten minutes away from Ma’alot, where we live.

One would think that Nabi Marie’s many accomplishments ended on that day in September twenty-two years ago. In fact, the opposite is true. Today his name is synonymous with advancements not only in the town where he was born, but in the military as well.

For this reason we thought it worthwhile dwelling on the Druze presence here in the north of the country. It’s a contradiction that, to the untrained observer, including many Israelis, makes understanding the Druze demographic at once both compelling and unfathomable.

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ruze villages lay scattered throughout the Golan, the Carmel Mountains, and here in the Galil with familiar regularity. With over 120,000 residents, the Druze represent a large minority in Israel.

Many Israelis cannot differentiate between the Druze, Christian and Muslims. Some hear the Druze speak their native Arabic and come to unjustified conclusions. It is no secret that the Druze dislike being compared to Muslims. Historically, they have preferred to rely on themselves to the exclusion of other Islamic sects.

They see their religion, which broke off from Islam in the 10th century, as an interpretation of the three large monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Their faith is a based on a mosaic

of beliefs. Most of their teachings remain secret to outsiders.

The more modern among them wear western style clothes. The elders and more observant have a unique dress code: women wear a traditional long black dress with a light, white head covering; men, many of whom grow long, handlebar moustaches, wear the shirwal, which are large baggy, black pants.

Their presence in shopping malls, classrooms, and the workplace are a reminder that we live with them in peaceful co-existence.

The first major step the Druze took to cooperating with Israel can be dated back to the 1940s when the Arab League tried to coerce them into taking sides against us. They chose to side with us.

Today they are represented in government and in high ranking positions in the army and yet they still do not enjoy equality in Israeli society. This split reality was neatly summed up in a song written by Yehonatan Geffen. His lyrics make it clear that in an army uniform they are heroes, but once they get back into civilian clothes they are “simply Druzim.”

This quandary is addressed at length by Mordechai Nissim, in his article in The Middle East Journal in 2010, titled “The Druze in Israel: Questions of Identity, Citizenship, and Patriotism.” He wrote, “A picture emerges of Druze solidarity with the Zionist ethos, as they simultaneously distance themselves from the Arab and Islamic themes resonant among the Israeli-Arab sector of society. The paradoxes of Druze life, simultaneously loyal to state and community, present an intricate picture of perseverance,

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Nabi Marie with Yitzchak Rabin

Mufid, Nabi’s brother, following in his footsteps

patriotism, and patience in Israel.”

Last April, the Maariv newspaper ran a profile on Chason Chason, the former security chief for President Shimon Peres. His life as a professional soldier reads like a thriller.

I read the article with interest and a feeling of apologetic ignorance. After all, there are three Druze villages within walking distance of our home.

Shouldn’t I know more? Moreover, it became increasingly clear through conversations that Chason Chason’s rise through the armed services would never have happened had it not been for Nabi Marie.

I had been aware for some time of a heritage house dedicated to Nabi Marie’s life. I called the Hurfeish city council and was put through to Mufid Marie, the head of the Hurfeish council and youngyer brother of Nabi. He was only too happy to meet with us.

lection of fountain pens.

I wandered around looking at the photos and army insignia on the walls. Portraits showed a man with a face both hardened by life but infused with compassion.

Nabi’s brother Mufid has just turned 60. He, too, has a face seasoned by life’s experience, an honest countenance that oftentimes breaks into a ready

captivating.

I wanted to ask Mufid how it feels having lived most of his life in the shadow of his older brother. Yet it soon became clear that living in such a shadow has only been a boon for him. Mufid’s pride and respect for his brother’s achievements have had an obvious effect on his life. In life and death Nabi has spurred Mufid forward on a path that he would never had taken if not for his late brother.

I asked him about his brother’s formative years.

Nabi, whose name means “a wise and noble soul,” was born in April 1954. The family was poor farmers. Mufid explained his father’s occupation thusly: “We weren’t regular famers. Regular farmers had a tractor. We had a donkey. We would get up at 2 a.m., walk to the family’s fields, where we would pick tobacco leaves before walking to school. We were very poor. We sold the tobacco leaves to Dubek, the Israeli cigarette company.

“Nabi was 5 years older than me. I was born in 1958. I always looked up to him.”

Nabi and his siblings went to the local school until 7th grade. Hurfeish had no middle or high schools in the 1960s. The choices were to travel to places like Nahariya or Ma’alot. Through his work with kibbutzim and moshavim Nabi’s father, Machmud, learned to recognize the value of Israeli life and culture. He wanted the best education for his children. In particular, he wanted them to develop a love of the land.

He sent Nabi to the agricultural high school in Iron, near Hadera. He was the first Druze to be sent to such a school.

In 1948 the army established a minority unit, which later came to be known as Unit 300. It consisted of Druze and Circassians. In that same year Druze soldiers first fought with the IDF when they aided in liberating the Upper Galilee. By 1956, Druze military service had become compulsory.

Upon turning 18 in 1972 Nabi was expected to

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urfeish lays on either side of Highway 89, the road that links to Meron and Safed beyond. It is only a few miles south of the Lebanese border. It sits atop of the same rolling and verdant hills as Ma’alot that make semi-rural life with its pollution-free air and simple living in the Galil so alluring to those looking to escape city life. Over the years the residents of Hurfeish, which now number over 7,000, have expanded outwards from the main road into a suburbia dotted with large, charming villas.

The Marie family has lived in the town for over 500 years. The Nabi Marie heritage house lies in their large family compound off the main road. The center is modest in size with a viewing room where one can watch a short film on his life. Large cabinets with glass doors display an array of collectables.

Arranged neatly inside are a variety of things small and large – from army paraphernalia to the personal belongings that Nabi cared about, like his large col-

“Regular farmers had a tractor. We had a donkey.

We would get up at 2 a.m., walk to the family’s fields, where we would pick tobacco leaves before walking to school.”

smile. He talks of his brother as if he’s still alive, is in the next room, and is about to walk in.

Mufid was conscripted into the army in 1975, and worked his way up the ranks until he became a colonel. During his service he served in the two Lebanese wars during which he reached the road that runs from Beirut to Damascus. One of his last positions was to serve as controller of the army, assessing Israel’s readiness for war.

The likeness between the brothers is striking.

They may have been cut from the same cloth, but it is not hard to recognize the uniqueness that Nabi carried. His charisma and charm must have been

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take the typical path for young Druze men and be conscripted to the army to Unit 300, the Harav Battlion, specifically formed for minorities. Before his conscription, however, he wrote a letter to Moshe Dayan, the then-Minister of Defense, in which he complained that Unit 300 effectively closed off any avenues to those Druze who wished to serve elsewhere. Nabi wanted to be a paratrooper, a position not available to soldiers in Unit 300.

After assessing the matter, the IDF conceded to Nabi’s request. Along with another three Druze and one Circassian, Nabi joined the paratroopers in November 1972.

The young man who had dared had won a major battle even before pulling on his army fatigues.

At the time he wrote a letter expressing his thoughts on the matter. “I feel like an Israeli in every way,” he wrote, “so I am willing to dedicate and contribute to the best of my abilities. Care and respect are the principles of my family, and honor exists only on the basis of a quiet and peaceful life, and a quiet life is a direct result of security. That is why I feel the obligation to be in the Israel Defense Forces, and even to belong to a combat unit in order to demonstrate my contribution to the state.”

One of the Israeli officers in Battalion 202 described Nabi’s integration as seamless. No discounts were given to anyone. Nabi had an endless motivation and will to prove himself. “At first I didn’t know how I would deal with the Druzim,” the officer recalled, “but slowly I came to see that they were just like me. Nabi never once hid the fact that he was Druze. On family day it was common for us to bring our parents to meet our officers. By Nabi it was different. He asked me to accompany him to meet his father, and not the other way around. It was clear to me that honor and tradition stood before all else.”

This was a year before the Yom Kippur War, in which Nabi fought alongside his platoon in the Sinai.

His trajectory up the ranks of the army brass over the course of twenty four years was impressive; officers’ course, instructor officers’ school, battalion comrmander, deputy commander of the Givati Brigade, commander of the Arava Brigade, member of the National Security College, and finally commander of the northern brigade in Gaza.

Each successive post that he held he did so as the first Druze. He conveyed a simple message to

“I feel like an Israeli in every way so I am willing to dedicate and contribute to the best of my abilities.”

the troops under his command. Upon addressing his troops at officers’ school he implored them to set an exemplary example as officers. “In order to be a good officer you have to continue to study even when you are with ranks on you,” he told them. “Not only learn but also act as an officer even when you are out of uniform.” While being a soldier was a profession, being a decent citizen was a major priority in his life.

His positive attitude never wavered. For example, in 1986, Nabi became a platoon commander. It was a position that had never before been filled by someone other than an Israeli. Reflecting on his time with Nabi, one of his fellow officers remembers him saying that as a Druze he had to work twice as hard in order to prove himself. Israelis who were conscripted at the

same time as him had reached higher ranks. Nabi’s appraisal of his situation was honest, “One needs patience,” he acknowledged. “This is a war for my very existence, and I’m fighting hard. Although we’re not equal in everything in the army, I believe that this will improve over time.”

There was another element to his personal mission. Nabi saw himself as a true Zionist. When he examined the values of his officership and his love of the country, he felt this sentiment and qualified it as a different kind of Zionism. Today, thousands of Israeli Druze belong to Druze Zionist movements.

After Nabi trained at the National Security College he took control of the Northern Command in the Gaza Strip, where he fought his last battle.

The man who had stood as a lighthouse for the village and his entire community became as legendary in death as he was in life.

Nabi’s uniqueness and his leadership of others is aptly reflected by the former (late) chief of staff Amnon Lipkin Shahak in a letter that he wrote to the Marie family: “Nabi was always setting a precedent throughout his military service. Nabi was always where they sent him and he was always sent to places where they needed him. And there were few people who could be in those places.”

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ufid showed me the flak jacket Nabi wore the day he died for his country. It hangs behind a glass cabinet on the far wall. It is difficult to look at the hole where the bullet entered and not think of every life we have lost in battles; over 20,000 lives taken, all in the name of protecting Israel.

We stood there in a silence that was broken by Mufid. “Such irony,” he remarked. “I was in Lebanon at the time. The chances of my being hurt or killed were far greater than his.”

I looked across at my wife, thinking our interview

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about this brave soldier and the town of his birth was over.

But we were wrong, because the fruits of the barriers that Nabi knocked down have blossomed and continue to bear fruit even in 2018.

Mufid told us he recently returned from a trip to New Jersey with a delegation of Hurfeish residents.

He told us about the fruitful cooperation between Metrowest and Hurfeish.

After the Second Lebanon War, Hurfeish requested the same type of support American communities were providing for Jewish cities and town in the north of the country. As chairman for the World Jewish Congress, Shai Hermesh, a former member of the Knesset and a man who had worked with Nabi in the army, assisted Hurfeish in making the right connections.

An emergency dispatch center was built. It is like a war room that is connected to the government and the army. It helps keep the town on a ready footing in time of need.

The town has also received funding for a project called Opening the Future through which the Federation has helped fund a group of women who work with truant kids. They develop personal programs for each child and his/her family, in the hope that they can get kids at risk back into schools.

seven cities and towns in Israel. From Arad in the South to Rishon LeZion, Hurfeish is the only point on the map that is Israeli but not Jewish. He was quick to stress how the cooperation with Hurfeish is truly one of quality and how the Federation is very honored to work closely with them.

None of this would have happened without Nabi Marie, who never got to see the fruits of his persistence. It is an irony not lost on his brother.

For example, Unit 300, the army’s minority unit, was shut down a few years ago. It might have still been up and running were it not for the perseverance of a headstrong 18-year-old who in 1972 was committed to taking many roads never before taken by his community. Today Hurfeish has more combat and regular soldiers relative to its size than any other Druze town in the country.

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The delegation to New Jersey focused on a group of elderly women who gave workshops in designing head coverings and Druze cooking. Because Druze women do not travel alone, their husbands accompanied them. The trip was successful. This coming October, hundreds of youngsters from New Jersey will pay a visit to Hurfeish.

I spoke to Amir Shacham, the Federation Associate Executive Vice President of Global Connections.

He told me that the Federation has joint projects with

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s Mufid dedicated a book on Nabi’s life to my wife and me, I wandered back to the display case that houses all those wonderful fountain pens, once treasured by a fallen hero. They lie there side by side as silent as the quiet afternoon awaiting us on the other side of the door. A Mont Blanc lies next to a Parker 1951. I wondered what other barriers Nabi might have written into the history of Israel had his life not been taken at the age of 42.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters, I’ve started dating not that long ago and I’m finding that when the shadchan calls me up about a potential shidduch, they often have no idea what the guy plans on doing financially with the rest of his life.

Often, they are learning and that’s fine with me but I certainly want to know that my future husband has a specific plan for when he stops learning in a year or two – whether they plan on going to school for a degree, or have a family business to go into, or some specific plan. But I need to know that my future is secure.

My first question is, on which date is it appropriate for me to question someone I’m going out with about his thoughts regarding making a living someday? And my second question is, in how much detail can I go? I’ve gone out with one or two men who have said to me something like, “I plan on going into business.” Some very vague comment like that. What does that mean? It sounds to me like an empty comment. Am I allowed to ask specific questions, like “what kind of business?” Or, “how will you get into such a business?”

I don’t want to sound too aggressive, but I do feel I need more specific information from men I’m dating.

Disclaimer: This column is not intended to diagnose or otherwise conclude resolutions to any questions.

Our intention is not to offer any definitive

conclusions to any particular question, rather offer areas of exploration for the author and reader. Due to the nature of the column receiving only a short snapshot of an issue, without the benefit of an actual discussion, the panel’s role is to offer a range of possibilities. We hope to open up meaningful dialogue and individual exploration.

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. ave yourself and the shadchanim time and give them a call. Make sure to thank them for their efforts in the past and thank them for their future efforts. Let them know that you want to date boys with specific plans.

Tell them straightforwardly that you are OK with a one year learner but a young man that you will go out with needs to have specific goals and a plan of how to achieve them. Clarity and openness will be most helpful to them and to you. Just do it with grace and show your consideration for the considerable time and effort involved in setting you up.

There is no need to feel defensive about this matter. It’s not aggressive

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to be open. Think about why you are mislabeling openness. Feel free to talk to young men about this but if you are meeting boys without plans, you are being set up with the wrong guys – so take it up with the shadchanim.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. ith apologies to Jackie Mason, there’s an old Yiddish joke…

Gittel is in love. Moishe, the learner, has asked for her hand. Tatty, the shver-to-be, escorts Moishe to his study so they can talk tachlis. After a few tense minutes, Tatty emerges, looking confused and befuddled. Zissel, his wife, takes him aside and asks anxiously, “Nu? How did it go?” Tatty

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shrugs and replies: “The boy called me G-d! When I asked him, ‘How do you intend to support my Gitel?’ He answered piously, ‘Gut veht helfen.’ I pressed on, ‘And how do you intend to make a living?’ Moishe raised his eyes heavenward and repeated ‘Gut veht helfen.’ I countered, ‘Triplets?’ ‘Gut veht helfen.’ ‘Stock market crash?’

‘Gut veht helfen.’ Zissel, no doubt about it. Moishe’s really convinced I’m G-d.”

Kidding aside, you have every right to know how your future husband plans on making a living. If you are too timid to ask outright, the shadchan can do the deed in the early stages of dating. Once you feel more comfortable with a guy and the shidduch has progressed to the “next level” (beyond siblings, summer camps and Jewish geography) a conversation regarding his plans (years in learning, educational aspirations, career goals) is customary and very much within the norm.

Let me warn you. His answer may be irrelevant. Experience has shown that a bochur may plan on learning for two years, but circumstances (his wife, family and the bank account) allow him to learn longer. Some longterm learners planned on “ten years” and circumstances compelled them to seek a degree and join the work force way earlier. More significant: is the bochur in question reliable, responsible, ambitious and hard-working?

Pay attention to clues during the dating process; do your reference checking and speak to as many people as you can regarding the bochur’s character and work ethic. Once you are convinced he’s got what it takes, proceed with the shidduch. Trust and believe: “Gut veht helfen.” He always does.

The Shadchan Michelle Mond f you are looking for a man who will eventually have the tools to

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More significant: is the bochur in question reliable, responsible, ambitious and hard-working?

provide for his family, it is appropriate for you to ask the shadchan to ask him this question directly. You may ask the following: “I understand that he plans on learning the first year or two. What are his plans for making a parnassa?”

Being direct rather than beating around the bush will give you specific information so that you can avoid wasting your, or this young man’s, time. Once you know this young man has a plan and you are to go out with him, it is definitely okay to, amidst the normal context of getting to know each other, ask about his plan in further detail.

Asking about the other person’s goals is a crucial conversation piece for anyone to have on a date. Obviously, make sure that you are approaching the topic in a genuine and socially appropriate way.

Now to address a comment you made in your first paragraph, even though you did not ask about it specifically. You mentioned, “I need to know that my future is secure.” Realize that one can never really know for sure that their future is secure. Life is full of twists and turns that one cannot anticipate. It is for this reason that you should look at his work ethic mindset more than what exactly he is doing. A guy can go to college because his parents pushed him to but in reality have a very weak work ethic.

On the flip side, a guy can skip college and be very business savvy and driven. Make sure to look out for a guy who displays a strong work ethic and

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genuine passion for whatever path he is currently taking. Hatzlacha!

The Single Tova Wein hese days there is a tremendous amount of conversation about how personal resumes have to be and the fifty million questions that are being asked about potential shiddu-

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chim. In such an environment, where nothing is off limits, from a future mother-in-law asking about the dress size a young woman wears, to asking whether parents use a white tablecloth on Shabbos, it strikes me as odd that you would think twice about asking the shadchan specific financial details regarding where a potential date is holding. This is significant stuff. After all, a young man’s attitude related to earning a living is a very crucial key to the compatibility between two people

Pulling It All Together

being set up. If they are both on the same page, for instance, in terms of opting for indefinite learning that is crucial information that needs to be shared. If a woman is hyper-focused on a marrying a professional, and doesn’t even want to waste her time going out with anyone who isn’t well on his way toward graduate school, that too needs to be shared.

You wouldn’t go out with someone if you didn’t know anything about his hashkafa. Why would you go out with someone if you didn’t know their feelings surrounding their future career?

So many questions asked these days are truly gibberish. This topic is not. Don’t be shy. Don’t feel as though you don’t have a right to

Life is full of twists and turns that one cannot anticipate.

discuss it in advance and to expand on it while you’re dating and filling in more blanks about one another.

Though ultimately we never know where life takes us, at least know that you’re going into a relationship armed with enough knowledge to allow you to feel you are in sync.

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ll the panelists are on the same page, and I am not the exception. Not only is it appropriate for you to ask questions, it is incumbent upon you to ask the questions that you want/need answered to feel safe, comfortable and confident moving forward with someone who is committed to providing for his family. In my mind, your query may be a result of one of two possibilities, or perhaps a combination of the two: Possibility A – All the rules and regulations of the shidduch system have left you confused and overwhelmed, as they do to so many. You don’t want to say the wrong thing and be dumped hastily, as happens to so many.

Possibility B – It is difficult for you to speak about money/security due to your own relationship or past with money and security.

If you beat around the bush or don’t bring it up at all, you may wind up attracting a man who thinks, “Bingo! A cash cow! Free ride.” Or, “Great, she doesn’t care about money!

Neither do I! Finally, someone who understands the ‘important’ things in

life.” We really do teach people how to treat us. If you don’t bring it up, you are letting guys know t h a t money/security is simply not a priority for you… which is the furthest thing from the truth.

Be open and honest about your priorities from soup to nuts. From the shadchan, to any professionals involved, mentors, friends, family, the man you are dating, and most importantly, with yourself. If you are uncomfortable talking about money (having nothing to do with dating, but you always felt funny or uncomfortable with it), try to process this and work through it before you start dating. Figure this out now. Learn to be honest and straightforward about your feelings about money now, so you attract a man who will do the same.

One of the biggest things couples fight about is money; not only due to the stress it can bring to a relationship, but because of the resentments that builds when people aren’t honest and upfront in their conversations about

money/future/security.

When to bring it up, you ask? There isn’t a formula for when to bring this up.

(On the third date, ye shall ask young man, Young Man, how does thee plan on supporting thy future wife and family?) Because you will have already told the shadchan about your priorities, the men you will date will naturally be ambitious, driven and have a financial game plan. Bring it up with a casual confidence. So and so told me you’ll be going into your family’s jewelry business. That’s great! Men who are driven, ambitious and want to support a family financially will usually bring this up on their own. It is part of their identity as a man. They want to let a woman know that it is important to them to take care of their wife and family. And when they do, don’t be afraid to continue the conversation.

Take the reins.

If a guy dodges the conversation or doesn’t seem enthusiastic about his plan or is full of excuses, these are all possibly signs that he isn’t committed to his game plan. Of course, game plans fall apart all the time and nothing is 100 percent guaranteed in this life, but a man who is apathetic or disinterested is a pretty good indication of a lack of financial security (or sometimes of a guy from a wealthy

family who will be or believes he will be supported by generational wealth).

I offer you a mantra: There is nothing funny about money. There is nothing funny about money. There is nothing funny about money.

This is a very important message.

I think that once you understand this and make your own internal peace with it, you will organically have an easier time having these conversations with the men you date. You are looking for a man with a plan. There is nothing shameful about knowing what you want. Embrace it. Be at peace with it. Accept yourself and celebrate yourself for it, and the right man will do the same!

Sincerely, Jennifer

Esther Mann, LCSW and Jennifer Mann, LCSW are licensed psychotherapists and dating and relationship coaches working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516.224.7779. Press 1 for Esther, 2 for Jennifer. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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Dr. Deb

G-d Has My Back

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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was talking to a friend who was going through a tough time. She told me that even though she’s struggling, “I know G-d has my back.”

How does she know?

I didn’t ask her but I have had the same experience, so I can answer for myself: I’ve had “things” happen in my life that look to me like answers.

True, there’ve been struggles. Fi-

nancial struggles, health struggles, relationship struggles – I’ve had them, she’s had them, most people have had them. Yet, the lens that we look at our total picture with is that these struggles were part of the big picture, and that picture is for our good. So that way, the struggles become viewed at as opportunities for personal growth. They are not “bad,”

but “good.”

There are certain kinds of struggles that are awfully difficult for a person to get this take away from.

We admire people who seem to come out stronger and with greater faith in HaKadosh Baruch Hu when they suffer terrible tragedy and yet interpret everything as good, still knowing Hashem is on their side.

How is it that I, and this friend, and the courageous people who have been in the news recently, interpret our “signs” that way and others may not? And then, the most important question is: Is there a way to help those who feel quite the opposite to turn around that relationship with Hashem so that they see adversity as only a step on the road to success?

There’s Surely a Purpose The person whose comment got me started thinking about this topic said that as a child, when she would be frightened that certain bad things would happen, they would actually happen. From this she came to the conclusion that these bad things were meant to be, they’re part of G-d’s Plan. Yet, she still feels G-d “has her back.” I asked her how she could come to that conclusion. She said that she had been angry at G-d for some time, but she worked on herself to see it as a meant-to-be good and when she did, she ended up feeling more connected to Hashem – and to herself.

The same can be said for our chachamim who interpreted Tisha B’Av in that same way. There was something positive meant to emerge from it. Perhaps that positive is simply for

us to see our own acts as needing reflection and teshuvah. As Vivienne Frank so eloquently said in her Shabbos shiur to women on the actual date of Tisha B’Av, Shlomo HaMelech’s Temple was destroyed for sins that are rampant in our society today.

Any time, for example, that we decide to do something we know is against G-d’s Will, we are guilty of avodah zora. I am guilty. When my computer does something I didn’t want and expect, I get angry at it!

Real anger, I’m sorry to say. So that is avodah zora. Talking to a computer? Hello! Anger at it, no less? Please.

I once read a story of a guy who threw his computer out the window, he was so mad.

What else do we do that’s against G-d’s Will and we make up rationalizations for it? Those things could be avodah zora too. I’m not here to judge; it’s for all of us to introspect.

The other two of the three cardinal sins for which the Temple was destroyed, Mrs. Frank went on to say, are as much a part of our society today as they were back in that time.

She referred to forbidden relationships and the flack against the latest Supreme Court candidate due to his stance on terminating pregnancy.

One is gilui arayos; the other, shvichas damim.

So perhaps “only” the building was destroyed and it was all a gift to caution every generation – including ours – to beware of committing the same old sins.

Looked at through that lens, although Tisha B’Av was a horrible tragedy, it was necessary, and a help

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to us.

Perhaps similar reasoning could be applied to personal tragedies. I remember my daughter telling me when she was in high school that the girls were going to visit someone in the hospital who was their age, but in a coma. Nebach. She told me that the sick girl was accomplishing something important by getting all of us to daven so hard. Was my daughter just a starry-eyed youngster, or was she onto something?

If Hashem created a world of logic and purpose, then these thoughts must be true; it must be that even what looks to us to be terribly bad has a purpose. It’s not always clear to whom that purpose is directed, but we are meant to work on figuring it out and make sense of it in our personal lives.

For those of you who do use internet and know who Tony Robbins is – he’s a world famous personal growth speaker – the story of his childhood was posted. Apparently, his mother

was a physically abusive and verbally biting alcoholic with several husbands. He had to protect his younger siblings from her violence. Eventually he was thrown out of the house. And from this came a world-class human being who has given multi-millions

who got me started thinking about this, “heard” the Heavenly messages.

Others take the signs in their lives in a different way.

So I’m wondering if the people who believe G-d has abandoned them, and are therefore depressed be-

We are meant to work on figuring it out and make sense of it in our personal lives.

away in food and help to the poor and needy.

Can We Do An Experiment?

Back in Florida, Rabbi Casriel Brusowankin said to me that G-d always speaks to us. But we are like a radio (remember those?) which has to be tuned to the right frequency to hear. Tony Robbins, and my friend

cause of it, can do an experiment: For one week, act and think as if you did believe the Ribbono Shel Olam has have your back. We know you don’t really feel that way, but that’s okay.

This is just an experiment. Choose a week, and for that one week, don’t allow dark thoughts into your mind.

If they come in uninvited, as they will most likely do, tell them you do not

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believe them.

Tell them Hashem is with you, is looking out for you, wants the best for you, believes you are a good, wonderful person who deserves a good life.

I realize that a part of you is rebelling because that is not how you actually see it. But this is an experiment. You have nothing whatsoever to lose. The key is to be very firm in doing it. If you’re making a cake, you can’t leave out the sugar even if you’re not in a sweet mood.

Simply do not entertain negative thoughts for one week. Practice fighting them even though you’re not at all convinced. Write down the message I’ve written above to fight them and say them fifty times a day if you have to. A hundred. Two hundred. Whatever it takes. For just one week.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn is a Marriage and Family Therapist. She can be reached at 646-54-DRDEB or by writing drdeb@ drdeb.com.

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Health & F tness

Acai Bowls Are They Berry Healthy?

By Aliza Beer MS, RD

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hat is the acai bowl craze that is taking over both the food world and Ins-

tagram?

The acai berry is an inch-long reddish-purplish fruit that comes from the acai palm tree, which is native to Central and South America. According to the Mayo Clinic, acai berries are even richer in antioxidants than other popular berries, such as cranberries, blueberries, and strawberries. Antioxidants are special compounds that are crucial in the fight against harmful free radicals that travel in the body and cause many types of cell and body damage. Acai berries are also high in fiber, calcium, and vitamin A. They have been widely marketed as a “superfood” due to their extremely high antioxidants and phytochemical content. Acai berries, however, have not been scientifically proven to provide more health benefits that are different from similar fruits and berries. Some weight loss products include and tout acai, but few studies have tested whether acai promotes weight loss. One cannot buy the acai berry as a whole berry in the U.S.; it is sold as a powder, capsules, juice, or frozen purees.

So what exactly is an acai bowl?

Stores take the acai powder or puree and usually blend it with a nut milk and honey, and top it with all kinds of toppings including fruits, granola, and coconut shavings. There is a lot of good going on in the average acai bowl: fruit, nut butter, almond milk, and nuts/seeds are all high

nutrient foods. However, the issue is that many of the ingredients in an acai bowl are high in sugar. Essentially, an acai bowl is an enormous-portioned smoothie with high calorie toppings. Acai bowls have become the “it” food with all kinds of food establishments trying to get in on the action. Let’s take a look at some well-known (non-kosher) acai bowls as an example for their caloric, sugar and fat content.

• Planet Smoothie’s 18 oz. acai

themselves healthy and make great breakfasts or snacks. For example, spreading some almond butter on a slice of whole wheat toast isn’t a high sugar snack. But when you combine fruit juice, frozen fruit, fresh fruit, nut butter, honey, and granola in the same dish, the sugar total will spiral out of control. Most acai bowls contain a minimum amount of 50 grams of sugar, the equivalent to 12 teaspoons, and many people are eating these acai bowls for a break-

I recently had a former client return to me because she had gained back most of the weight she had lost by simply eating an acai bowl every day.

smoothie: 370 calories, 10 grams fat, 43 grams sugar • Robek’s 14 oz. Acai Especial Bowl: 385 calories, 5 grams fat, 69 grams of sugar • Jamba Juice’s power size acai super antioxidant: 560 calories, 7 grams fat, 92 grams sugar That’s a lot of sugar to consume in one sitting! The American Heart Association recommends no more than 25 grams of sugar a day. The individual ingredients used in a typical acai bowl are in and of

fast, lunch, or snack – almost every day! Consuming too much sugar has been linked to obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and many other negative health outcomes. I recently had a former client return to me because she had gained back most of the weight she had lost by simply eating an acai bowl every day.

Now that I’ve scared you away from the acai bowl craze, let’s discuss ways to get your acai fix while keeping the sugar content down.

Stick to adding lower sugar fruits like the berries as toppings. Avoid honey and granola, both high in sugar, for they will definitely tip the scales upwards in sugar total. Dress up your bowl with some shredded coconut instead. Opt for unsweetened almond milk instead of using fruit juice in the blending process.

Unsweetened almond milk has 0 grams of sugar. Use powdered peanut butter, like PB2, instead of real nut butters, and you will cut down on not only the sugars, but the fat and calories as well. My last tip is the simplest and most important one: cut down on your serving size. Use smaller bowls and smaller spoons, you will be eating less food, but more slowly. Moderation is the key to all foods, and an acai bowl is no different.

Although an acai bowl consists of mostly natural sugars, it’s still too much sugar to indulge in on a daily basis. One should look at acai bowls as an occasional treat, like having an ice cream or frozen yogurt. When you do indulge, then choose your toppings wisely, and try sharing that enormous storebought bowl with a friend. If possible, the ideal scenario, of course, is to make your own lower-sugar and lower-calorie version at home.

Aliza Beer is a registered dietician with a master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at alizabeer@gmail.com.

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Putting Sugar in Its Place

By Hylton I. Lightman, MD, DCH (SA), FAAP

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ou know the scenario.

“May I have a treat, please?”

“Just one more, Mommy. Just one more. I promise. That’s it. I PROMISE!” This is about candy and nosh.

It goes on in school. It goes on in camp. It goes on at home. Candy and nosh are everywhere.

And it even goes on in the pediatrician’s office!

You would think that when parents bring their children to our office, everyone would be on good behavior. This means at least acting like they are living and maintaining a healthy lifestyle filled with no television or electronics, lots of exercise and movement, and a nutrition-filled eating regimen.

Perfect, we are not. I accept that. But the amount of candy and nosh that abound in our world is mind-boggling. They are being used at home and in both school and camp settings as a motivational tool, a reward, and even for discipline.

There is something wrong this picture.

The USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that children (and parents and grandparents) limit added sugar to less than 10% of their daily calories. However, the average American diet is so high in sugar that children can easily exceed that limit many times over without even realizing it. The insidious part of ingesting sugar is sugar “goreres” sugar because it can fuel cravings for even more sweet foods and drinks.

Americans get about 13% of their total calories from added sugars, such as sugar-sweetened beverages and snacks and candies.

And from childhood overconsumption of sugar we go to the adolescent overload.

It’s a documented fact that between 2010 and 2015, the consumption of soda declined while the ingestion of sports drinks increased.

Sports drinks are electrolyte and c a rbohyd rate - c ont a i n i ng sof t drinks, often flavored and sweetened, designed to restore energy and fluids. The average American child, let alone the average frum child, does not expend the amount

of physical activity that requires electrolyte replenishment. Further, sports drinks add unnecessary calories to children’s diets.

Yikes!

Sugar can put kids (and adults) into orbits. There is a rush that follows excess sugar consumption which is almost immediately followed by a “crash” or a dramatic dip in the person’s energy level. It’s not a fun phenomenon for a teacher to manage in a classroom. Nor is it wonderful in any other scenario. It hinders growth and progress. And imagine what the sugar rollercoaster can do to children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. I wouldn’t want to be that child, student, parent, teacher, worker, colleague – whatever.

How can we break the cycle of excess sugar?

It takes education and time.

Here are some simple, consistent changes that can be instituted over time.

First, figure out how much sugar you are ingesting. Know

how much sugar is added into food by reading the labels on foods. Current food labels display total sugar, which includes natural sugars like those found in fruits. This past July, it became mandated that food labels must display “Includes X g Added Sugars” under Total Sugars.

This makes it easier for all people to understand how much sugar these products really have. Know the conversion of sugar from grams to teaspoons, i.e., 4 grams = 1 teaspoon.

For example, in a diet of 2,000 calories per day, 10% would be equal to about 50 grams or 10 teaspoons of sugar.

Get to know how and where “sneaky sugar” lurks. Many foods marketed as “health foods” can have loads of added sugar. It’s a MUST to always check the labels on sports drinks, smoothies, protein and granola bars, and yogurt. Whole fruits are infinitely preferable to these foods. If your children balk at first (and they will), melt some dark chocolate and let them “dip” fruit into chocolate. Dark chocolate contains 70% cocoa and has less than

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half the sugar of milk chocolate.

Stick to “basic beverages” meaning milk, almond milk, water and seltzer. Keep fruit juices to a bare minimum. Rather than starting with fruit juices, place sliced fruit into water to give the water some flavor but without the excess sugar. It is unnecessary to give babies apple and other juices.

Avoid rewards with sugar.

Please. Far too often, and in almost every setting, kids are rewarded for good behavior with sugary treats. It’s a short-term fix at best.

It becomes a much bigger problem later when children learn to expect a reward for appropriate behavior – and then the taste buds and cravings have been trained accordingly. If your child wants sugar in preschool and gets it, then what will he expect as an adolescent? Consider yourself warned.

A note to rebbes, teachers, and camp staff: it is totally unnecessary to reward the children for learning

or behaving well with candy or sodas. An apple a day will make them just as happy to learn and to play.

And you might even then keep the doctor and dentist away.

It’s time to change the cul-

a new culture. My contemporaries associate Simchas Torah with apples on flags, not unending nosh. What are your thoughts?

Like everything else in life, we have to find balance. As much as

Many foods marketed as “health foods” can have loads of added sugar.

ture. Is there a Jewish child who goes to shul and who hasn’t (yet) found the lollipop man? Is there a way we can make going to shul, learning, behaving, etc., into something exciting and fun but without the sugar? This requires a collective thinking collaboration to create

we want to banish sugar from their lives, we also want them to learn how to balance all the available choices when they are able to make food decisions for themselves. Banning sugary drinks and snacks could become a case of “forbidden waters are sweeter.” It’s okay to have one

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Rosh Chodesh Elul is imminent, although by the time you read this, it may be upon us. It’s a great time to think through some of the information here and begin effecting positive change for the new school year and Jewish year. Start with restocking the vending machines in schools with better foods.

I’d like to have my cake and eat it too but there are limits. Knowing that the best teacher is to role model appropriate behavior for our children in this area and throughout life is most humbling.

As always, daven.

Dr. Hylton I. Lightman is a pediatrician and Medical Director of Total Family Care of the 5 Towns and Rockaway PC. He can be reached at drlightman@totalfamilycaremd.com, on Instagram at Dr.Lightman_ or visit him on Facebook.

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It’s All about That Base Is Consommé a Cook’s Friend or Foe?

By Naphtali Sobel

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here is much controversy regarding chicken base (aka consommé or bouillon cube) and other stock replacements. Let’s first understand what its culinary role is and then we can assess if it belongs in our kitchens.

Stocks and broths are one of the main foundations in cooking, whether it’s for the base of a soup or stew or as an addition to a sauté. Stocks add both depth and richness of flavor and a nice mouth feel.

Soup bases are a composition of spices, fats colorings and starches mimicking the color, flavor, and texture of a stock or broth, although it can never really stand up to the real deal. Some bases even contain real animal-based protein to provide a

more natural type of flavor.

In commercial kitchens it’s referred to as “base” since it’s a base

sommé is a broth prepared naturally and then clarified with ground meat, egg whites, and additional vegeta-

There is nothing amateur about bases when you are trying to hit certain flavor notes.

for stocks and soups but in supermarkets it’s referred to as consommé or bouillon. An authentic con-

bles and aromatics which are mixed evenly together, then stirred into the stock creating a cloudy mass.

The ground meat and the aromatic mixture ends up floating to the top of the broth and the scum and impurities are filtered out, resulting in a perfectly clear and intensely flavored broth. A court bouillon is a flavorful broth created for poaching other foods such as fish or vegetables. As such, the term consommé and bouillon are just fancy French marketing terms. Additionally, because the word is French in nature, it’s pronounced kun-soo-MAY. Soup base is often used excessively in commercial cookery and especially in industrial cooking.

This is often the reason catered food can taste pretty flavorful, although it can be used often improperly as a crutch rather than as an occasion-

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al seasoning. When it is used as a spice I would sometimes compare it to a curry in the sense that it’s just another flavorful mixture and is no less blasphemous than using it like other spice blends. Bases are created by special R&D chefs and scientists in lab coats alike, working on imitating flavors and textures which makes its flavor profile by no means pedestrian. Even the famed chef Marco Pierre White, who is Gordon Ramsey’s mentor, did a marketing campaign for Knorr bases and stocks. Although I’m sure he made a hefty sum off of Knorr, I doubt he would market for them if he felt these products weren’t innocent enough. There is nothing amateur about bases when you are trying to hit certain flavor notes.

In my opinion, a broccoli kugel without chicken or onion base is lacking. However, when a base is used as a stock substitute it can sometimes give off cheap results if used excessively. For example, if a kitchen doesn’t have enough staff to proper stocks for their dishes, a base is fine to use. But I am completely against using chicken base in one dish – chicken soup. Chicken soup, when you are loading it up with delicious chicken, onions, spices and vegetables, is more than flavorful without the base. When my chicken soup tastes like I added base even though I didn’t use any of the magical yellow stuff I know I did a great job. Try it this week. When you make your chicken soup leave out the base or consommé and fill your pot with onions, spices, and chicken. You’ll be bringing a delicious aroma to your home and to your Shabbos table.

Base is also a tool in institutional cooking when the boss is watching the bottom line and needs it to enhance flavor. While preparing a marinara sauce where you are using a junky tomato product, in a commercial setting it can be enhanced by a pinch of chicken base and a pinch of sugar to mimic the natural umami and sweetness of what a natural tomato should taste like.

Granted, if you are using tomatoes from San Marzano, Italy, or Napa Valley anything other than a pinch of salt in these sun-bathed tomatoes

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a mass-produced genetically modified standard grocery chicken, it can also be enhanced with a pinch of chicken base to fortify the chicken flavor by making it more “chickeny.”

Some chefs tend to excessively season meats, fish starches and vegetables with base. To occasionally use it as a flavor enhancer in small amounts is OK but to constantly use it in everything is an offense. Soup base can be silent but deadly. Bases are loaded with sodium and some contain MSG as well.

In conclusion, it’s best great to make one’s own stocks and homemade flavor bases. The real McCoy is the best. But what if you’re making a vegetable soup and don’t have fresh stock on hand? A pinch or two of the store-bought consommé will work just as well.

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tchen

Zucchini Parmesan Chips

By Naomi Nachman

Growing up in Sydney, Australia, one of the local restaurants used to serve breaded mushrooms, which are mushrooms that are battered and fried. It was one of my favorite dishes to order. Besides using mushrooms, I have also experimented with a variety of vegetables. The breaded zucchini was the most popular with my family.

Ingredients 1 cup flour 3 eggs, beaten 1 cup seasoned bread crumbs mixed with ¼ cup parmesan cheese (omit if you want to keep it parve) 2 medium zucchini, cut into 1/4-inch thick rounds Canola oil, for frying

Preparation Prepare three bowls, one with flour, one with eggs, and the other with breadcrumb-cheese mixture.

Dredge zucchini, one round at time in flour, then egg, then bread crumbs, pressing gently to adhere. Place rounds in a single layer on prepared baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes. This helps the crumbs stick better to the zucchini during frying process.

In a medium pot add oil and heat it to 360˚F. Use a thermometer to monitor the temperature.

In small batches fry the zucchini until golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper.

Eat freshly fried.

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

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

From Palestine to Mexico, All the Walls Have Got to Go. - The sign that New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker held up at the Netroots Nation Conference in New Orleans on Friday, while flanked by members of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights

He didn’t have time to read the sign. From his cursory glance he thought it was talking about Mexico and didn’t realize it had anything to do with Israel.

- Booker’s spokesman Jeff Giertz to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Facebook is working on a “talent show” feature that would let users record themselves singing and then upload their videos for comments. Facebook even has a catchy name for it: “YouTube.”

– Jimmy Fallon

You know, for me, as one of the leaders of America or one of the leaders of my community, it’s my responsibility to kind a stay as positive as I can and continue to let people know that we can go further up and not down even though sometimes we do feel like we’re going backwards and even though we feel like we are going back to places of – some kind of slavery or Jim Crow and things of that nature, you don’t – you just want to kind of continue to move forward and I think it is very important for all of us.

I’m privileged and honored to be here, and learn about the young men and women who are here in the IDF, being trained to be a better person, a better citizen, and a better human being. For me, it was something special that I will take with me through my life.

- Statement by Yankees great, pitcher Mariano Rivera, upon visiting an IDF base in Israel last week

- LeBron James, talking about Trump on CNN

Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike!

America, you [expletive]! You drug addicts!

You KKK! You fascist USA!

- Tweet by Trump in response

- Therese Okoumou, 44, the Congolese national who is an “immigration activist” and climbed the Statue of Liberty to protest President Trump’s immigration policies on the Fourth of July, addressing supporters outside of court last Friday

There’s a brand-new style of Crocs that has just been introduced and they’re selling out all over the place, although I’m not sure why.

High-heel Crocs! Did we ask for this? High-heel Crocs: The perfect shoe for when you get invited to a wedding and the invitation says, “Food court formal.”

A guy here in New York swims in the Hudson River every week to prove that it’s clean. If you want to meet him in person, services are being held on 43rd Street at the Sherwood Funeral Home.

– James Corden

– Jimmy Fallon

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It’s ironic, Jim, that not only you and the media attack the President for his rhetoric when they frequently lower the level of conversation in this country. Repeatedly – repeatedly – the media resorts to personal attacks without any content other than to incite anger. The media has attacked me personally on a number of occasions, including your own network which said I should be harassed as a life sentence; that I should be choked… When I was hosted by the Correspondents’ Association, of which almost all of you are members of, you brought a comedian up to attack my appearance and called me a traitor to my own gender.

- Whitehouse Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’ response when CNN’s Jim Acosta asked her if she agrees with President Trump that the press is the “enemy of the people”

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace … didn’t call for choking Sanders, but instead asked a reporter if she ever want to “wring” Sanders’s neck out of frustration.

- The Washington Post fact checking Sanders’ assertion

I think maybe we should make some bumper stickers, make some buttons, you know, maybe we should go out on Pennsylvania Avenue like these folks who chant “CNN [stinks]” and “fake news,” maybe we should go out, all journalists should go out on Pennsylvania Avenue and chant, “We’re not the enemy of the people,” because I’m tired of this. Honestly, I’m tired of this. It is not right.

It is not fair. It is not just. It is un-American to come out here and call the press the enemy of the people.

– Jim Acosta on CNN, complaining that Sanders did not disavow the president’s comments and proposing a rally by the media

If only America was as infatuated with Jim Acosta as Jim Acosta is with Jim Acosta.

Maybe he should have his own presser where he can regale the country with questions about himself.

— Conservative radio and TV host Dana Loesch

Donald Trump did not create distrust of the media; distrust of the media helped create Donald Trump.

- Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist

These are inconvenient truths but we should thoroughly examine them instead of giving into the PC lie that white people don’t smell bad.

- Tweets by Sarah Jeong, who was recently hired to be on the New York Times editorial board

Oh man, it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.

- Ibid.

If we’re talking big sweeping bans on [stuff] that kills people, why don’t we ever ever ever ever talk about banning the police?

- Ibid.

For as long as I’ve known her, @sarahjeong has had the same attacks appear whenever she takes a deserved step in her career.

It’s ridiculous. She is a very talented journalist and the exact kind of brilliant, savvy person who should be critiquing the powers of big tech.

– Tweet by a fellow liberal, supporting Jeong

Man, this @sarahjeong “controversy” is ridiculous. What has made her such an authentic writer over the years is the funny, smart, and original way she has used twitter. To use her clearly tongue-in-cheek tweets to now stifle her voice is so depressing.

- Tweet by another fellow liberal, supporting Jeong

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An ice cream shop in Scotland has introduced a new flavor made with a very familiar ingredient. It’s called mayonnaise ice cream. Coincidentally, “Mayonnaise ice cream” is also how dermatologists describe my skin tone.

– James Corden

The only thing weirder than mayonnaise ice cream is how you have to order it. To order it, you go up to the counter and you go, “Hello, I’m disgusting.” And they go, “Don’t worry. I got you right here.”

- Ibid

Police in Maine just pulled over a man who drove a scooter all the way from Massachusetts using his cell phone as a headlight. Police had a lot of questions, mainly, “How’d you get your battery to last that long?!”

– Jimmy Fallon

Unfortunately we have lost the battle for public opinion in the March of Return, when it became associated in people’s minds with blood and the loss of limbs…

This is not an attempt to water down the March of Return, but it is okay, from time to time, to engage in a tactical withdrawal, if you sense that your path has become too costly. There is nothing wrong with a tactical withdrawal, which will preserve the original idea. We want to save the idea itself from death.

–Ahmed Abu Artema, a political activist and journalist who had suggested the “March of Return” for Palestinians and put forth a call for “peaceful protests” earlier this year, suggesting to followers that they end the “peaceful protests,” aka, violent demonstrations, that they have been perpetuating

Recently, couples in Montana competed in the first ever Rocky Mountain Wife Carrying Championship. This is a competition where husbands carry their wives on their backs through an obstacle course. The obstacles included a mud pit, a median wall, and a dirt ramp, although most of the couples failed at the final challenge, which was agreeing on a place for dinner.

– James Corden

You smell like a toilet.

- Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Steve Jobs’ daughter, whom he shunned for years, recalling in her memoir what the Apple CEO said to her when she visited him when he was on his deathbed

I want to just take a second and imagine, let’s just imagine … just imagine no wall. No wall in southern Arizona!

- Democrat candidate for governor of Arizona dreaming aloud at the Netroots Nation conference last week

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Political Crossfire

The Clinton Campaign Sought Dirt on Trump from Russian Officials. Where’s the Outrage?

By Marc A. Thiessen

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ll of Washington is waiting with bated breath to find out whether the Mueller investigation will provide evidence proving that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. So far, “Exhibit A” against President Trump is the meeting Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort had with a group of Russians claiming to have dirt on Hillary Clinton. That meeting should never have happened. When you get an email offering to provide “very high level and sensitive information” from the “Crown prosecutor of Russia” that could “incriminate Hillary” Clinton and is part of “Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump” you don’t reply by saying “I love it.” You call the FBI. The president claims he did not know about the meeting. His former lawyer, Michael Cohen, says he did.

Whether he knew is beside the point.

Senior officials of his campaign were willing to accept help from Vladimir Putin; they were saved only because the meeting was a bust. The Russians didn’t end up providing any dirt.

But as bad as the Trump Tower meeting was, it took place at the request of the Russians. They were the ones who approached the Trump campaign, not the other way around.

By contrast, the Clinton campaign proactively sought dirt on Trump from Russian government sources. They did it through cutouts.

In April 2016, Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias retained opposition research firm Fusion GPS to compile incriminating information on Trump. Fusion GPS in turn hired Christopher Steele, a former British MI6 operative with sources among Russian government officials. The result was the salacious dossier, whose sources included “a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure” and “a former top level intelligence officer still active in the Kremlin.”

Steele’s work was paid for by Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

That means a paid agent of the Clinton campaign approached Russian officials for damaging material on Trump.

Clinton claims she did not know about Steele’s work. It doesn’t matter. Imagine if Michael Cohen, or another lawyer paid by the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee, had hired a former British spy with campaign money to collect dirt on Clinton from Russian intelligence and foreign ministry officials. Do you think that everyone in Washington would be saying:

“There’s no evidence Trump knew, so no big deal – nothing to see here?”

Of course not.

Moreover, Clinton officials have defended Steele’s actions. Brian Fallon, Clinton’s campaign spokesman, has said he “would have volunteered to go to Europe and try to help” Steele and would happily have spread dirt obtained from the Russians. “Opposition research happens on every campaign,” he told The Post. He also said: “I am … glad [Elias] pursued this on behalf of our campaign and only regret more of this material was not verified in time for the voters to learn it before the election.”

In other words, “I love it.”

We also know that the Democrats covered up their involvement. The dossier was published by BuzzFeed in January, but it was not until Oct. 24, 2017 – more than nine months later – that Americans learned it was the DNC and the Clinton campaign that paid for it. If it did nothing wrong, why did Team Clinton leave Americans in the dark about its involvement for so long?

Let’s be clear: None of this excuses the Trump campaign’s reprehensible behavior in accepting a meeting with Russians claiming to be government agents offering dirt on Clinton.

Mueller’s investigation is not a witch hunt. If Mueller finds that anyone on the Trump campaign entered into a criminal conspiracy with Russia, they should go to jail.

Furthermore, none of this calls into question the intelligence community’s assessment that the Russians wanted Trump to win – something Putin publicly confirmed in his Helsinki news conference with Trump. But the intelligence community assessment also found that the Kremlin expected Clinton to win.

The Russians are not stupid. They were preparing for the prospect of a Clinton presidency, and they played both sides. That’s why millions of dollars in Russian cash were sloshing around Clinton World – including $500,000 Bill Clinton received for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin.

Russia continues to pose a threat.

Their goal, according to our intelligence community, was not just to help Trump but also to “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process.” They are playing a long game. If we are to counter the Russian threat, we need to understand its complexities – and that means we have to look beyond Trump. (c) 2018, Washington Post Writers Group

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Good Hum r

Second Session

By Jon Kranz

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t’s not often in life that one is given a second chance. But for those kids at sleepaway camp for the summer, a second chance awaits in the form of Second Session. It is not just the second half of the summer; it is a second chance at everything, for better or for worse. A chance to take advantage of new opportunities or to take advantage of new campers.

A chance to debunk rumors or to debunk your annoying bunkbed mate.

Every summer a debate rages as to whether second session was better than first session. (The only camp debate more hotly contested is which team actually deserved to win “Best Song” during Color War. For some strange reason, however, “Best Banner” usually is far less controversial and many times is perfectly obvious.)

Typically, those who attend only first session insist that it reigned supreme, whereas those who attend only second session declare it the victor. Of course, their respective opinions mean about as much as the opinion of someone who has only heard the first D’veykus CD and then stubbornly declares it the undisputed best D’veykus CD of all time. (BTW: If your favorite D’veykus CD is anything other than D’veykus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, then you don’t deserve to have an opinion.)

And, of course, that correlation only pertains to those above a certain age – and I’m certainly dating myself here.

Obviously, those who attend both first and second session have the most

credibility as to which session was best, but consensus even among such full-summer campers can be hard to find. All full-summer campers do agree, however, that anything is better than being at home under parental rule.

With all of that said, all campers likely would agree that there are plenty of things that could render second session the lesser experience. In that vein and hypothetically speaking, here are some telltale signs that second half is not nearly as good as first half.

(1) Your division head declares that there are now mandatory intramural “clean-up time” leagues.

(2) Despite your well-documented fear of even the slightest heights, you have been elevated to a ladder-less top bunk.

(3) The camp calendar for second session shows eighteen trip days to Walmart.

(4) The camp has scheduled a “reverse visiting day” on which all campers are sent home to visit their parents and they have to do their own laundry.

(5) Even the local bears in the nearby forest, who will eat just about anything, think that the camp food stinks.

(6) The camp director has announced that since some campers did not attend first half, the Nine Days will be observed for a second time during second half. In other words, lasagna every night for dinner and no

swimming.

(7) The art staff creates a Vincent Van Gogh-cart derby during which campers paint while riding in go-carts and then cut off an ear (a prosthetic ear, of course).

(8) The infirmary issues a warning that there has been a breakout of small-pox as well as midsized and large pox.

(9) Color War has been cancelled and replaced with a mandatory RingAround-the-Rosie competition.

(10) Every single night, the camp’s senior staff members conduct an unbearably annoying camp-wide “positivity” raid filled with songs, words of encouragement and happy haiku.

(11) Inter-camps are cancelled and replaced with a demoralizing game of “Guess Why All of the Other Camps Refuse to Associate with Our Camp?”

(12) The USEPA has declared your camp a Superfund Site.

(13) The camp implements a new phone policy under which every camper is allowed to call home every night . . . for $150 per call.

(14) The camp has replaced all staff golf carts with rickshaws and wheelbarrows – and the campers have to wheel them.

(15) The camp has removed all of the nets from the tennis courts and instead is encouraging tennis players to simply use their imaginations.

(16) Because the campers have been complaining about the menu, the camp has thrown up their hands – it’s

schnitzel every night.

(17) In the dining hall, the camp has turned the all-you-can-eat buffet into the all-you-can-stomach buffet.

(18) The term “CIT” now means Counselor in Trouble.

(19) For all staff members, the “Day Off” has been replaced with the “Afternoon Off.” (20) The camp’s security guards have been instructed that the biggest security threats are the campers.

(21) The local residents start referring to the camp as Camp Nightmare.

(22) For reasons unknown, the camp uses the floor hockey rink as a sanctuary for troubled ponies and disturbed turtles. The smell has already reached the entrance of the camp.

(23) For fun, the camp uses the rock climbing wall to dry the laundry and then forces campers to climb for their clothing.

(24) The new camp motto is “It’s Almost Over.”

(25) Instead of live-streaming all major camp events, the camp only live-streams the buses leaving on the last day.

Final thought: Did you hear about the camp that suddenly shut down and changed locations? In more ways than one, it decamped.

Jon Kranz is an attorney living in Englewood, New Jersey. Send any comments, questions or insults to jkranz285@gmail. com.

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Forgotten Her es

Davy, Davy Crockett Hero of the Wild Frontier

By Avi Heiligman

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merican folk heroes have been the source of legendary tales for people of all ages since Europeans stepped foot on this land. From the Vikings, Pilgrims and George Washington to 20th century figures like Babe Ruth

and Martin Luther King Jr., stories of these legends abound. Some are true while others are fiction; Americans are hungry to hear stories of these people. One man who has his share of true and fictional tales passed down about him has been a

folk hero for close to 200 years. Almost every American has heard of this legendary figure, so here is the true non-embellished story of Davy Crockett.

Crockett was born in 1786 in East Tennessee, which, at the time, was part of North Carolina. His father struggled to make a living, and the family moved from place to place. In 1798, the family opened up a tavern in Morristown, Tennessee, and a young Davy was sent to work as a cattle rancher in Virginia. After the work was completed the ranch owner tried to force Davy to stay as he was paid well for his services but the twelve-year-old slipped away under the cover of darkness and went back to his family.

Davy’s return home was short lived as his attempt to go to school did not end well. He wasn’t a good student and didn’t stay in class. Soon he was on his way back to Virginia on a cattle drive. The life of a cowboy suited Davy, and he did odd jobs in between to make a living. Crockett returned home again in 1802 after two and a half years away, and at first his family didn’t recognize him due to his growth spurt. His family forgave him from running away, and he repaid their kindness by working to pay off the family debt (which totaled $76). For the next four years he worked for David Canady and in 1806 married Polly Finley. Davy had three children with Polly before she died in 1815. Less than a year later

he remarried and had three more children.

A faction of the Creek Indians known as the Red Sticks was attacking American settlers in Alabama.

The Red Sticks massacred all the inhabitants of Fort Mims, including many non-Red Stick Indians, and this became the reason for many frontiersmen to join the militia in the Creek War (1813-1814). Future President General Andrew Jackson, who was a major at the time, led 2,500 of the Tennessee Militia to crush the uprising, and Davy Crockett soon joined this force. Davy was mainly used as a scout and a wild game hunter and was on hand for Jackson’s crushing victory at Tallushatchee. The U.S. then offered Jackson a commission in the regular army to fight in the War of 1812 against the British. Crockett joined as well, signing on for six months and reached the rank of sergeant.

The war was over before he could reach the front lines.

By the time he left the army in 1815, Davy was a professional bear hunter and an amateur at many skills like farming and manufacturing barrels and gunpowder. Many of the stories told about him were about his ability to kill black bear.

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bear in a seven-month winter period but again there is no way of telling how close this myth is to the truth.

Another tale is told how he killed a black bear in the middle of the night by stabbing it with a butcher’s knife.

What we do know to be true is that Davy made money by selling the pelts, meat and fats of bear for oil.

In this way he was able to sustain his family with the profits.

Even though he had left the regular army, Davy was still part of the Tennessee Militia and became a lieutenant. In 1819 he was appointed as a colonel of the 57 th Militia Regiment. After an exploration of Alabama and a near-fatal bout of malaria Davy moved his family to Lawrence County, Tennessee. Here his political career took off as he first became a justice of the peace and then a town commissioner. In 1821, he resigned as commissioner and won a seat in the Tennessee legislature.

Two parts of Crockett’s life made

him stand out in American history for more than being just a frontiersman. They were his tumultuous time as a congressman and his death at the Alamo. Davy lost his first election to the House of Representatives in 1824 but won the 1826 vote by defeating the incumbent and another military veteran. He won the 1829 election but lost in 1831. Finally, in 1833, he was elected to his third and last term in Congress. Davy came from a poor background and often advocated for the rich and against the rich. For example, he tried passing a bill that would have abolished West Point, stating that it favored the rich. Needless to say, the bill didn’t pass and in fact he wasn’t able to pass a single bill in his six years in Washington. Crockett also made many enemies with his sharp tongue but was very whimsical in his approach in trying to get his agenda passed. President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 in particular got Davy incensed but he

could do nothing to prevent it from taking place. He often missed time on the House floor and in 1835 was defeated in his bid for a fourth term.

After he was defeated for reelection, in early 1836 Davy decided to raise a company of men to help Texas gain their independence from Mexico. In return for six months of service in Texas, each man, Davy included, was promised 4,600 acres of land. The men arrived at the Alamo on February 8, 1836 and two weeks later General Santa Anna’s men laid siege to the mission. On March 6, the Mexicans stormed the Alamo and surprised the greatly outnumbered defenders. All 180 or so Americans including Davy were killed but during the battle they took out hundreds of Mexicans in the desperate effort to save the Alamo.

Exactly how Davy died is a source of debate among historians.

Some say he died during the battle, while new evidence shows that he may have been captured and exe-

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cuted by Santa Anna.

A play in 1831 named “A Lion of the West” didn’t refer to Davy by name but it soon became clear that he was the inspiration for the hero, Nimrod Wildfire. In 1834, Davy published his autobiography titled, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. The play and the book helped him gain national celebrity status.

His distinct look of wearing leather cloths, a coonskin cap and carrying a long rifle propelled him to legendary status. In the 1950s Disney created a TV series about Davy Crockett and from here the nation was hooked onto the Davy Crockett legend that still exists in today’s entertainment culture.

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

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Money

The Triumph of Downward Mobility

By Robert J. Samuelson

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t’s an axiom among many Americans that each future generation will live better than its predecessor. New technologies, greater efficiencies and a can-do spirit will reward us with higher living standards. There might be periodic stumbles, but the long-term trajectory is up. And the people most guaranteed to enjoy this bountiful future are the children of today’s upper-middle class. They have all the advantages: attentive parents, good schools, a college education and job-market connections.

That’s the conventional wisdom.

Ditch it.

If you are an upper-middle class parent, as I am, you must have noticed that the real world isn’t playing according to script. Among many young Americans, there is downward mobility. The children aren’t achieving what they (and their parents) expected. Even when they have (and many have), the gains could be eroded in the future.

The trajectory is not inevitably up. Parents worry about their children’s fate.

Partly, this reflects the memory of the 2007-09 Great Recession and its huge job losses. But it’s more than that. Compared to their elders, many younger Americans are doing worse.

Despite today’s strong economy, they’re falling behind.

We know this from an important study by Raj Chetty and fellow economists from Stanford, Harvard and the University of California-Berkeley. By merging various databases – which had been stripped of names and identities – they could measure the pre-tax family earnings of children and parents when

they were both about 30 years old.

What they reported is fascinating.

About 90 percent of children born in 1940 ultimately exceeded their parents’ incomes. That is, almost everybody. This makes sense; the babies born in 1940 were affected by both the 1930s’ Great Depression (which reduced incomes) and the post-World War II economic boom (which raised incomes). However, for children born in 1970, only 61 percent earned more than their parents, and for those born in 1980, only 50 percent did.

children of the middle and upper-middle classes, precisely those who are supposedly most protected against adverse changes, according to a new study

by Brookings Institution scholars Richard Reeves and Katherine Guyot.

“For many people, [economic success] does consist of doing better than your parents did,” they write. “This seems to have become steadily harder to achieve for those born into middle-class families in particular from 1950 onward.”

Their explanation is simple. Those

The children born in 1980 in the richest 1 percent have only a 1 percent chance of being themselves in the top 1 percent.

That’s a sea change. It suggests that we’re already at the point where many in the present and next generations of younger Americans won’t live as well as their predecessors. If current trends continue, that certainly will be true.

You can see the consequences among millennials, those born from 1981 to 1996. Their squeezed incomes have forced them to rearrange their lives. They’re marrying later, buying homes later, having children later and – to save money – living longer with their parents. What’s also surprising is that the biggest losers seem to be the

in middle and upper-middle classes have more to lose than, say, the poor.

The incomes of the poor can’t drop much lower; indeed, with small gains, they can pass their parents’.

The result: the higher the parents’ incomes, the less likely that their children will match it. This is even true for the richest 1 percent of families, says economist Aparna Mathur of the American Enterprise Institute. The children born in 1980 in the richest 1 percent have only a 1 percent chance of themselves being in the top 1 percent, she says. (Of course, this hardly

means they’re impoverished. It just means they have less income than their parents. The same lesson applies to the middle and upper-middle classes.)

Just what has caused the slowdown in incomes is a tangled tale with the usual suspects: poor schools that produce poor workers; income inequality that stifles consumption spending; weak housing construction; inadequate innovation; over-regulation. With so many confusing sources, it’s hard to design a program that will automatically reverse existing trends, though President Trump says he’s trying.

It’s also true, as Mathur notes, that the data need to be qualified. Some incomes are underreported because they exclude fringe benefits (employer-paid health insurance) or in-kind government benefits (food stamps, Medicaid).

Taxes are ignored. Age 30 may be too young for generational comparisons.

Income figures haven’t been adjusted for shrinking family size. There may be other causes of delayed marriage.

Still, the broad trends seem reliable. The paradox is apparent. Today’s strong economy notwithstanding, there’s an underlying worry about the future.

Economic anxiety is increasingly an equal-opportunity affliction. No one can escape it. The poor worry about staying poor. The lower-middle class worries about paying bills or losing jobs. Now upper-middle class parents have joined the crowd, because their own well-being is often judged by how well their children are doing. That is the stubborn source of their angst. (c) 2018, Washington Post Writers Group

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Why We Love Pools

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

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itting in traffic is just the beginning. Then there’s looking for parking. After that, it’s unloading the trunk and transporting the beach chair down to the sand. And

who invented those things anyway?

There you are, thinking you’re holding it right, and suddenly the feet part flops itself out. Then you adjust it, and the head part goes flying down. And

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when you regroup and adjust again, carrying it sideways, and you can’t get your fingers fully around the metal bars enough to keep it in hand. This is not rocket science – so why should it be such a challenge? Are you telling me that there’s no way to create a beach chair that’s easy to carry with one hand?!

Then comes finding a spot to put it down and to relinquish your load.

Whoops! Who are you blocking and how much sand did you stir up? And how does it feel to get that evil look from the woman who just got your displaced sand in her face?! Once you’re all spread out, blanket or towel on the ground, how much do you love that little kid who goes innocently traipsing across it, wet feet and all, as if it truly wasn’t there?

Now the fun really begins – you shake your towel out once more and that woman’s ready to leave to file a lawsuit. So you give your best apology, and ...

Finally, you are ready to sit. But wait, gotta dig in that umbrella.

Whish, whish, whish-Seems firm.

Now to the business of getting comfy.

Ten minutes later you’re melting, and the ocean is calling your name.

So up you jump and off you go to the seashore. Hot, hot, hot, Too hot, squishy, mmmm good. You stand and enjoy it for a few seconds, admiring the beautiful horizon in the distance and then you venture in a little fur-

ther. Ich…pebbles, rocks, shells, claw-ish things. And seaweed! But you’re tough and you just keep going and the cool ocean refreshes you with delight!

Until…whack! “I didn’t see that one coming.” Sand up your nose. Eyes full of salt. And a bathing suit full of sea debris!

One more dip and you’re out. Back to your seat. Which, incidentally, has somehow managed to lift itself up and move approximately 2 blocks away from where you left it while you were dipping your toes into the water.

So you head for it and miss your own towel spread out. Well, at least this time it’s your wet feet sanding it up!

You sit back, grab a book, and a yummy snack. Crunch, crunch, crunch – you’re chewing sand. Now you know why it’s called a sandwich.

What fun to be at the beach!

And the truth is, it stays with you a long time after that. Because when you’re ready to go home the sand seems to come home with you no matter how hard you try to leave it behind!

I’m not saying I wouldn’t go back again. It certainly has some redeeming features! I’m just telling you why I love pools!

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

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