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recently heard a story from Rav Moshe Weinberger: During the Russian Cantonist decrees in the 1800s, when Jewish children were forcibly conscripted into the Russian Army for twenty-five years, the holy Tzemach Tzedek, Reb Itzele Petelburg and the Netziv often traveled to St. Petersburg to try and rescue whomever they could. One year, these three great Torah luminaries found themselves in St. Petersburg for Rosh Hashana. There were hardly any observant Jews in St. Petersburg, and the three leaders at first were going to make a minyan along with their assistants at the inn where they were staying. They understood, though, that if the handful of Jews in St. Petersburg heard that the leaders of the generation were in their city and didn’t daven with them, they would feel slighted. And so, they decided to daven in the St. Petersburg shul, which was essentially the Russian government’s token symbol of the Czar’s “tolerance.” Upon arriving at the shul on the first day of Rosh Hashana, the three leaders were dismayed when an elderly soldier got up to lead the davening; he clearly was not well-versed in Hebrew and only was given the honor of leading the davening because of his seniority. But then something happened that the Tzemach Tzedek, Netziv, and Rav Itzele Petelburg would tell over every Rosh Hashana for the rest of their lives. The soldier stood up at the amud and turned around to face the sparse crowd, mostly consisting of coarse and hardened Russian soldiers, and said: “My brothers, what should we daven for – children? “Everyone knows that we are not allowed to get married and have families. “Should we daven for food? “That, too, is meaningless. We are dependent on the rations given to us in the mess hall. “Should we daven for life itself? “What for? Our lives are miserable. What’s the point of davening for another of year of this? “The only thing we have to daven for, my brothers, and the most important thing for any Jew to daven for is that Hashem’s greatness should be revealed in this world!” With that, the soldier turned around and began. “Yisgadal v’yiskadash shmei rabbah…”

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Baruch Hashem, we all have so much to daven for – children, parnassah, continued good lives, happiness, health, success, fulfillment – the list goes on. But for us, too, Rosh Hashana is an opportunity to daven for the ultimate good— that Hashem should be revealed to us in this world. Going from one end of Far Rockaway to the other end of the Five Towns at times can take nearly thirty minutes. And all along the way there are tens of schools, dozens of shuls, and thousands of frum houses. There are different viewpoints, shades and colors throughout, but if you were to look into any one of those houses you would likely see a small picture of the Chofetz Chaim near a little boy’s bed, reminding him to not speak lashon hara…a leather bound Tehillim on a teenage girl’s desk, from which she davens for people who are sick… a candelabra where a mother cries for her children’s well-being every Friday afternoon…a small alarm clock that wakes a father up an hour early every morning so that he can go to a shiur before starting his day. When we take a step back and take a bird’s-eye view of our community, it’s easier to see that although it looks like we are just going about our lives, we are, in fact, constantly doing things to fulfill the ratzon of Hashem and to increase His glory in this world. There are many in our community who will go into shul on Rosh Hashana with aching hearts, missing a parent or child that has been taken from them too suddenly, too young. There are many who are facing illnesses and will be thinking of their diagnosis and begging for a miracle. There are many who are sitting in shul without a tallis or without a sparkling ring on their hand, hoping to meet their eizer k’negdo. As a whole, our community faces challenges that we haven’t had in the past, whether it’s filling our children with excitement for Yiddishkeit or being witness to the rapid breakdown of moral norms all around us. Aside for davening for all of our personal needs, we need to think of each other and remember to daven for one another. By thinking of others, we glorify our King and then we can truly answer the call – together – Yisgadal v’yiskadash shmei rabbah. Wishing you a kesiva v’chasima tova, Shoshana

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

Community Happenings

Spreading the Kiruv “Bug”

NEWS

S30

Global

National

Odd-but-True Stories

Shofar from Auschwitz on Display

S20

ISRAEL Israel News

So, You’re Thinking of Joining the IDF by Rafi Sackville

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JEWISH THOUGHT Inspiration and Rebuke by Shmuel Reichman

Turning Around by Rav Moshe Weinberger

Mindfulness of G-d by Rabbi Yoni Levin

S10

Praying for the Shechinah by Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

S14

The Paper Chicken by Yanki Tauber

S18

Rabbi Wein

Parsha in Four by Eytan Kobre

PEOPLE Operation Market Garden by Avi Heiligman

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Remembering Raizel Malka bas Yona by Lisa Rosenblatt, LCSW, CCTP

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HEALTH & FITNESS This is What Healthy Looks Like by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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A New Year, a New You by Aliza Beer, MS RD

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FOOD & LEISURE Salads with a Sweet Crunch

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The Aussie Gourmet: Simanim Ceviche

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To the Editor: With all due respect to my fellow Americans, most of us simply don’t seem to know that a “Liberal/Progressive” is not the same thing as a “Socialist.” This includes the Democratic Party presidential candidates (such as Bernie Sanders) as well as the members of “The Squad” such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar. A true “socialist” is someone who wants all of the businesses and workplaces to be owned and controlled by “the state” or “the government” or “the workers” or “the people” and NOT by individuals and groups of people who run them for profit as we have here in the USA. Democrats who want our federal government to spend more on social programs to help the lower and middle classes as they struggle to survive and pay their bills are not “socialists.” They are “liberals/ progressives” who want our market-based capitalist economic system to become more humane (and not replaced) by having our federal government spend more to help the lower and middle classes. Let’s use a little common sense here – how can someone (including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ilhan Omar) be a true “socialist” when they do not advocate for and fight for replacing

our market-based capitalist economic system with a socialist economic system? Sincerely, Stewart B. Epstein Rochester, NY Dear Editor, In response to some of the “I read in horror last week” letters you’ve been receiving about the Navidaters column where they suggested to a girl that she lose weight to have an easier time in shidduchim I thought I might add my own dismayed response to what I read this past weekend – from the readers! I had the unfortunate opportunity to read some of the responses to the above mentioned article. And let me tell you... If this is how we, as a community respond to slight errors of judgement in an otherwise completely reasonable response...then we are in a bigger mess then I originally thought. I went back and read the responses from “The Navidaters” to the girl’s question. Besides for one writer, all of the advisors’ advice was not only accurate but perfectly cordial. Some of the angry letters are not only uncalled for – they literally make things up! I’m quoting directly now: “How would you feel Continued on page 10

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POLITICAL CROSSFIRE Notable Quotes

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Democrats Want to Impeach Kavanaugh? by Marc A. Thiessen

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Trump’s Conflict with Iran is a Crisis of His Own Making by David Ignatius

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situations. The same, of course, can – and must – be said about politics in the United States and around the world. Don’t worry. Someone much bigger than you has this under control. Kesiva v’chasima tova, Yael Hershkowitz Kew Gardens, NY Dear Editor, It is said that at the end of days, the children will be leading their parents – and not necessarily in a good way. There is no greater example of that this week. When the whole world has to stop because a teenager decided to cry for the oceans and the forests, we are surely at the end of the days. This 16-yearold privileged girl is not able to vote or smoke or drink, and yet we’re allowing her to shape world policy? There’s a reason why she’s not granted these rights. And that’s because young children are not necessarily able to grasp the concepts of right and wrong because their minds are not yet fully formed. And yet, there are thousands of adults hanging on this girl’s every word? When will someone stand up and say the emperor is not wearing any clothes? Or are we just all stuck in a rattling echo chamber, becoming mindless human beings following a crowd led by a petulant teen? Avi Reinter Dear Editor, On Sunday, October 6, at 11 a.m., our entire community has an opportunity and an obligation to take part in a rally to help free an agunah who has been chained for seven long years. Multiple seruvim have been issued against Moish Halberstam by the Agudas haRabbonim d’Artzot HaBrit v’Canada. In 2014 they also issued a psak that Moish Halberstam is obligated to give his wife a get. Each of us, during these auspicious days of Aseres Y’mei Teshuva, must join in the mitzvah of pidyon shevuyim by helping to convince Moish to do the right thing by granting Esther her get. Please join the upcoming rally on Sunday, October 6, at 11 a.m. at 1381 E. 16 Street, between Avenues M and N, in Brooklyn. The Extended Zand Family

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The Week In News

Travel Operator Collapses

This week, at least 150,000 people from the UK on holiday were stranded abroad after major travel operator Thomas Cook collapsed. The operator had been unsuccessfully attempting to seal bailout cash from Chinese conglomerate Fosun as well as from a number of other firms. “Thomas Cook’s collapse is very sad news for staff and holidaymakers. The government and UK CAA

are working round the clock to help people. Our contingency planning has helped acquire planes from across the world – some from as far away as Malaysia – and we have put hundreds of people in call centers and at airports,” said transport secretary Grant Shapps. “But the task is enormous, the biggest peacetime repatriation in UK history. So, there are bound to be problems and delays. Please try to be understanding with the staff who are trying to assist in what is likely to be a very difficult time for them as well.” The collapse of the tour operator has put 22,000 jobs from around the world at risk, of which 9,000 are in the UK. Thomas Cook had encountered a range of issues over the last year, leading to job cuts and store closures. The travel group also put its airline business up for sale after a heat-wave in northern Europe last summer put holidaymakers off lastminute deals. This led to a number of profit warnings. Thomas Cook warned earlier this year that the European travel market has become “progressively

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Israel managed to garner the 16th spot. The U.S. saw declines in three of the four categories that make up the index. It went from 10th place to 9th in finances in retirement; from 19th to 20th in quality of life; and from 26th place to 28th in material well-being. Its standing remained unchanged for the health of its retirees.

Germany to Spend 54B Euro on Climate Change

On Friday, the German government announced that it would spend a total of 54 billion euro on a package of measures designed to tackle climate change after environmental groups and the opposition Green Party applied pressure to the government. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the deal hammered out by governing parties during marathon talks overnight would boost the country’s contribution to fighting global warming. Europe’s biggest economy aims to cut its greenhouse emissions by 55% by 2030 compared with 1990 levels. “We believe that we can achieve the goals and that we’ve truly laid the foundations for this,” Merkel said in Berlin. Ottmar Edenhofer, one of Merkel’s top climate advisers, slammed the proposals and accused the government of “political faintheartedness.” Edenhofer, who heads the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said the planned charge for carbon emissions from transport and heating fuels — starting at 10 euros ($11.07) per ton of carbon

dioxide in 2021 and rising to 35 euros ($38.73) in 2025 — was too low to be effective. According to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation, OECD, an effective tax on fuels that reflects the climate costs of carbon emissions would need to be above 30 euros per ton of CO2. Environmental campaigners have accused Merkel of surrendering to the interests of Germany’s powerful automaker lobby by failing to set a deadline for phasing out fuel combustion engines as some other countries have already done. A poll released on Friday by ARD television showed 63% of voters saying the government should prioritize climate protection over economic growth. Only 24% said economic growth should take priority. Protesters took to the streets to pressure the government to act. Last week, rallies were held across the country. Merkel acknowledged the pressure her government has come under from protesters, saying young people were justified in demanding “that we do something so they, too, have good chances in life.” The 65-year-old old trained physicist said she agreed that it was time to “unite behind the science” and there was no point in denying the evidence for global warming. But she also admitted that the climate plan was a compromise. “Politics is (doing) what’s possible, and we explored those possibilities,” Merkel said. Germany’s climate policy is being closely watched elsewhere. The country has the sixth biggest greenhouse gas emissions in the world, with a 2.1% share of the global total. Failure to meet its emissions reduction targets would cost Germany financially; under European Union rules, the country could be fined billions of euros from 2021 if it doesn’t meet the bloc’s emissions reduction targets. Aside from the carbon pricing, the government’s new plan envisages substantial subsidies for consumers who buy cleaner cars and home furnaces. The installation of oil furnaces will be banned entirely from 2026. Other measures agreed on include raising the climate charge on airline tickets and investing more in low-emission rail travel, including by reducing the tax on train tickets.

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Holocaust Survivor Dies at 106

Marko Feingold, who was Austria’s oldest Holocaust survivor, died last Thursday after suffering from a lung infection. He was 106 years old. Mr. Feingold had lived through four concentration camps and was active in retelling his story, taking part in numerous conferences and events for schoolchildren. “I must have spoken to around half a million people all in all,” he told AFP in a 2018 interview, adding that he swore to himself in Aus-

chwitz that he would tell his story. Born on May 28, 1913, in the Austro-Hungarian empire in what is now Slovakia, Feingold was arrested in Prague and deported to Auschwitz in 1940. “They said I had three months to live. And in fact, after two and a half months, I was about to succumb to exhaustion when I managed to get transferred to the Neuengamme camp,” he told AFP. From there, Feingold – known then as inmate 11,996 –was taken to Dachau and then on to Buchenwald, where he survived as a construction worker. Having lost his father and siblings in the camps, he was freed from Buchenwald when it was liberated by American forces in May 1945. Feingold could not go back to Vienna as his group of survivors was prevented from traveling through the Soviet occupation zone which surrounded the city. “A Russian soldier told us that they had orders not to let us pass. The new [social democratic] Chancellor Karl Renner had said: ‘We won’t take back the Jews,’” Feingold recalled.

Feingold then decided to go to Salzburg near the German border, which was in the American occupation zone. There he founded a network which helped 100,000 Jews emigrate to Britain-administered Palestine. He himself refused to leave Austria despite the difficulties in the face of the country’s deep-rooted anti-Semitism. After the war, Austria took refuge in an official narrative which portrayed the country as a “victim” of the Third Reich and avoided the process of debating complicity in Nazi crimes, as happened in Germany, until well into the 1990s. “It was impossible to find a job. Someone coming back from the camps had to be a criminal. So I had to strike out on my own,” he said. He started a clothing shop in Salzburg, which quickly became successful. Once attitudes in the country changed, Feingold related that he was “literally covered in honors,” including being received last year by then Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his then deputy Heinz-Christian Strache from the far-right.

Tariff Compromise

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included 40,000 in France; 2,600 in Ukraine; 5,000 in South Africa; 10,000 in Ankara; 5,000 in Japan; 100,000 in London; 330,000 in Australia; and 1.4 million in Germany.

In addition, over 200,000 people flooded Manhattan on Friday for a raucous rally that was seen by many as the epicenter of the pro-environmental demonstrations worldwide. Other rallies took place across the United States in places such as San Francisco (40,000), Denver (7,500), Boston (7,000), Chicago (3,000), Portland (2,000), and Washington, D.C. However, there were no protests in China, which is currently the world’s biggest polluter. Zheng Xiaowen of the China Youth Climate Action Network told the Guardian that Chinese environmental activists would find a way to make their feelings known even if they were forbidden from protesting. “Chinese youth have their own methods,” she said. “We also pay attention to the climate and we are also thinking deeply, interacting, taking action, and so many people are very conscientious on this issue.” The day featured a mass strike of high school students as a way to spur leaders to take action to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change. Seen as the largest environmental gathering in history, it was organized by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. “Around the world today about 4 million people have been striking,” 16-year-old Thunberg said. “This is the biggest climate strike ever in history and we all should be so proud of ourselves because we have done this together.” Following the success of the global strike, a second iteration titled the Earth Strike will take place on September 27 to commemorate the anniversary of the famed environmental book “Silent Spring.”

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Tunisia’s Former President Dies

Tunisia’s former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was laid to rest in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina last week following his passing earlier in the week. Ben Ali died on Thursday in Saudi Arabia, his home in exile since being ousted from power in 2011 during the onset of the Arab Spring. He was escorted to his final resting place in the Muslim city by only a few dozen people, a far cry from the opulence and splendor the former Tunisian dictator had been accustomed to all his life. Ben Ali was born in Tunisia in 1936 and was drafted into the military when he was 18. He was later sent to France for extensive military studies and then to the United States. His long sojourns overseas gave him a taste of the good life which he never forgot and would lead to his eventual downfall. In 1987, Ben Ali led a bloodless coup to oust longtime strongman Habib Burgiba and then replaced him as president. From then on, Ben Ali focused on modernizing the crumbling Tunisia and led various infrastructure projects, such as building public housing, airports and roads. Ben Ali was also widely seen as an enemy of extremist Islam promulgated by the Muslim Brotherhood and led repeated brutal crackdowns on the Muslim community. Radical Islamists would often disappear in the middle of the night, and Ben Ali killed thousands of people whom he thought endangered his rule. In December 2010, violent riots broke out in the country due to a difficult economic situation, high unemployment, and severe political repression in Tunisia. These riots, known as the Jasmine Revolution, led to his dismissal from the

nation’s top post and kicked off the Arab Spring. After weeks of mass protests, Ben Ali fled Tunisia to Saudi Arabia with the help of Libya, leaving the powers of government in the hands of his prime minister, Mohammed Ghanushi. He lived in Saudi Arabia ever since.

How the Likud Hemorrhaged Votes

A look at the voting patterns from last week’s elections in Israel illustrates how badly the Likud bled votes that led to its electoral defeat. With all of the ballots counted, the election appears to be a humiliating defeat for the Likud. With the right-wing bloc standing at only 55 seats, Kahol Lavan leader Benny Gantz has a realistic chance to end Prime Minister Netanyahu’s tenyear term as Israel’s top elected official. Key to the Likud’s failure at the ballot box was the mergers with other parties that didn’t bring the expected electoral windfall. The first party to join was Kulanu. The center-right party headed by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon had merged with the Likud after the elections in April. The other faction that was swallowed up by the Likud was Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut. The Libertarian pro-marijuana party mustered three seats in the previous elections and failed to cross the electoral threshold. Realizing that the race against Kahol Lavan was neck-to-neck, Prime Minister Netanyahu convinced Feiglin earlier this month to drop out of the

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race in exchange for promising him a ministerial portfolio. However, the move doesn’t appear to have succeeded. With Kulanu getting four seats in the previous elections and Zehut another three, the Likud should have come out with 39 Knesset mandates. Instead, the Likud got only 31, demonstrating that Netanyahu’s pair of mergers was a colossal failure. Likud also suffered a major drop in support in cities long seen as its base in support. In the northern city of Nahariya, for example, Likud had garnered 46.13% of the city’s vote in April but only 42.21% this time around. Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beitenu seems to be the main beneficiary of this fallout, with his share of the vote jumping to 14.47% from the 9.58% he got in April. Another city in which the Likud suffered a massive drop in support was Netanya. While in April the party (together with Kulanu) earned 43.14% of the city’s votes, it dropped by almost eight percent to 35.96% in the second round. Meanwhile, Kahol Lavan rose by almost two percent from 22.83% to 24.16%, and Yisrael Beitenu climbed

from 6.76% in April to 10.88%. The Likud’s collapse has been attributed to several factors, including anger at Netanyahu for the repeat elections and the successful anti-religious coercion campaign by Yisrael Beitenu.

IAF Joins Cobra Warrior Exercise

In a first, the Israeli Air Force joined its counterparts from all over the world in participating in last week’s Cobra Warrior exercise. Hosted by Britain, the drill saw the world’s top fighter jets joining together to practice responding to multiple contingencies, such as carrying out precision airstrikes in enemy territory and quickly transporting ground troops during wartime to the frontlines.

The 2019 Cobra Warrior was the first time Israel was allowed to join the prestigious drill. While seen as one of the world’s best air forces, the IDF has traditionally preferred to keep its relationship with Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) under the radar due to political sensitivities. “This was the Israeli Air Force’s first deployment in Britain and the first exercise of this size in which the Israeli Air Force and British Air Force took part,” confirmed the IDF in a statement. “This gave us an opportunity to carry out tactical flights against an advanced enemy in new and unknown terrain,” the army said. Other than Israel, participants included the United States, Germany, and Italy. The exercise took place over a three-week period and is seen as the world’s premier training program for first-right air forces. Israel frequently joins international air force drills in order to showcase its abilities and to practice in unfamiliar territory. Last year, Israel hosted a massive air force drill in the Negev Desert that saw more than 25 countries participating.

Did Israel Test a Nuclear Bomb in the 1970s?

An extensive report in Foreign Policy magazine alleges that the Carter administration ignored what was likely an Israeli nuclear test in 1979 in order to avoid international humiliation during an election year. While Israel is known to have a considerable arsenal of nuclear weapons, it has never officially declared that it possesses such devastating weapons. While Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor was first built in the 1960s with the help from England and France, its atomic weapons program remains under the darkest veil of secrecy and no politician has ever gone on record talking about it. According to the report, the U.S. spy satellite Vela 6911 noticed two

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unusual flashes off the coast of South Africa on September 22, 1979. After poring over the images, U.S. military analysists concluded that the only cause of the aforementioned flashes was a test of a nuclear weapon. At that time, Israel enjoyed close ties with the apartheid regime in South Africa. With no other nation willing to sell the pariah state weapons, the country turned to the poor and impoverished Jewish State, which armed and trained the South African Defense Forces. Part of the covert ties also reportedly included cooperation on nuclear weapons. While Israel had considerable knowhow in how to produce atomic bombs, it had nowhere to test the deadly weapons due to the country’s tiny size. Enter South Africa. Since the apartheid regime fell in the 1990s, many books have documented the quid pro quo signed between Israel and the African nation. While Israel gave over all of its nuclear research, Pretoria let it use its empty desert for testing new weapons that it couldn’t detonate back home. As such, the test in 1979 was not surprising to the U.S. defense establishment. However, President Jimmy Carter surprisingly refused to take up the issue with Jerusalem. While Carter was briefed on the test, the report says that he consciously chose to avoid bringing it up with the Israelis to escape complications such a move might bring. The test almost certainly violated the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited countries from testing nuclear weapons anywhere other than space. Under the terms of the accord, the U.S. would have been forced to cut off the annual military aid it gives Israel as retribution for testing nuclear weapons. With the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty having been signed only a year earlier, cutting aid would have caused the historic agreement to fall apart. The Carter administration then decided to cherry-pick intelligence to find anything that would let it dismiss the evidence that Israel had, in fact, tested an atomic bomb. “The Carter administration dismissed all evidence that suggested otherwise,” wrote Foreign Policy. “This included the Naval Research Laboratory’s analysis that had located the blast’s ground zero near the Prince Edward Islands, about 1,000 miles from South Africa’s southern coast, using hydroacoustic (underwater sound) data, and

claims regarding possible detection of radioactive iodine-131 in thyroids of Australian sheep, which if established could only have come from a bomb test.” The article went on to criticize both President Carter’s decision and the historic U.S. policy to not take Israel to task over its nuclear arsenal. The test “is part of a pattern that has destroyed America’s credibility on nonproliferation. What Israel says — or doesn’t say — about its nuclear weapons is its own affair,” one nuclear scientist told Foreign Policy. “But the United States should not agree to muzzle itself. It was always a humiliating role that opened the United States to the charge of hypocrisy. Now, in the face of strong confirmation of Israel’s violation of the Partial Test Ban Treaty, it has become an insupportable one.”

Israelis Don’t Like the UN

In unsurprising results published this week by the Pew Research Center, 65 percent of Israelis viewed the UN negatively – a sentiment higher than in any of the other 31 nations surveyed. Only 31% of those surveyed in Israel view the world body in a positive light. Second in unfavorable views was Russia, with 43% holding negative opinions and 34% holding positive opinions; next was Tunisia, 40% to 33%; then Greece with 36% negative, though positivity won out in that country with 48%. On average around the world, 61% of those surveyed had a positive view of the UN, while an average of 26% viewed the UN negatively. The highest positive ratings came from the Philippines (86% positive), South Korea (82%), Sweden (80%), and Poland (78%). In the United States, 59% viewed the organization positively and 33% negatively. Democrats have a far rosier outlook on the UN than Republicans, with 77% of the former and only 36% of the latter stating a positive stance. The partisan divide be-

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lishment of the Jewish state in 1948, rather than limiting refugee status only to the original refugees as is the norm with most refugee populations worldwide. Earlier this month the new U.S. envoy to the UN Kelly Craft vowed to continue to push for reform at the world body and to fight against “unrelenting bias and hostility in UN venues.”

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tween the parties has grown steadily in recent decades – the current Republican favorability rating is the lowest since Pew began conducting surveys in 1990 (when it was at 68%). Israeli leadership has long complained of systemic anti-Israeli bias across UN institutions. A particular cause of ire for Israel is the UN Human Rights Council and its so-called Agenda Item 7, a fixture on the council’s schedule exclusively devoted

to resolutions condemning Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Israel is the only country with a dedicated agenda item. Last year the U.S. quit the council, citing chronic bias against the Jewish state. This year Israel and the US left the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), with Jerusalem accusing it of having been “corrupted and manipulated by Isra-

el’s enemies and continually [singling out] the only Jewish state for condemnation.” Israelis also hold a dim view of UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. Israel and the U.S. have long accused UNRWA of perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by extending refugee status to millions of descendants of Palestinians who fled or were forced out of homes in today’s Israel at the time of the estab-

This week, it was announced that a resident of Connecticut who was infected with Eastern equine encephalitis died. It was the state’s first death from the disease since 2013, according to health officials. Eastern equine encephalitis is a rare but potentially fatal illness caused by mosquito bites. Several states in the northeast have reported cases of the illness in recent weeks, including a second death reported in Massachusetts on Friday. In Connecticut, in addition to the death of the first person diagnosed this year, health officials announced a second person has tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis. They urged residents to protect themselves and their children by avoiding outdoor activity from dusk to dawn, when mosquitoes are most active. “The identification of two Connecticut residents with EEE, one of whom has passed away, emphasizes the seriousness of this infection,” said Renée Coleman Mitchell of the state Department of Public Health. “Using insect repellent, covering bare skin and avoiding being outdoors from dusk to dawn are effective ways to help keep you from being bitten by mosquitoes. Mosquitoes continue to be active until the

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De Blasio Drops Out

The mayor of New York City officially dropped out of the presiden-

tial campaign on Friday, leaving 19 other candidates still vying for the nation’s top spot. “My presidential campaign may be over, but I am going to keep fighting for working people – and ensuring that New York City remains the vanguard of progressivism,” Mayor Bill de Blasio wrote in an article on the NBC News website. “This campaign has been a profound experience for me. I saw America in full – not as it appears on Twitter and cable news, where we’re constantly shown a country hamstrung by our differences and unable to tackle the problems we face.” The decision to drop out of the race came about two weeks after de Blasio hinted he may pull the plug, saying he was disappointed to have not made the cut for the September Democratic debate. At the time, he had said if he missed the October cut as well he would reevaluate his bid. The deadline for the October debate is October 1. President Donald Trump tweeted his reaction to de Blasio’s announcement, “Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years! Part time Mayor of New York City, @BilldeBlasio, who was polling at a solid ZERO but had tremendous room for growth, has shocking dropped out of the Presidential race. NYC is devastated, he’s coming home!” In 2013, de Blasio became New York City’s first Democratic mayor in 20 years, after Republicans Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. He said that he plans to re-focus on NYC now that his campaign has come to a close.

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“I’m going to redouble my efforts to improve the quality of life of everyday New Yorkers, proving that policies like guaranteed paid personal time off can work on a grand scale,” the mayor said. De Blasio said he would implement universal healthcare and a Green New Deal in NYC, the most populous city in the U.S. and its most densely populate major city. He reaffirmed his passion for NYC: “Throughout history, New York City has often performed a vital role for this nation: When the country threatens to lurch in a more divisive direction, we’ve always been a beacon moving toward a more hopeful future.” De Blasio also spoke of his desire to change the Democratic Party’s image, referencing President Trump. “Yes, Donald Trump lies to working people, but he at least pretends to talk to them. That may be enough for him to win, if we do not constantly make it clear that the Democrats are the party of everyday Americans in rural counties and urban centers, the coasts, and the heartland.” In a recent Wall Street Journal/ NBC News poll of Democratic voters, 1% supported de Blasio. Currently,

former Vice President Joe Biden is strongly leading in the polls, ahead of fellow front-runners Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. De Blasio has just over two years left in his mayoral term.

Devastating Tropical Storm in Texas

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The U.S. government has granted him special authorization to stay at a hotel, however. Rouhani has to travel between JFK Airport and the UN using a tunnel connecting the boroughs of Queens and Manhattan, as the restrictions prevent him from going over any of New York’s bridges. He is allowed to attend the residence of the Iranian ambassador on Fifth Avenue under an exemption granted to all Iranian mission staff. Rouhani is due to address the General Assembly and hold a press conference on Wednesday. His visit comes during heightened tensions between arch-foes the U.S. and Iran. Similar limitations have been imposed on foreign leaders not to America’s liking in the past, such as the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a UN official said. The United States had dragged its heels on granting visas to members of the Iranian delegation, prompting criticism from several countries and forcing the UN to intervene. As the host government, the U.S. is generally obliged to issue visas to diplomats who serve at UN headquarters. But Iran and the United States have been at loggerheads since May last year, when Trump abandoned a 2015 nuclear deal and began re-imposing sanctions in a “maximum pressure” campaign. Iran responded by scaling back its commitments under the landmark accord, which gave it the promise of sanctions relief in return for limiting the scope of its nuclear program.

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Barron Hilton Dies at 91

Although the name Hilton is synonymous with hotels, Barron Hilton also left his mark on Las Vegas, football, and aviation. Barron, the son of Conrad Hilton who expanded his father’s hotel empire, died on Thursday at the age of 91. Barron spent five decades at Hilton Hotels Corp., serving as chief executive officer for 30 years starting in 1966. During his tenure, the Beverly Hills, California-based company was the fifth-largest U.S. hotel chain. He was co-chairman in 2007, when Blackstone Group Inc. acquired the company – by then the nation’s No. 2 hotel operator – for $26 billion, including debt. Barron amassed a net worth

of $1.25 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Hilton oversaw the development of the Carte Blanche credit card, which the company sold in 1966 for $12 million to First National City Bank, the predecessor to today’s Citigroup Inc. He pioneered the profitable practice of real estate sale-leasebacks, selling the equity in hotels while continuing to manage them. In the early 1970s, he oversaw the acquisition of the Flamingo Hotel and Las Vegas International, later renamed Las Vegas Hilton. The move made Hilton Hotels the first company listed on the New York Stock Exchange to enter the U.S. gaming industry. Though successful as the steward of the family business, Barron also made his mark as an entrepreneur. With Texas oilman Lamar Hunt and others, Hilton helped found the American Football League and was the original owner of the league’s Los Angeles Chargers. The AFL and rival National Football League announced their merger in 1966, the same year Hilton sold his majority stake in the team, by then called the San Diego Chargers. The team has since relocated to Los Angeles.

“The happiest days of my life were the days I was involved with the Chargers,” he said, according to a 2009 Los Angeles Times story. One of his passions was flying airplanes. “Hotels may have been my vocation, but aviation has definitely been my avocation,” Hilton said, according to a 2010 Forbes story. He owned a fleet of airplanes, helicopters, gliders and ultralight aircraft. Hilton sponsored attempts to circumnavigate the globe in a manned balloon, which he called “the ultimate room with a view – a view of the world.” William Barron Hilton was born October 23, 1927, in Dallas, the son of Conrad Hilton and the former Mary Barron. He was 8 when his parents divorced, and away at school when his father married Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1942. He had two brothers: Eric, who became an executive at Hilton Hotels, and Conrad Nicholson (“Nicky”) Jr., a socialite and manager of Hilton’s international division. Eric died in 2016. Barron Hilton said he had “a misspent youth” and was “kicked out of four or five schools,” according to a 1981 story in People. He said he

wasn’t close to his father, who was building a hotel empire that began with a site in Cisco, Texas, in 1919. Hilton skipped college and served in the U.S. Navy as a photographer’s mate. In 1954, he became vice president at Hilton Hotels. When Conrad Hilton died in 1979, he gave much of his fortune to his private foundation, which benefited Catholic nuns and other charities. Barron Hilton challenged his father’s will and after several years of legal wrangling reached a settlement giving him effective control over 34% of Hilton’s shares. In 2007, Barron announced that he would follow his father’s example and leave 97% of his estate to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. The planned gift is projected to increase the endowment to $6.3 billion, according to the foundation.

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Atlanta, Georgia, also saw a 3.3% increase in passenger traffic that same year, according to Airports Council International’s world traffic report. The city is a major connecting hub and is conveniently located within a two-hour flight of 80% of the U.S. population (of over 300 million people).

“The World Airport Traffic Report shows that even as smaller airports around the world continue to make strong gains, the largest hub airports continue to grow,” ACI World Director General Angela Gittens said in a news release. “There were 16 airports handling more than 40 million passengers per annum in 2008, and there are now 54.” Aside from Atlanta, other busy U.S.-based airports to make the list included Los Angeles International Airport at #4, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (#6), Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (#15), and Denver International Airport (#20). Just as in 2017, Beijing Capital International Airport and Dubai Airport were once again ranked the second and third busiest passenger airports, respectively. As many as a dozen of the world’s top 30 fastest-growing airports are located within China or India. The airport in Bangalore, India, is the single fastest-growing airport, with 32.3 million passengers in 2018 – an impressive 29% increase from the year before.

CA Sues Trump Admin.

The attorney generals of 23 states have sued the Trump administration for preventing California from set-

ting its own vehicle emissions standards. Filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra along with Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and New York City, the litigation charges that the Trump administration can’t withdraw the guidelines the Obama administration set forth under the Clean Air Act. According to the lawsuit, Trump’s decision runs afoul of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) authority. “State Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Preemption Regulation be declared unlawful and set aside because it exceeds NHTSA’s authority, contravenes Congressional intent, and is arbitrary and capricious NHTSA has failed to conduct the analysis required under the National Environmental Policy Act,” reads the lawsuit. The outcome will have tremendous importance as it will determine if states are allowed to decide independently of the federal government which cars are permitted to drive on its roads. The lawsuit also comes as California aggressively moves to tackle climate change. Speaking at a press conference, Becerra blasted the Trump administration, saying that it “insists on attacking the authority of California and other states to tackle air pollution and protect public health. “The Oval Office is really not a place for on-the-job training,” he sniped. “President Trump should have at least read the instruction manual he inherited when he assumed the Presidency, in particular, the chapter on respecting the Rule of Law. Mr. President, we’ll see you in court.”

Health is in the West According to a study from WalletHub, the healthiest city in the United States is San Francisco. Turns out that cities on the West Coast may be getting the prize for being healthy. Seattle, Washington; San Diego, California; Portland, Oregon; and Washington, D.C., rounded out the top five healthiest cities in the nation. WalletHub calculated the data by comparing 174 cities across four dimensions: health care, food, fitness, and green space.

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One of the factors looked at was the lowest premature death rate. Nearly all of the top cities are located in California, much like the percentage of adults eating enough fruits/ vegetables per day. The West Coast also has the highest percentage of physically active adults. This may be why San Francisco took the top spot — it has the most walking trails per capita and the most running trails per capita. New York, New York, came in as the sixth healthiest city in the nation. Must be all those apples we’ve been eating in the Big Apple. Denver, Colorado; Honolulu, Hawaii; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Irvine, California; rounded out the top ten. On the other side of the scale, the unhealthiest cities in the U.S. were found to be in the South. Brownsville, Texas, is the least healthy spot in the nation, and two other Texas cities made the list, along with two in Alabama, two in Georgia, and two in Mississippi. “Those states in particular have high [obesity] rates, and I’m sure their physical activity is rather low,” Dr. Charles Platkin, the director of the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center and editor of DietDetective. com, said.

Access to health care is also important. Laredo, Texas, the second-most unhealthy city, is among the places with the fewest mental health counselors per capita and the fewest healthy restaurants per capita. It also has a low percentage of physically active adults.

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Three Mile Island Closes

On March 28, 1979, a partial meltdown was taking place at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania. An evacuation order was eventually put into place but national protests erupted and prompted increased safety standards for the nuclear power industry. Last Friday, at noon, the remaining reactor (Unit 1) generated its last kilowatt of energy and closed. Even though the plant is licensed to operate until 2034, Exelon Generation is ceasing operations after the state of Pennsylvania earlier this year refused to throw the company a financial lifeline that would have kept it open. The plant’s four cooling towers will remain part of the landscape for now, towers of concrete that seem out of place in the bucolic Susquehanna Valley of central Pennsylvania. Nuclear energy is the largest single supplier of carbon-free energy in the nation, providing about 20% of U.S. energy. With environmental groups and Democratic lawmakers calling for ambitious deadlines to wean the country off fossil fuels, advocates say nuclear power is emerging as a necessary ingredient of any response plan. Some Democratic presidential candidates have touted the benefits of

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The North Pole is inaccessible most of the year, but it can be reached by helicopter in April and by ship during June and July. Only around 1,000 people make the journey annually, and those who do usually rough it in tents and must bring all the equipment needed to keep safe in the hostile, frozen environment. Visitors to this experience will stay for two nights in Svalbard, the last frontier town between mainland Norway and the North Pole. They will then fly to the North Pole and spend a night at the North Pole Igloos hotel. The price includes these stays and the flights, along with meals and guides. Rather than remain on a fixed spot on one of the Arctic glaciers, the igloos will be moved around to “the most safe places” if and when weather conditions change. So, what did you do on your summer vacation?

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The Energy Department began pursuing a license for the facility in 2008. But the Obama administration abandoned the project three years later amid intense opposition from residents and political leaders in Nevada, including Harry Reid, who at the time was the Senate’s top Democrat. With Reid gone, Congress keeps trying to revive the Yucca proposal. There has been no major problem at a U.S. nuclear plant since Three Mile Island.

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A temporary hotel site is opening at the northernmost place in the North Pole in April 2020, offering a once-in-a-lifetime experience for adventurous explorers. North Pole Igloos hotel will be made up of 10 heated domes in which guests can sleep under the stars in the frozen center of the Arctic Ocean. The price of icy comfort? A cool $100,000. “The North Pole has been one of the most exclusive travel destinations in the world for years, but no

This drink is not for the faint of heart but Nick Griffiths is toe-tally into it. The man from Greater Manchester, England, lost three toes to frostbite while competing in the intense Yukon Arctic Race two years ago. As he was being treated at a local hospital, the Royal Marines veteran re-

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membered a strange advertisement he had seen just before the race. “It said: ‘Had frostbite? We want your toes,’” Griffiths told The Guardian. “I thought it was a bit of a joke, really.” But the ad was very real, as the Downtown Hotel is always on the lookout for frostbitten toes to garnish their Sourtoe Cocktail. The hotel’s bar has actually been serving up the drink – basically just a shot of whiskey with a shrunken human toe in it – since 1973. According to the bar’s rules, anyone who orders it is tasked with touching the toe to their lips in order to join the “Sourtoe Cocktail Club.” Customers are told, “You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips must touch the toe.” Over 90,000 brave souls have completed the challenge to earn a certificate of completion, the New York Post reports. After corresponding with Terry “Toe Master” Lee, Grittiths mailed in his three severed toes to the Downtown Hotel, where they have since been mummified and now await their former human owner for a ceremonious first toast. “It takes six weeks to mummify a new toe on rock salt before it’s ready to serve,” Lee said. “We have been waiting for Nick to be first to do a shot with the new toe and make it extra special. “Nick’s big toe is a beauty,” he added. According to the Post, the inn was in desperate need of a quality big toe as the “titular toe” of the $5 Sourtoe Cocktail is so sought-after that it frequently gets stolen. “We have been without a big toe for some time, so his generous toe-nation will help ensure the tradition continues,” Downtown Hotel general manager Adam Gerle said in a news release. On Monday night, Griffiths will be reunited with his lost digit for the first time since losing them in the

ultramarathon. The Yukon tourism board will fly him out from Manchester to the hotel for the long-awaited drink. He will be the first person ever to drink the Sourtoe Cocktail featuring his own detached big toe. “I am excited to be returning to the Yukon and reuniting with my detached digit,” Griffiths said. “Doing the Sourtoe Cocktail with my own big toe will be a memory I will take to the grave.” Just thinking about it is making my toes curl.

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An older French woman recently found out that the painting she had hanging in her kitchen over her hotplate was worth between four and six million euros. She had brought it to specialists to determine its worth, thinking it was a religious icon. Turns out, the masterpiece was created the Florentine master Cimabue, who had taught Giotto. The work was hanging between the woman’s sitting room and kitchen. It is part of a large diptych dating from 1280 when Cimabue painted eight religious scenes. Two other pieces of the work have been discovered. One is hanging in the Frick Collection in New York; the other is in the National Gallery in London. The scene in the National Gallery was also lost for centuries and was only found when a British aristocrat was clearing his ancestral home in Suffolk. It was given to the nation in 2000. Early Renaissance art was hugely influenced by Byzantine art, which is still produced in a similar style today on a background of gold paint. However, tests using infrared light found that there was “no disputing that the painting was done

If you’re looking for adventure this chol hamoed, better head to China. A waterslide that took two years to build on the side of a Chinese mountain has been declared the world’s longest at 8,933 feet, 11 inches, Guinness World Records said. Guinness said the waterslide on the side of Puhuasi Mountain, in Lishui, China, is over a mile and a half long and has been certified as the world’s longest mountain/hillside waterslide. It took about two years to construct the slide, which takes riders up to speeds of nearly 20 mph. The waterslide takes riders for a mountain rafting adventure as well, bringing the attraction’s total time up to about an hour for the whole experience. “After returning to the homeland, how to develop it into a good way is always on my mind. At first, we just want to be the best in China, then we realize this could be a Guinness World Records title to attract the world,” said Lin Wenbi, general manager of Puhua Travel Development, the firm behind the waterslide. Want to make it even more exciting? The slide has a glass floor, so riders can look down and see the heights. I think I’ll just stay home.

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his past week, Yeshiva of Central Queens launched its fifth grade middot program to help students understand the importance of developing positive character traits. Through this program, the students will learn the impact that middot tovot will have on them as individuals and on their communities and all klal Yisroel. Run by Dr. Sarah Asher and Mrs. Elana Joffe of the school social work department, along with the fifth grade teachers, students will participate in activities to help them develop empathy, a character trait that will carry them through their education and help them develop into strong healthy adults. To end off the week and prepare for the upcoming yomim noraim, on Motza’ei Shabbat, the YCQ beit midrash was filled with current students, their parents, siblings and grandparents, alumni, YCQ rabbeim and teachers for the annual Parent-Child Selichot Learning Program. Rabbi Shmuel Marcus, rabbi of Young Israel of Queens Valley, spoke to the participants about the importance of teshuva and how it brings us closer

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to Hashem. He also discussed how saying 100 brachot a day can entirely change the way we look at our day and change the outcome of our day for the better. Rabbi Marcus retold an anecdote by Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, zt”l, that illustrated that when a person is struggling with something in his or her personal life, even saying just one bracha a day with kavana can change how his or her day goes. This mitzvah is so important for those looking for an extra zchut in his/her life. This all connects with the concept of understanding teshuva and what our ultimate goal is. The Rambam says that teshuva is so significant because it brings someone closer to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. If you do teshuva, you will be capable of a closeness to Hashem, to make a connection to the Shechina. Without doing teshuva, we are distant from Hashem and our prayers cannot

be answered. But after doing teshuva, a person is connected to HaKadosh Baruch Hu and now when he or she cries out in prayer those prayers are immediately answered. Rabbi Marcus stated, “Our ultimate goal is to build a relationship with Hashem.” In doing this we can build other relationships in our lives, and this all comes through true connections and teshuva. This lesson is one that the students can bring to their daily lives as they work to build their relationship with Hashem, their families, friends, teachers and communities that will help define the kind of adults and members of Klal Yisroel that they will become. To end this learning program, Selichot were led by Rabbi Moshe Hamel, JHS Judaic Studies assistant principal.

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he bochurim at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov had the zechus this past Sunday to hear divrei chizuk from Rav Reuven

Feinstein, shlita. Rav Reuven spoke about that importance of sensitivity to others particularly during Elul and the Aseres Yemei Teshuva. Ev-

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ALB students in grades 1-5 attended a special assembly run by elementary school administrators Mr. Richard Altabe and Mrs. Gail Rusgo to launch the character development program known as PBIS – Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports. Focusing

on safety, respect and responsibility, the goal of the program is to promote middot tovot (outstanding interpersonal behavior) throughout the school. This message was especially appropriate for the yamim noraim season!

hat needs do community members have? Bais Yaakov of Queens fourth grade students began the school year learning about communities, what makes them the same, and what makes them different. To internalize the message of “What are some of the needs of our community members?” Mrs. Judy Goldberg, BYQ’s CIJE computer teacher, spoke to the girls about a member of her family’s recent experience in the hospital. Before the fourth grade classes kicked off the school-wide Shabbos Kit Chessed Project, now in its fifth year, and decorating materials for Shabbos kits to be distributed at local hospitals before Rosh Hashana, the girls heard firsthand about what it’s like to spend Shabbos in the hospital, without family, friends, or the comforts of home. How much more difficult it must be to spend Rosh Hashana at

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n Thursday, September 19, MTA hosted its annual Club Fair, providing talmidim with the opportunity to pursue their passions and enhance the yeshiva with their unique talents. With 30+ clubs and 10 publications to choose from, MTA’s extracurricular programs have something for everyone. The clubs are run exclusively by talmidim and new clubs are added

each year, based on their interests. From intramural sports, 3-D Printing, MTA-TV, App Development, Chess, Graphic Design, and Art, to Chidon HaTanach, College Bowl, Debate, Photography, Rocketry, Sports Management, and Magic, there is a diverse variety of opportunities for talmidim to hone their creative and leadership skills and enjoy doing the things that spark their interests.

AFTR High School is pleased to announce that two seniors, David Lederer and Jennifer Rabinowitz, are Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. In addition, seniors Alexander Kaufman and Jeffrey Wolberg have been named Commended Students in the Scholarship Program. The program honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. Semifinalists Lederer and Rabinowitz are among the highest-scoring entrants in New York State and will continue in the National Merit Schol-

arship Corporation’s competition to advance to Finalist status. Naomi Lippman, principal of HAFTR High School, noted that each of the students is “an extraordinary scholar” and that all four students engaged in rigorous original science research this past summer. Lederer and Wolberg participated in the Garcia Summer Research Program at Stony Brook University, and Kaufman and Rabinowitz attended the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Lippman congratulated the students on their wonderful achievement.

cies of Eretz Yisrael, with the Shiloh Privilege 2017. While many of Shiloh wines are best matched with rich, well-grilled cuts of meat, the Privilege is a lighter and flavorful blend which would highlight the tartness of the pomegranate without overwhelming it. A rather popular siman is the date. 1848 is a winery, which, besides being arguably the first to have been established in Israel, produces some interesting wines, as well. The 1848 Fifth Generation Cabernet Franc 2016 with its ripe black fruit notes and spiciness, while sipped alongside dates, will make you nod while thinking “this really does make sense!” There is a siman which, while not part of my family’s minhagim (customs), it is part of my wife’s: leeks. This coming Rosh Hashana, I would

love to open a bottle of Netofa Latour White 2017, a dry Chenin Blanc aged in French oak barrels. The vibrant, medium body of this wine as well as its slightly viscous, oily mouthfeel will marry the green, herbaceous nature of leeks amazingly well. No holiday meal is complete without a decadently sweet dessert. I might bake an old favorite of mine, a Poire Belle-Hélène pie. It’s a pear pie with a shortbread crust topped with a creamy chocolate custard and toasted almonds. This is the type of dessert that calls for a Port-style wine such as the Teperberg Essence Fortesse 2013, a surprising wine with rich notes of plums compote, caramelized pecan, as well as cinnamon. After that, it can only be a sweet new year! Shana tova u’m’suka! L’chaim!

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n Rosh Hashana, I believe that most of the focus shouldn’t be just a retrospective of the year that just ended, with its successes and mistakes on both spiritual and material levels, but on the new year that just begins. This year, rather than simply discuss the merits of new and sweet wines, I would like instead to suggest having a bit of fun (it’s yom tov, not Tisha b’Av) with the traditional symbols, the simanim. The simanim vary significantly between the communities within the Jewish people, and even more so from one family to the next. There are people who dip the challah in honey, those who dip it in sugar, and those who use salt as usual. Some

Ashkenazi Jews eat the head of a fish while some Sefardim eat the head of a sheep. Whichever minhagim you have, why not elevate them further with some adequate wines? I recommend checking out the Herzog Lineage Sauvignon Blanc 2018. Its citrus aromas and bright profile would be a really nice match to the fish head. For those who roast a sheep or lamb head, a full-bodied and earthy Les Roches de Yon-Figeac Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 2016 would complement and further enhance the experience. My favorite siman is the pomegranate. Prior to eating the crunchy, juicy, bittersweet seeds we traditionally recite this request: “May (Gd) multiply (the weight and number of) our merits as the (many seeds of the) pomegranate”. I would pair pomegranate, one of the seven spe-

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R' Pinchus Weinberger, rosh yeshiva Yeshiva Nishmas Hatorah, addressing the ninth and tenth grade in preparation for Rosh Hashana

Elul Inspiration at SHS

here is no denying that inspiration is essential in a person’s life. It is something that helps motivate people to overcome challenges. Motivational speakers convey important and applicable information and teach ways to achieve change. This is especially applicable in Elul, as we get closer to Rosh Hashana. SHS students were enthralled during Jon Pritikin’s recent presentation, showcasing his physical and mental strength. Students knew this speech would be different when he opened up by rolling a metal skillet! As a Guinness Book record holder (“The Tightest Circumference of Two Aluminum Frying Pans Rolled Together with His Bare Hands in Less than 30 seconds”), Pritikin’s

brawn is obvious. As soon as he began telling his story, his steadfast perseverance and admirable grit became clear as well. Focusing on the importance of showing kindness, Pritikin’s story reached all ears. “Everyone can be a hero,” Pritikin said while encouraging students to be thoughtful and inclusive. Shulamith is grateful to the Krinsky family for sponsoring Mr. Pritikin’s visit. Only two days later, renowned speaker Mrs. Dina Schoonmaker of Michlalah Seminary, spoke to SHS students. Mrs. Schoonmaker’s focus was relatable, discussing topics like feeling left out and friendship rifts. While discussing lashon hora, Mrs. Schoonmaker brought up the importance of setting realistic and

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reachable goals. “Rosh Hashana is a time when we are reminded to internalize that Hashem is the center of the world,” Mrs. Schoonmaker closed with. Finally, on Monday night, SHS students and their parents – as well as middle division students and parents – were invited to hear Mrs. Sivan Rahav-Meir speak on teshuva in the age of new media. Interesting and engaging, Mrs. Rahav-Meir told her teshuva story and

insight into Elul. Even Israeli politics was touched upon! “I actually really liked it,” one eighth grader remarked. After she passed, a group of tenth graders asked if they could meet with her. “We really want to talk to her more!” they exclaimed. With an upcoming trip to daven Shacharit on the beach, visits to Ohel and HASC, and the launching of daily davening inspirations, SHS ensures that students are inspired!

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n Thursday, September 19, HANC High School was privileged to hear from dynamic author, speaker, and entrepreneur Moe Mernick. Author of The Gift of Stuttering, Mr. Mernick highlighted to the student body the importance of being authentic to oneself and the beauty of transforming challenges into the greatest gifts. Mernick talked about his journey growing up with a debilitating stutter which left him questioning G-d. After years of struggling with his speech and other challenges, he discovered a new sense of purpose while completing high school in Israel. There, he uncovered his deep love of Judaism and connection to G-d

which ultimately helped him work through his speech impediment and overcome other life challenges. Students came away with a heightened knowledge of the fact that each individual has the opportunity to be awesome on a daily basis, no matter the challenge. There was a sense of excitement in the room as students understood what they can accomplish and contribute through overcoming challenges and investing in self-growth. Mernick closed his talk by wishing all in attendance a shana tova, imploring the audience to enter the New Year 5780 with a spirit of renewal as they reach out to Hashem in their individual journeys.

ast Wednesday, MSH students and faculty presented just some of the almost forty teams, clubs, and various extracurricular opportunities offered at MSH. Though a small school by design, MSH students do not sacrifice any academic or extracurricular opportunities. By providing these informal educational experiences, the atmosphere at MSH promotes personal and academic growth, by challenging each student outside the classroom in their field of interest. At the club fair, students were given their choice of one club to participate in during Wednesday club hours. After that, the opportunities are virtually endless! Basketball, Play, Choir, Debate, Model UN, Mock Trial, Scrabble, Robotics, Science Olympiad, and Strategic Thinking are just some of the wide array of varied interests that are represented outside the classroom at MSH. To learn more about all the academic and extracurricular activities offered at MSH, prospective 8th grade girls and their parents are invited to

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join us at our Open House on Sunday, November 3 at 9:00 AM. To join the excitement and learn how you will dream, sparkle, and shine in your extracurricular interests at MSH, pre-register at mshsg.org or for more information, contact admissions@ mshsg.org.

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Ezra Academy Shabbat in Forest Hills

his past Shabbat, Ezra Academy launched its newest community engagement program. Multiple times throughout the year, Ezra will be sending Rabbi Elie Geller to several Queens communities as scholar-in-residence. Rabbi Geller has been a rabbi in the school for more than ten years. The programing for the Shabbat began with Rabbi Geller speaking

in the main youth minyan in Beth Gavriel. The topic of the shiur was the blessings and curses mentioned in that week’s parsha and finished off with the idea that the Torah tells us that Moshe Rabbeinu was born from “ a man from Shevet Levi and a daughter of Shevet Levi” to show how he was human just like all of us and that we all have the potential to achieve greatness. The shiur went on

for a half hour and kept everyone in the room engaged throughout. Afterwards Rabbi Israel Iskhahov, rav of the minyan, spoke about the beauty and uniqueness of Ezra Academy. Some of the members were so impressed with the shiur that they asked Rabbi Geller to give a shiur Shabbat morning following the seven o’clock minyan. Following Shabbat dinner, a special oneg for alumni was held at the home of Mr. Alex and Mrs. Alla Yakubov. The Yakubovs are the parents of Moshe, a graduate from Ezra Class of 2014, and graciously hosted Rabbi Geller and his family for Shabbat. Several alumni came to catch up with their rebbe and hear words of chizuk and inspiration from him. Rabbi Yossi Mendelson, rabbi of Congregation Machane Chodosh and the Yakubovs’ rabbi, joined the oneg and shared divrei Torah as well. The oneg came to an end after one o’clock in the morning when they finally looked at the clock to see how late it actually was. Shabbat morning Rabbi Geller prayed at the seven o’clock minyan in Beth Gavriel. The older Ezra alumni showed a tremendous kavod to the rabbi and the school, eagerly purchasing kibbudim for him. Following the minyan, Rabbi Geller gave an interactive shiur which touched upon many different ideas. The shiur was so engaging that people from other minyanim kept coming in to hear the Torah and partake in the discussion. After the shiur was over countless people went over to Rabbi Geller to express how much they enjoyed the shiur. Many of them, being alumni, went to Ezra before

Rabbi Geller began working there and wanted to introduce themselves to him. Others, who weren’t as fortunate to have gone to Ezra, played Jewish geography with their family and friends who did. Thorough Shabbat afternoon recent alumni and current students kept coming to the Yakubov residence to spend time with their rebbe. Some students even walked from Fresh Meadows and Jamaica Estates, approximately six miles away! All the boys walked Rabbi Geller to Rabbi Vakinin’s shul for Mincha and seudat shelishit. Rabbi Geller spoke at seudat shelishit about Shevet Shimon lacking a blessing and curse and how we are am able to rise over the need of bracha. Again, the shiur kept everyone engaged and wanting more. Rabbi Vakinin followed up by expressing how great Ezra is and how much of a vital role it plays in our community. Going into Shabbat we were unsure how the program would be received. Within no time after Shabbat we began hearing back from alumni of all ages. The Shabbat was groundbreaking and has the community thirsty for more. People were proud to be associated to Ezra Academy and wore the title of alumni as badge of honor. Rabbi Geller will likely be visiting as scholar-in-residence again in December, as the yomim tovim are approaching and the school’s Shabbaton will be held in the next few months. If you would like your community to host an Ezra scholar-in-residence Shabbat, please contact us at principal@ ezraacademy.org.

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MTA Seniors Discover Vibrancy of Pre-WWII Jewish Communities

n Monday, September 16th, MTA seniors visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage, where they learned about the vibrant Jewish communities that thrived in pre-World War II Europe. This experiential learning opportunity highlighted the strength, vitality, and dedication to Torah and mitzvos that were prevalent in many cities throughout Europe and simultaneously demonstrated the vulnerability of the Jewish community. For seniors participating in the Names, Not Numbers elective course where they will create their own Holocaust documentary, the trip was a necessary introduction to appreciating the devastation that was experienced during the Holocaust. Talmidim also participated in a workshop on Ethical Wills, where they studied several Ethical Wills that were written to the children and grandchildren of those who perished at the hands of the Nazis. These Ethical

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Think, Feel, Grow

Rosh Hashana Inspiration and Rebuke By Shmuel Reichman

he cycle of holidays provides a layer of spiritual progression that we can tap into, carrying us towards our ultimate destination of time itself. Interestingly, the cycle of Torah reading provides this opportunity as well. Each parsha has unique ideas and concepts embedded within it that are relevant to the specific time of year that it is read. As we go through this cycle year by year, we propel our kabbalas haTorah forward one level higher through the transformative effects of each week. Thus, we turn this circular cycle into an elevating spiral in time. Rosh Hashana, and Elul in general, is the time of teshuva, of self-awareness and recalibration, of inspiration and will. Every year, right around the time of Rosh Hashana, we read Ki Savo, the parsha of tochacha, rebuke. On the surface, the connection between tochacha and teshuva appears self-evident. However, in order to more fully understand the connection between tochacha and teshuva, we must first understand the concept of flattery. The Mishnah in Sotah (41a) describes the following incident: When King Agripas got up in Yerushalayim to read from the Torah, he opened to the phrase “You shall not appoint a foreign king (ish nachri) over you.” As soon as he read these words, he began crying, as he knew his lineage disqualified him from being king. [There is a machlokes whether this was Agripas l, whose father wasn’t Jewish, or Agripas ll, whose mother wasn’t Jewish, but re-

gardless, his genealogy made him unfit to be king, as a king needs to have superb yechus.] The Jewish people immediately comforted him, saying, “Do not fear; you are our brother, you are our brother.” The Gemara (Sotah 41b) quotes R’ Nassan’s comment on this incident: “At that very moment, Klal Yisrael brought a death sentence upon their heads because they flattered Agripas.” The discussion of flattery continues in the Gemara (Sotah 41b), with an even more enigmatic description of its severity. R’ Elazar declares that the unborn fetuses in the womb curse one who is a flatterer. What is the curse of the unborn fetus? And how does this relate to the problem of flattery?

A State of Perfection In order to understand the meaning behind the unborn fetus and its connection to flattery, we must revisit a Gemara we have discussed several times that describes the initial stage of our formation. The Gemara (Niddah 30b) explains that when you were just a fetus, you were in a perfected and transcendent state of being. While in utero, a malach taught you kol ha’Torah kulah, all of Torah, and you understood all of reality with a crystal-clear lens. However, just before you were born, this malach struck you on the mouth, causing you to forget everything you learned. Two obvious questions arise: why does the malach make you forget what

you’ve learned? But more importantly, if he’s going to cause you to forget it, why even teach it to you in the first place? Changing the way we view the human mind, the Vilna Gaon answers as follows: When you learned all of Torah, it didn’t mean you were learning Chumash with Rashi. Rather, it means that you were learning your Torah; you were being shown your unique purpose in the world and how your unique role fits into the larger scheme of the human story as a whole. You were given a taste of your own perfection, of what you could, should, and hopefully will become. Most importantly, though, you didn’t lose it; rather, you lost access to it. Instead of it disappearing completely, this state of self became buried deep within your subconscious. The reason is as follows: What you received in the womb wasn’t real, it was merely a gift – something unearned and undeserved. The goal of life is to come into this world and rebuild all that you once were in the womb. This time, however, it will be real, since you’ve built it yourself. In essence, your job in this world is not to create yourself, but rather to recreate yourself; to re-attain your original state of perfection, as you were shown by the malach. This time, though, it has to be done through free will, by choosing to become great. Only by overcoming challenge and difficulty, and asserting your willpower, can you fulfill your true potential. In essence, our entire life is a story of teshuva –

returning to our original, higher, and true self. The spiritual purpose of rebuke is simple: it is to help one fulfill his or her true purpose and potential in this world. Life is difficult, mysterious, and sometimes overwhelming. There are times when we fall, when we lose our clarity and direction, when our moral and spiritual compass becomes secondary to impulse and instant gratification. It is precisely at these points, at these times of internal struggle, that we need inspiration, guidance, and, yes, rebuke. But rebuke does not only come from direct confrontation and does not even need to come from another person. Rebuke is simply the experience one has when confronted with the truth, and the subsequent realization of how one’s actions and lifestyle contradict that truth. When one is on the right path, growing every day, the truth is a guiding, shining light in the storm of darkness. When one has lost their way, the truth can hurt. That hurt, though, is the ultimate rebuke. If one has the courage to embrace that hurt, to refuse the urge to shrug it off, to use it as guidance and inspiration to grow, that experience will lead them back on track towards fulfilling their true potential. This is the importance of tochacha. Without the realization that something has gone wrong, there is no impetus to change one’s negative trajectory, to make new decisions. Change stems from friction and discomfort, from the inability to continue living

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the way one has until now. Sometimes, only the unexpected and uncomfortable jolt of rebuke can stop that downwards slide and help one create a new chapter in their life. That emotional wakeup call is the ultimate gift, the ultimate act of love.

that this mistake will persist. This, in truth, is the ultimate act of evil. We can now understand the curse of the unborn fetus. The fetus is shown the path of truth, is given it all as a gift, and is then given a blow of love, given

wrong gives us direction for where to improve, and it reminds us of something crucial: we have a mission to become perfect and we can achieve greatness. We may never achieve complete perfection, but we can become a

The Tragedy of Flattery In order to understand the spiritual harm caused by flattery, it is necessary to examine the internal experience of the one who is flattered. When one is in a vulnerable position, whereby their internal contradictions and hypocrisy have been revealed and they are seen for who they truly are, they become broken and embarrassed. There are two possible reactions in such a delicate and fragile moment: The first is to compliment and appease them, to try and prevent a complete breakdown. This is the aim behind flattery: to give false praise and honor to someone at the exact time when they need to feel the effects of rebuke. The second option is to give honest feedback and rebuke, finalizing the breakdown process. At first glance, flattery appears to be the kinder and more sensitive approach. However, at the absolute root and core of this circumstance, flattery is the ultimate evil; rebuke is the ultimate kindness. Let us briefly explain the meaning of this. Growth takes place at breaking points, where decisions are made and will is asserted. It is precisely when one is vulnerable, when they are exposed to their internal lies and hypocrisy, that genuine and lasting change is possible. When one chooses to flatter someone at this critical point in time, they remove the impetus to change and stifle any chance of growth. “It’s OK,” “Don’t worry about it,” “It happens to the best of us” cripples the impact, full force, and power of the truth. A flatterer convinces someone who is on the wrong path that he is actually on the right path. Instead of helping him see the error in his ways, the flatterer encourages him, convincing him that he was actually correct. Now, not only is he unaware of the fact that he acted inappropriately but his chance of doing teshuva and changing his ways are all but lost. The flatterer grants him moral immunity, alleviating the pain of truth, and, in doing so, ensures

In essence, your job in this world is not to create yourself, but rather to recreate yourself.

the mission to enter this world and fully actualize its potential. A fetus fully grasps the purpose of this life, the meaning of challenge and growth. When a person in this world is given the chance to grow, to transcend his limitations, to take the next step in his spiritual journey, and due to someone else’s actions, he fails to do that, that person is cursed by the unborn fetuses. This is because a fetus represents the ultimate expression of unborn potential, someone who sees so clearly what life could and should be but is not yet given full expression into reality. The unborn fetus looks at this wasted potential, this unborn spiritual growth, and is pained by its lack of expression. In truth, the person himself who fails to take that next step in his spiritual growth was also once a fetus. His own fetus curses the person who prevents him from actualizing his potential. So whenever this occurs, the “concept” of the fetus and this person’s actual fetus both curse the individual responsible for stealing this spiritual potential.

Returning to You Without question, rebuke is difficult to absorb. Even acknowledging our faults within ourselves, without anyone else seeing who we really are, is extremely painful. Our struggles and failures make us feel weak and inadequate, undeserving of love and greatness. But the true purpose of tochacha is not to show us how low we are, but to show us how great we can be. The knowledge where we have gone

little higher and better every single day. The ultimate tochacha is coming face to face with who we could be, with our fetal selves, and realizing that we didn’t become who we were meant to be. This is the opportunity that life gives us; this is the objective of Elul and our road towards Rosh Hashana:

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to recognize that truth, to embrace it, and to then come back into the world of space, time, and choice, and choose to become that person, to fully manifest our fetal potential, and perform the ultimate expression of genuine teshuva. This is the story of life. May we be inspired to embrace our deficiencies, not with the handicap of flattery, but with the inspiring tool of rebuke which will propel us forwards towards our true destination: to our higher selves, to our collective selves, to Hashem Himself. Shmuel Reichman is an inspirational speaker, writer, and coach who has lectured internationally at shuls, conferences, and Jewish communities on topics of Jewish thought and Jewish medical ethics. He is the founder and CEO of Self-Mastery Academy (ShmuelReichman.com), the transformative online course that is revolutionizing how we engage in self-development. You can find more inspirational lectures, videos, and articles from Shmuel on his website, ShmuelReichman.com

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From the Fire

Rosh Hashana Turning Around By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

ccording to the tzaddikim, Rosh Hashana is not a time to speak in public. Rather, it is a time of (Melachim 2:4:13) “B’soch ami anochi yosheves, dwelling amongst the people.” The only way one person can possibly get up to speak in front of other Jews on Rosh Hashana is to try and offer a little inspiration for the blowing of the shofar. Therefore, may the following words be accepted as an effort to encourage the King’s subjects on the occasion of His coronation. One of the major events we remember and “remind” Hashem of by blowing the shofar is the merit of Yitzchak who allowed himself to be slaughtered for Hashem’s sake at the Akeida. We must wonder what Yitzchak was thinking as he walked toward Har Hamoriah to die al kiddush Hashem, in order to sanctify G-d’s name. The Midrash (Tanchuma Vayeira 23) relates that Yitzchak said, “‘If [Hashem] has chosen me, my soul is given over to Him. Over my blood (‫)דמי‬ I am greatly pained.’ And nevertheless, ‘The two of them walked together’ with certainty, this one to slaughter and this one to be slaughtered.” The Maharam Schick asks why, if Yitzchak was so willing to give his life that he walked together with his father Avraham with equal determination to do Hashem’s will and if he declared

“my soul is given over to Him,” does the Midrash say he was exceedingly pained over the spilling of his own blood? He answers that he was certainly more than willing to give up his life and acquire the World to Come in one moment. But what pained him was that he would no longer have the opportunity for dami, to stop and be silent. Dami can mean “my blood,” but it can also mean “my stopping” or my silence,” as in the phrase (Vayikra 10:3) “Va’yidom Aharon, And Aharon was silent” or (Tehillim 30:13) “L’maan yizamercha kavod v’lo yidom, In order that I sing out Your glory and not be silent.” Yitzchak was thinking, “My soul is given over to Hashem but I cannot bear the pain of knowing that I will no longer be able to stop and silence my own personal desires. I will no longer be able to fulfill (Tehilim 44:23) ‘we are killed for your sake all day.’” What does it mean to be killed for Hashem all day? One can only be killed once! It must mean that little death one experiences when he says “No!” to his body’s desires because of his belief in Hashem. A person can die a thousand deaths to sanctify G-d’s name in that way. A person can give over his soul, his desires, and his honor over to the Master of the World. The Tur in Orach Chaim 581 quotes the Yerushalmi that on Rosh Hashana,

“[The Jewish people] eat, drink, and rejoice on Rosh Hashana [even though it is the day of judgment] because they know that Hashem will do a miracle for them.” The Gemara in Brachos (20a) explains how the key to meriting a miracle. The Gemara states, “Rav Papa said to Abaye, ‘What is different about the earlier generations for whom miracles were performed, but miracles are not performed for us?’ ... He said to him, ‘The earlier generations gave their lives for the sanctification of G-d’s name but we do not give our lives for the sanctification of G-d’s name.’” We must understand why Rav Papa asked this question to Abaye in particular. We must also understand how Abaye could say that the people in his generation did not die to sanctify G-d’s name. Weren’t multitudes of Jews willing to give their lives in order to keep and study Torah at the time of the Romans? Abaye, therefore, must have had something else in mind. Notably, “Abaye” was not Abaye’s real name. According to Sherira Gaon and Rashi on Gittin 34b, his real name was Nachmeni. His father died before Abaye was born and his mother died shortly after naming him Nachmeni. He was raised by his uncle, Raba bar Nachmeni. Because Raba bar Nachmeni did not want to call his adopted

son by his own father’s name,with great love, he called his son “Abaye,” which is an acronym for (Hoshea 14:4) “Asher b’cha yerucham yasom, In You, for whom the orphan is granted mercy.” Abaye grew up with great loneliness and poverty. Nevertheless, he sacrificed and overcame all of those challenges to become “Abaye,” thus fulfilling “we are killed for your sake all day.” It is a miracle whenever a person engages in self-sacrifice because he goes against his own nature. Abaye did not mean that people do not give up their lives for G-d. Every Jew has the potential and many people, until today, give up their lives for Hashem’s sake. Abaye knew that Jews will give up their lives for G-d. He was saying that in his times, people did not live for G-d by sacrificing their own desires for His will. When a Jew goes against his nature, he merits that Hashem will go against nature by performing a miracle for him. I heard from my rebbe Reb Dovid Lifshitz, zt”l, who heard from Reb Yerucham Levovitz, zt”l, that when Reb Yerucham was young, a tightrope walker came to his town to perform. The town did not usually experience much excitement so this was a big event. This was particularly so because there was no net below the tightrope. After

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the performance, everyone crowded around the tightrope walker to ask him all about it. One man asked, “What was the scariest part? Was it when you first got onto the rope? Was it as you walked down the rope as it got lower? Or was it when the rope began going higher?” The performer answered him, “No, the most frightening part was turning around.” Reb Yerucham concluded that, indeed, the hardest thing in the tightrope of life is turning around after one has become accustomed to doing things in a certain way for a long time. Going against one’s nature and turning around is a miracle, and by turning around, one merits miracles. Such sacrifice does not have to be dramatic. If one is accustomed to arriving for Shacharis five minutes late every day, he can turn around and come five minutes early every day. If one is accustomed to always outdoing what other people say and “getting in the last word,” he can turn around. When one reverses old habits, he can give his life

over to G-d time and time again. When Jews do this, then Hashem will do miracles for us and deliver us healing and rectification for us and our children. On erev Rosh Hashana one year,

that morning. He tried to explain to his grandson that we do not blow the shofar on erev Rosh Hashana but he insisted, “Zayde, please blow the shofar!” No matter how many times he tried to

When a Jew goes against his nature, he merits that Hashem will go against nature by performing a miracle for him.

the Minchas Elazar of Munkacz was asked by his very young grandson, “Zayde, please blow the shofar!” He loved hearing his grandfather blow the shofar throughout the month of Elul and was disappointed that his grandfather had not blown the shofar

explain to him that he could not blow the shofar, his grandson would not listen. The child began to cry. Finally giving in, the rebbe privately blew the shofar for his grandson. The next day, Rosh Hashana morning, he got up in front of the shul right before the blow-

ing of the shofar and said: “Master of the world. You can testify that I have always done everything I could to keep every single halacha and minhag. But yesterday, because I could not bear to listen to my grandson cry, I blew the shofar in violation of the minhag. Hashem, how can you bear to listen to the cries of millions of your children for thousands of years? They are not asking to hear one hundred blasts of the shofar, thirty blasts, or even ten blasts. They are only begging for one blast of the shofar! ‘Sound the great blast of the shofar of our freedom,’ announcing the arrival of Moshiach!” Master of the world, our lives are given over to You. Help us turn around and recognize that our bodies and our souls belong to You, and may You sound the great shofar of our redemption with the coming of Moshiach this year! Rav Moshe Weinberger, shlita, is the founding Morah d’Asrah of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY, and serves as leader of the new mechina Emek HaMelech.

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By Rabbi Yoni Levin

arching through Chodesh Elul is met with several moments of inspiration. There is an intriguing sequence found within the four parshiyios of Eul as pointers along this path. As we prepare ourselves for Yom HaDin, let us take a look at the parshiyos as signals and indicators of how to be mentally prepared. The four parshiyos are Shoftim, Ki Teitzei, Ki Savo and Nitzavim. Broadly speaking Parshas Shoftim is the parsha of the king – Malchiyos. The next parsha, Ki Seitzei, is about remembering – Zichronos – as we will develop. The parsha of Ki Savo is about listening to the sounds of the klalos – Shofaros. And finally, Parshas Nitzavim is standing as tall as a soldier, stiff and straight, prepared for the Day of Judgement. Let’s focus for a moment on Parshas

Ki Seitzei, the parsha of Zichronos. Parshas Ki Seitzei is the story of a war – the war of life. It addresses various challenges and temptations that face us daily. The parsha is highly relevant for Chodesh Elul. The parsha opens up with the words “Ki seitzei l’milchama al oyvecha.” The gematria of seitzei l’milchama al oyvecha, 787, is the same gematria as Elul plus the 24 hours of the 30 days of the month. (67+30 x 24 =787). As we slowly crawl towards the Days of Awe, allow ourselves to internalize a message that will change our perspective of Rosh Hashana and life thereafter. What is this war all about? What is the root of all sin? What is at the core of immorality and corruption?

OBLIVION Forgetfulness and oblivion.

If we were to be mindful of Hashem’s presence in every corner of the world, then the war wouldn’t be a war. Consciousness of Hakadosh Baruch Hu’s inhabitance on earth wards off all sorts of challenges and threats to our ruchniyus. But in the end, we are human. The awareness wears off. As the day goes on, as the year goes on, and as life goes on, the mindfulness fades away. Rav Shamshon from Astropoli provides an incredible insight. Although the idea is heavily Kabbalistic and beyond any true understanding, the remazim are incredibly impressive, and therein lies a powerful message. The kelipa that oversees or incites shechicha is known as Riv. The word riv means to fight and we have several examples in history when fighting lead to forgetting parts of the Torah. He further explains that the kelipa of Riv

has an army of tr”a soldiers. He demonstrates his point with the following Gemara in Mesechtas Shabbos. The Gemara shares the effects of human desire as it relates to forgetting the Torah. R’ Elazar ben Aruch had been drawn into a world of drinking and indulgence. When he returned back from those places of lust and desire, he attempted to learn but he was found to be smitten with shechicha, as he fumbled on the words of a well-known pasuk. Instead of reading “Ha’chodesh ha’zeh lachem,” he read, “Hachareish ha’yah libam.” Notice how the letters of the Torah were replaced with the letters reish, yud, beis – riv. Moreover, the gematria of hachareish ha’yah libam is the same gematria as tr”a – taf, reish, hay. The Dzikover explains that the shofar is the way with which to fend off

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the force of the Riv, forgetfulness and shechicha. When fighting a physical war, we make use of a cherev pipi’yos, a double-edged sword; when fighting the spiritual war, we use a shofar, whose gematria is the same as pipi’yos (586). R’ Elazar ben Aruch read the pasuk as “hachareish ha’yah libam,” which means his heart was deaf, his heart was numb. But through the sounds of the shofar we are reinvigorated, we are revived and inspired to be mindful of the Ribbono Shel Olam. The shofar alerts us in the deepest of ways; in a way that penetrates the soul so that we recognize that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is with us everywhere we go. It is not for naught that Rosh Hashana is also called Yom Hazikaron, a day of remembering. It is through the blowing of the shofar that we overcome shechicha, forgetfulness. It is through the shofar that we overcome Riv. It is

through the shofar that we overcome the tr”a soldiers. That is why Rosh Hashana is called Yom Haras Olam! It is overcoming the “haras” – same letters as tr”a – soldiers of shechicha.

THE PEOPLE OF OBLIVION We are taught that of all the nations, Amalek represents this kelipa of Riv. An asmachta can be found at the end of Parshas B’Shalach. It says in the

Through the sounds of the shofar we are reinvigorated, we are revived and inspired to be mindful of the Ribbono Shel Olam.

It is noteworthy that Rosh Hashana coincides with rosh chodesh – ha’chodesh ha’zeh lachem.

Torah in back-to -back-pesukim: Pasuk zayin: “Vayikrah shem ha’makom masah u’meriva al riv….”

Pasuk ches: “Va’yavo Amalek…” Additionally, the gematria of koach riv, the power of fighting, equals Amalek (240). And for this reason, Parshas Ki Seitzei concludes with the annihilation of Amalek by always remembering: “Zachor es asher…” with the very last words of the parsha exhorting us: “Lo tishchach – don’t forget!” As we continue to take the battlefield, we should take heed of the shofar and become aware, alert, and conscious of Hakadosh Baruch Hu’s ever-presence in wiping away Amalek and shechicha from this world and bringing the bi’yas goel tzedek. B’mheira b’yameinu. Amen. Rabbi Levin is the assistant rabbi at Congregation Aish Kodesh as well as the Rosh Kollel of Emek Hamelech, both of which are under the leadership of Rav Moshe Weinberger.

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Yitzchak Meltzen, in his Siddur HaGra, poses a question that is extremely fundamental to understanding the objective of our tefillos on Rosh Hashanah. Why did our early authorities arrange the Shemoneh Esrei of Rosh Hashanah in the form that we use today? On the Day of Judgment, why is our entire tefillah focused only on being mispallel for the Kavod HaShechinah? Shouldn’t we be imploring Hashem for banei, chayei, u’mezonei, children, life, and sustenance? Shouldn’t we be begging for selichah and mechilah? Furthermore, asks Rav Meltzen, shouldn’t we specifically mention our sins instead of ignoring them; as we know, modah b’knas patur, one who admits to guilt warrants exemption. Would it not improve the

Heavenly judgment if we confessed, admitted our sins, and asked for forgiveness? When our lives and our entire future hang in the balance, shouldn’t we be begging for what is certainly foremost in our minds? Why do we seem to be ignoring our own needs on the Yom HaDin?

Pray for Hashem … and He Will Provide Rav Meltzen answers that on Rosh Hashanah we definitely would want to daven for our needs, for our parnassah, and for our children. However, there is something that transcends our own personal needs: the Shechinah. The Shechinah is in pain. The Shechinah is in exile. Hashem is, so to speak, without a home, disrespected and disgraced throughout the world. How can we

bring ourselves to ask for our physical and worldly needs when Hashem Himself is not afforded the proper kavod and yirah to which He is entitled!? Therefore, Chazal instructed us to focus first and foremost on restoring Kavod Shamayim, making sure that Hashem’s needs, so to speak, are addressed. We ask for only the bare minimum of our own needs on Rosh Hashanah; we ask only for life — Zachreinu L’Chaim — and even then, our tefillah is framed by our intention to bring more kavod to Hashem with the life He would grant us. We say, “L’maancha Elokim chaim”; we ask for life only so that we can serve You better. We focus our tefillos on Rosh Hashanah on asking Hashem to make His Name and honor revealed and manifest throughout the entire world. When we put our own needs

on the back burner, and focus on asking for the kavod Shamayim to be magnified, the prosecuting angels are silenced, since they see that our concerns are first and foremost those of the Ribbono Shel Olam. And then, the pasuk “Ani l’dodi v’dodi li”is applicable in its truest sense: We are for our Beloved: We are using our tefillos and requests on the Yom HaDin for the sake of the honor of our Beloved — and then our Beloved will be for us and will provide for our needs. Furthermore, says Rav Meltzen, we can apply Chazal’s principle that “kol hamispallel b’ad chaveiro v’hu tzoreich l’oso davar, hu yaaneh techilah, one who davens for a friend, while simultaneously having similar unmet needs of his own, will be answered first.” By davening for the “needs” of Hashem, while we

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All Goodness Comes from Him Perhaps we can answer this all-important question raised in the Siddur HaGra in a different vein, based on a principle set forth in the Derech Hashem. Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzatto writes that the mechanism and the dynamic of how Creation is set up are such that when Hashem’s authority is known and recognized by mankind, all good and prosperity exists in the world. Blessing is increased, and the world abides in peace. When Hashem’s subjects, however, do not subjugate themselves to Hashem and recognize His sovereignty, then goodness is lacking, darkness prevails, and evil dominates. Whenever any reason exists for the Creator to manifest Himself in His Kingdom and demonstrate His rulership over His world, it results in great blessing and prosperity among mankind. There is an increase in the holy illumination of Hashem’s beneficence while the forces of evil are humbled and subjugated, so that they are not able to undermine the good of the world. Based on this principle of the Ramchal, we can understand the focus of our tefillos on the Yom HaDin, as we ask Hashem: And so, grant that Your awe, Hashem, our G-d, be upon all Your works, and Your dread upon all You have created; and then all Your works will fear You and prostrate before You. Reign over the entire world with Your glory, and be uplifted over all the earth with Your honor, and appear in the splendor of Your majestic might over all who dwell in the inhabited world of Your earth; so everything that has been made will know that You have made it, and it will be understood by everything that was formed that You formed it. And they will say, everyone who has breath in his nostrils, “Hashem, God of Israel, is King, and His Kingship rules over all.” When Hashem’s malchus is recognized and His Glory is revealed,

what will naturally follow for all are goodness, peace, blessing, tranquility, light, and holiness. Everything we need, everything that we would want to ask for on the Yom HaDin will naturally flow forth if only Hashem’s malchus were to be recognized and accepted throughout the world. By asking for the world to recognize and honor Hashem in the proper fashion, we are, in essence, asking that we receive all the brachos we want, since that is the natural outcome of Hashem’s malchus being recognized properly throughout the world. This article has been excerpted from The Mystery and The Majesty: Elul. Yamim Noraim. Succos by Rabbi Daniel Glatstein and reproduced with permission of the copyright holder ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications. Rabbi Daniel Glatstein is a rising star in the world of rabbanus and Torah education. Currently serving as Rav and Morah D’asra of Kehilas Ahavas Yisroel in Cedarhurst, New York, Rabbi Glatstein is a prolific speaker with a global following and is one of the most popular speakers on Torahanytime. com. Jews of all backgrounds, from seasoned scholars to beginners and baalei teshuvah, have made Rabbi Glatstein’s illuminating shiurim a rewarding part of their lives. Rabbi Glatstein is one of the contemporary Jewish world’s most popular speakers. The numbers are phenomenal: He has over 4,000 shiurim available; they have garnered literally millions of views and downloads on Torahanytime.com and other venues. His Hebrew-language sefarim, too, have been acclaimed throughout the Torah world. Rabbi Glatstein has been invited to communities around the world to share his Torah insights. In The Mystery and the Majesty, we can join him on an exhilarating journey as we discover the many opportunities offered to us in “the season of majesty” — the days between Rosh Chodesh Elul and Shemini Atzeres. It is a time of authentic and honest introspection, when we peer into our hearts and examine our actions — and a time when we revel in the incomparable joy of coming closer to our Creator.

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THE PAPER CHICKEN by Yanki Tauber

nce, on the evening before Yom Kippur, one of the chassidim of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk asked his Rebbe to allow him to see how he, Rabbi Elimelech, observes the custom of kapparot. “How I do kapparot?” repeated Rabbi Elimelech. “How do you do kapparot?” “I am an ordinary Jew — I do what everyone else does. I hold the rooster in one hand, the prayer book in the other, and recite the text, ‘This is my exchange, this is in my stead, this is my atonement...’” “That’s exactly what I do,” said Rabbi Elimelech. “I take the rooster in one hand, the prayer book in the other, and recite the text. Actually, there might be a certain difference between your kapparot and mine: you probably make sure to use a white rooster, while to me it makes no difference: white, black, brown — a rooster’s a rooster...” But the chassid persisted that his Rebbe’s kapparot was certainly no ordinary event. He had been coming to Lizhensk to pray with the Rebbe every Yom Kippur for more than twenty years now, and had always wanted to observe his Rebbe at this most solemn moment. “You want to see an extraordi-

nary kapparot?” said Rabbi Elimelech. “Go observe how Moshe the tavern-keeper does kapparot. Now, there you’ll see something far more inspiring than my own, ordinary kapparot.” The chassid located Moshe’s tavern at a crossroads several miles outside of Lizhensk and asked to stay the night. “I’m sorry,” said the tavern-keeper. “As you see, this is a small establishment, and we don’t have any rooms to let. There’s an inn a small distance further down the road.” “Please,” begged the chassid, “I’ve been traveling all day, and I want to rest awhile. I don’t need a room — I’ll just curl up in a corner for a few hours and be on my way.” “O.K.,” said Moshe. “We’ll be closing up shortly, and then you can get some sleep.” After much shouting, cajoling and threatening, Moshe succeeded in herding his clientele of drunken peasants out the door. The chairs and tables were stacked in a corner, and the room, which also served as the tavern-keeper’s living quarters, was readied for the night. Midnight had long passed, and the hour of kapparot was approaching. The chassid, wrapped in his blanket under a table, feigned sleep, but kept watch in the darkened room, determined not to miss anything.

Before dawn, Moshe rose from his bed, washed his hands, and recited the morning blessings. “Time for kapparot!” he called quietly to his wife, taking care not to wake his guest. “Yentel, please bring me the notebook — it’s on the shelf above the cupboard.” Moshe sat himself on a small stool, lit a candle, and began reading from the notebook, unaware that his “sleeping” guest was wide awake and straining to hear every word. The notebook was a diary of all the misdeeds and transgressions the tavern-keeper had committed in the course of the year – the date, time and circumstance of each scrupulously noted. His “sins” were quite benign – a word of gossip one day, oversleeping the time for prayer on another, neglecting to give his daily coin to charity on a third – but by the time Moshe had read through the first few pages, his face was bathed in tears. For more than an hour Moshe read and wept, until the last page had been turned. “Yentel,” he now called to his wife, “bring me the second notebook.” This, too, was a diary – of all the troubles and misfortunes that had befallen him in the course of the year. On this day Moshe was beaten by a gang of peasants, on that day his child fell ill; once, in the dead of winter, the family

had frozen for several nights for lack of firewood; another time their cow had died, and there was no milk until enough rubles had been saved to buy another. When he had finished reading the second notebook, the tavern-keeper lifted his eyes heavenward and said: “So you see, dear Father in Heaven, I have sinned against You. Last year I repented and promised to fulfill Your commandments, but I repeatedly succumbed to my evil inclination. But last year I also prayed and begged You for a year of health and prosperity, and I trusted in You that it would indeed be this way. “Dear Father, today is the eve of Yom Kippur, when everyone forgives and is forgiven. Let us put the past behind us. I’ll accept my troubles as atonement for my sins, and You, in Your great mercy, shall do the same.” Moshe took the two notebooks in his hands, raised them aloft, circled them three times above his head, and said: “This is my exchange, this is in my stead, this is my atonement.” He then threw them into the fireplace, where the smoldering coals soon turned the tear-stained pages to ashes. Reprinted with permission from Chabad.org – the Judaism Website.

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Shofar from Auschwitz on Display at Museum of Heritage

Shofar, which was sounded at Auschwitz 75 years ago, to be blown during High Holidays at two Upper East Side synagogues

he Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust revealed last week a historic artifact, a shofar, that was hidden and clandestinely used in the Auschwitz concentration camp as part of its acclaimed exhibition Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. The exhibition is coproduced by the international exhibition firm Musealia and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. The artifact was blown in Auschwitz 75 years ago and has never before been on display anywhere. It will join the more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs in the groundbreaking exhibition, which has been visited by more than 100,000 people since opening in early May and is on view until January 3, 2020. Until now, this artifact has only been used privately. The museum has arranged for the shofar to be temporarily transported to two Upper East Side synagogues

– Edmond J. Safra Synagogue (Congregation Beit Edmond) and Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun – during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to be sounded during religious services over the next few weeks. “For more than two decades, the Museum of Jewish Heritage has sought to educate, inform, and illuminate, motivating all of us to reflect on the atrocities of the past and the world around us today,” said Bruce C. Ratner, Chairman of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. “Every artifact in this exhibition tells a story – of pain, of potential cut short, or of spiritual resistance – and presenting this shofar on the cusp of our High Holy Days illustrates that signs of hope can exist during even the darkest of times.” Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. explores the dual identity of the camp as a physical location – the largest documented mass murder site in human history – and as a symbol of the borderless manifesta-

tion of hatred and human barbarity. Visit Auschwitz.nyc for more information and exhibition tickets. “Each object we display in the exhibition has its own historical echo, its own voice. This shofar will bring our visitors the sound of spiritual resistance and human dignity, and a story and echo we very much need to hear today,” added Luis Ferreiro, Director of Musealia and the Auschwitz exhibition. Chaskel Tydor, an Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor, passed the shofar down to his daughter, Professor Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz. She is director of The Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and Professor in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. “My modest five-foot-two father was a giant of a man who, because of his position as work dispatcher, managed to save hundreds of lives, and possibly more, in Auschwitz

III-Monowitz during his years in Nazi camps,” said Prof. Baumel-Schwartz. “The shofar was a symbol of his powerful belief which he never lost throughout his years in Buchenwald and Auschwitz and his spiritual resistance. He always looked forward, never backward. He helped, encouraged and supported everyone he could, giving them hope for the future.” The shofar was ostensibly unavailable in any Nazi concentration camp and possession of a religious artifact could be punished by death. That did not deter a group of observant Jews in the Auschwitz III-Monowitz camp from trying to obtain one to use during High Holiday prayer services. Tydor was one of the prisoners responsible for organizing the camp’s work details, and during Rosh Hashanah, he arranged for many of his comrades to be transferred to a work detail that was far removed from the center of the camp, where the sound of the

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shofar could be heard without attracting undue attention. He could not attend the clandestine service they were planning as he had to remain at his position or risk arousing suspicion. He later told his daughter, “When I approached the Jewish prisoner who was supposed to have the shofar, he denied it. He was probably afraid to tell anyone as having it in his possession meant death.” Tydor only saw the shofar four months later, in late January 1945, as he and thousands of other prisoners were forced by the SS guards to set out from Auschwitz on the infamous Death March. An emaciated prisoner approached him, handed him an object wrapped in a rag, and said, “Take it… I’m too sick to survive. Maybe you will make it. Take the shofar. Show them that we had a shofar in Auschwitz,” Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz recalled her father saying. Tydor survived the Death March through the snow to the town of Gleiwitz, which contained sub-camps of Auschwitz. From there, the shofar accompanied him to Buchenwald. Realizing that they were losing the war, the Nazi administrators of the camp became more lax, leaving much of the inner organization to the prisoners. Consequently, it was possible for Tydor to hide the shofar in the small rag bag he carried, with his tin cup and spoon. It remained with him until he was liberated on April 11, 1945 by the U.S. Army. After liberation, Tydor was able to forge a new life. On Rosh Hashanah 1945, he was on a boat to Palestine. In view of the Carmel mountain range, Tydor blew the shofar for a group of young survivors – many, like him, from Auschwitz. They were about to reach the Promised Land. Chaskel Tydor passed away in 1993. He is survived by three children, nine grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren, and a greatgreat- grandson (named after him). The shofar has remained with the family since the Holocaust and has never been displayed in a museum or institution. Prof. Baumel-Schwartz visited the Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage this past

spring, and she mentioned having a shofar from Auschwitz to the exhibition’s chief curator, Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt. He asked if she would be willing to have it exhibited in the Auschwitz exhibition on long-term loan. She immediately agreed that her family’s treasured shofar with its powerful story should be part of the exhibition. “Since the exhibition Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. opened, Holocaust survivors and their children have come forward with amazing Auschwitz-related artifacts and the stories that accompany them,” said Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt, a historian and chief curator of the exhibition. “Their enthusiasm and willingness to share what have become treasured family heirlooms show that the exhibition is not only the result of decades of research, but also a catalyst for exciting new discoveries and insights, and an occasion to strengthen and enlarge the community of people dedicated to the future of Auschwitz as memory, as knowledge, and as lesson.” “This shofar is a powerful example of spiritual resistance, defying the oppressor by insisting on preserving religious integrity,” said Dr. Michael Berenbaum, a scholar and part of the curatorial team for the Auschwitz exhibition. “By tradition, the shofar blasts are intended to storm the heavens and plead for mercy. The shofar is blown: one whole blast is followed by three shattered blasts, and then by nine, short staccato blasts. The final blast, the Tekiyah Gedolah, restores and ex-

pands the original shattered wholeness. One must imagine how the prisoners of Auschwitz felt on that most sacred of days, the New Year when life and death hang in the balance. Their world had begun in wholeness, but was shattered, utterly broken apart. If they survived – and that was a big if – they could only dream of wholeness, of restoration.” Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. has been curated by an international team of experts led by historian Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt and including Dr. Michael Berenbaum and Paul Salmons, in an unprecedented collaboration with historians and curators from the Research Center at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, led by Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz. Featuring more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs, mainly from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the New York presentation of the exhibition allows visitors to experience artifacts from more than 20 international museums and institutions on view for the first time in the North America, including hundreds of personal items – such as suitcases, eyeglasses, and shoes – that belonged to survivors and victims of Auschwitz. The Museum of Jewish Heritage has incorporated into the exhibition nearly 100 rare artifacts from its collection that relay the experience of survivors and liberators who found refuge in the greater New York area. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. traces the development of Nazi ideology and tells the transformation of Auschwitz from an

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ordinary Polish town known as Oświęcim to the most significant Nazi site of the Holocaust – at which ca. 1 million Jews, and tens of thousands of others, were murdered. Victims included Polish political prisoners, Sinti and Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and those the Nazis deemed “homosexual,” “disabled,” “criminal,” “inferior,” or adversarial in countless other ways. The exhibition tells not only the story of their persecution and murder, but also the myriad ways ordinary people responded to the unfolding genocide, including inspiring stories of resistance, resilience, courage, and altruism. In addition, the exhibition contains artifacts that depict the world of the perpetrators – SS men who created and operated the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Photo credit: Museum of Jewish Heritage John Halpern.

General Information Hours: Sunday – Thursday 10 AM to 9 PM Friday (April to October) 10 AM to 5 PM Friday (November to March) 10 AM to 3 PM Last admission to Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. is 2 hours before closing time. Last entrance to the rest of the Museum is 30 minutes prior to closing time. The Museum is closed on Saturdays, Jewish holidays, and Thanksgiving. Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 36 Battery Place, New York City 646-437-4202 For more information, visit mjhnyc.org.

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Sweet Crunch Mandarin Pomegranate Spinach Salad Ingredients SALAD 5 oz baby spinach 1 can mandarin oranges 3/4 cup pomegranate seeds 1 avocado, diced 1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted 1/4 cup chopped walnuts

DRESSING 2 TBS white wine vinegar 1 1/2 TBS sugar 1/8 tsp salt 1/2 cup light mayonnaise 1 1/2 TBS honey 1 TBS poppy seeds

Preparation

PREPARE THE DRESSING: In a small mixing bowl, whisk together vinegar, sugar and salt until sugar and salt have dissolved. Add mayonnaise, honey and poppy seeds and whisk until combined. Store in the refrigerator until ready to use. TO MAKE THE SALAD: In a salad bowl, layer spinach, mandarin oranges, pomegranate seeds, avocado, almonds and walnuts. Pour dressing over salad right before serving. NOTE: If your minhag is not to use nuts on Rosh Hashana, substitute pepitas and/or sunflower seeds for the almonds and walnuts.

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DRESSING 2 TBS white wine vinegar 1 1/2 TBS sugar 1/8 tsp salt 1/2 cup light mayonnaise 1 1/2 TBS honey 1 TBS poppy seeds

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Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad

Ingredients SALAD 1 butternut squash peeled, seeded, and chopped into 1/2-inch cubes Olive oil Salt and black pepper for seasoning squash 2 cups quinoa 4 cups water Pinch of salt 1 cup dried cranberries 1 cup pepitas

DRESSING Juice of 3 large oranges Zest of 1 large orange 1/4 cup olive oil 1 TBS honey Salt and pepper, to taste

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 400Â°F. Place butternut squash on a large baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil. Toss until squash is well coated. Season with salt and pepper. Roast the squash for 30 minutes, turning once, until tender. While the butternut squash is roasting, cook the quinoa. Add quinoa, water, and salt to a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil for 5 minutes. Turn the heat to low and simmer for about 20 minutes, or until water is absorbed. Remove from heat and fluff with a fork. Let quinoa cool to room temperature. In a large bowl, combine quinoa, butternut squash, dried cranberries, and pepitas. In a small bowl, whisk together the orange juice, zest, olive oil, and honey. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Drizzle over quinoa salad. Toss until ingredients are well dressed. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

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Honey Cake Hysteria By Jon Kranz

round Rosh Hashana time, you can have your cake and eat it too, as long as it’s honey cake. Having honey cake during the High Holidays is something most Jews accept as a given and take for granted, just like when Jews assume that every rabbi enjoys delivering a sermon, every butcher enjoys slicing meat, and every bar mitzvah boy enjoys getting pelted with candy. But surely there must be more to the honey cake for it to be so ubiquitous and sought-after in the Jewish world at this time of year. The Jewish version of honey cake is known as “lekach,” a term derived from the German word for “lick.” (That certainly is better than deriving from the German word for “spit.”) In Hebrew, honey cake is referred to as “oogat dvash,” which literally means honey cake. (Yes, in Hebrew a Strawberry Shortcake could be referred to as “oogat tut katan” and a Seven-Layer Cake could be referred to as “oogat sheva-madregot.”) Honey cake is consumed during Rosh Hashana because its honey component is meant to symbolize a sweet New Year. Obviously, nobody wants a sour New Year and therefore on Rosh Hashana Jews usually refrain from eating sour cream or sourdough bread. A more difficult question is whether it is appropriate on Rosh Hashana to serve sweet & sour chicken, a dish which arguably would give mixed messages. Believe it or not, honey cake is

expressly mentioned in the Talmud. For example, Pesachim 120a states: “With regard to unleavened sponge cakes, cakes fried in oil and honey, and honey cakes, a person may fill his stomach with them on Passover night, provided that he eats an olive-bulk of matzah after consuming them.” (Yes, “cakes fried in oil” might be a Talmudic reference to heimishe churros or zeppole.) Recipes for honey cake differ but some

and honey as though the two were made for each other, like gefilte fish & horseradish, chopped liver & crackers, and herring & onions. Some would argue that if honey is synonymous with having a sweet New Year, it would make more sense to dip honeydew (instead of apples) in honey. But that might be way too sweet, kind of like dipping chocolate-covered matzah into Nutella. On Rosh Hashana, Jews normal-

In other words, when it comes to dominating Rosh Hashana, honey cake takes the cake.

scholars insist that the Jewish version dates back to and derives from an Ancient Egyptian cake known as “basbousa.” Others contend that the Jewish honey cake comes not from a basbousa but rather from a balabusta. For the record, on Rosh Hashana, Jews enjoying dipping apples in honey, not honey cake. (Dipping apples into honey cake would be silly because dipping one solid into another solid would make as much sense as eating a liquid with a fork or cutting a gas with a knife.) On Rosh Hashana, Jews eat apples

ly do not usually eat other forms of apples and honey together. For example, Jews do not go out of their way to feast on apple cider and honey mustard or appeltinis and honey roasted peanuts. They also do not jump through hoops to eat both apple and honey-infused baked goods. Apple pies, apple strudel, and apple turnovers certainly are available around the High Holidays but they are not typically served alongside honey cake. Truth be told, apples pies, strudel, and turnovers simply do not draw the same attention or make the same impact as honey

cake. In other words, when it comes to dominating Rosh Hashana, honey cake takes the cake. Some scholars argue that, many years ago, the “honey” traditionally consumed on Rosh Hashana did not come from bees. (By “bees” we mean insects, not spelling competitions.) These scholars claim that such “honey” actually was fruitbased, derived from grapes or dates. (By “dates,” we mean dried fruits, not romantic pursuits. As an aside, a date-bearing tree is known as a Phoenix dactylifera, whereas a date-bearing matchmaker is known as a Shadchan dactylifera.) Other scholars insist that honeybee-produced honey first came into fashion when it was discovered by the Greeks in the 4th century. The Hebrew word for honey is “dvash” and the Torah describes Israel as “eretz zvat chalav u’dvash,” meaning a “land flowing with milk and honey.” The Torah, however, does not mention anything about a land flowing with honey cake. Then again, the Torah does not mention falafel or hummus but Israel certainly flows with them too. Final thought: to entice guests to join you on Rosh Hashana, using honey cake as a honey trap is permitted.

Jon Kranz is an attorney living in Englewood, New Jersey. Send any comments, questions or insults to jkranz285@gmail.com.

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Segulah for Nachas Thousands of Chinuch Atzmai transportation sponsors receive special bracha from Rav Chaim Kanievsky

n the opening day of the new school year, a ma’amad tefillah took place at the home of Rav Chaim Kanievsky on behalf of this year’s sponsors of Keren Kiruv Yeldei Yisroel. Participating at this special kinnus were leading roshei yeshiva, members of the Keren’s administrative staff, and talmidim of Talmud Torah Meshivas Nefesh in Ganei Tikvah, representing the thousands of other beneficiaries of the Keren, which provides transportation from their homes to yeshiva each day. Several binders filled with the names of the Keren’s sponsors were placed on Rav Chaim’s table. Following Tehillim, Rav Chaim bentched all the donors that in the zechus of facilitating the proper chinuch of Hakodosh Boruch Hu’s children, they should be rewarded – middah k’negged middah – with true Yiddish nachas from their own children and future generations, with many years of good health and success in all their endeavors. The Buses are Rolling Since the start of the new school year in Eretz Yisroel, thousands of students travel to and from the many

bring home the light of Torah. Villages that had no shul now have regular minyanim all week long. “Throughout Eretz Yisroel,” Rabbi Karelitz continues, “we are fortunate to witness the remarkable fulfillment of the words of the novi; seeing not a hunger for bread, nor a drought for water, only a craving to hear the dvar Hashem. Our hopes and prayers are that Hakodosh Boruch Hu will enable us to provide busing for every single child. We are truly impressed with the large number of people who have followed the gedolim’s directive.”

Chinuch Atzmai yeshivos across the country, including those living in remote villages and settlements. This is truly remarkable when considering the severe budgetary crisis facing the Keren Kiruv Yaldei Yisroel, the transportation fund created by gedolei Yisroel for children who otherwise would have no access to a Torah education. The engine behind this amazing achievement is the warm, generous response of acheinu bnei Yisroel across the globe, who have heeded the call of gedolim and adopted one child by sponsoring his transporta-

tion costs. “As soon as we open a route to a new settlement, we are inundated with requests from more children who wish to register and enroll in a Chinuch Atzmai school,” explains the Keren’s executive director, Rav Mordechai Karelitz. “Many families would like a Torah chinuch for their children, but are unwilling to invest any effort to achieve that. Once transportation is available, they jump on the bandwagon. Enrollment grows by leaps and bounds, and entire families are transformed when the children

Exalted Neshamos “Tears flow down my cheeks every morning,” remarked a staff member at one of the Chinuch Atzmai schools, “as I watch the children arrive from places like Rosh Ha’ayin, Hod Hasharon, Ramla, and Cholon. I see Yinon, Lior, Adir, and their friends carrying red Bava Kamma gemaros under their arms, wearing white shirts and attired in a manner that befits a true yeshiva bochur. If not for Keren Kiruv Yaldei Yisroel, these precious neshamos would be lost to the tide of assimilation.”

Good Music and Good Deeds Grace Jerusalem

nce again, this Sukkot, United Hatzalah is bringing the top performers in Jewish music to Jerusalem and is inviting the public to enjoy a great concert and help the organization save lives in Israel. All proceeds from the concert will go directly to supporting the work of the 6,000 volunteer EMTs, paramedics, and doctors who put their own lives on hold to rush out and save the lives of others. The iconic orange vest of the volunteers as well as the organization’s signature EMS vehicle, the ambucycle, have become fixtures in Israel whenever a medical emergency occurs. Having developed a system based on a nation-wide network of volunteers who arrive on

average in less than three minutes anywhere around the country, United Hatzalah has reimagined EMS in Israel and has created the world’s fastest response time. The organization, which is completely funded by donations, provides all of its services free of charge. Over the last year, more than 35 training courses have graduated groups of EMTs, totaling close to 1,000 new volunteers, who come from all segments of the Israeli population. These people – men, women, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Bedouin, Druze and others – all work together and share the common goal of saving lives. “I believe in the power of lifesaving,” said president and founder

of United Hatzalah, Eli Beer. “Our volunteers, who help others without getting anything in return, have created a groundswell of volunteerism and through their actions, have caused other people to want to get involved. Sometimes patients who recover become volunteers themselves, or the family members and neighbors of the volunteers join. There is so much good that is happening because of our volunteers that it has become a project that everyone wants to be a part of. It has become a never-ending chain of giving.” Beer spoke about the purpose of the concert. “This concert, that we have held for the last 19 years, is an opportunity for me and for the orga-

nization to share this act of giving and lifesaving with the general community. You don’t have to be an EMT to save lives, but at the same time you can help us do that by partnering with us and joining us for a great night of music.” United Hatzalah’s annual concert will take place on Thursday, October 17, the 4th day of Sukkot. This year’s lineup of performers will be headlined by fan-favorite Avraham Fried. Joining him will be two rising stars of the Jewish music world, Simcha Leiner and Mordechai Shapiro. For tickets and information please go to the website www.concertinisrael.com or email sales@concertinisrael.com.

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Classic Fruit Flan

A Unique and Exciting New Cookbook by DANIELLA SILVER

DAIRY I GLUTEN-FREE OPTION I YIELDS 8-10 SERVINGS

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METHOD

DOUGH

1⁄₃ cup honey

1½ cups flour

½ cup fresh lemon juice

(or gluten-free flour)

¼ cup sugar

2 tsp pure vanilla extract

¾ cup vegetable oil

6 Tbsp vegetable oil or coconut oil

1½ Tbsp vinegar

FRUIT

LEMON FILLING

4 cups assorted fruit

5 large eggs 2 Tbsp lemon zest 260

halved, sliced, or cubed (e.g., strawberries, blueberries, kiwi, mango, etc.)

VARIATION 4

Preheat oven to 375°F. Lightly coat a 10-inch flan pan or pie plate with removable bottom with nonstick cooking spray. Dough: In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, oil, and vinegar; mix to make a soft dough.

Press dough evenly against bottom and sides of prepared pan. Bake, uncovered, for 35-40 minutes, until golden.

LEMON PARFAIT

Meanwhile, combine all filling ingredients in a small pot. Heat mixture, stirring continuously (so as not to curdle the eggs), until the lemon mixture becomes thick. Let cool slightly. Using a mesh bag or strainer, strain filling until smooth. Let cool completely. Refrigerate until ready to serve

Prepare lemon filling as directed in Step 4. Spoon filling into parfait glasses; top with cubes of fresh fruit.

Shortly before serving, pour lemon filling into pie crust. Arrange fruit over filling. Serve immediately. Also by Daniella Silver:

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A Spirited Siyum

ast Thursday, there was a chazarah siyum in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway for 17 bochurim who learned Meseches Kesubos over the summer. The mesaymim were: Ari

Blum, Yosef Braun, Dovy Feldhamer, Shmuel Fuchs, Eli Ganz, Shlomo Gewirtz, Zvi Goldstein, Daniel Goodman, Chaim Goodman, Pesach Haas, Moshe Hershkovich, Yehuda Jacobi,

Dovid Karp, Elchonon Miller, Rafael Mirocznik, Yaakov Simha, and Ami Stern. The siyum was a massive kiddush Hashem as it was shown to many the

chashivus of chazering a mesechta in addition to the chashivus of learning over the summer in general. May we continue to see much nachas from the talmidim in the future. Mazal tov!

A New Take on Tech

Machon Sarah TAG HS Expands its Groundbreaking iChoose Program to Include Parent Body

“T

ech fatigue” can mean different things to different people. To people in Silicon Valley, it generally refers to the burnout resulting from living at the cutting edge of tech development for so long. To parents in our community, however, it more likely means “I’m tired of hearing about what’s so awful about the internet.” Or “I’m not interested in attending another internet-banning event at my child’s school.” On Sunday, September 8, Machon Sarah TAG HS embraced the challenge posed by that sentiment, with the goal of welcoming parents into the technology dialogue without adding to the overwhelming “tech fa-

tigue” experienced by so many. Since the launch of its innovative iChoose program in 2017, MSHS TAG HS students have been immersed in an ongoing, multi-modal dialogue, designed to empower them to make healthy, mindful, and Torah-true choices with regard to their use of digital technology. Sunday’s parent event aimed to actively bring their parents into the conversation. Judging by the overwhelming feedback, expectations were met and exceeded. Rabbi Elisha Sandler, Mara d’Asra of Kehilas Bais Yisroel and beloved mashgiach at Yeshiva Sh’or Yoshuv, addressed a packed auditorium, setting the tone for the evening. He passionately and poignantly im-

pressed on parents their responsibility in taking initiative in building relationships with their children, and in bridging their children’s relationships with Hashem. He emphasized the urgency and effectiveness of parental tefilla for the specific needs of each child one is blessed with. His talk was thought-provoking and powerful. Rabbi Doniel Frank, family and couples’ therapist in Monsey, NY, focused on the nuts and bolts of that relationship-building process. He illustrated with real-life examples based on his thriving practice dealing with teens in the frum community. Additionally, he showed how the challenges we face in this arena are

universal, human, and not unique to our community. Mrs. Tali Aeder, LCSW, addiction specialist, explained and demystified some of the maladaptive behaviors common to many adolescents today, in the context of our digital world. She clarified the process of addictionand offered concrete tools to empower parents to facilitate healthy relationships as a powerful and effective preventative to harmful, self-sabotaging behavior. The evening was refreshing and empowering. It offered validation, education and information with a professional and upbeat vibe. No tech fatigue here! And the conversation continues…

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Around the Community The Sulitza Tehillim Kollel event was held on Tuesday night. R’ Avrohom Schorr, shlita, and the Sulitza Rebbe, shlita, spoke at the well-attended event

Getting to Know Each Other at HANC

he seventh grade girls had an incredible time at their “sweet” meet and greet on 9/9/19. The ice cream sundae bar was especially fun and yummy. After the food, the seventh grade girls were randomly put into groups and then the real activities began. Human bingo was a hit, where each girl had to find someone “allergic to apples” or “birthday on a holiday” or something similar. This gave the girls an opportunity to talk to each other and find out new information. Each girl loved the M&M activity, which included taking a handful of chocolate, each color representing a different question to answer, for example: “What is your favorite movie or book?” The seventh grade girls all loved the food and activities and were thrilled to spend time together. Thank you to the morahs for planning and organizing this amazing event.

On Friday, September 13, the seventh grade boys, along with Rabbi Olshan, Rabbi Dworetsky and Dr. Levey, gathered in the Middle School Beit Midrash for a “get to know your classmates” activity. The boys first started off with some snacks that in-

cluded delicious rugalach and croissants. Following snacks, each seventh grade boy was asked to randomly select five M&Ms. We went around the room and each student introduced themselves and then answered a question based on the color of the

M&M. A blue candy represented their favorite food; a red candy meant they had to tell the group something about their family. It was an amazing event. Thank you so all the Rabbis and Dr. Levey for planning and organizing the event. On Monday, September 16, Middle School parents came to follow their children’s schedules and experience a “day” of classes. The parents were immediately greeted by Rabbi Hecht as they walked through the front doors and enjoyed coffee and snacks sponsored by the PTA. Then, Rabbi Hecht and Mrs. Morey spoke for a few minutes about the exciting new school year. Mrs. Morey expressed her thoughts on the school’s theme. The parents were thrilled and excited to go class to class, meeting each teacher, and getting a little taste of middle school.

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Rabbi Usher Anshel Jungreis, son of Rabbi Mordechai Jungreis, shlita, of the famous Woodbourne Shul, learning about the shofar with his Pre 1A class in Yeshiva Ketena of Queens

A Night of Chizuk

his past Tuesday night, 17 Elul, hundreds of people from Kew Gardens and other communities came together at the Ner Mordechai Shul on Blvd for a night of chizuk and Tehillim for a refuah for all cholei Yisroel and specifically for Alexander Zisha ben Aliza (Rosenblum), the renowned “tantzer” and baal chessed who was in a horrific car accident almost three years ago and needs a major refuah sheleima. After opening remarks from his uncle, R’ Pinchas Rosenblum, the evening began with warm and very moving remarks from Harav Aryeh Sokoloff, Mora D’asra of Khal Adas Yeshurin and a longtime personal friend of the family. He focused on how important emunah peshuta is and to have sincere tefillos to Hashem. He bought down a Sforno explaining that Sarah Imeinu knew that real sincere tefillos could turn around any gezeirah, even to the point of her having a child at her age, and therefore we should increase our tefillos to bring about a complete refuah. He was followed by Harav Moshe

Tuvia Leiff, Mora D’asra of Agudath Yisroel Bais Binyomin, who also came as a family friend. He electrified the crowd with his words of chizuk, saying how special this outpouring of love and caring is to the Ribbono Shel Olam, saying that when the malachai hashores tell Hashem, “Look how evil the world is. You should just destroy it,” the Ribbono Shel Olam shows them a night like this night, and this community, and then says, “Do you think I should still destroy the world?”

He also pointed out from a Rambam how important it is to answer amen when someone gives you a bracha even adding on “kein yasa Hashem,” so should Hashem do. Then the olam, which included R’ Willig of Tiferes Moshe, R’ Ephrayim Tannebaum of Tiferes Shmuel, R’ Sholom Spitz of Shaar Hatorah, R’ Elchonon Zohn of Vaad Harabbanim of Queens, and Rabbi Paysach Krohn, said Tehillim led by R’ Rockove, rav of Khal Nachlas Avos, with a special hisorerus reserved for these days of

Elul. A beautiful folder with the simanim was distributed to the crowd, as people were leaving with a newfound appreciation for tefillos and bakashos after this evening of inspiration. Hashem should be mekabel these and all of our tefillos for a year of refuos, yeshous and our specific needs, with a kesiva v’chasima tova. Please keep in mind in your davening for a refuah shleima b’karov for Alexander Zisha ben Aliza and all cholei Yisroel.

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Celebrating Elul and Tishrei In Gesher Style

ne of the highlights of the Gesher experience is the monthly school-wide assembly. The Rosh Chodesh assemblies feature a lesson about the luach and the special days in the coming month. This month’s assembly celebrated Elul and Tishrei together and noted the children whose birthdays are in those months. Each one received a cupcake and a book was donated to the Gesher library in their honor. A special project was facilitated by our in-house beekeepers who presented actual honeycombs for the children to extract honey into their own honey jars. Gesher’s newly updated alternative play space and multi-media room was put to good use with a video feature of Rabbi Paysach Krohn describing the process of making honey. An additional element was introduced: a new Gesher theme song, written by Morah Shoshy Schmukler and professionally recorded. The Gesher energy was rocking, and the

children were enthralled. To enrich the overall program, special t-shirts were distributed to each student. These t-shirts will become a collage of months through-

out the year. Thank you to Morah Shoshy for coordinating the different aspects of this month’s assembly. Gesher would like to express its apprecia-

tion to the Goldstein family for their sponsorship of the activity and to Link Homecare for sponsoring the t-shirts.

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Smooth Sailing for the Freshmen

he freshmen headed down the Delaware River last week for their maiden voyage as a grade: a rafting trip! In six-person rafts and with their senior “big sisters” and grade deans in tow, the newly minted

Central students paddled their way through the day, which ended at Mrs. CB Neugroschl’s home for dinner. Freshman Shira Rosoff expressed, “It was a great way for our grade to bond. If you were in a raft with people

SKA’s Pre-Selichot Inspiration

tudents, mothers and alumnae of the entire HALB community had a wonderful opportunity on motzei Shabbat, September 21, for meaningful inspiration before selichot. World Mizrachi shlicha to North America, Mrs. Sivan Rahav Meir, spoke to a large group of women in preparation for the Yomim Noraim. Sharing her fascinating life story and the challenges of being a new immigrant, Mrs. Meir stressed the power of little deeds and how much of an impact they can make. She noted the

words of Natan Sharansky, who related how easy it was to differentiate between good and evil in the Gulag. For us today, Mrs. Meir said, it’s so unclear and harder for us to see. Every time we choose good, we are heroes. Immediately following this presentation, over 30 alumnae of SKA were fortunate to have their own shiur right afterwards with Rabbi Isaac Rice, head of SKA’s Torah Sbe’al Peh Department and Assistant Rabbi of Congregation Anshei Chesed, on “Working For and With the Community.”

you knew, you got to know them better, and if you were with people you didn’t know, it was a great way to hang out for the first time.” It wasn’t all smooth sailing, though. Tallyah Akhavan and Sophia

Shaool said, “We definitely got stuck a few times on boulders or on the sides of the river and had to get ourselves out! It was really fun, though, and we pulled through together.”

Central Club Fair

he beginning of each school year at Central brings with it a highly anticipated and exciting event: the Central Club Fair! This year’s fair showcased a wide variety of after-school activities, including academic clubs like Mock Trial and Model Congress, publications like newspaper and Literary Journal, performing arts clubs like Band and Dance, and other weekly activities including peer study hall, Environmental Club, and Photography club.

The cafe buzzed with excitement as student leaders displayed informative posters and manned their booths, introducing themselves to interested peers and offering sample materials and sign-up sheets. The room was filled with a lively energy as students shared the topics and causes they are so passionate about with one another. The extracurricular year at Central is off to a vibrant start!

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YOSS Summer Homework Winner

n an incredible display of determination and devotion, third grader Mordechai Hoffman in YOSS completed his summer kriyah packet, not having missed a day! He spent time every day of his long summer break to focus on the detailed booklet assembled by our rabbeim

to assist children with their kriyah skills, including fluency and accuracy. He, together with many others, was entered into a raffle for an electric scooter. The runners-up were each awarded a gift certificate for their hard work as well. We are so proud of these boys’ accomplishments.

HaRav Reuven Feinstein, shlita, visited the food packing event for Chasdei Lev held this week at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn

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Rosh Hashana Fair at Gan Chamesh

he children at Gan Chamesh enjoyed a hands-on, funfilled Rosh Hashana fair that enabled them to internalize the meaning of Rosh Hashana using all their senses. They painted with pomegranates, picked apples from an apple orchard, measured their height in apples, pinned shofars on a ram, listened to different shofar sounds, and dressed up as bumblebees to dramatize the honey making process. The Rosh Hashana fair represents one of the innovative programs that Gan Chamesh has instituted to ensure that the children truly connect with the yomim tovim. Wishing you all a shana tova uâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;metuka!

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his past Sunday, September 22, Rabbi Shoneck held his annual father-son shofar workshop for his Yeshiva of South Shore 8th grade talmidim, fathers, and grandfathers. Rabbi Shoneck first gave a shiur on Hilchos Shofar where together they learned which animals are kosher for the mitzvah of shofar. He brought in horns from rams, cows, and many other kosher animals to show the boys what can be used as a shofar for Rosh Hashana. A ba’al tokea in his own right, Rabbi Shoneck then demonstrated the different sounds each horn makes and how it has an impact on

halacha. After the shiur was given, everyone went outside to make their own shofar. Each student was given a shofar and together, with their fathers and grandfathers, they cut, drilled, and sanded the shofar to be ready for use. “This was a great experience for my son and I,” one parent commented. “A real hands-on approach to chinuch!” Special thanks to Mr. Vaiselberg and Rabbi Picker for directing the drilling, cutting, and sanding part of the program. Shana tova!

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Jon Pritikin Inspires Shulamith Students By Tirzah Luchins

n Wednesday, September 18, the Shulamith School for Girls Middle Division gathered in the auditorium to watch Jon Pritikin’s incredible feats of strength and listen to his inspiring story.

Mr. Pritikin’s underlying message is that we are all important and that we shouldn’t let anybody put us down. He reminded us that If we see anybody who looks alone or in need of a friend, we should do what we can to help them. Eighth grader Tiferet Tuchman said, “When he was telling us his story, it felt so real. We all hear about the consequences of people being cruel to one another, but seeing him up there really changed my perspective. He looks like such a normal and untroubled person. I would not have imagined he was ever mistreated.” Nikki Weiss and Chana Gluck both added that they were inspired by how Mr. Pritikin helped a lot of people and prevented them from trying to cause intentional harm to

themselves. A younger student who prefers to be anonymous said that she felt vulnerable in the third and fourth grades, and it only started getting better in fifth. She asserted

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What’s the definition of a will? (It’s a dead giveaway.)

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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Every calendar’s days are numbered.

The one who invented the door knocker got a no-bell prize.

A backwards poet writes inverse. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

What did the grape say when it got stepped on? Nothing – but it let out a little whine.

He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.

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I don’t trust these stairs because they’re always up to something.

A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.

Need an ark to save two of every animal? I no’ah guy.

To write with a broken pencil is pointless.

When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.

He had a photographic memory that was never developed.

It was an emotional wedding. Even the cake was in tiers.

The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

A man just assaulted me with milk, cream, and butter. How dairy.

There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn’t control his pupils.

You feel stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.

The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

The man quit his job at the doughnut factory because he was fed up with the hole business.

With her marriage she got a new name and a dress. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I’ll show you A- flat minor.

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Riddle me this? There was once a servant with his own farm. This servant grew a delicious crop of apples. One day he decided to take some to the king. The king’s castle was surrounded by 7 layers of walls and each wall had a guard. Each guard stood by a gate. The servant reached the first gate and said, “May I go through to show the king my wonderful apples?” The guard replied, “You may, if you give me half of your apples.” The servant then said, “Fine, but you have to give me back one apple.” The guard agreed. The same scenario repeated itself with each of the guards until the servant finally got to the king. When he reached the king, the servant still had the same amount of apples that he had started with. How is this possible? See answer to the right

You gotta be kidding A group of tourists from California and Alabama are in New York and split a double-decker tour bus to go from Manhattan to Atlantic City. The group from California is on the bottom deck and the group from Alabama gets the top deck. The tourists from California are having a blast on the ride. One of them goes up to the top deck to see how the Alabama folks are doing. He walks up the stairs and sees all of the Alabama tourists clutching the seats in front of them with white knuckles, scared to death. He says, “What’s goin’ on? Why are you guys so scared? We’re downstairs having a blast.” One of the tourists from Alabama says, “Yeah, but you guys have a driver!”

Answer to Riddle Me This: He started and ended with two apples.

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2. Approximately how long does it take for honey to spoil?

c. They are bees that only have stingers but no wings and fly on the backs of other bees

a. Two years b. Ten years c. One hundred years d. A thousand years e. Honey never spoils 3. How many queen bees are there in a colony of bees, which consists of 20,00060,000 honeybees? a. 100

6. How many flowers does a honeybee visit during one nectar collection trip?

b. 1,000

a. 5-10

c. Half of the bees are queen bees

b. 10-20

d. 90% are queen bees

d. 30-40

e. There is only one queen bee 4. What did Romans use honey for?

c. 20-30

e. 50 to 100 7. What is the U.S. per capita consumption of honey?

a. As soap

a. 16 ounces per year

b. To pay taxes

b. 1.3 pounds per year

c. To paint gold

c. 4.2 pounds per year

d. They are modern drone airplanes made by the U.S. military that have “stinger” missiles and are therefore called Drone Bees. e. They are male honey bee that do not have stingers and gather neither nectar nor pollen. 9. What shape is a honeycomb? a. Polygon b. Octagon c. Nonagon d. Pentagon e. Hexagon

1. B. The average honeybee makes only one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. One bee would have to fly around 90,000 miles to make one pound of honey.

e. North Dakota

2. E. Honey never goes bad as it has natural preservatives and bacteria can’t grow in it. In 2015, honey was found in the tombs in Egypt. The honey was estimated to be 3,000 years old, and it was still edible.

d. New York

3. E

c. Tennessee

b. They are bees that fly above the rest of the colony in order to make sure that they are not attacked by other insects

4. B

d. One hundred

b. Wyoming

a. They are the bees that look for flowers.

5. E. For the 15th year in a row, in 2018, North Dakota produced the most honey in the U.S. That year, North Dakota produced 38.2 million pounds of honey, valued at a total $71.7 million.

c. One

a. California

8. What are drone bees?

6. E

b. Two million

5. Which state produces the most honey in the U.S.?

d. 7 pounds per year

7. B

a. Two dozen

d. To bind books

8. E

1. Approximately how many flowers would a bee have to gather nectar from in order to make one pound of honey?

 Answers 9. E. Creating beeswax requires the bee to expend a lot of honey. They consume eight ounces of honey for every one ounce of wax they create. For this reason, they need to make sure that they aren’t wasting resources when creating the structures that will house nectar and honey. The secret is in the geometry of hexagons which uses the least amount of material to hold the most weight.

Honey Trivia

 Wisdom Key 7-8 correct: You are the queen bee! 3-6 correct: Not bad, but at what point did you fail to realize that the answer pattern is Bee...Bee...Bee? You probably don’t recognize the pattern in honeycombs either, huh? 0-2 correct: Do you even like challah with honey?

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Torah Thought

Rosh Hashana By Rabbi Berel Wein

he concept of beginning a new year, of giving the new year a different number than that of the year just past, is an essential part of human nature. All human beings desire the ability to begin anew as well as to have an opportunity to reflect on accomplishments and achievements. If we live in a constant cycle of time without the blessings of new beginnings, life would be depressing and almost hopeless. We would always be carrying with us the baggage of previous times and errors of judgment and behavior. It would be like having a book that would not allow us to turn its pages. As such, we find that in all societies of humans that inhabit this globe the concept of a new year has taken

a strong hold. Original humans and many indigenous tribes and peoples did not have the concept of a yearly calendar. Time was an unending stream that knew no boundaries or limitations. Such a view of life and events limits one’s ability to gain introspection into the behavior patterns of life and of entire societies. One of the great contributions of the Torah was to establish a calendar based on the measurement of time in terms of years, months, weeks and even days. The author of Psalms taught us that we are to number our days so that we will be able to obtain a heart of wisdom. For without the ability to measure the passage of time, there can be little reflection or deep understanding

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accurately describes our feelings and emotions on this day of celebration and judgment. The majesty of the prayer service of this day is unmatched, so to speak, in all human expression. Contemplation and understanding of the service itself creates within us the mood and sets tone of the day, to encourage us to move forward in confidence into the new and blessed year that is now beginning. Ktiva v’chatima tova. Chag sameach.

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Parshas Nitzavim By Eytan Kobre

Weekly Aggada Because this thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart to do it (Devarim 30:14) [So said Eliyahu HaNavi:] I was once wandering from place to place when a man started to mock me. I said to him, “My son, what will you answer to your Father in Heaven on the Day of Judgment?” “I will say to Him,” replied the man, “that the Heavens did not bestow upon me knowledge or understanding (and I therefore did not better myself through the study of Torah).” I said to him: “My son, what do you do?” “I am a fisherman,” said the man. I said to him: “My son, who taught you to gather flax and weave nets to throw into the sea to catch fish?” “My teacher taught me to do so,” answered the man. “For that, the Heavens bestowed upon me sufficient knowledge and understanding.” I said to him: “My son, if the Heavens bestowed upon you sufficient knowledge and understanding to throw nets and catch fish from the sea, could it be that for the Torah – about which it is said ‘the thing is very close to you’ – they did not give you knowledge and understanding?” The man raised his voice and cried. I said to him: “My son, do not be troubled. Other people also give the answer you have given (i.e., that they were given insufficient knowledge and understanding to be able to study Torah), but their own actions disprove them. And about them and those like them and those who do what they

do, the verse says, ‘They that work in combed flax, and they that weave cotton, shall be ashamed’ (Yeshaya 19:9)” – i.e., all these workers will be ashamed that they had sufficient intelligence to perform their work but not to study Torah (Eliyahu Zuta 14).

Weekly Mussar See, I have set before you today, the life and the good and the death and the bad (Devarim 30:15) I call heaven and earth to testify against you today, that I have set before you the life and the death, the blessing and the curse; and you should choose life, so that you and your progeny will live (Devarim 30:19) The Torah here tells us that there is no excuse for not living a Torah life. The Torah speaks to the Jewish people in the singular, explains the Chofetz Chaim in the name of the Vilna Gaon, to show that the individual must lead a Torah life even when the multitudes around him fail to do so. And the Torah highlights the word “today” over and over again, notes R’ Moshe Feinstein, because one must choose the Torah life anew each day: if one did not choose “life” yesterday, one must nonetheless choose “life” today; if one did choose “life” yesterday, one must make that same choice again today. One must choose the Torah “life” in every situation.

Weekly Anecdote And you shall return to Hashem your G-d, and listen to His voice according

to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul (Devarim 30:2) R’ Shmuel Torvitz, rav of Rishon LeTzion, told of an old man in his 90s – R’ Leib was his name – who came to him with the following story. R’ Leib hailed from communist Russia, where he had lived a life completely divorced from the Torah and its ways. In his later years, however, he had the good fortune to return to G-d. But one matter troubled him… Living in communist Russia about sixty years earlier, it was exceedingly difficult to earn a living, particularly with heavy taxes imposed by the government. So R’ Leib and his brother and their friends sold furs on the black market to avoid paying taxes. It happened one time that R’ Leib’s brother, who headed the black market trading ring, was forced to dismiss an employee who had been caught stealing from their enterprise. To preempt any reprisal by this disgruntled former employee, the ring decided to inform on the former employee to the NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs) – the vicious Russian law enforcement arm of the Communist Party – claiming that this former employee had committed a stunning array of financial crimes. R’ Leib was chosen to deliver this information to the NKVD. The disgruntled former employee was swiftly arrested, imprisoned, and subjected to crushing financial fines and penalties. “Even after I repented and returned to G-d,” R’ Leib confessed to R’ Shmuel Torvitz, “this act of informing continues to torment me. I have even set aside a bank account earmarked

for the return of the monies confiscated from this former employee. But this man is no longer alive. How can I ever fully repent?” When R’ Shmuel asked whether the former employee had children, R’ Leib explained that he had, in fact, seen this man’s son some ten years earlier but knew nothing of his present whereabouts. “If we do not know the whereabouts of this man or his children, how can I possibly help?” R’ Shmuel asked. “You are the rabbi of this city,” R’ Leib answered. “I will do whatever you tell me to do to complete my repentance, provided that you give me a written ruling that I have fulfilled my obligations. In that way, I can approach the Heavenly Court free of the stain of this grave sin.” R’ Shmuel was at a loss for how to guide R’ Leib, but he promised to consult with other rabbis and return with a plan ten days hence. With each passing day, R’ Shmuel grew increasingly apprehensive, for he really had no plan for the R’ Leib, and it didn’t seem like a legitimate plan was even possible. Then, early in the morning on the day before the deadline, R’ Shmuel heard a pounding on his front door. It was R’ Leib. “Thank G-d! The problem is solved!” R’ Leib announced. When he calmed down, he proceeded to explain: A few days ago, I was not feeling well and went to the doctor. Arriving early, I decided to wait at the bus stop in front of the doctor’s office. There was another Jewish man sitting at the bus stop, and we struck up a conversation. I discovered, much to my amazement, that he hailed from

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the very Russian town the disgruntled employee was from. So I asked whether he knew so-and-so (the disgruntled employee). “Know him?” the man shot back. “Of course I know him! That’s my father-in-law!” I was desperate to learn more, so we went back to his apartment to continue our discussion. There, I told this man my whole story. His wife (the disgruntled employee’s daughter) heard our conversation. “I remember that! I remember the vicious NKVD storming our home and dragging my father away!” She even remembered the sum of money her father had been penalized (and other confirming details of the story). I was overjoyed at having been led by Heaven to the very family I was so desperate to find, just so I could complete my repentance. R’ Leib, with the assistance of this family, learned that the disgruntled employee had three grandsons living in Russia. He made arrangements to

have the monies repaid to them in full. He then returned to R’ Shmuel. “Here are the three bank confirmations of my repayment of the confiscated monies to the three grandchildren of that disgruntled employee. When it is my time to depart this world, please place these receipts in my grave, so that they may support my claim of repentance when I appear before the Heavenly Court.” R’ Leib passed away only a short while later...but not before miraculously having been afforded the opportunity to complete his repentance.

Weekly Halacha And it will be, when he hears the words of this curse, that he will bless himself in his heart, saying: “I shall have peace for I walk in the stubbornness of my heart – that the watered be swept away with the

dry” (Devarim 29:18) This verse – and the subsequent one that “G-d will not be willing to pardon him” (Devarim 29:19) – applies to one who returns a lost object to a non-Jew (Sanhedrin 76b). There is no obligation to return the lost object of a non-Jew (since we are commanded only about the lost object of “your brother”), and one who returns the lost object of a non-Jew has committed a sin (Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 266:1; Rambam, Gzeila VaAveida 11:3). (By doing so, one equates his relationship with Jews and nonJews alike and shows a lack of regard for the great deed of returning a lost object (Rashi, Sanhedrin 76b).) There is some debate as to whether most of today’s non-Jews fall into this category (see e.g. Be’er HaGola 266:2 [distinguishing nonJews who are idolaters and most of today’s non-Jews]).

One may return a lost object to a non-Jew for the purpose of making a kiddush Hashem, and it is even praiseworthy to do so (Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 266:1). Conversely, if a chillul HaShem (r”l) would result from not returning a non-Jew’s lost object, one is obligated to return it (Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 266:1). While one must return the lost object of even a wicked Jewish person, one need not and should not return the lost object of a Jewish person who is wicked out of spite (“lehachis”) (Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 266:2). The Weekly Halacha is not meant for practical purposes and is for discussion purposes only. Please consult your own rav for guidance. 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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So You're Thinking of Joining the IDF... The Struggles of Israel's Lone Soldiers By Rafi Sackville

ver the years I have seen hundreds of my students conscripted into the army. For them, the process doesn’t begin after they graduate high school; the road to army fatigues begins sometime during eleventh grade. I have spent some of the most boring days of my life with juniors who spend an entire day at the army recruitment office while they take medical tests, psychological exams, and are interviewed at length about their desires, their hopes, and their expectations. At the Tiberias recruitment office, the atmosphere and décor are less than tantalizing; there are no bells or whistles, no “Hey ho! Let’s go!” attitude, and if students didn’t bring a lunch, which we recommend they do, the menu at the kiosk is less than appetizing. These kids come equipped with a support system to see them right through until the day when families

and friends traditionally come out in numbers to see them onto the bus. Fathers and brothers have been through the drill, as have mothers and sisters. In truth, the process for Israelis begins way back when they are small children. It is part of the national psyche. If one subtracts this vast lifetime network and the preparation that runs the gamut of an Israeli teenager’s life, the vacuum is a distraction at best and a whirlpool of danger at worst. It is into this void that almost hundreds of American youngsters step into once they sign up to serve in the Israeli Army. They are known as Lone Soldiers.

recent in-depth article in the Haaretz newspaper ran with the frightening headline, “What’s Killing Israel’s Lone Soldiers?” The article was comprehensive in its research and, as you will read from the lone soldiers The Jewish

Home interviewed, very accurate. The situation is less than ideal. For one, there is a greater suicide rate among lone soldiers than in the regular army population. Many diaspora recruits have minimal skills in Hebrew; some of them are carrying psychological baggage that sees them lying on their medical forms in order to get the highest possible profile; and many seek combat duty without comprehending the ramifications that come with the stress. Most notable is the fact that through Garin Tzabar, the organization most active in the drive to conscript youngsters, the amount of money that is annually raised is so great that no change to the system is even remotely a consideration. The Garin Tzabar website opens with the following sentence: “Tzofim Garin Tzabar was founded in 1991 and is the best solution existing today for young Jewish adults who make aliyah

and wish to make Israel their home and serve a meaningful service in the IDF as Lone Soldiers.” Note how the mention of the IDF is the last point mentioned in the paragraph. Emphasis is placed on making aliyah. Whilst not true for most members of Garin Tzabar, too many of them begin their army service lacking in ideals, unsure of themselves, and in the hope the army will solve problems they have brought with them from overseas.

e interviewed a number of lone soldiers, specifically those who come from solid families, are idealistically motivated, and did not become soldiers due to the grandeur and prestige it leaves on their resume. Moreover, they have decided to remain in Israel. The thrust of the Haaretz article is clear; not all is well with lone soldiers. The headline’s damning fact is this:

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whereas soldiers without parents in the country comprise only 2 percent of conscripting soldiers, “they accounted for a disproportionally high share of military suicides in the past year.” There is irony in the term “lone soldier.” It conjures a state of loneliness. Loneliness that can easily become the overriding state of normal in the life of soldiers from the diaspora. G. said he could identify with this state of loneliness. “I have a lot of family here – a brother and aunts. I rented an apartment in the middle of the country. So if I want to, I have places to go. It’s all well and good to go to my apartment at the end of the week...until it’s not! I was once sick for four days and was in my apartment alone. There was no home cooking and no one to do my laundry. “So yes, being a lone soldier can be very lonely.” The small things we take for granted like coming home to a warm house with familiar food and someone more than happy to do the washing would be rare occasions for most of these soldiers. In fact, all the young people interviewed for this article were unanimous in their view that the army does not take these small, but important, things into account. Garin Tzabar divides the incoming recruits into groups, which are then assigned places to live like kibbutzim. Ideally, this gives them a sense of belonging when they are on leave from the army. I met some soldiers on a kibbutz in the Jordan Valley who were less than impressed with the welcome they received. Whereas they didn’t feel unwelcome, they radiated the impression that coming back to the kibbutz on furlough wasn’t what they had been promised. Many of them were not assigned work on the kibbutz during the initial phase of the founding of the group. They were adopted by families, but it wasn’t the same as being home. There was far too much downtime. Despite the efforts of Garin Tzabar, it still begs the question of why the IDF goes to the lengths it does to recruit these soldiers in the first place. Has the army taken into account the homes they have left behind and the comforts of – in most cases –advanced western civilization? K. believes there is an element of disillusionment among the army and

youngsters. “By the time they’re in units, it’s too late to do anything about it. There’s neither enough, nor adequate, preparation. Israelis grow up knowing about the army. They live the system. People don’t grow up learning about the army in New York. In truth, lone soldiers don’t really understand what’s happening. “The army was so happy to take us in. But after we were in the system, I got the feeling they didn’t seem to want to do the work. They didn’t offer enough financial support, and they didn’t check up on us enough.” K. gave an example that illustrates so much of what is wrong with the system. She joined Garin Tzabar a few years ago and was shocked by the Rambo-like-minus-the-idealism attitude of so many youngsters. “The guys talked about the guns they were going to use and the combat units they were desperate to get into,” she said. “They talked as if it was a game. They were living under an illusion they were tough guys, like they’d seen in movies. They never once realized the consequences.” To compound these problems, some youngsters have come to volunteer without declaring their true psychological state. Some come from broken homes, others are of the belief they can solve their issues by moving countries. More worrying is that some see being truthful about their true state of mind as a sign of weakness. The IDF is, in such cases, ill-equipped to deal with such problems. K. told me of a friend who, when he joined the army, was obviously unstable. K. said it was as clear as daylight that he had issues. “Garin Tzabar doesn’t meet the standards of family,” she added. “They and the army didn’t realize he was a troubled kid. He eventually became

part of a difficult detail during Tsuk Eitan, the last war in Gaza. I was also there, and I could see it was the last thing he needed. He had to evacuate the killed and wounded. The army should have known better. “After the war he spun out of control and then left Israel.” Unfortunately, K.’s story is not unique. P. told a story she saw repeated time after time when it came to the army assigning a profile number to recruits. The highest profile one can get is 97. This opens more opportunities, particularly for those seeking to serve in combat units. “People lie,” said P., referring to the medical and psychological evaluations. “Everyone wants the highest profile. Many of them do a lot to get it.” They go back to the recruiting office. Oftentimes some of them manage to improve their profiles. D. agrees with this assessment. “In my opinion the biggest thing going into the army is what the army knows and doesn’t know about soldiers from the diaspora. They are clueless.” D., who was a combat soldier, readily declared any medical issues he had. As a result, his profile was lowered. He recalls the reaction of some of his friends from the diaspora who were being conscripted at the same time. They were amazed he’d told the truth. D. recalled, “They asked me why I had been so open about my medical issues. In other words, they wanted the cool units and the 97 profile, and they were going to do whatever it took to get it.”

t is important to note that not all lone soldiers struggle. Most are motivated, sometimes in degrees far greater than their Israeli counterparts. For these soldiers, the Zionist ideal is alive and well, and they see a

future for themselves in Israel post-army. The Haaretz article took pains to note that the major problem “is the vetting system. The holes are way too big.” Many Israeli youngsters defer the army for a year doing either Sherut Leumi or by joining a pre-military program. Both help pave the way for a more successful and balanced army career. Sherut Leumi is a national service option providing young adults with diverse placement options throughout the country. A pre-military course is usually held at a military base. Military discipline is practiced there, and trainees are required to act as soldiers. The trainees usually wear uniforms but are not given ranks. Another way to study pre-military is in a military school. The military schools are primarily geared toward the technical professions, the Air Force, the ICT and the Technology and Maintenance Corps. After completing 12th grade, these schools offer students a residency in later grades and an opportunity to obtain an engineering diploma. For the hundreds of youngsters joining Garin Tzabar, these options are not available. There is more than one way a person can fall through the cracks. Of the hundreds of annual Garin Tzabar recruits, many don’t speak any Hebrew when they begin their service. There are many people living in Israel who have difficulty speaking Hebrew. The last place one wants to have trouble is in the army as a soldier in a large squad or battalion, where everyone is in the same situation and one’s commanding officer has to spend an inordinate amount of time explaining him or herself more than once because he has a soldier who doesn’t speak the language. D. speaks Hebrew well. It is obviously something he has worked hard at. It gave his military service more fluency. That sense of seamless integration makes for better soldiers; it gives them a sense belonging. The notion of looking like an outsider can quickly disappear once the language is mastered. In fact, at the beginning of our interview, D. was happy to conduct it in Hebrew. He was nevertheless at

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pains to point out the glaring discrepancies between his fellow lone soldiers and his Israeli comrades. It isn’t the language as much “as a lack of family and a place to go on Shabbat.” D.’s military service is a success. He has a levelheaded approach to the army. He didn’t mince his words when he spoke about lone soldiers in general. “Everyone joins the army because they think it’s cool. There are a lot who do view it as an escape. They didn’t fit in in America. There are some who come because they want to make aliyah. Unfortunately, a lot go back.” When asked about these soldiers who were running away from their problems, problems the army knows nothing about, D. spoke more from his own personal experience. “I think in paratroopers, it’s a little better, where there’s better quality of soldiers and better vetting. But even there I know commanders who were constantly dealing with soldiers running away.”

In preparing this article I couldn’t help thinking of the parents of troubled youth who are willing to send their children into the IDF. Do these parents believe the army is going to take care of their kids? Their sons and daughters who sign up for Garin Tzabar complete a total of twelve days orientation. Compare this to a lifetime of preparation in Israeli households. Once their children get on that plane, it can unfortunately become out of sight, out of mind. Yet, for many families who see their kids and their kids’ friends wanting to join the IDF because it’s become so trendy, the impulse to say no to them may not be part of the lexicon. Any 17- or 18-yearold can convince themselves they’re doing something noble by becoming a soldier. Y. is a young woman who is practical and direct. She recently completed her army service and is planning to stay in Israel. Her service was difficult and trying, but for her that oftentimes didn’t compare to the difficulties she

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had to face when she was sent home for the weekend. “They don’t always understand where we’re coming from,” she says. “We get Friday and Shabbat off, and while Israelis are going home to chill, we’re going to the bank, we have to go shopping, we’re cooking and cleaning and dealing with the financial aspects of our lives. The army doesn’t understand. Two days off with Shabbat! There’s no time! We’re doing a lot of the process ourselves. It’s hard to run the process yourself.” She suggests, “The army could help lone soldiers by pairing them up with a family or someone to talk to, to familiarize them with everything. When you get there, you are in shock because of the army and the culture.” One prominent Israeli journalist is critical of the lone soldiers program. He contends that the army, as the largest Israeli-Jewish organization in the world, should remain exclusively Israeli, to the exclusion of youngsters like lone soldiers.

That is a moot point, but relevant nonetheless, particularly in light of the situation many lone soldiers find themselves in.

or those considering the IDF as an option, it would be best not to consider it as a trendy thing to do. It’s not a romp in the park wearing greens and carrying a gun. Two to three years of service is a long time. It requires fortitude and a willingness to push through physical and mental hardships. Most importantly, and at the beginning of the process, it requires honesty, not only from these youngsters, but from their families, friends, and educators. Yes, serving in the IDF is a good fit for some but not for others. One has to be honest in making the right decisions. One’s life might depend on it.

Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, teaches in Ort Maalot in Western Galil.

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Jeff Eisenberg’s Mission to Stem the Tide of Assimilation By Michelle Zimmerman Author’s Note: As a writer, I interview people every day, and most of them readily volunteer their personal stories. Jeff Eisenberg is not a typical subject. He is not a man who is looking for recognition, and he prefers to live under the radar. He reluctantly agreed to share his experiences to be able to draw attention and rally the Jewish people to recognize their potential to help Klal Yisrael. As Rosh Hashana is upon us, let us gain inspiration from his story.

resident Bill Clinton was experiencing a crisis. No, it had nothing to do with national security or a political scandal. The culprit was bed bugs. The year was 2009, and his NYCbased offices for his post-presidential team and the Clinton Foundation, as well as his home in Chappaqua, were

infested. Many of his employees were also impacted, and their work was being interrupted. The situation was dire. The story even became front page news and was a punchline on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – which was certainly not on Clinton’s agenda. Enter Jeff Eisenberg and his extermination company Pest Away. Known as the premier experts for reliable and safe bed bug removal, they were called in to remedy the delicate situation. During weeks of complex work, Jeff was in frequent contact with Clinton’s chief of staff as well as Doug Band, his chief legal advisor. A rapport developed. With a life-long dedication to tzedakah and ties to many Jewish organizations, Jeff was determined to leverage this potentially important relationship for the good of the Jewish people. “I started my business so I could balance work and tzedakah projects on my own time,” he said. “From the beginning of

the Clinton job, I thought why would Hashem give me Clinton as a client? It has to be for more than a good story. I need to use this opportunity.” Since a major part of Clinton’s mission is to help children around the world, Jeff tapped Migdal Ohr, an organization where he’s served on the Executive Board for the last 30 years, as the charity to bring to his attention. Based in Israel, Migdal Ohr services over 7,500 orphaned and underprivileged children from 3 months to 18 years. They provide critical housing, education, guidance, and stability for these at-risk children. Jeff started planting seeds and information with the Clinton team to test their receptiveness. When the job was finished, it was time to act. President Clinton wanted to personally thank Jeff for his team’s work, and Band set up a meeting. Rather than the five-second “meet and greet” the president had in mind, Jeff swooped

in with a funny anecdote about President Obama having just won the Nobel Peace Prize. He now had Clinton’s attention. The stage was set, and Jeff made the case for Migdal Ohr as a worthy candidate for Clinton’s consideration. Fast-forward six weeks later. Clinton was visiting Israel, and Jeff arranged a meeting between Clinton and Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman, founder and dean of Migdal Ohr, and children from Migdal Ohr. Jeff also convinced Clinton to agree to speak for free at a Migdal Ohr event, when his going-rate at the time was $200,000 per appearance. This experience is one of many in a career of melding his dedication to tzedakah with his day-to-day business life for the greater good of Klal Yisrael. “I’ve tried to live everyday with the principle of ‘kol Yisrael arevim zeh la zeh,’ that we are all responsible to extend a hand

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and help our fellow Jew,” Jeff explains. “Each of us has strengths and the potential to help others.” Rabbi Yaakov Trump, Mora D’Asra of Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst, notes, “Jeff is a unique person. He does not seek the spotlight and is often behind-the-scenes chairing committees. His goal is to motivate people to do what is important and take action. Jeff’s entire mission and direction in life is to advance Klal Yisrael on both private and public levels. He supports many organizations and is mindful of how he invests his time and resources to impact as many people as possible. He actively researches ways to create new solutions which will save millions of dollars for future Jewish education.”

A Strong Impression In order to better understand the roots of Jeff’s philosophy and philanthropy, the story begins in West Orange, New Jersey. The son of Phyllis and Walter Eisenberg, z”l, Jeff was raised with his two older brothers, Doug and Steve. His parents had a deep understanding of Jewish history and instilled the importance of Jewish continuity. The Eisenbergs also set an example for communal involvement, and they helped found Ahavas Achim B’nai Jacob and David, which became one of the largest Orthodox shuls in the tristate area. Jeff remembers the Holocaust as a topic of conversation at home and specifically what American Jews could have done to save their European counterparts. Tragically, his father passed away suddenly when Jeff was eight. This became a turning point in Jeff’s life and created a self-awareness and a forward-thinking drive, well beyond his years. He set out to continue his father’s legacy and commitment to the Jewish people. At eight years of age, he had a dream to hopefully one day name a son after him; to build large and important things in his zechus; and to dedicate a sefer Torah in his name – dreams that have all come to fruition. Jeff always had a strong sense of spirituality, and his father’s passing brought him closer to Hashem. He loved going to shul, but he often felt alone on Shabbos. The shul had a broad-based membership of both observant and non-observant Jews. One

forcement and exposure to Torah. Their programs personally gave me chizuk, and every person needs chizuk to grow closer to Hashem.”

shuls and diverse Jewish population, offered a treasure trove of unaffiliated Jews to inspire with the beauty of Shabbos. “It was as easy as being friendly at shul or even inviting someone off the street to come over for a meal,” Jeff says. A few years later, Jeff met his nowwife Shira (née Lobel). He invited her to his Shabbos meals to see the kind of life he wanted to live. “In those days I cooked for her more than she cooked for me,” he quips. After the couple married, they continued to open their home to beginners on Shabbos. By this time, Jeff’s brother, Steve, had become a leader in kiruv and always filled Jeff and Shira’s small apartment to capacity. There were actually many Shabbosim when Shira gave up her seat at the table to accommodate guests. Jeff and Shira decided to move to Lawrence in 2002. While their new home afforded them the space to host many more Shabbos guests, it was definitely a change from city life and a bit more challenging to bring in beginners for Shabbos. The couple was unwavering in their commitment and joined with other like-minded families at the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst. Today, along with their children, Tamar, Zevi, Shayna and Shmaya, the Eisenbergs continue to welcome unaffiliated Jews to their Shabbos table. “We invite people to be a part of our family to see the beauty of the Torah lifestyle,” Jeff says. “Many unaffiliated Jews associate being observant with images of ultra-orthodox chassidim and that’s not a realistic goal for them.” He adds, “The number one thing that inspires people to become closer to Hashem is spending time with frum families who are warm and relatable. Classes are great, but Shabbos is the best and most effective sales tool in bringing Jews closer.”

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A Malach from Hashem

Jeff graduated from YU, became a CPA, and settled on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Even as a single guy, he went out of his way to host Shabbat meals for beginners in his apartment. He quotes the inspiring words of Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald from NJOP: “For the price of a chicken, you could make someone frum.” The city, with its many

On the business side, Jeff’s professional journey is a study in bitachon in Hashem. While working as a CPA, Jeff was accepted to law school. He was at a professional crossroads –continue his education and a future of working for “other people” or take a risk and start his own business. Here, too, the experience of losing his father so young

Jeff with former President Bill Clinton after his bed bug company eradicated a virulent pest problem at Clinton headquarters

A plaque given to former President Bill Clinton, thanking him for speaking at Migdal Ohr

thing that was missing, though, was support for children, like himself, who needed more attention and also additional inspiration for other children who were not frum. “There were so many missed opportunities for outreach that I saw even as

batons inspired me even more,” Jeff adds. “NCSY brought a level of spirituality and a love of Yiddishkeit to both the public school and yeshiva kids in my community,” he said. “NCSY was successful and made a real impact. They gave unaffiliated families rein-

“I want to able to look my grandchildren in the eye when they ask me what I was doing during the silent Holocaust.” a kid,” Jeff recalls. “Many families from the early days had children who eventually intermarried. They had the potential to be frum or just to have maintained their connection to Yiddishkeit. But the community just didn’t understand how a little thing like inviting someone over for Shabbos can make a difference. What I saw back then left an impression and has driven us to make sure people are welcomed in our home and have a place to go on Shabbos.” The brothers also became involved in their local chapter of NCSY. “The NCSY experience and Shab-

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motivated him. He was driven to be in control and create his own financial security. He also did not want to rely on a boss to steer his life but wanted “to answer directly to Hashem.” Jeff was determined to have the time to intertwine his business with his tzedakah projects. In 1993, after researching many industries, he started Pest Away. As he tells it, “I felt the hand of Hashem in the business from the beginning. I truly felt that each new customer call was a malach sent by Hashem. I never took anything for granted or lost that feeling of gratitude for over 25 years.” Jeff recognized that the pest-control industry was not professionally run, and he was determined to bring a “white-collar approach to a blue-collar field.” He developed a niche for his company by integrating superior customer service with eco-friendly technology. The business grew – and never stopped growing. “The ‘90s were a revolutionary time for me in the industry,” Jeff says. “People were questioning the safety of products that were being used in their homes and businesses. I developed special technology that was not only safe, but also geared towards preventing problems and not just treating them.” Pest Away’s reputation grew, and in 2005, the company was named “Best Extermination Company in New York” by New York Magazine. Then came the resurgence of bed bugs in New York City. Pest Away was prepared and soon became a major player in the epidemic. Jeff was a sought-after expert internationally and created the bed bug protocols for dozens of corporations and federal government agencies. He was often called on to testify in landmark bed bug cases across the country. Jeff was also favored by the media and was frequently featured on front-page stories in major publications like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the London Times and on programs like CNN and The Today Show. “My business mantra was ‘build the best product and the business will come.’ I never employed PR, sales, or marketing teams. Hashem was the best and only salesman I ever had.” Jeff asserts, “If the Al-mighty doesn’t give a business His bracha, it will never thrive.”

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With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

With Rabbi Grossman of Migdal Ohr

In response to the bed bug “hysteria,” Jeff was pressured to write a book to better educate the public. One of the chief advocates for the project was Gale Brewer, Manhattan borough president. Jeff didn’t want to exploit the trauma people were experiencing, but he was convinced it would help. In 2011, The Bed Bug Survival Guide was born. Before the book even begins,

A Silent Holocaust Here is where the story shifts, and Jeff’s religious journey and professional prowess share the stage. In May of 2019, Jeff sold Pest Away to a publicly traded, Fortune 1000 company. “I’m someone who has always been ‘sameach b’chelko,’ and my business was successful for 25 years,” he said. “I was more than ready to devote most

“Shabbos is the best and most effective sales tool in bringing Jews closer.” there is a blank page which features but one sentence – a quote from Winston Churchill, “We make a living for what we get, we make a life for what we give.” This exemplifies the core of Jeff’s mindset in business and life. “I tried to make the book a kiddush Hashem and use it to give more tzedakah,” he said. As the dedication page reads “100% of the royalties I receive from sales of this book, excluding agent fees, will be donated to the Tikun Olum Foundation and American Friends of Migdal Ohr.” He adds that “people from all over the country who benefitted from the book inquired about these organizations and made donations on top of the sales.” Todate, over twenty-five thousand copies have been sold and $250,000 has been raised from this initiative alone.

of my time and resources to make a difference for Klal Yisrael on a much larger scale.” First on the list is kiruv. “The Five Towns is an incredible community, but we live in a bubble. We are fortunate to have so many thriving shuls, yeshivas, and kosher establishments. It’s easy to forget that almost 80% of American Jews are assimilated. This is a silent Holocaust, and we are in a position to take action and save as many Jews as we can. Every single Jew represents the potential of generations.” The Eisenbergs support many kiruv organizations like Meor, RAJE, MJE, JICNY, NJOP, Gateways, the Jewish Heritage House, and, of course, the Five Towns chapter of Chabad led by Rabbi Zalman and Chanie Wolow-

ik. On top of the list locally is NCSY, the organization that played an inspirational role in Jeff’s early years. NCSY currently runs regular educational programs in many of the high schools in the community like DRS, SKA, Shalhevet, Rambam, HAFTR, and Brandeis to further inspire Orthodox students with Torah and chessed opportunities. Most importantly, the organization is also present in the Hewlett and Lawrence public high schools, helping Jewish teens in those schools strengthen their Jewish identity and build skills. NCSY offers meaningful Shabbatons and educational retreats with the ultimate goal of sending unaffiliated students to Israel for the year to solidify their commitment to Judaism. “Jeff is a true partner. He took the initiative to start a think tank to help us achieve greater visibility and backing in the Five Towns,” said Rabbi Simon Taylor, NY Regional Director of NCSY. “He opened his home for NCSY supporters to exchange ideas and develop a plan to make sure we can impact more students with our programs.” Jeff points out that while there are many wonderful kiruv organizations, “America needs at least 100 more of them to stem the tide of assimilation.” At the heart of ensuring the Jewish future, in tandem with kiruv, is education. Here, too, Jeff has taken a critical role. He is determined to help make Jewish education more attainable and has been working with the Consortium of Jewish Day Schools. Led by Rabbi Heshy Glass, this organization is committed to strengthening Jewish day schools across North America by providing opportunities to collaborate on everything from professional development to curriculum, standardized testing, technology, and pooling resources and best practices to train day school administrators in more efficient management. They have galvanized a network of over 250 partner schools. Their mission is to make Jewish education more affordable and accessible to increase enrollment in day schools and safeguard Jewish continuity. “Jeff has been involved on the business side of CoJDS and has helped us create a virtual ‘back office’ for our large network of schools,” said Rabbi Glass. “He, along with other commit-

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Jeff and his son at his son’s bar mitzvah with Rabbi Grossman of Migdal Ohr and ten bar mitzvah boys from Migdal Ohr that the Eisenbergs sponsored to join in their celebration

Spirited dancing at the joint bar mitzvah celebration in Migdal Ohr

ted individuals, is leveraging his professional expertise to develop strategies to ensure smaller schools with less resources can run more efficiently and be sustained economically. We are delighted for his involvement on our team.” “Education and outreach are the key to reaching this generation of Jewish students and fighting the real threat of assimilation. The window of opportunity is now,” Jeff said. “I want to able to look my grandchildren in the eye when they ask me what I was doing during the silent Holocaust.” Jeff is quick to point out that every person has the ability within them to reach out to others. The Shevatim, he notes, each had their own talents, and they all made up the glorious mosaic

called Klal Yisroel. Nowadays, there are some Jews who can give monetarily to organizations, and yet there are others who can give of their talents to help others. A kind word, an open home, or an understanding heart are powerful tools to help us connect with our brothers and sisters. Kiruv and connection is within each one of us. Although Jeff is not Lubavitch, he often refers to the message of the Rebbe. He explains that “every Jew should be a ‘lamplighter’ to ignite the spark in a pintele Yid. A candle has the remarkable ability to spread its energy to endless other candles without ever diminishing from its own flame. You never know where one more mitzvah can lead. It can be as small as giving a co-worker mishloach manot, Chanu-

kah candles, or matzah.” Jeff tells the story of a young woman who received a package of candle for hadlakas neiros from a Lubavitch boy during a mitzvah campaign. The boy threw the candles into her car after asking her if she was Jewish, and the woman came home that Friday and lit the Shabbos candles. The next week, she decided to light the candles again, only this time, she felt that it would look so much nicer if she put a tablecloth on the table underneath her candelabra. The week after, she cooked a special meal on Friday night to add to the candlelit ambiance, and a week later, she asked her husband to turn off the TV while they enjoyed their Friday night dinner. Week after week, she lit the Shabbos candles, and

each week, she added on a bit more to her Shabbos observance until, eventually, the family began to keep Shabbos. Two candles; one mitzvah; an eventual path back to Yiddishkeit. “As we embark on the Days of Awe, I implore everyone to take action now and bring our unaffiliated fellow Jews closer to Hashem,” Jeff says. You never know where one mitzvah can lead.

For further information and ways to get more involved with kiruv and educational opportunities in the Five Towns, contact Jeff Eisenberg at jeff@thejeffcorp.com; for information and ways to get involved with NCSY, contact Rabbi Simon Taylor at taylors@ncsy.org.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

I’ve been dating since I was 21. I’m 33 years old now and have been set up with Joseph. He’s a pretty great guy and was married before and has two children. We’ve been out a handful of times, and so far, I enjoy his company. We have a lot in common. But when he talks about his kids, I find myself disinterested. I sound so cold. And I’m really a very warm person. Is it terrible that I’m not interested in his daughter’s teachers or the artwork she made? I would rather talk about the two of

us. Is this something I should work on within myself? Try to open myself up to the idea of Joseph’s kids or, if we break up, the idea of marrying a man with kids? I am not in my twenties anymore, and the odds are increasing daily that I will end up someone’s second marriage. Or, do I take this as a sign that I don’t want to marry someone with children from a previous relationship? Putting myself aside, my lack of interest in his daughters scares me because I wouldn’t want to be a disinterested, disconnected stepmother. Joseph’s first priority are his girls, as they should be. I just don’t know if I can handle being number 2. Selfish or self-aware? I’m not sure. Thank you!

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. n short, given what you say about yourself, you seem to be very selfaware. You asked a question, and I am responding with a direct answer. You seem to be very pragmatic. You decided to go out with a divorced young man with children and did not really think about what is involved. That’s OK. You can deal with it now. You know that the children deserve a sincere, caring stepmother and that his children will come first in his life. Blended families need an investment of a lot of effort. You seem to be aware that this will involve effort on your part. You haven’t invested the effort yet. You haven’t concluded, either, that he is worth it. In other words, you are self-aware and you are not that far in the relationship that you have put in the time and effort to know him, his kids, and whether you are up for the challenge. It seems that you haven’t even met them yet. Obviously, you need to invest time in these relationships and effort on your part. You will have to find or create reserves of authentic caring, as well as get to know the children individually. You will have to appreciate them for who they are, not just their father’s children. Most people who are honest with themselves and are used to working on their internal selves can do that, with or without professional help. Only more self-awareness over time will tell that. A future with a blended family is always complicated and takes a lot of effort that outsiders do not see. It takes a lot of maturity, effort, and time. It’s doable but you have to want to do it. You understand that this is part of the Joseph package and that you will decide about this relationship and situation over time. Methinks you are up to this tall order.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. everal weeks ago, our forum dealt with the quandary of a divorced mom dating a guy with a defective “father gene.” In this thought-provoking episode, your question concerns the mirror-image “second-timearound” dilemma. This time, you are the subject with the disconnected, more likely, untested “mother gene.” Also, and perhaps most important, you were never married, are possibly overly dated, and are quite the catch. Can you be a loving surrogate to another woman’s children? Must you, because of societal pressure and a dwindling singles’ pool, resign yourself to marriage as a second wife? Only you can answer. You sound like you’re pretty self-aware. There’s your practical side: the little voice that whispers, “Hey, there aren’t a lot of eligible thirty-something single guys out there: it’s time to think out of the box.” Enter Joseph: a great guy with a history. Someone who’s already been married, disappointed, and hence, divorced. Someone with two daughters and an ex-wife in the shadows. Bottom line: a Mensch with Baggage. You are also beleaguered with self-doubt over the fact you’re not excited about someone else’s children. But, why would you be? You’ve never met the little charmers (and what are the custody arrangements, anyway?). Until you become Mrs. Joseph, they are, understandably, the sole object of Joseph’s affection and attention. Can he find space in his heart for the three of you? It’s pencil and paper time. Make a spreadsheet entitled: “Should I Marry Joseph?” Draw a line down the middle; on one side you’ll list the pros, on the other, the cons. Off the bat, give Joseph five stars for prov-

ing to be a responsible, dedicated parent. Four stars for being an attentive, loving, and caring human being (as evidenced by his warmth towards his children). Two stars for maturity and marital experience. You get my drift. Most important, engage a qualified family therapist to help you with the process and deal with your self-doubt and ambivalence. Without question, second marriages are fraught with complications; still, first marriages are not guaranteed, either. Approach this relationship with an open mind, the guidance of professionals, and meticulous reference checking. Becoming a second wife may not have been part of your original “when I marry” narrative, but it can lead to a happy ending – for you, your new husband, his children, and your future.

The Shadchan Michelle Mond efore I respond I would like to quote something you said in your letter: “Putting myself aside, my lack of interest in his daughters scares me because I wouldn’t want to be a disinterested, disconnected stepmother. Joseph’s first priority are his girls, as they should be.” I hear in this sentence that you currently truly believe if you marry Joseph you will be a disinterested and disconnected stepmother. Contrast this to the woman who wrote in a few weeks ago. This woman watched as her divorced fiancé interacted with his own and her children while they spent time together. He seemed distant, but she was not sure whether this was because of the newness of a blending family or his interest level in children altogether. At that time, I advised her to take steps to figure out if it is the former or the latter. In this case, however, you are tell-

Becoming a second wife may not have been part of your original “when I marry” narrative, but it can lead to a happy ending.

ing the panel that you are absolutely sure that you have no interest in Joseph’s children. This bothers you for two reasons: 1) You truly like Joseph and it is going well, however, you have no interest in his daughters; and 2) You realize that at the age of 33, you must widen your net of potential suitors to men divorced with children. So if not Joseph and his kids, who will be next? Could be Shloime and his five children, who knows? First, let me address issue number one. Part of the package you will receive with Joseph are his two girls. Look at them as extensions of his entire essence and being. You would never marry a man and say you like everything about him except his face. This man’s face bothers you to look at and makes you disinterested, but he is nice, normal (a luxury), treats you well, and is a good person. Joseph’s daughters are like another limb on his body and no matter how much you care for Joseph, if you do not learn to care about his daughters, the marriage will be on shaky ground. You mentioned nowhere in your letter that he talks about his kids beyond the scope of normal, which assures me that he is not over-shar-

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ing in any type of inappropriate way. Think about all the things in your life that you are passionate about. Think about the talents, passions, and hobbies you like to discuss on dates. Why should Joseph need to feel deprived of occasionally speaking about his daughters, an extension of himself, if they are essentially and understandably such a huge part of his life? You would not want it the other way around. After all, if this bothers you so much (just as if you were bothered by his face and couldn’t stand it) then it could be you are absolutely not ready to be dating men with children and you are truly not bashert yet. “Evil stepmothers” exist not just in fairytales; rather, the fairytales stem from real life concepts. There are many tragic stories of children whose parents divorce and remarry people with no intent to be part of their stepchildren’s lives. This is traumatic for the children who then feel they not only lost a cohesive

family unit, but then lost a parent to a disinterested stranger. Then there are the divorced parents who remarry loving, open, accepting humans who take care of their stepchildren like their own. I have witnessed the beauty of this with some singles I have met. I once had a meeting with a lovely young woman whose parents were divorced when she was a young child. Her mother remarried a thoughtful and caring man who immediately took it on to love her children as his own. As soon as I finished meeting with this young woman, her stepfather called to put a voice to a name, to thank me for my time, and to sing her praises. I was so deeply touched by this act of kindness and it showed me how not every divorce situation will lead to long-term trauma. Some situations can be beautiful, loving, and accepting, fostering healthy relationships with blended families. This brings us to issue number two as I wrote above. You are being

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open to dating men with children not because you are embracing it but because you feel like realistically it will help widen your net of potential spouses. To this, I answer: life does not work like that. If you are truly not ready to embrace a man’s children and love them as your own, you have no business marrying their father. Dating men with children simply because you have more options that way is not good enough. If you would like to marry this man, you must first work on yourself to come to a place where you are interested in embracing a man along with his children, not despite them.

The Single Tova Wein ou sound like a very realistic young woman. Yes, it’s true – that at a certain age, it’s often help-

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ful to widen the net and consider dating and marrying someone who has previously been married, since meeting a single person who has never been married before is definitely possible, but the opportunities do become slimmer with each passing year. It sounds like you’ve begun the journey of doing some very critical soul-searching. Not everyone is cut out to be a step-parent. It doesn’t make them a bad person by any means – it’s just who they are

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and what they are capable of. I’m sure we all know of plenty of marriages that include a spouse who is serving in that role successfully and loving the opportunity to connect with their spouses’ children. But I applaud you for not taking

for granted your ability to be that person. Therefore, I encourage you to continue on this journey of being very clear with yourself regarding who and what you are and are not. A coach or therapist

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

irstly, I must comment on your incredible self-awareness. You did not envision marrying a divorced father and here you are willing to look inside yourself, asking the question: Am I selfish or self-aware? Many people are quick to recite their list of “nopes.” Nope, I will not marry someone less than 6 feet tall. Nope, I will not marry someone who used to watch movies. Nope, I will not marry someone with children. (And the last “nope” is considerably different than the first two “nopes.”) Some people are unwilling to adjust their expectations or part from the vision of what they thought their lives would look like. And, understandably so. Who wants to give up the dream? But here you are, doing the exact opposite; utilizing self-introspection to determine if you could make this huge adjustment to your happily after ever. Ultimately, the decision is yours. No one should be telling you what to do. There is no right or wrong here. You may want to consider speaking with someone to help you sort out your thoughts and concerns. You also may want to speak to some stepparents to learn about their experiences. You don’t strike me as a selfish person. Not getting excited about Joseph’s daughter’s artwork does not signal selfishness. It very well may simply signal that this child is not your daughter. And that’s OK. It’s really OK. I don’t know that it has any great signif-

icance into your personality or ability to ultimately love his children. It is perfectly normal that in your heart of hearts you want to be Joseph’s number one. Let’s acknowledge that for a moment. I find you to be quite caring, actually. So caring that you don’t want to put Joseph in the position of him having to choose between you and his children. You mentioned that you don’t want to be disinterested and disconnected as a stepmother and that you understand that his children would be number one. These are actually all the qualities of an incredible stepmother. I don’t know if you are aware of that. But it’s true. Being a stepparent is an incredible responsibility. And yes, Joseph’s priority will always be his children. But the love a parent has for a child is a very different love than one has for their spouse. Our hearts are capable of doling out enormous amounts of love for all the people in our lives. And if Joseph is a warm, loving, open and available man, he will have plenty of love, time, and attention to give to you. If that is the case, it really boils down to whether or not you want to walk into an existing family. At some point in time, you would have to find out about his divorce settlement with regard to custody, finances, and Joseph’s vision for his second marriage with regard to

would certainly be a big help with finding ultimate clarity. However, not to be ignored, I have to wonder whether the man you are dating can use a little guidance. It’s great that he is close to his children and that they take up a great deal of his headspace but could it be that he is overly involved in a way that blinds him to certain

realities, such as why would any woman really care all that much about his children’s artwork, etc.? And if he could rein in a bit of his excitement over every little achievement, at least with the woman he is dating and perhaps, hoping to marry, would the situation seem more manageable for you? That’s another issue that needs to be addressed and looked at through a clear, honest lens.

his expectations of you as stepmom. Does he have a healthy vision of your role? I don’t encourage people to date divorcees if they are absolutely against it. However, if someone has met an incredible person, and they are on the fence, as you are, what I do believe in my heart of hearts (after seeing this so many times) is that it is very hard to walk away from that person. I must share with you the beautiful happily ever afters, with the new couple going on to bring their own child(ren) into the world and the “stepkids” feeling more like your own kids once you’ve given them siblings. But I hesitate to paint a rosy picture because there are challenges and it doesn’t work out beautifully for everyone. You are right about the dating pool. You are 33-years-old and a good number of guys your age have been married and have children. If Joseph is special and you are thinking he might be the one, I urge you to speak with a professional to sort through your concerns.

At some point, if you come to realize you want to move forward, it may be wise to bring him into the sessions or work with a neutral, new party to work through navigating entry into this family. But whatever you do, you should feel comfortable and confident and not make any decision either way from a sense of desperation. You must feel good about moving forward in the direction you choose. All the best, Jennifer Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and dating and relationship coach working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. She is looking forward to teaching a psychology course at Touro College in the fall. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516.224.7779. Press 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.

Hi Readers! Receiving your enthusiastic emails wanting to participate in the Reader’s Respond section has been wonderful! Just a reminder about how Reader Response works. Email thenavidaters@gmail. com with the subject line “Reader Response.” We will then ask you, in the order we receive your email, if you would like to respond to the coming week’s email. If you would like to respond to an already printed Navidaters Panel, please submit your answer to the editor at editor@fivetownsjewishhome.com. You can also join us on our FB page @thenavidaters on Sunday evenings to post your response to the week’s column. Interacting with you has been a pleasure! Thank you for all of your feedback. Jennifer

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Dr. Deb

What Healthy Looks Like By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

nce I was congratulating someone whose daughter had just gotten engaged. As a person who sits and talks with people in unbearable amounts of pain due to the difficulties in their relationships, I was a bit concerned for this personal friend: His daughter was just 19 years old. “Isn’t she a bit young?” I cautiously

asked. He gave me a warm, assured smile. “So she will have that many more years of happiness with her chosson,” he said. He was comfortable knowing that with real love, things would be fine. That is because he knew that love is not only a feeling, but an action. As long as that action guides a marriage,

there is happiness. He would know. He is happily married for decades himself, and he and his wife raised their children with that same real love. So I thought I would give you a peek inside a healthy family’s life (with their permission) – this story is not made up – because maybe if you could see just what real love looks like it would be easier to include in yours. I’m going to tell you about a different family from the one above. That young lady has been happily married for several years now; the current story is about my Shabbos Kallah experience. I’m a friend of the mother. When I walked into the house erev Shabbos, the mom was sitting relaxed on the couch, smiling as she waited for her daughter and her friend to arrive from shul.

A Key Ingredient: Happiness She could have been uptight: Did I do everything right? Is it all in order? Don’t I have to rush into the kitchen for last minute concerns? But she wasn’t. She’d done her preps and now it was time to cuddle with a grandchild, talk to other family members, relax, and enjoy. Don’t get me wrong. Like the rest of us, she suddenly remembered at 3 AM the previous night that no one had done the placecards, so she did them. But she wasn’t aggravated at anyone. And some male in the family had forgotten to turn off the fish pot before leaving for the outer reaches of another borough for the chosson’s aufruf. She chided that person, I’m sure – but the

smile never left her face as she retold the story while shaking her head in disbelief at men. Tired she was; angry, never. That was one theme that constantly repeated itself throughout Shabbos: everyone was really happy. Oh, you will tell me: “Of course they were happy; the young lady was about to get married!” But how many people do you know who are making a wedding that are truly happy about it? Sometimes the happiness wiggles in a little – in between anxiety so great that they can hardly breathe, let alone speak. And often, anxiety is the least of family problems. How about anger or even rage at other people’s mistakes and omissions? That same happiness not only trickled down from the mom to the kallah, but to all her many friends who were there to support her, love her, laugh with her, and sing together so beautifully that I told them I wasn’t sure which was better, the food or the singing.

The Underpinning: Hashem The young women discussed seminary and argued over which shiur was more amazing than the other, too. That was another theme that struck me – and maybe it was the basis for happiness replacing irritation or anxiety: A complete belief in Hashem’s Presence in their lives. For example, on Shabbos morning, I mistakenly whispered to the kallah in shul, “There are Chumashim over there,” and she automatically put her finger to her lips and said, “Shh.”

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This is a very polite, well-mannered girl who went out of her way to thank me the night before for coming. But HaKadosh Baruch Hu nevertheless came first. And come first He should! After all, He made this glorious shidduch we were all celebrating. How many people attribute the good in their lives with such certainty and clarity to Where it belongs? How many people are comfortable that there is no place for worry, fear or anger because they actually do trust in Hashem to provide them with their needs?

Another Key: Respect The other thing I noticed at the table was respect, profound respect. The girls were, well, girls: They were excited to share their own stories, humor, and takes on things. But no one dominated. When someone wanted to chime in, she was not ignored; space was made for that girl’s story. It seemed to me that everyone there was cherished, valued. No one was put down.

That is not to say that they didn’t argue. No way! These girls had opinions, strong ones. And they delivered their opinions with energy, often laughing at the same time. A few girls got into a dispute about the pronunciation of “paleo” (as in the name of a diet), and

Real Basic: Kindness and Consideration As the meals went on, no one needed to instruct these young women to help set, serve, and clear the table. And that included the kallah herself. They all bounced up to help with the same energy with which they argued points,

How many people attribute the good in their lives with such certainty and clarity to Where it belongs?

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A New Year, A New You By Aliza Beer MS, RD, CDN

osh Hashana is a time of renewal, repentance, and rebirth. It is the perfect time to examine not only our middos but also our relationship with food. Many people find it challenging to maintain the right balance of what, when, and how much to eat. Some are eating too much, others too little, still others are eating too late, and many are simply eating very unhealthy foods. Rosh Hashana presents an excellent opportunity to renew not just our souls, but our bodies as well. But first, we have to navigate our way through a yom tov that comes immediately after a Shabbos! Implementing a healthy plan of action for the chag will help set a precedent for the new year, including the rest of the upcoming chagim. • Control the Challah: Challah is like cake; it contains sugar, oil, and eggs, just like cake. I understand it’s a yom tov, but let’s be reasonable about how much challah is really necessary. On the Shabbos that immediately precedes Rosh Hashana try to eat matzah and limit the challah. Matzah is a clean carb and contains just flour and water. Buy whole wheat or spelt matzah and stick to one board (remember, portion control). Indulge in challah for two out of the four yom tov meals. Enjoy one slice and move on to the next course. Eat matzah at the other two meals. • Minimize the Meat: Red meat is higher in artery-clogging fat and calories than chicken, so limit your intake to no more than twice over the two days. Red meat includes beef, lamb, and veal. Bison is not consid-

ered a red meat. Suggestion: eat chicken, not red meat, on the Shabbos right before yom tov. • Kill the Kugels: Limit your side dishes to roasted veggies, including but not limited to: string beans, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, peppers, mushrooms, and cabbage. Carby sides can include brown rice, quinoa, farro, and sweet potato wedges/fries. These sides are best made with either a little olive oil or avocado oil and any herbs/spices that you desire. Salt and pepper are safe and makes everything tasty, but experiment with other herbs and spices like onion, garlic, rosemary, turmeric, nutmeg, basil, and parsley.

poultry or meat. The second night is an excellent meal to eat a lighter dinner. • Ditch Dessert? One cannot expect to eat dessert (aka sugar, margarine, oil, and white flour) at every meal for four meals in a row and not gain weight – besides for the fact that it is extraordinarily unhealthy for every single part of your body. Mindfully indulge in dessert for two out of the four meals. Try baked apples, poached pears, or sugar-free compote for the other two meals. • Eat Breakfast: If you skip breakfast, you will come to these late lunches starving and will subsequently overeat. Have plain Greek

Experiment with other herbs and spices like onion, garlic, rosemary, turmeric, nutmeg, basil, and parsley.

• Let’s Go Fishing: I have a heretic suggestion. Consider eating at least one (maybe two?) non-fleishig meals. The way Rosh Hashana falls out this year it’s practically like a threeday yom tov and that means there are too many heavy meals in a row. Fish contain heart-healthy omega 3 fatty acids and are a “lighter” protein than

yogurt or low-fat cottage cheese with some fruit, or make some eggs if you have the time. Making or buying a diet cheesecake (like the Say Cheese brand) is another fast and easy option for breakfast. • Walk: Weather permitting, go for a walk each afternoon. We are sitting in shul and sitting around the

table for hours at a time, we need to go burn off some calories! • Hold the Honey! Although honey is natural and not processed like sugar, there is about 30% more sugar and calories in honey than in sugar, and your body breaks down the honey into sugar easily. Of course, you can dip your apple/challah/matzah into the honey, but please don’t slather it all over your food. In recipes, substitute agave for honey. Besides for being a little less caloric, the agave doesn’t spike our blood sugar like honey, and our insulin response will be diminished. In addition to making this a healthier Rosh Hashana, we can use this time as a starting point for a healthier new year. Utilize the opportunity to commit to a healthier lifestyle and to begin thinking of concrete ways to buy, cook, and eat healthier food. Without a plan, it is impossible to actualize tmhis commitment. We should be rethinking our breakfast, lunch, dinner, and all the snacks we eat. It’s important to take into account the types of food we eat, the portion sizes, and the times that we eat them. By crafting a balanced plan full of healthy options and tasty treats, we can make this our healthiest year yet! Kesiva v’chasima tova. Aliza Beer is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at alizabeer@gmail.com, and you can follow her on Instagram at @alizabeer.

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Ceviche isn’t considered raw, as it is cured with citrus juices. The acid “cooks” the protein. The dish originates in South America. I created this dish as a Rosh Hashana inspired appetizer as it contains many of the simanim, but we love to eat this all year. If you don’t like raw fish, I have added a cooked fish option as well.

Ingredients 1 pound fish, such as halibut or salmon ¼ cup fresh lemon juice ¼ cup fresh lime juice 1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and finely chopped 2 TBS olive oil ½ tsp kosher salt ½ tsp freshly ground pepper ¼ cup fresh cilantro or parsley, chopped 1 green apple, diced ½ cup pomegranate seeds ½ cup shredded carrots 1 leek, white part only, finely diced 1 TBS silan Tostados or tortilla chips, for serving, optional

Preparation Cut fish into small cubes. In a glass bowl, combine fish with lemon juice, lime juice, jalapeño, oil, salt, pepper, cilantro, apple, pomegranate, and carrots. Cover and refrigerate; marinate for 2-4 hours. Taste; adjust seasoning, if necessary. Serve with tostados or tortilla chips, optional.

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Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place salmon on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, oil, and lemon juice. Bake, uncovered, for 20 minutes. Continue with Step 1, above. Recipe from Perfect Flavors by Naomi Nachman shared with permission from ArtScroll. Photo credit Miriam Pascal.

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Obituary Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign, May 15, 2019-Sept. 20, 2019, dead of egoinduced psychosis. Neighbors said the body has been in rigor mortis for some time. It died doing what it loved best – being as far away from New York City as possible. It was surrounded in the end by friends, MSNBC hosts. It’s in a better place now – a Park Slope gym.

Following her rally in New York last night, Senator Elizabeth Warren spent four hours taking selfies with supporters. Meanwhile, Bernie took one selfie that lasted four hours because the camera was accidentally set to video. — Seth Meyers

Warren was so popular, the only way police could get everyone to leave was by saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.” — Jimmy Fallon

It was very expensive. I have to be the first coach to ever throw a wedding for an NBA player. Like, I don’t get that. I don’t think I should have paid. I really don’t. But it was fantastic. - Clippers coach Doc Rivers, talking to the Los Angeles Times about his daughter’s recent marriage to Seth Curry, who recently signed a $32 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks

Dems apparently assume the country hates Trump as much as they do. President Hillary Clinton had no comment on the strategy. – Michael Goodwin, New York Post

Whether it was in the empty churches of South Carolina, the sun-kissed empty deserts of Nevada or begging someone, anyone, to talk to de Blasio at the Iowa State Fair, the campaign always gave 100% – and always polled at 1%. “Can’t” was never part of its vocabulary. Neither was “won’t,” “please stop,” or “this is a dumb idea.” The campaign is survived by hotel industry officials who expect favors from City Hall. And 8 million suffering New Yorkers. In lieu of flowers, de Blasio asks for donations to his slush fund. - Front page of the New York Post after Mayor de Blasio announced on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he is ending his presidential campaign for the 2020 Democrat nomination

Even if my husband returns from the grave and tells me to go, I refuse. - Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother, Palestinian Muftia Tlaib, discussing her disdain for the U.S., in an interview with USA Today

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We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you! – 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, at the United Nations, scolding the world about impending and imminent doom from global warming

Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg lives in the healthiest, wealthiest, safest, and most peaceful era humans have ever known. She is one of the luckiest people ever to have lived. In a just world, Thunberg would be at the United Nations thanking capitalist countries for bequeathing her this remarkable inheritance. Instead, she, like millions of other indoctrinated kids her age, act as if they live in a uniquely broken world on the precipice of disaster. This is a tragedy. – David Harsanyi, The Federalist

I’ve always acknowledged I come from a place of privilege but I now need to acknowledge that that comes with a massive blind spot. - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after numerous old photos surfaced of him wearing blackface

“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” Thunberg lectured the world. And maybe she’s right. We’ve failed her by raising a generation of pagans who’ve filled the vacuum left by the absence of faith, not with rationality, but with a cultish worship of Mother Earth and the state… It’s not, of course, her fault. Adults have spent a year creating a 16-year-old because her soundbites comport with their belief system. -Ibid.

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Got that? White privilege is the problem. If you’re not listening carefully, it might sound like Trudeau took responsibility for what he did. Just the opposite. When Trudeau blames privilege, he’s transferring responsibility to the rest of us: I did something awful because society itself is rotten. Therefore, I need to keep telling other people how to live their lives. It’s a justification, not a confession. Only the news media was dumb enough to buy it. - Fox’s Tucker Carlson, on Trudeau’s comments

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Shofar so good. - UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson after a woman on the street handed him a shofar and he tried but failed to blow it

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Raizel Malka bas Yona (Rebecca Rosenblatt Felsman) On her 4th Yahrtzeit By Lisa Rosenblatt, LCSW, CCTP

t’s hard to believe another year has passed, another year of pain and sorrow, another year of anguish and tears. More importantly, another year of connection-dveykus, another year of opportunities and growth. This year was much like the first three years and yet, quite different. Different in an uncomfortable way, in a way that makes me want to hide under my blanket or run far away. Different in that some of my denial has begun to fade away, and I am actually facing the fact that my precious daughter is not coming back so soon (I’m still expecting Moshiach’s arrival any day, so we will be reunited). When a person sustains a loss, there are stages to the grieving process, of which acceptance is the last. For bereaved parents, I can only imagine it takes a lifetime to achieve. As a psychotherapist, I’m well aware of my coping skills (maladaptive or not), and frankly I’m happy to use whatever helps me get out of bed and face another day b’simcha. For me, that looks like waking up, davening, giving tzedaka, saying tikkun klali, spending time with my family, and heading out for the day. Baruch Hashem, I speak with my children that live out of town regularly, therefore, I imagined Raizy living far off where she has poor internet service and is unable to call. However, every once in a while, our front door opens, on its own, and I take that as a sign of her stopping by to say hi. As Elul approached this year, I began to feel a foreboding, my denial was

beginning to crack, and the depths of my pain began to slowly seep in. I must take a moment to pause and reflect on the magnitude of Hashem’s chessed. In His infinite grace He is always seeking ways to protect us. I don’t think it would be possible for a parent to feel the enormity of the loss of a child right away; the pain itself would kill them. That is probably what happened to Sara Imeinu upon hearing of the petira of her precious son Yitzchok (Sara’s yahrtzeit is also Aleph Tishrei). Hashem knows what we can handle and thus spreads the pain of loss over time (although, in reality, it feels like one’s heart is being put through the shredder repeatedly). There’s an acronym for DENIAL that appropriately sums up my thought pattern over the past 3+ years, Don’t Even No I’m A Liar. Denial saved me from facing reality until I felt strong enough to face it on my own. Actually, that’s not so accurate. I would never be strong enough to face such a loss on my own. Hashem, in His infinite love, has been cradling me in His arms throughout this ordeal and like a good parent, gently pushes me forward over time. The thought of my child being dead is overwhelming, so one of my children told me, “Don’t be sad; Raizy is living with Hashem.” What a reframe! As Jews, we are blessed to know there’s an afterlife which is far greater than anything we could imagine. The idea of living with Hashem is not only comforting, but such a zechus!

The neshama begins its journey beneath the kisei hakavod and longs to return. The neshama is the shining light within each of us, regardless of who we are or what we have done. In Parshas Ki Sisa, the Torah describes Moshe Rabbeinu after descending from Har Sinai with the second set of luchos. It says he was glowing, and Bnei Yisroel couldn’t look directly at him. Moshe Rabbeinu spent time in Shamayim learning with Hashem and came down glowing. There are many stories of Holy tzaddikim who have been zocheh to learn with Eliyahu Hanavi or others like the Baal Shem Tov who ascended to heaven to learn with malachim on high. The stories describe them as having fire above their heads upon returning to this world. The neshama of the tzaddik is so holy it shines through for all to see. The neshama, the chelek Elokai mima’al, is the holy spark within us and can be compared to the moon. However, just like the moon does not always shine at full capacity, being concealed by the sun, our neshama sometimes gets veiled by the pains of growing up, the challenges of life, or the poor choices we’ve made. This concealment leads to darkness, The neshama is always shining, just like the moon who patiently waits to shine. At times, we see only a sliver shining through, as it is covered by the sun or clouds, yet it always finds its way back, as it stands tall and regal in its place.

We are living in the darkest of times. The chachamim describe it as ikvisa d’mishicha, the generation before Mashiach reveals himself. Darkness often feels cumbrous, and many of us find ourselves lost in the dusk. Many of us feel the sun and clouds hovering over us for so long that it’s hard to believe the moon will shine fully again. However, there are special souls, born with “holy and sensitive” neshamos, that the darkness pains them to such a degree that they seek ways to numb the pain. These holy souls are often termed “at risk youth.” The holy/sensitive soul picks up on nuances that most of us ignore. From a young age they are often extra sensitive and feel pain very deeply. They struggle with authority when they feel they are not being heard or understood; many have questions and seek answers that are unattainable. Their soul is hypersensitive, and instead of it being recognized as a strength it is often shamed, stifled, and put down. Consequently, these holy souls become children and then adults that become troublemakers, instigators, and often turn to things that lead them down a dark path. Imagine, a pure holy soul burning with light but is misunderstood. Instead of being recognized as a shining star, they are seen as difficult, troublemakers, or unruly. Imagine a pure holy soul whose light is burning within, begging to be seen, but instead is dimmed. Imagine the pain that soul feels, watching the flickering

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of the light as it slowly dims. Watching the moon as it slowly descends to the darkest part of the month, when not a sliver of it appears. Imagine living a life of darkness, a life where there is no light, no hope for the moon to shine. Imagine the hopelessness that comes along with that, the feelings of loneliness and despair. This is what many of these holy/sensitive neshamos experience on a daily basis. The question we must all ask ourselves is: what part do I have in their pain? Perhaps we saw someone fitting the above description standing around Central Ave on Motzei Shabbos, did we go over and introduce ourselves, ask about them? Or did we shy away? How many of these holy/sensitive souls are walking the streets on Shabbos, not looking very Shabbosdig, but nevertheless walking the streets. How many of us invited them in for a meal or a drink on a hot summer day? Many of these holy/sensitive neshamos feel misunderstood and as a result become loners. Others congregate late at night when everyone else is asleep. Think about it. They resonate with the moon, many even dress in dark clothing, their comfort is mid-cycle, when the moon can hardly be seen, when it seems the moon has disappeared for good. These holy souls have been clouded over and our job is to help them find that sliver of light that slowly appears with time. Our job is to recognize their light rather than focus on the darkness. As Rosh Hashana approaches, we have hopefully spent a good part of the month of Elul in introspection, seeking the darkness within ourselves. Looking for the places that we too still feel hurt, resentful, angry, disappointed, and the like. We seek out the thoughts and behaviors we would like to rid ourselves of, as well as make pledges to do better in the future. We each spend the month of Elul seeking out the cobwebs and dust that have been hiding our light, and as the moon begins to reappear, the clouds that have been weighing us down slowly begin to lift. Darkness is part of the life cycle. The darkness helps us recognize the light; the darkness affords us opportunities to shine brighter, as we polish away the dirt that has gathered on our souls over the past year. The

darkness gives us hope for a brighter future, as long as we stay with the cycle of the moon. The Jewish people follow the cycle of the moon; we are a nation of resilience. Throughout our history, there have been periods where we shined bright and times where we were barely able to see a future. However, here we stand stronger than ever, serving Hashem with all our might. The pains of life, and sometimes the choices we make, bring us to that place of darkness. Our neshama gets covered by the shmutz of this world (be it through the fault of others or oneself) and slowly begins to feel weighed down. That weight often leads to feelings of shame and despair, which causes one to feel even dirtier resulting in self-soothing/self-sabotaging behaviors. The real question is this. Who am I? Am I my body or my soul? The darkness may hover over us, but the sun will rise once again. While our neshama may get covered over and sometimes only a sliver of light shines through, that sliver is proof we will endure. Our neshama is stronger than the darkness of this galus, but we need to train ourselves to notice the slivers. This generation is filled with beautiful holy neshamos that are struggling in the darkness. They may dress differently than the typical yeshiva kid, they may drink or use drugs, but remember that it is the shmutz that is covering their holy neshamos. We call these kids “at risk youth,” but I prefer to call them holy neshamos with sensory overload. They are much greater than the average Yid, they can’t handle the darkness, the pain, the shmutz they are covered with, and therefore look for something to assuage their pain. Halevai we should all be on such a level. This is no reason for despair. Just like the moon seems hidden at times, we know it is only temporary. Sometimes only a sliver, sometimes it seems gone forever. However, it always reappears. So too, our journey through life brings us to places that feel very dark, and sometimes it feels like the darkness will never lift. However, we have hope. We have the moon to remind us of the stages of life. What message can we take from this over the coming days? Raizy lived a life filled with pain and dark-

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ness. Her light was right there, but she couldn’t see it like so many others. She did, however, see the light in every other human being. She went out of her way for everyone and would never turn anyone down based on the way they looked. She wasn’t intimidated by frum people, she just didn’t feel understood by most. Those that saw past her outer garb made her feel like a million bucks. Those who allowed themselves to get to know her were blessed, those who had her as a gymnastics instructor thrived. Raizy was one of the holy/sensitive neshamos. Her sensitivity, care, concern and love for others was something enviable. She couldn’t handle the pettiness, gossip, jealousy, competition, and the like that surrounded her and became somewhat of an isolator. Isolation never leads to anything good, and over time she was introduced to things which made her feel like she could shine again. Raizy’s light shined till her last breath, which was on the first day of Rosh Hashana. Her last waking mo-

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ments were spent doing chessed. Most of us will never reach the level of tzaddik, where our sun is shining bright for all to see. Many of us live a life content with the status of partial moon, and then there are those amongst us who are seeking to not only brighten our light, but those of others as well. Who are you? What are you willing to do today to brighten someone else’s life? To help reveal the light within. Rosh Hashana is the time for us to once again bask in the moonlight. The process of teshuva affords us the opportunity to clear away the poor choices we’ve made, as well as let go of the pains (anger, resentment) that have been hovering over us, like rainclouds waiting for the storm. This Rosh Hashana, as we coronate Hashem as our King, let each of us be zocheh to fully shine in His glory. May all of our darkness be removed, may we be zocheh to help others shine, and may we be zocheh to the final redemption with the coming of Moshiach b’miheira v’yameinu. A gmar k’sivsa v’chasima tova.

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Political Crossfire

Democrats Want to Impeach Kavanaugh? Go For It! By Marc A. Thiessen

he latest smear on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a disaster for Democrats, and everyone seems to know it except the party’s presidential candidates. No sooner had The New York Times published a new, unsubstantiated allegation of … misconduct by Kavanaugh, most of the candidates demanded Kavanaugh’s impeachment. “These newest revelations are disturbing,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wrote on Twitter, adding, “Like the man who appointed him, Kavanaugh should be impeached.” Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., declared Kavanaugh’s “place on the Court is an insult to the pursuit of truth and justice. He must be impeached.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Obama Housing Secretary Julián Castro, and former Congressman Beto O’Rourke joined in with impeachment calls of their own. Even former Vice President Joe Biden demanded Congress open an investigation and “follow the evidence to wherever it leads.” That was considered the restrained response in the Democratic field. Never mind that the supposed victim has told friends she has no recollection of the alleged incident; facts have never stood in the Democrats’ way when it comes to Kavanaugh before. If the Democratic presidential contenders want to see Kavanaugh impeached, I say go for it. Open the

investigation Biden has demanded. Start impeachment hearings. And broadcast it for all of America to see. Let’s remind voters of the disgraceful confirmation process Kavanaugh faced. Let’s relive how Democrats accused Kavanaugh of [doing inappropriate things] – all without a shred of corroborating evidence. Let’s rehash Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations, but this time with the knowledge that the principal witness Ford named to her alleged assault, Leland

campaign of character assassination against Kavanaugh, while Democrats blew a chance to pick up GOP seats in Tennessee and Texas. As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said at the time, the Kavanaugh hearings were “like an adrenaline shot” for the Republican base. Now, Democrats want to bring out the hypodermic needle for the 2020 elections. Sounds good to me. On Capitol Hill, Democratic leaders know this a path to disaster. In a

Facts have never stood in the Democrats’ way when it comes to Kavanaugh before.

Keyser, is now on record saying she does not believe Ford. Let’s remind Americans how Senate Democrats denied Kavanaugh the presumption of innocence and insisted that the burden was on him to prove he was not a predator. That sure worked out well for Democrats last time around. In 2018, the Kavanaugh debacle may have cost Democrats control of the Senate. Sens. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Claire McCaskill, D.-Mo., lost their seats thanks to voters disgusted by their party’s

stunning rebuke of his party’s presidential contenders, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told those calling for Kavanaugh’s impeachment to “get real.” “We’ve got to get beyond this ‘impeachment is the answer to every problem,’” Durbin said. “It’s become a knee-jerk reaction among many Democrats that if you’re unhappy with President Trump or some of his appointments, impeachment is a recourse. ... If that’s how we are identified ... we run the risk that people will feel we’re ignoring the issues that mean a lot to them as families.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was even more succinct. Asked if the House was going to investigate the new allegation, she said “no.” Durbin and Pelosi understand that the threats to impeach Kavanaugh are a godsend for Trump. And they come in the wake of Senate Democrats issuing an unprecedented threat to the other Supreme Court justices. In a brief, they warned that if the high court does not rule as Democrats wish in a gun case, they could “restructure” the court when they take power in the 2020 elections – packing it with liberal justices, flipping a 5-to-4 conservative majority to a liberal majority. Democrats do not seem to realize that when they make threats like these, they are not hurting Kavanaugh or Trump, they are hurting themselves. The Washington Post reports that, in 2016, “26% of Trump voters told pollsters that Supreme Court nominees were the most important factor in their voting, compared with only 18% of Hillary Clinton voters who said the same.” As we have seen in the past two elections, when the Supreme Court is on the ballot, Democrats lose. In other words, Democrats should not want voters to be thinking about Brett Kavanaugh or liberal court packing when they cast their ballots in 2020. Republicans should. So, let the impeachment proceedings begin. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Political Crossfire

Trump’s Conflict with Iran is a Crisis of His Own Making By David Ignatius

t’s a good rule never to start a fight you’re not eager to finish. But the Trump administration and its Arab allies now seem caught in a version of that dilemma with Iran, which is proving to be a tougher adversary than Washington expected. Iran’s alleged attack on Saudi oil facilities caught U.S. analysts by surprise. It was a major strike, using a combined force of 25 Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, according to Saudi officials, against assets that were supposedly protected by U.S. and Saudi defensive weapons. For U.S. officials, one message is that the Iranians are much more militant and risk-tolerant than American analysts had believed. Another is that the Iranians have correctly assessed that President Trump doesn’t want war and are taking advantage of that perceived weakness. The more Trump talks about his desire for a diplomatic solution, the more Iran seems ready to attack. That’s a dangerous dynamic. America has enormous military power in the Gulf, enough to obliterate Iran many times over. But the unpleasant fact is that Iran hasn’t been deterred by this force. That’s a situation strategic planners dread, because it can drive a nation toward conflict simply to demonstrate its credibility and avoid a larger battle.

U.S. officials describe Iran’s denials of responsibility for the Saudi strike as bald lies. They say that intelligence leaves no doubt that the attacks originated inside Iran, though officials are wary of revealing publicly how much they know about Iranian operations. Col. Turki al-Malki, a Saudi military spokesman, said bluntly last Wednesday in displaying fragments of Iranian munitions: “The attack was launched from the north and unquestionably sponsored by Iran.” Iran’s attack on the Saudi refinery at Abqaiq was a potential game changer for oil markets. It showed the vulnerability of energy infrastructure – not just in Saudi Arabia but among its Gulf neighbors: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. These countries have made huge investments in U.S. military systems that, it turns out, leave them vulnerable. Energy analysts must assume that such an attack could happen again, against multiple targets, unless the U.S. launches retaliatory strikes that would themselves pose big risks for Gulf energy shipments. Thus, upward pressure on oil prices could continue for months and maybe years – not the message Trump wants as he prepares for an election year. But for Trump, this is a self-in-

flicted wound. As the confrontation escalates, it’s important to remember that it was entirely unnecessary. Trump chose to abandon the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, against the advice of most of his allies and many of his senior aides, and despite Iran’s compliance with the deal. He apparently wanted a bigger, better deal that would outdo President Obama’s version. And he seemed certain that if he applied “maximum pressure” through economic sanctions, Iran would come to the table. Instead, starting in May, Iran launched an escalating campaign against Saudi and UAE oil targets. With Trump’s blessing, the U.S. adopted a low-key response. Even after Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance drone in June, Trump personally decided against a military response. Some national security officials worried that this reticence might weaken deterrence, but Trump wanted to avoid war. He understood that another major conflict in the Middle East would be a political disaster, especially in defense of a Saudi Arabia that’s unpopular with many in Congress. Trump has continued to seek talks with Iran, despite warnings from some analysts that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would refuse. Trump encouraged mediation efforts by Japanese Prime Minister

Shinzo Abe and French President Emmanuel Macron, but those were spurned by Tehran, as was Trump’s suggestion of a meeting this month in New York with President Hassan Rouhani. Against a cocky Iran, the Trump administration continues its relatively soft line. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this week that last Saturday’s attacks were an “act of war.” But Thursday, he blandly countered Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s threat of “all-out war” against any retaliation with the assurance that his goal was “achieving peace and peaceful resolution.” The Iran confrontation converges on three painful realities: Iran is now a full-fledged menace to security and oil shipments in the region; any military action against Iran must include some Saudi forces for it to be politically acceptable in America; Saudis and Emiratis, seeing anew their vulnerability, are wary of open conflict. This dangerous chain of events was predictable – and indeed, predicted. Now Trump must decide whether to fight a war he and the country don’t want, or to accommodate an Iran whose truculence he helped create. Welcome to the Middle East, Mr. President. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Forgotten Her es

Operation Market Garden A Bridge Too Far By Avi Heiligman

any Allied World War II commanders were daring and audacious in their plans and attacks. The cautious commanders, for the most part, were long gone by the time the Allied armies invaded France in June 1944. British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery had already achieved fame by defeating the German Afrika Korps under General Rommel in North Africa. However, many American soldiers and officers despised him as being very pompous and too reckless with his operations. Nevertheless, he was given the goahead to launch an operation in September 1944 that could have ended the war by New Year’s Day 1945. In the end, Operation Market Garden failed with heavy casualties to the airborne units involved. It had taken weeks after the Normandy landing on June 6 to secure the Cotentin Peninsula and force the German Army into a frantic retreat. The delay had been with capturing the city of Caen, which should have been captured on D-Day. Many American commanders blamed Montgomery and his British Army for moving too slowly and causing the six-week setback. Finally, whole divisions from the German Army were caught in Falaise Pocket. American General George Patton was furious with Montgomery for taking so long in closing the gap that allowed many Germans to escape. General Eisenhower, who was the supreme commander of all Allied forces in France, allowed Mont-

gomery to continue commanding the 21st Army Group, and the American general took over control of Ground Forces Command. “Monty” wanted redemption and came up with several plans to defeat the Germans in the Low Countries. Forty-one thousand Allied soldiers, tankers, and paratroopers were going to outflank the German defenses on the Siegfried Line in the Eindhoven-Arnhem Corridor in The Netherlands. The key to the operation was the capture of eight bridges over the Meuse and Rhine Rivers on the Dutch-German border that was sure to be heavily defended. The 21st Army Group would advance north from Belgium and link up with the three airborne divisions that would capture the bridges. This would allow the armored units to rapidly advance into Germany. The first part of Operation Market Garden was the airborne assault called Market and the ground assault, which was codenamed Garden. The British 1 st Parachute Division, the American 82 nd Airborne Division, the American 101st Airborne Division, and the Polish 1st Parachute Independent Brigade dropped in The Netherlands near Eindhoven, Arnhem, and Nijmegan on September 17 and had a successful jump with just few mishaps. This was in contrast to previous drops which were scattered and resulted in many casualties. Montgomery and his planners relied on speed and surprise but planned certain aspects of the drop

poorly. Soon these aspects, which included only dropping half of the 1st British Airborne on the first day, began taking their toll. Objectives were not seized in a timely manner, and the troops became bogged down. Paratroopers were also lightly armed and didn’t have the artillery to return fire that the Germans poured onto their positions. It didn’t help that the landing zone for the British paratroopers was eight miles from their objectives and that no troopers were assigned to drop near the Arnhem Bridge. American paratroopers also ran into stiff German resistance and could not capture key bridges. In the northern sector, the U.S. 101st Airborne Division had secured most of its objectives but failed to stop the Germans destroying the crucial bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal at Son. On September 18, the 101st Division entered Eindhoven to the joyous celebration of civilians who were finally free of Nazi rule. The 82nd had secured their positions but faced determined German counterattacks. German engineers had placed explosives and had blown up canal bridges in the area. In addition to stiffening German resistance, communication breakdowns were taking place all along the front. The British commander of the 1st Airborne Division was separated and couldn’t direct the battle raging in Arnhem. British radio malfunctioned and could not call in air support. Delays were occurring on all sectors, and the delays in

capturing bridges gave time for the Germans to send in reinforcements. On September 19, the British and Americans linked up but the bridge at Nijmegen was still in enemy hands. British attempts to break through at Arnhem failed, and bad weather prevented reinforcements and supplies from being dropped. Momentum was lost; the losses in troops and ground mounted in the next few days. Troops from the British 1 st Airborne Division were surrounded and, despite desperate attempt by Polish paratroopers, remained trapped. By the time the Allies retreated on September 25, 8,000 troopers of the 10,600 had been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. The remnants were able to cross over the Rhine back to Allied territory. More British troops arrived at Nijmegen and remained there for the winter. They stayed in The Netherlands until February when a new offensive was launched to cross the Rhine into Germany. Montgomery never took full responsibility for the failure of the operation and only furthered angered American troops and commanders when he took credit for saving the day during the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-1945. The failure to capture the bridge at Arnhem gave the name to the book written by Cornelius Ryan detailing the battle. “A Bridge Too Far” cost the Allies an opportunity to end the war much earlier than the unconditional German surrender in May 1945. This week marks 75 years since

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The ruins of the town of Nijmegen on September 28, 1944

Operation Market Garden. Many Jewish soldiers took part in the battle and served heroically during the failed operation. British Sgt. John Stanleigh was born in Posen in Prussia and came to England before the war had started.

He joined the paratroopers and survived a training jump when his parachute failed to open. His unit, the 21st Independent Parachute Company, saw action in Italy where Stanleigh acted as an interpreter when the Italians signed an armistice. During

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German SS soldiers advancing towards Allied troops

Operation Market Garden, they were with the 1st Airborne Division, and after they were surrounded Stanleigh used phosphorous grenades on a German machine gun. He was able to avoid capture but had to swim across the Rhine when there was no

boat to evacuate stranded troops. 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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HELP WANTED QUEENS NASSAU BORDER BOY'S YESHIVA LOOKING FOR A COMPUTER TEACHER AND FIRST GRADE ASSISTANTS Afternoon hours, Immediate opening. Please reply with your resume at atmdayw@yahoo.com FAR ROCKAWAY SCHOOL SEEKS UPPER ELEMENTARY GENERAL STUDIES TEACHER TO START IMMEDIATELY. Please email teachingpositions1@gmail.com ASSISTANT TEACHERS CAHAL is seeking part time or full time Assistant Teachers for Judaic Studies (AM) and/or General Studies (PM) for the 2019-20 school year. Send resume to shira@cahal.org or Fax 516-295-2899. Call 516-295-3666 for more information.

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The One Where They Bust the Bitcoin Buyers By Allan Rolnick, CPA

oday’s high-tech economy is all about reinvention. We’ve got Tesla reinventing cars, Amazon reinventing delivery, and WeWork turning offices into a “state of consciousness.” (Shhh, don’t tell Michael Scott.) We’ve also got Bitcoin and other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies trying to reinvent money. Never mind that most people have no idea how cryptocurrencies actually work. Buying in has become ridiculously easy. Just download an app, find the nearest Bitcoin ATM, feed in a stack of Benjamins, and stuff your online “wallet” with all the “coins” you can afford. Is Bitcoin really currency? Not yet. True currencies have to serve two functions: a means of exchange and a store of value. Bitcoin isn’t accepted by enough mainstream vendors to overcome its initial sketchy reputation and serve as a true means of exchange. As for the whole “store of value” thing, well, you can buy it before breakfast and lose half your stake by lunch, which means it fails that test, too. So Bitcoin has become largely a speculative playground for white-knuckled tech bros hoping to take down a quick score without having to start their own company. Back in 2014, the IRS issued Notice

2014-41 treating cryptocurrencies as property. If you buy it at one price, then spend it on something at another, you’ll owe tax on any gain from the time you bought it to the time you spent it. With prices bouncing around like that little white ball right before it falls into a roulette wheel, there are lots of gains and

we can be pretty sure the answer would be “tough noogies.” Anyway, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 shot it down entirely by limiting 1031 exchanges to real estate. Other traders had an even simpler plan, which boiled down to “what happens in the Bitcoin wallet stays in

Well, you can buy it before breakfast and lose half your stake by lunch, which means it fails that test, too.

losses. (The good news is, if you have the guts to hold your position for more than a year, you’ll benefit from lower long-term gain rates.) Some traders have argued that exchanging one cryptocurrency for another – trading, say, Bitcoin for Ethereum – isn’t a “sale” at all, but rather, a “like-kind exchange.” The IRS hasn’t formally answered that argument, but there are enough problems with it that

the Bitcoin wallet.” That might have worked, too, if the IRS hadn’t shown up in the wallet. In 2016, they discovered just 800 to 900 taxpayers had filed Form 8949 to report income from Bitcoin. That seemed awfully low, considering all the hype. So the next year, they served a John Doe summons demanding names and trading records from Coinbase, one of the biggest digital currency wallets. (That’s the same

kind of summons they served on Swiss Banks to find U.S. depositors.) Now the IRS has upped the stakes. In June, they sent scary letters to 10,000 traders “suggesting” they verify they filed their taxes correctly or amend their returns. In some cases, they’re even sending actual bills. (They’ve already got the records, so they don’t need traders to do the math.) Some of those bills may be based on incorrect assumptions, like taxing gross proceeds rather than net gains. But for traders who don’t respond properly, it’s probably going to be like Oprah taking over the audit division: “You get an audit! And you get an audit! And you get an audit!” Most people think Bitcoin is still a joke. And it will be, until the day it’s not. In the meantime, if you decide to join the party, we have legitimate strategies to help you pay less tax. So be sure to let us know before you buy in, so we can be here to help you cash out!

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

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Hi Madam, I’m Adam By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

hy are we celebrating? If it’s Adam’s birthday, what does it have to do with us? Nowhere do we hear of the whole Jewish nation getting involved to celebrate anyone else’s birthday. In fact, most of us are lucky if a handful of people actually remember our birth-

days. Aren’t we lucky they sell belated birthday cards? That way, the people who forget our birthdays can still remember us – a bit belated – and acknowledge us. And we’re happily to accept, regardless of the date. So, what’s with everyone getting so involved with Adam’s big day?

Well, honestly, we all wouldn’t be here if he didn’t start things rolling! He was born on the day we now call Rosh Hashana. He was the first person, and then we all followed. In fact, he had a unique delivery. There was no mom waiting there to whisk him home and other humans to guide him. Instead, G-d went straight to the earth and created him directly from the elements there. So Adam comes to teach us to appreciate where we came from and to appreciate our parents who are here to nurture us. And he’s a role model for us all. He helps us gain the real-

and not get too big in our minds. Let’s remember that all our friends came from the same place – ground level. We are not inherently better or worse than one another, just packaged differently at times. We have the opportunity to grow as all creatures do, yet, G-d blessed us with the ability to accrue wisdom and to use it to make choices. So, let’s make good choices. Let’s be appreciative of what we have. Let’s look at what we can do with what we have. And let’s remember all things start with another atom. It’s up to us

Let’s be appreciative of what we have.

ization that we need to be humble because of what we are really made of. Also, we need to be thankful because we do not grow up alone. There are millions of others who roam the Earth. Doesn’t it make sense for all of us to celebrate his birthday?! He has taught us so much. As we enter this holiday called Rosh Hashana, let’s not forget the messages that Adam sacrificed to gift us. Let’s remember our humble origin

to develop ours! To work to rise far above our simple origins and at the same time to never forget them. Happy birthday to Adam and to the world. Wishing you all a wonderful beginning and a year filled with opportunity.

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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