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right questions.

I’m no longer in the dating phase of my life but I do have children. And children have so many layers and so much to share. At certain stages of life, though, they won’t be spilling their innermost feelings with you as you hand them their lunch for the day. You have to know how to pose the right questions to get them to share some of those deeper layers within.

Now that school is starting, life is slowly (really slowly) getting back to routine. When I was in school many years ago, I remember coming home to milk and cookies. Yes, we actually drank a cup of milk and had two cookies as a snack after school, although I’m sure it didn’t happen every day. These days, though, as work sometimes collides with the school day, I can’t always sit down with my kids right when they come home from school.

And even when I have the time, there are after-school programs and extracurriculars that get in the way. But at least a few times a week we get to have a “family supper,” and I’m able to use that time to hear more about what’s happening in my kids’ lives, as they talk about their friends, and what they learned in school, and what made their day so exciting. I’m looking forward to asking the right questions and learning, always learning, more about my sweet children.

his was not planned, but the Dating Dialogue column and Dr. Deb’s article in this week’s issue essentially talk about the same thing.

The person who poses the question for the dating forum is a great dater – but not really. He knows how to be personable and engaging, but that only works for two or three dates. After that, he’s frustrated. He doesn’t feel like he’s connecting in a real way. How does he truly get to know the woman he’s dating? He’s stumped.

Not every week do all the columnists in Dating Dialogue agree. That’s what makes the column so vibrant; there are varied personalities and opinions in each column. But this week they spoke in unison: if you want to get to know someone on a deeper level when dating them you have to ask the right questions. Ask about their feelings, hear their opinions, and chat about their ideas. The conversation should not just be about things – which schools they went to or which shul they daven in. It should probe a bit deeper.

Dr. Deb says the same thing. The title of her article is “How to Add Zing to Your Marriage,” but the article could be used for any relationship you have in life – with your spouse, your date, your friends, your students, your children, your relatives, your clients. If you want to make the relationship more substantial, you have to get to know the person you’re trying to connect with. And getting to know them is about asking the

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

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Community Happenings

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Global

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PEOPLE A Life Lived to the Fullest: Milton Kramer, z”l

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Enough! We’re Going Home by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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Who Cares? by Eytan Kobre HEALTH & FITNESS How to Add Zing to Your Marriage by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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Dear Editor, I was shocked when I read the letter from the person who wants to do a shidduch crisis modification.

The writer is clearly out of touch with what goes on in shidduchim.

The writer spent the whole article blaming men. It’s that kind of thinking that has created a problem in the first place. The writer assumes that all these girls are blameless. Has the writer ever talked to a single guy about what he’s seen? Further the writer focuses on a small subset of the entire frum single population, those singles on the West Side, and acts as if there are no singles anywhere else. In addition she acts like these singles on the West Side hold themselves out as being overly frum, where it’s well-known that the West Side caters to a much more modern crowd.

Instead of making up a strawman and blaming him for the “crisis” try talking to singles and try working on a solution instead of playing the lame game.

Sincerely, A frum single not from the West Side Dear Editor, I wanted to respond to the letter that claims that the only “problem” for Republicans with accepting large numbers of illegal immigrants is that they will vote for the Democrats.

Actually, there are so many prob-

lems with accepting illegal immigrants, I don’t know where to start.

Once everyone in the “Third World” will know they can just come to USA illegally and stay here, do you know how many will come? Where exactly do you want to draw the line? Do you want the same situation as in Europe? How many millions of illegals should we accept? And what culture do most of them bring? Do you think they will change overnight? What they consider proper mode of behavior in their countries, I assure you in most cases they will consider proper here. It takes generations for people to change (and only on condition that they are told they need to change, but the left today promotes the opposite anyway). These countries have enormous amount of crime including murder and rape.

Do you want to live in Honduras?

This country is already doing more than it can handle. It accepts many legal immigrants from all over the world, mostly from the Third World countries. In addition it will accept true refugees who are persecuted in their countries. Finally it gives a lot of help to the other countries both through official government help and through volunteers who go there to help or who give private monetary donations. Do you know what problem the residents of Southern Tel Aviv have with migrants from Eritrea? And there are Continued on page 10

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Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW

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Your Money

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Can You Beat the System? by Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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HUMOR Centerfold Dill Dilemma by Jon Kranz

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Questions for Kavanaugh by George F. Will

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only some tens of thousands of them, and considering that Israel did build a wall at its border in order not to have a greater problem, and still even the few that were able to penetrate Israel already brought havoc to the local residents. Women are afraid to go outside without men accompanying them. Why does not USA deserve a similar border wall?

Until recently even the Democrats used to say that illegal immigrants should be deported and that our borders should be secure – there are videos of Chuck Schumer where he says exactly that – but now that they will fight Trump at every occasion and they have back on their own words.

Michael Rosen Dear Editor, This past Sunday I went to a farm in New Jersey with my family. Immediately upon entering the farm, the experience of Rosh Hashana was thrust upon me. There were numerous rams in an enclosed area. Seeing their horns, I was reminded of their bent shape to symbolize how we must bend and be flexible with our fellow man yet be mindful that these horns also produce a stern sound to awaken us for the final judgment.

Next, we went picking apples and vegetables. I was struck by the magical idea that the apples and vegetables would serve as reminders for us to have a sweet year and rise above our enemies.

Third and perhaps most important I saw an eclectic mix of Jewish people including Chassidim, Lubavitchers, Modern-Orthodox and the unaffiliated.

The unaffiliated Jews were so excited to converse with our eclectic mix and announce how they would have apples for the New Year and how they knew many religious Jews in Brooklyn.

Lastly, I was struck with the notion that there were sheep on the farm. This reminded me that we will all soon pass before G-d as a flock of sheep. I reasoned that if we are sheep then G-d is our shepherd. We know that a shepherd is known to be compassionate to its flock, a comforting thought, knowing that we will soon be judged by the Al-mighty. I also realized that all the Jews on the farm will be judged, not just the observant ones. That being the case it dawned upon me that we are a collective group and it was especially incumbent upon

us to pray for all the Jews that were represented on the farm as we all are that flock of sheep that needs to survive as a unified whole.

The simanim at the farm prepared me for the upcoming holiday and impressed upon me the collective judgment that will soon ensue.

Steven Genack Dear Editor, British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn should be a bit more selective in the company he keeps. By hobnobbing with known Palestinian terrorists and killers of innocent civilians, his pathetic denials of anti-Semitism couched in more politically correct anti-Israel verbiage is hardly very convincing. Corbyn is seeking to make a korban of the Jewish state.

Shmuly Kovitz Forest Hills, New York Dear Editor, This is a response to Rabbi Yaffe’s article. Finally someone has had the guts to say it like it is. I have been a limudei kodesh teacher for over 36 years. I have taught Chumash to 6th grade through 12th grade in different schools. I have watched and experienced the system where Chumash is another subject with tests, “research papers,” etc. I have asked girls over all this time if they like learning Chumash and most of the answers are negative – “it’s just another hard, difficult, boring subject.” The requirement of the tests and the memorization of material, which is so irrelevant to their lives as Jewish girls, add to this. And then we all want to know why there is a disconnect? It all starts in the classroom!

Chumash, Gemara, Navi, they are not subjects! They are the secrets to our success as ovdei Hashem. They are the secrets to our souls, like Rav Kook says. They are the ebb and flow of our lives, as Rav Soloveitchik says.

I am so happy Rabbi Yaffe finally expressed this problem. If we want to see a change in this next generation we need to change the way we look at limudei kodesh. It cannot be viewed anymore as a subject. Hashem has to be found in each pasuk, in each peirush. But all that our students are seeing is the mark that they get.

Please, let all of us mechanchim who have taken upon us this holy work to give over the mesorah bring change into the classroom where it is needed the most!

Mrs. Rochel Chafetz

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Australia has seen five prime ministers in the past five years. Last week, Scott Morrison took the position after the leadership of the center-right Liberal Party revolted against thenPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Morrison, most recently the country’s treasurer and former implementer of Australia’s controversial “stop the boats” asylum seeker policy, was sworn in as prime minister on Friday. He didn’t start the leadership revolt against Turnbull, but Morrison emerged the winner of a three-way challenge in the week-long chaos.

Morrison will now be tasked with bringing some stability back to the Liberal Party, while he attempts to stave off the center-left Labor Party in the next federal elections, which must happen by May 2019.

Australia’s latest political tumult is probably causing some whiplash for the country’s voters, having seen far too many prime ministers in just a few years. No prime minister has lasted a full three-year term in the past decade before being dumped — not by voters but by members of their own party.

Turnbull, who is now resigning from his spot in Parliament, himself staged a leadership coup to wrest control in 2015. It came back to haunt him this week as he faced his own challenge from the right wing of his party.

$1M Upgrade for Historic Shul A million dollars was recently spent to renovate what was once the largest shul in Eastern Europe. The 19th-century shul in Drohobych,

The Choral Synagogue was originally built for one of the largest and most prestigious communities in Galicia. Before the Holocaust, over 17,000 Jews lived in the community, about half of the city’s population.

Between 1942 and 1943, around 13,000 of those Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, many at the Belzec extermination camp and in Bronicki Forest near Drohobych.

The shul inspired a very famous painting by Maurycy (Moshe) Gottlieb, titled, “Jews Pray in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur.” Chaim Ghiuzeli, the director of the database department of the Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot in Tel Aviv, explained the origins of the painting recently. “Drohobych had close to 20 synagogues and other Jewish prayer houses. Maurycy was born in 1856 in this eastern city of Galicia, which was then part of the Austrian Empire, then Poland, and western Ukraine. The famous painting depicts parts of the synagogue in the background.”

The shul’s renovations were paid for by Ukrainian-born Russia oligarch and oil tycoon Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg, at the request of his father, Felix, who was born in Drohobych. It includes a monument to those who perished in the Holocaust. Another memorial was set up in the forest where most of the town’s Jewish members were murdered.

The shul is also famously the site where Menachem Begin, the sixth prime minister of Israel, married his wife Aliza in 1936.

Swedish Feminist Manifesto?

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policy.” The manual outlines lessons from the Scandinavian nation on how to promote women’s rights across the globe.

Sweden has placed gender equality at the center of its international agenda for the past four years. The feminist foreign policy was introduced “in response to the discrimination and systematic subordination that still mark the daily lives of countless women and girls around the world,” the handbook says.

Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom has led the fight for equality since it became the main agenda point in 2014. “We’ve constantly heard ‘these are just pretty words,’ so this is why (the handbook) is important,” the Social Democrat minister said this week. “In some countries, using the term feminist has a negative connotation, but I think we’ve been able to demonstrate that this is what it means – that women and men should enjoy the same rights and the same duties and the same opportunities in society,” Wallstrom said.

The manual has many projects for the global advancement of women.

Among the ventures is an action plan for five war-torn and post-conflict nations – Afghanistan, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, and the Palestinian Territories – to build up women’s rights in these regions for the first time.

Ukrainian soil. This year, though, she was arrested for planning a coup to overthrow the Ukrainian government. The arrest took place in March.

Prosecutors say that Savchenko and an accomplice collected a stockpile of weapons, including mortars and rifles, from separatist army bases that are controlled by Russian officers. The coup they were allegedly planning is supposedly linked to a Ukrainian politician who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

37-year-old Savchenko spent her early years challenging authority.

She overcame societal resistance to serve as an officer in the army and trained as a fighter pilot and helicopter navigator. In 2014, she was seized as part of a pro-government militia that was getting into conflicts with Russian-backed separatists. She was put on trial in Russia for abetting two Russian journalists who died in a mortar attack. Savchenko was sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted in 2016. She was swapped for two Russian intelligence officers that were caught by Ukraine.

She now faces many decades in prison for her anti-authoritative actions.

Italian Deputy PM Faces Kidnapping Charge

Ukraine’s Hero Turns Traitor A Ukrainian woman who was considered a hero for what she did for her country is now sitting in a Ukrainian jail for – ironically – allegedly trying to overthrow the government. Nadiya Savchenko, a lawmaker, former soldier, and hero of the country’s conflict with Russia, was freed from a Russian prison in a prisoner exchange in 2016.

She was greeted with a hero’s welcome two years ago when she stepped onto

The deputy prime minister of Italy has been placed under a formal investigation for illegal detention and kidnapping after allegedly forcing 177 migrants and refugees to stay on board a docked ship in the Catania port. Matteo Salvini, who is also the country’s interior minister, said that

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no one would be allowed to leave the boat until he was guaranteed other European nations would take in most of the migrants.

Albania said they would accept 20 of the refugees on board the Ubaldo Diciotti, and Ireland promised to take in 25 of them. The announcement of the investigation led to Italy finally allowing the remaining 134 passengers on board the vessel to disembark. The Italian church said that they would take in the remaining immigrants to “put an end to this

dramatic situation and sufferance,” said a spokesman for the Episcopal Conference of Italy.

Salvini is a far-right populist. The hard-nosed politician threatened to suspend Italy’s financial contribution to the EU if Brussels did not intervene to redistribute the people on board the ship.

The standoff began on August 15, when the vessel rescued 190 people from an overcrowded boat off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Thirteen passengers were evacuated for

emergency medical treatment right away, and the remaining had been at the center of an international immigrant conversation since then.

Italy appears to have been in violation of the European convention on human rights, which states that any asylum seeker detained for more than 48 hours should be released and given the opportunity to apply for refugee status. Salvini wrote on Facebook that he is “ready and proud to be arrested because I’m fighting to defend the Italian border.”

This week, the United States told UN judges that they had no jurisdiction to rule on Tehran’s demand for them to order the suspension of debilitating nuclear-related sanctions against Iran.

Iran has argued that U.S. President Donald Trump breached a 1955 treaty with his decision to reimpose the sanctions after withdrawing from a multilateral nuclear accord.

But U.S. State Department lawyer Jennifer Newstead told the International Court of Justice in The Hague that it “lacks prima facie jurisdiction to hear Iran’s claims.”

She argued that the United States had the right to protect its national security and other interests. The treaty “cannot therefore provide a basis for this court’s jurisdiction” in the case, she added.

Sanctions on Iran had been lifted under a landmark 2015 accord with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.

In return, Tehran made commitments not to seek to develop nuclear weapons. But Trump said the deal did not do enough to curb the threat from Iran. He pulled out of the accord in May and began reimposing sanctions, alarming other signatories to the deal. Trump says the sanctions are needed to ensure Iran never builds a nuclear bomb. He accuses it of supporting terrorists.

In the first day of hearings at the ICJ on Monday, Iran’s lawyers said the sanctions were threatening the welfare of its citizens and disrupting tens of billions of dollars’ worth of business deals.

U.S. lawyers hold Iran responsible for its economic woes.

They have “deep roots in the Iranian government’s mismanagement of its own economy and repression of its own population,” Newstead said.

Despite the 1955 Treaty of Amity and Economic Relations, Iran and the U.S. have not had diplomatic ties since 1980.

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France Bans Diplomats from Travel to Iran

In an example of souring relations between France and Iran, France has told its diplomats and foreign ministry officials to postpone indefinitely all non-essential travel to Iran. The reasons cited for the ban is a foiled bomb plot and a hardening of Tehran’s attitude towards France.

France has been one of the strongest advocates of salvaging a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, which U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of in May. This update does not bode well for the Persian regime.

Iran’s economy has been hammered by the re-imposition of U.S. sanctions that had been lifted under the deal. European countries includ-

ing France have pledged to try to soften the economic blow, but have been unable so far to persuade their firms to defy Washington and stay in Iran.

French oil and gas major Total and its carmakers PSA and Renault have led an exodus of European companies from Iran, fearful of the extra-territorial reach of Washington’s sanctions.

The memo regarding the new ban cites a foiled plot to bomb a rally held by an exiled Iranian opposition group near Paris that was attended

by Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani as a sign of Tehran’s more aggressive stance towards France.

“The behavior of the Iranian authorities suggests a hardening of their position vis-a-vis our country, as well as some of our allies,” Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, the ministry’s secretary general, wrote in the notice dated August 20. “Given the known security risks ... all departmental officers, whether from headquarters or (overseas) posts, are required to defer until further notice, except for urgent work, any travel plans in Iran.”

France’s latest travel advisory for its citizens, published on May 10, cautions against visitors entering

Iran with electronic equipment such as drones and walkie-talkies and taking too many photographs.

Anti-Semitism in UK During WWII Exposed

Documents have been released that show that the British government was warned of the huge increase in anti-Semitism on the home front during the Second World War but did nothing to counter it. The papers were being stored in the National Archives in London and were to be made public in 2021, but were released early when a newspaper filed a request under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act. The file, titled, “Anti-Semitism in Great Britain,” shows that the Jews

were blamed by Britain for any increase in prejudice against them. A May 1943 report to Brendan Bracken, the Minister of Information during WWII, said that there had been “a considerable increase in anti-Semitic feeling” since the war broke out. Cyril Radcliffe, the ministry’s director general, said that he called a meeting on the subject and the participants concluded that “the increase of anti-Semitic feeling was caused by serious errors of conduct on the part of Jews.”

During the War, the East End of London – where most of England’s Jews lived at the time – was bombed heavily, and many mothers and children were evacuated to largely non-Jewish areas. Radcliffe said that he was told in the meeting that it is the resentment towards the evacuees that increased the anti-Semitism in England. He said that Jews showed “a lack of pleasant standards of conduct as evacuees.”

“I reminded them,” Radcliffe said of his meeting with the officials, “that it was part of the tragedy of the Jewish position that their peculiar qualities that one could well admire in easier times of peace, such as their commercial initiative and drive, and their determination to preserve themselves

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then threw an improvised explosive device at border troops. According to al-Majdalawi’s brother, he used his own money to purchase the gun, which shows that he was likely acting independently. No Israeli soldiers were harmed in the firefight.

as an independent community in the midst of the nations they lived in, were just the things that hold against them in wartime when a nation dislikes the struggle for individual advantages and feels the need for homogeneity above everything else.”

derstand the circumstances regarding this extremely serious incident, and is not able to comment further at this stage.” COGAT said it had reached out “for clarification on the matter.”

Abbas: Ceasefire “Over My Dead Body”

Palestinian Nurse Opens Fire on Troops A gunman in Gaza who was killed by the IDF was identified as Hani al-Majdalawi, a nurse that worked for Doctors Without Borders.

COGAT, the Defense Ministry body that coordinates government activities with the Palestinians, said that al-Majdalawi was killed while trying to cross the border fence into Israel.

Al-Majdalawi opened fire on Israeli military forces with a rifle. He

“He who takes part in saving lives should assist in humanitarian activities in the Gaza Strip, and should not take part in terrorism,” COGAT head Maj. Gen. Kamil Abu Rokon said in a statement.

Doctors Without Borders has confirmed the death of their employee but has not yet released any details. They said they are investigating the details surrounding al-Majdalawi’s death. A statement released by the organization said that it “is working to verify and un-

It’s hard to make peace with the Palestinians if they’re not willing to do their part. This week, it was reported that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas criticized a potential ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, saying such a deal would only be reached “over my dead body,” drawing a scathing response from Hamas.

“If the agreement is signed without the PA’s permission, it is illegal and constitutes treason,” Abbas said in private conversations, according to Hissein al-Sheikh, a senior member of Abbas’s Fatah party. “Over my dead body will there be a ceasefire and calm between both sides,” he swore.

Talks between Fatah and Hamas have become stressful and contentious.

Abbas doesn’t have kind words for Egypt, which has been brokering Israel-Hamas truce talks, angry that it is willing to sit down with members of the terror group that rules the Gaza Strip without his presence.

“The Egyptians aren’t reading the map correctly and are harming the Palestinian national interests,” al-Sheikh said. “Talks with Hamas, which took control of Gaza by force and without the consent of the Palestinian Authority, are unacceptable and are an act of defiance against Palestinian leadership.”

Abbas’s Fatah party and Hamas have been deeply divided for more than a decade. Hamas, an Islamist terror group which openly seeks to destroy Israel, seized control of Gaza

from the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority in 2007 and several attempts at reconciliation since then have failed. The PA government has been putting pressure on Hamas to reach a reconciliation deal that would return Fatah rule to Gaza, and earlier this year began to scale back electricity payments and other financial support in an effort to force Hamas to cede ground in Gaza.

Abbas is demanding that Hamas hand over complete control of Gaza to the PA, and that the switch be conducted in a single stroke rather than in stages.

He’s also concerned about granting too much power to Hamas. Abbas has warned against a reported deal taking shape between Israel and Hamas for a long-term ceasefire in Gaza if it does not include the PA. Hamas responded to the criticism with a rare statement slamming the PA and saying that there is a “national consensus” among the Palestinian people in favor of a longterm Gaza ceasefire with Israel.

“We aren’t moving toward a political agreement or a part of an international deal that gives up our lands, recognizes the occupier or destroys the national project, as you did,” Hamas said, addressing the PA. “We didn’t recognize the Zionist entity and sanctify the security coordination, as you did at the expense of our people.”

Trump Cuts $200M in PA Funding

President Mahmoud Abbas is complaining that American financial and political pressure is being placed on him so that he will abandon his claim to Jerusalem. He made his statement after the United States cut $200 million in aid this year and moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, in recognition of the holy city as the capital of Israel.

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repeatedly said that bilateral aid to the Palestinians was cut after a review of funding for projects in the West Bank and Gaza. The money is to be redirected to “high priority projects elsewhere.” The Trump administration notified Congress of the cutting decision in a three-paragraph notice on Friday.

The cut was made as the Trump administration gears up to roll out its peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians. No details of the plan have been released. Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt are the point-men on the Middle East for the Trump administration.

President Trump and his administration have repeatedly demanded that the Palestinian Authority stop making payments from their martyrs’ fund to families of Palestinians killed, injured or jailed for attacks on Israel. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has adamantly refused to stop any payments to terrorists and their families.

U.S. to Reject Palestinians’ “Right of Return”

WA). The agency’s website makes this statement: “UNRWA is unique in terms of its long-standing commitment to one group of refugees. It has contributed to the welfare and human development of four generations of Palestine refugees, defined as ‘persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict.’ The descendants of Palestine refugee males, including legally adopted children, are also eligible for registration.”

UNRWA grants refugee status to all descendants of Palestinians who left or fled Israel with the establishment of the state in 1948. The legitimacy of UNRWA’s mission has been called into question for many years. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it an “absurdity” that “there are already great-grandchildren of non-refugees” supported by UNRWA. President Trump’s administration has said that UN funding should go to the UN body responsible for all other refugees instead.

The Right of Return has been a matter of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations for many years. The nine million Israelis living in the Holy Land see the influx of five million “refugees” as a Palestinian tactic to destroy Israel by demographic means by diluting the concentration of Jews in the Jewish State.

108K in Ben Gurion Israeli news outlets have reported that President Donald Trump is planning to make official the United States’ rejection of the Palestinian “Right of Return.” The approximate 5,000,000 Palestinian people make the claim based on being descendants of the approximately 700,000 refugees that were living in British Mandatory Palestine in 1948 and were displaced during the 1948 War of Independence.

Very few of the original refugees are still alive. The descendants of those refugees live in Judea and Samaria, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. They are supported by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNR-

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national flights in and out of the airport. A few thousand more showed up.

While the first days of September are expected to be less busy, September 6 is expected to see the airport packed once again as some 105,000 people fly in and out of Israel ahead of Rosh Hashana.

According to the Israel Airports Authority, over the course of the summer, about 5 million passengers will have passed through the airport – around 300,000 more than the same period last year.

Israel has become a popular destination. In July, a 10.6 percent passenger increase was registered in Ben Gurion Airport in comparison to July 2017.

In order to ease the burden on passport control facilities when passengers exit Israel, the Administration of Border Crossings, Population and Immigration allows travelers to use the biometric “Kiosks” that can now also read regular, non-biometric passports by scanning a code and photographing the passport’s front page. This arrangement is, however, only available for Israeli passport holders, since tourists are also questioned when passing through passport control.

Court: Hamas Relatives Can Get Treated in Israel

Relatives of members of the Hamas terrorist group will now be allowed to seek treatment in Israel for life-threatening conditions.

On Sunday, the High Court ruled that Israel must allow five women from Gaza who are purportedly close relatives of members of Hamas to travel to East Jerusalem for life-saving medical treatment. Most of the women in the case have cancer.

Israel had banned the relatives of Hamas members from entering Israel for medical treatment as part of an attempt to pressure the terrorist organization into returning the bodies of two Israeli soldiers it has held since the 2014 Gaza conflict, as well as two Israeli citizens who entered the Strip

after that and are believed to be held by the group.

The state had said that the women should be treated abroad, but prosecutors argued this would be prohibitively expensive. The medical care the women require is not available in the West Bank, leaving two East Jerusalem hospitals as possible alternatives.

The petition was originally submitted by seven women, but it was later confirmed that two of them were not related to terrorists.

Justice Uzi Fogelman noted in his verdict that although it was not unreasonable for the government to want to do whatever possible to ensure the return of the prisoners, “this purpose cannot justify an arrangement that denies the possibility of a relative of a Hamas member from receiving life-saving medical treatment in Israel.”

He added that the women were not a security risk.

Rights groups issued a joint statement hailing the court’s decision but claiming that the ruling “does not deal with Israel’s overall restrictive access policy, which continues to put thousands of patients at risk.”

The court’s decision was slammed by right-wing Jewish Home lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich, who tweeted that

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Hamas, which openly calls for the destruction of Israel, seized control of Gaza in 2007, after which Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade on goods entering the territory and tightly controls entrance for Gazans into Israel.

Israel says the blockade is necessary to prevent Hamas and other terror groups from bringing in weapons and military equipment.

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structions to women to promote the terror group’s activity on the ground.

Over the years, the committee has expanded its activity by mobilizing dozens of activities for Hamas and establishing numerous subcommittees.

Within this framework, a number of members were also sent to meetings with Hamas commanders, who were released during the Shalit deal, headed by Haroun Nasser Adin, who is in Turkey, to receive money, messages, and instructions.

Several members of the cell, including Faras Abu Sharah, Dina Karmi and a number of other activists who have worked for Hamas in Hevron, have been indicted in military court in recent days.

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The Shin Bet investigation revealed that the cell promoted Hamas activity in Hevron, which included the recruitment of activists, the coordina-

tion of activities in mosques, preaching activities, increasing support lines, intelligence gathering, online incitement, assistance to prisoners’ families, and more.

Hamas also attempted to take control of the Hevron municipality and various charities in the city.

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their terrorist activity. Shehadeh and Abu Sharah used a number of women who established a central committee to serve as the operational arm of Hamas’ headquarters in Hevron.

The committee was headed by Dina Karmi, the widow of Nashat Karmi, a terrorist who carried out an attack in 2010 in which four Israeli civilians were killed. Karmi was killed in a shootout with IDF forces.

Abu Sharaf and Shehadeh acted behind the scenes in conveying in-

For the past three and a half years, Paul Ceglia, 45, has been living his life as a fugitive along with his wife, two children, and their dog.

But all that came to a close last week, when U.S. prosecutors knocked on his door.

Ceglia had been accused of attempting to defraud Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg out of half of the social media company. Ceglia skipped town just a few months before his scheduled trial in a Manhattan federal court on mail fraud and wire fraud charges, over his alleged forging of documents to extort Facebook and Zuckerberg. In March 2015 Ceglia removed his electronic ankle bracelet and vanished with his family.

The criminal case was sort of initiated by Ceglia himself as a result of a 2010 civil lawsuit he had filed against Zuckerberg. His suit claimed that years ago, in 2003, while a stu-

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caught up with Ceglia in Ecuador.

The process of his extradition has begun.

Robert Ross Fogg, a lawyer for Ceglia in the criminal case, said that he was “relieved” that Ceglia appeared to have been located without incident and was “hoping that he and his family are safe.” He also said there remained a “strong case” for Ceglia’s defense, and that Ceglia’s alleged agreement with Zuckerberg “truly was a contract.”

Reality Winner Sentenced Not every leaker is as lucky as Edward Snowden, who was able to seek asylum to protect himself from being apprehended.

Reality Winner, 26, of Georgia, is a former government contractor who pled guilty to leaking U.S. secrets about Russia’s attempts to hack

Recently, Winner was sentenced the longest time ever for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media: five years and three months in prison. Upon completing her sentence she will be required to serve three years of supervised release.

Despite the lengthy incarceration she faces, some say Winner is fortunate she didn’t receive fines or a longer sentence; the crime carried a maximum penalty of 10 years.

Her lawyers described her as a good person with a clean criminal record.

They claim she suffers from depression and bulimia.

Winner, a former Air Force linguist who speaks languages used in Afghanistan, including Arabic and Farsi, had top-secret security. While she was working as a security contractor for Pluribus International with the National Security Agency she copied a classified report that detailed the Russian government’s efforts to penetrate a Florida-based voting software supplier. The exact wording of the report was never released but Winner did admit leaking it to media organizations.

Winner told the court in her guilty plea, “All of these actions I did willfully, meaning I did them of my own free will,” “She blatantly violated the trust put in her by the United States. This sentence will deter others from committing the same offense,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Solari.

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Several months ago, the Air Force decided to adopt the new combat uniform of the Army in an attempt to simplify military personnel and unify forces that often operate in unison. This project is expected to take several years and cost $237 million. It is scheduled to be complete by April 2021.

The design will match the Army’s Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP), which is a jumble of brown, green and beige, replacing an 11-year-old camouflage uniform. It was introduced in the branch three years ago and the Army is still in the process of providing all reserves and National Guard members with the new uniform. Officials are hoping that this unified dress code will help develop camaraderie across departments.

Some are disappointed with the new look, saying that different uniforms in different branches of the U.S. armed forces fosters pride in the members of each branch. A unified uniform, though, is much more practical for the U.S. and places an emphasis on joint operations between branches. “If you look at the operational environment, so many violent extremists like ISIS are a global threat. Russia is not just in Europe and Asia. China is not just in Asia.

Warfare is going to be multi-domain and multi-function,� Army Command Sergeant Major John Wayne Troxell, senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pointed out. “We need to have men and women that can cross service boundaries.� “It transcends uniforms,� he said. “It’s all about being interoperable.�

In 2015, the Army began phasing out an earlier camouflage pattern in favor of the OCP. The Navy followed, replacing a pattern similar to OCPs last year in blue camouflage.

Camouflage uniforms were first worn by armed forces in the years between the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Congressman Under Indictment

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-California, and his wife, Margaret, were indicted last week on dozens of criminal charges including wire fraud and campaign finance crimes.

The 60-count indictment, filed in federal court in San Diego, accused the couple of converting more than $250,000 in campaign funds to pay for personal expenses and filing false campaign finance records with the Federal Election Commission.

They pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, falsification of records, and aiding and abetting in the prohibited use of campaign contributions.

Hunter seems to blaming everything on his wife, who served as his campaign manager. “She was also the campaign manager, so whatever she did that’ll be looked at too, I’m sure,� Hunter told Fox News in an interview last week. “But I didn’t do it. I didn’t spend any money illegally.�

According to the indictment, the majority of illegal spending was done by both Hunters, with the largest chunk being the $116,000 paid to Margaret Hunter as her husband’s campaign manager or consultant.

Nonetheless, her expenses totaled more than four times as much as Duncan’s. Records show that Margaret spent $92,506 on school tuition, makeup from Bloomingdale’s, restaurant meals that were unrelated to the campaign, and tickets to SeaWorld, among other things.

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Another $5,000 was spent by her on fast food. Duncan Hunter is tied to about $20,000 in total illegal expenses. The expenses include golfing, groceries, dog food, and a $302 “jacket for his personal use.”

Duncan, 41 has held his House seat since 2008. The congressman is well-known in California and on Capitol Hill. His father, Duncan Lee Hunter, held the same seat for 28 years and had a short-lived bid for president in 2008.

The couple met in 1992 when

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Margaret was working for Duncan’s father’s campaign while the two were still in high school. The two married in 1998 and have three children together.

Hunter is still the frontrunner in the race for the 50th Congressional District, just beating out Democratic challenger Ammar Campa-Najjar.

According to a Survey USA poll released Monday, Hunter now has an eight-point lead over his opponent, 47 percent to 39 percent, with 13 percent undecided.

Did Slow Internet Slow Rescues?

Spotty cell service can be annoying for anyone, but when you are dealing with life and death situations bad service is a real problem. While highly trained fire officials were fighting the devastating forest fire in Mendocino Complex Fire in Northern California they were unable to receive emails to their Verizon Wireless devices. Inter-

In an email to Verizon dated July 30, Daniel Farrelly, a systems analyst for the Santa Clara Fire Department, pleaded, “Please work with us. All we need is a plan that does not offer throttling or caps of any kind.”

The blaze continued to relentlessly burn through acres of land when a few hours later the fire department received a response from Verizon. The manager unhelpfully suggested an upgrade, at a higher fee.

This prompted Santa Clara County Fire Chief Anthony Bowden to petition to reinstate net neutrality, a law that bans service providers from blocking or slowing Internet access or from speeding it up for a higher charge. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is looking closely at the email exchange.

The Obama-era regulation was repealed by the Federal Communications Commission recently. Bowden, backed by many other state and local governments, is claiming that the repeal is a threat to public safety. It seems that speed was reduced to one two-hundredths of the usual speed during a critical time for the emergency response. Could faster internet have saved lives?

“Dated or stale information regarding the availability or need for resources can slow response times and render them far less effective.

Resources could be deployed to the wrong fire, the wrong part of a fire, or fail to be deployed at all,” Bowden noted. “Even small delays in response translate into devastating effects, including loss of property, and, in some cases, loss of life.

“While Verizon ultimately did lift the throttling, it was only after County Fire subscribed to a new, more expensive plan,” he said in his declaration.

Verizon acknowledged the “mistake,” but a company spokesperson added that “the situation has nothing to do with net neutrality or the current proceeding in court.”

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Since the passing of John McCain this week after a prolonged battle with a brain tumor at the age of 81, headlines of his bravery and determination filled the front pages of newspapers. He was known to speak his mind. In fact, even after his passing, he had a statement read that took a dig at U.S. President Donald Trump, someone with whom he vociferously disagreed and asked that he not attend his funeral.

McCain spent three decades of his life in the Senate representing the State of Arizona. He ran for president twice, both times unsuccessfully. In 2000, McCain lost a bitter primary campaign to George W. Bush, and then won the nomination in 2008, only to be defeated in the general election by Barack Obama, a charming Democrat who had served less than one term in the Senate.

McCain seemed to revel in the fight. He ran against the GOP grain by advocating campaign finance reform, liberalized immigration laws, and a ban on the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” against terrorism suspects.

Before McCain entered politics, he joined the U.S. Navy as a pilot.

During the Vietnam War, he was preparing for takeoff in July of 1967 when a missile from a nearby fighter struck the fuel tank of his plane. The fire that resulted killed 134 crewmen, although McCain suffered only light injuries. After the event, he volunteered for duty on the carrier Oriskany. He joined a squadron nicknamed the Saints that was known for its daring; that year, one-third of its pilots would be killed or captured.

On October 26, 1967, McCain was on his 23rd mission and his first attack on the enemy capital, Hanoi, when a Russian-made missile blew off his right wing. McCain, by then a lieutenant commander, pulled his ejection-seat handle and was knocked unconscious by the force as he was hurled from the plane. He came to when he hit the lake, where a mob of Vietnamese had gathered.

McCain, a Fighter, Passes On Both his arms and his right knee were broken, and McCain was dragged from the lake, beaten and stabbed in the foot with a bayonet.

He was then taken to the Frenchbuilt prison that American POWs had dubbed the “Hanoi Hilton.”

For 5½ years he endured torture and imprisonment, nearly half the time spent in solitary confinement.

captured. McCain was 36 years old and emaciated.

The effects of his injuries lingered for the rest of his life: McCain was unable to lift his arms to comb his prematurely gray hair, could only shrug off his suit jacket, and walked with a stiff-legged gait.

He kept on fighting, even after his captivity.

McCain’s only means of communicating with other prisoners was by tapping out the alphabet through the walls.

In order to protect him, his family was told he was presumed dead. The New York Times’ headline ran with that lead too. But the North Vietnamese realized who they had captured and nursed him back to health; McCain admitted that others with less “celebrity” endured far worse than him in captivity.

Shortly before his father, John S. McCain Jr., assumed command of the war in the Pacific in 1968, McCain was offered early release. He refused because it would have been a violation of the Navy code of conduct, which prohibited him from accepting freedom before those who had been held longer.

His lowest point came after extensive beatings that broke his left arm again and cracked his ribs. Ultimately, he agreed to sign a vague, stilted confession that said he had committed what his captors called “black crimes.”

In March 1973, nearly two months after the Paris peace accords were signed, McCain and the other prisoners were released in four increments, in the order in which they had been

McCain was known for his tantrums even when he was younger.

The pediatrician told his parents to put him in an icy bath when they saw him about to start an outburst. He sometimes would hold his breath for so long that he would black out.

In the U.S. Naval Academy, he rebelled against the hazing and the regulations and racked up so many demerits that he was at risk of expulsion. As McCain often boasted later in life, he graduated fifth from the bottom of the 899-member class of 1958.

McCain retired from the Navy at the rank of captain and moved to Arizona in 1981, hoping to go into politics. The opportunity came in January when a Republican congressman announced his retirement.

Once he got to Congress, he made sure to voice his opinions, consistently going against party platforms.

McCain called for the withdrawal of Marines from Lebanon in 1983 after a terrorist bombing left 241 U.S. service members dead; he voted to override President Reagan’s veto of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa in 1986; and he worked to normalize relations with Vietnam.

He was the only Republican to vote against the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a deregulation measure he

said had been “written by every [special] interest in the world except the consumers.”

As such, many in the Senate, and certainly those in his party, felt that McCain rubbed them the wrong way.

When McCain announced his bid to run for president in the 2000 election, the Republicans weren’t too happy. They wanted to put up George W. Bush, but McCain insisted on running. In South Carolina, in what was regarded as the nastiest primary in memory, McCain’s campaign ground to a halt. Bush won the primary handily.

The bitterness of that campaign lingered for much of Bush’s presidency. McCain was, for instance, one of only two Senate Republicans to vote against Bush’s 2001 tax cuts. He said they were fiscally irresponsible and benefited “the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans who most need tax relief.”

“He was always ready for the next experience, the next fight. Not just ready, but impatient for it,” said his longtime aide Mark Salter, who co-authored more than a half-dozen books with the senator, including three memoirs, the final of which included a stinging critique of Trump.

“He took enjoyment from fighting, not winning or losing, as long as he believed he was fighting for a cause worth the trouble.”

By 2008, though, McCain and the Republicans started playing nice again. But he let the party down when Barack Obama was able to skillfully wrestle what should have been an easy election from the Republicans’ hands. Once back in the Senate, McCain frequently spoke out against Obama and his policies.

It was no surprise then, considering his history of lashing out against the establishment and his opponents, that McCain took on President Trump. During the campaign for president both Trump and McCain traded barbs with each other. Once Trump entered the Oval Office, McCain consistently denigrated the U.S. president and his policies.

In his final book, reflecting on his life as it came to an end, McCain wrote: “It’s been quite a ride. I’ve known great passions, seen amazing wonders, fought in a war, and helped make a peace. I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times.”

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son for the lack of speed. The department’s plan had unlimited data usage, although once the customer hit a certain amount of data usage the speed slowed considerably until the end of the billing cycle.

“Regardless of the plan emergency responders choose, we have a practice to remove data speed restrictions when contacted in emergency situations. We have done that many times, including for emergency personnel responding to these tragic fires,” the spokesperson added. “In this situation, we should have lifted the speed restriction when our customer reached out to us. This was a customer support mistake.”

The Mendocino Complex Fire consumed more than 406,000 acres.

That’s roughly the size of Houston, Texas.

Jewish Playwright Dies Drawing on his childhood, Jewish playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon brought comedy and struggle to the big screen and to the stage. This week, the Pulitzer Prize winner died at the age of 91.

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Simon wrote more than 30 plays.

Simon received 16 Tony nominations and won best play three times.

He also earned four Oscar nominations, a Pulitzer Prize, the Mark Twain Prize and countless other honors. There’s a Broadway theater named for him; he was the only living person to have received such recognition.

“No playwright in Broadway’s long and raucous history has so dominated the boulevard as the softly as-

tringent Simon,” The New Yorker’s John Lahr wrote in 2010. “For almost half a century, his comedies have offered light at the end of whatever dark tunnel America has found itself in.”

Marvin Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927, in Bronx, New York. His parents divorced when he was young, and he grew up in Queens and Manhattan, shuttled between relatives in what he remembered as an unhappy childhood. He picked up his lifelong nickname, “Doc,” from his brother, Danny, for his habit of wearing a stethoscope as a youngster and pretending to be a physician.

Neil was known for his humor.

Asked by a magazine why he favored New York to Los Angeles, he quipped, “When it’s 100 in New York, it’s 72 in Los Angeles. When it’s 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it’s still 72.

However, there are 2 million interesting people in New York – and 72 in Los Angeles.”

Despite his fondness for New York, he mainly lived in Los Angeles for the last 40 years of his life.

“I love living,” he said when describing his satisfaction with his lot.

“I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they’ve come up with so far.”

Prisoners’ Strike

Only in America do prisoners get to make demands. Last Tuesday, on August 21, the national prisoner strike began and will last until September 9.

Using contraband cell phones and with the help of outside volunteers, inmates in South Carolina and Alabama spread word of the strike on Facebook and Twitter and published their demands online and in prison newsletters. Organizers, both in and outside of the prison, say they encouraged inmates across the country to refuse to work or spend money to curtail the profits they say prisons and private companies make off their incarceration.

When organizing the strike, prisoners thought that thousands of prisoners across the nation will take part.

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als with a criminal past.

If the demands are met it could change the American prison system for the better, particularly in preparing prisoners for life after prison.

Democrats Change Party Guidelines

But since it began, the strike has only been seen in a handful of states.

The inmates organized a list of 10 demands. The first demand calls for all prisoners to be treated humanely.

Another demand requests the repeal of the federal Prison Litigation Reform Act. The Clinton-era law is intended to decrease frivolous lawsuits filed by inmates. The famous example used to promote its passage was the inmate who sued because he was delivered the wrong style peanut butter by the commissary. To reduce

exploitations, the law introduced a grievance “exhaustion requirement,” encouraging inmates to use internal administrative solutions to solve problems before resorting to litigation. Oftentimes the people who are in charge of the grievance system are the ones about whom prisoners need to file complaints.

Another important demand relates to life after prison. The petition demands that every prisoner have access to rehabilitation programs at their place of detention. Under cur-

rent regulations, many criminals convicted of violent crimes are denied access to such programs. Rehabilitation is crucial to a successful life outside of an institutional settings and surviving as a law-abiding citizen.

The final demand is for voting rights for all confined citizens, both prisoners serving sentences and pretrial detainees. Each state has different laws regarding disenfranchising criminals. Some states allow prisoners to cast ballots while serving time; other states disenfranchise individu-

Democrats are hoping to change the way nominees are chosen. On Saturday, the party voted to change the process by limiting the influence of “superdelegates” at the party’s convention. The change comes ahead of the 2020 presidential primaries and after the contentious contest between Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who went on to become the Democratic nominee.

At the last DNC, the party created a Unity Reform Commission to study and recommend changes. All suggestions were submitted to DNC committees for consideration and were amended for a full party vote at the recent meeting. Almost all members of the Democratic National Convention voted to curtail the ability of the superdelegates to vote on the first ballot for the party’s presidential nominee beginning with the next election. The group of about 700 party leaders, elected officials, and activists were previously able to back whichever candidate for the nomination they chose. Saturday’s vote officially barred the superdelegates from voting on the first ballot to choose the party’s presidential nominee unless a candidate had secured a majority of the convention using only pledged delegates, whose votes are earned during the primary process.

For the 2020 nomination process, candidates will no longer be able to count superdelegates if they want to win the party’s nomination on the first ballot of voting at the convention. This makes it impossible for superdelegates to change the

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by Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Shteinman

Comments, laws, customs, stories, and perspectives on Elul, Selichos, and the Yamim Nora’im

Written by Rav Chaim’s grandson, who spends time daily with him, this sefer includes: 4 Rav Chaim’s personal customs and practices 4 Rav Chaim’s answers to questions on the laws and customs of Selichos, Elul, Rosh Hashanah, Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, and Yom Kippur 4 Rav Chaim’s comments on the meaning of the prayers and the Torah readings of the Yamim

Nora’im, as well as Selichos, Vidui, and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy 4 His inspirational words on repentance 4 Many personal stories, especially about Rebbetzin Kanievsky a”h Dedicated by The Jaffa Family

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‫חלוצה אין‬ ‫שהוא בן גרושה או בןאינן נעשין בן‬ ‫באיש פלוני‬ ‫כיון דאם הוזמו‬ (‫גרושה )א‬ ‫אנו‬ ‫תימה‬ ‫בן‬ ‫ יוזמו איך יעשה על פיהם יכול להזימה‬.'‫ מעידין אומרים כו‬:‫מאי קאמר‬ ‫בגמרא מפרש‬ ‫א"כ גם בשלא‬ ‫עדות‬ ‫שאי אתהכיון דלוקין הוי‬ ‫ בפנינו נתגרשה גרושה וחלוצה‬.‫גרושה‬ .'‫זוממין כו‬ ‫מסורת הש"ס‬ ‫ וי"ל‬R ‫האמת ואמאי הא הויא להזה עדות‬ ‫נעשין‬ ‫שפיר אתה יכול‬ ‫ אם הוזמו דהכי הוא‬.‫ שהוא בן אין אומרים‬:‫ כהן‬.‫ כיצד העדים פלוני‬, ‫ואין זמם והוי‬ ‫ז( כאשר זמם אלא‬ ‫מאי קאמר פרק‬ ‫גירסת מהר"מ‬ :‫ופסול‬ ‫איש‬ (‫א‬ ‫ג( מהר"ם‬ ‫כאשר וקשה דא"כ‬ ‫את שנולד והרי הוא חללוחלוצה לקיים בו‬ ,[.‫]לקמן ה‬ ‫גבי‬ (‫ב‬ ‫ אמו ו( קודם‬,‫ ע"ש‬.‫סנהדרין פט‬ ‫גרושה‬ '‫ ו( ]עי‬,[‫ ד( בילקוט‬,‫מ"ז‬ ‫ והן כהנים יעשה זה בןובגמרא מפרש‬,[‫יט‬ ‫ה( ]ליתא‬ ‫]דברים‬ ‫את הארבעים‬ ‫שהרג את‬ ‫רש"א ז(דהא ט( רש"ל סופג‬,[‫תוי"ט‬ (‫ח‬ ‫ האי כיצד‬.‫ שחייב גלות‬:‫ כ( ]דף טעמא‬,[.‫יב‬,‫]כריתותאם‬ (‫ י‬,‫מ"ז‬ ‫רש"ל‬ ‫ גמ' ה"ג מיבעי ליה‬:‫ הנפש בשוגג‬ ,[‫ ל( ]עיין רש"א‬,[‫ ע"ש‬.‫מה‬ .'‫ כו‬ ‫( אבל אמרו‬.‫ אין העדים נעשין זוממיןה‬ ‫מ( צ"ל‬ ‫דקתני לקמן )דף‬ ‫ ועיין‬.'‫כו‬ ‫העדים נעשין‬

‫ כיצד אין‬:'‫אתה בד'יכול מיתות ב"ד ועוד כו‬ ‫לא מקיימת‬ ÛËÂÃ ÇÒÂ ‫ נ( חייבי להם‬,‫רש"א‬ ‫ דהאמאי קא בעי‬.‫ ס( רש"ל זוממין מיבעי ליה‬,‫פשיטא מהר"ם‬ ÑËÂ ÆØÇÎÉ ÑËÅËÔÐ ÑËÐÐÇÈ ÏËÛÔÒ .‫ועוד‬

‫מוסף רש"י‬

‫כיצד העדים‬

(.‫)סנהדרין דף מא‬ ‫להזימה‬ ‫לא‬ ‫ שהיו‬ ‫היו בודקין המאורסה דאיהי‬

,‫הנידון‬ ‫עדי נערה‬ ‫דאינהו לא מיקטלי מחייבין את‬ ‫לאסרה על‬ ‫דכיון‬ ‫כלומר וכל‬ ‫מיקטלאשיכולין לומר‬ ‫אתה נידונין כמיתת‬ ‫עדות שאי‬ ‫משום‬ ‫הבועלים‬ ‫מבועל בת‬ ‫חוץ‬ ‫בעלה באנו והויא להקאמר והא מ"מ‬ . _ XRaLMYZ ‫הנבעלת‬ ‫להזימה ומאי‬ ‫כהן‬ ‫לחייבה‬

‫מוסף תוספות‬

‫שבאין‬ ‫יכול‬ ‫לוקין וי"ל דהתם כיון את הנפש לא‬ ‫וזממו להרוג‬ ‫במלקות דהא‬ ‫מיתה‬ ‫זמם‬

³ ¥ ¢¢ ¥ ‫מיקיים כאשר בנפש גבי הזמה‬ ‫ זוממין הא קתני‬:‫ע( רש"ל הוא כפירוש בהו כאשר זמם‬.‫מיתות‬ ‫להזימה‬ '‫ תוס‬£ §ª > ‫נפש‬ ,‫מ"ז‬ ,'‫הקונט‬ ‫תנא כיצד נעשין זוממין דקתני‬ ‫בהדיא כתיב ולא חשיב יכול‬ ³ °¥§ ¨©¢ ±§ ¨©¢±§ ‫דעדות נפשות‬ ? ‫כוון אלא שאנץ‬ ³ ¤ ¨ ¦ ¢ § ¢ ‫לה לקמן כיצד דין להם המזימים‬ ‫אבל הכא שלא‬ ¢§° ¥ ± ³ª§ ‫דליכא‬ ‫במלקות‬ ‫במתני' אבל אמרו עדות זה והלא‬ ‫חלוצה‬ «²±  ±²­ ¥ ‫לשווייה בן גרושה >ובן שלקו חשיב‬ ¤¢ ±° ‫כּ ֲא ֶשׁר היאך אתם מעידים במקום פלוני‬ ¦¥ «¥ ¦§ ±² ¤ ¢§ ¢°¥ � ‫לוֹ‬ ‫עמנו אותו היום‬ ‫ ועי"ל‬R ‫כי אם לאו בעלמא כיוןלהזימה‬ ¥¤ @ :‫עה‬

‫מסנהדרין סליק‬ ‫ �םו ֲע ִשׂ�לֶ ֲיתעםשׂוֹת ְל�א ִחיו הייתם‬.1 ‫שטמ"ק ב"ק‬ ² ¦ ¥ ±©² ¢« ² ‫שפיר עדות שאתה יכול וחלוצה לא‬ ‫�ז�מ‬

‫הנחנקין דהוא‬ :‫ע ִמ ִקּ ְר ֶבּ�ך‬ ‫וּב�ע ְר�תּ �ה�ר‬ ¨ ¢¤ ¢¤ ¥ ± ³¥¢²© :'‫כו‬ ִ ‫דגבי עדות דבן גרושהיכול להזימה‬ (‫ב‬ ‫¡ דתנן בשילהי אלו הן זוממין שנשתנו‬¢ ¡¢ ¦¢± ± ¥«

‫כלל באתה‬ £± ³ ‫שאתה‬ ¥ ¥

‫חיישינן‬ (‫א‬ ‫סיומא דסנהדרין דיש כדקתני כל‬ ‫עדות‬ ² (‫ג‬ ¢ § ¢ ² ±§ ¥ ¨©¢§¢¢°§

‫דמהיכא נפקא לן דבעינן והא מוכח‬ ‫במקצת מדין הזמה לאותה מיתה‬ ± ¥ ° ² ¢ ¥ ‫יכול להזימה מכאשר זמם נכתב לגבי‬ à (‫ד‬ ‫מעידין כו' הזוממין מקדימים מיתה אחרת‬ ¨§ ¢¥ ¨©¢ ²

¢ § ‫בגמרא דכאשר זמם)ב(לאולא קאי כלל‬ ²« ¢ § '‫תוס‬ ‫ עי' כלומר אין להם לצפות מיתה שנגמר‬.‫ד"ה דלוקין‬ ¢ ² ¦³ª ‫וי"ל כיון‬ ² ‫התם‬ Ä ‫משכימין לאותה‬ ‫מקובצת ב"ק דף‬ ‫עדות דבן גרושהשבעולם ? אבל‬ ¨©¢ ² ¥ ¥¢ ¤ §¯« ‫שיטה‬ ‫עדות שאי‬ ‫בשום צד‬ ‫ד"ה‬ :‫בא"ד אלא דינו של נדון‬ ‫ )ולהכי שייך בזה‬A .‫ודאי כאשר זמם ריטב"א‬ ‫שנגמר דינה‬ ‫ בה‬.‫ דב"ג‬:‫עהאתהע"ביכול להזימה‬ ‫עליהנערה המאורסה‬ ¢ ¥ ² ¤ ¢¥ ‫בה מיקטלי‬ ‫נשואה שאע"פ בחנק כדילפינן‬ ‫עדות‬ ‫גבי‬ ‫דאם התרו‬ ¨©¢± § ¥ (‫בלא הזמה‬ ‫ועי"ל דגבי בזה מסוגיא‬ B ‫קאי נמי עליהן ח( ואילו איהי‬ ‫רא"א לשריפה על פיהם הם בשריפה ואין‬ ‫קשה לי‬ ³¢§ ³ .‫ שם‬¢ ‫בשהוזמו‬ ‫דכתובות דף לג‬ ‫בלא התרו וכיון‬ ¨³¢§ ¥

¢­ ‫( היא בחנק כשאר‬.‫ע"א משלם התם )דף צ‬

‫ממונא‬ ‫אינהו ט( )והתם מיירי‬ ³¢§ ² .‫תוס' ישנים‬

‫עלייהו( לכך בעינן‬ ‫עדים‬ ‫זוממיןלקי משום דלאו בועלה בשריפה אלאמשכימין למיתה‬ ‫הוזמו‬ ‫מלקי לא‬ ® ¥ ¨¢©¢§ °§ ‫אמאי‬ ‫דכאשר זמם קאי‬ ‫ משמע‬.‫נינהו‬ ³ ±¢¥ ¨ ¤ ‫לומר אשת איש והזוממיןדכתיב כאשר זמם‬ ‫להזימה ויש לדקדק‬ ‫התראה‬ ± ² ¥ ± © « ¡¥ C ‫פלוני‬ ‫בנידאי בני התראה ראויוהא אם שחייבו את הבועל‬ ‫אתה יכול‬ ¨³¢§ ¥ ¥ ¤¢ ³ ¨¢³§ §

(‫לאחותו )שם‬ ‫באיש‬ ‫לקי‬ ¢² ¥

‫יותר‬ ‫לא נקט מעידין אנו הוה שייך בין‬ ‫דמלקי דממונא לא לעשות לאחיו ולא זוממין אחרים‬ ³ ³¢§ ³¢§ ¥¤ ‫יהיה הדין כל העדות‬ ‫שהוא ממזר כו' דזה ובן גרושה לא‬ ‫בטלה‬ ‫יכול וקאמר הכא עוד יש דין הזמה כלל‬ ¨ ² « § ‫בין בכהנים‬ (‫ה‬ ‫משלם עדות שאי אתה‬ D .‫דנקטיה תוס' שאנץ‬ ‫מקיימין בהן‬ ³¢§§ ¦ ¢©²§ ‫בישראל‬ ‫דהוי‬ ‫מפרש כיצד אותן‬ ‫דומה‬ ‫ליישב‬ ¥« ³³¢§§ ¨¢§ § ‫פסיל אלא בכהנים ויש כהן כדאיתא‬ ‫להזימה דבזהקראאין דהזמה שאין מלקות ועלה‬

‫בהן דין הזמה‬ ± § ‫דקאי אזוממי בת‬ ¢©² ¢¢ ³©² ‫לב"ג‬ ‫דהא הממון דהא אלא שאין מקיימין‬ ¥¤ §¥« :‫דשייך בכהונה‬ ¤ ± § ¨ ¢© ³ ³¢§

:'‫אנו כו‬ ‫ וא"כ העדים‬.‫קאי על אתרו‬ ‫משום ולכך נקט מידי‬ ‫משכחת‬ ¨¢© ¢©² ³¤

‫בגמרא‬ ‫בלא ל"צ התראה נעשין זוממין מעידיםחלל והוא כהן‬ ³±¢ ‫הם‬ ¥° ¢ ² ¥« ³³¢§ ‫ואם תעשהו‬ ‫אדרבה אם יותר דמלקי‬ ‫וא"ת היאך‬ ‫אפשר לומר‬ « ¥²

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‫כדאמר גבי אכלת חלבשנשמט הברזל‬ .‫ ריטב"א‬¢¥ ‫הגולין )לקמן‬ ‫משכחת בממון‬ ‫לומר מזיד הייתי‬ ‫כאשראם לא כהן הנושא את הגרושה מתחלל מן‬ ‫רגלים לדבר‬ ¢ ¥ ¨¢§§ ¦¢ « ¨¢²«©

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‫עדות‬ ‫דהוי רגלים לדבר וי"ל כשאמרו לו‬ ‫בעדים זוממים‬ ‫ומה‬ ‫שרצה‬ .‫¨ שם‬³ §§

‫אינו גולה כיון‬ .‫ ד"האשתו נפסלת‬:‫להזימה‬ :‫דראואוהב גולה כגון דשתיקכהודאה דמיא‬ ³¥¢ ³ ‫לר"י זומם לדרוש ק"ו זה‬ ‫וי"ל דמ"מ‬ ‫ואמאי‬ ¢ ¢ ‫מקדימין שלא יענו‬ ‫עדיין קשה‬ ®±³§> @ >G ‫גוונא דומיא דאוהב גולה והשתא ניחא משונא ומ"מ חלב אבל כיון‬ ‫דמצרי שני באת‬ ‫לכאורה‬ ¨¢§§ ¨¢²«© ¦¢ « ¯¢¤ ‫אינו‬ ‫דשתקשרוצה לומר‬ ‫י( בלא אכלתי‬ .‫דף סט‬ ‫ודאי אם‬ ‫כ( פירש‬

¤ ¨³¥¢ ³§ ¨¢§ ¢© ¯¢¤ :‫ביבמות פוסל את אשתו‬ ‫אינו גולה לאו כי האי שפיר דליכא רגלים לדבראלא מזיד כמו‬ ‫ אבל דרוצח וגואל‬B ‫קמ"ל פשיטא ובכתובות במיתה )ג( שהמיתו‬ ‫אינו‬ ¢± ³¥¢ ³ ³² ¥ ‫דשונא‬ ‫דמיירי‬ ‫שוגג‬ ¢±¢¢ ¥

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'‫ב‬ ‫ וא"ת למה‬D ‫לאחותו‬ ‫וזוממיה באו‬ ‫במיתה‬ °±­ ‫ הדם הוו ממיתם בכל‬ .‫ § שם‬ ‫הוו ב' כתובים‬ ‫דרשינן נמי מהיא‬ ‫זוממיה וי"ל הואיל‬

‫ בהן אתה‬ ¥ ° ‫לאחיו ולא‬ :‫חייבי מיתות‬ ‫ שם‬¢²¢¥² ‫וגואל הדם‬ ‫אחיו‬ ¦ ² ?G ‫כשהבועל‬

¨¢ ² ¥ ¨¢ ¢­

‫ אפ"ה ה"ר יוסף דרוצח ב"ד פשיטא נמיתם ככל דכתיב לאחיו )ה( דדרשינןהיא ולא בועלה היא )ו(ולאאחיו( אבל כיון דכתיב אמינא דה"מ‬ ‫וזוממי בת כהן‬ ‫היא מחללת‬ ‫מאחיו הוה‬ ‫נ( מד' מיתות‬ ‫ ואמאי‬

‫)אלא מן‬ .‫ שם‬° ¥ ¥ @G ‫הבועל לא‬

‫פלוני שחייב‬

‫אנו באיש‬ .‫גלות‬

‫מעידין‬

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outcome of the pledged delegates’ will. Superdelegates will still be allowed to campaign and endorse the candidate of their choice at any time during the primary process and they will be able to vote for a vice presidential nominee on all ballots.

“Today is a historic day for our party,” said DNC Chair Tom Perez.

“We passed major reforms that will not only put our next presidential nominee in the strongest position possible, but will help us elect Democrats up and down the ballot, across the country. These reforms will help grow our party, unite Democrats, and restore voters’ trust by making our 2020 nominating process the most inclusive and transparent in our history.”

Another adjustment is that candidates will be required to declare themselves as Democrats in writing to the DNC. Bernie Sanders is technically an Independent senator that caucuses with the Democrats.

No Alcohol is Good For You

It’s been established that consuming large amounts of alcohol is bad for your health but a recent study claims that even the occasional glass of wine can be harmful for your health. According to a new analysis of global alcohol consumption and disease risk, there’s no amount of liquor, wine or beer that is safe for your overall wellbeing.

In 2016, alcohol was the number one risk factor for disease and premature death in men and women between the ages of 15 and 49 worldwide. Alcohol was associated with 2.8 million deaths in 2016 – nearly one in 10 deaths. Those deaths include alcohol-related cancer and cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, intentional injury such as violence and self-harm, and traffic accidents and other unintentional injuries such as drowning and fires which can happen to even the occasional drinker.

“The most surprising finding was that even small amounts of alcohol use contribute to health loss globally,” said senior study author Emmanuela Gakidou, a professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

“We’re used to hearing that a drink or two a day is fine. But the evidence is the evidence.”

China, India, and Russia had the most alcohol-related deaths in both males and females, according to the study, although it was proportionate to their large populations. The U.S. ranked fifth among men and seventh for women.

Despite the study’s conclusions, the Alcohol Information Partnership, a group comprising eight of the world’s biggest liquor companies, said in a statement that “nothing in this study challenges the array of studies suggesting that choosing to drink moderately is associated with a decreased risk of some health issues and a lower risk of death. We advocate sensible drinking by those who choose to drink and support consistent, evidence-based advice, which enables people to make their own informed choices about alcohol.”

The Distilled Spirits Council echoed that in its own statement.

“Claims in the study disputing the research on potential benefits of moderate consumption do not comport with the body of scientific evidence, including a recent study in the American Heart Association Journal Circulation that found that moderate alcohol consumption is one of ‘five low-risk lifestyle-related factors’ that could help people live longer. The researchers make clear that they are advocating for worldwide abstention from alcohol.

A more reasonable and effective approach is to address issues surrounding alcohol abuse country by country, taking into account the culture, individual alcohol consumption patterns and the marketplace.”

The study was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

It concluded that about 2.4 billion people drink alcohol. Men drink significantly more than women: 39% men drink daily an average of 1.7 drinks a day, while 25% of women drink, consuming 0.73 drinks each day. Denmark, Norway and Germany had the highest drinking rates.

Arab and Middle Eastern nations reported the lowest percentages of drinking amongst their residents.

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Games Turn to Tragedy

On Sunday, what was supposed to be a fun tournament turned to tragedy when David Katz, 24, opened fire at a Madden NFL 19 tournament. Katz was among about 130 gamers attending the competition at a mall in Jacksonville, Florida. He killed himself after killing two men and wounding ten others. Authorities say he specifically targeted the gamers.

Authorities do not yet know what motivated Katz to commit the murders. He had bought both guns in Baltimore recently.

22-year-old Elijah Clayton of Woodland Hills, California, and 28-year-old Taylor Robertson of Giles, West Virginia, were both killed.

“He loved football, and out of all the videogames he could play, he settled on and mastered ‘Madden,’” Brandi Pettijohn said about her cousin, Elijah. “He made a good living gaming, and he saved his earnings so he could afford to go to college to continue his education.”

Taylor, who used the gamer tag “Spotmeplzzz,” won the Madden Classic tournament in 2016. In a YouTube interview published by EA Sports, Taylor said he had played Madden NFL since he was 10 and started playing competitively a few years ago.

“It’s certainly possible for any player to do this,” Robertson said in the video. “You’ve just got to put in the time. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got to play a lot of games and just working on getting better.”

Fellow gamers described Robertson as a family man dedicated to his wife and children.

Katz was an expert gamer and a participant in the event. He went by the nickname “Bread.” Last year he won the “Madden” championship.

During a YouTube livestream of the 2017 tournament, announcers said Katz did not show “much emotion” during his matches.

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Missouri Takes on Meat

First Amendment rights. Plus, it pointed out, “meat” also refers to the edible part of nuts and fruit. Tofurky is primarily made out of tofu.

In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would regulate lab-grown meat. Traditional animal proteins are the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Tunnel to Mexico in KFC If it says “meat” in Missouri you better believe it really is.

On Tuesday, Missouri becomes the first state in the country to put a law on the books that prohibits food makers from using the word “meat” to refer to anything other than animal flesh.

Clean meat – also known as labgrown meat – is made of cultured animal tissue cells, while plant-based meat is generally from ingredients such as soy, tempeh and seitan. Both these types of “meats” are targeted in the new law.

The state law forbids “misrepresenting a product as meat that is not derived from harvested production livestock or poultry.” Violators may be fined $1,000 and imprisoned for a year.

A similar argument is unfolding on the federal level.

The meat-substitute market is expected to reach $7.5 billion-plus globally by 2025, up from close to $4.2 billion in last year, according to Allied Market Research.

The Missouri Cattlemen’s Association, which worked to get the state law passed, has cited shopper confusion and protecting local ranchers as reasons for the legislation.

“The big issue was marketing with integrity and...consumers knowing what they’re getting,” said Missouri Cattlemen’s Association spokesman Mike Deering. “There’s so much unknown about this.”

On Monday, the company that makes Tofurky filed an injunction in a Missouri federal court to prevent enforcement of the statute, alleging that the state has received no complaints about consumers befuddled by the term “plant-based meats” and that preventing manufacturers from using the word is a violation of their

What started off as a routine traffic stop in Arizona led police to a long narrow tunnel that they believe was used for smuggling drugs into Mexico.

On August 13, San Luis authorities stopped Ivan Lopez when sniffer dogs flagged two toolboxes in the trailer of his trunk. It was later revealed by Homeland Security agents that the boxes contained over 168 kilograms of narcotics.

The discovery led authorities to Lopez’s property, which housed a former KFC building and the entrance to the tunnel that was only 8 inches in diameter and 22 feet deep. The tunnel stretched close to 600 feet into Mexico.

The opening of the tunnel was in the kitchen of the former fast food joint and ended at a trap door at a private residence in Sonora, Mexico.

The trap door was then concealed by an innocent looking bed. Authorities believe the goods were pulled and pushed through with a rope.

“Ultimately, the ownership of the tunnel goes back to the Sinaloa Cartel,” noted Scott Brown, the special agent in charge from Homeland Security Investigations division.

Authorities are still trying to determine how long the tunnel has been in use, although records show that Lopez only purchased the property in April of this year.

Something Blue Just a week before getting married, Daphne Martin found her “something blue” to wear to her nuptials. Truthfully, you could really say that the “something blue” found her.

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Last week, Daphne used a blue ink pen to twist up her blond hair at work. But then, unbeknownst to the bride-to-be, the pen exploded, leaving a dark blue stain on Daphne’s neck and hair.

The Canadian woman ran to her hairstylist to see if she could work some magic. It took numerous washings in bleach to finally set Daphne’s hair to the right color.

“I’ve learned my lesson,” Daphne said. “No more pens as hair accessories.”

$48.4M Ferrari

We’ve seen a lot of nice cars driving around the Five Towns in the past few years but this one outshines them all.

This week, a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sold for a whopping $48.4 million at RM Sotheby’s annual Monterey collector car sale. The sale set a world record for any car ever sold at auction.

Before the auction, a 1962-63 Ferrari GTO held that title; it was sold for $38 million back in 2014.

Lest you think that $48 million is a bit much for a car, keep in mind that cars are generally sold for more money in private transactions than at public auctions. Another Ferrari 250 GTO, 1963 model, recently sold for the over-the-top price of $70 million. You can now pick your jaw up off the floor.

Classic Ferrari GTOs are extraordinarily valuable for a number of reasons. First, they were, and are, simply very beautiful cars. Second, these were some of Ferrari’s most successful racing cars. There have been more successful models, such as the 250 LM, which has its engine mounted behind the driver, but the front-engined GTO is more popular because it’s easier to live with and drive. You open the door like a regular car and can enjoy the drive.

All 36 of the 250 GTOs ever made are still running and their ownership has created a very exclusive club. Ferrari 250 owners know one another and sometimes get together for road rallies.

The record-setting GTO that sold at the RM Sotheby’s auction on Sat-

urday won the 1962 Italian GT championship, and notched over 15 race victories from 1962 to 1965. Among its drivers were Phil Hill, who is most famous as the first American to be a Formula 1 World Champion. He drove this Ferrari as his practice car before the Targa Florio race in 1962. Gianni Bulgari, later president of his family’s jewelry company, raced the car in 1963. Other prominent drivers also spent time in its driver’s seat.

This particular GTO was only the third one built, but it was given a new body in 1963, incorporating design changes for improved aerodynamics and handling. This made the car better suited for an upcoming race, the Targa Florio in Sicily, that took place on winding roads demanding quick cornering. The Ferrari finished fifth overall, but won in its class in a race in which more than half the cars didn’t finish at all.

With a price of $48 million, I doubt it’s going to be in any races in the near future.

The Town of Miracle Whip On Saturday, the town of Mayo, Florida, said hold the mayo and decided to change its name to Miracle Whip, mayonnaise’s creamier cousin. Street signs were changed and the name on the water tower was flipped.

Mayor Ann Murphy was excited about the change, saying, “We aren’t going to be boring Mayo anymore.

We are going to be Miracle Whip! I definitely think this will put us on the map.”

But were the 1,500 residents who call Mayo/Miracle Whip their home just as enthused by the name change?

Truthfully, it didn’t really matter what the people there thought of the change. That’s because the name change was a publicity stunt arranged by the parent company of Miracle Whip, who were there

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to capture residents’ reactions to the new name and attempts at having residents throw out their jars of mayonnaise. That “may or” may not have flipped residents’ lids.

The company paid the town between $15,000 and $25,000 for the temporary name change; the money will be used for city beautification purposes.

The town got its original name from a confederate colonel, James Mayo, and not the creamy condiment.

Other small cities have changed their names to brands, some temporarily and others permanently. In 1950, Hot Springs, New Mexico, renamed itself Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, in order to get the game show broadcast from the town.

Granville, North Dakota, temporarily became McGillicuddy City, North Dakota, in the 1990s after the distributor of the mint schnapps paid the town $100,000. In 2010, Topeka, Kansas, temporarily changed its name to Google, Kansas, in an unsuccessful effort to get the company to install a super-fast broadband network.

I heard that Cedarhurst is changing its name to Restaurant Row.

20 for $410K

Delaware now has its number 20. The coveted license plate number was sold last week for a whopping $410,000 at auction in the state.

The starting bid on the black and white plate was $210,000. Due to intense bidding between six to eight people, the price slowly climbed with the gavel going down on the plate for more than $400,000. A gentleman in his 80s is now the proud owner of the number.

John Wakefield, owner of Delaware Tag Traders, says that low number plates are a local fascination in Delaware.

“Delaware is Delaware,” Wakefield explained. “Nobody gets it unless you’re in Delaware. It’s always

been in our history.”

License plates emblazoned with the numbers 1, 2, and 3 belong to the governor, lieutenant governor and secretary of state respectively. No. 4 plate could be worth more than $1 million if it ever goes to auction.

I guess you got to live there to understand.

Food on the Move

Stranded in traffic, drivers were able to eat breakfast on the highway thanks to the creativity of a food truck operator stuck in the same predicament.

Thousands of commuters in Los Angeles were stuck on the 105

Freeway in Hawthorne early Friday morning after a tanker truck and another vehicle collided with fatal results. The road was shut down in both directions for hours, and commuters were getting antsy.

Isabel Larios owns a food truck.

She, too, was stranded and got out of her vehicle to make herself a coffee as she waited. It was 6 in the morning and she needed her cup of Joe. But when she exited her vehicle to get to the coffeemaker at the back of her truck she noticed that some people thought she was open for business – in the carpool lane.

“Will you serve us coffee? Breakfast?” they asked.

Larios turned to her cook: “Should I do it?”

“Do it!” the cook responded.

“We’re not moving anyway.”

And so began breakfast on the highway with orders for burritos, eggs, sandwiches and coffee flying fast and furious.

In general, Larios parks her food truck at Los Angeles International Airport, serving construction crews.

That day they were wondering where their coffee went. They could never have imagined that it was sold on the highway.

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Community A packed crowd enjoyed A Concert Under the Stars sponsored by Gourmet Glatt and the Village of Cedarhurst featuring singer Beri Weber last Thursday night. The event was held at Andrew J. Parise in Cedarhurst.

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The first day of the new zman for the Bais Medrash at Yeshiva Nishmas HaTorah in Woodmere started with a shiur from the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Yissachar Blinder.

The Yeshiva continues to grow and is opening its first 9th grade class this year.

Rep. Kathleen Rice Announces $1.2 Million in Security Grant Funding for Eight Local Nonprofits

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.S. Representative Kathleen Rice, Ranking Member on the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, announced this week that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded more than $15 million for security

enhancements to nonprofit organizations in the greater New York City area, including nearly $1.2 million to eight Jewish organizations, synagogues and schools in New York’s fourth congressional district. The funding was awarded through DHS’s FY 2018 Nonprofit Security Grant

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Rosh Hashanah 5779 – 2018 NEW LOCATION! MORNING SERVICES at Chabad of the Five Towns 74 Maple Ave, Cedarhurst and at Kulanu 620 Central Ave, Cedarhurst EVENING SERVICES at Chabad of the Five Towns 74 Maple Ave, Cedarhurst

SUNDAY, SEPT. 9, 2018 Evening Services: 7:00 pm MONDAY, SEPT. 10, 2018 Morning Services: 9:00 am Shofar Sounding: 11:30 am Evening Services: 6:15 pm Tashlich Service: 6:30 pm

TUESDAY, SEPT. 11, 2018 Morning Services: 9:00 am Shofar Sounding: 11:30 am Evening Services: 7:00 pm ADDITIONAL SHOFAR BLOWINGS Shofar at Chabad 2:00 pm Shofar at Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park - Gazebo 5:45 PM

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Program (NSGP), which supports target hardening and physical security enhancements at nonprofit organizations that are at a higher risk of a terrorist attack. The Merrick Jewish Centre, the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, Rambam Mesivta, the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, Yeshiva Gedola of the Five Towns, The Hebrew Academy for Special Children in Woodmere, and the Brandeis School in Lawrence were each awarded $150,000 in NSGP funds. The Friedberg JCC in Oceanside was awarded $149,998.

“As the threat of terrorism continues to evolve, we need to remain vigilant and take the necessary steps to protect potential targets in our community,” said Representative Kathleen Rice. “I am pleased that we secured this funding to help enhance security measures and emergency response capabilities at several Jewish nonprofits in our district, and I’ll continue working to ensure that all of our communities have the resources and support they need to keep people safe.”

“The Rambam Mesivta joins other institutions in expressing our

deep appreciation for this grant, which will be used to provide our students with an additional level of security,” said Rabbi Zev Friedman, Dean of Rambam Mesivta. “I’d also like to express a special thanks to our local Representative, Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, as well as to the Orthodox Union and Teach NYS for their tireless efforts to ensure the safety and security of all students in New York State.”

“These funds will help secure the three campuses of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach and ensure the safety of our students and parents for many years to come,” said Richard Hagler, Executive Director of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach. “We would like to take this opportunity to thank Representative Kathleen Rice for her leadership and guidance in helping us acquire these crucial funds.”

In FY 2017, Rep. Rice helped secured $450,000 for six non-profit Jewish organizations in New York’s fourth congressional district. In FY 2016, Rep. Rice helped secure a total of nearly $575,000 in NSGP funds for eight local organizations.

Did you know?

Oregon was the first state to celebrate Labor Day as a legal holiday in 1887

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Gesher educational consultant Dr. Lydia Soifer presented in-service training to Gesher staff this week

The Modzitz Melave Malka was held at Machon Basya Rochel in Lawrence last Motzei Shabbos. The event chairmen were Benjamin Brafman, Esq. and B. David Schreiber, Esq. Opening remarks were made

by Benjamin Brafman, Esq. It was special evening as the large crowd heard from divrei hisorerus from the Rebbe and the beautiful niggunim of Modzitz.

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Rabbi Avrohom Moshe Heller, a second grade rebbi at Yeshiva Darchei Torah, blew the shofar of a kudu for his class on Tuesday, the first day of yeshiva

PHOTO CREDIT: IVAN H NORMAN

David Schreiber, Esq., Benjamin Brafman, Esq. and The Rebbe

Cookies for a Cause

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et ready for JEP/Nageela’s Annual Pre-Rosh Hashanah Bake Sale Yeshiva Scholarship Fundraiser! The bake sale will be held this Labor Day, Sunday, September 2 and Monday, September 3 at the Kamin Home, 570 Trysting Place in Cedarhurst dedicated l’zecher nishmas Mordecai Ben Ephraim Kamin, a”h. Raizy Kamin was a staff member in Nageela this summer and saw firsthand the growth of the campers in their commitment to Jewish education.

Purchase cakes, challah, cookies and muffins to enjoy with friends and family during the holidays for an extra sweet mitzvah. Proceeds will provide Jewish children with the education they deserve through the Lily & Sol Freinmark Yeshiva Scholarship Fund.

For more information, please contact: Jennifer S. Zwiebel 516374-1528, ext. 240, Chaya Bajnon 516-260-3121, Zehava Shenker 516675-7541, Shalva Goldschein 917935-5680.

After living in Far Rockaway for many years, Avishai and Rikki Tzabari made aliyah to their new home in Har Bracha this week. Avishai was presented with a sterling silver kiddush cup which is engraved with all the members of the vasikin minyan in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway. Presenting the cup is Rabbi Avrohom Kleinkaufman, rabbi of the vasikin minyan.

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Camp HASC Hockey Classic

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he 2nd Annual HASC Hockey Classic was held this past Sunday in Teaneck, NJ. Over 160 Yeshiva League hockey alumni from schools from all over the tristate area came to compete to benefit Camp HASC. CAMP HASC would like to emphasize the incredible job done for the second year in a row by co-chairs Gilad Rosenberg and Sam Schertz, tournament director Kivi Naiman, and tournament advisor Elliot Weiselberg.

As a part of the day, each team was asked to help raise funds for Camp HASC. For more than 40 years, Camp HASC has served the Jewish community as the premier summer program for children and adults with special needs, intellectual and physical disabilities. In just a little over a month, through the efforts of the over 150 participants, more than $96,000 was raised for this incredible program.

Donations can still be made on the tournament website at hockey.camphasc.org. Additionally, sponsoring the event were Leeding Builders

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The morning session featured all 12 teams in round-robin play.

The schools were split into four groups of three, two of which played their games in TABC, while the other two went to Maayanot or

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Yeshivat Noam in Paramus. Each team played two games with the top two teams in each group of three advancing to the Tier I playoffs in the afternoon, while the third place team would move to the Tier II playoffs.

At each site, all players received personalized jerseys based on their school colors, complete with name and number, sweatpants, a water bottle and drawstring bags, courtesy of LNS Enterprises.

Out of the morning sessions, Frisch, HAFTR, TABC and MTA won their respective groups, with DRS, Kushner, HANC and Team Canada advancing to Tier I as well. For their efforts, SAR, All City, Rambam and JEC would be heading to the Tier II bracket.

After the morning games, all teams returned to TABC for lunch catered by EJ’s Place in Teaneck.

In the afternoon, all games were played in Teaneck with the Tier I playoffs taking place in TABC and the Tier II tournament in Maayanot.

On the courts, Frisch, TABC, HAFTR and MTA advanced to semifinals with both games resulting in identical 1-0 victories in overtime,

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Tournament MVP was Daniel Levy (TABC ’16) and Top Goalie was awarded to Mordy Dubin (TABC’11) who shut MTA out the rest of the way, capping off a day where TABC went undefeated in their five games played on their way to the Tier I Championship.

In the Tier II championship game, held at Maayanot, SAR topped Rambam 4-2 behind goals from Josh Rosenberg ‘16, Seffi Jonas ’15, Michael Grossinger ’07 and the game-winning goal by Solomon Freilich ‘17.

Additional awards were handed out, courtesy of Crown Trophy of Brooklyn, including Top Defenseman, which went to Zev Markowitz (MTA ‘15) as well as four All Tournament team trophies, awarded to Jordan Gellman (HAFTR ‘09), Ari Drazin (Canada ‘09), Moshe Jaroslawicz (MTA ‘10), and Eitan Grossinger (SAR ‘12).

CAMP HASC would like to thank

JEC, who raised the most of any team with over $11,500, as well as the top ten individual fundraisers from over 160 players: Ariel Holzer (Rambam ’98), Nachi Karpel (JEC ‘05), Sam Schertz (DRS ‘08), Eitan Gavarin (DRS ‘09), Chesky Schreier (DRS ‘10), Josh Rosenberg (SAR ‘16), Sam Schwalbe (SAR ‘15), Kevin Schrier (HANC ‘11), Akiva Gottleib (MTA ‘14), and Ian Schrier (HAFTR ‘06).

Proceeds from The Camp HASC Hockey Classic will be dedicated toward providing affordable therapeutic care for the hundreds of children and adults spending their summer at Camp HASC. The range of therapeutic activities, adaptive physical therapy, bike riding and tailor made motorized equipment, as well as a dedicated, professional staff, and ‘round the clock carry-over, enables everyone to participate – and for our special campers to reach goals beyond all expectations. Each summer, miracles take place in the Camp HASC Therapy department, where individuals with special needs receive world-class, occupational, physical, speech and music therapy, tailored to meet their specific needs.

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Shira Superstars Launches an Exciting, New Sunday Program

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fter Camp Shira’s super successful inaugural summer, campers were clamoring for more! Luckily, Shulamith and two of the camp’s popular directors, Mrs. Adina Hoch and Mrs. Rochel Lapidus, felt the same way! Shira Superstars, a dynamic new Sunday program, was launched after a lot of planning and after seeking feedback from parents and children alike to see what the community at large desired out of their Sundays.

The result is a skills-based program with adult instructors where participants register for the classes they want! Due to popular demand, the program is geared for girls from kindergarten through 4th grade and for boys from kindergarten to Pre1A. Every two grades is another age group to ensure that the specialties are targeted to each group and designed to build their skills.

Every participant is able to choose the 2 classes they want to enroll in out of 4 options. Generally they can pick one movement class (like Zumba or Ballet) and one art class (like Food Art or Canvas Painting). The boys enjoy a choice of Sports or Karate with Sensei Meir Breuer, a beloved local sensei who teaches the karate in a wholesome, non-aggressive way. For their other class they can select Crafts or Food

Art. The three girls divisions enjoy their own targeted options, such as the Theater class for 3rd and 4th graders where they work on drama and choir skills, culminating in the girls making their own music video!

That class is already nearly full!

The first semester is 8 weeks long and the second semester is 10 weeks long. This enables participants to select new class options for the second semester or keep developing skills in their favorite classes. The program starts on October 7th and nearly 100 children have already registered for the full 18-week program! Space is limited and going fast!

Each Sunday, the program runs from 10 am -12 pm and the participants enjoy the two classes they registered for and then lunch is served.

Finally, there is a way to enjoy camp during the school year! Even if it is just for 2 hours per week, Camp Shira’s campers and many other children from across the Five Towns are excited at the chance to continue the fun all year long! Don’t miss out on your chance to join Shira Superstars – the program where every child is a star!

For more information, email shirasuperstars@gmail.com or text 516456-8392.

To register, go to campshirany.com/ superstars.

Did you know?

Americans worked 12-hour days seven days a week during the 19th century

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Multitudes of Jews Around the World to Participate in International Yom Limud and Tefillah

By Chaim Gold

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elichos is upon us, Rosh Hashana is around the corner. It is a time for introspection, and tefillah. Moreover, it is the week of the Chofetz Chaim’s yahrzeit. Perhaps there is no person in recent generations to whom we owe more spiritual hakoras hatov than the Chofetz Chaim, who bestowed upon us the twin brachos of the Mishnah Berurah and the Sefer Chofetz Chaim, seforim that illuminate our spiritual lives every single day of the year.

In recent years, the week of the Chofetz Chaim’s yahrzeit has been marked with remarkable achdus as Klal Yisrael the world over engaged in an International Yom Limud and Tefillah. Jews throughout the world gathered to recite specific chapters of Tehillim and learn segments from the two seminal seforim written by the Chofetz Chaim, the Mishnah Berurah and the Sefer Chofetz Chaim.

The Yom Limud and Tefillah, under the auspices of Dirshu and its kiruv arm, Acheinu, is designed to reach out with a message of achdus to all Jews from across the spectrum and at all levels of observance, promoting Torah learning and tefillah.

Countering Danger with Unified Tefillah There is so much strife in the world, so much danger as countries threaten each other and natural disasters strike. There is so much polarization and heated rhetoric. The Yom Limud and Tefillah has been designated as a day of remarkable unity, a day when all Jews will learn the seforim of the Chofetz Chaim and make a special effort to avoid discord, lashon hara as well as any form of gossip, thereby combining sur meirah with aseh tov.

This year’s Yom Limud and Tefillah is the 4th such event. Over the past three years, more than one million Yidden across the world participated in this auspicious day.

This year, too, Jews from all walks of life, spanning five continents will gather together on Friday, 27 Elul/September 7th to invoke rachmei shomayim in advance of the

approaching Rosh Hashana.

From skyscrapers in Manhattan, to classrooms in Texas; from the Kosel Hamaaravi to Teveria; from Melbourne, Australia, to Buenos Aries, Argentina, Yidden will come together to recite Tehillim and learn the seforim of the Chofetz Chaim, whose yahrzeit is marked that week, while resolving to follow the hallowed path which he forged.

In Eretz Yisrael, hundreds of chadorim and Bais Yaakovs plan to participate, while throughout the diverse communities from across the United States and Canada, a wide range of more than forty schools that truly represent the entire panoply of Orthodox Jewry have signed up for the Yom Limud and Tefillah school programs. They included schools hailing from communities such as Monsey, NY, Lakewood, NJ, Brooklyn, NY, Manhattan, NY, Toronto, Canada, Houston, TX, Baltimore, MD, Cleveland, OH, Waterbury, CN, Phoenix, AZ, Passaic, NJ, Denver, CO, Boston, MA, and Los Angeles, CA. Dirshu has prepared special, age-appropriate material for schools to bring the message and legacy of the Chofetz Chaim to life. The three different booklets, which will be distributed to participating boys’ and girls’ schools across the United States and Canada, have been specifically designed for three age groups: grades 1-3, 4-6 and 7-8. The booklets contain age-appropriate halachos from both the sefer Chofetz Chaim

and Mishnah Berurah, inspirational and educational stories about the Chofetz Chaim, as well as age-appropriate, biographical material about the Chofetz Chaim and his life’s mission. The booklets are available in both English and Yiddish, thereby enabling each school to participate b’achdus in accordance with their mesorah. The schools will also say Tehillim on behalf of Klal Yisrael and the tefillah of “Acheinu Kol Bais Yisrael.”

The Massive Gathering at the Kosel One of the highlights of the Yom Limud and Tefillah will be a major tefillah gathering at the Kosel Hamaaravi led by numerous Gedolei Yisrael. The event at the Kosel that will begin with recitation of Selichos followed by Vaskin tefillas Shacharis and special tefillos on behalf of Klal Yisroel. This incredible event of achdus where Yidden from all walks of life led by gedolim representing the entire cross-section of Torah Jewry will come together in tefillah, k’ish echad b’lev echad, will be livestreamed in America on Thursday night, September 6 at 11:00 PM. Aside from the event at the Kosel where many thousands are expected to attend, large tefillah gatherings will be held at other mekomos hakedoshim in Eretz Yisrael as well.

Prominent among them will be special gatherings in Meron at the kever of Rabi Shimon Bar Yochai, Kever Rochel, the shul of the Ari Hakadosh

in Tzefas and the storied Churva Shul in the Old City of Yerushalayim.

Businesses Take A Break For Klal Yisrael Another important component to the Yom Limud and Tefillah is the fact that many frum-owned businesses with multitudes of employees have similarly pledged to take a few minutes on Friday 27 Elul/September 7, a busy workday, to participate in the davening and learning to mark the Yom Limud and Tefillah.

The effort to go well beyond the Torah observant community and to encourage Jewish Unity among the masses is being spearheaded by the Acheinu organization, the kiruv arm of Dirshu.

Last year, that effort was remarkably well received by secular Jews.

In fact, this idea of the importance of Jewish Unity was even picked up by the secular press. Articles about the importance of the Day of Jewish Unity that coincides with the yahrzeit of the Chofetz Chaim appeared in numerous general publications such as Fox News, the Washington Times, the Huffington Post, the American Thinker and the Jerusalem Post.

Join with Klal Yisrael in the Yom Limud and Tefillah this Friday, 27 Elul/September 7, 2018, and tap into this unique eis ratzon!

To have your shul, school or office participate, please call Dirshu at 732-987-3948, ext, 112.

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Avigdor’s Helping Hand Making a Difference “Hashem protects strangers, orphan, and widow…” (Psalm 146)

By Susie Garber

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his year, once again on Sunday of Labor Day weekend, September 2, Avigdor’s Helping hand will hold its annual Labor Day weekend barbecue.

Avigdor’s Helping Hand brings succor to families who have lost a breadwinner and also helps orphans or geirim to make a wedding. It is dedicated to helping with immediate financial and emotional needs of a grieving family. What an incredible opportunity for us to be part of this beautiful chessed!

“The Torah teaches us that orphans and widows are deserving of the highest level of compassion. The trauma of losing a parent and breadwinner usually places the remaining members of the family in dire straits,” Mr. Eli Glaser states on the Avigdor’s Helping Hand website.

This organization reaches out to Jews in our community and all over the United States. If a family loses their father or mother, aside from the tremendous emotional pain, there are often financial difficulties. Even when there is life insurance it may not kick in until 6 months to a year later due to red tape. Avigdor’s Helping Hand steps in and helps the family with their financial obligations during that first year for the first six months.

Here is just one of many, many letters of appreciation the organization has received over the years: When I opened your organization’s envelope yesterday, I burst into tears.

These were tears of being overwhelmed by the beautiful chesed of seeing a Dugma Chaya of true Rachmonin Bnei Rachmonim amongst Klal Yisrael.

All I can say is “Yesh’leim Hakadosh Baruch Hu S’charchem ”for easing our burden. May Hashem give you the z’chus that your next project should be … to be the “Helping Hands” in preparing the Seudas Shor Habor and L’vyason…Now Mamash!

Amazingly, over the past 13 years since its inception, this organization has dispersed $6 million for bereaved families. It has helped 350

families and made 775 weddings for orphans and geirim. All of this was accomplished with zero overhead.

AHH does not pay rent, salaries, or expenses. It operates with the help of 30 volunteers. AHH consists of 30 volunteers from all over New York including the West side of Manhattan, Borough Park, Flatbush, Queens, the Five Towns and Miami. Mr. Glaser said, “It’s amazing all the work these volunteers do.”

Volunteers vet cases that are referred to AHH. Every bereaved family needs two letters from rabbanim in their neighborhood. All information is verified by speaking with the family’s rabbi. “I feel a responsibility to the tzibbur who are trusting us with their holy tzedkaka money to make sure it goes into the right hands. We do due diligence,” Mr. Glaser imparted.

Some volunteers deal with credit card deposits. Some deal with writing checks for families. Mr. Michael Elias, a friend of Avigdor’s, created the website for AHH and crafts the flyers and advertising, www.avigdors helpinghand.com.

The organization has created a beautiful z’chus for Mr. Glaser’s son Avigdor, a”h, who was niftar in September of 2005. Avigdor’s Helping Hand was started by his friends and family as a way to carry on his name and as a z’chus for his neshama. The idea of the organization was born when at that time another bereaved family needed help with necessities.

They saw a niche and decided this was an ideal way to keep Avigdor Glaser’s memory alive. It is a shining example to all of us of serving Hashem with love in the face of a terrible tragedy and bringing blessing to Klal Yisrael.

The opening dinner (barbeque) took place on Labor Day of 2006, at the White Shul in Far Rockaway.

“The turnout was beyond our expectations,” states Mr. Glaser. “So, we opened a division to make weddings for orphans and geirim. Today we are one of the largest foundations that helps make chasunahs for y’somim and also assists almanos.”

Avigdor’s Helping Hand is based out of Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, and the Five Towns. Mr. Glaser

stated, “We help every Yid from anywhere in America who comes for help.” The organization began a wonderful initiative of matching simchahs. You can donate to a y’somah or yosam who is celebrating a simcha the same time as you. All donations are anonymous, so the donors and the receivers do not know each other’s identity. However, they are given each other’s Hebrew names to daven under the chuppah. What a beautiful way to spiritually elevate our simchahs.

In 2007, David and Bilhah Moradi of Lawrence, New York, reached out to AHH and offered to open their home for the Labor Day event. They have hosted this event selflessly for the past 12 years. Imagine having one thousand-plus guests at your home for a barbeque. Who is like Am Yisrael?

When asked about his vision for the organization, Mr. Glaser shared that he hopes to one day be able to help families for the whole first year after a loss of a breadwinner. “We would love to increase our role in the life of widows and orphans to expand different programs like bar mitzvahs.

We would need the support of the community to do this,” he said.

This year’s event is scheduled to take place at the Moradis’ home on Sunday, September 2, at 7:00 p.m.

The address is 72 Muriel Avenue, Lawrence, NY. Donations to Avigdor’s Helping Hand are welcome and appreciated. This year’s barbeque will include an amazing Chinese

auction with fabulous prizes such as: high-end jewelry, tickets to sporting events, restaurants, art from Huvy’s gallery in Yerushalayim, high tech electronics, and a special surprise grand prize. Delicious catering is provided by Michael Schick.

AHH is an IRS registered 501C3 recognized charitable organization.

The organization’s rabbinic board headed by Rav Noach Isaac Oelbaum includes Rabbi Henoch Savitsky, Rabbi Peretz Steinberg, and Rabbi Yaakov Friedman.

You can donate online at the website avigdorshelpinghand.org.

Checks payable to AHH can be sent to 138-45 78 Drive, Flushing, NY 11367.

Anyone interested in volunteering or bringing a family to AHH’s attention please call 718-568-9720.

The community is truly honored to have such an important organization in our midst.

Did you know?

The average worker in the U.S. works 1,779 hours per year.

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For A Sweet And Great Year

By Gabriel Geller, Royal Wine/Kedem

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osh Hashana is fast approaching. While it is mainly celebrated by Am Yisrael, the Torah refers to Rosh Hashana as the birthday of the World, therefore it is a time of celebration for all Mankind. Rosh Hashana is often associated with sweet foods and wine. Indeed, it is a tradition to wish each other “Shana Tova U’mesuka,” which translates to “A sweet New Year!” For some so-called sophisticated wine lovers, sweet wines however are often thought of either as entry-level quaffers, destined to please people who don’t really appreciate wine in general, or as kiddush wines, such as those made from Concord grapes.

As it is usually the case, that is a very inaccurate generalization. There is a plethora of dessert wines that combine delicious sweetness and complexity from almost every wine-growing region, and which are made in various styles.

Some of the most famous and well-regarded sweet wines by connoisseurs the world over come from Portugal and are known as “Porto” or “Port.”

These are actually wines to which alcohol is added to stop the fermentation early and retain the natural residual sugar present in the grape juice. The wine is then aged in oak barrels for periods of time which vary from 24-36 months for the entry-level Ruby. Another well-known type of Port is LBV, which stands for Late Bottled Vintage.

While only wines from Portugal can be labeled as Port, there are many wines from Spain or Israel which are made using a similar method and a few excellent and delicious kosher Ports and Port-style wines are available. My favorite are the Porto Cordovero Ruby and LBV produced by Taylor-Fladgate, one of Porto’s better-known Port merchants.

Other famous and often quite expensive dessert wines are those from the Sauternes appellation, situated in France’s Bordeaux wine country.

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famous winery in Sauternes, and is being mentioned and featured in classic literature and movies. Unfortunately, Yquem has not – yet – produced a kosher cuvée. Château de Rayne-Vigneau, a 1er cru Sauternes neighboring Château d’Yquem, however, made a fabulous kosher cuvee which was rated no less than 92 points by the Wine Spectator! The Sauternes wines are usually made from blends comprised primarily of either Sauvignon Blanc or Sémillon with the addition sometimes of Muscadelle or Sauvignon Gris. For the production of these sweet wines, the grapes are harvested late in the fall to allow a fungus called botrytis cinerea to develop and spread on the vines, causing what is known as the “noble rot.” The botrytis drains the water from the grapes which then retain very high sugar content (the sugar level in grapes is designated by a unit of measurement called “Brix”) and their natural acidity as well, allowing the resulting wines to develop in the bottles for 20 to 30 years and sometimes much longer than that. The fungus also impacts the flavor profile of the wine with distinct notes such as honey and bee wax.

Botrytized wines are also produced in other regions, not only France but also in countries such as Hungary, Chile, and even California, such as the amazing Covenant Zahav 2016, as well as the Hagafen Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc 2009.

One of the most popular and likely the easiest method of producing quality sweet wines is to harvest the grapes late, when they have already dried

partially on the vines. Even without the Botrytis fungus, the wines made from those late harvested grapes can result in wines that can be as sweet as they can be delicious. The wines in the Herzog Late Harvest series includes a Chenin Blanc, a Riesling, a Zinfandel and a Muscat. Great bargains, as these wines provide delightful, age-worthy and varietally true examples of the grape varieties they are made from, all of that at a very much affordable price tag.

Another method of producing quality dessert wines is Ice Wine or Eiswein in German, made from grapes that were picked frozen on the vines, then crushed and pressed. There is only a handful of cold-climate countries where natural ice wine can be made, primarily Germany, Austria and Canada, which experience very low temperatures relatively early during the month of October. One of the most intriguing and original kosher dessert wines which has been recently released is the Tzafona Ice Wine Cabernet Sauvignon 2016, an authentic ice wine from grapes grown in the Niagara Peninsula in Canada.

Great dessert wines like the aforementioned ones are a treat when sipped on their own as dessert or digestif, but they pair wonderfully with foie gras (goose/duck liver), blue cheese, crème brûlée, apple and pecan pie, as well as many other desserts that could enhance a festive Rosh Hashana meal tremendously!

Shana tova u’mesuka! Have a sweet New Year!

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osh Hashana of 5779 is just four hours away. The tempo of activity in each Jewish household increases as each moment hurries by. There are simanim to prepare, new clothes for each child, and tefillos for the new year murmured between each task.

Who has the time now to go to the Kosel to daven?

The Gedolei Hador do. On behalf of the donors to Vaad Harabanim, at this fateful time a most prominent group of the leaders of our generation will convene at the holiest site in the world. With only four hours left until the Day of Judgement begins the venerable leaders of all the Jewish People will petition and plead for the donors to Vaad Harabanim.

This traditional prayer gathering was founded at the behest of Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, zt”l, Maran Posek Hador. At the initiative of Rav Elyashiv, zt”l, the greatest leaders of our generation have gathered at the Kosel Hamaaravi to pray for those who donate to Vaad Harabanim every Erev Rosh Hashana.

This year, many of the Gedolei HaDor have personally requested to attend the prayer gathering. The list of gedolim who will assemble at the Kosel is long: Harav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, shlita; the Rebbe of Biale, shlita; Harav Yitzchak Sheiner, shlita; Harav Dovid Cohen, shlita; Harav M. Y. Shlesinger, shlita; the Rebbe of Rachmestrivka, shlita; the Rebbe of Pinsk Karlin, shlita; the Rebbe of

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Torah Thought

Parshas Ki Savo

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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hroughout this final oration of Moshe, he constantly emphasizes that when the Jewish people finally cross the Jordan and enter the land of Israel there are additional commandments and behavior patterns that will be demanded of them. He reiterates that the Land of Israel is bountiful

and beautiful, blessed and holy but he warns them that this is a venue that makes demands upon its inhabitants.

The rabbis of the Talmud reinforce this idea by stating that the land of Israel inflicts growing pains upon those that come to live there. It will always be a place of challenges and problems,

of difficulties and situations that will have to be overcome. But it is also the land where the eyes of the L-rd so to speak are upon it throughout the year and that living in such a land is replete with great opportunities and a sense of mission and holiness.

Neither its topography nor weather patterns, its agricultural bounty and prosperity, are to be deemed as ordinary and natural. It is the ultimate land of unpredictability, for its well-being and blessings are wholly dependent on the behavior of its inhabitants and, naturally, on the will of G-d.

As such, the land is always subject to the behavior and attitudes of its human inhabitants. It is the land of ultimate free will and freedom of choice that the L-rd has endowed human be-

society in the holy land worthy of our ancestors and the great prophets of Israel. Many of the reasons why our first two attempts to establish such a permanent Jewish society here failed are unfortunately still present.

Many past ills such as idolatry and the lack of national pride no longer really govern our thoughts or tempt our behavior. It is difficult to imagine that we would have learned nothing from history and would, G-d forbid, repeat all the past errors of First and Second Temple times. Yet, we all realize that the challenges that face us are great and that the road we traverse is still difficult and dangerous.

There are many distractions and obstacles that face us in trying to create a Jewish state that Moshe envisioned

It is clear that we live in a special place and in special times.

ings with. Moshe constantly reminds the generation that is about to enter the Land of Israel of their obligations and duties to G-d and to Torah. This will be the key to their success and longevity in the Land of Israel.

We are now participating in the third major effort of Jewish society to live in the Land of Israel. Throughout our long exile we have always aspired to return here and to build a Jewish

centuries ago. Yet, if we look back at how far we have come, against all odds and many enemies, we should be able to realize that it is within our grasp to fulfill the words of Moshe as they appear in this week’s Torah reading. It is clear that we live in a special place and in special times. As such, we have to rise to the occasion and be a special people.

Shabbat shalom.

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From the Fire

Parshas Ki Savo Enough! We’re Going Home

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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met with a Jew from Paris recently. From the news alone, one cannot properly appreciate the effect increased anti-Semitism is having on the Jewish community there. This community is approximately one thousand years old. But now, the main topic of conversation among Parisian Jews is when and how they will move to Eretz Yisroel.

For hundreds of years, they felt they had found a place of refuge in Paris, but now they simply feel like strangers, like they do not belong. They wish they had a place in France but now realize that they must move on to either the next step in their exile or back home to Eretz Yisroel.

The plight of the Jews in France, and in Europe generally, reminded me of the mitzvah to create cities of refuge in this week’s parsha. The Bnei Yisaschar finds a hint to the month of Elul, the time when we prepare for Rosh Hashana by doing teshuva, in a pasuk relating to the cities of refuge (Shmos 21:13): “And G-d brought it about into his hand, and I shall make a place for you to which he shall flee.”

The Bnei Yisaschar says that the initial letters of the words “ana l’yado v’samti lecha, brought it about into his hand, and I shall make [a place] for you,” spell Elul. Many of us are

“unintentional killers,” having killed our own improvements, hopes, and aspirations from the previous year.

We feel so disappointed by our own failures that we think we have no place in G-d’s presence. We feel homeless. But Hashem tells us, “I shall make a place for you, to which [you may] flee.” That is Elul; Hashem’s warm embrace into which He welcomes us back to His presence.

In the physical world, however, we only have one true home.

The parsha introduces the mitzvah of bikkurim, first fruits, with the words (Devarim 26:1), “And it will be when you come to the land which Hashem your G-d has given you as an inheritance and you take possession of it and you dwell in it…” All of the commentaries point out that the first word of the pasuk, “Va’yehi, And it will be,” implies joy. Why is this? The Ohr Hachaim says that “this is to point out that there is no joy except in dwelling in the land [of Israel], as the pasuk [Tehillim 126:2] says, ‘Then [when Hashem returns us to Eretz Yisroel,] our mouths will be filled with laughter.’”

The mitzvah of bikkurim also concludes with (Devarim 26:11), “And you shall rejoice in all of the good that Hashem your G-d gave

you, and in your house…” One can only feel true happiness when he is in his homeland, in his house, in the place where he belongs; when he is in his place of refuge from the storms of the world.

In the rebuke found in this week’s parsha, one of the most overlooked of the curses is (Devarim 28:65), “And among the nations you will not find tranquility, nor will your foot find rest. Therefore, G-d will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and despair of the mind.” We find this curse in Eicha as well (1:3), where the prophet says, “She dwells among the nations and does not find rest.”

The Midrash (Bereishis Raba 33:6) explains why this is: “If they found rest, they would not return [to Eretz Yisroel].” The Midrash says the same thing about the dove in Noach’s ark which did not find rest and the same thing about the pasuk in our parsha, “And among the nations you will not find tranquility.” Sadly, if we found rest among the nations, we would call their land our home.

Our people thought, many times in history, that we have found “rest” with various nations of the world.

But, sooner or later, they remind us that we are G-d’s wandering dove, longing and searching to find its

way home. In the late thirteenth century and early fourteenth century, the nation of Poland guaranteed Jews’ religious and civil rights and invited the Jews to emigrate there.

It was a country with nothing and they practically begged the Jews to build a community there. Our people even said that the Hebrew word for Poland, Polin, is a contraction of the words “poh lin, here, you shall rest.”

To our dismay, we know what happened to the Jews of Poland during the Holocaust.

The Jews of Morocco used to have a sizable and beautiful Jewish community. Even today, the small community of 3,000 Jews believes that the government of “friendly Arabs” will always protect them. But we see what happened to the Jewish community protected by the Shah of Iran. I have had many students from Persia who showed me pictures of their estates, swimming pools, and mansions with servants from the time of the Shah. Jews had some of the most prominent positions in the government in Iran. But now, the community has dwindled and they are ruled by despots and Islamic extremists. Similarly, the Meshech Chochma presciently wrote that “if the Jew thinks that Berlin is Jeru-

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salem … then a raging storm wind will uproot him by his trunk and subject him before a faraway gentile nation…”

We are like the dove, wandering from place to place. A dove will always feel driven to return home.

Even after Noach’s dove found a place to rest, an olive tree, it still returned back home to the ark. We will never truly be at home until we return to our true homeland, Eretz Yisroel.

We are compared to the dove in another way as well. The pasuk in Tehillim (56:1) says, “For the conductor [to be sung by the levi’im in the Beis Hamikdash], over the mute, distant dove, of Dovid, a michtam [type of song], when the Plishtim captured him in Gass.” Dovid was thanking Hashem for saving him when he was captured by the Plishtim and made himself appear insane, like a mute dove which lacks any outward appearance of intelligence. Because he could not express his true self, he felt silenced, unable to reveal the depth of who he was. He also felt “distant,”

far from Eretz Yisroel, and subject to the whims of the Plishtim who wanted to kill him.

Even in Eretz Yisroel today, the world does not want to hear the truth of the Jewish soul. They do not want

and allies turn against us because they are afraid of raising the ire of those who call themselves the modern-day Plishtim.

Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, zt”l, expresses our loneliness among the

We are like the dove, wandering from place to place.

to know what we are going through.

Not only do we feel distant from the realization of our dreams of revealed Divine providence through the rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash, we feel silenced and mute in the court of world opinion. Even potential friends

nations, using this imagery: “The mute, distant dove, the rose of the valley, wandering in the markets, where is it, dwelling in the heavens… they were like a vessel desired by no one among the masses…” The Jewish people are unwanted by everyone, like a dirty, earthenware vessel. We are lost in the world, mute, unable to express the truth of who we are as long as we are in exile. We wander among the nations like a homing pigeon, longing to return to where it belongs, unable to speak. We are like the woman in the Song of Songs who wanders around, looking for her beloved (3:2), “I will arise now and wander around the city, in the marketplaces and in the streets. I will seek out the one my soul loves; I searched for him but I did not find him.”

Using a pasuk in this week’s haftorah, Rav Kook, zt”l, teaches that although we will ultimately return home to Eretz Yisroel, there are two ways that this might happen (Yeshaya 60:8): “Who are these, blown like a cloud and like doves to their cotes?”

Very often, Jews find their way home against their own will, “blown like a cloud” by the winds of hatred and persecution. But there is a better way home. We can return “like doves to their cotes,” to their nests. Fortunate are those Jews who do not wait to be driven to Eretz Yisroel by anti-Semitism. Fortunate are those who return to our homeland like doves who finally find a place to rest in the land

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of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov.

Hashem told His people, who feel homeless and hapless, who are seeking His refuge: “I shall make a place for you.” One of the tzaddikim of the previous generation acutely felt the call to return home just after the Holocaust. The Klauzenberger Rebbe, zt”l, first moved to New York when he left Europe after the War. He spent several weeks before Rosh Hashana in New York, including over parshas Ki Savo. When the Torah reader reached the pesukim of the rebuke, he followed the regular custom of quietly and quickly reading the horrible curses that will befall our people if we do not keep the mitzvos. But the Rebbe interrupted the reader, calling out, “Louder!”

Confused, the Torah reader paused, not knowing what to do. On one hand, he could not ignore the Rebbe. But on the other hand, the custom is clear. One does not read the curses of the rebuke loudly and clearly. The Rebbe then called out again, “Louder!” The reader was dumbfounded and did not know how to respond. He therefore continued standing there in silence. So the Rebbe spoke up: “Why are you afraid of reading these curses out loud?! We have already endured all of them. We have been through it. It is done. This whole exile is done. I am through here. It is time to come home.”

Indeed, the Rebbe had already begun making plans to return to Eretz Yisroel. The Torah reader began reading the curses loud and clear. Many people in the shul began to openly weep as the enormity of everything that they had been through washed over them. Soon after yom tov, the Rebbe and many of the chassidim returned home to Eretz Yisroel to build the Torah community of Kiryat Sanz.

This year, may the wandering dove, the Jewish people, finally find rest for its weary wings in its true home of Eretz Yisroel with the coming of Moshiach and the arrival of the complete redemption.

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Between the Lines

Who Cares?

By Eytan Kobre

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

-Hellen Keller

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new high school teacher was assigned to teach a class of students who just did not want to learn. As the school year dragged on, the teacher grew tired of his class’s indifference. So, one day, he grabbed a piece of chalk, turned to the chalkboard, and slashed away in foot-high letters: A-P-A-T-H-Y! The teacher underlined the word twice, and then slapped on an exclamation point that broke the chalk as he hammered it against the board. That’ll show them!

One of the duller students in the front row struggled to read the word.

Tilting his head to one side as he started spelling it aloud, he leaned over and muttered to his buddy, “What in the world is a-pathy?”

His friend yawned. “Who cares?”

In the extended rebuke, we read of the curse that “G-d will strike you with insanity, blindness, and simhon leivav” (Devarim 28:28). While simhon leivav has been translated variably as “astonishment of the heart” or “confusion of the heart” or “clogging of the heart,” it

is actually a “desolation” or emptiness of the heart – a spiritual apathy and a state of indifference (Rashi, Devarim 28:28; Rashi, Devarim 28:37; Rashi, Bereishis 1:2).

This ominous curse is not the only time we are sensitized to such spiritual apathy. Indeed, the last in the litany of sins we confess on Yom Kippur is “for the sin that we have sinned before You with simhon leivav.”

Spiritual apathy is both a curse and a sin. It is a sin to allow ourselves to stoop to a state of spiritual apathy in the first place; it is a curse because, once afflicted, it is so hard to end the cycle of spiritual apathy. Just as good deeds precipitate more good deeds, indifference precipitates more indifference (Kol Dodi Dofek, pg. 30). And, before long, we are moved by nothing, amount to nothing, and amount to nothing.

The Baal Shem Tov once allowed his disciples to travel with him. On their journey, they noticed a group of gentiles carving the image of a cross into a frozen river. The disciples looked to the Baal Shem Tov. “Rebbe, you taught us that a Jew must learn from everything.

But what is the lesson we are to take from this scene? Are we to consider ourselves as sinners who serve idols, G-d forbid?”

“Of course not,” the Baal Shem Tov explained. “But you have just witnessed the downward spiral that leads

to idolatry. This river was vibrant, with water rushing downstream vigorously.

But then it became cold and frozen, to the point that these gentiles carved an image of their G-d and bowed to it.

“This coolness or indifference,” concluded the Baal Shem Tov, “is the root of all evil, and it can even bring one to idolatry. That is the lesson.” And it all originates in the seemingly-innocuous, So what?

Elie Wiesel best summed up the ills of indifference when he observed, through his own experiences, that “the opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference; the opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference; the opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference; and the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”

For that reason, metaphorically at least, the month of Cheshvan is dubbed Mar-Cheshvan, “Bitter Cheshvan.” The month of Av, with all its calamities, is a more obvious candidate for the “Bitter” moniker. But, of all months, only Cheshvan lacks even a single noteworthy day. Good or bad, all events in the Jewish calendar serve to forge a relationship with G-d. And it is the lack of any relationship with G-d – good or bad – that truly is bitter.

And that relationship is no different than any human relationship. The sorriest state of any relationship is that of apathy and indifference. Friends fight, spouses quarrel, families feud, neigh-

bors bicker. Those interactions are not the ideal, but at least they bespeak that there is something worth arguing over.

A relationship that sinks to a state of indifference – lacking even the will to fight – is doomed.

So too with spiritual apathy. “Woe to those who sleep with their eyes closed tight and do not know or see how they will get up for the Day of Judgment” (Zohar, Lech Lecha 77a).

The shofar is to rouse us from this spiritual apathy. “Wake up, sleepers, from your sleep! Those in a deep sleep, get up from your deep sleep! Examine your actions, repent, and remember your Creator” (Rambam, Teshuva 3:4).

R’ Shalom Schwadron likened this sort of apathy – especially at this time of year – to a merchant who would purchase huge quantities of goods wholesale and resell them to his neighbors (Kol Dodi Dofek, pg. 26).

One day, the merchant could find no local buyers for the immense quantity of goods he had purchased. With no alternative, he decided to smuggle his wares across the heavily regulated and patrolled border, in hopes of finding buyers in the neighboring province.

He knew what getting caught meant: crushing tariffs and probably a life in prison. But he also knew that he could no longer make a living where he was.

So he met with an experienced wagon driver, expert at smuggling goods across the border. Together, they de-

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cided to make the perilous journey in the middle of a dark night a few months hence.

A month before the appointed date, the merchant’s nights became restless, interrupted by panic attacks and nightmares of being apprehended. Who knows? Maybe I will get caught?

The wagon driver was also apprehensive. After all, if they were caught, he too could expect some punishment.

But he also had justifications – the goods weren’t his, and maybe he didn’t know that they were subject to border tariffs. Even if he wouldn’t be absolved completely, his punishment would be nowhere near as harsh as the merchant’s.

But a week before the appointed date, the wagon driver also began to have heart palpitations. Needless to say, the merchant was beside himself with worry and fear.

The night before the trip, neither the merchant nor the wagon driver could sleep. Taking a page out of the Jewish playbook, they strategized, gave

ample charity, and recited Tehillim fervently.

But one of their entourage still was not afraid of the journey: the young lad hired by the wagon-driver to assist. Even the night before the trip, the lad slept peacefully. After all, his role

A relationship that sinks to a state of indifference - lacking even the will to fight - is doomed.

in all this was minimal; at most, even if caught, he’d be given a slap on the wrist and nothing more.

Yet, as the trio loaded the wagon the next night, even the boy grew apprehensive. I don’t think my punishment would be too harsh, but who knows?

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They had been caught.

The young boy trembled. The wagon driver froze. The merchant passed out.

And there was still one in their entourage not afraid or concerned at all: the horse pulling the wagon. Even

as the officers arrested the merchant, wagon driver, and boy, the horse looked around and just snorted.

So it is with us this time of year.

Trepidation for the upcoming Days of Awe begins for righteous and G-d fearing people on Rosh Chodesh Elul. Average folk are mostly oblivious during Elul, but they awaken and repent a week before Rosh Hashana when we start to say Selichos. People of yet lesser stature are oblivious during Elul and even up to Rosh Hashana, but they awaken and repent on Rosh Hashana itself.

Only horses remain apathetic throughout the entire experience.

“Don’t be like the horse or the mule, which have no sense” (Tehillim 32:9).

End apathy. Shake indifference. Care like your life depends on it – because it does.

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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Israel Today

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By Rafi Sackville

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hile living in New York our family davened in Tiferet Zvi on Columbia Avenue. I also learnt in the morning kollel in Sh’or Yoshuv and would oc-

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Here in Israel I am a member of a Rambam shul in Ma’alot. It is affiliated with Bnei Akiva and the Hesder Yeshiva up the road. I have no hesitation, however, in davening elsewhere. Be it in the Moroccan kollel or anywhere else I can join a minyan.

In Melbourne, Australia, the country of my birth, the differences between the various communities is, in my opinion, more pronounced.

On a recent trip to visit my family I mainly davened in the Mizrahi Shul, which is synonymous with Young Israel in America. During my visit, I attended services in the Chabad Yeshiva, the Litvak Kollel, a breakaway from the Litvak Kollel, the Gerrer Shteibl, and the Addass shul, which is affiliated with the chassidic community.

I stayed in the home of lifelong friends from the latter community.

They are Belz chassidim. We have been friends since I was in college, when I would do deliveries for them.

During the week they are distinctive in their black pants tucked into their socks and their large tzitzit protruding from under their black vests. On Shabbat the distinction is even greater, when they wear large shtreimels, frocks, and white socks.

Imagine me on Shabbat, wearing my simple navy blue suit and white shirt, sitting between my host and

his son, who addressed me in a Hungarian twanged English, punctuated at length by Yiddish. I found the occasion welcoming. I am no chassid, but I have much respect for those that are. I am especially respectful of the manner in which they care not how the world views them.

They dress and act as they do, and, as my magnanimous hostess once pertinently told me, her late father would be proud.

In short, I felt comfortable in their home, which is always open to shluchim from Israel. One morning I was davening in the Mizrahi shul when a Belz chassid walked in and asked me for a donation.

“Where are you staying in Melbourne? It isn’t on Mayfield Street, is it?” I asked him. He was taken by surprise.

“How do you know?” he asked me.

“You woke me this morning at 5 a.m. when you got up,” I replied.

“You’re staying there as well? I’ve never seen you.”

“I saw you on erev Shabbos.”

“Ah, yes,” he said and took away his cupped hand and the two invitations to his daughters’ weddings.

“I’ll try to be a little quieter tomorrow,” he added before moving on to deeper pockets than mine.

A couple of amused shul members approached me. They asked me how I knew the chassid. They

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laughed when they heard we were sleeping under the same roof.

On Motzei Shabbat I found myself feeling a little out of my depth.

I had no idea my hosts would be hosting a Belz seudat shlishit. When I walked into the house to make havdalah, there were fifty of them at the dining room table. That’s an awful lot of beaver fur. They turned to look at me as I made my entrance.

All of them! At the same time! It was most intimidating.

I was wearing a woolen beanie on my head against the cold. I distinctly overheard one of the chassidim asking if I was the goy who comes to clean up after Shabbat. I turned on my heels, collected my bag, and went to make havdalah by friends around the corner.

And didn’t they laugh not at me, but with me at my little escapade.

These friends also hosted me for a few days before I moved into the Belz family. They, too, are close friends. I was in school with them.

He hasn’t changed at all in the 38 years I’ve been away from Melbourne. I did a double take each and every time I looked at him. To me, he’s still the 15-year-old that I knew in high school. A few white hairs have hardly aged him. I’m taken

friends and family members I haven’t seen for so long. It’s like looking into the mirror of life. I see how people have aged. Each time I run into someone the same age as me, my initial surprise makes way for the same feeling: if they have aged,

They laughed when they heard we were sleeping under the same roof.

aback because it’s hard to comprehend that he is the father to 10 children and numerous grandchildren.

And here’s the rub of this little story: I’ve visited Australia so irregularly since I left that I am constantly surprised when I run across

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“You know why he looks and feels so great, don’t you?”

“Why?” his son asked me.

“Isn’t it clear to you?” He looked confused. “He looks so young due to your mother.”

There’s no doubt in my mind why I feel so good about myself and by all I have accomplished until now. It’s all due to my wife, Keren, whom I missed dearly while I was in Australia and who chose instead to stay behind in Ma’alot, while I traipsed around the city of my youth and happened to be mistaken for a cleaner by a room full of 50 Belz chassidim wearing shtreimels.

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A Life Lived to the

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t was just two months ago when I sat down with Mr. Milton Kramer, a”h, in his home on Almont Road in Far Rockaway.

I had met Mr. Kramer a year or so ago at a community barbecue event in Shaaray Tefila. He was sitting with his friends at a table in the yard, exchanging stories and quips over watermelon and pretzels. A short conversation with him there intrigued me; I wanted to hear more about his 90plus years. I am fascinated about what life was like decades ago and how the world has changed in the years since. Months passed, and I finally was able to reach Mr. Kramer to ask him to meet with me.

He wanted to know why I, as editor of TJH, would want to meet with him. Was there a specific event or issue that I wanted addressed? “No, I just want to hear your life story,” I told Mr. Kramer, who was 99 years old at the time.

Mr. Kramer graciously agreed to meet, so I knocked cautiously at his door one day this past June.

“Shoshana?” he called out. “Wait for me in the dining room. I put some papers out for you,” he

called from the back of his house.

The walls of his dining room were adorned with artwork painted by his wife, Rita. There was a dish with dates, piles of papers, clippings of newspaper articles on Mr. Kramer, a letter from a chaplain, and three typed pages of Milton’s and Rita’s “bios” on the table. This was not the first time Mr. Kramer was interviewed for a publication, and he was prepared.

But not once during our chat did Mr. Kramer refer to his papers. Those papers were for me, so I could fill in any gaps after our conversation.

Mr. Kramer’s recollections of what transpired in his life 90 years ago were just as fresh as they were decades before. He wasn’t so certain about my memory; he handed me a folder of papers on my way out so I shouldn’t forget certain pieces of information.

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or those of you who never had the fortune to meet Milton Kramer, he was a force in the Far Rockaway-Lawrence community.

Born in Bensonhurst on Shivei Shel Pesach in 1919, Milton Kramer attended Yeshiva Torah

Vo’daath, Yeshiva University, and then went to NYU Law School. During World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war, Milton married Rita Gross of Boro Park, and they settled in Far Rockaway. Far Rockaway in the ‘50s was a different world than what it is today and Milton was instrumental in helping to establish Yeshivat Hillel, which eventually merged with HILI to become what is known as HAFTR today.

A former vice president of Shaaray Tefila, Mr. Kramer was an active participant in Shaaray’s events, and would set up the coffee for the morning’s daf yomi every day, a job he maintained until a short time before his passing.

Mr. Kramer was sharp, personable, and effervescent, despite – or maybe because of – his golden years. He loved people and delighted in sharing his experiences with those of all ages.

When Mr. Kramer passed away at the age of 99 this week, he left behind a legacy of activism and involvement. He showed his family and friends what it meant to be a true Torah Jew, as he watched the years go by and the generations shift in the almost-century that he lived.

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uring our conversation back in June, I asked Mr. Kramer about his time in the army.

“Before World War II started, I was going to law school,” he told me. “I was in my second year, which is the most important, and I loved the stuff.

It was fantastic; I was working on it 28 hours a day in the library, at home. I didn’t get to bed till 3:00 in the morning reading the cases. But all that was interrupted because I had a low number for the draft. As long as you were in graduate school you were deferred until you finished graduate school.

There was a draft going on without a war, and then you’d had to go into the army after you finished and graduated. But once Pearl Harbor occurred, all deferments were off.

“Sure enough, within 48 hours of Pearl Harbor I got a letter: Report to the draft board. So being half a lawyer I said, ‘Let me appeal my case.’

I asked the guy – I spoke to three guys with cigars, smoke-filled, big shlubby guys – and I asked them let me finish my second year of law school...

‘We can’t let you appeal, there’s a war going on, we need everybody,’ they told me.

“So being half a lawyer you have to have a backup situation in case you lose your appeal, and I had a backup situation. I said, ‘Sir, take your big fat pencil and cross my name off your list because I’m enlisting tomorrow.’ When you enlisted you were able to pick your branch. And I wanted to be a pilot.”

According to Mr. Kramer, he wanted to be a pilot because he was “meshuga.”

“I had young blood. I wanted to fly up there,” he explained. “I was 21 years old, and I wanted to be pilot. But of course I wouldn’t be here if I became a pilot. My sons kept asking me what happened – why couldn’t I become a pilot. I said I passed all the things, the physical and all that, but when it came to the last test, the eye test, I couldn’t read the chart. The guy told me, ‘I think you’re in the wrong place.’ ‘What do you mean I can’t read the chart?’ I asked him. ‘I don’t wear glasses.’ But instead of D, I was reading a C. “So I wanted to romanticize that with my children because they kept asking what happened. I told them that Rashi saved my life. ‘Daddy, Rashi is dead for hundreds of years. What are you talking about?’ my kids asked. Well, I went to RJJ on Henry Street and they had one little lightbulb in the whole room, and we were reading Chumash and Rashi and we were all squinting…

“So Rashi saved my life because if I didn’t learn Rashi I wouldn’t be here.”

Because Milton wasn’t able to pass the eye test he was put in the ground crew in the air force. For every plane flying the skies, five men are needed on the ground to take care of the plane’s and the pilot’s needs. The plane that Milton was assigned to had four machine guns and it was his job to clean them all. He was able to scour them spotless,

Milton with, ybl”ch, his wife, Rita, of 69 years. Rita painted the painting in the background

even when he was blindfolded.

The night before Milton enlisted in the army, his father took him to the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe for a bracha.

“The Rebbe was paralyzed on one side but his face I’ll never forget,” Milton said. “The Rebbe told me, ‘There’s a war going on. Kashrus is out the

“Rashi saved my life because if I didn’t learn Rashi I wouldn’t be here.” window, Shabbos is not going to be Shabbos, you’re going to have to work, you may lose your gun, you may lose your belongings in moving… But never lose your tefillin. Always keep it with you, and you’ll come back.’

“And that’s exactly what happened. I was the only Jew of 263 men in the squadron and there were three squadrons per group. They put us in quarantine in Michigan some place and I’m putting on my tefillin so these goyim said, ‘Hey, Kramer, what are you doing? Taking your blood pressure?’ So after a while I explained it to them, and they got used to it. In fact, we had to live underground for two weeks because one group was bombing us so everybody had to live underground.

One day one of the farmers in my group, Bud Myers, who was an atheist – they were all atheists, these farmers – he kept saying, ‘Where’s Kramer?

Where’s Kramer?’ The guys were telling me to get

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down but he kept on saying, ‘I have to find Kramer.’ And he came over to where we were and he said, ‘Kramer, put on those straps or we’ll never get out of here alive.’

“There are no atheists in a foxhole.”

During Rosh Hashana and other holidays, Milton would lead services for other Jews. One of the chaplains in the army, who was a Christian, sent a letter to Milton’s parents expressing his appreciation on behalf of the soldiers to Milton for leading the services. He showed me copies of the letters that were sent to his parents during my visit.

At the beginning of his stint in the army Milton experienced episodes of anti-Semitism. They would put snakes in his bed “and things like that.”

But he eventually won them over.

“That’s a terrific story,” he smiled.

When the United States entered the war, they had pilots but they didn’t have a lot of fighter planes to use against the Germans. A lot of their planes were lent to the English to fight on their front. Milton and his group were sent to England to train on their Spitfires. They were in England for a few months until one day there were told to pack their bags.

“They tell us to pack all our stuff but don’t put your name on it,” Milton recalled. “So we’re talking amongst ourselves. We can’t go to Europe – we’re not ready, it’s impossible, we don’t have food, we’re not ready, where we going?”

The group was eventually taken to the Port of Oran in the Mediterranean.

“The farmers in the group were looking around, where is that? They never heard of it. But I knew where it was,” Milton said.

His sister, who was older than him by ten years, took her honeymoon in 1934 to what was then called Palestine. She was out of the United States for four weeks. Every time she stopped at a different port, she sent the family a postcard.

“I figured now is the time for me to get a lot of mileage out of this,” Milton chuckled. “So I said, ‘Oh, Oran. Oh, anybody got a pencil and paper?

I drew a line on the Mediterranean and I showed them all. And they all said, ‘Hey, this guy knows his stuff!’ From that point on, they called me Doc. I was one of them.”

The group marched from the port for 15 miles to the airport, with Nazis shooting at them in the dark. “There was blood all over the walls,” he recalled. “That’s where I got my first wound.

“You heard of sea rations? Sea rations are what they give soldiers who can’t cook anything… I was opening up the can and I put my finger on the sharp edge and they had to stitch it up. I could’ve cut my whole finger off.”

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fter he came back from the war, Milton went into the family business and never went back to law school to complete his degree. He said that after being in the army for

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almost four years he didn’t have the “zitz fleish” to sit through more classes.

After marrying Rita, the couple moved to Belle Harbor for one year. Milton used to spend his summers there when he was a kid, as many people from Brooklyn did. Air conditioning back then was a luxury. The air near the shore was cooler, and so families packed out of Brooklyn and headed across the bridge.

After living in Belle Harbor, the Kramer family headed to Far Rockaway, first living on Sage Street in Far Rockaway, and then, in 1955, buying their home on Almont Road. Milton and his wife, Rita, lived in their house for over six decades.

Milton’s neighbor on Sage Street was Rabbi Rackman, who was the rabbi of Shaaray Tefila at the time. “He was fantastic,” Mr. Kramer said. “He always had a terrific message.”

“He was brilliant,” he added. “He really was brilliant and he had a certain way of attracting people so the mixture of the membership of Shaaray – I use the word mixed; it was mixed.

There were people in Shaaray who observed Shabbos completely according to halacha, there were people who rode to shul but wouldn’t park near shul, they would park a couple blocks away.

“There was one particular fellow, I heard it out of his mouth say it, ‘I can’t eat kosher – it upsets my stomach.’ Well, he was a member of Shaaray and he came to shul. The upshot of this is that he became very frum under Rabbi Rackman; his son is chareidi. All because of Rabbi Rackman. Another person stopped driving to shul because of him.

“I lived on the same block as Rabbi Rackman and he had a wonderful impact on my children.”

Milton was instrumental in opening up Yeshivat Hillel in the Five Towns. Dave Levin, Mike Emerson, and Milton needed a school for their children for the new school year. But they became disillusioned with the school that was open in town and decided to start a new one for the community.

“We walked home from shul with Rabbi Rackman,” Milton recalled. “And he said, ‘I’ll support you guys all the way but you guys don’t know what you’re in for. You’re in for tough times but I’ll help you.’ He wrote the constitution of Hillel which said derech eretz kadma la’Torah...

“We set it up so the board of trustees took care of the funding of the yeshiva. The board of education in the school was a separate unit. They elected their own people, they made their own decisions, they didn’t follow what the board of trustees would tell them. And that was the way it was all those years. That’s why my kids went there and that’s why they’re terrific.”

Hillel was open for around 20 years before it merged with HILI and became HAFTR. Milton and Rita had three children together – two sons and a daughter. I asked Mr. Kramer what sort of advice he would give to young parents

Milton, right, with two of his friends, at a Shaaray community barbecue event last year

nowadays raising a family.

“Well, I would give them the advice that the mother is very important because she’s in the house more than the father,” he answered. “The

“He came over to where we were and he said, ‘Kramer, put on those straps or we’ll never get out of here alive’”. father’s in business, he’s occupied. I used to come home 7 or 8pm, and I used to do some work here and didn’t get to bed until after 12 when I was busy. Of course, I put the kids to bed, but not every night… A mother is always there for the children.”

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ilton turned 99 this Pesach. We spoke about his bar mitzvah, which took place in 1932.

“Let me tell you about that,” he said. “My grandfather came here in 1894. All Jews lived on the East Side back then. Then he moved to Brooklyn in 1904, to Bensonhurst – there were cows there. There was a shul there but it was Ashkenaz and he davened Nusach Ari, so he built a shul behind his house. It was in this shul where all his grandchildren were bar mitzvah, and I was bar mitzvah in that shul too.

“The shul was behind my grandfather’s house.

My uncle, a”h, was a terrific baal koreh and he taught me how to lein, and I taught my sons. Of course today in the chareidi yeshivos they don’t

encourage the kids to read the Torah. They get up there, they make the bracha but they don’t read the sedra. Why not? They won’t know how to read trop, that’s part of the Chumash…

“My bar mitzvah was Pesach and it was in my grandmother’s house. She had a pot as big as this table and whatever she made, it was all kosher for Pesach. We had a kiddush, of course. I actually have movies of my brother’s bar mitzvah, which was during the week and he made a whole pilpul…”

Milton was one of seven children. Two of his siblings passed away when they were young.

“One of the most surprising things you probably never heard in your whole life,” he related, “and never will hear is that my birth mother passed away when I was 15 months old. She had an embolism and she passed away. She had 4 brothers, and they all lived into their 90s. My father remarried his cousin, Fanny, and that’s the mother I knew because I was so young. Years later I found out about my birth mother, Jenny.

“We have a custom in Shaaray when you have yahrtzeit you get some tikkun with whiskey, cake and herring. Once I had yahrtzeit for my mother on a Monday morning and I went to a bakery – it’s no longer there – and I said, ‘I’d like some of that mandelbrodt, some of this, some of that.’ And the woman said, ‘Oh, are your grandchildren coming to visit you?’ And I said, ‘No, I have yahrtzeit for my mother tomorrow.’ And she said, ‘Well, how long is she gone?’ So I told her, ‘92 years or 94 years,’ I don’t remember what I told her. ‘94 years?

You must be 150!’ she said. So she called her father in to get a bracha from me.”

I asked him what message he would like to impart to those in the community.

Mr. Kramer thought for a minute and said, “Well, my main message is you have to go derech ha’yashar, derech eretz kodma la’Torah, that’s what you gotta do. And you should conduct your life in that way…

“My father taught me that because they had a thriving business. By Monday morning there was nothing to pay, everything was paid Friday whether it was due or not. In those days if you paid early you took a little discount, which was okay. On Friday he would be in charge of writing up the statements, handwritten statements, so he taught me that, and I don’t have any bills. I pay them when I receive them. I pay them online, and I put them in before the due date. If it’s due June 15 it’s already in there on June 12 and that’s what I do. So that’s why I got a credit score of 815 out of 850.”

“Who taught how you to use the computer?”

I asked.

“Well, I started learning that in 1984,” Mr. Kramer said. “I still don’t use 50% of what I could do on the computer because I’m not part of the social media stuff because I’d be bombarded. I don’t want it and now they’re coming out with stuff that everybody knows what you’re doing. So the only

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thing I do is email, and if I don’t recognize it, I delete it, that’s all, or I unsubscribe. And the iPhone is the same thing. I use it for email and I can ‘talk’ email so I don’t have to write it…”

I asked Mr. Milton about the secret to having a long life – and enjoying the wonderful years he’s been given.

“I don’t think it’s a secret,” he shrugged. “You have to ask Hashem because He’s the one who’s blessing me with a long life, and is blessing Rita.

“We do eat very nutritiously; we never drink Coke; I stay away from salt; and sugar is a killer also. We have guys in the daf yomi every day, and these guys make the coffee for themselves and they dump 1, 2, 3, 4 spoons of sugar into their coffee.

And they’re doing it every day! I’ve mentioned it to them. I’m not going to tell them what to do but some of them have taken less.

“We’re very cognizant of that, and Rita – when she went to school her mother who lived a block away brought her lunch and she’d always bring her vegetables – so she makes vegetables for us. I must eat the vegetables before I get the main dish so I think that helps too.

“I’m accepting what Hashem is giving me, that’s all. And I’m not going to argue with Him. “I do argue with Moshe because in the Torah

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He added, “You asked me before about long life, but as far as how we are able to be married for 69 years, well, it’s simple. When we were married in 1949, Reb Menachem Mendel was at the wedding.

The question most people ask, how could you last that long? What’s happening today is that people get married and in 2-3 months they’re divorcing.

In fact, some people are walking down the aisle to get married and as they’re walking down the aisle they’re trying to figure out how to get out of it. In our case, the answer is that we’ve been married for so long because under our chuppah there were 13 rabbis – I’d like to see anybody get out of that one!” he quipped.

A table in the Kramers’ living room, filled with their nachas

he lived ad meah ve’esrim but they didn’t have economics then, they didn’t know about inflation.

Today we know about inflation so when we say ad meah ve’esrim we should always add inflation.”

Mr. Kramer’s words two months ago are even more poignant today.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

I find myself to be a “good dater” when it comes to the first date or two. I’m very good at asking a young lady details about her past – schools, camps, family, ambitions, etc. I’m a good questioner and a good listener. Whether this takes me one or two dates, I probably know more details about this person than her best friend!

The problem is that I find that after I’ve collected all of these details, and, of course, shared with her any information that she has asked me about myself, I just don’t know how to go from being a good reporter to something more meaningful. Though I know the specifics about her life, I haven’t a clue about how she feels about things, who she is deep down, the real story. And frankly, though these easily shared details are important, it’s not exactly what I’m truly interested in knowing about a person I need to consider getting serious with.

I just don’t know how to segue from “reporting” to the next level. I don’t know how one approaches meaningful questions without sounding too invasive or like a therapist! On some level, I feel it’s not my right to get too personal, but how else does one really get to know another person’s essence?

Any suggestions regarding becoming a successful third-time dater and then some? Up until now, two dates has been my limit, with nowhere to go.

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

Our intention is not to offer any definitive

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

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The Panel The Rebbetzin

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Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. little social skills training, coaching from a dating coach, and role playing with a friend will do the job. So will reflective thinking about what makes you share on dates. Discussing transformational experiences and influences in your own life will give you an opportunity to draw the other person out.

There are other techniques and openers. Learn them.

You seem confident and have specifically identified where you are having trouble. I am confident that you will learn these skills and get the other person to open up once you get some help and practice.

Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. ear Good Dater: Are you listening?

Really listening? Truly listening… to the answers you are getting from the young woman across the table?

Sorry to burst your bubble, despite your confidence as a competent firstto-second dater, you strike me as if you are conducting a survey rather than connecting with a person of shared background and interests. Are your questions (family, schools, camps) in alphabetical order? Do you check the appropriate boxes during or after the date? I sure hope the clipboard stays home.

My point is this. The questions you ask, or rather discuss, during your dates are just a springboard for more

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meaningful conversations; if you pay attention to your date’s responses, reactions, even body language, you will learn a lot about her essence, her personality, her temperament and her hashkafos.

If you ever get to a third date, you can tote a pocketful of index cards with timely topics on current events.

You can even bring games (e.g., Scattergories, Loaded Questions, Bananagrams) to help break the ice and fill awkward silences. Still, if you are unable to actively listen and “get” the person behind the details and the data, you are destined to be stuck at Introductory Dating 101. Speak to your female relatives (cousins, sisters-in-law), your married friends’ wives, your rebbetzin and, if necessary, a dating coach, to help you learn the art of listening, understanding and ultimately connecting with that special person who may become your wife.

The Shadchan Michelle Mond any people find the transition from topics of the mundane to the meaningful difficult. It sounds like you need a good dating game to be a segue into more meaningful topics.

The two games I know of are The Ungame and Perfect Matches. I personally created my own game to lend to dating couples when they are having this exact dilemma.

The questions in all of these games are often thought-provoking and the couple can get on tangents about many different topics. The questions in these games help the couple open up without anyone feeling like they are being too invasive. After all, if the question is on a card in a game, nobody can be blamed for “being too intrusive.”

Once you open the door to discussing deeper and more meaningful topics, you will be surprised how the rest will flow naturally with the right person.

Wishing you much hatzlacha getting to the next stage soon!

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If you are walking away from your dates feeling as though you read about her, as opposed to experiencing her, you may not be fully engaged or present.

The Single Tova Wein irst I must congratulate you on your ability to recognize what is real and what isn’t. Many people I know, young and old, never really “get real” and all of their conversations and relationships are pretty much about nothing.

You may have heard of the TV show “Seinfeld” which struck a chord with so many people because it was based on a group of singles who were together all the time, but basically talked about nothing. Their lives were so shallow and so were their conversations.

You obviously need and crave something meaningful with the woman you will someday marry. You want to go a bit deeper and really get to connect with her core. How admirable your goal is!

What I suggest is that you incorporate certain words into your vocabulary while on a date. Maybe not on the first date, but certainly on the second or third date. Maybe the most important word to use is the word “feel.” For instance, rather than asking, “How many siblings do you have?” you might ask something like, “How does it feel to be one of eleven siblings?” Or, another way of phrasing questions that lend themselves to some introspection and deeper awareness could be the following example: rather than ask, “How

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old were you when you moved from Brooklyn to Long Island?” you might

ask something like, “What was it like for you to move from

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

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ours is a common question amongst many daters. How do I take my relationship to the next level?

You mention in your email that asking personal questions feels invasive or something that a therapist might do. When someone seeks the help of a therapist, they are signing up for exploration of personal territory. When someone is asked a question on a date, maybe they don’t want to be asked that question. And so, you’re in this awkward position of not knowing what is on or off limits. It sounds like you’re trying to be respectful. But all this respect of boundaries is leaving you stuck.

Here’s what I have to say about this.

Dating is supposed to feel “too personal.” It’s OK to have extended eye contact, to give compliments, to get real, vulnerable and ask questions. Dating isn’t supposed to feel like reporting or an interview. I find that some people rush through questions in an effort to avoid silences or awkwardness. And while this is completely understandable, considering you are spending time with a stranger, it is often unhelpful. What is most helpful is to keep this handy mantra in mind. Slow down. Dig deeper. We do this by asking open-ended questions. If you are walking away from your dates feeling as though you read about her, as opposed to experiencing her, you may not be fully engaged or present.

What do I mean by open-ended questions? (That was actually an open-ended question.)

Closed-ended question: “Do you like your grad school program?”

Open-ended question: “What

do you like about your grad school program?”

Or, “What made you decide to go into law?”

I find that some people rush through the very first interaction and a huge dose of slow down is in order. Hi, how are you? Nice to meet you. Have you been to this restaurant before?

What do you want to eat? Have you have the steak here? Dating shouldn’t feel like a tennis ball machine shooting tennis balls, rather it should feel like a nice volley between two partners.

The process of dating can feel overwhelming and everyone is trying to put their best foot forward. But the best advice I have to offer is to trust the process, and trust yourself to slow down and dig deep. (You have to give yourself permission to get personal.) It’s great to come prepared, but then you have to have the confidence to go off script and let it all go…in order to be present and ready to engage.

A professor in graduate school taught us to learn theory and be informed of best practice, but when you are sitting with your client, let it go.

Toss it. You have to be fully present and engaged, without an agenda or theory, to hear what your client actually needs.

Here are some tips to help you quit your reporting day job.

1. Validate and highlight your date’s emotions. Say she looks excited as she is talking to you about her first website she was hired to design. This is an opportunity to connect. We connect around feelings. You could say something like, “Wow, I can see how into website design you are. Amazing

Brooklyn to Long Island?”

Obviously, you don’t want every question you ask to sound heavy-handed or potentially intrusive, but certainly throwing in questions like these every so often will shake up the conversations and steer them to a more meaningful place. Practice this new way of relating for as long as it takes to feel comfortable with it, and once you’re able to comfortably pull it off, I think you’ll love the results you get!

that you got your first job.” You can also throw in an open-ended question here. Something like, “What do you love about web design? It sounds so cool.” Even a simple, “Tell me more about web design” would be great. (Remember, slow down, dig deep). People LOVE talking about themselves. Studies show that people feel more connected to those people who show an interest in their lives. If you rush through this interaction to your next prepared question, à la Great! How many siblings do you have? you will have missed the Opportunity to Connect (OTC). Look for OTCs! Emotion is an OTC…always!

2. Tune in with all your attention.

Phones and dinging are automatic OTC killers! Shut it off. Unless you are expecting a very important and impossible to reschedule phone call, shut those phones off. There is nothing more important than your date. When you pick up your phone or respond to a quick text, it sends your date the message that she is not as important as whatever is going on on that phone. It doesn’t matter that it is 2018 and everyone is glued to their phones. Human nature is what it is. Phones have to go.

3. Paraphrase what she says.

There is nothing more attractive than a man who is listening. Let’s say she talks for five minutes straight about her six married siblings and their children and where everyone lives. Paraphrase.

Or try your best. “So, OK, let me see if I get this. There’s Yaakov and Jenny who live in Maryland, etc.” You two may even share a laugh because you probably won’t remember. It’s endearing.

Or, she tells you about her grandmother passing away recently. You

The questions you ask, or rather discuss, during your dates are just a springboard for more meaningful conversations. paraphrase. “So that was really hard on you when you had to travel back and forth from Brooklyn to Woodmere every day so you could be at the shiva.

Sounds like you really wanted to be there.”

4. Compliment! Using the above scenario…“You’re a really devoted daughter.” (See how we’re not reporting anymore?” Compliments are great OTCs!) We have to acknowledge that the onus is never on one person to do all the connecting. If she is blocking you at every OTC, then she isn’t open to connecting and you can’t connect to someone who isn’t available. If this “reporting” feeling happens only in dating, then try these tips and see if they’re helpful. If you feel that you’ve always had difficulty taking friendship or family relationships to the next level, then you may want to speak with someone about it to see if there is anything getting in the way of pursuing deeper connections.

Wishing you all the best!

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

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Dr. Deb

How to Add Zing to Your Marriage

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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e sounded so sad. The caller wanted to know what to do if the marriage was boring.

He especially was concerned with certain aspects of it.

He did not like my reply. He wanted it to be something else.

I’ve noticed this from time to time: People will argue with me when they wished my answer was

more in line with what they wanted.

Their way, it’s someone else’s “fault”; my way, they have to do a little work.

But here’s what I said: I explained that “boring” is directly proportional to superficial. The more superficial the relationship, the more boring it is. The reverse is true, too, and that is the important piece: The more you know your spouse, the more interesting it gets.

Now, people “think” they know their spouse. They know their habits, their expressions, and the things they’re likely to say or do. From this they draw the erroneous conclusion that they know them. The reality is that they barely know them. What they know is everything that takes place on the surface; what they don’t know is the subterranean life of thoughts, attitudes, opinions, preferences, feelings, reactions, needs, wants, and desires underneath all that.

This is the reason that so many marriages come to a dead end and the spouses are amazed and shocked when, a few years later, their ex is charming some newcomer who finds them completely fascinating.

All that fascinating stuff was always there but you just didn’t look for it.

Wouldn’t it be fun for your old relationship to take on the zing of a new one?

Here’s how: • Pretend you don’t know what

she/he is going to do/say/think.

Ask questions. Ask why. Ask what it would take to change.

• See a movie you wouldn’t have seen and share your thoughts; read a book together and discuss it.

• Go somewhere you wouldn’t have gone and make it exciting.

Build a campfire; light a candle; turn off the lights.

• F i nd out what h is/ her thoughts/opinions/reactions/feelings are about all the new stuff.

• If he or she doesn’t like “newness” find out why; what’s the obstacle?

Be the excited spouse that you ought to be. Discover the enchanted newness of a sparkly new relationship within the old one.

When I shared these suggestions with my caller, he said he thought his wife was not at all bored; only he was. “What if my wife is satisfied with the way things are going?

I can’t just say I am bored because that will hurt her feelings,” he pointed out.

First of all, he doesn’t have to say he’s bored to start asking his wife deeper questions about her likes, needs, wants, and desires.

Second of all, I would bet on it that if he is bored, so is she. She’s probably in the marriage out of loyalty and habit, but love has faded into the furniture.

Finally – and this is the clincher

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– if they can’t talk honestly together, what kind of marriage do they have? The key to intimacy is…intimacy. Sorry, there’s no other way.

The Latin word “intimare” means “make familiar.” The Latin word “intimus” means “inmost.” Intimacy is learning the inner workings of another human being.

Which means that when this concept is applied to the most personal aspects of marriage, it hardly makes sense to attempt to be so personal without, well, being personal.

How can you be personal on one level and not know who it is you’re personal with?

Here’s a random list of questions to see if you really know that person you’re married to whom you think you know so well: • What’s their favorite food?

Okay, top three – breakfast, milchig, fleishig • How do they prefer their coffee?

• What is their preferred design

of furniture?

• What is their favorite color of the walls? Why? • What is their favorite design of jewelry?

• What is their preferred political party and why?

• Why do they like living where

• Which of their parents are they closer to? Why? • Do they enjoy their work?

Are they passionate about it? What part(s) of it do they like best? Why? On a scale from 1 to 10, how would they rate their feelings about their work?

The more you know your spouse, the more interesting it gets.

they are (or why not)?

• Which child do they favor?

Why? • Do they like to daven? Why or why not?

• Suppose your spouse was saying goodbyes to family members and a particular child was not there when the time came to leave. How would your spouse feel?

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The list could go on. Go ahead and add to it yourself. How about sitting down without any distractions and making a copy of the list for each of you to fill out on the other one. Then spend some time talking about your guesses and the real answers. How on-target were you after all? Was this an eye-opener?

And perhaps more important, how did that conversation feel? Was it a bit scary? Or was it fun?

Sharing with someone who has basically become a stranger in your life can certainly be scary. But don’t let that stop you. Roller-coasters and bungee jumps are scary too. So is making aliyah. But those who do it wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s encountering more of a sense of being alive than you would otherwise feel.

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

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Health & F tness

Starch Isn’t All That Bad

By Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

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n defense of potatoes and other starchy vegetables, they’re not all that bad. We hear all too often to stay away from carbohydrates. Why? Because ccarbohydrates often get blamed for weight gain. But most people have a fairly vague understanding of the different types of carbohydrates.

Yes, carbohydrates like cake and cookies should be avoided. But let’s review what exactly a carbohydrate is and which types should be avoided.

Carbohydrates are compounds that contain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

They are the primary source of energy for our body. There are three types of carbohydrates: starches, sugars and fiber. Starches are found naturally in foods such as bread, cereal, rice, crackers, pasta, potatoes, peas, corn and beans. Starches should be included in everyone’s diet daily, yet in moderation. When a dietitian suggests to eat a starch with your meal, notice how he or she uses the word “starch” and not “carbohydrate.” Starch is a specific type of carbohydrate that is natural.

Starches, as long as eaten properly and in moderation, are a healthy part of a diet.

The next type of cabohydrate is sugars. Sugars are found naturally in foods including fruits and milk. Yet they are also added in processed foods

such as candy, cake and soda. Obviously, the processed foods should be limited due to their high sugar and caloric content. The sugars found in fruit are not dangerous for you! Obviously, don’t overdo it and eat 10 fruits a day because the calories will add up and yes, too many calories from anywhere will lead to weight gain. However, if you are facing the dilemma of a fruit vs. a piece of cake, always opt for the fruit.

Fiber, the last type of carbohydrate, is the roughage in plant foods.

Fiber, found mainly in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, is a plant substance that is non-digestible by the human gastrointestinal tract.

Most foods such as fats, proteins or carbohydrates are broken down and absorbed by the body. Fiber isn’t digested by the body. Instead, it moves relatively intact through your stomach and intestines and then leaves the body. Therefore, fiber is extremely important to incorporate into one’s diet since fiber helps keep the digestive tract healthy.

Dietary fiber can be classified as insoluble or soluble. Soluble fiber is viscous and forms gels in the gastrointestinal tract. Soluble fiber, found in foods including oatmeal and fruit, can also help maintain a healthy cholesterol level. Fiber has a wide range of benefits,

from slowing down digestion, keeping one satiated for longer, forming bulk, and easing constipation to lowering cholesterol levels. Soluble fiber decreases levels of cholesterol in the blood by interfering with the absorption of cholesterol. The exact mechanism in which fiber lowers cholesterol is not proven. Research suggests that soluble fiber attaches to cholesterol and bile acids, inducing their excretion.

Since the bile acids are excreted, and not recycled, the liver must use cholesterol in the blood to make new bile acids. This process lowers cholesterol levels in the bloodstream. In addition, since fiber slows down absorption and delays gastric emptying, this keeps one satiated for longer periods of time. This results in lower caloric intake and an overall lower cholesterol intake.

After reading this, you can see that not all carbohydrates are bad and need to be avoided. Unfortunately, most of the sugar Americans eat is not from whole fruit and dairy products but comes from processed foods such as candy, cake, ice cream, many breakfast cereals and bars, and soft drinks.

Sweets and sugary beverages should be saved for special occasions.

Your carbohydrate intake should be from nutrient-rich whole foods such as fruits and vegetables, beans, whole

grains and dairy products. The starch found in potatoes, corn, beans, rice and pasta should be included in your diet.

Each meal should generally consist of one starch. I always recommend a starchy vegetable as the starch for the meal; this way you are also getting vitamins and minerals. For example, have corn on the cob, peas, butternut squash, or sweet potatoes as part of your dinner or lunch. Then again, you also need your fiber, so don’t be scared to include whole wheat pasta, brown rice, and whole wheat bread into your diet. Ideally, all white flour should be eliminated, meaning, nix all the white rice, white bread, and regular pasta.

Carbohydrate intake at meals depends upon how many meals and snacks a person plans to eat throughout the day.

Talk to your registered dietitian to calculate how many starches you should be eating by each meal.

Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN, is a Master’s level Registered Dietitian and Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist. She graduated CUNY Brooklyn College receiving a Bachelor’s in Science and Master’s degree in Nutrition and Food Sciences. She is currently a dietitian at Boro Park Center and a private nutrition consultant. She can be reached at CindyWeinberger1@gmail.com.

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Hugging Your Teenager

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

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ere’s a loaded question: When’s the last time you hugged your tween or teenager?

It’s easy to hug babies. To a newborn, a parent’s love may be as important as food.

They want to be hugged from the first moment of life. They’re so cute and vulnerable that you have to restrain yourself not to hug them. It’s well-known that a parent’s affectionate touch has a long arm, from boosting a newborn’s healthy development to shaping the child’s brain later on.

A study published in the August 2016 issue of Cerebral Cortex demonstrated that school-age children who were touched often by their mothers have greater brain activity across the part of the brain controlling social behavior. In other words, it affects things so a person treats a peer differently than a rock.

Affectionate, loving parental touch matters. It matters in many ways, especially with boosting children’s brain development.

Let’s focus now on tweens and teens.

Some time between the ages of 9 and 13, a child (and how they hate to be called by that word) begins the journey called “Adolescence.” It’s an important journey because it transitions one from childhood into adulthood. And it isn’t easy, either for them or for us parents.

During this time, young people reject what they deem are childish ways, interests and likes, in order to act more grown up. One of the possible “casualties” along the way is electing to give

up the expressing and the accepting of physical affection with parents. Sometimes, there might just be expressing.

Other times, it might be just the accepting. And at other times, it might be both. The child does this to show they no longer want to be treated and defined as a child.

When the adolescent-in-process gives up the accepting and/or expressing of physical affection with a parent, he can create a loss that he may never quite get over – the letting go of a powerful non-verbal intimacy with parents. You may find this child to be more standoffish and physically unresponsive, shying away from the old contact because he now believes it is inappropriate, embarrassing, and even diminishing the status he is seeking.

Between you and me, you can tell when your child, oops, I mean young adult-in-the-making, misses the parental touch. Watch what happens when they see Mom or Dad cuddling a much younger child. There are comments like, “Why don’t you stop hugging on her?” Or, “You’re going to spoil him!”

Don’t be surprised when a little while later, the teenager engages in some age inappropriate teasing of the much younger sibling.

Why does he behave this way? Because although he gave up the physical affection, it’s still painful to witness it.

In reality, he misses it. But woe to the parent who would dare verbalize this.

Growing up requires giving up, and ceasing physical affection with parents can create a hard loss.

So what’s a parent to do?

First, remember your own adolescence. Even if it’s scores of years behind you now, it’s pretty hard to forget such a confusing time. Remember that you did the same thing, It’s important to remember that the adolescent who is making mincemeat from your kishkes and is taking your heart and dribbling it like a basketball without a care in the world is the same adorable child whom you loved to pieces. This is hard. You still love him. But he knows how to make it difficult for you to love him.

There are lesser forms of physical affection. Pat your teenager on the back.

Give them a side hug. “Little” acts of physical affection are ways of staying connected when your child erects that Berlin Wall of refusal of seeking the exact primal touch that he craves. If you can keep some level of physical contact in place, as your teenager grows older and becomes more confident in growing older, the acceptance, expression and reciprocation of physical affection can once again open up.

Don’t underestimate verbal contact between you and your adolescent.

Using words to convey sensitivity, empathy, support, interest, attention, approval, and appreciation can all communicate the emotional warmth that physical affection so efficiently conveys.

The power of a friendly smile to warm a beleaguered teenager’s heavy heart, as well as laughing with each other and making time to have fun together is immeasurable. Dance briefly with your adolescent(s) around the kitchen on Thursday evenings.

Adolescent boys more than girls are particularly susceptible to giving up physical affection from parents.

Physical affection can make them feel childish. It can also make your son feel unmanly as he might think that to be a man means jettisoning his “childish” need for parental touch. The best response for parents in such a situation?

Back off to respect the more physically aloof definition he is after.

Fortunately, there are teenagers, males included, who keep the door to physical affection with parents open all through their growing up. They somehow understand that forsaking this primal connection is not some adolescent obligation. Nor do they treat it as a necessary loss. However, this is the exception and not the rule. Most others intermittently grant their parents a loving touch, or hug, or kiss or allow themselves to receive such from their parents. Mood and circumstances are usually the mitigating factors here.

For example, your adolescent might give out more “physically available” vibes during family simchas. It will almost never happen in the presence of friends. Promise on that one.

Let’s say a parent reads this article and then commits the faux pas of trying to express physical affection to their adolescent. Oh no. What happens?

The parent might strike gold and the child accepts it. A great day for all.

In all likelihood (and I’m not a betting person), the adolescent will make it clear that he believes his parent has a case of the “koodies.” It might be painful, Mom and Dad, but he’s not re-

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jecting you. Just reframe it as the time or circumstance or mood wasn’t right.

Try again. But not right away.

I sincerely hope that “I love you” and I’m proud of you” are two phrases that are part of every parent’s lexicon.

You can never say them too often. And they are powerful words that can carry your adolescent through a lot.

Part of parenting is understanding that when our children are little, we need to be physically connected to them as much as possible. When they get older, it’s not that we parents physically disconnect from them. Rather, it’s about finding new, creative ways of connecting with them.

I read somewhere a long time ago that a child needs four hugs daily for survival, eight for maintenance, and twelve for growth. How do you give your teenager twelve hugs a day?

Start each day with hugging your children, teenagers included. Who cares if all parties are grumpy? Then hug your children before they leave for school. Intercept them as they traipse

out the door. Another hug when they come home from school and then another at bedtime. That’s four hugs to reach the “survival rate.”

es to kiss them, like kissing them on the top of the head, or holding hands at the Shabbos table. Dance together while singing Shalom Aleichem. Ro-

I sincerely hope that “I love you” and “I’m proud of you” are two phrases that are part of every parent’s lexicon.

These moments of physical connection should ideally be coupled with emotional components as well. It shouldn’t be a hug alone but start with, “How did you sleep?” “How was math class today?” Focus on the moment.

You can discover different ways to hug your teenager. Find little excus-

tate sitting next to each teen, using the opportunity to put your arm around one individually. If you grew up in a home where physical affection wasn’t common, this may be difficult for you, so start slow. It can even be a small gesture, like putting a hand on a child’s arm or caressing his cheek. Many boys

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dislike making eye contact so talk to your son while driving. He’s captive and you’re in control. Wink. (Wish I had the emoji available for that one.)

Although some teens, especially girls, will be physically affectionate with friends, it doesn’t make up for a lack of physical affection from their parents. Parental touch is both safe and irreplaceable. If teenagers don’t get the parental touch, they may go looking for love in all the wrong places.

Adolescents are not necessarily easy nor is it always easy to love them.

Feeling awkward, adolescents will push away parents. Yet in reality, adolescents feel vulnerable. It’s a time when they need their parents’ affection the most.

As always, daven.

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

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In The K

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Fish ‘n Chips

By Naomi Nachman

As an Australian, fish and chips is a staple of my family’s menu. I have added my own twist to this classic recipe by mixing in some sriracha to give it a little kick.

Cook’s note: you can use any leftover batter and dip vegetables, such as zucchini, sliced onion rings, mushrooms and/or cauliflower.

Beer Battered Fish Ingredients 1½ cups of flour 1tsp salt ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper 4 large eggs ½ tsp sriracha 12 oz. bottle of beer, room temperature Canola oil for frying 1½ pounds of flounder

Preparation Sift 1 cup of flour into a bowl. Add salt and pepper. Whisk in the eggs and sriracha. Slowly add the beer, whisking after each addition. Allow the batter to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Heat 3 inches of oil in a large pot, skillet or deep fryer to 360-375°F. Dredge fish in the remaining flour, shaking off excess. Then coat the fish in the batter.

Add the battered fish to the oil and fry until golden brown, about 3-4 minutes.

Roasted Potato “Chips” Ingredients 8 Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into wedges ¼ cup olive oil 2 tsp salt 2 tsp minced onion 1 tsp paprika 1 tsp garlic powder 1 TBS seeded mustard

Preparation Preheat oven to 425°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.

In a large bowl, toss together potatoes, oil, spices and mustard until combined.

Divide potatoes over two prepared baking sheets.

Roast for 40 minutes until brown.

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

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We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.

- From Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) final statement, released after his death, taking an apparent dig at Pres.

Trump and those who advocate for a secure border

He’s the president of the United States. You have to respect the office. No matter who is in the office, you may like, dislike personality or the politics, but we all must respect the office.

- Tiger Woods, when asked to comment on President Trump, at a news conference just after the final round of the US PGA Northern Trust tournament last Sunday

John McCain and I were members of different generations, came from completely different backgrounds, and competed at the highest level of politics. But we shared, for all our differences, a fidelity to something higher – the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched, and sacrificed.

- From former President Barack Obama’s statement upon the passing of John McCain

No. I just finished 72 holes and really hungry.

- Ibid., when asked by a reporter to comment about the race relations in the U.S.

Please don’t pickaxe my star. I know it’s all the rage these days, but that’s not cool – unless at some point in the future I do something unfathomably monstrous and evil in which case, sure, fine, okay, go ahead. But anything short of that, please limit yourselves to spitting…. Have some class.

- Parody icon Weird Al Yankovic, urging people not to destroy his Hollywood Walk of Fame star, while speaking at the National Radio Hall of Fame on Monday

Thank you to Democrat Assemblyman Dov Hikind of New York for your very gracious remarks on @foxandfriends for our deporting a longtime resident Nazi back to Germany! Others worked on this for decades.

- Tweet by President Trump after Assemblyman Hikind thanked him for deporting Nazi prison guard Jakiw Pali last week

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Fox News is talking about, you know, a girl in Iowa and not this, right?

- MSNBC’s Christina Greer, last Tuesday, criticizing Fox News for talking about the breaking news that Mollie Tibbetts’ body was found after more than a month after she disappeared rather than talking about the Manafort conviction

Mollie Tibbetts, an incredible young woman, is now permanently separated from her family. A person came in from Mexico, illegally, and killed her. We need the wall. We need our immigration laws changed. We need our border laws changed. We need Republicans to do it because Democrats aren’t going to do it. This is one instance of many. We have tremendous crime coming, trying to come through the borders. We have the worst laws anywhere in the world.

Nobody has laws like the United States.

They are strictly pathetic. We need new immigration laws. We need new border laws. The Democrats will never give them… So, to the family of Mollie Tibbetts – all I can say is G-d bless you, G-d bless you.

- Comment by President Trump about the brutal murder of Iowan Mollie Tibbetts by an illegal alien

So he cares about Mollie Tibbetts more than people who don’t believe in separating kids from parents? Or treating undocumented immigrants like dogs? Please.

All yesterday I was thinking, where is Carl Bernstein?

Where’s the guy [CNN brings] out to say “This Is Worse Than Watergate!” The president got a parking ticket – it is worse than Watergate. The president took a phone call – it is worse than Watergate. So they trotted him out, and what headline did they run, I just tweeted it? They run the headline, Carl Bernstein: “This Is Worse Than Watergate!”

And I thought, can I just write the news now? What if I just do the news? I’ll tell you what the news is a day ahead of time. Carl Bernstein will be on CNN, and he’ll be saying, “This Is Worse Than Watergate!”

- Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, weighing in on the Paul Manafort/Michael Cohen “guilty” outcomes on Wednesday’s edition of his daily “Coffee With Scott Adams Periscope” broadcasts

- CNN Andrew Cuomo, responding to Trump’s comments

Her murderer happens to be undocumented. This isn’t about border security. This is about toxic masculinity.

It’s a game changer. It should be…In my view, the Senate Judiciary Committee should immediately pause the consideration of the Kavanaugh nomination.

- Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) on the Senate floor moments after Michael Cohen pled guilty, creatively arguing that it is grounds to not vote on whether to confirm President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

– Tweet by CNN political analyst Symone Sanders commenting about the murder of Mollie Tibbetts

The new box for Barnum’s Animals crackers perfectly reflects that our society no longer tolerates the caging and chaining of wild animals for circus shows.

- Statement by PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman, after Barnum’s Animals crackers changed their box to no longer portray the animal cookies as being caged

The State of Israel, from what we know of it, has not banned Muslim pilgrims from coming to the Kingdom to take part in their religious obligation, however one of the countries, as we know or have been told, have banned pilgrims from traveling.

- Saudi Arabia’s minister of Islamic Affairs Sheikh Abdullatif Bin Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh, complimenting Israel in a public statement while criticizing an Islamic country (believed to be Qatar) which banned its citizens from attending the Mecca pilgrimage this year

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If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!

- Tweet by President Trump after his former attorney Michael Cohen “flipped” and pled guilty and pledged to turn on Trump

I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. “Justice” took a 12 year old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him and, unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to “break” – make up stories in order to get a “deal.”

Such respect for a brave man!

- Ibid., after his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was convicted of charges which were unrelated to Trump

This is a golden age of journalism in a lot of ways... I think we’re doing a lot of great journalism at CNN. - CNN’s Jake Tapper

Americans are dying because of a government too coward to save the planet. It’s wrong. And we will need a Green New Deal to survive.

– Tweet by congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), baselessly claiming that Americans are dying because of global warming

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In the aftermath of Tuesday’s news that both former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his lawyer Michael Cohen were found on the wrong side of the law in separate court cases, the question asked most frequently by the press, Democrats and “Never Trump” Republicans is, “Where do Trump voters go now?” The answer is the same that it has always been since they first started asking it Nov. 9, 2016: With Trump.

– Salena Zito, NY Post

Through land expropriation, we are forcing white people to share the land which was gained through a crime against the humanity of black and African people.

- South African politician Julius Malema declaring at a press conference that the point of the South Africa’s proposed new “expropriation without compensation” policy would be to take land from white farmers

This new conservative populist coalition is not the fluke the political class hoped it was. Donald Trump did not cause it, he is just the result of it, so no matter what he does, it continues. It is predicated on them, not him.

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Questions for Kavanaugh

By George F. Will

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enate Republicans and Democrats are at daggers drawn over confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Instead, they should unsheathe some questions designed to illuminate the excitement of constitutional reasoning.

The Constitution vests in Congress the power to tax. Presidents, however, unilaterally impose taxes (tariffs) because Congress has delegated to presidents vast discretion in imposing protectionism. Should the court protect the separation of powers by enforcing on Congress a non-delegation doctrine?

In the 1905 Lochner case, the court struck down a state law limiting bakers’ work hours because it infringed workers’ and employers’ liberty interest in making consensual contracts. Assuming, as is patent, that this law was rent-seeking by unionized bakers and bakeries – that it was written to protect their interests, not public health and safety – was Lochner correctly decided?

Dissenting in Lochner, Oliver Wendell Holmes said the Constitution “does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer’s ‘Social Statics,’” a book advocating laissez faire economic policies. However, because laissez faire is what freedom looks like in economic life, is there some sense in which the Constitution, the purpose of which is to enable a free society, does foster it?

In 1958, the court invalidated, as an infringement of freedom of association, an Alabama law targeting the NAACP by requiring disclosure of organizations’ membership lists. The court said anonymity was necessary

to shield NAACP supporters from dangers. Given today’s instances of individuals injured because of their political affiliations, are mandatory disclosure laws problematic?

Are there constitutional limits on the admissions policies that public colleges and universities can use to ensure “diverse” student bodies?

The 1978 Bakke case involving racial preferences in admissions said that race can be a “plus” factor for certain government-preferred minorities. Are there constitutional principles controlling decisions

1966 Miranda decision that created the right of arrested persons to be notified of their right to counsel and their right to remain silent. He said the Constitution does not require this, which impedes effective policing. But when a 2000 case gave the court an opportunity to reverse Miranda, Rehnquist wrote for the majority in upholding it, 7-2: “Miranda has become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture. While we have overruled our precedents when sub-

Are there constitutional limits on the admissions policies that public colleges and universities can use to ensure “diverse” student bodies?

about which groups are to be preferred and about tailoring preferences?

In 2003, when the court affirmed the constitutionality of racial preferences in university admissions, Sandra Day O’Connor, writing for the majority, hoped such preferences would be unnecessary in 25 years.

So, do they become unconstitutional in 2028?

William Rehnquist was an early and vehement critic of the court’s

sequent cases have undermined their doctrinal underpinnings, we do not believe that this has happened to the Miranda decision.” Does similar reasoning apply to Roe v. Wade?

In Roe, the court distinguished different degrees of abortion rights in the three trimesters of pregnancy.

What would the constitutional law of abortion be if the number of months in the gestation of a human infant were a prime number (e.g., 7 or 11)?

What principles should limit stare

decisis (“to stand by things decided” – respect for precedents)? In its 2005 Kelo decision concerning the Takings Clause (“nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation”), the court said government can seize property for the “public use” of transferring it to wealthier private interests who will pay more taxes to the government.

Does this precedent merit much respect? Is it pertinent that Kelo was decided 5-4?

In 1995, the court ruled, 5-4, that a state cannot limit by statute the number of terms members of the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate from the state can serve because such term limits create “additional qualifications” for such offices beyond those enumerated in the Constitution.

Clarence Thomas, dissenting, said: The Constitution, which only sets minimum eligibility requirements, is silent about the state’s power to set term limits, and its silence is no bar to actions by the states or people. Given the states’ reserved powers affirmed by the 10th Amendment, they “can exercise all powers that the Constitution does not withhold from them.” Was Thomas correct?

Finally, to serve the government’s interest in a healthy workforce, and its interest in minimizing the substantial effect of health care costs on the nation’s commercial vitality, could Congress, under its power to regulate interstate commerce, require Americans to eat their broccoli? If not, what principle limits Congress’ Commerce Clause power? (c) 2018, Washington Post Writers Group

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onald Reagan, when campaigning for the presidency in 1979, was thinking of the United States and its neighbors.

“We live on a continent whose three countries possess the assets to make it the strongest, most prosperous and self-sufficient area on Earth,” he said. “Within the borders of this North American continent are the food, resources, technology, and undeveloped territory which, properly managed, could dramatically improve the quality of life of all its inhabitants.

“It is no accident,” he continued, “that this unmatched potential for progress and prosperity exists in three countries with such long-standing heritages of free government. A developing closeness among Canada, Mexico, and the United States – a North American accord – would permit achievement of that potential in each country beyond that which I believe any of them, strong as they are, could accomplish in the absence of such co-

operation.”

And so, the idea for NAFTA was born.

It took years for Congress to approve legislation for the North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect on January 1, 1994. President Bill Clinton signed it into law a few weeks before. At the time, Clinton told the American people that he was signing the deal because “NAFTA means jobs, American jobs and good-paying American jobs. If I didn’t believe that,” he said, “I wouldn’t support this agreement.”

The idea of a trade agreement between the U.S. and its neighbors was hotly debated and contested in Congress and across the country during the years between Reagan’s and Clinton’s presidencies. Slowly, the possibility of an alignment between the countries began to take shape.

In 1984, Congress passed the Trade and Tariff Act. That gave the president “fast-track” authority to negotiate free trade agreements. It

permits Congress the ability to only approve or disapprove. Congress can’t change negotiating points; the president is the only person who can do so.

In 1992, President George H.W. Bush signed NAFTA after he took office. It then went back to the legislatures of all three countries for ratification. Clinton signed it in 1993.

The rest, as they say, is history.

NAFTA, a treaty between Canada, Mexico, and the United States, is the world’s largest free trade agreement. The gross domestic product of its three members is more than $20 trillion. The three signatories agreed to remove trade barriers between them. By eliminating tariffs, NAFTA increases investment opportunities.

The NAFTA agreement is 2,000 pages, with eight sections and 22 chapters.

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hat’s so good – or so bad – about NAFTA? Critics say that good

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paying jobs in the U.S. are sent to lower-cost Mexico, hurting the U.S. economy. Additionally, those jobs that are kept in the U.S. are offered at lower salaries, hurting manufacturing workers. Thirdly, people say that workers in Mexico suffer from exploitation from U.S. companies sending business to Mexico.

But there are significant advantages to NAFTA. Take a look at your grocery bill.

Certain products are sold cheaper in the U.S. thanks to NAFTA because of tariff-free imports from Mexico.

Oil from Mexico and from Canada has kept oil prices low in the U.S. And NAFTA has helped to increase trade and economic growth in all three countries.

It works like this: NA F TA grants t he most-favored-nation status to all co-signers. That means countries in the deal must give all parties equal treatment. And that includes foreign direct investment. So if a domestic investor wants to invest in Mexico,

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for example, they cannot get a better deal than an investor coming from the U.S. Additionally, a business from China investing in Mexico cannot be offered a better deal than a business from the U.S. investing in Mexico. Governments also need to offer federal contracts to businesses in all three NAFTA countries.

NAFTA also eliminates tariffs on imports and exports between the three countries. Tariffs are taxes used to make foreign goods more expensive. When you buy avocados grown in Mexico, thank NAFTA for your delicious snack. NAFTA created specific rules to regulate trade in farm products, automobiles and clothing. These also apply to some services, such as telecommunications and finance.

To protect the agreement and the signers of the agreement, exporters must get Certificates of Origin to waive tariffs. That means the export must originate in the United States, Canada or Mexico. A product made in Peru but shipped from Mexico will still pay a duty when it enters the United States or Canada.

NAFTA also keeps the peace, as it establishes procedures to resolve trade disputes. Chapter 52 protects businesses from unfair practices.

The NAFTA Secretariat facilitates an informal resolution between the parties. If this doesn’t work, it establishes a panel to review the dispute. That helps all parties to avoid costly lawsuits in local courts, and it helps the parties interpret NAFTA’s complex rules and procedures.

Recently, there’s been talk of China stealing intellectual property from companies doing business there. That doesn’t happen in North America (aside from the fact that we hope our neighbors are a bit less sneaky than China is this area) because all NAFTA countries must respect patents, trademarks, and copyrights. At the same time, the agreement ensures that these intellectual property rights don’t interfere with trade.

Need to travel to your company’s office in Toronto? NAFTA allows business travelers easy access throughout all three countries.

NAFTA has two other agreements that update the original.

The NAFTA signing ceremony in October 1992. U.S. President George H.W. Bush stands between Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney

The North American Agreement on Env iron ment a l C ooperation supports the enforcement of environmental laws. The North American Agreement on Labor C ooperat ion protects work ing conditions.

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resident Trump has consistently called NAFTA “the worse trade deal ever” signed by the United States. He has blamed NAFTA for wiping out manufacturing jobs in the U.S. because companies are able to move their factories to Mexico, where labor is cheaper.

He had threatened to “terminate” the agreement, which he can do, as long as he gives Mexico and Canada six months’ notice.

But instead of terminating, this week it was apparent that the president wishes to renegotiate the deal, changing certain parts of the deal and nixing the name “NAFTA.” “They used to call it NAFTA, we’re going to call it the United States-Mexico trade agreement.

We’ll get rid of the name NAFTA. It has a bad connotation because the United States was hurt very badly

by NAFTA,” Trump said on Monday in announcing a new bilateral trade deal with Mexico.

Under the new deal with Mexico, auto companies selling cars in North America must manufacture at least 75 percent of the car’s value in the U.S. or Mexico. Previously, the deal demanded that 62.5 percent of a car’s value needed to be made in

the continent. Additionally, at least 40 percent to 45 percent of the car must be made by workers earning at least $16 an hour. These changes should create more U.S. jobs, although the price of cars sold in the United States will increase.

A sunset clause states that the agreement with Mexico lasts for 16 years, and will be reviewed every six years. One of the drawbacks of NAFTA was that the 24-yearold trade agreement was old and clunky; it was made before the internet, smartphones, social media, or China’s towering presence in the economy. This clause would keep a trade deal between the United States and Mexico fresh for many years to come.

A deal with Mexico leaves out Canada, another partner in NAFTA. But it is expected that Canada will also follow suit.

President Trump said on Monday, “Canada will start negotiations shortly. I’ll be calling the prime minister very soon, and we’ll start negotiation… You know, they have tariffs of almost 300 percent on some of our dairy products, so we can’t have that. We’re not going to stand for that.”

The president added, “I think with Canada, frankly, the easiest thing we can do is to tariff their cars coming in. It’s a tremendous amount of money, and it’s a very simple negotiation. It could end in one day, and we’d take in a lot of money the following day.”

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Interestingly, before NAFTA came to be, the United States signed a trade agreement with Canada, the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, FTA, in 1988. It was a controversial deal in Canada and featured heavily in the 1988 Canadian elections. Shortly after that deal was signed, Mexico approached then-President George H.W. Bush for a similar agreement. Fearing that it would be undermined when the U.S. signs a deal with Mexico, Canada again approached the U.S., and the ultimate agreement between the three nations led to NAFTA. Congress needs to give its approval on any deals before they can take effect. President Trump is hoping that he won’t have an uphill battle in Congress, although judging by past experiences between the legislative and the executive branches there may be skirmishes before the deal will be given final approval.

On Monday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi showed her scorn, once again, for the president and his policies.

“American workers don’t need NAFTA with a new name,” she said in a statement. “While I am ever hopeful of a successful trade agreement, the Trump administration has a very poor record when it comes to truly delivering substantive progress after claiming breakthroughs with other nations.”

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said he hopes tougher labor provisions in the U.S.-Mexico deal will win over Democratic lawmakers who have opposed previous trade agreements.

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s negotiations move forward over the next few months, we would do well to remember what President Ronald Reagan told Congress during his State of the Union address 30 years ago.

“Our goal,” he said, “must be a day when the free flow of trade, from the tip of Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange.”

Hopefully, Donald Trump, president of the United States and author of The Art of the Deal, can make that happen.

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Rabbi Major General Piron

By Avi Heiligman

Rabbi Piron in his home

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oldiers on the frontlines need many items to keep them in top physical fighting form.

Modern nations have added physiological, emotional and spiritual personnel to help soldiers stay focused with the task at hand. Chaplains have been around for several wars and have quite a few stories to tell about their frontline experiences.

The IDF created the Military Rabbinate in 1948 with Rabbi Shlomo Goren at its head. The second Chief Military Rabbi of Israel had a fascinating background and through his many years of service helped countless soldiers in their spiritual journey.

Mordechai Piron was born in Vienna in 1921. He was the only child in a frum family, and in 1938 left his birth country following the Nazi annexation of Austria. Piron was part of the Youth Aliyah movement that rescued thousands of Jewish children from Nazi hands and sent them to Eretz Yisrael. The rest of his family perished in the Holocaust.

Once safely in Eretz Yisrael, Piron spent several years learning in a few yeshivas including Lomze in Petach Tikvah and Yeshivas Mercaz HaRav Kook. He received semicha from HaRav Moshe Charlop and Rav Yitzchak Halevy Herzog. The Jews in the Yishuv were being attacked by Arabs, and a young Mordechai joined the Haganah to prevent these attacks.

Following the Israeli Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948, Rabbi Piron joined the IDF as Arab neighbors began attacking the new country. At the beginning of his service he was a regular soldier. One day, while his unit was crossing an open area, he was hit by a ricocheting shell that fractured his collarbone. Doctors told him that he was done fighting but he wanted to stay in the army so he entered the IDF’s sherut dati, religious service arm.

For the next 34 years he served his country through four wars but instead of entering battle with a rifle, Rabbi Piron helped his fellow sol-

diers with their spiritual needs. He was on hand for the liberation of the Kosel in 1967 and saw to it that the area was cleaned of debris and made ready for Shavuos, which was only a few days away.

During the Yom Kippur War in 1973 many soldiers were reported missing on the battlefield and tough questions regarding the freeing agunos (women whose husbands disappeared and who can only remarry if the husband has been confirmed dead or received a get) arose.

These sensitive issues were handled by a beis din (Jewish court) headed HaRav HaGoan Ovadia Yosef, zt”l, and he was joined by Rabbi Piron and Rabbi Gad Navon who succeeded Rabbi Piron as the chief military rabbi.

The Military Rabbinate was established to help service members of all branches with services ranging from performing milah and officiating at weddings to ensuring that all shuls have everything they need. One of their biggest duties is

to provide kosher food for all IDF members, and Rabbi Piron was instrumental in facilitating this responsibility. Rabbi Piron was promoted to the chief rabbi position in 1969 and was made a general. When he stepped down from the position in 1980 he had the title of Rabbi Major General Piron. Throughout his tenure in the army Rabbi Piron realized that it was lacking spiritually.

He felt that it was mission to rectify this matter and bring kedusha to those on the frontlines.

According to his son the soldiers loved coming to hear Rabbi Piron speak. “My father knew how to talk to them, to reach their hearts. I saw it on their faces. I remember as a child he took us with him [to the army bases] during the holidays.

Spending Pesach, the chag of freedom, with the Israeli soldiers, in an army camp, gave it special meaning.”

Rabbi Piron made it a point to go around to various IDF bases on yomim tovim to give chizuk so

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that the soldiers could feel at home even while on duty. Once during the Yom Kippur War he was summoned by doctors to the bedside of badly wounded soldier who was thought to be on his last legs.

Rabbi Piron recounted the encounter: “They thought I could do something to help,” he said. “I felt powerless. Then, I noticed a kippah on [the soldier’s] head, and I started talking [to him] about whether a soldier is permitted [or] not to carry food to the battlefield on Shabbat. I purposely stated that it is forbidden, which is inaccurate. Suddenly, the wounded soldier started to murmur something, and then he spoke, saying: ‘Rabbi, you are wrong.’ I restated my position and he kept insisting I was mistaken. Everyone around us was jubilant. I said, ‘Okay, maybe you are right.’ Ten days later, I visited him in a hospital. His family embraced me; he had made a complete recovery.”

Rabbi Piron frequently had

Western Wall Plaza a week after liberation, 1967

phone conversations with the Chabad Rebbe. The Rebbe had Rabbi Piron put up mezuzos on all military installations. During the Yom Kippur War Rabbi Piron made sure that all Chabad soldiers had access

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After Rabbi Piron retired in 1980, he moved to Zurich where he became a community rav until 1992.

For a while after his return to Israel,

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he was an advisor to foreign minister Shimon Peres. Later he became the head of Sapir Center for Jewish Education and Culture in Yerushalayim. He also wrote six books on Jewish law, philosophy, and Jewish history.

Rabbi Mordechai Piron passed away in 2014 at the age of 93. Chaplains in the military aren’t always thought of as heroes who helped save their country from disaster.

Many transcend this thinking and are remembered for their kindness and soft touch when others need them the most. Rabbi Piron fits this description. His gift for reaching out and helping those who needed a boost will be a zechus for his neshama.

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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Dill Dilemma

By Jon Kranz

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he weather can be fickle, farmers use a sickle, feathers are used to tickle, and nearly everyone loves a pickle. That said, nobody likes to be in a pickle.

The precise origins of the phrase “in a pickle” are not clear. Some scholars trace it back to Shakespeare’s The Tempest: “Where should they find this grand liquor that hath gilded ‘em?

How camest thou in this pickle?” (Act 5, Scene 1) Regardless of its origins, it is a timeless expression with modern-day applications. For example, if you accidentally invite mortal enemies to your home for Shabbos lunch, you are in a real pickle. If you are invited to competing bar mitzvahs on the same Shabbos on opposite sides of the town, you are in a real pickle. If the kiddush at shul is phenomenal but your spouse has prepared a wonderful lunch at home and has specifically asked you not to ruin your appetite, then you certainly are in a real pickle.

The origins of the pickle itself also are not clear. For the record, pickles were not invented in London’s Piccadilly Square or in Italy’s Spezzano Piccolo. The Torah does mention cucumbers: “We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free of charge, the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.” (Bamidbar 11:5) In addition, the Talmud mentions “pickled vegetables” (Avodah Zara 35b

and 39a). It also states that “one does not fulfill the obligation [of eating bitter herbs on Passover] if they are pickled in water or vinegar.” (Pesachim 39a) The Talmud also mentions a “woman who pickles a vegetable in a pot.” (Berakhot 20a) So there is something picklish in the past.

Pickles come in many varieties, like full sour, half sour and dill. Some vendors try to cater to individual tastes by also offering pickles that are a quarter sour or three quarters sour. That said,

(iii) young and single Orthodox Jews blend in on the Upper West Side. Other things in life do not easily blend in like (i) a breakdancer in a ballet, (iii) a pacifist in a rugby scrum, or (iv) an Ashkenazi Jew in a Sephardic minyan.

A pickle can be a very good thing.

For example, enter any classic kosher deli and one of the delicacies to hit the table first will be a bowl, plate or bucket of pickles. The best part is that they invariably come before the meal begins and even before you have placed your

This begs the question: instead of making pickles, why didn’t they just spend their time making bread and butter?

such precision can go way too far. For example, it would be ridiculous for a pickle vendor to sell pickles that are three-eighths sour or seven-tenths sour. In addition, if ordering a pickle requires you to solve compound fractions, then you probably need to find a new pickle vendor.

A pickle can be eaten with nearly any meal or cuisine. In that way, pickles easily blends in, like the way (i) uber nerds blend in at Comic-Con, (ii) uber geniuses blend in at NASA, and

order. In that way, the pickles are not an appetizer; they are more like the Jewish version of amuse-bouches, which is French for “mouth pleasers” and generally refers to pre-appetizers, served gratis and without ordering. I know some deli patrons who just eat the free pickles and walk out. I do not recommend doing that because while it may leave you with a good taste in your mouth, it will leave the restaurant owner with a sour taste in his.

Types of pickles include the corni-

chons, which are tart French pickles, and bread-and-butter pickles, which are pre-sliced and marinated in vinegar, sugar and spices. As the legend goes, the inventors of the bread-andbutter pickles sold them during the Great Depression in exchange for bread and butter. This begs the question: instead of making pickles, why didn’t they just spend their time making bread and butter?

One of the most famous pickle establishments is Guss’s Pickles, which used to have a storefront on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Out front stood large barrels filled with pickles, and the pickles would be sold by the jar or in singles. However, schlepping all the way downtown to buy a single pickle makes about as much sense as schlepping all the way across town to buy a single shoe or all the way uptown to buy a single sheet of toilet paper.

Final thought: Did you hear about the guy who wastes hours and hours every day making pickles that nobody eats? They say he has too much brine on his hands.

And did you hear that this pickle maker filled barrels of pickles that were too heavy to lift? Apparently, they were way too cucumbersome.

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

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Are We Richer Than We Think?

By Robert J. Samuelson

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he Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank, put out an interesting report the other day, whose main conclusion is this: Much of the Great Recession’s economic damage has been repaired. On average, most working U.S. households – there are many individual exceptions of course – are earning more than before the recession. To skeptics of the strong U.S. recovery (including me), this is powerful evidence to the contrary.

It’s also confusing. When Pew economist Richard Fry crunched the numbers of a recent Federal Reserve study, he found that most generations of working Americans now have higher incomes than before the recession. Even so, he also reported that median incomes for all U.S. households had actually declined about 3 percent since 2007.

How could this be? The findings seem contradictory.

The explanation is that income

gains of working households are being offset by the income declines of retirees. When people retire, their incomes typically drop, even though Social Security and their savings – mostly homes, stocks and bonds – may enable them to live a comfortable life.

There are times when a table is worth a thousand words. This is one of those times. Look at the table below. It gives income information (corrected for both inflation and household size) for all the generations since World War II: The Silent Generation – those born from 1928 to 1945 and who were 71 to 88 in 2016; the baby boom – born from 1946 to 1964 and who were 52 to 70 in 2016; Generation X – born from 1965 to 1980 and who were 36 to 51 in 2016; and, finally, millennials, born from 1981 to 1996 and who were 20 to 35 in 2016.

The table confirms that most non-elderly U.S. households are,

according to Pew’s analysis, at near record-level incomes. The glaring exceptions are the Silent Generation and baby boomers, whose incomes have declined substantially from their peaks. For example, baby boomers’ income peaked at $84,864 in 2007 and dropped 15 percent by 2016.

But this is almost certainly a reflection of demographics, says Fry. Thousands of baby boomers, many with well-paid jobs, are retiring every day. For many if not most, their incomes drop when they leave the labor force. As more baby boomers retire, their influence on their median income becomes larger. The same process has already affected the Silent Generation.

Just the opposite may be happening to millennials. As is well known, they bore much of the brunt of the Great Recession. Marriage and homeownership rates dropped; many have continued living with

their parents. But these younger workers, in their late 20s and early 30s, are now moving up career ladders and receiving larger pay increases. That probably explains most of the millennials’ income gain of nearly two-fifths.

What’s more, savings rates have remained relatively high, as first pointed out by The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Kiernan. The personal savings rate is defined as after-tax personal income minus spending.

In 2005 it got as low as 3.2 percent, but from 2014 to 2017, it has averaged 7 percent. This suggests that many households are either saving more or borrowing less (borrowing is negative savings).

That’s probably good news for the economy. It suggests that households aren’t so over-extended with loans that any setback will tip the country into a long and deep slump.

Companies and households have enough cash to withstand another recession without draconian cuts in either consumer purchases or business investment.

There’s another lesson, too: Our economic rhetoric has a negative bias. Given a chance of describing the economy, many politicians, pundits and economists of both the left and right embrace the worst possible interpretation. Conventional wisdom holds that incomes are “stagnant,” even when – as the Pew study indicates – they’re moving ahead slowly. Who knows, we may be richer than we think. (c) 2018, Washington Post Writers Group

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Raizie 917.903.1778 raizie@ftmr.com

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New! Exclusive W. Broadway Woodmere 4000sf office space for 2 year lease 3 full bathrooms 14+ parking spots Call Raizie 917 903 1778

355 Central Avenue, Lawrence NY 11559 (Across the street from Seasons)

P: 516.791.6100 | F: 516.374.7059 www.WeissmanRealty.com

LAWRENCE CONDO~THE CARLYLE Beautifully renovated 2 bedroom 2 full bath, with granite eat-in kitchen.

Hi-end appliances, gleaming wood oors. Walk in shower plus tub. Laundry in unit. Lots of huge closets. Terrace facing Central Ave. Parking space included. P.O.R

Large 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath, upscale renovations. Large granite eat-in kitchen, washer/dryer in-unit, beautiful wood oors and quiet terrace. Parking space included. Use of gym and social room. $485K

Full service doorman building.

These 2 apartments are next door to eachother • Can be sold together as a 3-bedroom

Call Sherri Slochowsky for more information. 516-297-7995

WOODMERE HOUSE COMPLETELY RENOVATED Perfect starter house in Woodmere. This light, bright 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom house has everything from new oors to recessed lighting. New windows, large kitchen with 2 sinks and 2 dishwashers, microwave oven and more. Beautiful hardwood doors and tiled bathrooms. Laundry on second oor. New heat, A/C. Unnnished basement & deep property $619K. Contact Sherri Slochowsky @ 516-297-7995 to schedule a showing.

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OFFICES FOR LEASE

Far Rockaway Cornaga location, 3 to 4 offices, plus bthrm. Good for doctor, dentist or business. $1900 Call Sherri 516-297-7995 Cedarhurst Single rooms or executive suites. All utilities included.

Starting at $600. Call Sherri 516-297-7995

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CEDARHURST 500-3,500 +/- SF Beautiful, newly renovated space for rent. Ideal for Retail or Executive offices. Prime location. Convenient Parking.

Sam @516-612-2433 or 718-747-8080

5 TOWNS: LOOKING FOR: Restaurateurs, Orthodontists, Podiatrists, Chiropractors, Physical Therapists, Dentists, or Obstetrician/ Gynecologists. Spaces Available in Cedarhurst, Hewlett, Lynbrook, Rockville Centre, Valley Stream area.

For Lease... Call for More Details Broker (516) 792-6698

ROCKVILLE CENTRE 5700 -S/F Warehouse Includes Offices with Large Windows Loading Dock / Ideal Location Walk To: LIRR - Chase Bank - Seven Eleven - Rite Aid 917-822-0499 INWOOD OFFICE SPACE LOWEST PRICES IN TOWN! 500-7000 Square feet gorgeous office space with WATERVIEW in Inwood!

Lots of options. Tons of parking.

Will divide and customize space for your needs!

Call 516-567-0100 INWOOD 10,000 sq ft brick building.

Offices and warehouse. High ceilings.

Asking $16/foot.

Owner: 516-206-1100 mark@mbequitygroup.com

EAST ROCKAWAY: GREAT PROFESSIONAL SUITE 1,500+/-SF Office Space in Professional Elevator Bldg W/Full Bsmt & Ample Parking, 3 Private Offices, Conference Rm, Bullpen & Reception Area, For Lease… Call for More Details Broker (516) 792-6698 INWOOD: Various Sized Industrial Bldgs, High Ceilings, On-Site Parking & Street Parking, Queens/Nassau Border, For Lease… Call Arthur For More Details (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com EAST ROCKAWAY: Retail Stores on Busy Corner, 1000SF& Up Available, Great High Visibility Location, For Lease…

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LAWRENCE: Beautiful 2,000+/-SF Retail Space With Basement Available in Heart of Central Ave Shopping Strip, High Traffic Location, For Lease …Call Arthur for More Details (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

WOODMERE: BEST BUY Spacious 2BR Apartment, Washer/Dryer In Bldg, Elevator Bldg, Open Floor Plan, 1st Floor, Close To All...$199K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

FAR ROCKAWAY NEW LISTING Spacious & Updated 2BR, 2 Bathroom Apt on 1st Floor W/Terrace In Elevator Bldg, Parking, Doorman & Laundry Room On Premise...$350K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

F/T & P/T REGISTERED NURSE openings to work with adults who have developmental disabilities within residential settings in Brooklyn, Manhattan, or Long Island. Current NYS RN, min 2 years hospital experience. OHEL: 855-OHEL JOB, www.ohelfamily.org/careers

LAWRENCE: PRICE REDUCED Beautiful, Spacious, Sunny & Updated 1BR on 1st Floor. Kitchen Has 2 Full Size Sinks, Lovely Hardwood Floors, Very Low Maintenance, Near All...$189K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island is looking for a dynamic, positive and professional afternoon assistant for a general studies first or second grade position. Email resumes to office@ykli. org or Fax to 516-368-9199

ROCKVILLE CENTRE: Beautiful & Bright, Various Sized Office Space In Historic Building, Steps From RVC LIRR, Municipal Parking, Great Location, Near All, For Lease …

Call Ian for More Details (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

SF Medical Office Space Available, Reception Area, Waiting Room, Kitchenette, 2 Consult, 4 Exam Rooms, 2 Bathrooms, 30 Car On-Site Parking, For Lease …

Call Ian for More Details (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

APT FOR RENT

WOODMERE: Various Sized Retail/Office Spaces Available with Amenities and Ample Parking, Great Location, Close to Major Highways & Public Transportation, For Lease… Call for More Details Broker (516) 792-6698

FAR ROCKAWAY: NEW LISTING Bright & Sunny 3BR Apt In House On 2nd Flr, Heat & Water Included, Near All...$2,500/mo Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

HEWLETT: Various Sized Office Space, Beautiful Suites With Plenty Of On-Site Parking in the Rear Of Building. Available Immediately. Tenant Pays Own Utilities Directly. Can Be Combined For Up To A Total Of 6050SF, For Lease…Call for More Details. Broker (516) 792-6698

WOODMERE: HOUSE RENTAL JUST LISTED!!!

4BR, 3BA, Very Large Split, Completely Renovated on Enormous Property.

New Windows, New EIK & Bathroom, 3 Extra Rooms Downstairs + An Extra Bonus Rm on Ground Level, Park-like Backyard…$4,900/mo Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

FOR RENT BY OWNER FAR ROCKAWAY APT Recently updated smaller 2 bedroom apartment on first floor of 2 family house (NOT a basement) Available September 1 Located one block from Seasons Express/LIRR Asking $1450 Please call or text 929-225-3616

HELP WANTED Assistants needed for elementary school, afternoon session. email fivetownseducators@gmail.com Lev Chana Early Childhood Center, Hewlett, NY is looking to hire ASSISTANT TEACHERS FOR THE 2018-2019 SCHOOL YEAR. Candidates should have experience working with young children and be pursuing a degree in education or a related field.

Resumes to rgreen@halb.org

HAMASPIK IS SEEKING community Habilitation staff to work day hours, evenings and weekends in the Five Towns, Queens, Far Rockaway & long Island, with high functioning developmentally disabled adults, children and teens. Shabbos staff also needed for Cedarhurst, Far Rockaway & Lawrence. Drivers’ license a plus.

Mileage will be reimbursed.

Please Call Chava: 718-408-5144 for more details.

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HELP WANTED

SEEKING NURSERY ASSISTANT TEACHER Warm, Motivated and Organized Great Salary and Excellent opportunity for growth!

Please send resume with references to morahseek@gmail.com or call/text 347-766-2618

ASSISTANT TEACHERS CAHAL is seeking an Assistant Rebbe for M.S. boys yeshiva, secular studies Assistant for H.S. boys Mesivta, AM Assistant for girls and PM Assistant for boys elementary school classes.

Send resume to shira@cahal.org or call 516-295-3666.

Seeking full time PHYSICAL THERAPIST for Special Education school located in Brooklyn. Experienced preferred.

Competitive salary. Room for growth. resumes@yadyisroelschool.org SHULAMITH EARLY CHILDHOOD is looking to hire a full time teacher assistant for the current school year.

Please email resume to earlychildhood@shulamith.org

LOOKING TO HIRE DELIVERY DRIVER FOR 5 TOWNS DRY CLEANING ROUTE. PU on Tuesday AM in Far Rockaway and 5 Towns and Delivery Thurs Aft/Eve back to 5 towns.

Must have own car/SUV/Minivan.

Will use company van for deliveries. Must have clean driving license. Great opportunity for retired/semi retired person.

If Interested please contact Marc at 917-612-2300

5 TOWNS BOYS YESHIVA SEEKING Elem Gen Ed Teachers.

Excellent working environment and pay. Only lic/exp need apply.

Email resume to yeshivalooking@gmail.com Due to continued growth, THE YESHIVA OF SOUTH SHORE IS SEEKING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. Cert/Exp required.

Please forward resume to monika@yoss.org

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Seeking full time OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST for Special Education school located in Brooklyn. Experienced preferred.

Competitive salary. Room for growth. resumes@yadyisroelschool.org

Looking for shadow for elementary school girl, full day or half day option.

Call 516-399-0235

Seeking a dynamic SPEECH THERAPIST for special education school in Brooklyn. Collaborative environment and room for growth. resumes@yadyisroelschool.org LOW VOLTAGE WIRE INSTALLER for a Telecom company, responsibility are to run low voltage cable call 718-844-7404 email sales@communicationsteam.net Pugatch Realty Corp., in Woodmere, is looking to hire and train a select group of motivated Realtors. If you are looking to build a career in real estate, or looking to take your existing career to the next level, there is no better place to start that the #1 Real Estate Brokerage in the Five Towns…

Call Today (516) 295-3000 x 128.

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SERVICE COORDINATOR POSITION PART TIME FAR ROCKAWAY/QUEENS Great Work Environment Earn Upwards of 35,000 annually BA in Health or Human Services or 2 yrs of Service Coordination experience or a combination of experience & education. Prior experience in service coordination a plus. Far Rockaway resident preferred Challenge E. I. Center Email: hr@challenge-ei.com An EOE CATAPULT LEARNING Teachers, Title I Boro Park, Williamsburg and Flatbush Schools *College/Yeshiva Degree *Teaching experience required *Strong desire to help children learn *Small group instruction *Excellent organization skills Competitive salary Send resume to: Fax: (212) 480-3691 ~ Email: nyteachers@catapultlearning.com

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Money

IRS Loves “New” Math

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

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arenting is full of all sorts of milestones. Some of them are precious, like your child’s first steps, their first words, and their first day of school. Some of them are less welcome, like a first broken bone, or a visit from the law. But there’s one milestone that takes some parents by surprise, and that’s the day they realize they can’t help their kid with math homework anymore. This is especially jarring when the kids come home insisting their teacher taught them 2+2=5. The “new” math can’t be that different from the “old” math? It’s still just math, right?

Last week, a California lawsuit involving Monsanto Corporation’s flagship product, Roundup weed killer, reveals how the new math of last year’s tax law changes the rules. A San Francisco-area school groundskeeper named Dewayne Johnson, who sprayed up to 150 gallons of the pesticide at a time, sued Monsanto, claiming it gave him cancer. The jury agreed and awarded him $289 million, including $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages.

Unfor tunately for Johnson, he’s not going to get to keep anywhere near that whole $289 million.

He’s going to run into some new

math and wonder if maybe 2+2 doesn’t somehow equal just one.

Here’s the first problem: legal fees. Lots of attorneys go to law school because there’s no math. But there’s one calculation any ambulance chaser can do in his sleep, and that’s take a third off the top. (The next time you meet one at a party, throw out an 11-digit prime number,

million in punitives.

That leads to the second problem: taxes. Compensatory damages are tax-free, so Johnson keeps his full $23.4 million there. And under the “old math,” he could deduct the remaining $100 million in legal fees before paying tax on his $250 million in punitive damages. He’ll be in the top 37% tax rate, meaning

They get to collect tax on that $100 million in legal fees for the punitive damage twice: once from Johnson who wins them and again from the lawyer who earns them.

and be amazed how fast you get back a response. Try it, it’s fun!) We’ll assume for this discussion that Johnson’s lawyers take 40% in fees and expenses, or $115.6 million. That leaves him with $23.4 million net compensatory damages and $150

$55.5 million goes Uncle Sam. As a California resident, another $18 million goes to Sacramento. That leaves $95 million. That’s a lot less than $289 million, of course. But it’s still a pretty nice result, although we’re guessing Johnson would rather get

to “live” than “be rich.”

Now here’s where the “new math” upends those numbers. Last year’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminates the deduction for legal fees related to punitive damages. So now Johnson pays the same $100 million to his lawyers, but still pays tax on it. That launches his tax bill up to $122.5 million and leaves him with just $50.9 million — less than 18% of the original award!

Of course, the IRS is delighted.

They get to collect tax on that $100 million in legal fees for the punitive damages twice: once from Johnson who wins them and again from the lawyers who earn them. What’s not to like from their perspective?

Now finally, here’s the good part, at least for you. You don’t have to know the first thing about new math to pay less tax. Our tax planning service gives you a pesticide that eliminates wasted taxes, with no unpleasant side effects. So call us when you’re ready to save, and we’ll see how “green” your garden grows!

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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Which one of these children needs Chai Lifeline?

(Hint: They all do.)

Chai Lifeline is renowned for the care and love it bestows on children fighting cancer. But that’s only the beginning.

Chai Lifeline serves thousands of children with medical challenges that aren’t evident on the outside, everything from Crohns Disease to cystic fibrosis to heart disease and illnesses so rare only a handful of children have been diagnosed. And still, that’s only the beginning.

Chai Lifeline includes siblings and parents, too, with programs geared towards the entire family.

We care for more than 5,000 children and their families around the world and across the street.

Chances are, you know them. They just don’t look sick.

Whenever, wherever we’re needed, Chai Lifeline is there.

Chai Lifeline. Comprehensive, compassionate, professional assistance for families facing illness, loss or trauma.

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Regional Offices: Greater New York I Southeast I West Coast I Midwest I Mid-Atlantic I New Jersey I Canada I England I Israel I Belgium Hospital Support: Meals | Transportation Assistance | Hospital Visits | Respite Children’s Programs: Arts and Recreational Activities | After-school programs | Sibling Programs | Educational Assistance in Limudei Kodesh Counseling for patients and siblings | Camp Simcha/Camp Simcha Special Family Programs: Advocacy and Information | Retreats | Insurance Advocacy | Family Recreation | Family Counseling | Bereavement Services Community Programs: Project CHAI, support for schools, camps, and communities facing crisis or trauma.

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Life C ach

Can You Beat the System?

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

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t never fails.

You have a really big day tomorrow, and sleep eludes you!

You stay in bed turning and twisting but sleep just looms somewhere in the distance. And if that’s not challenging enough, once you do fall asleep, you usually wake up a bunch of times. You’re partnering with the alarm to stay on top of this wake-up job. Why’d you need to set that thing if your body is not willing to relinquish micromanaging wakeup?! You either give up and get up early or slip in and out of sleep till you hear an annoying buzz in the distance and wonder what that is!

Finally, you get up, shower, and figure you’ll get through the day, armed with whatever rest you’ve got under your belt.

But what happens? All the stuff that you woke up early for inevitably runs late or changes course.

A trip – your plane’s delayed.

A business meeting – their plane’s delayed.

Your wedding prep – the hairdresser’s plane is delayed.

A day with friends at an amusement park – the rain has not delayed.

You’re up, exhausted, and raring to go. And the world’s on a different

cycle.

Sleep: we spend our whole lives negotiating with it.

When we are little we fight it.

Because it ends the fun, connection, and activity. As teens we embrace it.

At least in the early hours of the day!

Asking a teen to get up early is just as difficult as asking a little child to go to bed early. It takes the same cajoling, begging or bribing. And even

that’s no fun! For them, you are that annoying buzzing that is heard somewhere in the distance. But, in this case, your kid didn’t set it and has no desire to hear it!

Then, that former teen has their first kid. And sleep becomes their greatest desire. Not food. Not entertainment. Not social interaction.

Not. Even. Money! They would trade anything they owned for a little ex-

They say nightmares happen when you’re sleeping. But for parents this one happens daily before and after their kids are supposed to sleep.

then, it doesn’t go that well.

They say nightmares happen when you’re sleeping. But for parents this one happens daily before and after their kids are supposed to sleep.

You are viewed by an adolescent as the human alarm clock. And

tra shut eye.

And suddenly that same parent who drove them crazy about sleep when they were teens is now the cavalry. If a parent shows up, they hand them the kid and run to pass out! The bed they so consummately avoided is now their best friend.

Often life goes around like this: you have a morning you can finally sleep late, and your body just won’t cooperate. Alternatively, you have to be up early, and you can just sense you’ve met your deepest most fulfilling sleep and wish it went on forever.

Still, there are those rare times everything comes together, and you get the rest you’ve been craving.

Somehow the stars are all aligned and you have the time, the place, and the relaxation – and you get an amazing sleep.

You’re a new person. The world’s your oyster. The universe is a bigger brighter place.

Ahhhh, what joy, what joy, and then night descends once more.

And… It never fails!

You have a really big day tomorrow, and sleep eludes you. You stay in bed turning and twisting but sleep just looms somewhere in the distance....

Sweet dreams!

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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