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in someone else’s game or are you someone who wants to be king of their own castle? It’s time to get into the game.

It’s incumbent on all of us to be informed and active citizens. Why live in a country where you’re dictated to by politicians’ whims? Why not be involved in the process? Why not be a part of your country’s – and your – future?

Voting takes just a few minutes, but those few minutes reverberate for generations.

On a local level, the politicians who govern our villages and cities and states are responsible for our quality of life on so many levels. Whether our garbage is taken care of, our streets are plowed after a storm, our potholes are filled, our taxes are increased, criminals roam the streets – these are all things that our representatives should be taking care of.

On a national level, well, I shouldn’t have to tell you how a president affects our daily lives.

The person sitting in the Oval Office is there to make alliances, implement policy, protect our lives. He’s our representative on the world stage and makes decisions that either raise or diminish the United States’ position on the world stage.

Election Day is (finally!) here. I, for one, am voting early this year. Whether you take advantage of early voting, or you head to the ballot box on Election Day, make sure that your voice is heard.

herever you’ve been living over the past few months – even if it’s under a rock – you know that November 3 is going to be a pivotal day in our nation’s history.

Some view politics like sports. They enjoy the back-and-forth, the intense dialogues about their candidates, rooting for their “players,” the passionate predictions, and the dreams of victory.

But politics is not a game. And many of us saw that and felt that this year.

We were – and are – at the mercy of our officials. We are told how many people can come into our stores, whether or not we can shop or eat in restaurants, if our children can go to school, how many people can come to our weddings, and if we can pray in our shuls or not. It’s a disconcerting feeling to not have the basic freedoms we have come to take for granted living in the United States. And it’s not a good feeling being controlled by those living in ivory towers in Albany or in Washington.

I’m a big proponent of voting. I vote in every election and urge my friends and family to do so as well.

I always thought that people refrain from voting because they don’t have time to vote on Election Day. Maybe they’re busy or they’re not feeling well or they have to run home to eat supper.

But just this week, I met three different people – on different occasions – who told me that they weren’t registered to vote. I was shocked. Voting is a right and a privilege. Why throw that beautiful gift away? Do you see yourself as a mere pawn

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll Community Happenings

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NEWS

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Global

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National

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Odd-but-True Stories

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Trump’s Record & Where Biden Stands on Those Issues

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The Path to 270 Electoral College Votes – and the Presidency

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The First 10 Days: A Prediction

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ISRAEL Israel News

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World Builders

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JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein on the Parsha

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Same Place, Worlds Apart by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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Parsha Ponderings

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PEOPLE The Wandering Jew

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TJH Speaks with Congresswoman Kathleen Rice

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TJH Speaks with Doug Tuman, Candidate for Congress

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TJH Speaks with Joann Ariola, Candidate for Queens Borough President

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Heroes with Medals of Courage by Avi Heiligman

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HEALTH & FITNESS Getting to Who You Are by Dr. 92 Deb Hirschhorn

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Brain Boosters, Part I by Cindy Weinberger MS, RD 94 A Rich Learning Environment by 96 Sara Rayvych

Dear Editor, I read with interest your article about the growing Jewish population of Monaco. However, I was surprised to learn that Monaco is an island off the coast of France. The last time I was there, it was still attached to the mainland. Perhaps you should check the facts before going to print?

Judy Frankel Dear Editor, I would like to respond to Dr. Jeffrey Galler’s response on Navidaters.

The teacher is not guilty of criminal misconduct. If the parents were addressing the issue, then the child is considered to be safe in their parents’ care, and there is no legal obligation on a mandated reported to involve child welfare.

Additionally, the number listed is for the State Central Registry (SCR) which is the NY State child welfare hotline, not ACS. It is also the regular number, not the number for mandated reporters. The number for mandated reporters to call if they suspect a child is being abused or neglected is 1 (800) 635-1522.

L.Z. Dear Editor, I have recently seen and heard a certain song played at rallies for the President, called “The YMCA song.”

I was not really familiar with it, but

the title aroused my curiosity, due to the religious background of the organization from which it comes.

The other day, however, after I saw and heard that same song played and danced to heartily at rallies of Jews for Trump on Sunday, I wondered even more about it, and did some research to try to determine its fitness for those who share my faith.

What I found makes me doubt it.

In addition to its association with a different faith, it also has an association with a movement diametrically at odds with the Sinai-based Biblical morality which we hold so dear.

A look at the Wikipedia entry for YMCA song shows that clearly. While I am not officially ordained as a rabbi, it seems to me to be quite clearly not fitting for us, and something that should be avoided.

On the other hand, I also heard some quite different songs played in the same context as well, such as “Hashem melech, Hashem malach, Hashem yimloch leolam vaed,” “Thank you Hashem,” along with others. What a difference, what a pleasure to hear uplifting songs that resonate with our souls.

In the merit of appropriate music, may HKB”H give us more reasons to sing.

Yours truly, Observant Jew Continued on page 10

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Aaah, Sleep! by Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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HUMOR Centerfold 52 POLITICAL CROSSFIRE Notable Quotes

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How to Stop a War in the Caucasus by David Ignatius

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Trump Cleaned Biden’s Clock on Race by Marc A. Thiessen

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Dear Editor, I don’t think your readers need me to say this, but we owe hakoras hatov to Trump for what he has done for our community. He pardoned several frum Yidden and was certainly a shliach min haShamayim to do that.

Even more importantly, he singlehandedly changed Israel’s standing on the world stage through moving the U.S. Embassy and peace deals.

If you think that your vote in New York doesn’t count, it does. If Trump wins, it will be helpful politically for him to win or come close in the popular vote. Your vote will help him rack up a popular vote victory.

Voting is already underway, so please, please take time over the next few days to go vote.

Sincerely, Chava H. Dear Editor, I know that we Jews don’t like accusing people of anti-Semitism because – ironically – the very anti-Semites make it very clear that if we accuse them of that, they will snuff us out. So, if I accuse Cuomo and his ilk of anti-Semitism, you probably won’t print this letter.

So here is what I’ll say: if you don’t go vote against Cuomo’s Democratic Party next week, don’t cry when he shuts down your shul, school, or business.

I am not talking about the national election. Actually, the truth is that the national election has a lot less of an impact on your life than local elections. It is your local state senators who passed “bail reform,� which essentially means that if someone robs your house and is apprehended, he is back on the street that very same day. It is your local officials who condone protests but vilify you for going to shul. It is your local officials who have control over shutting down your business.

If Cuomo loses control of the Assembly or the State Senate, there will be a check on his power.

It is absolutely imperative that every single person go vote and vote REPUBLICAN down the line. (You can be a registered Democrat and still vote Republican down the line; party affiliation is only relevant in primaries, not general elections.)

We cry and moan. Here is your chance to act. Let’s change the balance of power in Albany!

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A new study has found that Europe’s Jewish population is vanishing, with the total number of Jews on the continent falling to a low not seen for almost 1,000 years.

The findings are the result of a study commissioned by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), which hired demographers Prof.

Sergio Della Pergola and Dr. Daniel Staetsky to look at how many Jews remain in Europe. To reach their conclusions, the two academics studied population records and membership data in Jewish communities in Europe, the United Kingdom, Turkey, and Russia.

According to the study, only 1.3 million Jews currently reside in Europe, a 60% drop over the past 50 years and the lowest number in 1,000 years. While 88% of world Jewry lived in Europe by the end of the 19th century, today the number has dwindled to 9% in what the demographers say is an “unprecedented” decrease.

The decline is particularly dramatic in France, which long was home to Europe’s largest Jewish population. Rising anti-Semitism and terrorism in the country have led 51,000 Jews to immigrate to Israel since 2000, leading France to be overtaken by Canada as home to the world’s second-largest Diaspora population.

“Jews in Europe had grown to constitute 83 percent of world Jewry in 1900. They now account for merely 9 percent of the total number of Jews worldwide,” wrote the authors. “The proportion of Jews residing in Europe [in 2020] is about the same as it was at the time of the first Jewish global population account conducted

by Benjamin of Tudela, a Jewish medieval traveler, in 1170.”

The researchers listed a number of factors to explain the drop-off, including the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust.

Another reason cited is the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, which resulted in 1.5 million Jews immigrating to Israel and the United States.

Adding to the continent’s demographic downfall is the soaring intermarriage rate in western European countries such as Britain and the UK. With assimilation in the aforementioned states now above 50%, hundreds of thousands of Jews have been lost in what Jewish leaders call a “silent” or “second Holocaust.”

Samsung Group Titan Dies

Lee Kun-hee, the South Korean industrialist who headed Samsung Group, died this week at the age of 78.

Born under the Japanese occupation of Korea, Lee inherited Samsung after his father’s death in 1987.

Samsung was then a small company founded by the older Lee in order to export dried fish and fruit.

Over the next three decades, Lee transformed Samsung from a manufacturer of low-quality goods to one of the world’s biggest tech firms. Lee was known for his radical approach in transforming Samsung, famously telling employees, “Let’s change everything except our wives and kids.”

After deciding that the company’s mobile phone offerings were inferior in 1993, he ordered Samsung to burn its entire stock, setting 150,000 handsets ablaze. Lee would also order products made by leading competitors and put them on display at Samsung headquarters, telling subordinates that he “wanted our employees to see how other companies think.”

Lee’s unorthodox methods paid off; by 2014, Samsung had overtaken Apple to become the biggest maker of smartphones and computer chips.

Lee’s business success made Lee South Korea’s richest man, with a net worth of $21 billion. However, he of-

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sad despite being a Sunni Muslim, a stream of Islam that is frequently at odds with Assad. He played a pivotal role in hammering out agreements between warring separatists throughout Syria and the central government in Damascus.

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Al-Afyouni’s high stature and the respect he was afforded by all sectors of Syria’s fractured society enabled him to be a trusted mediator in the aforementioned negotiations. After marathon talks in 2016, Al-Afyouni successfully brokered a deal that saw thousands of rebels leave the city of Darayya in exchange for legal immunity.

In a ceremony celebrating the agreement, Al-Afyouni called on all Syrians to unite and end the devastating civil war that has torn apart the country. The cleric said in a nationally televised speech that the successful negotiations between the rebels and the regime in Darayyah “are living proof for all Syrians that the only option available to you is reconciliation and abandoning fighting.”

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ten found himself on the wrong side of the law, including being convicted of bribing former President Roh Taewoo.

In 2008, the reclusive tycoon was forced to resign as Samsung chairman after being indicted for tax evasion and embezzlement. He was later sentenced to three years behind bars but was pardoned in 2009. He returned to Samsung in 2010 and remained titular chairman until his death.

Damascus Mufti Killed Sheikh Adnan Al-Afyouni, the Mufti of Damascus and one of Syria’s most senior Islamic officials, was killed after an explosive device placed under his car detonated.

Photos of the blast scene showed his black sedan completely destroyed by the bomb and the resulting con-

flagration. It is not clear who was responsible for the assassination or why they wanted the mufti killed.

The cleric was laid to rest last Friday in a funeral procession attended by thousands at the famed Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. The funeral was attended by a representative of President Bashar Al-Assad and Minister of Endowments, Muhammad Abdul Sattar Al-Sayed.

Al-Afyouni was considered close to Syrian President Bashar al-As-

Mass Protests in Thailand

Tens of thousands of demonstrators flooded Bangkok on Sunday after Prime Minister Prayuth ChanOcha refused to step down.

The protests took place in Bangkok’s central shopping district and were the first demonstrations since Prayuth removed the emergency measures banning demonstrations on October 15. During the rally, speakers called on Prayuth to step down and for Thailand to adopt a more democratic constitution.

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“If he doesn’t resign, then we must come out to ask him to quit in a peaceful way,” said rally leader Jatupat “Pai” Boonpattararaksa.

The protests calling on Prime Minister Prayuth to step down first exploded over the summer, leading the unpopular leader to pass emergency regulations banning demonstrations. Protesters allege that Prayuth, a former army chief of staff who led a coup in 2014, was illegitimately elected last year because laws had been changed to favor a pro-military party.

The premier has refused to resign despite the mounting protests and has committed to only discussing the matter in parliament.

“The only way to a lasting solution for all sides that is fair for those on the streets as well as for the many millions who choose not to go on the streets is to discuss and resolve these differences through the parliamentary process,” said Prayuth.

Other demands on behalf of the protesters include reforming the Thai monarchy to limit its power and immunity from the law. The demand is virtually unprecedented and breaks a longtime taboo against criticizing the royal family.

Public anger against the monarchy’s power has increased due to the provocative behavior of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who is currently widely unpopular due to the explosion of his personal wealth since taking over for his father. The king has also come under withering criticism for intervening in Thai political affairs, breaking tradition that kept the royal family out of governmental matters.

“Such open criticism of Thailand’s monarch by non-elites at a public place within Thailand with the police simply standing by is the first of its kind in Thai history,” noted Paul Rogers, a southeast Asia expert who teaches at Thailand’s Naresuan University.

A Real-Life James Bond Could James Bond have been a real spy all along?

While the famed British secret agent with the 007 code name remains strictly the stuff of Hollywood, recently declassified files

turned up a real-life spy with the iconic name.

The find was discovered by a historian sifting through mountains of declassified Cold War-era documents in Warsaw. While rummaging through the outdated files, he found evidence of an English diplomat named James Bond who was posted to the Polish capital in 1964.

Once there, Bond successfully evaded the KGB agents who were trailing him. Later, he was caught snooping around Soviet military bases on the border with Russia without a convincing explanation of what he was doing there.

Bond’s counterintelligence prowess, and the fact that British MI6 officers have long posed as diplomats, has led people to suspect that the embassy secretary was, in fact, a secret agent.

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Kruk, who directs Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance. “He was a spy, doing spying things.”

Bond’s widow, Janette Bond, told the press that she was unaware if her deceased husband was involved in espionage. In an interview with Fox News, she recalled helping James give his tails the slip by leaving parties with the wrong man, allowing him to escape out the back window.

“If it didn’t work, it was aborted,” she recalled.

The UK’s MI6 has refused to comment on the matter. However, a former senior official in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service said that the mysterious Bond was likely an innocent diplomat used as a decoy by experienced intelligence officers.

Rather than being a secret agent like his famous namesake, Bond had probably been sent to scope out Soviet military installations to divert KGB agents from more sensitive operations. “They were sending him to make him some kind of bait. To make counterintelligence chase him instead of other persons,” said Filip Hagenbeck, who formerly commanded the MI6’s Counterintelligence Branch Ten. “It was a game which was played, you know?”

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UN Anti-Nuke Treaty Ratified

An international treaty banning the use of nuclear weapons will now come into force after getting the necessary 50 countries to ratify the agreement.

The milestone was reached on Saturday when Honduras became the 50th UN member state to approve the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). As per the UN’s bylaws, international treaties need at least 50 countries to ratify it for it to become law.

The TPNW will now take effect within the next 90 days. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed the news, calling “the culmination of a worldwide movement to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any

use of nuclear weapons.”

Guterres added that the treaty “represents a meaningful commitment towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons, which remains the highest disarmament priority of the United Nations.”

The treaty, which bans the manufacture and usage of nuclear weapons, had been passed in 2017 with the approval of 122 countries. However, it has been strongly opposed by virtually all of the world nuclear powers, including the U.S., UK, Russia, China, and India.

The United States had fired off missives to all of the Treaty’s signatories imploring them to reverse the “strategic error” and reminding them that the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France “stand unified in our opposition to the potential repercussions.”

Japan, which remains the only country to ever be the recipient of a nuclear attack, voted against the treaty out of consideration of its deep security ties with the U.S. The decision not to ratify the treaty was controversial in Japan, which still bears the scars of the two atomic bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

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Despite the opposition of the world’s major powers, proponents of the treaty hailed its ratification as an important step in preventing the future use of the terrifying weapons.

“This moment has been 75 years coming since the horrific attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the founding of the UN, which made nuclear disarmament a cornerstone,” said Beatrice Fihn, who directs the Nobel Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. “The 50 countries that ratify this Treaty are showing true leadership in setting a new international norm that nuclear weapons are not just immoral but illegal.”

put an end to the “violence, killings, looting and destruction of property” on Sunday. In a meeting with Nigerian police commanders, Adamu said that “enough is enough” and ordered officers to “use all legitimate means to halt a further slide into lawlessness.”

Violence Intensifies in Nigeria

Looting continued unabated throughout Nigeria on Sunday, with shops and malls being torched in Lagos, the country’s largest city.

Homes and businesses belonging to prominent lawmakers were attacked while the city’s largest prison was set ablaze.

The looting spread to the central city of Jos, followed by the states of Adama and Taraba. In the city of Bukurum, a large market was

Nigeria’s police chief has ordered the full mobilization of the country’s law enforcement units in order to crack down on rampant rioting and looting.

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destroyed, with looters making off with food and electronics.

The looting comes after two weeks of demonstrations across the country deteriorated into violence and anarchy, At least 70 people have been killed since tens of thousands of Nigerians took to the streets on October 7 to protest what they say is the consistent violence meted out by the police’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS. The unit is accused of engaging in a slew of illegal activities, including extrajudicial killings, kidnapping, and extortion.

The protests have continued despite President Buhari ordering the police unit shuttered, with demonstrators demanding additional reforms in Nigeria’s government and the legal system. Last Tuesday, the African country was rocked when police and the military killed 12 unarmed citizens in the city of Lagos.

The protests turned violent after the shootings, with the looting spreading from Lagos to cities throughout the African country. The disturbances continued despite a 24-hour curfew the government imposed in an effort to curb the rioting.

Mashup in Malaysia?

Malaysia’s King Sultan Abdullah refused a request by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to implement a state of emergency in order to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

The King explained his refusal by saying that he did not see the need for embarking on such a disruptive measure.

“Al-Sultan Abdullah is of the opinion that there is no need at the moment for His Majesty to declare an emergency in the country or in any part of the country of Malaysia,” said the palace. “His Majesty is confident in the ability of the government under the leadership of the prime minister to continue to implement policies and enforcement efforts to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The King’s opposition is another blow for Muhyiddin’s bid to remain in power, as the government is slated to vote on the 2021 budget next month.

With only a razor-thin minority in parliament and a coalition marked by rampant division and infighting, the budget’s passage is not guaranteed.

Should it fail to pass, the government would automatically dissolve and new elections would be triggered. The State of Emergency would have delayed the vote, granting Muhyiddin more time to marshal support. With the King’s refusal to approve the move, Muhyiddin faces the prospect of being ousted by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim,

Indian Child Labor Rises

Children’s rights activists are worrying that the harsh economic fallout caused by the coronavirus in India is making millions of children vulnerable to child trafficking.

India has long had a problem with child labor. Despite laws prohibiting employing children under the age of 14, the Indian government found in 2010 that upwards of 33 million children are illegally employed, often in dangerous industries such as construction and mining.

The prevalence of underage labor has resulted in a flourishing child trafficking industry, in which minors are fooled or forced to enter the workforce. Traffickers bait children with false promises of the extraordinary sums they could earn if they leave school, often without the knowledge of their parents. The children are then sold to unscrupulous labor managers, who force them to work long hours for low pay.

In recent years, India has cracked down on child labor, raiding factories and markets which were suspected of employing children under the age of 18. In 2017, the government also launched the Platform for Effective Enforcement for No Child Labor, escalating the battle against child traffickers and raising the penalties hand-

ed out to those found guilty.

Then came the coronavirus. All of India’s 1.3 billion people had been locked down since the pandemic hit in March, resulting in hundreds of thousands of businesses going bankrupt.

With schools remaining closed, millions of children are now being forced by their parents to work in order to help their family make ends meet.

With the Indian economy teetering into a recession, children’s rights activists are warning that all of the recent progress in battling child labor is likely to be reversed. According to Pramila Kumari, who heads Bihar’s Commission for Protection of Child Rights, complaints of child trafficking have surged since the onset of the pandemic. The most egregious violations are often in poor rural areas in outlying states such as Jharkhand or Bihar.

A study by Satyarthi’s Children’s Foundation found that 21% of respondents who reside in 5 poverty-stricken states would consider sending their children to work. Another worrying sign is the surge of children rescued by authorities from traffickers, with 1,127 minors taken in by police since April alone.

“Now, post the lockdown, factories are reopening and the migrant labor is returning [and] what we are seeing is that children are coming with them,” noted Shiv Narayan, a police officer responsible for the industrialized state of Jaipur.

Senior Al-Qaeda Leader Killed

Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a high ranking al-Qaeda terrorist on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, was killed in a raid by Afghani special forces last week.

Al-Masri, an Egyptian who was al-Qaeda’s second-in-command in India, was located in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province. He was killed in the resulting shoot-out with security forces while his personal assistant was taken into custody.

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Chris Miller, the commander of the U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center, confirmed that the notorious terror leader was killed. According to Miller, his “removal…from the battlefield is a major setback to a terrorist organization that is consistently experiencing strategic losses facilitated by the United States and its partners.”

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of the terrorist organization.” Afghanistan’s Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi said on Sunday that Al-Masri had been responsible for nurturing the relationship between al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

Al-Masri had been on the FBI’s Most Wanted List ever since a U.S. court charged him in 2018 with providing support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization. His death came on the 19th anniversary of the

U.S. invasion of the war-torn country following the 9/11 terror attacks.

At the time, al-Qaeda was viewed as the world’s most fearsome and dangerous terror organization. The group has since splintered following battles with ISIS and almost two decades of U.S. counterterror efforts in Afghanistan. Last month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo estimated that only 200 al-Qaeda members remain in Afghanistan.

Sudan to Normalize Relations

Following months of negotiations with the United States, Sudan announced after it will embark on a process that will end with full normalization between the African Arab country and Israel.

Sudan has long been an enemy of Israel, having fought the Jewish State in 1948 and later holding Khartoum’s famous “3 No’s” summit in 1967, vowing to never recognize Zionism. But after President Trump agreed to remove Sudan from the terror-supporting blacklist, Prime Minister Abdullah Hamduk dropped his opposition to the deal.

The official announcement occurred on Friday following a phone call between President Trump, Sudanese interim council chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The three countries said in a joint statement that Khartoum “agreed to the normalization of relations between Sudan and Israel and to end the state of belligerence between their nations” and “agreed to begin economic and trade relations, with an initial focus on agriculture”.

“The leaders also agreed that delegations will meet in the coming weeks to negotiate agreements of cooperation in those areas as well as in agriculture, technology, aviation, migration issues, and other areas for the benefit of the two peoples.

The leaders also resolved to work together to build a better future and advance the cause of peace in the region,” added the statement.

The decision is not final, however, until Sudan’s parliament will ratify future agreement with the Jew-

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“This is an agreement to normalize; it is not yet normalization,” acting Foreign Minister Omar Gamereldin clarified. “We must wait for Sudan’s democratic institutions to be functional, including the legislative council, so we can complete the ratification of this step so it can become, in reality, normalization.”

He added, “The government cannot unilaterally complete the process of normalization because the government is the Sovereign Council, the Council of Ministers and the Legislative Council.”

Sudan’s decision to normalize its ties with Israel comes after Sudan committed to compensate American victims of terrorism. The United States had removed the African country from the list of terror-supporting countries despite Khartoum’s initial attempt to keep the two issues separate.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who played a key role in hammering out the agreement, said that making peace with Israel and removing Sudan from the list “both have one thing in common: They made sense

for the Sudanese people.” He added that Sudan “did all the things that they needed to do.”

The Palestinians condemned the move, with the Palestinian Authority (PA) calling it a “serious stab in the back of the Palestinian and Sudanese people.” Opposition in Sudan also blasted any attempt to “normalize the Zionist enemy,” asserting that it would jeopardize the transitional government currently ruling the country.

The National Ummah Party, the Sudanese Baath Party, and the Popular Congress Party, three of Sudan’s largest factions, put out a joint statement vowing to oppose any peace agreement with Israel. Scattered demonstrations also broke out in Khartoum on Friday against normalization, with protesters burning Israeli and U.S. flags.

“This statement contradicts the Sudanese national law…and contributes to the elimination of the peace project in the Middle East and to preparing for the ignition of a new war,” said former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi.

F-35 Fallout

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz publicly bickered after Israel said that it wouldn’t stop the United States from selling the F-35 fighter jet to the United Arab Emirates.

Widely seen as the best air-toground fighter jet in the world, the F-35 joint strike fighter boasts advanced avionics and unprecedented stealth capabilities. Israel had agreed to pay its exorbitant price tag in 2010 after the U.S. promised not to sell it to any of its neighbors.

But after the UAE and Israel signed a peace deal in September, Abu Dhabi submitted a formal request to purchase the cutting-edge military hardware. Israel was thought to oppose the sale due to fear that its advanced capabilities would threaten its military edge.

Upon meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in Washington a few days prior, Gantz was informed that the Trump administration would allow such a sale to go forward. In return, the U.S. promised to compensate Israel with “advanced weapons systems that will significantly upgrade its military capabilities, fortify Israel’s security and regional military superiority, and preserve its qualitative military edge in the coming decades.”

But after news broke that Israel would not lobby the U.S. against selling the F-35 to the UAE, Gantz released a statement saying that the defense establishment had not had any say in the matter. He also accused Netanyahu of okaying the deal in backchannel talks with the U.S. that he conducted without informing the government.

According to Gantz, the negotiations were “known to Israeli officials who were part of the (normalization) negotiations, but were hidden from the defense establishment, who were not involved.”

“As defense minister, I state that the defense establishment did not know about and was not told by the

prime minister about the negotiations for the supply of high-quality weapons systems to the United Arab Emirates,” tweeted Gantz.

“If the defense establishment had been given this information, that would have enabled the correct and responsible management of the process,” he added.

Gantz went on to say that he was “proud of our quick and fundamental work that led to the agreement I signed on Thursday with the U.S. defense secretary, which will ensure the qualitative edge of Israel’s defense system and of the IDF for decades to come.”

Netanyahu responded by calling the statements “baseless,” saying in a Saturday evening press conference that Israel had never agreed to withdrawing its objections to the F-35 sale in exchange for peace with the UAE. Following Netanyahu’s initial public opposition to the F-35 deal back in August, senior UAE officials scuttled a meeting with their Israeli counterparts to express their displeasure. Reportedly, the UAE had believed Netanyahu wouldn’t ask Congress to vote against selling it F-35s, a belief that has now been proven to be correct.

Israel to Regulate FB and Twitter?

A new bill would severely limit the power that Facebook and Twitter have to censor content on political grounds.

The bill, which was submitted by Likud MK Amit Halevi on Sunday, would prohibit social media companies from interfering with content that does not violate the law. If passed, it would be the first time that the Jewish State regulated tech giants.

The legislation would divide social media companies into two categories. Tech giants that do not interfere with user content would be defined as “Exempt Social Media Companies” and would continue to enjoy immunity from lawsuits. The

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only material these companies would be allowed to remove are posts related to pedophilia, drug use, murder, and racism.

However, companies that censor material on arbitrary grounds would be classified as “Limited Social Media Companies.” Under the law, social media companies that fall into the latter category would be obligated to publish a detailed document concerning their policies for taking down political content.

In addition, they would be forced to respond to user requests within 48 hours and would need to publish a report every four months summarizing their activities. Should Facebook or Twitter decide to delete content that does not violate the law, it would need to send the user a report explaining the reasoning behind it.

Any decision to delete material or accounts that does not conform to its policies would result in an automatic NIS 25,000 fine.

The bill, which has a high likelihood of passing, comes following years of frustration over Twitter’s and Facebook’s frequent censorship of right-wing Israelis. Under the tech giants’ amorphous “community standards,” thousands of leading political pundits and even lawmakers have had their posts banned or deleted, and their accounts shut down.

While the issue had been controversial for some time, it received increased attention earlier this month after Facebook shut down the account belonging to Shiboleth, Israel’s leading conservative publishing house. The decision to shutter Shiboleth’s account, which came at the height of a fundraising campaign, resulted in an uproar and led Halevi and other Likud lawmakers to threaten Facebook with legal action.

“The bill I submitted will not allow the technology giants to continue to grab the rope at both ends.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and others will have to decide whether the responsibility for published material is solely on the users and they do not operate censorship and blocking mechanisms,” said Halevi on Sunday.

Pointing to a recent executive order by President Donald Trump that exposed Facebook and Twitter to legal action after the latter censored his tweets, Halevi said that it was inconceivable that tech giants could decide to censor political opinions held by millions of Israelis.

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signed a presidential decree in exactly this spirit, and he is waiting for the Senate for it to be approved,” Halevi said. “I hope that this ‘Trump plan’ will be approved in the Knesset, with wall-to-wall consent, even before the Senate.”

Who’s Next?

Are Oman and Saudi Arabia next on the list of Arab countries that will normalize relations with the Jewish State?

According to Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, Oman is expected to imminently announce that it will establish full diplomatic ties with Israel. In a briefing he granted Israel’s Channel 12, the spymaster estimated that the picturesque Gulf State is in advanced stages to follow the UAE, Bahrain, and now Sudan in normalizing its ties with Israel.

Oman, which issued a statement a month ago in support of Israel’s normalization with the United Arab Emirates, has long been eyed as a potential ally by Israeli officials.

While Oman has never recognized Israel’s right to exist, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have both paid public visits to Muskat in the past, with the most recent being in 2018.

However, Israel’s hopes of establishing diplomatic relations with Oman were dashed when Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said passed away suddenly in late 2019. With Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said replacing Qaboos on the throne in January, it was seen as unlikely that he would risk public anger by inking a peace deal with Israel, potentially jeopardizing his regime so soon after taking power.

Cohen also said that Saudi Arabia is eyeing establishing ties with Israel as well but would wait until after the U.S. presidential election in November. Should President Trump prevail, Riyadh would likely recognize Israel’s right to exist, while the chances of this happening would

drop significantly should Joe Biden emerge victorious.

“They seem to be waiting for the U.S. election, to give a ‘gift’ to the president-elect,” said Cohen.

Trump has been pressuring Saudi Arabia to establish relations with Israel, predicting that Riyadh would be one of five Arab countries that would recognize Israel before the year is over. “We have at least five that want to come in,” Trump said.

“We expect Saudi Arabia will be one of those countries.”

While Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has been promoting normalization, his father, King Salman, has ruled it out until the establishment of a Palestinian State. As the de-facto leader of the coalition of pragmatic Sunni states, Saudi Arabia would dramatically reshape the Middle East should it indeed follow the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan in exchanging ambassadors with Israel.

The Fight for the F-22

Israel hopes that the U.S. will sell it the F-22 Raptor as compensation for allowing the United Arab Emirates to purchase the F-35 fighter jet.

Widely seen as the most advanced fighter jet in the world, the F-22 Raptor surpasses the F-35 in stealth, range, and weaponry. Its technology that renders it invisible to radar is so secret that federal law explicitly prohibits the U.S. from exporting the F-22 to foreign governments.

Israel, along with many other countries, has long hoped that a friendly U.S. administration would agree to amend the aforementioned law and provide it with the fifth-generation fighter. With Washington readying to sell the F-35 to Arab states such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and perhaps Qatar, Israel is asking the Pentagon for the Raptor in order to maintain its military edge.

The effort to obtain the F-22 would likely be fraught with chal-

lenges. Not only would it involve convincing Congress to scrap the law banning exports of the jet, manufacturer Lockheed Martin would need to restart its production line.

The American aerospace giant had shuttered its F-22 factories in 2012 to make room for the F-35 after the Pentagon said that it would stop producing the stealth aircraft.

However, Jerusalem expects that the Trump administration would pull out all the stops to ensure that the IDF is not surpassed technologically by its neighbors. By law, the U.S. is obligated to maintain the Qualitative Military Edge Israel has over Arab states and must consult with it before embarking on weapons deals in the Middle East.

Israeli defense officials have grown increasingly worried that the recent normalization agreements with the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan are a prelude to a regional arms race.

The UAE has already filed a request to purchase the F-35, which is likely to be approved, along with Qatar and potentially Saudi Arabia.

While Israel told the U.S. this past Saturday that it would not oppose the F-35 deal to the UAE, it is pressuring Washington to provide the Jewish State with cutting-edge weaponry as compensation. As part of the talks, Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Defense Secretary Mark Esper last week at the Pentagon where he informed his U.S. counterpart of the list of weapons Israel is requesting.

Apart from the F-22, Israel is hoping to be given the V-22 Osprey, a platform that takes off like a helicopter but flies like an airplane and is used for inserting commandos behind enemy lines. Another weapon on Israel’s wish list is the Sikorsky-Lockheed Martin’s CH53K helicopter, along with increasing the amount of military aid it gets annually.

“Our qualitative advantage is narrowing with respect to planes, drones, armament, and air defense systems,” a senior defense official told Haaretz. “The pace of change in the Middle East is high. It’s a different Middle East from what it was in the last decade, and many countries that are not in direct conflict with Israel are investing huge sums to build some of the most advanced air forces and air defense systems in the world.”

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IDF 5-Day Drill

The IDF kicked off a mammoth five-day drill this past Sunday that mimicked all-out war in Lebanon.

Titled “Lethal Arrow,” the exercise simulated Israel fighting a multifront war in the north, with Iranian-backed proxy militias showering the country with missiles from Lebanon and Syria. The drill was the largest of the year and featured thousands of soldiers from branches all across the military, including cyber, intelligence, the air force, the navy, and ground forces.

“Headquarters, conscripted troops and reservist forces are taking part in the exercise, alongside the air force, navy and ground forces, as well as the intelligence, technology and logistics, teleprocessing and cyber defense directorates,” the IDF said.

Preparations for the exercise saw every IDF commander from the rank of major in both the standing army and the reserves summoned to a twoday seminar dedicated to hammering home the fundamentals of ground combat. In a talk with the assorted officers, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi said that the next round of hostilities with Hezbollah would see the ground forces push deep into Lebanon and Syria instead of the IDF relying only on the air force.

“It is impossible to bring about an achievement against the enemy without maneuvering, without a massive influx of forces and without your own forces,” said Kochavi.

The IDF had been planning for the exercise for over a year but was forced to implement widespread changes due to the unforeseen coronavirus.

Safety measures at the drill this week included mandating that reservists be divided into “capsules” that prevented them from accessing any part of the base other than their barracks, holding briefings outdoors, and tapping military police to enforce mask-wearing.

Kochavi had butted heads with Health Ministry staff in the weeks leading up to Lethal Arrow. While the aforementioned ministry demanded that the drill be drastically scaled back or even scrapped altogether, Kochavi argued that the lack of training

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The IDF had canceled the majority of training exercises this past year due to the coronavirus and a budgetary shortfall, making Lethal Arrow particularly important.

Peace with Lebanon?

Could a peace deal between Israel and Lebanon be in the cards?

This week, Defense Minister Benny Gantz signaled optimism about the prospect of an eventual peace deal between Israel and its neighbor to the north, as the two countries hold rare indirect talks on demarcating their maritime border.

Gantz made the comments while visiting a large-scale military exercise in Israel’s north meant to simulate a war with Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, an Iran proxy sworn to Israel’s destruction that plays a major role in Lebanese politics.

“I also hear positive voices in Lebanon that are even talking about peace with Israel, who are implementing processes with us like shaping the maritime border,” Gantz was quoted as saying in a statement from his office.

His comments come after the daughter of Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said she was open to peace with Israel, albeit under certain conditions.

Gantz’s words came a day before representatives from Israel and Lebanon, which are still technically at war, were set to meet in southern Lebanon for rare talks aimed at resolving a maritime border dispute to allow for oil and gas exploration in the area.

Lebanon has stressed that the talks are strictly technical and are not aimed at normalization with Israel, which has likewise downplayed the significance of the negotiations, though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month they could eventually yield a peace agreement.

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about border issues. UNIFIL head Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col said the sides had made progress in de-escalating tensions.

Lebanon and Israel had a shortlived peace agreement in 1983, though it was with a government in Beirut that had been propped up by Israeli forces who invaded Lebanon a year earlier.

Hezbollah, which is a power player in the unstable world of Lebanese politics, has denounced the recent Gulf states’ treaties with Israel, though Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Saad Hariri is backed by Saudi Arabia, which has quietly supported the Gulf’s opening toward Israel.

did as owners of Purdue.

“Purdue deeply regrets and accepts responsibility for the misconduct detailed by the Department of Justice,” said Purdue Chairman Steve Miller. “Purdue today is a very different company. We have made significant changes to our leadership, operations, governance, and oversight.”

While making billions from sales of OxyContin, Purdue has been bankrupted by lawsuits for failing to prevent widespread abuse of the popular opioid. The drug fueled a deadly opioid epidemic that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths over the past few years, with 70,000 Americans dying from overdoses in 2018 alone.

“Purdue Pharma actively thwarted the United States’ efforts to ensure compliance and prevent diversion,” said DEA Assistant Administrator Tim McDermott. “The devastating ripple effect of Purdue’s actions left lives lost and others addicted.”

OxyContin Maker Pleads Guilty

Rabbis Support Trump

Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, will plead guilty over its role in America’s opioid epidemic.

As part of the settlement, Purdue will plead guilty to three felony counts and pay a $3.5 billion fine. The company will also pay an additional $2 billion in profits it made from the drug along with another $2.8 billion in civil liabilities.

Overall, Purdue Pharma will pay $8 billion to fund a bevy of opioid recovery programs. With the company having filed for bankruptcy last year, it doesn’t have the money to pay such a large sum. Instead, it will be broken up to form a “public benefit company” whose profits will go to combating opioid abuse.

The Department of Justice also reached a separate $225 million settlement with the Sackler family, a well-known Jewish American dynasty that owned Purdue. However, while the deal settles charges of personal liability, it does not protect the family from further prosecution from the federal government for actions they

President Donald Trump tweeted his thanks to a group of leading Orthodox rabbis who seemingly endorsed his reelection effort.

Mishpacha, a popular Orthodox weekly, had published last week what appeared to be a public letter by 13 senior rabbis and community leaders calling on their followers to vote for Trump in next week’s election. In the missive, the rabbis wrote of their “deepest gratitude to you, Mr. President, especially in light of your recent declaration that houses of worship should be considered ‘essential.’

“You have given a powerful voice to what all good people know beyond any doubt: that now, more than ever, we must turn to Al-mighty G-d, fortifying our faith and staying true to our values in the face of these current tribulations,” the letter added.

A slew of rabbinic luminaries signed the letter, including the Satmar Rebbe in Kiryas Joel, New York, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum; the Satmar Rebbe from Brooklyn, Rabbi Zalman

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Teitelbaum; the Vizhnitz Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Hager; and the Bobov Rebbe, Rabbi Benzion Halberstam.

Trump later expressed his appreciation, tweeting “thank you rabbis” on Sunday afternoon. However, the letter had not been issued recently but in June, after the president ordered houses of worship be designated “essential.”

The misunderstanding notwithstanding, Trump is thought to enjoy overwhelming support within the Orthodox community. Apart from his insistence that synagogues be declared essential, the president’s strong support for Israel and his pardon of Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin have earned him widespread popularity. In July, Rav Shmuel Kamenetzy, shlita, endorsed Trump during an interview he gave to Mishpacha.

ACB on SCOTUS On Tuesday morning, Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts to the Supreme Court of the United States.

It took only a month’s time be-

tween her nomination and confirmation.

The ceremony took place in the East Conference Room of the Court.

Barrett is seen in a photo shared by the Court with her right hand raised and left hand placed on a family Bible held by her husband, Jesse, as she took the oath.

Barrett, 48, is now the 115th justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

She was confirmed by the Senate with a 52-48 vote on Monday.

At the White House on Monday, Barrett said in a speech it was “a privilege to be asked to serve my country” and highlighted the “separation of duty from political preference.”

“My fellow Americans, even though we judges don’t face elections, we still work for you. It is your Constitution that establishes the rule of law and the judicial independence that is so central to it,” she said. “The oath that I have solemnly taken to-

night means at its core that I will do my job without any fear or favor, and that I will do so independently.”

Barrett’s seat on the bench gives conservatives a 6-3 majority, shifting the makeup of the high court that could affect a range of issues that could come before it, including potential disputes regarding the 2020 election and the future of the Affordable Care Act. Lawyers for a Pennsylvania county filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Tuesday asking Barrett to recuse herself from an election-related case.

The Supreme Court is currently considering a request from Pennsylvania Republicans asking the justices to block a state Supreme Court decision that allowed the counting of ballots received three days after the election, even if there is no legible postmark. Luzerne County – whose lawyers penned the brief – supports the state court decision.

In asking for her recusal, attorneys said, “The present case is one of utmost important to the President’s re-election bid,” they wrote. “Just as President Trump has placed Justice Barrett on the Supreme Court with whatever hope or expectation he may have, he has also imposed on her the

duty to recuse herself in this case.

Her integrity and the integrity of this Court cannot tolerate any other choice.”

At the Supreme Court, it is up to individual justices to decide whether or not they should recuse themselves.

Postal Worker Discards Mail

A United States Postal Service employee has been charged for destroying mail, including absentee ballots, which he allegedly threw in a dumpster, U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman announced on Monday.

DeShawn Bojgere of Louisville, Kentucky, has been charged with the delay or destruction of mail, which is a federal crime.

Sometime between October 5 and October 15, Bojgere allegedly threw a “large quantity” of mail in a construction dumpster, including about 111 general election absentee ballots

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from the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office that were being mailed for voters to fill out, according to the press release.

There were also about 69 mixed class pieces of flat rate mail, 320 second class pieces of mail, and two national election campaign flyers from a political party in Florida. The mail in the dumpster was from a single route for one scheduled delivery day.

Bojgere, who no longer works for the Postal Service, admitted to special agents that he was responsible for discarding the mail.

All of the mail has since been put back in the system for delivery.

Bojgere, 30, faces no more than five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and one year of supervised release after serving the sentence, if convicted.

NJ Most Hated State New Jersey took the top spot in a new ranking that purportedly lists the most reviled of America’s 50 states.

Compiled by Best Life Online, the survey’s findings were based on

a number of factors, including negative migration as per U.S. Census Data and a 2014 Gallup poll which asked respondents which state was the best.

As per the findings, New Jersey is the most hated state in America, with only 28% of Garden State residents saying that they were proud of their home. The survey added that 35.8 million people nationwide reported having negative feelings toward the Garden State.

New Jersey responded to the poll by writing on its Twitter account, “We don’t like you either” along with a photo of the state flag.

Coming in second place for the dubious title was Texas, with 68 percent of its residents saying that they were proud to live in the Lone Star state.

Following Texas was California, with Oklahoma and Florida rounding out the top five.

Murder Hornet Nest Destroyed

This week, Washington state agriculture officials announced that the first “murder hornet” nest discovered in the United States had been successfully destroyed.

The battle to prevent the invasive Asian giant hornet, which can devastate honeybee colonies, from gaining a foothold is just beginning. Officials are asking residents to be on the lookout for these dangerous insects.

Entomologists were able to attach radio trackers to three hornets that had been caught in a trap last week, and one of those led them to the nest, which was discovered on Thursday and destroyed over the weekend.

While most Asian giant hornet nests are in the ground, this one was in a tree. Officials had to work quickly to destroy the hive; this is the time of year when new queens could emerge from a nest and form new colonies.

Workers wore special suits to protect against the insects. These hornets can sting repeatedly and spit venom. They used foam to seal crevices, wrapped the tree in cellophane, and then used a vacuum hose to suck out the hornets. Carbon dioxide gas was pumped in to kill what remained.

The nest in Blaine, which is in Whatcom County on the U.S.-Canada border, marked the first time a nest of these hornets has been found in the U.S. The Asian giant hornet was first detected in Washington state in December, and the first insect was trapped in July.

The hornets are native to Asia and have been documented in parts of China and India, and in Thailand, Malaysia and other countries, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A group of the world’s largest hornets can kill an entire colony of honeybees in hours.Honeybee populations have been in a worrying decline. The number of honeybee hives in the U.S. has dropped from 6 million in the 1940s to around 2.5 million, the USDA said last year.

The insects typically don’t attack people or pets, but will do so when threatened.

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Show Me the Monet

A takeoff of a Claude Monet masterpiece sold for a mound of money at an auction last week.

“Show me the Monet” was created

by Banksy in the early 2000s. Last week, it sold for $9.8 million after a nine-minute bidding battle at Sotheby’s.

The painting is a takeoff of Monet’s “Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies.”

The pond in Banksy’s creation is filled with a shopping cart and junk.

Monet’s original painting was one of 12 Impressionist works featuring views of the artist’s Japanese bridge over his water garden, near Giverny, Northern France, between 1897 and 1899.

Banksy’s painting was showcased as part of the “Crude Oils: A Gallery of Re-mixed Masterpieces, Vandalism and Vermin” exhibition, where the artist re-imagined famous works by artists including Edward Hopper, Jack Vettriano and Vincent van Gogh.

“Show me the Monet” is now the second-most expensive painting created by the elusive British artist.

Last year, Banksy’s “Devolved Parliament,” a satirical oil painting depicting the House of Commons filled with chimpanzees, sold at auction in London for a record-breaking $12.2 million.

And you can take that to the bank.

$1 Home

Looking to draw new visitors to town, the village of Salemi in Italy has decided to auction off dozens of abandoned homes, with opening bids at just one dollar.

According to Mayor Domenico Venuti, the plan is part of efforts to revitalize the town, which has seen its population dwindle after about 4,000 residents left the area after a 1968 earthquake.

“All buildings belong to the City Council, which speeds up the sale and reduces red tape,” Venuti clarified. “Before launching the scheme, we first had to recover the old parts of Salemi where the houses are located, upgrading infrastructures and services from roads to electric grids and sewage pipes.”

Sounds interesting to you?

There’s no need to visit the town to purchase the homes; you just need to submit plans to prove that these homes will be revitalized.

And at $1 a home, what can go wrong?

dorn of stealing his idea. Nate Middleton had offered the Handshake Sandwich in Toronto in 2016.

“There have been ZERO fried chicken sandwiches with the foot attached until mine. Super proud of that. Your copy is the second I have seen Buddy,” Middleton tweeted.

As of now, Bleidorn insists it’s a coincidence.

We’ll call it a claw coincidence.

Claw Cuisine

If you long for those days when you would snuggle under the covers with a flashlight to hide your nighttime reading from your parents, you should head to Taiwan.

A new bookshop in the country is offering the same experience. Visitors there are blanketed in extreme darkness, except for dim spotlights over the books that line the walls.

The unique bookshop was created and founded by the award-winning architecture and space designer Chu Chih-kang.

The mix of the pitch-dark environment and dimly-lit books creates the illusion that the books are “floating” while the rest of the space disappears. There are 400 bookshelves in the shop, each with just one “floating” book.

“This is designed so that people can focus on every book. In an environment where you can’t see, your other senses will be heightened,” Su Yu-shan, the shop manager, explains.

Lest you need a bit more light to feel your way around the shelves, keep in mind that flashlights and flashes are banned inside the sore.

Other rules are posted at the front of the door: “Don’t shout when someone steps on your toes. Step on his/ hers,” “If someone wants the same book (as you), buy the book or get his/ her number,” and “If you think it’s too dark inside, pick up a tree branch and shout: ‘Lumos’.”

According to the store’s staff, the store is not just about books and reading; it’s an entrance into your soul.

“In this environment, you’re free to be yourself, to communicate with your soul -- your truest self,” Su said.

Want a side of a claw with that fried chicken sandwich?

Yes, we said “claw,” not “slaw.”

Chef Chris Bleidorn is now offering a fried chicken sandwich complete with a chicken claw coming out of the dinner fare at Birdbox, his restaurant in San Francisco.

Bleidorn says he’s offering the chicken talons because he “loves poultry” and wants people to think more about what they’re eating.

“Our habit is we go to a store and buy a bag full of 24 chicken wings or 24 chicken drums. They could be in the frozen section or pre-packed in the deli, and we see people mindlessly toss them into their carts, not thinking that 24 wings come from 12 chickens,” Bleidorn said.

By including the chicken foot in the sandwich, the dish is “waste-free” and the whole bird can be used for cooking.

Showcasing the dish on Instagram, Bleidorn writes, “We aren’t shy about showing off a little leg. And by a little leg, we mean the WHOLE leg – deboned thigh, drumstick, Claude the Claw.”

Some consumers have understandably called the sandwich “creepy,” “horrifying,” or “stomach-churning.”

One chef, though, is accusing Blei-

As such, the entrance of Wuguan is decorated as a traditional Chinese mourning hall. It’s a metaphor for visitors to let go of the images and judgments that have held them back.

In other words, don’t judge a book by its cover.

Doughnut I Dos

Books in the Dark Dunkin’ is not just a great place to get your morning coffee. You can find your bashert there, too.

Earlier this month, a couple in Oklahoma got married at a Dunkin’ drive-thru – the same Dunkin’ where they first met.

John Thompson had met Dunkin’s manager Sugar Good in 2015, when she worked the drive-thru each morning and he cruised through for his coffee and breakfast sandwiches.

“He ordered a large hot coffee with cream and sugar and a sausage egg and cheese croissant. It was like clockwork every day,” Sugar said.

Eventually, Sugar shared her information with John, and they started going out.

When John proposed, he sentimentally bent down on one knee in the eatery’s parking lot and asked for Sugar’s hand in marriage.

Once the food chain heard about the couple’s love for each other and for their doughnuts, they offered to hold the marriage ceremony at the drive-thru.

“We were honored and graciously accepted,” Sugar wrote on Facebook.

On October 13, the day of their wedding, a sign near the drive-thru microphone at the store invited any and all well-wishers to come celebrate Sugar and John’s “Dunkin’ Love Story” by stopping by for a free doughnut.

What can be sweeter?

The couple was even provided with a doughnut “bouquet” and doughnut “cake” after Sugar and John exchanged vows — she from the drive-thru window, and he from his truck.

For those who don’t appreciate doughnuts as much as the new couple, they also had another ceremony in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where they celebrated with family and friends.

And now we can say that “America weds on Dunkin’.”

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On Tuesday, residents from the community enjoyed their $5 pizza pie from SushiPie courtesy of TJHLive Deals

This week, cheder was able to fully resume at Siach Yitzchok. The boys are excited to be back in school

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tudying the human brain became a hands-on project in Mrs. Rikki Ash’s SKA AP Psychology class on Wednesday, October 21. Using Play-doh, the girls molded shapes of brains in order to so-

lidify their knowledge of this human organ. To make the lesson more exciting, each girl competed to see who could form the most realistic brain.

The winner received an extra two points on their next test!

Microscopic Life

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his past week, many seventh grade students at the Abraham & Sara Silber Middle School at Yeshiva of South Shore were taught a detailed hands-on lesson on how to use their new microscopes. The lesson opened a new and

fascinating world for students as they were able to identify many secrets of life, including the existence of bacteria, blood cells and single-celled plants and animals that were all revealed with the aid of the microscope.

Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away., which first opened in New York City on May 8, 2019 after a successful run in Madrid and has been extended to run through May 2, 2021.

Before temporarily closing due to the pandemic, the exhibition had already seen about 50,000 student visitors.

Produced in partnership with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland and the international exhibition firm Musealia and curated by an international team of experts led by historian Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt, this is the largest ever exhibition on Auschwitz. It was recently awarded the 2020 European Heritage / Europa Nostra Award for “Education Training and Awareness-Raising,” the most prestigious award in the field of European heritage.

Of particular interest to students

and educators, included among the exhibition’s more than 700 original artifacts are 10 from the Anne Frank House, which are on display in North America for the first time. One artifact, dried beans discovered lodged between the cracks of stairs in the home where Anne Frank hid from the German Nazis in Amsterdam, has never been displayed anywhere, ever.

The items on loan from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam include family photographs of the Franks, an original drawing Anne made as a student (before going into hiding), and a wooden handle that the family used to rotate the bookcase that kept them and four other Jews hidden from the Nazis for more than two years.

Virtual Field Trip

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or teachers missing the canceled field trips that provided experiential learning beyond the classroom, the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will launch new, virtual field trips for school groups in November, as well as new and engaging lesson plans, professional development workshops, and an oral histories podcast.

“We believe that by approaching study of the Holocaust from the perspective of the victims and survivors, we can move students from misunderstanding or indifference to empathy,” says Elizabeth Edelstein, the Museum’s Vice President for Education. “Museums provide vital connections for young people to engage with the world, and with history. We are proud to continue facilitating

these connections online during the pandemic.”

The Museum’s Education Department will be providing the following resources and opportunities, which can be accessed online at https:// mjhnyc.org/education/: For individuals and families able to make an in-person visit, the museum reopened to the public in September. For health and safety measures, it is only open three days per week, from 10 AM to 5 PM, on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, allowing for the deep cleaning of all public spaces. In addition, it has opened at a limited, 25% capacity to ensure social distancing and is offering general admission, timed-entry tickets that grant visitor access to all galleries.

Visitors to the Museum will be able to view its current exhibition,

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The KlalVote Challenge

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ey, Five Towns and Far Rockaway!

Are you up for a challenge? It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s fun. All you have to do is vote and then post your name and shul affiliation on the klalvote.org site.

Moshe Brandsdorfer of the JCCRP explains: “We created an online platform where people submit their names after they voted. All you have to do is enter your name and you can also include a short message. Then sit back and watch the list grow.

You’ll be doing your small part, but you’ll be part of something big!”

Over forty local shuls are listed on the site. Each shul has a captain who will be motivating people to vote and to add their names to the list. And while the KlalVote challenge was posted just a few days ago, there are already several local shuls with lists of names that are growing quickly and steadily.

Of course, it’s not just about the

number of names on a website. Voting is serious business. According to Moshe, “Look at the Far Rockaway community, for example. Five thousand members of this community are registered voters, yet in the last local election only 1,500 people voted.”

And while it may be true that members of the community are disillusioned with the process, Moshe says we have no one to blame but ourselves.

“An undeniable reality,” he says, “is that the more people of a specific community vote, the more attention and influence they yield. It’s not so much about who they vote for, it’s about how the eventual winner

will engage with us after he or she is elected. Local and state officials will view us very differently when they realize that our bloc can easily decide close elections. This is our opportunity to show that we matter.”

The KlalVote challenge is similar to a fundraising campaign in which names are submitted, often with comments. But KlalVote is free ,and it’s easy. It’s a fun way to track members of your shul, your friends, and your neighbors. Even your kids will be proud when they see your name listed on the site. It’s a win-win any way you look at it.

A steering committee, including well-known community leaders, is involved in KlalVote and encourag-

es everyone to get out the vote. The KlalVote site also lists vital voter information such as early-voting sites and help with voter registration. The site is gaining traction and signatures are being added in real-time on a regular basis.

Chaim Rapfogel, the project’s founder, commented, “This is going to be a game changer in our local voting numbers. We are confident that Klalvote.org will create a system for bringing out the vote in this election and for all future elections.”

So don’t be left out in the cold.

Be a proud voter.

Take the KlalVote challenge and help make this community count!

Mr. and Mrs. Richie and Lisa Altabe waiting to vote

Moshe Brandsdorfer at early voting at the Lawrence Country Club

Avi Cyperstein for City Council

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vi Cyperstein, who has been instrumental in providing volunteer services to the Queens community for over a decade, announced his candidacy for NYC Council District 29 in front of Queens Borough Hall on Sunday, October 25 amongst family, friends, and a long line of early voters.

As a healthcare professional assisting seniors and those struggling with mental health, Avi has been able to effectively help so many people all over the city.

As a small business owner, he knows the challenges businesses face, especially as they navigate the overwhelming challenges brought on by the Coronavirus.

He is also a volunteer first responder for a local ambulance company. His experience has prepared him to be the type of leader our community can depend on. During these turbulent and unprecedented times, we

need to elect a City Council member we can depend on.

Avi has a proven track record of getting things done for people often in their time of greatest need. As Council Member of the 29th district he will continue to get things done for his

community.

Avi grew up in a home where public service is a natural way of life. His father was elected as a school board member covering Forest Hills, Rego Park, and Kew Gardens. His father also interned at the Queens District

Attorney office, where he subsequently moved on to Assistant Attorney General of NY and then served as the Director of Senior, Health, and Human Services for the Queens Borough President under Melinda Katz’s leadership. He is now the general counsel for one of the largest non-profits in NYC. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Avi, like many other New Yorkers, felt that a lack of leadership was not just costing people their businesses, but also their lives.

“I felt that I could and should be doing something more for the people I care about and the community around us,” said Avi at his announcement on Sunday afternoon.

The election for City Council for District 29 is scheduled for June 2021.

To learn more about Avi and to get involved in his campaign, visit his website at CypersteinForCouncil.com.

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Shulamith students and faculty showed their appreciation for their beloved crossing guard Maria Palomo on her birthday. Happy birthday Maria!

Town of Hempstead Announces More than $2.8M in New COVID-19 Relief Grants and Funding Initiatives

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n Tuesday, Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin and the Hempstead Town Board members voted to approve more than $2.8 million in funding for five new initiatives aimed at supporting local organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The new pro-

grams, which were unanimously approved by the Town Board, will provide in-need residents with various food and medical programs. Funding for these programs has been made possible through the CARES Act that provided the Town of Hempstead with a $133 million grant by the federal

government to use for economic relief grants to help local businesses cover COVID-related expenses.

“I’d like to once again thank Senator Schumer for his part in securing the funding for the initiatives that continue to help the residents of America’s largest township through these unprecedented times,” stated Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin. “We are grateful to be working so closely with community-based organizations that continue to utilize these resources in a creative and helpful manner to benefit residents, especially those who have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.”

With the newest round of proposal approvals, the Town will be collaborating with Northwell Health, United Way of Long Island, Long Island Federally-Qualified Health Centers (LIFQHC), fire departments in different districts, and the Marion and Aaron Gural Jewish Community Center in Cedarhurst Village. This funding will either establish new programs or provide funding for unexpected expenses as a result of the pandemic.

New Initiatives: • Northwell Health will be implementing both rapid and PCR testing exclusively for first responders and essential workers who work and reside in the Town of Hempstead.

• The United Way of Long Island will be investing in air filtration units in an effort to help protect hundreds of senior citizens with underlying conditions during the pandemic.

Repayment Initiatives: • The Town is supporting the Long Island Federally-Qualified Health Centers (LIFQHC) in its initiative to provide COVID-19 rapid testing to all Hempstead residents, particularly in underserved communities.

• The Town will also provide financial support to the Oceanside, Hewlett Bay and Franklin Square & Munson Fire Departments for expenses related to their responses and efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

• The Marion and Aaron Gural Jewish Community Center ("the JCC") in the Village of Cedarhurst will receive funding to reimburse the purchase and distribution of necessary food items to at-risk residents.

“The Marion & Aaron Gural JCC has been dedicated to the Five Towns community for many years, and the Town of Hempstead is proud to support their efforts as well as continue to provide COVID-19 testing for the town’s first responders,” said Councilman Bruce Blakeman.

Added Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, “Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Town of Hempstead has worked tirelessly to protect residents and provide essential services. We are confident that this grant funding will go a long way to continue that mission.”

For more information about the Town of Hempstead and its efforts to improve the quality of life for residents and businesses throughout the region, visit https://hempsteadny. gov/.

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HALB Elementary students dressed in different colors last week to resemble a rainbow in honor of Parshat Noach

SKA Student Council Welcomes Mar Cheshvan

Sailing Through Parshas Noach

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lad to be back in school after an uplifting Sukkot yom tov and a ten day hiatus on Zoom, the students of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls enjoyed a special chessed program sponsored by the Student Council on Wednesday, October 21. The month of Cheshvan is usually referred to as “Mar” Cheshvan since no Jewish holidays are found there; the Council members wanted to welcome the month in an original and pleasant way while masked and socially distancing.

Each girl was given a tile and marker and chose an inspirational Hebrew and English quote to inscribe on the empty space. The tiles

were then sent to a nursing home for the residents to place on their walls, with the hope of brightening their days.

To really rejoice in the new month, everyone had an opportunity to write positive anecdotes about their fellow classmates. The slips of papers were then deposited into the girls’ personalized envelopes to be read and enjoyed by the recipients.

The individual snacks that were distributed were an especially sweet way to end the program.

The session was a great introduction to SKA’s 2020-2021 Student Council and a warm welcome to the month!

ressed in raincoats and boots, the boys at Yeshiva of South Shore ECC explored at the water tables outside all week.

They experimented with sinking and floating, pouring through funnels, and creating bubbles and even volcanoes. The children also built Tevas of different sizes out of large outdoor

blocks, boxes, and Styrofoam trays.

One of the nursery boys sitting in a box with a newspaper hat on his head told me that he was Noach.

When I asked him, “What are you doing, Noach?”

He answered, “I’m taking care of our family!”

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The Queen of England is allowed to vote, but in order to project objectively, the Queen refrains from voting

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Question and answers with SBA Loan Group founder Yankie Markowitz What is an SBA loan?

SBA Ð the U.S. Small Business Administration Ð is an independent federal government agency created in 1953 to aid, assist the interests of small business and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy. The SBA offers a variety of loan programs to small businesses. The SBA does not lend directly to businesses but rather sets the guidelines for loans and guarantees for these loans. The loans are then made by its partners Ð banks, community development organizations and others. When you apply for an SBA loan, you are actually applying for a commercial loan through a bank and the bank must adhere to the SBA requirements.

Why go for an SBA loan and not a regular commercial loan?

Usually SBA loans are made to businesses where a longer term is needed or there is higher leverage. In addition, SBA loans do not carry the same covenant and collateral requirements as a standard commercial loan.

Can I go to my own bank to acquire a loan?

Yes, you can but that process usually will take much longer and has a much higher chance of running into unforeseen issues. This costs both time and money for you.

Why work with SBA Loan Group?

Working with SBA Loan Group will save you time and frustration because we focus exclusively on SBA loans, making it much easier for our team to be on top of every new rule that comes out from the SBA and delivering a better service to you. The SBA SOP contains the procedures and rules governing the program and is more than 400 pages of requirements which is updated regularly through Technical Issues memos distributed by the SBA. In addition, we have built long-term relationships with SBA lenders in order to understand their credit box and what they will approve, which saves valuable time upfront.

Could you give me a little more on what sets you apart in the Frum community doing SBA loans?

Sure. We have done a large amount of SBA lending in the community so we know many of the accountants.

This saves a signiÞcant amount of time because loan use of proceeds and eligibility are important to efÞciently moving a loan from start to Þnish. Additionally, we know many of the attorneys used and this assists during the closing process. We have in-depth knowledge of many industries and the SBA issues related to these including online businesses, food businesses and health care businesses. Our years of experience in SBA lending along with our focus on avoiding pitfalls in eligibility, relationships with banks, accountants, and attorneys put us in the best position to advise clients upfront on the best loan options. Finally, we have a team from different frum backgrounds such as Monsey/ Monroe/ Lakewood/ Brooklyn, making it easier to communicate than working with a smaller group.

If you still have questions, please call one of us and we will gladly elaborate on the subject!

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The girls at Ganger Early Childhood at TAG love being back at school

Lavi Greenspan Visits Netzach HaTorah

Names, Not Numbers is an oral history project that has many of HALB’s eighth graders interviewing Holocaust survivors and creating a professional quality documentary.

This is a project that they will work on throughout the year and is essential for Holocaust education. The program for the eighth graders started off last week.

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his past Monday, Lavi Greenspan, a well-known speaker and personality in the community, visited Netzach HaTorah in Woodmere. Lavi visited the classes and shared his personal story with the boys, describing his experience of losing his eyesight while in college. Lavi’s story made a pow-

erful impression on the boys as he shared both his deep trust and faith in Hashem, while also keeping the boys laughing with his positive and humorous stories.

Netzach thanks Lavi for taking the time to visit the classes and inspire the boys in their own personal growth.

n Monday, October 19, talmidim participating in MTA’s Honors College were privileged to hear from Dr. Dean Hosgood, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine.

Dr. Hosgood gave a virtual presentation on the topic of how epidemiologists identify and analyze diseases within populations. He explained the process through which epidemiologists investigate an outbreak of a disease and many of the external factors that could affect the results of their studies.

The Honors College invited Dr. Hosgood to speak after reading sections from Dan Fagin’s Toms River, which discusses the emergence of a cluster of childhood cancer cases in Toms River, New Jersey in the 1990s. Throughout the work, Fagin describes the efforts of epidemiologists to identify the source of the cancer outbreak in the years following the emergence of the cluster. Dr. Hosgood’s presentation built upon

the issues discussed in Toms River and helped talmidim understand the valuable work of epidemiologists in identifying the source of the cancer in Toms River. Dr. Hosgood also briefly discussed the work of epidemiologists in response to the spread of the coronavirus and emphasized the need for appropriate measures to be taken to mitigate the spread of the virus. The Honors College is looking forward to continuing their study of Toms River throughout the year.

An enriched academic program, the Honors College offers seminars with renowned speakers, cultural and religious experiences, the utilization of MTA’s location in NYC as an integral part of the classroom experience, and monthly programs and trips to enhance the understanding of religious, historical, artistic, and scientific issues. Another major component of the Honors College is a commitment to comprehensive academic mentoring, where talmidim are paired with a mentor, from either the MTA or YU faculty, who meet with them on a regular basis and help guide their academic growth.

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I Will Not Be Voting in This Election

Footstep painting at HANC ECC in West Hempstead in honor of Parshas Lech Lecha

A Petting Zoo at IVDU

By Sima Shapiro

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n Thursday, October 22, IVDU Long Island had the privilege of bringing in a petting zoo for the students, helping to bring Parshas Noach to life in a COVID-friendly way. The students had the opportunity to feed the animals, with the goats and sheep licking their hands to eat the food. They were allowed to pet and hold the bun-

nies, enjoying the sensory experience while having fun coming up with names for the animals. The students were so excited to be able to experience this right in the comfort of their schoolyard. At IVDU Long Island, learning is interactive and incorporates an abundance of multi-sensory activities to maximize student engagement.

rowing up in a family where my parents always emphasized the importance of voting in every election, I have always waited eagerly for the day when I could finally vote. So here we are, election day 2020, but since I don’t turn 18 until next month, I will have to wait just a little longer to show support for my community. This would not be so frustrating if it were not for the fact that so many people, who can vote, do not exercise their right to do so. And as a result of a low voter turnout in our community, many great opportunities and political advantages have been lost.

Why is it that such a fundamental part of being a citizen of our country get passed up? Many people make the argument that their “vote doesn’t count.” This common belief is actually not true. In 2013, Pesach Osina lost his bid for city council by only 79 votes! That’s 79 people and more who did not vote simply because they thought, “It didn’t count.” More recently, in 2019, Melinda Katz won the Democratic primary for Queens district attorney by a mere 60 votes over progressive candidate Tiffany Caban.

Voting in every election not only allows us to elect the individuals we want to see in office, but it also strengthens the voice of our community. The elected officials can see which communities care enough to

vote, and they will pay more attention to what the people within those communities have to say. They can see that we have an estimated potential of 5,000 voters in the greater Far Rockaway community and yet only 3,500 have even registered to vote! Even more upsetting is that of the 3,500 registered voters, the most that have ever voted in a single election was only 2,800 for Phil Goldfeder in in 2011. That’s just above half of our community’s voting potential.

As a high school student who wishes she could vote, it’s extremely frustrating to watch as those who can put the opportunity to waste.

In recent months during the COVID pandemic, I sat at home unable to attend school in person and couldn’t help but wonder if stronger voter turnout would have resulted in more favorable responses from some of our elected officials.

I am asking parents and eligible voters of our community to put your reasons for not voting aside and please go and vote on November 3 for all those who wish they could. Now, more than ever, it’s critical to participate in the process that gives our community a voice in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.

Sima Shapiro is the founder of Teens for Getting Parents to Vote and is serving her fourth term on student council at Machon Sara High School - Torah Academy for Girls.

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A RAMBAM MAN Never leaves a supermarket wagon in the parking lot. ♦ Recognizes the “Don’t” in “Don’t cut the line.” ♦ He is the one who offers the “first sip” through which he gives more than a soda. ♦ The first 10 in minyan. ♦ A Rambam Man is the one campaigning, not complaining. ♦ He doesn’t ask, “Is that everything?” he is the one asking, “What else can I help you with?” ♦ He is an idea which leads the chabura, davens for the amud, and gives shiur. ♦ He is the “r” that protects the word “Friend.” ♦ Recognizes the “Don’t” in ”Don’t forget the milk.” ♦ He is the one who wears a scarf to make his mother happy. ♦ Knows that you never take the last cookie. ♦ A Rambam Man celebrates a victory by shaking the other player’s hand first. ♦ He doesn’t ask, “Where’s the exit?” he knows where the fire extinguisher is. ♦ He is the husband who is present when he is there. ♦ Recognizes that you don’t just love Israel, you represent it. ♦ He is the space between “nowhere” and “now here.” ♦ Helps clean up after the simcha is over. ♦ A Rambam Man is first to be asked and the last to demand. ♦ He cheers for the other team too. ♦ The one calling at 12:00AM to wish you a happy birthday. ♦ Recognizes that you look for the pass before the shot. ♦ He helped pump out the basement regardless of whether the house had a mezuzah. ♦ A Rambam Man doesn’t ask, “Can I do it later?” he asks, “How about right now?” ♦ The one who reads the word “untied” as “united.” ♦ He calls his friend when he sees he isn’t in school... and photocopies his notes for him. ♦ The one who is always standing on the subway because he always gives up his seat. ♦ He is the idea that you put your siddur and chumash back after davening. ♦ He is the husband who turns around to check on you. ♦ The one doing the “don’t” favor. ♦ The one who carried the bags but refused the tip. ♦ A Rambam Man never leaves shiur without thanking the Rebbe. ♦ A Rambam Man never leaves class without thanking the teacher. ♦ He is an idea which makes partner, starts a company, heads a practice, and chairs a committee.

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This year, the event was livestreamed, with thousands of viewers logging in from around the world from locales as far away as Argentina, Australia, South Africa, Chile, Mexico, Belgium, and many other countries.

Rav Moshe Weinberger shared inspirational divrei Torah about the powerful imprint and legacy of the Piazecna Rebbe and its relevance to

these turbulent times that we face today. Once again, the Hilula was fortunate to welcome Yosef Karduner from Israel who led the music for the event with his beautiful singing and guitar.

Congregation Aish Kodesh thanks the many individuals whoworked tirelessly to provide the highest quality of productions for the Hilula, making it accessible to the entire world. To watch the Hilula or any other previously recorded event, as well as all upcoming live events, visit Aishkodesh.org/live.

Did you know?

Charles D.B. King, President of Liberia, won an election with 234,000 votes in 1927; at the time, there were only 15,000 registered voters, earning the election the title of the most fraudulent election reported in history

by Guinness World Records.

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A JEP/Nageela Jewish Individualized Learning (JIL) – Kids Talk!

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ne afternoon after school, my Dad picked me up and said that we are going to an after school activity. I asked him “What is the activity about?” and he said, “I don’t know,” so I asked him, “Why did you sign up for an after school activity when you don’t even know what it is about?” He replied, “You need some more Torah learning.” So I agreed. Then I asked if my little brother would come and he said yes. We went to pick up my brother and drove to the program. Five minutes later we pulled up at the front of their driveway. We went into the backyard and saw so many kids having fun!

At first me and my brother were shy, but after we saw the food come in we did not feel shy anymore. After we ate, we made a circle around the bonfire and we started

introducing ourselves. After everyone introduced themselves we went home. Me and my brother are very excited for the next week.The learning will start, we will have more good food, and for the conclusion we will have so much fun!

-By Samuel “Shmuel” Yakubov, age 12 Hi, my name is Rebecca Bendayan and I went to a JEP event. I had a great time. I got to see my friends, decorate cupcakes, play games, roast marshmallows, and make tik toks with my friends. And the best part of it all was that we got to meet some new friends and share our interests with each other. Little did we know that we had a lot in common with each other. I look forward to the next JEP event!

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Photos from the Woodmere JIL October 21st; Parshat Noach-themed cupcakes made by Chaya Fiedler.

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At the Woodmere JIL event on October 21

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he Rambam eSports Team, the Rambam eRavens, went 4-1 on the week in Smash Bros! Captains Shlomo Braverman and Yakov Farrell both went 4-0 in their games. The Minecraft crew also played extremely well, collecting 27 total points with Jeremy Sicklick leading the way with 13. With last year’s successful in-house eSports Club blazing a trail, Mr. Goldman then took the next step in the eSports initiative, and arranged for the school to join the High School eSports League. The eRavens are already climbing in the national rankings!

Week 2 of the Eitan Markovitz Kahoot Challenge focused on “The World

Series” and was intense. Nathaniel Zarny of the Writers’ Guild took third place, just a smidge behind junior Yonatan Roman. Polymath Ami “Reddhedd” Dube took the top prize. Looking forward to Week 3. Picking up on Eitan’s theme, the Rambam Sports Talk Live featured a live viewing and play by play of “The World Series” and are looking to branch out to live showings of NFL games as well.

This week’s Masmidim Lunch Learning Program saw a face that was both familiar and new. Reb Zach Beer, Rambam Class of 2015, was a guest rebbe. His topic of “Kosher-Style Dining: A Jewish approach to Food” spanned a range of topics and was well-sourced and well-presented. The

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Masmidim are looking forward to seeing him as a regular in the rotation.

The Politics Club met this week, and senior Donny Guttman presented on the history and impact of mail-in voting. Some of the members in the club are taking their political engagement to the next level and attended a “Meet The Candidates Night” at the home of Rambam Alum, Moshe Hill. Ezra Feder and Sam Korman met Congressional candidate Doug Tuman, as well as Ed Ra of the State Assembly and Patricia Conzoneri-Fitzpatrick candidate for the State Assembly. In this intimate setting, the candidates shared their views on everything ranging from the economy to healthcare, and the response of the government, both local and nationwide, to COVID-19.

The Politics Club has quickly become one of the largest clubs in the school and are planning on hosting their first guest politician soon.

The Writers’ Guild met this week to share their first person point of view corona-related stories. Ezra Ci-

namon, Rambam Class of 2015, was a guest critic and shared insights into one of his stories and offered his reactions to the stories written by the Guilderbeasts. The Guild will meet again next month to go over the new stories based on the prompt: “Monstrous Act.” The Rambam Meet The Author Book Club hosted their first guest this week, Luke Chmilenko, author of the Ascend Online Series. Mr. Chmilenko is one of the most popular writers in the emerging LitRPG Genre. He discussed how he got into writing; the challenges of world-building; and his influences as a writer. The members of the club themselves were able to ask him questions in an interview that brought one of the premier genre writers into the (Zoom) halls of Rambam!

Thanks to Zachary Sicklick’s tireless efforts, the Rambam Chesed Club met this week and are already working on bringing back Spirit Week as well as a bunch of other chessed programs.

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Who Said It? Match the quote with the person who said it.

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

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The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election; the people who count the votes do.

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

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If elected, I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

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I regard voting as the most sacred right of free men and women.

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If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.

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We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

a) Gore Vidal b) Abraham Lincoln c) Emma Goldman d) Ambrose Bierce e) Otto von Bismarck f) Winston Churchill g) Dan Quayle h) Frank McKinney Hubbard i) Ronald Reagan j) Joseph Stalin Answers Below

Answer Key: 1- G; 2-E; 3-J; 4-A; 5-B; 6-I; 7-C; 8-H; 9-D; 10-F

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This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats Donald Trump and Joe Biden were walking down the street when they came to a homeless person. Trump gave the homeless person his business card and told him to call him after the elections for a job. He then took twenty dollars out of his pocket and gave it to the homeless person.

Biden was very impressed, and so when they came to another homeless person, he decided to help. He walked over to the homeless person and gave him a card with directions to the nearest welfare office. He then reached into Trump’s pocket and gave the homeless person fifty dollars.

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So You Want to Run a Campaign?

In the fast-moving world of elections, if you want to be a campaign manager, you sure better be able to answer the following questions.

Test your “campaign manager”-ability.

1. Match the state with its amount of electoral votes: New York Ohio Texas Wisconsin California

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2. The highlighted portion of the United States is commonly referred to as what?

a. b. c. d.

The Bible Belt The Rust Belt The South Republican Heartland

3. Your candidate calls you into a meeting and asks you which states have proportional allocation of their electoral votes. Which states did you tell him? a. Utah/Oregon b. Maine/Nebraska c. N. Dakota/S. Dakota d. New Hampshire/Arkansas 4. “As goes ________so goes the nation.” Fill in the blank for this common refrain. a. Ohio b. The Midwest c. Young voters

d. Pennsylvania 5. OK, you are running a national campaign, so I assume you know that whoever gets 256 electoral votes first wins, right? Wrong. It takes 270, genius. Anyway, what happens if each party garners 269 electoral votes? a. There is a coin toss which takes place in the Capitol Rotunda. b. The Senate votes on which ticket wins. c. The House of Representatives votes on who will be President and the Senate votes on who the Vice President will be. d. There is a second round election which takes place the following month. (This has never happened yet.) e. The Speaker of the House, the Senate Majority Leader, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court vote on which ticket wins.

6. How many electoral votes did President Trump get in the 2016 elections? a. 272 b. 290 c. 304 d. 333 7. Who was the last president to win 49 states in a general election? a. Ronald Reagan b. Richard Nixon c. John F. Kennedy d. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answers 1) New York Ohio Texas Wisconsin California

29 18 38 10 55

2) A-This area is referred to as the Bible Belt because it represents the most religious demographic area in the country. Voters tend to be highly conservative in these areas.

3) B

4) A

5) C

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7) A

Electoral College Answer Key 7 correct: Congrats, your candidate just won! And within a few months, when he is embroiled in scandal and needs someone to take the blame off of him, you are going to enjoy the warm fuzzy feeling of being “thrown under the bus.”

4-6 correct: You have a right to be in the game, you just aren’t that great. You are like Joe Trippi. Mr. Trippi was the campaign manager for four presidential campaigns over the past two decades.

But he never won. The closest he came was in 2004 when he ran John Kerry’s campaign. In fact, that race was so close that in the late afternoon on Election Day – when he thought Kerry was going to win – he walked into Kerry’s hotel suite and said to him, “May I be the first to call you Mr. President?” Poor guy jumped the gun and his man lost.

0-3 correct: You are oblivious to the current elections. You know what that makes you? A lot smarter than the rest of us.

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Parshas Lech Lecha

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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e are aware that one of the ten tests and challenges that confront our father Abraham is the Al-mighty’s commandment to Abraham that forms the name of this week’s Torah reading. Abraham is directed to “go, for your sake,” leave the comforts and familiar surroundings of your home and society, and to take a journey into a strange and unknown land.

According to Chassidic tradition, this instruction from heaven was not localized, to be heard only by the ears of Abraham. Many people also heard this directive, but they did not feel that it had any relevance to them

and they never acted upon it. It was the holy nature of our father Abraham that compelled him to realize

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that the message was truly meant for him, and he then undertook the journey with his wife, Sarah, that would make them the parents of the Jewish people for all eternity.

There is also another and perhaps deeper meaning into those two words of “lech lecha.” This is not only

Torah accomplishments.

That is undoubtedly what the Mishnah in Avot wishes to communicate to us by saying that Abraham was tested ten times, and he able to withstand all these trials. The Hebrew expression “to stand” not only refers to a physical description on two legs but also implies that Abraham was elevated and made greater by each of the challenges and tests that he was able to overcome.

I have pointed out in previous articles that the rabbis saw that this was the main difference between Abraham and Noah. There are many people in the world who accomplish noble and even holy tasks. But there are very few who do so on a consistent basis throughout their entire lives, no matter what circumstances they face. It is one of the reasons

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an immediate instruction regarding a specific journey and trip, but it is also a general outline and pattern for the remainder of the life of Abraham and Sarah, that guides them long after this initial sojourn has been taken and its purpose accomplished.

Heaven, so to speak, is telling Abraham that the purpose in life is always to keep on going, never to rest on one’s past accomplishments, but to always see that there is more to be done. The work of human beings in this life is never fully achieved. We are never allowed to quit, so to speak, in midstream. As long as the breath of life exists within us, we should continue to be devoted to furthering

why we never find in the Talmud or Jewish tradition the concept of retirement as being a time of leisure, a time of not having to face new tasks or challenges.

There is no end to the accomplishments and challenges of life when there is life itself within our bodies.

The challenges of age are far different from those of youth, in that there is no excuse for attempting to shirk them and avoid their rigors. Thus, we are always meant to keep on going to the extent that we are able to do so.

That has always been the message of Abraham to us, for all our generations.

Shabbat shalom.

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From the Fire Parshas Lech Lecha

Same Place, Worlds Apart

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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av Pinchas Koritzer frequently said that until Parshas Lech Lecha, before Avraham Avinu, the world was in a state of confusion.

When Avraham came into the world, however, kindness and Hashem’s salvation entered the world. Let us see how Avraham’s life brings clarity to our world.

Without any introduction, Hashem began speaking to Avraham with the words “Lech lecha, go!

Go!” With these words, our history began abruptly and without any preface. Hashem did not even tell him exactly where he was going. We know now, however, that Avraham was being sent to Eretz Yisroel, the land of Israel. The beginning of our parsha seems to imply that Hashem suddenly gave Avraham a new commandment, to leave his birthplace of Ur Kasdim and travel to Eretz Yisroel. The remarkable thing is that just a few psukim earlier, at the end of parshas Noach, we learn that Avraham had already left his birthplace

and was already on his way to Eretz Yisroel. He had merely been waylaid in Charan. The pasuk says (Bereishis 11:31), “And Terach took Avram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Avram his son, and they went out of Ur Kasdim with them to go to the land of Canaan [Eretz Yisroel]...”

We therefore see that it was Terach’s idea to leave Ur Kasdim and move to Canaan before Hashem ever spoke to Avraham. Why does the Torah present “Lech lecha” as if it were a commandment to do something that Avraham was not already on his way to do? In addition, we must understand why Hashem tells Avraham to leave his birthplace. As we saw earlier, Avraham was no longer in his birthplace of Ur Kasdim. He was already in Charan, on the way to Canaan! Finally, we must understand why Terach calls Eretz Yisroel Canaan, but Hashem does not call it by name and instead calls it (Bereishis

12:1) “the land that I will show you.”

It is clear that there are two ways go to the same destination, Eretz Yisroel. There is “Aliyas Avraham” and “Aliyas Terach.”

Why did Terach decide to “make aliyah”? The Torah makes a point of omitting the reason, perhaps because there are numerous reasons someone may move from one country to another. He may have moved for economic, political, or cultural reasons.

Alternatively, he may have moved to escape something in Ur Kasdim.

There are numerous reasons why Terach may have wanted to move to Canaan.

Avraham moved to Eretz Yisroel for one reason: it was Hashem’s will.

There was no natural, rational reason for Aliyas Avraham. Eretz Yisroel, to Avraham, was only defined as “the land that I will show you,” the land where Hashem wants him to live.

Even later on (Bereishis 22:14), Avraham names Yerushalayim “Hashem appeared” in order to show “Hashem

appeared on this mountain.”

Terach, however, called Eretz Yisroel “Canaan” because it had absolutely no spiritual significance to him. For him, Canaan was simply a destination to which he could flee and nothing more. For Avraham, every inch of Eretz Yisroel was a revelation of G-dliness, another opportunity for (Bereishis 17:1) “and you shall walk before Me.” Everywhere he went, he built altars. Canaan and Eretz Yisroel were the same place, but for Avraham and Terach, they were worlds apart.

Throughout history, our people have made aliyah in two different ways. Even when the Jews left Egypt to go to Eretz Yisroel, there were two types of aliyah, as we see in the pasuk (Bamidbar 33:2) “their going out for their travels... their travels for their going out.” For some Jews, their aliyah was just “their travels for their going out,” meaning that they only wanted to go to Eretz Yisroel because they just wanted to escape the slavery of Egypt. For many, however, it

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was “their going out for their travels,” their departure from Egypt was not for its own sake. They were leaving primarily because they wanted to go to Eretz Yisroel and not simply because they wanted to leave Egypt behind.

Referring to this idea, the pasuk in Yeshayahu (60:8) says, “Who are these who are blown like a cloud and like doves returning to their nests.”

Rav Kook taught that some people come to Eretz Yisroel like clouds simply blown by the winds of anti-Semitism. There are others, however, who feel compelled to return to Eretz Yisroel like hatchlings returning to their mother, back home to their nest. The aliyah of Terach was the aliyah of being blown in by the clouds from some other place. Avraham’s aliyah was one of a dove returning home to its mother, to its home.

Hashem told Avraham to “go!” as if it were a sudden command to do something new because He wanted to emphasize to Avraham that his aliyah to Eretz Yisroel was not a continuation of Terach’s journey to Canaan.

It was to be a completely new type of aliyah with exactly the opposite purpose of Terach’s. For Avraham’s aliyah, he was told to go “from your birthplace, from your father’s house.”

Avraham had to leave behind his father’s attitudes and travel to Eretz Yisroel with a new purpose.

For Avraham, the connection between the people of Israel and the land of Israel is not about some particular quality or advantage of the land. It is based on the will of Hashem. Hashem chose this place as the land where His unbreakable connection with the people of Israel would be manifest. That is where the three parts of one whole are united as one: Hashem, Eretz Yisroel, and the Jewish people.

That is why, in his covenant with Avraham (Bereishis 15:9-10), Hashem told him to take “three calves, three goats, and three rams” and cut them in half. There are three types of animals and three of each animal because of the inseparable relationship between the three partners: Hashem, the Jewish people, and Eretz Yisroel.

They were cut in half to show that none of them can exist separately from the others. They would be in-

complete. The connection between them cannot be broken because they are united by Hashem’s will. The Jewish people and the land of Israel are chosen by Hashem and are therefore eternal.

letter, he is a heretic, so too, anyone who says that all of Eretz Yisroel belongs to the Jewish people except for one inch of it, he uproots the sanctity of Eretz Yisroel and denigrates the soul of the Jewish people...

The Jewish people and the land of Israel are chosen by Hashem and are therefore eternal.

We understand that for those who made aliyah not in order to return home to the special place where we can reunite with Hashem but merely to escape anti-Semitism, the search for a “national Jewish homeland” does not have to be in Eretz Yisroel.

It could be in Uganda or anywhere else in the world. But for anyone with a sense of Avraham Avinu’s connection to Eretz Yisroel, which is based on the fact that Hashem chose Eretz Yisroel and the Jewish people, Eretz Yisroel is our only “homeland.” Such a person could no more give away part of Eretz Yisroel to another nation than he could cut off part of his own body.

Even in the times of Rav Kook, and his closest student, Rav Yaakov Moshe Charlap, there were discussions about whether we should not insist on possessing the entire land of Israel in exchange for “peace” with our neighbors. In opposition to the “land for peace” concept, Rav Yaakov Moshe wrote the following amazing words in a letter printed in the first volume of his sefer Mei Marom: There is no doubt that if anyone would feel the need to sign an international treaty which would have the effect of giving up even the smallest rights to a portion of the land of Israel, it would be better for the signatories to such an agreement to cut off their own thumbs and not cut away any of the plantings of Hashem’s garden, (Tehillim 50:2) “from Zion, which is entirely beautiful, where Hashem appears.”

Just like if one says that the entire Torah is from heaven except for one

Indeed, what dispensation do they have to agree to tear Eretz Yisroel into shreds by setting a hand upon the sanctuary of G-d and defiling a portion of the Divine gift which was given to us as an eternal inheritance? …

The land of Israel is the land of

the life of the Jewish people such that we draw our entire sustenance from Eretz Yisroel. It is a part of the body of the Jewish people without which we could not survive. To take away a piece of Eretz Yisroel is to pierce the heart of the Jewish people.

While there may be differing halachic opinions on the matter, such words could only be spoken by someone who recognizes the inseparable connection between the land of Israel and the people of Israel because of Hashem’s choice of Eretz Yisroel and the Jewish people as His portion.

May we merit to see the return of the entire nation of Israel to the land of Israel as an eternal inheritance soon in our days.

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Parsha Ponderings

A Minute for a Lifetime

By Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky

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arshas Lech Lecha tells the story of the four kings who defeated the five kings. Among the captives they took was Lot, Avraham’s nephew. He left the presence of Avraham to seek out greener pastures in the fertile, yet spiritually barren, city of Sedom.

The pasuk tells us of a man who came to tell Avraham the news that his nephew had been captured, “Va’yavo ha’palit, And the fugitive came and told Avraham...” (14:13) .The Midrash tells us that this “fugitive” was Og, the giant who later attempted to kill the Jews by throwing a mountain down on their camp.

“Why is he called ‘Og’?” asks the Midrash, “Because he came to inform Avraham Avinu while he was baking matzos, which are called “ugos.” (As mentioned at the end of the Pesach Seder, this story of Lot occurred on the night of Pesach.)

This seems puzzling. Surely there are more appropriate nicknames for Og. Why does the Torah name him after this seemingly insignificant occurrence at the time of his encounter

with Avraham? ◊◊◊ My grandfather Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l, would tell the story of Rav Shimon Galei, a renown tzaddik in Eretz Yisroel, who was once involved in an automobile accident. As he lay injured on the side

really want to help me, please start observing Shabbos!”

The next day, a couple came to the hospital to visit Rav Galei. With tears in her eyes, the woman started speaking.

“We witnessed your accident yesterday and ran over to help. We

Every interaction with a tzaddik is a moment to capture.

of the road, a few people ran to help him, among them a secular police officer.

“How can I help you, rabbi?” the officer asked, as he tried to assess the rav’s injuries.

Rav Galei, noticing the absence of a kippah on the officer’s head, did not hesitate for a moment. Putting his own painful leg injury aside, he pleaded with the officer, “If you

watched as the officer tried to help you, but you refused his help and only begged him to start observing Shabbos. We were not religious until yesterday. But when we saw how devoted you are to G-d, and how important Shabbos is to you, we decided that we too will start to observe Shabbos!” ◊◊◊ My grandfather explained that

every interaction with a tzaddik is a moment to capture. One can gain inspiration for a lifetime, or one can continue on with his life unaffected and lose it.

Og met Avraham and observed him doing a mitzvah. He took this moment and was inspired to save a life! Hashem rewarded Og for this good deed, and his name is etched into eternity as testimony to testify that an encounter with a tzaddik and a moment of inspiration can change the world for the good.

Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky is the Director of Advancement at Yeshiva of South Shore – Yeshiva Toras Chaim Beis Binyamin. He is currently compiling the Torah thoughts from his grandfather, Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l, into print, in Hebrew and English. If you have any stories or divrei Torah to share from his grandfather, or to subscribe to receive a weekly dvar Torah from Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky’s teachings, you can email him at skamenetzky@yoss.org.

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The Wandering

Jew

A Tale of Three Cities and a Hurricane Part I

By Hershel Lieber

Havdalah

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bout eight years ago, in late October 2012, I participated in Limmud Polska. The Polish version of this international Jewish learning program brought together about eight hundred participants for a three-day weekend of educational, cultural, and religious events. The assortment of guests ranged from those with zero knowledge about Judaism to those with a fair amount of understanding, from the secular to the religious, from the Orthodox to the Reform, and from Halachic Jews to those with some Jewish ancestry.

The event was held over a Shabbos, and both Shabbos and kashrus requirements were adhered to during all communal happenings. Shabbos regulations during smaller events and workshops were applied according to the level of observance of the presenters and lecturers, most whom were not Orthodox. Food preparation, which was entirely vegetarian, was supervised to conform with kashrus and hilchos Shabbos according to Or-

Limmud Polska participants on Motzei Shabbos

thodox standards to allow maximum participation at this gathering.

I accepted the invitation to give lectures at this event with full knowledge that I would be only one out of four Orthodox teachers (Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Rabbi Yonah Bookstein, Jonathan Weber and I) among

following a life based on Torah and mitzvos and to show that it is compatible with living in a secular society.

I arrived from Warsaw on Friday afternoon to a beautiful, large suburban hotel with just a small amount of time to unpack, shower, and get dressed for Shabbos. I lit candles in

I realized, based on the news reports, that I would not be leaving Europe for quite a while.

dozens of other lecturers from Reform, Conservative, and secular backgrounds. I felt that it was important to show a Torah true perspective to a program that promotes the study and understanding of Judaism. I wished to promote a traditional approach in

my room and rushed down to the Orthodox minyan. I was honored to daven kabbolas Shabbos, which I conducted in the Carlebach style, with lots of singing and dancing. We had about seventy to eighty participants, our competition being the Reform/

Conservative services. Most participants did not join either group, rather they used the time to socialize in the various lobbies.

The Shabbos meals were held in a large banquet hall where we sang Shalom Aleichem in unison, which was followed by kiddush by Rabbi Yonah Bookstein, former director of the Ronald Lauder Foundation in Poland, whom I have known for years.

I washed for the meal and had some salads. I sat with Professor Jonathan Weber from Oxford University, who is a member of the International Auschwitz Council, and his wife and had a short conversation. The general atmosphere of the Shabbos seudah was clearly not Shabbosdik. Most people were quite removed from Yiddishkeit, and the huge ballroom made it difficult to connect to the enormous crowd without the use of a microphone.

I then rushed up to my room to finish the seudah with some cold cuts and unheated kugel by the glow of

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my Shabbos candles. Then I hurried down to give my lecture/workshop on Shabbos zemiros. About twenty-five people joined me in singing at least ten different songs and listened intently to my commentary on the meaning of these treasured verses.

This was truly the highlight of the evening, and most of the participants wholeheartedly agreed. The rest of the evening I spent mingling with the crowd, reconnecting to many old friends while making some new ones.

In many ways, I considered this to be a true oneg Shabbos and, in a sense, a kiddush Hashem as well.

Shabbos day was a repetition of the previous evening. A small amount of mispallelim joined me for Shacharis, which I davened. The lecture on Birchas Hashachar, where the inevitable misunderstanding of the bracha “shelo asani isha” always needs a clarification, was a success.

The seudah once again had the same non-Shabbos environment as the night before. Again, I returned to my room so that I could supplement some meat to my meal in honor of Shabbos.

Interacting with many people in the lobby was, of course, satisfying to me and an opportunity to present a positive image of Orthodox Judaism.

I was asked to lead the Havdalah services, which was also attended by the non-Orthodox clergy. We sang together and showed respect to each other, though our differences on religious beliefs and practices are in many ways poles apart. Following the singing and dancing, a beautiful buffet dinner was served. I ate some herring and vegetables and then sat in the lobby having intimate conversations with many of my friends. This was also an opportunity to take photos and exchange contact information between each other.

It was during this evening that I was informed of the impending Hurricane Sandy that was heading to the Eastern Coast of the United States.

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Sunday night dinner in Warsaw with Rabbis Schudrich (left), Bookstein (right), and Pawlak (center)

On Sunday, after davening, breakfast, and many heartfelt farewells, I headed to the Radisson Hotel in Warsaw where I stayed overnight. My plans were to leave for New York the next morning. During the afternoon and for the entire evening, I was occupied trying to encourage a couple to go for counseling over the breakdown of their marriage. It was a very complex situation and involved children as well. My personal presence was a follow-up to previous phone conversations with both parties. Unfortunately, I was not successful, and they eventually got divorced.

I came back to the hotel after midnight and turned on CNN. I saw the devastation that Hurricane Sandy caused in the Caribbean and heard that it was headed to the New Jersey coast with potential destruction in New York City. The reports said that all flights to this area were cancelled and that evacuations were being planned.

I went to sleep after watching hours of the ongoing saga. I realized that I was not leaving Poland the next day and pondered about what to do next.

By the next morning, which was Monday, I realized, based on the news reports, that I would not be leaving Europe for quite a while. The hurricane flooded streets and subways, electricity lines were out, and the ris-

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ing tides were destroying homes in lower lying areas. In short, the devastation in the New York area was catastrophic! Planes to the United States were cancelled from Poland and other European cities for the unforeseeable future. I was at loss about what to do for a whole week in Poland, when I reminded myself of an invitation that I received only about two weeks before.

I had befriended Rabbi Dovid Keleti, who ran an organization called Lativ in Budapest, almost seven years before. Rav Dovid’s project was focused on introducing Yiddishkeit to Jewish university students in Hungary. I had been by him on at least three occasions in Budapest and lectured to his student groups as well.

Rabbi Keleti always visited me when he came to the States on fundraising trips, and Pesi and I had the pleasure to host him for Shabbos many times.

About a week before leaving for Poland for Limmud Polska, he happened to call me, and I informed him that I would not be far from him in Warsaw for a weekend. He then asked if I could join his Lativ retreat for the following weekend. I told him that I really would love to but that I had to return to New York immediately after my weekend. That’s how our conversation ended at the time. Realizing now that I would be stuck in Europe for the next week or so, I called him and asked if his invitation for me to join his retreat was still in the offing.

He enthusiastically welcomed my participation and asked that I give at least two lectures.

I immediately accepted the offer and started to make plans to get to Budapest, at the same time as trying to book a flight home to New York.

The only flights that were flying to New York were from Air Austria with the first flight beginning the following Monday. So, I booked a flight to Vienna and I arranged for a roundtrip train reservation to and from Budapest for the next day. I called my cousin in Vienna and told her that I would be arriving later that evening. Debby and her husband, Zwicky, were excited that I was coming and that I would spend some time with them and their newborn son, Jonatan, whom I had yet to meet. I ran out to buy a gift for Jonatan, packed my bags, and headed for my late afternoon flight from Warsaw to Vienna.

Hershel Lieber has been involved in kiruv activities for over 30 years. As a founding member of the Vaad L’Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel he has traveled with his wife, Pesi, to the Soviet Union during the harsh years of the Communist regimes to advance Yiddishkeit.

He has spearheaded a yeshiva in the city of Kishinev that had 12 successful years with many students making Torah their way of life. In Poland, he lectured in the summers at the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation camp for nearly 30 years. He still travels to Warsaw every year – since 1979 – to be the chazzan for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur for the Jews there. Together with Pesi, he organized and led trips to Europe on behalf of Gateways and Aish Hatorah for college students finding their paths to Jewish identity. His passion for travel has taken them to many interesting places and afforded them unique experiences.

Their open home gave them opportunities to meet and develop relationships with a variety of people. Hershel’s column will appear in The Jewish Home on a bi-weekly basis.

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By Alan Malka Alan Malka holding the girl he saved earlier this month

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Alan Malka saved the life of an infant girl earlier this month when he pulled her from a locked hot car on Aharonovitz Street in Petach Tikvah.

I

was working at my job in the Municipality when I received an emergency alert from United Hatzalah’s Dispatch and Command Center regarding a young child locked in a hot car on Ahronovitz Street right nearby. I drove down Sokolov Street on my ambucycle and was at the scene in less than a

minute.

When I arrived, the father of the young girl was very agitated and told me that his daughter got locked in the car after he accidentally left the keys inside. I pulled out the special equipment that I have that allows me to open locked cars, and within 15 seconds I had the door of the car open and picked up the infant girl. I gave her to her father who embraced her warmly and performed a quick medical check. Thankfully all of the girl’s vital signs checked out. She was in good condition.

The father couldn’t thank me

enough. And I smiled as I told him that I was happy to help and that it was all part of the job.

This is one of the many emergency calls that I have gone to that make all of the training and volunteering worthwhile.

I’ve been volunteering with United Hatzalah for the past 11 years, and this isn’t the first child that I have rescued from a hot car. One month over the summer, I had three instances like this. Each one is special and each is incredibly important as being locked in a hot car can be fatal to a child in a matter of minutes.

I myself am a family man. I have been married for more than 20 years and have a bunch of teenagers at home. While I’ve already passed the time where I myself have small children, I know what it means to be a parent having an emergency.

Throughout the years, we’ve had many of our own. Thankful, my wife has always supported me the entire way as a volunteer as have my children. Volunteering as an EMT is one of the joys of my life. Situations like these – where I can save a young child from irreparable damage or even death – make it so.

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Trump’s Record & Where Biden Stands on Those Issues

By TJH Staff No longer do presidential campaigns involve much talk about records, plan,s and proposals. They have pretty much become personality food fights, with voters being asked to decide who they like more. Love him or hate him (after all, isn’t that what this election is all about?), the following is a discussion of President Trump’s record on several key issues and where Joe Biden stands on those issues.

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ny non-economist who dives into economic data will quickly feel their eyes glaze over – “Why can’t it be a yes or no question? Is the economy good or not?” The answer is that there are countless data points to answer that question, and oftentimes it is a matter of perspective that determines how the question is answered. Add the devastating impact of Covid-19 and the question becomes similar to “What do you think of the cook’s cholent recipe…and try not to consider the dead cat that landed in it.”

President Trump’s economic plan over the past four years involved around a three-pronged approach: tax cuts, deregulation, and upending trade policy.

He did all three of those things. In 2017, Trump delivered a tax cut which cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and lowered individual tax rates. On the deregulation front, the Trump administration cut eight-and-a-half regulations for every new rule and slashed regulatory costs by nearly $50 billion to-date. On the trade front, one of Trump’s first actions was withdrawing from the TPP, which was a 12-nation trade deal that the Obama administration agreed to participate in. He also renegotiated NAFTA, which is the U.S. trade deal with Mexico and Canada.

Most significantly, he placed tariffs on China imports, resulting in a trade deal with China which, in the first phase included a Chinese commitment to purchase an additional $200 billion in American goods by the end of 2021.

So how did the Trump economic plan go?

According to the Economist, from 2017 to 2019, the U.S. economy “performed marginally better than expected.” Gross domestic product (GDP), which is the most common yardstick of the economy, grew somewhat faster in 2017-19 than it was in either Barack Obama’s first or second term. GDP growth reached 3.1 percent in early 2019. Household income soared during Trump’s first three years in office, reaching a record $68,703 in 2019, an increase of $5,805 from 2016 after

adjusting for inflation. On the unemployment front, unemployment fell to 3.5 percent in 2019, the lowest in half a century.

Then the bottom fell out.

When Covid-19 came ashore from China in early 2020, 22 million jobs evaporated in a matter of weeks. Pandemic lockdowns resulted in an unprecedented 32.9% annualized drop in real GDP in the second quarter of 2020.

The outlook looked dim.

Emergency measures were taken. Trump signed four bills designed to offer relief to the American economy, injecting more than $2.5 trillion into the economy, some by the way of stimulus directly to families, some by way of funds to prop up struggling businesses.

In July 2020, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that the unemployment rate in December would be 10.5 percent. However, in the past five months, 52 percent of the job losses from the pandemic have been recovered, and the United States has gained more than 11.4 million jobs resulting in a current unemployment rate of 7.9 percent.

So what are the candidates promising for the future of the economy?

When it comes to taxes, Trump is promising a second-term middle-class tax cut, thus stimulating further growth. Biden wants to raise the top income tax rate back to 39.6% from 37% and the corporate income tax rate to 28% from 21%, providing the federal government with more tax dollars to distribute to lower income earners.

America’s economy is becoming more entangled with China, which is now the globe’s second largest economy behind the U.S. and is gunning for the number one slot. After Trump’s efforts to right the ship, for the first time in six years, in 2019, the trade deficit with China fell to $616.8 billion. Trump has promised to continue his hawkish measures by increasing pressure on China with the threat of tariffs.

Biden sees China as less of an economic threat. In May 2019, Biden said China was “not competition for us,” since it had domestic problems to deal with. He is promising to take a radically different approach than Trump; he says that he will change the economic dynamic with China by forming a coalition with allies and partners, not through unilateral tariffs.

“We’re currently witnessing the fastest labor market recovery from an economic crisis in history. Next year will be the greatest economic year in the history our country, I project.” - President Trump “The depth of economic devastation our nation is experiencing is not an act of G-d. It’s a failure of presidential leadership.” - Joe Biden

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n the waning days of the Obama presidency in 2016, diplomatic clouds darkened over Israel. In what Vox – a generally pro-Obama news outlet – called Obama’s “parting shot at Israel,” the United States abstained on a controversial UN Security Council resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory, allowing it to pass easily. This vote, coupled with the BDS movement gaining momentum, appeared to be a winning strategy to strike at the engine that drives Israel’s success – its economy.

Then Trump took office, and everything changed.

Trump appointed South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. Ambassador to the UN, who proclaimed that “there is a new sheriff in town” and that “the days of Israel bashing are over.” Ambassador Haley, directed by the Trump administration, repeatedly defended Israel, to the great dismay of the shellshocked international body which was getting used to America’s ambivalence towards Israel, at best. After her first Security Council meeting, Haley declared, “The Security Council is supposed to discuss how to maintain international peace and security. But at our meeting on the Middle East, the discussion was not about Hezbollah’s illegal build-up of rockets in Lebanon. It was not about the money and weapons Iran provides to terrorists. It was not about how we defeat ISIS. It was not about how we hold [Syrian President] Bashar Assad accountable for the slaughter of hundreds and thousands of civilians. No, instead, the meeting focused on criticizing Israel, the one true democracy in the Middle East.”

Trump’s first foreign trip included a visit to Israel. Although he met with Palestinian officials during that trip, news reports quickly surfaced that Trump blasted the Palestinian leadership for paying the families of terrorists. Later, Trump acted on his chastisement – in 2018, Trump signed into law the Taylor Force Act, which halted U.S. foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority until Palestinian terrorists and their families cease to be paid.

In 2017, Trump did what many presidents promised but never did. He announced that he would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. At the time, many on the left believed that the move would usher in an era of war, death, and destruction in the Middle East. Despite the naysayers, in 2018, Trump fulfilled his promise. The predictions of doom and gloom fell flat.

In fact, in the four years of Trump’s presidency, Israel’s position on the world stage turned around 180 degrees.

Perhaps the biggest driver of that turnaround was President Trump’s decision in May 2018 to terminate the United States’ participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran and the re-imposition of sanctions lifted under the deal. Rather than bolster Iran and give it a seat on the world stage, the Trump administration highlighted Iran’s indiscretion in the region and caused its enemies to coalesce around the common cause of weakening the evil regime. Among Iran’s enemies in the region are Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.

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found their common cause to be sympathy for the Palestinians, now those countries found their common cause to be the Iranian problem. On that front, Israel was a worthy ally. Over the ensuing years, Israel has carried out numerous missions in Iran, undoubtedly with the cooperation of numerous Arab countries who had, in the past, called for Israel’s destruction.

The culmination of this diplomatic shift took place over the last three months with the Trump administration brokering normalization of relationships and peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and, most recently, Sudan. At the end of August, during the maiden flight between Israel and the UAE, El Al flew directly over Saudi Arabia, signaling that peace with one of the region’s most important Muslim countries may be on the horizon.

Joe Biden has long considered himself an ally of Israel. However, during his time as Obama’s vice president, he, at times, embraced the role of pitbull when it came to Israel.

In 2010, a diplomatic spat took place when then-Vice President Joe Biden snubbed Prime Minister Netanyahu while in Israel by arriving 90 minutes late to a scheduled dinner in order to object to a bureaucratic announcement that took place while Biden was in Israel about Israeli government approval of 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem.

In April 2016, shortly after a terrorist attack in Israel, Biden said, “I firmly believe that the actions that Israel’s government has taken over the past several years – the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the legalization of outposts, land seizures – they’re moving us, and, more importantly, they’re moving Israel in the wrong direction.”

However, trying to read the tea leaves based on statements and optics is fraught with uncertainty. What is certain is that the Democratic Party under Obama, and more recently with the rise of the radical-left, is increasingly cold towards Israel. Whether Biden will continue that trend is anyone’s guess, as he has not addressed his Middle East policy beyond the standard political platitudes.

When it comes to the Iran deal, though, Biden has signaled that he would rejoin the accords. He told the Council for Foreign Relationships, “If Iran moves back into compliance with its nuclear obligations, I would re-enter the JCPOA as a starting point to work alongside our allies in Europe and other world powers to extend the deal’s nuclear constraints.” That would certainly negatively impact Israel and may undo some of the alliances that Israel has forged under the Trump administration.

“The State of Israel and the Republic of Sudan have agreed to make peace. This is, for many, many years they’ve been at odds, to put it nicely, and to normalize their relations. This will be the third country where we’re doing this. And we have many, many more coming.

We have — they’re coming at us hot and heavy. In the coming weeks, they will meet to negotiate cooperation agreements.” – President Trump announcing the normalization of relations between Sudan and Israel last week

“There’s no solution for Israel other than a two-state solution. It doesn’t exist. It’s not possible.” – Joe Biden, PBS Newshour, December 2019

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JUDGES I

t is the third-branch of government, the judiciary, where a lot of the action takes place in government outside the view of the news headlines – usually.

To date, President Trump has appointed 218 judges to the federal judiciary, including 53 on the U.S. appeals courts. When Trump took office, 42% of judges were appointed by Republicans; now more than half are Republican-appointed. Although there is no way to control jurists – who have life-time appointments – from becoming activist judges, it is more common for Republican jurists to be constitutionalists, who believe that the role of judges is not to make the law but to determine whether the given law is constitutional.

Most importantly, Trump has appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, the most recent being Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was sworn in this week to replace the seat held by late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If Justice Roberts can still be considered a conservative, Trump’s appointees have swung the highest court in the land to a 6-3 conservative majority.

Whoever wins this race on November 3 will likely get to appoint at least one justice, perhaps more. Justice Stephen Breyer is 82 years old; Justice Thomas is 72 years old; and Justice Alito is 70 years old.

More importantly, though, Democrats who are upset about Trump’s three appointments are threatening to pack the Supreme Court and add seats to the Supreme Court. By doing so, they can place any number of liberal judges on the court, erasing the conservative majority.

Presumably, if that happens, when the Republicans regain power, they would engage in the same chicanery, thus making the Supreme Court just another arm of whichever party is in control of the presidency and Congress – a dangerous precedent.

Joe Biden has refused to say whether he is in support of packing the courts. When asked the question, he refused to answer and declared, “[Voters will] know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over.” After being pressured to answer the question, he deflected and said that he will likely appoint a commission to consider what to do with the Court.

“I want to every American child watching to understand that this is a very special and important ceremony. We are fulfilling the duty that passes to each new generation to sustained the national traditions and virtues that make possible everything we have achieved before that we will do tomorrow. Because of our Constitution and our culture of freedom, you live in a land where anything is possible and where any dream can come true. No matter who you are, no matter your background, in America everyone is entitled to equal protection under our laws, and your sacred rights can never, ever be taken away.”– President Trump on October 26, 2020, at the swearing-in ceremony of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court “[Voters will] know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over.”- Joe Biden, when asked if he favors adding justices to the Supreme Court

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ealthcare has long been the big pink elephant that nobody knows what to do with. In 2010, President Obama instituted what has become known as Obamacare.

Then-President Obama promised countless times, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.” It turned out that millions of Americans were forced to change doctors due to Obamacare. Even more of a failure, Obama promised that, due to Obamacare, the average American family would save $2,500 a year on healthcare. That did not happen, and healthcare costs continued to rise. Additionally, Obamacare caused Medicaid enrollment to explode; Medicaid, though, has an over-40% denial of treatment rate.

When he took office, President Trump promised to repeal and replace Obamacare. He came within one vote of doing that in 2017, when the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) voted it down, seemingly out of a personal vendetta against Trump. Since that time, Trump has not put forth a comprehensive healthcare overhaul. He has signed several executive orders in an effort to lower prescription costs, though. He also repealed the Obamacare “individual mandate,” which forced people to buy expensive insurance and taxed those who couldn’t afford it.

Trump has repeatedly vowed that, should he get a second term, he will come up with a comprehensive healthcare plan. However, to-date, he has failed to lay out what that plan would look like. Although healthcare is a hot-button issue, Trump pointed out in both debates that the premise that healthcare is broken may not be fully accurate. After all, over 160 million Americans get their healthcare through their employers and are happy with that coverage.

Biden has promised that Obamacare will become “Bidencare,” referring to his vision for an expanded Affordable Care Act that includes a public option for insurance.

“What I would like to do is a much better health care, much better. We’ll always protect people with pre-existing… so I’d like to terminate Obamacare, come up with a brand new beautiful health care.” -President Trump, at the second presidential debate

“What I’m going to do is pass Obamacare with a public option, become Bidencare.”Joe Biden, at the second presidential debate

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certain training regarding use of force and established a database that will track acts of police misconduct.

On a more personal front, Trump, in 2017, pardoned Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin who was given an outrageous sentence after a sham trial presided over by a judge who was clearly biased against him.

On the campaign trail, Joe Biden has said all of the right things about criminal justice reform, but Trump has repeatedly pointed out that Biden was one of the architects of the 1994 Crime Bill which placed tens of thousands of young black men – who Biden called “super-predators” – in prison for minor crimes.

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n 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act into law.

That legislation eliminated the “three strikes” life sentencing provision for some offenses and expanded judges’ discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes. The legislation allowed thousands of inmates to earn early release from prison.

Trump famously pardoned Alice Marie Johnson, a black woman who previously received a life sentence for her role in a cocaine trafficking ring, and later pardoned her.

Trump opposes cashless bail for people charged with certain crimes to pay bail or remain locked up until their trial. Trump has also signed an executive order that increased government grants for police departments that implement

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n 2016, one of the cornerstones of the Trump candidacy was immigration reform. Although “Build a Wall” started out as a fun rally chant, it quickly became a campaign promise etched in stone. In his four years as president, Trump partially delivered on the promise of a “new beautiful big wall.” To-date, the Trump administration, despite numerous roadblocks, has built 400 miles of wall. Although that is a fraction of the 2,000 miles of border between the U.S. and Mexico, the areas where the wall has been put up reflects the most heavily trafficked areas of the border.

The Trump administration has also issued more than 400 executive actions that dramatically reshaped America’s immigration system. Perhaps the most important change at the border has been the end of “catch and release,” which is the process in which the federal government must release migrant families apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border into the interior of the United States to begin the process of seeking asylum, hoping that they return on their own to complete the asylum process rather than disappear into the U.S. Now, when migrants are caught at the border, they are apprehended and not released into the country.

Trump’s border policies appear to have achieved the intended goal. In 2016, the Census Bureau estimated that, over the next two years, 1.4 million immigrants would pour through the border. However, in actuality, only 400,000

“Nobody has done more for the black community than Donald Trump. And if you look, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln – possible exception, but the exception of Abraham Lincoln – nobody has done what I’ve done.

Criminal justice reform – Obama and Joe didn’t do it.

I don’t even think they tried.”- President Trump at the second debate “The fact of the matter is there is institutional racism in America. And we have always said we’ve never lived up to it. Do we hold these truths to be sovereign: are all men and women are created equal? Guess what – we have never ever lived up to it.”- Joe Biden, when asked about criminal justice reform at the second presidential debate

did. 2019 marked the second time since the Great Recession that two years had passed consecutively with no increase in the U.S. immigrant population.

Trump’s early-2017 ban on travel from six Middle Eastern countries also resulted in refugees admitted from countries such as Iraq, Somalia, Iran and Syria to fall to almost zero.

Trump tried to end the Obama-sanctioned program known as DACA, which allowed 700,000 unauthorized immigrants known as “DREAMers” to live in the U.S. without threat of deportation. However, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not end the program.

President Trump favors a “merit based” immigration system. Under the system, most of the current categories of family-sponsored immigrant visas would be eliminated, and the system would place those with desirable labor-market attributes first in line. Furthermore, President Trump does not favor giving citizenship to the estimated eleven million illegals currently in the country.

Biden’s immigration plan is diametrically opposed to Trump’s policies, perhaps more so than on any other issue. Biden has promised to reverse nearly every one of Trump’s immigration policies. Most strikingly, he has vowed to send legislation to Congress that would offer a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegals currently in the country.

“We now have a stronger border as we’ve ever had. We’re over 400 miles of brand-new wall, you see the numbers, and we let people in, but they have to come in legally.” – President Trump, at the second presidential debate “And the fact is, and I’ve made it very clear, within 100 days, I’m going to send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people.”- Joe Biden, at the second presidential debate

Trump has criticized certain states for their extensive lockdowns – some of these very states have experienced the highest death tolls despite their lockdowns – Biden has expressed support for the lockdowns taking place in those states.

Biden has also expressed a willingness to implement a national mask mandate.

However, despite masks quickly becoming a lightning rod issue, with many advocating for their usage, some are suspicious that masks are not the savior that they are purported to be. In the early days of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci himself dismissed masks. To the extent he changed his tune on that, some argue that it is simply a political calculation, as his understanding of viruses and their contagions spans decades before the latest incarnation of the coronavirus.

Much like its devastating health and economic effects, it is hard to make headsor-tails of the political fallout of Covid-19. It is a tale that will have to be told at a much later time, when we are way past the crisis.

“We have a vaccine that’s coming. It’s ready. It’s going to be announced within weeks. And it’s going to be delivered.

We have Operation Warp Speed, which is the military is going to distribute the vaccine.”- President Trump at the second presidential debate “What I would do is make sure we have everyone encouraged to wear a mask all the time. I would make sure we move into the direction of rapid testing, investing in rapid testing. I would make sure that we set up national standards as to how to open up schools and open up businesses so they can be safe and give them the wherewithal, the financial resources to be able to do that.”Joe Biden at the second presidential debate

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here is probably not one head of state whose political standing has not been upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Once the crisis is over, the next hundred years will likely be spent trying to figure out what happened, who did what right, who did what wrong, amongst a myriad of other questions. Perhaps one of the questions that will be asked is: “How did China get away with unleashing this deadly virus on the world, without facing the utmost consequences?”

How one sees President Trump’s response to the virus likely depends on the political-hue of the glasses worn by the observer. To Trump supporters, his decision to ban travel from China at the end of January – when National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci told him not to do so – was a bold act of leadership that saved millions of lives.

The U.S. leads the globe in Covid-19 deaths, with 231,026 fatalities. However, the U.S. does not lead the world in deaths per population. In that category, the U.S. is fourth in the world. Additionally, one must consider the possibility that there may be tens of countries (think Russia, China, Iran) that are not accurately reporting their deaths. A death-by-population calculation must take that into account. The U.S. standing on that metric will likely change once more information is gleaned.

Ultimately, as sad as each death is, the amount of deaths may not be a fair way to gauge President Trump’s response to Covid-19 in the first place.

Firstly, right here in New York, Gov. Cuomo’s decision to place Covid-positive patients back in nursing homes is estimated to have resulted in the deaths of 11,000 nursing home patients. That is not a decision that can be blamed on Trump.

Are there thousands of other deaths across the country that can be blamed on similar decisions by local authorities? Perhaps.

Secondly, the fatality rate in the U.S. is 2.57% – that is lower than 51 other nations. This figure –which is not often spoken about – indicates that although the virus has spread widely in the U.S., the therapeutics and medical care provided is resulting in a lower chance of death from the virus than nations such as Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Spain, and other first-world nations.

Local governments generally carry the primary burden of managing their local Covid-19 outbreaks. That is not simply a function of federalism. It is also due to the fact that the pandemic affects each locale differently and thus is best dealt with on a local level. That does not absolve Trump from implementing a country-wide plan. Trump will argue that he did exactly that and that the federal government has provided each locale with the necessary medical equipment needed and that he did everything possible on a national level to prevent the spread of the disease.

That claim can be debated until the cows come home.

What further complicates the ability to assess Trump’s handling of coronavirus is the fact that we are in the midst of the pandemic and don’t know how it will end.

Trying to grade Trump or any other leader’s response at this point would be akin to judging a firefighter in the middle of a blaze.

At the start of the pandemic, Trump implemented Operation Warp Speed, which is an ambitious plan to create, produce, and deliver 300 million doses of safe and effective vaccines by January 2021. If that is successful and the U.S. is able to vaccinate millions from Covid-19 while the rest of the world still struggles with the pandemic, how will Trump be seen then? Will his reluctance to embrace masks as “the solution” even be remembered or will he be seen as a great visionary and savior?

The key difference between how Trump is handling the pandemic and how Biden would handle it, based on Biden’s statements, is that Biden would be keener to institute lockdowns. Trump is generally opposed to lockdowns, although he has recognized that it is an issue to be decided by the individual states. Whereas

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The Path to 270 Electoral College Votes

and the Presidency Solid Biden: 232 Solid Trump: 125 Toss-Ups: 181 Real Clear Politics average of polls has 232 electoral votes solid and leaning Biden and 125 electoral votes solid and leaning Trump (which leaves Trump with a very narrow path). The below map, however, considers the states in which the candidates are campaigning and spending money as the “battleground states.” The numbers indicating which candidate is ahead of the other in the individual boxes are based on the Real Clear Politics average as of October 27. Below that number are the percentage points in which a candidate won that state in the past two presidential elections.

Red States are for Trump, Blue States are for Biden, and Grey States are Undecided.

Florida Trump +0.4 2016: Trump 1.2 2012: Obama 0.9 North Florida is overwhelmingly Republican; South Florida is overwhelmingly Democratic. The Interstate 4 corridor stretching from the Tampa Bay area to Daytona Beach is the real battleground. The candidates have each spent millions courting the 1.6 million voters in that 140-mile corridor.

Iowa Biden +0.8 2016: Trump 9.5 2012: Obama 5.8 Although Trump won Iowa in 2016, Obama won the last two elections before that. In 2016, Trump

outperformed the final polls in Iowa by 6.5 percentage points.

Minnesota Biden +6 2016: Clinton 1.6 2012: Obama 7.7 The last Republican to win this state was Richard Nixon in 1972.

But the rioting that has ravaged Minneapolis and the movement to defund the police there may swing voters towards Trump.

Nevada Biden +4.6 2016: Clinton 2.4 2012: Obama 6.7 Nevada is the swing state with the most Hispanics. Trump is poll-

ing well with Hispanics. That, coupled with the fact that Covid lockdowns adversely affected Nevada’s entertainment and hospitality industry, may result in a surprise Trump victory.

Pennsylvania Biden +3.8 2016: Trump 0.7 2012: Obama 5.4 Before 2012, the last Republican to win Pennsylvania was Ronald Regan in 1988, leading many to consider it “fool’s gold” for Republicans. Biden’s last-minute gaffe in the debate last week, when he said that he would ban all fossil fuels, may ultimately cost him the state though, as there is a large fracking and fossil fuel industry in the state, which employs tens of thousands of people.

North Carolina Biden +1.2 2016: Trump 3.7 2012: Romney 2.0 Although Obama won by 0.3 in 2008, the Republican candidate has won North Carolina in 10 of the last 12 elections. Some believe that North Carolina is no longer a red state but a “purple” state, due to changing demographics.

Arizona Biden +2.3 2016: Trump 3.5 2012: Romney 9.1 Except for Bill Clinton’s win in 1996, Arizona has voted Republican since 1952. However, changing demographics makes Arizona very much in play this year.

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Ohio Trump +0.6 2016: Trump 8.1 2012: Obama 3.0 Ohio is a blue-collar state with a shrinking industrial sector, making it one of the Rust Belt states. Unlike other Rust Belt states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, it does not have a significant minority population.

Texas Trump +3.2 2016: Trump 9.0 2012: Romney 15.8 Texas has voted Republican in presidential elections since 1980.

However, like several other states, changing demographics (including people fleeing from California and

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Wisconsin Biden +5.5 2016: Trump 0.7 2012: Obama 5 The last time Wisconsin went red before 2016 was in 1984, but Trump focused on this state in 2016 and won, despite the fact that of the dozens of polls tracked in the months leading up to the election, not a single one had him winning the state. Trump has visited Wisconsin twice in the last week.

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Trump’s & Biden’s First 10 Days

A satirical perspective on what each one would do on his first day in office

BY NATE DAVIS

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BIDEN

DAY 1: Fire Dr. Fauci for being against masks before being for masks even

DAY 1: Spend the day exploring the White House basement…where he will

though he himself doesn’t wear a mask when he thinks nobody is looking.

be spending the next four years, if he makes it.

And for having a bad arm.

DAY 2: Will remind everyone that Dr. Fauci has a really bad arm.

DAY 3: Will call Gov. Cuomo and tell him that if the Black Lives Matter mural on the street in front of Trump Tower is not removed by 5 p.m., New York City will never get another federal dollar.

DAY 4: Issue an order to engrave his face on Mt. Rushmore, right near Abe Lincoln, because he is the best president for African Americans, except for Lincoln, perhaps.

DAY 5: Release his tax returns with everything redacted other than his name. Just to give Rachel Maddow “breaking news!!”

DAY 6: Turn Central Park into an oil refinery.

DAY 7: Offer Joe Biden a position on the Dementia Research Council…as

DAY 2: Make the slogan of the country— “U.S.A., C’mon Man!” DAY 3: Send Hunter on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.

DAY 4: Drive to the Supreme Court with a U-Haul truck. After all, his handlers told him that he has to pack the Supreme Court.

DAY 5: Announce a tax credit for all who get hair plugs.

DAY 6: Give a speech about how Republicans are “lying pony horse face soldiers who are full of malarky.”

DAY 7: Add an extra fence to the White House to prevent himself from accidentally wandering off.

Exhibit 1.

DAY 8: Give a speech about how China has unleashed a plague on the U.S

DAY 8: Release The Art of Making Liberals’ Heads Explode.

and must be held responsible…after all, fried dumplings are not healthy!

DAY 9: Nuke China for engaging in viral warfare and sending us the China Plague.

DAY 9: Celebrate his 90th birthday.

DAY 10: Kickoff his 2024 presidential bid…just, well, to make liberals’

DAY 10: Announce that he is stepping down and handing over the reins of

heads explode

the presidency to Harrison Ford, uh, eh, uh, I mean, Kamala Harris.

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Finding Blessings Each Day TJH Speaks with Congresswoman Kathleen Rice

BY SUSAN SCHWAMM

Congresswoman Rice, thank you for your time.

I recently spoke with Jeremy Feder of the Lawrence School District, who mentioned that you were very involved in obtaining federal funds for the food distribution program held at the Lawrence Middle School.

I visited the program a few times, and met with Jeremy Feder, and I was so impressed.

They had that thing running like a well-oiled machine. I understand that now it’s going to actually continue through the summer, which is so critical. There are more food-insecure families in our district and across the country now since the Great Depression.

It’s awful how many people are food-insecure, especially children.

What are your thoughts about opening up the economy during this pandemic versus the desire to keep people safe?

I don’t see it that way. I think that you can do both.

I think that we can safely reopen our economy as long as we have in place robust testing. There’s probably going to be vaccine by the middle

of next year, I would say. But in terms of testing, we have never had a federal national approach to testing. Not just testing, but contact tracing, containment, and all of that.

Had we done that from the very beginning, if this president had put together a national plan for how we’re going to crush this virus, I think we could have opened up earlier and safely.

We do about just over a million tests a day now in this country; that number should be four million. We’re still not where we need to be for testing.

We have been pushing for robust and federal investment in testing and a national testing strategy. The administration has been pushing back against it. They basically want every state to be on their own.

Well, guess what? Our state has no money. I talk to school districts all the time that say, “We’re dipping into our rainy day fund in order to pay for screens and PPE and all of that stuff.” That’s ridiculous. We would have been able to have a better plan to open schools up in September if back in March and April, when the economy was beginning to shut down, we had said, “Okay. Full force

of the federal government behind crushing this pandemic because we can’t have a closed economy forever, it’s going to affect families, businesses, etc.” I think that if we’d spent those five months trying to figure out a really robust testing regime and listening to the scientists, we would have been in a much better place.

What about opening up the economy in your district, the 4th Congressional District?

The businesses are basically open with some limitations.

For instance, restaurants are, I think, at 25 percent capacity inside. We’re still under the 5% test positive level – we’re at about 1½ percent now – so we’re doing it right. Until we have a vaccine, there will be limitations on certain activities.

When do you think that vaccine’s coming out?

I don’t think it’s going to be until next year. I know that Trump is like, “Oh, it’s right around the corner,” and no, it’s not. There are a lot of companies that are developing vaccines, and the federal government is heavily invested in finding a vaccine. That is one

good thing that the Trump administration is doing.

What do you think about Cuomo’s role in the coronavirus pandemic?

We were the hardest-hit state in the country. We shut down before anyone. Behind New York City, my district was hit the hardest. Nassau County was hit the hardest of any other county in the state.

I think that what Cuomo did that was so good was that every day he was on TV talking about what the science was saying, what the scientists were saying, “Here’s what the CDC is saying.” He was following those recommendations.

And with the exception of what happened in the nursing homes, I think he did a good job.

You’re a former district attorney. What do you think about the bail reform laws in New York?

I wish that the legislature and the governor had actually included prosecutors in that whole process. They were, for the most part, kind of kept outside of the process and that was a mistake because they ended up having to involve them. There was such an out-

cry in terms of how almost any criminal could get bail. Prosecutors were totally taken out of the consideration of what bail should be set. And I think that was wrong.

But it did some good things as well. They made some changes earlier this year, so that it’s not like any person will be walking free – any crime alleged to have caused death, crimes involving obscenities or first-degree grand larceny, etc. These are the people who should be in prison, right? Not your drug addict who possessed a misdemeanor or a low-level felony amounts of drugs.

We’ve got a crime problem in this country, writ large. The overall direction we should be going in from a criminal justice standpoint is to understand which people need to be kept away from society. Those are the most violent people or your recidivists who are over and over and over again committing violent felony crimes.

We have to spend more money on addressing the issue of mental health because we don’t have a lot of mental health facilities in this state, and the prisons have, to some extent, become a place to house people with mental

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health issues as opposed to violence issues I’m not as immersed in this issue as I was when I was DA, but I think that de Blasio has fumbled a lot of this stuff in the city. The pandemic has just made it worse because a lot of people left this city. But you know what? New York City is resilient just like New York State is, and we’re going to come back and we’re going to come back better.

The last time I met you personally was at the anti-Semitism conference you put together in Cedarhurst Village Hall. That was truly admirable – how you were able to gather together so many elected officials in one spot about this one issue that touches so many people in our community. What could you, as an elected official, do to decrease these acts of anti-Semitism in the county?

I would like to start by talking about the Never Again Education Act. I was a co-sponsor of that bill. There were 294 co-sponsors, bipartisan, that finally recognized the importance of Holocaust education in the U.S. We are not many years away from not having any living survivors of the Holocaust. Their stories need to be told. There are all these crazy Holocaust deniers that put all this stuff out on social media that is insane. So when you talk about

that level of anti-Semitism, the one thing that we can do is ensure that kids in middle schools and high schools are learning about the Holocaust.

This bill creates a Holocaust education website as a central hub of resources for teachers.

It was signed into law in May of this year. That’s one big step that we can take.

In terms of the BDS movement, I am on the record as being completely against it.

It’s just crazy what’s happening on our campuses and from all different places all over the world.

I’ve always been a big supporter of the nonprofit security grant program that actually enabled me to bring about $1.3 million back to 14 synagogues and other faith-based organizations in my district.

The entire New York City area received $12.6 million, but we got $1.3 million. It’s sad that we have to have security at our synagogues and faithbased organizations, but that’s another thing we have to do. If we can’t educate people about how not to be anti-Semitic, we need to offer the protection so that people can worship without being worried about being attacked.

These are really big issues.

I would even go so far as to say one of the big things that we have to do in the next Congress – which, G-d willing, I’ll be serving in – is to regulate these social media platforms.

They allow the most vile, disgusting, race-baiting, violent communication ever.

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We have a First Amendment, freedom of speech, but what they allow to go on their social media platforms with very little responsibility is just outrageous. We have to regulate all of those social media platforms.

I would love for every parent to see the movie The Social Dilemma on Netflix because it talks about how all these social media platforms started, the algorithms they came up with to kind of enter your brain and influence you and how they feed you information. It is frightening. And by the way, the people who have built these platforms say they don’t let their kids go on these social media platforms because they’re so bad.

we need to do more of that. I have a feeling that if we pick up any Democratic seats in 2020 there are going to be people who are more moderate like me voted into office. They’ll be a good counterweight to people who don’t appreciate the strong relationship that we should have with Israel and Israel’s right to exist.

A lot of your constituents are pro-Israel. Is there anything that you’ve seen happening there that you are happy about? Is there anything else that can be done?

Well, I think these peace deals with Bahrain and the UAE and Sudan are huge.

Now, you know me. If Trump does something well like putting a ton of money behind finding a vaccine for this virus, I say it. I think these peace deals with Israel are a good thing. We’re going down the right path. I think my record of supporting pro-Israel legislation in Washington, whether it’s the Cooperation Enhancement and Regional Security Act, what we’re doing with PTSD Collaborative Research Act that’s between the U.S. and Israel, the expanding medical partnerships with Israel to lessen dependence on China – that speaks for itself.

I support a two-state solution, and I think that’s what we have to focus on. And I will also say that, when members of my party who take a different position on Israel say something that is incendiary about Israel or that is totally unwarranted, I respond. I call them out on that. I think that

“There’s so much more

On that note, do you feel the Democratic Party is starting to lean a little too far left?

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countries where we could set the rules for trade – was one of the best trade bills ever passed in Washington. One of the first things Trump did was do away with it. And now what do we have? We have outsized influence by China in the South China Sea, which is an incredibly important trade group because we are a global world. We are part of the global society, and we can’t go it alone in America. We need too much from the rest of the world. I was very proud of that, and I hope that if Biden

that unites us than divides us.”

Democratic Party is that we are incredibly diverse. When I look over the aisle on the Republican side, there’s a bunch of white men and maybe a handful of women, and that’s no joke. I think diversity is good. I think a difference of opinions is good. Do I think the media gives far more of a focus on the comments that are made by some of my colleagues about Israel that are not positive? Yes. I think that’s irresponsible because I think that there are more Democrats who feel like I do, but that’s not exciting, I guess.

You’ve been in Congress for six years. What are some of pieces of legislation that you sponsored or that you were involved with that you are most proud of?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership that we did – the trade deal with the Pacific Rim

wins, he will rejoin that trade deal.

We’ve done a lot in the Homeland Security Department to strengthen all of our technology at our airports because we can’t take our eye off safe travel even though no one is really traveling right now.

I will tell you something that I’m very proud of: The motto of the VA was adopted about 60 years ago, and it took a quote from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address. “To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.” We’ve had over two million women wear the uniform of this great country. That motto is outdated.

When Lincoln said those words, it was outdated. The bill to change the word “him” to “them” and to change the words “his” to “their” passed in the House, and I’m hoping that we can get some support

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in the Senate right now. It would go a long way in recognizing and respecting the service that women give to this country.

What’s your prediction for the November 3rd elections on the presidential front?

I have to say that I don’t know. A lot of pollsters say they learned a lot from 2016.

I take a lot of these polls with a grain of salt, but I do think that the fact that over 50 million people have already voted early has to mean something. Is it too early to tell if that’s the enthusiasm on the Democratic side or the Republican side? Not sure yet, but we have a massive increase in voter ballots.

I want to encourage as many people who feel that they can do it safely to please vote in person. Early voting starts on Saturday, October

24 and it goes until November 1. And of course, you can vote on Election Day. How has the pandemic affected the day-to-day legislative process?

What I loved and what I really do miss is not being there physically, not being in hearings together and meetings together. We do much of it on Zoom, and even when we go down to D.C., we stayed in our offices and wear our masks. Also, no outside people are allowed on the Capitol Hill campus – only if you’re a member or if you work there.

I hope that we get back to some sense of normalcy by the middle of next year.

I miss seeing my colleagues, especially the ones on the other side of the aisle because that’s how you learn about each other. When you’re friends with people, you’re much less likely to en-

gage in ad hominem attacks which have just become so commonplace with this president calling people losers and suckers and all that kind of stuff. I’m 55 years old. I don’t remember the last time I called someone a name. We need to get back to a level of civility and respect for each other because that’s how we’re going to get stuff done.

I’ve been in public service my whole life, and I love what I do.

I wish that we could all appreciate how wonderful it is that we live in such a diverse community and maybe make an effort to try to find something that you have in common with someone who doesn’t look like you or come from where you came from or have the education you have.

There’s so much more that unites us than divides us.

We’re in such a divisive environment right now that we’re

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putting Americans against Americans, and we can’t do that. We can’t.

My mother, G-d rest her soul, always said, “This too shall pass” during the bad times. And she would always remind us, “Count your blessings.” And so even during this pandemic, I have found something every day to be grateful for because I’ve been able to see my family members. But this is really hard.

Think of how hard it must be for our older generation of Americans, a lot of whom are isolated just because of either a health condition or because they’re in a nursing home. It’s so sad. I would encourage you to ask your readers to remember to reach out.

Try to once a day reach out to someone, with a phone call, a Zoom, an email, a text, to just say, “Hey, I’m thinking about you. How are you?”

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Believing in Strong American Values TJH Speaks with Doug Tuman

BY NATE DAVIS

Doug, you’re running for Congress. Tell us about your experience in politics.

I’m running to represent the 4th Congressional District. I never ran for public office before; this is my first time running. I’m a professional engineer, an attorney, and I’m the Commissioner of Engineering for the Town of Hempstead.

Is that a full-time job?

Yes. I’ve been working in civil service my entire life so I know what it means to work for the people. I’ve been doing that since I gradated with an engineering degree. Then I went to law school at night to become a patent attorney. I was filing patents at night and decided to stick with the engineering by day, and I worked my way up and became Commis-

sioner of Engineering.

What does that job entail?

I’m basically in charge of the infrastructure for the entire Town of Hempstead, which is the largest township in America. It’s vast, and unfortunately most of it was built at the same time so it’s all crumbling at the same time. We are actually working on a road-raising in Inwood right now, which is a fairly large project.

I’m very result-driven as well. That’s been the theme in my department. Any opportunity I have to push projects forward, I do. We certainly need to cut down on regulation and bureaucracy.

Tell us about how your campaign is going.

The race has been going

well. It’s very much a grassroots effort. I’m doing a lot of campaigning in Democratic areas. And I’m running on the Republican line.

I’m very much a Republican at the core. I have fiscal conservative values and strong values in support of what I believe is being the foundations of this country – upholding our liberties.

I’m spreading that message and trying to bring people onboard to unify them around that message of what I believe it means to be American and what I believe are American values. I don’t pitch myself as Doug Tuman, the Republican. I pitch myself as Doug Tuman, the neighbor that’s running for Congress that believes in these strong American values – not necessarily Republican values – and I’m finding that a lot

of people seem to agree. The pitch is that I see the role of government is to provide a platform for a free and open society to flourish.

Where do you live?

I live in West Hempstead.

There is a large Orthodox Jewish community in West Hempstead.

I haven’t lived in West Hempstead for too long, but I am getting to know the community; I’m very aware of the Orthodox community there and getting to know them as neighbors.

You may have noticed that for a lot of your ne ighb ors in We st Hempstead, one of the issues that they grapple with is the high tuition fees for private schools.

Yes, I’m very sympathetic to that. I’m pro-school choice.

What is your prediction for Election Day? I saw an unofficial poll on Twitter – somebody who has 40,000 Twitter followers that does these polls as a self-proclaimed pollster – a month ago and he was showing us that we were just three or four points behind, so I’m pretty confident.

I certainly think we could flip the seat red. And like I said, not so much because of Democrat versus Republican, but because people, especially in Nassau County, for the most part are middle of the road.

They’re not extreme in their views. I think that’s what they elected Kathleen Rice for. But even she has started to lean left. The extreme

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left is gaining power in this country. They’re gaining power and influence in Congress. They’re gaining power and influence on Twitter, and she’s not standing up strongly or strongly enough against it. She’s even pandering to it at times.

How so?

Well, I think even with some of the issues with the Jewish community and Israel. I mean, I don’t know how strong she’s standing up to the BDS. I don’t think she’s doing enough to stand up against that. The Black Lives Matter movement and the fact that it turned into an anti-police movement and the defund the police movement – she didn’t stand up strong enough and talk about the need for the support of our police. We need a representative that’s going to support all the people, support all groups, and is also going to have the backbone to stand up and point out these flaws at a time when it’s difficult to do so, and she didn’t do that.

She’s also just hasn’t been present. She’s not present in the community.

A big part of my campaign is going around and talking to the people and literally asking them, do you know who your congressperson is? Like I said, I’m doing this primarily in Democratic areas, and nine times out of ten people don’t know.

She comes across as a reasonable person. She’s intelligent, but she’s not working hard enough. She’s not doing it. Maybe she was.

She’s certainly not doing it anymore. And I think it’s really starting to wear on the community. A big part of my campaign is just making the community aware of that and aware of the fact that, if elected, I’d end up being the most accessible congress-

person this district has ever had.

How would you do that?

Well, I’ve already been doing it – I’ve been plastering my cellphone number everywhere so people can text me. And I have my team answering texts as they come in, and I answer them and I call people back. We’ve had thousands of texts at this point from different people who have reached out, and I talk to them about the issues they care about and making myself very accessible in that way. If elected, I’m starting a text-based polling system.

What does that mean?

I’m going to allow every constituent in the district to register [to a platform] and hopefully get them to do it.

Then, I’m going to text out every issue on the floor of Congress so people can vote directly on every issue. I will use that information to help determine how I advocate for them in Congress, making me accountable to all our constituents in a very real way. It won’t be just through words and saying that I want to listen to all the different communities throughout the district. It will be by creating a platform and a technology to do so that will make me personally accountable to everyone.

never expect to hear it.

Like where?

In Roosevelt, in Uniondale, in the Village of Hempstead, on the streets of Terrace Avenue. Now, don’t get me wrong – there’s people out there who are adamantly opposed to him. But I’m also very pleasantly surprised to hear positive things about him.

Is this from the Latino community?

My anecdotal information is that he would win among the Latino community.

There are those that don’t like how he’s being portrayed to having a stand on immigration, but there are many of those that like his stance on immigration.

Has any national money been put into this race?

No.

What about in the black community?

A lot of people in the black community are very up in arms with the police issues that we’re seeing right now. A lot of them don’t understand – they’re like, “Of course, we like the police.” But they don’t understand why there needs to be a pro-police movement.

They’re like, “Why do the police need backing? The police are just fine. They don’t need backing.” They don’t like to back the blue. They see it as divisive.

I think there’s things to be said about how the Black Lives Matter movement is divisive. I do find Trump supporters in the black community, but I think there are a lot who are turned off by his rhetoric.

Based on hearing from constituents, how is Trump doing in this district?

I’m out talking to people every day all over the district, and I’m hearing proTrump things in corners of the district where I would

What are some of the important issues for you?

I mean, there’s a ton of things. Obviously, improving infrastructure was kind of first and foremost on my to-do list. But since Covid hit and with everything that recently happened, the pan-

demic has become top priority.

What do you think of the lockdown?

I think we need to get the economy back up and running and get back to normal – not a new normal. I think Cuomo has implemented too much control. He’s destroyed our local economy, all while not practicing common sense himself while sending Covid patients back into nursing homes. I don’t know how you do that and then claim to be doing the smart thing. Like I said, I’m a big believer in up-

Absolutely. Making Nassau County more affordable is something I want to focus on.

Is that ever really going to happen?

Trying to lower taxes is something that I’ll certainly be striving for.

But isn’t it the state taxes that’s killing us here?

Yes. I want to repeal the cap on the SALT tax deduction. It’s also proof of the fact that I want to work across the table here, not just toe the line of the Republican Party. That will benefit a lot

“We need to get the economy back up and running and get back to normal – not a new normal.” holding our free and open society and that’s even in times like these. We just need to figure out how to continue to move forward with the virus.

Putting funding towards protecting the vulnerable while allowing everybody else to get back to normal is the approach that I think we need to take.

One issue that I’m sure you hear about a lot is high taxes in Nassau County.

of people in Nassau County tremendously, getting rid of the SALT cap. And then I have a six-point tax plan, which includes extending the pro-small business tax deductions, allowing for tax deferrals for startups, eliminating the marriage penalty, increasing the child tax credit, and things that will help promote families while reducing taxes.

Sounds good. Good luck with the race!

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A Borough President For All TJH Speaks with Joann Ariola, Candidate for Queens Borough President

BY SUSAN SCHWAMM

Joann, you’re running for Queens Borough President, a position vacated by Melinda Katz when she won the Queens District Attorney race. I know that you’ve been involved with politics for a while.

Tell us a bit about yourself.

I’m a Queens resident. I’m a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. I currently work in the healthcare industry, and I’m the Queens chairperson for the Republican Party.

I’ve had a 30-year career in working for elected officials. I’ve worked for two city council members from both parties – Noach Dear and Al Stabile from Howard Beach.

I worked for Giuliani, for and with, and I worked for Mayor Bloomberg. I’m the president of my civic association. I sit on Community Board 10. I’m involved in various civics throughout the borough.

I love Queens. I think it’s the best place in the world to

live because it’s the perfect combination of urban and suburban living.

You’ve worked with many politicians. Any lesson s that you’ve learned from these politicians?

What I learned early on in politics was that you have to remain a public servant.

If you become a government bureaucrat, you’re no longer serving the community that elected you.

And that’s what I try to do.

Even in my job in the private sector, I work for a large hospital network. I do all their government and community outreaches. It really is, in a way, serving the community.

The politicians I’ve worked for also taught me that if there isn’t public safety and law and order, you cannot have anything. One of the biggest divides between the people in our city right now are the ones who want safe streets and the people who

want anarchy. My opponent, Donovan Richards, made it clear which side he’s on.

That’s part and parcel of why I’m in this race – I know what good government is. I know what good public servants are. I’ve worked for them and with them.

What I’m seeing happening now is the complete destruction of our way of life, our public safety, our quality of life, and our schools.

Everything is deteriorating. I honestly don’t want my grandchildren to have to move. I want them to be able to stay here. I don’t want them to leave because it’s too dangerous or too expensive to stay here. Unless we make a change, then they will be forced to move. We cannot put Donovan Richards in a position as the borough president because his voting record and the policies that he implemented as a city councilman – such as the closing of Rikers Island, the homeless shelters within communities,

not really serving all of the people in the communities that he serves – tell me that he was part of the problem and not the solution. I don’t have any confidence that he will become the solution if he became borough president.

Can you tell us what defines the role of the borough president?

The borough president is an advocate for the borough.

A borough president can advocate for the borough on the state-level and can also introduce legislation with city council members on a city council level. There’s so much power within the borough presidency that people don’t recognize because nothing happens in the borough without an okay from the borough president’s office, especially when it comes to land use and zoning. I think that’s been abused over the last few years in that some communities have gotten lower-income housing or affordable housing

but that not all communities have benefited from it. That’s something that I want to look into when I become borough president.

As the borough president, I will advocate for the NYPD to receive funding back. The NYPD should never have been defunded.

With the NYPD being defunded and Rikers Island being systematically empty, with Hotel de Blasios popping up in our communities, shelters, halfway houses, community prisons…. Donovan Richards won’t be opposing that but I will. I’m going to say no to that because I want to stay in Queens. I want my kids to live here and my grandchildren to be able to live here. But more than that, I’m a public servant. I have always been an advocate. I’m not looking at my next position like Donovan Richards is, wanting to become the borough president because he’s termed out of being a city council member.

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And then where will he have his eyes next? Certainly not on us, and certainly not in our favor.

When you speak with Queens residents, what are the top two or three issues that are on their mind?

Number one on their mind is public safety.

Number two is taxes.

We’re being so highly taxed that it’s almost impossible to live here in Queens anymore, and yet, we get the smallest portion of the budget back in Queens and the least services.

The third issue they are concerned about is that our schools are being targeted.

The fourth issue on the list is small businesses, which are being shuttered. They need so much help to recover.

When you become borough president, what are the three most important things that you want to work on?

What I want to first do is restore public safety to this borough. That’s number one because without public safety, we have nothing. It doesn’t matter if I want to fund parks or cultural societies or do a vote on development or new businesses. Nothing will work if we don’t have public safety.

We will not be able to live here. We won’t be able to sell our homes; we won’t be able

to open businesses. Developers will not want to come here and invest in our borough if we don’t have public safety.

So that’s number one.

And then we have to try to lower taxes for our residents.

Right now, there’s forgiveness for tenants, yet our property owners are still being overtaxed. They’re losing income and possibly losing their buildings. A lot of two-family homes are owned by senior citizens. The rent they receive provides them with funds to pay their mortgage or to pay their taxes. So must address those issues.

I also want to look at our schools. The entire back-toschool debacle of Mayor de Blasio is unconscionable.

He had six months to decide on how to get kids back into school safely in the public school system, yet there was no plan. He targeted parochial and private schools and closed them for COVID reasons and then opened up the city to tens of thousands of looters and protesters, and they were, by no means, wearing masks or following the guidelines. So I understand why people have no confidence in de Blasio.

But Donovan Richards is in lockstep with de Blasio. They don’t care anything about the middle-class neighborhoods like the ones we live in.

I get the feeling now that government doesn’t care about my quality of life. I

think the Democrats have been lying to us. They’re pandering so far to the left now just so that they can maintain their position that they’re allowing BLM to run wild around our cities, and yet the Orthodox Jewish community can’t pray and neither can the Catholic community. They’re closing schools and churches.

It’s insanity. It’s anarchy. We need to get back to the values that we had.

We need to back our “blue.” I have the endorsement of all the law enforcement unions. They realized that the Democratic Party is the party of anarchy. The Democrat Party is no longer the party of law and order.

They’re putting handcuffs on cops instead of criminals.

And now it’s even worse because now, because of the bail reform, a criminal knows that they can commit a crime in the morning and be out in the afternoon to commit another crime. It’s unconscionable what’s happening.

We have to take a stand.

And that’s what I’m doing. I want to send a message. And I want the Jewish community to stand with me with this message that the Democratic establishment cannot continue to take us for granted.

You’re the Queens chairperson of the Republican Party. In general, the demographic of Queens is more Democrat than Republican.

Yes. It’s 7:1, Democrat to Republican.

That’s a big discrepancy but you need to take two things into consideration. In this particular climate, voters are not as stupid as the Democrats think they are.

People are fed up. They’re no longer voting for their party.

They’re voting for the person running. They’re getting informed and saying, “Well, what does this person stand

for? Is it what I stand for?”

I’m running on three lines: I have the Republican line. I have the conservative line. And I have an independent line which is called Save Our City. It’s never been more important for our city to be saved. So people have three options to vote for me on.

Additionally, we’ve seen a tremendous volume in changes of enrollment, people switching parties from Democrat to Republican, and many of them switching to independent because they’re sick of parties in general.

People are also telling me that even though they may be

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You want to look for a person who’s going to be a public servant and not a government bureaucrat. If there ever was a time when people are going to wake up and look for change, this is the year. And that’s why I’m so confident that we’ll win.

There’s going to be a big turnout this year because it’s a presidential election. Do you feel that’s going to hurt you or help you?

I think in a normal cycle, when all points were equal, yes, that could have hurt me as a Republican candidate,

The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left that they cannot be trusted to do the right thing for the constituents and bring back law and order.

a registered Democrat and are voting Democrat in the presidential election, they are voting Republican in the local elections because they see that there needs to be a change locally.

What happens locally affects you directly. If you walk out and you trip into a pothole, you know that your local government official is not doing their job. You can see it, feel it, touch it, smell it. It affects you personally.

but not now. I remember just before Giuliani was elected, there were all these riots in Crown Heights. People were fed up then. I believe we’re at that point again. The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left that they cannot be trusted to do the right thing for the constituents and bring back law and order.

The voter deserves to know they have a choice. And that’s why I’ve gone to every community, whether it was

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Laurelton, Cambria Heights, Springfield Gardens, areas that would not typically be an area where a Republican could win. You know what I’m hearing from people?

I’m hearing this: “You know what? I’m a taxpayer. I don’t want less police. I want more

police. I want police who are better trained. I want more neighborhood policing, youth officers on the street to mend and garner relationships.”

That’s what I’m hearing. And that’s what I want to do as borough president.

Queens is the most di-

verse borough. Do you see yourself as someone who can unite all those very different, diverse communities?

What you have to do is make yourself present in those communities. During this campaign, I’ve met with so many different communities. The Greek community, the Italian community. The Guyanese community. The Bangladeshi community.

This is a very diverse borough. But I’ll tell you what.

If you take the time to meet with people and talk to them and find out what their issues are, then they know you care. People want to know that they’re cared for. And I’m a dedicated person who has everyone’s best interests at heart.

Have you encountered any interesting customs

when you met with people in all these communities?

Yes, very wonderful customs. There’s nothing more interesting than learning about other customs.

I worked for Noach Dear for years. When I worked there, after some time, people were wishing me a good Shabbos because I embraced the people and culture.

When I meet with the Punjabi community, I’m very respectful. I cover my head when I go into their gurdwaras [place of worship] as well as in the Bangladeshi community. In the Greek community, I know you have to eat something. But that reminds me of the Italian community, right, or the Jewish community. So there are many differences. But there are so many threads of sim-

ilarities, too.

It sounds like you’re extremely busy. What do you do to relax?

My grandchildren call me Gogo because I’m on the move 24/7. But I always make time, during the course of the day, to pray. We have a chapel in the hospital that I work in, so I make time for that, and that’s when I really center myself. But I’m on the move.

I’m an active participant in my community. I’m an active participant in my family. And I get great pleasure doing good things for others.

I love this borough, and I believe that it’s worth fighting for – for us, for our children, for our grandchildren. If elected on November 3rd for borough president, I would be a borough president for everyone.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

I have been super close with my cousin, Devora*, all my life. We are the same age, were always in the same grade, and now are both in shidduchim. We were close friends our entire life but now that we are in shidduchim there is an invisible, unspoken wall between us. I can’t explain it but it’s as if the privacy of shidduchim has taken our friendship and put it on automatic hold. Shidduchim is literally our entire lives, aside from work and school. Our parents are close and since we are both looking for a very similar type of boy, we were told not to discuss our dating lives. I can’t even describe the feeling inside of me when I see my cousin around town and her hair is ironed (one of the tell-tale signs that she is dating someone). I get a major inner panic attack wondering if our relationship and friendship will ever be the same if she marries this boy and I am left back in the dust of shidduchim. If we were to discuss dating, I feel like things would be so much more normal and natural, not awkward like they are now with the invisible wall up. It might even ease up the anxiety and create more of an excitement for the next stage. Do you agree with our parents that we should keep our dating lives private? Or should I bring up the topic so it’s something we can share and bond over?

Thanks, Chana*

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

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. ear Chana, I understand that the closeness you shared with your cousin is impacted by your privacy about dating. You are no longer communicating about everything. It feels strange and hurtful, even.

As you transition further into adulthood, you will find that privacy has a value. Especially in married life, respecting one’s own privacy and that of your married friends is a healthy practice. In work life as well, paying attention to social and professional boundaries is important. In today’s culture of sharing everything on social media, this may sound jarring.

However, it seems that you have other feelings connected with the healthy practice of maintaining privacy. You may feel like you are competing with your cousin. Your whole life is focused on dating right now. These perspectives are neither beneficial to you short-term or long-term.

Take a look inside and outside yourself. Look at your own development and uniqueness. Think about who you are, what you have to offer, and what your aspirations are on both spiritual and practical levels, both short-term and long-term. Discuss religious concepts such as bitachon, hashgacha pratis, and bashert with your mentors. Get some guidance about your feelings. Do think about your own goals in a mature way beyond just snagging a husband.

Develop yourself. Part of maturing is understanding that feeling uncomfortable is not necessarily a bad thing.

In general, going beyond your comfort zone is a growth process.

I do think that you may want to talk to your parents at some point about sharing thoughts on dating with your cousin. If you choose to open the conversation, you will want to demonstrate maturity during the discussion.

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such as never naming the men you/ she go out with will show them that you are beyond petty competition.

They will want to see that you are your own woman as well. Discussing transitions in relationships and life with them will be helpful, too.

Wishing you self-awareness, insight, and maturity on your journey in life.

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can understand why you feel this distance with your cousin. Up until now, you and Devora have been an open book, sharing the ups and downs of life together. It is stilted and unnatural to hold in this whole new chapter.

Welcome to adulthood, enjoy your stay.

This will be the first of many topics of conversation as an adult that are truly better left private. Find your “people” – mentors, teachers, a rav – to discuss all things dating, but it should not be shared with friends.

There comes a time in one’s life when friendships mature, just as we do. We can keep a deep connection and closeness with friends without disclosing every little thing that is going on in our lives. When one is a child, life is an open book, but as a child crosses the threshold to adulthood you choose what chapters to share. As our sages tell us, “Syag l’chochma shtika, The fence to wisdom is silence.”

There are many reasons silence surrounding dating is wise. I hear constantly from the young women I work with, “My friend went out with him and said he’s not shayach for me.”

This is what happens when you start to share your dating life with friends.

All the men she has dated become off limits to you, and all the men you have dated become off limits to her.

Not because anyone is enforcing it, but when you hear the ins and outs of one’s relationship, it is all painted by

the brush of the speaker. Inevitably, if it does not work out, either she will be pained by the breakup or be relieved that he is no longer in her life. Why do you need that hanging over your head every single time a guy is redt to you? Answer: You don’t. There are lots of ways you can nurture your relationship with your cousin that do not involve discussing dating.

To touch on the topic of jealousy of which you allude to in your letter, I would like to state the following suggestion. Take a blank piece of paper and write these words on it: Hashem is my shadchan. I shall not fear. It does not matter how many times you see Devora with her ironed hair. It does not matter how many guys she has to get dressed up and go on dates with. She will find her bashert at the right time, as will you. Your bashert’s heart is beating somewhere out there, and he is looking for you, too.

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hat Charles Dickens wrote about the French Revolution (“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”) is also true about shidduch dating. While it is a new and exciting time for you, it is also fraught with stress and anxiety.

Your goal is to not only become happily married, but also keep your lifelong friendships intact.

I strongly agree with your parents about not discussing shidduchim with your friends. If you tell even your very, very best, most sincere, most well-meaning friend that you are dating a certain boy, no good can come out of it. Her responses could be: *A whispered “Oh, you’re dating HIM?!” along with a dramatic eye roll. *A catty “I know about him. He’s not for you.” *A jealous “Oh. I was hoping to go out with him myself.”

Even though you should avoid dis-

As hot as Devorah’s flat iron may be, it simply does not have the power to take your bashert away from you. cussing your dates with your cousin, you don’t have to completely avoid each other and completely avoid the subject. You can establish certain ground rules.

You can agree, that without discussing specific boys, there’s nothing wrong with discussing how boys from a certain yeshiva are always well-dressed, or boys from another yeshiva seem to have wonderful middos, and there’s nothing wrong with discussing how comfortable you were having a coffee in the lobby of a certain hotel, or how much you enjoyed walking through the exhibits in a certain museum.

You and your cousin can also agree, that if one of you dates a nice boy and it doesn’t work out, then perhaps she can ask the shadchan to set up her cousin with the same boy. One of my own daughters met her bashert exactly that way. One of my daughter’s friends dated a boy, it didn’t work out, she recommended that he date my daughter instead, and the rest is a very happy history.

Throughout this whole process, please remember that although some competitiveness and jealousy is, unfortunately, inevitable: *You only need one. So, if your cousin dates 25 boys before she finds her right one, and you only date five boys before you find your right one, who was really the luckier one? Having more dates doesn’t necessarily make you find your bashert quicker. *Have faith. Your cousin will not

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marry your bashert.

Remember that in many ways, for you, this is the “best of times.” Don’t let the process cause you to ruin your friendships or cause you too much anxiety.

We are all so much greater than a status of married or single.

end of the day it’s all from Hashem. It might bring you both comfort to know you’re supporting each other in another way and also helping yourselves in the process.

There could be a method to the parents’ madness. A guy I dated told me that the rav of his yeshiva had a policy where guys could not speak to each other about their dating experiences. The reason behind it was that if it didn’t work out between a couple and the girl was suggested to the guy’s friend, his friend could go in with a clear head. When things didn’t work out between me and this guy and his roommate was suggested to me, I understood and appreciated exactly what the rav did. You and Devora could be dating the same guys and in the interests of protecting the shidduch, the parents may not want you to speak about dating.

It sounds like you, Devora, and the parents are all very close. Sit down with your pa rent s a nd then the greater

group to have an open and real conversation. Express how the secrecy brings you anxiety and how you would rather know what’s going on with Devora and her dating life. Explain how being open and honest will allow you to genuinely be b’simcha for each other during this difficult parsha. Ask the parents what their collective thought process is and if there is a way you can work within the confines of their concerns. In theory, the parents had good intentions, but in practice it might just not work.

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your parents are telling you what Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists you may and may not discuss. They have placed unnatural boundaries on your relationship.

The secrecy and wonear Chana, dering can often feel Excitement: Firstly, it must be said that worse than knowing the facts. So, if -I have a date tonight as hot as Devorah’s flat iron may be, you feel uncomfortable, sad, anxious, with a great guy/girl! it simply does not have the power to curious, jealous or frustrated, please -I met someone amazing! take your bashert away from you. That know that your emotions are complete-I can’t wait to meet my bashert! flat iron cannot leave you in the dust ly normal. This is a big change for you.

-I’m looking forward to meeting of shidduchim. Devorah can have 500 I also understand why both sets of him/her! guys wanting to date her (and her flat parents have placed this new ruling on -I can’t wait to see him/her again! iron), and it still would have no impact you. Trying to put ourselves in their -I think I really like this person! on you. shoes, we can imagine that their inten-I think this is the one!

As far as I can tell, there tions are to protect you and Devorah I have witnessed firsthand many are two major emotions typically from inadvertently hurting each other. times over how the intense world of involved in shidduchim. They are How many times has a perfectly good shidduchim can make perfectly sane fear and excitement. shidduch been stopped in its tracks beand rational people a little (or comFear: cause one friend says to another, “Sepletely) meshuga.

-Will I ever get married? riously? You’re dating him? He dated You are being told by your parents -Will I be the last of my friends to my friend Shiffy and she said he can’t not to share certain private informaget married? carry a conversation. I would never tion with your close cousin and friend, -What will happen to me if my best date him.” Unfortunately, things like Devorah. I can understand how bad friend/cousin gets married before me? this happen all the time. And maybe this must feel. Whereas perhaps you -Will anyone like me? “he” was bored to tears with Shiffy once told each other everything, now -Will I like anyone? Etc.

and didn’t have much to say and would have been lit up on another date with a different person.

You asked what I think you should do. Bring up the topic with Devorah or keep your dating lives private. Perhaps your best bet is to respectfully explain to your parents what this division between you and Devorah is doing to you.

Tell them how you feel about it. Ask them how they would feel about you breaking down this imposed barrier.

And truly listen to them when they explain to you their intentions. It is important to be prepared for whatever you may find out. It may be possible that Devorah is the one who does not want to speak about dating.

You can also speak directly to Devorah; if you don’t want to disobey your parents, you can simply acknowledge how this barrier is affecting you.

You can tell her you miss the old relationship you had when you could be more open, and that you often think about her dating and want to know how she is, and that you would love to confide in her. Even if you decide not to speak with each other about dating,

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hana, I am sorry you’re going through this.

Shidduchim is hard enough, but having to go through it while watching one of your closest friends, Devora, from afar is even harder. I give you a lot of credit for respecting the wishes of both sets of parents) and the mature way in which you are handling this.

The invisible, unspoken wall between you and your cousin and the internal feeling you describe are both

unfortunately common within shidduchim. When that pressure builds up in your chest, it feels like there is no reprieve. The strong conflicting emotions of the “mazal tov” and “what about me?” scales take time to adjust to. Some of this can be alleviated by being included and part of someone else’s process. It makes it easier to be happy for them and be OK with them moving on onto this stage in life.

It’s hard to not worry, wonder, and panic because you have no idea what will happen. The unknown and uncertainty is petrifying. But for all you know, Hashem will marry you off first and she will be left to grapple with being single.

There’s a concept in Gemara that one who davens on the behalf of his/ her friend and is in a similar situation will be answered first. Agree to daven for each other and admit that at the

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letting each other know how you feel can help you feel closer to Devorah.

You two may decide on your own that not talking about your dating is truly what is in both of your best interests.

Your parents may explain their intentions to you or not. Who knows?

Sometimes (if not all the time), we get a little jealous. As a matter of fact, show me one person in the history of shidduchim who has not been a little jealous of a friend and her dating, engagement or wedding. We don’t have to be ashamed of the emotion of jealousy; Hashem created us with it.

Perhaps I read too deeply into your email, Chana, but I did pick up on a little jealousy (maybe.) If I am right about that (and I have been wrong many, many times in my life, so forgive me if I misread, please), the first step to overcoming the jealousy is

to accept that it is normal. It does not make you a bad friend or cousin.

People in shidduchim often get into this jealousy/shame/pulling away/ down in the dumps cycle. I believe the cycle can be stopped most often by attacking the shame. How do we attack shame? We talk about our feelings.

Shame cannot survive acceptance.

We talk to a non-judgmental friend/ parent/rebbetzin/mentor/therapist who can help us with our jealousy in a supportive, non-judgmental atmosphere. Shidduchim can feel like a day at the horse track; Long Mane Leah is catching up to Sweet as Sugar Shira for the title of First to the Chuppah.

Come on! It’s ridiculous. Life is not a race, nor is shidduchim. As a community, we must somehow collectively remove this pressure and teach young people to value themselves and their

young adulthood and not make young people feel as though getting married is a race to the chuppah. We are all so much greater than a status of married or single. We know this as Jews from how much we know Hashem loves us – each of us, as individuals independent of any status. Let’s take the pressure off. And if we truly believe that there is one person out there for each of us, then what is there to worry about?

(Easier said than done, I know...) This concept of “being left in the dust” is something you may want to begin to challenge in your own mind.

As for whether your parents are right or wrong to keep you and Devorah far away from each other’s dating lives, I really cannot comment.

I don’t know what their intentions are and I don’t know the backstory. I do, however, believe that, generally speak-

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ing, it is important to have the emotional and cognitive tools to cope when a close friend is dating seriously or getting married. And keeping things under wraps does tend to create a different kind of tension or anxiety for many people.

Start talking with your parents about how you feel about the separation and newly imposed rules. Talk with Chana about it as well. You may find that you can feel very close to Chana as the two of you find a new equilibrium in your friendship. The two of you have been through it all together, and with the right communication, I believe you can get through this as well.

May you both find your basherts very soon!

Sincerely, Jennifer

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

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Dr. Deb

Getting to Who You Are

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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re people complicated?

You would not think so, based on the ads online for marriage help and mental health help. I saw one ad that had me rolling on the floor – well, not exactly, but I would have been rolling on the floor if it weren’t so sad. This guy was promising to fix marriages if you took a course for $49. $49!

Intrigued, I looked into it. Basically, the message was “just be nice.”

I remember a dear rabbi in Florida lamenting the difficulty of helping married couples. He shared with me the message he was giving people who came to him: “Just be nice!”

If only it were so easy.

Imagine everyone being able to listen to that, take it to heart non-defensively, and never get triggered by something someone says – or didn’t say.

Moshiach would surely come.

The problem of over-simplification extends to the world of self-help, too. One person who claims to be a psychologist cautions people who

have a critical voice in their head to “turn it into compliments.”

Yeah, right.

But she is wealthy because so many people are desperate to get a quick, painless answer. And perhaps this is all that is needed for a slim minority of people.

Everyone else remains suffering with that critical voice. Or the nervous part. Or the part that bites and attacks others. Or the angry part.

So if it’s not so quick and easy, how do you overcome a long history of suffering because of the way you think of yourself or the way you have a hair-trigger reaction to what someone says, whether they meant it the way you took it or not?

The answer is: Do healing work, work that heals trauma. And if you don’t like the word “trauma” because you’re quite certain that you were not traumatized according to the strict definition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, that’s okay. You can call it “wounding” as Richard Schwartz does.

Schwartz is a Marriage and Fam-

ily Therapist who, very cleverly, applied the notions of systemic therapy to a person’s inner world. Thus, we all have a “family” living inside of us! Yes, every one of us does; you don’t need a diagnosis for this to be true. And to prove it, you know for yourself that you handle the kids you teach in your third grade class quite differently from the kids that made you a parent. And you treat any of them differently than you treat your next-door neighbor or your spouse.

And you treat your mother significantly differently than all of those people.

Decades ago, researchers called this the “demand characteristics” of a situation. Kenneth Gergen, in his book on social construction back in 1991, called it The Saturated Self and that became the book’s title.

But Schwartz has a very interesting tweak to all this. He sees these differences in our behavior under different circumstances as being much more than handling people in various situations differently. He sees each diverse way of acting due

to a different role we must take. And the different roles are carried by a set of parts within us. Each part has its own role to play and it sticks very well, amazingly well, to that role.

This explains a lot.

For example, it explains the person vowing to give up carbs and only sticking to the diet a mere two days (or two weeks) before backsliding.

The backsliding is not due to a weakness. It’s due to a person’s part that is invested in sabotage. Many of us have such a part. This part, far from weak, is quite strong. It has a voice that overpowers the voice of the Self of that person.

Or as another example, it explains the person who will not stop fighting with her husband who betrayed her in some way. He has said he’s sorry but it isn’t enough. This is due to the protective part that doesn’t want to see that woman hurt again. So this part rises to the occasion every time to prevent the Self from backing down and becoming vulnerable.

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ing piece of Schwartz’s model: The parts arose when we were kids! They, therefore, are kids. They may seem irrational, temperamental, and immature because they are!

And there you are, your Self with a capital “S,” trying to peek through the maze of parts obscuring your true identity, and perhaps somewhat frustrated with the parts because of their behavior.

Schwartz’s answer to that: Appreciate them. These parts came to help you when you needed it. You were young and you were vulnerable when they took on roles just for your sake, roles that were, indeed, heavy burdens. And because of them, you survived.

So, if we look a bit deeper into the first story, we find that the sabotaging part has always been there to “save” the person who could be extending himself too much and really getting into trouble for it. This part is not against the person; he is trying to save him from his own decisions

which the part is concerned are not good ones.

And if we look a little more closely at the second story, it is clear that the bratty teenage part is merely trying to prevent a catastrophe when the woman allows her heart to return to her husband and will be

phenomena are so universal and so ordinary.

But healing is still necessary.

How, though?

Step one is to recognize your parts. And appreciate them. Step two is for the Self to emerge as separate from the parts. This is tricky. Peo-

We all have a “family” living inside of us!

betrayed all over again.

These parts are kids so they don’t know how to finesse these dangerous waters well. But they are doing the best they can. They’re trying.

And this is why Schwartz doesn’t embrace the word “trauma.” He prefers to call it wounding because the

ple so often feel totally attached at the hip to their parts that they don’t know where one ends and the other begins.

Schwartz has a clever way to help us tell the difference. He calls it the 8 C’s of Self. The Self has these characteristics:

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• calm • courageous • curious • connected • confident • compassionate • creative • clear These first steps – out of several – make a world of difference in and of themselves. Just recognizing that the part of you that you’ve never appreciated has been trying to save you is an enormous insight and a way to see yourself in a better light. It is liberating; it is the beginning of becoming who you really are.

Just holler if you need help navigating all this.

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

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Health & F tness

Brain Boosters - Part I Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

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ur bodies have many major important organs. Some organs that often go unnoticed do a great deal of work, such as the liver or the kidneys. However, the organs that usually get the most credit for our hardworking bodies are the heart and the brain.

The importance of heart health is often repeated as heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. However, brain health is not far behind and can be just as important. Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. One in three seniors die with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. Alzheimer’s kills more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. Between 2000 and 2018, deaths from heart disease have decreased 7.8%, while deaths from Alzheimer’s have increased 146%. Taking care of our brain should be at the top of everyone’s list. Other than doing crossword puzzles, the foods that we eat can greatly impact brain health.

It is well-known that omega-3 fatty acids are good for your health, but in particular, docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, goes straight to help your

brain. DHA is an omega-3 fatty acid that the brain needs in order to function efficiently. Omega-3 fatty acids are anti-inflammatory agents that help protect the blood vessels and arteries. Since the brain is made up of fat, fatty acids are needed to help the brain function at its best. The brain needs DHA on a regular basis. DHA deficiencies have been linked to occasional forgetfulness and a greater risk of Alzheimer’s. In order to get the most out of DHA, you need to maintain a constant intake of DHArich foods. The best source of DHA is fatty fish.

The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends that adults consume at least eight ounces of seafood per week. Oily fish in particular, such as wild salmon, albacore tuna, mackerel, herring and farmed trout, are great catches with DHA to offer. One serving of fish offers plenty of protein, is low in calories, and its fat is rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Salmon is one of the best sources of omega-3 fatty acids. Not only is eating salmon healthy for your heart, you may have heard that it’s considered food for your, brain too. Salmon is rich in

DHA. “DHA is an omega-3 fatty acid that is essential for brain health,” says Torey Armul, MS, RD, CSSD, a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. “In fact, it’s required to keep the brain functioning normally and efficiently. Brain and nervous system tissues are partly made up of fat, and research shows they have a special preference for DHA in particular.

“Studies have shown that longterm consumption of adequate DHA is linked to improved memory, improved learning ability and reduced rates of cognitive decline,” says Armul. “Eating fish isn’t a quick fix for brain health, however. To reap the brain benefits of DHA, you need to maintain a consistent intake of DHArich foods, like fish, fish oil, algal supplements or other DHA-fortified foods, in your diet.” Salmon can be eaten raw as sushi, or cooked, grilled, baked, poached, boiled; eaten in a salad, eaten as an appetizer, or entrée; and even made into salmon patties or salmon tacos! Salmon can be prepared in many ways, which makes it such a fun food as well as really nutritious.

The Mediterranean diet has also been shown to help keep your brain sharp. Research has shown that those who followed diets resembling the Mediterranean diet had a 54% reduction in risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The Mediterranean diet focuses on eating foods that are low in saturated fat, total fat and cholesterol and high in fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy, consuming whole grains, poultry, fish and nuts, while decreasing your intake of fats, red meats, sweets, sugared beverages, and sodium.

“We’ve always been saying that a healthy heart is a healthy brain,” said Dean Hartley, director of science initiatives for the Alzheimer’s Association. Furthermore, Dr. Marc Gordon, chief of neurology at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y., notes, “A heart-healthy diet also protects the blood vessels inside the brain, reducing the chances of micro-strokes or other health problems that could affect brain function.” He then continues, “What’s good for the vessels of the heart is good for the vessels of the brain.” The Mediterranean diet is a great diet to follow for overall heart

have so many health benefits to offer.

They are notable for heart health by improving blood pressure, endothelial function, and arterial stiffness.

In addition, blueberries are very rich in other nutrients such as vitamin

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handful of walnuts to satisfy midday hunger, add them to oatmeal or a salad for crunch, or mix them into a vegetable stir-fry for extra protein. Walnuts are packed with nutrients that keep your body healthy and happy such as

“What’s good for the vessels of the heart is good for the vessels of the brain.”

C, B complex, vitamin E, vitamin A, copper, selenium, zinc, iron, phenolic compounds, and stilbenes, which all attribute to the many benefits of blueberries. Enjoy a handful of berries for a snack, mixed into cereal, oatmeal or yogurt, or baked into a dessert.

Well-known for a positive impact on heart health, walnuts also may improve cognitive function. Snack on a

manganese, copper, iron, calcium, and phosphorus. Walnuts are full of healthy lean protein, polyunsaturated fats, and polyphenols. Walnuts also contain more antioxidants, folic acid, and vitamin E than any other nut.

Scientific evidence shows that incorporating walnuts into a healthy diet reduces the risk of heart disease. Walnuts, like salmon, are a great source of

omega-3 fatty acids and are therefore vital for brain health.

Start i nc or p or at i n g t he above-mentioned foods into your diet for long-lasting effects on your brain. Keeping the brain sharp and in tip-top shape will not only help you focus better on day-to-day tasks but will hopefully ward off Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in the long run. Fortunately, there are many foods that promote brain health.

Stay tuned for more brain boosters in our next column.

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. Follow us on Instagram @EatBetterandFeelBetter.

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Eating adequate cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, kale, or cabbage can also help boost your brain function. Dark green leafy vegetables are known to be extraordinarily healthy in all areas, and they have also proven to help improve your memory. Broccoli is high in both choline and vitamin K. These nutrients contribute to memory function and focus. Choose kale as the base of your salad or add kale to your sandwich for an added crunch. Kale chips make a great and healthy snack as well. Cabbage salads also make a crunchy and refreshing dish. Broccoli is a delicious accompaniment to any meal – microwaved, boiled, roasted, raw, or broiled. Broccoli is easy to prepare, healthy, and delicious – always a winner.

Berries, especially blackberries, blueberries, and cherries, are a rich source of anthocyanins that help boost brain function. Blueberries are my favorite superfood because they

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Parenting Pearls

A Rich Learning Environment

By Sara Rayvych, MSEd

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f you’ve read some of my previous articles, you may have noticed that certain school subjects haven’t really been discussed in-depth: science, history and geography, among others. I will reassure you that I’ve taught these subjects both in the classroom and to my children in our homeschool. The reason for this omission is two-fold. The first reason I haven’t stressed these subjects is simply because these articles have been mostly geared towards the current pandemic and the omitted subjects are not, in my humble opinion, the first priority for children that are struggling. They’re not subjects that build upon each other to the same degree as math and reading. As an example, if you don’t learn about Japan this year, it doesn’t mean you can’t study India next year. But there is also another reason that I haven’t stressed these subjects. While I will often teach these subjects formally, I often rely on an informal teaching method that I refer to as a “rich learning environment.”

What does it mean to make your home into a rich learning environment?

Making your home into a rich learning environment means you’ve created an environment where learning occurs naturally and nearly effortlessly. Rather than formally teaching a topic, you provide tools and opportunities so your child can learn the same material but in a non-stressful and enjoyable manner. It does involve a little thought to set up but it’s easier than it sounds.

Formal vs. informal learning This could also be thought of as

“traditional” vs. “nontraditional” teaching methods. It’s rather unfortunate that we have such a narrow definition of education. Our initial assumptions are that only textbooks and workbooks produce real learning. Nothing could be further from the truth! Textbooks and workbooks definitely have their place in teaching but don’t limit yourself; some of the best learning happens outside the traditional, standard framework.

Last year, Class 2F of Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam ended the year with an excellent example of a less traditional teaching method when they received a very special lesson. Their morah, Miss Zytman, visited (with appropriate social distancing) every student so that each girl could personally sign the Declaration of Independence. Yes, each child personally signed the document with her own signature as part of this lesson. By the next year, those girls may or may not remember the pages of their textbook but they will

son on the colonies was taught using a trip to a colonial era town, through acting in a play, or as part of a fascinating, historical fiction novel.

There are so many out-of-the-box options available. As an example, we have enjoyed teaching about maps using the maps provided by the zoo, amusement park, or other attractions. They’re so much more interesting than regular maps and kids can understand why reading a map is important; it’s the best way to find the animals or attractions you want to see.

Bringing the lessons home I understand that parents have limited time and may find it daunting to plan such involved and creative lessons. The exciting part is you can

Children tend to better remember learning that is active, real, and interesting.

certainly remember this particular lesson. I think most of us can fondly recall a special or unique lesson from our childhood.

Children tend to better remember learning that is active, real, and interesting. There’s only so much a child will retain when reading a chapter on the colonies. Alternatively, a child will remember much more if the same les-

make your home into a “rich learning environment” without much time or stress. There are many options available for all learning styles and for all income levels. Pick what works and make it happen.

Books/magazines: You guessed it; teachers can never get enough of books. I try to keep our family library loaded with books on topics I want

them to study. The books range from biographies and historical fiction to science, math, and other topics. I have some interesting and easy-toread textbooks thrown into the group.

When planning next year’s curriculum, I include some enjoyable books (at various reading levels) for the kids to enjoy. For example, to supplement science and history, this year’s shopping list includes interesting books on colonial times and Lewis and Clark’s adventures along with kid-friendly biographies on Albert Einstein, Galileo, and Isaac Newton. I made sure to purchase series of books that I know my kids like so they’ll actually read them.

I buy books that I know the kids will enjoy since I want these to be books they’ll pick up and read during their free time. The list also includes some educational coloring books.

Always check books before giving them to your children to ensure content meets your standards. Some suggested series are The Magic Tree House, DK Readers, the “Who was….” series, and the “If you lived in…” series. I designate some of our “tuition” towards our home library but there are plenty of lower budget options including library books, digital books (purchased and library), and used books. Most of the books in the series I suggested are under $5; some were under $3.

Trips: Trips are amazing but hard to do currently; I’m including them in this article anyway. Hopefully some nature preserves will open up soon.

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ex plor ing t heir ow n backyards.

Kids can get very curious about their natural surroundings and want to learn more about what they’ve seen outside. We’ve just turned your backyard into an educational field trip.

You can pair this with an educational video, website or book. We’ve purchased field guides Signing the Declaration of Independence in Amazing Savings. Many places trips to places that are also education- are currently offering virtual tours for free, and it’s worth seeing what they al. The zoo, aquarium, Old Westbury Gardens, Old Bethpage Village Resto- have to offer.

Tapes/CDs/MP3s: There are ration, Tanglewood Preserve, Jamaiso many audio options that are enca Bay and Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery are all fun places to go, and tertaining and educational. We have many CDs with Jewish stories and the kids learn “accidentally.”

The truth is, kids learn a lot from parsha. I know there are many Jewish

and secular audio books and professional storytellers. I know of homeschool families that kept these stories in their car to listen to when traveling.

I’ve played these in the house, even if only as background noise.

Videos and websites: I’m not a big fan of screen time but even I can’t deny the vast amount of information out there. The Living Torah Museum has an entire video series which teaches about animals and history from a Torah perspective. Google Maps and Google Earth can be used to visit not only local places but all over the world. The internet needs to be supervised but there are plenty of wholesome options available.

Toys: Kids learn by playing, and the most basic toys are often the best ones for development. Building toys are wonderful and encourage early physics. Keva and similar plank blocks are so much fun and are designed according to Fibonacci numbers (a specific mathematical sequence). Lego even has a special ed-

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ucation department. Cash registers and pretend stores give math and money practice.

Kids love to do crafts and work with their hands. My kids have had a blast with clay and have done everything from pottery to making bricks and building detailed homes. You can purchase models to build for almost any topic including ancient ships, historical architecture, or modern planes.

Learning can, and should, be both fun and natural. Don’t limit yourself to traditional learning and don’t be afraid to think outside the box. There are enjoyable, nontraditional ways to learn every subject. Ask your kids what interests them. You may be surprised.

Sara Rayvych, MSEd, has her master’s in general and special education. She has been homeschooling for over 10 years in Far Rockaway. She can be contacted at RayvychHomeschool@gmail.com.

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Eggplant Parmesan Boats

By Naomi Nachman

My daughter, Leora, loves eggplant parmesan. However, it can be time-consuming to bread and fry/bake all the eggplants (also very caloric!). This recipe is

quick and easy to make to satisfy your appetite for eggplant parmesan. As a bonus, it’s also fat-free and gluten-free!

Ingredients

Preparation

b4 medium eggplants bKosher salt bExtra virgin olive oil b2 cups marinara sauce b8 oz. shredded cheese bBasil or Italian pizza seasoning

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Prepare the eggplant: Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2. Slice eggplants in half lengthwise; score cut sides in a crosshatch pattern. Place the eggplant halves, cut sides up, on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle eggplant with kosher salt and olive oil.

Bake for 40 minutes or until browned.

3. When you remove the eggplants from the oven rest the pan on the counter and press the flesh down with a spoon.

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Pour desired amount of marinara sauce on the eggplant and sprinkle with cheese and spices.

5. Place eggplants back in the oven and bake for another 20 minutes until cheese melts. Serve warm.

Cook’s note: I sometimes add some assorted cheeses too on top of the mozzarella such as feta and parmesan.

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

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

We may have grown up in the same place, but we are very different people. But this I can relate to. I got my wife and son sick just like he did. But with me, it crushed me.

It left me ashamed and super-sensitive to keeping people safe.

- Chris Cuomo, admonishing Trump in a CNN monologue

You have been observed entering and exiting the building and riding the elevator without the required face coverings. Even though staff members have asked you to comply with this requirement, you have refused to do so. This is a violation of the Executive Order, building policy, and places other residents and our staff at risk. There are no exceptions to this rule, and you are required to comply.

In eight days, we’re going to take our democracy back.

– Tweet by Joe Biden

And then sell it to China?

– Reply by Nigel Farage

It was wonderful, a real thrill. I was scared for one minute, it felt like I was tumbling, and then I thought, somebody is holding onto me.

- Vivian “Millie” Bailey, 102, a World War II veteran from Maryland, after going skydiving for the first time in her life last week, to fulfill a bucket list wish

I don’t know if there’s any of us that have done well that will have a problem with paying more taxes, but it’s a ruse to think that hitting us and us alone is going to get the job done. It won’t and the middle class will be in peril, and when you take money out of the hands of the middle class, you do a dramatic impact negatively on the economy. Tragically, it will punish them. It isn’t going to punish us.

- Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone blasting Joe Biden’s tax plan, on Fox News

- A letter, obtained by Fox News, to Chris Cuomo – who is one of the biggest “mask virtue signalers” – from the management of his Manhattan apartment building

I’ve had the chance to get a lot of wins in my life, but I really wanted to win this one because I wanted to be around to vote for President Trump.

- Legendary Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, age 91, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, after recovering from coronavirus

Donald Trump would kill reporters if he could get away with it.

- MSNBC host Joe Scarborough

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On Friday morning, I have on one ear a conference call and one hand mixing cholent, and with my foot I’m rocking the baby carriage. That’s what my life looks like.

- Ola Sergatchov, who is charedi and the vice president of corporate strategy at Israeli data center and cloud security company Guardicore, in an interview with ISRAEL21c, after being selected as one of the top 25 women leaders in cybersecurity of 2020 by The Software Report

“We can’t vote for her, because our radical base will get mad. We can’t vote against her because she’s immensely qualified and Americans actually like her. So we will just be dramatic juveniles and not show up.”

That’s Senate Dems for ya.

– Tweet by Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) after Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee decided they would boycott the committee vote on Thursday, sending the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Senate floor for confirmation

We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.

The Republican majority is lighting its credibility on fire.... The next time the American people give Democrats a majority in this chamber, you will have forfeited the right to tell us how to run that majority…. My colleagues may regret this for a lot longer than they think.

- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), after Justice Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court

- National Public Radio explaining why they are not covering the story that Joe Biden’s son took millions of dollars from foreign entities even though he had no experience and that his laptop confirms that he was paid to peddle influence with his father and that his father was in on the deals

There were so few cars, I’ve never seen an audience like this. You just heard a couple of horns going “honk, honk.” It’s the weirdest thing.

– President Trump at a rally, talking about watching one of the Biden car rallies

I voted for a guy named Trump.

- President Trump when asked who he voted for after casting his vote in Florida last weekend

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Once I figured out I had bought two tickets with identical numbers, I was a little bummed but didn’t think much about it.

- Samir Mazahem, of Michigan, whose winning number would have won him $1 million, but who accidentally purchased two tickets with the same number, resulting in him winning $2 million

We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.

– Joe Biden in a chat with campaign volunteers

This is the most [consequential], not because I’m running, but because who I’m running against…Four more years of George, uh, George, uh, he, uh…

- Ibid.

While the council’s talking points have not changed for decades, the Middle East has.

In the two months since I arrived in New York, I have witnessed a jarring dissonance between what this council chooses to focus on and what is actually happening in the Middle East.

- Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan during his first appearance at a monthly Security Council meeting

A president is only as successful as his collaboration is with Congress, and we will have a cohort of progressives that are very clear about their objectives for wanting the implementation of, you know, Medicare For All and a Green New Deal and raising the minimum wage and not allowing for fracking.

-Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in an interview with Axios, talking about how a Biden administration would be filled with progressive Democrats

One of the issues people talk about mandating not being a good idea because then they’ll say they have to enforce it and there’s going to be a difficulty in enforcing it. But if everyone agrees that this is something that’s important and they mandate it and everybody pulls together and say we’re going to mandate it, but let’s just do it, I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly. One of the issues – I get the argument – they say if you mandate a mask, then you’re going to have to enforce it and that will create more of a problem. Well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it.

- Dr. Anthony Fauci on CNN

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Political Crossfire

How to Stop a War in the Caucasus

By David Ignatius

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egotiating a ceasefire is a diplomat’s nightmare. The side gaining ground doesn’t want to give up its advantage, while the defenders don’t want to make concessions at gunpoint. Therein lies the challenge for State Department officials as they try to broker a stable truce in the nasty war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The Trump administration has tried admirably this week to mediate a settlement to this ancient battle over Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave in the faraway Caucasus that’s within Azerbaijan’s borders but is populated by self-governing Armenians.

Karabakh for three decades has been one of those “frozen conflicts,” locked in a status quo that has been favorable to Armenia and its strong ground forces. But the conflict was suddenly unfrozen on September 27, when Azerbaijan – using armed drones supplied by Turkey and Israel – was able to neutralize Armenia’s air defenses, artillery, and tanks. To Armenia’s distress, the status quo vanished.

A stable long-term outcome for this craggy enclave would be an autonomous status, independent from either neighbor, what Armenians like to call the “Republic of Artsakh.” But any such final-status issues are a very long way off while the guns are still firing.

Though this conflict is remote for most Americans, it offers a case study in how regional problems left unresolved can eventually explode into much wider crises: Turkey is boasting that it’s ready to join Azerbaijan

on the battlefield, Russian forces in Armenia under a defense pact could be drawn in, and Iranian forces are inching toward the border. This faraway war could quickly get very hot.

Thankfully, for a Trump administration whose foreign policy sometimes resembles go-it-alone diktats, this mediation has been different – a

Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun cautioned the ambassadors of Armenia and Azerbaijan against a military buildup the United States had detected. Both swore they had no intention of going to war, but 48 hours later, Azerbaijan launched an attack and Armenia immediately countered.

It offers a case study in how regional problems left unresolved can eventually explode into much wider crises.

careful, multilateral effort working in tandem with Russia and France.

The three countries, operating as the Minsk Group Co-Chairs, have been trying to settle the Karabakh impasse since 1992.

The truce that Washington announced on Sunday hasn’t succeeded, so far, any better than two earlier ceasefires negotiated this month by Moscow and Paris. But U.S. officials are pushing the right buttons, aided (yes, that’s right) by a tweet from President Donald Trump. They propose a meeting Thursday in Geneva to organize international monitoring of a real ceasefire (which Armenia wants) and negotiations about a “timeline” for a “comprehensive settlement” (which Azerbaijan seeks).

The Trump administration saw warning signs of the brewing conflagration back on September 25, when

Russia negotiated a ceasefire on October 10, but it broke down before the ink was dry; France reaffirmed the truce on October 17, again to no effect. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo then stepped in, summoning foreign ministers of the two combatants to Washington last Friday for what became joint talks. By Saturday night, Biegun had hammered out a ceasefire deal, monitored by two international groups and talks for a lasting settlement starting Thursday in Geneva, organized by the United States, Russia and France.

The United States stressed that both sides must recognize that the status quo had changed. To make sure Armenians understood the need for compromise, this message was passed to Armenian American representatives by top Republicans and Democrats alike. “Of course, we are

ready for reasonable compromises,” Varuzhan Nersesyan, the Armenian ambassador to the United States, told me Tuesday.

But the Azerbaijanis, sensing they have the upper hand, have resisted. At 3 a.m. on Sunday, State got word that Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev had nixed the deal because it didn’t specify that Armenia must withdraw.

New language was added referring to a “timetable” and other buzzwords for the “comprehensive solution” Aliyev wants. The new version was blessed in Baku and Yerevan, and in Moscow and Paris. Trump tweeted “congratulations” and said “many lives will be saved” when the truce took effect Sunday night.

But Sunday’s ceasefire quickly went up in smoke. Aliyev still seemed to smell an imminent Azerbaijani victory on the battlefield, and the Armenians were determined to prevent the Azeris from seizing what’s known as the “Lachin Corridor” connecting Armenia with Karabakh.

Combatants don’t stop fighting unless the costs of continuing are too great. The United States should be thinking – urgently – about how to raise the cost of prolonged fighting. An Israeli arms cutoff to Baku?

Russian muscle-flexing to support Armenia? A U.S. statement blasting Azerbaijan and its ally Turkey for ignoring the peace deal?

Realpolitik, Karabakh version: This ceasefire won’t work unless the alternative is more painful. On the way to peace, diplomats need to turn the screws. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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Political Crossfire

Trump Cleaned Biden’s Clock on Race

By Marc A. Thiessen

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t first glance, the final presidential debate might have seemed to some like a draw.

President Donald Trump had arguably his best debate performance ever and did not alienate the reluctant Trump voters by interrupting or badgering his opponent. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s four days of rest and preparation paid off, as he spoke clearly and had no senior moments that might call his mental acuity into question.

But a closer look shows that Trump was the big winner, because he was the only candidate who landed blows that damaged his opponent with a constituency Biden desperately needs to win the presidency – African American voters. On Thursday night, Trump cleaned Biden’s clock on race.

Moderator Kristen Welker asked both candidates whether they understood the fears of black and brown families who worry their children “could be targeted, including by the police, for no reason other than the color of their skin.” When it was Trump’s turn to answer, he said, “Yes, I do” and laid out his record, including opportunity zones to bring investment into struggling black communities, substantial funding for historically black colleges and universities, prison reform and criminal justice reform. By contrast, he said, Biden has “been in government for 47 years. He never did a thing except in 1994 when he did such harm to the black community” with his crime bill.

Biden responded by trying to take credit for Trump’s success on crimi-

nal justice reform, saying, “The very law he’s talking about is the law that, in fact, initiated by Barack Obama.”

But Trump kept pressing him on why he and Obama didn’t pass it? “You were vice president,” Trump said.

“You keep talking about all these things you’re going to do…but you were there just a short time ago and you guys did nothing.”

Biden tried to change the subject with a snide remark, noting, “Abraham Lincoln here is one of the most

Biden, let me give you a chance to respond within this context. Crime bills that you supported in the ‘80s and ‘90 contributed to the incarceration of tens of thousands of young black men who had small amounts of drugs in their possession. They are sons, they are brothers, they’re fathers, they’re uncles whose families are still, to this day, some of them suffering the consequences. So, speak to those families, why should they vote for you?”

“You keep talking about all these things you’re going to do…but you were there just a short time ago and you guys did nothing.”

racist presidents we’ve had in modern history. He pours fuel on every single racist fire, every single one.” Trump replied calmly, “I didn’t say I’m Abraham Lincoln. I said, not since Abraham Lincoln has anybody done what I’ve done for the black community.

Now you have done nothing other than the crime bill, which put tens of thousands of black men mostly in jail.

And you know what? They remember it…. They remember that you treated them very, very badly.”

Rather than let Biden off the hook, Welker pressed him to answer Trump’s question: “Vice President

Biden conceded, “It was a mistake. I’ve been trying to change it since then.” Trump jumped on that, saying that trying was not good enough. “But why didn’t he get it done? See, it’s all talk, no action with these politicians. Why didn’t he get it done?” When Biden tried to deflect by pointing out that he and Obama released 38,000 federal prisoners and granted clemency to over 1,000, Trump kept pressing. “Why didn’t you do it in the eight years, a short time ago? … You put tens of thousands of mostly black young men in prison…. Why didn’t you get it done?

You had eight years with Obama. You know why, Joe? Because you’re all talk and no action.”

Finally, Biden delivered a feeble answer: “Because we had a Republican Congress. That’s the answer.”

Sorry, but when he and Obama took office in 2009, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, and they had a 60-vote filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate for parts of 2009 and 2010. Republicans didn’t win back the House until 2010 and didn’t retake the Senate until 2014.

Obama and Biden could have passed anything.

Why was this extended exchange so damaging? Because Biden has an enthusiasm problem with black voters. One of the reasons Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 is because the Obama coalition did not turn out for her. Biden was supposed to energize those voters, but according to CNN, Biden’s support among black voters, a key part of that coalition, is smaller than Clinton’s was in 2016. And The Washington Post reported in late May that only 68% of young African Americans aged 18 to 29 said they intend to vote for Biden – 17 points fewer than supported Hillary Clinton four years ago.

On Thursday, Trump successfully reminded these voters of Biden’s role in the mass incarceration of African Americans – and how Biden failed, and Trump succeeded, in passing criminal justice reform to end it. That exchange could have a lasting impact on Election Day. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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Heroes with Medals of Courage

By Avi Heiligman

Har-Tzion, first from left, with Ariel Sharon and Moshe Dayan in 1955

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cross the globe it is very common to see rows of medals and ribbons upon high-ranking officers. Decorating a soldier for heroism in battle is an ancient tradition that can be traced back to the Egyptians. Practically every country today with a sizable military has some sort of decorations awarded for heroism, serving during campaigns and wars, and excellence in a certain field, among many other reasons. Israeli solders typically do not have rows upon rows of medals and ribbons pinned on their chests like, for example, an American soldier would but there have been many in Israel who have been recognized for their service. The Medal of Courage has been awarded 220 times for those in Israel who have performed acts of gallantry at considerable risk to their own lives.

Meir Dagan was born on train that was escaping Poland to the USSR a few months before the end of World War II. Five years later, his family moved to Israel, and he joined the IDF when he was 18. Dagan joined the paratroopers and left the army in 1966 and joined the reserves.

During the Six Day War, in 1967, he was called up and served in the Sinai

commanding a paratrooper platoon.

Instead of leaving active service like many reservists who were called to fight during the war, Dagan chose to stay in the army. In 1970, Ariel Sharon directed him to create an undercover special forces unit to help control Palestinian terrorism in the Gaza Strip. Dagan was hospitalized for six months after the jeep he was traveling in his hit a mine. After re-

Meir Dagan, center

age. He later served during the Yom Kippur War, became a major general, and was the director of the Mossad from 2002-2011.

Meir Har-Tzion was born in 1934 in Rishpon, which is near Herzliya.

As a young boy, he would climb to the tops of mountains in bad weather, hike across the border to Petra, Jordan, and work with sheep. When he was fifteen, he was arrested with his

Dagan jumped on the terrorist and after a short struggle prevented him from detonating the grenade.

turning to active duty, he was on patrol when he noticed two terrorists in a taxi. One of them noticed the Israeli commando and pulled out a grenade.

Wasting no time, Dagan jumped on the terrorist and after a short struggle prevented him from detonating the grenade. For this act of heroism, Dagan was awarded the Medal of Cour-

sister by the Syrians for crossing the border but was freed shortly thereafter. He again was arrested two years later by Syrian officials and only after a month of international pressure was he released. Soon, his trek to Petra became a legend among Israeli youth as he did it unnoticed and explored the ancient city under the cover of

darkness.

After Har-Tzion joined the IDF, his childhood exploits plus his extraordinary field orientation capabilities was well-known, and he was asked to join the elite Unit 101. After a short period, he was made second in command of the unit. He quickly became one of the best in the IDF, according to Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan. Ariel Sharon called him “the elite of the elite.” On one operation, Har-Tzion and his small reconnaissance unit broke off from the main group and captured two Syrian officers. These prisoners were used in a prisoner trade for four IDF soldiers that had been captured.

On September 11, 1955, Har-Tzion was critically wounded during Operation Jonathon. The attack was carried out by two paratroop companies on a Jordanian police fort between Chevron and Be’er Sheva. The raid was successful but Meir was wounded in the throat and arm. A field doctor saved his life by performing a battlefield tracheotomy. For his part in Operation Jonathon, Meir Har-Tzion was awarded the Medal of Courage.

He was promoted to captain and assigned to the reserves. Even though

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he had use of only one hand, he participated in the capture of the Kosel during the Six Day War in 1967. He even killed a sniper by pursuing him on rooftops and tossing grenades on his position. During the Yom Kippur War of 1967, he fought deep inside Syrian territory and rescued injured soldiers.

Yossi Ben Hanan was born in 1945 in Yerushalayim while it was still under the British Mandate. His father, Michael Ben Hanan, was a top commander in the Haganah before the 1948 War of Independence. When he was just 16, Yossi joined a military school in Haifa and became a tanker upon conclusion of his schooling.

During the Six Day War in 1967, he was a member of the 7 th Brigade and was involved in the action that liberated the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza, and parts of the Suez Canal.

It was his actions during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 that earned Ben Hanan the Medal of Courage. It took him three days and a series of flights

from Nepal to reach the 188th brigade’s command post on the Golan Heights. Many of the tanks had been knocked out and the brigade had been decimated, and tankers were without tanks and leaders. A scratch fighting force of mainly Centurion tanks had been assembled. Already wounded in the fighting, Ben Hanan was tasked to lead this force of about twenty tanks.

As a lieutenant colonel, he was given command of what was left of the brigade and upon arrival immediately set up the command to become a fighting force again. He recruited men from supply depots and even walking wounded from the hospitals to man the tanks. Ben Hanan managed to stabilize the situation by linking up with other units.

Yossi Ben Hanan was wounded four times in that battle and was awarded the medal for his actions.

After the war, Ben Hanan rose to the rank of major general and served as the commander in several units, including the 7 th Brigade and the Ar-

mored Corps.

These soldiers, among many others who served in the IDF, may not be well known to the general public.

Their actions under pressure saved many lives, and their bravery in harsh conditions make them forgotten heroes.

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

Yossi Ben Hanan appeared on the cover of Life magazine in June 1967

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f you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract — teach him to deduct.”

- Fran Lebowitz Here in the United States, we spend about $1.3 trillion on education, including early childhood programs, K-12th grade, the whole college-industrial complex, and adult learning and continuing education.

This is obviously crucial for training the next generation of Americans to lead and make responsible choices.

But how much of that $1.3 trillion do we spend on the sort of truly practical wisdom that makes the day-to-day challenges of life easier to navigate? For example, how much do we teach our children about the taxes they’re going to spend the rest of their life paying?

“Make sure you pay your taxes, otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.” - Richard M. Nixon Most kids don’t think much about taxes except as something

their parents grumble about, until they get their first paycheck and wonder “who the heck is FICA?” But signing up for that first parttime job is like swiping right on the IRS, expecting a date but getting a lifelong relationship. The average

resentative Patricia Schroeder Probably the most important thing to teach them is that taxes aren’t something that “just happens” to them every April 15. Children grow up to become voters, and the choices they make on Election Day can have

The average American pays six figures in taxes over the course of their lifetime.

American pays six figures in taxes over the course of their lifetime.

But you aren’t raising your kids to be “average,” are you? No, your kids are going to pay way more than that.

What should you teach them about it? What do you wish your parents had taught you?

“From a tax point of view, you’re better off raising horses or cattle than children.” - Former U.S. Rep-

a lot to do with how much they pay.

Children also should learn that taxes can be something they plan — they shouldn’t just wait until April 15 for their accountant to tell them how much they owe when they have the chance to work with us to learn how to pay less. They ought to learn that cheating is foolish, especially when there are so many legal ways to pay less.

“Just because you have a briefcase full of cash doesn’t mean you’re out to cheat the government.” - Pete Rose Raising smart, successful children is rarely easy. You can outsource reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic to your local schools. But there’s no AP class in practical finance — no semester-long program that covers how health insurance works, or how to navigate the world of office politics, or how to get over a broken heart. (Compared to those things, taxes are easy!) But like it or not, your kids will be paying them forever, so you might as well set them up to do it with the right attitude!

“If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead — if you strike oil.” - J. Paul Getty 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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By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

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’m just too tired to go to bed!

First, there’s plugging in the phone. Wait a minute. Where is my phone?

Then there’s checking the latest messages, emails, WhatsApps, etc.

And then not forgetting to set the alarm.

Of course followed by: changing, putting away the clothing, washing up, flossing, and brushing my teeth…

But then, getting a snack and a drink. Who can go to bed on an empty stomach? It’s probably been more than 15 minutes already since I last visited the kitchen.

Oy, and then brushing my teeth all over again!

And then still, finding my newspaper or the book I’m in the middle of.

Honestly, it’s just easier to stay up or just pass out. It saves so much effort and energy.

The problem is I’m tired and I would really like to climb into my bed! Except, that would demand this whole rigmarole.

What’s a body to do?!

We all face these challenges.

And if you have little kids, it’s even worse. Because when you finish your whole routine and finally hit the pillow, that’s when they start their midnight descent.

“Daddy, I can’t sleep.”

“Well, what a coincidence. It seems neither can I?!”

“Mommy, I had a nightmare” “Did you say had one sweety, or are one?”

Yes, those little angels seem to get a second wind just when yours is running out.

So, your second nightly routine begins. Get them a snack, a bottle, their blanky, their bunny, their teddy, whatever it takes – and move on over. Within a short time, their

feet are lodged firmly under your stomach, their heads have found the center of your pillow, and they are snoring away happily.

It’s you who is having some difficulty finding a place for yourself!

You twist, and turn, and contort,

where you then push, and cajole, and somehow find a corner for yourself to call your own. With a deep breath, and a final decision that you must get some sleep, you slowly fade into la la land.

For some, this may be the end

Those little angels seem to get a second wind just when yours is running out.

and finally, either fall away or decide to seek other accommodations.

You may wander into their room and fold yourself uncomfortably into their Barbie or Paw Patrol bed – or sobered, return to your room,

of the ordeal. Though, perhaps not blessed with a completely restful slumber, at least one that lasts till morning. Still for others, sleep may be interrupted, yet again, by the familiar sensation of floating in the

deep blue sea. “Help! Who forgot to change this kid into a Pull-Up last night?”

Sleep is one of those things we take a stab at over and over again.

Every night, we try to get it right.

Some people are just lucky. They have that hit-the-pillow-and-I’mgood-to-go blessing, while others need to figure out what will relax them and help them sleep.

And then the joke is that in the morning the opposite happens.

Some people need 20 snooze cycles and five cups of coffee to move, while others pop up and are immediately ready for their day.

And, in the middle of it all, there are those people who would have no trouble sleeping if they weren’t in the same room as the world’s loudest snoring machine. These people are not too tired to change for bed; they are too traumatized to head there.

For the exhausted person who dreads the nightly bedtime routine, I can only say that I completely empathize.

But, for those with more complex situations here’s some suggestion: Put your kid in your bed with your noisy mate.

Stuff your own ears with parts of bunny or teddy.

Put two bottles next to your bed – one to give your kid, if you have one. And the other to hit yourself over your head with, so you can finally sleep.

And if none of this helps, the good news is, you always get another chance to figure something out again tomorrow night!

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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