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Dear Readers,

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recently heard a fascinating podcast by a neuroscientist and a psychiatrist from Stanford in which they discussed the concept of finding one’s passion.

In the podcast, Dr. Anna Lembke noted that people nowadays are looking for a “key” to “unlock the door” to discover that perfect thing that was meant for them to do in life. And once they discover that one thing, that perfect potion, they think that their life will be wonderful and they will finally be successful.

But, Dr. Lembke expressed, people need to stop looking for a passion in order to be successful. Instead, they need to look around them and take note of what needs to be done. And once they see those things that need to be done, they should tackle those tasks.

It’s not about “what do I want to do?” Instead, in order to be successful, we should be asking, “What is the work that needs to be done?” Doing that work consistently and humbly will lead people to success.

“Look at the life you were given, look at the people around you, look at the jobs that present themselves to you, and do that job simply and honorably one day at a time,” Dr. Lembke says.

I was reminded of this thought last night. JWLC, Jewish Women’s Leadership Council – of which I am a proud member – is in the middle of presenting a six-week series called Prisms of Positivity. The women’s-only program takes place on Zoom and features a different speaker each Tuesday night. It runs for just half an hour – 15 minutes of which the speaker talks about a concept connected with positivity; the latter 15 minutes becomes a discussion on what the leader spoke about in the earlier part of the program.

The series has been energizing women from all over the community. At first, I thought that the power of the program would be the diversity of the speakers, who hail from all parts of the community

and have varying approaches to their insights and thoughts.

But even more exciting than the speakers are the participants each week. The series is set up so a person can join for one, or all, or even a few of the sessions. And each session when I join, I notice that the group of women on the Zoom is a microcosm of the community. There are women from every corner of town – from Far Rockaway to Hewlett and even Brooklyn and West Hempstead. There are women of every age and every stripe of Judaism. It’s heartwarming that all these women are joining together to share an uplifting, positive message this week.

On Tuesday night, Mrs. Elisheva Kaminetsky was the featured speaker. One of the points she mentioned was a comment by Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch on Tehillim, who noted that the word “tzamach, growth” is related to “samach, happiness.” Mrs. Kaminetsky pointed out that a person is most happy when they are in a state of growth.

Happiness is not a state that one acquires once they reach perfection. Happiness is about taking the small steps on the road to becoming a better person.

This idea brought to mind the concept presented

by Dr. Lembke in the podcast I heard earlier. It’s not always about “finding your passion” in life. Instead, it’s about becoming a better version of yourself, seeing what needs to be done and doing those tasks simply and honorably. That is what will lead us to be happier, more successful people.

Wishing you a wonderful week, Shoshana

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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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That’s Odd

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ISRAEL Israel News

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World Builders

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Yishai Fleisher Talks about the Growth of the Jewish Community in the 92 Holy City of Chevron by Tzvi Lev BDS: Thinly Veiled Anti-Semitism by David Billet

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JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein on the Parsha

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Becoming a Baal Teshuva Again by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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Delving into the Daf by Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow

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PEOPLE The Wandering Jew

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Remembering Colin Powell by Avi Heiligman

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HEALTH & FITNESS What Can Bill and Susan Do? by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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Prenatal and Pregnancy Health by Aliza Beer, MS RD

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FOOD & LEISURE The Aussie Gourmet: Broccoli, Cauliflower, and Chickpea Soup

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LIFESTYLES Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW

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Parenting Pearls

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Your Money

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The Giving Sandwich by Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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Dear Editor, I read your paper cover to cover every week. I love every aspect of it – the letters, the news, the community goings-on, the divrei Torah, dating, health, etc. columns. You do a great job putting out a quality paper every week filled with substance and not just frivolity.

I noticed an interesting theme in last week’s issue. Rabbi Reichman wrote about why some people don’t even try to become great, as they harbor a fear of failure. That fear or projection of failure stymies them from starting their journey.

Just a few pages later, your dating question brought up that same concept – a gentleman who didn’t want to ask out a neighbor on a date because he was worried about the consequences should it not work out.

Fear of failure doesn’t just prevent us from “becoming great.” It can stop us in our tracks of proceeding in life.

It can deny us happiness and block us from reaching our true potential.

All the best, Reuven Gottleib Cedarhurst, NY Dear Editor, While reading about the plans for the new home of Rambam Yeshiva, I came across their plan to include a dedicated Holocaust Center. I have long believed that most yeshiva high school students have only a cursory understanding of the events of the Holocaust. Everybody knows the fig-

ure 6 million Jews, and they have all seen film or photos of the horrors of Auschwitz and other concentration camps and the Warsaw Ghetto. They have all heard testimony from survivors who are kind and brave enough to share their personal Holocaust experiences. Every yeshiva has a Yom Hashoah program.

However, all that being said, my belief is that most of these students cannot really put it all together clearly. Rabbi Friedman states that it is imperative that Torah Jews understand the challenges and sacrifices made by the survivors and the Kedoshim of the Shoah. I believe that few teenagers have studied in-depth the history of European Jews in the many cities where Jewish life flourished pre-World War II. Few understand the dynamics of the years leading up to the Holocaust.

And as Rabbi Friedman stated, everything that we have today is built on the sacrifices and inspirations that were provided to us by the survivors and Kedoshim . By providing a dedicated center allowing the students to delve into Jewish life in Europe pre -World War ll and throughout the Holocaust years, they will have opportunities to delve into this era in meaningful ways that hopefully the students will be able to relate to.

It is an outstanding accomplishment for the Yeshivah to have a dedicated Shoah Center available to their students every day of the year. The Continued on page 10

HUMOR Centerfold 74 POLITICAL CROSSFIRE Notable Quotes

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The Biden Administration’s Self-Inflicted School Board Disaster by Marc A. Thiessen 112

The Problem Isn’t Just a Single Platform by David Ignatius

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is only when you have the final story.

Its letters convey this message. The aleph, mem and tof are the first, midstudy of the Holocaust for us candle and last letters of the alphabet. not be limited to Yom Hashoah and You only know the emes, true story, Kristallnacht. Kol Hakavod to Rabbi when you reach the end of all events.

Friedman and Rabbi Eliach and all Surely, however, there’s truth those involved in this project. in the moment as well. When lookLeba Stern Sonneberg ing at Yaakov, who stood for emes, we see this dichotomy. On the one Dear Editor, hand, he wanted to reveal the ketz so As much as I look forward to each we wouldn’t suffer through the unedition of The Jewish Home, I was Dear Editor, House Speaker Pelosi could learn knowns of history. But he was also astonished to read the response to Donny Guttmann from David Pec- much from the late Idaho Repub- one who never wasted a moment, in lican Senator James A. McClure. his learnings or work, practicing as oraro. an ish tam, not allowing the future to Any exchange of ideas in our For 18 years, he read every word of every bill before voting on it. How obstruct his present strivings. divided America today should be Steven Genack many members of Congress have welcomed, but such discourse and read all 1,684 pages contained in dialogue must have at the very least the $1.85 trillion-plus legislation Dear Editor, honesty and respect for truth.

I cannot say that I had time over for funding the House Build Back Of all the many letters I read weekly, Mr. Pecoraro’s inane and America Bill? It was just released on the weekend to read all your politiThursday, October 28. Millions of cal interviews this week but I have convoluted untruths and twisting of Americans take the time to read all to commend you on providing the the facts should be unacceptable to the fine print before taking out a loan community with information on your readers, and why and how you’d or mortgage. Shouldn’t members of their elected officials and those seekpublish his diatribes without your ing office. How many of those in the own fact-checking is equally shame- Congress do the same? Why the rush to vote on the part of the President community have had an opportunity ful. to interact with the people who repand Pelosi?

The most devoted Trump haters The result will end up increas- resent them? It’s important that each in the media have all acknowledged Donald Trump and his administra- ing our national debt by hundreds person finds out more about these tion were solely responsible for ini- of billions more as many of the an- candidates and politicians to make ticipated spending offsets and fu- sure that they truly represent our tiating the development of vaccines community and have our communiture revenue sources to pay for this that are now saving thousands of bill may never come to fruition. Any ty’s interests at heart. lives. spending provisions that sunset after Sincerely, Our economy is in turmoil thanks several years versus the full autho- Ariel Lefkowitz to President Biden and his handlers.

Shelves are not filled to the brim rization period will never happen.

Dear Editor, Have you ever heard of Congress not nearly anywhere across the country, Quite a few people still approve of extending any entitlement program despite the comment of Mr. P. the current administration’s accomonce enacted?

Rather than lauding Merrick plishments and its plans still to be Sincerely, Garland as a mensch, we all saw this executed. week he’s an ineffective, inarticulate Larry Penner How can they praise the Demopuppet of our current administra- Great Neck, NY crats who willingly derail our demoction. He was directed to threaten racy since their take-over in JanuDear Editor, American citizens who care for their A gentleman recently shared a ary 2021? Are they living in a world children and object to the irresponwhere dreams come true or they have few words with me. He asked me sible actions of so-called educators. a hard time facing reality? what emes means. He then went into Mr. P might be interested to know Who created and is responsible that ending SALT is part and parcel a short story about how one saw an for the following malice? of President Biden’s reckless and ir- event that seemed harsh. But the one Wide-open Southern border, who saw it didn’t have context and responsible BBB plan – trillions we distribution of illegals all over the don’t have and can’t afford that will didn’t see the first and second event country, national debt going through burden our children and theirs for that led to this harsh occurrence. the roof, mixing politics with everyThe gentleman explained that emes years. body’s health, Afghanistan fiasco, culture war, wokeness, inflation, stopping U.S. oil production and begging the Saudis to increase their output.

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This is not a democracy anymore; we are on the best way to become an autocracy!

H. Mayer Garden City, NY Dear Editor, I highly recommend that you cover a highly significant and time-sensitive story that focuses on the widespread public appeal to save Ohr Natan synagogue and community center/the 1939 World’s Fair-inspired Trylon Theater and Tower Diner with its Colonial clock tower/two former banks, in addition to adjacent small businesses in Forest Hills.

The developer has been claiming that all plans are already approved and has been harassing the rabbi, congregation, and small business tenants, which is why some began to move prematurely. An utmost significant site and “second home” to many community residents, including a large and vibrant Bukharian congregation, is about to be demolished in the name of greed.

This is one of the most significant community causes in many years, and the developer is seeking the site to be up-zoned. A Community Board 6 public hearing will be on November 3 at 7:30 PM via WebEx. This is the petition which includes thousands of signatures and passionate commentary from numerous residents: ht t p s://w w w. c h a n ge .o r g /p/ rj-capital-holdings-save-historic-trylon-theater-ohr-natan-tower-diner-small-businesses-from-demolition For the sake of a sacred building, historic sites, architectural and cultural significance and beauty, and small businesses – all of which elected officials and the community board claim to care about – this disgraceful and immoral plan by Trylon LLC/ RJ Capital Holdings/Rudy Abramov must be blocked at once.

It is a sin to destroy a place of worship (there are Jewish laws against that) in exchange for a self-serving developer who never gives back to our community but destroys us. In addition, our community must not be overdeveloped, which places a burden on infrastructure, schools, greenery, and our quality of life.

Our community is in great need at this time.

Michael Perlman Rego-Forest Preservation Council

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The Week In News

New Rights for Cubans?

Cuba’s National Assembly on Thursday approved new legal rights for citizens. The move follows criticism of the Cuban government’s management of protests earlier this year.

The changes, which come in the wake of a 2019 update to the country’s constitution, will go into effect next year. They aim to increase protections for those who have been accused of crimes and allow citizens

access to their own court documents.

Defendants will also be notified of charges against them, and those detained will be granted access to an attorney within 24 hours.

Cuban lawyer Eloy Viera, who currently lives in Canada, noted, “This law offers more guarantees and adheres much more to international standards than the regulations currently in force.”

However, he added, “I do not believe that this new legislation will have a definitive influence on the processes already initiated today, and politically motivated, by the July 11 protesters.”

William LeoGrande, a professor of government at American University in Washington, added, “The laws…still give officials considerable discretion and only time will tell how they use it, especially in political cases.”

North Korea: Eat Less Food A food shortage in North Korea has led the nation’s Supreme Leader to ask that citizens reduce food intake until at least 2025.

The shortage is a result of the 2020 closure of North Korea’s border with China as part of attempts to control the spread of COVID-19, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported. As a result of the closure, food prices in North Korea have risen, and many in the country have died from starvation.

One source told RFA that some North Koreans suspect that Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is “not aware of how serious the food situation is.” That source added that the country’s residents “do not trust the authorities’ explanation” for why food is short.

According to the United Nations World Food Program, approximately 40% of North Koreans are under-

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Another source in North Korea told RFA, “Some of the residents are saying that the situation right now is so serious they don’t know if they can even survive the coming winter.”

Meanwhile, in a review submitted to the UN, North Korean officials blamed natural disasters and repercussions from economic sanctions for the lack of food.

Although China has now resumed its exports to North Korea, they have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels.

Last Jews Leave Afghanistan – for Real Zebulon Simantov, the “last Jew left in Afghanistan,” may not have been the last Jew after all, the Times of Israel reported.

Simantov’s distant cousin Tova Moradi, born and raised in Kabul, lived there until last week when she,

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her children, and nearly two dozen grandchildren fled from the Taliban.

Their escape was orchestrated by an Israeli aid group, prominent Jewish philanthropists, and activists.

Simantov’s escape in September was over a month before Moradi’s.

Speaking to the Associated Press, from her quarters in Golem, Albania, 83-year-old Moradi said, “I loved my country, loved it very much, but had to leave because my children were in danger.”

Moradi, one of 10 children born to a Jewish family in Kabul, left home to marry a Muslim man at age 16. She never converted to Judaism, however, and maintained some Jewish traditions.

Moradi’s daughter Khorshid, speaking from her home in Canada, told AP, “She never denied her Judaism. She just got married in order to

save her life as you cannot be safe as a young girl in Afghanistan.”

Khorshid moved to Canada along with three of her siblings after the Taliban seized power in the 1990s.

Moradi stayed in touch with some of her family over the years, but her parents and siblings fled Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1980s. Her parents are buried in Israel, where many of her surviving siblings and their descendants live.

Moradi said, “Yesterday, I saw my sisters, nieces and nephews after around 60 years through a video call.

We spoke for hours. I was really happy; I saw their children and they met mine.”

Khorshid added, “They said, ‘It’s like she came back from the grave.’”

With the help of her grandson, Moradi also recounted that during the Taliban’s first period of rulership, Isaak Levi, one of the last remaining Afghani Jews, “came to our home during the Taliban and we hid him for a month.” When the Taliban came searching for him, they said he was a Muslim. She made preparations to smuggle him out of Afghanistan, but his health deteriorated and he died in 2005.

When the Taliban ascended to

power again, Moradi and her family feared for their lives.

According to Khorshid, a relative turned for help to Joseph Friedberg, an Orthodox Jewish businessman whom he had met in Toronto years before.

Friedberg said he reached out to IsraAid, whose CEO Yotam Polizer had already succeeded in evacuating the Afghani women’s cycling team and dozens of other Afghanis from the Taliban.

IsraAid worked to help Moradi for two months, cooperating with Afghan diplomats overseas, Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s office, Israeli-Kazakh billionaire Alexander Mashkevich, and Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams, as well as contacts in Israel, Albania, Tajikistan, and Canada, all of whom helped the family escape.

Moradi and six of her relatives are now in Albania, and another 25 are in Abu Dhabi. The family hopes to secure passage to Canada and reunite with the family members there.

Khorshid said, “We are so thankful that they are safe now. For the last two months since the Taliban takeover, I did not sleep at night.”

Selling Children So Families Can Eat

Children are being sold at an alarming rate in Afghanistan so families racked by hunger can eat, according to CNN. Although selling children is illegal in Afghanistan, and “marrying” off children until 15 is not allowed, the practice takes place in certain places, particularly in rural areas, and has increased due to the worsening economy.

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children,” said Mohammad Naiem Nazem, a human rights activist in Badghis. “Lack of food, lack of work, the families feel they have to do this.”

Parwana Malik, 9, is one such child. Her father is selling her to Qorban, 55, who is taking her as a child bride. He said that he has another wife and that Parwana will be treated like a daughter by his wife. “(Parwana) was cheap, and her father was very poor, and he needs money,” Qorban said. “She will be working in my home. I won’t beat her.

I will treat her like a family member.

I will be kind.”

Parwana, dressed in a black head covering with a colorful floral garland around her neck, hid her face and whimpered as her weeping father told Qorban: “This is your bride.

Please take care of her – you are responsible for her now, please don’t beat her.”

Parwana’s father added, “The old man told me, ‘I’m paying for the girl.

It’s none of your business what I’m doing with her ... that’s my business.’”

Qorban bought Parwana for sheep, land, and cash valued at around 200,000 Afghanis ($2,200).

Parwana’s father says he has no choice but to sell her.

“We are eight family members,” he said. “I have to sell to keep other family members alive.”

He had sold Parwana’s 12-yearold sister a few months ago.

For four years, the family has lived in an Afghan displacement camp in northwestern Badghis province, surviving on humanitarian aid and menial work earning a few dollars a day. But life has only gotten harder since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan on August 15.

The money from Parwana’s sale will only sustain the family for a few months before Malik has to find another solution, possibly selling another daughter, “probably the 2-yearold,” he said.

Magul, a 10-year-old girl in neighboring Ghor province, is set to be married off to a 70-year-old. Her father needs to sell her to pay back a debt of 200,000 Afghanis he owes to someone in their village.

“I don’t know what to do,” Ibrahim, Magul’s father, said. “Even if I don’t give him my daughters, he will take them.”

Zaiton, 4, is going to be sold for 100,000 Afghanis along with her 9-year-old sister.

Zaiton knows why she has to be sold: “Because we are a poor family and we don’t have food to eat.”

With winter coming, the economy, which was already at the brink of collapse, is set to freefall.

UN donors pledged more than $1 billion in humanitarian aid in September, of which $606 million would meet Afghans’ most pressing needs. But less than half those pledged funds have been received, with some member states who have not yet paid, according to a UNOCHA spokesperson.

Chinese Increasing Sub Fleet

U.S. partners in the Far East are scrambling to acquire new capabilities as China expands its fleet of new, advanced submarines.

Australia and India, both members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue which includes both the U.S. and Japan, are ordering the P-8 Poseidon submarine killer. The UK, Norway, and Germany have also purchased the P-8 Poseidon.

One senior Pentagon intelligence official told Newsweek, “China is expanding their undersea warfare capability to extend beyond the South China Sea, which presents a strategic threat to not only nations with territorial disputes, but throughout the entire Pacific area. It is essential for the national security of partner nations to have the ability to detect and monitor Chinese submarines. The P-8 Poseidon is the best capability to perform that task.”

He added, “With an advanced anti-submarine warfare suite, the P-8 is the best answer to countering Chinese submarines.”

A spokesperson for Boeing, the U.S. company which produces both the P-8 and the submarine-fighting P-8A, said that the craft is “deployed around the world, with more than 135 aircraft in service, and over 400,000 collective mishap-free flight hours.”

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rines, and four nuclear-powered ballistic submarines. The United States is estimated to have around 68 nuclear-powered submarines.

Eric Wertheim, editor of the Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World, shared, “I think the purchase of P-8 maritime patrol aircraft by international partners is as much a testament to the P-8’s multirole maritime patrol capabilities as it is to the growing naval threat from China.

“The P-8s are indeed capable submarine hunters, but they are also a potent tool for any type of marine domain awareness, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, and anti-ship/anti-surface operations, just to name a few important naval missions for the P-8.”

He added, “The P-8 has very capable radar and other sensors that make it valuable for tracking submarines, but also tracking surface assets as well. The aircraft can also carry a wide array of weapons including torpedoes and cruise missiles.”

Wertheim continued, “While the threat of Chinese submarines is certainly growing, so is the threat from Chinese surface ships and other naval assets, and the P-8 is an important tool in helping deal with any poten-

tial naval threats.” Aircraft, he added, “are also very useful for peacetime activities and can be invaluable assets for humanitarian assistance operations and research-and-rescue duties as well.”

Hu Bo, director of China’s South China Sea Probing Initiative, noted, “The underwater arms race in the Asia-Pacific is intensifying, and similar operations by the U.S. and others will only spur China to invest more in the underwater sector. Given China’s extraordinary capacity for national mobilization, the result of China’s input could be even more challenging for the United States, which may run counter to current American policy expectations. The great development of China’s surface forces in the past 20 years have fully illustrated this point.”

Asia’s Largest Drug Bust Laos police on Wednesday discovered 55.6 million methamphetamine pills and just under 1.7 tons of crystal meth in Asia’s largest-ever meth bust.

The drugs were discovered in

Laos’ Bokeo province, after Laotian law enforcement pulled over a beer delivery truck for inspection, said Jeremy Douglas, who serves as the Southeast Asia representative for the United Nations (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime (ODC).

It is not clear what charges the truck driver, who was detained, will face.

According to the UN ODC, the drugs would be worth nearly $190 million if sold to consumers in nearby Thailand. The crystal meth could have sold for around $200 million in a country such as Australia.

The UN also said that the cache was Asia’s largest-ever single seizure of illegal methamphetamine.

It totaled approximately three times the number of meth tablets and onethird of all crystal meth found in Laos over the course of 2020.

According to Douglas, Bokeo law enforcement officials have been on “heightened alert” following the confiscation of 16 million meth tablets in two recent operations.

In an email, Douglas wrote, “The security and governance breakdown in Shan has accelerated an already massive drug economy with direct [neighbors] like Thailand and Laos being hit hardest. But the spillover is cascading across [the] region.”

The drugs were hidden in crates branded with Lao Brewery logos.

The beer producer emphasized in a statement that the crates were “abused as a cover for illegal activities” and that the truck was not registered with either the company or its affiliates.

Myanmar: Former MP Sentenced to Jail Myanmar’s military junta on Friday sentenced an aide of an ousted civilian leader to 20 years in prison.

The 80-year-old aide to Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced for treason, his lawyer said, adding that they

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would appeal the sentence.

Attorney Myint Thwin said, “U Win Htein was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment under section 124a by a special court.”

U Win Htein, who is also a former member of parliament, is the first high-ranking member of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy to be sentenced by the junta after a trial.

Suu Kyi faces charges as well and could face decades in prison. Media have been banned from attending the trial, and the legal team has been banned from speaking to the media.

Since February 1, Myanmar has seen nationwide protests and over 1,100 people killed by security forces, a monitoring group said.

U.S. Sanctions Iranian Drone Commander

The U.S. Treasury on Friday slapped sanctions on those responsible for Iran’s drone program.

According to the Treasury, lethal unmanned aerial vehicles from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been used to attack international shipping and U.S. forces in the Gulf area.

The Treasury added that Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Yemeni Houthi group have also been provided with the drones, which have also been spotted in Ethiopia.

In its sanctions, the Treasury singled out Iran’s Brigadier General Saeed Aghajani, who leads the Revo-

lutionary Guards’ UAV Command. It also sanctioned the Kimia Part Sivan and Oje Parvaz Mado Nafar companies, which provide components for and help develop the armed UAVs of the Revolutionary Guards.

Aghajani was responsible for a 2019 drone attack on a Saudi Arabian oil refinery, as well as for the July 2021 attack on the MV Mercer Street, which killed two crewmen.

In August, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Aghajani was responsible for both the assault on the Mercer Street and for other UAV attacks.

In a statement, the U.S. Treasury said, “Iranian forces have been responsible for several high-profile attacks against international shipping over the last few years, including two prior incidents this year alone.”

Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said, “Iran’s proliferation of UAVs across the region threatens international peace and stability.

Treasury will continue to hold Iran accountable for its irresponsible and violent acts.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh responded to the sanctions by telling state media, “The imposition of new

sanctions reflects the completely contradictory behavior of the White House, [which] speaks of its intention to return to the nuclear accord and continues to impose sanctions.”

Japanese PM Holds onto Power

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida surprised everyone this week by retaining his majority in new elections.

In the election, the PM’s Liberal Democratic Party won 261 out of the lower house’s 465 seats, granting him an outright majority.

At the same time, Monday’s results still represent a drop from the 276 seats the party had enjoyed

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previously; the narrow majority is expected to make it more difficult for Kishida to raise wages and fight inequality.

The coalition faces challenges in rebuilding the economy, which shrank due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Kishida has promised to draw up tens of trillions of yen soon after the vote. On Sunday night, he said that he aims to pass a budget by the end of the year.

Speaking to reporters, Kishida asserted, “The LDP won a majority and received confidence in this vote, and for this I am grateful.”

Kishida is expected to replace his No. 2, Secretary General Akira Amari, who lost his constituency race.

EU Won’t Outlaw Hezbollah as Terrorist Entity The European Union will not ban the entire Hezbollah terror group as a terrorist entity and will not comment on whether the Islamic Republic is an anti-Semitic regime, a European Union (EU) spokesman said this week.

When Katharina von Schnurbein, the European Commission Coordinator on combating anti-Semitism and fostering Jewish life, was asked about the issue of banning Hezbollah, she said the question should be directed to her supervisors in the EU.

EU Spokesperson for Foreign Policy Peter Stano said, “The military wing of Hezbollah is already on EU terror list. Any changes in the nature and scope of the existing listing are for EU member states to discuss and decide by unanimity.”

On whether the Islamic Republic of Iran is an anti-Semitic regime, Stano said, “EU has been very clear in its condemnation of anti-Semitism in general and of the calls for destruction of Israel by anyone who comes up with such unacceptable calls.”

When asked if the EU would condemn Iran’s anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, he said, “We do it every time we are confronted with such remarks, not only in case of Iran.”

The military wing of Hamas was added to the terror list following a 2012 attack on an Israeli tour bus in Bulgaria. In that attack, five Israelis were killed, along with their Bulgarian Muslim bus driver.

Hezbollah, for its part, says that it sees itself as a “single, large organization. We have no wings that are separate from one another,” spokesman Ibrahim Mousawi said in 2013.

Christian Wigand, EU Commission Spokesperson for Justice, said, “The European Commission reaffirms its firm and unequivocal commitment to the global fight against anti-Semitism.”

Wigand added, “Any form of anti-Semitism, incitement to hatred and violence is unacceptable and incompatible with the values and aims of the European Union and its member states. It must be addressed through action, both at European and national levels. These principles are non-negotiable for the European.”

Hamas Sentences Six Gazans to Death

The Hamas terror group, which governs Gaza, announced last week that it had sentenced six Arabs to death as “informants” who were “spying for Israel.”

According to Hamas’ military court, sentences were issued “against a number of informants, including six death sentences [and] other sentences varying between life terms and temporary hard labor, and one acquittal.”

Hamas also promised more lenient terms to those “collaborators”

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Hamas’ use of the death penalty has come under criticism from the international community.

From a legal standpoint, Hamas is required to request approval from the Palestinian Authority prior to issuing the death penalty. However, in the past, Hamas has carried out executions without receiving permission from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Since 2007, Hamas has sentenced over 130 people to death and has executed just 25 of them, the B’Tselem organization said. This year, around 13 death sentences have been issued; at least one of those defendants was tried in absentia.

UN Conference Not Wheelchair Accessible for MK On Monday, Energy Minister Karine Elharrar, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and uses a

wheelchair, was not able to access the United Nations COP26 climate conference and was forced to remain outdoors during proceedings because it was not wheelchair accessible.

On Tuesday morning, when Prime Minister Naftali Bennett got to the conference, he made sure that Elharrar would be granted access.

At the start of his three-way meeting with Bennett and Elharrar Tuesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized to the energy minister for the incident.

For two hours on Monday, organizers refused to let Elharrar enter the large compound in the vehicle in which she arrived, Elharrar’s office said. They eventually offered a shuttle transport to the summit area, but the shuttle was not wheelchair accessible. The energy minister was forced to return to her hotel in Edinburgh after organizers refused to accom-

modate her.

“The only way they said I could come in was to walk on foot for almost a kilometer, or to board a shuttle that was not wheelchair accessible,” she told Channel 12 news.

“This is scandalous conduct, and it shouldn’t have happened,” Elharrar told the Ynet news site. “I came with certain goals, and I couldn’t achieve them today.”

She noted, “The UN calls on everyone to adhere to the international treaty,” presumably referring to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. “So it is appropriate for there to be accessibility at its events.”

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who heads Elharrar’s Yesh Atid party, also weighed in. “It is impossible to take care of the future, the climate, and sustainability if we don’t first take care of people, accessibility, and people with disabilities,” he said in a statement.

UK Ambassador to Israel Neil Wigan tweeted that he was “disturbed” by Elharrar’s exclusion.

“I apologize deeply and sincerely to the minister. We want a COP Summit that is welcoming and inclusive to everyone,” said Wigan, whose country is hosting the climate conference.

Explosives Mine Uncovered from 1967

Israel’s national mine-clearing outfit on Tuesday uncovered a Syrian military bunker full of explosives on the Golan Heights that had been abandoned following the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel captured the plateau from Syria.

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shells of different calibers, flares, pyrotechnic munitions, explosives, hunting rifle ammunition and others inside their original packages or spread out,” the Defense Ministry said.

Once they were removed from the bunker, the munitions were moved to a secure storage facility, where they will be held until they can be safely destroyed.

The Mine Action Authority has been clearing the area around the bunker, which is now home to the Mitzpeh Gadot memorial to the Alexandroni Brigade, as part of its overall effort to open more parts of the Golan to hikers and tourists.

According to the ministry, thousands of mines are still buried in the ground in that area.

IDF Simulates Hezbollah Battle

The IDF and the Defense Ministry’s National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) on Sunday launched a week-long exercise simulating an all-out war with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group.

The exercise, which is the first of its kind, aims to gauge how well Israel’s emergency response organizations have internalized the lessons from May 2021’s 11-day Operation Guardian of the Walls, during which, parallel to the Gaza operation, lynchings and large violent riots took place in mixed Arab-Jewish cities around Israel.

Speaking to reporters ahead of the exercise, Home Front Command Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Itzik Bar said, “We will test what we learned and experienced at levels I didn’t anticipate in terms of the domestic front.”

He explained, “What concerns me as the chief of staff of the Home Front Command: One is the issue of precision-guided munitions and the effect that they will have on our ability to function and on things in the world of incoming fire alerts. The second is the rate of fire and Hezbollah’s ability to conduct truly massive rocket barrages at specific geograph-

ic areas — I’ll use the phrase ‘demolishing the front line’ — directed fire at the communities near the border.”

He added, “Another thing: We want to see how they are putting into practice the lessons from Operation Guardian of the Walls. We carried out a very significant learning process with many investigations. This exercise is going to test how those lessons were enacted.”

The exercise will last until Thursday and will simulate conflicts similar to Operation Guardian of the Walls, with large riots taking place in mixed cities, Bar added.

However, instead of simulating a conflict with Hamas, the exercise will simulate a conflict in Lebanon and Syria. It will include simulations of the results of massive missile barrages on Israel, chemical weapons attacks, direct hits to toxic chemical storage facilities, nationwide power outages, and overwhelmed hospitals.

The exercise will also mark the first time that NEMA jointly leads a national exercise together with the Home Front Command.

Speaking to reporters, NEMA Director Yoram Laredo said, “We have a document that we can refer to about how a multi-front war will look in terms of its scope and significance. So our scenario gives us a degree of accuracy about possible events and how we can direct and refine the exercise so that it can be really effective.

“Some aspects that we will be simulating in the exercise: the enemy’s use of disorienting and sedating substances. We will check this out during the exercise, particularly the ability to identify them, with an emphasis on giving clear, focused, life-saving instructions to the civilian population.”

ter they contracted COVID-19.

According to statistics from Israel’s Health Ministry, the chance that a child diagnosed with coronavirus will be hospitalized in moderate, serious, or critical condition due to the virus or its complications, including PIMS (Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome), stands at 1 in 900.

The data also shows that when patients hospitalized in “good” condition are included in the count, the chance that a child will be hospitalized due to coronavirus or its complications rises to 1 in 200.

It also showed that the likelihood of a child being diagnosed with PIMS following a coronavirus infection is about 1 in 3,500. So far, Israel has seen about 150 cases of the syndrome.

The military report noted that most children hospitalized due to PIMS have required treatment in the ICU, and between 1%-2% have died.

In its report, the National Information and Knowledge Center for Coronavirus wrote, “Examination of the infection statistics in Israel and around the world shows that contrary to popular opinion, coronavirus can definitely be dangerous for children as well. While in most cases children experience mild illness, a not-insignificant portion of children who are infected with coronavirus are liable to suffer significant and even dangerous illness.”

Thousands New Housing Units to Be Built

Children and Covid-19

A recent report from the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate and published by Israel Hayom has revealed that a total of 2,500 children were hospitalized in Israel af-

The Israeli government on Sunday announced a housing plan for 2022-2025, aiming to increase the supply of new apartments and end the housing crisis.

The plan was formulated by Israel’s Construction and Housing Ministry, Interior Ministry, and Finance Ministry and sets several goals for planning and development, as well as funding for the plan.

In a joint statement, the ministries promised that the plan –

which aims to begin construction on 280,000 housing units – will cut some of the bureaucracy involved in real estate, thereby “lowering prices in the immediate time-frame.”

Plans for an additional 500,000 housing units would be pushed forward, and tenders for 300,000 homes on state-owned land would be published. Another part of the plan would include cutting the bureaucracy necessary for demolishing older homes to rebuild, as well as converting offices into residences.

The ministries also recommended forbidding private homes from being used for businesses or as hotels such as those offered on AirBnB. In addition, the plan includes lowering taxes for those building on private land, while at the same time increasing to 8% the residence purchase tax for investors.

Tish James Eyes Albany

New York Attorney General Letitia James is running for governor in 2022, she announced on Friday.

In August, James filed the report which forced the resignation of former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo.

She will be competing for the Democratic spot on the ticket with Governor Kathy Hochul, who took office temporarily after Cuomo’s resignation and who will seek to be elected for a full term on her own merits.

Announcing her decision to run for governor, James said, “I’ve spent my career guided by a simple principle. Stand up to the powerful on behalf of the vulnerable to be a force for change.”

She added that she “isn’t afraid to stand up to powerful interests on behalf of the vulnerable.”

James, if elected, would become the first-ever Black woman to become governor of a U.S. state.

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Jury Gives $17.3M to Immigrants

A Washington state jury on Friday awarded $17.3 million in backpay to immigrants who were denied minimum wage while employed at a detention center.

Attorney Adam Berger, who works at the firm Schroeter Goldmark & Bender and is representing the detainees, said, “It’s important on a number of grounds. It’s the first case in the country where a judge or jury has found that detained immigrants working at privately owned facilities are entitled to be paid minimum wage or a fair wage for their labor in keeping the facilities running.”

Those eligible for the award

were employed at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma since 2014. The GEO Group, a Florida-based company which runs the for-profit facility, may still appeal the decision.

Earlier last week, the same jury found that The GEO Group had violated Washington’s minimum wage of $13.69 per hour, paying detainees only $1 per day for performing tasks such as running laundry services and food preparation and serving within the detention facility.

Over 10,00 detainees may be eligible for the award money, Berger noted.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said, “This multi-billion-dollar corporation illegally exploited the people it detains to line its own pockets.”

A Fatal Swim to the U.S. One woman drowned and 13 other people were pulled from the water after they attempted to illegally enter the U.S. by swimming around the water barrier.

The group from Tijuana, which included up to 70 people, had attempted to swim around the barrier near Border Field State Park in San Diego, federal officials said.

In a statement, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that U.S. Border Patrol agents found the woman unresponsive early Saturday morning, after receiving notification that immigrants were attempting to swim.

The agents performed CPR and called in a San Diego Fire-Rescue emergency medical services team, but the woman was declared dead at the scene.

After attempts had been made to aid the woman, the Coast Guard rescued 13 people from the water. The Coast Guard then worked with the California State Parks officers, San Diego fire crews, and Border Patrol to search the area and take into custody 36 Mexican nationals, including 25 men and 11 women.

Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke of the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector said, “This is yet another example of the ruthless tactics smuggling organizations use to bolster their power and profits. We will work tirelessly to pursue and bring to justice those responsible for this tragedy.”

Bravo Braves!

After more than 25 years, the Atlanta Braves are now the proud winners of the World Series. The team beat the Houston Astros 7-0 in Game 6 on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park.

“I’m still numb. I don’t really have emotions. I’m kind of trying to tell you guys things of how I feel

because I don’t really feel anything yet,” Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “It’s going to hit hard soon. I don’t know when. Maybe it’s when we get to see everybody in Atlanta.”

The last time the Braves won the Series was in 1995.

In the top of the third, Braves Jorge Soler hammered the eighth pitch from Astros starter Luis Garcia for a three-run home run after Ozzie Albies singled and Eddie Rosario walked around two flyouts.

Soler’s third homer of the Series traveled an estimated 446 feet, and it was the last pitch Garcia, starting on short rest, threw.

Soler, who was born in Cuba, was named Series MVP. “I just kept battling it out, I’d seen his stuff or whatever, so I was sitting on the off-speed, and I was thinking to myself, if he throws me an off-speed pitch, I can connect and drive the ball,” Soler said through an interpreter. “If he throws me a fastball, I’m just going to try to stay alive during this at-bat. I got to 3-2, and I didn’t want the same thing to happen on the first inning at-bat where I struck out on the off-speed pitch. So I was just kind of getting prepared for that.”

The pitch came in at 83 mph and left much quicker than that as, according to the Houston Chronicle, it ended up on a sidewalk outside the stadium.

“I knew I hit it well, but to be honest, immediately after I hit it, I turned around just to look at our dugout and start celebrating,” Soler said.

Atlanta starting pitcher Max Fried struck out six in six innings and giving up just four singles. Two of those baserunners were erased on double plays..

“His fastball was really good and the slider,” Astros leadoff hitter Jose Altuve said. “He was way better than the first game. He pitched good. He didn’t use his curveball too much tonight, but fastball, slider, changeup was really good. He was almost unhittable.”

“This whole World Series, world championship, you can’t say enough about our pitching,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. Snitker, who has been a part of the Braves’ organization for 44 years.

The World Series win gives the city its first major professional sports league championship since Atlanta United won MLS Cup in 2018.

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Philly to Ban Minor Traffic Stops

Philadelphia is set to become

the first major U.S. city to ban police from making traffic stops for minor violations. The city’s Mayor Jim Kenney must still sign the City Council-approved legislation and could sign the measure as soon as this week.

Although such stops are often used as a pretext to search vehicles of drivers suspected of carrying illegal or dangerous goods, critics say police stop a disproportionate number of drivers of color.

On Sunday, the bill’s author Councilmember Isaiah Thomas

tweeted, “#DrivingEquality reinforces that public safety can be achieved with other methods than traffic stops. Traffic stops are traumatic for drivers and scary for police officers. Limiting them makes everyone safer and communities stronger.”

In a statement, the City Council said, “These bills end the traffic stops that promote discrimination while keeping the traffic stops that promote public safety.”

The plan will also remove “negative interactions that widen the di-

vide and perpetuate mistrust,” the statement added.

Thomas, who is Black, said, “To many people who look like me, a traffic stop is a rite of passage. We pick out cars, we determine routes, we plan our social interactions around the fact that it is likely that we will be pulled over by police.”

He explained, “Data and lived experiences showed us the problem, and data will be key to making sure this is done right. Data will tell us if we should end more traffic stops or amend how this is enforced. Data

Republicans Sweep Elections; Donnelly Becomes Nassau DA

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ong Island turned red on Tuesday as Republicans swept the elections.

The district attorney races in Nassau County and in Suffolk County headlined the elections. In both cases, the Republican on the ballot handily came out on top.

In Nassau, it was prosecutor Anne Donnelly who nabbed 60 percent of the vote with 145,766 votes to Todd Kaminsky’s 97,299 votes. It was a blowout for Kaminsky who is state senator of the district and was assemblyman prior to that. This is Donnelly’s first foray into the political arena.

The chief issue on voters’ minds was safety.

That was highlighted in the DA race, where bail reform was front and center as people headed to the polls. Kaminsky had voted for the 2019 law that eliminated cash bail for defendants accused of many misdemeanor and “non-violent” felony crimes. During the campaign, though, he attempted to distance himself from bail reform, but voters saw those efforts as mere political talk to sway their votes.

Speaking on Wednesday morning, Donnelly told the New York Post, “The voters are sending a message. Safety first. Our children and families come first.”

She added, “I intend to hit the ground running come January and do everything I can to protect the people of Nassau County.”

Suffolk County is also going to be seeing a new DA come January. Republican Ray Tierney came out swinging against Democratic incumbent District Attorney Tim Sini. Tierney’s 145,933 votes – 57 percent – handily defeated Sini’s 109,060 votes or 43 percent.

As people headed to the polls with crime and safety on their minds, they pushed the levers for other Republicans on the ticket.

As of Wednesday morning, Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman narrowly defeated Democratic incumbent Nassau County Executive Laura Curran with 127,414 votes or 52 percent to 117,158 votes or 48 percent.

There are still some mail-in ballots that need

to be counted. Even so, Curran will need to win the lion’s share of 30,000 to 40,000 uncounted mail-in balls to turn the tide.

Curran came to office four years ago.

Republican Elaine Phillips, a former state senator, garnered 145,175 votes, 61 percent, in the race for county comptroller.

Leg. Denise Ford of the 4th District nabbed 69% of the vote on Tuesday. Leg. Howard Kopel of the 7 th District also earned 69% of the vote in his district.

Outside of Long Island, Eric Adams handily defeated Curtis Sliwa to become New York City’s second Black mayor.

“For a young man from South Jamaica, Queens who grew up with all of the challenges that every New Yorker faces, tonight is not just a victory over adversity, it is a vindication of faith,” Adams, 61, said on election night. “It is a proof that people of this city will love you if you love them.”

All eyes were on Virginia on Tuesday as Republican Glenn Youngkin battled it out with former Gov. Terry McAuliffe. On Wednesday, McAuliffe conceded, congratulating Youngkin and “wishing the best to him and his family.”

McAuliffe had served as governor from 2014 to 2018.

Virginia Democrats had underestimated Youngkin, who burrowed into local issues like education and fashioned himself as a champion for parental rights and won more than 50% of the vote. The Republican successfully kept former President Donald Trump at a distance but praised him early in the race – managing to avoid alienating his supporters while successfully making a play for critical voters in the Northern Virginia suburbs who rejected Trump last year.

Youngkin is, like Trump, a businessman. He is worth $300 million and (fun fact!) towers over his opponent at 6’7”.

New Jersey’s elections are keeping people on the edges of their seats – even after Election Day. As of Wednesday morning, no winner has

been declared in the governor’s race in which Democratic Governor Phil Murphy took on Republican Jack Ciattarelli.

Incomplete returns showed Ciattarelli and the first-term governor were separated by about 1,200 votes out of more than 2.3 million cast.

Murphy had been leading in the polls, has a 1 million-voter registration advantage, and had more cash in his campaign coffers than Ciattarelli in the final days of the race. No Democrat has won reelection as governor in New Jersey since Brendan Byrne in 1977; the party opposite the president’s has won the New Jersey governorship going back to 1985.

For now, Murphy is holding back any excitement.

“When every vote is counted, and every vote will be counted, we hope to have a celebration,” he said.

New Jersey does not have an automatic recount law, but the candidates are permitted to request one. The party that wants a recount has to file a suit in State Superior Court in the counties where they want to contest tallies. That has to be done within 17 days of Election Day. Are Tuesday’s results a foreshadowing of what we’ll be seeing in 2022?

Next year, Republicans will try to retake control of Congress from the slim Democratic majority. Democrats have an eight-seat advantage in the House and control the split Senate. All 435 seats in the House will be up for election in 2022 along with 34 seats in the Senate.

If Democrats don’t want to lose voters, they need to take a hard look at what turned voters off and make sure to correct their party’s trajectory so they can win them back in 2022.

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The bill, which passed the City Council 14-2, allows the Philadelphia Police Department 120 days for training and education before it is implemented.

NYC “Set Up for Real Crisis”

New York City is preparing for its COVID-19 vaccine mandate to go into effect, as thousands of city employees stand their ground and refuse to vaccinate. Firefighters, garbage collectors, police officers, and others must have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine by 5:00p.m. on Friday, or they would be

placed on unpaid leave on Monday.

President of the Police Benevolent Association Pat Lynch said that the deadline “sets the city up for a real crisis.”

Uniformed Firefighters Association President Andrew Ansbro warned that the mandate means longer wait times for responses to an emergency, which will “be a death sentence to some people.”

Meanwhile, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio on Thursday said that the city has contingency plans to ensure adequate staffing and public safety and that these plans are usually used “in times of challenging crisis.”

At a virtual news briefing, De Blasio said, “My job is to keep people safe – my employees and 8.8 million people. And until we defeat COVID, people are not safe. If we don’t stop COVID, New Yorkers will die.”

Nearly 20% of city employees required to be vaccinated had not yet received a dose as of Thursday, city data showed.

Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro noted, “The department must manage the unfortunate fact that a portion of our workforce has refused to comply with a vaccine mandate for all city employees.”

NYPD said that nearly 1,000

officers were vaccinated on Friday alone.

Last Wednesday, in a video message to officers, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said, “On Monday, when this thing really starts being enforced, we’re going to check the vaccination status and if you’re not vaccinated, no pay and you’re going to be not able to work. I don’t think anyone wants that to happen. I don’t think you want it to happen. I certainly don’t. We need you out there.”

De Blasio said, “We expected that a lot of the vaccinations would happen toward the end of the deadline.

We also know a lot of people make the decision once they really realize that they’re not going to get paid.

That’s just the human reality.”

$450K Payment to Each Illegal Immigrant?

Dozens of House Republicans are sending a letter to three of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Cabinet secretaries regarding reports that their agencies are in talks to offer payments to illegal immigrants, Fox News reported.

The payments of $450,000 each would be made to those illegal immigrants who were separated at the border under the Trump administration.

The list of 36 House Republicans expressing their outrage includes House GOP Caucus Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York and Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw. The letter is led by North Carolina Rep. Greg Murphy.

In their letter, the Republicans detail their “severe concerns” over the reports of payments of $450,000 each to illegal immigrants separated at the border. “The rationale for this egregious abuse of taxpayer dollars is to compensate these persons for ‘lasting psychological trauma,’” they wrote.

“Do, however, note that these persons crossed into our country in a knowingly illegal manner, fully aware of the consequences of violating our rule of law. Promising tens

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The Torah B’Tahara Incentive Initiative Rav Gamliel Rabinovitz Shlita writes, in his haskama to Kuntras Torah B’tahara, that all of Klal Yisrael’s suffering (and there is no need to list all of our recent suffering) is a direct result of boys getting married after 1819. Rav Elyashiv Zt’l and ybl’c Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita have stated that nowadays getting married before twenty will improve one’s ability to learn (Yisa Yosef; Derech Sicha). Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman Zt’l stated that 90% of the cases of boys’ declining observance of Judaism are caused by getting married after 18-19 (Tzaddik Katamar Yifrach). Rav Moshe Feinstein zt’l wrote that it is “halachically clear” that bochurim “must” get married before twenty (Igros Moshe, E.H. 2:1).

Therefore, an initiative was established to encourage and incentivize getting married before twenty. As such, a Bochur who learns in one of the following ten Yeshivos, enrolls in this program, and gets married before twenty, his parents will receive $10,000 (due to limited

migrants” such sums of money “will unilaterally incentivize migrants from more than 150 nations across the world to surge our border,” the letter warned.

Concluding their letter, the Republican lawmakers called on the secretaries to “reconsider” the “horrific decision” and “rescind any potential action to this effect.” The members of Congress also demanded answers “as soon as humanly possible.”

“We are more than able to meet to discuss this urgent travesty,” they emphasized.

The letter was sent to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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The letter added that the current U.S. administration “has been incentivizing illegal immigration since its first day in office” and has brought about “the worst self-inflict-

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“Compare this hefty compensation sum to the 2019 average median American household annual income of $68,703. Furthermore, compare it to the maximum payout from a SGLI life insurance policy for military members, which is $400,000.

“At a time when the American household is dealing with historic rates of inflation and the price of average consumer goods – groceries,

gasoline, and heating – have risen exponentially, it’s shocking that our government is considering rewarding illegal activity for purely political reasons.”

The letter also questioned, “Why is this potential compensation for families separated in 2018 under the previous administration and not those separated between 2008-2016 or since 2021?”

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Elon Musk’s net worth has topped $300 billion, making him the first person to ever reach that milestone.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as of Thursday, Musk was worth $302 billion, an increase of nearly $10 billion from the previous day. That is more than the annual GDP of Finland, Chile, and Vietnam, and more than the market value of Netflix and Paypal.

The rise comes as U.S. lawmakers consider a “billionaires’ tax” which would affect the country’s approximately 700 billionaires and which could cost Musk $50 billion.

Musk, who is the richest person in the world, is followed by Jeff Bezos as a far-off second: Bezos is worth $199 billion, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed. The third-richest person in the world is Bernard Arnault, worth $168 billion; followed by Bill Gates, who is worth $135 billion; and Larry Page, worth $129 billion.

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$24.3M License Plate

Cars, like many other products, are becoming exorbitantly expensive. In California, it’s not just automobiles that have people clutching their wallets. An extremely rare license plate is now for sale in the Golden State for a whopping $24.3 million.

The license plate debuts two letters: MM. There are over 35,000,000 registered vehicles in the state of California, each of which has its own unique license plate with anywhere

from two to seven characters. Of these, two-character plates are the rarest, especially two-character repeating plates like “MM.” There are only 35 two-letter plates, making this license plate literally one in a million.

Looking to purchase this out-ofcontrol plaque for your car? Don’t worry. You’ll be able to use it on the road. A recent change in the state’s Special Interest License Plate Application includes the option to “release interest to a new owner.”

Before that change, the plate could only be transferred to another of the original owner’s vehicles – now, license plates can be sold, and the buyer can use and register it on their own vehicle.

The “MM” license plate is currently available for purchase on OpenSea, a popular digital art auction space, for 5,888 ether, which is the equivalent of $24.3 million.

That’s because you’re not just buying the plate and the right to transfer it to your own vehicle, you’re buying its matching non-fungible token, NFT. Why an NFT? Because both the plate and digital artwork are both completely unique. The token also acts as a proof of authenticity

and ownership, with its QR code ID number both inscribed on the back of the plate.

“Just like NFTs, license plates are exclusive by nature, always 1 of 1,” the OpenSea listing says. “The pairing of these two rarities was inevitable. This minting has established provenance and hopes to inspire an entire community around an aftermarket buying/selling desirable license plate configurations.”

For now, it’s unclear if someone is willing to shell out tens of millions on a license plate, but if they do, they will be able to claim ownership of the world’s most expensive license plate. Until then, that honor belongs to an Abu Dhabi license plate with the number “1” which sold for $14.3 million in 2009.

The most expensive license plate in the U.S. is a Delaware plate with the number “11” that sold for $675,000 the year before.

Let’s get this show on the road.

Spot the Fake It’s a veritable art Where’s Waldo? conundrum.

A New York art collective recently announced that it will be selling 1,000 Andy Warhol sketches for $250 each.

Sounds like a steal, right? Except that 999 of the sketches are elaborate copies of the original.

The Brooklyn-based MSCHF collective said that its “Museum of Forgeries” project involves a single Andy Warhol sketch titled Fairies and 999 copies made by a machine with artificially aged paper to match the original.

The real artwork is randomly mixed in with the forgeries, so one buyer of a $250 sketch will receive the real deal, while 999 others will receive copies.

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officer of MSCHF, said the sketch was sold for $8,125 by auction house Christie’s in 2016, and the artwork’s current value is estimated at about $20,000.

According to MSCHF, the project is aimed at making a statement about famous works of art only being accessible to the wealthy.

“By burying a needle in a needlestack, we render the original as much a forgery as any of our replications,” the site states.

An interesting case of artistic license…

Squashing the Competition

ing his monstrous pumpkin since March. The high temperatures in the summer did leave Cutrupi a bit concerned because there were often temperatures between 91 degrees Fahrenheit and 104 degrees Fahrenheit from mid-June to mid-August.

Cutrupi expressed optimism that he can someday defeat his own record.

“Everything is possible,” he said.

“Records are made to be broken. I’ll try next year.”

Sounds go(ur)d.

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al court in the U.S. to obtain documents or testimony.

The Animal Defense League applied on behalf of the hippos.

“Animals have the right to be free from cruelty and exploitation, and the failure of U.S. courts to recognize their rights impedes the ability to enforce existing legislative protections,” Animal Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Stephen Wells said in a statement.

“The court’s order authorizing the hippos to exercise their legal right to obtain information in the United States is a critical milestone in the broader animal status fight to recognize that animals have enforceable rights,” he continued.

Sounds like this calls for a “hip, hip, hooray!” from PETA.

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Like pumpkin pie? Well, you may want to become friends with Stefano Cutrupi.

The Italian farmer has carved out his place in history with a pumpkin grown by him that weighed in last week at approximately 2,702 pounds, breaking the Guinness World Record to become the heaviest pumpkin in the history books.

Cutrupi submitted the pumpkin to the Campionato della Zuccone pumpkin festival in Peccioli, near Pisa, on September 26.

“At the time of the weigh-in, I had my back to the screen,” Cutrupi said.

“When my friends and the audience saw the weight, they swept me up in celebration. At that moment, I knew I had made it. I screamed until I lost my voice.”

The orange squash has been nabbing accolades wherever it rolls.

Two weeks after the Pecciolo competition, Cutrupi’s pumpkin made its way to Ludwigsburg, Germany, to be presented at the European Giant Pumpkin Championship on October 10. While its bulk had slightly reduced, the roughly 2,684-pound gourd was still large enough to claim first place there, too.

Cutrupi has been growing pumpkins since 2008 and had been grow-

Abie Rotenberg may have been onto something when he made up a song about hippopotamuses’ feelings. Now, a group of almost 100 hippos has been recognized as legal persons in the United States.

These hippos are not your average hippos. They are descendants of hippos that were owned by late drug lord Pablo Escobar in Colombia. And they are now the first non-human creatures to have been legally considered people.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio recognized the hippos as legal persons, an integral step in trying to save the animals, as authorities in Colombia have discussed killing them since 2009.

Escobar illegally imported animals to his ranch in Colombia until his death in 1993. After Escobar’s capture, the animals were sent to other zoos with the exception of four hippos too difficult to move. The four have now multiplied over the years, with authorities referring to them as an invasive species.

Colombian attorney Luis Domingo Gómez Maldonado filed a lawsuit on the animals’ behalf in July to save them from being killed. Non-human animals in Colombia have the right to bring lawsuits to protect their interests. Interested parties in the country are allowed to go to a feder-

Need some sleep? Hop on a bus.

A Hong Kong tour company is offering a unique solution to help stressed-out passengers get some rest – a five-hour bus ride to nowhere.

For those who find they get their most restful sleep to the sounds and motions of the road, Ulu Travel is offering tickets to the longest bus route in Hong Kong, traveling 47 miles around the Tuen Mun highway and North Lantau Island on the “uninterrupted sleeping bus.”

Passengers can choose among four types of cabins on the double-decker bus, with tickets prices ranging from $13 to $51. The itinerary offers a “food coma lunch” and stops at various scenic sites and drop-off locations.

Passengers meet at a restaurant for a two-course meal before boarding the bus to start sleeping.

The sleeping bus tour was sold out for its inaugural trip Saturday.

Of course, there’s no guarantee that the guy next to you won’t be snoring.

An Indian couple started their new life together in an unusual way.

Akash Kunjumon and his wife, Aishwarya, were legally married on October 6. Their wedding ceremony was planned for October 18 at a temple at Thalavady.

The day of their ceremony, though, massive flooding submerged many places in town, including the temple and including many of the roads. And so, the event was moved to a nearby hall with a stage that was not underwater.

But how would the bride and groom get there through the flooded streets?

“Although we tried to arrange a small boat to reach the venue, none was available,” Kunjumon explained.

Officials at the temple provided an alternative solution: a pot.

The couple climbed into a large cooking pot and set sail, finally reaching the venue after a 20-minute pot-boating trip. Volunteers pushing the pot had to fight “a strong undercurrent” to get them to their wedding.

“My father swam to the temple and my mother, grandmother and sisters used another pot,” Kunjumon said. “The photographer had to struggle. But he knew the story and was ready to take the risk.”

We’re happy that it all panned out.

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Rabbi Alon’s Class at YSZ Learns About Emotions

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his week, Rabbi Alon’s second grade class at Yeshiva Sha’arei Zion learned about self-regulation. Self-regulation is the ability to identify, respond, and effectively manage emotional experiences.

It’s important to teach children that “bad” emotions don’t exist. Instead, we want to give them ability to judge whether their emotional response is appropriate to the given situation.

After the lesson, the boys created their own “Cool Down Card” which lists five of their favorite coping tools they can use if they ever feel emotions such as anger, frustration and sadness! These coping tools can help students regulate their emotions properly and help them get back to the “green zone.” Here at YSZ, we strive to build our talmidim’s resilience!

n Monday night, Bnos Bais Yaakov’s PTA held its annual membership tea. Upon arrival, guests partook of a lavish buffet of salads, pastries, and fruit. Junior High Menaheles Morah Hennie Bender addressed the standing-room only crowd on the topic of setting a positive example for our children through our everyday actions.

Through stories both from Tanach and the contemporary, she illustrated that engaging in behaviors that we want our children to engage in, and refraining from those we want them to refrain from, is the main means of being mechanech them. An updated BBY directory was given to all attendees, and gifts were distributed to all new parents.

A tremendous yasher koach to Tzipora Schmidt for opening her home and hosting the event. Kudos to event coordinators Michele Kirschner,

Shayna Klein, Dani Schertz, Nechama Walkin, and Estie Wolfson on a job well done! Thank you as well to Miriam Hellman and Lani Zoldan for their tireless efforts.

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Woodmere Resident Clinches Guinness World Record

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n September, Rafael Levin, a resident of Woodmere, NY, was officially certified to hold the Guinness World Record for the largest paper cup collection without duplicates. The 21-year-old is the proud owner of 800 cups from around 20 different countries.

It took Rafael a year and a half to pursue the record, which he broke in August 2021.

“Since I’ve been a child, I’ve al-

ways wanted to break a Guinness World Record but never seriously pursued it,” Rafael shared with TJH. “When quarantine began, my then12-year-old sister Eliana reminded me of this goal and told me it was ‘impossible,’ so I felt motivated to chase this goal for real.”

Rafael added, “Each cup in the collection had to be different, so I emailed manufacturers, distributors, hotel, restaurants, sports

teams, and coffee shops all over the world asking for a single paper cup...

Hundreds arrived by mail over the course of almost two years.”

It wasn’t just collecting all those cups that made Rafael break out into a sweat. He notes, “One of the hardest parts of breaking this record was finding a ‘paper cup expert’ to certify the record. After searching for three months, I was so lucky to find Ilana Buschsbayew, owner of

table-wear store Dish It Out on Central Avenue in Lawrence, who is one of the few people qualified to certify the record.”

What are Rafael’s plans for the future after clinching this record?

“I plan on attempting to break the record for ‘Farthest Throw of a Ping Pong Ball into a Cup’ in December,” he says.

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MTA Talmidim Partner with Award-Winning Israeli Author

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TA’s Meet The Israeli Author elective course for juniors provides talmidim with the opportunity to work directly with an award-winning Israeli author via video-con-

ference workshops conducted entirely in Hebrew. The course, created by Director of Hebrew Language Mrs. Tova Fish-Rosenberg, is in its 12th year and is unique to MTA. This one-of-a-kind experi-

ence enables talmidim to not only develop their creative writing skills but also to cultivate their Hebrew language skills at a higher level.

Under the mentorship of award-winning Hebrew

Language Instructor Ms. Liora Haibi, talmidim work on crafting short stories written exclusively in Hebrew and participate in monthly video-conference workshops with award-winning Israeli author Chana Bat Shahar.

Each workshop focuses on a different element of story writing development. Talmidim come prepared to the workshops with segments of the stories they are writing that correspond with the monthly topic. Ms. Bat Shahar provides constructive critiques on each talmid’s work, allowing them to reshape their stories based on her expert feedback.

The course culminates with the printing of the completed stories in a journal, which is housed in the

Publication Room at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. Each year, there is a journal presentation to course participants from the previous year, who also meet with the current year’s participants to discuss their experience. This year’s presentation took place on Wednesday, October 27. Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Michael Taubes, Head of School Rabbi Joshua Kahn, Interim Principal For General Studies Rabbi Dov Emerson, and Director of Curriculum and Innovation Ms. Leah Silvera, joined Morah Haibi and Mrs. Rosenberg in presenting talmidim with their journals and commending them on this tremendous accomplishment. This course is generously sponsored by Arielle and Donny (‘02) Rosenberg.

28-Year-Old Runner in NYC Marathon to Mark 20 Years Since Cancer Diagnosis

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hile tens of thousands of runners have been preparing and waiting for the NYC Marathon on Sunday November 7, one runner, 28-year-old Jonah Adelsberg, is looking forward to a special milestone just three days later.

November 10 marks 20 years since Jonah was diagnosed with non-Hodgins lymphoma at age 8 and when he began mentally training for this day.

Now managing a recording studio in Brooklyn, NY, Jonah has dedicated his marathon run to raise funds for Chai Lifeline, the international health network that provides a network of support services for children and families facing serious illness and other challenges. Over the years, he and his father have run numerous half-marathons with Team Lifeline, Chai Lifeline’s endurance training program, raising over $100,000 for the organization that he credits with helping him get through his personal health crisis. This will be Jonah’s first full marathon, and where better to run it than at the famed NYC Marathon, a bucket list item for Jonah and millions of others.

“I was one of the lucky ones to be able to get to this point,” Adelsberg says. “If I’m able bodied enough to raise money by doing something I love that is an honor for me to do this.”

Ironically, the upbeat Adelsberg says that he views it as almost a blessing that he got his diagnosis so early in life.

“As we get older, I know there are lots of people who hear my story and say that it’s crazy that you had to experience that at such a young age. My battle came with lots of physical and emotional trauma, and my childhood was defined by constant therapies and checkups. My older sister struggled too – it’s not easy being the sibling of a sick child and feeling put on the back burner but having a real support system for me and for my family really helped get us through it.”

Jonah says a big part of that system was Chai Lifeline, which “supported me and my family in every way possible.” He says that, at that time, pediatric cancer wasn’t something really talked about publicly.

Chai Lifeline helped his parents find the best doctors and helped rally the

community around his family.

But the highlight of his relationship with the organization was his time spent at Camp Simcha, Chai Lifeline’s summer program for children with cancer and other serious illnesses. The experience was so impactful that he, and his sister, later returned to Camp Simcha as counselors.

“In camp, you are literally in the happiest place on earth, and you almost forget the seriousness of what’s going around you or, in my case, the grapefruit-sized tumor wrapped around my intestine.”

Jonah’s reality forced him to confront mortality at a very early age and recognize how lucky he was with his treatment as he would receive emails hearing of the deaths of friends he had been in camp with over the years.

Adelsberg says that he will be thinking of those kids and his journey as he winds the famed course through the five boroughs of New York City.

“My experience reminds me that it could always be worse and that’s important to remember, not just for those of us who’ve fought cancer but for everyone. When I run, it’s not be-

Jonah with his father after the Half Marathon in Miami

cause I love running even though I know how important exercise is. It’s because I know that I’m doing this because in life we are truly warriors and fight whatever struggles are being thrown our way. That’s why I’ll be there and that’s what I hope will push me forward towards that finish line.”

To contribute to Jonah’s campaign with Team Lifeline: https://www. teamlifeline.org/NYC21/Member/ MyPage/4857481/Jonah-Adelsberg

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To Never Forget

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r. Shimon Felder of Lawrence, a survivor of Churban Europe, retold his amazing story to Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s eighth grade last week. The full video of his testimony can be watched at Darchei.org/Felder.

Prestigious Honors

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ive HAFTR High School seniors have been awarded National Merit Scholarship Letters of Commendation. Shirly Gottleib, Devorah Gottesman, Lulu Morse, Abby Rabinowitz and Ethan Rab-

inowitz earned this award based on their exceptional scores on the 2020 PSAT Exam. HAFTR High School is so proud of these students’ scholarship and academic promise.

This week in Morah Shari’s Gesher Pre1A class, the boys reinforced their Aleph Beis recognition by playing an exciting game of Aleph Beis dominos

Israeli Real Estate Event – All the Info Under One Roof

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Massive Expansion to Ger World Headquarters, Largest Shul in the World

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he world headquarters of the Gerer chassidus, on Rechov Yirmiyahu in Yerushalayim, has been undergoing an expansion in recent years – on top of previous expansions – in order to accommodate the exponential growth, ka”h, of the largest chassidus in the world, who strive to be in the presence of the Gerer Rebbe, shlit”a, for special and elevated moments.

The plans were recently changed to combine two large shuls into an

even larger space, looking ahead to future growth that is expected in the coming years.

When completed, the Beis Medrash will stand at an astounding 75,000 square feet in the main level, with another 70,000 square feet in the galleries – accommodating 25,000 chassidim.

Construction is projected to be completed by Chanukah, one of the highlights of the year, when the chassidus gathers to observe the

Rebbe in his avodah by “the lechtl.”

It will continue to serve as the site

where the chassidus will gather the tefillos, tischen, and simchos in the Rebbe’s court – giving them the spiritual infusion and fortitude to take back with them to their hundreds of shteiblach, in towns and cities throughout the land.

A far cry from the beginnings of the Gerer chassidus under the Beis Yisroel, zy”a, in the postwar era on Rechov Ralbach, this movement has seen incredible growth, under the leadership of his holy brothers, and the Rebbe, shlit”a.

The original building on Yirmiyahu was first commenced in 1988, under the leadership of the Lev Simcha, the current Rebbe’s father, when the space on Ralbach was getting to tight. This area, too, soon became too small for the growing chassidus, and small additions were made over the years – and, at one point, rotations needed to be made about which age groups could attend which events.

The Rebbe appointed committees to solve this issue, and, following a campaign that raised $60,000,000, the work was begun five years ago for a massive center. While the work has continued apace, this past Tishrei it became clear that even more space was needed. Following Yom Tov, the plans were altered to combine various halls into one gigantic one.

From an engineering point, this undertaking is extremely complex and will require another half a million dollars in cost.

But it is in keeping with the fervent wishes of the Gerer Rebbe, shlit”a, that all the chassidim who stream to Yerushalayim to be with him be accommodated as comfortably, drawing spiritual elevation and fortitude from these special moments throughout the year.

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22 MTA Community Members Receive Semicha at RIETS Chag HaSemicha

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TA is proud to announce that 22 members of its yeshiva community received semicha at the RIETS Chag HaSemikhah on Sunday, October 31, celebrating the ordination of the classes of 5778-5780. Ninetten members are alumni, which is the highest number of musmachim from any yeshiva high school, and three are current MTA rebbeim.

“We are incredibly proud of our alumni who received semicha at this historical event and continued to build upon the strong Torah foundation that began during their time at MTA,” shared Head of School Rabbi Joshua Kahn. “It is particularly meaningful for us to also have four of our beloved rebbeim, Rabbi Yisrael Apfel (‘08), Rabbi Evan Genachowski, Rabbi Baruch Schonbrun, and Rabbi Yoni Stone, receive semicha in our very own building, where they serve as role models and inspire their talmidim every day.”

Mazal tov to the MTA Musmachim: Rabbi Yisrael Apfel Rabbi Ari Brandwein Rabbi Shua Brick Rabbi Yisrael Feld Rabbi Shlomo Friedman Rabbi Evan Genachowski

Rabbi Yehoshua Katz Rabbi Kalman Laufer Rabbi Yitzchak Mandel Rabbi Shua Mermelstein Rabbi Marc Merrill Rabbi Eli Muschel Rabbi Evan Pieri Rabbi Avigdor Shraga Rosensweig Rabbi Meir Itamar Rosensweig

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n Friday, October 22, the sun was shining bright, and it was the most perfect morning for HANC-Plainview’s Grandparent / Special Someone Shabbat Project Program. Over 250 students, staff members and special guests gathered together in the school backyard to celebrate “The Light of Shabbat.” Each grade presented to the audience through art, theatrics and poems what resonated with themselves and light in all aspects of Judaism. The ambiance was created by the students’

artwork that was showcased proudly, under the guidance of Mrs. Liz Danizger.

The program was organized by Mrs. Francie Goldberg who beamed, “This program was our school’s light after a long, dark, year. It was our first major event bringing our families back to our building, even though we stayed outdoors and we were so blessed to have the perfect weather to complement such a beautiful program.”

In addition to class presentations, the guests each made Havda-

lah candles of their own and were gifted a customized glass and cloves to complete a gift of a Havdalah set.

Snacks were provided by the PTA and ShopRite of Country Pointe par-

tially sponsored fresh fruit cups for all. It truly was a remarkable way to bring in the light of Shabbat to everyone’s homes.

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

SBA – the U.S. Small Business Administration – 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 – 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?

Firstly we have been exclusively focused on SBA loans since 2012, not a lot of companies could say that.

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

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Fall-tastic Fun

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he past few weeks have been simply Falltastic at HAFTR Early Childhood! We had so much fun on our leaf hunt and saw how the leaves change from green to lively shades of red, orange, yellow and brown. We also felt the bumpy brown trunk of the tree and saw the roots poking out of the ground, which we know the tree uses to drink the rainwater like a straw. Lastly, we opened our mouths and stretched our hands up like a tree to see if we

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could fill our bellies with sunshine like the trees!

When we came back to the classroom, we flexed our math muscles and sorted the leaves into three buckets – small, medium, and large.

Making our own fall leaves with finger paints was so much fun. The children were amazed at how, by mixing just three colors, they were able to create so many new and varied shades of color.

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he students of IVDU LI enjoyed baking challah in honor of Parshas Chayei Sara.

Mrs. Tehilla Freud spearheaded the initiative, teaching our students not only about challah but about healthy eating as well. She took the time to show the students how we could incorporate healthy ingredients in the foods that we enjoy eating. Mrs. Freud explained how whole wheat

flour and honey are healthier options over white flour and sugar. This important lesson continued on during our social skills class, where students learned about eating a variety of foods and portion sizes. Students are always encouraged to bring in and eat healthy snacks, which keeps their bodies and brains at optimal functioning.

JCCRP’s New SNAP Coordinator Makes Enrollment Easy

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ince 1933, the federal and state governments have been concerned about supplementing the food budgets of needy families.

The Supplemental Nutrition Benefits Program, more commonly known as SNAP, is one such program. SNAP exists in order to ease the food burden of eligible families by helping them afford healthy food. About 40 million Americans currently receive SNAP benefits, more than 66 percent of whom are families with children at home. Almost 36 percent of families who are assisted by SNAP include an elderly family member, or a person with disabilities.

Community members who receive SNAP assistance see many benefits from this program. Besides for helping them afford a nutritionally adequate diet, many of them find that they have lower health care costs and

are overall healthier people. In addition, SNAP assistance helps families ease out of their current income bracket so that they can move to a more financially secure place in life.

Eligibility for SNAP is based on a combination of family size, household income, and if any family members are disabled. Applying for SNAP can seem overwhelming for some, but that is where the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula, also known as the JCCRP, can help.

Thanks to the strong partnership of Hunger Solutions of NY, the JCCRP has an in-house, trained professional to help with the process of applying.

Totally free and completely confidential, their in-house service provider helps ensure eligible members of the community are accessing SNAP and benefiting from its services.

To that end, the JCCRP is happy

to announce the hiring of Micaela Brikman as manager of its Nutrition and Outreach Education Program (NOEP). Originally from Argentina but raised in LA, Micaela is bilingual, fluent in both English and Spanish.

In addition to her B.A. in Sociology, she has participated in extensive training sessions conducted by Hunger Solutions in order to help community members fully benefit from SNAP services. Micaela’s concern, confidentiality, and professionalism will help community members apply for SNAP in the most productive way possible.

“We are thrilled that Micaela has joined our team here at the JCCRP. Her bilingual skills, friendly personality and ability to assist with the application process will help our community get the services and assistance it needs in the most efficient

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way possible. With her help we will continue to ease the financial burden of so many families,” said Moshe Brandsdorfer, Executive Director of the JCCRP. To set up a meeting with Micaela Brikman or for more information about SNAP enrollment, please call 718-3277755 or email info@jccrp.org.

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SKA Kicks Off Israel Awareness

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s a religious Zionist school, the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls has always made the State of Israel a primary focus. SKA’s student initiative, the Israel Awareness Committee, has been very active in the school over the years, organizing workshops to teach students how to stand up for Israel on college campuses, showcasing speakers from the IDF and those who are victims of terrorists, and conducting fundraisers for Israelis’ needs.

Annual AIPAC visits, lobbying trips to Washington, and letter writing campaigns to advocate for Israel are some of the missions of SKA’s IAC. This year’s IAC kickoff took place on Tuesday, October 26, with a hugely entertaining and informative Panalopy game for all grades. With rounds dealing with Israeli landmarks, prime ministers and even food items, the multiple teams vied for the prize while learning so much about Israel. Dressed in shades of blue and white to show support for Israel, SKA students enjoyed this engaging activity which set the tone for start of the year’s Israel activism.

The blue and white doughnuts distributed at the close of the event was a sweet symbol of the theme as well!

Continuing Tuesday’s kickoff, the

SKA students play IAC Panalopy

Israel Awareness Committee invited two IDF soldiers to address the entire school on Wednesday, October 27. In the very moving session about Israel’s wars and constant battles, one soldier spoke about the PTSD he suffered, while the other soldier discussed the multiple injuries he sustained. Listening to descriptions of how each soldier overcame his challenges brought greater awareness to the students as to what sacrifices were made for the State of Israel and how important connecting to Israel is.

5 Towns Girls and Boys Soccer League

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ANC High School students excitedly participated in the international Shabbos Project last week, joining thousands around the world, with its own special programming. Students experienced a spirited morning which brought community, ruach, and education to a new level.

The girls gathered outdoors to braid challah and perform the mitzvah of hafrashat challah,separating a special portion of the dough amidst heartfelt tefillot. They prepared for the event with their teachers, who taught them the depth and meaning behind this mitzvah.

Lively dancing, cholent and camaraderie with their friends and morot brought the girls together for a won-

derful morning.

After viewing a touching video prepared by the organization “Chesed 24/7,” our boys diligently packed 300 “Shabbos in a Box” packages, to be delivered to Jewish patients in hospitals around New York. To usher in the Shabbat spirit, the boys enjoyed a “pre-Shabbat tisch ‘’ with their rabbeim where they heard a poignant story from Rabbi Hulkower, danced, and enjoyed delicious cholent and music.

Throughout the morning, the ruach of our students emanated throughout the school! Thank you to the Student Life Department for organizing a spirited Shabbos Project experience for the HANC students.

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he 5 Towns Girls and Boys soccer league just finished an amazing fall season! The players in each of our 3 divisions learned the fundamentals of the game, to work together as a team, and had so much fun while getting a great workout. Our energetic high

school, college and parent coaches and refs did a great job teaching the players the skills and rules of the game while still delivering a fun experience every week.

These players can’t wait for our spring season!

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The Ganger Early Childhood Center at TAG preschool launched their S.A.F.ETAG Talmidah program.

The talmidos learned all about bus and car safety and received special S.A.F.E. TAG talmidah magnets for their cars

Parsha Fun at HANC ECC

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his week, the yeladim in Morah Shani’s Nursery Aleph class at HANC ECC studied Parshat Toldot. They learned about Eisav’s “red, hairy hands” and recreated them with red paint and yarn.

The Morot also discussed the story of Eisav selling the right of being firstborn for a pot of red lentil soup. The children painted a picture of the lentil soup too!

Morah Irina’s Nursery Aleph class loves to sing songs about the parsha with our music teacher, Morah Esti!

Expanded Learning and Davening Opportunities at YILC

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xciting things are taking place within the confines of the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst. From an ever-expanding schedule of minyanim, a new night seder program to additional learning chaburahs, YILC is quickly becoming a “go-to” Torah and tefillah center for its members and the larger community.

Starting at 5:50am, YILC’s weekday daily minyan schedule runs until its last Maariv minyan at 10:15pm.

Sensitive to those who have ongoing health concerns, YILC provides parallel indoor and outdoor minyanim in their spacious, heated tent.

Under the leadership of Rabbi Baruch Kleinman and the full support of the Morah D’Asrah, Rabbi Ya’akov Trump, YILC initiated a night seder program which runs Monday – Thursday from 8:30 to 9:45pm. Set in our well-stocked Beis Midrash, participants can learn on their own or with their Chavrusahs, or they can arrange to learn a topic of their choice with one of the outstanding members of our Kollel. Baruch HaShem, many have taken advantage of this new opportunity as evidenced by the nightly Kol Torah emanating from YILC’s walls.

In conjunction with the new

Night Seder, a number of new Chaburahs have been formed. First, is a Chaburah studying Mesechtas Sotah in depth, at a pace of a Daf a week, and a bi-weekly Shiur, with the goal of making a siyum at this upcoming Simchas Torah.

Second is the weekly, Wednesday night Shailos and Teshuvah Chaburah at which the members of the Chaburah discuss a SH”UT chosen by a Chaburah member. Topics so far have been wide ranging across Daled Chelkei Shulchan Aruch and have represented the wide diversity among MiChabrei SH”UT. The goal is to understand the particular po-

sek’s perspective and logical analysis underlying the teshuvah. Participants need not present.

These are all in addition to the many other shiurim going on like Rabbi Trump’s Semichas Chaver shiur on Tuesday, Rabbi Teitelbaum’s Maharal shiur on Thursdays, a special women’s pre-Chanukah series beginning November, and a 3-part series from Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff on Bikur Cholim in the next month.

If you are interested in joining any of the learning programs or for more information about minyanim, please email office@yilc.org or visit www.yilc.org.

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YCQ JHS High School Night

Rav Dovid Yankelewitz’s first grade talmidim at Yeshiva Darchei Torah getting a look inside a real Sefer Torah, together with Menahel Rav Shmuel Strickman, in honor of their haschala of learning Chumash

Seeing Double at Gan Chamesh

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t was Twin Day at Gan Chamesh this week. Children learned the concept of “same and different”

to better understand the parsha’s discussion of twins, Yaakov and Eisav. Happy Twin Day!

“Well, Well, Well” Look How Much YOSS ECC Learned

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hile learning about Parshas Chayei Sarah and how Rivka brought water to the camels, the boys at Yeshiva of South Shore ECC tried to understand how difficult it was to pick up a heavy bucket of water and how when they work together they can make a difference.

The boys also baked challah, to remind them that the Imahos’ challah lasted from week to week. The boys added and measured the ingredients and learned the science of how yeast rises.

Looking towards the future, the boys learned that husbands can be helpful in the kitchen and that it is important to look for a wife with good middos.

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he next step in Jewish education has begun for Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ) Grade 8 students. YCQ Grade 8 parents attended YCQ Junior High School (JHS) High School Night on Wednesday, October 27, to learn about the process of applying to Jewish high schools in the area. After opening remarks from Rabbi Landsman, YCQ Principal, parents attended in-classroom sessions with several high schools. The evening was directed by Mrs. Alyssa Schussheim, YCQ High School Admissions Coordinator.

Westchester, NSHAHS, Ramaz, HAFTR, Ezra, SAR, HANC, Central, SKA, Hadar Bet Yaakov, Yeshiva Shaarei Zion, Rambam, DRS, MTA, and Tiferet Torah all made comprehensive and informative presentations to YCQ parents eager to learn about each school.

Ms. Odelia Schlisser, Assistant Principal of YCQ JHS, remarked, “Rabbi Landsman assured the parents that the administration would help guide families through the application process. He urged parents to ask probing questions, and be educated consumers, in order to make sure that the schools they apply to are a good fit for their child, and family values. He also reminded them that their child needs to be part of the decision process.”

“The high school presentations

brought clarity to a maze of challenges. Dedicated parents want to find the most suited high school for their children. This would be extremely difficult without YCQ’s partnership and guidance to help navigate the many worthy options,” reported Rabbi Moshe Hamel, Assistant Principal of YCQ JHS. When asked what is unique about this year’s YCQ graduating class, Ms. Odelia Schlisser responded, “This year’s Grade 8 is inquisitive and thirsting to learn more. Many of the boys and girls are involved in academic after school enrichment programs and volunteer work. We are incredibly proud of our seniors, and we are confident that they will make a positive impact in their high schools as well.”

Rabbi Mark Landsman concluded, “It is such a pleasure, privilege, and honor, to have the opportunity to meet with our Grade 8 parents and partner together with them to prepare their children for the next step in their Jewish education.”

As YCQ prepares its next graduating class for success, the school welcomes new families to an Early Childhood Open House on Sunday, November 7, at 10 a.m. For more information, please call Mrs. Sharon Korn, Director of the YCQ Early Childhood Program, at 718-7938500, ext. 313.

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Pre-1A talmidim at Yeshiva Darchei Torah’s Harriet Keilson Early Childhood Center learning the letter “beis” with the help of bubbles and their sense of touch

Remembering a Gadol

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n honor of the recent yahrtzeit of Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, zt”l, Rav Scheinberg’s nephew, Rabbi Zvi Bajnon, YKLI Rosh Yeshiva, and Rav Simcha Scheinberg, Rosh Yeshiva Torah Ore, shared divrei zikaron with Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island’s talmidim. The boys enjoyed inspiring stories about Rav Scheinberg’s limmud haTorah and middos tovos giving them a glimpse into the lives of our gedolim.

New Forensics Club at YOSS

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orensics is the study of evidence that assists in solving crimes. Evidence that is studied can include fingerprints, odontology (teeth), hair and fiber analysis, handwriting, check and money fraud, and blood typing.

At the Abraham and Sara Silber Mechina division of Yeshiva of South Shore, the Mechina had their first science club meeting last Tuesday. Led by YOSS Science teacher Mrs. Christina Fitzpatrick, the club began with fingerprinting! Not only did the boys learn that every loop, whorl, and arch is unique to each human’s DNA, but they also learned how to study and differentiate ink prints, lift latent prints, and dust objects so the prints appear.

This is just the beginning to this new exciting club. There will be mock crime analysis, simulated crime studies, and lots of hands-on experiences for the students to put on their detective hats and learn about problem- and crime-solving!

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A Special Hascholas Gemara

YOSS Identifies Text Features

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he Shaar Lev after-school program for children who attend local public schools hosted its first ever Hascholas Gemara Seudah. Three boys who attend Lawrence Middle School during the day have been introduced to the world of Torah Sh’baal Peh through their work with Rabbi Dovid Libman. Having spent the past few weeks preparing for their launch

into learning Gemara, the children were awarded their own Gemara Bava Metzia and will begin learning perek Eilu Metzios like the other boys at HALB. We want to congratulate Abie Goldberg, Charlie Schechter and Joseph Chalouh on this milestone achievement and wish them well as they begin their journey into the Yam HaTorah!

hat does it mean to be a non-fiction text feature detective? Our third grade YOSS students can tell you! The students identified text features – they are extra visuals and prints that an author includes in books and other published texts which help readers grasp the information more easily.

Nonfiction text features include: the table of contents, index, glossary, headings, bold words, sidebars, pictures and their captions, and labeled diagrams.

Once our students can confidently identify the text features and

explain how they are used, we immediately move on to the next step.

Our detectives go on a hunt for practice opportunities within our mentor texts! We are currently searching for evidence in the book, About Earth. It is quite rewarding when our students utilize their newfound skills in real time. Perfecting this skill can only be practiced through learning centers and class games.

Non-fiction text features are easy to locate when you are a third grade text detective in the Yeshiva of South Shore!

Positively Pink Week at Central

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entral celebrated “Positively Pink Week” last week for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The week was kicked off on Monday by junior Gabi Lefkowitz of West Hempstead and senior Talia Hazan from Flushing, when they spoke about Sharsheret and showed a video of how the organization supports women with breast cancer and their families.

The G.O. held different events and chessed opportunities throughout the week.

On Tuesday, they sold pink lemonade during lunch with

a slogan of “think pink, drink pink” (special thanks to Mrs. Rebecca Teper for the slogan). Wednesday featured Color Street Nail Strips sold during lunch for “Mani-forthe-Cure,” with a thank you to our math teacher, Ms. Kim Konzack, for donating all of the nail strips. On Thursday, students and faculty alike came to school dressed in pink apparel for Central’s “Positively Pink Day,” and the G.O. sold pink donuts during breakfast. All money raised throughout the week went directly to Sharsheret.

To wrap up the week, students and faculty all gath-

ered for the opportunity to hear from Dr. Deena Rabinovich, mother of Central’s Dean of Students, Mrs. Aliza (Rabinovich ‘06) Gewirtz, about her personal journey with breast cancer. It was truly inspiring to hear about her experience.

Aviv Amar, a senior from Woodmere whose mother battled breast cancer, said, “This week was extremely meaningful. It was really heartwarming to see how much effort the school put into the events and awareness.”

Thank you to our G.O. and Chesed Coordinator,

Mrs. Yael Axelrod, for such a great week at Central!

To hear about more of the special programming that

happens throughout the year at Central, please join us at our Open House on Sunday, November 7. Register @ yuhsg.org/OpenHouse.

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Mazal tov! HALB parents Arielle and Dov Feldman sponsored a new Sefer Torah to be housed at HALB in honor of the bar mitzvah of their son Noah

Annual DRS Shabbaton

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t is perhaps the most anticipated event of the DRS school year: the Annual Schoolwide Shabbaton.

This past Shabbat, DRS sophomores, juniors, and seniors, accompanied by their rabbeim, spent the weekend at the Mountain Laurel Hotel in White Haven, Pennsylvania. But this Shabbaton was even more anticipated than ever before. Due to the pandemic, the students had been waiting two years to spend Shabbos together, and the excitement was palpable.

Students eagerly boarded the buses bound for the Shabbaton on Thursday afternoon. Upon arrival at the hotel, the students were treated to a lavish BBQ, and then boarded buses to head to H2OOO! Indoor Water Park. Upon their return, students participated in a Shiur vs. Shiur Trivia Contest, with the winning shiur receiving DRS yarmulkas. Ev-

eryone at the contest enjoyed a smorgasbord of hot kugel and chulent. On Friday morning, after Shacharis, a shiur, and a hearty breakfast, the students traveled to a nearby park to partake in the annual Shabbaton Flag Football Tournament, where 15 flag football games were played simultaneously.

The pre-Shabbat festivities came to an end as students returned to the hotel to prepare for the holiness of Shabbat. After an inspiring Kabbalat Shabbat, students gathered for a spirited zemirot during dinner. During dinner, students offered words of divrei Torah, and an entertaining comedy skit was put on by some of the rabbeim.

The theme of the Shabbaton was “Being a Light Onto the Nations.”

This year’s featured speaker was Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, former

Chief of Staff to Ambassador David Friedman in Israel. Rabbi Lightstone shared stories of his incredible career advocating for the State of Israel in the White House and in many countries abroad. Rabbi Lightstone was a key player in the formation of the Abraham Accords, normalizing relationships between Israel and Arab countries. The students were glued to Rabbi Lightstone’s tales from the Palace in Bahrain, to flying aboard Air Force One. Rabbi Lightstone’s takeaway message was that there is never an act too small when trying to care for our fellow Jews and that advocacy isn’t limited to the White House, but in our communities, schools and shuls.

After the educational sessions, it was time for one of the highlights of Shabbat: the Friday Night DRS Tish led by Rabbi Kaminetsky. Students

and rabbeim packed into a section of the ballroom and the inspired singing late into the night. Following the Tisch, shiurim held “Post Tisch-Tisches” in various locations throughout the hotel, to engender more bonding time between Rebbe and talmidim.

On Shabbat day, students were treated to a fabulous kiddush followed by parsha time with their rabbeim. The Seudat Shabbat included more lively zemirot and divrei Torah from various students.

After an incredibly inspiring shalosh seudot and havdalah, the students headed to the dining room for a spirited Melava Malka with lively dancing. The Shabbaton was a great way for students of different ages to strengthen friendships, as well as their relationships with their rabbeim.

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DRS Host Over 210 Prospective Families at Open House

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n Sunday, October 24, the DRS Yeshiva High School for Boys was filled to capacity at the school’s annual Open House.

DRS hosted over 210 prospective students and their parents at the annual event. The Open House, which takes place in DRS’s beautiful state-of-the-art building, provided its attendees with an informative, exciting, and enjoyable program allowing those interested in the school to get a real sense of what DRS is all about. Upon entering the building, every attendee was warmly greeted

by DRS Menahel, Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky, General Studies Principal, Dr. Hillel Broder, faculty members, and current DRS students.

Walking onto the campus, attendees were able to see the newly expanded academic wing, which includes 6 new classrooms, and STEM lab.

The program moved to DRS’s spacious Beit Medrash during which Rabbi Kaminetsky and DRS General Studies Principal Dr. Hillel Broder addressed the enormous crowd, enlightening them about DRS’s strong and challenging curriculum in both Limudei Kodesh and Limudei Chol.

Rabbi Kaminetsky stressed that the hallmark of the school is the “personal care, warmth, and attention provided for each individual student.” More importantly, DRS prides itself on the “achdut” between classmates, who come to DRS from over 20 different elementary schools, and several different neighborhoods,

including Queens, Brooklyn, West Hempstead, the Five Towns, and Great Neck.

Following Rabbi Kaminetsky’s remarks, students headed off to the extra-curricular student fair in DRS’s incredible gymnasium, where they received a taste of all the programs that DRS has to offer, including a presentation from the cooking and karate club, College Bowl competition, sports teams, Shabbatonim and trips, and much more. At the same time, parents got a chance to hear from DRS faculty members in the science, math, English, and social studies departments regarding the incredible range of courses offered at DRS. DRS boasts a large curriculum including 15 AP courses and the opportunity to be involved in several research opportunities in both science, and social studies. Parents also had a chance to ask questions to a panel of five DRS students in order to get their view of the DRS experience. Other sessions included an exploration into the Limudei Kodesh curriculum, a glimpse into the schools’ extracurricular offerings, and smaller breakout sessions where parents were able to “meet the administration” in an intimate setting and field their questions to be Rabbi Kaminetsky and Dr. Broder.

DRS thanks all those who came to visit the Open House and looks forward to meeting them again in the future.

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Laughbook Some thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg changing his company’s name from Facebook to Meta Seems like Marc Zuckerberg meta bad rebranding expert.

Instead of Meta, to repair its image, Facebook should have renamed itself Covid19.

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Please don’t consume meta before speaking with a medical expert. Side effects include depression, boredom, complete lack of meaning in life and other symptoms, including thinking that Meta is a good name for your company.

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The following companies certainly had a better branding expert than Facebook to come up with their names:

q Cycology Mobile Bike Repair (Portland, Oregon) Curl Up and Dye Hair Salon q (Newport, Rhode Island) q Spruce Springclean (UK) (It’s not even in the USA!) q Sam and Ella’s Chicken Palace (Tahlequah, OK)

q Amigone Funeral Home (Williamsville, NY) q A Salt & Battery Fish & Chips (Manhattan, NY) q Little Hope Cemetery (Barren County, Kentucky)

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The following famous companies started off with different names than they currently have.

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2. Sony

B. BackRub

3. Snapple

C. Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo

4. Target

D. Tot’em

5. Canon

E. Cadabra

6. AOL

F. Sound of Music

7. Best Buy

G. Unadulterated Food Products

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Torah Thought

Parshas Toldos

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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his week’s Torah reading begins with the recounting of the generations of Abraham and Isaac. It is titled “Toldot,” which literally means the children, as it relates to genealogy and generations. The Torah reading of a few weeks ago also recounted for us the genealogy and generations of Noach and his sons. But that portion of the Torah was titled “Noach” and not “Toldot.”

The opening verse in both instances is practically identical, but the names of the parshiyot are different. Is there any reason why the previous Torah reading should be called based on the name of person involved, and our Torah reading this week should be called based on the generations and genealogy being described? The Torah reading of this week should have been titled Yitzchak, like the Torah reading of Noach.

Although this is hardly the most pertinent observation regarding this week’s Torah reading, it has bothered me for several years, and I have found relatively few explanations

from the great commentators, who usually have many observations in answer to obvious questions such as this in our eternal Torah. I gave the matter some concentrated thought this past week, and as is usual when one concentrates upon a Torah subject, a glimmer of understanding concerning this matter came to me.

It is this idea that I wish to share

by one’s own father, as was the case with Yitzchak, without these events having a lasting impact upon the survivors who witnessed and experienced them. But it is the reaction itself that differentiates between these two righteous people.

Noach, as a survivor, attempts to wipe out the memory of what happened from his conscious mind and

It is the reaction itself that differentiates between these two righteous people.

with you in this week’s article regarding the weekly Torah reading.

There is an inherent difference between the generations and genealogy of Noach and that of Yitzchak.

Both are survivors of great events of danger and trauma. It would be impossible to survive seeing the entire world destroyed, as in the case of Noach, or being sacrificed willingly

behavior. That is why he plants a vineyard, produces wine (to possibly) becomes drunk, and is shamed and violated by his own progeny. It is understandable that he would want to forget what happened and what he witnessed and not burden future generations with the memories of the trauma that remains buried within his subconscious. The key to

further survival is to forget the past and not transmit it to the later generation. Therefore, the Torah reading involving his life is called only by his name, since there is no intention to transmit to future generations what transpired and why it occurred. In addition, since Noach’s shame came specifically through his children and grandchildren, his “toldot,” it would have been improper to call the parsha by their name, calling attention to Noach’s trauma.

However, in the case of Yitzchak, far from attempting to forget his being bound on the altar by his father, he desires to transmits that memory and trauma to his descendants, the Jewish people, until this very day.

We revere the experience of our father Yitzchak, and his willingness to sacrifice himself for the sake of the G-d of Israel. This experience has become a hereditary hallmark of Jewish life, and we remember it as a symbol of continuity of generations and not just as the experience of one individual, no matter how great that individual may have been.

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From the Fire Parshas Toldos

Becoming a Baal Teshuva Again

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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ur parsha begins with the tefillos of the Avos. The pasuk (Bereishis 25:21) says that because Rivka could not conceive, “Yitzchak davened to Hashem on behalf of his wife because she was barren, and Hashem answered his prayer and Rivka his wife conceived.” Rashi explains that they were both davening for Rivka: “He stood in one corner and davened and she stood in the other corner and davened.” Although they both davened, Chazal teach that Hashem caused Rivka to conceive because of Yitzchak’s tefillos, rather than because of her tefillos, as Rashi further explains: “[Hashem answered] him and not her, because there is no comparison between the prayer of the tzaddik the son of a tzaddik to the prayer of a tzaddik who is the son of a wicked person. Therefore [Hashem answered] him and not her.”

This teaching is extremely difficult to understand. Ostensibly, the fact that Rivka grew up in the house of wicked people and nevertheless became a tzadekes should mean that she is

perhaps even greater than Yitzchak, who grew up in the home of tzaddikim and became a tzaddik. Rashi himself makes this exact point when he says (commenting on Bereishis 25:20) that the Torah puts a fine point on the fact that Rivka was the daughter of Besuel and the sister of Lavan and came from Padan Aram “in order to relate the praise of Rivka by pointing out that she was the daughter of a wicked person and the sister of a wicked person and grew up in a place filled with wicked people and yet she did not learn from their ways.” Similarly, do we not greatly admire the strides that baalei teshuva and geirim have made by overcoming their upbringing to join the ranks of the servants of Hashem for the same reason? Rivka’s greatness despite her upbringing should have made her tefillos even more powerful than Yitzchak’s.

We will offer two approaches to answer this question; one according to chassidus, and one according to mussar, starting with the approach of chassidus.

It happened once that a simple villager came to the tzaddik Rav Naftali Ropshitzer, zy”a. He brazenly told Reb Naftali, “I am actually greater than you. My father hated davening and hardly davened at all. I, however, daven a lot! But you, Rebbe, your father was Reb Mendel Linsker, zy”a.

So what is so special about the fact that you serve Hashem?”

The Ropshitzer answered him, “I will tell you the difference between you and me. We both make a l’chaim on some schnapps after davening. I fill up a little glass of schnapps and before I make the bracha, I think of the greatness of my father and how short I have fallen relative to his greatness. With a broken heart, I cannot even bring myself to have a little l’chaim. You, on the other hand, fill up your little glass of schnapps after davening and think of your father. Then you remember how far you have come relative to him, and you feel that you deserve a little schnapps after davening and you drink l’chaim with joy.”

Chazal have taught us that the

main ingredient in tefilla is humility and a feeling of broken-heartedness, as the pasuk (Tehilim 51:19) says, “Hashem will not despise a broken and downtrodden heart.” Because the child of a tzaddik may feel less prideful of his own stature relative to his parents, he has that extra element of humility in his tefilos, which makes them much more powerful. The righteous child of a wicked person, on the other hand, while he or she may have accomplished much, may feel a twinge of pride in his or her level, which weakens the power of prayer.

That subtle difference between their prayers may have been why Yitzchak’s davening was answered rather than Rivka’s. If one reads the introduction to Igros Moshe by Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, his humility relative to his father truly comes across. Reading this introduction, one may think that Rav Moshe was just a simple Jew. That humility is the greatness of the power of a tzaddik who is the son or daughter of a tzaddik.

The other approach to this ques-

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tion, from the world of mussar, is that of the Alter of Kelm, zt”l. The Alter explained the statement by Chazal (Yuma 29a) that “the old is harder than the new.” When someone is learning something new, he knows that he doesn’t understand it, so he works hard to study it in depth to understand it better. When he has already learned it before, however, he thinks that he already understands it. Therefore, when he reviews it, he does not study it closely because he believes that it is “old,” that he already understands it. That is why it is much harder to study something “old” properly than it is to study something new.

Avraham came into a world full of people who were on the wrong track.

He searched deeply and eventually discovered the truth. Avraham’s path was new. He was a trailblazer.

Yitzchak, however, grew up on a path than had already been forged, on an “old” path. Nevertheless, he did not treat his service of Hashem as old.

Instead, he searched deeply to find

his own path in the service of G-d.

He approached everything with fresh eyes, looking for a way to make the “old” path his own. He re-dug Avraham’s old wells. Although Avraham had dug wells that were new in his

ways of his parents are not simple but require depth and effort to acquire his or her own path in the service of G-d.

A tzaddik who is the child of wicked people, on the other hand, gets the thrill of the “new,” the excitement of

That humility is the greatness of the power of a tzaddik who is the son or daughter of a tzaddik.

time, (Bereishis 26:15)“the Plishtim stopped them up.” The word “sitmum, stopped them up,” is related to the word “stam,” meaning simple, without any depth. This teaches us that the challenge of the son a tzaddik is to avoid seeing the service of Hashem as “stam,” something simple. Instead, his challenge is seeing that the “old”

rebelling against his parents. In a certain respect, it is easier for such a person to invest deeply in his service of Hashem since he feels like a trailblazer, charting new territory. That is not to say that after a period of time, his path may not also seem “old” and require renewal. But at the beginning, it is easier to serve Hashem deeply.

That is why the accomplishment of Yitzchak in deepening his “old” path is greater in a certain respect than the accomplishment of Rivka, who attained the “easier” path of exploring the novelty of a new path.

We must not allow our Yiddishkeit to become “old.” Our task is to contemplate deeply about our path, dig deeper, and not take anything for granted. We must overcome the challenge of “the old is harder than the new.” May Hashem help us merit to (Eicha 5:21) “renew us as in the days of old,” so that our path which may have become old should be renewed once again with the coming of Moshiach, may he come soon in our days.

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Delving into the Daf

On Amtrak, Alabama, and Assumptions

By Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow

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n accounting joke has an employer ask several accountants applying for a job: “What is one plus one?”

“Two,” one accountant answers.

“Eleven,” another accountant answers.

“What do you want it to be?” answers a third accountant, who is hired.

Of course, falsehoods and deception have been around since time immemorial, but outright public lies have really become commonplace.

Perhaps it became most prominent when President Trump’s spokesman introduced the idea of “alternative facts.” Another rather bizarre example is Sharpiegate. President Trump tweeted a warning about Hurricane Dorian and said that in addition to Florida, “South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated by the storm.”

Apparently, he was wrong about Alabama, and the Birmingham National Weather Service quickly corrected him. It all could have ended there, but of course, it didn’t. On Wednesday, weather reporters and other experts noticed that someone had used a Sharpie to add a little bubble onto a map of the path of a storm that President Trump was using. The little bubble added Alabama!

Not to be outdone, President Biden often tells whoppers of his own. After pronouncing himself “Mr. Amtrak,” Biden tells an incident that occurred with him and Angelo Negri, a former conductor. He said that toward the end of his vice-presidential term, he had flown over a million miles on Air Force planes. As Biden

was getting on an Amtrak train, Negri grabbed him affectionately by the cheek and said, “Joey, baby!” Biden said he had been concerned Negri would be shot by the Secret Service, so he had assured agents that Negri was a friend. Then, he said, Negri scoffed and said that Biden’s number of miles traveled on Air Force planes was no “big deal” – because Negri and others had figured out that Biden had traveled a greater number of miles on Amtrak trains over his career in Washington.

But Biden’s account is simply not true. Biden did not reach the millionmiles-flown mark as vice president until September 2015. But Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993 and died in May 2014!

Does this brazenness have any effect on halacha?

The Gemara in Rosh Hashana (22b) relates that the great Amora Ulla returned from Eretz Yisrael to Bavel. He informed the populace that the Beis Din in Yerushalayim had declared Elul to be a 30-day

month. This apparently was a relatively rare occurrence as the Gemara commented earlier (ibid 19b) that from the days of Ezra, Elul never had 30 days. (With our current calendar, Elul always has 29 days.)

Rav Kahane commented that not only is the great sage Ulla believed to deliver this interesting news, but anyone would be believed. Rav Kahane says that we’ll even believe an average person to let us know the proper day to observe Yom Kippur, because people do not lie about things that will eventually be revealed. It is true that at this junction the populace was unaware when Rosh Hashana was – the 30th day from Rosh Chodesh Elul or the 31st – but eventually, many travelers will come from Eretz Yisrael, and it will become common knowledge. Why would a person utter a lie when his untruth will become apparent to all?

The Rivash asks: why did Rav Kahana need a special reasoning to believe the common man as to how the calendar was set in Yerushalayim? Isn’t it true that in all matters

of prohibitions we believe a common man? How can a person eat at someone else’s house? How can a person eat at his own house? Maybe the food isn’t kosher. The answer is that the other homeowner and whoever handles food at his home is believed to say the food is kosher. Here, too, since the question of the correct Hebrew date relates to when to fast on Yom Kippur and other prohibitions, of course, we should believe anyone.

The Rivash says that issues relating to the calendar are different.

Already in the times of the Mishna, the great court in Yerushalayim stopped believing everyone that they witnessed the new moon. (R”H 22a) There were groups of people who attempted to intentionally mislead the Sages to distort the calendar. Therefore, safeguards were enacted to prevent this. We would have assumed that similar safeguards were enacted that prevented an average individual from informing us what day the Beis Din in Yerushalayim declared Rosh Chodesh. However, Rav Kahana informs us that the safeguards are not necessary for this situation, because no one would intentionally lie if his untruth will soon be publicly known.

The Sfas Emes and others explain the Gemara differently. It is true that generally any witness is believed in matters of issurim, but here the witness is going up against a rov, a majority. There is perhaps even a super-majority that indicates that every Elul has 29 days. The witness wants us to believe that this year is a very rare exception. To be believed against a majority or super-majority, standard believability is not enough.

Rav Kahana must add that people

would not lie about something that will become common knowledge.

According to the Rivash, a witness would ordinarily be believed about the calendar but needs to overcome the safeguards. According to the Sfas Emes, the witness would not ordinarily be believed in this case and is only believed because we assume he would not lie in this case. Perhaps a practical difference between them would be, in a situation where a person does not otherwise have any believability, can we believe him solely on the basis of the assumption that he would not lie about something that will soon be revealed?

Suppose there are nine men waiting to start a minyan. They notice a child who may or may not be bar mitzvah. Can they ask him if he is already 13? If he is 12, then halachically he does not have any believability. He would only be believed that he is 13 if we know that he is already 13!

It can be suggested that, accord-

ing to the Sfas Emes, we can believe the child because he would not lie about something that will become known. If he told us that he is 13, and he is only 12, he will establish himself as a liar.

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Anyone can be toivel a utensil in a mikveh, even a minor. Further, if a utensil fell into the mikveh by itself, the tevillah is nevertheless valid.

However, one should not trust a child who is not bar/bas mitzvah that he/ she toiveled a utensil. Indeed, some are stringent and do not even trust a bar mitzvah boy until he has a beard

People would not lie about something that will become common knowledge.

wouldn’t lie only works in conjunction with the standard believability of a witness, which this youth doesn’t have. As a practical matter, Rav Shlomo Zalman, zt”l, said a boy is believed to say he is bar mitzvah because he wouldn’t lie when his falsehood would become obvious.

or shows other signs of halachic maturity. This is true in other areas of halacha as well that relate to biblical mitzvos.

If someone received a tray as a present with cookies on it, may one ask his minor child to call the gift giver and ask if it was toiveled?

It would seem in this case we may rely on Rav Shlomo Zalman’s ruling as well. The child would not lie and say it was toiveled, because the next time the parent meets or talks with the gift giver, the deception will be revealed.

However, these halachos are based on the assumption that people will not lie about things when the falsehood will become obvious. Rav Soloveitchik, zt”l, once remarked that this assumption is no longer true. It is unclear if meant his remark to be accepted halachically or if was he just bemoaning the sad state we live in. One can only wonder what he would say today!

Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow is a rebbe at Yeshiva Ateres Shimon in Far Rockaway. In addition, Rabbi Sebrow leads a daf yomi chaburah at Eitz Chayim of Dogwood Park in West Hempstead, NY. He can be contacted at ASebrow@gmail.com.

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Strasbourg Part II

By Hershel Lieber

With Petit France as our backdrop

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t was a twenty-minute walk from our hotel apartment to the Chabad Shul on Rue du Faubourg. We walked briskly to arrive at the apartment of Rabbi Mendel Samama before licht bentchen. Rav Mendel’s father, Rav Shimon, is the director of Chabad in Strasbourg, and his son, Rav Mendel, does outreach programming.

We barely had a chance to introduce each other before we went to the shul a short distance away. The oilem was almost entirely Lubavitch, and I was asked to daven Kabbalas Shabbos. I davened well, yet I let the mispallelim guide me in choosing Chabad niggunim for Lecha Dodi. After davening, I joined Pesi and a few other guests at the family Shabbos seudah. Rav Mendel and his rebbetzin and a number of their children were unbelievably welcoming, and it did not take long to truly feel at home.

After singing Sholom Aleichem and making kiddush, we began one the best Shabbosim that we ever experienced at Chabad shluchim. The conversations with Rav Mendel were extremely meaningful and enlightening. We learned about the family’s prominent background in Tunisia and how they were drawn to Chabad.

Besides sharing Torah insights with each other, we compared many of our life experiences and stories. We sang zemiros, ate delicious Middle Eastern dishes, and drank a fair amount of wine and liquor. We tried to outdo each other with humorous stories and jokes, and the laughter did not cease all evening. The other guests, including a gentleman from Montevideo, Uruguay, were truly entertained.

The seudah could have continued all night, as all the participants were wholeheartedly enjoying themselves.

With Rabbi Shimon Samama

Finally, we bentsched, strolled back to our apartment, and staggered up five flights in the dark stairwell while sharing our emotions about this special evening.

On Shabbos morning, I went to Etz Haim, the shul of Rabbi Shmuel Akiva Schlessinger, and Pesi joined

Rabbi Mendel Samama

me a bit later. I received an aliyah during davening, and we stayed on for the kiddush after davening. The Rav spoke at the kiddush and afterwards I remarked to him how surprised I was about “how much French I know!” He smiled approvingly, knowing that his French drasha was peppered with so

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much lashon kodesh that even I would understand.

From Etz Haim, we made our way to the Chabad shul where an Aufruf took place that day, and we and all the mispallelim were invited for the Shabbos seudah. I sat with the gentleman from Uruguay and a man from Sydney, Australia, while Pesi sat with the women. Rabbi Shimon warmly welcomed us, and between the eating, drinking, singing, speeches and conversations, we had a marvelous time.

we stopped for a breakfast of croissants and coffee on the way to Chabad.

On Thursday, we had said Tashlich by the banks of the River L’ill, and now we were on the way to shlug kaporos. The courtyard of the Chabad Shul was full of a combination of people and chickens of every gender. We waited a short while and continued our family’s tradition of symbolically transferring our transgressions to a rooster or hen to ensure a year of chaim toivim aruchim v’shalom.

We tried to outdo each other with humorous stories and jokes, and the laughter did not cease all evening

We returned to our hotel for a short nap and then I went down to daven Mincha and Maariv at the Synagogue de la Paix, a large Modern Orthodox shul very close to our apartment. Pesi actually joined me later on, and we heard Havdalah there. After Shabbos, we sat down to plan our schedule for Sunday, our final day in this lovely city.

Then we set up a candlelit Melave Malka with brie cheese on melba toast and French champagne. What a great way to send off our special Shabbos. Bonne semaine et bonne nuit!

We woke up on Sunday morning to the exciting news that our granddaughter Shaindy had a baby boy.

Now, we were looking forward for a bris on the following Shabbos. After selichos and Shacharis at Etz Haim,

Next, we headed to the Museum of Contemporary Art. We really enjoyed the special exhibitions as well as their permanent collection. We also met our Shabbos friend from Uruguay. Then we walked around the section called “Petit France,” where we were treated to the most stunning feast of architectural gems. We took an enormous amount of photos and stopped into many of the interesting shops.

We then took a tram back to our apartment, grabbed a quick lunch, and took a short nap. I davened Mincha and Maariv at the Synagogue de la Paix, and then we went out for dinner. The restaurant, Autre Part, served dairy food, and we ordered local specialties like flammekueche. This tasty favorite is known as plat du pauvre – dish of the poor – and is composed

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of a thin, pizza-like flatbread topped of a thin, pizza-like flatbread topped with sour cream, onions and mushwith sour cream, onions and mushrooms and served steaming hot. Tres rooms and served steaming hot. Tres delicieux! We also enjoyed a bottle of delicieux! We also enjoyed a bottle of gewurztraminer wine with our food gewurztraminer wine with our food and had mousse for dessert. What a and had mousse for dessert. What a beautiful way to end our marvelous beautiful way to end our marvelous stay in Strasbourg! stay in Strasbourg!

We did not have much sleep that We did not have much sleep that night since we had to rise at five to night since we had to rise at five to catch an eight o’clock bus to Frankcatch an eight o’clock bus to Frank-

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Strasbourg souvenirs Strasbourg souvenirs

furt. From there, we took a flight back furt. From there, we took a flight back to Poland. As we started our descent to Poland. As we started our descent into Warsaw’s Chopin Airport, our into Warsaw’s Chopin Airport, our demeanor changed back to the Aseres demeanor changed back to the Aseres Yemei Teshuva mode. Tomorrow eveYemei Teshuva mode. Tomorrow evening would be Yom Kippur, and we ning would be Yom Kippur, and we had to return to the serious mood of had to return to the serious mood of the Yomim Noraim. That evening, Pesi the Yomim Noraim. That evening, Pesi led a singing session with a group of led a singing session with a group of women focusing on the words and women focusing on the words and tunes of the upcoming tefillos. Later tunes of the upcoming tefillos. Later

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on, I gave a shiur for both men and on, I gave a shiur for both men and women on the story of the creation of women on the story of the creation of the U’nesane Tokef and the meaning of the U’nesane Tokef and the meaning of

this momentous prayer. The stage was this momentous prayer. The stage was being set for the meaningful Yom Kipbeing set for the meaningful Yom Kippur that was rapidly approaching. pur that was rapidly approaching.

Hershel Lieber has been involved in kiruv activities for over 30 years. As a founding member of Hershel has been involved inhe kiruv for over 30 years.

Asthe a founding member of the VaadLieber L’Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel has activities traveled with his wife, Pesi, to Soviet Union during the Vaad Nidchei Yisroelregimes he has traveled with his wife, Pesi, thespearheaded Soviet Unionaduring the harshL’Hatzolas years of the Communist to advance Yiddishkeit.

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In of Poland, he lectured summersyears at thewith Ronald S. Lauder camp for 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 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 Hashana Yom forand the Jews there. Together with Pesi, hefinding organized led to Europe onand behalf of Kippur Gateways Aish Hatorah for college students their and paths totrips Jewish Europe onHis behalf of Gateways and Aish Hatorah students finding to Jewish identity. passion for travel has taken themfor to college many interesting placestheir andpaths afforded them identity.

His passionTheir for travel has taken themopportunities to many interesting and afforded them unique experiences. open home gave them to meet places and develop relationships unique experiences.

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

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Not Letting Israel’s Elderly Fall Through The Cracks

By Raphael Poch

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ast Monday afternoon, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Talia Asher from Mevaseret Zion visited an elderly woman as part of the organization’s Ten Kavod project.

Talia went to check on the woman’s vital signs and spend some time with her in order to alleviate the woman’s feelings of loneliness that many elderly people who live alone tend to feel.

This was the first time that Talia had visited the woman, as the woman was a new participant in the Ten Kavod project.

Upon arriving at the address, Talia noted that the building in which the woman lives is very old. Talia entered the building and knocked on the woman’s door. The elderly woman opened the door and welcomed Talia into her apartment. Talia was shocked by what she saw.

The walls of the apartment were cracked so badly and in so many places that Talia thought they might endanger the structural integrity of the entire building itself. Talia photographed the walls and sent the pictures to the coordinators of the “Ten Kavod” project to see what could be done to help. The coordinators immediately transferred the photographs to The Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs, who sent an engineer to visit the apartment for further inspection.

Upon his arrival and inspection of the building, the engineer decided that all of the residents of the building, including the woman whom Talia went to visit, needed to be evacuated immediately until the building could be repaired and once again deemed safe for occupancy.

According to the engineer, the building was at risk of imminent collapse and should have been renovated and strengthened sooner. That evening, the elderly woman who Talia visited was taken to a nearby hotel to

Some of the cracks in the walls

stay, at the expense of the government, and will be residing there until it is safe for her to return to her apartment. The elderly woman was incredibly thankful and moved to tears by

her a free medical check-up to make sure her basic health is OK and make sure that her living conditions are viable. We do all this to help make her happy,” said Talia, whose Ten Kavod

The walls of the apartment were cracked so badly and in so many places that Talia thought they might endanger the structural integrity of the entire building itself.

the kindness and concern shown to her by Talia and the coordinators of the “Ten Kavod” project who accompanied her throughout the process.

“Our mission is to care for Israel’s elderly who live on their own.

This woman is 75 years old and has no one else to care for her. As a volunteer in the project, I aim to help alleviate her sense of loneliness, give

training was enabled by a grant from The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc., “When I walked in and saw that her apartment was dangerous to live in, especially as she was recently confined to a wheelchair, I knew I had to help. I feel very strongly that the Ten Kavod project is so important in particular as it helps those who cannot

necessarily help themselves. With no one looking after this woman, no one knew that her living conditions had gotten this bad – bad enough to endanger her entire building. Thanks to this special program, we were able to get her and the other residents the help they needed and prevent a largescale tragedy from occurring.”

Talia concluded by saying, “It is so important for us as a society to prevent these kinds of situations and give our seniors and veterans the respect that they deserve and the proper care that they have the right to receive. I am thankful to be a part of the Ten Kavod project which does exactly that.”

United Hatzalah’s national “Ten Kavod” project sends trained medical volunteers to visit senior citizens across Israel at least once a week.

The volunteer is tasked with measuring the participant’s blood pressure, pulse and heart rate, sugar levels, oxygen saturation levels, and making sure that the person is eating well and that their house is clean. The volunteer spends time with the elderly participants to alleviate their sense of loneliness and to make sure that nothing G-d forbid happened to them.

This provides the elderly person with the feeling that someone cares for them and knows what is going on in their lives. Quite often, the volunteers and the elderly participants build close friendships. Over the years that the project has been in operation, it has been shown to help prevent depression and the deterioration of the participant’s medical condition.

Many of the senior citizens involved in the “Ten Kavod” project are Holocaust survivors. The senior citizens who participate in the program live by themselves and often don’t have anyone else to care for them.

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Chevron Me’Az U’Letamid Yishai Fleisher Talks about the Growth of the Jewish Community in the Holy City

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hey came in cars, chartered busses and by way of hitchhike, crowding the bus stops alongside Route 60 connecting Jerusalem and the ancient city. Guarded by thousands of heavily armed IDF soldiers specially deployed to make this event a reality, the estimated 20,000 visitors spent the weekend singing, dancing, and learning about Chevron’s heritage.

This was the first “Shabbat Chevron” since the COVID-19 pandemic changed the world in 2020.

Taking place every year on Parshat Chayei Sarah, the Torah portion detailing Abraham’s purchase of the Cave of the Patriarchs, the event sees tens of thousands of people converge to show their support for the ancient city’s revival.

First started in 1993 as a political protest against Israel’s intention to relinquish Chevron to the Palestinian Authority as part of Oslo Accords, Shabbat Chevron has since mushroomed into one of the country’s highest profile events. The 2019 iteration, the last one before the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak, set a new record, with 50,000 Jews from all over the world packing the dense Jewish quarter and neighboring Kiryat Arba.

Attendees represent a cross section of global Jewish life, uniting right-wing politicians, chassidic rabbis, French billionaires, and American students on gap year programs. Teens on Birthright stand shoulder to shoulder with IDF generals, YU undergrads with elderly Russians.

“It has become a kind of mixture between Woodstock and the Bible. Every year it’s been growing and growing,” says Yishai Fleisher, the spokesperson for Chevron’s Jewish community.

Shabbat Chevron is more than just an annual gathering. The steadily-growing weekend symbolizes the growing consensus around a community that overcame herculean odds to reestablish in one of Judaism’s holiest cities.

“It’s become much less of a political protest and much more of a spiritual and heritage gathering.

We’re celebrating Jewish history and heritage here in Chevron, which was the first purchase of the Jewish people in history,” relates Fleisher.

If successive Israeli governments once promised to expel Chevron’s Jewish community, such talk is now unthinkable. On the contrary – construction commenced on a brand-new neighborhood earlier this month that will house 31 families, while another project in the works at the city’s former farmers market will double its population.

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t’s a far cry from 1929, the year in which a murderous Arab riot effectively ended the city’s Jewish presence dating back 3,800 years. Egged on by Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini, who alleged that the Temple Mount was in danger, a mob of Chevron Arabs poured out their wrath on the Jewish neighbors.

Chanting “Itbach al-Yahud” (slaughter the Jews), tens of thousands of Arabs ran through the streets on August 24, burning synagogues and ransacking Jewish homes.

Sixty-nine Jews were killed by the end of that infamous day, including 24 students from the renowned Chevron Yeshiva.

The Mandatory British government then ordered the forcible evacuation of the survivors, ending Chevron’s uninterrupted Jewish presence dating back to the First Temple Period. The site of King David’s palace, Jews had lived in Chevron continuously throughout

the Byzantine, Arab, Mameluke, and Ottoman periods. Now, they were gone.

Chevron’s fate remained a sore spot for the young Jewish state. Not only were the Jews ordered out by the British right after being massacred, the Arabic locals labored to remove any sign of their presence from the world’s oldest Jewish community.

Under Jordanian rule, the last vestiges of a Jewish historical presence in Chevron were obliterated.

The Avraham Avinu Synagogue, already in ruins, was razed; a pen for goats, sheep, and donkeys was built on the site.

Matters changed after the IDF conquered Chevron during the Six Day War in 1967. Pressure to renew Jewish life in the city began almost immediately from multiple sources. Surviving families demanded the restitution of the property stolen during the bloody 1929 riots; the Chevron Yeshiva sought to return to its original campus, while religious Jews sought to pray at the Cave of the Patriarchs.

Meanwhile, the astounding results of the 1967

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In the aftermath of the Chevron massacre in 1929

War led to the creation of Gush Emunim. Comprised of Religious Zionists from the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva and secular Kibbutzniks, Gush Emunim sought to assert Israeli control over all of the recently captured territories by establishing settlements in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights.

Gush Emunim was repeatedly rebuffed by an Israeli government that viewed the newly-recaptured territories as a bargaining chip for a future peace agreement with Jordan. After repeated attempts to return to Chevron were stymied, Rabbi Menachem Levinger took matters into his own hands.

He would end up changing history.

A rabbi who studied for years at Merkaz Harav under Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Rabbi Levinger believed that resettling Chevron was imperative; he could no longer wait for government approval that would likely never arrive. On the day before Passover in 1968, Levinger and over 100 other Merkaz Harav students and activists rented the Park Hotel in Chevron for the holiday.

But after the holiday ended, Rabbi Levinger informed local military authorities that they planned to stay indefinitely.

“We’ve come to liberate the holy city; we are not going anywhere,” Rabbi Levinger told the nonplussed military governor.

The military ignored them at first, believing that the group would soon leave on their own. But after a month passed with no end to the impasse in sight, the Israeli government began negotiating.

The two sides soon reached a deal to allow Rabbi Levinger and his students to transfer to an unused army facility outside of Chevron. This site would become Kiryat Arba, a bustling city that today has over 10,000 residents.

Over the next decade, Gush Emunim and politicians on both sides of the political map continued to

relentlessly pressure the government to allow Jews to resume living within Chevron itself. The efforts ran up against a brick wall, however, as the dovish Labor coalition feared that allowing such a step in the city holy to both Jews and Muslims would inflame religious tensions.

Like with the Passover seder at the Park Hotel, things only changed after Gush Emunim decided to take matters in their own hands. In 1979, a group of religious women and their children entered Beit Hadassah, a historically Jewish-owned complex in

“That’s because half of the world is interested in connecting with the heritage of Avraham.”

Chevron’s Avraham Avinu neighborhood that was the epicenter of the 1929 riots.

Believing that it would be difficult for the government to bodily eject women and children, the group declared that they would refuse to leave until Jewish settlement was authorized in Chevron proper. But by now, the Labor party had been ousted by the right-wing Likud Party with Prime Minister Menachem Begin firmly supporting Gush Emunim’s goal of a Greater Israel.

Rather than order the military to clear out Beit Hadassah, Begin decreed that the women could stay.

“Chevron is also [part of] Israel. I will not allow for any place Israel to be ‘Judenrein,’” said Begin.

However, no additional people would be allowed into Beit Hadassah, and anyone leaving the com-

pound would be prevented from returning.

The women held steadfast, persevering under enormously difficult conditions for the next year.

In 1980, six yeshiva students were gunned down by terrorists outside of Beit Hadassah after returning from Friday night prayers. The grisly attack shocked the nation and led Begin to approve repopulating the Jewish Quarter. For the first time since an Arab mob drove out their neighbors in 1929, Chevron’s Jewish community had returned.

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ver four decades has passed since a band of women and small children succeeded in pressuring the Israeli government to allow Jews to return to their holy city.

Today, Chevron has over 1,000 Jewish inhabitants, including hundreds of students at the renowned Shavei Chevron Yeshiva.

What has not changed is the sacrifice. Chevronites have suffered from waves of terror attacks, particularly during the Second Intifada. In one particularly grisly 2002 attack known popularly as the “Worshippers Route Massacre,” Palestinian terrorists gunned down 12 IDF soldiers and two Kiryat Arab residents as they made their way home from Friday evening prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs.

Living in Chevron means being protected by a phalanx of thousands of heavily armed IDF soldiers, making routine everyday activities such as going to school challenging.

“We live with a good portion of jihadism surrounding us here in Chevron, and that’s because the Palestinian Authority is their gateway to Hamasstyle jihadism,” Fleisher explains.

“We have a big army around but that means that life is not exactly normal,” he added.

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leftist Israeli establishment and the international community. If the initial effort to resettle Chevron enjoyed overwhelming bipartisan support, today the community is viewed by many as immoral and an impediment to peace. This narrative accelerated following the Oslo Accords, with the Israeli government relinquishing fully 90% of Chevron to Palestinian Authority control.

Paradoxically, many of the challenges the community faces stems from the success of the settlement movement. The rapid population growth of the surrounding Kiryat Arba and South Chevron Hills and has put a strain on infrastructure that was constructed over 45 years ago and has rarely been updated since.

The influx of residents has led to relentless gridlock, adding hours to a daily commute to Jerusalem or Be’er Sheva and significantly harming residents’ quality of life.

“Route 60, which is our lifeline, is a tight and small road that has many more people than its capacity can take. Fixing that would help us a lot,” notes Fleisher.

Then there is the difficulty in purchasing homes.

Arabs selling land to Jews are commonly arrested and charged with “high treason,” a “crime” that carries the death penalty. The Palestinian Authority actively investigates those suspected of dealing with Jews, forcing Chevronites to turn to creative methods to grow the community.

Such methods include setting up sophisticated shell corporations headquartered overseas in an effort to dupe their Palestinian neighbors into selling their property to an ostensibly innocent entity.

When such schemes do succeed, the sale is then contested in court, leading to a legal battle that can last as long as ten years.

To illustrate, the Chevron Jewish community purchased the Beit Hashalom (“Peace House”)

building in 2004 from a pair of Palestinian businessmen by using an Arab straw buyer. But the pair contested the sale after Jews moved in, touching off a long court case that was only resolved in 2014.

Beit Hamachpela provided a similar experience. The four-story apartment building located a few hundred meters from the Cave of the Patriarchs had been purchased in 2012 by Al-Aaidoun Lil-Aqarart, a front company operated by Chevron’s Jewish community. Forty families moved in shortly after.

But the Arab family that has sold the building was soon arrested by the Palestinian Authority. Facing almost certain jail time, they contested the sale, causing the IDF to evict the families and beginning years of bureaucratic and legal proceedings until the final court approval in 2019.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian who sold the property was sentenced to death and has remained in a PA prison ever since. Chevron’s Jewish community has worked to raise attention to his plight, including penning a letter to the United Nations “demanding annulment of the death warrant and pending execution of Muhammad Abu Shahala.”

The criminal repercussions sellers face at the hands of the Palestinian Authority have taken their toll.

“There are many Arabs who would love to sell property to Jews but they face the pain of death so we have a hard time growing because we cannot manage to buy property even at exorbitant sums,” says Fleisher.

Despite all of the aforementioned difficulties, Chevron continues to expand. As mentioned, work recently began on a new $6 million project for almost three dozen families in the Hezekia Quarter.

To be built on a former military base, the residential units were the first building initiative in Chevron to receive official government approval in 16 years.

Fleisher says that the community is investing

in improving the city as a tourist draw, something that will “create tourist jobs, teaching jobs” and other boons to the local economy. This effort includes downplaying the city’s reputation as the epicenter of religious and nationalistic conflict between Jews and Arabs in favor of its biblical history.

“We’re working to make Chevron more of a consensus issue in the sense that it’s a historic heritage site for all of mankind, the Abrahamic pathway, and we’re moving away from this image of it is a place of ‘strong Jews and the pushback against the Jihad,’” Fleisher says.

While acknowledging that such an image “is true,” he says that they “are more focused on the historical heritage of this more ancient Jewish city that has been inhabited with almost no break in perpetuity for 3,800 years.”

“Chevron in ten years will be a lot bigger, and there will be a lot more tourists coming here,” Fleisher vows. “That’s because half of the world is interested in connecting with the heritage of Avraham.

“Jewish presence in Chevron is ancient. It was an important Jewish city 2,000 and 3,000 years ago. The founders of our peoplehood lived and are buried here including Jacob, who was also the first to be called Israel. Kind David ruled here, and King Herod built the famous Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs edifice,” he continued.

“Jews continue to live here through all the various foreign conquests. We were ethnically cleansed by a Jihadist massacre in 1929, and yet in 1967 we returned. Now we are embarking on developing a few Jewish buildings on land purchased by the community in 1870 and contiguous to other Jewish properties.

“We have many Arab colleagues and allies in the city, and they are happy for our growth. Simply put, there is nothing more organic than Jews living in the heart of Judea, in the city of our ancestors.”

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

I have a confession to make.

I’m not interested in marriage. I know that sounds so scandalous to say, especially since I come from the frum world, but it’s true.

I’m 38 and very happy at my stage in life. Change is always hard

for me so I know that even if I tried getting married, I probably would not be successful. Here is the problem, though. I met a guy through work who I really like. We have been hanging out and talking for a month and I know he wants to date me (if he doesn’t already consider us as dating...). At this age, I know it’s really hard to find someone you connect with, and we really do connect – but I’m just not interested in marriage. I know he is serious – and would not be talking to me and taking me out if he knew the truth.

The problem is I can’t seem to let go. He’s really like one of my best friends. I’m at this fork in the road and have no clue what to do. Any advice would be appreciated.

--Sarah*

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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Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. arah, this is not as simple a confession as you describe it. You must be aware that you have deep concerns and serious matters to address. You don’t have to confess them in a letter to the Navidaters. But it would be helpful to you to take them up in therapy.

I am not saying that because you are not interested in getting married you must be fixed. I am addressing your conviction that “even if I tried getting married, I probably would not be successful,” a defeatist attitude.

You are connecting with the young man and need to look inside yourself.

You are definitely self-aware on one level. You say the “the problem is I can’t seem to let go.” In other words, you are articulating knowledge that something is blocking you. There may be more than one thing. Find a skilled therapist and dig deep. I’m sure that s/ he will help you with communicating some of this with the young man who interests you.

You know it’s time to do the work.

So do it.

Michelle Mond ow, what a conundrum.

In my opinion, you are leading this man on, and it is not going to end well if you continue the charade.

You have a very important decision to make, and it might be a life-altering one. Until now, as you describe, you have been very happy with your singlehood. From your letter, it sounds like this is the first man you have ever connected with on this level. Until now, marriage was not on your radar.

From your letter, you make it seem like it is still not – but I don’t buy it. I urge you to think about the long-term results of this prospect – what if it actually was serious. Does that seem so bad to you? I realize that change is hard, especially at this age and stage of your life. I understand that your mindset on marriage simply wasn’t an option until now. But what if it was? What if you could marry your best friend? Somebody that you met casually through work who was actually worth sticking around for?

It sounds like you have a lot of internal struggles that would be good for you to

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ear Sarah, Thank you for writing into the panel. There are others in the frum world who do not want to get married at this time, so please know that you are not alone. As with any culture or society, there are certain

norms that are simply “expected.”

Many people follow these norms whether they want to or not. Some people, no matter the consequences,

What if you could marry your best friend?

work through. Tune into yourself and start understanding the “why” behind the narratives you tell yourself. If after all this, you still have no interest in marriage, you must tell this man and make sure he is on the same page. By all means, keep up the friendship, but not if it means leading the poor guy on.

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arah, it’s important for you to pinpoint for yourself why you are not interested in marriage, beyond the fact that change is difficult. Most people I know fear change as well, however, they take the leap of faith with their future goals in mind. It appears to me that there is a larger underlying issue which is deterring you from making this next step in your life, so you need to understand for yourself what doesn’t sit well with you around change.

The concept of not being OK with change is a bigger issue than just when it relates to marriage, as it plays a role in all areas of life. I suggest you go to therapy to work through this fear around change in order for you to successfully handle the ups and downs of life.

To answer your question about this guy specifically, it would be entirely misleading him and doing him injustice if you do not work through your problems first.

choose to live their authentic lives. You have been living your life true to yourself. You know that you are not interested in marriage and are happy at your stage in life.

Here’s the thing... you’ve met someone who you really like. Some-

t is unusual in our community, but there is certainly nothing inherently wrong with wanting to enjoy a longterm, close friendship with someone.

For the moment, since you enjoy spending time together, you should continue to do so. But, you should expect that, at some point, he will raise the question about the nature of your current and future relationship. When that happens, please be as honest with him as you were in your letter.

After that: He might feel, strongly, that he definitely does envision marriage in his future, and he may, consequently, opt to not continue your current relationship and friendship.

Or, you might be surprised to find, that he shares your feelings about marriage, and you can remain non-romantic, buddy-buddies.

Or, you might be surprised to find, that after you have enjoyed relaxed, no-pressure-no-expectations time with him, your own views about marriage might change.

Everyone craves friendship. Good luck and please let us know how it turns out.

times something or someone comes along that/who makes us question our beliefs and desires. And that’s OK. It’s more than OK. Turning our backs on opportunity for change and growth can be a wasted opportunity for personal transformation. And so the question becomes what to do

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about it. Maybe you never felt that marriage was something you were interested in, but what about this beautiful human being who makes you happy? What to do?

I have two pressing thoughts on your situation. The first is this idea that even if I tried getting married, I probably would not be successful.

This feels like a heavy statement with a lot of history inside of it. Have you unpacked and explored this? If you haven’t already done so, might you consider seeing a therapist to do this work? And if you have already done “the work,” might you consider speak-

ing with a therapist to do it again, now that you’ve met someone who has you questioning your beliefs?

My second thought is that you don’t need to work through your thoughts and feelings by yourself or just with a therapist...because you’ve met this guy. Telling the truth is scary, especially when we feel we have much to lose. Not telling the truth can be scarier, because our anxiety can build to the point of sabotaging something with potential greatness.

If he is one of your best friends, there is the possibility that he would be there for you and work on this with

you. And, if he truly does want to get married and you truly don’t, we have to consider his feelings in this and what is fair to him. Sometimes the truth is the simplest answer.

Forks in the road are tough. Most of the time, they are difficult. Much of the time, they are tremendous opportunities for personal growth as they challenge our beliefs and can change the course of life. Though it’s natural to feel afraid, try to embrace this fork. You never know where it may lead. Best of luck!

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Turning our backs on opportunity for change and growth can be a wasted opportunity for personal transformation.

Jennifer

Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and certified trauma healing life coach, as well as a 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 718-908-0512. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email JenniferMannLCSW@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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Dr. Deb

What Can Bill and Susan Do?

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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his is the third and last in a series exploring the intense pressure a person would have to have experienced in order to want to get divorced. That pressure comes from the unbearable pain that he or she has within the marriage.

The pain doesn’t need to be caused by physical actions. Subtle things like coldness, lack of a smile, and no sense of a working partnership will do it.

The first article went into details on the cost – financially – of divorce and the last one described what the pain will do to the body and spirit.

What choices are left to a person in that position? Today, we will follow Bill and his wife, Susan, as they master a comprehensive set of tools to rewire their brains and change their minds about who they are and where they want to go. You will see why this is a program that works.

Bill and Susan (characters are made up) were introduced at the beginning of the series. They seem so estranged that when Bill leaves in the morning he not only doesn’t say “hi” or “goodbye” but he feels some irritation about it. He has disconnected himself – and Susan feels it.

She is both hurt and angry.

Traditional therapy sessions would have Bill and Susan explain to each other in front of the counselor what they were feeling. The idea is good because this way they would be able to understand and therefore humanize each other. But this doesn’t work because they each will get defensive and angry, protecting their own turf. Their turf, of course, is the right to be the victim and the exposure of the other as the hurtful one.

There’s an alternative approach, the Love Yourself Love Your MarriageTM program.

Notice it begins with “love yourself.” The premise is that to avoid that defensiveness when talking together, couples must first come to know and value themselves. They must first get to a place where they are healed so well from their past pains – whether from the marriage or from before the marriage – that they are not automatically triggered and reactive when their partner says something that would, in the past, get under their skin.

Susan and Bill like the idea of working independently. Bill is relieved not to be under a microscope – because, as he would put it, he can’t do anything right, it seems.

Susan, who feels like all she does is give, give, give to the family, likes the idea of focusing on herself for a change. In fact, as she starts the program, it occurs to her that she has been looking to Bill to give her love and attention simply because she hasn’t given any to herself. Well, now it is her turn.

Bill is very sensitive. He has been resenting the fact that he must tiptoe out the door in the morning. After all, a warm embrace would get the

day started well. But his head would get bitten off if he deprived his wife of one extra minute of sleep.

Susan, the giver, would not have thought of herself as needy. But as she works her way through Module I, she starts to wonder.

Bill realizes that the requirement to tiptoe out without a word triggers moments in his childhood when his mom would leave. She’d be gone for weeks at a time, and he was left in the care of a nanny who certainly couldn’t replace his mom. Now he was leaving. It just felt wrong.

When Bill and Susan moved on to Module II, they both got annoyed.

Needs, Wants, Feelings, and Triggers in Module I was interesting to each of them. But Module II is requiring them to sit and breathe and do nothing. Not possible! They each informed me privately that they were unable to get their heads to stop from all the chatter inside.

This is normal. I myself couldn’t last more than 5 seconds with an empty head. It is ironic that the very act of clearing your head from a deluge of thoughts brings clarity to the issues you’re struggling with. Tens of

thousands of research papers have backed up the usefulness of mindfulness and meditation. Within a few weeks, Bill and Susan were able to “rewire” their brains to clear of babble.

This is a simple thing, but powerful.

Mindful breathing lays down new neuronal pathways from the thinking center of the brain (cerebral cortex) to the fear/alarm center (amygdala) which has a calming effect on the body and brain. The amygdala is pre-programmed to fire at the least suggestion of danger; it is not meant to discriminate true danger from unlikely possibilities.

Meditation changes that. While still alert for risk, it now falls under the auspices of the intelligent part of the brain.

Next, Bill learned in Module III how to make Affirmations that he can actually believe rather than those canned, formulaic ones that sound ridiculous. This was important for him, and a turning point. He came to see that he was not the bad person he believed everyone thought him to be – including Susan.

Module IV corrected Susan’s view of the world a lot. Instead of looking for – and finding – what is wrong with people, she learned to search for what is right. It wasn’t an easy switch, but the techniques in the program helped.

However, when they got to Modules VII through IX, that’s when they took off in their personal transformations. See, II through VI give wonderful tools to help a person feel like they are being “run” by themselves and not by coping mechanisms that they should have long outgrown. When you put all that together with the concepts of

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Self and parts from Internal Family Systems, suddenly each person feels the power of being able to choose to be in Self.

This is vastly different than any other therapy modality. All others, of course, support choice. But escaping the domination of habits is hard. We use coping mechanisms so automatically that choice seems impossible.

It is only when we’ve practiced getting back into Self – sometimes simply by breathing, or by making our favorite affirmations, or in my case, by talking to myself – that we experience deeply the freedom it brings. So, for three weeks of two private sessions per week, we practice. (That’s in addition to all the other 1-on-1 therapy sessions we do throughout the program.)

The big day came.

Bill and Susan were now working on Module X and would be starting twice-a-week conjoint sessions. They were to speak to each other about their issues – and my job was to

guide them back into Self if they got taken over by a part (defense mechanism).

“You know,” Bill said to Susan, “I understand you need your sleep, but that sad, lonely little boy part of me hates that part of you that makes me leave the house without a word.”

yet, because they are not attacking each other but only referring to the childhood parts that got hurt, no one feels blamed. On the contrary, they start to understand one another in a deeper way than they could have with all their defenses guarding them.

To avoid that defensiveness when talking together, couples must first come to know and value themselves.

“Yeah,” Susan replied reflectively, “I can see that. But the part of me that feels like a victim because of all that I do for you and the family wants so badly that extra sleep.”

Don’t you love this?

They’re being totally honest and

Has this process been easy for Bill and Susan? No. It took time and thought. They had to buy journals and record feelings, triggers, possible sources for the triggers, affirmations, proofs for the affirmations, and so on. They had to prac-

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tice the Self exercises and recognize their parts when they popped up.

They had to take what Dr. Richard Schwartz calls Self leadership with all their parts. They needed to develop their mindfulness skills in order to calm down enough to do this.

They needed to trust themselves, trust me, and trust the process.

But they definitely felt it was worth it all.

After all, instead of being angry and bitter, and spending money like water in a divorce proceeding, they are learning who they are, who the other one is, and how to make a marriage beautiful and joyous. Countless Bills and Susans have said that you can’t put a price tag on that.

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

Prenatal Nutrition Eating Healthy for You and Your Baby

By Aliza Beer MS, RD, CDN

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reparing for pregnancy, experiencing a pregnancy, and navigating postpartum can be a challenge for women both mentally and physically. Before and during your pregnancy, nutrition is more important than ever. Making smart food choices, taking a prenatal vitamin, and staying active can help ensure you and your baby are well-nourished. It will also result in the appropriate weight gain for both mother and baby.

Appetite changes, heartburn, cravings, and morning sickness can be disruptive, and making smart food choices often proves difficult. Maintaining a healthful diet throughout all three trimesters of your pregnancy is integral to a successful pregnancy and easy postpartum journey. Eating a nutritious diet is linked to good brain development, a normal birth weight, and a decreased risk of birth defects. A well-balanced diet will help stabilize

your hormones and will directly affect your fertility and the well-being of your pregnancy.

Pre-Pregnancy Your diet can play a large role in conception and maintaining a pregnancy. Before you become pregnant, try to be at your healthiest weight so that you won’t start a pregnancy with too little or too much weight.

Beginning a prenatal vitamin three months before getting pregnant is important for a variety of reasons.

Firstly, your eggs develop 90 days before they are released, and healthy eggs are key to a successful pregnancy. Secondly, many people discover they are pregnant when they are already a few weeks into the pregnancy. In these first few weeks of pregnancy, so much of a baby’s development happens. Therefore, finding a good quality prenatal with iron, folate, omega-3 fatty acids, and choline before pregnancy is imperative.

With regards to pre-pregnancy nutrition, choose whole grains and high fiber foods, consume more fruits and vegetables, avoid saturated fats, and eat more unsaturated fats such as avocados and oily fish. If you have irregular cycles, having a portion of full-fat dairies such as yogurt or a glass of milk every day may help with this. Align your diet with your pre-pregnancy goals, either weight gain, weight loss, or weight maintenance. Research stresses the importance of being at a normal weight for optimum fertility. Being very underweight or overweight can make becoming pregnant difficult and can cause problems during pregnancy such as high blood pressure and gestational diabetes. Foods like quinoa, full-fat dairy, lentils, salmon, asparagus, and citrus foods have been shown to boost fertility. Reaching and maintaining an optimal weight before pregnancy helps avoid many complications.

Prenatal Nutrition Women with a normal BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 are recommended to gain between 25-35 pounds throughout pregnancy. Usually, women gain 1-4.5lbs in the first trimester, 1-2 lbs. per week in the second trimester, and 1-2 lbs. per week during the third trimester.

The idea of eating for two while pregnant has been debunked and has been proven to be unhealthy for you and your unborn child. Too much weight gain can increase complications during your pregnancy, such as increasing your risk of gestational diabetes, and can make postpartum weight loss difficult. Instead of thinking about pregnancy as an opportunity to eat for two, think about providing nourishment for two. Focus on eating nutrient-dense foods instead of eating double the amount of what you normally eat.

Generally, in the first trimester of pregnancy, a woman does not need

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to increase the calories they eat each day. In the second trimester, women should increase their calories by 340 calories each day. In the third trimester, it is recommended to increase your caloric intake by 450 calories per day. These numbers could vary depending on your activity level, but in most circumstances, these recommendations will help you maintain a good and steady weight gain throughout your pregnancy.

help you achieve your calcium goals.

Iron is important for pregnancy and postpartum. Many women who are anemic during pregnancy complain of extreme fatigue postpartum. To avoid this, ask your doctor if a supplement will prevent the anemia, and eat foods like spinach, chicken, eggs, and tofu. Potassium works with sodium to maintain fluid levels and regulate blood pressure. Eat foods rich

pasteurized milk, cheese, and juice.

During this trimester many women experience cravings for chocolate, spicy foods, and starchy foods. Focus on eating three clean and satisfying meals and a snack or two each day.

Honor your cravings once in a while and recognize that you are allowed to treat yourself. Choose foods and drinks without added sugars and focus on eating fruits, vegetables, whole

First Trimester In your first trimester, you may be feeling quite nauseous and the idea of eating foods like fruits and vegetables could sound very unappealing. Women also experience food aversions and fatigue, which may have a large impact on appetite. This first trimester can be rough, but for most, this is only temporary and it will pass. It is OK to eat whatever you can keep down in your first trimester. If your body can tolerate it, try to make small healthy swaps like choosing whole-wheat toast instead of regular, a whole wheat bagel instead of a plain one, and saltines for paleo crackers.

If you rely on ginger candies to curb your nausea, see if adding lemon and fresh ginger to your water can have the same effect. Having a mint tea or ginger smoothie can also help. At this time, most people eat toast, popsicles, potatoes, and cereal to help get them through this period. Protein, magnesium, and vitamin B6 will help combat nausea, so try to include eggs, avocado, and chickpeas in your diet.

To help fight fatigue during your pregnancy, start your day with water, include a protein in your breakfast, and have your iron levels tested to rule out deficiencies.

Folic acid, protein, calcium, potassium, and DHA are very important during the early stages of pregnancy.

Taking a prenatal vitamin and eating foods like leafy greens, cauliflower, nuts, and beets will help you reach the recommended 600 micrograms of folic acid each day. Protein is key for your baby’s growth and uterine tissue growth. Including foods like Greek yogurt, chicken, and eggs will help you reach your protein goals. Calcium is crucial for the growth of your baby’s bones and teeth. Eating leafy greens, yogurts, and cheeses will

Instead of thinking about pregnancy as an opportunity to eat for two, think about providing nourishment for two.

in potassium such as bananas, sweet potatoes, and avocados.

DHA is an omega-3 fatty acid that helps with your baby’s growth and development and is vital for the baby’s brain and eyes to develop properly.

DHA can be found in fish and eggs, but most doctors recommend a supplement as well.

The most important tips for a healthy first trimester are to take your prenatal vitamins, drink enough water, and eat whatever you are able keep down.

Second Trimester Welcome to your second trimester! For most, you’ve made it through the hardest part. By this time, you should notice your nausea diminishing and you should have more energy.

Now that your body can keep down foods other than carbs, it is key to begin eating nutrient-dense foods that will fuel you and help your baby grow and develop. A well-rounded diet consisting of complex carbohydrates, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, lean proteins, fiber, and plenty of water is best. Throughout your pregnancy, you should limit high mercury fish like tuna, refrain from drinking alcohol, avoid cold cuts, and not eat raw meat, eggs, and fish.

It’s important to wash your produce properly to avoid unwanted parasites and bacteria, as well as drink only

grains, good fats, and lean proteins.

Adding nutrient-dense foods can include adding hummus to carrots for a snack and adding avocado to a salad.

This can help you reach the recommended daily 340 extra calories. Nutritious snacks can include a fruit and a cheese stick, two hardboiled eggs with a slice of whole-grain bread, or unsweetened Greek yogurt with some berries.

Staying active while pregnant can help you manage your weight. In your first trimester, you may have been too tired or nauseous to exercise but you should have some of your energy back now. It’s important to consult with your doctor, but typically, if you exercised before pregnancy, you can continue with your routine and modify certain things as your stomach grows.

Third Trimester In your third trimester, vitamin C, fiber, vitamin K, and thiamine are important. At this time, you’ll start increasing your calories to a total of 450 calories extra compared to pre-pregnancy. During this trimester, you may begin to experience heartburn, swollen ankles or fingers, constipation, and difficulty sleeping. Foods such as chocolate, spicy foods, peppermint, fried foods, and caffeine may trigger heartburn. Eating foods high in potassium can help reduce swelling by keeping your body chemically bal-

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anced. Eating yogurt, spinach, avocado, and bananas can help. To help combat constipation, add chia seeds to your smoothie, yogurt, or oatmeal.

Cauliflower, raspberries, blackberries, and lentils will also help fight constipation. Almonds, warm milk, tart cherries, and chamomile tea are used to promote sleep and help you stay asleep through the night.

Drinking lots of water, getting as much sleep as possible, staying active, and eating plenty of fruits and vegetables is the best strategy for managing your weight gain at this point. Eating lean protein and whole grains can help you stay full and avoid unnecessary snacking.

Navigating the pregnancy journey is often difficult, but once you have your baby in your arms, it will all be worth it! Focusing on your nutrient intake and increasing the amount of vitamin C, fiber, vitamin K, folic acid, and iron is essential for a successful pregnancy. The best way to manage pregnancy weight gain is to follow the recommended caloric increases in your second and third trimester and to encourage yourself to make clean and wholesome food choices.

It can be hard to refrain from eating foods you like that could increase your risk of foodborne illnesses but recognize that those foods will still be there once you give birth. Exercising can be a good way to decrease your stress, alleviate your aches and pains, and increase your energy levels. Focus on eating lean proteins, fats like nuts, seeds, and avocado, and include as many fruits and vegetables as you can. Once you pass the first trimester and your nausea has (hopeful subsided, this is the time to concentrate on making well-balanced, nutrient-dense choices.

Together with your practitioner, and possibly the help of a dietitian, you can ensure you are fueling yourself and your baby properly.

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

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Parenting Pearls

Raising Future Voters

By Sara Rayvych, MSEd

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ou may have noticed that we are immersed in election seasons. While I may not appreciate all the junk mail I’m receiving, I have been valuing all the articles featured in TJH informing me of the candidates’ views. As parents, we have a lot at stake, and we need to take elections seriously. I tend to avoid discussing politics, but truthfully, this isn’t about politics. This is a basic civil duty that our rabbonim have asked us to participate in.

I remember when I was young and my mother took me to vote with her. It seemed kind of magical going behind the curtain to pull levers that I couldn’t understand the purpose of.

Despite my confusion, it impressed upon me the duty involved in voting.

We now use fancy machines that sometimes eat the paper, but the importance of voting hasn’t changed.

Before COVID I often brought my kids with me to vote, passing on this interesting experience to the next generation.

This article will be a little different than some of my others, but it seemed like an appropriate time to discuss this issue. While elections are not a parenting topic exactly, and I hate to bring up politics, indirectly this affects us as caregivers and it’s worth discussing. I plan to stick solely to the issues as they pertain to

parenting, not elections, in general.

Why Vote?

I know there are many people who are legally able to vote yet choose not to. It take out time from your day, may involve long lines, and you may not think your vote counts.

We’ve had some close elections that came down to just a few votes, but your vote isn’t one vote; your vote is part of the Jewish community’s combined bloc. By voting from our community – regardless of whom you vote for – you show our politicians that you care what they do within our communities.

There have been many attempts to regulate our yeshivas, shuls, and community. COVID may have distracted us a bit, but it wasn’t that long ago that our schools were facing invasive regulations and increased overreach. Our rabbonim asked us to vote so our voice will matter. As parents, we want to have a basic level of control over our children’s education, and our vote helps us have that autonomy. This is your chance to make your voice count. Your vote now makes everything our community says in the future that much more powerful.

Elections and Children Elections can get heated and

ugly. I don’t feel kids benefit from seeing the height of emotions and anger that elections can generate.

Elections can cause people to throw more mud than my preschoolers do.

Unfortunately, they don’t look as cute covered in dirt as my little ones can. Elections bring out the more unpleasant sides of adults, and it’s unnecessary for our children to be exposed to that.

This idea applies at all times, not just elections, but this is an appropriate opportunity to bring it up. As adults, we often do need to discuss these and other issues that are important but not appropriate for little ears. It can be beneficial to make sure that children aren’t within listening distance if you’re going to be discussing anything they shouldn’t be exposed to. Kids have a phenomenal ability to hear everything, so be extra cautious. Kids have been known to go to great lengths to “accidently overhear” whatever they want to know. Parents with differing viewpoints on an issue can get heated at times when discussing it. Be mindful that children can misinterpret these conversations as fights and become upset watching their parents argue.

Our children are naturally exposed to far more of the outside world than most of us were as children. It’s a difficult reality for us as

parents. Even when we try to shield our children from some of the more unpleasant parts of the outside world, they can still be exposed by passing ads on the street, seeing unsolicited mailings, or peers/adults who speak to them or even just in their presence. With this in mind, it’s important to keep our fingers on the pulse and estimate how much our children are actually hearing and seeing. It’s easy to assume that because we don’t actively expose our children to something that they won’t find out. I can assure you those assumptions are long gone. Children – teens, in particular – know far more than we realize.

While I don’t suggest purposely exposing kids to everything out there, I do think it’s a good idea to discuss with them the issues they are already aware of and being exposed to. Truthfully, your child may benefit from you bringing up topics you’re sure they will find out about so the first voice they hear on those issues is yours. It’s no secret that the world around us has far different values than our Torah ha’kedosha.

It’s crucial that our children know the emes before they hear the sheker. Tell them the truth, let them ask their questions, and be a source they know they can trust. You’d much prefer they come to you the next time

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they hear something confusing rather than ask their friend or just live with simmering doubts.

Vote Together Chinuch is an all-encompassing job. Being parents means preparing our children for every aspect of their future lives. While we can’t predict everything they will encounter, we know they will, I”YH, be offered both the opportunity to vote and to make major decisions. Even if they make aliyah, they will still need to know how to vote. By voting, you’re showing them to vote. Showing them how to vote doesn’t mean just filling in ovals on a ballot; it means teaching them how to evaluate what’s important and what most closely aligns with their values. Teaching children how to think and make decisions is no less a part of their chinuch.

While this next part idea applies in other areas of life, too, election time seems like an appropriate situation to bring this up. While I’m dis-

cussing this in the context of voting decisions, it really applies whenever there is a judgment or compromise to be made.

I just wrote that children should be shielded, when possible. I mentioned that parents should discuss

diately become eligible to vote. It’s imperative that our children understand how to break down the many conflicting opinions they will hear.

Truthfully, they need to learn how to see the truth in all situations whenever they hear conflicting opinions.

We now use fancy machines that sometimes eat the paper, but the importance of voting hasn’t changed.

problematic issues they know their child will find out about anyway.

There is a third situation I’d like to bring up. This is mostly applicable to older children but is really dependent on the individual’s maturity (as is everything else).

Our children are future voters.

When they turn 18, they will imme-

They even need to understand that there can be more than one solution and that both can be correct.

Bring up an issue that you think they will be able to understand. You may choose to prioritize issues that are more meaningful to them or to yourself. Take the time to describe both sides and why each side feels

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the way they do. Use this as an opportunity to teach them how to think through opposing ideas and come to their own conclusions. Teaching children to respect others and their opinions is a skill many lack these days.

When children are young, they can only see things from one direction.

It’s only as they mature that they can begin to think of something from another’s viewpoint.

Take the time to vote and show your concern. Teach your child not only what voting means but what’s involved in making important decisions. Share your values with your child and enjoy watching as they mature and grow into the well-thoughtout adults they’re meant to be.

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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tchen

Broccoli, Cauliflower and Chickpea Soup

By Naomi Nachman

I call this soup “something from

nothing.” It’s a term I use in my

house when I create a dish with just the ingredients I find in my pantry,

fridge, or freezer. This past week, I felt the chill in the fall air and that spells soup to me.

I looked to see what ingredients I had and came up with this winner. The soup was so

silky and smooth and packed with flavor. My family was thrilled to come home after a long, chilly day and have this really delicious and easy-to-prepare soup waiting for them.

Ingredients ◦ 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil ◦ 1 large onion, diced ◦ 2 zucchinis, chunked ◦ 1 teaspoon kosher salt ◦ 1 large bag frozen broccoli ◦ 1 large bag frozen cauliflower ◦ 2 cans chickpeas, drained ◦ Water or broth

Preparation

1. In a large stockpot, heat oil and add onions to the pot. Sauté for a few minutes until the onions begin to sweat. Add salt.

2. Add both zucchinis and both bags of frozen vegetables and chickpeas.

3. Add water until just under the top of the vegetables (about 2 inches). Adding too much water makes a watery and thin soup.

4. Cover and bring to the boil; then lower and simmer for 1½ hours.

5. Use an immersion blender to blend the soup well and season with salt and pepper to taste before serving.

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?!”

You know who also had coded statements like Brandon? ISIS, the Klan, Nazi’s... beginning to get the point?

- Tweet by CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart referring to the tongue-in-cheek “Let’s Go Brandon” slogan that’s been making the rounds

A liberal journalist from NBC News invented “Let’s go Brandon” to cover up the actual words of the chant. So does that make her a Nazi?

- One of many tweets in response

Wow, I see your point now thanks for setting us all straight.

- Ibid.

As the World Series plays out this weekend between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros, the glaring lack of Black players on both teams, and MLB in general, is not lost on up-and-coming Black players. - @NBCBLK

Very original. I’ve never heard people on the Right described as terrorists or Nazis before.

– Ibid.

You know who ELSE wore pants?

- Ibid.

– Tweet by NBC News

You might enjoy the game more if you counted the score instead of races.

- One of many response tweets

There is also a lack of Amish people in @NASCAR.

First of all, I look better in high color, and… where is it written in the Torah that it has to be a black robe?

- Judge Judy, in a recent interview, when asked why she no longer wears a black robe on the bench

- Ibid.

If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.

– Elon Musk tweeting in response to United Nation’s World Food Programme Director David Beasley calling for Elon Musk and other U.S. billionaires to donate $6 billion to solve world hunger

Please publish your current & proposed spending in detail so people can see exactly where money goes. Sunlight is a wonderful thing.

– Ibid.

On the question of oil prices, economists say that when you raise the price of something, people will consume less of it, so why not allow even middle-class people around the world to pay more for gasoline in the hope that they would consume fewer fossil fuels and emit less?

– A New York Times reporter to President Biden at the Climate Summit

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Why is this night different from all other nights? Happy Hanukkah - Inscription on a Chanukah pillow sold by Bed, Bath and Beyond, which was removed from inventory once the mistake was brought to light

As an experiment, I’d love for an @ SouthwestAir pilot to say “Long live ISIS” before taking off. My guess is that 1) the plane would be immediately grounded; 2) the pilot fired; and 3) a statement issued by the airline within a matter of hours.

-CNN analyst Asha Rangappa tweeting about a Southwest pilot supposedly saying at the end of an announcement, “And remember, let’s go Brandon” (Turns out that he said, “Let’s go Braves”)

So many people across the country are purchasing more goods online. Maybe some of it is from habits that developed during the pandemic when people weren’t leaving their homes. Some of it is because we’ve seen an economic recovery that has been underway.

- White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki when asked about the supply chain problems

Words matter, and baseball “bullpens” devalue talented players and mock the misery of sensitive animals. PETA encourages Major League Baseball coaches, announcers, players, and fans to changeup their language and embrace the “arm barn” instead.

- PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman

I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic, but you know what? It’s over. There’s always going to be a variant. You shouldn’t have to wear masks … vaccine, mask, pick one. You got to pick; you can’t make me mask if I’ve had the vaccine.

- Bill Maher, HBO

I went to get a haircut in Talpiot. I exited the barbershop, and I couldn’t even move. People were standing outside, the whole neighborhood crowded in, and people were shouting, people were crying, people were yelling. I don’t remember anything like this. And I’ve been around for many years… There is huge enthusiasm, and an enormous expectation that we will soon return to power.

- Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud meeting

I apologize because some of you have heard this. When I was vice president, I used to like to take the train home because my mom was very sick and dying. And I’d come home every weekend. I’m getting on one Friday and then one of the senior guys on Amtrak, Angelo Negri, … walks up to me and he goes, “Joey baby!” He grabs my cheek. And I thought the Secret Service was gonna blow his head off. I swear to G-d, true story. I said, “What’s up, Ang?” He said, “Joey. I read in a paper. I read in the paper, you traveled 1,000 — 1,200,000 miles on Air Force planes.” Because they keep meticulous tabs of it. He says, “You know how many miles you travel on Amtrak, Joey? … 2,200,000 miles … So Joey, I don’t want to hear this about the Air Force anymore.”

- Story that President Biden repeated last week, for the 5th time since he became president (CNN has noted that Biden’s story is false. Biden’s mother died in 2010; Angelo Negri retired from Amtrack in 1993)

Unfortunately, we can’t counter a hypersonic missile launch with better pronoun usage.

– Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) at a Congressional hearing on diversity in the intelligence community imploring the intelligence community and military to stop focusing on wokeness and start focusing on the real threats facing America

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Last night, an F.D.A. panel gave the green light to the Pfizer vaccine for kids between the ages of 5 and 11… Here’s how the vaccine will work: Older kids can get Pfizer, younger kids can get Moderna, and the middle child can get Johnson & Johnson.

Yeah, Facebook changed their name. In response, Spectrum was like, “We used to be Time Warner; people still hate us.”

— Jimmy Fallon

— Jimmy Fallon

Some parents said that they aren’t sure if they’re comfortable giving their kids the vaccine, then they went back to feeding them Dunkaroos for breakfast.

— Ibid.

Every week Lapid drops a bomb and Naftali comes to the rescue. Every week, and no one knows. He did this like three times, with the Jordanians, with the Americans…and Naftali came to the rescue, unequivocally.

- Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked of Yamina, a close political ally of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in a leaked recording criticizing coalition partner Yair Lapid

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— Jimmy Fallon

Companies often change their name to help their image and since it’s up for grabs, Johnson & Johnson is now Facebook & Facebook.

They glorified Michael Jordan while not giving nearly enough praise to me and my proud teammates. Michael deserved a large portion of the blame [for that portrayal]. The producers had granted him editorial control of the final product. The doc couldn’t have been released otherwise. He was the leading man and the director.

- An excerpt from NBA Hall-of-Famer Scottie Pippen’s new memoir in which he rips on his teammate Michael Jordan’s documentary “The Last Dance”

Michael was determined to prove to the current generation of fans that he was larger-than-life during his day—and still larger than LeBron James, the player many consider his equal, if not superior. I was nothing more than a prop. His “best teammate of all time,” he called me. He couldn’t have been more condescending if he tried.

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Political Crossfire

The Biden Administration’s Self-Inflicted School Board Disaster

By Marc A. Thiessen

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he Biden administration has suffered yet another self-inflicted disaster, as the National School Boards Association (NSBA) board of directors has repudiated and apologized for the letter it sent to President Biden accusing American parents of engaging in “domestic terrorism” and asking him to deploy the FBI and “its National Security Branch” to investigate them using the Patriot Act. Here is the problem: The Biden administration already acted on the association’s request. Just days after the letter was received, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memorandum to the director of the FBI ordering him to “convene meetings…in each federal judicial district” to discuss “strategies for addressing threats.” But unlike the NSBA, Garland has not had the decency to withdraw his memorandum and apologize for this disgraceful effort to weaponize the FBI to intimidate parents who show up at school board meetings to protest the direction of their children’s education.

Instead, Garland has tried to whitewash his actions, telling Congress last week that he did not use the words “domestic terrorism” or “Patriot Act” in his memorandum.

That was intentionally misleading.

In a statement accompanying the memorandum’s release, the Justice Department announced it intended to create “a task force, consisting of representatives from the department’s…National Security Division,” among others, to “determine how

federal enforcement tools can be used to prosecute these crimes.” According to the Justice Department website, the “National Security Division (NSD) was created in March 2006 by the USA PATRIOT Reauthorization and Improvement Act” to “protect the United States from threats to our national security.” So Garland was doing exactly what the NSBA asked – ordering the use of the Patriot Act to investigate parents who come to school board meetings to exercise their First Amendment rights.

The story gets worse. It turns out the Biden administration did not simply passively receive and act on the NSBA letter. According to emails obtained through public records requests by Parents Defending Education, White House staff had been in contact with the NSBA for “several weeks” before the letter

was sent and had requested specific information be included. In one email, NSBA interim executive director and chief executive Chip Slaven wrote that “in talks over the last several weeks with White House staff, they requested additional information on some of the specific threats, so the letter also details many of the incidents that have been occurring.” This strongly suggests that the White House actively collaborated with the NSBA on this unprecedented assault on parental rights.

Worse still, one of the incidents the association included in response to the White House’s request was that of an angry father who was arrested at a school board meeting in Loudoun County, Va. He had good reason to be angry: His daughter had been assaulted in the girls’ bathroom of her Loudoun County

school by a male student. “I am not a domestic terrorist,” said father Scott Smith. “I am a concerned father who loves his family and will protect them at every turn.”

The domestic terrorism controversy has helped turn the Virginia governor’s race – which should have been a Democratic cakewalk – into a dead heat. In one poll, Republican Glenn Youngkin led former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe by 17 points among K-12 parents. Apparently, moms and dads don’t like being called terrorists. Nor do they appreciate it when former President Barack Obama shows up at a rally for McAuliffe and accuses them of “fake outrage” and stoking “phony, trumped-up culture wars.”

What is inexplicable is why – with all the self-inflicted crises the Biden White House is facing – they would needlessly ignite yet another dumpster fire? Instead of listening to the legitimate concerns of parents angry about school closures, mask mandates, and seeing their kids indoctrinated with extremist ideologies, the Biden administration collaborated with an activist group to intimidate and silence them. Their actions had the opposite effect – pouring gasoline on the brushfire that is sweeping suburban school districts across the nation. Parents are mad as [anything], and rightly so – and will be taking their anger into the voting booth.

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Remember: The Problem Isn’t Just a Single Platform

By David Ignatius

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acebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is a perfect target for people who are angry about the perversion of democracy in our open society. He’s rich, arrogant, and seemingly unrepentant. But I fear he is becoming a scapegoat for deeper problems with the Internet itself.

The Facebook frenzy is accelerating, as 17 news organizations join the document dive that started with whistleblower Frances Haugen’s revelations to the Wall Street Journal.

Some of what’s being revealed is genuinely outrageous, such as Facebook’s accommodation of dictators overseas and its dissemination of information abroad by human traffickers, drug cartels and other illegal actors.

But before Congress rushes to create a new Department of Algorithm Review, I suggest we recall Walt Kelly’s comment in his comic strip, “Pogo,” to wit: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” In so many instances of disinformation about politics, vaccines, or anything else, the problem is often a bottom-up viral spread of dangerous information by social media users. The information might be toxic, but it usually isn’t illegal – and in America we have a First Amendment that protects speech, even the nastier versions.

Beyond Facebook, I have a deeper worry. The Internet was created with an idealistic dream: The global propagation of open information would expand human freedom and democracy. As the world became flat and citizens were empowered, authoritarian rulers would become weaker. Alas, it hasn’t worked out that way. The paradox of the Internet is that it has enabled greater control by authoritarians and fueled greater

disorder in open democracies.

Americans who are anguished about former president Donald Trump keep looking for a villain to blame (other than Trump himself and his movement). After the 2016 presidential campaign, investigators hunted a conspiracy driven by Russia. Now, there’s a similar fixation on Facebook as the root of our political dysfunction. If only Trumpism were as easy to explain as a Moscow or Facebook plot! But the veins of rage, left and right, were there to exploit, politically and financially, well before Trump.

Thomas Rid, author of “Active Measures,” an authoritative 2020 study of disinformation, notes the meme that Zuckerberg is a malevolent machine.

“Many cannot resist the temptation to blame some of the worst ills of our time on this company and its aloof CEO,” he noted in an email message this week.

“The more accurate insight is so hard and so taboo that many of us

dare not say it out loud,” Rid continued. “Is it Facebook or the Internet that is bringing out the worst in us? Is the Internet merely revealing and amplifying what the old media gatekeepers kept in check? Is there a point where too much ‘democratizing’ of information will lead to a closing of our societies?”

Alex Stamos, a former chief of security for Facebook and now director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, notes that the very openness of the Internet is part of today’s problem. Once, media gatekeepers limited what was disseminated. “Now, you get a vast buffet that has some healthy foods, and also some heroin, and a lot of people take heroin,” he explained in an interview.

Social media was supposed to be an open ecosystem. But as people find their niches and preferences, they create closed loops for themselves. “Facebook is designed to deliver to users information that they like, from people that they like, in rapid fashion,” argues Clint Watts, a

former FBI agent and leading authority on disinformation.

Stamos helped lead a detailed study of misinformation in the 2020 election, conducted by the Election Integrity Partnership. The inquiry examined how false information was spread. Often it started with small incidents, reported from the bottom up, that were then disseminated by a relatively small number of “repeat spreaders,” who would retweet or otherwise amplify the lie.

The answer, says Stamos, is to increase “friction” on the Internet, so that it’s harder for these lies to become viral. That means limiting retweets and shares –o rather than trying to police the information itself.

“I don’t want Facebook to try to fix American politics,” Stamos argues, and he’s right. A hypothetical government social media agency shouldn’t try to fix our politics, either. That’s a road to tyranny.

Congress should rewrite some of the rules that bound the Internet. For example, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act should be amended so that social media companies can be sued if they design algorithms that propagate false information. But total repeal of Section 230 would be a mistake, because it would encourage endless defamation litigation and discourage platforms from carrying true stories that are critical of the rich and powerful.

Here’s the awkward truth: Regulation of social media ultimately is on us – the users. We have to teach ourselves, our children, and our “friends” to monitor content and weed out what’s false and hateful. In the end, we’ll get the Internet we deserve. (c) 2021, Washington Post Writers Group

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Political Crossfire

Dealing with “Havana Syndrome” is a Policymaker’s Nightmare

By David Ignatius

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he “Havana Syndrome” health cases are gut-wrenching. As the U.S. government gathers information, there’s growing speculation that the attackers may be Russians. But there’s no proof. It’s an assault case with no hard evidence – other than the suffering of the victims.

These mysterious attacks are a policymaker’s nightmare. You can’t accuse another country of warlike assaults without solid facts; the Iraqi WMD fiasco taught a generation of intelligence analysts that lesson. But if you don’t hold rogue actors accountable, how do you deter future attacks?

That’s the conundrum facing the Biden administration.

U.S. officials have analyzed about 200 cases in which Americans have experienced symptoms of what are officially known as “anomalous health incidents” such as the ones first reported in Havana in 2016. It’s a government-wide effort, driven by the Central Intelligence Agency, which employed many of those experiencing symptoms.

The information gathered has fostered suspicion about a Russian role, officials say. A significant number of those affected, more than 100, have U.S. intelligence connections. Of that group, many were involved in activities related to Russia and its close partners, though there’s no precise pattern. There may be a Russia nexus here, but there’s no smoking gun.

Investigators believe that the concussion-like damage may have been caused by mobile directed energy weapons, such as ones Russia, China and other adversaries have been developing for more than a decade. An investigation last year by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that directed

energy was “the most plausible mechanism in explaining these cases.” Despite speculation that cases may reflect mass hysteria, the report said the acute symptoms “cannot be ascribed to psychological and social factors” based on current evidence.

Microwaves, lasers, and other directed energy systems are hardly new in the spy business. Intelligence collectors (including U.S. agencies) have bathed target locations with radio waves or beams, and then tried to tune the vibrations of particular objects – a pane of window glass, say, or the filament in a lightbulb – to produce what amounts to an invisible microphone.

The CIA sometimes describes this as “ubiquitous technical surveillance,” or UTS. The Havana cases could be collateral damage from intelligence collection, but many experts believe that unlikely. Investigators have explored whether the attacks come from mobile directed energy transmitters that could be small enough to fit into a backpack. These could be easily transported to the disparate locations where Americans have reported symptoms, including Australia,

Austria, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Georgia, Germany, India, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Russia, Syria, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam, as well as Cuba. But the delivery mechanism could be airborne, like a drone, officials caution.

Here’s how the attacks began, according to last year’s study by the National Academies: “An individual assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Cuba was awakened one night at home in Havana in 2016 by severe pain and a sensation of intense pressure in the face, a loud piercing sound in one ear… and acute disequilibrium and nausea.”

Similar symptoms were reported in the scores of cases since then.

Russia has denied any involvement in such attacks, including in private conversations with U.S. officials. Some U.S. officials speculate that Russian mercenaries or criminal groups may have obtained weapons originally developed by the Russian government and used them without explicit official authorization, but there’s no proof of that, either.

The Russian playbook has emphasized deniable “gray zone” operations over the last decade. Networks of “ille-

gal” operatives, such as those the KGB sent abroad a generation ago, are now reportedly used by the GRU and FSB, Russia’s military, and domestic security agencies. Mark Galeotti, a Russia analyst who heads an intelligence consulting firm, describes the networks of criminal organizations that operate in Europe to support the Kremlin’s interests as the “Crimintern.” Russia analyst A.E. Goldberg has used the Russian word bespredel to describe these reckless operations. It’s a word used by Russian criminal gangs that means “anything goes.”

With its freewheeling network of mercenaries, hackers, and thugs, Russia is an obvious suspect. But that’s not the same thing as having proof. So, what should the Biden administration do about these anomalous health incidents to make sure they stop, when it lacks the evidence to support a potential military confrontation?

The first task is to keep investigating. That’s what CIA Director William J. Burns is doing aggressively, assigning the probe to one of the targeters who found al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden a decade ago. While this investigation continues, it might also make sense to draw Russia into a discussion about “rules of the road” for directed energy systems.

Like hypersonic missiles, space weapons, and cyberattacks, these directed energy systems will be weapons of the future, regardless of what emerges in the investigation of Havana Syndrome. They’re double-edged swords – as dangerous to Russia as to America.

Message to the Kremlin: We’re not making any allegations. But we need to talk. (c) 2021, Washington Post Writers Group

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Middle East Musings

BDS: Thinly Veiled Anti-Semitism

By David Billett

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nterested in destroying the state of Israel, yet too fearful to openly say so? If you fit this description, the BDS movement may be the right organization for you! While masquerading as a peaceful organization, BDS is fueled by an anti-Semitic ideology striving to achieve just one goal: the economic strangulation and eventual destruction of the lone Jewish State, Israel.

Firstly, the BDS movement claims to defend the rights of the Palestinian Arabs by leading a worldwide boycott against the state of Israel. If this were truly the reason for establishing BDS, there would be an even greater outrage against world countries, such as China and Turkey, that systemically and undeniably target and attempt to strangle communities and races in their lands. To date, China has essentially established a police state, whereby systematically targeting and arresting the Uighurs has become the norm; while Turkey ruthlessly oppresses the Kurds and rejects all calls for allowing Kurdish autonomy.

The very nations who reject their citizens’ basic rights are applauded on the world stage, while Israel, the lone Middle Eastern democracy and defender of human rights, is continuously denounced. Regardless of political affiliation, all can agree that solely criticizing the State of Israel, while ignoring the actions of others, is merely the recreation of age-old anti-Semitism.

Next, leaders of the BDS movement continually accuse Israel of establishing an apartheid state and

limiting the rights of their Arab population. It’s ironic that BDS has chosen such an accusation, as founder and leader Omar Barghouti was personally educated at Tel Aviv University. Barghouti studied under Israeli professors, sat in class-

resentation in the government.

Furthermore, conclusive evidence has been found connecting the BDS movement to terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). Israel’s Minis-

Regardless of political affiliation, all can agree that solely criticizing the State of Israel, while ignoring the actions of others, is merely the recreation of age-old anti-Semitism.

rooms with Israeli students, and, as an Arab man born in Qatar, was the recipient of the freedom that Israel offers to all – regardless of religion, race, or ethnicity.

While Israeli Jews are barred from entering many Arab countries, Arabs make up more than 20% of the Israeli population, have equal rights, and maintain complete rep-

try of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy has released a report titled “Terrorists in Suits,” which has proven that these BDS promoting organizations have established direct ties to terrorist groups sworn to the destruction of Israel.

Both former and active terrorists maintain senior positions within BDS and their campaign, such

as Muhammad Sawalha and Leila Khaled, thereby allowing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic ideology to permeate throughout the entire Movement. Muhammad Sawalha was deeply involved in the military and political wing of Hamas, while Leila Khaled hijacked a flight in 1969, attempted a second hijacking in 1970, and today is actively involved in planning attacks against Israel.

Moreover, it is feared that these terrorist groups and BDS promoting organizations combine their networks to dramatically strengthen their fundraising capabilities, essentially enabling the transfer of funds allocated for BDS activities to indirectly support and bolster terrorism.

To effectively counter BDS requires successfully presenting to the world its anti- Semitic nature and actively investing in Israeli society to offset the boycott. In moments of lonely isolation, Israel must never forget that the truth stands on its side and, when properly exposed, the truth will always prevail.

David Billet is a student at Fordham Law School, where he is an Associate Editor of the International Law Journal. In May of 2018, David graduated from Queens College, CUNY, with a B.A. in Accounting and a minor in Economics. David additionally writes articles that focus on foreign affairs, domestic policy, and global anti-Semitism. To date, his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Israel Hayom, and almost twenty other media publications.

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Forgotten Her es

Remembering Colin Powell

By Avi Heiligman

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he duties of many senior commanders in the United States military and top civilian positions in the government are vast and generally unknown to the public. In the past, many in the government served in the military and have stories to go along with their medals. The recent passing of former secretary of state Colin Powell brought forth his story of military heroism in Vietnam. Powell also had extensive connections with the Jewish community both in his hometown of New York as well as in his foreign policy dealings with Israel in more recent years.

Colin Powell was born in Harlem, New York, in 1937 to parents who

emigrated from Jamaica. Starting at the age of thirteen, he worked for a

baby goods store called Sicker’s. The Jewish owners of the store treated him well, and he learned Yiddish as a second language. Knowing Yiddish helped him ease tensions many years later when he met Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir before the 1991 Gulf War. Powell, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H. W. Bush, said, “Men kent reden Yiddish, We can speak in Yiddish,” leaving Shamir speechless. During his time working for Sicker’s, Powell also was a “Shabbos goy” for the community.

Before joining the military, Powell studied geology at City College of New York, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1958. While in college, he joined the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) and joined a drill team called Pershing’s Rifles founded by the famous commander of the American forces in Europe during World War I. Powell graduated as a second lieutenant the same time he earned his bachelor’s degree and underwent training at Fort Benning.

He was then assigned to the 48th Infantry Regiment, which was then stationed in West Germany.

In 1962, Captain Powell was sent to Vietnam for close to a year as one of the 16,000 advisors sent by President John Kennedy during that era.

While there, Powell was attached to

a South Vietnamese infantry battalion. During a patrol in an area held by the communist Viet Cong, Powell was wounded when he stepped on a punji stake (a simple trap made out of a wood or metal stick that is sharpened on the end and placed in the ground and easily camouflaged).

The wound caused an infection that shortened his tour in Vietnam. For his injury, Powell was awarded the Purple Heart.

Upon his return to the U.S., Powell took an advanced infantry officers course at Fort Benning and became an instructor at the school.

In 1968, he graduated from the Command and General Staff College. Later that year, he returned to Vietnam as a major as the assistant chief of staff of operations for the 23rd Infantry Division. During this tour of duty, he was awarded the Soldier’s Medal for rescuing others from a helicopter that was burning after a crash. Despite his own wounds, Powell removed three others including the division commander from the fiery wreckage.

After his second tour in Vietnam, Powell went to Washington, D.C. In 1972, served a White House Fellowship for a year while under President Nixon and was assigned a position in the Office of Management and Budget. Once his fellowship was completed, he was given command of the 1 st Battalion, 32 nd Infantry Regiment, 2 nd Infantry Division and served on the Demilitarized Zone in Korea. He was promoted to colonel in 1976 after attending the National War College and was given command of the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division.

In the early 1980s, following a series of position changes in the army, Major General Powell went to the Pentagon as the senior military assistant to Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger. In this position, he was involved in assisting efforts in the invasion of Grenada in 1983

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and the 1986 airstrike in Libya. As a lieutenant general in 1986, he took command of V Corps which was headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. Six months later, Powell was sent for by President Reagan to return to Washington and become the Deputy National Security Advisor.

He soon was promoted to National Security Advisor and held that position until the end of Reagan’s presidency.

Under President George H. W. Bush, Powell became a four star general and in October 1989 was appointed as the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. This is the most prestigious military position, and Powell oversaw many several military responses during his tenure.

These included the invasion of Panama in December 1989, the Persian Gulf War in 1991, and operations in Somalia and Bosnia. In 2001, he was

unanimously confirmed by the Senate as the secretary of state under President George W. Bush.

At times, he clashed with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during the Second Intifada but always backed Israel when it came to defending against terrorism.

Colin Powell’s early experiences in Vietnam helped shaped his successes when he was the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff and

as secretary of State. Having been under fire, Powell knew the difficulties and hardships regular soldiers go through on a daily basis.

Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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Money

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By Allan Rolnick, CPA

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ack in 2000, a scrappy little startup named Netflix was losing millions every month on their business renting DVDs online, mailing them to subscribers through something called the “Post Office.” (Remember them?) The founders had the bright idea to sell their company to Blockbuster video – for the princely sum of $50 million – and turn themselves into “Blockbuster.com.” Blockbuster said no, and now they’re corporate roadkill.

Netflix is the 800-pound-gorilla in the streaming video world, spending billions annually to create new content in 37 different languages.

Netflix’s newest blockbuster is a South Korean mashup of Sesame Street and Hunger Games with 456 contestants who find themselves risking their lives to play a series of children’s games for the chance to win ₩45.6 billion (approximately $38 million). Critics love it (the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 93% approval rating), and it’s on track to become Netflix’s most-watched show ever.

One in four Americans says they’ve watched it since it dropped on September 17.

So…does Netflix’s newest success have fans at the IRS cheering, too?

Netflix doesn’t report earnings for individual programs. However, they do calculate something called “impact value.” For this new show, that amount is $891.1 million. Net-

scription.) In 2020, with COVID-19 keeping people inside bingeing, the company earned $1.7 billion but paid just $24 million in tax. There’s nothing shady about it – they use accelerated depreciation, deductions for employee stock options,

In 2020, with COVID-19 keeping people inside bingeing, the company earned $1.7 billion but paid just $24 million in tax.

flix also calculates an “efficiency score,” which measures a show’s value over its cost. The show cost just $24.1 million to produce, making the efficiency score an impressive 41.7.

Unfortunately for the IRS, those numbers don’t translate into taxes.

In 2018, Netflix reported $845 million in profit but paid nothing in tax.

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and research and development tax credits to zero out their bill. (In other words, don’t hate the player, hate the game.)

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There’s a 9% Social Security tax, split between employer and employee just like here in the U.S., capped at ₩226,350/month. Of course, that assumes that playing “Red Light, Green Light” to avoid death counts as “employment” in South Korea.

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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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Rivki Rosenwald is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist working with both couples and individuals and is a certified relationship counselor. Rivki is a co-founder and creator of an effective Parent Management of Adolescent Years Program. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or at rivkirosenwald@gmail.com.

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Keilim Mikveh on Premises | Pre-Shabbos Buffet Every Thursday & Friday!

JALAEPENO MATJAS

12

7.5oz. $ 4.20

$ 50.40

Savings Plaza | 11 Lawrence Lane, Lawrence, NY | (516) 371-6200 | info@kolsavemarket.com | /kolsavemarket Hours: Sunday-Tuesday: 7am-8pm | Wednesday: 7am-10pm | Thursday: 7am-11pm | Friday: 7am-5pm

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PEPPER JACK SHMALTZ

12

7.5oz. $ 4.20

$ 50.40