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or the past few years, my husband has taken my children to Boro Park a day or two before Sukkos. They head out after school is done for the day, and they stay there for a few hours, eating supper, catching a minyan, and perusing the stores. In Brooklyn, the hustle and bustle of erev Sukkos is palpable.

13th Avenue is ablaze at 10 o’clock at night; music is blaring, and the sidewalks are lined with boys selling lulavim and esrogim. There is a certain excitement in the air that Central Avenue has yet to capture. The kids come back exhausted but on a high. Their eyes are both glassy with lack of sleep and shining from what they just experienced. They tumble into bed as they chatter about the sights and sounds that they drank in in Brooklyn.

For them, it’s a chol hamoed trip that comes in anticipation of the yom tov.

I once heard that sitting in the sukkah is like getting a hug from Hashem. The walls of the sukkah represent arms that wrap around us during Sukkos. When we eat, drink, schmooze, play games, sing and sleep in the sukkah we are doing all those things in His embrace.

Every child needs a hug from their parents– even teenagers, as Dr. Lightman wrote recently in TJH. On Sukkos Hashem is giving every child of His a warm embrace. Perhaps that’s why when we sit in the sukkah on cool nights, and we squeeze our family into the little hut

we call home for seven days, we feel warm and cozy. The walls envelop us with love as we spend our yom tov in a cocoon of happiness with our loving Father.

Sukkos is perhaps the most relaxing yom tov, in a certain way. There’s no restrictions on what we can eat (although trying to find a sukkah in Manhattan is not so easy), there’s ample time to spend with family, and there’s a cleansing feeling that comes after the intensity of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. We welcome the excitement of being able to celebrate yom tov in our own way. Some like to decorate their sukkahs with lights and couches, others prefer to put up their children’s handmade colorful posters. Regardless of what our sukkahs look like, we are all sitting in His embrace, and He’s looking at us as a parent looks at their children – with love for the happiness in which we are doing His mitzvos. He sees us enjoying our time together with Him and with our families as we bask in His love.

Perhaps that’s why Sukkos is called Zman Simchaseinu. What makes a child happier than to sit in his parents’ warm embrace and spend time with them? On Sukkos that’s exactly what we’re doing – every moment we spend in the sukkah. And we can’t be happier.

Wishing you a wonderful yom tov, Shoshana

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

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Community Happenings

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NEWS Global

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National

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ISRAEL

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After Buchenwald: Sparks from an Ancient Scroll by Shlomo Horwitz 80 The Feuerwerkers: Resisting the Nazi Beast by Avi Heiligman

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ZMAN SIMCHASEINU Rabbi Wein

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Celebrating Without Our “Things” by Rabbi Dr. Naphtali Hoff

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HEALTH & FITNESS Feeling Safe by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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Is an Esrog as Good for the Body by Cindy Weinberger, MS, RD, CDN 88 Developing the Antidote to Vaping, Juuling and Other Evils by Dr. Hylton I Lightman

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Dear Editor, I would like to alert the readers of a potential kashrus issue that I was unaware of until recently. Living in a frum neighborhood, we often assume everything around us is kosher or assume that if frum people shop in certain stores they must be OK. There is a TCBY store nearby in Lynbrook. For years, nationally TCBY yogurt was under the Texas K. At some point that changed and individual stores needed their own hashgacha. This local store had two hashgachas: one on the yogurt itself and another on the store. The store hashgacha was given by Rav Zushe Blech of Monsey. At some point, the hashgacha on the yogurt was changed to a hashgacha that many rabbanim have questioned its reliability in some of their other restaurants. However, there was still Rav Blech to rely on. This past January, Rav Blech died.

TCBY did not replace him and currently only have the other hashgacha in place.

There are two issues here: first off, the current hashgacha is only on the yogurt, not on any of the toppings. People seem to be unaware Cover art, “Sukkot,”

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of that and continue to eat from the toppings as well. Second, people should consult their local rav and determine if the current hashgacha meets their standards.

A concerned reader Dear Editor, As many of your readers know, Ari Fuld, a Zionist and great leader, died at the hands of a terrorist. I met Ari in Efrat and after one minute of speaking to him I thought he may be the next leader of our people. I knew that as long as Ari is here there will always be someone standing up for Israel. Ari started a campaign to provide neck coolers to IDF soldiers. Unfortunately he was not able to complete his goal. It is up to us to continue his work. I ask every one of your readers to please help Ari complete his goal of providing thousands of soldiers with this neck cooler. Here is the link to his campaign: https://www.jewcer.org/project/ cool-a-chayal/ Thank You, Adam Beckoff Dear Editor, To my fellow [undemocratic] “Democratic Socialists”: Since $15 an hour is obviously not high enough to earn a decent living, and since the minimum wage clearly has a miniContinued on page 10

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mally negative (if any) effect on total employment, and since it obviously doesn’t matter that when you make something (labor) more expensive people buy less of it, why not raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour? #Fight For100 Sincerely, Rafi Metz Dear Editor, Mr. Thiessen is absolutely correct in telling the New York Times

anonymous op-ed writer that if he can’t serve honorably, he shouldn’t serve at all. I say, if you can’t be proud enough of your views than to write your name in a byline, then you shouldn’t write a tell-all op-ed at all.

This coward is “proud” to tell the world that he (and other cowards) are working in the White House to subvert the actions and plans of the very person they have been brought on to help. I’m sorry; I’m confused.

Doesn’t that mean you are not doing your job? Doesn’t that mean that

you are being paid for something that you are deliberately not doing?

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but if a doctor is paid to perform surgeries and instead he has been throwing his knives against the wall for target practice, shouldn’t he be asked to leave? Or if a teacher is being paid to teach students and is instead baking cakes or cutting up vegetables for a salad, shouldn’t she be asked to leave? What about you, Mr. OpEd Writer? Weren’t you brought on to help the president run the county and the White House? Certainly you haven’t been paid to write tell-all op-eds in newspaper. As such, Mr. (or Mrs.) Anonymous, on behalf of myself and many other Americans, I ask you to leave. Goodbye. Scram.

Good riddance. Beat it. Skedaddle.

Vamoose. Shalom. Dos vidanya. You get the point.

I’m asking you to leave because I am hoping that the government officials who are in the White House are honest enough (ahem, ahem) to do the job they are tasked to do. I am also asking you to leave because I voted for Mr. Trump and so, despite some of his follies, I am trusting him to do the job that he sees fit to do. So don’t try to undermine him on every curve. Believe it or not, Americans do not have to agree with everything the president does. Too bad, so bad. He’s your president and you have to allow him to do his job. In a democracy, even people who cried into their pillows at night and marched the streets chanting, “Not my president” have to hold their breath for four years while this president does his work. (I hope that they have ample tissues; he may be there for longer than four years!)

I only wish they hold their breaths a little quieter – the noise they make in the media is making many of us wish we owned stock in Advil.

To get back to my point: this letter writer is a coward on many fronts.

He shouldn’t be working in the White House and he certainly shouldn’t be writing anonymous articles into national newspapers. I hope the door slams into him on his way out.

Sincerely, Shalom T. Goldner

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The Week In News

Typhoon Slams Asia

As Typhoon Mangkhut slammed its way through Asia, it left death and debris in its wake.

On Sunday, the typhoon made landfall in Guangdong, China, the country’s most populous province.

Four people were killed before it barreled out of the area a few hours later.

More than three million people were moved to safety in southern China as it moved northward and continued to wreak havoc across the region. The decision to evacuate towns and cities in southern China came as Hong Kong was left reeling by ferocious winds of up to 173 kilometers per hour and gusts of up to 223 kph.

The storm tore off roofs and scaffolding from skyscrapers, shattered windows, shook high-rise buildings and caused serious flooding in low-lying areas as waves of more than three meters lashed the coast.

Across the Pearl River Delta in the gambling hub of Macau, hundreds of households were left without power amid extensive flooding, which reached head-height in places close to the shoreline.

Though Hong Kong managed to avoid the same fate as the Philippines, damage to the city was extensive. Downed trees, smashed cars, and uprooted sidewalks littered the land. Residential towers were left without water and electricity.

Worst hit by far from the storm was the Philippines, where at least 54 people were killed when the violent, then-super typhoon – known locally as Ompong – cut a swath through northern Luzon.

The storm caused flooding and landslides on Luzon, particularly in the town of Itogon, Benguet, where

landslides have killed at least 35 and left dozens missing, many of whom are believed to be buried under thick mud.

Typhoons are tropical storms that are common in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans.

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by North and South Korea on North Korea’s side of the heavily militarized border that separates the two countries. The permanent channel of communication between the two nations is the latest in a series of efforts to end their rivalry that has lasted for many decades. The office opened just days before North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon were set to meet for the third time this year.

“The two sides are now able to take a large step toward peace, prosperity, and unification of the Korean peninsula by quickly and frankly discussing issues arising from inter-Korean relations,” said the head of North Korea’s delegation at the opening ceremony. The two countries had previously used fax machines or specialized phone lines to communicate, which would often be cut when their relationship took a bad turn. Now they will now be able to “directly discuss issues 24 hours, 365 days,” South Korea’s Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon said at the ceremony.

As their relationship is thawing, the United States and its allies are trying to press Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

South Korea’s Unification Ministry spokesman Baik Tae-hyun said it was hoped the liaison office could also help the United States and North Korea in their negotiations. “We hope that this will also help the progress of denuclearization talks between North

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Korea and the United States,” Baik said.

Though denuclearization talks have stalled since President Trump and Kim Jong Un met in Singapore in June, Kim did send a message to South Korea saying he hopes to achieve denuclearization during Trump’s first term.

parliament, 12 less than Jansa’s. He has 15 days to present his cabinet to parliament, which is a challenge considering his coalition is made up of so many parties. “A government is not stable because of the number of parties it includes, but because of the people who perform its functions,” Sarec insisted, “If you are a professional, doubts and possible disagreements are put aside and you work for the benefit of the state.”

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Sales of the car have been on a steady decline, with around 15,000 bought last year. The Puebla, Mexico, plant which manufactures the car will be remodeled to accommodate production of Volkswagen’s latest lineup of cars and SUVs. A special final edition of the car will be produced, which will be available in beige or blue. The price of the Bug, which will come as both a coupe and a convertible, will be in the range of $23,045 and $29,995.

The company is looking to revamp its classic microbus in the near future with an all-electric minivan expected to go on sale in 2022.

The former actor, comic, journalist and local mayor said in a statement that he is “aware of my faults and mistakes but I have courage and persistence… Irrespective of who voted for me today and who voted against, everyone can rest assured that I will be working for the benefit of everyone.” He laid out his government’s priorities to include improving health care and education, encouraging innovation to help modernize the economy, reforming the pension system and boosting cooperation between the state and private sectors.

Slovenia is a mountainous country bordering Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. The Adriatic Sea lays to its southwest. Over half of its territory is covered by forests. It has a population of 2.07 million. Its official language is Slovene.

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Former Comedian To Lead Slovenia The new prime minister of Slovenia is former comedian Marjan Sarec.

Six parties joined forces to keep Janez Jansa, an anti-immigration ally of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, out of power.

Sarec, 40, is the youngest leader the nation of 2 million has ever had.

His party took 13 of the 90 seats in

Pablo Sanchez, the prime minister of Spain, has published his doctoral thesis on the internet in order to put to rest those that have doubt-

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ed its existence and claim he plagiarized it. The Socialist leader wrote on Facebook that opposition leaders were committing a “personal attack” on him because they lacked a “solid political project.” Sanchez also threatened to sue multiple news outlets that published stories saying that many parts of his “Spain’s Economic Diplomacy, 2010-2012” dissertation were taken from other authors.

Falsifying credentials has been a very controversial topic in Spanish

politics lately, and many politicians have resigned in recent months over such allegations. The former president of the Madrid region and a health minister in Sanchez’s cabinet both stepped down recently after they were accused of obtaining their master’s degrees at the same private public policy institute in Madrid without having attended classes or by copying much of their work from other sources.

Madrid courts are investigating

the degree obtained by Pablo Casado, the opposition leader of the Popular Party, who also graduated from the same university. The Supreme Court is also investigating his credentials.

The prime minister published his thesis after mounting pressure was placed by many in the Spanish media and political arena. His office has released a statement saying that the thesis passed two tests by plagiarism software used by academics.

Unfortunately, the number of people with cancer is “rapidly growing,” according to the World Health Organization. In 2018, 18.1 million new cases were reported and 9.6 million deaths were caused by cancer. By the end of the century, cancer will be the world’s number one killer and the single biggest cause of a shorter life expectancy, if trends continue.

The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer gathered data from 185 countries, looking at all of the areas of the body that cancer can occur and focusing on 36 types.

According to their data, one in five men and one in six women will, unfortunately, develop cancer in their lifetime. One in eight men and one in eleven women are predicted to die from the disease.

There are a number of factors to take into account when looking at the new numbers, said the WHO. Firstly, the growing population around the world means more people will get cancer. Secondly, the population is also living to an older age, which means there are more years to contract the disease. Lastly, the numbers look worse because fewer people are dying of stroke and heart disease.

Where one lives plays a big role in the likelihood of contracting cancer. Almost half of the new diagnoses and more than half of the deaths worldwide were in Asia, where 60% of the world lives. In the Americas, where only 13.3% of the world lives, researchers found 21% of cancer incidences and 14.4% of cancer deaths.

Europe, which is home to only 9% of the world’s population, saw 23.4% of cancer cases and 20.3% of the deaths.

Before anyone gets too worried, there is some good news one can glean from the report. Prevention efforts are paying off around the globe, and in America specifically. Countries, such as the United States, with a strong public awareness campaign, have seen a steep decline in new cases of some cancers. Anti-smoking and

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cervical screening efforts have seen a large drop in lung and cervical cancer rates. Countries with a strong economy also saw a decline in the numbers of cancers associated with poverty, though obesity and drinking – both high-risk factors for cancer – are problems in more affluent communities.

Turkey Builds More Prisons

Turkey has detained tens of thousands of teachers, lawyers, students, journalists, judges and other officials as it continues its crackdown on opposition to the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Since the failed coup of 2016 in which 251

people died, Erdogan has been extra harsh with those not on his side.

The country’s 384 prisons and detention facilities are not prepared for the influx of inmates. As of March, the already crowded system held 224,974 inmates, according to the Ministry of Justice. That’s 7% above official capacity.

“Prison wings designed for 20 people are being used to keep up to 45,” opposition CHP party spokesman and former lawmaker Baris Yarkadaş said. “Some of them must sleep on the floor, others develop respiratory sickness. The solution of Erdogan’s government is just to keep building more prisons.”

To solve the problem Turkey has released plans to build 228 more prisons over the next five years. Turkey now has the third-highest per capita prison population in Europe, behind only Russia and the tiny post-Soviet dictatorship of Belarus.

(The U.S. has the highest rate in the world.)

According to figures published in August, some 44% of inmates in Turkey are still awaiting trial or appeal.

Erdogan has used a two-year state of emergency, which ended only last month, to detain anyone suspected

of being linked to outlawed groups such as the Kurdish separatist PKK, which is recognized by the U.S. and Turkey as a terrorist organization.

Among those is Andrew Brunson, a North Carolina evangelical pastor who was arrested in 2016 on charges of espionage and “committing crimes on behalf of terror groups without being a member.” He has been released from prison but remains under house arrest and is expected to face trial next month. Brunson lived in Turkey for 23 years, running a church in Izmir. Trump had spoken with Erdogan a few months ago and received his confirmation that Brunson would be released. Turkey has yet to come through with their side of the deal.

Did Chinese Govt Kidnap Actress?

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In China, celebrities are forced to maintain an inoffensive profile in order to stay in the government’s good graces. Though no official charges have been brought against her, a news article by state media Securities Daily, which was later deleted, said that Fan had been brought “under control and about to receive legal judgment.” No official statement has been made regarding Fan’s whereabouts.

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on cemetery, just south of Jerusalem.

Fuld was a well-known Israeli activist and a beloved husband and father of four who was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist on Sunday morning outside of a supermarket at Gush Etzion Junction. Before succumbing to his wounds, Fuld managed to chase down the murderer and shoot him. Others ran after the 17-year-old murderer, and police managed to capture him.

stitute, explained, “If you are a billionaire, then that is something that obviously you can enjoy to a certain extent, but you’ve got to be very, very wary that you don’t at any stage cross a red line of some sort and fall afoul of the Chinese Communist Party.”

Fan reportedly has had some tax evasion accusations levied against her. A common practice in China is to have two contracts drawn up for movie stars. One, which is reported to the government, has a lower salary, while a second, higher-paying contract is

kept private for tax evasion purposes.

Though such practices are considered common in China, a copy of her most recent contracts was made public online in late May. According to a state tabloid, she had one contract for $1.5 million (10 million yuan), and another, private contract for $7.5 million (50 million yuan).

Fan’s publicist team issued a furious denial of the charges at the time but the actress hasn’t been seen in public since the discrepancy was made public.

Thousands Mourn Ari Fuld Thousands of people from around Israel attended the funeral of Ari Fuld, Hy”d, this week at the Kfar Etzi-

Ari’s wife, Miriam, spoke at the funeral: “My dearest Ari, this is my last chance to say all the things that need to be said, so you better be listening,” she said. “You were a good man. I am not sure how to go on without you. We were born less than 24 hours apart and it seems that we lived our lives side by side. No one knew it would be cut so short this morning, on your way to do the shopping, that I asked you to do.”

She went on to say that Ari “never backed down from a fight, because you knew you were in the right. You fought for what you believe in. You left behind a legacy for the entire world to savor. We always watched the news together and wondered how families and wives could be so strong. But that is what we do. We get knocked down and we get right back up, because life is a package deal and we can’t pick and choose. We must accept the good and the bad.”

Ari’s brother also spoke at the levaya. “If there is one word to describe my brother, it was a hero,” said his brother Moshe. “Who else could manage, after sustaining a fatal injury, to draw his pistol, jump a fence and shoot his attacker to make sure that his attacker would not hurt anyone else – only my brother, only my brother. He was a scholar like no other. His head was always in the Gemara. He went through those pages like normal folk read a novel. He had a thirst for that next page, and he could not put it down for anything. And yet his head wasn’t in the clouds – he was the most grounded person I know.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likewise praised Ari’s heroism.

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roically against the terrorist and prevented a graver tragedy,” Netanyahu said. “He was an outstanding father to four children who fought for the truth on the side of Israeli hasbara.”

May the Fuld family know no more tzaar, and may Hashem bring them a true nechama.

UAE and Israel Doing Business

Trade relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates were discussed in August when a senior official from the UAE visited the Holy Land. Anonymous sources have

revealed to Arab news outlets that Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of the government-owned port operator DP World, visited Tel Aviv on a trip to promote relations between his company and Israel. The UAE and Israel do not have official ties; the United Arab Emirates does not recognize Israel as a state.

The meetings were reportedly arranged by Michael Vaknin, the chief economist at JP Morgan investment bank. The head of Israeli customs was also reportedly involved in the meeting. DP World already has a strong working relationship with Israeli shipping company Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. and other Israeli companies.

Israel has never had formal ties with the Emirates; “trade offices” were opened in Oman and Qatar in 1996. It has been reported that the UAE, and particularly the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has a longstanding relationship with Israel, which began in the mid-’90s when Yitzhak Rabin was prime minister.

Current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu often speaks of his government’s growing cooperative ventures with some of his more mod-

ern Arab neighbors. Though he has not identified his allies by name, it has often been proposed that he is referring to Sunni Gulf countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Iron Dome Deal with Saudi Arabia?

Arabic media in Saudi Arabia is reporting that Israel sold the Iron Dome defense system to them, though Israel’s Defense Ministry is vehemently denying the validity of the reports.

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The news report came from an online news site with offices in England and the Persian Gulf. The report did not specify how many batteries were sold in the deal, only saying that five batteries will arrive in Saudi Arabia in December and are to be placed near the Yemen border. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have been fighting with a Saudi-led coalition for the past five years.

The online news site said that Saudi Arabia had “convinced Israel to sell [Iron Dome]” through American interlocutors in “secret tripartite meetings that took place in Washington.” However, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, a state-owned defense contractor that manufactures the Iron Dome alongside the Israel Aerospace Industries company, says the sale never happened. “The report is not true,” said Amit Zimmer, a spokesman for Rafael.

The Iron Dome is a network of anti-missile rockets that protects a country against short-range rockets, mortars and artillery shells. In the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, hundreds of projectiles that were launched at Israeli towns were intercepted near the Gaza border.

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Syria Downs Russian Plane – Israel to Blame?

On Monday, Syria mistakenly shot down a Russian plane, killing all 15 crew members onboard, when its air defenses shot into action against an Israeli strike aimed at Syrian military facilities. The Russian defense ministry initially blamed Israel for the downed jet, saying that the IDF used the Russian plane as cover.

Later, though, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters that the downing of the Russian plane was a “chain of tragic accidental circumstances.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Putin on Tuesday.

“The prime minister, in the name of the State of Israel, conveyed sorrow over the deaths of the Russian soldiers and said that the responsibility for downing the plane falls on Syria,” a statement from Netanyahu’s office said. “Prime Minister Netanyahu noted the importance of the continued security coordination between Israel and Syria that has managed to prevent many casualties on both sides in the last three years.”

Israel said its jets had attacked a Syrian military facility that manufactured “accurate and lethal weapons,” which were “about to be transferred, on behalf of Iran, to Hezbollah in Lebanon.”

Netanyahu told Putin that Israel was “determined” to prevent Iranian military entrenchment in Syria.

The Israeli leader also reiterated that Israel would completely share all the information it had on the circumstances of the raid and suggested sending Israel’s air force chief to Moscow to “deliver all the needed information.”

The downing of the Russian jet by Syria was the worst case of friendly fire between the two allies since Russia’s game-changing military intervention in September 2015.

Police Chief to Step Down

Roni Alsheich will be ending his term as Chief of the Israeli Police at the end of the year, according to a statement announced by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. Alsheich had hoped to keep his job for the customary fourth year when his threeyear term ends in December. Alsheich had sparred with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a series of corruption investigations, and some are speculating that he is losing his job for that very reason.

Erdan told Alsheich of the decision in a meeting last Thursday when he thanked him for his “longstanding and highly acclaimed service for the security of the country and its citizens.” In a statement released by the police, Alsheich thanked Erdan for the opportunity to serve in the position. “The Israel Police is at the forefront of defending the image, security, and integrity of the state. These are the missions on which the Israel Police’s conscience stands. I am convinced that the Israel Police will continue to be vigilant about the state’s independence, its social strength and the quality of life of its residents.”

No names have been put forth to replace Alsheich yet. Netanyahu, who is under investigation in three cases, did not hide his dislike for Alsheich.

Last year, he accused him of conducting a “witch hunt” and leaking confidential information.

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni of the Zionist Union was furious after the announcement. She called for an end to the “farcical practice” of limiting a police chief’s term to three years and to “allow the head of the police to be independent without constantly dangling the extension in front of him.”

Alsheich was previously very high up in the Shin Bet security agency. It is very unusual for the Commissioner to not serve the fourth customary year in their term.

Charges Brought Against Man for Not Giving Get

A man who has refused to grant his wife a get for over 20 years has been hit with a criminal indictment by prosecutors in Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court. The husband in question has already sat in jail for 17 years, as the rabbinical court in Israel has the right to imprison someone for refusing to grant a get.

Those that sit in jail because of a rabbinical court ruling do not have a criminal record. However, now a court is seeking to bring charges of a criminal offense against the man that could change his criminal status in Israel. In 2016, State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan allowed for criminal charges to be brought against those that refuse to grant a divorce. Under this law, they would be treated as a criminal offender who harms public interests and values.

The move comes a little late in this case as the woman has withdrawn her request for a divorce. “They asked me at the police if I am interested in criminal proceedings,” she said. “I told them no. If after 17 years the rabbinate didn’t find a solution to break my chains, how does it help for him to continue sitting in prison?”

New “Blood Libel” Book Receives Prize The National Women’s Studies Association in the U.S. has presented a prize to a book that claims that Israel intentionally debilitates the Palestinian people in order to maintain control over them.

The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, by Rutgers University professor Jasbir Puar was a co-winner of the association’s 2018 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize. The

book claims that along with killing Palestinians, Israel maims them intentionally in order to maintain control over them.

“Alongside the ‘right to kill,’ I noted a complementary logic long present in Israeli tactical calculations of settler colonial rule — that of creating injury and maintaining Palestinian populations as perpetually debilitated, and yet alive, in order to control them,” Puar wrote in the book’s introduction. “The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have shown a demonstrable pattern over decades of sparing life, of shooting to maim rather than to kill.”

The author is a professor of Women’s Studies at Rutgers University.

Paur is a longtime supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel known as BDS. In 2016, she claimed in a speech that Israel harvests the organs of dead Palestinians. Many critics have labeled the book a blood libel.

The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers congratulated Puar on the prize.

Hurricane Florence Attacks the Carolinas The Carolinas have been slammed

by Hurricane Florence, and as of Sunday night it showed no signs of slowing down.

“Many people who think that the storm has missed them have yet to see its threat,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said. “This system is unloading epic amounts of rainfall – in some places measured in feet, not inches.”

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“Remember: Most storm deaths occur from drowning in fresh water, often in cars,” Gov. Cooper cautioned.

“Don’t drive across standing or moving water.”

During the storm, about 760,200 customers lost power. As of Monday morning, at least 523,000 homes and businesses were still without power in North and South Carolina.

Swansboro, North Carolina, was covered in more than 30 inches of rain; many other towns received more than 20 inches of rain. Wilmington International Airport and Fort Macon suffered gusts of 105 mph, the National Weather Service said.

The National Hurricane Center said that Florence was continuing to produce heavy rains which can cause flash flooding and major river flooding.

More than 20,000 people who were evacuated from their homes were staying in 157 emergency shelters in North Carolina. The U.S. Coast Guard deployed 7,500 service members to provide aid to those in need, and the National Guard deployed another 6,500.

Before the storm made landfall, the National Weather Service called it the “storm of a lifetime.”

Judge: Hawaiian Princess Unfit

A Honolulu judge ruled this week that “Hawaii’s last princess” doesn’t have sufficient mental capacity to

manage her $215 million trust, the latest twist in a contentious legal battle surrounding 92-year-old Abigail Kawānanakoa and her fortune.

Kawānanakoa is regarded by many Native Hawaiians as a princess because she is a descendent of the royal family that ruled the islands before the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893. She’s also the great-granddaughter of sugar plantation owner James Campbell, a businessman who was one of Hawaii’s largest landowners and through whom Kawānanakoa has inherited her sizable estate, which includes ample real estate and cash assets.

Kawānanakoa has led a mostly private and luxurious life, donating to her favorite charities and breeding American Quarter Horses, but also had a reputation for quietly paying people’s bills. For years, she paid the electricity bill at Honolulu’s Iolani Palace (the royal residence that’s since become a museum) and would chip in when people came to her with financial problems. In 2001, the heiress also established a $100 million trust aimed at supporting Native Hawaiian language, culture, art, education health and housing.

“At the moment, she is a benefactor for the Hawaiian people,” said Lilikalā Kame’eleihiwa, director and professor at the University of Hawaii’s Center for Hawaiian Studies and a board member for Kawānanakoa’s trust. “I understand she paid some people’s student tuition or their medical bills – she even paid people’s mortgages to keep them from becoming homeless.”

But trouble began last year when Kawānanakoa had a stroke. Soon after, her longtime former attorney Jim Wright said she was no longer able to serve as trustee and stepped in. But then Kawānanakoa declared she was fine and took a series of hasty steps that seemed out of character.

She fired Wright and hired another lawyer. Before a court hearing on Monday, her lawyer said she wanted to remove Wright and appoint new trustees.

In a nod to Kawānanakoa’s wishes, the judge on Monday removed Wright as trustee, but appointed First Hawaiian Bank in his place. He said that he believed Kawānanakoa was able to decide that she wanted a trustee replaced, but that it was more complicated to appoint someone new, and that he didn’t find her capable of managing her financial assets, according to Kawānanakoa’s attorney, Michael Lilly.

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with space debris – pieces of junk flying around with no means to control them. They include discarded rocket boosters dating back to the early days of space flight and tiny pieces of shrapnel from a 2007 satellite explosion and a 2009 collision.

Low-Earth orbit, or LEO, is the most crowded area, and companies including SpaceX and OneWeb have plans for new satellite constellations that will put thousands of new devices in LEO.

Space Insurance If you need insurance for your car, you call Geico. But what if you’re driving in space? Don’t you need insurance for your vehicle then?

Believe it or not, the industry for insurance for space flights is $715 million strong. That is, last year, the industry collected $715 million in

premiums and paid out $636 million in claims. There are only a few people who need insurance for space travel. And there are very few of those who underwrite insurance for that industry. Perhaps, though, in the upcoming years, that is going to change.

Private companies are driving down the costs of launch vehicles and satellites, making space travel more common. More space travel

taking place will mean that the need for space insurance will rise.

Insurance for the space industry comes in various forms, including insurance that covers hardware during transportation before launch, insurance that covers the launch, and insurance that covers satellites while they’re in orbit.

Satellite coverage in particular is about to get a lot more complicated.

Earth’s orbit already has a problem

Space is huge, and collisions are rare. But the more stuff that’s put in orbit, the higher the probability of a crash. And the risk doesn’t just involve objects that are dead in orbit. It involves potential collisions between active satellites as well.

Satellites can cost a few million dollars on the low end. Companies that operate large communications satellites in geosynchronus orbit – which can be worth as much as $1 billion – are particularly interested in protecting their massive investments from spaceborne projectiles.

That’s where insurance steps in.

Without it, the satellite operators would have to write off the satellite as a complete loss, potentially cutting deep into its bottom line.

The U.S. government is also involved in the insurance industry in this sector. Three decades ago, the government made the crucial decision to cover massive amounts of collateral damage in the event of a disaster during a commercial rocket launch. That insurance doesn’t cover the cost of a rocket or valuable payloads — companies still need private coverage for that — but it does cover the potentially cataclysmic damage if, say, a rocket fails and plummets into an urban area. With the government shouldering some of that burden, private space companies have come to proliferate.

The broader global space economy is expected to triple over the next two decades, growing to $1 trillion.

The insurance sector grows around 14%, from about $700 million to $800 million, according to a recent report from Morgan Stanley.

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Manafort Faces the Consequences

Paul Manafort is in the government’s crosshairs and it’s going to cost him. Trump’s former campaign chairman is being forced to forfeit an estimated $22 million worth of real estate in New York as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors. The properties includes three Manhattan apartments, a Brooklyn townhouse, and a home in the Hamptons.

Two of the Manhattan apartments are located in SoHo and are estimated to be worth $3.2 million and $4.1 million, according to Zillow. The third apartment is in Trump Tower in Midtown, which is

estimated to be worth $3 million.

The brownstone in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, is worth about $4.1 million. The most valuable of the properties is his 5,600-square-foot home in Hamptons, which is estimated to be worth $7.3 million. As part of the deal he is maintaining ownership of his home in Virginia.

In addition, Manafort is handing over his life insurance policy and the balances of three bank accounts.

Manafort, 69 has also agreed to reveal all the info he knows to the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The assets will be transferred to the Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture Fund, which is used to cover costs related to law enforcement.

The fund can also be used to finance “certain general investigative expenses,” according to the Justice Department’s website. For example, the first four months of the special counsel investigation cost taxpayers $7 million, with $3.2 million spent

by Mueller’s team. The investigation is still pending and is in its 16th month. As of now, there has yet to be any end in sight to the probe.

Manafort was charged with two

counts of conspiracy that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. He originally faced seven charges brought by the special counsel, including obstruction of justice, failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money. In August, Manafort was convicted of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failure to disclose a foreign bank account. It is clear that these charges have nothing to do with President Trump.

agement at Millennium Tower must inspect all units and install a canopy around the perimeter of the 58-story building by Friday afternoon in order to keep the residents and public safe. Additionally, they had to repair a broken crane so that engineers can inspect the cracked glass from the outside. The window doesn’t necessarily represent imminent danger; his office issued the edict as a precaution.

San Fran Skyscraper Sinking The Millennium Tower was built in San Francisco in 2009 on a landfill. The 58-story luxury residential tower has settled about 18 inches since and is tilting to one side. A few weeks ago, a window on the 36th floor cracked, prompting safety concerns.

Engineers are still trying to determine the reason for the crack.

Ronald Tom, assistant director of the Department of Building Inspection, said last week that man-

After complying with the safety measures put forth by the Department of Buildings, Millennium Tower was deemed safe. Even so, inspectors and the building department will be keeping a sharp eye on the building to ensure safety for the residents who call it their home.

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Stealing the Mail

Birthday cards, watch out if Ebony Lavonne Smith is around. The postal worker pleaded guilty to theft or receipt of stolen mail on September 12. She has been caught stealing 6,000 greeting cards filled with money and gift cards that were slipped inside them from the mail she was supposed to deliver.

Last summer, Wauwatosa residents complained to the U.S. Postal Service that they were not receiving graduation, wedding, birthday and sympathy cards in the ZIP codes of 53213 and 53226.

Smith, who was identified as the mail carrier in those areas, had started working on March 23, 2015, and on March 28, 2017, was assigned to deliver mail in Wauwatosa, according to court records.

In order to sniff out the pilfering postal worker, on January 25, a letter containing a test greeting card and a $20 bill was prepared for delivery in the Wauwatosa area. Inside the envelope was a transmitter that signaled when it was opened.

While under surveillance, a USPS supervisor first observed Smith rifling through trays assigned to other delivery routes. Smith removed greeting cards, placing them in her tray. Shortly thereafter, Smith picked up the mail for her delivery route, including the blue test envelope, and brought it to her assigned postal vehicle. Before delivering the letter, Smith opened it, triggering the sensor. The postal agent approached Smith, who was standing outside of her car. Once he approached her, the card no longer contained the $20 bill; the money was already in her purse.

Postal authorities also located a bundle of 31 USPS customer greeting cards within a USPS satchel on the floor of the front passenger seat side of Smith’s vehicle. In addition, agents also recovered 23 greeting cards and a Starbucks gift card from between the front seat of Smith’s USPS vehicle. Furthermore, agents discovered a roll of tape and letter openers within the driver’s side door

of her car.

Smith told authorities she began stealing cash from greeting cards when she began her route in the Washington Highlands. Court records said she admitted to stealing mail approximately one or two days per week, stealing cash to pay bills and take care of her four children.

At first, Smith estimated she would steal approximately $40 per week from customer mail and later started stealing $50 to $100 per week from the greeting cards. Smith also admitted to using tape to reseal some of the greeting cards she opened, court documents said.

On July 24, the USPS was contacted by “Wrench N Go,” an auto salvage yard, about a large quantity of U.S. Mail that was discovered in the rear of a car the company had started to scrap. The car had been received from the City of Milwaukee as a towed vehicle. Multiple letters were located in the car addressed to Ebony Smith.

A review of the First Class Mail recovered from the car revealed there were 6,625 First Class greeting card envelopes and 540 personal checks, some within their greeting card with envelopes, and 45 unopened greeting cards.

U.S. is King of Oil Production

For the first time since 1973, the United States has been named the world’s largest producer of crude oil by the Energy Department. Over the last decade, American oil output has more than doubled.

“It’s an historic milestone and a reminder: never bet against the U.S. oil industry,” said Bob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group, a consulting firm.

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In August U.S. output reached nearly 11 million barrels per day, putting the United States ahead of Russia for the first time since February 1999.

The rapid advances of technology in drilling have allowed engineers to access huge amounts of oil and natural gas that had been trapped underground. Additionally, engineers have figured out a way to lower the costs of drilling and fracking significantly.

“That changed the game for the U.S. It meant we could be resilient and competitive,” noted Ben Cook, portfolio manager at BP Capital Fund Advisors, an energy investment management firm.

In late 2015, Congress lifted the 40-year ban on exporting crude oil.

Currently, the U.S. ships oil to South America, Europe and China. The recent oil abundance has also allowed the U.S. to be less dependent on foreign oil, which has changed the political landscape. Even so, it’s still a global oil market and strategy shifts

by OPEC and Saudi Arabia will continue to have significant influence over prices.

The EIA expects U.S. oil production to remain higher than Russia and Saudi Arabia through 2019.

Trump: Don’t Meddle in Our Elections

Last week President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reprimands foreign entities from interfering in U.S. elections.

“Today, I took action to protect the integrity of the United States electoral system by signing an Executive Order to ensure that we can swiftly identify and punish any foreign interference in our elections,” Trump said in a statement. “As I have made clear, the United States will not tolerate any form of foreign meddling in our elec-

tions.”

In a written statement Trump claimed that is “implementing the strongest measures to date of any United States President to protect our electoral system.”

The order will allow the director of National Intelligence, with input from other intelligence agencies, to assess and identify foreign entities responsible for election meddling and will direct the Treasury Department to apply sanctions. The order will target any individual, company, or government that attempts to breach election systems or spread false information in order to alter the outcome of the election. The order also allows a potential interfering situation to be declared a “national emergency” which will allow sanctions to move forward quickly.

Some politicians rejected Trump’s order, saying that it is not enough.

“Today’s announcement by the administration recognizes the threat, but does not go far enough to address it. The United States can and must do more. Mandatory sanctions on anyone who attacks our electoral systems serve as the best deterrent,” wrote Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Florida and Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland. The two lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require such mandatory sanctions earlier this year.

Deadly Explosions in MA

Three towns north of Boston were rocked by a series of deadly gas explosions setting residential homes ablaze, forcing hundreds to evacuate, and killing one. Last Thursday evening homes erupted in flames sparked by 60 suspected gas fires.

“It looked like Armageddon, it really did,” said Andover Fire Rescue Chief Michael B. Mansfield.

One house in Lawrence exploded, sending the chimney crashing into a passing car and fatally wounding a

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teenager inside.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency on Friday and appointed a different utility company to be in charge of restoration efforts. Baker said Eversource would replace Columbia Gas of Massachusetts. The governor said Columbia was “simply inadequately prepared” to effectively manage relief efforts.

Barker warned shocked and terrified residents of Lawrence, Andover and North Andover that it will take some time to restore normalcy.

Hundreds of natural gas technicians were called into the towns to ensure that gas service is restored properly and that it is safe for electricity to be turned on.

No cause for the explosion has been revealed yet but the investigation, which involves the National Transportation Safety Board and other federal agencies, is underway.

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the explosions occurred because there was too much pressure in the gas pipes, which are owned by Columbia Gas. As such, gas flowed into homes as a “significantly greater” rate and pressure that it was supposed to. Columbia Gas was in the process of replacing cast iron pipes with plastic pipes. It is not clear if their construction played a role in leading up to the explosions.

Sens. Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts called for a congressional hearings on the explosions and fires.

“People have a right to know,” Markey told reporters. “There’s oftentimes a tendency, when there are accidents like this, for a company to huddle down, to try to protect their shareholders, when their one goal should be just to protect the people who they are serving. We’re going to be here to make sure that that happens.”

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also avoid it because they say it damages clothes or is bad for the environment. Instead, some millennials keep their used clothes in a pile and wear them again. The mounds of clothing sitting in their bedroom waiting to be re-worn is known as their “chairdrobe.” Day 2 is meant for these “timepoor” individuals. Spray and then walk away.

Remind me not to sit next to them after a three-day yom tov.

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Snakes on a Plane

I hope you weren’t sitting next to this guy on a recent flight.

Last week, it was discovered that a man flew from Germany to Russia with 20 snakes in his bag.

“The reptiles were in canisters, packed in bags, carried in hand luggage. There were no documents provided for the reptiles,” Sheremetyevo International Airport’s press service said in a statement. He had bought them at a market in Germany.

“The species of snakes will be determined by specialists, but according to preliminary information they are not of a venomous species,” the press service added.

Officials only noticed the snakes once the passenger disembarked from the plane in Moscow.

They stopped the snake-lover because he lacked the proper documents, including from veterinarians, to bring the snakes from Düsseldorf to Russia.

Carrying snakes on a plane is not illegal; proper approval, though, is required.

Ssss-ounds ssss-neaky.

Town for Sale Looking to buy some real estate?

Forget about buying a house in the Five Towns. Consider purchasing a whole town for the same price.

A listing on Craigslist puts the town of Toomsboro, Georgia, for sale for a mere $1.7 million. Included in the sale is 40 acres of land, 36 pieces of property, houses, a restaurant, a syrup mill, an opera house that seats 800, and a bank. There’s also a cotton warehouse and a railroad station.

Talk about a big bang for your buck.

There are around 700 residents living in the town.

The town’s owners say they want it to go to someone who appreciates history and will preserve it, instead of putting in new development.

“Once you see the heart pine flooring and original tile one will understand why the preservation is so important,” the website says.

Sounds like they’re living in the past.

Quitting Midgame

Halftime shows will never be the same, as Vontae Davis has one-upped them all.

The Buffalo Bills cornerback walked off the field – for good – in middle of a game to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday. He announced his retirement right after his team lost 31-20.

According to Davis, he had to leave – like, right now! – because he wasn’t playing at the level he should have been playing at.

“This isn’t how I pictured retiring from the NFL,” he said.

He continued, “But today, on the field, reality hit me fast and hard: I shouldn’t be out there anymore. I meant no respect to my teammates and coaches, but I hold myself to a standard…”

Linebacker Lorenzo Alexander took offense at Davis’s unexpected goodbye. “It’s completely disrespectful,” he said.

Davids’ absence will lead to increased work for Phillip Gaines, Lafayette Pitts and rookie fourth-round pick Taron Johnson. But it’s not like he cares.

All You Cannot Eat

Don’t you just love those all-youcan-eat restaurants? You get to scarf down plates of French fries and hot dogs without thinking of the bill – or your stomach.

But one German triathlete is not going to be enjoying that feeling for a

while. Jaroslav Bobrowski has been banned from an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant in Bavaria for eating almost 100 plates of fish.

Bobrowski, an Ironman competitor, went to the Running Sushi for their buffet. He paid $18.49 for the privilege.

“When I went to the checkout, I wanted to tip, but the waiter did not want to accept that,” Bobrowski said.

Apparently they were not too thrilled that he downed almost 100 plates of sushi.

“He eats for five people. That is not normal,” the restaurant owner told the Passauer Neue Presse. The restaurant has banned him from eating there ever again.

Bobrowski, who works as a software engineer by day, follows an extreme diet where he does not eat for 20 hours and then eats “until I’m full.” He used to be a bodybuilder.

Hey, sushi doesn’t fill me up either. But I don’t eat 100 plates of it.

Longest Flight

Going on a flight with the kids soon? Try to avoid Hawaiian Airlines’ newest flight – even without screaming infants, the flight can give you a headache.

The airline recently announced the launch of “the longest regularly scheduled domestic route in U.S. history,” which flies five days a week between Boston and Honolulu. How long will you have to be seated in an aluminum tube in the sky? The flight will take up to 11 hours and 40 minutes and will traverse 5,095 miles.

Beginning April 4, 2019, Hawaiian Airlines Flights HA90 and HA91 will be flown by an Airbus A330 – a widebody twin engine that can typically seat about 275 passengers. Think you’ll want a bit of shut-eye on that long trip to Hawaii? This flight will have 68 Extra Comfort seats in the main cabin with a 36-inch pitch and 18-lie-flat leather seats in first class, measuring 76 inches long and 20.5 inches wide in a 2-2-2 configuration.

In other words, you pay for it, and you may be a bit more comfortable.

Think this flight is long? Later

this year Singapore Airlines plans to kick off a flight that spends almost 20 hours in the air between Singapore and New York, about 9,500 miles.

Other ultra-long-haul international flights connecting in the United States include a Delta one from Atlanta to Johannesburg, South Africa, which can last nearly 17 hours.

Um, anyone want to go to Florida?

Pizza Pilot

Speaking of long flights, passengers on American Airlines Flight 2354 from Los Angeles to Dallas-Fort Worth were recently dreading a long night after their plane was diverted to a regional airport in Wichita Falls, Texas, due to heavy rains. One-hundred-fifty-nine passengers knew that they would have to sit there until the morning.

But nothing makes a long night go by faster than pizza.

Jeff Raines, the captain of the aircraft, called the local pizza store and ordered 40 fresh pizzas for delivery to the Texas airport.

A video of the act shows the captain running back and forth between the delivery car and the stranded passengers to personally deliver the pizzas.

“What a guy, what a guy,” people can be heard saying.

In a message on Facebook, the captain said his entire team participated to help the passengers.

“Thanks for the compliments however this was a ‘TEAM’ effort,” Raines said.

“My First Officer was on the telephone with crew tracking / hotel desk arranging for our release and hotels for the entire crew. The Flight Attendants manned a galley cart from the aircraft serving waters, juice, and sodas to all the passengers in the terminal. All while the Envoy SPS Personnel were arranging for a bus, re-booking flights, and answering a flurry of questions from these passengers. Thanks to everyone for your help – there is no ‘I’ in TEAM.” But there certainly is one in pizza.

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Community The Shmuz comes to Yeshiva of South Shore

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n preparation for the Yimei Hadin, the Yeshiva of South Shore Mechina talmidim (6th- 8th grade) were privileged to hear words of chizuk from R’ Shafier of The Shmuz. The inspiring shmuz capped off an energizing start to the year that has seen the Mechina students already well into their learning.

R’ Shafier spoke about the tremendous power of tefillah and how by looking back at the events of the past year we can gain inspiration to daven during Yamim Noraim with the proper kavana and feeling. When reflecting on the

fact that all of the “happenstances” of the past year were decided during these days and how our tefillos can influence all the events of the coming year, we can appreciate the power of tefillah during the Yamim Noraim.

The event was also the kickoff of the popular Hikon Tefillah Program, and in celebration of this special initiative, every talmid received a copy of R’ Shafier’s new book “Two Lives, One Chance.”

HIKON (which means “prepare”) gives talmidim a framework for proper and meaningful tefillah and cel-

ebrates their successful participation with special incentives and trips.

“Obviously, the message to talmidim is that we strengthen our connection and commitment to tefillah for all of the right reasons; however, the positive gains of joining with their chaveirim in a great incentive program, makes it all the better!” said Rabbi Zev Davidowitz, Menahel HaMechina.

The talmidim are eagerly looking forward to HIKON getting started in earnest right after Sukkos!

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MTA Mishmar Madness

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TA kicked off another amazing year of learning with Mishmar Madness, an optional learning program which

takes place every other month after regular Thursday night Mishmar.

More than 130 talmidim participated in this incredible event, which

included chaburahs with YU talmidim, meaningful shiurim with our rebbeim to prepare us for Yom Kippur, an inspirational kumzits, and of

course, a delicious Carlos & Gabby’s dinner.

Sen. Kaminsky Unveils New Ambulance for Woodmere Fire Dept.

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n Sunday, Senator Todd Kaminsky unveiled a new ambulance for the Woodmere Fire Department. The Woodmere Fire Department was awarded a $200,000 grant in state funding from Senator Kaminsky and the State and Municipal Facilities Grant program to purchase a new ambulance to serve the community.

“I was pleased to procure this funding to purchase a new ambulance for the department, which will go a long way toward furthering the lifesaving work of the department’s EMTs and paramedics,” said Senator Todd Kaminsky.

“Our Rescue Company has provided quality emergency medical response to the community since 1975.

Woodmere’s volunteer EMTs and paramedics are known throughout the County as leaders in their field. With the assistance of Senator Kaminsky, the Woodmere Fire District was able to purchase a new state-of-the-art ambulance containing all the best equipment so we can continue to provide the highest level of care,” said Woodmere

Fire Department Chief Alan Sauer.

“The partnership between

Senator Kaminsky and the Woodmere Fire District allows us to continue to main-

tain our focus on emergency medical response. Senator Kaminsky has ensured that

Woodmere residents will continue to receive the best care with state-of-the-art equipment. His support across many projects ensures that the efforts put forth by our Department to protect and serve the public is stellar,” said Woodmere Fire Commissioner David Stern.

The new ambulance will serve as the apparatus to emergency medical calls in the Woodmere Fire District.

It will be equipped for advanced life support care and will go into service in the coming weeks.

Founded in 1889, the Woodmere Fire Department provides fire, rescue and advanced life support emergency medical care to the communities of Woodmere and Cedar Bay Park, as well as to the Villages of Woodsburgh and Hewlett Neck. Additionally, the department provides mutual to surrounding fire departments. The Department is completely comprised of volunteers and is under the leadership of Chief Alan Sauer, First Assistant Chief Adiv Koenig and Second Assistant Chief Adam Slotnick.

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Getting to Know You: SKA’s Freshman Retreat

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The Retreat was filled with divrei Torah and davening, games and activities including a Cardboard Challenge and Stomp Presentations, delicious meals and a rousing evening bonfire.

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fter mingling during club period on Tuesday, September 4, SKA’s Class of 2022 enjoyed an exciting bonding experience in Camp Kaylie at their Freshman Retreat on Wednesday afternoon, September 5, through Thursday, September 6.

The ninth graders were joined by Associate Principal Ms. Elana Flaumenhaft, Director of Student Activities Rabbi Yosef Zakutinsky, social worker Ms. Lisa Fogel, the ninth grade level advisors, Mrs. Rikki Ash, Mrs. Estee Engel and Mrs. Sheila Leibtag, and members of SKA’s

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Welcome to the New Mesivta Yam Hatorah

At Yeshiva of South Shore, the year has started off with a bang in all areas of learning! We have been working hard at incorporating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) into our curriculum. For our first learning STEM activity our third graders joined our fourth graders to learn how the process of experimentation works.

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Rabbi LaBrie and Rabbi Pollak

his past summer saw big changes at the Mesivta. Rabbi Avram Pollak, the co-founder of the Mesivta, stepped into the role of Menahel and Rabbi Gamliel Labrie joined the administration as S’gan Menahel.

Rabbi Labrie’s organizational experience has already impacted the Mesivta. His strong belief that Mesivta bachurim can’t be forced but need to be given the opportunity to make intelligent choices has changed the way the Mesivta helps boys succeed.

Using a schoolwide system called “Jupiter,” students and parents can log in and see exactly how they are doing. Students can see their success clearly as well as what they may need to correct or complete. The best part is the students don’t need to be reminded by staff to correct themselves but rather they, themselves, by looking on Jupiter, want to correct their miscues. This develops responsibility within the student for themselves.

Rabbi Pollak’s academic philosophy is, in turn, based on the Rosh Yeshiva’s, Harav Shaya Cohen, belief of focusing and enabling the success of every student. Rabbi Pollak together with the Yam Hatorah staff spent many hours throughout the summer planning how the school can be a place where every student feels a contentment and belonging. A place where not just the top half of the class can be progressing and enjoying their Judaic and General Studies, but every

student succeeds and excels.

The Mesivta has added and diversified the classes being given as well as the structure of many of the classes. Besides the usual Gemara, Bekius, Halacha, and Parsha, the Mesivta has added Chumash and twice a week the boys are privileged to have Rabbi Eliezer Feuer, renowned speaker and rabbi of the Young Israel of Bayswater, teach them Navi.

Besides the regular curriculum additions, the Mesivta has seven seniors learning in the Bais Medrash of Zichron Aryeh in the morning and four seniors continue their learning with Bekius during afternoon and night seder.

In the general studies department led by Rabbi Nachum Dinowitz, the Mesivta has added phycology to the 12th grade curriculum taught by Dr. Czeladnicki, and business math for students who want an alternative to trigonometry. However, the biggest investment of the Mesivta are the online classes being offered to seniors on a variety of topics, facilitated by Yaakov Sternberg.

The Mesivta has started the new year with tremendous hatzlacha and is looking forward to a year of continued growth and the ability to help every student be successful and develop! For more information about the Mesivta please call 718-471-7471 or email the office at mesivtayamhatorah@gmail.com.

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Around the Community Rabbi Menachem Traxler, director of volunteering for Colel Chabad and founder of Pantry Packers, addressed upper classmen at North Shore Hebrew Academy in Great Neck. Students listened as Rabbi Traxler spoke about the importance of charity and giving back, especially around the holidays and when celebrating our own personal smachot. Pantry Packers, one of Israel’s most popular volunteer experiences, operates out of a Jerusalem warehouse, where families, individuals, groups and schools come to learn about thousands of Israeli families struggling with poverty and help packaging dry goods and foods that will be delivered around the country. Colel Chabad is Israel’s longest running social services organization, helping care for needy families and the elderly since 1788.

DRS Freshmen Shabbaton

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he excitement was palpable as freshmen at DRS Yeshiva High School eagerly boarded the buses yesterday, ready to head to the annual Freshman Shabbaton, held at Camp Kaylie. “The goal of the Shabbaton is for everyone meet each other and create a sense of achdut within the grade in an enjoyable and fun way,” said DRS Menahel Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky to the freshman class.

Upon arrival, students unpacked, davened Maariv, and headed to the gym for “Wacky Olympics.” Students faced off in shiur-vs.-shiur competitions in a variety of events, in which every student had a unique role.

The night was far from over, as students enjoyed a late-night barbecue and basketball in the gym with their new friends. Students woke up Friday morning, eager for the events to come. After Shacharis, breakfast and

shiur with the freshmen rebbeim, students took to the gridiron for a competitive flag football tournament, while bonding with new friends. After the tournament, the class enjoyed the camp’s spacious facilities, and went go-carting, swimming and played sports before preparing for an amazing Shabbat to come.

After a spirited Kabbalat Shabbat, seudat Shabbat with zemirot and divrei Torah, the annual Shiur Vs. Shiur Family Feud, we celebrated with a hallmark DRS-style tisch with Rabbi Kaminetsky and rebbeim (and cholent and kugel, of course). The spirit continued with a lively Shacharit, kiddush, a creative session high-

lighting the boys’ “Fresh Start,” another spirited seuda, and intriguing shiurim and games throughout the day. The Shabbaton ended with slow songs and heartfelt words from Rabbi Kaminetsky. The boys are so excited for the friendships made and experienced ruach to last all four years of high school and beyond.

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Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration In our increasingly polarized world, the need to build positive and resilient relationships is more important now than ever before. This series will explore interpersonal interactions and social behaviors along the kindness continuum.

Discussions will consider lessons learned from our understanding of bullies, victims and bystanders, and attempt to further understand what creates healthy relationships and builds strong Jewish communities.

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n the CAHAL kindergarten class at HANC in West Hempstead, the children are learning about the chagim through multisensory experiences. For Rosh Hashana they examined a variety of apples, sorting them visually by color, feeling their round or elongated shape, listening for the crunchiness of their sound while enjoying the taste of their first bites. To prepare for Yom Kippur the children listened to music – Barney’s song and Kol Nidre chazzanus – in order to appreciate the tone of the day by making the appropriate happy or serious faces to demonstrate their appreciation of the solemnity of this day.

For Sukkos, the children embarked on a neighborhood walk that encompassed many sights, sounds, feelings and tastes of the approaching chag. First stop was the lulav and esrog store where Mrs. Lilienthal presented the Arba Minim to the children, allowing them to feel the bumpy esrogim and shake the hard tall lulavim. She explained how each of the species corresponds to a part of our body by its shape, as well as how each reminds us of a particular type of Jew by its taste and smell.

Leaving the store, the children

were led on special hunt to find as many different sukkahs as they could and identify the various materials from which the walls were madeplastic, canvas, or wood. They also checked out the schach of each to ensure it was kosher in its thickness.

A favorite sukkah stop was at Morah Harris’ house where they got to taste the delicious snack treats and play a game to identify the various fruits and vegetables suspended from the schach above them.

Last stop was the Young Israel of West Hempstead to experience Simchas Torah. The children helped to take a Sefer Torah out of the Aron Kodesh by opening the paroches and singing. Then the Sefer Torah was unrolled on the shulchan and each child was lifted up to see the beautiful ksav of the alef bet that they will be learning this year. After the Torah was rerolled the children encircled the bima and danced hakafos around it as they followed the Torah back to its special place, ending a wonderful morning and a true hands-on learning experience.

Wishing everyone a shana tova and chag sameach!

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Madraigos’ 11th Annual Holiday Retreats

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he 11th Annual Rosh Hashana Retreat, held at the Hudson Valley Resort, was a unique experience, a catalyst for introspection and spiritual growth for more than 600 attendees. Madraigos provided unique Rosh Hashana programming for young adults, their families, and general members of the community.

The Retreat uplifted each participant at any station in life while the delicious food and amenities enhanced their holiday experience.

Throughout the program, many captivating talks and workshops were delivered by mental health professionals and rabbis who specialize in community outreach and education.

Rabbi David Clyman, Director of the Executive Jewish Enrichment Group, Aish HaTorah International, penetrated everyone’s hearts with his words of wisdom and chizuk. Other noteworthy presenters were Rabbi Mayer Pasternak, CTO, ArtScroll Mesorah Publications; Mrs. Mindi Werblowsky, LMSW, Clinical Director, Madraigos; Rabbi Dr. Dovid Felt, Director of School Based Services, Madraigos; Rabbi Shalom Yona Weiss; Mr. Yudy Weiner; and Mr. Menachem Poznanski, LCSW, The Living Room.

This year’s Retreat theme, “From Strength to Strength,” was developed

by Mr. Dov Perkal and Mr. Ben Rappaport, longtime friends of Madraigos. Through a series of interactive workshops, participants learned how to nurture their key inner strengths for greater personal success and fulfillment.

One attendee remarked that the lectures and program were exciting, moving, and life-changing.

Another attendee said that it was the most meaningful davening she ever experienced.

Prayers led by Rabbi Motti Miller were full of beautiful melodies and spiritual fervor. At especially moving times in the davening as well as during the meals, spontaneous dancing broke out, demonstrating a brotherhood of spiritual yearning that transcended all sectors of religious background or observance.

The Retreat ended with a poignant havdalah service led by Rabbi Motti Miller playing the guitar. It was heartfelt and moving, elevating attendees to a “spiritual high” which carries them through the coming year.

The Rosh Hashana program could not have been made possible without the prodigious efforts and dedication of Mr. Berel Gelbstein and Mrs. Eta Bienenstock who managed logistics related to hotel reservations and catering.

Building on the inspiration from the Rosh Hashana Retreat, Madraigos continued its special programming with their annual Yom Kippur Program. Kal and Ruki Renov of Lawrence, long-time friends of Madraigos, hosted a warm, uplifting program for more than 200 people. Neighbors and

members of the community graciously opened their hearts and their homes to host the participants. The pre-fast meal, hosted by Ushi and Esti Stahler, as well as the post-fast meal were provided by Madraigos.

In addition to other programs and support services that take place throughout the year, Madraigos’ highly successful Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur programs demonstrate its true essence – unconditional and whole-

hearted acceptance of all members of the Jewish community. This message and transformative experiences of the holiday programs uplift and inspire the participants and their loved ones throughout the year.

To learn more about Madraigos’ programs and services, please contact Mindi Werblowsky, LMSW, Clinical Director at mwerblowsky@madraigos.org or 516-371-3250 x 112.

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“Day of Jewish Unity” Promotes Worldwide Achdus

By Yosef Sosnow

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ore than one million people across the world gathered together on Friday, September 7, to pray for Jewish unity.

This remarkable initiative, held just three days before Rosh Hashanah, was spearheaded by the organization Acheinu, the outreach arm of Dirshu, the international Torah organization.

The Day of Jewish Unity is a revolutionary initiative designed to unify all Jewish people from around the world by engaging in a day of peace and prayer on behalf of the current state of affairs, as the Jewish nation finds itself in a precarious position both domestically and internationally.

The political diversity and relentless hostility we face today is unprecedented. From our polarizing environment that has spawned a nation divided, to global military threats that continue to wreak havoc, the notion of peace and unity has never been more distant.

Nevertheless, Acheinu maintained that every Jew was born with an innate brotherhood mentality that connects

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every one of us. We are always there for each other, physically and in prayer. In times of crisis, the Jewish nation has historically turned to prayer for help.

With the daunting uncertainty surrounding the well-being of our people and homeland, our prayers are needed more than ever.

The Impetus behind the Day of Jewish Unity That was the impetus behind The Day of Jewish Unity. It would be a day where all Jews put aside their differences to unite in brotherhood and

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prayer. The inspiration for the Day of Jewish Unity were the teachings of the Chofetz Chaim about the severity of the sin of lashon hara, speaking gossip or ill of another.

The day of Jewish Unity was marked with prayer rallies throughout the world. The flagship event, however, was held at the Kotel Hamaaravi in Yerushalayim early Friday morning, September 7. It was impossible not to be moved when the thousands who filled the entire Kotel Plaza thundered the Shema Yisrael and the prayer of ‘Hashem Hu Elokim’ that is said at Ne’ilah on Yom Kippur. One participant related, “It felt as if the very heavens were opening.”

One of the extraordinary things about the event at the Kotel was not just the massive crowd – the entire Kotel Plaza from the Kotel right up until the back was jammed – but rather the wide-ranging participation of Jews from all walks of life. There were Sefardim and Ashkenazim, kippot srugot of the National Religious, alongside the distinctive, white-knitted yarmulkas of the Toldos Aharon Chassidim, all kinds of Chassidim and Lithuanian Yeshiva types. There was even a large contingent of soldiers in military uniform who temporarily put down their guns and joined in the prayers. That unprecedented achdus and kiddush Hashem at the Kotel was a microcosm of the achdus displayed the world over.

In his heartfelt, short remarks delivered at the Kotel, Rav Dovid Hofstedter, the founder and Nasi of both Dirshu and Acheinu, emotionally hailed this unique achdus and its power to bring with it yeshuos in advance of the New Year.

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The idea to promote Jewish unity resonated in such a profound way that

it was even picked up by a number of important opinion makers both from within and without the Jewish community. Articles about the importance of the Day of Jewish Unity that coincides with the yahrzeit of the Chofetz Chaim appeared in numerous general publications, most notably a seminal article in Fox News, penned by Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate, and an article in The Hill, by entrepreneur and former Press Secretary for President Trump, Anthony Scaramucci.

There were also important articles in the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel, that picked up the story and ran with it.

Huckabee explained that The Day of Jewish Unity is designed to serve as a light to all of mankind by emulating the teachings of the Chofetz Chaim.

“Acheinu promotes this day of prayer in honor of Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan, who devoted his entire life to promoting respect and civility and cautioning about the evils of gossip.

Though Rabbi Kagan died in 1933, his teachings live on.

“I think if Rabbi Kagan was alive today to see how divided the world still is, he would be disappointed. And yet, through the rabbi’s teachings, I also know that he would not give up hope but would continue to call for courtesy, understanding and cohesion.”

A Call for Civility in Discourse Anthony Scaramucci, founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, who served briefly as White House Communications Director under President Trump, wrote an important article published in The Hill. In his article, Scaramucci, calls on all Americans – Democrats, Republicans and people of all faiths – to emulate the teachings of the Chofetz Chaim and his “teachings about the

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evils of gossip and disunity among people.”

Jeremy Frankel perhaps put it most succinctly when highlighting the strife between Jews both in Israel and America and solutions to combat that discord. He writes in the Jerusalem Post, “I’m the first to admit that being kind to everyone and holding your tongue can be very hard. When you staunchly disagree with someone, your first impulse is to fling a cutting retort, but if we follow the teachings of the Chofetz Chaim, we know that we should ignore that first impulse. If we pause and restrain ourselves, we can craft a response that, while dissenting, does not insult or impugn the other person.”

School Children Inspired to Emulate the Chofetz Chaim Another truly exciting element of the day was the fact that thousands of children and teens were touched by the Day of Jewish Unity. Special programing was held for both boys and girls in schools across the world.

According to Rabbi Gershon Kroizer, who oversaw the division that covered schools in Israel and Europe, “Hundreds of schools encompassing many thousands of children participated utilizing the unique content provided to commemorate the auspicious day.”

In the United States and Canada, Dirshu arranged special, age-appropriate material for schools that brought the message and legacy of the Chofetz Chaim to life. Rabbi Yehuda Brecher, principal of the Yeshiva Ketana of Waterbury, whose school participated, said, “The children were told numerous stories about the Chofetz

Chaim after which we said Tehillim and sang the song of ‘Acheinu’ in an effort to promote the achdus that the Chofetz Chaim so desired to uphold.

I sincerely feel and hope that the enhanced appreciation for the Chofetz Chaim and the lessons that both the younger and older students learned about being sensitive and kind to others are lessons that will remain with them for a long, long time.”

Schools from diverse communities across the United States and Canada participated in the Daf of Unity school programs, such as Toronto, Canada; Houston, TX; Baltimore, MD; Cleveland, OH; Albany, NY; Phoenix, AZ; Passaic, NJ; Atlanta, GA; Staten Island, NY; Denver CA; Deal, NJ; Livingston, NJ; Denver, CO; Boston, MA; Boca Raton, FL; Chicago IL; Los Angeles, CA; Monsey, NY; Lakewood, NJ; Brooklyn, NY; and Manhattan, NY. “Who are We to Split us Apart?!”

In the Times of Israel, Zachary Silver sums up the power of the Day of Jewish Unity, “Our greatest weapon against…bigots and ignorant haters is our unity. We must remain strong and unified in the face of the hatred persistently growing against us. In order to be a strong, singular people, we must look at what unites us, not what divides us. At the end of the day, we all come from a strong heritage that is millennia old and filled with brave and outspoken people. And, according to the rabbis, we were all together — as one people — at Mount Sinai when G-d gave us the Torah. If G-d saw fit to put us all together, who are we to split us apart now?”

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Rav Yoni Posnick’s second grade talmidim in Yeshiva Darchei Torah performing Tashlich and enjoying a kumzitz at their rebbi’s home

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DRS Seniors Recognized as National Merit Semi-Finalists

ongratulations to Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls Senior Aliza Mandelbaum who has been nominated as a semi-finalist in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program and will continue in the National Merit Scholarship Competition. Aliza is a bright and motivated student who is involved in many activities in school including the Israel Action Committee, The Looking Glass (school newspaper), College Bowl, Math Team, Debate Team, and Dance in Production.

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to their students, as well as the level of commitment and work they expect from them.

Ari, Avi and Yaakov are three of only eleven Semi-Finalists from all of Long Island! This marks the seventh year in a row in which DRS has produced a semi-finalist for this illustrious accomplishment.

AIPAC, and the Medical Marvels and Envirothon competitions. A member of the Honor Society, Aliza received an Honorable Mention in Toshiba Exploravision and was awarded a Gold Medal by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for her work as editor of the school’s Holocaust journal.

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Ever since the launch of the Chesed In My Back Yard initiative nearly three years ago, hundreds if not thousands of acts of kindness have been paid forward in this amazing community. From business professionals, to moms, students, and even the youngest of children helping out, the central theme has been all about kindness towards one another.

The CIMBY3 Adult and Junior Runs taking place on October 21, 2018 at the Far Rockaway Board-

walk is yet another opportunity for community members of all ages to sponsor grassroots programs, such as the Yom Tov Fund, Hospital Respite Room Division and the Chesed Shel Emes Division, while having a great time at the same time. Just like previous years, there will be activities and entertainment for the children to enjoy.

Participating in this year’s CIMBY3 Run is easy, enjoyable and will give you and your family an amazing opportunity to spend a special day with nearly 1,000 community members because they want to be there for one another – right here in our backyard.

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A Great Start to a New Year at Gesher

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he children of the Gesher Early Childhood Center have jumped right into the excitement of learning. The yomim tovim give them so much opportunity to reinforce their new knowledge in so many ways.

Projects including apples and honey, bees, Yom Kippur slippers, and sukkah building can be found all around the classrooms. It is very rewarding to see the students beaming with shining

smiles.

During the summer months many new initiatives were implemented to the program and to the facility. A seasonal yom tov/rosh chodesh plan was created, bringing schoolwide awareness and excitement.

Most recently, Rabbi Naftali Portnoy, a seasoned baal tokeah, brought his long curly shofar into school and showed the children how to blow sho-

far.

A reptile show is planned for the next rosh chodesh which will coincide with learning about Noach and the mabul.

Gesher’s new educational consultant Dr. Lydia Soifer has begun working with the faculty to bring the educational model to even greater heights.

Her training session before the school year set a tone of excellence and has

been followed up by her observations and collaboration.

The sleekly painted hallways and classrooms have upgraded the sense of professionalism. And the newly renovated speech therapy room is prepared for excellence.

Gesher wishes all of its families a yom tov full of true Yiddishe nachas.

Lessons in Teshuva, Tefilla, and Tzedaka

By Yael Szlafrock, Grade 8

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n Wednesday, September 19, beloved teacher and Cedarhurst resident Schali Chrein addressed the students of Shulamith Middle Division, adding meaning to Tzom Gedalia and Aseret Yemei Teshuva. Mrs. Chrein began her address by sharing with us a difficult choice she had to make when she was just a young girl. She could travel to the Fountenbleu for the trip of a lifetime, or stay home with her critically ill mother, who only had a limited amount of time left on this earth. The choice was obvious to her; she would not squander precious moments with her mother. She decided to stay home despite her mother pressuring her to go. Her choice was indisputable.

Mrs. Chrein explained that we must behave this way with Hashem.

During the Yamim Noraim, Hashem is particularly close to us, but He’s not going to be as close for the remainder of the year. Therefore, we have a choice to make: are we going to focus on material things and physical pleasures? Or are we going to focus on the big picture? That is the essence of teshuva, returning to Hashem.

Mrs. Chrein then explained, “Dav-

Sixth graders Adina and Daphna Flug wearing the Mission Specialist buttons they created

ening is having a connection with Hashem and knowing that He is always listening to you. Instead of just counting how many pages are left in your machzor,” she said, “try to connect with your davening and speak to Hashem with kavana because He is always listening.” Mrs. Chrein brought this message to life with a parable about the yetzer hara, helping us to understand that in order to reach the potential that Hashem and

the yetzer hara know that we have within ourselves, we must put away our electronic devices and choose to connect with Him personally.

Finally, Mrs. Chrein clarified the meaning of the word “tzedaka.” The shoresh of the word is tzedek, which just means righteousness, which doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with money at all. Tzedaka just means giving another person something that you have that they are

lacking. For example: if you excel at a certain subject that is a little more difficult for someone else to grasp, you could offer to tutor them after school.

It can even be as simple as sharing snack. Any act of sharing something with someone that they don’t have is tzedaka.

During her address, Mrs. Chrein alluded to the theme of G.O. 2019, “Out of This World,” by encouraging each of us to choose a “mission” to work on during Aseret Yemei Teshuva. The yomim noraim give us the opportunity to become “Mission Specialists” in serving Hashem.

Reactions to Mrs. Chrein’s presentation were overwhelmingly positive. “ I thought the speaker was amazing, and I especially enjoyed her stories,” said fifth grader Talya Rockoff. “I learned that Hashem does everything for the good, even if we may not see it.”

“She inspired me to do more mitzvot,” said sixth grader Baylee Habib.

Eighth grader Arielle Rosman commented, “It was a positive learning experience.”

We should all merit to become close to Hashem in Yerushalayim, b’mhera b’yamainu.

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There Is No Simcha Without Good Wine

By Gabriel Geller, Royal Wine/Kedem

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ukkos, along with Simchas Torah, is the holiday that most symbolizes and highlights the importance of serving G-d and follow his Torah with joy. Our Sages write that wine causes the heart of man to rejoice. Sukkos and Simchas Torah include multiple celebratory meals, inside and outside the sukkah. We will soon share more than 25 meals over the coming yamim tovim with friends and family, most of them will require, of course, good food, as well as good wine. There is a concept known as “hiddur mitzvah,” to embellish a mitzvah, rather than just sticking with the elementary rules dictated by halacha. We usually aim to build the most beautiful sukkah, with high quality, good looking materials and tasteful decorations. As well, we aim to purchase the nicest daled minim set we can afford with a flawless esrog. Hiddur mitzvah ap-

plies also to our holiday meals, with the most delicious dishes inspired by the recipes of our grandmothers, cookbooks, or kosher.com. Therefore the same should apply with the wines we choose to share with our guests and hosts.

Making kiddush on rosé wine is

always a cheerful and refreshing way to start a meal on Shabbos and yom tov. This past summer was an especially hot one. Most rosé wines are already gone from the stores’ shelves yet some are still available, including the Château Roubine 2017, a classified growth from the world-renown Côtes de Provence region in France. That is quite fortunate as the Roubine happens to be arguably one of the best rosé wines out there, as well. This supremely elegant wine boasts fragrant aromas and flavors of summer fruits such as peaches and apricots, as well as notes of red cherries and currants. Its refreshing acidity makes it also a fine match to some appetizers such as gravlax or roasted eggplants with tahini.

I have been advocating for white wines for many years, notably in DiVine Magazine of Pesach 5777. Great kosher white wines have started to blossom since then, with a diverse array of delicious, complex and intriguing examples that have been recently released. Château Guiraud, a first growth Sauternes came out with a bang in the early 2000’s with its kosher run. Back then it was the first and only kosher Sauternes of that level on the market. Sixteen years after the legendary 2001, Château Guiraud is making its come back with G de Guiraud 2017, a fabulous dry blend of Sémillon and Sauvignon Blanc. Showcasing notes of orange blossom, lime, pear and eucalyptus with vibrant acidity this wine would complement a baked halibut in a lemon and butter sauce wonderfully.

Herzog Wince Cellars released a very unique white wine, as well. The Herzog Special Reserve Albariño 2017 is the first kosher wine of its kind. It was a long-time dream of Joe Hurliman’s, the head winemaker at Herzog. Joe’s dream finally came true after he was able to source the grapes from a very much sought-after vineyard in California’s Edna Valley. Albariño is a grape variety that originates in Spain’s Rías Baixas region. It has a restrained profile with notes of citrus pith, earthy minerals and spring flowers. I had it last week with a delightful carrot, sumac and coconut milk soup, and it was like a true bashert. I am very excited for more Albariño wines to come out soon.

Jezreel Valley winery has taken the lead on an indigenous Israeli grape variety, Argaman. Argaman was created in Israel in the 1970’s as a hybrid of Sousão and Carignan, respectively grapes varieties originating in Portugal and Spain. The name Argaman refers to the color of the wines it produces. The term comes from the Torah and describes the deep red toward purple color that was part of the ritual garments wore by the Kohanim in the Beis Hamikdash. The Jezreel Argaman 2016 is a big, bold, complex wine with concentrated flavors of black fruits and spices with a long and rich finish. It would accompany a tender French roast perfectly.

A traditional dish on Sukkos for many Jews is stuffed cabbage. This is a dish that has a distinct and unique flavor, typically stuffed with ground beef and served with a tomato-based sauce. While a Chianti would work very well, I believe a fleshier wine, also from Italy, would be the ultimate pairing. The Uva Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2013 features a full body with notes of ripe black berries and black cherries, some earthy aromas, as well as tobacco and chocolate notes. Once you will have had a bit of stuffed cabbage followed by a sip of Uva, all you will want to do is finish your plate and your glass, refill and replenish them and then sing, “V’samachta b’chagecha v’hayisa ach sameach!”

L’chaim! Chag sameach!

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Preparing for Yom Kippur at HALB

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uring Aseret Yemei Teshuva, our holiest of days, the children of HALB were immersed in powerful and inspiring programs. Just a few days before Yom Kippur, a Jewish hero was killed. Ari Fuld, Hy”d, a former classmate of Principal Rabbi Uriel Lubetski, was murdered by a terrorist just a few miles from his home. Rabbi Lubetski spoke from the heart and explained to the students that Ari was a true defender of Israel in every way.

Not only did he serve in the IDF, he was one of the most outspoken promoters of the State of Israel and its

Yom Kippur, the entire student body gathered together to recite Aveuni Malkeinu. Rabbeim and morot led the tefillah and explained its signif-

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lthough the yamim tovim are some of the happiest days of the year, they could also be the most difficult time of the year. At PUAH, we offer support and guidance to the many couples who are struggling with infertility.

Here is a helpful article written by Daniel L. Hoffman, PhD, ABPP, to help comfort and support all those who are experiencing issues with fertility.

Most of us are familiar with the song that echoes in many sukkot at mealtime, “V’hayisa ach sameach…v’samachta b’chagecha” (Devarim 14:1415).

How is it that Hashem commands us to feel something? Are emotions really something that we can control?

Can we make emotions happen for seven consecutive days without lapse?

In some communities, shuls have sukkah hop. The community is celebrating; our neighbors dance children on their shoulders. All the children receive the aliya by Kol HaN’arim.

For those of us with reproductive loss – whether infertility, miscarriage, neonatal loss, or loss of a newborn child – we stand in shul feeling existentially lonely and bereft. The mitzvah of v’samachta is all the more difficult when we must face the stress and strain of infertility.

The negative emotions associated

with infertility are common: sadness, depression, and grief; anxiety and worry; irritability and anger; and jealousy.

When infrequent, mild severity, and of short duration, these are normal, albeit painful, emotional states. If and when these emotions begin to interfere with our lives, and cause us distress, become increasingly frequent, severe, and long lasting, we may have an actual psychiatric diagnosis such as anxiety, major depression, or traumatic grief (Wenzel, 2014).

Often, when we’re feeling depressed, we withdraw from socializing, hobbies, and can’t seem to enjoy life anymore. We might think, “It’s not worth it,” or, “It’s too much effort—I’m so tired!” We think “There’s nothing fun about that, so I’m not going to enjoy anyway.” Depression tricks us into focusing on the difficult and negative aspects of a situation, and makes us repeatedly think about past failures (e.g. assistive reproductive procedures, miscarriage). If we never challenge those thoughts, they eventually become ingrained distorted beliefs. These emotions and thoughts are similar to the hashgafic applications of yei’ush, or despair/giving up hope (based on Bava Metzia 21a-b).

Based on decades of clinical research and community practice, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT; Beck

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at al., 1979) has shown that we can change our ineffective actions, improve our unpleasant emotions, and reframe our negative thoughts. CBT techniques can help us return to a state of happiness more frequently. These interventions, which we can do independently, can help reduce the negative emotions and thoughts associated with infertility.

When we have thoughts of “I don’t feel like it,” this is a trick that depression and anxiety play on us. The treatment, therefore, is to do the opposite of what our thoughts tell us, by giving ourselves opportunities to enjoy meaningful and/or fun experiences.

To improve our mood, we strive to take action, even when we feel demotivated.

Immersing ourselves in the aspects of chag that we do enjoy can counteract depressive or anxious moods during Tishrei. Whether it is the Arb’a Minim, building the sukkah and enjoying time in it eating, singing, learning, relaxing, or spending time with our spouse. We are obligated to be in the sukkah and do the same things we would do in our home (minimally sleep and eat; Teshvu K’ein Taduru; Sukkah 27a; Rambam, Hil’ Sukkah 6:7). However, our actions for happiness do not have to be

related to the chag – they can be anything that we find particularly meaningful; such as other mitzvot, recreation, or relaxation. During chol, work that is important to us (there’s always plenty of work to catch up on between chagim!) can both relieve stress and be meaningful.

These actions help us refocus our thoughts and energies into finding the good in the world that exists, despite the pain we experience. Our minds trick us into ruminating on the negative and minimizing the impact of positive things, people, circumstances and activities in our lives. The Torah enjoins us to be happy. V’Samachta does not mean to passively wait for happiness to happen, but rather to actively place ourselves in circumstances in which we can find joy and meaning. The more often we attempt to see the good by doing joyful, meaningful things, the more b’simcha we can be.

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ll of us sense a feeling of spiritual deflation immediately after the exalted atmosphere of Yom Kippur. To have to plunge immediately and directly into the icy waters of everyday life is much too challenging a task. We have just been given an entire day to nurture our souls and to exist as angels without the necessity

of fulfilling the requirements of our bodies. So the L-rd, so to speak, allows us a more gradual descent into our physical, everyday lives. We are asked to forego the comforts and solidness of our homes for a period of time, to dwell in a sukkah, exposed to the heavens and to the natural world.

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self, a place of the soul and not of the body. For the sukkah, no matter how elaborate and luxurious we attempt to make it, remains a temporary and exposed environment. The body is aware of this situation and is somewhat discomforted by it. The soul revels in it. Thus the soul hangs on to the last vestiges of Yom Kippur through Hoshana Rabbah, before our bodies return to complete dominion over our lives.

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Jews the world over are willing to spend sizeable amounts of money in the fulfillment of the commandments of the holiday of Skkcot. We are all aware that the price of a lemon or of an orange or any citrus fruit at the

represents and Who ordained its use on the holiday of Sukkot – we should view everything in life, all of our goods and possessions, friends and families and our society generally, with such a perspective.

In essence, that is the basis of Jewish thought and the moral code of the Torah. On Yom Kippur it is realized and confirmed for us on Sukkot.

And it is that spirit of understanding our role in this world of eternal values that truly occasions within us the joy and happiness that radiates from the holiday of Sukkot.

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story is told of a great tzaddik and his rebbetzin who possessed almost no material items. They owned only one item of significance: a special pair of tefillin. One year on Sukkos eve, the husband chanced upon a lovely esrog and wanted very much to buy it, but had no money with which to pay for it. Eager to fulfill the upcoming obligation to take the four species, he sold his tefillin in exchange for the beautiful fruit. When his wife found out what he had done she became angry. She took the esrog and threw it on the ground and it became invalidated. Calmly, the husband turned to his wife and said, “We have no tefillin and we have no esrog. Let us at least have shalom bayis (marital accord and harmony.”)

On Shemini Atzeres we also have no mitzvos. Unlike the holiday of Sukkos that precedes it, this day (two in the Diaspora) does not come along with any distinctive commandments, nor does it demand

much in terms of advanced preparation. Neither does it seem to have any particular identity; perhaps it is the least understood of all of the Jewish holidays. What exactly is the nature of Shemini Atzeres and why did Hashem include this day in the Jewish calendar?

Before we attempt to address these questions, let us first explain the unusual sequence of the entire month of Tishrei, beginning with Rosh Hashana. The month opens in the most somber of settings. We sound the shofar to awaken us from our spiritual slumber as Hashem, our L-rd and King, sits before the Books of Judgment in determination of who will be inscribed into the Book of Life, and who, G-d forbid, will have their names recorded into the Book of Death.

The holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur, soon follows. It is then that we beseech Hashem for forgiveness for the iniquities which we have committed and pledge to improve our behavior in the year to come. We

spend the day in great fear, fasting and abstaining from the most basic of physical activities in hope for divine mercy.

Sukkos comes next. Its primary purpose is to help us internalize the important achievements of the Yamim Noraim. When we sit in the sukkah and look up at the sky through its incomplete, temporary covering, we are reminded of our true Source of protection, as well as the direct role that Hashem plays in our daily lives. This brings us to a great sense of humility, and diminishes our desire to sin.

We also attempt to negate the effects of the evil inclination by taking the four species on each day of Sukkos (other than Shabbos) and shaking them in all six directions.

In the words of the Talmud (Sukkah 37b), “(The species are waved) to and fro in order to restrain harmful winds; up and down, in order to restrain harmful dews.” According to Rabbi Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin (Pre Tzadik, p. 262), the “harmful

winds” to which the Talmud refers are wicked desires. The “harmful dews” refer to heretical thoughts.

All of these described actions from Rosh Hashana through Sukkos fall into the general category of “sur mei’rah,” abstention from evil conduct. The goal in each case is to rid us of the evil which has permeated and sullied our souls throughout the course of the year.

Shemini Atzeres, on the other hand, introduces a new dimension to our relationship with Hashem.

For the first time, we focus on “asei tov,” building a new bond with our Creator through the active performance of positive deeds. On Shemini Atzeres/Simchas Torah the focus becomes a close, intimate connection with our most holy possession, Hashem’s Torah.

In fact, the word “Atzeres” is derived from the Hebrew atzor, which means to remain behind, separate from the rest of the group.

Hashem says to Israel, “I have detained you to remain

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with Me (on Shemini Atzeres).”

This is analogous to a king who invited his sons to feast with him for a certain number of days.

When the time came for them to leave, he said, “My sons, please, stay with me just one more day, for it is difficult for me to part with you!” (Rashi to Leviticus 23:36) Rashi’s comments are based on the words of the Talmud, found in Sukkah 55b.

To what do the seventy bulls that were offered during the seven days of (Sukkos) correspond?

To the seventy (gentile) nations.

To what does the single bullock (of Shemini Atzeres) correspond? To the unique nation (I.e. the Jewish people.) This may be compared to a king who said to his servants, “Prepare for me a great banquet” but on the last day he said to his beloved friend, “Prepare for me a simple meal that I may derive benefit from

you.”

As the Talmud makes clear, the idea of atzeres is to add a special, intimate dimension to the primary, preceding festival. Following the seven day period of Sukkos comes

em with His people is sufficient.

On Simchas Torah we show our strong sense of love and commitment by dancing with the Torah in circles. As we dance round and round, we strengthen our level of

Shemini Atzeres, on the other hand, introduces a new dimension to our relationship with Hashem.

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icant addendum to Sukkos now emerges as the climax of the entire month of Tishrei! All of the effort which we exerted in cleansing ourselves from our impurities of the past is now channeled into the creation of a new bond with Hashem, one built on the love which we possess for Him and His Torah.

Though we have no mitzvos, we can use Shemini Atzeres to achieve the ultimate in shalom bayis, between us and our Maker.

May we merit achieving a true level of Simchas Torah, of joy and elation with Hashem’s holy Torah, and use that as an inspiration for a year of continued growth and spiritual achievement.

Rabbi Naphtali Hoff, PsyD, is an executive coach and president of Impactful Coaching and Consulting. He can be reached at 212.470.6139 or at nhoff@ impactfulcoaching.com. Check out his leadership book, Becoming the New Boss, at BecomingtheNewBoss.com.

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BOBKER ON HOSHANA RABA The Adventures of the Aruvah Yid

rue or false? The entire Jewish calendar was rearranged to accommodate one custom dating back to the last of the Hebrew prophets. True. Which one?

Willow-bashing. Willow-bashing?!

Yes, a rather astounding fact considering that this aravos minhag is nowhere to be found in the Torah. And more: there is no consensus on Hoshana Rabba’s exact origin; however there is absolute rabbinic agreement that this Yom D’arvata, “Day of the Willow,” the most awesome holy day of the entire Sukkos festivities, must always fall on a weekday. Imagine: the rabbis of the Talmud could live with Yom Kippur falling on a Shabbos but wouldn’t allow Shabbos to fall on a Hoshana Rabba. Why not? Let’s go back to the fourth century and find out.

With the rabbinic proclamation of chivus aravos, the beating of willow branches, came the halachik prohibition that this was forbidden on Shabbos. But no one listened. The Jews, unwilling to give up this popular custom, persisted

and continued to beat sprigs of willows each morning – even at the risk of being called a mechallel Shabbos!

For the Jews of the vibrant Second Temple era, breaking the Shabbos on purpose was no small feat. Yet those Jews wanted to beat, and beat they did.

By thrashing and whipping the aravah bundle into submission Hoshana Rabba became the only Jewish festival that seemingly allowed the desecration of an object designated to be used to do a mitzvha! What was it about willow bashing that made it so significant?

There is simply no original Torah explanation for it, and, unlike the lulav, there is no need to make a blessing over the aravah because it is rabbinic, not Biblical law, and the rule of thumb is that no blessings are recited over “a custom.” But what exactly is the custom?

We get to its essence through rabbinic analogy. Consider: each of the four species was compared to a different kind of Jew. The fragrant esrog possessed taste and an ethereal aroma (a symbol

of the learned G-d-fearing Jew); the straight lulav possessed only taste (a symbol of the learned but non-G-d-fearing Jew); the humble haddas possessed aroma but no taste (symbolizing the G-d-fearing but unlearned Jew); while the poor aravah suffers, having neither taste nor fragrance.

The aravah branches were placed vertically around the “base” of the Temple courtyard with their tips directed upwards, not only a metaphorical search for their missing qualities but also a symbol of the Jew out-of-step with the community (i.e.: he didn’t fear G-d), and thus “punished” by being symbolically “beaten” into the ground. Doesn’t this seem rather harsh? And overly acrimonious? Yes, and yes. But the token beating was a reminder of a central pillar of Yiddishkeit, unity, because the imperfect “aravah Yid” was the fragile link that weakened the whole.

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of the “lip-serving” prayers and vows that had enveloped Jewish communities since the first day of Elul. In other words: time’s up! The curtain’s coming down! Because this was the “last chance” to “jump aboard” the Train of Teshuva, it was called the “Day of the Great Seal,” referring to the Seal of Life granted by G-d and traced back to His pledge to Abraham, “I will give your children one day for atonement… if Yom Kippur does not, then let Hoshana Rabba [be the day].”

And so, by the 14th century, courtesy of the kabbalists of the Middle Ages, Hoshana Rabba had been transformed into a mini Yom Kippur.

Consider: Just as Neila “closed” Yom Kippur, Hoshana Rabba ended with the “moment of truth,” when the fate of those who had not repented after Yom Kippur was sealed. The Hoshana Rabba greeting became pikta tava, literally “a good note,” shorthand for “have a good Writ of [Divine] Judgment.” To give it a penitential flavor, the chazzan wore a white kittel. Such soul-piercing prayers as U’Nesaneh Tokef and Avinu Malkeinu were part of the davening.

In my father’s shtetl of Żmigród, southwestern Poland, Jews would go outo side motzei Hoshana Rabba and “measure” their shadow by the light of the moon in the belief that this gave them a hint as to whether one would live out the year. The erev yom tov tikkun leil – in honor of King David, the ushpizin of the day who traditionally stayed awake all night singing the praises of G-d and the “back-up” learning to ensure that the reading of Devarim was completed prior to Simchas Torah – ended when wives and daughters arrived at dawn with bundles of fresh willow branches. Sounds like fun, except many rabbis frowned on this sudden kabbalistic turn of events.

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ne of them was R’ Yosef Karo, the av bes din of Sfas, Palestine, author of the Shulchan Aruch and chavrusa of R’ Yitzchak Luria (Ari), the greatest Jewish mystic since R’ Simeon bar Yochai (Rashbi), who was 40 years his junior. Rav Karo thought that the infiltration of new customs into Hoshana Rabba was inappropriate. He tried (but failed) to prevent the transition of Hoshana Rabba into a secondary Yom Kippur.

And so it was inevitable. The “beatings” of willow branches took on a new mean-

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“I kept beating the willows against the ground until either there were no leaves left, or some impatient adult would beat me over the head with his own shredded branches ordering me, in Yiddish, of course, to stop already!”

ing, akin to the Yom Kippur (scape)goat sent into the wilderness; it became a symbol of the casting away of vices and a reminder of the after-life trashings one could expect as punishment for sinning.

The Aravuh Yid who entered Jewish history in the context of saving physical life via healthy harvests had now expanded his outreach into saving spiritual life as well. The result? Rabbinic attempts to stop the public desecration of Shabbos by beating branches to smithereens became even more difficult.

When the will of the people clashed with the fidelity of Shabbos it was time to draw a red line. Custom may nullify law (minhag mevatel halacha) but the rabbinic hierarchy was not going to allow willow-bashing to subvert the Torah itself. “What can I do?” moaned the 13th-century Rabbi Solomon ben Aderes (Rashba), the long-serving (over 50 years) pragmatic chief rabbi of Barcelona, Spain, “I must bow my head to the custom of Israel”; i.e.: “Go out and see vos es zogt dos folk [what the Jews are doing] and rule accordingly!”

And so the rabbonim changed the calendar as per the authority granted to them by the Torah. By rearranging the first day of Tishrei, already the most crowded of all Jewish months, to not coincide with a Sunday, Shabbos and Hoshana Rabba were permanently kept apart. But why not just shift the scheduled times of willow-beating away from Hoshana Rabba if it fell on Shabbos? No one wanted to mess with Mother Nature.

It is impossible for those of us today in the westernized 21st-century to imagine someone starving to death through famine and drought, but that is exactly what Jewish communities faced ever year. This is why the prayers for rain are so heartfelt. Jews firmly believed that Hoshana Rabba was their final chance before the potential arrival of a menacing winter to “beat” as a symbol of hope that all evil would be beaten into the dust of the ground. Yep, it was better to change the calendar!

The customs of the folk were sometimes different from the Sinaitic norm.

Reb Chaim had a herd of sheep. One day there was a knock on his door. When he opened it he found two Roman soldiers.

“What do you feed your sheep?” they asked sternly. “Well,” replied Reb Chaim, “I give them wheat, corn, and leftover ‘stuff’ like that. Why?” “We’re from the Animal Protection Association of Judea

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and you’re being fined for not feeding your animals properly!” The next week, there’s another knock on the door. Two more Roman soldiers. “What do you feed your animals?” they ask. “Well,” replied Reb Chaim who was cautious this time.

“I give them fresh salmon with yummy kreplach soup and large portions of sizzling steak and hot crisp French fries on the side.” “Well, that doesn’t seem fair when there are Romans starving in Rome,” the soldiers say as they write out a large fine for the Jewish farmer. A few days later, more banging on the door.

More soldiers. “What do you feed your animals?” “Well sir,” Reb Chaim replies, “I give each sheep $5 and tell them to go buy whatever they want.”

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y favorite activity on Hoshana Rabba, which I looked forward to with mischievous childish glee, was beating the willow branches and then throwing them on top of the sacred Aron Kodesh because that’s where the Shechina presides. This twinning acknowledged the power of the fertility of willow branches and G-d’s benevolence to cultivate life through successful harvests. My father tolerated my rebellious streak but only as it was done “in der heim.”

This meant no beating against walls or tables or chairs or shtenders because food comes from the ground. No more than five beatings because there are five willow branches (although one is also acceptable). But since no one was counting amid all the noise and chaos and thrashing, I kept beating the willows against the natural ground until either there were no leaves left, or some impatient adult would beat me over the head with his own shredded branches, shouting at me (in Yiddish, of course) to stop already!

Once disintegrated from the holy violence, the aravos, or what was left of them, were no longer a holy item. You can throw them away. Or store them until Pesach and burn them with the chometz. Or replant them to grow more arava trees.

Don’t mix up the “ending.” One throws away the lulavim and eats the esrogim, not the other way round. In der heim (i.e.: Polish shetlach) the esrogim were distributed to Jewish mothers who would store them under their pillows until they gave birth when they would bite into the esrog pitam during labor; or make esrog

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jam or liquor, a segula for an easy childbirth. (Some Ashkenaz families eat the esrog on Tu b’Shvat as a segula to find a good-looking esrog the following Sukkos, or cut holes in the esrog, fill them with cloves (spice), and use it as a besamim holder for Shabbos havdala.

Remember: in the olden days, Jews were overwhelmingly farmers, tillers and planters, spending their days seeding and sowing and growing in an optimistic Zman Simchaseinu mood. One day, Reb Yaakov, who ran a chicken farm, sent his young son, Dovi, to the market with a crate of chickens to sell. On the way the poor boy tripped, the crate spilled open, and the chickens ran for their lives. Dovi quickly chased them through the neighborhood, scooping them from their hiding places and returning them to the crate. When he came home that night he told his father, “Tatta, I’m sorry, I fell and the chickens all got away but I chased them and managed to round up all twelve of them.” “Great job, son,” his father replied, “considering you only left with seven!”

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“Well, sir,” Reb Chaim replies, “I give each sheep $5 and tell them to go buy whatever they want.”

henever the Torah uses the expression Ha’Chag, t he “Festival,” it is referring to Sukkos, the most agriculturally important of all the pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Sukkos is mentioned more times than any other yom tov during Israel’s independent status. And it was the first yom tov celebrated in King Solomon’s newly completed Temple, its festivities coinciding with the dedication. Fast forward 200-plus years and we have several of the prophets (Isaiah, Amos, Hosea) complaining that the drunken “partying” on Sukkos was getting out-of-hand. The early 6th-century exile to Babylon put an end to the revelry. With agricultural sovereignty and a seasonal dependence on the land gone there was little to celebrate, until Ezra led the way back about a century later and, reminded of the joys of Sukkos, the returnees enthusiastically embraced the yom tov once again.

Although the thrice annual mitzvah

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of pilgrimage, Shalosh Regalim, applied only to the men, entire families made the trek. On arrival in Jerusalem, the rich, by means of colorful caravans being pulled by donkeys or camels, the others on foot (it took R’ Hillel two weeks to walk from Babylon), the throngs made their way to the Motza Valley to search for large willow branches (arvei nahal) with elongated leaves, red stems, and smooth edges from brooks of running water because they had to be fresh or damp. The 16th-century R’ Moshe Isserles (Rema) of Mapa and Shulchan Aruch-fame would gather willows daily to make sure they were freshly moist. (In our home, we preserve the moistness by wrapping the branches in aluminum foil or wet towels and store them in the fridge until needed.

The good news? This prevents the leaves from falling off from a lack of dampness. The not-so-good news? There’s less room for my wife’s delicious pavlova ice cream!)

With Temple trumpets blaring in the background and prophets Chaggai, Zechariah and Malachi at the head, masses of

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lulav-waving Jews would circle the Temple altar on each Sukkos day (except Shabbos) with a rousing unison cry of “Hosha na!” (“Please, bring salvation now!”), piercing and loud, based on the Torah’s, “The maiden cried out [my italics] and no one came to rescue her.” Because they were led by prophets, this “Save us!” plea became known as the “Custom

of the Prophets.”

The obvious question is: “Save Us!” from what? Pogroms? No. Technology? No. A long davening?

No. A more basic threat: hunger and starvation. Hoshana Rabba and life-saving water for a successful harvest were synonymous. This is why the wet brook was the preferred spot to gather aruvah twigs, an ac-

knowledgement that rain is subject to Divine judgment on this day; rain being one of three areas over which mankind has no control (the other two are birth and resurrection).

Remember: two of the hoshanahs (the 5th and 6th) are ecological; proof that the rabbis of the Talmud were concerned about their surroundings long before Al Gore gained weight worrying over endangered species and climate change.

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ne h a l ac h a of Hoshana R abba, inactive and dormant today, was the pouring of water (a sign of rain) over, or near, the Aron Kodesh itself; a human reaffirmation that rain and dew were not just Heavenly rewards but that their absence was a sign of pending G-dly retribution in the form of one (or more) of the thirty curses in Bechukotai (for a description and details of these curses, and more evil, look under “H” for Hitler & the Holocaust).

Our early ancestors knew: a fertile earth equaled growth, growth equaled sustenance, sustenance equaled life…and the Jew was ordered to “Choose Life!” And more!

If there is no flour, there is no Torah; if there is no Torah, there is no flour (Ein kemach, ein Torah; ein Torah, ein kemach), an observation from the Mishna’s Pirkei Avos. Which is why, starting immediately after Shemini Atzeres until the beginning of Pesach, when Israel’s rainy season ends, we recite, daily, a piyut for

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dew (tal) penned by R’ Eleazar ben Killir, a famous and prolific Byzantine poet from the 6th-century, who died after a jealous competitor put a scorpion in his shawl.

This tefilla is called tefillas Geshem, or as the Yiddishists explained it more to the point: “Only a fool grows without rain!”

After spending the morning praying for rain, two Jews are suddenly caught in a downpour on the way home. “Quick, open your umbrella!” one says to his friend. “It won’t help,” he replies, “it’s full of holes.” “Then why did you bring it?”

“I didn’t think it would rain!”

I still have memories of R’ Yosef Shimson, the elderly chazon, a Czech Holocaust survivor, in the shteeblel I grew up in, banging the shtender with his fist, glaring at those making noise (i.e.: me), shouting, “Sha! Shah shtil” (“Quiet! Be quiet”) as he would place his ear next to the willows convinced that one could physically hear the rhythmic movements of the sounds of wind and rain.

On the way home from shul I once asked my rabbi how he thought his d’var Torah went. “Reb Yossel,” he beamed, “my sermon was a smash hit! I had the olam glued in their seats!” “Wow,” I replied, “clever of you to think of that.”

Have a freilichen yom tov!

Joe Bobker is the author of the Torah with a Twist of Humor series and the 18-volume Historiography of Orthodox Jews and the Holocaust. He can be reached at jbobker@gmail.com.

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Pot Roast with Wine Marinade INGREDIENTS 3 lb. shoulder roast 750 ml fruity red wine ½ tsp kosher salt ½ tsp black pepper 2 TBS olive oil 10 oz. beef broth ¼ cup tomato paste 1 TBS Dijon-style mustard 1 TBS Italian seasoning 3 cloves garlic, chopped 2 bay leaves 1 large onion, cut into wedges 4 medium carrots, cut into quarters 4 medium parsnips, cut into sixths 2 cups cremini mushrooms 2 stalks celery, cut into 1-inch pieces Parsley PREPARATION Place meat in a Ziploc bag. Pour wine into the bag and seal. Marinate in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours and up to 24 hours; turn bag every so often.

Take meat out of the bag, reserving the wine. Pat meat dry with paper towels. Sprinkle meat with salt and black pepper. In a 4- to 6-quart Dutch oven, over medium heat brown meat on all sides in hot oil.

In a medium saucepan, bring reserved wine to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes or until wine is reduced by half, about 1-1/2 cups. Stir in beef broth, tomato paste, mustard, seasoning, garlic and bay leaves. Return to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered for 5 minutes more. Pour wine mixture over meat in pot; add onion.

Bake, covered, in a 325°F oven for 2 ½ hours. Add carrots, parsnips, mushrooms and celery. Bake, covered, about 1 hour more or until meat is very tender. Transfer meat and vegetables to a large serving platter, reserving juices in Dutch oven. Cover meat and vegetables with foil to keep warm.

Slice meat or use a fork to break meat apart into pieces. Serve with vegetables and noodles and sprinkle with parsley before serving.

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Apple Strudel Baked Apples Golden Soup INGREDIENTS 2 TBS olive oil ½ onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 head of cauliflower, chopped into about 5 cups of chunks or florets 1 cup cashews 1-2 tsp turmeric 7-8 cups water 2 tsp salt Squeeze of lemon juice PREPARATION Heat the oil in a deep soup pot. Add the onion, garlic, cauliflower, cashews, and turmeric. Sauté for 10 minutes or until very fragrant. Add the water (about 4 cups) and salt. Simmer until softened.

Transfer the soup to a blender or use an immersion blender and blend into a creamy consistency. Return to the soup pot and add any additional water (remaining 2-3 cups) if you need to thin it out. Season with more salt, if needed, and a squeeze of lemon juice.

Top with spiced chickpeas, parsley and olive oil.

To make spiced chickpea topping: Drain and rinse 2 14-ounce cans chickpeas. Spread them on a baking sheet.

Preheat oven to 400°F. Sprinkle chickpeas with a dusting of cumin, smoked paprika, turmeric, and salt. Drizzle with olive oil. Stir in the pan, then roast for 30-40 minutes or until semi-crispy.

Citrus Salad INGREDIENTS Salad 1 pink grapefruit 1 large navel orange 4 cups salad greens 3 thin slices red onion ¼ cup honey covered slivered almonds ¼ cup pomegranate seeds Dressing 3 TBS balsamic vinegar 1 TBS Dijon mustard 1 garlic clove, minced ½ cup olive oil Salt and pepper to taste PREPARATION Use a small sharp knife to cut peels and white pith from fruit.

Cut each piece of fruit crosswise into 8 slices. Alternately arrange fruit, with slices slightly overlapping, around edge of platter.

Toss salad greens with onions; place in center of the serving platter.

Combine dressing ingredients in a small jar or cruet. Shake to combine.

Drizzle salad with dressing just before serving. Sprinkle nuts and pomegranate seeds on top.

INGREDIENTS 6 TBS margarine ½ cup brown sugar ½ cup flour ½ cup old-fashioned oats 1 tsp cinnamon 1/8 tsp salt 1 tsp nutmeg, optional ¼ cup walnuts, optional 5 medium Honeycrisp or Fuji apples PREPARATION Preheat oven to 375°F. Combine brown sugar, flour, oats, cinnamon and salt with the margarine.

Mix until crumbs form. Add nutmeg and walnuts, if using.

Cut the apples in half from stem to end. Use a melon baller or small spoon to scoop out the apple core and seeds.

Dig deep enough so there is a little room to “stuff” the apples with the filling. Pour water into a baking dish so it’s around 1/4 –inch up the sides. Arrange the apples in the baking dish with the flesh facing up. Sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon evenly over the apples. Divide the streusel topping between the apples, pressing down so it doesn’t fall out.

Cover the pan with aluminum foil and bake the apples for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and carefully remove the foil. Bake for 30-40 more minutes or until the apples are soft and the topping is golden brown. You want the apples to be soft, but not mushy.

Remove from the oven and serve warm with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream, if desired.

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CHOL HAMOED Places to Go, Things to Do

With Sukkos coming so early this year, we hope that the sun will smile upon us as we go on chol hamoed outings as a family. If we’re lucky enough to get balmy weather, we can take advantage of the wonderful experiences available outdoors. And if gishmei bracha shower upon us, there are interesting trips to go on indoors as well – so take your pick! Spending time with the family is the goal, wherever the day may take you.

TJH has compiled a list of ideas, activities, and places to go for you to enjoy. Make sure to pack enough food, a portable sukkah, and music for the road and have fun!

ZOOS AND FARMS

Queens Zoo 53-51 111th Street Flushing, NY 11368 718-271-1500

Queens County Farm Museum 73-50 Little Neck Parkway Floral Park, NY 11004 718-347-3276

Central Park Zoo 64th Street & 5th Avenue New York, NY 10065 212-861-6030 Green Meadows Farm 73-50 Little Neck Parkway Queens, NY 11004 718-470-0224

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White Post Farms 250 Old County Road Melville, NY 11747 631-351-9373 New York Aquarium Surf Avenue & West 8th Street Brooklyn, NY 11224 718-265-FISH Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center 431 East Main Street Riverhead, NY 11901 631-208-9200 Prospect Park Zoo 450 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225 718-399-7339

We will have a Succah on premises.

Sukkot @ Green Meadows Farm The Aviator, 3159 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11234 718-470-0278

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Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Blvd Bronx, NY 10460 718-220-5103 Long Island Game Farm 489 Chapman Boulevard Manorville, NY 11949 631-878-6644 Woodside Orchards 116 Manor Lane Jamesport, NY 11901 631-722-5770

SCENIC ATT RACTIONS Central Park Between 5th & 8th Avenues and 59th & 106th Streets New York, NY 212-360-3444 Bryant Park 6th Avenue, between W 40-42 Street New York, NY 10018 212-768-4242 New York Highline Gansevoort St. to West 30 St. between Washington St. and 11 Ave. New York, NY 212-500-6035 Brooklyn Bridge Park 1 Main Street Brooklyn, NY 718-222-9939 Fort Tyron Park Riverside Drive to Broadway, W 192 Street to Dyckman Street New York, NY

New York Circle Line Pier 83 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 212-563-3200 Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Ferries from Battery Park, NY 1 Battery Place New York, NY 10004 212-363-3200 Jamaica Bay Riding Academy 7000 Shore Pkwy Brooklyn, NY 11234 718-531-8949 Old Westbury Gardens 71 Old Westbury Road Old Westbury, NY 11568 516-333-0048 South Street Seaport 89 South St. New York, NY 10038 212-732-7678 Brooklyn Botanic Gardens 900 Washington Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225 718-623-7200 Brooklyn Heights Promenade Downtown Brooklyn—Remsen Street to Orange Street along the East River The New York Botanical Garden 2900 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458 718-817-8700 Wave Hill Public Gardens 675 W 252 St Bronx, NY 10471 718-549-3200 Historic Richmond Town 441 Clarke Avenue Staten Island, NY 10306 718-351-1611

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The Amish Village 199 Hartman Bridge Road Ronks, PA 17572 717-687-8511 Mystic Seaport 75 Greenmanville Avenue Mystic, CT 06355 888-973-2767

AMUSEMENT PARKS Six Flags Great Adventure 1 Six Flags Boulevard Jackson, NJ 08527 732-928-2000 Adventureland 2245 Broad Hollow Road (RT 110) Farmingdale, NY 11735 631-694-6868 Luna Park Coney Island 1000 Surf Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11224 718-372-0275 Adventurers (formerly Nellie Bly Park) 1824 Shore Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11214 718-975-2748 Sahara Sam’s Oasis and Water Park & Diggerland 535 N Route 73 West Berlin, NJ 08091 856-809-4168 Bronx Zoo Treetop Adventure Climb and Zipline Bronx River Parkway at Boston Road Bronx, NY 10460 347-308-9021

INDOOR FUN PARKS Legoland Discovery Center Westchester 39 Fitzgerald Street Yonkers, NY 10701 866-243-0779

Fun Fuzion at New Roc City 19 Le County Place New Rochelle, NY 10801 914-637-7575

Fun Station USA 40 Rocklyn Avenue Lynbrook, NY 11563 516-599-7757

@ Play Amusement 229 Route 110 Farmingdale, NY 11735 631-815-5355

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Laser Bounce 80-28 Cooper Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 347-599-1919

Chelsea Piers Hudson River—Piers 59-62 New York, NY 212-336-6800

162-26 Cross Bay Boulevard Howard Beach, NY 11414 718-848-2052

Funfest Bowling 6161 Strickland Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11234 718-763-6800

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RPM Raceway Go-Karting 40 Daniel St Farmingdale, NY 11735 631-752-7223

BounceU 3495B Lawson Blvd Oceanside, NY 11572 516-593-5867

Chuck E. Cheese 162 Fulton Avenue Hempstead, NY 11550 516-483-3166

Skyzone Trampoline Park 33 Lecount Place New Rochelle, NY 10801 914-740-8272

Kids N Shape 162-26 Cross Bay Boulevard Howard Beach, NY 11414 718-848-2052

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Hot Skates Roller Skating Rink 14 Merrick Road Lynbrook, NY 11563 516-593-1300 Iceland Long Island 3345 Hillside Avenue New Hyde Park, NY 11040 516-746-1100 City Ice Pavilion 47-32 32 Place Long Island City, NY 11101 718-706-6667 Long Beach Ice Arena 150 W Bay Dr Long Beach, NY 11561 516-705-7385

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Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128 212-423-3200 Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Pl New York, NY 10280 646-437-4202 Living Torah Museum 1601 41 Street Brooklyn, NY 11218 718-851-3215 Artrageous Studio 5 N Village Ave Rockville Centre, NY 11570 516-255-5255 Once Upon a Dish 659 Franklin Ave Garden City, NY 11530 516-742-6030 Baked in Brooklyn 242 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11249 718-384-2300 Color Me Mine 123 Baxter St New York, NY 10013 212-374-1710 Taro’s Origami Studio 95 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11215 718-360-5435 Chocolate Works 641 Amsterdam Ave New York, NY 10025 212-713-8879

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Long Island Children’s Museum 11 Davis Avenue Garden City, NY 11530 516-224-5800 Brooklyn Children’s Museum 145 Brooklyn Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11213 718-735-4400 Jewish Children’s Museum 792 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11213 718-467-0600 Children’s Museum of Manhattan 212 W 83rd St New York, NY 10024 212-721-1234 NYC Fire Museum 278 Spring Street New York, NY 10013 212-691-1303 American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024 212-769-5100

Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum Pier 86, 12th Avenue and 46th Street 212-245-0072

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Avenue New York, NY 10028 800-662-3397

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Frick Collection 1 E 70 St. New York, NY 10021 212-288-0700

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THE STAFF OF CAMP SIMCHA AND CAMP SIMCHA SPECIAL for their friendship

and devotion this summer and year round.

Rabbi Eytan Feiner Manhig Ruchni Rabbi Shay Schachter Rosh Bais Medrash Nachman Maimon Director Bency Brown Director of Operations Rabbi Ari Dembitzer Boys Head Counselor Rivky Schwartz Girls Head Counselor Shaindy Lowenthal Program Director Dr. Peter Steinherz Medical Director, Camp Simcha Dr. Laurel Steinherz Medical Director, Camp Simcha Dr. Robert Van Amerongen Medical Director, Camp Simcha Special Mariel Goldstein Head Nurse, Camp Simcha Chaya Hecht Nurse Manager, Camp Simcha Special Rivkah Reichmann Associate Director, Camp Simcha Special Esti Kleinkaufman Administrator

Perel Abramson • Gila Adler • Sarah Ahdut • Adina Alpert • Odelia Amiel • Ayala Amitai • Malky Aschkenasy • Rivky Ausfresser • Hindy Ausfresser • Shani Axelrod • Shoshana Bach • Kaley Baker • Hannah Balasiano • Leba Bald • Sarah Barr • Miriam Bauer • Rivka Bauer • Leah Baumgarten • Hannah Baumgarten • Michal Beer • Racheli Begun • Goldie Beller • Hadassa Ben Attar • Esther Ben David • Racheli Ben Moshe • Rebecca Benchaya • Temima Bensimon • Batsheva Berger • Rikki Berger • Michal Berger • Ilana Berger • Tamar Dvora Berger • Ratza Berger • Shani Berger • Ariella Berglas • Avital Bernat • Riki Berry • Racheli Bienenfeld • Eliana Bigio • Shiffy Bistritzky • Sara Bitton • Devora Blatter • Bashy Blatter • Devorah Blisko • Naomi Block • Hannah Blumberg • Tamar Blumenthal • Tzippy Bluzenstein • Ita Bodner • Sari Borenstein • Malky Botnick • Malky Brazil • Rifka Basya Brecher • Chevi Brown • Malya Bruckstein • Ayelet Buchen • Rivky Carroll • Sophia Chabot • Blimie Chait • Rivky Chait • Avigail Chait • Rachel Chehebar • Raizy Chein • Chani Chein • Dalia Chera • Dina Cohen • Bassie Cohen • Chana Cohen • Chaya Sara Cohen • Emilia Cojab • Leora Crandall • Sorra Crandall • Eva Decter • Gabrielle Decter • Esther Deutsch • Shoshana Devor • Avigayil Dietz • Moriel Draiman • Tovi Drazin • Riva Drazin • Elyse Dweck • Malka Edery • Tova Ehrenpreis • Batya Eisenbach • Toby Eisenreich • Elana Eisenreich • Nechama Eisenstein • Gila Elefant • Esti Elgrably • Tali Ellenberg • Aliza Elman • Riki Emanuel • Adina Esral • Avigail Faizzadeh • Tziporah Leah Falkovsky • Suzy Fallas • Mrs. Shani Farkas • Yael Farkas • Miriam Farkas • Arielle Feder • Faigy Feferkorn • Kayla Feigenbaum • Mrs. Mimi Feiler • Sari Fein • Rebetzin Aviva Feiner • Meira Feiner • Chaviva Feinstein • Mrs. Adina Feinstein • Remi Feintuch • Ashira Feld • Beili Feldheim • Elisheva Fellus • Batsheva Fenig • Chaya Sara Fettman • Shaindy Feuer • Miriam Fink • Batsheva Fink • Simi Fischman • Malkie Fleischman • Michal Florans • Malka Fox • Kira Fox • Shira Frechter • Brocha Fried • Yael Friedenberg • Devorah Friedman • Leba Friedman • Esther Friedman • Avigail Friedman • Eliana Friedman • Leah Friedman • Aliza Friedman • Aviva Friedman • Laya Furst • Eden Gabay • Racheli Gancz • Chaya Rivky Ganz • Sara Gardyn • Leora Gellman • Tamar Gerassy • Leah Ginsburg • Temi Glanzman • Goldie Gleiberman • Dena Glickman • Mrs. Yaffa Gluck • Raitzy Godfrey • Adina Gold • Aliza Goldberg • Shira Golding • Chaya Goldschmidt • Avigail Goldshmidt • Tamar Goldstein • Adina Chana Goldstein • Naomi Goldstein • Suresty Gombo • Mrs. Aviva Goodman • Goldie Gottlieb • Nechama Gottlieb • Shalva Gozland • Aliza Greenberg • Rachela Greenman • Tova Greenman • Rivky Gross • Chana Gross • Paulina Grossman • Jennifer Gutmann • Gayil Hackel • Noa Hacker • Adi Hacker • Shira Chana Hadar • Ilana Hafner • Lindsay Haimm • Etty Halpern • Priva Halpert • Shani Hans • Gabrielle Hawk • Devorah Hershberg • Henny Herskovic • Sari Herskowitz • Sigi Hertz • Rachel Herzberg • Aidy Herzl • Shaindel Heyman • Shoshana Hirsch • Rachelli Hirsch • Naomi Honickman • Rivky Honig • Noa Horovitz • Tamar Horovitz • Tzivia Horowitz • Yael Iflah • Atara Leah Inzelbuch • Chani Israel • Shira Jacobson • Shoshi Jeselsohn • Huvi Kadin • Sari Kahan • Miri Kahan • Rivky Kail • Miri Kamenetsky • Kayla Kamornick • Nechama Kanarek • Sarah Kaplan • Rachel Kaplan • Ruthi Kaplinsky • Gitty Karmel • Chanie Karmel • Mimi Katz • Michal Kedourie • Shira Keilson • Tehila Keilson • Ariella Kelaty • Rebecca Kellner • Rachel Kellner • Sarah Kerner • Faigy Klein • Zahava Klein • Devorah Klein • Shaindy Kleinkaufman • Devoiry Kleinman • Chaya Leah Klinger • Raquel Klinger • Chaya Fradel Klitnick • Esty Kluger • Leah Knopfler • Shira Kornblit • Elisheva Kornblit • Naami Kosofsky • Rachel Kossin • Rachel Krasner • Miriam Krauss • Rivkah Krawiecz • Perel Kruger • Elisheva Krupka • Rachelle

Kugler • Tziporah Kupferstein • Sarah Kurtz • Nechama Landwirt • Shira Landy • Sara Lang • Rosie Lapides • Sara Lax • Adena Lenefsky • Henny Lerner • Leah Levene • Shira Leventhal • Hillel Levin • Traci Levine • Racheli Levitt • Malka Levy • Temima Lewin • Aviva Lieberman • Bassie Lieder • Yaira Lightman • Chaya Lock • Odelia Loewenthal • Tamar Loewenthal • Shoshana Lowenthal • Aviva Lowenthal • Michelle Majer • Sari Malachovsky • Chana Malka • Laura Maman • Shelby Mandel • Penina Mandelbaum • Chaya Manssouri • Tohar Mantin • Laila Marcus • Chavi Marder • Toby Markowitz • Sarah Marmorstein • Chaya Medetsky • Nechama Meister • Nechama Melohn • Goldi Mendelowitz • Nechama Mendlovitz • Abby Meyer • Shira Miller • Sheva Minsky • Racheli Mizrahi • Dassi Mockin • Ayala Moffson • Rachel Monczyk • Tamara Morduchowitz • Dassy Moskovits • Chevi Moskovitz • Mindy Moskovitz • Michal Nachum • Mushka Leah Nathanson • Nechama Dina Nathanson • Rachel Neiman • Faigy Nierenberg • Tiki Nussbaum • Aliza Ochs • Michal Ofek • Talya Ohayon • Etty Parnes • Liz Pavel • Devorah Peck • Chani Pershin • Devorah Pinczower • Bracha Pinter • Nechama Pinter • Simona Pitterman • Daniella Pollack • Eliana Pomerance • Dalia Porat • Shoshana Porush • Hendel Prero • Daniella Press • Aviva Prizont • Malky Rabinowitz • Danielle Rabinowitz • Elisheva Rabinowitz • Malka Bayla Raczkowski • Avigail Ralbag • Alexa Rapp • Hadassah Raskas • Brooke Ratner • Adi Raviv • Brocha Reichmann • Yitty Rennert • Avigayil Resnick • Penina Reznick • Alexandra Rindenow • Anya Roberts • Shoshana Roberts • Miri Rogoff • Naomi Raizel Rosen • Mrs. Nava Rosenberg • Gitty Rosenberg • Leah Rosenberg • Ita Rosenblat • Dina Rosenfield • Oriana Rosenstein • Temima Rosenstein • Elana Rosenthal • Dini Rosenzweig • Sasha Ross • Perela Rothman • Aliza Rothman • Arielle Rothman • Tziporah Rothschild • Sheva Rottenberg • Riki Rowe • Chana Rozenberg • Malkie Rubin • Yaffa Saffer • Bracha Salfer • Aleah Salzhauer • Tamar Samson • Siporah Sassoon • Rina Schachter • Eliana Schachter • Kaila Scheiner • Jordana Schiff • Noa Schiff • Chani Schlussel • Yehudis Schmulowitz • Chaya Schochet • Ilana Schonfeld • Miriam Schreiber • Zehava Schuman • Adina Schupak • Shaindy Schwartz • Yocheved Schwartz • Sarah Leah Segelman • Bella Seliger • Avi Septimus • Esther Seror • Ashira Shabat • Sophie Shapiro • Fatima Sharaby • Dina Sharer • Aliza Shaulson • Racheli Shteierman • Adina Sigler • Chedva Silberberg • Ziva Silverman • Blima Singal • Peninah Singer • Adi Singerman • Lauren Sitt • Toby Skaist • Avigail Small • Rosie Solomon • Etty Somerstein • Esty Sontag • Riphkie Sontag • Atara Spar • Ricki Spar • Aliza Spatz • Aliza Spector • Avigail Spiegel • Yedida Spinner • Abby Spiro • Adeena Spitzer • Sara Stein • Sarah Steinhardt • Ahuva Steinhardt • Temima Steinherz • Devorah Stock • Penina Strassberg • Tova Strohli • Chedvah Taub • Racheli Taub • Sara Trachtenberg • Devora Traube • Rachaeli Treitel • Goldie Turk • Hannah Usher • Nicole Van Amerongen • Esty Vechter • Esti Verschleiser • Shlomit Wachsberg • Esti Waldbaum • Kaylie Warga • Shaindy Weber • Aliza Weill • Dani Weinberg • Goldi Weinberger • Yael Weinroth • Reva Weinstein • Rachel Weintraub • Malka Weintraub • Racheli Weiss • Adi Weiss • Sara Meira Weissman • Batsheva Welcher • Roizy Wercberger • Aviva Werther • Avigayil Westbrook • Tamar Wielgus • Zahava Wiener • Baila Wigder • Tehila Witty • Ariana Wolf • Avital Wolff • Kayla Wolpin • Miriam Yarmark • Naomi Yarmish • Tzivi Yarmish • Avital Yoskovich • Zahava Younger • Batsheva Zaltzman • Shifra Zeiler • Sara Zelmanovitz • Sara Zinn • Faigy Zoberman • Arielle Zrihen • Jamie Zuckerman • Tehila Zuroff • Chana Aidel Zuroff • Kelly Zweig • Gabi Zweig • Rivky Zweig •

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Division Heads: Elchanan Amar • Gabi Bender • Eli Braun • Menachem Dicker • Shlomo Z Kaplan • Yosef Spillman Shragi Akerman • Benji Amar • Moshe Amsterdam • Mendy Antelis • Abraham Appeldorfer • Dovi Arem • Spencer Arnold • David Atri Schuller • Yonatan Attias • Benjamin Balkin • Gidon Barnett • Yosef Chai Baruchov • Jonah Bash • Tamir Naftali Bender • Albert Ben-Gaira • Elchonon Berman • Yosef Bernstien • Bentzy Bider • Avi Birnbaum • Yanky Bittman • Rabbi Dovi Block • Avraham Blum • Dovi Bodner • Chaim Bouskila • Shmily Brody • Yonason Brody • Yitzchak Chesir • Moshe Chocron Attias • Yonah Cohen • Yonatan Cohen • Tzvi Cohen • Shua Cohen • Moti Cohen • Eli David • Chesky Davidowitz • Mordechai Dayan • Shua Dembitzer • Mordechai Dembitzer • Ephraim Deutsch • Eli Devor • Avi Dubiner • Yehuda Dukhan • Michael Edery • Yosef Ehrman • Yossi Eisenreich • Rephael Fakheri • Mordy Falik • Shloimy Falkowitz • David Farhi • Daniel Farkas • Yehuda Feifer • Shmuli Feiler • Heshi Feldman • Chaim Fink • Shimon Finkelstein • Joseph Finkelstein • Ozzie Fischer • Jacob Fisher • Yakov Fishman • Baruch Florence • Yossi Fogel • Yitzy Fox • Naftali Frankel • Itzik Freilich • Eliezer Freimark • Gedalia Frenkel • Gedalia Fried • Efraim Fried • Yitzie Friedlander • Jacob Friedman • Eli Chaim Friedman • David Friedman • Shimon Friedman • Daniel Friedman • Yehuda Furman • Akiva Gellis • Binyomin Gellis • Evyatar Moshe Gerson • Shlomo Gittleman • Yitzy Gluck • Pinchus Gluck • Eli Gobioff • Yehoshua L. Gobioff • Dov Gobioff • Noah Goldberg • Yossi Goldberger • Fischel Goldberger • Yoel Goldberger • Ari Goldenberg • Yaakov Moshe Golding • Avrumy Goldstein • Dovid Goldstein • Avrumi Goldwag • Yosef Goodman • Moshe Goodstein • Shuey Gordon • Yoel Gras • Yoni Greenberg • Boruch Greenberg • Josh Greenblatt • Nussen Shmiel Greenfeld • Moshe Greenstein • Avi Lev Gross • Sender Gross • Yehuda Gross • Shmuel Grossberger • Eli Grossman • Yoeli Grosz • Ami Grunwald • Daniel Gur • Aron Gutman • Yechiel Gutman • Yisroel Hacker • Yaakov Hager • Ari Hagler • Doni Hans • Shmuly Hanson • Reuben Hartman • Hershy Hershkowitz • Moshe Hirsch • Shia Hoffman • Shimon Hoffman • Matis Horowitz • Eli Hoschander • Daniel Housedorf • Jared Hurwitz • Binyamin Dov Hutman • Binyamin Iflah • Yochanan Shaul Jacob • Reuven Jasse • Aaron Josephs • Aaron Kahan • Michoel Kahana • Aryeh Kahn • Yaakov Dovid Kamensky • Yossi Karmel • Menachem Mendel Karp • Beri Karpen • Yehuda Kastel • Eliyahu Katz • Yoni Katz • Binyomin Katz • Naftali Katz • Aryeh Kaufman • Aharon Kaufman • Zevi Kay • Yehuda Kelaty • Eliya Kelaty • Moishe Kelaty • Yossi Kermenshahi • Nethanel Kind • Shaya Kinraich • Shimshon Kirschner • Chesky Kleinkaufman • Yidel Kleinman • Ari Klerer • Shmuel Korlansky • Yehuda Korlansky • Moshe Eliezer Kosoy • David Koss • Chaim Z Kranz • Hershy Krausz • Shlomo Kugler • Reuven Kupferstein • Aylon Kushnir • Momo Kutner • Sruly Lamm • Dovie Landau • Menachem Landau • Zalmy Lavi • Yaakov Lax • Ari Lazarus • Gabriel Leifer • Chaiby Leiman • Kovi Leiter • Shlomo Levenbrown • Orel Levi

• Ahron Levinson • Shmuly Levitin • Yisrael Levy • Yosef Lewis • Dovid Lewis • Shimon Libersohn • Eli Lichtenstein • Moshe Lipschitz • Adam Lombardo • Ari Lowy • Avraham Duvid Lunger • Yanky Manela • Dovid Margolis • Moshe Matitia • Yehuda Mehlman • Yoni Melamed • Yehuda Melohn • Zack Meltzer • Menachem Mendel • Yehuda Mendlowitz • Simcha Menlo • Gavriel Menlo • Levi Mensch • Ari Miller • Ruvain Millet • Michael Mokhtar • Dovid Monderer • Micky Moos • Zaki Moskovitz • Leibel Muchnik • Binyomin Munk • Yaakov Nachimson • Yehuda Nathan • Dovi Newhouse • Azi Newman • Shmuly Nichtburg • Simcha Nierenberg • Mordechai Nierman • Moshe Aharon Nusbacher • Shia Oberlander • Shlomo Oppen • Eliezer Levi Orkin • Ariel Ovadiya • Moshe Paluch • Yisroel Moshe Parnes • Yitzi Patchen • Chaim Peppard • Dovi Pfeffer • Moshe Pfeiffer • Jacob Pillemer • Michaeli Plancey • Netanel Platovsky • Binyamin Pleeter • Ari Pluchenik • Yisroel Pomerantz • Shimon Posen • Zachary Praw • Yechiel Rabinowitz • Gavi Redlich • Ben Rehany • Refael Reich • Gavriel Reichmann • Yitzy Renzoni • Shuey Rose • Yehuda Leib Rosen • Yoni Rosenberg • Shuey Rosenberg • Yisroel Rosenberg • Yitzchok Rosenberg • Heshy Rosenberg • Shaya Rosenberg • Dovy Rosenberg • Alex Rosenfield • Yisroel Meir Rosenstock • Yommi Ross • Chaim M Rotberg • Joseph Roth • Yehuda Rottenberg • Duvy Rubin • Avi Sabo • Moshe Salamon • Stanley Salem • Shimmy Sales • Ori Salomon • Zalman Samber • Shaya Samet • Eli Sandhaus • Simcha Sauer • Dovi Sauer • Rabbi Shai Schachter • Matis Schlesinger • Yossi Schlesinger • Nuriel Schmutter • Boruch Schoenbrun • Dovid Schoor • Yosef Schulhof • Shimmy Schuster • Shimmy Schwab • Isaac Schwartz • Ben Schwartz • Chaim Schwartz • Moshe Schwartz • Shmuly Schwartzberg • Nelly Sebag • Aharon Yehuda Setzer • Meir Shainberg • Shaul Shalam • Shloimy Shalitzky • Daniel Dov Shaw • Michoel Shields • Aviel Shiff • Raziel Siegman • Ahron Yehuda Sigler • Josef Silverstein • Yoel Simon • Simcha Skaist • Zalman Skaist • Chaim Sklarz • Tzaly Solomon • Yoni Somogyi • Dovvy Somogyi • Eli Spiegel • Tzvi Spiegel • Yitzy Spinner • Gavi Sragow • Yitzchok Stark • Tzvi Steele • Aki Stein • Ephraim Stein • Yedidya Steinberg • David Steinberg • Zack Steiner • Tzvi Steinmetz • Avrami Stern • Elie Stern • Binyamin Stern • Raphael Strauss • Drew Stromer • Chaim Stuhl • David Stulberger • Dovid Taub • Moshe Tenembaum • Reuven Tepper • Ezzy Tepper • Zev Moshe Traub • Zevi Tyberg • Avi Vegh • Mordechai Vogel • Yitzchak Wanounou • Tuvia Warga • Kalman Warga • Akiva Wasser • Yitzy Wax • Yossi Weinberg • Avi Weinberg • Yechiel Weingarten • Dovy Weinraub • Benji Weintraub • Shimmy Weiss • Yehoshua Weiss • Baruch Weiss • Yechiel Weiss • Dovid Yitzchok Weiss • Fischel Weiss • Motti Weisz • Naftali Wertzberger • Chezkie Werzberger • Ezra Wildes • Yehuda Wolf • Bentzy Wolman • Zvi (Hershey) Wurzberger • Nissim Yair • Nechemya Zelmanowitz • Gabriel Zerovabeli • • Reuven Zinn • Aaron Zlotowitz • Eitan Zoldan • Avi Zucker • Avi Zucker • Yoni Zweig • Tuli Zweig •

The children of Camp Simcha/ Camp Simcha Special thank the following people for brightening our summer with their talent, time and love.

Shimi Adar • Avromi Basch • Tova Begun • Dr. Nancy Block • Yochi Briskman • Camp Morasha Basketball • Judge Danny Butler • Moishe Carmel • Lynn Dashiff • Maayan Davis • Gad Elbaz • Mimi Feiler • Adina Feinstein • Chai Riders • Davis Factor • Shea Farkas • Mayer and Chaya Rivka Fischl • Marc Franco • Avraham Fried • Moishe Fried • Nutty Fried • Benny Friedman • Goldman Sachs • Gal Gershovski • Eli Gerstner • Seth Gerszberg • Binyamin Ginsberg • Jack Gold • Nesanel Gold • Sruly Goldstein • Cheryl Gross • Sheryl Jacobowitz • Sammy Jemal • Marlene Kalongy • Isaac Kassin • Ely Katz • Shlomo and Debra Katz • London Kaye • Moshe and Michal Klerer • Chananya Kramer • Kol-Rom Multimedia • Nochi Krohn • Elizabeth Kurtz • Ephrayim and Rena Kutner • Avi Lax • Simcha Leiner • Roniel Levi • Lion Brand Yarns • Pinny Mandel • Margie Matthews • Steve Max • Peninsula Hempstead Rifle and Pistol Club • Pumpidesa • Quality Bus • Meyer Rosenbaum • Naomi Ross • Chana Shira Ryback • Janice Ryback • Glen Schaffer • Hudi Schiffer • Moti Schiffer • Masha Schore • Srully Schreiber • Michal Schulman • Geoff Schwartz • Simcha Shain • Mordechai Shapiro • Yaakov Shwekey • Ilan Smith • Yitzy Spinner • Suki and Ding Productions • David Thaler • Miles Thorne • Michael Todfeld • Tristate Rod and Gun Club • Truffle by Eliana • Uncle Moishe • Aryeh and Ariella Weiss • Will Werner • Azi Zakheim • Moshe Zakheim • Faygie Zakheim • Avram Zamist • Yaakov Ziennes •

Medical Staff Doctors Dr. Jay Begun Dr. Caroline Fein Levy Dr. Danielle Friedman Dr. Miriam KrinskyDiener Dr. Yosef Levenbrown Dr. Scott Moerdler Dr. Michael Ortiz Dr. Joseph Oved Dr. Michael Rosen Dr. Jeremy Rosenblum Dr. Reuven Schore Dr. Liora Shultz Dr. Lenny Wexler

Nurses/PA/ NP/Therapist/ Pharamacist Shulamit Amar Gila Biegacz Rachel Bondi Mrs. Shifra Broder Tova Davatgar Hillel Devor Rechel Devor Shifra Eisenman Beth Frankel Tami Frankel Esti Goldblatt Shira Malka Gordon

Chana Greenberg Mrs. Tzippora Halpert Dovid Heyman Riki Hirmes Maayan Kalbo Malkie Kaplan Sarala Korn Hadassah Kramer Naomi Kramer Yossi Krasner Judah Labovitz Stephanie Levit Mrs. Aliza Lew Cassie Light

Mrs. Yardena Mazaud Mrs. Racheli Meister Eli Mosseri Mrs. Dina Mounitz David Nachman Rivky Nadler Shira Priluck Amanda Roafim Rachel Rosenberg Aviva Schlesinger Faigie Schwartz Joel Sebbag Yocheved Liba Seidel Mrs. Betsy Sonnenblick

Leora Sperber Daniel Stok Marni Strauss Mrs. Vicki Szenes Riki Szlafrok Chevi Weinreb Chaya Tova Wise Rachel Wolf Paramedics/EMT David Blumenthal Shea Farkas Mark Furman Joshua Hans Shlomo Katz

Uri Katz Mutti Leiser Shalom Lerner Normie Lowenthal Yisroel Neuman Simcha Shain Dovid Skolnick Moshe Somerstein David Sutton Michael Vatch Raanan Zidile

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How 9-11 Changed Our Lives

Life Lessons from 9-11 Learned at Yeshiva Ketana

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Eigth graders (L-R) Coby Pollack, Eitan Kaplowitz, Yaacov Lazar and Perry Lisker welcoming parents at the Yeshiva of South Shore-Mechina Back to School night

ou could have heard a pin drop as the Junior High School boys at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island listened intently to every word of a firsthand account of miracles and divine intervention from a survivor of the 9-11 attacks that took place 17 years ago.

Rabbi Tzvi Krigsman, Menahel, introduced the program by charging the boys with the mission to appreciate the brachos they have in their lives, as many times we only appreciate them once we no longer have them. Recognizing Hashem’s presence and guidance in every aspect of our lives is a lesson we can all learn from the 23rd of Elul 5761.

It could have been a typical Tuesday morning for Mr. Moshe Bajnon, son of YKLI Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Zvi Bajnon, as well as a proud YKLI parent. He could have taken the train to Manhattan and arrived to his office on the 62nd floor in 2 World Trade Center by 8:00am as he did every morning. Moshe could have listened to the loudspeakers announcing that everyone should stay in their office due to a plane crash in North Tower.

Moshe related to the crowd that his entire morning was atypical. It was Pre-Rosh Hashana Selichos and as such Moshe was running late to work that morning. As he ran into his office to plan the day with his boss, he thought he heard loud thunder, until he realized that the sky was clear and it was a sunny day. Immediately thereafter, what can only be described as fireballs began bouncing off his building. That was when he realized it was time to run, run for his life down 62 stories. Moshe described that he had no time to think, Hashem

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guided him safely from his office back home.

The beauty of the Klal Yisrael is that one can be running for his life, but he can never forget or ignore a fellow Jew. When Moshe reached the 43rd floor, a fellow Jew, named Seth, met up with him. After brief introductions, Moshe learned that his new friend was visiting from Florida and was attending a training. What does any good Jew do when he meets a visitor? Moshe invited Seth for Shabbos! After things settled down and Moshe was able to return home, he tracked Seth down and learned that he had returned safely to his home in Florida. Seth thanked Moshe for saving his life as he led him outside the crumbling towers to safety. Moshe responded, “Who says I saved your life?

Maybe you saved my life! You, Seth, provided me with the opportunity to do the mitzvah of hachnasas orchim.

Maybe it was b’zchus that very mitzvah that we survived!”

There are inborn strengths that we are unaware we possess until the situation calls for them. As people were escaping the havoc and pandemonium that ensued, Moshe related that a group of Jews had the focus and clarity to gather together to say Tehillim on their way out of the lobby.

Mr. Bajnon shared the final image seared in his mind from Tuesday, September 11, 2001. As he ran with so many others across the Brooklyn Bridge, they were met with a large group of chassidim who had set up stations with cold drinks to serve to the thousands of people, Jews and non-Jews, who were running across the bridge out of Manhattan. It is during times like these when one appreciates who we are and where we come from. Mi k’amcha Yisrael!

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HANC HS Heralds in the New School Year

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he energy in the room was palpable as HANC High School held its annual Opening Ceremony for its student body on the first day of school.

The entire school gathered together at the midpoint of the day when both the limudei kodesh and general studies staff are in school to usher in the new year with a sense of excitement. This innovative way of uniting the school and starting the year with spectacular opening was first initiated by the

principal, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman.

This year’s ceremony began with Rabbi Adelman heralding all that’s new at HNAC High School: the senior class bedecked in their new senior apparel, welcoming new faculty, new students, and the freshman class. Rabbi Adelman also showed slides of the renovation underway in the soon-to-be-completed new and improved Student Life Center and encouraged the students to “Zoom In” on the

best four years of their life.

He discussed the almost unlimited potential and opportunities of the high school years.

Students were introduced to the new Student Life Team and the school theme song of the year was presented by HANC’s very own new music teacher Mr. Jacob Spadaro of Haazon fame. Aeton Rabanipour, Student Senate president, energized the audience in anticipation of the many exciting plans the Senate has in

store for this year.

It was wonderful to see everyone after a refreshing summer and to be reunited as a school and family. Everyone enjoyed the upbeat music and Student Senate

Songs of Hope

By Rabbi Shmuel Strickman

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here I stood, in a crowded room with about 50 bachurim, singing in harmony. Some niggunim were fast-paced and leibedik; others were slow and inspirational.

There was no music. This was not a performance or a rehearsal. There was an audience of about 12 people. Some were standing, some were sitting – in wheelchairs.

I was at the Queens Nassau Rehabilitation Center. Some of the patients were clearly cognizant and connecting to the singing. Others were unable to show any external reactions because of their impaired health. Surrounding them were family members – wives and parents, watching, listening to the singing with tears, of joy and pain intermingled, running down their cheeks. The young men from Bais Medrash Heichal Dovid of Yeshiva

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Darchei Torah pay a weekly visit to these brokenhearted families. In the span of a year, a small group of three has blossomed into this large delegation.

The singing stopped and a bachur delivered a three-minute dvar Torah of encouragement and hope. One of the family members, Suri, distributed cookies. The boys responded by making brachos out loud for all to answer “Amen.” As Rav Gamliel Rabinovich, a leading mekubal in Yerushalay-

im, says, “Brachos brings brachos!”

These cookies became the conduit for a stream of rachamim to flow from the Heavenly Throne to these unfortunate souls.

One of the patients, Shlomo, sat alone. He has no family. His friends from Flatbush come as often as they can. These boys are the weekly visitors that he can count on. I grabbed onto his hand, and he responded by holding onto me with both hands. He sang along and every so often wiped away his tears.

Steve is not observant, but he participates in each visit, clapping and joining in when he can.

Rabbi K. and Rabbi R. sat in their chairs, staring ahead, unfocused. Did they comprehend the greatness that was surrounding them? Were they listening? Their physical faculties may indeed be preventing them from absorbing the inspiration. But their neshamos, their spiritual personalities, are perfectly intact. On that level, they hear! They understand! They are inspired!

I, too, stood there, singing and cry-

giveaways: a HANC Hurricanes Bluetooth speaker, ice dcoffee and delicious zeppolis. It was an amazing way to start off a “sweet” year.

HANC High School is off to a great start.

ing. Crying for the patients. Crying for the pain their loved ones feel. Crying proudly at the magnanimous and pure personalities of our young generation of bachurim. In the midst of an overpowering self-centered society where a spirit of instant gratification and self-indulgence reigns supreme, there arise young people imbued with the spirit of Torah, who toil all day and late into the night to understand the intricate details of the Gemara, and who give of themselves to bring joy, encouragement and hope to these suffering souls.

I felt myself standing, not in the lounge of a rehab center in Far Rockaway, New York, but in a room permeated with the Divine Presence.

The Ribbono Shel Olam was palpable.

There was an achdus, a unity, among the boys. The family members held onto and supported each other. As at Har Sinai, we were k’ish echad b’lev echad, like one man with one heart.

We all became family. And only with this sense of oneness did Hashem give us His Torah, His blueprint for life.

Through this feeling of unity, Hashem will hopefully grant us all a year of Gefen: gezunt, health; parnassah, livelihood; and nachas.

May we all look beyond our differences and join together as Hashem’s chosen nation, united in our goal of living a life dedicated to Hashem and His Torah.

Rabbi Strickman is a menahel in the Elementary School of Yeshiva Darchei Torah.

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L’chaim!

In the Spirit of Yom Tov

By Gamliel Kronemer

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’chaim – to life – is the traditional toast one gives, particularly when toasting with distilled spirits. Spirits were historically viewed to be life-imbuing (hence the term “spirits”) and indeed many names for common types of liquor – whiskey, eau de vie, aquavit – merely mean “water of life.” While modern medical science may no longer believe that distilled spirits are a panacea for all of life’s ills, a nice dram can still warm one’s innards and enliven one’s mood. So as you get ready to celebrate Sukkos in the spirit of Toras Chaim, why not enliven the occasion by toasting “l’chaim” with one of the growing number of kosher spirits now available.

Cognacs Cognac, the famous brandy of southwestern France, is generally considered to be the best brandy, and one of the best distilled spirits, in the world. Cognac is made from primarily Ugni Blanc grapes which are crushed and fermented, before being distilled twice in copper pot stills and aged for no less than two years in French-oak barrels. What makes cognac such a great brandy is its unique ability to truly capture the essences of the original fruit and terroir.

Louis Royer’s Kosher XO Cognac has long been one of the best kosher cognacs on the market.

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and heavy, this supple and sweet 12-year-old, dark-walnut colored brandy has flavors and aromas of caramel, figs, baked apples, roasted hazelnuts, allspice and star anise. It is a treat on any occasion. Louis Royer’s more affordable, but still delightful VSOP Cognac is a smooth, medium-bodied blend of 4-to-6-year old brandies, which has flavors and aromas of caramel, mocha, figs, cinnamon, cardamom and allspice.

A more recent but very welcome addition to the kosher cognac market is Godet’s kosher Fine de Cognac. The Godet family has been making kosher cognac on and off for almost a century, and this new bottling is their first kosher release that they’ve had in over a decade. This tawny-caramel colored brandy has a nose of apples (both stewed and raw), apricots, cloves, sultanas, and white pepper.

The flavor is dry and herbaceous at the front of the palate, moving towards apples and raisins mid-palate, and a touch of caramel on the finish.

Whiskies Whisk(e)y is one of the most popular spirits in the world. In the most basic of terms, whiskey is distilled beer and is it made in a variety of different styles throughout the world (and it has a variety of spellings – in America and Ireland it is spelled with an “e,” and in

Canada, India, Japan and Scotland it’s spelled without.) In the highlands of Scotland whiskey is most often double distilled (as with cognac) in pot stills, while in Tennessee and Kentucky it is far more commonly distilled in column stills.

Here are two kosher whiskies to try.

Boondock’s American Whiskey is one of a small handful craft-distillery whiskies which are now produced under kosher supervision. Distilled by Dave Scheurich (formerly Master Distiller at Woodford Reserve), Boondock’s is a creamy-smooth, sweet, 11-year-old tawny colored whiskey. The bouquet is redolent of honey, fennel, and rye spice, while the taste is dominated by corn sweetness, with a touch of rye spice, and a toffee note on the finish.

Tomintoul Tlàth is one of the most recent kosher bottlings to come out of Scotland. Tlàth means gentle in Gaelic, and this is certainly a very gentle, easy to drink, single-malt Speyside whisky. This dark-copper colored whisky has flavors and aromas of malt, herbs, fresh churned butter, toffee, leather, citrus and lavender, with a lighter than typical touch of peat.

Eau de Vies Eau de vies – un-aged fruit brandies – are made by fermenting crushed fresh fruit, and double distilling the resulting fruit wine in a copper pot still. In the kosher world, unfortunately, there are only a handful of eau de vies on the market, and one of the very best is Bokobsa’s Boukha Cuvee Prestige. Made from figs, this clear eau de vie has a rich, oily, mouthfeel, with a light flavor and aroma of dried figs, a touch of earthiness, and an intriguing hint of butterscotch.

Liqueurs Liqueurs are sweet spirits made by infusing a spirit base – usually a neutral spirit, but sometimes a brandy, rum or whisky – with fruits and or herbs, and then sweetening with sugar. A growing number of liqueurs now have kosher supervision. Here are two worth trying.

Montell Orange Liqueur reminds me a bit of the Sabra Liqueur, that onetime ubiquitous Israeli spirit, which was first distilled 56 years ago and which remains both a duty-free staple at Ben Gurion Airport, as well as a fine after-dinner dram.

The Montell is, however, accentuating the flavor of the delightful Israeli oranges even more. This bronze-colored liqueur is rich, smooth, and just as billed—redolent with flavors and aromas of dark chocolate and candied orange peels. While sweet, the liqueur is well-structured with the bitterness of the orange balancing the sugar.

Zachlawi’s 10th Anniversary Limited Edition Fig Arak is both unique and charming.

Made in New Jersey, this barrel-aged, copper-colored liqueur has a unique profile more reminiscent of a French pastis than an Israeli Arak. Look for aromas of anise, licorice root and allspice with a whiff of earthiness. The flavor has elements of stewed figs, black licorice, star anise and mocha, with hints of mint, oak and vanilla.

I wish you all chag sameyach!

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Siach Yitzchok is off to an amazing start. With all the yomim tovim around the corner, all the classes were very busy preparing, each in their own way. The excitement of the boys only increased, from the first day of cheder all the way through erev Sukkos.Â

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TJH You gotta be kidding A policeman is interrogating three guys who are training to become detectives. To test their skills in recognizing a suspect, he shows the first guy a picture for 5 seconds and then hides it.

“This is your suspect, how would you recognize him?”

The first guy answers, “That’s easy, we’ll catch him fast because he only has one eye!”

The policeman says, “Well...uh...that’s because the picture I showed is his side profile.”

Centerfold Facts of Life Laws Law of the Line: If you change lines, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

Law of the Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, it’s never busy. (Huh?! What’s a wrong number? What does “busy” mean?)

Slightly flustered by this ridiculous response, he flashes the picture for 5 seconds at the second guy and asks him, “This is your suspect; how would you recognize him?”

Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

The second guy smiles, flips his hair, and says, “Ha! He’d be too easy to catch because he only has one ear!”

Law of the Workshop: Any screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

The policeman angrily responds, “What’s the matter with you two? Of course only one eye and one ear are showing because it’s a picture of his side profile! Is that the best answer you can come up with?”

Law of Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.

Extremely frustrated at this point, he shows the picture to the third guy and in a very testy voice asks, “This is your suspect. How would you recognize him?” He quickly adds, “Think hard before giving me a stupid answer.”

Law of the Results: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will.

The third guy looks at the picture intently for a moment and says, “The suspect wears contact lenses.”

The policeman is surprised and speechless because he really doesn’t know himself if the suspect wears contacts or not. “Well, that’s an interesting answer. Wait here for a few minutes while I check his file and I’ll get back to you on that.”

He leaves the room and goes to his office, checks the suspect’s file on his computer, and comes back with a beaming smile on his face.

“Wow! I can’t believe it. It’s TRUE! The suspect does, in fact, wear contact lenses. Good work!

How were you able to make such an astute observation?”

“That’s easy,” the third guy replied. “He can’t wear regular glasses because he only has one eye and one ear.”

Law of Rain: When you feel all responsible because you brought along an umbrella because of the forecast, it won’t rain at all.

Law of Passing Slow Vehicles: When you cross over the double yellow lines to cut off the really slow moving car ahead of you, you will get stuck at a red light and watch in the rearview mirror as that car gets closer and closer.

Law of Laptop Batteries: When you are right next to an outlet your battery is at 97%. When you are nowhere near an outlet your battery is at 12%.

When you forgot to hit save for three hours while working on your dissertation, your battery hits 0%.

Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

Law of Coffee: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

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Mensa Quiz So you think your IQ is in the top 2% of the population and you belong in the Mensa Society? Here are 10 sample Mensa questions, see whether you really belong: 1. How many four sided figures are in this diagram?

4. Pear is to apple as potato is to: (a) banana, (b) radish, (c) strawberry, (d) peach, (e) lettuce.

5. The same three-letter word can be placed in front of the following words to make a new word: LIGHT, BREAK, TIME 6. If a circle is one, how many is an octagon?

7. There are 1,200 elephants in a herd. Some have pink and green stripes, some are all pink and some are all blue. One third are pure pink. Is it true that 400 elephants are definitely blue?

2. Which same three-letter word can be placed in front of the following words to make a new word?

SIGN, DONE, DUCT, FOUND, FIRM, TRACT, DENSE 3. If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it now?

8. Four years ago, Jane was twice as old as Sam. Four years on from now, Sam will be 3/4 of Jane’s age. How old is Jane now?

9. What is the following word when it is unscrambled: HCPRAATEU 10. If you count from 1 to 100, how many 7’s will you pass on the way?

 Answers

 Wisdom Key 8-10 correct: Genius alert! Umm, check out Mensa...for real.

5-7 correct: You probably won’t make the cut, but you are smart enough for people to believe you if you tell them that you are a member. (Essentially, I am telling you that if you are a liar, this would be a great lie for you to say.)

2-4 correct: You are half-smart. What’s the point? Either be smart or have fun, but don’t be in between!

0-1 correct: You are the Albert Einstein of our time! Instructions: 1) Place the palm of each hand over the corresponding temple while squeezing your head tightly.

2) Make a clockwise circular motion with your hands ten times. 3) Now make a counter-clockwise circular motion with your hands ten times. 4) Go to mirror and make sure you look like Albert Einstein. If you do not, repeat steps 1-3 until you do. (If that still doesn’t work, at least you massaged your brain muscles a bit...they can use it!)

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From the Fire

Simchas Torah Keeping the Connection

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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he Ponevezh Rav related that one Simchas Torah he was in Novardok. In the midst of the joyful dancing the Alter of Novardok whispered to him that when a bachur, a student, comes to yeshiva he hopes that the atmosphere of Elul will turn him into a true ben aliyah, a growing person who will gieths in learning and yiras Shamayim, piety. If I see that he has not turned around during the month of Elul, I hope that the awesomeness of Rosh Hashana, the Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment, will turn him around. If that does not have an impact, I hope that the ten days of teshuva and Yom Kippur will create a revolution inside of him. But if even that does not work, then it could be that he is one of those people who are not necessary affected by the Yomim Noraim, the Days of Awe. Such people can still be brought around by the ahcmis of Sukkos. But if even that does not work, then my last hope is Simchas Torah, which has tremendous power to affect people in a way that no other time of the year can.

In order to understand Simchas Torah’s remarkable ability to affect us like nothing else, we will explore three questions. The first question is on the Midrash Tanchuma (29, Remez 782 - Parshas Pinchas), which offers the well-known parable of a king who takes care of his guests during a seven day feast, but at the conclusion

of the seven days, he says to his beloved son, “Now you and I will rejoice together for one day...” In order to explain the meaning of the parable, the Midrash explains that the guests correspond to the nations of the world for whom we offer seventy bulls in the Beis Hamikdash during Sukkos, but that after Sukkos, Hashem wants to spend some “quiet time” with His beloved child, the Jewish people. He therefore instituted the yom tov of Shmini Atzeres. The Midrash continues its wondrous explanation of the parable as follows: The Holy One says to the Jewish people, “Now you and I will rejoice together ... Once the Jewish people heard this, they began to praise Hashem by saying (Tehilim 118:24) “This is the day that Hashem has made, we will rejoice and be glad [“bo,” which could mean “in it” or “in Him”].”

Rav Avin says, “We do not know in what to rejoice; in the day or in the Holy one. Shlomo Hamelech (Shir Hashirim 1:4) therefore comes and explains, ‘We will rejoice and be glad in you [feminine],’ in you, [meaning] in Your Torah [the word ‘Torah’ is feminine].”

Rav Avin’s question and answer is perplexing. He is not sure whether bo means “in it,” the day, or “in Him,” in Hashem. His answer, however, based on the pasuk in Shir Hashirim, was

that it means “in you,” in your Torah. This is difficult to understand because the Torah was not even one of the possible meanings of bo in the pasuk, “This is the day that Hashem has made, we will rejoice and be glad.”

The second question relates to Rashi’s explanation of the essence of Shmini Atzeres (Vayikra 23:36) where he explains that before we return home from our visit to the Beis Hamikdash in Yerushalyim after Sukkos, Hashem says, “My children, please remain with me one more day; it is difficult for Me to part with you.”

How does remaining one more day make saying goodbye any easier? It merely puts off the inevitable and makes saying goodbye even more difficult.

In our home, when our older daughters first went to seminary for the year, we made a big journey to the airport together to say goodbye.

All of the other parents went to say goodbye to their little girls going away for the first time for the year as well. There were many tears and the extended goodbye in the airport just made the separation even more difficult. With our younger daughters, when it was time for them to depart for their year, we did not stage the extended goodbye in the airport because that just made the departure even more painful. So how does the extended goodbye of Shmini Atzeres

make saying “goodbye” to that additional level of closeness with Hashem on Sukkos any easier?

In his earlier years, the Beis Halevi went to learn by Rav Shlomo Kluger in Brody for three months. At the end of the three months, it was time for the Beis Halevi to return to his family, so he went to see Rav Kluger to say goodbye and said the following: “Rebbe, when I came here, I had many kashas [questions]. And the rebbe has answered all of them.

But I have one kasha that I know that the rebbe will not be able to answer.” Rav Kluger answered, “And how can you be so sure?” The Beis Halevi responded “Because I know that the rebbe has the very same kasha and that this kasha is bothering the rebbe even more than it is bothering me.” “Nu,” asked Rav Kluger, “what is the kasha?” The Beis Halevi answered “The kasha is ‘kasha alai preidaschem,’ ‘it is difficult [kasha] for Me to part with you.”

The Beis Halevi, Hashem, and the Jewish people share the same kasha.

It is difficult to say goodbye. But how does delaying our separation by one day make our “separation” any easier?

The third question is why Chazal established Simchas Torah on Shmini Atzeres. The Torah established Shimin Atzeres as a day of togetherness for Hashem and the Jewish people. What is the connection between

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this and the completion of the cycle of reading the Torah on Simchas Torah?

There is one simple, yet deep answer to all three questions. Every Jew who takes Yiddishkeit seriously has one burning question this time of the year: How do we maintain the connection we feel with Hashem during the time of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and Sukkos and make it last throughout the rest of the year?

Hashem established Shmini Atzeres to demonstrate His desire to keep His connection with us. But how do we go about maintaining that connection?

The answer to this question is Simchas Torah. Indeed, delaying our “separation” from Hashem one extra day does make saying goodbye even harder. That extra day reminds us how precious “ani v’atem,” our personal relationship with Hashem is to Him. As we encounter Simchas Torah as we leave this period of special closeness with Hashem, we realize that the only way to keep up the connection is through learning Torah.

Those who have studied the fourth Sha’ar of Nefesh Hachaim or the seventh chapter of Tanya understand the unique connection to Hashem that we achieve through learning Torah.

That is the key to maintaining a connection to Hashem throughout the year.

That is why Rav Avin resolved the ambiguity of whether we should rejoice in the day of Shmini Atzeres or in Hashem by explaining that we should rejoice in the Torah. We realize on Shmini Atzeres that learning Torah is the key to continuing to rejoice in Hashem throughout the year. Shmini Atzeres shows us how precious we are to Hashem and motivates us to maintain our intimacy with Him by clinging to the Torah after yom tov is over. This is also apparent in the Gemara in Brachos 6a, which says, “How do we know that even if [just] one person sits and learns Torah that the Divine Presence is with him? As it says (Shmos 20:20), ‘Wherever I allow My name to be mentioned, I will come to you and bless you.’” When a Jew learns Torah, it reveals the great oneness between himself, Hashem and the

Torah as the Zohar says (73a), “The Holy One, the Jewish people, and the Torah are one.”

Learning Torah is how we rejoice with Hashem. “Nagila v’nismicha bach, We will rejoice and be glad in you,” the Torah. The word bach, in you, has the numerical value of twenty-two, as if to say that we will rejoice in the twenty-two letters of the Aleph Beis that make up the Torah. Each one of us should make a commitment to learn a little more than we did last year. That extra commitment to the Torah will help maintain our connection to Hashem from the yomim tovim into the year.

A story is told about one of the members of the old Yerushalmi

prior year but wants to start at Bereishis, at the beginning of the new cycle of the reading of the Torah.”

Every Jew has a connection to starting to learn more Torah in the coming year and becoming a Chasan Bereishis. We can all establish a specific plan to learn a bit more this year than we did last year. Through that, we have a relationship with the Torah and Hashem that will stay with us throughout the cold upcoming months without any yomim tovim.

I will conclude with the story told

by Reb Isaac’l Kalover that I tell over every year before we begin Simchas Torah. The Kalover recounted that there was once a Jew who came to

"The Chasan Bereishis is the Jew who did not have such a strong connection to the Torah the prior year but wants to start at Bereishis, at the beginning of the new cycle of the reading of the Torah."

family, the Cheshins. Reb Yehoshua Cheshin was about to walk into his Beis Medrash during the dancing on Simchas Torah when he saw two very modern looking Jews standing at the door, somewhat timid about entering. He approached them and invited them to come in and join the dancing. One of them said, “To tell you the truth, Rabbi, we have hardly studied any Torah this past year so we do not feel such a connection to the celebration of the completion of the Torah.”

To this Reb Yehoshua explained to them, “We have two chassanim (grooms) on Simchas Torah. We have the Chasan Torah and the Chasan Bereishis. The Chasan Torah is the Jew who studied a lot of Torah the previous year and he celebrates that connection. But the Chasan Bereishis is the Jew who did not have such a strong connection to the Torah the

the big trade show in Leipzig to sell his merchandise. He planned to make a lot of money so he stayed at the nicest hotel he could find. While things did not work out as he planned in terms of selling his merchandise, he had a great time at the hotel. He ate the nicest meals than he had ever eaten in his life, and the bed and room were more comfortable than anything he had ever experienced in his little town. After a few days, management began to get a bit worried. They noticed that he wore the same clothes every day and seemed to be enjoying the food a little bit too much. One day after this Jew enjoyed a big meal the manager came over to him and asked him about his stay and the food. He assured the manager that he had never experienced such nice accommodations or such delicious food and that he was very satisfied.

Still concerned, the manager showed him the bill and asked whether he thought there would be a problem paying it. Finally, the man admitted that while he had intended to make a lot of money at the big trade show, things had not worked out and he had no money to pay the bill. Infuriated, the manager grabbed the man and was about to take him to the police who were likely to beat him up and kill him. Protesting, the man said, “Wait! You won’t get any of your money back by handing me over to the police. But I will make an arrangement with you. I am a very talented dancer. Let me dance outside the restaurant and you will see that my performance will attract a crowd and you will make a lot of money through the additional business brought into your restaurant.”

In fact, the Jew danced up such a storm that a large crowd gathered and, ultimately, the business brought in by his dancing far outweighed the cost of his own hotel stay and use of the restaurant.

Reb Isaac’l concluded that during the previous year and even Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, we have enjoyed the beautiful accommodations of this world, but that we do not have the Torah and mitzvos to “pay” for our stay here. But as the days of judgment come to an end on Hoshana Raba, we say to Hashem that he should not take us away from the world. The dead cannot serve Hashem. Rather, we promise that we will dance in honor of Hashem and the Torah on Simchas Torah and that our dancing will bring so much kavod Shamayim that it will more than “pay” for our stay in this world.

May we dance our hearts out and bring much honor to Hashem and His Torah through our dancing, and may we increase our connection to Torah this year, thus bringing our connection with Hashem from the yomim tovim into the rest of the year and may Hashem send us the complete redemption, may it come soon in our days.

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

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Meat, Wine, and the Pursuit of Happiness

By Eytan Kobre

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

-Benjamin Franklin

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Cherokee elder was once telling his grandson of the battle that rages inside us all. “The battle, young one, is between two wolves that live inside us: happiness and unhappiness.”

The young boy contemplated his grandfather’s words. “Which wolf wins, grandfather?”

“Ah,” replied the elder. “The one you feed.”

Sukkos is the “Time of Our Happiness” and a holiday of “extra happiness” (Rambam, Sukka 8:12), a point driven home by the Torah not once or twice but three separate times (Vayikra 23:39-40; Devarim 16:13-15).

The Vilna Gaon famously opined that being happy on Sukkos – being completely and utterly happy for eight consecutive days – is the most daunting of all commandments.

And it’s easy to understand why.

Life presents so many reasons and opportunities to not be happy. Even hardships aside, ordinary and everyday concerns hamper our ability to achieve absolute happiness.

So how can the Torah demand that we be happy? How can the Torah decree emotion? What if we’re just not in the mood?

There once was an old watercarrier who passed the study hall of the Ba’al Shem Tov every day with his pails.

Whenever the Ba’al Shem Tov saw the watercarrier, he interrupted his students to ask, “Berel, my good man, how are you today?”

Berel usually offered a polite response and continued on his way. But one day, he responded quite differently.

“How do I feel? Not good! Day in and day out I carry these heavy pails. My back hurts. I’m getting older. My boots are in tatters. My family is large, and the burden is too much. Those new houses at the end of the town want more and more water, and they are built up on the slope of the hill.” With a deep sigh, Berel picked up his pails and trudged on. The Ba’al Shem Tov said nothing.

A few days later, Berel again passed the Ba’al Shem Tov and his students.

“Berel, how are you today?” This time, the watercarrier rambled on about his good fortune. “Thank G-d, I’m doing well. I have work, and I earn enough money to feed my family. I am blessed because I have a large family. My boots are worn, but they do the job. And those new houses they recently built at the hill need a lot of water, which means extra income.” The watercarrier lifted his heavy buckets and went joyfully on his way.

The Ba’al Shem Tov explained to his puzzled disciples the watercarrier’s apparent change of heart. When Berel is unhappy and feels things are missing from his life, it is because he chooses to see the world that way. But when Berel chooses to be happy and content with what is in his life, he sees the world that way and joyfully goes about his work.

As with Berel, every day presents us with a choice: experience the world through happiness and joy or experience the world through wretchedness and melancholy.

And there’s the rub.

Happiness does not depend on anything we have or don’t have, nor

is it something that is bestowed upon us. Happiness is a choice. It can be learned. It is something we make (Pele Yoetz, Simcha; Chochma U’Mussar, Vol. 2, pgs. 331-332). We are to serve G-d “b’simcha” (“with happiness”), which is comprised of the same letters as “machshava” (“thought”), because happiness is a mindset that we can choose (Arizal, Devarim 28:47). As Abraham Lincoln put it, “Most people are about as happy as they decide to be.”

We would never be commanded to feel happy if we couldn’t choose to do so.

And we’ve been making that choice since the beginning of Elul as we echo the request of Dovid “to sit in the House of G-d all the days of my life” (Tehillim 27:4). It is there that we always find happiness (I Divrei Hayamim 16:27; Chagiga 5b).

Sukkos further cultivates within us the happiness mindset. It follows on the heels of a 45-day period of intensive spiritual cleansing, and thus celebrates our new lease on our spiritual lives (Sifsei Chaim, Vol. I, pg. 208; Alei Shur, Vol. II, pg. 451). It also comes at a time of material gladness, the harvesting of

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produce, so that our material joy and our spiritual joy coalesce (Sefer HaChinuch 324; Tosfos, Devarim 16:14).

One Sukkos eve, a young man enduring a particularly difficult period in his life asked Rav Shach how to fulfill the obligation of being happy on Sukkos. “You’ll understand at Kiddush,” he answered. That night, upon reaching the words, “for You have chosen us and sanctified us from all the nations,” Rav Shach’s face beamed with pride.

And the young man understood that this alone was sufficient cause for happiness.

Of course, there are the typical festivities of any holiday, i.e., treats for the children, clothes and jewelry for the women, and meat and wine for the men (Rambam, Yom Tov 6:17-18).

But Sukkos, in particular, gives us the Four Species as tangible tools of joy (Yerushalmi, Sukka 16b; Abarbanel, Vayikra 23:40), and the Simchas Bais HaSho’eva festivities, which was the greatest display of happiness imaginable (Sukka 5:1; Sukka 51b).

If, despite all this, we aren’t happy on Sukkos, we have nothing to blame but our own choices.

Minister/author Norman Vincent Peale told of a dinner conversation he had with a couple in a railway dining car during a trip. Despite being dressed in furs, diamonds, and an expensive dress, the woman seemed to be having

wife is in manufacturing.”

This surprised Peale because she did not appear to be the industrial or executive type. “Oh? What does she manufacture?”

“Unhappiness,” replied the man.

“She manufactures her own unhappiness.”

Shemini Atzeres is the perfect cap-

“Most people are about as happy as they decide to be.”

a terrible time of it. She complained loudly that the car was dingy and drafty, the service bad, the food inedible. Her husband, in contrast, was affable and pleasant.

Peale asked the man what business he was in, to which the man responded that he was a lawyer, adding, “And my

stone to this exercise in choosing happiness. Inasmuch as it lacks material instruments engendering happiness, happiness itself is the order of the day (Kol Eliyahu, Devarim 16:15; Rashi, Vayikra 23:36; Sukka 55b; Shir HaShirim Rabba 1:32). Shemini Atzeres encourages us to cultivate happiness as a

choice, weaning us off the tangible expressions of joy employed during the first seven days of Sukkos.

As the point of departure for the year ahead, the purpose of Shemini Atzeres is to “be joyful from your sukkah into your home” (Targum Yonasan, Bamidbar 29:35), to learn to choose happiness even when it is not a “time of happiness” per se. And if we choose happiness on Sukkos – recognizing that it is not a gift but a choice – we are assured of being happy throughout the year, and indeed throughout life (Ibn Ezra and Abrabanel, Devarim 16:15; Pele Yoetz, Sukka).

Because when we appreciate happiness as a choice, the question is not how we can be happy for eight consecutive days; the question is how can we not be?

Eytan Kobre is a writer, speaker, and attorney living in Kew Gardens Hills. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? E-mail eakobre@outlook.com.

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Taking Testimony

By Rafi Sackville

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he Melbourne Holocaust Centre, in Victoria, Australia, is a modern, but humble building in a quiet suburban street. I had come to meet Phillip Maisel, a remarkable man, who for almost three decades has taken testimonies from thousands of people.

He had walked to the top of the staircase to meet me. There is a spring in his step and a youthful glint in his eyes. A warm and magnanimous man, he spent the war years in a handful of concentration camps before coming out to Australia in 1949, when he was 26. Some 69 years later, at the age of 95, he is still working hard, although he chuckles when telling me he has cut down on his workload and is now only working 4 days a week.

I notice a walker in the corner of the room. He dismisses its centrality to his mobility. He had a back problem, but it is getting better. He hopes to be free from it soon.

The survival of Mr. Maisel and his twin sister are lessons in determination, persistence, and optimism. At

no point during our discussion did I detect anything but a positive energy that so filled the room that I was happy to overstay my welcome.

It was after the war that Mr. Maisel had a chance encounter with an American who insisted Phillip spoke Yiddish with precisely the same unique accent as a girl he had met. Convinced it was his sister, Phillip rode 500 kilometers on a motorcycle to collect her.

A beautiful but bittersweet reunion.

Over twenty years ago at the age of 70 Mr. Maisel began taking testimony.

He uses video recorders and films in a room with a black backdrop. He is inching his way towards 2,000 interviews. Some are short, others not so.

One interview ran almost 10 hours.

Mr. Maisel has helped numerous survivors to open up to his cameras and questioning by telling them how privileged they were to survive the Holocaust. He wants them to talk for all of those who cannot talk anymore or cannot bring themselves to regurgitate the horror of those years.

The last testimony was collected a

week before my visit. “We were supposed to speak to a lady who suffers from dementia. She was supposed to come here, but never arrived. It’s not so bad. It happens. We have a waiting list and she took the place of somebody else who was meant to give testimony.”

This is an expected, but unfortunate consequence of an aging population.

I assumed that due to this there are fewer interviews today than in previous years. He explained that he has interviewed first, second and third generations. What does he look for in taking testimonies from the third generation? His answer was telling.

“The trauma has been transferred from the first and second generations to the third,” he said. “You see, this is the tragedy of the Holocaust – that not only a lot of people got killed, the rest who survived were strongly affected.

“Very often it [taking testimony] cures people.”

He gave an example of a fellow from Belgium, who suffered from depression. He was a child of a survivor.

As a child he read a book about the

Holocaust and was traumatized. He eventually settled in Australia, married out. His wife heard about the Holocaust center and suggested he pay a visit.

“He gave testimony,” Mr. Maisel recounted. “A few weeks later I got an email from him. Completely cured. He felt so comfortable that after years of depression he picked up the book that had been the cause of his depression and continued reading it.

“It’s very important to interact with the first generation because somebody who didn’t go through the Holocaust cannot fully understand the psychology of a person who did.

Take the word ‘selection,’ for example. When we hear it we think of winter selection or summer selection. He thinks of naked people parading in front of assessment, and who is going to be killed tomorrow. Or when you think about hunger, people will say, ‘I was so hungry I didn’t have my lunch today.’ I was so hungry, I couldn’t think of anything else for months except food.

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“If you ask me if I ever had a happy moment during the Holocaust, I will tell you that when we were in the camps we would get a piece of bread every morning, about the size of a sandwich. I would always break it into two halves so that when I got to bed I would have another piece before I went to sleep. One day when I broke off the piece of bread I left behind a tiny piece as small as a fingernail. In the morning when I found this piece of bread, this little crumb of bread, I was so happy.”

As with almost every story he tells Mr. Maisel ends with a chuckle. I ask him to be more specific about the third generation.

He explained, “The first generation were happy to survive. They worked hard to secure financial stability for their children. The second generation’s greatest achievement was a desire to be successful. If they were unsuccessful that was their parents’ fault. The third generation is completely spoiled. They want to enjoy life.

If you ask them if they are bothered by their own children marrying out, they answer the same; as long as they are happy.

“I learn a lot by interviewing people. A lot. One of the interesting things is that when they finish their testimo-

“Initially the message was, we survived the Holocaust. We should protect the Jewish nation from assimilation. We shouldn’t forget what happened because it might happen again.

“The second generation? The overall message was that they wanted to

At the age of 95, he is still working hard, although he chuckles when telling me he has cut down on his workload and is now only working 4 days a week.

ny, I ask them, ‘Would they like to give a message to the future generation?’

The message has changed with the time.

be successful, and their children to be honest, decent people.

“The third generation just want to be happy. To them life is meant to be

satisfying. This concept of happiness has shifted; one generation sees it differently to the young people of today.”

Mr. Maisel is careful to point out that, whereas this is a generality, he has identified about 15% of third generation interviewees who defy the cultural shift.

Mr. Maisel is the recipient of the Order of Australia Medal. In 2016 he was awarded the Victorian Museum Award for his work taking testimonies.

The privilege of having spent an hour with Mr. Maisel is not lost on me.

His positive outlook on life, his practical attitude to the world we live in, and his tenacity for his work, even as he closes in on 100 years of life, should be a life lesson to everyone.

Even when it is not, life is a wonderful gift. We must make the most of every minute.

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

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After Buchenwald Sparks from an Ancient Scroll

Rabbi Herschel Schacter conducting services at the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945

By Shlomo Horwitz

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uring World War II, Rabbi Hershel Schacter was a chaplain in the Third Army’s VIII Corps and was the first U.S. Army chaplain to enter and participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after it had been liberated by Gen. George Patton’s troops on April 11, 1945.

While other American personnel begged to leave Buchenwald due to the unbearable stench, Rabbi Schacter, shocked by what he saw, decided to stay until he could make a more substantial contribution to the survivors. He stayed for months, tending to survivors and leading re-

ligious services; everything else was trivial.

Yechezkel* was a young man from a Polish Chasidic family. Rabbi Schacter took a special liking to the boy. Yechezkel had lost his entire family during the war and had renounced his faith in G-d. Yechezkel defiantly told the rabbi about his plans to assimilate and live the rest of his life in post-war Germany without a trace of Judaism. Rabbi Schacter listened sympathetically and tried to offer his moral support.

They talked often.

In Buchenwald, Rabbi Schacter organized a train transport for 200 boys to Switzerland. Rabbi Schacter

was responsible for distributing these special tickets from the Swiss government to the boys and to accompany them to Switzerland. It was a desperate time for survivors, and Rabbi Schacter wanted to get more than 200 boys into Switzerland. He asked a survivor who was an expert artist to create additional tickets.

One could not tell the difference between the original and the copy. In the end Rabbi Schacter distributed tickets to 400 boys. He also offered Yechezkel a ticket, but the boy refused. He wanted no part of restarting a Jewish life again and reminded the rabbi that he planned to resettle in Germany.

The day came when the train for Switzerland arrived at Buchenwald. Rabbi Schacter told Yechezkel, “Look, even if you don’t come with us to Switzerland, at least come to see us off when we board the trains.”

Yechezkel reluctantly agreed.

A young mother and her small son were desperate to get out of Buchenwald but babies were not allowed on this transport. She approached the rabbi in tears.

“Don’t worry, we’ll get you out,” Rabbi Schacter said. “Get on the train, and hide in one of the lavatories. Under no circumstances should you get out of the door unless I call you personally.”

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He locked them in after giving them some food to tide them over.

The 400 boys made their way onto the train. Rabbi Schacter was rushing to and fro, making sure each boy was accounted for, all the while scanning the crowd and wondering if Yechezkel would show up.

As the train was about to depart, Yechezkel appeared. He approached the door of the train where the rabbi was standing to shake his hand.

“Yechezkel, it’s so nice of you to come and say goodbye!” And with that, Rabbi Schacter grabbed the boy’s hand and with a burst of strength that surprised both of them, he hauled Yechezkel onto the train in one smooth motion, just as it was starting to pull out of the station.

The train picked up speed and Yechezkel was shocked and furious.

Rabbi Schacter told him he did it on impulse and asked him not to be so angry. It didn’t help. Yechezkel was steaming.

The train finally made its way to Switzerland. The Swiss protested that there was double the number of boys they expected.

Rabbi Schacter calmly threatened to call a press conference to tell the world that Switzerland is refusing entry to destitute war orphans.

The Swiss quickly backed down. The mother and child also made it safely without incident.

In Switzerland Rabbi Schacter attempted to put together a minyan on Shabbat. There was no problem for Shacharit but for Mincha he could only find nine men.

He remembered Yechezkel. Rabbi Schacter quickly found the young man who was still cursing his lot at having been “kidnapped.”

“Yechezkel, I need you for a minyan.”

“Are you crazy? Absolutely not!”

“But we only have nine. We need a minyan in order to daven and lein.”

“Oh really? Well, you need a minyan. I do not!” And with that, he lit up a cigarette.

Rabbi Schacter would not give up. “Yechezkel, I’m begging you.

Just come in to the tent – we’ll daven quickly”.

In a huff, Yechezkel replied,

Rabbi Schacter in 1971

“Fine! Just this once!” He entered the makeshift shul with a scowl.

They started the afternoon service and Yechezkel made sure ev-

“Yechezkel!”

“What do you want,” the boy replied, icily.

“Didn’t you tell me you used to

The holy letters of the scroll seemed to jump off the page and hit him in the face with full force.

eryone knew how unhappy he was.

Rabbi Schacter then took out the precious Sefer Torah, rolled it to the correct portion, and asked if any of the men knew how to read from the Torah. They all shook their heads, and Yechezkel was looking longingly outside the tent, apparently distracted. “What now?” thought Rabbi Schacter.

Suddenly, he remembered something.

read the portion from the Torah scroll in shul before the war?”

“Maybe. So what?”

“So you’re the only one of us who knows how to lein. We need to hear the reading of the Torah.”

“There you go again with your ‘We need to….’ You might need to. I certainly don’t!”

“Yechezkel, please! This is the first chance in years for people to hear the Torah portion being read af-

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ter being denied the chance. I’m begging you. I know you can do this!”

With extreme reluctance, Yechezkel threw his cigarette outside and approached the table. He cast an expert glance at the unrolled Sefer Torah and immediately found the starting point. “Okay,” he sighed.

“Let’s get on with it.”

Another man was called to the Torah and made the blessing. “…who has chosen us from all other nations and given us the Torah….”

“Amen,” Yechezkel found himself saying automatically. It came back so easily. Yechezkel began to read the sacred text.

Then something unexpected happened. The holy letters of the scroll seemed to jump off the page and hit him in the face with full force. He felt as if he was literally being struck with the powerful black letters. They seared his soul.

Yechezkel’s angry veneer had been shattered. He broke down crying like a baby and barely got through the Torah reading.

When he had begun, it had been someone else’s Torah. Now he had reclaimed it. And it had reclaimed him.

Yechezkel was forever changed by that Torah reading. He remained Torah-observant for the rest of his life and built a beautiful Jewish family in Australia. Yechezkel championed Torah causes in his city and stayed a devoted friend to the Schacter family for many decades. *Yechezkel is a pseudonym to protect his family’s privacy.

Shlomo Horwitz is the founding director of Jewish Crossroads, an educational theatre project which has provided creative Torah programming across the U.S., Canada, England and Israel. He studied at Yeshivat Sha’alvim and Yeshivat Ner Yisrael in Baltimore, at which he received ordination from Rabbi Yaakov Weinberg. Shlomo is a CPA and is a director of a consulting firm near Washington, D.C. He can be reached on his site at www.jewishcrossroads.com. This article originally appeared on OU.org.

Reprinted with permission from http:// www.aish.com/jw/s/After-BuchenwaldSparks-from-an-Ancient-Scroll.html.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

As you all know, it’s such a long process until a shidduch (to actually go out on a first date) finally takes place. There are two sides that have to be available at the same time and agree to go out with each other. So when the stars finally align themselves and I’m told by the shadchan that I can call So and So, I’m usually very happy to move on to the next step.

What I’m finding is happening occasionally, and it really upsets me, is that I’ll finally call up this woman and after a brief conversation, which I think goes well enough, I’m told that she has to get back to me.

And then I’ll hear from the shadchan that she doesn’t even want to go out on the first date. Or, I’ve even had the experience of actually arranging the first date, only to have it cancelled.

Am I the only person having this experience? It seems to me so rude and also strange. What could I possibly be saying on a 5 or 10 minute conversation to cause someone to decide to not even go out on one date to see how it goes? I think I ask the right questions and try to be respectful and interested.

This is so puzzling to me and I just don’t know if it’s a sign of the times, where people are becoming more and more selective before actually going out on a first date, or whether I’m doing something terribly wrong, though I can’t imagine what that could possibly be.

Is this a situation that you’re aware of and can give me some insights into how I can be more successful on my first phone call?

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

Our intention is not to offer any definitive

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

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. ating practices vary from community to community. Nonetheless, I am surprised that if you are using a shadchan the date hinges on a phone call after both boy and girl have agreed to date. Something seems wrong with this picture. If someone invested time and effort to get two people to go out, why would they let a brief phone conversation cancel the date?

Going forward, I would do two things. I would make sure that things are clear with the person setting you up. I am committing to a first date, you can say, and make it definite that you will call the girl as a formality only. It makes the date

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start more easily when you have chatted a bit and figured out a mutually convenient time and place so I wouldn’t skip the phone call. But I would make sure that the shadchan communicates to the other person that it will be a brief chat and that your date is the next step. At the same time, you can practice your phone skills and role play with a friend or family member.

I agree with you that people have become very wary before committing to a date. It’s not like it was years ago. A date is just a date but people don’t view it that way.

This situation makes it much harder to set people up. Getting a yes for a first date is like making a shidduch, it seems. With all the back and forth, it takes forever to get a yes from two people. While I understand a level of checking people

out (either through parents, friends, or oneself) what is so difficult about going out for coffee with someone else? The heightened selectivity discourages people from trying to help others find their mates. I find that informal shadchanim get discouraged and don’t persist because it’s too hard to get a yes for a first date.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. imme a second; I’m pulling out my soap box. If I could name the TOP two issues fueling the Shidduch Crisis, they are: 1) The Phone Call (or lack thereof), and 2) The Resume.

Your question, of course, centers on The Phone Call. (The Travesty of the Resume will inevitably be explored in a future column.) BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO! For the very gentlemanly act of reaching out – by phone, not text, email or third party (the shadchan) – and calling the girl suggested to you. One of the most successful shadchanim in Brooklyn confided to me: “There is no Shidduch Crisis. There are plenty of great guys out there; there are plenty of wonderful girls. If only guys would make that first phone call to arrange their own first date, it would save me hours of back-andforth-calling-and-confirming. That would free up my time to set up other shidduchim.”

Unfortunately, there is nobody monitoring your phone call for quality assurance, (heh, heh), so I can’t comment on the possible faux pas inherent in your initial phone calls. I can only pass on some tips I have gleaned from the guys and girls who have had to endure these (always) awkward face-less personal encounters.

Keep the conversation short, light and pleasant (no politics, philosophy, hashkafa or thoughts on the parsha). If you tend to tonguetie, keep a cheat sheet in front of

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What could I possibly be saying on a 5 or 10 minute conversation to cause someone to decide to not even go out on one date to see how it goes?

you: some practiced, vetted opening lines, the girl’s stats – her name, what she does (“How were classes; I hear Anatomy and Physiology are pretty tough.” “How did the day go at the office; isn’t it almost tax season?”), where she lives (Doesn’t Cousin Willy live in Kew Gardens?).

Unless you guys have discovered instant telephone rapport, get to the point in under 5 minutes: “I would like to meet with you. How does Sunday at 1 o’clock fit with your schedule?” Over and out.

And to the girls who have the audacity to cancel a date based on a lackluster first phone call, I must chasten: never judge a book by its cover or a guy by his phone swag.

Another Shadchan Tzipporah Feldman s a shadchan, I’ve heard it all.

I’m not surprised that your initial phone call has been met with disinterest in going out on a first date. I’m not even surprised that you’ve had women say O.K. over the phone and then had the shadchan call you back afterwards to cancel.

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would be considered within the “normal” range. And the “normal” range is not very often at all.

Both of these occurrences are downright rude by anyone’s standards. Neither events should ever take place. I think the problem is that so many people find themselves going out with 10, 20, sometimes even 50 different people and are so jaded, fed up, exhausted, sick of the whole dating process that they have let their guards down regarding civility and decide right off the bat that they don’t want to go out with anyone who doesn’t sound absolutely great from the get-go. They feel that they have wasted so much of their precious time already and are not willing to waste any more time if they even just suspect that the person calling them isn’t a great fit.

The question is, why has it happened to you more than once or

twice? I would suggest that the next time you call someone up for a first date, have someone you trust stay in the room with you in order to listen to how you approach the conversation. Perhaps there are some very easily rectified things you say that may be sabotaging your prospects for a first date. You need an objective set of ears to listen and critique. Maybe there is something so simple that you can change in your approach that will lead to better results. You’ve got a little bit of work ahead of you.

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calls them for a first date and says something over the phone that is just so off that they decide they don’t want to bother even going out on a first date. I personally feel that everyone should be given the chance of a first date. I know that many people are much better in person and, let’s face it, even the most confident conversationalists can find it hard to find something interesting to say to a total stranger! So, to all those women who didn’t even give you a chance, I say, “Shame on you!”

Having said that, I do wonder about your approach when calling for the first time. I wonder what it is that you might be saying that is so off-putting. Have you ever asked the shadchan whether there was something in particular that got back to them about their conversation with you? I think that would be a great question to ask. Maybe you’ll get an honest shadchan who is willing to give you some helpful insight into what’s wrong with your style. And to all the shadchanim

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Let's face it even the most confident conversationalists can find it hard to find something interesting to say to a total stranger.

out there who decline to share such information, I think you are doing the “single” a disservice.

Meanwhile, talk to some females you’re close to…sisters, cousins, wives of friends. Role play that first conversation with them and get their reactions to your approach and style. Listen carefully to what they say and take in their advice. It can only help.

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f a shadchan has set you up, and you both agree to go out, I think it is silly not to go on the date.

I’m sorry you’ve had this experience occasionally. It could be a sign of the times. However, without a recording of these phone conversations, it is impossible for anyone to know whether or not there is something you are saying that is off-putting.

I very much like Tzipporah Feldman’s advice of having someone in the room the next time you have a first phone call. This could be a very helpful way of receiving feedback that you can trust. Tova Wein mentioned role playing the phone call with a relative or friend. This is another fabulous idea. Role play exactly

as you would make the call.

Role play with as many women as possible… mother, sisters, aunts, cousins. Role play. Role play.

Role play. Be open to their feedback and ask for tips.

There are three possible explanations for the occasional turndowns.

The first is that you aren’t personable over the phone. Perhaps you sound monotonous. If this is the case, let’s see a little bit more personality.

Watch the inflection in your voice and be sure to sound appropriately enthusiastic. The second possible explanation is that the content of

the conversation is off.

Be sure to stick to casual, light chit-chat. The third possibility is that you have been set up with some picky, selective women. Do not allow their shortsightedness to get you down. Perhaps there are more explanations, but these are the three that stand out to me.

Keep a list or cheat sheet handy, as Sarah Schwartz Schreiber suggested (Mother truly does know best!), of light, casual topics to touch upon and then set up that date. Be a gentleman, and show a moderate amount of enthusiasm, and say your goodbyes. That’s it.

Remember, rejection is unfortunately part of the dating process.

We all get rejected, unless you marry your first date. The vast majority of us can’t avoid it. Be open to the

feedback from the roleplays. If you get the green light from honest and perceptive friends and family, you are good to go.

All the best, Jennifer

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

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Dr. Deb

Feeling Safe

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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ou can talk all you want about Rosh Hashana being a happy chag and the Coronation of the King, but let’s face it, the idea of it being Yom HaDin is downright scary.

Add to that an entire day of pleading with G-d for mercy on Yom Kippur and people who started out seeing themselves in a bad light have to find this pair of chagim awfully difficult.

Then comes Sukkos and we are supposed to put all that aside and be happy under the leafy protection of Hashem’s skies. How do you make that switch?

I’m going to suggest that it is not a switch in the first place.

In my last article, I proposed that, for some of us, our biggest aveirah may be not loving and appreciating ourselves enough. This is actually quite serious because it colors all of our relationships and our attitude to life itself. If we don’t love ourselves, it’s hard to love others and to love the life we are living. But that amounts to feeling like Hashem Himself did not love us if he gave us this “bad” life.

And I made a suggestion for combating those deep-seated opinions that

we have of ourselves.

What I did not address is how to explain all that to someone who has had losses and trauma as a recurring part of life. How can we understand this stuff that really is bad as something to be appreciated? After all, if I was dealt a really awful hand, it is only logical to believe there must be something wrong with the very essence of me that HaKadosh Baruch Hu would choose me to receive it.

The problem with trying to make sense of this is that we are using human logic to understand the Infinite.

That’s never going to work.

I would like to recommend that we work backwards to figure it out – not why Hashem would select someone to be a victim of terrible things but rather to start with a premise that He would never want to hurt us: He proposes problems and challenges for us to solve and to meet, and so our next step needs to be solution-oriented.

The backwards logic that I’m thinking of here fits exactly into understanding, from my perspective, the relationship between the Yomim Noraim and Sukkos.

So, to start with Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, if we begin with the belief that no matter how rough and how awful our experiences have been we were created here to be a blessing to those around us, a source of joy to ourselves, and to be filled with gratitude to our Creator for putting us here so we can do His holy work, then our davening is not at all about ripping ourselves up for being rotten people.

Rather, our davening is merely a gentle reminder to work on generating those very feelings of joy and appreciation if our struggles have made us stray. Knowing that we are not rotten at all, we can say our al cheits to help move us from move from being good to being excellent.

Where does this premise come from? From the davening itself: we are assured that Hashem loves us and wants to issue us a great upcoming year. We are safe in His loving Hands.

We feel protected, cared for, loved.

Next, Sukkos comes to actually play this drama out. Not only can we feel safe, but He arranges for us to be in the middle of nature’s unexpected and not always desirable moments,

and yet, we will be next to Him and we will be safe.

Now, you will surely see a gap in this logic because not everyone does get the following year that they really want. There can be sickness; there can be painful losses. Unrealized dreams can create down moments that drag into weeks and months.

But here is where this backwards logic works its magic: we are supposed to accept that what we think we wanted may not be the best thing for us in Hashem’s greater plan. In other words, when bad things happen, we can also tell ourselves that although they look bad and they certainly seem bad, they may not be bad in the long run.

I heard an incredible story on this from Rabbi Feiner of the White Shul (welcome back!). He told of a child who developed cancer which got progressively worse. The treatments were expensive and the family was uncertain how they would pay. Then, the worst tragedy of all struck the family, and this girl’s beloved father died. It took time for her to accept this terrible loss, but a point came when the

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family was able to tap into his life insurance policy to pay for the exorbitant cost of the treatments. And that saved her life.

There will never be a time when she can ask those dreadful why questions: why did I have to have cancer in the first place, let alone lose my father whom I loved so much? But working backwards, from the premise that Hashem does, indeed, love us, and provide for us, and all we have to do is figure out how to navigate this difficult world, this young lady realized that in a very unexpected way, her father’s death saved her life. And this was G-d’s goodness and love.

Back when I graduated high school, I was very excited to get into McGill University. I loved their brain research program, and I wanted to be a psychology researcher studying how the brain worked. I happily pictured my entire life in a lab, opening up rats’ brains. Except my mother, a”h had different thoughts on the subject.

She wasn’t so keen on my living in a

“foreign country.” And I was an only child. So I ended up in Queens College instead, taking basic psychology.

One thing led to another and I never did get into neuroscience; here I am instead. I cannot begin to tell you how much better it is to be where I

sometimes, we don’t even see that end because it affects family descendants that we may never know.

The solution is to reflect on the greatness of Hashem. The machzor strikingly says of Him, “I remember everything….” And I’m thinking,

We will be next to Him and we will be safe.

am than where I thought I wanted to be. Here, I’m helping people more directly. Hashem had a different plan than I did, and obviously, His is the better one.

Of course, when the loss is much greater, even traumatic, it is that much harder to convince oneself that this will be good in the end. And

everything? Wow. I can’t always remember what happened yesterday.

He remembers everything that ever happened to anybody and knows what will happen to us all. When we reflect on that, how can we even begin to question the paths of our lives?

When we do that, we are forced to realize that He did not give us pain to

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hurt us but for a positive ending that we can’t yet envision. And I believe that is why Sukkos follows so closely on the heels of Yom Kippur: it’s as if HaKadosh Baruch Hu is asking us to enjoy nature and His world and just soak up that feeling of safety and protection that He is giving us. Yes, even when hurricanes blow down our sukkahs (which happened more than once in my sojourn in Florida). Even that is a gentle tap on the shoulder reminding us, “Don’t worry; you need to leave it to Me. I’m here for you.”

If you can get through such forces of nature with a calm sense of protection, you can make it through everything with the assurance that you will be safe and needn’t have an iota of worry about the meaning of it all.

You’re good, and He loves you.

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

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Is an Esrog as Good for the Body as it is for the Soul?

By Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

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ukkos seems like a funny yom tov superficially. We leave our homes and spend as much time possible in a temporary hut for eight days. If that’s not strange enough, each day we hold a citrus fruit, an esrog, and a branch, a lulav, with two stalks of leaves, hadassim and aravos, and shake them into all four corners of the room. As strange as it seems to onlookers, we all know that these symbolic things have a deeper meaning.

Out of these four items, the arba minim, the esrog is the only item that is technically edible. It’s not only beautiful and good smelling, it’s good for you too. An esrog, more popularly known as a citron, is part of a class called citrus fruits. Citrus fruits include oranges, mandarins, limes, grapefruits, lemons, citrons, and pomelos.

One of the more popular citrus fruits are oranges. Growing up, you were most likely told to eat oranges anytime you felt a cold coming on.

That’s because mom was trying to load you up on vitamin C. All citrus fruits, including citrons, are rich in vitamin C. Vitamin C fights off foreign invaders and works hard to keep harmful bacteria and viruses out of the body to prevent disease. For this reason, citrus fruits help fight off the common cold. Squeeze some citron juice into a cup of warm tea to help

fight off the common cold. Vitamin C also helps keep your skin smooth.

These reasons make it seem like you can never go wrong by having too many citrus fruits.

What can be better than eating a fruit that helps keep your skin smooth? Eating a fruit that helps keep your skin smooth and helps you lose weight at the same time! Citrus fruits are very low in calories, which makes for a great snack for those trying to lose weight. Additionally, citrus fruits are a great source of fiber. Fiber helps digestion and helps regulate bowel movements, which aids in weight loss by keeping you fuller for longer.

Citrus fruits are particularly high in soluble fiber, which helps lower cholesterol levels.

Even more than fiber, citrus fruits also have a lot of other essential vitamins and minerals that your body needs to function properly such a B vitamins, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and copper.

Another benefit of citrus fruits is that they can help lower your chance of developing kidney stones. Kidney stones are a result of low levels of citrate in the urine. Citrus fruits help raise the level of citrate in the urine, thus reducing your risk of kidney stones.

Citrus fruits are also thought to help protect against certain types of cancers: esophageal, stomach,

pancreatic and breast. Citrus fruits contain flavonoids that act as antioxidants that are able to block the expression of certain genes that are responsible for cancer.

What’s more? Have you have ever been told that eating grapefruits is good for your heart? That’s because citrus fruits contain flavonoids that help lower your “bad” LDL cholesterol and help raise your “good” HDL cholesterol. Citrons specifically are thought to lower blood pressure. The potassium, vitamin C, and other electrolytes found in citrons help improve blood pressure by reducing strain on the arteries. This lowers your risk o f heart attack, atherosclerosis, and stroke.

Citrons are also considered to be anti-inflammatory. Anti-inflammatory agents found in citrons help treat acute pain, or chronic problems, such as headaches or discomfort from arthritis. If you have a headache, drink a glass of water with some freshly squeezed citron juice.

Citrus fruits have also been shown to help prevent neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.

While citrus fruits might sound like the magical answer to all of life’s problems, there is a downside.

The high acidity in citrus fruits can cause cavities since the acid can erode the tooth enamel, so don’t eat

too many citrus fruits without brushing in between. Secondly, while the fruits themselves might be healthy, the juices of citrus fruits don’t offer the same benefits. Therefore, for the utmost benefits, consume the fruits themselves. Lastly, grapefruits can interfere with certain medications, most prevalently statins. Talk to your doctor about eating grapefruits if taking medications.

Now that we know how healthy a citron is, how can it be eaten? Typically, you don’t just take a bite out of an esrog. What makes an esrog unique from all other citrus fruits is that it has a very thick, leathery rind with minimal amounts of flesh. You can grate the rind and use it as a zest in beverages, desserts, soups or even meat dishes. Or you can make the esrog into esrog jelly.

This Sukkos, as you make the bracha and shake your lulav and esrog, you can look at your esrog with a different perspective.

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

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Developing the Antidote to Vaping, Juuling and Other Evils

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

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here was good news but moments into the Jewish New Year.

Last week, the day after Rosh Hashana, our government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that teenage use of electronic cigarettes had reached an “epidemic proportion.” FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said that more than two million middle and high school students were regular users of e-cigarettes in 2017. This figure is especially alarming because federal law prohibits selling e-cigarettes to anyone under 18 years of age.

The result: the FDA gave makers and sellers of these devices 60 days’ notice to prove they can keep their devices away from minors.

In addition, the FDA was sending warning letters to 1,100 retailers, including 7-Eleven stores, Walgreens and Shell gas stations, for selling e-cigarettes to minors.

Dr. Gottlieb and the FDA are courageous to take on the e-cigarette, vaping

and juuling industries which are valued at tens of billions of dollars. Courage aside, it’s necessary. How ironic it is that a teenager may never smoke a cigarette but can become hooked on nicotine through e-cigarettes. And the high levels of nicotine in e-cigarettes is highly addictive. The insidious part, the FDA’s statement underscores, is that the “developing adolescent brain is particularly vulnerable to addiction.”

One more fact – one pot of juul equals one packet of cigarettes.

E-cigarettes, vaping and juuling are present in our Torah world, my dear readers. Promise. It’s in our schools and its rampant among young adults.

While some yeshivas and high schools have mandatory drug testing programs, the fact remains that these vices are omnipresent despite the drug testing programs because they will not be detected through a routine urine drug test. Some patients have told me that they indulge in vaping and juuling in school as the rebbe, teacher or whom-

ever walks past because these vices are so cleverly packaged, the rebbe, teacher or whomever has no idea that it is transpiring right under his own nose in his own daled amos.

Oh. One more point why these unfathomable activities are so addicting: because they are available in different, pleasant flavors. In other words, each person can find his favorite flavor.

You’ve read this correctly, and I will stand by my statements.

While the FDA, under Dr. Gottlieb’s direction, is doing the right thing, I humbly suggest that we must take this even further in our world. Yes, the e-cigarettes, vaping and juuling must be addressed. But the bigger concern is to determine why our children – teenagers who are adults-in-the-making – are vulnerable to these poisons. Then we may move to make the appropriate adjustments and corrections.

In recent weeks, established parents in my practice shared with me that their high school junior son, who

is a star student in one of our local schools, came to them proactively to discuss the vaping and juuling that he witnesses on a daily basis. The parents were dumbfounded: vaping and juuling in their son’s yeshiva? Their son was firm that he wasn’t naming the boys who are indulging in these activities.

Rather, he wanted to talk about being bored in school and how the pressure of that boredom is tremendous and that he can understand why boys slip down the slippery slope into vaping and juuling addiction.

Boredom, especially boredom in school, is a theme I’ve heard a lot about from today’s teenagers. A lot of it is attributable to technology, social media and the instant gratification that prevails in today’s world, rather than hard work. What percentage of this ennui is attributable to forces outside the Jewish world? A significant percentage, I would say.

But that doesn’t absolve us from looking inwards and seeing what’s

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lacking in our world and addressing it accordingly. There’s lots of work needed in our schools and their curricula.

Let’s put it bluntly: what worked in past generations may no longer be the ways of reaching and engaging today’s youth.

The lack of inspiration in today’s world, the frum community included, is not a new topic. There are not a small number of fellow Jews who live amongst us who feel disenchanted and disenfranchised. Let’s call them “Reverse Marranos” because while they may look and dress the part of Torah Jews and go through the motions of religious observance, in reality, they are checked out religiously. Why? Because they lack understanding of what they are doing and why they are doing it. This phenomenon is happening at younger and younger ages which is why I believe our high schoolers are vulnerable to the ugliness of vaping and juuling.

So what can be done?

Let’s pull together a “brain trust” of people from throughout the Orthodox world to a round table discussion

on what our yeshivas and schools can be doing differently. It would be fascinating to hear from the masmidim, the professionally educated and the

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No doubt, Hebrew kriah and English reading skills are basic to setting a person on a path to success in school and life. As our classes get larger and

Boredom, especially boredom in school, is a theme I’ve heard a lot about from today’s teenagers.

ones who weren’t students and either “flopped” or made something of themselves. Each would have a tale to tell and we would learn from them all.

How does being on a “Alef,” “Beis” or “Gimmel” track affect one’s sense of self? How has the curriculum prepared one for life? How has the curriculum adjusted to the 21st century?

our teachers are not always the best prepared professionally, are our children slipping between the cracks?

These skills are the proverbial foundation necessary upon which to construct a strong edifice.

Emunah and bitachon should no longer be taken for granted in our homes and schools and should be taught in creative ways. The root of the word emunah is from “omen,” a craftsman. A craftsman does not just sit down and knock out a piece of his craft. He works and works at it, perhaps seeking professional guidance and even remolding it until he creates a work of art. Emunah and bitachon are lifelong endeavors. We can help stack the decks in favor of our children pursuing this if we were to make it more relevant and real for them.

For example, there are primary sources available of the religious questions posed to Rabbi Ephraim Oshry (1914-2003) who was a rabbi in the Kovno ghetto. Miraculously, he survived the Shoah. His writings detail not only the Nazi/Lithuanian collaboration for our destruction, but also how, despite the shadow of death as a constant presence, Jews sought to keep Hashem’s Torah and commandments as evidenced by the religious questions posed to Rav Oshry and how he answered them.

Perhaps our schools and other educational programs should learn some of these primary sources. Our middle school- and high school-age children and adults would experience the deep longing of their ancestors to connect with the Infinite and to know that being

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a Jew is the greatest thing in the world.

Over the recent yom tov, I read through Yeshiva University’s Rosh Hashanah To-Go 5779. The theme was tefillah. Among the excellent articles was an exceptional one by Rabbi Joshua Kahn, Head of School at Yeshiva University High School for Boys (also known as MTA), entitled “Teenagers and Tefillah: An Approach to Tefillah Education in High School.”

Rabbi Kahn details a program that his school instituted last year for sophomore students on tefillah, focused on enhancing their awareness of Hashem through monthly programs, goal setting and meeting one-on-one with their rebbeim. Each month, the specific application would shift, ranging from brachos before eating to other areas of brachos, such as Ashar Yatzar, to seeing Hashem’s hand in this world. The common theme was to perceive and appreciate Hashem’s involvement in the world in general.

Rabbi Kahn’s article is a worthwhile read (https://www.yutorah.org/ togo/roshhashana/) and is…inspiring.

A yeshiva high school has developed a program for an age cohort at a particularly important time in their mental and emotional development. It’s impressive. I would venture to guess that the rebbeim need training in this area as well. After all, they can only help their students with tefillah and their relationship with Hashem to the extent that they themselves are developed in tefillah and their own relationship with Hashem.

These are some of my suggestions, and I welcome yours. I challenge some of our organizations like Torah Umesorah, the Orthodox Union or the Agudah to take on this challenge and begin turning the tide.

It is preferable that we step up to the plate and work collectively to stop these self-harming behaviors rather than have to gather graveside for yet another unnecessary loss of a young life.

As always, daven.

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

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Pomegranate Brick Roast with Cipollini Onions

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This super-easy dish is quick to prepare and can be used with different cuts of meat such as a California roast, second cut brisket, or French roast. I always make two of these at a time – one for now and one for the freezer.

Ingredients 5 lb. brick roast 1 tsp kosher salt ½ tsp cinnamon ½ tsp nutmeg 1 tsp ground coriander 1 tsp chili powder 6 cloves garlic 1-2 tablespoons olive oil 1 cup red wine 1 cup pomegranate juice 8-10 Cipollini onions, peeled

Preparation Preheat oven to 325°F. Mix spices, garlic and olive oil to make a paste.

Spread the paste over the meat and set aside.

Place onions in a roasting pan. Place meat on top of onions. Pour wine and juice over meat. Cover tightly and bake for 3 hours.

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

I did not let blindness become an issue. I don’t believe in the “poor me,” “can’t do,” “won’t work,” “impossible” vocabulary. I totally eliminate that. In life you’ve got to deal with what you have, and not what you don’t have. In other words, I have to work around the blindness.

I have no choice. I have dreams and goals. I am determined to achieve them.

- David Hunt, who owns an award-winning winery, in a recent Fox Business interview talking about his blindness

If I believe in a business, I don’t listen to the lawyers or accountants who are going to talk you out of it. If I believe I can do it, I just do it.

- Ibid.

“How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad,” former President Barack Obama asked a crowd in Illinois over the weekend. Well, probably no harder than saying the words “radical Islam,” I imagine. Or maybe it’s slightly less difficult than not sending billions of dollars to Holocaust-denying terror regimes that have both the means and intent to murder Jews – in 2018, not 1942. And it’s definitely a lot easier than not meeting, posing, then smiling for a picture with Louis Farrakhan. But thanks for the lecture.

– David Harsanyi, The Federalist

FEMA has a new emergency alert system that would let Trump send a message to every cellphone in the U.S. They even have a name for it: Twitter.

- Jimmy Fallon

Amazon is planning to introduce up to eight new smart home devices this year, including a voicecontrolled microwave oven, though if you need voice control to use a microwave, maybe you’re too drunk to eat whatever you’re asking for.

– Seth Myers Sometimes even bad ideas get submitted for patents. This was never used and we have no plans for usage.

- Tweet by Amazon executive Dave Clark after it was disclosed that in 2016 Amazon got a patent for employee cages so that employees could spend their shifts in tiny metal enclosures which could be driven around the warehouse

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I don’t have nothing to say about Vontae. I’ll give him a little bit more respect than he showed us today as far as quitting. He didn’t say nothing to nobody. You know as much as I know. I found out going into the second half of the game. They said, “He’s not coming out. He retired.”

- Buffalo Bills defensive end Lorenzo Alexander talking about his teammate cornerback Vontae Davis who pulled himself out in middle of the Bills’ game against the Los Angeles Chargers last Sunday, changed out of his football jersey and retired while the game was still in progress

This isn’t how I pictured retiring from the NFL. But in my 10th NFL season, I have been doing what my body has been programmed to do: Get ready to play on game day. ... Today on the field reality hit me fast and hard: I shouldn’t be out there anymore.

– Part of the statement released by cornerback Vontae Davis later on in the day

I’ll come back next year.

- Helen Self to the owner of a restaurant in Montana, after he gave her a 109% discount – resulting in her being paid to eat – in honor of her 109th birthday

Take life as it comes and don’t get too excited about anything.

- Ibid., sharing her secret to longevity

ICE, under the direction of President Trump, has demonstrated an inability to fulfil [sic] its duties without violating due process, human rights, transparency, public accountability, or an adherence to domestic and international law.

- Part of the resolution passed last week by the New York City Council calling on the federal government to abolish ICE, which enforces the nation’s immigration laws

As far as Kaepernick goes, I think he’s a thug… People don’t know this, but this guy paid $25,000, sent a $25,000 check, to a group that supports Assata Shakur, who killed a New Jersey state trooper, and that organization she would affiliate with was responsible for a multitude of bombings and cop assassinations. Ten cops were killed by that group, and Kaepernick supported her with a $25,000 check last year. I think he’s disgusting, this isn’t about the “oppression.” I heard him the other day saying, “My brothers are fighting for the oppressed.” What oppressed?

What are you talking about? This is the United States of America. Nobody’s oppressed in the United States of America. You want to see oppression? I’ll take you to a couple other countries, I promise you, you’ll find oppression.

- New York City’s 40th police commissioner, Bernard Kerik, on Breitbart Daily News, talking about Colin Kaepernick

I never miss my nightcap. All I have is the whisky at night… I started having a nightly tot of it when I turned 50 so I’ve been having it every night for the last 60 years and I certainly have no intention of stopping now. My doctor said, “Keep up with the whisky, Grace; it’s good for your heart.”

- Britain’s oldest person, Grace Jones, revealing the secret to her longevity to The Daily Mail, on her 112th birthday

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Steady and consistent training, passion and self-discipline.

- World-record marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge, revealing the secret of his success after running the Berlin marathon in a record-breaking 2:01:39 time

Self-discipline is about focusing and living a simple life. Of course, training is important. But more important is the passion you put in it. You have to strongly believe that you are able to make it and be able to run this distance. That’s the magic of a marathon.

- Ibid.

This president has displayed the most despicable behavior that any human being could do.

– Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), on MSNBC

I liked the name Jude. I didn’t realize it meant Jewish, which it does.

- Paul McCartney, in a recent interview talking about his iconic song, “Hey Jude”

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I’m thinking about a lot of things. I said publicly that perhaps one of them will be public office, but there’s a lot of things I could do, perhaps to help the American people and help people who are not being served by this administration by not running for president. We’ll have to see.

- Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz talking about his future in a CBS News interview

According to a recent report, NASA is looking into selling naming rights to their spacecraft. Not only will it affect the rockets, imagine the countdown. “18, 17, 16, 15 minutes could save you 15 percent or more on your car insurance, 14.”

- James Corden

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The U.S. is the hottest economy in the world today. We’re crushing it.

- Larry Kudlow, the director of Trump’s National Economic Council, speaking at the Economic Club of New York

The single biggest story of this year, 2018, the single biggest news story – not fictionalized versions of what’s going on in the White House – the single-biggest story is an economic boom that virtually everybody thought impossible.

- Ibid.

I didn’t speak Paris, didn’t speak Italian.

- A celebrity recounting in a recent TV interview how it was hard for her to communicate when she lived in Italy and… well…Paris

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Political Crossfire

Trump is Right to Protect Americans from the International Criminal Court

By Marc A. Thiessen

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hould an unaccountable United Nations court, created by a treaty to which the United States is not a signatory and that the Senate has not ratified, be allowed to investigate, try and imprison American citizens?

Unfortunately, this is no longer a theoretical question. In November, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, Fatou Bensouda, announced she was seeking a formal investigation into alleged war crimes committed by U.S. military forces and CIA officers in Afghanistan. Bensouda – a Gambian lawyer who is answerable to no government or institution – claims unbridled power to investigate, charge and prosecute American citizens, no matter what the U.S. government says. A pretrial chamber of the court, made up of judges from Hungary, France and Benin, reportedly will approve her request in the coming days.

Who gave these foreign magistrates the right to try U.S. citizens, whose government never assented to the court’s jurisdiction through our own democratic institutions?

No one. And, yet, they are preparing to exercise this supranational power for the first time.

That will not happen if the

Trump administration has anything to say about it. In a speech last week to the Federalist Society, national security advisor John Bolton delivered a stark warning to the ICC: “If the court comes after us ... this administration will fight back to protect American constitutionalism, our sovereignty, and our citizens. No committee of foreign nations will tell us how to govern ourselves and defend our freedom.”

Should the court act against U.S. citizens, Bolton said, the United States will bar ICC judges and prosecutors from entering the country, sanction their funds in the U.S. financial system, and prosecute them in the American criminal-justice system.

I know something about the ICC, because I was present at its creation. In 1998, as a staff member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I attended the Rome conference where the treaty was negotiated. The committee’s chairman, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), warned that, unless checks were placed on the ICC prosecutor’s unfettered discretion to prosecute U.S. citizens – including a U.N. Security Council “screen” that would permit the United States to veto cases going forward – the Rome treaty would be “dead on arrival” in the Senate.

When those protections were rejected, Helms introduced the “American Servicemembers’ Protection Act” to bar U.S. cooperation with the ICC and to punish the court for any efforts to prosecute Americans. The measure was approved in 2002 by a bipartisan 75-to-19 vote. So not only has the Senate not ratified the ICC treaty, it has explicitly authorized the president to use “all means necessary” – including military force – to shield American citizens from ICC prosecution.

We were told back then that all of this was unnecessary and that the idea a rogue ICC prosecutor would ever go after Americans was ridiculous. The court would focus on grievous human-rights abuses by the world’s tyrants, not on democracies with robust and transparent legal systems capable of policing their own citizens. That was a lie.

Not only is the ICC threatening Americans, it has our democratic ally, Israel, in its crosshairs. In 2015, Bensouda opened a preliminary investigation of Israel for actions defending itself against Palestinian terrorist attacks in the West Bank and Gaza – despite the fact that the court has no jurisdiction because Israel is not a party to the treaty and because Palestinian territories can-

not be a “state party” to the treaty considering they are not a “state.”

In May, the Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, traveled to The Hague to hand over a criminal referral against Israel and to urge the court to indict and prosecute Israeli officials.

The ICC is not just a threat to U.S. citizens and our democratic allies – it is a hindrance to democratic change. Since the end of the Cold War, almost every peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy has involved some form of amnesty. The existence of the ICC makes it more difficult to convince dictators to step down because the option of safety in exile has effectively been eliminated. Without a credible guarantee that they will remain unmolested abroad, dictators may well decide they are better off holed up in their palaces. The lesson to tyrants such as Venezuela’s Nicol s Maduro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, or Iran’s ayatollahs is clear: if the people rise up, it is safer to fire on the crowds than to flee.

By taking on the ICC, the Trump administration is not just protecting U.S. citizens and American sovereignty – it is striking a blow for democracy across the world. (c) 2018, Washington Post Writers Group

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The Threat to Democracy From the Left

By Fareed Zakaria

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or several years now, scholars have argued that the world is experiencing a “democratic recession.” They have noted that the movement of countries toward democracy has slowed or stopped and even, in some places, reversed. They also note a general hollowing out of democracy in the advanced, industrial world. When we think about this problem, inevitably and rightly we worry about Donald Trump, his attacks on judges, the free press and his own Justice Department. But there is also a worrying erosion of a core democratic norm taking place on the left.

It has become commonplace to hear cries on the left to deny controversial figures on the right a platform to express their views. Colleges have disinvited speakers like Condoleezza Rice and Charles Murray. Other campuses were unwilling or unable to allow conservative guests to actually speak, with protests overwhelming the events.

A similar controversy now involves Steve Bannon, who, in recent months, has been making the rounds on the airwaves and in print – including an interview I did with him on CNN. Some have claimed that Bannon, since leaving the administration, is simply unimportant and irrelevant and thus shouldn’t be given a microphone. But if that were the case, surely the media, which, after all, is a for-profit industry, would notice the lack of public interest and stop inviting him.

The reality is that the people run-

ning The Economist, The Financial Times, “60 Minutes,” The New Yorker and many others who have recently sought to feature Bannon know that he is an intelligent and influential ideologist, a man who built the largest media platform for the new right, ran Trump’s successful campaign before serving in the White House, and continues to articulate and energize the populism that’s been on the rise

talist ideas work?

Liberals need to be reminded of the origins of their ideology. In 1859, when governments around the world were still deeply repressive – banning books, censoring commentary and throwing people in jail for their beliefs – John Stuart Mill explained in his seminal work, “On Liberty,” that protection against governments was not enough: “There needs protection

By trying to suppress Bannon and others on the right, liberals are likely making their ideas seem more potent.

throughout the Western world. He might be getting his 15 minutes of fame that will peter out, but, for now, he remains a compelling figure.

The real fear that many on the left have is not that Bannon is dull and uninteresting, but the opposite – that his ideas will prove seductive and persuasive to too many people.

Hence his detractors’ solution: don’t give him a platform, and hope that this will make his ideas go away. But they won’t. In fact, by trying to suppress Bannon and others on the right, liberals are likely making their ideas seem more potent. Did the efforts of communist countries to muzzle capi-

also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose ... its own ideas and practices ... on those who dissent from them.” This classic defense of free speech, which Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes later called the “freedom for the thought that we hate,” is under pressure in America – and from the left.

We’ve been here before. Half a century ago, students were also shutting down speakers whose views they found deeply offensive. In 1974, William Shockley, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who in many ways was

the father of the computer revolution, was invited by Yale students to defend his abhorrent view that blacks were a genetically inferior race who should be voluntarily sterilized. He was to debate Roy Innis, the African-American leader of the Congress of Racial Equality. (The debate was Innis’ idea.) A campus uproar ensued, and the event was cancelled. A later, rescheduled debate with another opponent was disrupted.

The difference from today is that Yale recognized that it had failed in not ensuring that Shockley could speak. It commissioned a report on free speech that remains a landmark declaration of the duty of universities to encourage debate and dissent. The report flatly states that a college “cannot make its primary and dominant value the fostering of friendship, solidarity, harmony, civility or mutual respect. ... It will never let these values ... override its central purpose. We value freedom of expression precisely because it provides a forum for the new, the provocative, the disturbing and the unorthodox.”

The report added: “We take a chance, as the First Amendment takes a chance, when we commit ourselves to the idea that the results of free expression are to the general benefit in the long run, however unpleasant they may appear at the time.” It is on this bet for the long run, a bet on freedom – of thought, belief, expression and action – that liberal democracy rests. (c) 2018, Washington Post Writers Group

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Circular Celebration

By Jon Kranz

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ome things are just a given.

On Yom Kippur, we fast. On Pesach, we eat matzah. On Sukkot, we complain about chilly weather. On Hoshana Rabba, we pulverize innocent willow branches into smithereens. And on Simchas Torah, we dance around in circles.

In fact, “hakafah” literally means “to circle.”

Round and round we go, for hours on end. No fancy footwork, just a furious Ferris wheel flourish.

No mambo or merengue, just mindless merry-go-round marching. We don’t fight it, we don’t even question it. We just instinctively submit to the revolving rikud (dance) like a bunch of celebrating zombies.

Mind you, it’s not just on Simchas Torah. Jews “circle up” in celebration at weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, aufrufs, bris milot, etc.

I once saw a Jewish family circle dancing at a busy restaurant when the waiter finally brought their entrées. (Yes, they were my relatives.)

And the crazy thing is that all Jews dance around in circles in the same clumsy way. We look like meshugana maladroit androids programmed by the makers of Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel. Simply put, our circle dancing sometimes can be a “hora”-ble sight.

Remember that Oscar-winning movie wherein Kevin Costner was given an American Indian name, Dances with Wolves? Well, on Simchat Torah each and every Jew would be given the exact same American

Indian name, Dances in Circles.

Some scholars posit that we dance in circles because we are Jews, and we are Jews because we dance in circles. Such circular reasoning – although geometrically appropriate – does not really answer the question.

So, why do Jews dance in circles? Other cultures do not. American cowboys square dance and line dance, both of which are literally antithetical to circular movement. This must be one of the reasons there are so few Jewish cowboys, which is a shame because the ten-gallon hat

roundabout routine did not stop there. We are told that during the Battle of Jericho, the Jews marched around the City of Jericho, which is when the walls (as the song goes) “came a tumblin’ down.” And believe it or not, in the 1st Century B.C.E. there actually was a controversial Jewish scholar known as Choni haM’agel, i.e., Choni the Circle-Maker.

Enough said.

So with all of this “non-linear” lineage, it is not surprising that when the State of Israel was established in 1948, it was reported that in the streets of Jerusalem “[c]ircles

Like a washing machine on spin cycle, we whirl around with reckless abandon.

and the shtreimel share many practical advantages.

If we really want to solve this rounded riddle as to why Jews dance in circles, we need to get biblical.

The Torah tells us that after leaving Mitzrayim, the Jewish People were forced to wander the desert for forty years. And guess what? Most scholars believe that during those four decades, the Jews must have been walking around…in circles. This

on circles formed as the music and movement of horas swirled across the generations.”

Thus it seems that Jews are historically and possibly genetically predisposed to dancing in circles.

If that is true, and given thousands of years of dance practice, you’d think that as a people, as a nation, we’d be much better at it.

But when the music starts, our circle-forming is haphazard and

confusing. Nobody seems to know precisely what to do. Like a washing machine on spin cycle, we whirl around with reckless abandon. It’s all in good, high-speed fun and rarely does anyone get seriously injured, which given the acceleration and (appropriate levels of) inebriation is truly a nes gadol. The only real downside is that our circles very rarely switch direction, thus wearing out the heels of our shoes rather unevenly. It is all super-menschy organized chaos, kind of like when the Jews invade Miami Beach during Pesach.

I guess the true beauty of Jews dancing in circles is that it brings us together, forces us to interact and promotes our nation’s favorite pastime: Jewish geography. As we circle, we connect new faces to old, old to new, uncovering interesting interconnections. So dancing leads to relationships and then those relationships bring people together for life-cycle celebrations, which leads to more dancing, which means we have…come full circle.

Final thought (or in this case, curve): asking a Jew to dance in something other than a circle would be like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. But if you want to do so, go right ahead, it makes no circumference to me.

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

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The Feuerwerkers: Resisting the Nazi Beast

By Avi Heiligman

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he Jewish French population had peaked to about 340,000 in 1949. Many Jews had fled there to avoid Nazi persecution. In the years prior, many Jews served in the French Army, and when Marshal Petain signed the armistice agreement with the Nazis in June 1940 many French Jews went into hiding. Part of France was under nominal French control until the Nazi takeover in November 1942.

As expected, many French citizens refused to cooperate with the Nazis, and their French collaborators and a strong resistance movement was formed. An unlikely couple became important members of the French resistance.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1912, David Feuerwerker learned at the local Talmud Torah. His parents came from prominent families in the Austria-Hungarian region and moved to France before David finished high school. He was a bright, young man and spoke several languages which he learned while studying at Sorbonne in Paris. In 1937 he was ordained as a rabbi by a yeshiva in Paris. In the years leading up to World War II, the French military was building up their military, and Rabbi Feuerwerker served in the army from 1937 until July 1940.

While in the military, Rabbi Feuerwerker served with an artillery unit in Alsace. He was a communications officer and was awarded the Croix de Guerre for showing “drive, courage, and competence in assuring under fire the phone and radio contacts… [Feuerwerker] distinguished himself again

during the combats of June 1940 on the Ailette, the Aisne, and the Seine, as Jewish Chaplain of his Division.

[Feuerwerker] has contributed to maintain the fighting spirit around him and to uphold the morale of the engaged units.”

As mentioned in his citation, Rabbi Feuerwerker became a chaplain and helped many refugees find safe places far away from the Nazis. With the capitulation of France to the Axis powers, he became the rabbi of Brive and had no intention of leaving France.

Together with his wife Antoinette they joined the growing resistance movement.

Antoinette Gluck Feuerwerker was born in Antwerp and was the direct descendent of the Maggid of Mezeritch. Her family had moved from Poland during World War I and had settled in France after a brief time in Germany. She studied in Strasbourg and then went to law school. One of her professors was Rene Capitant, who became the Minister of Justice under President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s. Later in the war Rene was appointed the Minister of Education after Antoinette had a stint working in his law firm.

In 1939, Antoinette met David in Paris and they married two months after the Nazis invaded Poland. He was stationed on the Maginot Line and had to get special permission to leave the front in order to get married.

The leader of the resistance movement called Combat in Brive was Ed-

mund Michelet. A day before Charles de Gaulle’s appeal to resist the Nazi occupation, Michelet distributed papers calling on the French to continue the war against the fascists. He helped save many refugees before being captured and sent to Dachau. While there, he contracted typhus and was among the last to leave the camp after liberation. In 1959, de Gaulle appointed him Minister of Justice.

The Feuerwerkers were working under Michelet (who was not Jewish), and together the resistance movement thrived. In its official documents written by Germaine Ribière, Combat describes the rebbetzin’s (she is the only known rabbi’s wife to have actively participated in the resistance) work.

“Mrs. Antoinette Feuerwerker nee Gluck has been closely and actively involved in all the resistant activities of her husband, Rabbi Feuerwerker, in particular for the research and accommodation of liaison officers and the dissemination of illegal newspapers. She took over with Germaine Ribière the evacuation of young people wanted by the occupying authority. In summary, the “Combat” Movement considered it one of its most active agents.”

Ribière himself saved many Jews during the Holocaust and was recognized by Yad Vashem. The Feuerwerkers helped many Jews receive papers so they could escape to Cuba.

During the last months of the war the Gestapo caught on to the rabbi’s re-

sistance activity and set out for his arrest. However, he was one step ahead of them and fled to Switzerland. Once in Geneva he was arrested by the Swiss authorities but soon was out of incarceration. He made his way to Lyon, France, where he participated in the liberation. At a ceremony commemorating the end of the war, Rabbi Feuerwerker was asked to speak. After the war was over, Rabbi Feuerwerker was instrumental in rebuilding the Jewish community in Lyon as well as the rest of France.

Rebbetzin Antoinette decided to stay in France when her husband escaped the country. Together with her baby daughter, Atara, they hid in a convent. They only had water and potatoes to eat and drink but were safe from the Nazis. Her brother, Dr. Salomon Gluck, and sister, Rose Warfman, were also actively involved with the Combat resistance movement. Dr. Salomon was captured and brutally murdered on a convoy that was making its way to Lithuania. Rose was arrested in the shul in Brive and was taken to Auschwitz. Antoinette helped her obtain a nurse’s uniform where she was singled out for survival by the infamous Doctor Mengele. For the rest of the war she was put in forced, hard labor where she was regularly beaten. She survived the war and returned to Paris to work for El Al Airlines.

After the war Rabbi Feuerwerker became the chief chaplain in the French Navy and helped the French Jewish education that was decimated

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Members of the French resistance

during the war.

The Feuerwerkers eventually moved to Montreal with their children.

Rabbi Feuerwerker became the chief rabbi there and led the community.

The French resistance played a vi-

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An announcement of Rabbi Feuerwerker’s passing in The Gazette on June 23, 1980

tal role in the later stages of the war.

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, they made it very difficult for the Nazis to reach the Normandy beaches. For the next several months they participated in sabotage and intelligence gathering operations that greatly assisted the ad-

vancing Allied armies. The Feuerwerkers played an important part of these networks. Their story is a unique one in that they were a rav and rebbetzin actively fighting against the Nazis.

Many Jewish refugees were saved from the horrors of the Holocaust because of

their heroism.

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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APT FOR RENT FAR ROCKAWAY: NEW LISTING Bright & Sunny 3BR Apt In House On 2nd Flr, Heat & Water Included, Near All...$2,500/mo Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com WOODMERE: HOUSE RENTAL JUST LISTED!!! 4BR, 3BA, Very Large Split, Completely Renovated on Enormous Property. New Windows, New EIK & Bathroom, 3 Extra Rooms Downstairs + An Extra Bonus Rm on Ground Level, Park-like Backyard…$4,900/mo Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

CO-OP FOR SALE FAR ROCKAWAY NEW LISTING Spacious & Updated 2BR, 2 Bathroom Apt on 1st Floor W/Terrace In Elevator Bldg, Parking, Doorman & Laundry Room On Premise...$350K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com WOODMERE: X-Large Townhouse, 4BR, 3.5 Baths, Eik, Patio, Low Taxes, Community IG-Pool & Tennis, Close To All, SD#14...$549K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com LAWRENCE: PRICE REDUCED Beautiful, Spacious, Sunny & Updated 1BR on 1st Floor. Kitchen Has 2 Full Size Sinks, Lovely Hardwood Floors, Very Low Maintenance, Near All...$189K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 www.pugatch.com

HELP WANTED Lev Chana Early Childhood Center, Hewlett, NY is looking to hire ASSISTANT TEACHERS FOR THE 2018-2019 SCHOOL YEAR. Candidates should have experience working with young children and be pursuing a degree in education or a related field.

Resumes to rgreen@halb.org Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island is looking for a full time main office secretary. Communication, computer proficiency and organizational skills required.

If interested, please e-mail your resume to office@ykli.org

F/T & P/T REGISTERED NURSE openings to work with adults who have developmental disabilities within residential settings in Brooklyn, Manhattan, or Long Island. Current NYS RN, min 2 years hospital experience. OHEL: 855-OHEL JOB, www.ohelfamily.org/careers

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Assistants needed for elementary school, afternoon session. email fivetownseducators@gmail.com Seeking full time PHYSICAL THERAPIST for Special Education school located in Brooklyn. Experienced preferred.

Competitive salary. Room for growth. resumes@yadyisroelschool.org SHULAMITH EARLY CHILDHOOD is looking to hire a full time teacher assistant for the current school year.

Please email resume to earlychildhood@shulamith.org 5 TOWNS BOYS YESHIVA SEEKING Elem Gen Ed Teachers.

Excellent working environment and pay. Only lic/exp need apply.

Email resume to yeshivalooking@gmail.com Due to continued growth, the Yeshiva of South Shore is seeking Elementary School Teachers.

Cert/Exp required.

Please forward resume to monika@yoss.org HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH seeks a MS Maternity Leave Limudei Kodesh Morah.

Email resumes to ulubetski@halb.org RECEPTIONIST Local school seeking Receptionist to oversee busy operation.

Responsibilities include answering phones, making appointments, data entry, and secretarial tasks. Good communication and computer skills required. Good pay, benefits, Jewish and Secular holidays off. Part time or full time. Email resume to fivetownsschool@gmail.com

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Pugatch Realty Corp., in Woodmere, is looking to hire and train a select group of motivated Realtors. If you are looking to build a career in real estate, or looking to take your existing career to the next level, there is no better place to start that the #1 Real Estate Brokerage in the Five Towns… Call Today (516) 295-3000 x 128.

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Floating Palace, Indeed!

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

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his week’s story is a briny chowder of petty vandalism, tax avoidance, partisan posturing, and flat-out misinformation.

There’s probably something in here to offend everyone. So buckle your seat belts and get ready for a ride!

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been one of Donald Trump’s most controversial cabinet officials since barely surviving Senate confirmation thanks to the Vice President’s tie-breaker. It doesn’t help that she’s also one of Trump’s wealthiest appointees. She and her husband Dick, son of Amway founder Richard DeVos, are worth an estimated $1.3 billion. And the DeVos clan, befitting their place on the Forbes 400 list, enjoy the usual collections of homes, jets, and ten (ten!) yachts that you would expect a family of billionaires to maintain.

Last month, news broke that someone had untied Betsy’s 164-foot yacht Seaquest from its dock on Lake Erie. That may be newsworthy on its own — the vessel cost 40$ million, which means damage could have been significant, and Lake Erie isn’t exactly known for random drifting superyachts. But what really drew fire was the news that DeVos, who of course serves a president dedicated

to “America First,” was flying a Cayman Islands flag on her vessel. The partisan outrage machine instantly kicked into gear, howling that DeVos had avoided over $2 million in tax with the move.

Why would a Michigan billionaire, whose husband actually ran for

lets her meet a considerably less-demanding set of standards. (Think “island time,” but apply that concept to maritime rules and regulations.)

So DeVos is a high-class hypocrite, right, exploiting loopholes to save millions and cheat the kids she’s sworn to serve? Well, if so,

Why would a Michigan billionaire, whose husband actually ran for governor of the state, register her floating palace on a tiny flyspeck of an island 1,700 miles away?

governor of that state, register her floating palace on a tiny flyspeck of an island 1,700 miles away? If she registers Seaquest in Michigan, she’s potentially subject to the Wolverine State’s 6% use tax, or $2.4 million.

She’s subject to U.S. safety and inspection standards. And her crew is subject to U.S. labor requirements.

Registering the yacht in the Caymans

she’s hardly alone. Sailing under a “flag of convenience” has a long and sometimes-even-honorable history.

Early American merchantmen flew under the British flag to avoid Barbary pirates. And if you’ve ever taken a cruise, you’ve done it yourself. Take Royal Caribbean’s brand-new $1.4 billion Symphony of the Seas. She’s the world’s largest cruise ship, with

robot bartenders, 22 restaurants, 24 swimming pools. And she sails under a Bahamas flag.

What’s more, it turns out the headlines blaming Betsy for registering “a fleet of yachts” outside the country are, to use a loaded term, fake news. For one thing, it turns out Seaquest isn’t even Betsy’s boat.

It’s actually owned by a company called R.D.V. International Marine, a subsidiary of the DeVos family office.

And the family’s other nine yachts — the Blue Sky, Quantum Racing, Delta Victor, Reflection, Attitude, Sterling, Windquest, Zorro, and De Lus — are registered to ports in Michigan, Delaware, and Florida.

What’s our bottom line for this week? (Besides “don’t believe everything you read”?) The DeVos family may be a little showy with their money but they didn’t get to be billionaires by wasting money on taxes they didn’t have to pay. So make sure you have a plan when you’re ready to start building your fleet, and see what you can ultimately buy!

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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Propeller Ready

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

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id you ever see those gangster films where the cop says to his partner, “I’ve got you covered”?

How about this, have you ever heard someone who wants you to feel confident that he can do his job say, “I’m all over this”?

Didn’t you ever hear someone trying to make another feel secure

by saying, “I’m on top of the situation”?

Welcome to Sukkos!

That’s the message G-d’s trying to get across to us. I’ve got you covered, I’m all over this, and I’m definitely on top of the situation!

And, it’s not just when you are holed up in your house. Even out in the flimsy outdoors, that great

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wide-open universe where only nature, stars, and sky seem to be above you, I have your back. Because it’s not the physical that keeps you safe.

It’s having G-d as your backup!

It’s like this: on the Jewish New Year we remind ourselves to reconnect to Who is running the universe.

Our Father, our King!

On the Fast Day of Atonement, we take advantage of the gift to start afresh. We want to come clean. We take advantage of being able to confess to everything bothering us and commit to try and do better.

Then comes Sukkos, when we are supposed to celebrate Who we are lucky enough to have running

step boundaries or forget to give us free choice. Yet, G-d’s not as anxious, G-d gives us a lot more space.

But then, when G-d gives us a little too much latitude, we are like, hey, where’s G-d?! We get upset cause we want G-d to know exactly how much hovering we need. Well, maybe the point is that G-d does! He’s got this covered, and He is on top of the situation.

Maybe this year, as you sit outside and wonder why you are sitting there instead of in your safe, secure spot inside, you can have a little faith in that message. Then you can drop the delusion that walls protect you and open up to the realization

He’s got this covered, and He is on top of the situation.

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our team – the King!

So, I guess it’s kind of like this: the King is basically the ultimate helicopter mom! G-d’s whirring around and protecting us. We are directed to just look up through the bamboo and branches in our little huts and remember this thought.

However, it’s true, we don’t always love when our doting moms hover over us. They seem to over-

that the One protecting you is none other than the master helicopter parent.

And stop worrying because He has it all covered.

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-7052004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.

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When you make ‫ברכת שהחינו‬ on your new clothes this Yom Tov,

please remember the thousands of aniyei Eretz Yisroel this neighborhood has helped with the gently used clothes we have sent. Over the past few years, we have sent gently used clothing to aniyei Eretz Yisrael in a biannual clothing drive. ALL COSTS are paid by anonymous sponsors, and collection and distribution is undertaken by UNPAID volunteers. This is a special opportunity to perform the tremendous mitzvah of tzedakah without incurring any expense. Last April we shipped over 10,000 garments to distribution centers, both chareidi and chiloni, in Yerushalayim, Kiryat Sefer, Bet Shemesh, and other communities.

We also distributed clothing to families affected by the fires in Haifa.

Keren Minchas Shlomo

Volunteers from local Yeshivas sorting clothing

Ready to go to port

The clothing drive will BE"H take place

Sunday, October 21 | 10am-3pm at PRECISION AUTO BODY

10 Nassau Ave., Inwood, NY 11096

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GUT YOM TOV St. John’s Episcopal Hospital wishes you and your loved ones a Gut Yom Tov and is pleased to announce our Newly Updated Bikur Cholim Room.

Located on the 1st floor in Room 142 for your time of need, as well as a Shabbos elevator throughout the year.