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here used to be a clear delineation between good and evil in this world. Or at least I thought so.

Recently, I was listening to NPR on the radio, and a caller, clearly distraught, called into the station for the first time. She said she had pulled over to the side of the road to call in because she was so compelled to voice her opinions about a certain matter. In her distressed rambling she spoke of all the “evil” that President Trump had done – although she didn’t list any specifics – and how he had “gotten away” with it in the past. Now, she concluded, he is going to be getting away with it again. The host of the show thanked her warmly for the call, especially since she had stopped her commute to vent her agitation to the listeners.

Evil, it seems, has taken on new meaning.

Evil used to refer to the personification of murder, slaughter, sadistic behaviors. It was someone without a conscience or someone whose heart was so black that his very being thirsted for the pain of another. When I think of evil, I see images of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Osama bin Laden, who orchestrated the killings of millions. Nowadays, people say the president is “evil” because they don’t like his tweets.

While writing this I googled a list of “evil people” in recent history. Know who came up on the list at spot number 58? Justice Antonin Scalia. Remember him? He passed away last year and was a stalwart conservative on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was joined on the list by people like Ivan the Terrible and Mohammad Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers. Why is Scalia on this list? It seems that the person who created it – and he had 6,900 other people vote on the rankings of each person (Atta is only number 85) – hated Scalia and his conservative views so much that he felt that his directory of “worst people in history” wouldn’t have been complete without the jurist.

So Trump is “evil,” Scalia is one of the “worst peo-

ple in history.” My good/evil gauge is having some trouble at this moment and I’m wondering: what is truly evil?

When evil becomes part of the vernacular and when the word is used when someone rubs you the wrong way, it becomes less effective when spoken about people who truly deserve that title.

The systematic slaughter of six million Jews was perpetrated by an evil man. There are those, though, who do not view Hitler as a murderer or even as evil.

Take Louis Farrakhan, for example, the leader of the Nation of Islam religious group. He has said that Hitler is a “great man” and does not mind being compared to him. He has also called Judaism a “gutter religion” and has blamed the Jews for the debauchery of Hollywood and the ultimate fall of America.

Is Farrakhan a “good” man? Well, he lauds a person we know is evil. Does that make him evil?

What about people who idolize Farrakhan? Does praising Farrakhan, a person who glorifies an evil person, make them somewhat complicit or at least approving of evil acts?

Last Sunday, Adiel Kolman, a father of four, was stabbed to death by an evil Palestinian who left his home with a sharpened knife with the intention of plunging it into a Jewish heart. That Palestinian – and I am leaving him without a name because to name him would be to honor him – is evil. And you know who else are evil? Those eight Palestinians who witnessed the attack and did nothing to stop it.

When something hurts, you cry out. When you are outraged by something or someone, you cry out.

When a person is spewing vitriol, hate, and lies, you don’t listen quietly, you cry out. To remain in the room with Farrakhan even if you don’t “have a relationship” with him – attention Keith Ellison – while he is filling the room with a toxic cloud of venom is giving Farrakhan an audience and tacit approval to continue his agenda of hate.

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY 8

Readers’ Poll Community Happenings

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NEWS Global

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National

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Odd-but-True Stories

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ISRAEL

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Israel News

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Teachers Forever by Rafi Sackville

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PEOPLE The Democrats’ Louis Farrakhan Problem by Tzvi Dear

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U-Boats, the Enigma Machine, and a Secret Code by Avi Heiligman 130 PARSHA Rabbi Wein

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Able-bodied Jews by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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JEWISH THOUGHT More than Manners by Eytan Kobre

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HEALTH & FITNESS When is Softheartedness Dangerous?

by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn 108 Pass Over the Pounds

by Aliza Beer MS, RD

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Taking your Family to the Next Level of Dynamics by Dr. Hylton I. Lightman 114

FOOD & LEISURE The Aussie Gourmet: Pastrami Meatballs

Dear Editor, I am disgusted by the letter of the “stud” and his family regarding the thin girl with overweight family in your dating column this week.

But I am more disgusted that not one of your dating experts called him and his parents out on these heartless, ridiculous views. One of the shadchans said this boy “might be consider shallow by others.”

Of course that’s shallow! Call him out on it! How are we giving boys and their families with such nonsense spewing out of their mouths a free pass to get away with it? And we all wonder why there’s a shidduch crisis? Why so many young people are getting divorce left and right?

Could it have anything to do with the insane amount of importance we give to looks?

Sure, at the end of the article you ask girls who think they are “not healthy in body or mind” to seek help... How about suggesting the same to the “hunk” and his family”?

Y.F. Brooklyn, NY Dear Editor, I enjoyed reading your article over Shabbos, “Rexit: White House Shakeup Part Whatever.” It clearly laid out reasons for why Mr. Trump fired Mr. Tillerson and the future of the position of the secretary of state.

But then, when I turned on my phone after Shabbos, I was pounded

with the news of McCabe’s firing. I know that it was an inevitable, but still, I feel like the axe is falling fast and furious.

Truthfully, to preserve my sanity, I’m hoping to hold my breath for six more years, when the presidency is over and I can point out that all these events were for a good reason.

Sincerely, Yaakov Hammer Dear Editor, I’ve been reading the letters you’ve printed in your last two issues with growing alarm. My son is also an 8th grader in a local yeshiva and we are in the same inexplicable situation. My son is an excellent student; he is on the honor roll in his English subjects and receives straight alephs in Hebrew/religious studies. He is well behaved, intelligent, hard-working, and well-disciplined. His rebbeim are stunned that he wasn’t accepted to any local high school and indicated that not one yeshiva called to inquire about him. This is disgusting!

Shame on the administration of our local yeshivas who prioritize wealth and connections in admissions over middos and achievement!

The fact that no one ever called to inquire about my son is telling that yeshivas are not giving all of the children who apply a fair shot. I’ve been living in the Five Towns community Continued on page 10

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LIFESTYLES Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW

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Your Money

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Ready or Not Here I Come by Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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HUMOR Centerfold Food Frenzy by Jon Kranz

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POLITICAL CROSSFIRE Notable Quotes

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Putin Can’t Talk His Way Out of This Mess by David Ignatius

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for many years. My son doesn’t belong in an out-of-town yeshiva when there are so many resources in our community that meet our needs, and my son does not belong in a public school! He belongs in a yeshiva like everyone else.

It is time for members of the community speak up for our children. Poor planning of community resources created this problem, and so a communal response is critically needed to fix it. My son needs a mesivta to attend next year and local yeshivas are not doing enough to help these boys. It is almost Pesach and these boys have nowhere to go in September. What are we waiting for? It is now the time for those with

connections to the local mesivtas to speak up for these children who need your help.

Please be the person that helps make a change.

Sincerely, A brokenhearted mother and her son Dear Editor, I am responding to two letters featured in the March 15th edition of your paper, both of which highlight almost identical scenarios of how their graduating eighth grade sons have been shut out of yeshiva high schools for next year. Clearly, these are not isolated incidents as they themselves were commenting on a letter published the previous week expressing the same heartbreaking

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situation.

I, too, have a child graduating elementary school (a daughter) and while my experience is not at all like the one these families are currently going through (my daughter was accepted to all the schools she applied to including her first choice), I am so outraged by the indifference and lack of support at both the elementary and high school level that I was compelled to share my thoughts publicly. (It is important I mention that my daughter’s school is actively involved in the acceptance process and administrators ‘go to bat’ for all their graduating students so each is assured a place the following year – as it should be!)

Yeshiva high schools are fully aware of the number of students graduating from the local elementary schools especially those that “feed” into their high school program. They should be planning and communicating with fellow administrators (elementary and secondary) well in advance of “decision” time to ensure each and every student has a spot.

Our yeshivot are here to serve our communities and provide all children, whose parents seek it, a quality Torah-based education. When students are turned away, even just one,

with not a single option – our schools have not only failed that child and their family, they have failed the entire community.

To the school administrators I say: How can you wish parents “hatzlacha” when you know all doors have been shut in their face? How can you continue about your daily responsibilities knowing that you have come up short in your primary responsibility of ensuring the furthering of a religious education of these young neshamot? When heartbroken, devastated parents reach out to you for assistance, all you can do is sit in silence? As administrators, I have no doubt you are intelligent individuals. I am certain it is clear to you what the outcome will be for these children who are left in limbo.

While public schools can provide children with an excellent education (I work in one myself), it is not a yeshiva education, a Torah-based education, an education these parents have dreamed for their sons from the time they were toddlers. Yet, public school is likely where they will end up. After all, is there a choice?

The silence is deafening.

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The Week In News

Putin “Wins” Big

The news was no surprise to anyone. In fact, it was predicted with utmost certainty. This week, on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin was reelected to another six years as Russia’s president, garnering a whopping 76 percent of the vote. Putin told cheering supporters in a brief speech that lasted a mere two minutes that “we are bound for success.”

This was Putin’s fourth electoral contest, but no one thought he would lose. He faced seven minor candidates and had his most prominent possible contender, Alexei Navalny, blocked from the ballot.

Widespread ballot-box stuffing and forced voting – citizens being told they need to vote at a certain time and show proof of their vote – were reported, but claims to that effect will undoubtedly be swept under the rug. We are, after all, dealing with the longest-serving leader in the nation since Josef Stalin. And we know what happened to those who opposed him.

Since he took the helm in Russia on New Year’s Eve 1999 after Boris Yeltsin’s surprise resignation, Putin’s electoral power has centered on stability, a quality cherished by Russians after the chaotic breakup of the Soviet Union and the “wild capitalism” of the Yeltsin years. Stability, though, comes at a price. Any dissent or opposition is crushed.

Putin ran in the 2000, 2004 and 2012 elections. He did not run in 2008 because of term limits but was appointed prime minister instead – a different title, although he essentially maintained the same role.

This year’s election came amid escalating tensions with the West, with reports that Moscow was behind the nerve-agent poisoning this

month of a former Russian double agent in Britain and that its internet trolls had waged an extensive campaign to undermine the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Britain and Russia last week announced expulsions of diplomats over the spy case and the U.S. issued new sanctions.

The election also took place on the fourth anniversary of the 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, one of the most dramatic manifestations of Putin’s drive to reassert Russia’s power.

The next six years will likely see Putin flexing more of his muscles – literally and figuratively. Just a few weeks ago, he announced that Russia had developed advanced nuclear weapons capable of evading missile defenses. The Russian military campaign that bolsters the Syrian government is clearly aimed at strengthening Moscow’s foothold in the Middle East, and Russia eagerly eyes any reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula as an economic opportunity.

A Shrine for a Missile

Hwasong-15 is the first missile built by North Korea that, according to the regime, can hit anywhere in the United States. Now it seems that North Korea is not content to celebrate the fact that it can pulverize a nation. The Hermit Kingdom is building a shrine around the missile launch site to further deify the weapon.

Analysts were able to pinpoint the location of the site and then noticed a flurry of activity around the missile. For one month North Koreans worked nonstop, building a parking area, a reconstructed launching pad and a large memorial.

North Korea’s other celebrations for the Hwasong-15 missile have included an event honoring the missile scientists in the nation’s capital, the

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issuing of a commemorative stamp and the holding of a giant indoor concert featuring a polished film of the liftoff punctuated with fireworks and a light show.

The official Korean Central News Agency quoted Kim Jong-un, the nation’s leader, as declaring shortly after the successful launching, “We have finally realized the great historic cause of completing the state nuclear force.”

Corruption in Slovakia Begins to Unravel

Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia resigned last week following the recent murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak.

On February 25, Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kusnirova, both 27, were found shot dead at their home near Bratislava in what police described as “most likely” related to his investigative work. Kuciak reported on fraud among the country’s elite, including people connected to the governing party. The murder sparked outrage in Slovakia, with thousands protesting in the streets for change.

Fico’s resignation was encouraged

by Slovak President Andrej Kiska.

Speaking at the presidential palace after a meeting with the president on Thursday, Fico announced that his deputy prime minister, Peter Pellegrini, will succeed him and establish a new government. Fico said he was sure that forming a new government is the “right step as early parliamentary elections would not have had any stability.”

Fico will still be in the party and part of political happenings, just in a less formal way. The double-murder generated a nationwide outcry, with tens of thousands of Slovaks calling for an end to corruption in some the country’s biggest demonstrations since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. No arrests have been made in connection to the murders as of yet.

“Civil society is not only asking for the resignation of Mr. Fico himself, the demand here is for the change of politics of which Mr. Fico is a symbol and the frontrunner,” said Martin Poliacik, a member of parliament with the new Progressive Slovakia.

Regional elections are scheduled for November and presidential elections will take place in 2019 unless a reform is made before then.

Luxury Vehicles Crushed in Philippines

In the Philippines, in efforts to crack down on the illegal import of vehicles, the Philippine government strictly enforces those laws – with crushing results.

Last week, a photo circulated of Philippine officials crushing an entire parking lot full of imported vehicles in Port Irena, Cagatan. The demolition, which was carried out by an excavator and a bulldozer, was overseen

by President Rodrigo Duterte. The luxury cars, sports cars, and classic cars are said to have been in storage for years. The fleet included eight Mercedes-Benz models, a Porsche 911 GT3 and a rare Renault 5 Turbo from the 1980s. Now, these cars that were worth thousands are only good to be sold for scrap metal. Last week’s demolitions are just the beginning; there are another 800 vehicles that are set to be destroyed.

“The destruction of these contraband luxury vehicles signifies our strong resolve to restore good governance, preserve our nation’s dignity, and safeguard our people’s welfare,” Duterte said at the event, which was broadcast on Facebook.

The vehicles involved in this project were intentionally abandoned at the port without paying customs so that an importer could purchase them later from a government auction at a lower price. In 2013, a court ruling made this type of scheme illegal.

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Trump Hits Moscow with New Sanctions

New U.S. sanctions against Russia were announced by the Trump administration last week, and Russia has responded with an expansion of its own “blacklist” of Americans. The White House said that it will be enacting new sanctions in order to punish Moscow for its attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election, which will include individuals that were indicted last month by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia will use “the principle of parity” as it responds and that “additional measures are not ruled out.” Ryabkov appeared slightly to soften the blow by adding

that Russia did not want to close the window of dialogue with the U.S. or the possibility of stabilizing bilateral relations. “It is also worth thinking about that, destroying Russian-American relations,” said Ryabkov. “These politicians play with fire, because they simultaneously undermine global stability.”

The Trump administration is acting based on a congressional mandate to punish Russia for the cyber intrusion they committed leading up to the elections. Trump has delayed taking action for a while, leading to some questioning his administration’s willingness to punish Moscow. So far, the Trump administration has applied sanctions to five entities and 19 individuals, including the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm that purposely posted divisive political posts on Facebook and other social media outlets during the election.

The 13 individuals that were indicted by Mueller for their participation in election meddling are also on the blacklist. Additionally, two Russian intelligence agencies, the Federal Security Service and the Main Intelligence Directorate were also sanctioned.

The sanctioned individuals are

barred from traveling to the United States, and any assets they have here have been frozen.

Did Gaddafi Fund Sarkozy’s Campaign?

American Faces 35 Years in Turkish Jail Andrew Brunson, an American pastor, is being accused by Turkey of working with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen’s network and outlawed Kurdish rebels to stir chaos in Turkey and to divide the country. He is now facing up to 35 years in prison in Turkey on charges of links to terror groups and espionage.

Brunson is originally from North Carolina but has been living in Turkey for more than 20 years. He was arrested soon after the July 2016 coup attempt and has been held since then. It is not clear when his trial will begin.

The U.S. has demanded that Brunson, who denies the accusations, be freed.

Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania, has denied involvement in the coup.

Turkey is seeking his extradition.

What type of money was sitting in Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign accounts? Could it be that the funds came from infamous Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi?

This week, former French President Sarkozy was held in custody and questioned by magistrates investigating whether Gaddafi helped finance his 2007 election campaign.

It is the second major judicial investigation to fall on the 63-year-old, who served as president of France from 2007 to 2012. He already faces trial on separate charges of illicit spending overruns during his failed re-election campaign in 2012.

Sarkozy has dismissed the Libya allegations as “grotesque” and a

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Now Rabbi Elias has produced the long-awaited new and expanded edition — with much new commentary on the second half of the Haggadah.

Rabbi Elias has been known and revered for half a century as one of the Jewish community’s outstanding thinkers and educators. Among his students he was especially revered for the way he taught the Haggadah, presenting it with all its beauty and meaning. In his hands, the Haggadah became a sefer that speaks to all Jews, wherever they are. Indeed, This Haggadah fulfills the injunction that in every generation all Jews must view themselves as if they had emerged from Egypt.

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Through the Prism of Experience and History

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o one knows how many commentaries have been written on the Haggadah, but there may have surely been thousands. So, if one may borrow and paraphrase a question from the Haggadah itself: How is this commentary different from all other commentaries?

The answer lies in the nature of the author and how this commentary was born. Rabbi Eisemann is a profound thinker and an eloquent spokesman for Judaism. In his extensive commentary on the ArtScroll edition of the Books of Ezekiel, Iyov, and Divrei HaYamim, he has refined basic concepts in Jewish thought, and brought understanding, and insight to his many readers In this work, Rabbi Eisemann deals with the questions and concept that underlie the Seder: The meaning of the night. How its timelessness should be translated into the ideas of today. How modern Jews should relate to events of thirty-three centuries ago. What the Haggadah is telling us and what it wants to tell our children. In this volume of essays are Rabbi Eisemann’s answers.

It is a beautiful, poetic reading, because the author is a master of language and writes with depth and insight. And it is an education in the eternal relevance of Judaism, no matter where or when someone lives.

This Haggadah was originally published by ArtScroll in 1992. This new edition offers a new generation of Jews an opportunity to have access to this important and richly satisfying work.

All proceeds from this book are dedicated to Rabbi Eisemann’s tzedaka fund, which offers assistance to a list of young Torah families.

Donations can be sent to: Rabbi Moshe Eisemann / 403 Yeshiva Lane, apt. 1b / Baltimore, Maryland, 21208. Paypal donations are accepted at diggingdeeperjewish.com. Rabbi Eisemann may be reached at eisemann1930@gmail.com.

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Despite being burdened with unending communal responsibilities, he made time for everyone. His warm humanity was legendary; his genuine concern for every person was boundless.

How the Rosh Yeshivah related to the throngs who sought his counsel, to his disciples and to his family, taught the lessons of a lifetime.

Now many of those special qualities have been captured in The Rav Shach Haggadah.

This work illuminates every segment of the Haggadah with his thoughts, stories, interpretations, comments and insights. Rav Shach was like a wellspring, always flowing with ideas and responses to questions and problems. Much of what he said was recorded by his family, students, and the multitudes who sought his guidance and comfort. The authors have culled this vast wealth of material and applied it to the Haggadah.

The wisdom of Rav Shach glows on every page. His teachings, through word and example, come through with all the strength, humility, poignancy and warmth of the Rosh Yeshivah himself.

Inspirational, readable, informative (and sometimes surprising!) this is one Haggadah you won’t put down when the Seder is over.

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on Yitzchak Abarbanel was a man who made his mark on Jewish scholarship and history. As finance minister to Ferdinand and Isabella in the Spain of Columbus and the Inquisition, he worked mightily to protect Jewish lives and interests in that historically hostile country. When the Jewish community was expelled, he led them out of the county in 1492, despite pleas from the king and queen that he accept a privileged status and remain at his post without compromising his Jewishness.

But his enduring role in Jewish history lay in his writings. One of the earliest acharonim, he was a prolific scholar and interpreter. Abarbanel wrote one of the greatest and most extensive of all commentaries on the entire Scriptures, as well as on such other works as Pirkei Avos. One of his famous, treasured commentaries was on the Haggadah.

In this adaptation, the reader studies the Haggadah as Abarbanel understood it. Utilizing his unique method of asking stimulating questions on which he focuses his commentary, Abarbanel combines the classic teachings of the Sages with his own insights, and presents them in such a way that they provide a clearer understanding of the turbulent times in which he lived.

And on our times, as well. For just as the Torah is timeless, so it sheds light on every era and all conditions.

This is one of the essential commentaries that clarifies every passage of the Haggadah and lets its illumination filter out to other areas of Torah and to the lives of its readers, in every country and age.

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n halachah and tradition, the Pesach Seder is a time when families gather to recount the glory, the wonder, and the splendor of the Pesach story, when ‘the more one tells about the Exodus from Egypt, the more praiseworthy he is.’ Numberless commentaries have been written on the Haggadah, embellishing countless Seder tables throughout the ages.

The Haggadah Treasury is a collection of gems culled from this rich lode of inspiration, exegesis, and parable.

Anthologized by Zeirei Agudah Israel, its purpose is to present every Jewish home with material suitable to every Seder, enriching to every family. Presented skillfully and concisely, each comment stands on its own, ready for easy reading and retelling. Not a commentary, but a collection of illuminating comments, The Haggadah Treasury aims to give each participant an opportunity to add spice and meaning to his own Seder.

It is offered to the Jewish family with the prayer that the day will soon come when the miracles of the Exodus pale beside those of the promised final redemption when He will be One, and His Name, One.

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Rav Asher Weiss’s commentary on the Haggadah is a brilliant tour de force by a phenomenal Torah scholar, a rosh yeshiva and world-renowned rav and orator. Rabbi Weiss is the author of Minchas Asher and is consulted by leading Torah authorities around the world. In this work he captures many of the qualities that make Passover unique.

In a remarkable series of profound yet readable essays, Rabbi Weiss examines the ethical and philosophical underpinnings of liberation and miracles. We learn how to engrave the lessons of the exodus deep into our hearts.

Rabbi Weiss possesses a vast encyclopedic knowledge of Jewish law and an unusual talent for clear explanation. A fascinating section on halachah outlines the holiday’s laws and customs, including their background, sources and definitive rulings.

Finally, his commentary on the Haggadah text itself weaves together the wisdom of Torah scholars throughout the ages, melding their timeless understanding with a contemporary perspective on our lives.

Rav Asher Weiss is a towering Torah giant with a worldwide reputation. Now we can avail ourselves of his encyclopedic knowledge, his eloquence and his insight, to enrich our own Seder table, our holiday, and our faith.

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he Haggadah never ceases to fascinate. The text has not changed for many centuries, but the insights still abound. This extraordinary new collection is one of the best examples of the Haggadah’s freshness. It brings together some of the finest comments of leaders and teachers who changed their world and ours, great men whose influence has not waned with the passing years.

The names themselves tell the story. They span generations, eras, and continents. They gave strength to the old world and built the new. The Chofetz Chaim and the Netziv of Volozhin. Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman and Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin. Rabbi Shneur Kotler and Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr. Among them all, they had tens of thousands of students and hundreds of thousands — no, millions e begin the Haggadah by inviting guests. What a privilege it would be if — there whose lives were and are enriched by them. All were Torah geniuses who were were a knock on the door and the greatest luminaries of the last hundred leaders years in difficult times, and for such people, the Haggadah and the lessons of the were to come in and sit at our Seder table! Here they are!

Exodus were guideposts for life in any era.

This Haggadah presents a magnificent panoply of gedolim, of great intellects, profound Their interpretations of the Haggadah are distinguished for the warmth, faith, thinkers, and master teachers. These are people who shaped our century and exemplified incisiveness, and profundity that marked their authors as Torah leaders for well the grandeur of the Torah: over a century. By finding lessons in the Haggadah, they spoke to their contem• The dynasty of Brisk — the Bais HaLevi, Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, and poraries Rabbi and to us. Because just as we must think of ourselves in every generaYitzchok Zev (Reb Velvel) Soloveitchik. Their method of learning captured theas if we were emerging from Egyptian slavery, so we must wrest ourselves tion world and raised Torah study to new heights. in every generation from the shackles that restrain our growth as Jews, in knowl• Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky — rosh yeshivah of Kaminetz and Torah Vodaath, edge, understanding, faith, and service. whose penetrating insight was unsurpassed, and who blazed a path in post-War The contents of this anthologized commentary have been carefully and judiAmerica. ciously assembled by Rabbi Asher Bergman. The final product is a credit to him • Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky — prize student of R’ Chaim, brave Rav under thea magnificent service to the entire community. and Communists, chief dayan of the British Empire, and rosh yeshivah in Jerusalem.

Invite these six Torah giants to your Seder, and let them help you add mean• Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner — rosh yeshivah of Mesivta Chaim Berlin, one ofing scinand flavor to your Seder, your Pesach, and your entire year. tillating intellect and prime interpreter of Maharal, whose discourses set new standards.

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The link to our future generations has always been our children. They are the center of attention throughout the Seder.

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In this unique Haggadah commentary, Rabbi Nosson Muller, Menahel of Yeshiva Toras Emes in Brooklyn, and renowned and experienced educator, offers us the tools to make the Seder an unforgettable event and an exciting learning experience. With insightful explanations coupled with dozens of inspiring and meaningful stories and parables, Rabbi Muller gives us timely and practical chinuch messages and lessons — for ourselves, and to convey to our children. This Haggadah is bound to keep the children — and their parents — engaged and interested throughout the long night.

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Now you, too, can become acquainted with this gadol through this outstanding compilation of his insights on the Haggadah and his halachic rulings regarding Pesach. A masterful blending of the notes and recollections of Rav Shlomo Zalman’s family and close disciples reveals his customs, halachic rulings and illuminating discussions of Aggadah. An inspirational wellspring of Torah thought, this volume details the rav’s approach to the season in law and custom from thirty days before Pesach through the last day of the festival.

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he story of the Passover Haggadah is so familiar that nearly everyone who takes part in the Seder can recite it without a hitch. But, like all the Torah, the nuances of the Seder speak to different people in different ways.

Passover is the story of freedom from the lash and chain and the exalted rise of a nation to the pinnacle of human achievement: the knowledge that the Divine Hand controls nature and the experience of Revelation at Sinai. However, not all pain is inflicted by the lash of a taskmaster and not all chains are clamped on by jailers.

The Haggadah also addresses those who suffer from the slavery of an oppressive environment or, even more difficult, the sort of obsessive behavior that plagues many or most lives.

The ultimate freedom is the ability to live constructively and happily; that is why the Sages of the Talmud teach that the truly free person is one who immerses himself in the Torah.

In this volume, one of our generation’s most eminent interpreters of the Torah’s teachings regarding self-control and self-improvement uncovers the path to personal liberation in the timeless story of the Exodus. Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D., has an uncanny ability to know what troubles people and how to provide the balm for their hurt by combining the eternal wisdom of the Torah with the science of the mind.

In this Haggadah, he takes each of us from the bondage of our personal “Egypts” to the promised land of self-fulfillment and joy in achieving our personal best.

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Now, all that’s missing to make the perfect Seder is… questions! Lots of questions!

Chazal, the Jewish Sages, instructed that the story of the Exodus be told in question-and-answer style, reflecting the wording of the Torah’s commandment to relate the story, And it shall be when your son will ask you (Shemos 13:14). When a person asks a question, it shows that he is interested in hearing an answer, and he becomes an engaged participant in the discussion.

The Pesach Haggadah: The Answer Is… generously fulfills this dictate, with over 1,000 answers to more than 300 questions! The Pesach Haggadah: The Answer Is… takes us through every facet of the Seder and the Passover story — the 4 sons, the 10 plagues, the unbelievable miracles of liberation, even the fascinating poem Chad Gadya that ends the Seder — by asking questions and offering answers. We see the Exodus through the eyes of luminaries such as Rambam and the Vilna Gaon, Rav Moshe Feinstein and the Belzer Rebbe, and literally hundreds more.

Take a thoughtful question, give an intelligent and articulate answer, and you’ve got an interactive, dynamic and spirited experience. Multiply that by hundreds of questions and answers — and you have a Seder you will never forget.

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he Pesach Seder is the time every year when — as we declare during the Hagaddah — we ourselves emerge from Egyptian slavery. Just as the event is timeless, so its manifestations should be studied and analyzed anew every year through the dual prisms of eternity and experience.

For four generations, Sfas Emes has been described as “a mirror of the soul.” The work is based upon the Sabbath and Festival discourses of Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Alter of Gur, over a period of more than thirty years.

Profound, scintillating, and pithy, it is incredibly rich in ideas. Great scholars marvel at it, saying that every time they review passages, even those they have seen many times before, they glean new insights. It has been aptly said that what one sees in Sfas Emes is a measure of one’s own spiritual station.

But … the world of Sfas Emes has been closed to the vast majority of those who knock at its doors — because of a language barrier and the need for a road map through its complex and inspiring themes.

Into this breach steps Rabbi Yosef Stern. His attempt to capture the essence of Sfas Emes’ thought on the themes of the Pesach Haggadah is a remarkable success. An exceptional Torah scholar and a student of Sfas Emes, Rabbi Stern has isolated the primary trails of thought from many hundreds of discourses and ties them together, topic by topic, into a commentary that is a joy to read, stimulating as well as informative. While the conceptualizations are his own, Rabbi Stern’s work has received the blessings of the Gerrer Rebbe ‫ שליט"א‬a noteworthy indication of the esteem in which the author is held.

This work gives us a mirror by which to encounter ourselves. But it is more. It is an entry pass to the portals of some of the loftiest and most enlightening thought of the last century.

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As we sit around our sparkling Seder tables, thousands of miles and thousands of years separate us from our brethren suffering beneath the burning Egyptian sun; from our ancestors marching triumphantly out of slavery.

How, then, can we fulfill the Haggadah’s words? How can we, like our ancestors, go out of Egypt?

The Yetzias Mitzrayim Haggadah brings the Exodus to life by drawing upon the wisdom and words of the Sages. We see the slavery, the ten plagues, and the final Exodus through the eyes and ears of Chazal and later commentators. The Yetzias Mitzrayim Haggadah is based on more than 150 sources, from Midrash to Malbim, from the Zohar to Rambam to Rav Moshe Feinstein, and every entry adds to our understanding of the actual Pesach story.

Designed for maximum impact at the Seder, the entries are short, graphic, and unusually detailed. As we move through our Seder we can envision the rigors of slavery, Pharaoh’s diabolical schemes, the miraculous plagues, the glorious redemption, and the unforgettable moment as the Jewish People cross the Sea. Based on the highly-successful Haggadah V’Aggadata, The Yetzias Mitzrayim Haggadah is a unique, innovative Haggadah that will enable us to experience the Exodus at our own Seder, just as we are meant to do.

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n the last hundred years, few names have inspired as much reverence and respect as that of Maran Hagaon Harav Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, the Chazon Ish. For most of his life, he succeeded in remaining anonymous — his classic Chazon Ish commentaries on the Talmud and Shulchan Aruch were unsigned — and he did not accept official positions. Yet, his exalted stature was too great to remain secret. When he settled in Bnei Brak, where he lived for the last twenty years of his life, the word spread, slowly at first and then irresistibly, that a gaon and tzaddik of historic proportions was in the Land. In the words of Maran Hagaon Harav Chaim Ozer Grodzensky, “A lion has ascended from Bavel to Eretz Yisrael.”

The Chazon Ish was the soul of Bnei Brak and one of the primary authorities for Torah-loving Jews in Israel and around the world. When Prime Minister David Ben Gurion wanted to understand the world-view of Torah Jews, he went to the Chazon Ish’s humble bungalow and came away awestruck.

In this Haggadah, we find the richness of his wisdom, hashkafah, and halachah. Going through the vast store of the Chazon Ish’s writings and the literature about him, Rabbi Asher Bergman has compiled a commentary on the Haggadah and the gaon’s halachic rulings and customs regarding the Seder.

The Chazon Ish Haggadah is a major new addition to the countless works that have been written about the Seder. Our era was blessed to have someone as great as the Chazon Ish in the forefront of some of the most tumultuous times in our history. Thanks to this Haggadah, we can have his presence to elevate and illuminate our Seder.

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he Gra. The very name elicits feelings of awe as it conjures an image of towering Torah stature. From a small room in Vilna he shed illumination on every area of Torah. From halachah to kabbalah, Shulchan Aruch to Tanach, the Jewish people have been enriched by the Gaon of Vilna.

Rabbeinu Avraham, his son and a major conduit for his teachings, amplifies his father’s ideas and brings them within the realm of our understanding. Schooled in his father’s method, Rabbeinu Avraham brings together all the streams of Torah knowledge to brighten the “night of redemption” with his Haggadah commentary the “Geulas Avraham.”

These adaptations clarify and crystallize the major and minor themes of the Haggadah all the while exposing the reader to the very special derech of the Vilna Gaon.

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Rabbi Yechiel Spero is the author of the very popular Touched by a Story series. He is a charismatic teacher and speaker — and this carries over to his writing. In addition, he has an extraordinary knack for choosing stories and ideas and presenting them with clarity and excitement.

In this volume, Rabbi Spero teaches the Haggadah in his own inimitable manner. He presents classic ideas in addition to his own, and relates them to our own lives and era. And he flavors his commentary with beautiful stories, as only he can. The combination is a Seder plate piled high with Yom Tov treats for the mind and heart.

The author comes to his task with outstanding qualifications.

He is a conscientious classroom rebbi who actually teaches the Haggadah year after year, so he knows what works, motivates, and inspires.

As an added plus, Touched by the Seder includes the classic ArtScroll translation and instructions, so that every participant understands what he or she is saying, what to do, and when to do it.

Many very fine Haggadahs are available, but this one is unique. It will “touch” your Seder and every guest at your table.

And you’ll want to read and enjoy it all through Pesach and even throughout the year.

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eder night commemorates the greatest true story of all time — the night when Hashem, in His splendor, came down Himself, personally, to liberate His People, the Jews. It is the night of our miracles and our liberation.

It’s the night of our stories.

Rabbi Yechiel Spero — acclaimed educator, erudite Torah scholar, and, of course, gifted storyteller — tells some of those stories in this engaging new Haggadah that is certain to enhance our Sedarim.

In his many bestselling books, Rabbi Spero does a masterful job of bringing Torah insights to life through unusual stories. Touched

by Our Story includes his wide-ranging, stimulating commentary on the Haggadah and, of course, Rabbi Spero’s trademark true stories. The Four Sons come to life, in tales like that of the Rosh Yeshivah who played “jacks” with a youngster or the gadol ha’dor who insisted a yeshivah change its language to accommodate two students who genuinely wanted to learn. We hear what the Klausenberger Rebbe had to say at a Seder not long after his liberation, and are amazed at the connection between the plague of Frogs and the remarkable survival of two victims of a ghastly terror attack.

Enlightening, engaging, and eye-opening, this is a Haggadah that will ensure a lively, meaningful, and enjoyable Seder for us, our guests, and — most important of all — our children, the next generation to tell the stories.

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amban, or Nachmanides, is at the front rank of Torah commentators: leader of Spanish Jewry in the twelfth century, representative of the nation in historic debates with the Church fathers of Spain, pioneer in the restoration of Jerusalem’s almost extinct Jewish community, and — most of all, as the author of profound and premier commentaries on the Torah, Talmud, and other works.

Ramban did not write on the Haggadah per se, but in the vast body of his writings, there is much that clarifies the themes of the Haggadah. Would it ever be brought together in the form of a continuous commentary?

It remained for Yosef Israel to do so, and in this volume he does so magnificently.

THE PASSOVER HAGGADAH WITH COMMENTARIES He has plumbed the entire corpus of the Ramban’s writings and THE VILNA GAON AND HIS SON R’ AVRAHAM extracted everything that pertains to the Haggadah. He does it seamlessly, so that the reader is hardly conscious of the fact that this is an anthology, rather than an original work. What is important is that here, for the first time, Ramban’s ideas on the Haggadah are available in one coherent, flowing whole.

More works have been written on the Haggadah than on any other book in our literature — and for good reason. Every Seder is enriched by the presence of commentary after commentary, insight after insight.

Now, thanks to the loving and thorough research of Yosef Israel, Ramban and his ideas move to the front rank of the genre.

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he Reb Moshe Haggadah beautifully captures the many facets of the gaon and posek hador: his brilliance in piskei halachah and Gemara; his insights and deep understanding of Torah hashkafah; his incredible diligence and his extraordinary compassion.

Much of the commentary is taken from Reb Moshe’s prolific writings on halachah, Chumash, and Talmud. Stories about Reb Moshe from dozens of other sources paint an inspiring and breathtaking portrait of a caring and empathetic leader who had a profound understanding and endless love for the Jews he led for so many decades.

When we read about the “Four Sons,” we will hear Reb Moshe share his teachings on chinuch, child-rearing, and Torah education. From a Shabbos HaGadol lecture given by Reb Moshe in 1922, we listen to him compare the merciless Communist regime where he lived, to Pharaoh’s Egypt. From the Ten Plagues, Reb Moshe offers us a new understanding of the power of free choice; from the Splitting of the Sea, he points out a vital lesson in strengthening our faith.

We are taught that the voices of the great Torah scholars are not stilled even after their passing, and in these pages we can clearly hear the voice of the beloved Torah leader, HaGaon Reb Moshe Feinstein zt”l.

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esach is called the holiday of emunah, of faith. As we sit at our Seder table speaking of the wonders and miracles of the Exodus, we ignite a flame of emunah that will burn brightly throughout the year.

Rabbi Binyomin Pruzansky is a brilliant storyteller, and in this unusual Haggadah he uses that talent to bring the story of Yetziyas Mitzrayim into our stories — our lives, challenges, hopes, and accomplishments. And, especially, into our emunah.

In addition to fascinating Torah insights, Rabbi Pruzansky offers story after story that highlights the emunah of the Jews, both famous personalities and simple people with rock-solid faith. He shares “kriyas Yam Suf” stories — when a person feels there is no way to go forward and Hashem miraculously brings him to where he wants to be. We will find emunah in a dangerous Arab village and on Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway. In the Soviet army and in a luxury Pesach hotel. In traffic jams and basketball courts. We will explore the faith of our ancestors in Egypt, and the faith of people just like us. We will hear great stories — and we will find ourselves strengthened.

Haggadah shel Pesach: Night of Emunah pulsates with the energy of faith and hope; perfect for the holiday of emunah — and just what we need to make our Seder table vibrant and meaningful on this night of renewed faith and trust.

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An escalating volley took place last week between Russia and Great Britain. Two weeks ago, former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in the city of Salisbury. They have since been hospitalized and are in critical condition along with the police officer that found them, whose condition is listed as serious but stable.

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The killer, who was killed by police at the scene, was identified as 28-yearold Abd al-Rahman Bani Fadel, a father of two from the village of Aqraba, near the West Bank city of Nablus. At least eight Arabs were arrested after the attack for witnessing the stabbing and ignoring it.

Kolman’s mother, Yael Kolman, told the Hadashot TV news channel that her son, who was employed at

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“Even though he worked in a dangerous place, he did not express fear or concern,” she said. She said that although Adiel was trained in special education, he had worked at excavations the Old City for the past five years. “Recently, he spoke with us a lot, as though he knew that he was going to leave,” she added.

The bereaved mother recalled how when she first heard of the stabbing on the radio she turned it off because she knows other terror victims and found it too upsetting to listen to the news reports. It was only later in the day that her husband informed her that it was their son who had been stabbed.

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Yael Kolman said that she drew inspiration from Miriam Peretz, a prominent educator who was declared winner of the Israel Prize on Monday.

Peretz lost two of her sons in combat during separate incidents when they were serving in the IDF. At the funeral Yael sobbed, “We would like more. Everything good we want more. To enjoy your pleasantness – more. But no. G-d gives and G-d takes away. This was your time,” she said.

“But the children will miss you,” she added.

“The children!” his bereaved mother screamed a second time, breaking down into tears along with many in the crowd.

Speaking to Army Radio, Meir Kolman, Adiel’s brother, said that the stabbing was a reminder of Israel’s broader security situation. “This is here an incident that tells our story as a people, they came and killed a lovely man – we must not forget that we are at war with them,” he said.

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26-year-old Ala Qabha rammed his car into a group of soldiers outside a military post near the Mevo Dotan settlement, killing Sgt. Netanel Kahalani, 20, and Capt. Ziv Daos, 21.

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“Netanel was a gift,” said his mother, Naomi, before the funeral. “I thank G-d for giving me this child. He had a heart of gold, a pure soul. He was an incredible child. Everyone loved him,

Hamas welcomed the attack. The terrorist organization put out a statement saying that the attack “proves our people’s readiness to continue the Jerusalem intifada.” The group also “commended” the attack and urged “further attacks against the Zionist occupation,” saying it was 100 days since President Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

he helped everyone, always smiling,” she said. “He never held a grudge against anyone.”

The Shin Bet security agency apprehended Qabha. After initially claiming the incident was an accident, the terrorist eventually confessed to carrying out the attack, saying it was deliberate and that he intended to murder soldiers. Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, who heads COGAT, the Israeli liaison for Palestinian civilian affairs in the West Bank, ordered in response

to the attack “an immediate and broad suspension” of permits for employment in Israel “for the entire family of the assailant.”

The terrorist’s brother and uncle are suspected of having helped him carry out the attack. Qabha’s home has been slated for demolition, and the village he is from has been searched for illegal weapons. Qabha had been in an Israeli prison for 17 months for security offenses. He had been released in April.

A former minister, the mother of fallen soldiers and a lifelong rights activist will all be awarded the Israel Prize in a ceremony on April 19 during celebrations of Israel’s 70th anniversary.

David Levy, who held the position of deputy prime minister and various ministerial posts – including foreign affairs minister – will be bestowed with the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement and Special Contribution to Society. Miriam Peretz, the mother of two IDF soldiers killed in action, will receive the Israel Prize for Strengthening the Jewish-Israeli Spirit. Natan Sharansky won the 2018 Israel Prize for his lifetime achievement and exceptional contribution to the State of Israel in the field of Aliyah and ingathering of the exiles Education Minister Naftali Ben-

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nett, who announced Levy’s win, wrote, “The boy who made Aliyah from Rabat, Morocco, to the ma’abara (refugee absorption camp) and the development town and then blazed a trail straight into the heart of Israeli society. A social, courageous leader, the essence of the story of Zionism, the shatterer of the glass ceiling.

“I gaze upon your image, David,” Bennett concluded, “and see us. Congratulations to the people of Israel!”

Levy, a father of 12 who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, was born in the Moroccan capital of Rabat in 1937. He made Aliyah in 1957 and was elected to the Knesset for the first time a little more than a decade later, in 1969. After the 1977 political upheaval following the Likud’s first election win, Levy received the duty of absorption minister in Menachem Begin’s cabinet.

Following the 1981 elections Levy aroused public outcry by refusing to attend the second Begin government’s swearing-in ceremony until he was appointed deputy premier.

Thereafter, in the 10th and 11th Knessets, he served as deputy prime minister and housing minister, using the latter portfolio to push through Project Renewal. He was one of only two

Likud ministers to vote against the IDF’s withdrawal from Lebanon.

Two of Levy’s children are members of the Knesset.

Miriam Peretz is mother to Uriel and Eliraz, both of whom were killed in action fighting in the IDF. When Bennett visited her home to inform her of the honor, Miriam demurred, “I’m unworthy, it’s theirs – Uriel and Eliraz’s – it’s not mine.”

Miriam has lectured extensively in Israel and around the world about Israel, the IDF, and the indefatigable Jewish spirit.

Miriam also made aliyah from Morocco. She came to Israel in 1964 with her family and resided in a ma’abara near Be’er Sheva. In the mid-seventies she married Eliezer Peretz and the couple moved to the Ofira settlement in Sinai, where Uriel and Eliraz were born. She had six children in all.

Miriam was the principal of Givat Ze’ev first school and today serves as supervisor at the Education Ministry’s Youth and Society Administration.

Her eldest son, Lieutenant Uriel Peretz – commander of a reconnaissance platoon in Golani’s 51st Battalion – was killed on November 25,

1998, in a south Lebanon ambush. On March 26, 2010, another son, Major Eliraz Peretz, was killed after encountering terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

Natan Sharansky will also be honored with the Israel Prize next month.

According to Bennett, he “symbolizes the fulfillment of the Zionist dream, from the darkness of a Soviet prison to the light of freedom as the leader of the Jewish Agency.”

In response, Sharansky said, “When it comes to kibbutz galuyot, ingathering the exiles, this prize also goes to (my wife) Avital and to all the Aliyah activists and Prisoners of Zion in the Soviet Union who fought valiantly for the right to immigrate to Israel. It also goes to the entire Jewish people, which supported the refuseniks’ struggle for freedom,” he wrote.

“The ingathering of the exiles continues. Aliyah today is an Aliyah of free choice: Israel is the best place for self-actualization as a Jew and for impacting the future of the Jewish people. We must do everything to ensure that Israel remains a home to every Jew in the world.”

Born in 1948 in the former Soviet Union as Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky, Sharansky was denied permission to immigrate to Israel by

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In 1977, Sharansky was arrested in the Soviet Union on multiple fabricated charges including high treason for spying for the Americans and sentenced the following year to 13 years of forced labor.

When given his sentencing, Sharansky famously stated that “to the court I have nothing to say—to my wife and the Jewish people I say, ‘Next Year in Jerusalem.’”

He spent nine years in a Siberian prison. Half of that was spent in solitary confinement, where his health deteriorated to the point of endangering his life. Sharansky, a chess prodigy, later said that he managed to keep himself sane by playing chess with himself, in his head.

After nine years in prison, thanks to considerable international pressure and a campaign led by his wife, Avital Sharansky, Sharansky was released on February 11, 1986. That

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same day, he immigrated to Israel and arrived in Jerusalem, where he continued to fight for the rights of refuseniks.

From 1996 to 2000 he served as Minister of Industry and Trade and then as Minister of Internal Affairs, leaving the government when it was suggested that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s negotiations with the Palestinians would result in a division of Jerusalem.

Sharansky remained the chairman of his party, which was later merged into the Likud. He later served in the government in 2001-2003 as Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Construction and Housing, and in 2003-2005 as Minister of Jerusalem Affairs. In 2009, Sharansky was elected Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, remaining in the position until 2018.

For his activism, Sharansky was awarded the two highest civilian awards in the United States, the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1986 and 2006 respectively, and the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award in 2008.

He continued to lead human rights initiatives both through his writings and through his public activ-

ism. His memoir, Fear No Evil, was published in the United States in 1988 and translated into nine languages.

His book, The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror, starred in the New York Times bestseller list.

Israel is Happy

Israel is still the 11th happiest country in the world. According to the United Nations’ annual “World Happiness Report,” Israel has remained in its spot for the fifth year in a row. On the list of 156 countries,

the Palestinian Territories came in 104th place, Lebanon in 88th, Jordan in 90th, and Syria in the 150th spot.

The report evaluated 117 countries for the first time by the happiness and wellbeing of their immigrants. Israel was ranked 12th on the list for “happiness for the foreign-born.” It noted that Jews who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union have much better lives than before they immigrated, even though they still have problems. Not surprisingly, the United Nations couldn’t be too supportive of the Jewish State and also placed Israel among the countries that are less tolerant of migrants.

Israel’s high scoring was helped by the country’s health system. Israel ranked sixth for improvement in life expectancy, only falling behind Japan, Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, and Canada.

The countries were ranked based on a number of factors including citizens’ freedom, gross domestic product, expenditure on health care, and lack of corruption. Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Switzerland took the top five spots. The United States fell to 18th from 14th place last year.

Israel Knew of Developer of Chemical Agent Israel was suspicious of Anatoly Kuntsevich, the soviet general behind the development of a deadly nerve agent suspected of being used in a poisoning attack last week in the UK, back in the 1990s. The leading chemical weapons expert had led the development of Novichok, a highly potent, Soviet-designed nerve agent which was used on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter on March 4.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kuntsevich began trying to sell his knowledge to the Syrians, and Israel knew all about it. Tel Aviv repeatedly tried to warn Moscow about it, but according to a report by Israeli journalist and author Ronen Bergman, “It was believed that [Russian president Boris] Yeltsin either could not, or did not want, to intervene.”

It is not known if the Syrian government developed chemical weapons based on information provided by Kuntsevich, however, the country has used chemical weapons since then.

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cussed during security cabinet meetings repeatedly throughout the war.

Still, Shapira called on the National Security Council and the IDF to take international law and civilian casualties more seriously during a future military action. He noted that there is room for improvement. For example, the army’s internal system of reviewing potential breaches of international law could be more thorough. There were 464 such “exceptional incidents” that were reported in the 2014 war. Shapira said that although the IDF acted “in good faith and with a sincere desire to … arrive at the truth,” the “fact-finding assessments” were not always completed in a timely manner or as efficiently as possible.

The 169-page report was published for the first time in both Hebrew and English. In response to the document, the IDF said that “most of the specific suggestions regarding these mechanisms have already been fixed and addressed.”

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senal in 2013 when President Barack Obama threatened missile strikes in retaliation for a chemical attack on a rebel-held suburb of Damascus that killed more than 1,000 people. Obama never attacked Syria, although they have been accused of using chlorine gas in attacks multiple times since then.

On April 3, 2002, Kuntsevich died mysteriously on a plane. Although no one has ever taken responsibility for

the death, it is widely thought that the Mossad was behind the assassination.

IDF Gets High Score for Protecting Civilians Although a state comptroller review of the Israeli army’s handling of

the 2014 Gaza war found some flaws, overall the military received a passing grade. Among the highlights of the report was the high grade given for the IDF’s extensive efforts to avoid civilian casualties during the conflict.

The report focused heavily on Israel’s effort to keep civilians safe. “The IDF does its utmost and examines every target before attacking it in order to distance civilians from it,” State Comptroller Yosef Shapira wrote. The issue of civilian casualties was dis-

In response to a bomb exploding on the southern Israel-Gaza border, the Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes on a Hamas target in the central Gaza Strip over the weekend. There were no casualties in the bombing, and Israeli tanks were quick to destroy the Hamas post from which the bomb is thought to have originated.

Hamas, the terror group that controls the Strip, is being held responsible for the bombing by the Israeli army. The blast is the latest in

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Torah Academy For Girls, The Bais Yaakov Of Long Island is delighted to announce the appointment of

Mrs. Batya Krasnow as the Principal of the Limudei Kodesh department in its Junior High School.

Mrs. Krasnow, a veteran second grade morah, also teaches in our junior high school general studies program, and serves as program director in Camp Chaviva during the summer. She brings this vast experience as well as her enthusiasm to her new position as principal. Our current Assistant Principal, Mrs. Maya Kuritsky, will be a vital resource in ensuring the smooth transition of what promises to be a successful new chapter in TAG’s administration.

Torah Academy for Girls has earned a sterling reputation in chinuch habanos striving to achieve the optimal success of each and every talmidah. Under the direction of our current principal, Mrs. Sarah Drillman, the junior high school has reached new heights. We wish her much bracha and hatzlacha in her future endeavors.

To meet the demands and needs of our growing community TAG welcomes

Mrs. Penina Noy as Assistant Principal in the General Studies department of its Junior High School division.

Mrs. Noy has extensive experience as the founding principal of Meira Academy in Palo Alto, California and more recently as menaheles in Yeshiva Ketana of Waterbury. Mrs. Noy will bring this experience to assist Mrs. Cecile Wieder, TAG’s current principal in the junior high school’s general studies department, to help produce true Bnos Yisroel.

We are confident that both Mrs. Krasnow and Mrs. Noy will enhance our stellar staff of mechanchos and teachers and we look forward to sharing great nachas with them.

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a series of attempted bomb attacks on Israeli troops, although thankfully there were no soldiers in the blast zone at the time of the explosion. A day earlier, two improvised explosive devices were detonated near a security fence as a military patrol vehicle drove by. Israel retaliated against terror targets with tank fire in response. No injuries were reported in the IED attack.

Israel’s military liaison put out a warning to Hamas: “The provocations by Hamas and other terrorist organizations could lead to an escalation” of violence along the Gaza border.

Improvised explosive devices are a major concern for the IDF as they are transported easily and can be set off remotely. The army has instituted a number of protocols in light of the recent uptick in IEDs so that the explosives can either be disarmed or destroyed in a controlled explosion.

An IED injured four IDF soldiers last month when it was set off along the southern Gaza fence. During a protest, the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committee placed a Palestinian flag on the border fence.

When Golani Brigade troops and the Combat Engineering Corps approached the fence the following day to take the flag down, an IED exploded and wounded the soldiers; two of the wounded were said to be in serious condition.

Polish Minister Attempts to Change History

A diplomat from Poland is vowing to “intervene” and have text removed from the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Israel that referenced “Polish police” during the Nazi occupation.

Jan Dziedziczak, the deputy director of the Polish Foreign Ministry, was interviewed while visiting Israel last week. The passage that he was referring to says that “Polish police” guarded the entrance to the ghetto in Lodz.

“When I saw this inscription, I asked for immediate intervention from our diplomatic mission in Israel,” Dziedziczak said. “We will not leave this matter and we will do everything to change this information immediately.” He added that this would be the first of various “actions to restore the truth.”

Recently, Israel and Poland’s relationship became strained over Poland’s new controversial law which makes blaming Poland for the Holocaust a criminal offense. Israeli politicians and citizens protested the law loudly and forcefully. The argument is that it prevents open discussion and may limit research on thousands of Poles who betrayed Jews to the Nazis or killed Jews. It also, according to some, will begin to distort the truth of what happened, as evidenced by Dziedziczak’s comments.

According to the Yad Vashem website, most of the police officers that served before the German occupation of Poland in 1939 complied with the occupiers’ orders for them to return to duty under German auspices. By 1943, more than 16,000 Polish officers, some of them armed, served under the Germans. Many historians, including Sylwia Szymańska-Smolkin of the University of Toronto, have studied the Polish police’s role in the Holocaust and specifically in connection with the Lodz ghetto.

Polish police were employed “on a wide scale against the Jewish population,” Yad Vashem writes, and “had an active role in policing ghettos in occupied Poland and searching for Jews who sought refuge with the local population after escaping from ghettos and camps.” The Polish police demonstrated “absolute devotion” to the Nazi authorities, according to Yad Vashem, “although a handful of cases of assistance to Jews by some officers also occurred.”

Changing the inscription upon Dziedziczak’s insistence will be changing history.

Speech Cancelled After Poland Objects In another story connected to Poland’s outrageous new Holocaust law, on Monday, an Israeli mayor was forced to cancel a speech he was planning to deliver to Israeli high school students on a trip to Poland after Polish authorities censored his prepared remarks.

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Kiryat Bialik Mayor Eli Dukorsky, who is heading the Israeli delegation and who is the son of a Holocaust survivor, was meant to deliver his speech on Monday along with the mayor of Radomsko, Kiryat Bialik’s Polish twin city. However, before Dukorsky could deliver his address, the Radomsko municipality asked to go over his speech in light of the new law criminalizing the mention of complicity by the Polish state or nation in the Holocaust.

After authorities reviewed the planned speech, they requested that Dukorsky either omit parts of it that dealt with Poles who turned Jews in to the Nazi occupiers or blame Ukrainians instead.

The Israeli mayor then sought the advice of the Foreign Ministry, which recommended that he not deliver a censored version of his speech.

“We reject any attempt at censor-

ship,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon. “We support the mayor’s right to make his speech as planned and not omit any word, not even a single letter.”

The joint ceremony was then canceled.

Dukorsky then decided to hold an alternative ceremony for the Israeli students and read out his full speech.

It was not immediately clear if Polish authorities monitored his remarks.

Thousands of Israeli students visit Poland each year to learn about the Holocaust, culminating in the March of the Living in April. The incident appeared to be the strongest yet indication that the new law will cast a shadow over official commemorations.

As currently written, the Polish law calls for prison terms of up to three years for attributing the crimes of Nazi Germany to the Polish state or nation. The law also sets fines or a maximum three-year jail term for anyone who refers to Nazi German death camps as Polish. Dukorsky’s speech did not appear to accuse the Polish state or nation of Holocaust crimes, nor refer to Polish death camps.

“Israel is not willing to compromise over historical facts,” Depu-

ty Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said, according to Israel’s Channel 10 news. “Mentioning painful events from the past doesn’t mean blaming the entire Polish people. It is important to continue the open and honest discussions between both sides.”

The Business of Weapons

Israel is the 7th largest exporter of weapons in the world, according to last week’s Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report. The Jewish State has seen a 55 percent increase in the export of weapons systems over the past five years, the biggest climb among the top 10 arms exporters.

The biggest customers that Isra-

el services are India, Vietnam, and Azerbaijan, with India ordering almost half (49%) of the weapons. Over the past year, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Israel and Bibi Netanyahu reciprocated with a visit as well. Both visits included discussions of India’s massive arms purchases from Israel, including Barak aerial defense missiles, IAI Eitan (Heron TP) drones, airborne targeting and navigation pods. India has imported 285% more from Israel over the past five years than the previous five years.

Israel is also the third largest provider of arms for South Korea, Italy, and Britain.

As far as weapons imports are concerned, Israel is ranked 17th in the world. Arms imports have increased in Israel by 125% in the past five years. Sixty percent of those weapons came from the United States, while another 30% were imported from Germany. Italy provides Israel’s Air Force with training planes, accounting for another 10%.

The United States is the largest exporter of arms in the world. The U.S. sold weapons to at least 98 other nations in the past five years. One third of all international arms exports originated in the United States.

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Americans Like to Exercise

The majority of American adults are good with their weekly exercise routine. Whether it’s running, swimming, jogging, biking or rowing, Americans are keeping fit. But all those jumping jacks are not shrinking our waistlines.

According to new data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one in three people in the United States are considered obese. In 2017, our nation’s obesity rate hit an all-time high.

For years, in an answer to higher

numbers on the scale, doctors told patients to exercise. People have been listening. Almost 54% of Americans meet the U.S. government’s aerobic exercise recommendation, which calls for 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity workouts (such as walking briskly or playing tennis) or 75 minutes a week of more intense exercise (such as jogging or swimming laps).

Seeing that obesity continues to rise despite our kickboxing classes, attention is being shifted to the food we eat. Perhaps it’s the glut of processed foods that we consume that’s so detrimental to our health. Certain food companies, being admonished for their contribution to so much weight gain, have said that they are reducing artificial ingredients, sodium, and sugars in their foods. Others continue to face intense scrutiny and, in some cases, legal action taken by public health advocates. The Center for Science in the Public Interest sued Coca-Cola in 2017, saying the soda industry for years used industry-funded reports and advertisements to shift blame for public health troubles off its products and onto consumers’ exercise habits. The American Beverage Association, an industry group that represents the soda companies, has since scrubbed its site of news releases

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it published advocating that point of view. The lawsuit is ongoing.

Interestingly, the new report from the CDC found that people are just as likely to claim they are in good health as they were nearly 20 years ago. Twothirds of people surveyed maintained they were in good health. We hope they’re the ones who are exercising.

Haley Puts U.S. Money Where Her Mouth Is

“None voted with us on Jerusalem, even though none have a strong domestic constituency compelling the vote,” the 53-page memo says, referring to the December vote condemning the U.S. for recognizing the city as the capital of Israel. The statement seems to indicate that Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and elsewhere could be forgiven on that specific resolution.

The plan will excuse some countries that consistently vote against the U.S., specifically those that have been given a pass “in favor of U.S. security or economic needs.” For example, Iraq, one of the biggest recipients of U.S. financial assistance, votes against the U.S. 60% of the time. It will be spared from the cuts.

Space Genes Several weeks ago, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley threatened to punish countries that didn’t stand behind the U.S., and she plans on following through. A memo has been drafted already, outlining aid cuts to specific countries.

The document is partly being used as a tactic to encourage countries to side with the U.S. Three countries in favor of a General Assembly resolution last year condemning U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and plans to move the U.S. embassy there are the main countries targeted by this consequence.

“The autopilot nature of many U.S. foreign assistance efforts is leaving far too much ‘low-hanging fruit’ that should be either eliminated or leveraged into greater support at the UN and elsewhere,” the plan, drafted by Haley’s staff, reportedly says.

Forty other countries’ funding are currently under threat due to Haley’s statements. The document, titled, “America First Foreign Assistance Policy,” specifically calls for reconsidering America’s commitment to a $4.9 million school construction program in Ghana, a $6.6 million climate change program in Vietnam, and $3.1 million job training program in Zimbabwe. In 2016, the U.S. pledged $580 million to those three countries combined. Ghana voted with the U.S. in New York 54% of the time, Vietnam just 38%, and Zimbabwe 19%.

Spending a year in space made Scott Kelly into a different person – literally.

The astronaut has been under a lot of scrutiny since he came back to Earth in March 2016. Kelly is a very interesting subject since he has an identical twin, Mark, who is also an astronaut but did not go on the space mission. The twins were analyzed before and after Scott’s 340-day journey and compared extensively since his trip back home.

Recently it was revealed that 7 percent of Scott’s genetic expression – how his genes function within cells – did not return to baseline after his return to Earth two years ago.

That means that Scott’s and Mark’s DNA are not exactly alike. They are still identical, though. Changes in gene expression are how the human body reacts to the environment. Kelly’s transformation suggests longer-term alterations related to at least five biological pathways and functions.

To track physical changes caused by time in space, scientists measured Kelly’s metabolites (necessary for maintaining life), cytokines (secreted by immune system cells) and proteins (workhorses within each cell) before,

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during and after his mission. The researchers learned that spaceflight is associated with oxygen-deprivation stress, increased inflammation and dramatic nutrient shifts that affect gene expression.

In particular, Chris Mason of Weill Cornell Medicine reported on the activation of Kelly’s “space genes.”

Although 93% of Kelly’s genetic expression returned to normal once he returned to Earth, a subset of several hundred “space genes” remained disrupted. Some of these alterations, found only after spaceflight, are thought to be caused by the stresses of space travel.

Kelly was the first American to spend 12 consecutive months in orbit.

During his NASA career he spent a total of 520 days in space. He officially retired in 2016.

Six Killed in Bridge Collapse It was a typical sunny Thursday in Florida last week when six people unknowingly drove into a death trap.

At around 1:30 pm a newly erected pedestrian bridge came crashing

down at Florida International University, crushing vehicles below.

Miami-Dade County Fire Chief Dave Downey confirmed that six of the eight people trapped were tragically killed and at least 10 others were injured in the accident. In the minutes following the horrible accident, emergency personnel were aided by sniffer dogs to search for signs of life in the wreckage of concrete slabs and twisted metal. At one point during the rescue, police demanded that all media helicopters evacuate the area so that they could listen for any sounds of victims calling for help.

The 950-ton bridge toppled onto several lanes of traffic on one of South Florida’s busiest roads. Witnesses told local media the vehicles were stopped at a traffic light when the bridge collapsed. The 174-feet

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bridge connected the university with the city of Sweetwater. It was meant to ensure the safety of students crossing the busy street. The plan was proposed after a FIU student was killed while trying to cross the busy street last year. The bridge was just installed six days prior to the collapse. It was pre-made and then installed in six hours over the eightlane highway, according to a report posted on the university’s website.

The goal was to construct the walkway without disrupting traffic by prolonged construction. According to the university, the $14.2 million bridge was designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane, the most dangerous measure by the National Hurricane Center, and built to last 100 years.

“If anybody has done anything wrong, we will hold them accountable,” said Florida Governor Rick Scott at a Thursday night press conference.

Designed by FIGG Engineering-Bridge Group and built by Munilla Construction Management Construction, the bridge was built using Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) technology, a streamlined process that is quicker and more cost effective. Both companies are participating with the investigation.

Fingers of blame are being pointed in many directions. Governor Scott’s office said FIU selected a firm that was not pre-qualified to check the design of the bridge, which was required because it was such a long pedestrian bridge and had other unique characteristics.

The walkway had not been open to the public yet, as it was still undergoing final touches, however, there were four workers on the bridge who were badly injured. It wasn’t set to be opened for use until early 2019. The college was out of session for spring break vacation when the bridge collapsed.

The first civil lawsuit in connection to the incident was filed on Monday by a biker who says he was hurt when a car swerved into him.

Undoubtedly this lawsuit will be the first of many.

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On Wednesday, a string of bombings that terrorized Texas was brought to a grisly end when the sus-

pect responsible for the bombings blew himself up. He was identified as Mark Anthony Conditt, who had lived in Pflugerville, a suburb of Austin, not far from the site of the first bombing.

Conditt’s motive, for now, remains a mystery. As of Wednesday not much was known about the 24-year-old white man and whether he acted alone in the five bombings in Austin and San Antonio that killed two people and wounded four others.

Authorities had identified his location when they found his vehicle at a hotel in Round Rock, a suburb of Austin. They were waiting for backup when the suspect’s vehicle drove away and was found in a ditch.

When members of the SWAT team approached, the detonated an explosive device inside the vehicle. The blast knocked back one officer, while a second officer fired his weapon.

Austin had been targeted by four package bombings since March 2. A fifth parcel bomb detonated at a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio early Tuesday.

Citing a high-ranking law enforcement official, the Austin American-Statesman reported that authorities had identified the suspect based largely on information, including security video, gleaned after he sent an explosive device from an Austin-area FedEx store.

Despite the suspect’s demise, authorities were still warning residents to remain vigilant since authorities were not privy to his actions before his death.

Illegal Resident Serves in Govt

Lizabeth Mateo, 33, is making history in California as the first undocumented resident to hold a government position. Mateo, an immigrant rights activist, was appointed to serve on a committee in California that helps increase college access for students from low-income or underserved communities. The decision

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“No words can heal the pain from the loss of these true American heroes. Our deepest sympathy goes out to their families,” said Col. Kurt Matthews, commander of the 920th Rescue Wing, in a statement.

Capt. Mark K. Weber, 29, of Colorado Springs, CO, was also killed in the crash. He was assigned to the 38th Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, GA. Four of the airmen were assigned to the 106th Rescue Wing at the Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, NY: Capt. Andreas B. O’Keeffe, 37, of Center Moriches, NY; Capt. Christopher T. Zanetis, 37, of Long Island City, NY; Master Sgt. Christopher J. Raguso, 39, of Commack, NY; and Staff Sgt. Dashan J. Briggs, 30, of Port Jefferson Station, NY. Posch was an 18-year veteran of the Air Force. He served the last 10 years with the 920th Rescue Wing.

Among his many missions, he assisted in rescue operations in Texas after Hurricane Harvey and took part in a long-range sea mission last July to rescue a pair of stranded German sailors.

Enis was an eight-year veteran and joined the 920th Rescue Wing in 2010.

The crew was aboard an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter, a variation on the UH-60 Black Hawk, that went down during a troop transport mission outside the Iraqi city of Qaim in Anbar Province. It was believed the aircraft struck a power line, although the incident remains under investigation.

“This tragedy reminds us of the risks our men and women face every day in service of our nations,” said Brig. General Jonathan Braga of the Combined Joint Task Force, in a statement. “We are thinking of the loved ones of these service members today.”

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Senate President pro tempore Kevin de León said, “While Donald Trump fixates on walls, California will continue to concentrate on opportunities. Ms. Mateo is a courageous, determined and intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country.”

Mateo was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. She came to the U.S. illegally with her parents at the age of 14. She became the first member of her family to graduate from college in 2016. She got her degree from Santa Clara University and passed the California bar last year. She was officially sworn in by de León on June 29, 2017.

California became the first state in the U.S. to allow undocumented immigrants to practice law in 2014; New York followed suit shortly after.

Just days before Mateo received her new position President Trump visited California for the first time as president. He visited San Diego and viewed prototypes for the border wall. During the visit, Trump said that California was “begging us to build walls in certain areas.”

“They won’t tell you that, but we said no, we won’t do it until we build the whole wall,” Trump said, adding that parts of the state were complaining about “people pouring in” across the U.S.-Mexico border.

The president has been vocal about his disapproval of California’s sanctuary cities, writing on Twitter recently that “California’s sanctuary policies are illegal and unconstitutional and put the safety and security of our entire nation at risk.

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President Trump offered condolences to the victims’ families on Friday: “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the brave troops lost in the helicopter crash on the Iraq-Syria border yesterday. Their sacrifice in service to our country will never be forgotten.”

Two other Americans have died in Iraq in noncombat incidents since the first of the year. Thursday’s incident marks the first fatal U.S. helicopter crash in the region since U.S. forces began fighting ISIS there in 2014.

Woman Killed by Uber Self-Driving Car Elaine Herzberg was struck and killed while crossing a street by a self-driving Uber SUV this week. The accident, which took place in Phoenix, Arizona, is the first death involving a fully autonomous test vehicle – a crash that could have far-reaching consequences for the new technology.

The fatality Sunday night in Tempe was the event many in the auto and technology industries were dreading but knew was inevitable. Uber immediately suspended all road-testing of such autos in the Phoenix area, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto.

The testing has been going on for months as automakers and technology companies like the ride-hailing service compete to be the first with cars that operate on their own.

The Volvo was in self-driving mode with a human backup driver at the wheel when it hit 49-year-old Herzberg as she was walking a bicycle outside the lines of a crosswalk.

It was driving at 40 mph when Helzberg crossed from the median into the lane of traffic. She was not crossing at the crosswalk.

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Autonomous vehicles with laser, radar and camera sensors and sophisticated computers have been billed as the way to reduce the more than 40,000 traffic deaths a year in the U.S. Ninety-four percent of crashes are caused by human error, the government says. Self-driving cars don’t get tired, drunk or distracted. In 2016, the latest year available, more than 6,000 U.S. pedestrians were killed by vehicles.

The federal government has voluntary guidelines for companies that want to test autonomous vehicles, leaving much of the regulation up to states. Many states, including Michigan and Arizona, have taken a largely hands-off approach, hoping to gain jobs from the new technology, while California and others have taken a harder line.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey used light regulations to entice Uber to the state after the company had a shaky rollout of test cars in San Francisco. Arizona has no reporting requirements. Hundreds of vehicles with automated driving systems have been on Arizona’s roads.

The crash in Arizona isn’t the first involving an Uber autonomous test vehicle. In March 2017, an Uber SUV flipped onto its side, also in Tempe.

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With less than two days remaining to his official retirement date, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe was fired. Although McCabe was placed on leave and essentially forced to step down in January of this year due to unspecified misconduct, his official retirement date was March

18th. His firing prevents him from collecting his pension of approximately $60,000 for the next five years, after which, at the age of 55, he would have been entitled to collect it.

The recommendation to fire McCabe was made by the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility after it received a report from Inspector General of the Department of Justice Michael E. Horowitz, who conducted an investigation into McCabe’s misconduct. The inspector general, who was appointed to his post by President Obama in 2012, found that McCabe made unauthorized leaks to the media and lied under oath. The FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility noted in its recommendation to fire McCabe that “all FBI employees know that lacking candor under oath results in dismissal and that our integrity is our brand.”

On Friday night, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions accepted the recommendation and fired McCabe.

Responding to the firing, President Trump tweeted, “Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI. A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!” McCabe released a statement promising that he will no longer be silent and claimed that his firing “is part of this administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day.” He added that “their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel’s work.”

Former FBI Director James Comey jumped to the support of McCabe and tweeted, “Special Agent Andrew McCabe stood tall over the last 8 months, when small people were trying to tear down an institution we all depend on.”

However, although McCabe and Comey may be “deep state brethren,” they may soon be at odds – McCabe sought to explain his supposed leak in a statement by claiming that his “interaction with the reporter” was authorized by then-Director James Comey. However, in Congressional testimony in May 2017, Comey swore under oath that he never authorized anyone to leak to the media. One of them is lying.

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tions related to its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

Although the full breadth of the report is unknown, it is reported that Horowitz concludes in his report that McCabe was not forthcoming during the investigation. Horowitz’s investigation also uncovered more than 10,000 messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, which included discussions of how to “protect the country from that menace,” referring to President Trump.

Included in those text messages is a discussion about a meeting with Andrew McCabe during the presidential election in which an “insurance policy” was discussed, presumably in case Trump wins the election.

Horowitz’s report is expected to be released sometime over the next several months.

Many prominent Republicans are not comfortable with the Obama-appointed inspector general conducting the sole review into the FBI’s actions over the past two years and are calling for a second special prosecutor to be appointed. Additionally, they argue, the inspector general’s office doesn’t have the legal reach that a special prosecutor would have.

less obvious factor when it comes to being happy. Four out of the top 10 happiest cities in the nation are in California, with two in North Dakota and Texas, respectively. According to the report, the least happy city in the U.S. is Detroit, Michigan, one of the poorest cities in the nation.

There has been lots of research on the science of happiness and it is widely agreed upon that the crucial ingredients for a positive mental state is health, strong social relationships, job satisfaction, and financial wellbeing. However, WalletHub.com says that research has proven that having a lot of money doesn’t necessarily make you happier. According to the site, households that earn $75,000 a year won’t get any higher satisfaction from more money.

Want to keep smiling? The following 10 cities are the happiest in the nation: 1. Fremont, California 2. Bismarck, North Dakota 3. San Jose, California 4. Pearl City, Hawaii 5. Plano, Texas 6. Fargo, North Dakota 7. Sioux Falls, South Dakota 8. Irvine, California 9. Huntington Beach, California 10. Grand Prairie, Texas

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Working Too Hard

Happiness is a state of mind that seems to be more prevalent in certain cities and states in the U.S. Based on a panel of psychology and career professors who analyzed data contributed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Feeding America, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, WalletHub.com recently ranked 182 cities in categories in three main areas: emotional and physical health, income and employment, or community and environment.

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Cedric Vaivre works too hard – and it’s really not fine.

Vaivre is a baker whose shop is open every day of the week. Think croissants, eclairs, profiteroles, and macarons. Yes, his bakery is in France. And the French take their pastries – and their laid-back style – very seriously. You see, there is a

law in the Aube region of France that states that bakeries must close at least one day a week, a day of rest for those flour-fingered workers.

So when Vaivre decided to keep his bakery – smells of fresh bread and decadent desserts wafting through the streets – open every day during the busy summer season, he was hit with a major fine: around $3,700. That’s a lot of dough.

Supporters from his town – and probably fans of his famous pastries – are trying to get the fine waived and to get the town to change the archaic rule. An online petition to change the rule has more than 2,000 signatures. That’s pretty impressive given that Lusigny-sur-Barse only had about 2,000 residents in 2014.

“To the workers’ inspector and the city government: Help our bakery!” the petition reads.

Vaivre said he loves his job.

“We’ve got to stop [penalizing] people who work,” he said.

This is not the only law that limits workers’ hours in the country. In January 2017, France passed a law that gives workers the right to limit their out-of-office and after-hours correspondence. The country’s 35hour work week has been in place since 2000, but various reforms have softened these rules over time and some industries are granted special exceptions.

Because, you know, well, someone has to bring home the dough.

The Crook in a Cab Derrick Faria of Indiana robbed a bank last Thursday. But less than an hour after getting his haul, police hauled him into the station. How did they find him so fast?

Turns out that Faria, 19, ordered a taxi before walking into the bank with a note that read, “This is a robbery. Give me all your money.” The clerk complied and then Faria took the cab back home, paying the driver $20 from the stolen funds. It didn’t take long for authorities to connect the dots and find their lazy thief at his home where they arrested.

Police recovered all of the bank’s funds – except for the $14 cab fare and $6 tip.

Criminals beware: better make sure to have a decent getaway car when planning your next caper.

Back to Basics

If you’re looking to dine at The Lost Kitchen in Freedom, Maine, you better head to the post office.

The remote farm-to-table restaurant has been inundated with reservations for their eatery, especially between May and December each year. Last year, Chef Erin French received an overwhelming 10,000 calls for reservations at the 40-seat restaurant.

This year, the restaurant is looking to minimize the hassle – and its patrons. It has eliminated its telephone and online reservation systems and instead has installed one that’s particularly archaic: handwritten postcards.

If you want to eat at their exclusive, back-to-basics eatery, better put pen to paper and lick some stamps.

“We prefer human contact over computers and pen & paper over keyboards. Given the chance, we want to give you our full and undivided personal attention. Keeping it small and intimate is part of what makes TLK so magical and something we don’t want to stray from,” French wrote on the restaurant’s website.

The eatery released the new rules for the reservation policy on its website, which requires interested parties to send a 3x5 notecard with their name, mailing address, email address and phone number in a postmarked envelope to the restaurant between April 1-April 10.

Starting April 11, cards will be selected at random until all reservations are complete.

“Realizing we will never be able to serve everyone who wishes to dine here, to get here will take a bit of energy, a bit of patience, persistence and hope. Come to think of it, every really good thing that has ever happened to me in my life has involved all four of these things,” French wrote.

So it seems that you have to rely on the mail to get to eat this meal.

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Rogers has not been competing forever. He entered his first race when he was 90. Now he competes in the 100 to 104 age group.

Last week, Rogers set the new world age group record in the 60-meter dash with a time of 19.13 seconds. He secured his other age group world records at the 2018 Indoor Championships in the 200-meter, 400-meter, 800-meter and 1,500-meter events.

What’s his secret for a long life?

“I have a wonderful wife who died 10 years ago. I have a great family. I have lots of friends and I keep active mentally, physically and spiritually.”

Breaking Records at 100 Orville Rogers may be 100-yearsold, but he is not slowing down. In fact, he’s probably the fastest centenarian you’ll ever know.

The Dallas resident trained bomber pilots during World War II and now says that he’s on “top of the world” after breaking five world running records for his age group during a championship meet in Maryland last weekend.

“I have a total of 18 world records and I’m very grateful that G-d has blessed me with the ability and the

motivation to run well,” Rogers said.

Rogers said during the Korean War he flew the biggest airplane in the world, the B-36 strategic bomber. “We had 16 crew members and 16 20-millimeter canons on each airplane for defense and we had a capability and we had the responsibility to retaliate against Russia if war had been declared,” he said.

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“Kol Yisroel areivem zeh ba zeh”—every Jew is responsible, each for the other. These individuals have taken their responsibility to heart. We call on you to take your responsibility to heart. Be’er Miriam Tziporah, now in its 18th year, has cumulatively dispensed more than one million dollars, predominantly in our own community. However, the need for assistance has continued to grow, accelerating since the deep economic downturn in 2008. Unfortunately, the organization has had to cut back on its individual grants to spread a limited pool of funds over a growing population of beneficiaries.

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Community HANC ECC West Hempstead welcomed the Tzivos Hashem Matzah Factory last week. The children enjoyed a hands-on lesson on how to bake matzah.​​

Bais Yaakov of Queens Bakes Matzos

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ais Yaakov of Queens preschool, 1st and 2nd grade girls were thrilled to experience baking matzos. The children learned the process of baking matzah beginning with transforming wheat kernels into flour and ending with a piece of delicious matzah to take home. The girls were actively involved every step of the way, from banging wheat stalks, removing wheat kernels, turning the handle of the grinder to make flour, pouring the mayim shelanu and the flour into a bowl to make dough, rolling out the dough, punching holes in it, and, finally, bringing the complet-

ed matzos to the oven to be baked. Although the matzos the children produced were

not actually kosher for Pesach, the learning experience they gained was priceless. When they take part in the

seder they will be able to share their experiences with everyone!

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YCQ 77th Anniversary Scholarship Dinner

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rom countless hours of volunteers stuffing envelopes, organizing and planning, the YCQ 77th Anniversary Scholarship Dinner was a success. Under the auspices of Mrs. Reize Sipzner, dinner chair, volunteers and members of the YCQ-PTO and staff gave their time to see this major event to fruition.

The annual dinner was held at the Sands in Atlantic Beach on Sunday, March 11. Rabbi Moshe Hamel, assistant principal JHS Judaic Studies, sang Hatikvah and the Star Spangled Banner to open the evening. The dinner is held yearly to raise funds to assist community members with the cost of tuition to enable them to offer their children a top-rate education in a warm, Torah environment.

Educating their students is the primary focus of YCQ with innovative, stimulating and diverse learning opportunities in a nurturing atmosphere. YCQ remains committed to creating a positive learning environment with a strong curriculum in both Judaic and general studies. To accomplish this, the yeshiva creates a close relationship between home and school to maximize the potential of each child. With the school

enrolling almost a thousand students, parents and teachers work as a team to keep students engaged in learning and in order to foster a love for learning, Torah and ahavat Yisroel. As parents of the year, Shelly and Avi Peretz volunteer their time selflessly for the PTO and their children. They are exemplary role models for their children as well as the YCQ family.

When a rebbe spends a large part of his lifetime education yeshiva students in a single yeshiva, he becomes more than a teacher; he becomes a leader to both his students and his colleagues. This loyalty and

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commitment is the epitome of Rabbi Yaakov Finkelstein, well-deserving recipient of this year’s Educator Award. After 18 years as a Rebbe at YCQ, Rabbi Finkelstein continues to give his time and devotion to his family, the school and his talmidim.

This year’s Distinguished Alumni Award goes to Marc Merrill, a second generation YCQ graduate.

When his mother was a child, her family was offered an affordable tuition by YCQ, thus starting a lifetime of involvement with the Yeshiva. Both Marc and his wife, Sarah as well as their siblings, are alumni and continue in the family legacy of giving back to the yeshiva that has given so much to them. As the first Director of Alumni Affairs, Marc was critical in reaching out to past graduates and getting them involved in the yeshiva. According to Marc’s mother, Mrs. Ruth Merrill, “if not for the generosity of YCQ when her parents were unable to pay tuition for her and her sister, their families would probably not be frum today.”

In Pirkei Avot 4:17, it says that “Rabbi Shimon said, there are three crowns: the crown of Torah, the crown of priesthood, and the crown of kingship. And the crown of a good name is superior to them all.” This year, the Keter Shem Tov award is being bestowed upon Michael and Evelyn Shussheim who have been involved at YCQ as student, parents of and grandparents of former and current students. The Schussheims are longtime active members in the Jewish community. Michael a 1972 YCQ graduate, served as treasurer of his shul, and on the board at Lander’s College for Men, while Evelyn has served as the president of her synagogue’s sisterhood and on the Parent Council of Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls. When people devote themselves to the ed-

ucation of their children, their synagogues and to their community, the rewards can be seen in the middot and chesed of their families for generations to come.

This year’s Guests of Honor were David and Toby Reich, community advocates, longtime YCQ supporters and parents of three YCQ alumni. David, an attorney and president of the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills and Toby, member of the YIKGH youth committee, have given

and will continue to give years of support to YCQ and the community.

YCQ is a yeshiva that strives to offer its students a warm and welcoming environment, where a connection is made during the course of their education with those who have played a significant role in their lives. When students and staff walk through the doors they feel accepted. The goal of YCQ is to cultivate in each student a desire for knowledge, a love of Israel, and a yearning for

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the Torah way of life. To accomplish this goal, the yeshiva will celebrate each achievement and continue to offer a stimulating place the students can come to each day, where they know they will find warmth and mutual respect in a partnership between administration, faculty, parents and the community.

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Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky

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Please join as we pay tribute to the legacy of Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l.

This special evening will mark the re-dedication and re-naming of the Yeshiva that he founded and led for over six decades, as:

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Yachad’s Wine, Cheese & Jazz Night in Woodmere

SKA Competes in Science Olympiad

Rabbi Dovid Cohen, Ahron Rosenthal, Avi and Shulamit Penstein

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his past Saturday night Yachad held an elegant and charming “Wine, Cheese and Jazz” event in support of the new Yachad community center serving the greater Five Towns area. Dr. Avi and Shulamit Penstein graciously opened their Woodmere home to an overflow crowd who came out to enjoy a lovely evening in support of Yachad. Dr. Avi Penstein opened the evening with greetings and shared their family’s personal gratitude and recognition to Yachad’s work through their son Jacob’s transformative experience on Yachad’s well-known Yad b’Yad inclusive summer travel program in Israel, for teenagers with and without disabilities. Dr. Penstein ended by quoting from the parsha and connecting it to the work of Yachad and the impact it has on the entire Five Towns community.

Rabbi Ahron Rosenthal, direc-

tor of Yachad NY, spoke about the history and growth of Yachad in the community and the various different services and programs currently running, following which he presented a recently produced video highlighting Yachad’s local vocational program at businesses and stores in the Five Towns. The video showcased the profound effect Yachad has on their members, facilitating meaningful employment and development of life skills for individuals with disabilities. Rabbi Dovid Cohen then concluded the short presentation with his personal message and inspiration as both a rav and parent of a child with Down syndrome. Yachad continues to grow in the Long Island area, with additional programming and services expanding to meet the many needs of the community.

For more information or to get involved, please contact StahlerR@ ou.org.

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azel tov to the Science Olympiad Team of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls on winning 4th place trophy and medals in seven out of twelve competitions held on Sunday, March 18! This was the highest ranking for an all girls’ school this season.

Science Olympiad is an opportunity for students to use their science skills in an unconventional way.

Ranging from building a mousetrap vehicle to doing a thermodynamics lab, we were able to learn new ideas in different fields of science and how we can apply them to real life.

In addition to the trophy won by the SKA Team as a whole, the following are the individual medals awarded: Thermodynamics: 1st PlaceAyelet Aharon, Ariella Borah, Ilana Katz

Chemistry Lab: 2nd Place - Ayelet Aharon, Elisheva Miller Anatomy and Physiology - 3rd Place: Zisi Grossman, Shoshana Lunzer Road Scholar: 4th Place - Kayla Evans, Priva Halpert, Atara Shtern Tower: 4th Place - Shoshana Lunzer, Atara Shtern, Meira Steiner Mousetrap Vehicle: 4th Place Chani Berger, Bracha Bayla Erlbaum, Jordy Gross Dynamic Planet: 4th Place - Breindy Berger, Shoshana Schwartz Thank you to our remarkable coaches, Mrs. Glatt and Mrs. Tannenbaum, our dynamic captains Ayelet Aharon and Kayla Evans, and all the teachers who helped us prepare for the individual competitions, encouraging us to work hard and achieve so much success.

Every member of the SKA Science Olympiad Team is a winner!

Make Passover Easy This Year!

Kosher.com Announces Launch of Passover Prep HQ

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ake Passover easy this year with the help of Kosher.com! Over 40 kosher recipe writers, food bloggers, and influencers have joined together for a project to cover every aspect of making Pesach. Each one shares their particular expertise, whether it’s organizing Passover pots and pans

storage, affordable but still elegant Passover recipes, and shopping tips.

Organized by Danielle Renov (who blogs as @peaslovencarrots and is the host of the Kosher.com show Dinner with Danielle), Passover Planning HQ is designed to give you the best possible Passover prep experience by guiding you through

every step of the way.

From cleaning to shopping to organizing to menu planning, the HQ is the largest collection of the best Passover planning advice, in a step by step schedule. Free downloadables offer you menus, cleaning charts, and checklists. Delicious, exclusive recipes include Red Wine

Braised Chicken and Potatoes by Sina Mizrahi and Lemon Curd Blueberry Tart by Sam Adler.

To view the schedule and get started, visit https://www.kosher. com/passover-prep-hq

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HAFTR Preps for Pesach

YOSS Prepares for Pesach

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esach preparations are in full swing at Yeshiva of South Shore’s Early Childhood Center.

The kindergarten boys enjoyed a taste test as they learned about the different parts of the seder.

“L’chaim” could be heard as they sampled assorted grape juice flavors.

White grape juice got rave reviews, while peach left the boys confused.

Traditional purple grape juice was the clear favorite. The talmidim also tried different kinds of karpas and noticed how the saltwater tasted like their tears. The children practiced baking matzos and even acted out working hard like avadim in Mitzrayim. They are counting down the days till they can demonstrate their knowledge at the sedarim!

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The Yetzias Mitzrayim Experience at Gan Chamesh

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’chol dor v’dor chayav adam lirot et atzmo keilu hu yatzah m’Mitzrayim.” The story of Yetzias Mitzrayim came to life at Gan Chamesh, Chabad’s Early Childhood Center last week. In an elaborate, realistic dramatization, children experienced the process of going from slavery to geulah in a

hands-on and age-appropriate way.

Using costumes, scenery, and props, the children were transported to Mitzrayim to “experience” the hard labor of the Jews under Paraoh’s reign. They honed their engineering skills as they built all kinds of pyramids and buildings using a variety of materials. The teachers took on the

roles of Moshe and Paroh and helped the story unfold. It was truly a sight to behold as the children finally left Mitzrayim and reached the “Yam Suf.” The young students were able to visualize the waters splitting in half and feel the euphoria of crossing on the dry land.

Young children learn best

through role playing and dramatization enables them to gain a deeper understanding of the world around them. The Yetzias Mitzrayim experience helped the children internalize the meaningful messages of Pesach so they will come to the seder with a strong sense of gratitude, excitement and pride.

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Teach NYS Delegation of Students, Parents and Educators Push for Increased Stem Education and Security Funding

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undreds of students from Jewish day schools around the state traveled to Albany, NY on Tuesday, March 13 as part of the Orthodox Union’s Teach NYS delegation to advocate for increased and sustainable funding for nonpublic school STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education programming and additional

security. The students hailed from Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Westchester and Rockland Counties, and Long Island.

Representatives from both sides of the aisle addressed the crowd, sharing their commitment to increasing nonpublic school funding for STEM education and the importance it will have on the future economy of the state.

Legislators in attendance included: New York Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-East Northport), Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, Senator Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach), Senator Jeff Klein (D–Bronx), Assemblyman Walter Mosley (D-Brooklyn), Assemblywoman Carmen De LaRosa (D-Inwood), Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Queens), As-

semblyman Daniel Rosenthal (D-Queens), David Weprin (D-Queens) New York Senate Finance Chair Cathy Young (R-Olean). Following the speeches, the students and lay leaders broke into groups and went to the Statehouse where they met with more than 60 state legislators.

“What you are doing today will change who you are,” said OU President Moishe Bane.

“Torah means we care about everyone, every child, every family. That’s what we are doing here today…We are not just asking for ourselves, we are asking for everybody.”

New York Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said, “I want to impart to you that the work that gets done [here] really is important. Your advocacy – and I am particularly talking to the young boys

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and girls who are here – your personal advocacy makes a difference. You strengthen my resolve to work with my colleagues to ensure that your trip is productive in the short term and the long term.”

Chief among the issues discussed was additional, sustainable funding for New York’s historic STEM program. The program, which passed last year after a prolonged advocacy campaign

by Teach NYS, allows the State to reimburse nonpublic schools directly for the cost

of qualified STEM instructors. Also on the day’s agenda was advocacy for increased funding for schools’ security budgets and continued funding for Comprehensive Attendance Policy (CAP) and Mandated Services Reimbursement (MSR) programs.

OU Executive Vice President Allen Fagin told students, “Today is about how you change the way state government thinks about education and our schools.

Today is about hundreds of students coming to Albany

to talk to our elected officials, to explain to them that your education matters; that education is a civil right; that

your right to choose how and where to be educated, without financial penalty or hardships, is a civil right that ev-

ery parent and student in this state should enjoy.”

“For years we were told by the leadership here in Albany that lobby missions are a gauge of how powerful an issue’s support is,” said Maury Litwack, Executive Director of the Teach Advocacy Network, the nationwide advocacy effort on behalf of nonpublic schools. “Today, we are sending the loudest, clearest message to Albany – our schools are here to stay, and we need full funding of the STEM program.”

The Future of the Former Sewage Treatment Plant in Lawrence: Houses or Hotel?

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here’s 4.3 acres of land in Lawrence near the Nassau Expressway that used to be a sewage treatment plant. But the sewer there has been closed, the property has been cleaned, and there is only one small pumping station abutting the roadway left on the property. For now, the area is a tangle of grass and trees. There are no homes, no driveways, no people who inhabit the land.

What will it look like in a year from now? That’s what residents want to know – and what the Lawrence mayor’s office and board of trustees are deciding.

Back in December, thirty-seven residents of Lawrence who live in the area of the 878 and Rock Hall Road signed a petition that listed their concerns for the future of the area. The petition was represented and read by Rabbi Tsvi Greenfield at the December meeting of the Lawrence board of trustees. Those who reside in the area wanted to ensure that the property would be kept residential. After all, the reason they live in Lawrence is because it’s a village where they feel safe. It’s relatively quiet. The streets

are not overcrowded. They know and feel comfortable with their neighbors. They feel secure sending their children out to play in the summer.

In the winter, they help their neighbors shovel their snow. A small, safe town to raise their families.

During that December meeting Mayor Alex Edelman told the concerned residents that the plan was to divide the lot into seven single family residential lots which would be sold to individuals to build homes.

According to Mayor Edelman, who spoke with TJH, the plan is to divide the area into lots which would vary in sizes ranging from 13,000 square-feet to 17,000 square-feet.

“The best situation for the property,” he said, “is to make housing.”

He pointed out that the extra homes wouldn’t increase traffic and would keep the area residential in nature.

The proceeds of the sales would go towards a new pool and fitness center at the Lawrence Country Club.

At a March 8 board of trustees meeting, though, things weren’t so simple. Rabbi Greenfield and resident Michael Hoch showed up to that

meeting as well. They came because they were hearing “rumors” about plans to build a hotel or a nursing home on the village land. Mayor Edelman again assured them that the plan for residential houses to be built on the land was still in effect.

Even so, he mentioned that Trustee Uri Kaufman was interested in having a hotel or catering hall built on the property, although the mayor was not in favor of this.

Kaufman said that he wanted the village to go for an RFEI, Request for Expressions of Interest, finding a firm to analyze what would best be served to go on the property. He added that a hotel would be a good option to be built on the land – as opposed to residential homes – and said that he would ensure that it would be a four-star hotel or better, referring to Mayor Edelman’s concern that any hotel could end up becoming a welfare hotel.

The motion by Kaufman to go for an RFEI did not carry at the meeting.

Only Kaufman and Deputy Mayor Michael Fragin voted for the motion.

Mayor Edelman, Trustee Syma Dia-

mond, and Trustee Danny Goldstein voted against the motion.

The residents again pleaded with the board to be kept abreast of the future of the plant. Their families’ and the neighborhood’s futures are dependent on that decision.

A few minutes later, Diamond moved to close the discussion on the property. Everyone voted in favor of that motion except for Kaufman.

According to Mayor Edelman, the process, for now, is moving along. He says that the land has to be surveyed, a new sewer system needs to be put in, and other improvements will need to be done to the property. He hopes to have the lots up for auction in May or June of this year. “That’s my plan, my goal,” he said.

He added, “The purpose and intent of the board of trustees and the mayor’s office is to make sure that the residents of Lawrence have all the comforts of living in Lawrence. Having a commercial property in Lawrence is the last thing we want to see.

“We want to maintain the character of Lawrence as it always was.”

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New JCC Sustenance Center

Sharon Fogel, board member 5 Towns Food Bank; Amy Mosery, executive director 5 Towns Food Pantry; Assemblywoman Missy Miller; Steven Bernstein, Chairperson of the Grand Opening, Board Member 5 Towns Food Bank; Bruce Blakeman, Town Hempstead Councilman; Senator Todd Kaminsky; Craig Spatz, President JCC; Trudi Haberman, Vice President of Community Chest; Joel Block, Executive Director JCC; and Stacey Feldman, Assistant Executive Director 5 Towns Food Bank

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n March 18, local officials and community members attended the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC ribbon cutting at their new Sustenance Center. This new social services hub will house the Rina

Shkolnik Kosher Food Pantry, a new clothing pantry, social services, computer stations and so much more! The Rina Shkolnik Kosher Food Pantry is a joint initiative of UJA-Federation of New York and is supported by the

Community Chest South Shore and the Inwood Charities Fund. The pantry assists individuals and families by providing nutritious non-perishable food packages consisting of tuna fish, pasta, peanut butter, canned fruits

and vegetables, breakfast cereal and much more. It also provide toiletries such as shampoo, deodorant, tooth brushes and toothpaste and diapers.

TD Bank Visits Bais Yaakov of Queens

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he third grade at Bais Yaakov of Queens added up their dollars and made some “sense” of saving money in a bank. The third grade welcomed Mr. Little from TD Bank who came to speak with the girls about spending and saving money. Mr. Little explained the important role banks play, even in third grade students’ lives.

The girls were very interested and asked Mr. Little many thoughtful questions including how the bank keeps money safe and why one should choose a bank instead of a box in a room for safekeeping. Overall, the girls earned a greater understanding of why it is important to save money, which ties into their unit in language arts!

Ezra Academy Legal Eagles Enjoying a Busy Winter Season

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ne of the extracurricular activities that Ezra Academy competes in is the Mock Trial competition. This is a state wide competition hosted by the Law Youth and Citizenship Committee of the New York State Bar Association. A fictitious court case is given to over a hundred high schools, each assigns students

with roles of lawyers, both prosecution and defending, as well as witnesses. The schools then compete with one another in a series of mock trials (hence the name) with the teams being judged on their knowledge of the law, the material facts of the case and their overall performance and professionalism. The team with the higher score

continues on to the next round.

Ezra won its first round by a commanding score differential (a big deal in Mock Trial). However, as with any competition, one can’t rest on previous accomplishment and they knew they needed to polish up their game. So they did. They won their second round by an even larger differential. As a re-

sult of their spectacular performances, Ezra Academy was awarded a “bye” for the third round as they ranked in the top 16 of NYC schools, automatically placing them into the fourth round.

From a field of over a hundred teams in NYC, Ezra is one of thirty-two teams to still be left. Ezra will meet Ramaz in Round 4 just after Pesach. Good luck!

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Mayor Edelman to Run for Reelection

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illage of Lawrence Mayor Alex H. Edelman has announced his bid for reelection. With various vital projects having commenced in his first term, the mayor intends on serving another term to finish these beneficial projects.

“The effective use and sale of 4.5 acres recovered from closing our sewage plant; the relocation of Peninsula Public Library; cooperating in non-partisan way with the newly elected Town and County Leadership to permanently repair Broadway, Rockhill Road and Rockaway Turnpike; finalize the sale of surplus Village properties; working with the Governor and State officials to actually resolve the Village’s intolerable flooding conditions; and protecting Lawrence from any irresponsible development of the Woodmere Golf

Club are some of the matters that were developed during the past 20 months and need to be shepherded through to their successful conclusion,” said Mayor Edelman.

Ohr Leah Academy, a Preparation for Life

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hen people hear that Ohr Leah Academy is a Montessori school they ask questions like: “Is that the kind of school where the kids can basically do whatever they want?” “There is no structure right? That might work for your child but I don’t think mine can handle that!” “What will happen when your child has to move on to another school? Will she be able to handle it?” Let’s answer the last question first! While all change requires an adjustment period, children educated in a Montessori school integrate well to their next school. A Montessori education teaches self discipline, independence, and good study skills.

Studies show that the stimulating environment of a Montessori classroom results in a freeing of the child’s potential. Children emerge motivated and enthusiastic about learning. In addition, because the Montessori classroom puts a great emphasis on positive social interaction and conflict resolution, children will integrate well socially, having been given the tools to navigate their new environment and social group.

Contrary to the assumptions people make about a Montessori school,

the day is full of rules and structure.

There is a schedule for the day which respects the needs of the child. Work begins as soon as the children arrive.

Snack is available from 9:30-10:30.

You can serve it to yourself when you feel hungry. Yes, you don’t have to eat snack at 9:30 if you’re not hungry yet! But, when you decide to eat, you will eat it at the snack table. There is a different healthful snack available each day. You’ll have a few minutes for snack. Children clean up after themselves. Work time is structured as well. You can choose which activity you want to do first, when to do it and whether you want to do it on the floor or at the table. Within those choices you have to follow the rules. Take out one work at a time, put it away before taking out the next one, do your work on a mat. The day continues according to the schedule with goals and expectations being met.

At a Montessori school like Ohr Leah, there is freedom within a very structured environment which allows the children to thrive academically, socially and emotionally. Utilizing the Montessori Method, we are able to educate each student the way the Torah recommends, al pi darko.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran visited the state-of-the-art rehabilitation room at the Five Towns Premier Rehab and Nursing Center in Woodmere together with facility administrator Elie Pollak and owner Benjamin Landa last week. She also met with Phil Safern of Lawrence, who is recuperating from surgery at the facility

Science Olympiad Honors

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n Sunday, March 19, fourteen students from DRS Yeshiva High School participated in the annual Science Olympiad held at Touro’s Lander College for Men. Eager to win esteemed awards while proving their scientific knowledge, students from thirteen different high schools in the tristate area gathered at Lander College for Men this past Sunday to participate in the annual Science Olympiad Regionals. Hands-on engineering events and written biology, chemistry, physics, and scientific-reasoning tests gave students a chance to meet with and interact with other high schoolers. One of the fun competitions was Write it – Do it, where one

student wrote down a description of a small sculpture and passed it to another student who attempted to recreate the original sculpture using the first student’s instructions. DRS then had the opportunity to hear from Dr. Debbie Dienstag about the importance of learning science and never giving up on your dreams.

After a fun day participating in twelve events, DRS won first place in two events, third place in one event, and fourth place in two events. Overall, DRS placed fifth out of thirteen at the competition. Science Olympiad has proven to be a great way for students to display their academic talents while making new friends.

Chometz is emblematic of the evil inclination’s strategy of using laziness and heaviness to dissuade us from doing even easy mitzvos.

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n schools across America, March 14th is known as Pi Day. The world knows that pi equals 3.14, but what is pi actually? The HALB middle school classes did different investigations to find out and gain a true understanding of the meaning of pi.

In Ms. Bronstein’s, Mr. Panicker’s, and Mr. Gubbi’s math classes, students measured the distance around different circular objects as well as the distance across the center of these circular objects. Some of the items were Frisbees, plates, coins, CDs, and Tupperware. Through measuring and comparing their findings they were able to discover the true meaning of pi and its use.

In Rabbi Morgenbesser’s, Mrs. Hendeles’s and Mrs. Auman’s math classes, opposite approaches were taken to discover pi. Through technology of animated circles via the Illuminations app, Rabbi Morgenbesser’s and Mrs. Hendeles’s classes were able to observe many different circles

and compare all of these different circles to discover pi. Meanwhile, in Mrs. Auman’s math classes, pieces of circular paper were used to discover pi and other geometric concepts. In the activity “The Magic Circle,” students were continuously involved as they folded and unfolded, observed,

compared, and drew conclusions.

Through our variety of different hands-on activities, students learned about and discovered pi in a real world context, allowing them to have a deeper understanding and appreciation of this major geometric concept.

deal with psychological pain, it transfers the pain to the physical, distracting us from our stress, burdens, and worries. I found over the years that there are still people who aren’t aware of this method, so my goal is to spread awareness, as it is a tremendous help for people who are in physical pain.

Moshe (names have been changed) came to me complaining of lower back pain. He had been having extreme pressure at work. This realization, and after understanding how his body and mind interact, he was pain-free, saving himself from potential surgery.

Perfectionism is considered one of the main culprits for physical pain.

Devora was complaining of persistent stomachaches. This had been going on for years with almost no relief. We found that many times it would come when she was obsessing or over-thinking. I explained to her that when she is obsessing, she is really nervous and her mind is distracting her from feeling nervous by giving her stomach pain. With time and work, she was pain-free.

Not only is this method helpful for adults, it is very important for parenting. I once received a call from my daughter’s school that she was limping and that her knee was hurting. I approached my young daughter in a sensitive way that perhaps she may be nervous about something. She said she wasn’t and walked away. I backed off (you can never push this idea on

someone). Five minutes later she came back saying that she was actually nervous. Guess what? That pain never came back. The body talks to us; it tells us what’s going on in our insides.

When children get stomach pain or headaches before a test, it’s a sign they may be feeling nervous and pressure, which needs to be attended to by the parent, instead of just perpetually going to the doctor and not dealing with the real issue.

I have personally seen major success in my practice with people experiencing high blood pressure, lower back pain, herniated discs, headaches, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic colds, stomach pain, foot pain, knee pain, eye pain, nausea, chest pain, neck pain, irritable bowel syndrome, and much more. The list goes on and on. I have also found success using this method to help cure addictions.

This method is not a substitute for doctors or medicine. It’s preventative medicine. It trains your body to not feel physical pain in the first place. It also helps heal symptoms that doctors or medicine have no answer for.

By managing these feelings, one can lead a life free of chronic physical pain. Sounds unbelievable? Well, why not try it? You have nothing to lose, only a relaxed body to gain.

Using the Mind to Heal Your Pain

By Rabbi Alon Gul, LMSW

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veryone in the world feels pressure and stress. Everyone knows that stress is bad for

their health. What is less known is that stress can lead to chronic physical pain. When I first heard of this idea I was very skeptical, but after trying many different medical interventions for my chronic headaches and fatigue with no success, I had nothing to lose.

It was then that I started a journey of health for myself and subsequently was able to heal others of their physical pain in my practice.

When I first heard of the famous Dr. Sarnos’ approach to healing physical pain, I was already sold. It was a brilliant idea – the body will distract a person from unwanted feelings by giving him physical pain. I originally thought I was going to try to heal myself from headaches and fatigue, but I thought maybe this could also work for my lactose intolerance. Within three days I was already eating pizza and never looked back once. Within

time, I was also healed from my headaches and fatigue, to the point that I haven’t had them come back, baruch Hashem.

So how did Dr. Sarno discover that the physical symptoms are really rooted in emotional tension? For years, as a medical physician, he was treating back pain, performing thousands of surgeries, and yet, an unwarranted amount of patients returned after a couple of years with the pain having reappeared. He wondered, “If this surgery is supposed to work, why are people coming back?” Dr. Sarno concluded that the pain must be coming from an area which had not thus far been considered. Eventually, he discovered that area to be the mind.

After conducting studies, Dr. Sarno noted that back pain peaks in people during their middle age years. In fact, back pain generally improved as people aged, despite their body’s natural decline. He realized that the age of responsibility is, for the most part, from the age of thirty to sixty, and that is what contributed to people’s pain.

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Pesach recipes to keep bellies happy, on a budget When Pesach comes we all share the common challenge of creating dishes out of the limited foods available to us - which is ironic considering how much money most people spend on Kosher for Pesach food. For those who are on a limited budget, the challenge is a bit more, well, challenging. But here's a real doozy, how does one come up with Pesach recipes that keep bellies happy

Chocolate Sponge Cake

when your budget is ZERO? Yad Ezra V'Shulamit provides boxes of food for impoverished families in Israel all year round. On Pesach the need and requests increase significantly, as do their efforts to fill the need. Each year they provide 23,000 kosher for Pesach food boxes to hundreds of Jewish Israeli families across the country. incorporated. Turn off the beaters.

(Serves 6-8, depending on how generous you want to 4. Fold both mixtures together by hand.

While folding, if the batter seems too be with the slices!) liquidy, you may add in a bit more potato INGREDIENTS: starch. Pour this into your prepared tube • 8 eggs, separated pan.

• 1 & 1/4 cups sugar 5. Bake for 50 -75 minutes, checking to • 5 Tbls. cocoa make sure it does not burn. When done, • 2 & 1/2 Tbls. potato starch remove the cake from the oven to a wire METHOD rack. Leave it to sit for 15 minutes. Prepare 1. Preheat the oven to 350° F / 180° C. Use a a large piece of foil, lined with one or two paper towels on it. large 10 "tube pan.

2. Separate the eggs, putting the yolks into one bowl and the whites into another. Beat the white until nearly stiff, then add into it half the sugar, continuing to beat all the while. Turn off the beaters and set the whites aside.

3. Beat the yolks until thick, add in the remaining sugar and beat until creamy. Add in the cocoa and potato starch and beat just another minute or two until they are

6. TIP! Leave this to cool in the pan, balanced on its SIDE so it does not fall out of the pan, nor fall down in the pan!

7. After it has cooled somewhat for the first 15 minutes, slide a long, sharp knife around its edges, as well as the innermost edges. Carefully lift up the pan and flip it over onto the prepared foil/ paper towels.

Remove the pan. Leave the cake to sit until it is more cooled, then wrap it up gently and freeze until the day of use.

The Poor Brace for a Government Reply Pesach is around the corner and with it comes the fear of unanticipated financial burdens for many poor families. The State of Israel has a history of providing aid to non-profit organizations, with specific funds appropriated to charities at the holidays.

Though the precedent is there, a struggle always plays out between the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Finance Ministry.

At 13 Shekels per family, the government funding doesn’t cover the price of a box of matza. The current budget is 3.7 million Shekels, which is a humble amount for non-profits trying to feed hundreds of thousands of people. Though in past years an appeal to increase the budget has been submitted to the Finance Ministry by the Ministry of Social Affairs, even the increase has been insufficient to cover the costs of feeding Israel’s poor.

MK Yisrael Eichler, of the UTJ, has recently commented to the media that the funds do not meet the need and that the number of poor increases with every coming holiday.

Yad Ezra V’Shulamit is at the forefront of the efforts to feed Israel’s hungry. Every Pesach, Yad Ezra V'Shulamit distributes approximately 23,000 holiday food baskets.

More than 100,000 needy children and adults will be nourished by their annual Pesach distribution.

What sets societies apart is how they care for their most vulnerable citizens. In Israel,

the fight against hunger is a daily struggle as non-profits work to support the most vulnerable sectors in Israeli society.

As direct providers, Yad Ezra V’Shulamit is at the front line of these efforts. Yad Ezra V’Shulamit provides weekly food baskets that include chicken, fish, fruit, vegetables, oil, grains, beans, canned goods, pasta and challah.

For Pesach, Yad Ezra V’Shulamit replaces the challah with matzah and includes additional grape juice to the baskets.

This results in a total distribution of 400,000 potatoes, 80,000 bottles of grape juice, thousands of chickens, and over 20,000 boxes of matzah. As the Israeli government subsidy amounts to 13 NIS (less than $4) per family, the organization relies on the support of international donors to supplement the limited contribution from the State.

On Pesach, Jewish communities around the world turn their eyes to Israel and declare that Next Year they will celebrate in Jerusalem. Our Jewish traditions require the recreation of the experience of poverty to awaken in ourselves the feeling of being enslaved. Giving charitable donations to the poor is part of the mitzvah "kimcha d'piska" where every Jewish person is called upon to care about our brothers who have less than us. Yad Ezra V’Shulamit rely on the generosity of the international Jewish community to ensure that Israel’s poor also celebrate with dignity.

These food boxes contain the basics needed to celebrate a Kosher for Pesach holiday, it includes things from grape juice to matzah and chicken, fruits and vegetables. But the question remains, what dishes can be prepared that will satisfy the body and taste buds of families with these restrictions on top of the already stringent constraints of

Butternut Squash Kugel (Makes one 8x11 inch tray; serves approx. 8)

Pesach meals.

For a taste of freedom from the boxes that Yad Ezra V'Shulamit provides, we turn to Israeli celebrity chef Tamar Ansh, who has sent us two delicious recipes that can be made from the ingredients found in the Yad Ezra V'Shulamit box.

They'll have you forgetting that these dishes are on a budget. with about 2 inches of water, and cover the pot. Boil them for 30 minutes until the squashes are fork tender. Remove from the pot and let it cool. Scoop out the squash from the skin, discarding the skins. Mash the squash and measure out the amount needed.

2. TIP! Any extra squash can easily be frozen and used later in a vegetable soup.

3. Sift the potato starch over the mashed squash with a small sifter or tea strainer.

(This prevents lumps.) Add in all the rest INGREDIENTS: • 2 ½ cups / 20 ounces cooked and mashed of the ingredients except the cinnamon.

Pour the batter out into a 8x11 inch baking butternut squash pan. Sprinkle the cinnamon over the top of • 5/8 cup potato starch the kugel. Bake for 40-45 minutes until the • ½ cup oil center of the kugel tests firm when pierced • ½ cup sugar with a knife.

• 3 eggs 4. TIP! This kugel slices neatest when it is • 2 Tsp. cinnamon cold. Make it one day in advance. The next METHOD: day, slice it into neat squares and then it 1. Cut 2 medium butternut squashes in can be served cold or warmed up again, half lengthwise; place them in a large pot covered, for 10 minutes before serving.

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ast week, the second graders of Shulamith School for Girls discovered just how much fun science can be when they traveled together to the New York Hall of Science in Queens.

The girls explored many exhibits pertaining to life, space, and light. In the Design Lab, teamwork was the name of the game as students had to be resourceful in finding solutions to basic engineering and design challenges.

A highlight of the trip was an ex-

hibit aptly dubbed, “Bon Appetit,” in which visitors learned about the foods enjoyed in different cultures.

There was information about how many calories we eat and how we can burn them. Most importantly, the girls got to discuss why it’s important to make healthy choices.

The outing was a great way to enhance all that the second graders have studied in science this year and to reinforce the lesson that science is sensational!

Shevach High School Production Regales Queens Community

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he Queens community was treated on Sunday afternoon, March 11, to the annual Shevach High School production at the Electchester Building. The play, “A Little Princess,” was complete with drama, dances, choir and ensembles.

The girls sparkled in their production. The costumes were colorful, unique, and connected to the theme.

With song, dance and drama, the audience was regaled with an enjoyable performance that entertained and at the same time gave over important lessons of life.

The script was poignant, and the actresses did not disappoint. Attendees heard the message that every girl is a princess, no matter what her station in life is. Every young lady has the ability to be that bas melech that she yearns to be. All left with the touching words of the theme song reverberating in their minds: “As

keepers of this legacy, we must keep in mind, our values and what we are here for. They try to break us, but we will rise, we have to remain strong… I am a princess.”

The production coordinator was Shevach alumna, Ms. Ahuva Hirtz, overseen by Shevach principal Rebbetzin Rochelle Hirtz. The production heads were seniors Faigy Heller, Esther Amsel, and Zarine Shamilzadeh.

They devoted themselves to their responsibility of making the production a unifying and uplifting experience for the students and audience alike.

The production heads guided the students with encouragement and warmth as they reached ever higher in their efforts. The entire administration and dedicated staff had much reason to be proud of their girls. The entire school of approximately 200 students deserve the credit for a job well done.

s we begin Sefer Vayikra the children of the Gesher Early Childhood Center had a hands-on review of Sefer Shemos.

Much of the material is a review of the story of Yeztias Mitzrayim and is a great reinforcement of the current Pesach seder curriculum. The children had the opportunity to dress up in a Sefer Shemos-themed costume and to tell over a story from Sefer Shemos that stood out to them.

Science experiments included

the use of yeast and colored water to dye clothing. Other projects included tying and untying knots, sanding wood, sifting, writing and erasing, and more. These activities related to the preparation of the Mishkan and to the 39 melachos of Shabbos that were discussed in conjunction with the avoda of the Mishkan.

The students are excitedly preparing for Pesach and for the opportunity to share their newly learned lessons with their families.

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the history of pie and pi. They also held a math competition between 5th graders and 6th graders, as well as one between 7th and 8th graders. To top off the day, students filled out pi symbols with what insPIres them. It was PIfection!

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Around the Community Mazal tov to Reb Dovid and Rebbetzin Sitnick on the engagement of their son, Chaim Zanvil Sitnick, to Chavala Schwartz from Boro Park. Reb Dovid, menahel of Siach Yitzchok, is seen here with the mechutan, R’ Mendel Meir. The shadchanim were Reb Naftoli Sternhill, a second grade rebbe at Siach Yitzchok, and his wife.

In school, boys from the cheder joined in the simcha by dancing with Reb Dovid.

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heard. The politicians agreed with a lot of what we said and told us to continue raising our voices; politicians need to hear what we have to say.”

While in Albany outside the Senate the students saw a protest in action. The protest was against solitary confinement in prison. Avi Fried thought it was a great experience. He said, “This trip to Albany gave us a chance to see who the people in the Senate are past their ballot or their campaign. This proved that they are real people who have the power to deal with real issues. It shows how our vote does count.”

The students spoke with Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., and discussed school security and how the state is going to help schools with funding to improve security.

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The goal of the organization is to make nonpublic school education affordable and safe for every child.

One of the issues brought up by YCQ students was the issue that everyone pays the same taxes, yet all of the money is spent on public school education and safety with little funding going towards parochial and private schools. Kayla Moskowitz said that “this trip to Albany gave us a chance to speak out and have our voices

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HALB Wins at National History Day

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n Sunday, March 18, Ms. Waterman and a group of thirty eighth grade students from HALB participated in the Long Island Regional Competition for National History Day at

Hofstra University. They competed in the Website, Documentary, and Exhibit Categories. Reuben Gampel took home the award for Best Junior Project on Presidential History. HALB also took home a first

place win! Noga Altheim, Leora Konig, and Liora Sturm won first place Exhibit for “A Country No Longer Apart: South Africa’s End to Apartheid.” These girls will now advance on to the state competition which

will take place in Cooperstown on April 23, 2018. We are proud of all who participated, and congratulations to the winners!

Long Island Bikur Cholim Honors Its Captains

Clockwise from top left: Rabbi Hillel Fox, Mr. Danny Rahmani Rabbi Yosef Alon, Yaakov Kashani, Mayor Dr. Pedram Bral, Ms. Elnaz Ramezani, Mrs. Shahrzad Mahgerefteh, Mrs. Kian Yaghoubi, and Mrs. Leah Lidia Chaimzadegan.

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n enjoyable time was had by those who attended a fun and elegant Wine and Cheese Tasting Melaveh Malkah this past Motzai Shabath in Great Neck for the Long Island Bikur Cholim.

Rabbis, askanim, and other members of the LIBC, as well the community at large, gathered to show their thanks to the captains of the LIBC. Rabbi Hillel Fox, chaplain at NSUH, gave an interesting dvar Torah, followed by an enlightening question and answer format class on the proper approach to doing bikur cholim.

Mayor Dr. Pedram Bral presented

the honorees with a proclamation from himself and an award from the Bikur Cholim. The pioneers of the Bikur Cholim were lauded for the dedication that they have shown in bringing physical and emotional care and attention to the sick, elderly and homebound of the community. Not only have they committed to taking care of this underserved segment of the population on their own, but they have served as an example and have led others to emulate their ways.

May they continue to be a source of pride an inspiration to the community.

JEP-LI greeted over 30 boys at its Camp Nageela Boys Shabbaton this past weekend. After Shabbos they had fun on the game truck and danced to Jewish music while enjoying the cotton candy and popcorn machine treats. We thank Congregation Bais Ephraim (the Island Avenue shul) and their members for their generous hospitality.

Chometz for a Cause

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his year, instead of throwing your good chometz out, donate it to Tomchei Shabbos of Queens, which will sell it for Pesach, and then distribute it to its clients after Pesach.

When: Wednesday, March 28th between 5 -8 pm. This is the evening before bedikas chometz. By this time, all of your cabinets will likely have been emptied of chometz Where: Tomchei Shabbos of

Queens’ warehouse: 129-01 Metropolitan Avenue, Kew Gardens What: Any unopened, non-perishable, packaged food, with good expiration dates What else: Ma’os Chittin. We will accept checks for Ma’os Chittin at this time.

Thank you and tizku l’mitzvos. Best wishes for a chag kosher v’sameach.

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Eighth graders at Yeshiva Darchei Torah baking matzah

The Jigsaw Method at BYAM

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t Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam, teachers work hard on differentiating in their teaching. At a recent teachers’ meeting the Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Method was discussed and ideas on how to implement it were brought up. Morah Finestone, who is a master at differentiating, used the Jigsaw method for this week’s Chumash review.

In Jigsaw, groups of students are set up. In every group each member is assigned material to study different material than the other members in their group. These girls become the experts on that material. After everyone has studied their material in their individual groups, the experts of each group join together to work on how to teach this material to the other students. They then go back to their original group and teach it to them.

Morah Finestone used this meth-

od to have her students create a review for her class’s siyum upon finishing their first perek in Chumash.

Morah Finestone grouped her students and each group received pesukim to review. After studying the material, an expert from each group joined together and brainstormed on how to best phrase their questions for the Chumash review. Then they all returned to their groups and each expert had a turn teaching her material. The following day they played a class-wide game of Chumash Connect-4 using the very questions they had composed previously.

The positive energy in the class was palpable, and the girls gained ownership over the material they learned by preparing and teaching it to others. This helped them remember and internalize what they learned.

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The Mr. Abe Scharf z”l HAFTR Poland Mission led by Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, principal of Judaic Studies, in front of a cattle car at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Math Museum Comes to YKQ

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n a stormy March afternoon, Bruce Bayly, a professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona and a visiting scholar from the National Museum of Math, visited Yeshiva Ketana Zichron Chaim U’Bina’s of Queens’ third and fourth grade classes. Prof.

Bayly is the first visiting scholar at the National Museum of Mathematics and he had decided that on-site visits might be just as much fun for students as actually attending the math museum. We think he just might be right.

The boys were first treated to a lesson on how the contrasting sizes of a violin and viola determine the pitch and sound an instrument will make. The boys watched the professor play the violin and the viola and noted that the violin, smaller than the viola, has a higher pitch. Prof.

Bayly then demonstrated how tubes of several sizes will make different sounds when blown into, depending on their lengths and widths. The next fascinating activity to demonstrate pitch occurred when the professor rubbed resin onto a metal rod.

Each child then took a turn drawing his hand down the rod and had the thrill of making metal sing. Prof.

Bayly then closed his performance with a turkey baster. He filled half of a turkey baster with water and then performed a sprightly tune by blowing into the baster at the same time that he squeezed the water up and down the basting tube. We did all we could to stop ourselves from dancing to that lively music.

Another delightful experience the boys had was participating in the discussion that grew out of Prof. Bayly’s creation of balloon shapes. The boys discussed corners, angles and edges in a mini-geometry lesson as they analyzed whether the shapes the professor had created by attaching thin balloons were triangles, pyramids, squares or tetrahedrons. All in all, in observing music emanating from a turkey baster and heavy metal, and in creating geometry theorems, the boys had a wonderful time.

Author Meish Goldish Visits YKQ

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eshiva Ketana of Queens got a special treat last week when Meish Goldish, author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, stopped by to entertain our children. Mr. Goldish is an author of over 400 books and spoke to the students about the joy and hard work that comes with being a successful author.

He talked about the importance of research, choosing your subject matter

carefully, and, of course, the power of great storytelling.

Our children were in awe as he entertained them with music, poetry and read alouds from his most beloved children’s stories. The boys especially loved his song about how many men it takes to make a minyan and his poem about the stripes on their tzitzis. It was a delightful afternoon for all.

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A Winning Team

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he HALB Lions Girls Basketball team went 9-1 in their regular season this year. It has been a season of hard work and dedication by each player and their coaches that led to their championship victory over RYNJ last Wednesday night.

Leading up to the game tensions were very high as the HALB team was conscious of their loss to the RYNJ team in the championship last year. After RYNJ scored the first 4 points of the game, HALB came back within the first quarter and kept a steady lead to close out their 35-26 win. They didn’t let their nerves get the best of them, rather they united as a team to play the best game of their season.

L-R: back row: Kayla Muchnick, Helaina Singer, Emily Froleich (Manager), and Danielle Abelson; middle row: Morah Farbman, Ahuva Singer, Leora Konig, Leora Ellenberg, Chloe Dershowitz, Kayla Wang, Rebecca Brown, Kayla Goldberg, and coaches Sara Fellus and Gabi Mlotok; front row: Naomi Sigman, Atara Sicklick (MVP), Simona Goldberg, Zahava Aryeh and Jamie Feder.

HANC Works with GiftOfUnity

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o get in the Pesach spirit, HANC Middle School invited Rabbi Nafi Orlofsky from Giftofunity and a HANC High School rebbe, to come and do a hands-on project. Rabbi Orlofsky began with an insight to why the plague of darkness was such a severe plague. He asked the students why the Torah says, “No man could see his brother.”

Shouldn’t it be obvious that if it was dark, one wouldn’t be able to see another? Rabbi Orlofsky explained that the severity of darkness was that no one was able to do chessed. One was not able to see his brothers’ needs or his brothers’ pain and that is why it was so debilitating. The Torah ends the topic of the plague of darkness by stating, “But for all of B’nei Yisroel, there was light in their dwellings.”

The reason the Jews had light is because we are always thinking about each other; it is part of who we are.

This idea is the essence of the Jewish people. Rabbi Orlofsky explained to the students that this idea is what Pesach is all about. The unity of the Jewish people through chessed is a major theme throughout Pesach.

The HANC Middle School, with the help of some of HANC High School students, copied down a delicious Pesach brownie recipe. After copying the recipe, they packaged the necessary ingredients in beautiful bags: oil, chocolate chips, potato starch, to name a few. These packag-

es were delivered to the new Marion & Aaron Gural JCC sustenance center in the Five Towns. We hope that these brownies will enhance the yom tov of those in need.

Rabbi Hecht, principal at HANC Middle School, feels it is important to run chessed programs of this nature to have the students understand and partake in chessed that will leave a lasting impression on them. When students actively participate and are involved with hands-on chessed projects, it makes doing chessed real and gives a true appreciation for what it means to give to others.

Giftofunity is an organization that aims to provide opportunities

to unite Jews. The goal is to give a gift that will enable one Jew to feel recognized and loved by another, be-

cause “Giving creates Love and Love creates Unity.”

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Kol Yaakov Science Focus: KY Techie Fair 2018

By Shoshanna Friedman

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eshivat Kol Yaakov’s science focus this year is “inventions.”

The whole school focus kicked off with an exciting STEM presentation where all boys built electrical circuits, with Pre1A students building less complex circuits and older grades using multiple batteries and bulbs that lit up at different times and with different circuits.

Other presentations included local Great Neck local businessman and

entrepreneur Judah Rifkin of Fly By Hire who explained and gave a demo of his innovative uses for drones as well as a “Tinkering Day” for the 5th and 6th graders where they tinkered with batteries, motors, lights and wires as they worked out what their own inventions would be.

It all came together at the KY Techie Fair last week where all classes presented their “inventions.” Teachers integrated their own curricula into the larger school focus and Pre1A, who had been studying animals in

science, “created” their own animals and described them. Second graders had been learning about earthquakes and volcanoes and invented “Volcano Predictors” and a “Volcano Thermometer.” Third graders did Rube Goldberg machines utilizing what they had learned about levers, pulleys and simple machines, and fourth graders staged a car race using their self-styled cars. Fifth graders made their own electrical and motorized plate tectonics models while sixth graders created light-up and motor-

ized cell parts complete with a nucleus, mitochondria and DNA. Parents were invited to view the event and enjoyed seeing their children’s inventions, all of which were accompanied by expository essays that explained their projects and how they were made.

Whole-school science focus changes yearly in Kol Yaakov, allowing students a different angle on science-related areas as well as integrating research, writing skills, and a hefty amount of creativity.

Rambam Talmidim Delve Into Life and Death Halachic Issues

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almidim from Rambam Mesivta joined with other yeshivas at the Landers College Annual Model Beis Din get-together.

Boys from across the Metropolitan area were invited to participate in a special Shabbaton hosted by Landers.

On Sunday the “competition” began. Rambam talmidim Avi Balsam, Yosef Bluth, Dovid Edelkopf, Yehuda Goldblatt, Joshua Koegel, Andrew Speiser, Yehuda Sprei, and Gavriel Toplan were led by Rambam rebbe Rabbi Yaacov Weisenberg.

They researched a difficult and heartbreaking case which actually took place in 1977.

That year Siamese twins were born to a couple in Lakewood, New Jersey. The newborn children were flown by helicopter to Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia where Dr. Everett Koop (later to be named Surgeon General of the United States) was the head of surgery. Dr. Koop and his team examined the newborns and

determined that unless there was surgical intervention separating them, both babies were destined to die.

The doctors came to the conclusion that only surgical separation of the twins would give one baby a chance to live while the other would perish.

This difficult case had many implications both in terms of Torah law and in terms of medical ethics and considerations in American society.

Not knowing what to do the family turned to Hagaon Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, to pasken the halacha. After careful evaluation of the medical situation and based upon the expertise of the doctors and Rabbi Dr. Moshe Tendler, Rav Moshe, zt”l, determined and advised the doctors exactly what to do.

The Rambam talmidim thoroughly researched Rav Feinstein’s

halachic responsa and shared with others and the “Model Beis Din” all aspects of the halachic dilemma and research, presenting both sides.

Participation in this annual learning event has inspired the Rambam Model Beis Din crew to learn and get a greater appreciation of the intricacies of halacha and how it permeates and guides every aspect of our lives.

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YCQ Runs Wild in Junior High Hockey Finals

by Elliot Weiselberg & Avidan Berman

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his past Thursday night, the YCQ Wildcats put the final touches on their perfect season, defeating the HALB Lions, 4-1, in the Junior High Hockey Championship game played in the new gym at HAFTR. The history between the two sides is brief, yet recent. Two years ago, the HALB Lions defeated the YCQ Wildcats in the finals 3-0, adding another banner to the HALB gym wall. Only four members of either team remain.

Both teams entered the contest this year after dominant semifinal victories. HALB earned their way to the finals with an 8-2 trampling of Magen David, while YCQ punched their ticket by dominating Har Torah, 7-3.

The two teams met during the regular season, in a matchup that saw 12 goals scored, a 7-5 YCQ victory and HALB’s only loss on the season, setting the expectation for a high-powered affair.

What occurred turned out to be a technical defense-first clinic and timely

scoring that would spearhead the top seeded YCQ Wildcats to victory.

YCQ opened up the scoring halfway through the first period, when Andrew Haller deposited a pass from Sam Korman into the HALB net on the power play to give the Wildcats the 1-0 lead. Early in the 2nd period, YCQ would extend their lead, with Haller scoring his second goal of the evening, moving up the middle of the floor, and winding up from mid-court, to make it

2-0. With just a little over three minutes remaining before the second intermission, Korman would jump on the scoreboard himself, taking a pass from Tani Leitner on a 2-on-1, and hitting the back of the net. The Lions would get a chance to cut into the lead, as YCQ took a penalty as the period came to a close, but the stingy YCQ Penalty Kill held down the fort, keeping the score at 3-0 heading into the third period.

The start of the 3rd period would prove to be the backbreaker. Korman would add another tally for YCQ, moving to the net all alone with the ball, faking a short-side stuff attempt, instead, working around the goalie and sending it to the opposite post to cap YCQ’s scoring on the night. A minute later, Shlomo Katz would score for HALB to get the Lions on the board.

However, YCQ goalie Rephael Gemal was a rock and would not be beaten again, locking up YCQ’s first hockey championship. Gemal’s heroics in keeping the high-powered HALB offense at bay earned him game MVP honors.

The YCQ Wildcats finish their season having scored 102 goals and yielding only 23 over their 12 victories, topping the YCQ record books.

Congratulations to the team and their coaches, Elliot Weiselberg, Avidan Berman, Josh Friedman and Josh Wengrofsky on their successful run and to YCQ’s Rabbi Landsman and Rabbi Hamel on their first hockey championship.

Pi Day at Rambam Breaks Record

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ast week at Rambam was March Melee, a week-long slate of activities based on the calendar. On March 12, National Alfred Hitchcock Day, the Rambam Classic Film Club screened the 1954 classic, Rear Window, ranked number 48 on the American Film Institute’s Top 10 Films of All-Time List. The film was followed by a discussion and cultural analysis of the film’s reflection of the zeitgeist of the 1950s concerning class warfare, urbanization, and isolation. The next day saw the be-

ginning of a Chessed Smash Brothers Melee Tournament, run by freshman Shlomo Braverman, to raise funds for Shirat Devorah, to help those with ALS. On 3/14, senior Effie Klein was surrounded by friends when he took on the Pi Day Challenge. Determined to make history, Effie sounded off 254 digits of pi in front of witnesses who signed authentic forms to register Effie in the “Pi World Ranking List.”

Once the forms are approved Effie will be ranked 319th in the world!

On March 15 Rambam hosted its 8th Annual Ides of March/ Shakespeare Festival.

English teachers Mr. William Caffrey and Mr. Hillel Goldman presided as Masters of Revels as the students performed scenes from Shakespeare’s greatest works. Over 20 students participated in the challenge, and in the end, sophomore Avi Koenig won “Best Performance” for “The Seven Stages of Man” speech from As You Like It. Freshman Dovi Deutsch was the runner-up for a scene from Oth-

ello while junior Eliyahu Levy won “Best Actor” for the “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” speech from Julius Caesar.

As it was also Brain Injury Awareness Month, on Friday, the Rambam Chedsed Club helped raise funds to combat brain injury by selling informational packets about this affliction.

It was a week of chessed, culture, and academic excellence at Rambam that really saw something for everyone.

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We’re Saying Yes! By: A. Younger

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undreds gathered at the Palace Ballroom on Motzei Shabbos Vayakhel-Pekudei to celebrate one of Klal Yisroel’s great success stories.

Every day, Shuvu touches the lives of over 15,000 and their families throughout the length and breadth of Eretz Yisrael. And iy”H next year, with the opening of five new schools, even more.

The dinner evening was opened by the Dinner Chairman Reb Yisrael Blumenfrucht, who inspired the audience with recollections of his brother Reb Yonah, a”h. Reb Yonah was a friend to everyone and a passionate activist for many mosdos and tzedakos. He was close to Shuvu from its very start.

Thanking all those who came,

Reb Yisrael urged them to give and give more, as a zechus for his brother and to help Shuvu continue its vital work.

Dayan Yonasan Abraham was appointed Nasi of Shuvu just one year ago. In this short time, he has been incredibly successful in fulfilling his own charge to “stabilize, maximize, and expand” Shuvu.

The Dayan took to the podium to make a brief surprise presentation.

Reflecting on hands-on work with Shuvu, he expressed his amazement at Shuvu’s leadership – Reb Avrohom Biderman and Reb Yossi Hoch.

Noting that Avrohom’s leadership of Shuvu started at its inception and is well-known, he shared the better-kept secret of Yossi and Aviva Hoch’s “unlimited and unwavering commitment” to the organization.

He then announced that, in recog-

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am the father of my four children who learned in Shuvu. You just saw me on the video learning with my bechor, Moshe. He is truly on his way to becoming a gadol, all thanks to Shuvu.

My parents made Aliya in 1991.

I was 9. There was no Shuvu school, nd I attended a secular school. We were all completely secular.

With our own children, we received many recommendations for the Shuvu school in Bat Yam, because of the high level of science, math and languages. We were very happy with the education and the close personal relationship with the teachers and principal. We were also very impressed with the middos.

Our children brought home material they learned and we began being more connected to Torah and mitzvos.

We attended a Shuvu Shabbaton. It was so interesting, and they arranged babysitters for our children. On Motzai Shabbat I wanted to give a tip to the babysitter – but she refused! She said, “You are taking away my mitzvah!” I was shocked!

A 16-year-old was willing to work a whole Shabbat all l’shem Shamayim. Then I understood that there is a

greater value than money, that even a 16-year-old girl understood. How could I not understand this myself?

Baruch Hashem our family became observant and my parents as well. Shuvu changed three generations by us!

My son Moshe, who is now 14-years-old, has become a real talmid chacham. While he was still in elementary school, his principal saw his great potential and arranged for a young man as a chavrusa twice a week. They still learn together– 5 years later! Moshe wanted to learn in yeshiva high school in Bnei Brak. He leaves the house at 5 a.m., takes three busses, and gets there for Shachris at 7:25. He learns the whole time! He wakes up at 3 a.m. During vacations he just sits and learns. He makes a siyum almost every two weeks. He and his rabbeim have set up plan for him to finish Shas by the age of 16.

I am proud to say that he is well on his way!

This is only thanks to Shuvu!

We hope that Shuvu will grow and have many more schools in Israel, and that more and more families will be able to become closer to Hashem, as my family has, baruch Hashem.

nition of their generosity and involvement, the Shuvu board chose to present the Hochs with a Sefer Torah, which was carried in by their sons Ari and Nechemia, to music and singing led by Reb Abish Brodt.

Touching video presentations marked the dedication of two classrooms: an elementary school classroom in Shuvu Netanya dedicated

by Mr. and Mrs. Dov Schechter in memory of his brother Shelly, a”h, and a junior-high school classroom in Shuvu Tel Aviv, dedicated by Mr. and Mrs. Abe Belsky in memory of their parents, Rav Yehoshua and Baila Belsky, a”h, and Reb Pinchos and Malka Gottesman, a”h.

Dov Shechter reflected on his brother’s love and concern for others and his big-hearted generosity, a legacy being carried on by his wife and children. The Shuvu school in Netanya, he noted, is a virtual kibbutz goliyos, a mosaic of children from many backgrounds – Russian, French, Israeli and more – and how that it is so appropriate a place to commemorate his brother’s memory.

Abe Belsky described how, as a young boy, his family and Rav Pam’s stayed together at a rooming house.

Despite his young age and Rav Pam’s being almost unknown, he recognized that this was a holy man. Later, when Avrohom Biderman married his sister, Abe got to know Rav Pam up close, and indeed he was at the very first parlor meeting that started Shuvu. He also recalled how his father, a distinguished Rav, would approach people on the street to solicit their help for needy talmidei chachamim. He and his wife and Abe’s in-laws, survived the War and had a deep commitment to rebuilding their lives, their families, and Yiddishkeit.

Speaking of the miraculous transformations he has seen Shuvu achieve, he felt this dedication was a worthy tribute to the memory and legacy of the Belskys and Gottesmans.

Shmuel Rimmer, Journal Chairman, thanked the audience for their help and spoke of his personal inspiration at visiting Shuvu schools and inviting everyone to visit the schools on their own.

A poignant video focused the unbelievable story of Moshe Datsky – a former Shuvu talmid who brought his parents and grandparents to To-

rah observance, and who is well on his way to finish all of Shas by age 16.

Not wanting to disrupt his learning schedule, Moshe turned down the offer to attend the dinner, but was represented by his father, whose moving address was one of the highlights of the evening (see sidebar).

Reb Chaim Michoel Gutterman, Shuvu’s Director in Eretz Yisroel, introduced the video presentation dedicating the Shuvu Petach Tikvah campus – the largest Shuvu campus with nearly 1,00 students – to the memory of Rav Avrohom Ravitz, z”l. More than just a Knesset Member, Rav Ravitz was an accomplished marbitz Torah and mekarev rechokim.

Rav Ravitz was extremely involved in Shuvu and helped the organization at many critical junctures.

In fact, it was he who procured the Petach Tikvah campus for Shuvu, and it is therefore most fitting that this complex bear his name.

Yahadus MK Rav Yisroel Eichler brought divrei bracha from the Belzer Rebbe and vividly described to the audience the value of every Jewish child – and how Shuvu is saving lives, from every background.

Shuvu’s Nasi, Dayan Abraham, electrified the audience with his remarks. Hearkening to the parsha, he cited Chazal that Hashem gave wisdom to the wise. He gives resources to those how to use those resources – and those with resources will be held accountable for how they were used.

Calling upon those with resources to respond, he highlighted several of the achievements for the coming school year: Last year, he told of a new kindergarten opening in Ramat Gan – but a Reform kindergarten. B”H this year a Shuvu Kindergarten and elementary school will open.

A Shuvu boys’ junior-high school will be opening in Rishon Letzion.

A Shuvu girls’ high school is opening in Netanya.

In Yavneh, Shuvu is restarting a failing Shas school.

Gan Yavneh is attracting many young irreligious Israelis. A Shuvu school is opening there.

The need is there. The desire is there. The only question is: Will you and your resources be there to make it happen?

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If These Were the Only Good Kosher Wines – Dayenu!

By Gabriel Geller of Royal Wines

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esach is now around the corner! I cannot even count how many times a day I’m being asked these questions: Which wines should I get for Pesach? Which wines are good for Arba Kosos?

On Pesach, we rejoice and thank Hashem for granting us freedom.

Freedom from our long enslavement to Mitzrayim, a foreign, immoral idols-worshiping nation. From then on, we have been free to serve Hashem and follow His Torah and mitzvos. As well, our freedom has enabled us to nowadays produce and enjoy an ever-growing selection of quality kosher wines.

As every mitzvah in the Torah, the halachos of the Pesach seder never change. There are, of course, different opinions and interpretations as to the right shiur, the amount of wine

that we should drink for the kosos, and how fast we should be drinking it. There are also several opinions and minhagim as to the right type of wine for this mitzvah: red or white?

Is mevushal OK? I am not a rabbi and therefore I will not pretend to pasken here what is right and what is wrong.

While there are indeed different minhagim for which wine to drink at the seder, one thing stays the same for everybody: We have to drink 4 cups of wine (or grape juice, if you and your rabbi are OK with that).

Considering the fairly large amount that represents, I believe a strategy is required as to avoid getting overwhelmed, intoxicated and/or, chas v’shalom, sick.

As well, while the Torah does not change, wine does. The selection of kosher wine, baruch Hashem, constantly changes and grows, as do the best wines evolve, change,

IMPORTANT!

Remember to suspend your lawn service for the week of Pesach It is forbidden to have your gardener/landscaper do work on your property during Chol Hamoed (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim 543:1).

Many people either forget to deal with this or are simply unfamiliar with the halachah. Please take advantage of this reminder to make a 1-minute call to your gardener and prevent chillul haMoed. And tell your friends and family, too.

Chag kasher v’sameach!

Plan ahead … email shmirashamoed@gmail.com for a handy list of upcoming Yomim Tovim to give your gardener so he can schedule appropriately.

and sometimes improve as they age when properly stored. Every year, new wines and vintages are released, just on time for the big Pesach sale. I recommend the two following strategies: This is what I personally do for the sedarim: For the first and the last two cups, I go with a rosé wine. According to most opinions, rosé is just a shade of red and counts as such as it is made from red wine grape varieties. The winemaker, using a special method (there are a few but the goal is roughly the same), controls how red he/she wants the wine to look like by limiting the contact between the must, the grape juice, and the grape’s skin from which the color comes. Some of the rosé wines I will use this year: the delightful Flam Rosé, with its notes of tart strawberries and herbaceous undertones. The Jezreel Valley Rosé is also a mouthwatering pink Israeli wine which I am planning to enjoy for the four kosos. Good rosés do not come exclusively from Israel, and I am also looking forward to drink Les Lauriers de Rothschild Rosé which comes from Bordeaux, in France. For the second cup and Shulchan Orech, I like to drink with the yom tov meal a well-aged red wine. One particularly good memory is the magnum (contains 1.5 liter, like 2 regular bottles) of Castel Grand Vin 2002 which two years ago was enough for both sedarim. This year, for the second seder, I am looking forward to enjoy a mature bottle of Château Fourcas Dupré. The latest release, the 2015

vintage now on the shelves, should be a keeper, as well.

The second strategy is simple.

You start with a light wine. It can also be a rosé, such as the Tabor Adama Barbera Rosé, but it can also be a Pinot Noir, such as the Vitkin Pinot Noir, or the new Pinot Noir from the top QPR series Herzog Lineage. It is light in body and easy to drink yet flavorful. Then, you work your way up and move on to a fuller-bodied wine such as the Herzog Cabernet Sauvignon Clone 6 from the Chalk Hill appellation in Sonoma, California. It is wonderfully rich and layered, with complex, black fruit and mineral aromas as well as a long and plush finish. You can then move back to your Pinot Noir or a different lighter wine for the third cup such as Capçanes La Flor del Flor Garnatxa. This is a superb Grenache from Spain which is elegant and oh, so refined. Then, for the fourth cup, either keep going with the Capçanes or if you can handle it, a sweet wine. The Porto Cordovero LBV for instance, truly an amazing wine. Port wines are heavy, high in alcohol and therefore not the first choice for most people. But the sweetness and balance allow for an easy drinking experience which should ensure a deep sleep once the seder is all wrapped up.

I hope these guidelines will help you achieve a great Pesach sedarim experience. If the aforementioned wines were the only great ones we had access to for Pesach, dayenu!

Pesach kasher v’sameyach!

L’chaim!

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You gotta be kidding Yankel goes to see his supervisor in the front office. “Boss,” he says, “we’re doing some heavy Pesach cleaning at home tomorrow, and my wife needs me to help with the attic and the garage, moving and hauling stuff.”

“We’re shorthanded, Yankel,” the boss replies. “I can’t give you the day off.”

“Thanks, boss,” says Yankel. “I knew I could count on you!”

Things You Learn While Cleaning For Pesach Bleach really does ruin clothing.

Macaroons have no expiration date.

Your knees ain’t what they used to be.

That thing you should have thrown out last year, you should throw out this year, but you’ll throw out next year… yeah right.

Children do eat in the bathroom.

If you think the sanitation workers are going to come tomorrow, they won’t.

No, you will never remember how to put the fridge back together again.

You can never have enough old undershirts.

So that’s where the matzah from the eruv tavshilin went!

You have more shoes than DSW under your bed.

Your kids have more sport water bottles than the route at the NYC Marathon.

You will never end up using those ketchup packets that you collected “just in case.”

Yes, you will never have enough silver foil.

When needed most, you will be unable to tear off a paper towel using just one hand.

Despite the three containers full of varied type of nails, you will certainly have to visit the hardware store at least three times before yom tov to get just the right nail for different projects.

Those counter covers really are ugly; it’s not your imagination.

The junk drawer will always look like the junk drawer no matter how neat you try to make it.

Riddle me

this?

A window cleaner is cleaning a window on the 25th floor of a skyscraper.

He suddenly slips and falls. He has no

Going away for Pesach is totally not overrated.

safety equipment and nothing to soften his fall, but he is not hurt at all. How did that happen?

Answers: He was cleaning the inside of the window, inside of the building.

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Keeping it Clean Trivia Which of the following is not in Mr. Clean Magic Eraser? a. Melamine b. Formaldehyde c. Sodium Bisulfite d. Mustard

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Which two common household products should you never mix together? a. Tired children and house chores b. Bleach and ammonia c. Vinegar and baking soda d. Detergent and fabric softener

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What should you put around an ink stain on your shirt to prevent the ink from

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John S. Thurman invented his gasoline powered vacuum cleaner in 1899 and some historians consider it the first motorized vacuum cleaner. He had a horse-drawn door-todoor service vacuum system in St. Louis. How much did he charge per visit? a. Thirty-five cents b. One dollar and twenty cents c. Four dollars d. Twelve dollars

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Which of the following is not a

Despite his immense success, Mr. Clean didn’t receive a first name until 1963. That year, Procter & Gamble staged a “Give Mr. Clean a Name” contest. The winner was offered either $30,000 in cash or a $30,000 fully furnished house. Can you guess Mr. Clean’s winning first name? a. Veritably b. Cornelius c. Major d. Jackson

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D B- Mixing bleach and ammonia causes dangerous fumes.

A D C- Just in case you are freaked out by skin cells

being part of dust, here is how it works: The average person loses between 50-100 thousand skin cells every minute. Those flakes of skin accumulate in carpets and furnishings, dry out and then are lifted

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common component of dust? a. Skin cells b. Decomposing insects c. Rubber d. Dirt e. Lint

spreading? a. Vaseline b. Cinnamon c. An ice cube d. Hairspray

5-6 correct: Veritably Goldberg, you are pretty good!

3-4 correct: You are not bad.

Your mind is just a bid dusty…all of those skin cells piling up.

0-2 correct: You really should stop drinking Windex.

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into the air by drafts or air currents.

A- Veritably (and then he wonders why people call him by his last name all the time?!)

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Torah Thought

Parshas Tzav

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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he entire relationship between G-d and Israel is reflected in the opening verb of this week’s Torah reading. The word “tzav” reflects an attitude of command and of subservience. Even though explanations for the command may be given and understood, the command itself remains viable and imperative no matter what.

The L-rd called the Jewish people “an army of G-d.” An army operates on commands and discipline, on fol-

lowing orders and executing them faithfully and accurately. Though individual initiative is always to be treasured and admired, an army that operates completely on that initiative is doomed to defeat and destruction.

In all relationships in life a command structure is necessary in order for achievement and accomplishment to occur. By the nature of human society there must exist those who will command and those who, in turn, will obey and execute those

commands. That is why the word for an imperative fulfillment of a positive act of spirituality – mitzvah – has as its root the word for command.

The difference throughout the ages, between traditional Judaism and those groups within the Jewish people who created for themselves new and different ways of Jewish thought and observance, has always been this concept of command. We are commanded to observe the Torah in a detailed and sophisticated manner. By substituting our own whims,

all of the Nazi war criminals for their bestiality and atrocities committed in World War II has always been that they were only following orders.

Judaism does not allow for obeying immoral orders of murder and the deprivation of other human beings.

Even at the risk of sacrificing one’s own life, one is not allowed to kill others wantonly. The Torah therefore emphasizes that one is not permitted to add or detract from the G-dly commandments ordained for us.

The rabbis of the Talmud and of later generations built a fence around

A commandment that can be countermanded or ignored at one’s own whim is in reality no commandment at all. ideas and political correctness for G-d’s command we invariably slip down the road of historical extinction.

At Sinai we declared that we would do and obey and only then submit the command to rational explanation. In an age when loyalty and obedience to any authority has become rare and even subject to being looked at askance, the triumph of traditional Judaism is based, now as always, on obeying commandments and executing them faithfully.

Judaism has a moral code that prevents it from obeying the commandments and orders that are within themselves intrinsically evil and immoral. The explanation given by

those commandments to protect them and preserve them. But there is no change in the value and method of observance of the commandments.

A commandment that can be countermanded or ignored at one’s own whim is in reality no commandment at all.

In a society where there are no fixed commandments and all morality is relative and subject to change, chaos and immorality will undoubtedly eventually prevail. All of history, both Jewish and general, testifies to this immutable truth. We are sanctified by obeying G-d’s commandments and Jewish tradition.

Shabbat shalom.

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Parshas Tzav Able-Bodied Jews

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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he parsha begins with a mitzvah that the kohanim clean out the ashes left over after the burning of the elevation offering, trumas hadeshen. Hashem told Moshe (Vayikra 6:2), “Command, tzav, Aharon and his sons...” Rashi explains, “The expression ‘command, tzav’ only denotes prompt and alacritous fulfillment.” This is difficult to understand. Although Rashi sees the expense of the offering as a challenge that makes such a command necessary, the Torah is actually discussing this particular aspect of the service – the trumas hadeshen. Why would the mitzvah of trumas hadeshen, which involves merely sweeping up ashes and moving them, require such encouragement? It seems to be such an easy mitzvah. Why would the kohanim be hesitant to fulfill such a simple mitzvah?

The truth is that the ease or difficulty in attaining a goal is sometimes a relative matter. The Gemara (Sukkah 52a) says, “In the future, the Holy One will bring the evil inclination out and slaughter it in front of the tzaddikim and in front of the wicked. It will appear to the tzaddikim like [the size of] a great mountain. And it will appear to the wicked like [the size of] a hair’s breadth.” But this Gemara is difficult to understand. How big and strong is the evil inclination?

The size of a mountain? A hair’s breadth? Something in-between?

According to this Gemara, do the tzaddikim or the wicked people have the correct perception?

Rav Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, the Klausenburger Rebbe, zy”a, explains that, in truth, the evil inclination is only the size of a hair’s breadth. How do we know this? When it comes to non-mitzvah activities, a person has tremendous power to work hard for long hours, to get up early, or stay up all night.

This is within a person’s natural

them, “Don’t run to do that mitzvah. Your hands might get dirty!”

“Perhaps you will get burned if the ashes are still warm.” The evil inclination is quite adept at filling one’s head with excuses and rationalizations.

Using this idea, the Klausenburger Rebbe explains the words we say in the Haggadah, “This is the bread of poverty that our fathers ate in the land of Egypt. All who are hungry, come and eat. All who are

We must be matzah Jews, running to do mitzvos when we have the opportunity, spurning chometz.

abilities. But when it comes to a mitzvah, suddenly people become weak, feeble, and afraid. Almost anything can deter us from doing a mitzvah. Fulfilling a mitzvah is, in truth, completely within our grasp.

But the evil inclination causes us to find a hundred reasons why we cannot do it, to the point that the mitzvah feels virtually impossible to accomplish under any circumstances.

Why did the kohanim need to be coaxed to perform trumas hadeshen without being coaxed? The heaviness of their evil inclinations told

needy, come and celebrate Pesach.”

When do we eat matzah? If we are so hungry, we would eat anything, so we will also eat matzah. And if we are needy because we need to fulfill the mitzvah to eat matzah, then we eat it because we have no choice because of halacha.

But we daven to Hashem, “Next year may we be free men!” We daven to reach a time when we will not need to be starving or compelled

by Divine decree to do a mitzvah.

We ask Hashem to help us feel the sweetness in mitzvos so clearly that

we will run after them to fulfill them because of an overwhelming feeling of desire and longing – out of our own free will. Not because we feel we have no choice.

We can understand this idea better by considering another question on the beginning of this week’s parsha. Why do the words, “incurring guilt through it, l’ashaima bah” (Vayikra 5:26) from last week’s parsha immediately precede the mitzvah of trumas hadeshen at the beginning of this week’s parsha? What is the connection between these words and the pasuk’s encouragement to the reluctant kohain?

The Klausenburger Rebbe explains that the word for “guilt” in the pasuk, l’ashaima, is connected to the word meaning barren or desolate, sh’mama. When a person’s head is empty and he does not personally know and sense the meaning and sweetness of the mitzvos, he requires great coaxing and encouragement just to induce him to fulfill an easy mitzvah. He feels no internal desire to serve Hashem.

But when a person’s head is not barren but is full of knowledge, understanding, enthusiasm, and desire, the illusions of the evil inclination hold no sway over him. He wakes up early to arrive in shul before davening begins because he is full of the natural excitement for the sweetness of connecting with Hashem. He runs to begin cleaning for Pesach soon after Purim because he

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is filled with the light of Pesach, the light of redemption.

Unfortunately, so many of us are swayed by the feeble, hair’s breadth-sized delusions of the evil inclination because our heads and hearts are empty of desire and understanding.

We search for any excuse not to clean for Pesach. We run away to hotels so we do not have to clean at all. Or we run to hire additional help in the house to avoid lifting a finger to clean the chometz out of our homes or our hearts. Chometz is emblematic of the evil inclination’s strategy of using laziness and heaviness to dissuade us from doing even easy mitzvos. We see this because bread rises when it sits idly for a time, doing nothing. That is when the impurity of chometz arises.

Matzah is the opposite. It must

be made quickly and with alacrity.

A Jew must burn the chometz in his life. He must burn away the laziness and emptiness that provides such fertile ground for the evil inclination. One must fill his head with Torah, which the Navi (Yirmiyahu 23:29) compares to fire: “Are not My words like fire, says Hashem?”

We must be matzah Jews, running to do mitzvos when we have the opportunity, spurning chometz. As the Midrash says (Mechilta, Bo 9), “When a mitzvah comes into your hand, do not let it become chometz.”

In the Kelm yeshiva before the War, the custom was that the yeshiva did not maintain a janitorial staff. Instead, every year on Rosh Hashanah, 15-20 of the most elite bachurim would bid on the honors given during davening by taking on various tasks during the year like

cleaning the bathrooms, mopping the floors, or taking out the garbage.

These most sought-after jobs were taken by the best learners, the most prestigious bachurim.

When Rav Eliyahu Dessler, zt”l, was a bachur of thirteen years old in the Kelm, he was the youngest there. Nevertheless, he was hoping for one of the more prestigious positions, cleaning the toilets. But because he was so young, an older boy took this position and he was relegated to the less glamorous job of going to the post office to pick up stamps for the yeshiva. Young Rav Dessler was disappointed because he got such an “unimportant job.”

Imagine what a yeshiva would look like today if it were up to our able-bodied bachurim to clean it!

The trumas hadeshen jobs of the day, cleaning the floors and the bath-

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rooms, were the most sought-after by bachurim of Kelm, whose heads were not empty but were filled with longing and desire to connect to Hashem and His Torah.

As Pesach approaches, let us daven to Hashem that He take away our laziness and lack of motivation that causes us to feel that mitzvos are a heavy burden to be carried. Instead, may He cause us to feel the sweetness, meaning, and depth in our cleaning for Pesach, our modern-day trumas hadeshen, and all of the other mitzvos, such that we run to do them quickly and with great excitement.

Rav Moshe Weinberger, shlita, is the founding Morah d’Asrah of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY, and has served as Mashpia in Yeshiva University since 2013.

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Between the Lines

More Than Manners

By Eytan Kobre

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. -Emily Post

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ears ago, Donald Trump slept over at the home of his longtime attorney, Jay Goldberg.

The next morning, Mr. Goldberg’s wife, Rema, prepared breakfast for Mr. Trump and mistakenly poured salt, rather than sugar, all over his cornflakes. Mr. Trump nonetheless

ate the salty breakfast because, as he later explained, he thought it bad manners to make a fuss and make Mrs. Goldberg feel bad.

(Skeptics: this story was told to me by Mr. Goldberg himself (and his wife), with whom I am now co-counsel on an unrelated matter.)

Whatever your opinion of the president, this anecdote speaks volumes about the notion of derech eretz.

The removal of sacrificial ashes in the Bais HaMikdash consisted of two processes: one, a portion of the ashes was removed and deposited near the altar (Vayikra 6:3); two, the accumulated ash from the altar was removed periodically in a messy process that required the Kohen to “remove his garments, and don other garments” (Vayikra 6:4). This change of clothing was “not law” but “proper behavior,” because “the garments in which one cooks a pot for his master are not [proper] for serving him a cup [of wine]” (Yoma 23b; Shabbos 114a; Rashi, Vayikra 6:4; but see Ramban, Vayikra 6:4).

While the changing of garments may not have been required under the technical laws of the Bais HaMikdash service, it was required nonetheless because derech eretz is not simply advisable or laudatory – it is obligatory (Darash Moshe, Vayikra 6:4; but see Mizrachi, Vayikra 6:4).

What is derech eretz?

The literal translation – “the way of the land” – offers little insight. It is commonly thought of as proper

conduct, decency, and courtesy. Polite, respectful, thoughtful, civilized behavior. Etiquette, manners, amiability, integrity, courteousness. And, in a sense, it is a combination of all these.

Derech eretz encompasses many rules and details under a flexible rubric that varies by the place, the time, and the person (Pele Yoetz, Derech Eretz). It is “the norms of a society dictated by pleasantness and ethics” (Rambam, Kiddushin 1:10; Michtav M’Eliyahu, Vol. 5 pg. 62). It “consists of a person considering the ways he acts and behaves in order to find favor before G-d and his fellow men” (Maalos HaMiddos, Derech Eretz). It “includes everything that flows from the human being’s necessity to perfect his destiny and his life, together with his society, through the medium of the earth’s bounty. Hence, the term is used in reference to earning a livelihood and establishing civic order, and in reference to the paths of discipline with manners and refinement that social life require, and to everything that touches upon the development of humankind and civility” (R’ Samson Raphael Hirsch, Avos 2:2).

Given these broad definitions, it is no surprise that proper conduct is not included in the Torah’s count of 613 commandments, as it is a foundational concept (Shaarei Kedusha 1:2). Indeed, “derech eretz is a small chapter that encompasses all major sections of the Torah” (Berachos 63a), and proper conduct preceded the giving of the Torah (Vayikra

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Rabba 9:3; Tana d’Bei Eliyahu, Chapter 1). This does not mean simply that one should perfect proper conduct prior to devoting time to Torah study; it means that, in the absence of proper conduct, the Torah study itself is flawed inherently (Mishnas R’ Aharon, Vol. I; see Rabbeinu Yona, Avos 3:17). Proper conduct and Torah study are dependent upon one another (Avos 3:17).

And yet, as we know instinctively, there is nothing more inspiriting than one who acts properly and also is seen to study and follow the Torah.

R’ Yitzchak Zilberstein was once in Switzerland meeting with a budding Torah scholar. Suddenly, the man stood up in a show of respect for, of all people, a young boy who had entered the room. R’ Zilberstein was curious to know why this scholar showed such respect for a young boy.

“Not long ago,” the man explained, “I was not Torah observant.

I lived across the street from that boy and observed him often. I knew he attended yeshiva. I also observed

his interactions with others: parents, neighbors, friends. He always comported himself with the utmost derech eretz. So I figured, if a young boy who acts with such proper conduct spends his time studying Torah, it behooves me to see what the Torah is all about. One thing led to anoth-

late and was still across the street from the bus station when his 8:30am bus was about to pull out of the station. The non-observant driver, who recognized R’ Yosef from his daily trips, motioned to R’ Yosef across the street that R’ Yosef should cross slowly and that he would hold

There is nothing more inspiriting than one who acts properly and also is seen to study and follow the Torah.

er, until I became observant. Since I owe it all to this boy and his proper conduct, I accord him respect every time he enters the room.”

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The bus driver, who had not been observant, was so inspired by R’ Yosef’s conduct that he later became fully observant. * * * Proper conduct needs constant reinforcement (Berachos 32b).

Without it, we are worth less than a carcass (Vayikra Rabba 1:15) and are not a “part of the civilized world” (Kiddushin 1:10).

As even Emily Post would concede, derech eretz is more than manners: it preceded the Torah; it is foundational; it is all-encompassing; it is ethics; it is honor. And, as demonstrated by the requirement that a Kohen’s clothes be changed for the ash removal service, it is absolutely obligatory.

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Israel Today

Teachers Forever!

By Rafi Sackville

Ort Ma'alot's senior homeroom teachers: Yuval, Rafi, Avigail, Zameret and Ravit

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t was around 4 a.m. on a chilly day in mid-February. I was sitting at a picnic table while over one hundred 12th grade students slept soundly in their tents at the field school in Eilat. It would be the last day that they and we, their five homeroom teachers, would be out together on a trip.

For three years Avigail, Ravit, Zameret, Yuval and I have run the

gamut of experiences, not only as teachers of our respective professions, but acting as the conduit between our classroom students, their parents, other teachers, and the administration.

In the tent next to me lay five of the rowdiest boys I’ve had the pleasure to have taught. They had turned in at 3 a.m. as others around them attempted to sleep through their noise.

Trying to wake them would prove to be close to impossible. Never mind, I thought. It’s the last time you’ll have Ro’i, Aviram, Aviv, Yair and Dani together.

Soon our students would soon be leaving for the army or national service, while we are sticking together as a team and are being reinstated as homeroom teachers for the next year’s incoming 10th graders.

Each class has its share of tribulations. My class is called the “challenged class.” It is made up of students who more than likely won’t get a full high school diploma. When they are in school I’m chasing after them like a shepherd. When they’re not in school (which often) I’m also chasing after them. Students from other classes who fail inevitably find their way to my group. They are wonderful young adults, many of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances.

Homeroom teachers are expected to pay home visits, to intervene with other teachers, to keep an eye on the financial status of families, and to deal with personal problems, some of which are so beyond the scope of our profession we need the help of school counselors or the welfare department at the municipality.

We are also forced to deal with the occasional parent backlash, an unfortunate trend that has of late become popular. There are parents who find it acceptable to burst into classroom and threaten teachers.

Some parents are so vitriolic they turn to social media to lambast us in public. Cyberbullying parents create turmoil in the community. Their outbursts are effective – albeit short-

lived – in forming public opinion that undoes all the good we do. Their influence cumulates. There is never a tipping point, but it means that the school is often wasting vital energy on spinning the positive work we do.

For example, three parents took to Facebook and WhatsApp after the trip to Eilat and lambasted the school from pillar to post. They lied and sullied us by name until the hurt I could see in the faces of my colleagues was so palpable I could not look at them without becoming upset. The stress can be unbearable. I’ve seen homeroom teachers crushed by the weight of their responsibilities.

Their criticism, you ask? The trip was a resounding success, yet viewed as fake news by the lone voices of discontent.

We had and have no other alternative than to continue serving like the surrogate parents we are. We’ll accompany our chargers on the same outings and trips and spend more time with them than we often care to.

Despite the challenges I have faced, I find myself constantly replaying in my head all the funny experiences we’ve had together.

One of my students spent three years looking for excuses not to attend school. The gym teacher once called me asking after him. He said the kid had told him he had to leave for a family brit milah. I immediately called his father, who told me there was no brit milah and that he’d be back in school in 10 minutes.

And he was. The following week he pulled the same stunt. Again I called his father, only this time I began our

conversation by jokingly wishing him mazal tov. His reply was classic, “Thank you Rafi, we’re starting the brit for my daughter’s son in a few minutes. You’re more than welcome to attend.” Go figure!

I was thrilled to have the help of an organization called Nirim, which deals with kids from difficult neighborhoods. Each week a young man would accompany my kids to one of the local parks, where they’d make their own pita bread and do joint activities. Without his help my task would have been far more difficult.

I became so attuned to the needs of one of my students that if she wasn’t yelling and screaming I’d know there was something wrong.

I remember the home visits I paid to meet parents and siblings and was plied with more cake and tea with spearmint than I could consume.

I recall the tears I shared with some of them and their parents during heartbreaking experiences.

This forced familiarity is uniquely Israeli in character. Our tendency to be brazen in our views, to impose ourselves on people or situations, and not be tempered by etiquette frees educators from the kinds of red lines those in other countries have.

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better academic outcomes for my students. Yet once one understands just how complicated their lives can be, it becomes apparent that, for kids at risk, the key is to being there for them, even when they and their parents are using their democratic

“Rafi,” he said with a boisterous, but loving look in his eye, “Rafi, I love you.”

That initial home visit, where you arrive as the other adult in the room, lends itself to the breaking of social barriers between homeroom teachers and students. These visits are compulsory in classes like mine, less so with the more academically oriented students.

It can be frustrating how this closeness does not translate into

rights to express their negative feelings about you and others at school.

It’s an uneasy alliance that I and my colleagues are willing to accept.

It was 6 a.m. My guard duty shift was at its end. I looked up to see Avigail, Ravit, Zameret and Yuval bundled up against the February morning walking towards me. We spent the next half an hour walking

from tent to tent cajoling, imploring, begging, and pleading with our kids to wake up.

The tent of partygoers remained unmoved. The boys didn’t stir until 6:45. Ro’i yelled at me, Aviv laughed, Dani remained asleep till the last moment, and Yair kept his blanket wrapped around his head. Aviram was the first up. He ran to the sinks and washed his hands. He then ran back in the cold, lined me up and gave me a huge bear hug.

“Rafi,” he said with a boisterous, but loving look in his eye, “Rafi, I love you.”

That hug sums up three years of homeroom teaching. I love them all and pray for their futures. Meanwhile, the colleagues and I await the incoming 10th graders.

Wish us well, dear readers.

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

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The Democrats’ Louis Farrakhan Problem Many Questions, No Answers

By Tzvi Dear

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t a recent event in the back forests of Baton Rouge, the former head of the Louisiana Ku Klux Clan, David Duke, gathered with his fellow tiki torch carriers and gave a passionate address about saving the world. He declared, “Black folks are going down. And Satan is going down.

And David Duke, by G-d’s grace, has pulled a cover off of that Satanic Jew, and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.”

President Trump and Republicans, with whom Duke associates, were silent.

Silence can be the greatest indicator of the feelings harbored in

the heart. Trump silent. Leading members of Congress silent. Rush Limbaugh and other conservative pundits silent.

pen is that Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan recently got up in one of America’s largest “progressive” cities, Chicago, and declared

Did the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust have a right to self-determination?

Case closed – they are racists and anti-Semites.

Well, actually, that clan gathering never happened. What did hap-

exactly that. Well, not exactly that, but close – several nouns noted above are not entirely accurate.

With blood in his eyes and venom

practically foaming from his mouth, Farrakhan thundered, “White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan, by G-d’s grace, has pulled a cover off of that Satanic Jew, and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.”

In an over-three-hour speech, which could have been given in Berlin in 1933, Farrakhan railed against “the Jews” who are “responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out” and who are “the mother and father of apartheid.”

More than ten thousand people, who paid from $20 to $100 per ticket, packed Chicago’s Wintrust Arena

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Tamika Mallory with Farrakhan. She posted this picture on Instagram with the message, “Thank G-d this man is still alive and doing well. He is definitely the GOAT.”

for the Nation of Islam’s “Saviour’s Day” event which took place on February 25.

Who are these people? Do they wish death to all Jews? Do they also support Hitler, as Farrakhan does?

Would they shoot and kill Jews if they could get away with it?

Most of the cheering throngs of those Sunday haters went unprofiled and likely returned to their regular lives on Monday with their usual prickly political correctness radar beaming on any target it could catch. But not everyone is anonymous.

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Farrakhan with former South African President Nelson Mandela

In the audience that day was Tamika Mallory. She is the co-founder of the Women’s March. Although that movement was created as a Trump resistance movement, it couches itself as a legitimate progressive movement, which, according to its mission statement, seeks

to dismantle oppression and build “self-determination, dignity and respect.”

Did the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust have a right to self-determination? What was dignifying about Auschwitz?

Were mothers shown respect when

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A screenshot of a town hall meeting in 1993 on 'Race in America.' Rep. Maxine Waters is sitting next to Farrakhan

Obama, then a senator, smiling next to Farrakhan

With Al Sharpton

their toddlers were ripped out of their hands and brutally killed by a man and his minions who Farrakhan reveres?

If, G-d forbid, someone tried doing that again, would Tamika Mallory put on a pink knitted hat and chant slogans in protest or would she join in the vicious hate, murder

and mayhem?

Mallory responded to criticism of her attendance at Farrakhan’s hate-fest by tweeting that if one does not have the same enemies as Christianity’s originator, “they may not be THE leader!” She added, “Study the Bible and u [sic] will find the similarities. Ostracizing,

ridicule and rejection is a painful part of the process...but faith is the substance of things!” So, she doubled down and confirmed that she is a vile Jew hater herself.

But this is not just about Tamika Mallory; it’s bigger than her. Where is the Democratic Party leadership?

Why are they silent in the face of

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this hatred?

When the Daily Caller, a conservative publication, recently asked Rep. Danny Davis (D-Chicago) about his close relationship with Farrakhan in light of the latter’s vile hatred of Jews, Davis –who is an African-American and should be empathetic to targets of racism

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– replied, “The world is so much bigger than Farrakhan and the Jewish question and his position on that and so forth. For those heavy into it, that’s their thing, but it ain’t my thing.”

What if a leading Republican befriended Richard Spencer, who is a white supremacist, and when asked about that relationship said, “The world is so much bigger than Spencer and the Jewish and black question and his position on that and so forth,” would people be silent?

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who has raised her profile within the Democratic Party by beating the drum that “Donald Trump is a racist,” has had a longstanding relationship with Farrakhan. In 2002, Waters attended a Nation of Islam convention where Farrakhan defended Palestinian suicide bombers.

She was a sitting congresswoman at the time. While Farrakhan spoke did Rep. Waters envision the scene of innocent men, women and children being blown to pieces in a pizza shop on a street corner in Jerusa-

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lem? Did she think of the bloody limbs being ripped from bodies, heads severed by shrapnel? Would that scene have brought her joy?

Rep. Maxine Waters is not alone.

Many Democrats have met with Farrakhan over the years. Last month a photograph from 2005 surfaced of Farrakhan and then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama smiling side by side.

Hill. How could the Congressional Black Caucus, which should be sensitive to racism and bigotry, host such an evil person? Did they listen to him spewing venom about Jews in the very place which is meant to symbolize our country’s freedoms?

Did Obama smile when Farrakhan spoke of the Jews’ “gutter religion” like he smiled in the picture with

Did they listen to him spewing venom about Jews in the very place which is meant to symbolize our country’s freedoms?

Perhaps even more disturbing than the photograph – which the photographer, Askia Muhammad, did not release for many years due to pressure – is the fact that the photograph was taken at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting on Capitol

him?

Rep. Keith Ellison, who is the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and one of two Muslim members of Congress, has had a relationship with Farrakhan for many years and used to be a mem-

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ber of Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.

As a law student he defended Farrakhan against charges of anti-Semitism. In 2006, when he ran for Congress, Ellison disavowed Farrakhan.

Just in case your sincerity meter is not calibrated— in 2013 he attended a small dinner with Farrakhan and several other distinguished guests, including Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Did Farrakhan smirk when Rouhani may have regaled him with details of how Iran plans on developing a nuclear bomb which could do in several minutes what it took Hitler several years to do?

Does the “D” that appears after these politicians' names inoculate them from criticism? Is it ironic that some of those leading the charge against President Trump are, in fact, those most closely associated with the United States’ most powerful, virulent racist and anti-Semite?

Will these people learn the lessons of the Holocaust and slavery or will they put politics first?

Unfortunately, I think I know the answer to the last question.

In His Own Words • “White people are potential humans – they haven’t evolved yet.”

• “The Jews don’t like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that’s a good name. Hitler was a very great man.”

• “It is now becoming apparent that there were many Israelis and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks. We know that an Israeli film crew dressed as Arabs were filming the Twin Towers before the first plane went in. In other words — Israelis had full knowledge of the attacks. We’re dealing with thieves, and liars — and murderers.”

• “They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.”

• “I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.”

• “The powerful Jews are my enemy.”

• “Now that nation called Israel never has had any peace in 40 years and she will never have any peace because there can be no peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of G-d to shield your gutter religion under His holy and righteous name.”

• “You [America] are the most rotten nation on the Earth. That is why G-d has come, and you are number one on His list to be destroyed.”

• “Holy Land don’t belong to a white Arab or a white Jew. You are settlers on our land. We are the original owners of that part of the earth and you all kicked us out and assumed our position. But now G-d has come and we are coming to reclaim what belongs to us.”

• “The FBI has been the worst enemy of black advancement. The Jews have control over those agencies of government.”

• “If the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us, stalk them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.”

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

I just got engaged to an amazing guy. I know this should be a very happy time in my life but, instead, from the moment that our parents got together to start discussing the wedding plans, I’ve been miserable. As much as my chosson Josh and I have in common and get along so beautifully, my parents and his parents could not be more different from one another.

They live in different communities, have very different lifestyles and values, and can’t seem to agree on anything.

It’s gotten to the point where they actually yell at one another! I’ve walked into my house and seen my mother on the phone, her face as red as a beet, yelling into the phone. Turns out, she’s on the phone with Josh’s mother. My parents are not necessarily the easiest-going people in the world, but they are reasonable and I’ve never seen my mother yelling at anyone – aside from her children!

Every decision they have to agree on seems insurmountable. They have totally opposite visions for everything related to the wedding, related to where Josh and I will live, related to how much or how little each of them is willing to help us out with... it’s a nightmare.

I am seriously considering breaking off the engagement. I can’t imagine a lifetime of fighting parents and in-laws any time some kind of agreement has to be made. It’s just too much. Josh is also aware of the problem, but he doesn’t seem to be as affected by all of it as I am. I suspect that he’s used to his parents being very different and I think he’s able to tune most of the fighting out.

Am I being ridiculous to think that marrying into such a family would be a terrible mistake and that as much as I feel very strongly for Josh, our love might not be enough to compensate for combative parents?

Dear Navidaters,

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. t’s not marrying into Josh’s family which is the question. It’s not the issue of battling mechutanim that is the issue; families frequently have strong disagreements which turn unpleasant when it comes to wedding planning. The real question in your mind seems to be can Josh and I handle conflict, now and in the future. You grew up with difficult people with whom it is not easy to get along and you are wondering what that bodes for your future. You are framing it as marrying into his problematic family and that is not the right question.

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Josh, both separately and together, will be pulled into the war between the families. Although you may not be feeling it now, you will soon be pressured and pulled into the fray.

You seem to be unsure of how to deal with conflict in general.

What to do? If you want a good marriage, invest in it before the wedding. Make sure that you have acquired the skills and the tools for healthy communication and conflict management. Together sign up for the Shalom Workshops offered by the Shalom Taskforce which offers several hours of an award winning training in marital skills that has been customized for the observant community. Together you will learn to hear one another, validate one another, and how to share feelings of different kinds in a wholesome way.

A rabbi or trusted party can mediate the conflict of the parents before the wedding and endeavor to get them to focus on you and Josh and not themselves. You and Josh, however, are more important than the parents at this juncture. Learn, grow, and equip yourselves so that your relationship is strengthened to withstand external and internal conflict.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. everal years ago, before my children were married, I attended my friend’s daughter’s Shabbos sheva brochos. At the end of the seudah, the chosson’s father approached his new mechutan and declared loudly and ceremoniously, “Thank you for a beautiful simcha. Bye-bye for now, we’ll see you at the bris!”

My reaction then: “How crass!”

My reaction now: “How true!”

Full disclosure: I love all my mechutanim and have enjoyed amicable relationships with each. Truth be told, the engagement period, with its ongoing discussion over narishkeit – wedding colors, flowers, seating protocols, minhagim – can be destabilizing for an engaged couple.

Not to mention, the nitty-gritty negotiations over support and living arrangements. One irate motherin-law threatened to break up an engagement when her son rented an apartment five blocks closer to the in-laws than to her. Talk about Mars and Venus colliding!

I’m sorry that your families are on different wavelengths and the fur is flying; I can assure you this happens more than you know (see above). Wake up from your nightmare; stop dreaming about the idealized engagement and tune out the static! Concentrate on this: from the moment Josh asked for your hand, you and he committed to becoming a couple. You pledged your loyalty

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to each other despite differences in your respective “communities, lifestyles and values.” Going forward, conversations regarding choice of neighborhood and means of support (ideally, self-support) should be handled calmly and peacefully between the two of you. If, after discussing your financials, you think you’ll need monetary help, I suggest you and Josh approach each set of parents discreetly and respectfully (i.e., no demands, ultimatums, or pressure).

The decision to “help” (via gift or loan) should be based on what they are willing or able to spend; parental support should never be a reaction or retaliation offered in response to “what the other side is giving.” To avoid potential conflict, what each side decides to contribute is a private matter between them and the couple.

Still, if you feel the mechutanim madness is complicating an already stressful period and may negatively impact your marriage, get thee to pre-marital couples counseling to help you with strategies on dealing with difficult in-laws. Bear in mind: the engagement will soon be over; your marriage must last a lifetime.

The Shadchan Michelle Mond hey say that the engagement period is the hardest time and now you have found out why.

It is written that finding a shidduch is comparable to Krias Yam Suf. How is this so? During Krias Yam Suf, Hashem defied the pattern of nature and split one body of water into different parts – something seemingly impossible. With a shid-

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duch He does the opposite.

It seems absolutely impossible for two individuals from different communities and backgrounds, molded by different experiences, to come together and agree on everything, let alone choosing a marriage partner!

So thank you to Hashem for bringing you through step one: finding an amazing guy whom, despite your different backgrounds and upbringings, is interested in marrying you and you, him.

First, acknowledge this miracle and realize how lucky you are. Now on to step two: the parents. Suppose you squander a relationship with this incredible man for the parents’ inability to agree. You mentioned yourself that your parents are not the most easygoing people. Can you guarantee you won’t repeat this exact scenario with some other man’s parents? While the fighting might not involve financial support, gown colors, or whether to place fresh flowers

on every table, some friction will certainly come about somewhere. So, it is up to you to step in and work it out.

Emulate Josh’s logical approach of tuning out the noise so you may enjoy your relationship together.

Remember: this phase will not last long. Once the wedding is over, there will be no more wedding logistics to figure out and no reason for the parents to hash things out. Mazel tov – you will get through this!

The Single Tova Wein rom what I hear, it’s the exception rather than the rule, for wedding plans to go totally smoothly between two sets of parents. There is so much at stake. First and foremost, the happiness of the young couple getting married. Also, everyone is nervous about planning such a major event.

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he behavior of all the parents in this situation leaves much to be desired. Regardless of whether or not Josh’s parents are “worse” or more difficult than yours, your parents should be trying to shield you from this stress-inducing drama. But instead, everyone is putting their own egos before their children. You are a grown woman and you don’t have to be babied or coddled, but certainly you should not have to come home to Pink organza!?!?!? Were you raised in a barn? Or, Over my dead body will they moving to Bumblebee, Kentucky! They’re going to live near us.

Or, That’s all you can contribute financially? You people are taking us for a ride! Neither side has to be fond of the other, but for the sake of the children, both sides should be able to control the screaming and

yelling. By exposing you to all the chaos, your parents are acting recklessly. I’m sorry you have to deal with both sets of parents’ immaturity during what should be a very special, joyous time.

Believe it or not, more important than your parents’ fighting is how you and Josh handle it as a couple.

I’m curious if Josh knows the extent of how you are feeling. Feeling close to breaking your engagement tells a serious story. You mentioned that Josh doesn’t seem as impacted by the parental tension and all-out war, but you don’t mention how the two of you handle this as a couple.

Have you told Josh you are considering breaking off the engagement?

If so, what was his reaction? Telling Josh how you are feeling about very

There is always concern about the big decisions that have to be made, affecting large sums of money, different taste levels ... so many areas in which parents can easily disagree.

Obviously, some parents are better at holding it together and putting class and politeness above getting their way. Others don’t. Sounds like in your case it’s the latter.

What I think is the important lesson to take from this is how well you can handle chaos that goes on around you. Are you able to take Josh’s lead and tune it out? Or do you find yourself always getting pulled into the drama? That’s what you need to work on. Once you get married, your life will only become more and more complicated. You have to learn how to ignore the noise and focus on what is important. In this case, the fact that you found a wonderful man to marry should trump everything else that’s going on.

The engagement period will end

important matters (and vice versa) is crucial to a healthy marriage. How Josh reacts to you (and vice versa) is equally as crucial.

Marriages will face all sorts of internal and external stressors. Your relationship is under an incredible amount of stress right now. With the right self-expression and the appropriate response (listening, validating and sending the message of We’re going to get through this together), a solid relationship can weather the storm.

I want you to think about what it is that Josh could do to help you through this stressful time. Is there something that you need from him?

Do you need his support? Do you need him to simply recognize how awful this is for you? Do you need him to speak to his parents and ask them to stop their end of things? Ask him for it. Josh may be an incredibly easygoing guy or he may be avoiding the situation/ or acting passively because he doesn’t know how to handle it. Before you make any sudden decisions, you and Josh need to talk

It’s time for you and Josh to be the adults in the room

and the yelling matches should hopefully end as well. If they don’t – it’s none of your business. Mind you, the more independent you and Josh are once you are married, the less your parents and Josh’s parents need to be pulled into anything. Aim for self-reliance. That’s the ticket.

But to consider ending this engagement over bickering parents would be something you would always regret. It’s time for you and Josh to be the adults in the room!

heart-to-heart about how the two of you, as a couple, can work together to handle the stress.

You two may not be able to stop the feuding parents (though I think it’s perfectly fine to tell both sets of parents, separately or together, that the fighting must stop once and for all… and if you’re reading this Moms and Dads… knock it off!), but you can try to work on your communication now. If you need help learning the tools and skills necessary to communicate and protect your relationship, you can go into premarital therapy now.

All the best, Jennifer Mann, LCSW Esther Mann, LCSW and Jennifer Mann, LCSW are licensed, clinical psychotherapists and dating and relationship coaches working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. To set up an appointment, please call 516.224.7779. Press 1 for Esther, 2 for Jennifer. To learn more about their services, please visit thenavidaters.com.

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Dr. Deb

When is Softheartedness Dangerous?

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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n New York, I would take my granddaughters to the park during nice weather every single Shabbos. And in two years’ time, I never met anyone I knew there. Here I was, my first Shabbos in Eretz Yisroel, in the playground with my children who kept an eye

on my grandchildren, and a gentleman approaches me saying, “Hi!” I was sure I did not know this man.

“You don’t recognize me?” he asked with a twinkle in his eye. “I’m sorry,” I admitted. So he told me his name and I was flabbergasted. “But you’re all grown up!” I replied, be-

cause he had been my children’s friend as a child and the last time I saw him they all were in high school. What a pleasant surprise.

We had a lovely chat, and, being all grown up, he was the father of three. He introduced me to his lovely wife, and then he asked me an interesting question: “How can you tell the difference between when a child is truly bothered by something and when the child is simply manipulating you?” And further, “Where do you draw the line between reasoning with the child and being strict?”

I know this man since his own childhood and I can attest to his sweetness and goodness. He’s so innocent, he doesn’t recognize the possibility of chicanery in a child, especially not his. But even the nicest parents can have rude, uncivilized kids. In fact, the nicest ones may be most prone to it because they’d rather humor their children when they turn bratty than administer punishments.

But it’s those eidele parents that may need the most help.

So I thought I’d devote this article to answering those two questions. (This is sort of the travel-log that I promised you about my trip because it did take place in Israel.)

When to Comfort and When to Keep Boundaries Here are some things that disturb children and require comfort

and understanding: • The death of a parent or close grandparent, rachmana litzlon • The illness of a parent or close grandparent • Divorce and remarriage • Abuse from an adult or being the victim of bullying at school or by a sibling • Serious illness and need for treatment of the child • Moving when close friends are left behind This means that if a child is in the middle of any of the above, it is possible that he or she might act out and the right response to it could be a bit soft for a short while.

However, it’s important to know when to call it quits with the “softy” approach because children will always milk a situation when they can.

Anything else requires absolutely no second thoughts on the parent’s part: The child must adhere to the boundaries set by the parent. Children will think the world is falling apart if: • They didn’t get the food they wanted • They didn’t get the treat they wanted • They didn’t get to play with whom they wanted • They are brought home from the park or play dates earlier than they wanted • They are expected to go to

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bed when they’re supposed to • Their parent has the nerve to leave them alone in their bed when it’s bedtime • They have to clean up their mess • They didn’t get the extra attention that they wanted This second list is a list every parent should have. There should not be endless choices of food at meals. They cannot just have treats willy-nilly. Playtime is over when it’s over, and bedtime is whatever the parents set it up to be. Messes should be cleaned routinely.

So if the child is complaining/ crying/screaming/kicking/fighting/whining/refusing or exhibiting any other wanted behavior for the reasons above, then it is clearly manipulation and manipulation needs to be met with a firm resolve to adhere to the pre-set rules.

Why do children manipulate, anyway?

The answer is because it’s fun.

Really. That’s the reason.

Recall those jack-in-the-box toys? The child pushes a button and something pops up. The child has made that happen. It’s a safe and educational form of manipulation.

It’s good for the child to have some sense of making an impact on his world. When children are given a voice, it helps them know who they are, what their preferences are, and the effect they have on other children and adults.

But notice the key words, here, “are given.” You have to give the child the opportunity to have that voice, that agency. The child can’t just take it. The moment the child tries to grab authority that is not his is the moment that calls for adults putting their foot down.

Which leads to the next question: How?

Where Do You Draw The Line Between Gentle Persuasion and Strict Discipline?

Let’s put it this way: If you’re counting to three, you don’t start dividing the last number into quarters and when you’ve reached three, start threatening all over again to

count to three. The jig is up the first time you got to three.

Gentle persuasion is always a great first approach to a problem.

Here’s the breakdown in order: 1) Reminding the child of who he is, i.e., the good little tzaddik that he knows he is

something like that. You then must keep your promise to punish. It is the only way. You may count to 3, but you must then follow through with the threat.

7) The punishment is carried out with a serious expression; your words are deliberate but there is no

Even the nicest parents can have rude, uncivilized kids.

2) Reminding the child of the times that he was so proud of himself for behaving/listening, etc.

3) Reminding the child of the usual, positive consequences of behaving as required 4) Reminding the child of the unwanted, unpleasant consequences of not behaving as required So, really, there’s no line; it’s simply a progression. If the child laughs in your face when you got to #4, then it means you are ready to become strict. Here’s the progression of strictness: 5) Facial expression is strict.

You’re no longer the “friendly parent”; you’re the strict parent. I cannot tell you how very, very powerful this is. Just stare at your child, hold eye contact, and have a very serious, strict face. You do not have to look angry and you don’t have to say a word. The less action you take, the better. When you do less, threaten less, and say less, the child becomes a bit apprehensive about what, exactly, you’re going to do.

This works. Try it.

6) If, because of past history, the child cannot believe you will actually do something and just continues to laugh in your face, continue to hold your stare, speak very slowly and quietly, saying that if the child will not listen, he will receive a given (unpleasant) consequence such as being put in a corner, losing a toy, losing playtime, early bedtime, or for older children, lose the computer, phone, game toy or

additional talking whatsoever. You see, conversation is a positive. The relationship your child has with you is a positive, something he wants.

When you converse, you’re giving of yourself to the child when this is a moment of taking away. You cannot do both at the same time.

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over, the child must a) Explain what he did wrong b) Explain what he should have done instead and what he will do when this happens next time (which is the same answer for both parts of the question) c) Apologize to whoever he needs to You will notice that step 8 is basically the halachas of teshuvah: The child must do teshuvah.

The younger the child when you implement all this, the more effective.

Two more rules: Rule #1: Never, ever go over the line into abuse.

Rule #2: Love should always be the dominant aspect of your relationship with your child. It helps the medicine of discipline go down.

Dr. ` 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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Passover the Pounds

By Aliza Beer MS, RD

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esach is in a league of its own.

I encounter the largest weight gains of the entire year after Pesach, ranging anywhere from 5 to 14 pounds! This weight gain should not be expected nor deemed normal.

Over a span of eight days of eating, a massive weight gain can be likely but very unhealthy. This is the con-

sequence of not just going off one’s diet but taking a vacation from reality. These tremendous weight gains result only when a person eats whatever they want, as much as they want, whenever they want. It happens when all common sense is disregarded.

You may be reading this think-

ing that this only takes place at hotels; however, the largest weight gain I have on record, 14 pounds, happened to a woman who was home for Pesach. However, it is not all doom and gloom. I have had many clients that manage to maintain their weight or suffer a minimal weight gain over Pesach, while enjoying their Pesach and the food they eat. How? Adhere to the following guidelines, whether in a hotel or at home, and you will emerge from this yom tov victorious.

• Matzah, Matzah, and More Matzah: Wherever you are spending your Pesach, make sure you have whole wheat matzah. At the sedarim you will eat the required shiurim, and not one extra bite!

For the rest of yom tov, be aware that 1/3-1/2 piece of round shmura matzah is considered one carb serving, equal to one slice of bread.

• Grape Juice/Wine: At the sedarim, if you drink wine, dry is preferred since it has less sugar than sweet wine. If you drink grape juice, please purchase or request the light grape juice. It has less than half the sugar of regular grape juice. No fifth kos, please!

• Drink Water: Everyone should be consuming 8 cups (64 oz.) of water a day. Drink a full cup of water before each meal; you will go into that meal not as hungry and eat a little bit less.

• Minimize the Meat: There are eight yom tov/Shabbos meals over the course of eight days. You cannot eat red meat at all of them! Beef, lamb, and veal are much fattier than poultry. Try

to have no more than 3-4 red meat meals; the rest of the meals should be chicken or turkey or fish.

• Exercise: Go for walks, weather permitting.

On chol hamoed try getting in some real exercise like spinning, running, or Zumba.

• Eat your Veggies: Every meal should include some kind of salad and/or vegetable. They are low in calories and high in fiber and will help fill you up. Use cauliflower rice and zoodles as a faux carby side dish. The best carb side dishes are sweet potatoes, much healthier than white, and quinoa, which contains protein as well.

• Treat Yourself, Carefully: It is unrealistic to expect anyone to endure eight days of Pesach, including 4 days of yom tov/Shabbos without ever having dessert or a “treat.”

After all, this is the holiday of freedom. The best time of day to cheat is the morning because you will burn it off throughout the day. The worst time is at night, especially since the dinners are late and you are going straight to bed, allowing everything you just ate to stick to you and be converted into fat. Give yourself a treat every day of yom tov/Shabbos – but only one treat and earlier in the day. Keep chol hamoed as clean as possible, avoiding all sugar.

• Snacks: The healthiest and most filling snacks are fruit. Beware of dried fruit, eat them sparingly, for they are a more concentrated form of sugar than raw fruit and will spike your blood sugar much faster.

For traveling on chol hamoed try an organic no sugar-added fruit leath-

er like Matt’s Munchies or Fruit-apeel. Seaweed snacks are another low-calorie travel-friendly snack.

They are extremely healthy and will help with those salt cravings when your kids break out the chips. Keep chocolate to a minimum and eat only the dark chocolate. Nuts are a big Pesach staple, but they are also very high in fat and calories. Count out no more than 10-12 nuts in a sitting, and avoid candy or sugar coated nuts.

• Don’t Be Afraid of the Scale: It is a great idea to get on that scale on chol hamoed and see if/how much damage was done. Ignorance is bliss. It is good for you to see the number, for it will inspire you to take action and seize control of the situation for the second days.

Let us now use the above guidelines to formulate a concrete meal plan for Pesach.

• Breakfast: Good options include: eggs with veggies; yogurt with fruit; cottage cheese and fruit; kosher l’Pesach almond butter on

matzah.

• Lunch: Yom tov/Shabbos: Soup; Lean meat, chicken, or fish; salads, vegetables, and healthy carb sides that are not fried.

Chol hamoed: Will probably

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opportunity to get some fish dinners into your diet. Try to eat lighter during the days of chol hamoed because the first and last two days of Pesach are so heavy.

Pesach is a challenge, but one that

Give yourself a treat every day of yom tov/Shabbos – but only one treat and earlier in the day. have to be on the go and portable, so bring cut up veggies like cucumbers, peppers, and jicama; tuna, hard boiled eggs or egg salad, cottage or farmer cheese, or string cheese; whole wheat matzah. Matzah brei fried in cooking spray or matzah pizza are other options as well.

• Dinner: Yom tov/Shabbos: Will primarily be the same as the lunches.

Chol hamoed: This is a good

can be met successfully with proper planning and a little self-control.

As frum Jews we are accustomed to laws and barriers, and know that we cannot eat, wear, and do anything, anywhere, or anytime we feel like it.

We must apply this concept to our relationship with food, especially on yom tov and Shabbos. Just because it’s there, does not mean you have to eat it. If you were served a lobster, you would never eat it. Just because

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they are having a midnight madness buffet does not mean you must attend it. Why are you going into the tea room every day?! A recovering alcoholic would never hang out in a bar and will attempt to remove himself as much as possible from temptation.

Maintaining your weight or minimizing the gain over this yom tov will take work and will not happen easily. Most achievements in life are realized by people who put tremendous effort and self sacrifice into them. If you stay focused, and think positive, your goal will be actualized.

Wishing all of my readers and clients a zissen yom tov!

Aliza Beer is a registered dietician with a master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at alizabeer@gmail.com.

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Taking Your Family to the Next Level of Dynamics

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

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ere’s my fantasy.

Pesach preparations for 2018 go fantastically beyond all expectations. In addition to purging your home of chometz, a grand spring cleaning, replete with decluttering of the home, ensued.

Admit it: you have 8 grandchildren (and counting) but your wedding suit hasn’t fit you for years. Do you really need it? You put out all chometz at the curb, gift local thrift shops with books, and gave the family’s gently used clothes to groups that make sure they are used well.

And the best news of all: you cleaned up all negative family dynamics and you enjoyed an awesome yom tov free from strife and friction.

I told you it’s a fantasy. But that shouldn’t stop us from dreaming and aspiring to move our families forward.

Pesach is but one week away and family get togethers in close quarters with too much good food and matzah is looming. Have we thought through what we can do to assure an enjoyable yom tov?

In the time you don’t have between now and yom tov try to peruse the most recent issue of the Ortho-

dox Union’s Jewish Action magazine. It’s devoted to profiling people who strive to raise spiritually thriving families. It’s excellent, engaging and well-written and is chock full of practical information. Even one tiny nugget you implement before shekiah on March 30th can make a world of positive difference.

Family gatherings such as Pesach are times for parents to remember to never surrender their parenting authority to any person, even their own parents. Parents have told me that Bubby and Zaidy don’t approve of their parenting style.

My response: Bubby and Zaidy are entitled to their opinion. And Bubby and Zaidy should think once, twice, 20 times, before voicing their opinion to their children. And never should Bubby and Zaidy undermine Mom and Dad, especially in front of the grandchildren. Doing so will create, G-d forbid, confusion and shame in parents’ hearts.

What if someone jumps the gun and says something? Suggested responses: “Mmmmmm…I’ll think about it.”

“I’ll handle it.” Say it firmly.

Don’t forget who you are, Mom

and Dad. Continue to develop your unique voices as parents. Stay present in the moment.

Try to develop the middah of vatranus, of letting things go. Not everything needs to be answered. Silence can be golden (as long as lives are not threatened). Take a deep breath and stay the course. When your child sees you react or respond calmly, that’s a priceless lesson that he will one day reenact.

Strike an “offensive” stance and let outspoken family members who think they know better than anyone in the world know how they can help.

Say matter-of-factly: “Come and get me if my child misbehaves and I’ll handle it.”

Some family members are more reserved and will never offer an opinion. Bless them in your heart.

Tell them to come get you, if needed.

What if your child is out of sorts and just not themselves? For example, Joshua missed his nap. Michal might be teething.

It’s normal. Be proactive and give a heads up. Quietly announce when you walk in something to the effect like, “Joshua napped only 20 minutes so he’s not as well rested as always.”

Or “Yonina is in that preschool independent phase and likes to do everything by herself.” Miriam’s singing the Mah Nishtanah does not necessarily have to take place at the seder. Be flexible and think about a luncheon meal for her singing venue.

There will be family members who will want to help soothe a cranky child or will get a kick out of watching a little person assert their independence.

Never speak ill of your children in front of others. Naftali might be overflowing with energy but please never describe him as a “hellion on wheels.” If he hears it, he will want to be it. And negative names have a nasty habit of sticking for a long time.

Suggested language: “Yes, Naftali is a work in progress.”

Part of your pre-Pesach work is telling your children what you expect and what will be happening. If guests are coming, speak about sharing their home and toys. Tell them “normal” will return.

If you’ll be guests in another person’s home, ask when arriving where the children can play and which areas are off limits. Tell them they

and learning, I wish to close this week’s article with a tribute to the 96-year old Rabbi Pelcovitz, z”l, who led The White Shul and this community for over 60 years, until his passing last week.

can’t go past the row of trees in the backyard. Children welcome talk in concrete terms.

Always remember that your children are human. Even with the best chinuch, kids act out because they are kids. Have a sense of humor about it. Address it and move on.

Stressing about it will only stress them and others. And the faster you move on, they, too, will move on.

I can’t emphasize enough the importance of preparation, preparation and preparation. Please G-d, the time and effort we invest in thinking through our family dynamics and how to run an engaging seder and the other days of Pesach that meets multi-generational needs should surpass the time and effort invested in new outfits for yom tov. Our children watch and observe what we do and then take it on as their modus operandi.

Davening is not easy. There’s good reason why it’s called avoda she’b’lev. And Yom Kippur is an especially challenging davening culminating in the “crown jewel,” Neila.

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The next morning, she asked my wife, “Do you want to know why I stood the entire time?” My wife nodded her head affirmatively and our daughter proceeded to explain, “I looked down and saw Rabbi Pelcovitz (then 94-years-old), standing

and davening Neila with a full heart.

So if he could stand, then so can I.” Thank you, Rabbi Pelcovitz, for all you did for the White Shul, this community and Klal Yisrael. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for living your life by your ideals and values and for being a role model for our children on how a Torah Jew should always conduct himself. May you enjoy a lichtige Gan Eden, a result of your hard work and mesirus nefesh for all Klal Yisrael.

As we toil away to bring in Pesach 2018, remember: There’s a higher goal beyond the Fantastik, cooking and shopping.

As always, daven.

Dr. Hylton I. Lightman is a senior statesman amongst pediatricians, an internationally-recognized authority and diagnostician, a public speaker, expert witness and go-to resource for health issues in the Orthodox Jewish community.

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Pastrami Meatballs

By Naomi Nachman

This is one of my most popular recipes from my Pesach cookbook published last year by ArtScroll. I have received hundreds of emails and messages from people who made this dish throughout the year and who told me that their families and guests had thoroughly enjoyed it. The recipes in my book are mostly gluten-free, easy, and very approachable for all year. Hope you all pick up a copy or two for Pesach

These might look like ordinary meatballs, but they have a secret weapon inside: The finely diced pastrami mixed into the meat mixture doesn’t just add incredible flavor to the meatballs, but it keeps them extremely moist and soft. They’re like no meatballs you’ve ever had before!

Ingredients 2 pounds ground beef 6 ounces pastrami, very finely chopped 2 eggs 3 tablespoons ketchup 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon onion powder ½ teaspoon dried oregano Sauce 2 (32 oz.) jars marinara sauce 1 cup water 1 cup sugar Juice of 2 lemons (about ½ cup) 1 tablespoon tomato paste 1 (14 oz.) can whole berry cranberry sauce

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Bring to a boil over medium heat.

Roll the meat mixture into balls approximately the size of golf balls.

Carefully drop balls into boiling sauce. Reduce heat to low; simmer for approximately 1 hour 30 minutes.

Cook Tips • If there’s any leftover sauce, freeze it and use it to make meatballs a second time!

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Recipe reproduced from Perfect For Pesach by Naomi Nachman with permission from the copyright holders ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications LTD.

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Researchers just unveiled a robot that can play Scrabble. It’s pretty realistic. It even gets bored halfway through and stops playing.

– Jimmy Fallon

I meant no disrespect to any individual or group. And I want to look to the future as much as anybody.

- Hillary Clinton in a longwinded Facebook post responding to backlash to her recent comment in India that 52% of white women in the U.S. voted for Trump because their husbands made them do so

Who’s more likely to get killed? A celebrity who’s protected by 35 guards or you, when you go for a walk at night? How come they have guards for them? You know what this guard is carrying? What do you think he’s carrying, a pastrami sandwich? A cookie? He’s carrying a gun. So if a gun is important for him, how come it’s not important for you?

- Jackie Mason talking to Breitbart News about the hypocrisy of celebrities calling for gun control

A new poll has found that a majority of Americans believe the government is spying on them. ”No, we’re not,” said your microwave.

– Seth Myers

Went up in Eastland and shot a policeman…

I’m trying to pull the trigger but it’s stuck….

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-Some of the less violent lyrics of a Detroit-based rapper, who last Sunday night slammed gun owners and the National Rifle Association (NRA) at an awards show for “loving their guns more than our children”

Costco is selling a Doomsday food kit that can feed a typical family for a year. Walmart sells the same kit, but it only feeds a typical Walmart family for six days.

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Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man.

Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation. And D.C. keeps talking about, “We a resilient city.” That’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.

- Washington, D.C., Councilmember Trayon White Sr. spewing Jew hatred in a video on his Facebook page

March Madness is officially underway. An interesting poll says that 17 percent of March Madness viewers watched the game with their boss last year.

The bosses called it “tons of fun” while employees called it “mandatory.”

– Jimmy Fallon

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Today, President Trump had a meeting with Bill Gates. At one point, both looked at each other and went, “Wow, what a terrible haircut.”

- Jimmy Fallon

According to Politico, the publishers of former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming memoir are taking extreme precautions to prevent the manuscript from leaking. Yeah, it would be a shame if something got out at the wrong time and ruined everything for him.

- Seth Myers

We can have all the blue ribbon committees we want, but if we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we’re wasting our time. Just remember that. We’re wasting our time. And that toughness includes the death penalty.

- President Trump speaking in New Hampshire about the opioid crisis in America and calling for the death penalty for serious drug traffickers

A new report has found that more animals have died while in the care of United Airlines than any other U.S. airline over the last three years, while animals who flew Spirit Airlines only wished they were dead.

- Seth Myers

The big story is still March Madness. The tournament has been crazy so far. The other night, a 16th-seed beat a No. 1-seed for the first time ever when UMBC beat Virginia. It’s pretty nuts — until last weekend, everyone thought UMBC was a bank.

- Jimmy Fallon

The ambassador, David Friedman, said they’re building on their own land. You son of a dog, building on their own land?! You are a settler and your family are settlers!

- PA President Mahmoud Abbas at a Palestinian leadership meeting this week

The time has come for President Abbas to choose between hateful rhetoric and concrete and practical efforts to improve the quality of life of his people and lead them to peace and prosperity.

Notwithstanding his highly inappropriate insults against members of the Trump administration, the latest iteration being his insult of my good friend and colleague Ambassador Friedman, we are committed to the Palestinian people and to the changes that must be implemented for peaceful coexistence. We are finalizing our plan for peace and we will advance it when circumstances are right.

- Statement by Jason Greenblatt, President Trump’s Middle East envoy

His response was to refer to me as son of a dog. Is that anti-Semitism or political discourse? I leave that up to you.

- Ambassador Friedman when asked about Abbas’ comments at the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism conference

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The Russian presidential election was this weekend, and to get people to vote, Russian officials were offering prizes like Apple Watches. It sounds fun — until you open the box with your Apple Watch, and it’s still attached to a hand.

- Jimmy Fallon

I made some exaggerations. When you talk about fishing, you can’t help exaggerating.

- Vladimir Putin joking during an interview on Russian TV about his conversation with Melania Trump about his outdoor adventures when he was seated near her during an official dinner at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July

Vladimir Putin has been re-elected to a fourth term as president of Russia. The final vote tally was: 76% Putin, 24% shot this morning.

– Conan O’Brien

A spokesperson for House Speaker Paul Ryan said yesterday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be able to do his job. What a brave stance from the spokesperson for the speaker of the House. Why does a speaker have a spokesperson? YOU’RE the speaker. That’s like someone from Geico saying, “The lizard believes he can save you 15 percent on car insurance.” I want to hear it from the lizard.

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Political Crossfire

Putin Can’t Talk His Way Out of This Mess

By David Ignatius

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ussian President Vladimir Putin told NBC’s Megyn Kelly this month that, in using power, you “must be ready to go all the way to achieve the goals.” Now, it seems, Putin has gone all the way too far.

Putin’s aggressive use of covert action to settle scores hit an international tripwire after the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the quiet British cathedral town of Salisbury. An outraged Britain was joined last Thursday by France, Germany and America in condemning the murderous use of the banned Soviet-era toxin known as Novichok.

A joint statement denounced the attack as “the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the Second World War” and called it “a breach of international law” that comes “against the background of a pattern of earlier irresponsible Russian behavior.” That strong language warrants action by NATO and the U.N. The Trump administration, after a year of mealy-mouthed, temporizing statements, also announced sanctions on Thursday against Russia’s “malicious cyberattacks.” The sanctions, targeting five Russian organizations and 19 people, will have little practical effect beyond those already in place. What matters is that President Trump finally seems to have eased, at least for the moment, his dubious defense of Putin. “It certainly looks like the Russians were

behind it,” he said of the poisoning.

“We’re taking it very seriously.”

So how can the U.S. and its closest allies alter Putin’s behavior, if they’re truly serious about holding Russia to account? The answer, say several former senior CIA officials, is to use America’s network of alliances to put Russia under strain. Putin

Moscow as well as Washington. The UAE’s military leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, should stand with his American friends now. And Qatar, with one of the world’s biggest gas reserves, can appease Trump and show the West that it’s a reliable friend by playing the energy card as well – offering Russia’s gas custom-

Putin used the phrase “so what” nine times during the interview. That’s his tell.

has been playing a weak hand well, but the high cards remain in Western hands.

Russia’s greatest vulnerability is its dependence on sales of oil and gas. Here, the U.S. is uniquely positioned for payback. Consider the ways in which Trump could stress Russia on the energy front.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visits Washington next week. “MBS,” as he’s known, has a quiet deal with Moscow to limit oil production sufficiently to keep prices above $60. If MBS truly wants to reciprocate Trump’s friendship, he should suspend this oil deal to punish Russia for its unacceptable actions.

A united front should include the United Arab Emirates, which has also cultivated a relationship with

ers deals that are too good to refuse.

Russia’s outrageous behavior in Syria should be on the table, too.

Moscow betrayed the Syrian Kurds, its longtime allies, when it withdrew its forces in January from the Afrin enclave and allowed Turkey to attack Kurdish forces there. The slaughter of civilians in Afrin has been almost as grim as in Goutha, east of Damascus. Incredibly, when asked about chemical weapons use in Syria, Putin told Kelly: “One wants to say, ‘Boring.’”

Russia has been getting a pass for the Syria carnage, thanks partly to its manipulation of Turkey and its quiet liaison with Israel. But this back-channel hedging of bets needs to stop. If the U.S. is serious about altering Russian behavior, it must organize a new coalition of the willing.

For NATO allies and Israel, participation should be mandatory.

Putin seems to think he has found the sweet spot of deniability.

Kelly pressed him about last month’s indictment of 13 Russians, led by Putin’s oligarch pal Yevgeniy Prigozhin, for meddling in the U.S. election.

Putin responded contemptuously: “I have heard about some of them ... but they are just individuals, they do not represent the Russian government. ... There are some names, so what?”

Putin used the phrase “so what” nine times during the interview.

That’s his tell. He thinks he can get away with it, based on his experience over the last 18 years in power. He hacks political campaigns around the world and insists he’s blameless because, as he told Kelly, “the internet is yours.” He cynically manipulates the battlefield in Syria, causing thousands of civilian deaths there, and pretends he has a peace plan.

When he gets caught cheating, he throws up his hands in mock innocence.

By his reckless actions, Putin has sharply raised the price of his admission to the club he needs to join, if his dreams of a revived Russia aren’t going to come crashing down around him. Putin says he wants to talk.

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Trump Needs to be Clear about One Thing in Meeting with Kim Jong Un

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tary of state, President Trump will soon have a trusted adviser who can prepare him for his upcoming

summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Pompeo’s first job is to make sure Trump understands one thing going into those talks: North Korea has no plans to give up its nuclear weapons at the negotiating table.

Kim is also fully aware of what happened to Ukraine after it gave up the nearly 2,000 nuclear weapons it possessed after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In December 1994, in exchange for denuclearization, Russia signed the Budapest Memoran-

It may be that only a threat delivered in person can finally convince Kim that Trump means it when he says all options are on the table.

Kim knows what happened to Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi when, after the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, he handed the entire Libyan nuclear weapons program – the uranium, the centrifuges, the designs to build bombs – over to the United States for secure storage. Seven years later, the Obama administration launched a military intervention in Libya during which Gaddafi was killed by rebel forces. Don’t think Kim has not seen the video of Gaddafi’s gruesome death or concluded that it would never have happened had Gaddafi kept his weapons.

dum of Security Assurances promising to “refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine.” In 2014, Russia invaded a denuclearized Ukraine and annexed Crimea.

The idea that Kim is going to look at this history and decide “third time’s a charm!” is absurd.

Any promise for complete denuclearization he gives Trump will be a lie – just as his father lied in 1994 when he agreed to abandon his nuclear program. Kim is coming to the table to extort money and get the United States to withdraw forces

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from the Korean Peninsula so that he can pursue his ultimate goal of unconditional Korean unification under Pyongyang’s rule.

So why should Trump even bother to meet with Kim? Because a direct meeting may be the only way to convince the North Korean leader that Trump is serious about taking military action if Kim does not abandon his quest to threaten American cities with nuclear missiles. In January, I asked Pompeo in a conversation at the American Enterprise Institute whether Kim actually believes that Trump would pull the trigger on a military strike.

“We’re concerned that he may not be getting really good, accurate information,” the CIA director replied. “It is not a healthy thing to be a senior leader and bring bad news to Kim Jong Un.” A face-to-face meeting is a chance for Trump to look Kim in the eye and tell him: You will not be allowed to deploy missiles that can reach U.S. cites. I am not like my predecessors. If you continue on this path, America will have no choice but take military action to destroy your missile and nuclear capabilities. Such strikes will be limited – unless you retaliate, in which case your regime will end. I would prefer it not come to that, but the decision is in your hands.

If Kim walks away unconvinced, and continues to pursue nuclear ICBMs, Trump can back up his message with limited actions. These

could be undertaken covertly in order to avoid publicly shaming the North Korean leader. For example, Richard Ellings of the National Bureau of Asian Research recently suggested that North Korean submarines could suddenly start silently disappearing beneath the sea. No one would know except the North Korean leadership. This, along with even more painful sanctions, would send an unmistakable signal to Kim that Trump was serious.

If, despite all this, Kim contin-

ues to push forward, then the United States must be prepared to take out Kim’s nuclear and missile facilities, as well as the artillery pointed at Seoul. But preventing the need for military action – which risks escalating into all-out war if Kim miscalculates – is why it is important for Trump to meet the North Korean leader. It may be that only a threat delivered in person can finally convince Kim that Trump means it when he says all options are on the table.

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If Trump succeeds, the result would still be suboptimal: a halt to ballistic missile development, rather than full denuclearization. But this is far better than letting Kim hold American cities hostage or giving him massive concessions for a denuclearization agreement that he has no intention of fulfilling. (c) 2017, Washington Post Writers Group

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U-Boats, the Enigma Machine, and a Secret Code

By Avi Heiligman

A German U-boat

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he worst thing a naval commander can hear is that one of his prize ships was captured and all of their secrets were revealed to the enemy. German Admiral Karl Donitz refused to believe that one of his priceless Enigma code machines had been captured by the British in May 1941. He thought that there must have been a security breach and that someone in the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) had leaked information. What he never imagined was that a U-boat submarine had been captured along with the Enigma machine. Three months later, another U-boat was taken by the British Navy and Royal Air Force (RAF). Even though the U-boat’s crew had destroyed the codebooks, the submarine proved to be an intelligence goldmine. Capturing both the U-110 and U-570 proved to be a turning point in the war for Allied code breakers.

Use of the mysterious Enigma machine greatly enhanced U-boat success but also attributed to their downfall. Messages were sent between Germany and their U-boats, and although the British intercepted the messages, they couldn’t read them. A cryptanalyst team worked

An Enigma machine on display

around the clock in England to crack the code but they needed an actual machine.

The U-110 was commissioned in November 1940 and was sent out to sink Allied shipping. On her first patrol she damaged two merchant ships and sustained damage from a torpedo that failed to explode. Af-

abandon ship. Believing that the ship would sink in a matter of minutes, Lemp did not order the Enigma machine and the codebooks destroyed.

Two destroyers were bearing down on the U-110, the HMS Bulldog and the HMS Broadway, with the intention of ramming the submarine. The hope was to force the

It was the only ship or boat to see action on both sides of the war.

ter cutting the patrol short to repair damage she set out for a second patrol 300 miles off the coast of Ireland. Captained by Julius Lemp, who had started off the war by sinking the passenger ship Athenia causing international outrage, the U-110 sunk three merchant vessels before being hunted down by the British Navy. On May 9, 1941 she was badly damaged, which prompted Lemp to order the ship to surface. All the valves were open and the crew was ordered to

crew to surrender, and when they saw the destroyers the crew capitulated. Then Lemp’s worst fears were realized when he saw the U-110 was not sinking. He made an attempt to swim back towards the stricken submarine but to no avail. A boarding party from the Bulldog led by Sub-lieutenant David Balme found the Enigma machine and the codebooks untouched and turned them over to British intelligence. The U-110 sank the next day as the navy

attempted to tow her back to Scapa Flow.

Capturing the Enigma machine was vital to the Allied war effort but so was the secret that they had broken the German code. Dozens of U-boats had been lost prior to the sinking of U-110 but not one had its secrets divulged to the Allies. The German high command believed that the U-110 was lost like the others were previously. England, for her part, was masterful in keeping the secret from reaching the ears of the German intelligence agency.

U-570 was commissioned in May 1941 and was stationed in Norway for training purposes. The main target of the U-boats was to sink Allied merchant shipping ships, and in August 1941 they learned from intelligence that a large number of ships would be sailing in the North Atlantic near Iceland. Donitz sent sixteen U-boats to intercept the convoy. However, the U-boats had the problem of not having enough experienced sailors and captains to man the boats. The U-570 was captained by Hans-Joachim Rahmlow who had only recently been transferred to submarines.

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the officers, most of the crew was on their first war patrol.

British intelligence had suspected that the Germans were reading their messages and that the message that a large convoy would be in the North Atlantic was a trick. U-570 fell right into the trap on the morning of August 27, 1941. Right after surfacing off the coast of Iceland a RAF Hudson bomber on anti-submarine patrol spotted the U-570. Sergeant Leslie Mitchell on the bomber tried to drop four depth charges but they jammed in his bomb racks. Frustrated, he called out the submarine’s position to his squadron which immediately began a search for the now-submerged boat. Squadron Leader James Thompson could not believe his luck when the U-570 resurfaced right below his bomber. He made a pass and came back around just as the submarine tried to dive.

Thompson released four depth charges and the last one hit just 10 yards away from the submarine, inflicting significant damage.

On the submarine, the already seasick German sailors thought that chlorine gas had been leaked from the batteries onboard and they surfaced. Thompson saw about ten on the deck and began firing with his machine guns. Then he saw the surrender flag and radioed for a Catalina flying boat to help with the surrender. U-570’s crew sent one last message to headquarters and proceeded to destroy the Enigma machine and sensitive material. Doenitz tried sending another submarine to rescue the sailors but U-82 couldn’t reach the area due to air patrols.

The doomed submarine’s message was in plain language (not in code) and it was intercepted by the Royal Navy. Several ships raced to-

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wards the area in the hope of capturing the boat intact before it sank. Late at night the anti-submarine trawler HMT Northern Chief reached the area which allowed the Catalina to return to base after thirteen hours circling the U-570. The trawler threatened to kill all Germans if the U-boat was scuttled but left all of the submariners onboard all night. The next morning more ships, including the destroyer HMS Burwell, arrived.

After much difficulty and confusion the boat was taken in tow, and all of the Germans were taken captive.

Slowly they made their way to Iceland where the U-boat was beached after it was seen taking on water.

A couple of days later a British submarine captain arrived with engineers to perform an inspection of the U-570. They were able to get power back inside the boat and towed it to a Royal Navy base. Even after

the depth charges and the German attempt to make the boat unusable, the British discovered that it was salvageable. To add to the incredible prize, the commander’s handbook was discovered and this provided the Allies with keys to the jargon that the Germans used. Soon the boat was repaired and was put to service as the HMS Graph. It was the only ship or boat to see action on both sides of the war.

Incredible as it may seem, the Americans captured a third U-boat in 1944. To capture three enemy submarines on the high seas certainly helped the Allies win the Battle of the Atlantic.

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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Food Frenzy

By Jon Kranz

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any Jews go away for Passover, traveling to Florida, the Caribbean or other warm leisure locations. These Jews typically spend their time at a hotel or resort as part of an official Passover program that features at least three square meals a day. (Yes, every meal featuring matzah is a square meal or, in some cases, very round.)

The food frenzy on Passover can be quite a spectacle. Those attending want to get their money’s worth and since the food is a major cost component, guests tend to treat every meal as though it was their last. For many, missing a meal simply is not an option: Jew #1: Where have you been?

Jew #2: I went for a walk on the boardwalk with some friends.

Jew #1: A walk ... with some friends?!?!?

Jew #2: Yeah. What’s the big deal?

Jew #1: The big deal is that you missed lunch?

Jew #2: So what?

Jew #1: So, I pay for lunch whether you show up or not. And it’s not cheap!

Jew #2: Oh, well, then I guess I better tell you now that I’m also missing dinner tonight?

Jew #1: Are you kidding me?!

They’re serving steak and lamb!

Jew #2: But I’m doing a mitzvah.

I’m visiting Bubby because she said she’s too tired to schlep out for dinner.

Jew #1: Listen here, you are not missing dinner and neither is Bubby.

We’re talking about rib eye steak and rack of lamb! So, if you have to, get a bellhop to strap Bubby to a dolly.

Jew #2: But I thought Passover is about freedom from bondage.

Jew #1: Not at $5,000 a head.

On a Passover program, missing a meal has more than financial implications. There are social ramifications too: Jew #1: So, what’s today’s sched-

the meals or snack time?

Jew #2: No, we absolutely cannot. It would be social suicide.

Jew #1: How so?

Jew #2: If we skip a meal and then show up to the next one, we’ll be totally out of the loop because everyone else will be talking about the previous meal, how good it was, how bad it was, etc. That’s what a Passover program is all about.

Jew #1: I can’t believe I’m saying this but ... that actually makes per-

They actually ran out of spare ribs; there wasn’t a rib to spare.

ule?

Jew #2: 7am to 10am is breakfast, 11am to 2pm is lunch, and 6pm to 9pm is dinner.

Jew #1: Well, I need to exercise to work some of that off. It sounds like I have a 4-hour window between lunch and dinner, so that should work.

Jew #2: Oh no, I forgot to mention that they serve coffee, tea and snacks from 3pm to 5pm.

Jew #1: Well, I guess we can work out after dinner.

Jew #2: No, we can’t.

Jew #1: Why not?

Jew #2: Because the snack room reopens at 10pm.

Jew #1: Can’t we just skip one of

fect sense.

Jews on Passover programs also like to reminisce about their favorite meals from years past: Jew #1: Isn’t the brisket delicious?

Jew #2: Yeah but last year they had stuffed cabbage which I could not stop stuffing down my throat.

Jew #3: And two years ago they served Hungarian goulash that was simply out of this world. I was ready to move to Budapest.

Jew #4: True, but let’s not forget about the veal chops from three years go. I still dream of that veal meal.

Jew #5: Yes, it was excellent but

then we also have to pay homage to the spare ribs from four years ago.

They actually ran out of spare ribs; there wasn’t a rib to spare.

Jew #6: How do all of you remember what you ate so many years ago?

Jew #7: That’s a good question.

I have 15 grandchildren and I cannot tell you a thing about them but I could write a 10-page poem about the London broil from five years ago.

Jew #8: I suffer from dementia but I distinctly remember every morsel of the lamb chops they served six years ago.

Jew #6: Well, that is amazing but perhaps we can talk about something else, besides your favorite meals from the past.

Jew #1: Sure, that’s a perfectly reasonable request.

Jew #6: Thank you.

Jew #1: Don’t mention it. Anyway, switching gears here, has anyone seen the menu for breakfast tomorrow?

Jew #1: Oy vey.

Bottom line: On Pesach, when the waiter is taking orders, pay attention or else you might get passed over.

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

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IRS Investigates Pot of Gold at End of Rainbow

By Allan Rolnick

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his month there are a lot of little leprechauns running around with pots of gold at the end of every rainbow. Sure, they’re cute but they’re also excellent gold hoarders, something the IRS also wants to enjoy. So aside from the clichés of shamrocks, green hats, and diminutive men with cute little beards, let’s see what special rules the tax code has for the IRS to deep digger into their treasure.

• Code Section 61 defines gross income as “all income from whatever source derived.” The code does go on to carve out all sorts of exclusions from this broad definition. For example, Section 101 excludes life insurance death benefits and Section 105(b) excludes employer-provided health benefits. Unfortunately, there’s no exclusion for pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. (Sounds like the National Organization of Leprechauns needs to hire some better lobbyists!)

• Income received in the form of property is taxed under the rules of Code Section 83(b).

Generally, the finder owes tax on the fair market value of property as of the date it’s found. In the case of gold, where there’s a

ing the day he finds it.

chaun).

• Gold is considered a capital asset. This might seem like good news, as gains are generally taxed at preferential rates capped at 20%. However, precious metals are classified as “collectibles,”

• Finally, there’s a special prohibition against holding gold coins in IRAs or other retirement accounts. This may not sound like a big deal at first. However, Irish folklore holds that leprechauns live for 300 years, which makes saving for retirement especially crucial.

Now, don’t go feeling too sorry for your pint-sized prospector.

After-tax gold isn’t as much fun as pre-tax gold. But it’s still better than no gold at all. And with gold currently trading at $1,300 per ounce, there’s plenty in the pot to pay for good tax-planning help.

Don’t count on finding a four-leaf clover when you can follow the rainbow to a plan!

Irish folklore holds that leprechauns live for 300 years, which makes saving for retirement especially crucial.

public market to establish value, our leprechaun takes the average of the highest and lowest quoted trading prices for the yellow metal on the day he finds his treasure.

If he finds it on a weekend, he’ll need to take the average price for the Friday and Monday bookend-

making them subject to special higher rates of up to 28%. Gains on gold are also subject to the 3.8% “net investment income tax” for leprechauns with adjusted gross income above $200,000 (single filers) or $250,000 (if filing jointly with Mrs. Lepre-

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

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Ready or Not, Here I Come

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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ne thing is for sure. They say there’s no playing around when it comes to this holiday. But I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of playing “hide and seek” that goes on even in the weeks leading up to Passover.

First, you spend weeks seeking dirt. Looking, looking, looking, as if it actually has some exciting value!

Then you spend days hiding what you couldn’t even find. But if you couldn’t find it, how can you hide it?

Nevertheless, you lock it up, tape it shut, or label it off limits. And as if that isn’t enough, you then sell everything anyway. That’s so brilliant!

from the year before. But it doesn’t end there. Oh no! You start the seder and right away you wash your hands.

But you must hide the bracha. Yup, the bracha is nowhere to be found!

And then, within a short time, you’re hiding that all important middle matzah, a pivotal theme of the night. You bet! And, of course, you must find a truly challenging spot. Great, you think, “They’ll never find it!” Right? Wrong – someone must find it! And furthermore, you must reward them for doing so.

Hide it, find it, lock it, sell it, reward someone for finding it – when you knew all the time where it was!

Are you nervous your chometz is going to come and find you?! Do you not feel confident that you’ve sealed it up securely enough?

So why couldn’t you just do that from the start?!

Then, for many, it gets really personal. You hide yourself in some random hotel instead of staying home!

Are you nervous your chometz is going to come and find you?! Do you not feel confident that you’ve sealed it up securely enough?

And then you are far from done!

You begin to unearth all the Passover paraphernalia that you’ve hidden

Seriously, what in the world is going on?!

Well, no one complained in Egypt, when G-d couldn’t find a single Jewish home to kill a firstborn in. Why start asking questions now?!

Whoops, oh yes, do ask questions. That is another important theme of the night.

We are all trying to find out what this is all about. And that, my

friend, is half the message. Be intrigued! Look for the message of the night!

G-d seems to be hidden or far away at times. But, G-d wants us to know: I’m right here with you. And if you seek G-d in the right place, even when it’s challenging to find Him, there’s a big reward for finding Him!

So ready or not, here it comes ... and may G-d be with you!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com

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